The red-and-black Reverse Swastika Symbol grew larger and larger, like a giant palm that encompassed the Infinite Universe. It dyed the sky red and defiled the void as it crashed down toward Meng Qi and the others. Evil intent and wicked thoughts evolved into layer upon layer of the Nine Abysses. Accompanied by the declaration, "Ananda is dead; the Demon Buddha reigns in this world," it shook their hearts to an extraordinary degree.
Yet Meng Qi did not move. Neither did Jiang Zhiwei or Xuan Bei. Young Master Wang, in his frenzied state, was even less inclined to move. The Reverse Swastika Symbol was only an afterimage; it did not even possess the faintest trace of aura left after millennia of decay. It could frighten people, but it could hardly harm them.
It seemed the Demon Master had taken this "Tathagata's Reverse Palm" head-on, neutralizing almost all its power. What remained now was an empty show.
The red and black colors stained the gray-robed monk Meng Qi. His hands clenched, then slowly relaxed, and his gaze became like a bottomless dry well, taking in the scene before him.
The Demon Buddha: a peerless demon who had swept across the world and forced Buddha himself to suppress him!
His name was synonymous with the previous Great Tribulation. The Demon Buddha's chaos had brought the Middle Ages to an end. It had caused legendary great powers like Moonlight Bodhisattva, who had survived from antiquity and remained hidden from the world, to perish; driven many sects into secluded paradises; and plunged the universe into unending turmoil. Only after many years had it slowly recovered, ushering in the Near Ancient Era!
He had walked the Human Emperor Ancient Path and explored Longtai. In Gao Lan's words, he was ranked alongside the Human Emperor, the