".One got away."
The charred earth was pocked with crater after crater, as though it had just been plowed over. In every crater lay a mangled corpse.
Of the seventeen Buddhist Cultivators, one had escaped.
The remaining sixteen had all been blown to death by Lu Yang's Nine Heavens Dulu Secret Demon Yin Thunder. The Buddha Light that should have restrained Yin Sha had not worked in the slightest.
But that was only natural. So-called restraint was relative. Water and fire countered each other; under normal circumstances, water did overcome fire. But when a blaze swept across a thousand miles, what use was a cup of water? The gap between Lu Yang and these Buddhist Cultivators was even greater than that.
Guangming, who had escaped, understood this perfectly well.
At that moment, in a mountain forest thousands of miles away from Lu Yang, lay the gathering place of the Buddhist Cultivators. Guanghai, the leader of the Pure Land contingent this time, was there.
"Hmm?"
Guanghai, who had been sitting in meditation with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Golden Buddha Light, visible to the naked eye, abruptly rippled around him.
The next second, Guangming stumbled out of the Buddha Light.
The instant he landed, he looked around in utter terror. Only after failing to spot that dreadful figure did he finally let out a heartfelt breath of relief.
"I escaped! I escaped!"
His deliberate gathering of all the Buddhist Cultivators had not been in vain. On the surface, he had been preparing a great move; in truth, he had activated the "Heart-Linked Life Talisman" and fled.
The Heart-Linked Life Talisman was a Fruit Position Treasure held by Pure Land Buddhist Cultivators. It could teleport a cultivator marked by its talismanic inscription to the talisman's owner. This effect could also be