Inside the two halves of the body, there was no flesh or blood, only ice crystals woven from frozen black demonic energy and golden Buddhist light.
In the faint glow, the ice crystals refracted strange halos. Each crack branched into countless fine lines, like the forks of fate. They looked ready to shatter into a heap of shards!
"Ah—!"
A scream so shrill it seemed to tear the soul rang out from within the ice, like a piercing cry of thought exploding directly in the Divine Sea.
Ku Chan, transformed into profound ice, had split completely in two. The crack ran from his crown to his crotch, smooth as a mirror.
Inside the two halves of his body, black demonic energy coiled around his meridians like frozen snakes, while the golden Buddhist light had solidified into tiny golden stars.
The two forces were frozen forever in the moment they entangled and devoured each other.
A single breeze would be enough to scatter them into dust.
No matter how much power he had to turn back the heavens, no matter how potent the healing Buddhist light!
No matter that he had cultivated for a thousand years, no matter that demonic energy protected his body!
Under the absolute-zero law that froze everything, he could only meet the end of body and soul.
Because what had been frozen was not only his body, but also his soul and divine consciousness.
Even his connection to heaven and earth—his very existence—had been temporarily severed from the chain of causality in this world.
The four Arhat phantoms had long since shattered, scattering as four clouds of icy dust.
The entire Buddhist kingdom illusion cracked apart, inch by inch, like a mirror!
The chanting!
The bells!
The Buddhist light!
The lotus thrones!
All of them vanished into