One night, a Chan Master cried out beyond Buddha-Sculpting Village, denouncing the villagers' body mutilation …
One night, a Chan Master cried out beyond Buddha-Sculpting Village, denouncing the villagers' body mutilation as hypocrisy and false Buddhism. "Let those who repent follow me," he called. Some cursed the master, but he turned a deaf ear. Those willing to follow trekked with him to the peak of Nameless Mountain.
As they reached the summit, Buddha-Sculpting Village erupted in flames, engulfed in a sea of fire. The Chan Master preached the scriptures on the peak, and all who heard were awed. At sunrise, when his sermon ended, a Buddhalight manifested—thus giving Halo Peak its name.