Later, after restoration and handwriting comparison by experts, it was discovered that this book was actually a copy of the Huayan Sutra handwritten by Wu Zetian more than 1,400 years ago.
However, the content was drastically different from the existing Huayan Sutra.
The fragmented texts on reincarnation and the Heart Demon were bizarre and obscure, yet they held tremendous cultural and scholarly value.
Unfortunately, this scripture was severely damaged, with only fragments of phrases remaining, which was disheartening…
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Xiao Yu and I returned unharmed, yet the trip was far from successful.
I certainly knew that I alone could not save everyone.
After all, I was only half a savior.
I did my best, so I didn't blame myself too much, yet the cage named 'rules' that I had been taught from childhood seemed to have shattered…
The weak always follow rules, while the strong habitually break them!
They abide by another set of more naked, survival-of-the-fittest underlying rules…
