Only then did the dozens of guards around him react. They drew their weapons together and charged fiercely.
Lin Xiaosu was still beside the great banner when the attack began. The instant it unfolded, his figure suddenly vanished. Swoosh!
Time seemed to freeze. A streak of sword light swept beneath the banner, and the heads of dozens of guards flew up at once.
Soundlessly, the longsword in Lin Xiaosu's hand reached Master Jifan's brow at the speed of streaming light...
Around Master Jifan, there seemed to be a Misty-Rain Jiangnan.
Time Severance transformed into the Void Haze stance, faintly carrying the Spatial Sword Dao of Azure Abyss Willow Leaf, completely sealing off every part of Jifan's body.
"Amitabha Buddha!" Jifan uttered a Buddhist invocation.
The moment the invocation rang out, the Misty-Rain Jiangnan around him stepped into late autumn in a single stride.
The tip of Lin Xiaosu's sword was about to pierce Jifan's brow.
Suddenly, that brow opened. A snow-white lotus bloomed from within, and when the sword tip touched the lotus, it shattered into powder with a crack.
Lin Xiaosu seemed stunned.
His Time Severance could sever time itself, yet it could not cut through a delicate lotus stem.
"Su Lin, there is a road to heaven, yet you refuse to take it; hell has no gate, yet you throw yourself inside! Amitabha Buddha!"
As the final four words of the Buddhist invocation emerged, golden light blazed from Jifan's entire body. Like an ancient Buddha, he truly unleashed the mighty power of the Buddhist Path at the peak of the Way-Grasping Realm.
Lin Xiaosu was greatly startled. His feet shifted abruptly, and twin black-and-white lotuses formed beneath them.
Yin-Yang Steps!
After the Yin-Yang Steps came the light of the Celestial Cycle Grand Formation descending from above. Given only