Golden light cascaded from the nine heavens like a waterfall. With a sweep of Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha's withered hand, the thirty-six Glazed Arhats behind him took the lead in shattering the void.
These Buddhist disciples had all cultivated to the Arhat Fruit Realm. Holding Demon Subduing Pestles, prayer beads, alms bowl staffs, and other mighty Buddhist artifacts, with Swastika Buddha Seals embroidered upon their kasayas, every step they took sent the clouds churning. Three thousand Buddhist chants exploded between heaven and earth: "Namo Amitabhaya..."
Before the Buddhist chant had faded, thirty-six Demon Subduing Pestles had already transformed into golden streaks several yards long, smashing down upon Hua Qiang's head like falling meteors.
The Buddha light coiling around the pestle tips was condensed almost into substance. Wherever it passed, the air was scorched with a burnt Buddhist fragrance, while the ground split open in spiderweb-like ravines.
At the same time, a hundred bhikkhu monks formed the "Ten Thousand Character Samsara Array." Countless prayer beads linked into chains of golden light, locking down the hundred-yard space around Hua Qiang.
Amid the crisp clatter of colliding prayer beads, tens of millions of tiny Buddha-light arrows shot toward the heart of the formation like a torrential rain.
"A firefly's glow, and you dare shine before me?"
A cold sneer curled Hua Qiang's lips. His body suddenly transformed into countless pale-cyan motes of light, weaving through the rain of Buddha-light arrows like green smoke.
The Buddha-light arrows, powerful enough to pierce refined iron, struck those motes of light and vanished without a sound, like clay oxen sinking into the sea.
This was the Great Void Realm's unique Void Manifestation, capable of merging one's physical body into the primordial energy of heaven and earth. Ordinary techniques simply could not touch it.
The next instant, the