Chapter 636 — Pursuit Across Realms
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The distance from the Buddha Realm to Taihuang Heaven was somewhat greater than Shen Mu had reckoned. Though no passage of time could be felt while crossing the spirit-energy transmigration bridge, the sudden violent shuddering of its stream of light gave them both a sense of foreboding. It meant they had already spent three quarter-hours within the bridge: the power of the divine ability King Buddha Sakra had buried there had erupted and destroyed the spirit-energy transmigration bridge.
And now, before they had even reached the spirit-energy transmigration bridge of Taihuang Heaven, it had been destroyed. Shen Mu had never met with such a thing, and for a moment he was wholly at a loss.
"If the spirit-energy transmigration bridge is destroyed ahead of time, what will happen? " King Buddha Sakra shouted to Shen Mu over the rushing light.
"We are about to find out!
" Shen Mu shouted back.
King Buddha Sakra understood him at once, and his expression changed.
The stream of light began to shake violently; it was the result of the transmigrating energies colliding with one another.
What the spirit-energy transmigration bridge opened was a passage between the Buddha Realm and Taihuang Heaven. As Shen Mu and King Buddha Sakra traveled toward Taihuang Heaven, the energies of the two realms had to remain in balance: a portion of Taihuang Heaven's energy must likewise travel to the Buddha Realm, and the energy transmigrated over had to equal the energy contained within Shen Mu and King Buddha Sakra. But now the Buddha Realm's spirit-energy transmigration bridge had been destroyed ahead of time, so that the stream of light carrying Shen Mu and King Buddha Sakra collided with the transmigrating energy, and thus came the violent shaking.
The energy stream before their eyes flickered with every hue, as though they had entered a kaleidoscope world and were racing through it at furious speed. The energy crashed into them, and wave upon wave of pain shot through Shen Mu's flesh.
The colors were stretched out long, slender ribbons of light forming a flood of a thousand thousand hues. "Will they annihilate each other?
" King Buddha Sakra murmured, his heart pounding in dread.
Amid that many-colored stream, Shen Mu took out his Calculating Soldier and rattled through his reckoning, then shook his head.
"They will not annihilate each other.
Both Taihuang Heaven and the Buddha Realm have lost a portion of their energy, so they will still draw us on toward our respective target worlds; only thus can the balance of the two realms' energies be maintained. Otherwise both realms would be thrown into turmoil. Taihuang Heaven's mass of energy lies on precisely the same path as we do, and so we have collided head-on. This collision of energies must never be blocked with a divine ability; if we resist it, both our momentum toward Taihuang Heaven and that energy mass's momentum toward the Buddha Realm will be canceled out. " "And if they are canceled out? " King Buddha Sakra asked. "Then we shall be stuck with this mass of energy between the two worlds forever," Shen Mu said, "unable to advance, unable to retreat.
" King Buddha Sakra said doubtfully, "From whom did you learn the art of calculation?
Your skill is far from poor.
" Battered by the energy, Shen Mu's flesh ached more and more, and enduring the pain he said, "I once learned the Taixuan Canon of Calculation and the Su Nü Canon of Calculation from men of the Dao Sect.
" "No wonder.
Those ox-nosed Daoists are all remarkable men, but every one of them holds his ox-nose to the sky and looks down on our Buddhist order, calling us a study of the mind, everything proceeding from the mind, while they alone hold the true Great Way of the universe. " King Buddha Sakra laughed.