"But my essence is depleted now, and my flesh has withered. Without enough blood essence to nourish me, I cannot unleash my full power in this realm."
"If you cannot bring back blood essence, what am I supposed to fight with?!"
The moment those words fell, Zhun Ti shrank back in fright, his heart leaping into his throat just when he had begun to relax.
A sharp gleam flashed in Jie Yin's eyes, however, and he hurriedly pulled something from his robes.
"Do not worry, Patriarch!"
Holding a palm-sized, crystalline pearl as black as ink in both hands, Jie Yin raised it high above his head.
"This is a gift the Primordial Heavenly Demon entrusted me to deliver to you, Patriarch!"
"Fellow Daoist Yuanshi said he knew your revival was imminent and that you urgently needed the essence of living beings. He has specially offered an enormous world he sealed deep within the void long ago to help you regain your peak!"
Jie Yin shouted, his voice brimming with an eager desire to claim credit.
This black pearl was precisely what the Primordial Heavenly Demon had secretly slipped to them on Kunlun Mountain. Sealed within it was a genuine Great Thousand World, imprisoning tens of billions of beings from another realm.
Upon the Lotus Throne, the Chaos Ancient Buddha heard those words, and two dazzling beams of golden light suddenly burst from his enormous eyes.
"An entire Great Thousand World?!"
The Ancient Buddha's voice abruptly rose, filled with undisguised ecstasy and greed.
"That old bastard Yuanshi has finally done something clever!"
The Ancient Buddha reached out with his right hand and grasped at the air.
The black World Pearl instantly left Jie Yin's hands, becoming a streak of black light that landed securely in the Ancient Buddha's immense palm.
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