Do You Dare Defy Me, the One Who Possesses the Pure Land?

After the Heavenly Dao collapsed, history turned another page.

Su Han, a stranger from another world, arrives here and surveys the fading light of the apocalypse: a wasteland where martial arts are being reborn, rife with pollution, the uncanny, heavenly demons, dark spirits, strange beasts...

This is the calamity of the Three Realms. No one is free from suffering.

The defiled world of the Five Turbidities offers no salvation. Calamity is everywhere.

So he opens up a pure land in his heart.

He saves himself, reflects all things, and finds stillness beyond calamity.

He can also save all beings. Wherever the pure land exists, there lies the other shore.

Many years later, boundless light shines through the heavens. The pure land stands supreme above all, its realm immeasurable, with no roots of form above it. Its clouds tower high, all sovereigns have vanished, and only the primordial ancestral qi remains, covering the infinite in every direction.

On this day, all beings finally realize:

The Three Realms, the ten directions, and every perilous land across the heavens are all pure lands...

Question: “What is the true meaning of the Pure Land?”

Answer: “Stillness beyond calamity.”

Question: “One can find stillness in one's heart, but how can the outside world be free from calamity?”

Answer: “Slay every enemy, and the world will naturally be still and free from calamity.”

Excerpt from A History of Martial Arts Civilization: Volume One, The Pure Land