Murmurs, sobs, roars, wails...
In that instant, countless voices brimming with negative emotions flooded Mingshan's brow.
Stunned, he felt as though a being filled with malice had fixed its gaze on him...
Sinister, cruel, cold, vicious...
This power was clearly not all that strong, yet it seemed to serve as a catalyst, instantly igniting the karmic burden of sin and resentment he had taken in throughout his cultivation from rotting corpses steeped in the bitterest suffering of the mortal world!
Behind Mingshan, the compassionate eyes of the Buddha phantom rapidly grew narrow and cold, while strands of sinister Black Substance gradually seeped from its body.
The once-radiant dark-gold Buddhist light quietly dimmed...
"No!"
Mingshan's expression changed drastically!
His spiritual platform, which had always been utterly serene, began shaking violently in an instant!
His face alternated between kindly benevolence, a twisted evil grin, howls of pain, and inconsolable sobbing...
As though plunged into a demon's den, he fell into a dazed stupor.
Sensing the Buddha hand slowing, the Wu Ape King instantly spotted an opening. It threw away its shattered brow-height staff, conjured another short staff with a Law Technique, raised it overhead, and brought it crashing down at Mingshan!
Its attack, however, immediately provoked an automatic counterattack from the Buddha phantom.
The Buddha hand shrouded in Black Substance suddenly struck at the Wu Ape King!
The Wu Ape King keenly sensed something wrong.
It hastily retreated, only to see that the Buddha phantom had no intention of attacking further. A distinctly human look of confusion appeared on its defiant face.
Meanwhile, Wang Ba sensed the layer of Black Substance outside the Yin God's temple within his spiritual platform quietly disappear. Comparing this with Mingshan's condition, he vaguely understood, yet was also utterly surprised.
"Just what is the origin of this