Just ants—ants! The word pierced everyone's chest like a knife. The giant face in the sky looked down with disdain, laughing maniacally as though mocking them all.
The shrill laughter was not only grating but searing. With every laugh from the Heavenly Demon's face, all the Little Demons below would involuntarily feel their chests tighten, and a trace of despair naturally began to arise in their minds.
Ants? Nie Xiaoqian and the others stared blankly at the sky. Their cultivation was too low for them to sense just how grave the situation was.
They could only look to Guanyin in confusion, hoping for her answer, as though the entire burden of saving Haitian City had suddenly fallen upon her shoulders.
Guanyin looked up at the sky, a bitter smile appearing on her face as she shook her head. The expressions of the others beside her abruptly changed. Their faces were filled with shock; even Nie Xiaoqian could see the tension and fear in their hearts.
"Bodhisattva, are you... are you not even Kunpeng's match? You've already attained Buddhahood!"
That was right. Before Guanyin attained Buddhahood, she had already possessed Quasi-Saint-level cultivation. Now that she had become a Buddha, she was only one step away from becoming a Saint. Besides the Four Great Bodhisattvas, there was also Zhen Yuanzi, the foremost being beneath the Saints, one who lived as long as heaven and earth, revered not the Three Pure Ones, and worshipped only heaven and earth.
Yet even Zhen Yuanzi was dumbfounded at this moment. Watching the Heavenly Demon and Kunpeng simultaneously emanate immense pressure and black qi, he seemed to understand something.
"It is not that Fellow Daoist Guanyin does not wish to save Haitian. If we were unwilling, we would not have appeared and acted to block the incoming