Though it was called a performance, he didn't actually need to do anything. The miraculous phenomena would appear all on their own.

This couldn't help but make him wonder, 'Am I really a True Buddha Reincarnation?'

The ultimate form of deception was to fool even yourself, and at this moment, Yang An felt that it wasn't entirely out of the question.

'How were the techniques he possessed any different from the legendary Buddha's Radiance Illuminates All?'

'Perhaps in the future, if he reaches a higher realm, he might even be on the path to becoming a True Buddha.'

"Zen Master, watch closely! This child is the Holy Child, a True Buddha Reincarnation! De Hou speaks no falsehoods!"

De Hou spoke with absolute certainty. As he pressed his palms together, the cyan Prayer Beads on his wrist suddenly scattered, one of which transformed into a Secret Seal and landed on Yang An's head.

It was just like what happened during the third trial at Yan'an Temple.

De Hou's facial features twisted, instantly transforming into a radiant mirror. A torrent of cyan light poured out from its surface, enveloping Yang An.

At that moment, enveloped by the cyan light, Yang An instinctively prepared to activate several of his techniques, just in case he couldn't replicate the spectacle from the third trial.

But before he could even move, the auras of those techniques began to coalesce, one after another, into miraculous phenomena that emanated from his body.

First, a solemn and sacred Buddha's Radiance formed a Buddha's Radiant Wheel behind him, shining with dazzling splendor.

Next came the cyan glazed light of the Treasure Light Glaze Purification Technique. Its clarity and brilliance instantly overshadowed the cyan light enveloping him, becoming far more conspicuous.

Then, countless rays of brilliant Golden Radiance coalesced into a towering True Buddha's Golden Body Illusion, enveloping him. This was the Great Brightness Buddha Golden Zen Spell.

Finally, the Golden Body Skillful Method of Liberation from the East Buddha Temple manifested, instantly forming an even more massive True Buddha's Golden Body Illusion, one layer enclosing another.

With a Buddha's Light Wheel suspended behind him, his body bathed in cyan glazed light, he was protected by two Golden Body Illusions of a Great Buddha, each one more majestic and towering than the other.

To ensure his plan to enter Great Virtue Temple was foolproof, Yang An, cloaked in these lights and illusions, put on an expression of piety and compassion. With his palms pressed together, he truly looked like a True Buddha manifesting in the world.

FLICKER—

A cluster of dark red flames suddenly erupted from between Yang An's clasped palms. The eerie fire seared his hands, yet it only served to make him appear even more majestic and mysterious.

"Burning one's fingers as an offering to the Buddha's realm! That's the finger-burning offering to the Buddha's realm!!"

Nearby, among the few people who had been watching Yang An intently, De Chan, who stood beside De Yu, suddenly shrieked, completely losing his composure.

Even De Hou, who had cast the Technique of the Great Cause upon Yang An, couldn't help but shudder.

He had never imagined that a phenomenon he hadn't seen before would appear!

What did it mean to burn one's fingers as an offering to the Buddha's realm?

That was a phenomenon said to be produced only by Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of legend—beings of great cultivation, great aspiration, great wisdom, and great diligence.

It was not a state that Cultivators like them, still on their path, could ever hope to achieve.

Yet, such a phenomenon had just appeared on someone with only a Fake Food Cultivation Level.

If this wasn't a Holy Child, what was?!

He recalled the child once saying that in a dream, a great Cultivator had identified his past self as a True Buddha named Lamp Burning.

Lamp Burning... Lamp Burning... A finger-burning offering to the Buddha's realm!

'Based on this alone, no one could doubt this child's identity as the Holy Child, a True Buddha Reincarnation! Not even Zen Master Qing Nan!'

'Who is Zen Master Qing Nan in the grand scheme of things? And who is a True Buddha Reincarnation?'

Of course, De Hou couldn't say those words aloud; merely thinking them was a great sin. Nevertheless, he felt an immense sense of satisfaction.

"Zen Master! Senior Brothers! This is the Holy Child! This is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity for our Cyan Lotus State!"

There were some things he couldn't say, but De Hou was bursting to say others.

De Yu and the other two masters standing nearby were completely dumbfounded, having lost all the composure befitting the three great masters of the Glazed Tower.

Meanwhile, the look on Zen Master Qing Nan's face as he gazed at Yang An was also one of utter shock.

However, as a Zen Master, he was calm. He had to be.

The appearance of a Holy Child, a True Buddha Reincarnation, in Cyan Lotus State was no small matter. Any mistake would be a great sin for them, and Great Virtue Temple would not tolerate such an error.

Zen Master Qing Nan's first thought regarding the phenomena appearing around Yang An was that they were merely techniques. 'This could all be the work of techniques.'

But it was only a fleeting suspicion that vanished in an instant.

For the suspicion was unfounded.

The child only had a Cultivation Level at the Middle Stage of Fake Food. Nothing could escape his perception.

As a Zen Master, his own Cultivation Level was at the Zombie God Realm. No one with a lower Cultivation Level could possibly deceive him.

He was certain that what he was witnessing was no Illusion Technique.

But if it wasn't an Illusion Technique, then such exquisite and profound techniques were far beyond the capabilities of a Cultivator at the Middle Stage of Fake Food. Even he himself could not perform them.

Why was that?

Because if these phenomena were indeed techniques, the implications were terrifying!

If they were techniques, it would mean that every single one of these phenomena was an absolute Forbidden Technique—a Light Magic!

A single Light Magic could be fatal. It was utterly impossible for anyone to cultivate so many Forbidden Techniques at once, let alone sustain them for this long.

After all, several breaths had passed since De Hou cast the Technique of the Great Cause, yet this child showed no signs of strain. This proved they were all genuine phenomena.