Rumble—!!
The two forces met needle against needle, wheat awn against wheat awn. Suddenly, as the two world-shaking torrents of dharma power slammed head-on into each other, the erupting force blasted out, and vast swathes of space seemed to peel away. Blazing white flames burst forth in streaks, while at the center of the explosion, it was like a great sun being born—boundless and irresistible. At the same time, two voices transformed into streams of consciousness that echoed through the void, like two rays of light darting back and forth.
"Heart Fox Great Sage, what audacity! Instead of cowering in the Abyssal Realm, you came to strut your might in the Land of Remains I opened up. I see you want to reenact the downfall of the previous generation's Heart Fox Great Sage!"
"Tribulationless Daoist, you already perished in meditation a thousand years ago. Why suffer through another trip to the mortal world? This patriarch shall show some mercy and send you on your way while I'm at it!"
As the two great experts fought fiercely, they also exposed each other's shortcomings. Their two forces tangled into a mass, and the aftershocks became spatial storms that repeatedly swept across the void for hundreds of miles around them, shaking vast stretches of dimensional space into fragments like shattered glass.
"Terrifying!"
Dragon-Elephant Sage Buddha had already retreated into the tiny golden-lotus void within the Heaven-Palming Buddha Hand. Though he had cultivated the rare Dharma Body of Form and Emptiness, he did not dare act overconfidently.
In truth, even the residual force from a casual strike by experts at this pinnacle level could tear apart mountain ranges, split open ravines, and wreak devastating damage upon the terrain.
If an ordinary Primordial Spirit Dharma Body could not withstand the tremors of this aftershock, even