Chapter 38: Baseline Reality

"We must have this concept, that the Real Material Universe is the core and foundation of everything."

Lu Yuanming was somewhat bewildered, momentarily not knowing where he himself was, but some instinct still made him understand his identity.

One of the Golden Gods, named Ling, also known as Mi, he was a successor to Buddha, but he did not arise in the present or the real, rather he was born fifty-six billion seven hundred million years after the Buddha's parinirvana (Earth year 2000), inheriting the Buddha's position and becoming the Future Buddha.

Amidst countless glorious radiance, a figure wearing a garment of intertwining black and white, resembling two entwined fish—a youth, a middle-aged man, an elder—he spoke, "Everything begins from the Real Material Universe, this is the origin of all, the starting point of all, the beginning of all, the core of all. Surely none of you disagree with this point, right?"