"How dare you intercept me—so what if I do!"
Li Qingyun sneered. Saintly Essence of the Great Dao surged forth, jade-green tinged with gray spreading like thick ink dropped into clear water. In an instant, it expanded across heaven and earth, crashing fiercely toward Shi Ji Buddha's towering Buddhist radiance.
This Demon Buddha was the greatest destabilizing factor within the Ruin Realm. Time and again, he had struck at Li Qingyun.
Now that he had a chance to win back a round, why not take it?
"A mere Seven Rings..."
Shi Ji Buddha was somewhat disdainful. With a Buddhist chant, he split his power to meet Li Qingyun, while his other hand continued pressing down. After crushing the two Gray Spirits, he seized them in his palm and prepared to stuff them into his mouth.
Yet just as they reached that gaping, blood-filled maw, Li Qingyun, holding the furnace, issued another edict. "Return to the furnace!"
The two Gray Spirits immediately turned into incense ash, scattering between Shi Ji Buddha's fingers. Unbound by Buddha's Might, they flowed once more into the Cosmic Fire Furnace in Li Qingyun's hand.
As though that was how things should have been!
This completely enraged Shi Ji Buddha. He roared, and Buddhist radiance surged like colossal waves, blasting Old Gray and the others into the air, coughing blood. Then, ignoring the remaining Gray Spirit Clan members, he turned and bore down upon Li Qingyun.
His Buddha body was majestic, his golden light stretching ten thousand zhang. That terrifying Buddha's Might roared, making this stretch of void tremble!
"Daoist Qingyun, you are courting death!"
After roaring, Shi Ji Buddha suddenly spat out the syllable, "Om." His two palms transformed into Sumeru-like divine mountains, wrapped in surging Buddhist radiance as they launched a heaven-shattering, earth-rending destructive strike