In the Xiqi Army's ranks below, Jiang Ziya stood pale and despairing. He could only watch as the Phoenix Clan came close to crushing his army and sending it into full retreat.
But when he saw Buddhas descend across the sky, their towering Buddha Light holding the field, his eyes lit up. The despair weighing on his heart vanished, joy surged across his face, and his body trembled.
He looked up at the Buddhist powers descending from above, elated. Wonderful! Buddhist reinforcements have arrived! Xiqi is saved!
As the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas entered the battle, boundless Buddhist arts and Buddha Light of annihilation spread across the field, halting Xiqi's collapse.
The Phoenix Clan army, which had swept aside everything in its path, suddenly met a force that could hold it back.
On one side burned the Primordial Phoenix Clan's raging true flames, backed by the ruthless might that had dominated the Ten Thousand Clans. On the other stood Buddhism's power to save all beings and suppress evil, carried on a Dao Resonance of annihilation.
The two supreme forces collided and locked in a deadlock!
The one-sided battle changed in an instant. Xiqi's shattered lines were forced back into order, its retreat came to a halt, and the battlefield at Golden Rooster Ridge fell into an earthshaking stalemate!
Ran Deng, Maitreya, and the Buddhas held the line, and Xiqi's morale began to recover.
High above Golden Rooster Ridge, Kong Xuan stood unmoving. His Cyan-Gold Daoist Robe snapped in the wind, while the lingering might of an ancient phoenix blazed around him, utterly undiminished by the Buddha Light filling the sky.
He slowly raised his head. His dark gaze pierced layer upon layer of golden cloud and countless Buddha manifestations, then cut straight through the void to the heart of that towering