Battle against the Venerable One
His golden body was fifteen million kilometers long. Beside him, Blue Snow Star was little more than a speck.
Everyone looked up, but nothing beyond the sky was visible anymore. Mahāpratisarā had blotted out the entire starfield.
The larger his body, however, the slower he passed through the wormhole.
Seizing this opportunity, Blue Snow Star broke free of the enormous palm. The two unified forces clashed, and Kaleidoscope's side actually gained a slight edge.
Blue Snow Star took the chance to pull away, while the golden Buddha's full form gradually emerged.
His faces were square and rugged. He seemed to have neither a front nor a back, with a different face on every side.
A crescent-shaped arc of metallic spines crowned his head. Six eyes, each comparable to Jupiter in size, lined it like the markings on a peacock's fanned tail.
Mahāpratisarā's appearance this time differed from his appearance at the black market. His formerly black body had turned gold, rippling with cloudlike waves of flowing smoke.
His twelve hands formed all manner of bizarre gestures. A closer look revealed that these were not poses—his hands had grown that way.
Behind him, two tails twisted into the shape of a swastika and slowly rotated, presenting a mysterious, unfathomable spectacle of immense grandeur.
Strange three-dimensional symbols also circled his body. Each was as large as the Moon, yet they looked tiny floating beside him.
They consisted of various elements, tightly arranged and exceptionally stable.
Shing! All six of Mahāpratisarā's enormous eyes had been pitch-black, but now one suddenly lit up, as though opening wide in a glare!
His gaze blazed like a divine torch, its radiance forming a pillar that shot toward Blue Snow Star.
The beam was wider than Blue Snow Star itself, a full