Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!!-Chapter 659: Divine Presence
Woosh!
The lotus was devouring the qi from the Arhats and the surroundings.
Crack!
Enriched with the qi, the petals of the lotus moved as if an old door was creaking open. With each petal that moved, the light in the sky grew dimmer. Even during the day it felt like night had arrived.
The Arhats, sensing the drastic consumption, immediately took their hands back.
Their faces were pale, and their breath was ragged.
"Arhats, take a moment to recover." Abbot Liang shot them a grateful look. "You have already done more than enough."
Arhats bowed before moving back and popping recovery pills in their mouths.
While they were recovering, the lotus had started to bloom. More than ten petals were drawn back, and an object could be seen glowing underneath the petals.
The glow was green with hints of red.
Everyone just watched the lotus, one by one unfolding the petals, unfurling the secret lay hidden inside.
After the sixteenth petal fell, the rest of the 20 petals fell at once, and as if time had turned forward, the day instantly turned into night.
It was not completely dark; they could still see each other, but no one could feel the presence of qi within several kilometers.
Yet the changes were not eternal.
And soon there was light.
Woosh!
The bloomed lotus shimmered in all kinds of colors, but all everyone could focus on was the rusty, ancient-looking wooden gate, standing tall in the center of the lotus. The height of the gate reached the summit of the Jadebone peak.
The dark brown gate looked nothing like the soothing divine lotus. Several wooden arms, the size of the gate, were wrapped around it, seemingly acting as the lock for the gate.
Crack!
No one spoke throughout everything that was happening; they only watched silently, even when the arms on the gates moved.
Like a whip, it snapped away from the door and clasped onto one of the lotus petals.
Smack!
After each hand held onto each petal, with only three of the petals remaining untouched, the door was free of the restrictions.
CRACKKK!
And it finally happened; the ancient door creaked open from inside, just enough for a person to enter. Instantly a gush of qi, more potent than the one the lotus had sucked, came gushing out and replenished the reserves of the surroundings.
The gates did not stop and opened themselves completely to the world as if giving an open invitation to all for them to enter.
The free lotus petals bend down and touch the clouds. The cotton clouds separated a portion of themselves and rose into the air, forming a bridge from the stone platform where all the participants were standing to the lotus hovering in the middle of the valley.
"Ah, as dramatic as always." The first one to snap out of his daze was Abbot Liang Chen, who appeared to be used to the dramatic opening of the secret realm.
"With that, I announce the opening of the great domain!"
His voice drummed in the hearts of the listeners. The whole crowd erupted into loud cheers. "Woah!!!"
"Just seeing this sight made me feel glad that I came here."
"I don't even have the qualification, and I just came here to watch the show."
"I am glad I left my son with my widowed neighbor and came here alone."
Everyone was eager to just rush into the domain, but they forced themselves to calm down, as no one else even the ones from the greatest sect, was moving.
Abbot could see the eagerness within them, how they wanted to just rush into the domain. Shaking his head, he poured a bucket of cold water on their hype.
"Now that the gates of the great domain have opened, we will perform a ceremonial prayer, and then the destined ones can start their trials."
Despite how frustrated and down they were feeling, the participants could only bite down their feelings and wait for the temple to finish their formalities, as they were the guests here, taking advantage of the temple's kindness.
The inner disciples, lining the stairway with their eyes closed, moved for the first time. Their feet moved with military precision; the echoes of the footsteps vibrated the air itself.
Dirt and small pebbles on the stage trembled from the impact. freёnovelkiss.com
"Namo Amituofo… Namo Amituofo… Namo Amituofo..".
On the stage, the four Arhats stood in two lines facing each other, and at the end stood the abbot facing the crowd, his spine rigid as a mountain pillar, his hands folded in the vajra mudra of awakening.
The chants of every monk overlapped.
The disciple monks with bronze glow and some with silver glow walked to the side of the stage and stood in line, creating an outline of the platform.
While the rest of the disciples with silver glow walked on to the stage while muttering chants.
Every monk had a faint glow of energy, something different from qi, more pure and more… divine on their bodies. This energy soared through the air and gathered behind the abbot.
"What is happening?"
"I don't know…"
Having no idea what was going on, everyone present could only look at the monk with awe and shock.
The sound was soft at first, but with each repetition, it deepened—layered like flowing water, vibrating through stone, flesh, and marrow.
Drums beat once.
A temple bell rang.
Then came the ancient mantra.
"Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!"
As the final syllables rippled into the air, a warmth flooded the valley. The sky above the Jadebone Peak shimmered. Clouds parted not with thunder or blood rain, but with this time a silent notion.
A golden halo, as vast as the Temple of Eternal Body itself, began to fall from the sky; it unfurled like the lotus did, and a shape started to take form out of the void.
In the air behind Abbot Liang Chen, it appeared…
An Avatar that filled the hearts of the onlookers with reverence and the hearts of the evil with dread.
