On Savage Mountain, Ancestor Haha's thousand-foot golden Buddha body sat amid jade fire and yellow clouds. Thousands of purple fire dragons wheeled around him, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, seething with fiendish energy as they spewed myriad streams of demonic flame.
Qi Shouming kept trying to drive him away and seize the Central Palace position, but every attempt failed.
The other five Dharma bodies formed through his transformation into qi were likewise thousand-foot golden Buddhas. Each blocked one of the five formation gates, attacking relentlessly.
His eighteen disciples, the Eighteen Arhats, held eighteen magic treasures and wielded eighteen different spells, joining together in a great formation.
These Eighteen Arhats each possessed several centuries of cultivation. Limited by their innate constitution, aptitude, and understanding, they could not master every art as Ancestor Haha had, so each could cultivate only one of his spells.
But even mastering a single one was enough to make their might shake the world.
They formed the Eighteen Arhats Formation. Once trapped inside, even a true heavenly immortal could not escape and could only submit to being beaten or killed.
Xuanzhenzi possessed extraordinary discernment as well. He recognized their power and knew that the eastern Destruction Gate where he stood was crucial, so he remained seated within its portal throughout, battling them through the main entrance.
The eighteen men each brandished their magic treasures, unleashing vast quantities of scarlet flames and yellow sand, Green Thunder and purple lightning, black fiend qi and blue astral force, white frost and green clouds... all of it surged into the main gate in a single torrent.
Xuanzhenzi continually activated the Pure Yang Pearl above his head, sending tidal waves of Taiyi Pure Yang Immortal Fire blasting from the two gate leaves to clash head-on with their attacks.
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