Amitabha was terrified, raising his sleeves and rushing towards the Pool of Merit with frantic urgency.
No, nothing must happen!
Absolutely nothing must happen! That's merit, merit I've cultivated for countless years!
Even the slightest loss would be an unbearable tragedy.
However, Amitabha still held a small sliver of hope in his heart.
It seemed that the Prison God Chu Hao was still giving him some face, probably not taking the full million drops of Merit Divine Water; otherwise, Amitabha would have sensed it long ago.
Moreover, Amitabha had also locked up the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha there, with the Golden-Bearded鳌 Fish guarding it. Even a Quasi-Sage couldn't steal from it.
Surely, nothing major could have happened!
The three thousand Buddhas were also terrified, hurrying to follow.
The Pool of Merit contained nearly five million drops of Merit Divine Water, a wealth that even a Sage would be tempted by.
Moreover, that Pool of Merit was also the source of the three thousand Buddhas' salaries. If it disappeared, their homes would truly collapse!
Across the eight-thousand-zhang Vow-Fulfilling Corridor, the three thousand Buddhas traversed in a single stride.
All the Buddhas arrived before the Pool of Merit.
The Tathagata Buddha was somewhat suspicious of his own buddhahood.
He looked at the ruins before him, feeling vaguely familiar yet also somewhat foreign.
How should he put it?
The Tathagata Buddha was filled with doubt.
"That's not right. I remember the Pool of Merit being after the Vow-Fulfilling Corridor, right? Could I have walked off course?"
"That doesn't make sense. I remember there being a large Pool of Merit here... Where did it go?"
The Tathagata Buddha gestured to where the Pool of Merit should have been, his face filled with confusion.
Unless someone could move the entire thing away, how could the Pool of Merit disappear?
There were tens of thousands of pounds of Spirit Source Agate, and the Golden-Bearded鳌 Fish was guarding it. He must have gone to the wrong place...
"Fool! This is the Eight Treasure Pool of Merit!"
"Can't you see? The Spirit Mountain's Pool of Merit has been emptied! Ah, I can't breathe, someone help me..."
Amitabha's face turned green with anger, clutching his chest and gasping for breath.
If he weren't a Sage, he probably would have had a heart attack from the shock.
Only then did the Tathagata Buddha react, pointing at the empty space before him with disbelief and exclaiming:
"Impossible! My Pool of Merit, my such a large Pool of Merit, how could it be gone?!"
The three thousand Buddhas were as crestfallen as if they had lost their parents, staring at the empty space before them with despair.
They were eating melons only to find themselves involved, watching a fire only to realize their own house was burning.
This was the Spirit Mountain's Pool of Merit, the three thousand Buddhas' bonus pool.
It was gone, all gone now!
Several Buddhas and Arhats couldn't withstand the shock and fainted on the spot.
Foaming at the mouth, they were saying, 'Give me back my Pool of Merit' even in their nightmares...
Amitabha was even more anxious than the three thousand Buddhas. This was the salary he was supposed to pay everyone.
Now that such a large sum of merit was gone, the Two Sages of the Western Paradise would have to make up for it.
Wouldn't that mean the Journey to the West would be for nothing?!
Amitabha's heart couldn't take it.
Amitabha shouted madly in anger:
"Where is the Golden鳌 Unfailing Accomplishment Tathagata! Get out here now!"
The next second, the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha, bound by chains, seemed to emerge from the ground.
At this moment, the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha's face was filled with surprise, and even a little joy.
"Eh, the Dragon Clan's disaster of exterminating Buddhism is over? Congratulations, Sage! Congratulations, Buddhas! The Western Paradise is saved! Congratulations, congratulations!"
The three thousand Buddhas were stunned for a moment, their expressions so wonderful, so helpless.
Especially Amitabha, his expression was even more...
One could not say he was just uncomfortable; it was more like a mental breakdown.
Amitabha grabbed the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha, roaring and shouting, spitting all over the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha's face:
"Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha, you abandoned your post! Didn't I tell you to guard the Pool of Merit?"
"Tell me, where's my Pool of Merit? Where's the Merit Divine Water that I painstakingly accumulated for countless years! Tell me!"
The Golden-Bearded鳌 Fish, also known as the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha, was the Cloud Immortal, the leader of the Seven Immortals accompanying the Jie Sect during the Investiture of the Gods.
After his defeat, the Cloud Immortal refused to submit to the Western Paradise and was locked up in the Eight Treasure Pool of Merit by Amitabha.
Amitabha ordered the Cloud Immortal to guard the Pool of Merit in exchange for not killing him, which could be considered giving the Cloud Immortal a way out.
But now, the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha had actually squandered all the Merit Divine Water in the entire Pool of Merit, which made Amitabha unable to hold back.
Amitabha grabbed the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha and shook him violently, almost shaking his brains out.
However, the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha's face was filled with confusion and just the right amount of shock.
"Why is the Sage so alarmed? Didn't you send someone to transfer the Merit Divine Water and Spirit Source Agate?"
"You even said that you absolutely couldn't leave even a single drop of Merit Divine Water for the enemy."
"That's why you cut off your own escape route, sending someone to empty the Spirit Source Agate and let the Merit Divine Water evaporate into the world."
Amitabha and the three thousand Buddhas were going crazy.
Amitabha was extremely distraught, so angry that he was feeling dizzy.
"Where did you get this plot from? Who told you that we were going to transfer the Merit Divine Water?"
Honestly, this scam was even more crude than "I'm Qin Shi Huang, send money."
Amitabha strongly suspected that this was all orchestrated by the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha himself.
However, the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha's face was filled with surprise.
"But that's the truth. I was sleeping just now when I felt someone rushing in hastily."
"I thought it was the Sage's order to come and take some Merit Divine Water, so I didn't pay attention..."
"So you just let him steal his fill?!" Amitabha asked in exasperation.
The Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha waved his hand and quickly said:
"Of course not! I'm not stupid. I quickly woke up and questioned the little thief."
"I felt that there was definitely something wrong with him and that he was probably taking advantage of the chaos to steal Merit Divine Water."
Amitabha nodded, after all, he wasn't stupid and had guessed the truth.
Amitabha quickly said: "And then?"
"And then my doubts were dispelled," the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha said with a simple and honest look.
The three thousand Buddhas widened their eyes. This was too outrageous!
You had already guessed that he was a liar, how could you still be convinced!
Amitabha's mouth was crooked with anger.
"Bullshit! What did he use to convince you! You're not that idiot White Lotus. How could you believe him so easily?"
"But he was really too sincere, and his appearance was so high, he didn't look like a bad person," the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha said with an innocent look.
Amitabha's little heart felt like it was about to stop for a moment.
He was about to be angered to death.
However, the Unfailing Accomplishment Buddha didn't dare to go too far, so he very sincerely told what had happened just now from beginning to end.
After he finished speaking, the whole place was silent, so quiet that a pin could be heard dropping.
Because they also believed it!
