Zhunti moved like lightning, his entire body becoming a black-and-gold blur as he lunged toward the Thirty-Six-Colored Era Buddha Embryo on the ten-thousand-zhang lotus platform.
Yet just as his palm was about to touch the Buddha Embryo, something changed.
Hum!
A layer of eerie, blood-red Dao Patterns suddenly appeared across the hundred-thousand-zhang ancient Buddha's previously lifeless golden body.
A devouring force several times more violent than the one at the stone gate erupted out of nowhere, pinning Zhunti firmly to the base of the lotus platform.
"Aah!"
Zhunti let out an agonized scream, his entire body convulsing violently.
The flesh of his Saint's palm split open in an instant. Scalding Primordial Chaos saintly blood became a thick fountain, pouring madly into the ten-thousand-zhang ancient Buddha's body.
"Junior brother!"
Jieyin had just reached the edge of the lotus platform. The sight nearly scared his soul out of his body.
He instinctively reached out to pull Zhunti away, but the instant his palm touched Zhunti's body, that tyrannical suction spread straight through their joined limbs.
Crack!
The flesh on Jieyin's newly healed right arm split open again. Two torrents of Primordial Chaos Seventh Heaven saintly blood flowed along the lotus platform and poured into the ancient Buddha's chest.
"Damn it! This ancient Buddha isn't a lifeless object. He's actively draining our origin!"
Jieyin's face turned white as paper as the Saint Origin within him drained away at terrifying speed.
Gritting his teeth, he desperately tried to activate the Jieyin Divine Banner to sever the connection. But the supreme laws from the previous era had sealed the entire space. The two Saints could not even hope to move a finger.
"Senior brother! One person's quintessential blood isn't enough to satisfy him!"
Zhunti's eyes reddened with pain as he roared hoarsely, "Back at the