Blazing Fire's strength left me dumbfounded.
The Black Buddha that had once trapped my master and me, the Black Buddha that had made even the Yin Envoys feel immense pressure and had even suppressed them—
couldn't withstand a single strike from Blazing Fire?
Too... too powerful.
Each slash cleaved through blazing flames, each blade shattered the Black Buddha's smoke.
Was this Blazing Fire's true strength?
Blazing Fire's cultivation was at least at the Human Soul Realm, and at least mid-stage or above.
As for what realm he was truly at, or whether he had reached the Earth Soul Realm, my cultivation was currently too low for me to tell.
Not only that, as the black demonic Buddha was cleaved into black smoke,
cracking sounds suddenly rang out from multiple spots along the stone walls on both sides of the gorge.
Hearing the sounds, I looked around.
I saw wisps of black qi emerging from one of the nearest cracks.
There seemed to be some special inscriptions on the cracked stones.
Grey Master had said this place had been artificially arranged.
Now, it seemed that was indeed true.
Those cracked stones inscribed with runes were probably part of an array diagram.
They had been used to nurture the flesh-and-blood monster within this hot spring pool.
No, more precisely, they had been used to nurture that demonic Daoist, Golden Spring...
But it wasn't over yet. As the array inscriptions on the stones along both sides of the gorge cracked open and black qi spread for a while,
ghostly wails suddenly rang out. Then a horrifying sight appeared: dense hordes of ghosts continuously drifted out from the shattered rune-stone formations all around us.
There were so many that I was stunned.
What was going on? So many evil spirits had been imprisoned or