External Incarnation, Digging One's Own Grave

The black energy that surged out rushed out, and General Luo's physical body rapidly shriveled.

The surging black energy swirled and surged, instantly transforming into a colossal demon god a hundred zhang tall, as if a celestial demon had descended! This mountain-sized demon god had three faces and eight arms, a blue face with fangs, and a ferocious, roaring laugh. Its three eyes widened, it wore a skull crown, its entire body was the color of a blue lotus, two crimson giant pythons coiled around its chest, and flames and black energy spewed from its mouth.

The uppermost of its eight arms were bent upwards, holding a vajra pestle with twenty fingers and twelve prongs. The second hand was bent upwards, grasping a trident halberd, deep bronze in color and a hundred zhang long, appearing to weigh over ten thousand jun. The third arms were pressed against the third left arm, crossing at the chest, with both hands forming vajra mudras. The fourth arms hung down, extending five fingers in the mudra of fearlessness. The upper left hand held a dharma wheel. The first left arm was extended to the left, holding a black spire covered in flowing runes, the original form of the World-Destroying Mara Banner. The fourth left hand was placed horizontally over the left hip, forming a protective mudra.

This colossal demon god form was not an illusion created by magic, but a physical manifestation of a fused Primordial Spirit. It was actually an external incarnation of the Ratnasambhava Wrathful King!

All cultivators in the world knew that Kunlun's cultivation was not limited to specific incantations, but if any cultivator from another sect were to witness this battle of the ages, they would surely be so shocked their hearts would split! This was because what General Luo had revealed was an external incarnation, a legendary cultivation technique said to be achievable only by Tribulation Immortals of Esoteric Buddhism!

As soon as the external incarnation manifested, General Luo's body immediately withered.

But after General Luo's body rapidly withered, the silver mask immediately shimmered, and two streams of treasure-blue energy, as thick as thumbs, surged from his nostrils. His previously shriveled body suddenly became full again, his hollow and sunken eyes reopened, emitting a radiant blue light. In an instant, General Luo's entire body became crystal clear, like treasure-blue diamond.

"Hahaha!" As General Luo's physical body's eyes opened, he let out another earth-shattering laugh, and in the blink of an eye, he formed three more incantations in his hands.

The external incarnation, condensed and refined from the Primordial Spirit, was the final step after achieving great mastery in the cultivation techniques of Esoteric Buddhism. Once the external incarnation solidified into a true physical form, it was equivalent to being able to abandon one's physical body and exist purely through Primordial Spirit and spiritual energy, escaping the cycle of life and death, reaching a state of true transcendence.

However, the strange silver mask that General Luo had been wearing, which shimmered with a frosty glow, was one of the ten great demon-subduing magic treasures of Esoteric Buddhism: the Kubera Growth Mask!

This supreme magic treasure of Esoteric Buddhism could attach itself to a sliver of Primordial Spirit and nourish the withered physical body by condensing vital energy. In this way, General Luo's physical body ironically became a powerful magic treasure in the hands of his external incarnation.

With General Luo's physical body and external incarnation combined, he naturally had one more than Yuan Tianyi.

When General Luo manifested his external incarnation, his six senses became one with the external incarnation. He was a hundred zhang tall, looking down at Yuan Tianyi from above. In his sight, Yuan Tianyi was incredibly insignificant. Moreover, the power of this condensed external incarnation was immense, as if an unprecedented sense of power surged within his body.

For a time, General Luo's aura and confidence reached an unprecedented peak!

Within a radius of a thousand li, wind, fire, thunder, and lightning raged. Poisonous fire and lightning illuminated the entire world as if it were splitting apart.

"Puff!" "Puff!" Within Kunlun Ring Island, several Kunlun disciples spat out their vital essence blood and were sent flying backward. It turned out that when they saw General Luo at a disadvantage, these Kunlun disciples had already unleashed their own spells and magic treasures to attack Yuan Tianyi. But now, upon colliding with the spells and magic treasures released by General Luo, they were struck only at the edges, and their Primordial Spirits were greatly shaken, unable to withstand it.

The battle between General Luo and Yuan Tianyi was not something ordinary people could interfere with.

The mere edge of the power was already unbearable for those Kunlun disciples, but the crescent-shaped jade disk suspended before Yuan Tianyi steadily protected him. Yuan Tianyi took another step, arriving directly in front of General Luo's physical body, which wielded two black greatswords.

"A fine Reincarnation Moon Radiance Dharma Wheel. If we speak purely of defense, your magic treasure can be called the foremost in this era!"

As Yuan Tianyi closed the distance in a single step, with just a finger, golden light flashed, and General Luo's blue diamond physical body turned to dust. However, General Luo was not flustered at all. A hundred feet away, another identical physical body materialized.

Breaking through the void! General Luo's speed was in no way inferior to Yuan Tianyi's. The physical body that had turned to dust was merely an illusion instantly conjured by General Luo.

Seeing that his Heavenly Tribulation-like powerful spells were useless against Yuan Tianyi, General Luo, with a wild laugh, seized the original forms of the magic treasures in his hands and began to smash them wildly at Yuan Tianyi.

Breaking through the Dao with force!

Although he did not cast spells, the vajra pestle, trident halberd, dharma wheel, and World-Destroying Mara Banner in the external incarnation's hands were all forged from heavenly materials and earthly treasures like fine gold and vajra. The original forms of these magic treasures each weighed over ten thousand jun. Now, with the external incarnation's eight arms moving in unison, smashing the five-colored magic treasures wildly was like countless mountain peaks striking repeatedly! Often, before they even landed, the sea surface was already struck with unfathomable deep pits by the peerless energy, followed by colossal waves.

"Luofu Miasma?"

General Luo's external incarnation, being a physical form condensed from Primordial Spirit and heavenly spiritual energy, was said to have inexhaustible strength and magic power. Even if he couldn't kill Yuan Tianyi, as long as he could suppress him, he could continue smashing for days and nights without tiring. But suddenly, the scene before him changed. General Luo saw a field of purple illusory light, with waves of five-colored poisonous smoke. The landscape seemed to be refracted, appearing and disappearing, illusory and confusing, with shifting positions, making it impossible to discern reality from falsehood.

"Yuan Tianyi, you use such a magic treasure to deal with me? You underestimate me too much!" General Luo immediately recognized that this was a magic treasure refined by Yuan Tianyi using Luofu Miasma. While such a magic treasure's power was considerable for ordinary cultivators, for General Luo, who had already manifested his external incarnation, it was child's play!

With a "Chī!" sound, General Luo's external incarnation merely opened its mouth and spewed out hundreds of solid-like gusts of wind. They erupted with the sound of wind and thunder, and the purple illusory light before his eyes instantly vanished without a trace.

At this moment, Yuan Tianyi was once again in front of General Luo's physical body. It seemed he intended to eliminate General Luo's weaker physical body first, lest he be ambushed while entangled with the external incarnation. "Hahaha! Just in time!" But at this moment, General Luo was overjoyed rather than alarmed. An unprecedented bright light erupted from the eyes of his physical body!

A colossal, transparent radiance suddenly appeared between Yuan Tianyi and General Luo. Like rolling leaves, it instantly enveloped Yuan Tianyi tightly, forming a cocoon.

"Boom!"

Countless streams of golden energy instantly emanated from Yuan Tianyi's body, forming a blooming golden lotus. The colossal radiance that had tightly enveloped him instantly turned to dust.

This colossal radiance, which emitted the magical power fluctuations of an Earth Immortal grade magic treasure, was destroyed by Yuan Tianyi in an instant!

However, this suddenly appearing colossal radiance did, after all, cause Yuan Tianyi to pause.

The time it took to snap one's fingers was also time.

Yuan Tianyi's pause lasted, at most, the time it took to snap one's fingers, but this time was enough for General Luo!

And this was precisely the time that had appeared under his meticulously planned design!

As Yuan Tianyi paused for this brief moment, the two colossal palms of General Luo's external incarnation enclosed him within their grasp!

Outside the palms was heaven and earth, but inside the palms was General Luo's world! Countless dense runes instantly bloomed on Yuan Tianyi's body. As General Luo's palms closed, they instantly severed Yuan Tianyi's connection with heaven and earth, stripping him away from the world.

To break his technique, first sever his roots!

"Hahaha! Yuan Tianyi, you are delivering yourself to death today!"

Immediately, the vajra pestle, trident halberd, dharma wheel, and World-Destroying Mara Banner, shrinking their forms, began to strike wildly at Yuan Tianyi's body!

Golden light splashed!

These powerful magic treasures, weighing over ten thousand jun, struck Yuan Tianyi's tightly bound body. With each blow, Yuan Tianyi's body actually erupted with golden dust-like radiance.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!" With each strike, it was as if someone was hammering heaven and earth with a giant hammer from an infinite distance, shaking the Primordial Spirit as if it were trembling along with heaven and earth!

"The Glazed Indestructible Golden Body cultivated by the Empty Life Extinguishing Sea Glazed Art is nothing more than this!" General Luo's external incarnation, wielding various magic treasures, continued to strike relentlessly without any pause, scattering Yuan Tianyi's body bit by bit!

Yuan Tianyi's Luofu Art cultivated the body to achieve sainthood. Unlike cultivation techniques for Inner Cores or external incarnations, it did not allow for the cultivation of a second Primordial Spirit or an external incarnation. Even if his physical body were destroyed, he would not perish. With his cultivation technique, if the physical body was destroyed, the Primordial Spirit would also be annihilated.

"Not good!" On Kunlun Ring Island, tens of thousands of Kunlun disciples couldn't help but show joy as they saw General Luo killing Yuan Tianyi bit by bit. However, the purple-clad woman, who looked like a Moon Palace Fairy and was protecting the little girl drawing on the ground, her face changed drastically from beneath her light veil!

"Hahaha!" Before General Luo, who had just killed Yuan Tianyi, could let out a triumphant laugh, he also felt something was wrong.

Because in his ears and eyes, from the nine heavens above, Brahma sounds were resounding, immortal music was drifting, boundless white lotuses were falling, and colorful radiance descended from the impossibly high sky like sutra banners. Celestial maiden dakinis, holding the Eight Auspicious Symbols, Seven Royal Treasures, precious banners, thousand-spoked golden wheels, and right-coiled conches, circled amidst incense chariots.

This was a phenomenon that, within his knowledge and understanding, only occurred when one succeeded in transcending tribulation and achieving sainthood or Buddhahood!

Although known as one of the Ten Great Golden Immortals among worldly cultivators, even the arrogant General Luo knew deep down that he was still an immeasurable distance from achieving sainthood or Buddhahood.

As soon as this thought flashed through his Sea of Consciousness, his spiritual platform sharpened, and his true heart regained its clarity. General Luo, who was so arrogant he barely acknowledged heaven and earth, felt his external incarnation and physical body's eyes about to split open!

At this moment, above and below, all he saw in his eyes was a single figure clad in white!

All his Primordial Spirit could sense was the boundless danger of its utter annihilation!

Yuan Tianyi, clad in white, was currently at the chest of his external incarnation.

"Roar!" General Luo, usually incredibly arrogant, let out an involuntary, earth-shattering howl like a wounded beast. The two crimson giant pythons coiled around the chest of his external incarnation lunged at Yuan Tianyi, while his external incarnation retreated rapidly.

Compared to his external incarnation, which was hundreds of feet tall, Yuan Tianyi was as minuscule as dust. But at this moment, a speck of golden starlight shot from Yuan Tianyi's hand, like a grain of golden sand trickling from between his fingers.

Yet, this speck of golden starlight pierced directly through the two crimson giant pythons and entered General Luo's external incarnation.

Following the golden starlight, the two crimson giant pythons instantly turned to dust, starting from their heads. General Luo's entire external incarnation also began to disintegrate like melting ice and snow, turning to powder from the chest down!

"How is this possible!"

A black cloud of energy flew out from the rapidly disintegrating external incarnation and surged towards General Luo's physical body. The entire world was filled with General Luo's disbelieving roar, "How is it possible that even my external incarnation could be deceived by an illusion!"

Yuan Tianyi calmly watched the Primordial Spirit escaping from General Luo's external incarnation but did not pursue it. "If it were a true external incarnation, there would likely be no one in this era who could contend with it. But yours is merely an external incarnation fused with the power of a divine beast, coupled with your insufficiently resilient true heart. How could you be my opponent?"

The confrontation between Yuan Tianyi and General Luo had reached a level unimaginable to ordinary cultivators!

It turned out that the creature that had been prostrating beside General Luo was the ancient divine beast, Golden Ni, which was now extinct in the world. General Luo's ability to manifest an external incarnation was, in part, due to borrowing the innate power and immense magical energy of the Golden Ni, whose body was as strong as vajra. The external incarnation formed by the fusion of General Luo's refined Primordial Spirit avatar and the Golden Ni itself was, in terms of power, no less than a true external incarnation cultivated through the final step of his Esoteric Buddhism techniques.

To achieve such innovation and accomplishment in cultivation techniques, General Luo was indeed a rare talent of his generation, astonishingly brilliant.

However, Yuan Tianyi's realm had clearly surpassed the stage of merely using techniques to harness the power of heaven and earth, solely pursuing might. While General Luo's external incarnation was indistinguishable in terms of power, it possessed a fundamental difference in its true heart compared to a genuine external incarnation.

Only those who had endured countless tribulations, possessed an extremely firm true heart, and were impervious to all demonic influences could possibly take that final step and condense a true external incarnation.

Therefore, Yuan Tianyi had seen General Luo's fatal weakness from the moment they began fighting!

After casually releasing the Purple Cloud Miasma, Yuan Tianyi employed the Yama Illusion Secret Art. General Luo's greatest desire, the thought he harbored most, was to kill Yuan Tianyi and ultimately achieve sainthood or Buddhahood.

Evil arises from the heart, and General Luo was immediately ensnared by such an illusion.

By the time he realized he had been deceived by Yuan Tianyi's technique, it was already too late. The God-Slaying Golden Sand that Yuan Tianyi had enough time to unleash could annihilate even true Immortals and Buddhas!

No matter how fast General Luo was, he only managed to escape with a wisp of his Primordial Spirit. Not even his Golden Ni Primordial Spirit, which he called King Huang, managed to escape.

Thus, this battle! General Luo could be said to have lost utterly and completely, defeated beyond redemption!

Yuan Tianyi simply gazed calmly at the wisp of General Luo's Primordial Spirit, which had been utterly defeated. He did not pursue. The severely wounded General Luo, with only a wisp of his Primordial Spirit returning to his physical body, let out a heaven-shattering cry. Amidst it, a look of unspeakable desolation briefly flickered across his face, "I am not reconciled!"

General Luo had never suffered such a crushing defeat since he began cultivating. He had fought Yuan Tianyi precisely to prove his own superiority, but who would have thought he would end up so utterly vanquished.

For someone as arrogant as him, this was worse than death!

Although Yuan Tianyi had held back and not pursued to annihilate his Primordial Spirit with a single blow, he could no longer face this profound humiliation!

"I would rather die than be defeated!"

Amidst his earth-shattering roar, blood flowed from the seven orifices of his silver mask. He slammed his hands onto the ground. With a deafening "boom," the sea surface within a radius of dozens of feet beneath him instantly shattered, revealing a colossal abyss. He then plunged into this abyss, along with all the seawater and shattered rocks!

After this battle, General Luo, one of the Ten Golden Immortals of Kunlun, was so utterly defeated that he could not bear it, digging his own grave and burying himself!