"Om mani mani padme..."
Clear Brahma sounds echoed between the glaciers.
A Thousand-Zhang Buddha Light instantly bathed the entire rift in gold, even illuminating the glaciers above until they became translucent ice lanterns.
At the center of the Buddha light was a bare-chested young man, his palms pressed together as he hovered in the abyss, like a holy son of the Buddha gazing up at the mortal world from purgatory. The Buddha light shining through his body soothed the soul and dispelled the bone-piercing cold of this frozen deathtrap!
The phantom of a golden lotus circled the young man, its supreme yang Buddha light forming a spherical barrier that sheltered him and wedged itself between the two sides of the rift.
"Nine Lotuses Covering the Realm?"
Surprise flashed through Yang Huaxian's eyes. He had not expected to see this great divine ability in someone else's hands after the Living Buddha of the Northern Lands.
The Buddhist Sect excelled at defense, its protective divine abilities on an entirely different level from those of other schools, and "Nine Lotuses Covering the Realm" was the greatest of them all. Legend had it that, in the hands of a mighty Buddhist figure from ancient times, it could shelter the entire world, hence its name.
But however powerful Buddhist defenses might be, they could not defy heaven. For Xie Jinhuan to resist Ancestor Huaxian, who was drawing on heaven's might, with his own strength alone was still rather like a mantis raising its arms against a chariot.
The instant the rift, carrying boundless heavenly might, struck him, the Buddha light and even the golden lotus around Xie Jinhuan shattered outright. Countless cracks appeared across his skin, and almost all his qi meridians were shattered in an instant.
But even a mantis standing against a chariot