At this moment, as Si Chou's five features took form, the tremors inside and outside the Celestial Mansion intensified. The regions below the Ninth Layer even began to gradually converge.
Space was collapsing.
Rivers and streams formed its vessels, mountains and seas its flesh and blood. Viscera, hands, feet... gradually, a vaguely ethereal humanoid figure truly began to manifest!
The human face that Si Chou had manifested on the Celestial Mansion's Eighth Layer then descended steadily, landing upon the face of the ethereal figure. It fit snugly, like a mask, before it jerked upward to look toward the heavens. Its terrifying gaze shattered the void, shooting straight for the Ninth Layer.
But at that very moment, the Ninth Layer suddenly erupted in Splendid Light.
The Splendid Light was a brilliant gold. The instant it appeared, a resounding Buddhist chant echoed, shaking the cosmos, before finally converging into six Scripts that pressed down upon the void:
"Om Mani Padme Hum!"
