The Ghost Lantern Sect Master, the Hehuan Sect Master, and the Corpse Controlling Sect Master turned pale, horror filling their eyes.
They stared blankly at the black figure amid the wind and rain, and at the enormous Dharma Form in the air.
Their hair stood on end, and chills ran down their spines. For the first time, these titans of the demonic path felt fear.
Whooo...
The autumn wind howled, sweeping through the autumn rain and fanning the flames of the Soul-Burning Lamp.
The Ghost Lantern Sect Master stared at the five enormous azure lotuses, his spectral green eyes filled with disbelief, as though he had seen a ghost.
"A... a five-leaf Dharma Form? H-how could this happen? How on earth did this fiend break through to the five-leaf realm? Impossible! A five-leaf dharma body shouldn't appear in this world!"
Shock, confusion, fear-all manner of emotions flooded the depths of his heart.
The same was true of the other two sect masters.
Their earlier confidence had left them with nothing but bone-piercing cold.
That was a five-leaf dharma body. In the Tang Kingdom today, perhaps no one else had reached such a realm.
Could it be...
The fiend's cultivation deviation had been false, and his breakthrough real?
Or did truly entering the five-leaf dharma body realm require nirvana rebirth?
The more they thought, the more frightened they became. They wished they could flee right then, but they could sense that the unbroken autumn rain had sealed them in, turning this place into a cage-a cage that imprisoned everything.
Within this cage, they had no chance of escape.
"A master and disciple in love, defying all that is right and flouting human morality-fiend, who would have thought you'd see this day? That shameless disciple of yours deserved to die. I merely