Force surged, and fierce winds howled.
Shrill whistles tore through the air as the dozens of incoming experts unleashed a ferocious assault in a single instant.
Despite their numbers, their attacks were not the least bit disorderly. Saber flashes, sword shadows, palm winds, fist force, and even ripples of sorcery wove together from every direction, above and below, into a net spanning heaven and earth, closing over the dust-shrouded center.
Surging killing intent filled the battlefield.
Having evaded the piercing mast, Yanjue and Yanzhen exchanged a glance. Neither spoke. The latter nodded slightly to the former, then pushed off hard with his feet. His figure soared like a great bird, covering several yards in one leap to reach the air above the battlefield.
With fierce currents of force beneath his feet, Yanzhen pressed his palms together. His monk's robes billowed and snapped as powerful variant force gathered within him, like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Yanjue stood motionless. Illusory images flickered through his eyes: the sun, moon, and stars, mountains and rivers, the teeming multitudes, and all the bustle of everyday life. Yet in an instant, everything returned to nothingness.
Yanjue's eyes were like an abyss. His entire being seemed to have peeled away from this world, gazing down upon all things from a higher vantage.
The roar of force vanished from his ears.
The figures brimming with killing intent disappeared as well.
Even Yanzhen faded from his sight.
Only one person remained!
Myriad Calamities!
This was precisely the true art he cultivated: Unimpeded All-Illuminating Wisdom.
It was a martial art capable of seeing through the false appearances of all things, illuminating their essence and reaching straight to the truth-the supreme wisdom of Buddhism.
Six Voids Force-
Yanjue murmured inwardly.
He already knew that, after transcending Subtlety, the