"This is the Demonic Monk's Life-Claiming Buddhist Chant. It can disrupt the mind. Everyone, recite the 'Purifying Heart Mantra' together!" Jiang Hao shouted.
The Golden Core cultivators began reciting the Purifying Heart Mantra together.
"Supreme Star of the Terrace, ever-responsive and unceasing.
Drive out evil, bind demons, preserve life, and protect the body.
Wisdom clear and pure, heart and spirit tranquil.
May the three souls endure forever, and the seven spirits never scatter."
The Purifying Heart Mantra was one of Daoism's eight great divine incantations. Regular recitation could purify the body and mind, dispel distracting thoughts, calm the spirit, lead the mortal heart into profound stillness, turn one's gaze inward toward the Dao heart, and enter serenity. It could also protect the soul and spirit.
This mantra was the best means of countering the Life-Claiming Buddhist Chant.
On one side was the Imperial Preceptor's Life-Claiming Buddhist Chant; on the other were the Daoist calming mantras of the Golden Core cultivators. The two sounds collided in midair, as though forming two Energy Shields that crashed against each other, yet neither could do anything to the other.
Seeing this, Jiang Hao shouted, "Senior brothers, unleash your flying swords and kill this demon!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Several flying swords shot out again, slamming into the Imperial Preceptor's Vajra Bodhisattva Dharma Body with booming impacts. Though they could not directly injure him, the golden light around his Vajra Dharma Body flared with every strike.
I refuse to believe maintaining that Vajra Bodhisattva Dharma Body costs no spiritual power!
With that, he fired the Chun Jun Sword again.
The Chun Jun Sword flashed with silver light as it flew forward, stabbing toward the third eye on the Vajra Bodhisattva's forehead.
The Imperial Preceptor was enraged.
He immediately stopped chanting the Life-Claiming Buddhist Chant, stretched out