"Pant, pant, pant... Just where did this monster come from? From what I can see, his strength was enough to confront that Abyss Ancestor head-on!"
Crack, crack, crack.
Still shaken, the Blade Queen spoke as she slowly freed herself from the metal wall. Aside from the layers of twisted metal cracks, her silhouette had also been clearly imprinted upon the wall.
A stabbing pain came from her shoulder blade. The Blade Queen lowered her head and glanced at it. It was precisely where that flat Paper Person's index finger had struck, nearly piercing straight through.
"Since such a powerful being bears no hostility toward us, there is no need to pursue him."
The petals of the golden lotus beneath Brahma Ancestor drifted through the air. Seated atop the lotus, a cluster of nine-colored radiance rose behind his back. He watched as great numbers of Corruptors floated about the opening of the profound passage Green had blasted through with a single punch, emitting sounds like ghosts and specters.
"It has already leapt beyond the Three Realms, no longer within the formless. It has broken free of the cycle of cause and effect, severed its karmic ties to the mortal world, and attained enlightenment at the ultimate boundary of creation."
As Brahma Ancestor spoke, a golden alms bowl suddenly appeared in his hand. He took out a lotus seed from within. Bathed in golden radiance, the lotus seed seemed ready to spread its wings and fly. Brahma Ancestor silently chanted an incantation, and as the golden glow winding around the seed gradually faded, he cast it onto the floor of the council chamber. The seed merged with the metal hall like blood dissolving into water and vanished in an instant.
Then, amid the "creak, creak" of twisting metal, both the distortion the