The Golden Winged Kunpeng tore through the Wugeng Void, ripping apart layer upon layer of space. Its wings stretched a thousand miles.
Its speed was so swift it vanished in an instant, already flying from one end of the void to the other.
Monk Huijue had no time to defend himself.
With a boom, those twin claws pierced through the buddha statue. The Golden Winged Kunpeng then vanished into the void and disappeared into Xu Zimo's second grid.
Xu Zimo looked up and saw cracks spreading across Monk Huijue's buddha statue with a series of cracking sounds.
In the end, it shattered completely.
"Benefactor, you have shown great mercy," Monk Huijue said with a Buddhist salute toward Xu Zimo, sighing wistfully.
He knew that Kunpeng could have killed him outright.
As soon as he finished speaking, the black ocean above Monk Huijue's head—the Sea of Suffering of All Beings—shattered with a wave of his right hand.
It finally turned into a rain of blood that fell from above.
The bloody rain mixed with the torrential downpour overhead, dyeing the entire forest crimson.
"Leave, all of you. Go," Xu Zimo said, waving his hand lightly.
"Don't disturb the peace of my solitude."
Monk Huijue fell silent for a moment. In the end, he seemed to want to say something, but the words never left his mouth.
Yueshan pulled him away.
The rain in the sky seemed to grow even heavier. Xu Zimo lay beneath a great tree, leaning lightly against its trunk with his eyes half-closed.
A carriage came galloping from afar, its hoofbeats frantic and chaotic.
Amid the cover of the rainstorm, more than a dozen fierce horses surrounded the carriage. An armored soldier sat atop each one.
The old man driving wore a green robe. His gaze was