Sage Zhunti's aura suddenly surged to an even greater height.
He was about to unleash a devastating move to salvage his dignity as a Sage.
The eighteen palms behind him swayed gently, producing countless afterimages.
Those afterimages then transformed into innumerable gigantic hands that blotted out the sky and covered the sun.
They bombarded Goddess Nuwa all at once.
This was the Western Sect's supreme divine ability: Thousand-Hand Buddha!
The overwhelming scene stunned the countless living beings of the Primordial Land.
No one had expected Sage Zhunti to possess such a technique.
It was truly unimaginable.
After all, the spectacle of the Thousand-Hand Buddha was simply too terrifying.
Facing Zhunti's Thousand-Hand Buddha attack, Goddess Nuwa's expression gradually turned solemn.
Then Goddess Nuwa began chanting an unknown incantation with an exceptionally grave expression.
Her chanting was incredibly loud.
It could practically be heard across half the Primordial Land.
Yet no one could make out what spell Goddess Nuwa was chanting.
A moment later, Goddess Nuwa pointed forward with a solemn expression and declared in a grave, resounding voice, "Rashomon."
The instant the word Rashomon was spoken—
The entire Primordial Land seemed to tremble.
Then an immensely terrifying gate, vast enough to blot out the sky and cover the sun, appeared between heaven and earth.
That colossal gate stood across the land.
Its surface was carved with countless giant serpents.
It resembled a hell of serpents, a sight terrifying beyond measure.
This incomparably dreadful Rashomon completely separated Nuwa and Zhunti.
All of Daoist Zhunti's Thousand-Hand Buddha attacks were blocked by Rashomon.
Every attack that struck Rashomon vanished without a trace, like stones sinking into the sea.
After an unknown amount of time, the power of Sage Zhunti's Thousand-Hand Buddha finally began to subside.
Nuwa's Rashomon also gradually turned illusory before vanishing into nothingness.
Every single attack from Sage Zhunti's Thousand-Hand Buddha had actually been blocked by Goddess Nuwa's Rashomon.
Everyone was stunned.
Sage Zhunti himself was completely dumbfounded.
At that moment, Goddess Nuwa raised the Creation Whip and lashed it toward Zhunti once more.
Smack...
Sage Zhunti, whose strength had only just been exhausted, was caught off guard and struck by Goddess Nuwa again.
He staggered and retreated several steps, nearly falling to the ground.
At that moment, he was utterly bewildered.
He had actually been struck by Goddess Nuwa again?
He had suffered another major loss at Goddess Nuwa's hands?
To him, this was simply the greatest humiliation imaginable.
Since becoming a Sage countless years ago and enduring several calamities, when had he ever suffered such disgrace?
Moreover, all living beings of the Primordial Land were watching this battle.
Yet he had been struck by Nuwa twice in succession.
It was simply unbearable.
Goddess Nuwa was humiliating him.
She was also humiliating their Western Sect.
At that thought, Sage Zhunti's expression gradually twisted into something savage.
The violent emotions in his heart nearly drove him mad.
With madness written across his face, Sage Zhunti's aura surged once more.
That overwhelming momentum seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Then his enormous body charged straight at Goddess Nuwa.
At the same time, he drove all eighteen of his treasures to attack Goddess Nuwa.
For a time, the entire western heaven and earth began to quake violently.
Treasured lights flashed across the sky as the powers of countless Great Daos blasted forth without end.
The entire western land began trembling at that moment.
The earth-shaking scene was like the end of the world all over again.
Even under the protection of the Guiding Sage of the West, the living beings of The West still felt as though they were suffering unspeakably.
Yet faced with the crazed Sage Zhunti—
Goddess Nuwa remained exceptionally calm.
The Tassel Red Embroidered Ball, Precious Lotus Lamp, Creation Whip, Shanhe Sheji Map, Five Elements Spirit Beads, Ephemeral Entangling Sky Ribbon, and other treasures all flashed with light without pause.
The two Law, Heaven, and Earth manifestations that blotted out the sky and covered the sun even crashed fiercely into each other.
Boom...
Boom...
Boom...
The massive shockwaves shook everyone's hearts!
Countless treasures collided in the sky, battling and destroying one another.
Yet every treasure was outmatched before the bombardment of the Red Embroidered Ball.
After all, the Red Embroidered Ball ranked thirty-third.
The Red Embroidered Ball charged forward unstoppably, smashing several of Sage Zhunti's treasures apart as easily as crushing dry weeds and rotten wood.
Faced with this, Sage Zhunti steeled his heart.
He repeatedly swept the Seven Treasure Mystical Tree in his hand, only barely managing to withstand the Red Embroidered Ball's might.
Even so, Sage Zhunti gradually fell into a disadvantage in their clash.
After all, whether in magical power or treasures, Nuwa held the upper hand.
Though Sage Zhunti roared furiously again and again, it was of no use. He could only be suppressed and beaten by Goddess Nuwa, even beginning to retreat step by step.
Smack!
The Creation Whip in Goddess Nuwa's hand lashed Sage Zhunti once again.
The gap between them finally began to reveal itself.
Sage Zhunti's ascension to Sagehood had been extremely forced to begin with.
Only after making forty-eight grand vows in succession and borrowing Merit from the Heavenly Dao had he barely become a Sage.
Compared with Nuwa, he was indeed inferior in many ways.
Furthermore, there was also a considerable gap between them in the overall quality of their treasures.
Although he wielded eighteen treasures—
Only the Seven Treasure Mystical Tree, Six Roots of Purity Bamboo, and Empowering Divine Pestle—the three treasures on the rankings—truly posed any threat to Goddess Nuwa.
Meanwhile, the treasures in Goddess Nuwa's hands all ranked extremely high.
Every one of them posed a powerful threat to Sage Zhunti.
Besides that, Goddess Nuwa also possessed numerous defensive treasures.
The Ephemeral Entangling Sky Ribbon, Limitless Umbrella Canopy, Five Elements Spirit Beads, Ephemeral Spirit Embroidery Robe...
Therefore—
After a long battle, Sage Zhunti's arrogant momentum was finally crushed.
When the Red Embroidered Ball came smashing down once more—
Daoist Zhunti's body was instantly sent tumbling, and he nearly plunged headfirst from midair.
The Red Embroidered Ball's immense power nearly knocked all eighteen treasures from his grasp.
At that moment, his enormous Golden Body cracked apart as well.
Spiderweb-like cracks spread across the Golden Body's surface.
The sight was horrifying.
After all, Goddess Nuwa's attack had been simply too astonishing.
Daoist Zhunti took a deep, ragged breath.
His gaze at Nuwa was filled with boundless fury.
The light around his body flickered faintly.
The Golden Body covered in cracks was instantly restored.
Seeing this, all living beings of the Primordial Land could not help but marvel.
Sages were immortal and indestructible beings; it truly was not without reason.
Such minor wounds were practically negligible to Sage Zhunti.
Still, the fact that Goddess Nuwa had repeatedly lashed Zhunti—
Causing him to lose face and become a laughingstock—
Was clearly an extraordinarily rare feat.
Faced with this situation, Sage Zhunti grew even angrier.
He was even somewhat frantic with rage.
"Nuwa... you forced me to do this..."
He suddenly let out a furious roar, then raised all eighteen hands above his head with their palms facing upward.
It was as though he were lifting something unparalleled.
Then an utterly horrifying aura emanated from his hands.
All living beings of the Primordial Land felt an incomparably powerful pressure.
They all stared at Zhunti in horror.
They had never imagined that Zhunti possessed such a terrifying divine ability.
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