Even the Thousand-Spirit Saintess was dumbstruck...
She alone knew this transaction best.
Because she had been involved from beginning to end.
Apart from not entering the Universal Salvation Temple...
She knew how he had found the Lord of the Netherworld-using Di Ting as his guide.
She knew what had swayed the Lord of the Netherworld-helping him control all the beings of the Netherworld.
She knew the private gain he had sought-the blood essence of the Netherworld's 108 foremost races, to complete his three flowers crowning.
She also knew what had made this transaction possible-his formation Dao.
But she had never imagined...
All of it had actually been a smokescreen.
His central purpose had never been the transaction.
It had been a scheme within a scheme!
He had plotted against the Lord of the Netherworld's plots and calculated around his calculations. His ultimate objective had been to leave a backdoor in the Celestial Cycle Grand Formation!
With that backdoor in place, the Lord of the Netherworld appeared to control the entire Netherworld.
But in truth, he was the one who truly controlled it.
What he wanted was not this force.
What he wanted was to annihilate this force, avenging the beings of the Daxia Realm from a million years ago and sparing its people today from disaster!
"Stop!"
A furious roar rang out!
The Buddha Lord rose to his full height.
As he rose, every trace of an eminent Buddhist Sect monk vanished from him. There was no kindness left, only savagery.
Bloodlight swirled around him. He clawed at the formation suspended in the void before Lin Xiaosu, as though the entire Underworld were descending upon it at once.
This strike carried the Lord of the Netherworld's lifetime of cultivation.
It was also an all-out attack after he had crossed "that