Chapter 977: Chapter 83: Confrontation Chapter 977: Chapter 83: Confrontation Monk Liao Chen disappeared without a trace after descending the mountain.

When Link and Jasmine arrived at the White Horse Zen Institution, they too were surprised by the changes it had undergone.

“What happened here, Link?”

Jasmine, looking puzzled, turned to Link and asked, “Is this related to the good thing you sensed earlier?”

“No.”

Link shook his head and said candidly, “I didn’t even sense this change.”

“Then…what happened here?”

Jasmine continued to inquire, feeling that something was very amiss.

The transformation of the White Horse Zen Institution came too suddenly, without the slightest warning.

Moreover, the Zen Institution, now in ruins, showed no signs of conflict, but instead seemed to have decayed completely under the forces of time.

There were only two possibilities for such a scenario.

One was that the White Horse Zen Institution had fallen into decay a long time ago;
The other was the handiwork of some being capable of interfering with time.

Whichever the case, Jasmine felt deeply shocked, a sense of fear looming within her.

The reason was simple.

Such matters involving time could only be the work of a Saint Position.

Thinking thus, Jasmine looked up towards the three rounds of the grand sun overhead.

“Don’t worry, it’s alright.”

Sensing Jasmine’s emotions, Link spoke to comfort her, then changed the subject, “Follow me.”

As his words fell, Link skirted the ruins of the White Horse Zen Institution and strode towards the mountain behind.

Jasmine quickly followed in Link’s footsteps.

Before long, the two of them arrived at the lakeside behind the mountain and saw the lake brimming with blooming, swaying white lotuses.

“White Lotus…”

Jasmine’s lips quivered, whispering these words, suddenly feeling emotional.

Sour, astringent…

Instantly, Jasmine suppressed these emotions and looked at Link.

At this moment, Link was looking at Jasmine, and their eyes met.

Now silence was more profound than words.

The moment their gazes locked, Jasmine understood what Link’s next step was going to be.

“Go.”

Without hesitation, Jasmine spoke softly, “Don’t worry about me.”

Link remained silent, just looking at Jasmine.

“Go.”

With a slight smile forming at the corners of her mouth, Jasmine spoke again, urging him.

“Alright.”

Link nodded and then drifted towards the center of the lake.

Jasmine glanced at him, took a deep breath, and turned to leave.

Everyone has their capabilities, and if there’s something one can’t do, then one should do what they can.

The situation in this world was already chaotic and rotten, but it could get even more so.

Thus, Jasmine decided to add fuel to the fire, stirring this chaotic mess to bubble even more fiercely.

In his special spiritual state, Link floated to the center of the lake and stood still with his eyes closed.

The lake full of white lotuses bloomed even more vigorously, swaying more joyously.

Soon, the blooming white lotuses gradually lost their luster, wilted, and decayed.

Not much later, the white lotuses of the entire lake withered away, leaving behind a lake full of withered remnants.

Then, the lake water churned as if something beneath was sucking in all the withered lotuses.

Link waited quietly.

The lake water began to swirl, creating a vortex that grew larger with each turn.

An irresistible suction force originated from the vortex, pulling Link, in his special spiritual state, into the maelstrom, merging with a White Lotus Seed.

The next second, the White Lotus Seed disappeared, and the whirlpool of the lake suddenly subsided.

Jasmine, who had left the White Horse Zen Institution, paused momentarily, then continued on her way.

Long after descending the mountain, Monk Liao Chen, believing in “if he does not return, then so be it,” brought his palms together in front of him and devoutly recited: “May Maitreya be born, King Ming appear in this World.”

At this moment, Link couldn’t see Jasmine’s pause or hear Monk Liao Chen’s recitation.

He entered an extremely peculiar state, a wondrous space.

After merging with the White Lotus Seed, Link’s presence disappeared from the world where the White Horse Zen Institution was located, following the call of the “Eternal Mother, True Void Homeland,” along with the countless prayers for salvation amidst despair, and arrived in a habitable world where Elise had sprinkled the sparks of stars.

Once there, Link was still in an incorporeal state, situated in a “void” that was simultaneously immense and vast, yet extremely minute and subtle.

This seemed to be the so-called “True Void Homeland.”

In the “True Void Homeland,” a single white lotus was positioned at the most central spot.

More than one hundred thousand souls sacrificed to “Eternal Mother, True Void Homeland,” sat in orderly circles around the white lotus, praying sincerely.

The White Lotus Seed merged with Link’s special spiritual body, hovered above that central white lotus, eagerly wanting to merge with it, yet inexplicably fearful.

It seemed that merging with the white lotus would lead to some great terror.

Yet it also seemed that the white lotus beneath wasn’t the same one that the inter-dimensional White Lotus Seed intended to merge with.

After observing for a moment, Link discovered the reason.

Two extremely familiar seals, the Yangping City Management Seal and the Nine Elder Immortals City Seal, were inside the white lotus’s pistil, on its left and right, exuding a cleansing light.

The two strands of light replaced the purpose of the White Lotus Seed that Link had merged with, maintaining the lotus’s existence but also continuously attempting to purify it.

This “purification,” of course, was from the perspective of the two seals.

From the perspective of the white lotus, a different term would naturally be used, such as “transformation,” or more precisely, “alteration.”

The two seals wanted to alter the foundational ideology of the white lotus’s existence from the ground up!

“Mr. Xu Jing.”

Link whispered this name, and then he recalled the Heavenly Master’s Mansion standing behind Mr. Xu Jing, as well as the Old Heavenly Master.

He had always said, this mission of infiltrating deep behind enemy lines, with both internal and external coordination, couldn’t possibly have the support of only the Wizard civilization, without the participation of the Celestial civilization.

From the current situation, it was evident that the Wizard civilization and the Celestial civilization had clearly divided their labor.