In Windless City, the first battle between Buddha and Demon had ended. Desolation stretched as far as the eye could see; above the void, wild sands swept through the air, and furious waves surged.
The demon army withdrew, and the people of the Buddha Kingdom retreated in succession as well. Earth Buddha Lord departed with the mortal remains of Human Buddha Lord, sorrow written across his face, impossible to conceal.
Above Windless City, Bai Wangran's figure gradually faded away, returning to the eastern army.
The great calamity had only begun, and the world bore witness. Countless figures, separated from Windless City by immeasurable distances, fell silent. In merely the first battle, the Buddha Kingdom had lost one Buddha Lord. More frightening still, the Demon Palace had not even made a grand display of force. It had only deployed one Protector and an obscure woman, while that Second Demon Palace Protector had, from beginning to end, not made a move at all.
Schemes could be avoided, but open stratagems were hard to block. The Demon Palace's absolute strength was truly powerful enough to inspire terror.
After the battle ended, within the Demon Domain's towering holy hall, Xie Tiance stood quietly in a water-blue brocade fur coat. Before him, the Heavenly Curtain evolved, displaying the entire course of the battle at Windless City.
Human Buddha Lord had passed into nirvana, and the Buddhist sect's experts had suffered grievous losses. It was the expected outcome, and Xie Tiance's expression did not change much. With a turn of his right hand, a jade slip engraved with the three words "Human Buddha Lord" appeared, then shattered with a bang and vanished.
"Holy Master!"
At that moment, space churned within the great hall, and the phantom of a young man in white appeared. He bowed and