Minghe raged, "Well, well! Your Buddhist Sect came fully prepared today. You mean to kill me, don't you? How despicable!"
Tathagata smiled. "Fellow Daoist Minghe, why call us despicable? Had you not succumbed to greed, how could you have ended up here?"
Randeng shook his head and sighed. "Our Śrāvakayāna expounds the Three-Vehicle Dharma, with śarīras preserved within the belly. It is truly the supreme path. Your affinity for taking refuge is an immense blessing, fellow Daoist. Why persist in your delusion?"
Minghe laughed aloud. "Randeng, when you led the Chan Sect, you also declared that its Yuqing Great Dharma was unrivaled under heaven. Now that you have abandoned Daoism for Buddhism, you claim Buddhist Dharma is supreme instead. Among the shameless people of this world, you certainly deserve a place!"
Randeng's face flushed crimson at those words. Humiliation turned to anger as he said, "This humble monk offered you kindness. Since you refuse to appreciate it, you cannot blame me."
At that moment, Tathagata took out a Purple-Gold Alms Bowl. The bowl instantly became an enormous object and began sucking in Minghe's Blood God Children. None of these Blood God Children were strong; all he needed to do was draw out Minghe's true body!
Minghe instantly felt himself hovering on the brink of death.
The Blood God Children's cultivation realms were too low to withstand Tathagata and Randeng at all. Once his original self was forced out, he would surely die.
He was not in the Sea of Blood now, so he could not form the Sea of Blood Grand Formation. His only option was to escape and return to the Sea of Blood, where he would be safe.
But the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls surrounded him now, making it difficult to break through.
Chaos was nothingness: here was there,