"Aah!"
Screams rose one after another.
The Buddhist Sect no longer had any Quasi-Saint experts. No one could step forward to face Zhen Yuanzi and Yun Zhongzi.
The battle swiftly became a one-sided rout.
In barely the time it took to drink a cup of tea, a million Buddhist disciples stained the Pure Land with blood, their corpses strewn across the fields.
Inside Spirit Mountain, within a Small World.
Countless Buddhist disciples crowded densely around the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool.
They chanted scriptures, golden lotus-shaped flames rising over their bodies.
Lotus after lotus of golden flame flowed into the Merit Pool and was absorbed by the Ninth-Grade Golden Lotus.
Meanwhile, the merit-infused water in the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool was also slowly absorbed by the Golden Lotus.
The other third- and sixth-grade Golden Lotuses withered, losing their vital essence.
Above the Golden Lotus, Buddha Tathagata's face grew increasingly solid.
His expression was dark, with a trace of urgency.
He had feigned death through seated nirvana, abandoning the original self he had painstakingly cultivated for millions of years.
His merit had returned to the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool.
All this was to cultivate the supreme secret art created by Daoist Zhunti: the Merit Reincarnation Art.
In theory, the greater the power of merit he gathered, the higher his cultivation would be after reincarnation.
For the Buddhist Sect's future, and to kill the Vine Dao Venerable.
He had cut off Ancient Buddha Randeng's and Maitreya Buddha's hopes of reincarnation, devouring all their merit.
His goal was to gather the merit of three Quasi-Saint-level Buddhas of the Buddhist Sect, combining the other two with himself to cultivate strength approaching that of a Saint.
But he had never expected the Vine Dao Venerable to suddenly bring the Journey to the West Calamity to an early end.
That