"I knew you Buddhist Cultivators were ambitious wolves. Sixteen Bodhisattvas... You’ve certainly hidden your strength well..."
Qingyuan Dao Seeking True Monarch stood atop the pitch-black clouds, his green robes whipping in the wind. He held no sword, yet it was as if a billion strands of invisible Sword Intent were erupting from his every pore, shredding the surrounding Buddha Light to pieces.
He laughed aloud, but his laughter was like a sword’s edge scraping across glass, filled with a tyranny that could sunder the heavens and shatter the earth.
"My Buddha is merciful—"
Amid the seven-colored Buddha Light, Dragon Elephant Wisdom Bodhisattva pressed his palms together. His voice, deep and resonant as an ancient bell, echoed through the frozen Heaven and Earth:
"We have long resided Overseas, diligently cultivating our Buddhist Skills, all for this day—so that we might bring the True Scripture back to the Eastern Land and deliver the world from its sea of suffering.
We hope our fellow Daoists... can understand our earnest intentions."
"Understand?"
The billions of Great Dao runes swirling around Everlasting Talisman Inference True Monarch suddenly accelerated. He sneered, "Somehow, I get the feeling that after failing to entice us, you Bodhisattvas now wish to resort to coercion."
"Fellow Daoist, you are mistaken."
Another Bodhisattva slowly stepped forward.
This Bodhisattva wore moon-white kasaya robes. His face was like ancient pine, and between his brows, a crystalline seal of glass-like light spun slowly, as if it could peer into the flowing thoughts of all living beings.
He was Heart Lamp Shadowing Bodhisattva, and his voice was gentle yet every word was distinct:
"The Eastern Land is a vast and fertile paradise, rich with Spiritual Mechanism. You fellow Daoists sit upon this treasure trove, yet you are complacent and have no desire to advance.
We Buddhist Cultivators reside in the barren, bitter lands Overseas where resources are scarce, yet we have produced sixteen who have achieved the Bodhisattva Fruit Position.
The facts are right here. It is plain to see who is diligent and who is slothful."
"Fourteen against sixteen."
Another Bodhisattva spoke.
This one had a frame as imposing as a mountain and skin the color of dark gold. A lifelike phantom of one of the Eight Celestial Dragons coiled around him, its head lowered over his shoulder, its eyes majestic, its voice like thunder.
"Fellow Daoists, stubborn arguments are meaningless."
Sixteen against fourteen.
The Buddhist Cultivation Bodhisattvas spoke earnestly, yet each word was like a blade, clearly pointing out the number of True Monarchs of the Central Plains Righteous Dao, and even their potential hidden reserves.
Clearly, their plan to cross the sea to the east was no whim, but something they had been planning for a long time, secretly gauging the Central Plains’ true strength.
Everything was part of their calculations.
"Noisy bald donkeys!"
Qingyuan Dao Seeking True Monarch suddenly roared!
"CLANG—!!!"
A sword’s cry was born from the void, rose from the source of the Great Dao, and exploded out from the ancient, unending river of the Sword Dao!
With a wave of his great sleeve, Qingyuan Dao Seeking True Monarch said no more.
The next moment—
"BOOM!!!!!"
A longsword shot out from his sleeve!
When it first appeared, it was but a Three-foot Cyan Blade, but the moment it left his sleeve, it swelled with the wind, transforming into a thousand-zhang, ten-thousand-zhang, and finally... a silver-white torrent that stretched across the sky!
The ten-thousand-mile Sword Realm unfurled with a deafening roar!
The silver-white sword light, like a heavenly river that had broken its banks, surged toward the Vidyārāja Bodhisattva at the very front of the sixteen Bodhisattvas!
Before the sword light even arrived, the wrathful flames that could incinerate mountains and boil seas were already suppressed by the invisible Sword Intent, flickering as if they would be extinguished in the next instant!
"Amitabha Buddha—"
The three-headed, six-armed Dharma Aspect of Vidyārāja Bodhisattva suddenly swelled in size. Its six arms each wielded a Demon-Slaying Magical Artifact as cyan flames erupted from its body, forming a Fire Sea Buddha Country that covered ten thousand miles to clash head-on with the ten-thousand-mile Sword Realm!
"Strike!!!"
At almost the exact same moment, atop the clouds, the other thirteen True Monarchs no longer hesitated!
"BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ—!!!"
Between Heaven and Earth, the Great Dao wailed!
Fourteen True Monarchs simultaneously revealed their fundamental Dao Fruit!
Fourteen True Monarchs, fourteen completely different manifestations of the Great Dao, yet each one touched the very pinnacle of this realm!
Such might had long surpassed what any ordinary Cultivator could comprehend.
It was as if fourteen "Great Daos of the Fierce Sun" had been simultaneously detonated above the Nanyin Buddha Country, dyeing the Celestial Vault a bizarre, indescribable Chaos Color!
"Namo World Honored One—!!!"
The sixteen Buddhist Cultivation Bodhisattvas chanted in unison, their voices shaking the cosmos!
Facing the ferocious assault from the fourteen True Monarchs, they, who were already prepared, responded in an instant.
Dragon Elephant Wisdom Bodhisattva, Prison Guardian Vajra Bodhisattva, Vidyārāja Bodhisattva, Heart Lamp Shining Glass Bodhisattva, Eight Divisions Dharma Guardian Vajra Bodhisattva...
Fourteen Bodhisattvas stepped forward as one, each unfurling their own fundamental Bodhisattva Pure Land, Wisdom King Dharma Aspect, or Prajna Wisdom Sea to meet the fourteen "Great Daos of the Fierce Sun"!
The remaining two Bodhisattvas—Treasure Tree Adornment Bodhisattva and World-Purifying and Calamity-Averting Bodhisattva—flickered and retreated to either side of the World Honored One’s Handwriting, which was still slowly unfurling within the seven-colored Buddha Light.
One to the left, one to the right, they formed a Sealing Technique to guard it.
Bodhisattva against True Monarch.
Buddha Light against Dao Rhyme.
At this moment, atop Spirit Mountain, before the Little Leiyin Temple, the most supreme, most majestic, and most tragic clash of the Great Dao erupted with a deafening roar!!!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!!!!!!!!"
It was an indescribable cataclysm, not of sound, but a conceptual explosion caused by the collision of Great Daos!
With Spirit Mountain at its center, a million-mile radius of Heaven and Earth was instantly dragged into another dimension!
The sky was no longer the sky, but shattered glass, displaying a bizarre scene of a billion colors madly flowing, annihilating, and regenerating;
The earth wailed. Within the Nanyin Buddha Country, countless mountains and rivers began to collapse and shift. Rivers flowed backward and cities trembled. Even with the protection of the Buddha Light Dharma Realm, the mortal buildings crumbled like sandcastles;
Time lost its meaning here. One moment the sun was high in the sky, the next the moon could be shining brightly, and the next the stars could be hanging upside down;
Lines of causality manifested like a tangled mess of yarn, intertwining and snapping.
Some Cultivators discovered in horror that their "pasts" were being tampered with. Some beings were inexplicably born only to be inexplicably extinguished...
This was the "Realm Chaos" created by the full-powered collision of the True Monarchs’ and Bodhisattvas’ Dao domains!
An ordinary Cultivator, let alone participating, would have their Dao Foundation shattered and their Divine Soul obliterated if they were so much as grazed by a single aftershock, with not even a chance at reincarnation!
And at the very edge of this world-ending battlefield, upon the Golden Plaza paved with seven treasures that was now illuminated by the bizarre light.
’So... that’s how it is...’
Deep within Qi Yun’s Purple Mansion, his main consciousness was processing, deducing, and comprehending at a furious pace.
Using the Commanding All Skills ability of his [Daluo Heaven], combined with the earlier message from the Crown Prince of Nanyin, Cai Shen’s ancient memories, and now the grand scheme and confrontation he was witnessing with his own eyes...
He finally understood the entirety of this shocking game of chess that involved the fundamental structure of the Profound Yellow Origin Realm!
’The Righteous Dao True Monarchs knew long ago that the Buddhist Cultivators had this [World Honored One’s Handwriting] and that it might contain the mysteries of the realm Above the True Monarch.’
’But they also knew that this item was a Supreme Treasure of the Buddhist Cultivators and would never be handed over easily. So... they chose the most "effortless" method—letting the Buddhist Cultivators take it out themselves!’
’Allowing the Nanyin Sovereign to convert to Buddhism, allowing the Overseas Buddhist Cultivators to travel east, allowing them to establish a Buddha Country on the lands of the Central Plains, to sort the Earth Veins, to gather Wish Power...’
’Everything, all of it, was for this day—for the Buddhist Cultivators themselves to voluntarily take out this [World Honored One’s Handwriting] and reveal it to the world when they believed the time was right!’
’And the Buddhist Cultivators? Did they not know this was a conspiracy? No, of course they knew!’
’But what they wanted even more was to use this opportunity to return to the Central Earth with just cause, to put down roots in this fertile land, spread their Buddhist Skills, and gather faith!’
’In the end... both sides had absolute confidence in their own strength!’
The light in Qi Yun’s eyes flickered violently, his thoughts racing like lightning.
’The Righteous Dao True Monarchs believed that as long as they could make the Buddhist Cultivators take out the [World Honored One’s Handwriting], they could definitely seize it with the geographical and popular advantages of the Central Plains, as well as the absolute power of their fourteen True Monarchs!’
’Meanwhile, the Buddhist Cultivators believed that after years of secret operations, they had already figured out the Central Plains’ true strength—fourteen True Monarchs, no more, no less.’
’But they themselves had sixteen Bodhisattvas!’
’With their superior numbers, they could not only protect the scripture but also establish the foundation of their Buddha Country in one fell swoop and gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains!’
’Both sides saw themselves as the hunter and the other as the prey.’
’Both sides thought they would be the ones to have the last laugh.’
’What a grand game of chess... what a magnificent gamble!’
Qi Yun slowly exhaled a breath of Muddy Qi, which was instantly annihilated by the raging torrents of Dao Rhyme around him.
Just as the fourteen True Monarchs of the Righteous Dao and the fourteen Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist Cultivation were locked in fierce battle, and the aftershocks of their clashing Great Daos had churned Heaven and Earth into a chaotic slurry—
A sudden change occurred in the silence!
The [World Honored One’s Handwriting], guarded by both Treasure Tree Adornment Bodhisattva and World-Purifying and Calamity-Averting Bodhisattva, was slowly unfurling its final, ancient Seal.
The golden light flowing across the scripture grew ever more substantial.
That supreme will, a will of "I alone am supreme" that transcended all skills, was like a slumbering primeval titan about to awaken completely.
Yet in that very instant—
"RIIIIP!"
The void behind the two Bodhisattvas was, without any warning, torn open by two hands!
The first hand was as pale as a dead man’s finger bones, with long, pitch-black nails. Billions of wisp-like, shrieking soul fragments coiled around its fingertips.
The second hand, with fingers spread wide, seemed to hold a black hole in its palm that devoured all things. There was no light, no color, only pure "nothingness."
"BUZZ—!!!"
The faces of the two Bodhisattvas changed drastically!
They didn’t even have time to turn around before their Protective Buddha Light and the lotus daises beneath their feet instinctively flared to their maximum power!
The giant Bodhi Tree behind Treasure Tree Bodhisattva trembled violently, showering down a boundless rain of wisdom light; the White Lotus beneath Du’e Bodhisattva’s feet spun rapidly, and World-Purifying Buddha Light surged behind him like a tide!
However, it was too late.
The owners of those two hands had already stepped out of the void tear.
The one on the left was as tall and thin as a bamboo pole, draped in a wide black robe that seemed tailored from the endless night. From the hem of his robe dripped a viscous black liquid that reeked of the decaying stench of the Yellow Springs.
His face was shrouded in a constantly shifting gray mist.
Only his eyes were clearly visible—they were two slowly spinning "Nine Nether Vortexes" formed from countless struggling, wailing souls!
The master of the Yellow Springs Netherworld—Nine Nether Sun-devouring True Monarch!
The one on the right had a straight and tall figure. He wore a simple black robe, his face as cold and hard as ten-thousand-year-old iron, his eyes devoid of any emotion, containing only a frozen indifference.
He just stood there, without any grand phenomena surrounding him, yet he seemed to be a "missing point" in the world itself. Light, sound, and even the concept of "existence" were unconsciously collapsing and vanishing toward him.
The current leader of the Wuji Holy Sect—True Monarch of No Dao Extreme Law!
The moment the two Demon Dao True Monarchs appeared, they wasted no words, not even sparing a glance at the World Honored One’s Handwriting.
Nine Nether Sun-devouring True Monarch’s pale right hand, wreathed in soul fragments, made a gentle clenching motion toward Treasure Tree Adornment Bodhisattva.
"CRACK—BOOM!!!"
On the trunk of the sky-blotting Bodhi Treasure Tree phantom behind Treasure Tree Bodhisattva, countless twisted cracks appeared without warning!
From within the cracks, a foul, viscous, yellow "Water of the Yellow Springs" began to gush out!
The rain of wisdom light was instantly polluted, transforming into a downpour of stinking, filthy blood!
Treasure Tree Bodhisattva’s own perfect and immortal Bodhisattva’s Golden Body also began to "age" at a visible rate. His skin wrinkled and his Buddha Light dimmed, as if tens of thousands of years of his lifespan had been stolen in an instant, pushing him toward the end of his decaying life!
The World-Purifying White Lotus, Du’e Bodhisattva, was also struck hard!
True Monarch of No Dao Extreme Law simply extended a single, flat finger toward him.
The fingertip pointed out, silently.
The edges of the ten-thousand-zhang Purifying World White Lotus beneath Du’e Bodhisattva’s feet instantly began to "disappear"!
It was as if it were a pencil drawing being erased, leaving not even a trace of its existence behind!
The World-Purifying Buddha Light, as if it had met its nemesis, retreated and annihilated like a receding tide, forming an ever-expanding absolute vacuum before Wu Dao’s fingertip where even the concept of "Buddha" could not exist!
"PUH—!!!"
"ARGH—!!!"
Caught off guard, brutally ambushed and grievously wounded by the Demon Dao True Monarchs, the two Bodhisattvas simultaneously spat out a mouthful of pale golden Buddhist blood. Their bodies, as if struck by an invisible sledgehammer, were sent flying uncontrollably in two different directions!
Such was the terror of the Demon Dao True Monarchs!
The moment they struck, they used a killing blow!
They had grievously wounded two Bodhisattvas in a single exchange.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
From the two Demon Dao True Monarchs tearing open the void and appearing, to the two guardian Bodhisattvas being gravely injured and sent flying away, only one or two breaths had passed!
Only then did enraged roars finally erupt from all corners of the battlefield:
"The Righteous and Demon Daos are working together?! Despicable!"
And at this moment.
Around the [World Honored One’s Handwriting], there was no one left to guard it!
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