When the First Ancient Buddha dispelled every attack with a single Buddhist invocation, the expressions of the immortal-path powerhouses turned rather grim.
Yet since they dared scheme for the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, they naturally had their own backing and corresponding methods...
The powerhouses struck again, preparing to weaken the First Ancient Buddha from the level of the Great Dao itself.
The First Ancient Buddha's inconceivable strength and methods relied upon his understanding and application of the Great Dao. The remaining three thousand Great Daos were anchored in the Immortal Court world, like strength derived from flesh, blood, sinews, and bones. If they could break its bones and pare away its flesh, they could weaken its power!
Patriarch Mystic Skeleton continued to drive the World-Ending Great Millstone, but his target became the entire Immortal Court world. As threads of destructive power rippled outward, heaven and earth creaked and groaned like copper beans being ground beneath a millstone.
Azure Sage Primarch had once possessed one hundred and eighty million incarnations in the Xuanhuang Universe. Later, tens of millions of them had successively been slain by Shen Mo, becoming nourishment for the billions of Demon Soul Generals within the Soul Refining Banner. Of the remaining hundred-odd million incarnations, some had been recalled by her and stripped of their immortal-path cultivation to restore her depleted Dao attainment, while others had perished in this world-ending calamity.
Yet she still had over ten million of her highest-realm incarnations, which had entered the Immortal Court world ahead of time and scattered throughout this realm.
At this moment, under Azure Sage Primarch's urging, these ten million incarnations transformed into towering giant trees, rooting themselves firmly between the heavens and earth of the Immortal Court world. Like ulcers clinging to the bone, they endlessly drew upon the power