"What's Ba Zunan trying to do?"
Everyone had noticed the Eighth Sword Immortal's strange move.
The surging waters of the River of Forgetfulness had already severed the heavens and earth of the Ghost Buddha Realm, splitting the battlefield in two.
Hua Changdeng was within; Ba Zunan was without.
The might of the newly ascended Ancestor Hua could even hold back the attacks of Medicine Ancestor and Bei Huai. Even Ba Zunan's False Ancestor Transformation had proven useless.
Yet at this critical moment, he was copying Kui Leihan, sitting cross-legged and closing his eyes? "Seeking enlightenment?"
"What Dao could he possibly comprehend at a time like this? Only by sealing his godhood and becoming an Ancestor could he barely compare to Ancestor Hua."
"But why would Ancestor Hua give him the time? Ancestor Hua could kill him halfway through his tribulation. Seeking enlightenment now is outright provocation—Ba Zunan was one step too slow, and now every step would be slow!"
"Don't forget, everyone—the River of Forgetfulness even cut off Kui Leihan's Three Tribulations. If he cannot undergo the tribulation, what can Ba Zunan use to seal his godhood and become an Ancestor?"
"Wait, there's hope! Remember at the very beginning, Ba Zunan summoned the Three Tribulations too? He did not undergo them; he swallowed them into his body..."
That reminded everyone at once.
But they quickly realized that when Ba Zunan had swallowed the tribulations, it had not been so he could undergo them now.
He had merely needed to store that portion of power within himself. Moreover, what he had swallowed was only the embryonic form of the Ancestral God Law-Extinguishing Tribulation, not even a tenth of a full tribulation.
Using that fragment of lightning tribulation to seal his godhood and become an Ancestor, at best he could become half