Buddha Light Shines Everywhere, Crocodile Ancestor Breaks the Seal

The deathly aura in his bloodline gradually subsided, and the Sea of Bitterness slowly calmed as well.

Ji Hao slowly opened his eyes. A flicker of divine light gleamed within them, making his glazed-colored pupils seem even deeper.

He rose upright from the boundless Void. Blood flowed through his body with the roaring sound of an ocean.

"Finally suppressed it. That really wasn't easy. Good thing I took the Bodhi Seed beforehand. Otherwise, I'd have been too embarrassed to snatch it from Ye Fan. After all, in terms of seniority, he calls us Ancestor."

Right, too embarrassed. It definitely wasn't because I was afraid of some brother-con.

As if sensing something, Ji Hao raised his head.

The Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes erupted with dazzling divine radiance, piercing through the Void to see the scene outside.

Void itself aided him, allowing Ji Hao to see even farther.

Within the boundless Void, Ji Hao was like a fish in water. With a single thought, he could command the power of the Void and use it to kill his enemies. Unless one was a Dragon Transformation Realm expert, no one could stand against him.

Don't be fooled by how groups of Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators were casually killed by Ye Fan in the original story. In the Big Dipper, cultivators at that level were sect elders. In some weaker sacred lands, they could even be called supreme elders, standing at the upper levels of the cultivation world and ruling vast stretches of land.

"Om, ma, ni, ba, mi, hum..."

Mighty Buddhist chants resounded through the heavens, shaking the firmament. Heaven, earth, and all six directions trembled!

"The Six-Syllable True Words!" Ji Hao looked toward the Great Leiyin Temple in the real world.

Bathed in Buddhist light, the compassionate, solemn, profound, and mysterious Zen chants were incomparably vast, cleansing away filth and washing away mortal dust.

Within his sea of consciousness, Nine Secrets: Shu began operating once more, seeking to deduce the Six-Syllable True Words. It was said that the complete Six-Syllable True Words could stand alongside the Nine Secrets.

He simply did not know whether they rivaled the complete Nine Secrets or only one of them. Still, since such a rumor existed, they should at least be capable of contending with one of the Nine Secrets.

Moreover, judging by its lineage, Buddhism could very well be traced back to the Ancient Immortal Era, perhaps a legacy left behind by some Immortal Monk King.

It was only natural for it to rival the Nine Secrets.

Ji Hao closed his eyes and felt the unique Dao resonance of the Six-Syllable True Words, sensing the rhythm of heaven and earth. It was as though he had entered an ancient age. The Sea of Bitterness was boundless, his primordial spirit's divine radiance grew ever more brilliant, and a thread of pure Buddhist light was born.

Within the boundless Void, a halo appeared behind Ji Hao's physical body. Exceptionally pure Buddhist light emerged from behind him.

Buddhism had always excelled at conversion. Amitabha Buddha, the Great Emperor of old, had been an oddity on the Emperor Road. During the struggle for the Emperor Road, he had not killed a single person, fearing even to sweep the ground lest he harm the lives of ants.

Pitying the hardships of all living beings, he had directly converted every opponent on the Emperor Road, turning them into Buddhist protectors.

As Buddhism's supreme divine technique, the Six-Syllable True Words naturally possessed the power of conversion. Ji Hao opened his primordial spirit and carefully experienced it, allowing the Buddhist chants to invade him. Naturally, this was dangerous.

For all he knew, he might awaken with the four elements empty and enter the Buddhist path. Ji Hao had not taken precautions. He had assumed that if ordinary people like Ye Fan and the others had been fine, then what problem could a Dao Palace cultivator like himself possibly have? But Ji Hao had forgotten that the higher one's cultivation, the stronger the influence of certain things. They truly were impossible to guard against.

On the other side, after the Great Leiyin Temple turned to dust, Ye Fan and the others ran toward the Bronze Ancient Coffin.

Behind them was a level-eighteen Mars sandstorm. Even the barren ground shook, as though thousands of troops and horses were charging forward, or as though raging ocean waves were surging.

Before they had run very far, a female classmate suddenly fell to the ground and died for no apparent reason. Everyone was horrified when they saw a terrifying bloody hole appear in her forehead.

Before they had time to grieve, they discovered that several more people had fallen one after another. Bloody holes had appeared in all their foreheads. It was incomparably bizarre, and the terrified crowd hurriedly tried to get away from this place.

Within the red storm behind them, pairs of scarlet eyes opened. Little crocodile gods crawled out one after another, opening their blood-filled maws as they pounced toward the crowd.

"Dong..." Suddenly, a melodious bell rang out, vast and solemn, like great bells tolling.

Brilliant golden light surged up from Wang Ziwen. His entire body was enveloped in dazzling golden radiance, as though he had put on a thick suit of golden battle armor. It was exceptionally eye-catching, like golden divine fire burning around him.

At the same time, Buddhist treasures erupted with dazzling divine light on their own. Some released golden lightning, others flames, making everyone seem like Super Saiyans.

At Ye Fan's urging, three or four people shared a single Buddhist treasure. There was some friction along the way, but it was resolved without much trouble.

They hurried toward the Bronze Ancient Coffin, every one of them exerting every last ounce of strength.

No one spoke along the way. At last, they arrived before the Five-Colored Altar. Fortunately, no further deaths occurred, allowing everyone to breathe a slight sigh of relief.

The nine enormous dragon corpses and the Bronze Ancient Coffin lay silently atop the Five-Colored Altar, still as shocking as ever.

"That is..."

Upon reaching the altar, everyone was startled. The Five-Colored Altar glowed hazily as faint points of light gathered from all directions and entered beneath its stone foundation.

The light barrier covering the sky gradually dissolved and slowly vanished. It was actually because of the Five-Colored Altar, which seemed to be gathering some sort of mysterious energy.

A bloodcurdling roar came from the direction of the Great Leiyin Temple, as though an ancient primordial beast had shattered the earth and broken free from its seal. Its roar shook the mountains and rivers, rattled the stars and moon, and sent tremors rising from the depths of their souls.

But then everything became completely still again. The terrifying roar returned to silence, and outside the Five-Colored Altar, only the rumbling of the sandstorm remained.

"What was that?"

"Are there other living creatures on Mars?"

"Legend says that the Buddha suppressed many demons and monsters. Perhaps the sealed place is near the Great Leiyin Temple."

At that moment, rustling sounds arose. Outside the light barrier, densely packed ferocious creatures resembling crocodiles appeared—hundreds, even thousands of them.

Ye Fan and the others looked at the crocodile horde, which resembled ocean waves, and swallowed with difficulty.

"We're probably going to stay here forever!" Zhou Yi said in despair.

At that critical moment, a figure emerged from the Void.

"Heroes always make their entrance at the critical moment!" Ji Hao crushed chunks of Source with a flick of his hand. A massive amount of source energy poured forth and immediately drifted toward the Five-Colored Altar.

Boom!

After absorbing the source energy, the Five-Colored Altar shook violently as its energy rapidly replenished. Ancient runes of five colors appeared in the sky, shining like stars. The Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram was about to emerge—this was a sign that the Starry Sky Ancient Road was about to open.

At the same time, terrifying tremors came from the ruins of the Great Leiyin Temple over a thousand meters away. Those lantern-like blood-red eyes rose several meters higher. After thousands of years, Crocodile Ancestor had finally broken free of Shakyamuni's restraints and burst out from beneath the ground.

Escape from here, escape from Mars! That was everyone's thought. They looked at the gradually brightening Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram and prayed for the Starry Sky Ancient Road to open quickly. Even drifting forever through the desolate universe would bring them more peace of mind than remaining here.