Chapter 247 — The Twenty Heavens
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I have a favor to ask. " His voice shook the air, and at once the whole mountain was filled with marvels: golden springs welled from the earth, lotus flowers fell from the sky, and in the air appeared the phantom shapes of the eight legions of heavenly dragons; the phantoms of the gods of the twenty heavens descended into the high sky. Marvel followed marvel, splendor blazed on every side, and all together they chanted the Buddha's name. This single display of true word overawed countless monks.
Just then an aged voice laughed from the Golden Summit: "The Horse King God's cultivation surpasses even that of years past. Of the twenty heavens of the Tingming Mahayana Sutra, you must by now have cultivated to the realm of Mahabrahma; one step further and you will be a Tathagata.
Monks, withdraw and let him come up.
I have waited for him a long while. " "The twenty heavens?
" Shen Mu was slightly startled and looked at Lord Huo. The wall of bronze and iron the monks had formed dissolved, and Lord Huo set the dragon qilin walking up the mountain. "These are the twenty heavenly realms of the Tingming Mahayana Sutra.
Cultivate all twenty and you are a Tathagata.
When I left Great Tingming Temple in those years, I had already cultivated to the nineteenth, the realm of the Heaven of Shakra, Lord of the Gods — already a peerless strongman under heaven. "