The more elite a battle became, the more plain and unadorned its outward form was.
Yu formed hand seals by the book.
-Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!
Flames imbued with the Great Infinite Sage Art spread, enough to burn the heavens and boil the seas!
Basara basked in them as though in a spring breeze. "A duel of arts, is it..."
-Dao Communion Art: Wind of the Front!
Boom!
A gale powerful enough to shatter heaven and earth erupted in the void before Yu, instantly scattering the Great Fireball!
Exposed to that gale, Yu's Great Lord God Divine Garment snapped in the wind, and wounds actually split open across his Diamond Body!
How could Yu not be shocked by such a turn? "What kind of wind is this???"
Ryushiki had seen much and knew much. "After overcoming his tribulation, he entered communion with the Heavenly Dao. Has the wind he commands through Dao Communion really reached such terrifying power..."
Basara was immersed in boundless spiritual bliss. "Hahaha, Uchiha Riu, powerful as you are, you remain bound by the 'notion of self.' You are an individual, and every art you employ is driven by your own finite power. You were born human and identify as human, so you also fall into the notion of humanity. The Great Lord God commands all living beings-that is the notion of sentient beings. Living beings undergo birth, death, and reincarnation-that is the notion of lifespan. Unless you break free of these four notions, you are destined never to reach the realm of the Progenitor Gods! But I have already transcended all four and become wholly one with the Heavenly Dao!"
Yu's thoughts raced. *The notion of self, of humanity, of sentient beings, of lifespan... These are all Buddhist terms from the three-dimensional world, expressions of