When Tathagata heard Hun Xiu's words, he was stunned.
These words.
Were what he said to Hun Xiu just now.
Unexpectedly.
It had only been a while.
Hun Xiu returned it to him untouched.
How ridiculous this was.
The era of the Three Realms had changed.
She had changed. She was no longer the person he remembered.
He was supposed to be the number one person in the Three Realms.
However, Hun Xiu appeared.
He didn't even use any strength!
He was defeated!
He was completely defeated.
Even someone as arrogant as him had to admit defeat at this time.
…
"I lost!"
Tathagata lowered his arrogant head and didn't dare to look at Hun Xiu.
Originally, he wanted to teach Hun Xiu a lesson.
However, he didn't teach Hun Xiu a lesson. Instead, he was taught a lesson by Hun Xiu.
Speaking of which.
He was really ashamed.
"You are very brave!"
Boom!
After Hun Xiu praised Tathagata.
He lifted his foot.
He made an action to shoot at the goal.
Under his foot.
Tathagata was the ball.
He was kicked away by Hun Xiu.
Did he shoot into the goal?
No one knew.
The only thing that was certain was that Tathagata was in pain.
After being kicked away by Hun Xiu.
Tathagata's figure flew backward.
He drew an arc.
He spat out a mouthful of blood from the corner of his mouth.
In the end!
He landed on the ground in a sorry state!
"Pfft …"
He spat out a mouthful of blood.
Swoosh!
Hun Xiu appeared in front of Tathagata again in a flash.
He looked down at Tathagata.
"Tathagata, the loser should pay the price."
"My kick kicked you back to the early stage of Sage-to-be. Are you convinced?"
"Tathagata is convinced!"
Tathagata lay on the ground with his head lowered.
He could feel it!
His strength.
Due to Hun Xiu's kick, his magic power dropped from the peak of the Quasi-Sage Stage to the early Quasi-Sage Stage.
No matter how much he resisted.
It would be useless!
Tathagata felt rather indignant.
But there was nothing he could do.
The truth was a foregone conclusion.
…
Guanyin was completely dumbfounded by what she saw!
His body was trembling.
His heart trembled.
Hun Xiu kicked.
Thus, Tathagata was kicked back to the early stage of Quasi-Saint from the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm.
The kick landed.
What kind of terrifying power did it contain?
The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it was.
Most importantly, Hun Xiu had not used his full strength from the beginning to the end.
How terrifying was Hun Xiu's strength?
Could it be a Saint?
Saint?
There were no longer any so-called Saints in this world.
How could Hun Xiu be a Saint?
…
Guanyin helped Tathagata out of the Celestial Court.
After leaving the Heavenly Court.
Guanyin asked Tathagata with concern, "Buddha, are you alright?"
"I'm fine?"
Tathagata shook his head, "It's just that my strength has dropped from the peak of the Quasi-Sage Stage to the early Quasi-Sage Stage."
"If I want to recover, I'll need another thousand years."
A thousand years.
For many mighty figures, seclusion was just a snap of a finger.
Only Tathagata had the confidence to say that they could recover to their peak in the blink of an eye.
If it were another peak Quasi-Sage Stage expert, they would have suffered the same fate as him.
Not to mention a thousand years.
It would take five thousand years to recover to the peak!
And the reason why Tathagata dared to say such words.
He was so confident!
It was because he had enough confidence.
As the Sect Master of the Buddhist Sect.
More than half of the Buddhist Sect's power of merit was in his hands. He had enough power of merit.
It was enough for him to recover to the peak in a thousand years.
…
Tathagata turned around and looked meaningfully in the direction of the Celestial Court. He muttered to himself, "Haotian has been missing for so many years."
"I didn't expect him to become even more terrifying. Terrifying!"
"I was careless."
Tathagata knew very well.
So what if he was careless?
He was not careless.
With Hun Xiu's strength, he was still not a match for Hun Xiu.
Hun Xiu had been missing for many years.
During the period of his disappearance, he must have obtained a terrifying opportunity.
Otherwise.
It could not be explained at all.
Why was he so terrifying!
Tathagata retracted his gaze.
He sighed slightly in his heart.
Then, he looked at Guanyin beside him and said, "Guanyin, let's go!"
Hun Xiu was so powerful!
Plus.
He had already fallen out with Hun Xiu to such an extent.
The matter of the Journey to the West.
He had to return to Spirit Mountain.
Renegotiate.
The Journey to the West.
The Way of the Heavens.
Now.
Hun Xiu had ascended the throne as the Emperor.
The Celestial Court was in his hands.
The Gods of the Celestial Court.
They might not listen to Hun Xiu's orders.
But …
If Hun Xiu took the initiative to stop the Journey to the West.
The terrifying strength that Hun Xiu had displayed!
Who in the Three Realms could defeat him?
If he stopped him.
What about the Journey to the West?
Therefore.
He had to go back and renegotiate.
…
Spirit Mountain!
In the secret chamber.
The past Buddha Randeng.
The future Buddha Maitreya.
The present Buddha Tathagata.
And the saint's incarnation, Subhuti, was also there.
Their gazes fell on Tathagata.
Tathagata returned from the Celestial Court.
From the looks of it.
Tathagata went to the Celestial Court this time and returned in defeat!
And …
Tathagata returned.
His strength and realm had dropped a lot.
From this, it could be seen.
In the Celestial Court.
Tathagata had suffered a great loss.
…
Subhuti said, "Fellow Daoist Tathagata, tell me!
What is Haotian's attitude in the Celestial Court? "
They had used their supreme magic power to deduce Hun Xiu.
Hun Xiu was Haotian.
Haotian was the real deal.
It could not be real.
Tathagata said, "That person's attitude is very strong. He can support the Journey to the West, but on one condition!"
"What condition?"
Subhuti could not help but ask.
Tathagata said, "He wants all the merits of the 81 tribulations of the Journey to the West."
"Impossible!"
Tathagata's voice fell.
Subhuti directly refused.
Hun Xiu's request.
Absolutely impossible.
Hun Xiu was dreaming!
He wanted all the merits of the 81 tribulations.
He had a big appetite.
He was very arrogant.
Who gave him the courage?
"You agreed?"
Subhuti stared at Tathagata.
Tathagata shook his head.
"No!"
"If I had agreed, I wouldn't have ended up like this!"
Subhuti and the others had already noticed the problem of Tathagata's strength and realm, and they had some guesses in their hearts.
Seeing that Tathagata took the initiative to talk about this, Subhuti asked, "Tathagata, what's going on with your realm?"
Tathagata did not mean to hide it.
He told her everything in detail.
Subhuti and the others fell silent.
They thought that Tathagata's realm had dropped.
This was caused by Taishang Laojun and Hun Xiu working together.
They did not care about martial ethics at all.
They besieged Tathagata.
Now, they learned the truth from Tathagata.
Only then did they understand.
It turned out that it was not the case at all!
Tathagata.
He was not besieged by the Heavenly Court at all.
Instead, it was Hun Xiu who attacked alone.
…
In the secret chamber.
The atmosphere was stifling.
It was extremely strange!
A few seconds later.
Subhuti spoke.
His words broke the stifling atmosphere!
Subhuti said, "Tathagata, is Haotian now that strong?"
"Yes!"
Tathagata nodded and said, "Very strong!"
"He didn't even use his strength, and I fell."
"If I didn't know that the Three Realms could not bear the existence of a Saint, I would have believed that Haotian was not a Demi-Saint at all!"
"He is a Saint."
A Saint?
No matter when, it was synonymous with invincibility.
Even in the Three Realms.
There were no Saints.
The strength of their Saints.
It was deeply engraved in their minds.
Tathagata described Hun Xiu as a "Saint", which was enough to show how powerful Hun Xiu was.
It was extremely terrifying!
…
Subhuti.
Dipamkara.
Maitreya.
After hearing Tathagata's words, they all fell silent.
They knew how powerful Tathagata was.
Tathagata could become the current Buddha of the Buddhist Sect.
Other than the general trend.
It was more because of Tathagata's strength.
Tathagata's strength.
Whether it was Subhuti.
Or Dipamkara and Maitreya both acknowledged it.
Now Tathagata dared to say this.
From this, it could be seen.
Hun Xiu was terrifying!
…
In the secret chamber.
Subhuti's voice sounded again.
"Tathagata, what do you think we should do?"
Tathagata did not answer Subhuti's question.
Instead, he asked, "What do you think we should do?"
Tathagata had already suffered a great loss at the hands of Hun Xiu.
He also knew.
Hun Xiu's request was extremely excessive.
He would not agree.
The Buddhist Sect would not agree either.
If.
If he had to talk about a solution?
Then he could only use his fists.
Fists had been the best way to solve problems since ancient times.
…
Subhuti said, "Haotian's request is too much."
"It's absolutely impossible to agree to his request."
"The only way is to fight it out!"
"Use your fists to talk."
It was true that there was order in the Three Realms.
But as long as he was strong enough, the order could not restrain him at all.
Order.
It was the rule that the strong used to restrain the weak!
Strong enough.
Naturally, it was outside the rules.
Originally.
Subhuti was prepared to go to the Heavenly Court alone to fight Hun Xiu alone.
But from Hun Xiu's words.
He had already understood.
Hun Xiu was very strong.
He would fight Hun Xiu alone.
He might not be successful.
Therefore.
Subhuti had already given up on the idea of challenging Hun Xiu to a one-on-one duel.
He was prepared not to talk about martial ethics.
He brought Dipamkara and Maitreya.
The three of them joined forces.
If it was just Hun Xiu alone.
As expected.
He should be able to suppress Hun Xiu.
He would teach Hun Xiu a lesson.
Tathagata heard that.
He did not say anything.
Subhuti had already decided to use his fists to talk.
Have you done it once?
Then let them go!
Buddhism was huge.
There were many factions.
Now.
His strength had been greatly reduced.
Whether it was Dipamkara or Maitreya.
There would be big movements.
If.
Subhuti, Dipamkara, and Maitreya went to the Heavenly Court and ended up in the same situation as him in the hands of Hun Xiu.
Then his position as the Sect Master of Buddhism would be safe for the time being.
Otherwise.
It was very dangerous.
There were no eternal friends.
There were no eternal enemies.
There were only benefits.
…
Subhuti looked at Dipamkara and Maitreya and said, "Dipamkara, Maitreya, are you willing to go to the Heavenly Court with me?"
"Amitabha!"
"Supreme Order of the World!"
Dipamkara and Maitreya put their hands together, said the name of Buddha, and left.
…
Tathagata sensed it.
Subhuti, Dipamkara, and Maitreya left. A mysterious smile appeared on his face as he said, "Go, all of you go!"
"When something happens to you in the Heavenly Court, I will be the only one in the entire Buddhist Sect."
In the Buddhist Sect.
Although Tathagata was the Sect Master.
But he did not have the final say.
In Buddhism.
There were three factions.
One was the Jie School led by Tathagata.
One was the Chan School led by Dipamkara.
The other was the native sect of the Western Sect led by.
The three of them.
They were all Buddhas.
Now.
In the past.
In the future.
They were the three Buddhas of the Buddhist Sect.
They were all supreme existences.
On the surface.
The Buddha of the present was higher than the Buddha of the past. The Buddha of the future.
But in secret.
No one was weaker than anyone else.
But on the surface.
Tathagata, the Buddha of the present, was greater than the Buddha of the past, Dipamkara, and the Buddha of the future, Maitreya.
…
Heavenly Court.
Subhuti.
Dipamkara.
Maitreya.
He appeared in the Jade Pool.
He looked at the three of them.
Hun Xiu could not help but say, "Why? The three of you appeared again after beating up Tathagata?"
"Are you showing off to me?"
"Showing off the foundation of your Western Heaven Buddhist Sect?"
Subhuti, Dipamkara, and Maitreya were all at the peak of the quasi-saint realm. They were not weaker than Tathagata at all.
And they were only at the peak of the quasi-saint realm.
There were four of them in the Buddhist Sect.
From this, it could be seen.
The foundation of the Buddhist Sect was deep.
The Heavenly Court and him.
There were only three of them.
…
"Amitabha!"
Subhuti chanted the Buddhist name.
"Fellow Daoist, I want to ask you to hand over the person who sought the scripture. Don't be ignorant!"
Hun Xiu said, "It's not that I don't want to hand it over."
"It's that the person who sought the scripture is fated with me."
"You know that too."
"The world is big."
"Heaven's arrangement is the biggest!"
"I'm actually fated with him. This is heaven's arrangement. How can I give up on the person who sought the scripture?"
"Fated?"
Subhuti heard Hun Xiu's words.
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
These words sounded very familiar.
He thought for a while.
Subhuti finally thought of it.
Wasn't this his line?
When did Hun Xiu steal his line?
He was simply shameless.
"Amitabha!"
Subhuti said, "Fellow Daoist, you don't want to hand over the person who sought the scripture?"
Fated?
Not fated?
These were all excuses.
Hun Xiu just didn't want to hand it over.
Hun Xiu shook his head.
"It's not that I don't want to hand it over."
"Heaven's arrangement is the biggest!"
"If you can show enough sincerity!"
"Then I'm naturally willing to risk the world and hand over the person who sought the scripture to you."
Subhuti heard this.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
He asked, "How big is your so-called 'enough sincerity'?"
Hun Xiu said, "Didn't Tathagata tell you?"
Subhuti said, "You want all the merits of the eighty-one ordeals?"
Hun Xiu said, "I thought Tathagata didn't tell you, but it turns out he did."
"That's right."
"What I want is all the merits of the eighty-one ordeals on the journey to the west."
"If you're willing to give it to me!"
"You can take away the person who sought the scripture."
"I'll play along with you!"
"If you're not willing?"
"Then forget it."
"I can still afford to delay."
"I just don't know if your Buddhist Sect can afford to drag it out."
Subhuti was not angry.
Everything was within his expectations.
Subhuti said, "Fellow Daoist, is there no room for negotiation?"
Hun Xiu shook his head.
"No!"
"It seems …"
"Fellow Daoist, your sincerity is still not enough!"
Subhuti heard this.
"Amitabha!"
Subhuti said, "This Daoist has tried to persuade you, but you're still stubborn and don't recognize Mount Tai. You can't blame us Buddhists."
"We've already fought once."
Hun Xiu looked at Subhuti and said, "Subhuti, next time you want to fight, just say it. There's no need to say so much."
"No matter how much you say, it won't change the fact that we're going to fight."
"Come!"
"Let me see how strong the Buddha of the Past, the Buddha of the Future, and the incarnation of a Saint are."
"I hope you're stronger."
"That's right!"
"I'm interested in fighting just now."
"Don't let me down."