The Celestial Vault suddenly overturned.
It was not a gathering of dark clouds, nor the descent of night.
Rather, a more fundamental aspect of "existence" was being forcibly altered, erased.
The void, once flowing with astral winds and thin Spiritual Mechanism, was now stained and covered by a pure, heavy "nothingness."
This "nothingness" was not a simple absence of things.
It was an ultimate annihilation that devoured all light, heat, sound, and color—even the very concept of "existence" itself.
The four Bodhisattva Dharma Aspects, once entrenched in the four cardinal directions, had each manifested their own glorious domains: Pure Lands, Buddha Countries, the wrathful forms of Vidyārājas, and the mighty Dragon Elephant Divine Techniques. Their might had once suppressed the land for thousands of miles. But now, under the shroud of this annihilating Celestial Vault, they were like snowflakes cast into sizzling oil, their edges silently melting and peeling away.
