The three Kings' exchange was brief.
At their level, even a single breath was enough to accomplish a great deal.
The more they spoke, the more opportunities they gave the Netherworld.
Ghost King Earth Bodhisattva's earlier words had mainly been intended to observe and probe whether the Nine Provinces had any other trump cards.
Although the King of Equality was already doing his utmost to conceal it, and his acting was fairly good,
an old fox like Earth Bodhisattva had still seen through him.
After reaching his conclusion, Earth Bodhisattva wasted no more words and attacked directly.
He pressed his palms together, and millions of chanting voices rang out from nowhere. A golden hue rapidly suffused the sky behind him, and faintly visible within it were flickering Buddha phantoms giving off light.
"Namo Bodhisattva... behold the true self..."
As Earth Bodhisattva murmured,
an enormous Buddha hand reached down from the golden light, brimming with Buddhist intent, yet its palm was covered in blood-red characters such as "death," "chaos," "disaster," and "tribulation." It was unspeakably sinister.
Under the pressure of that terrifying energy, even space twisted.
This strike was terrifying to the extreme.
The King of Equality frowned and hurled out his Court Tablet.
"Avici!!!"
This manifestation of Avici Purgatory was even larger, like a mountain range, and its details were clearer. Within it, enormous millstones crushed vicious ghosts, while cauldrons of oil fried spectral creatures to death...
Rumble-
The two collided with an earth-shaking roar.
The golden Buddha hand flattened parts of Avici Purgatory, its brilliant Buddhist radiance shining inside as though seeking to deliver the vicious ghosts within.
Lesser ghosts within the purgatory also pounced on the Buddha hand, gnawing away until even the hand began to break apart.
This was actually the outward manifestation of two different kinds