Buddha was originally Dao.
In an instant, boundless Dao Resonance burst into the sky!
The endless clouds and the nine heavens split open, forming a gigantic abyssal maw.
Rolling thunder roared, and explosive shock waves swept wildly across the land.
"Buddha was originally Dao?"
"Buddha..."
Golden Cicada lowered his head and murmured to himself.
His body trembled as the Buddhist light around him steadily faded. Cracks spread from his brow to his limbs, while the Great Luo Three Flowers and the five qi in his chest turned utterly turbid.
"Fuck me, my Dao heart's shattered..."
Only after a long while did Golden Cicada look up and speak in a hoarse voice.
His flesh and True Spirit were shattered to pieces.
His Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation vanished in an instant. His origin turned into the most primal energy and merged with the world, while all his Buddhist insights and everything else went up in smoke.
"Hold on!"
"Demonize all ages, endure through eternity!"
Seeing this, Manjushri Bodhisattva hurriedly poured his pure demonic qi into Golden Cicada, barely keeping him alive.
But Golden Cicada was no longer recognizable.
He had become a skeleton draped in a tattered cassock, with dim Nine Nether Demonic Fire burning in his eyes. The Qiankun Ruler and Spirit Coffin Lamp, two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, were also suppressing his True Spirit.
Spurt! Spurt!
Blood splashed across the ground. The Dao hearts of countless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were destroyed. If they hadn't also cultivated the Devil Dao—and if their understanding of the Buddhist Path hadn't been inferior to Golden Cicada's—they would have perished, their Dao vanishing with them.
Even so, most of the Demon Sect's members who cultivated the Buddhist Path fell then and there. The believers suffered the worst. With their faith shattered, they involuntarily slit