His body flew backward, smashing through a wall of light woven from two chains of law. Dark Kurenai blood sprayed from his mouth, tracing a short arc through the void.
The golden film around the Great Toad Sage began flowing again the instant Time Stop ended. Before she could adjust her stance, Yongye's golden sword struck her shell.
The blade cut through the golden film with a deep, lingering clang, like an Iron hammer striking an ancient bell. A hairline crack appeared at its center and spread rapidly to both sides.
The blow sent the Great Toad Sage stumbling forward several steps. A gash deep enough to expose bone marked her shell, and her golden-Kurenai pupils contracted sharply in pain.
The White Snake Sage broke free of the frozen space-time faster than either of the others.
She twisted in midair, gray-white corrosive power once again coating her silver scales, and lunged at Yongye from the side.
Yongye did not dodge.
He raised his left hand and spread his fingers. Advanced Yin-Yang Release gathered in his palm, becoming a beam of gray-white light that met the White Snake Sage head-on.
The light and corrosive power collided in a blinding white flash. At its center, the two utterly different forces ate into each other, canceled each other out, and broke apart.
The impact drove the White Snake Sage back several yards. Her silver scales peeled away, as though she had been flayed alive, exposing raw dark-Kurenai flesh beneath.
Yongye lowered his left hand and adjusted the golden sword in his right. His gaze swept over the three figures, his face full of contempt.
"The three of you together, and that's all you've got?"
The Sage of Six Paths showed no discouragement. Instead, he declared arrogantly, "I told you, the Pure Land World