Sending You to the Western Paradise!
"Laugh--!"
The ancient gray light that shot out from the hole in the seal of the All Wonders Heaven was faster than the measure of time. It fell from the endless sky and precisely entered the extremely bright pale golden sword mark between Qi Yun's eyebrows!
"Buzz-!!!"
There was no earth-shattering roar, only a deep and vast resonance that seemed to originate from the deepest part of the soul.
The next moment -
Qi Yun's eyes, as bright white as the blazing sun, suddenly shone a hundredfold!
The Sword Intent, imbued with boundless terror, surged forth. Deep within his pupils, a miniature, ancient gray sword phantom seemed to flash by, reflecting the horrific scene of the heavens falling and immortals and gods perishing.
An unprecedented, immense power, following the sword mark between his brows, surged like a bursting dam, pouring into every corner of his limbs, meridians, acupoints, and even his Divine Soul Dao Foundation!
"Um?"
The "World-Honored One," high in the sky with indifferent eyes, who was slowly pressing down with the all-encompassing Buddha Palm, showed an extremely subtle change in his eternally calm expression the instant the gray light entered Qi Yun's brow.
It wasn't fear, but rather a sense of sudden realization and a touch of surprise.
"It's him—" A detached thought seemed to pierce through time and space, recognizing the source of the gray light.
It was precisely because of this recognition that the compassionate palm gesture, which originally carried a hint of "conversion," suddenly became fierce and decisive!
"You wicked creature, you deserve to die!"
The grand Buddhist chants were like a decree from Heavenly Dao.
The golden Buddha's palm, which was crashing down and obscuring the sky, suddenly accelerated its descent by more than ten times!
A truly world-destroying blow!
The edge of his palm rubbed against the void, igniting endless golden karmic fire!
The swastika Buddhist seal in his palm spun wildly, expanding into a golden vortex that enveloped the heavens and earth, unleashing a vast and overwhelming pressure that could crush all laws!
Space, like fragile glass, crumbled inch by inch before the Buddha's palm, revealing the pitch-black void below that devoured everything!
This palm strike held no mercy, determined to pulverize Qi Yun into dust, annihilating his Divine Soul!
"Good timing!"
Feeling the surging, almost bursting, yet boundless gray-light power within his body, Qi Yun's eyes suddenly contracted, transforming into two extremely refined, terrifying gray-white stars!
He gazed at the Five-Finger Golden Mountain, which was so close yet blocked out all light and possessed a Buddha-like aura, and instead of flinching or avoiding it, he suddenly looked up!
"With a single, effortless strike, the world bows in submission!"
With a furious roar, the sword mark between his brows shone brightly with gray light, and in his eyes, two annihilation Sword-Ray, as solid as tangible objects and wrapped with ancient gray Dao patterns, shot out fiercely like a ferocious dragon that had been dormant for eons!
"Swoosh! Swoosh!"
The sword light easily tore through the solid space and majestic Buddha power covered by the Buddha's palm, like a red-hot iron drill piercing the ice and snow, and hit the core of the largest "Swastika" Buddha seal in the center of the palm of the Buddha's palm that covers the sky with incomparable precision!
"Puff--!"
A dull thud, like leather being pierced.
The swastika symbol, which contained the supreme essence of Buddhism, was easily pierced like paper before this gray-white Sword-Ray, which had condensed a trace of the origin of the "Immortal-Slaying" Dao Fruit!
The Sword-Ray light continued its relentless advance, piercing upwards along the lines of the Buddha's palm, leaving two gaping, smooth-edged, and menacing holes in the center of the enormous golden hand, constantly emanating a gray aura of destruction!
boom-
Although the golden Buddha's palm was pierced and the Buddha seal in the palm was shattered, its downward momentum and vast power were not fundamentally affected!
The palm, still carrying immense power, pressed down even faster!
Five fingers like mountains, sealing off the heavens and locking the earth!
We must completely seize Qi Yun and grind him to dust!
The palm strike had already reached his body, and Qi Yun's bones cracked like popping beans, cracks appeared on his skin, and pale golden blood splattered like mist.
"Snort!"
Qi Yun snorted coldly and stomped heavily on the air!
"Thump!!!"
This step felt as if it were stepping on the very origin of the entire Xuanhuang Home Realm!
A grand, ancient sound, like the clanging of metal or the drawing of a sword, resounded from beneath his feet, instantly spreading to every corner of the Xuanhuang Great Realm!
The endless mountains and rivers murmured softly, the mighty rivers surged, and countless living beings felt a sudden tremor in their hearts!
at the same time--
"Buzz----Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Four sword cries, seemingly emanating from the primordial chaos and imbued with endless slaughter and the aura of the end, rang out in succession, shaking the entire universe!
Behind Qi Yun, the vast and boundless illusory image of the Great Luo Heaven, which evolves into all laws, was forcibly torn apart by an invisible force!
A hazy, chaotic, yet terrifying phantom that could make Divine Soul tremble and the very foundation of the universe crumble at a single glance, slowly unfolded from that torn corner!
That was the phantom of a sword formation!
Even a mere glimpse of it exuded a ferocious power that made heaven and earth tremble!
Within the sword formation, the chaotic energy surged like boiling water.
At the four corners of the sword formation, four ancient longswords, each with a different shape and exuding an aura of annihilation that could change the very heavens and earth, rose and fell, slowly rotating.
The moment this illusory formation appeared—
"BOOM!!!"
The entire vast and boundless Xuanhuang Home Realm trembled slightly!
"Buzz--!!!"
With a deafening roar, the invisible force fields emanating from the Buddha's palm and the sword formation collided violently!
The golden Buddhist light and the gray-white Sword Qi frantically eroded and annihilated, turning that void into a chaotic wasteland.
Finally, amidst a teeth-grinding "creak," the sky-covering golden Buddha's hand was abruptly shaken upwards by the sword formation phantom that had only partially unfolded, its downward momentum abruptly halted!
The World-Honored One's indifferent voice rang out again, devoid of joy or sorrow, as if stating a fact.
"For a mere Great True Person to forcibly absorb the Dao Fruit is already defying the heavens."
"Can you... handle this sword formation?"
It seemed to be to confirm the World-Honored One's words.
"Puff--!"
Before the World-Honored One could finish speaking, Qi Yun's body suddenly swayed violently, and he could no longer suppress it, spitting out a mouthful of pale golden blood!
As the blood left the body, it transformed into countless tiny gray Sword Qi, hissing as they dissipated into the air.
Behind him, the illusory image of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, which had just unfolded a corner and repelled the Buddha's palm, began to flicker and fade violently!
Upon seeing this scene, a faint hint of understanding flashed across the pair of indifferent giant eyes in the sky.
The World-Honored One Honored One's majestic voice remained calm yet revealed a hint of appreciation and praise, "Young friend, your ability to attract the favor of this Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit truly surprises this humble monk."
This fruit is unruly and difficult to tame throughout the ages. The fact that you can elicit even a slight response from it shows that your desire for slaughter is already close to the Dao.
His tone turned slightly cold, carrying an undeniable decisiveness. "Indeed, precisely because of this—"
"You cannot be allowed to stay."
Boundless compassion.
The final recitation of the Buddha's name was given.
Then the World-Honored One took a step forward.
Golden lotuses sprouted beneath his feet, each step a lotus platform. His movements appeared slow and gentle, yet they actually shrunk thousands of mountains and crossed countless rivers. In the blink of an eye, he had traversed the void that had been turned into chaos by the illusory sword formation and the lingering power of the Buddha's palm.
They arrived before Qi Yun, who was staggering, his aura waning, and whose sword formation was on the verge of dissipating!
The two were less than ten zhang apart.
For beings like them, this distance was practically face-to-face.
The World-Honored One looked down indifferently at Qi Yun, who seemed to be unable to support himself, and slowly raised his right hand to touch Qi Yun's crown.
The palm slowly descended, and a beam of Buddhist light enveloped Qi Yun's staggering figure.
The Buddha's hand was about to touch Qi Yun's disheveled hair on his head—
The tall, slender figure, who had been hanging his head, breathing weakly, and swaying, suddenly steadied himself.
Like a bamboo stalk deeply rooted in the earth, just as it was about to break, it suddenly straightened its spine!
He suddenly looked up.
Those gray-white eyes, which had been slightly unfocused due to pain and exhaustion, were now as sharp and domineering as ever.
A glint of unmistakable cunning and chilling mockery, a result of a successful plan, flashed across his face like lightning!
"The World-Honored One's words are truly profound, and I have benefited greatly from them."
Qi Yun spoke, his voice still a little hoarse, but no longer weak, only calm with a sense of control over the situation.
"With my current meager cultivation, I truly cannot lift this sword formation. To force it would only lead to my own destruction."
"But----"
"What if what this junior intends to do is never just the entire sword formation—"
Before the words had even finished -
"Clang-!!!"
A clear and resonant sword cry, containing the supreme sharpness to annihilate immortals and gods, suddenly exploded from the disintegrating sword formation phantom behind Qi Yun!
Among the four ancient swords floating in the water, one of them suddenly shone brightly!
"Whoosh!"
The next instant, the phantom of the ancient sword suddenly materialized—condensing into a gray sword light that was extremely refined and existed between the real and the illusory. It instantly broke away from the sword formation, traced a mysterious trajectory, and landed in Qi Yun's outstretched right palm!
It feels slightly heavy and cool to the touch.
Qi Yun tightened his grip on the gray, seemingly ancient and worn sword-shaped light with the two ancient seal characters "Immortal-Ending" engraved on its hilt!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye!
With a slight shift in his gaze, the golden lotus beneath the World-Honored One's feet surged wildly, blurring his figure!
However, it was too late.
Qi Yun had been plotting this for a long time; how could he give him the chance?
"World-Honored One, why the haste to come and go?"
Qi Yun let out a long breath, which also carried a sharp, grayish-white Sword Intent.
He gripped the Immortal-Extinguishing Sword, its tip pointing diagonally, locking onto the World-Honored One's figure as it dissipated into a lotus. His cunning and mockery transformed into a resolute killing intent, a willingness to sacrifice everything. "Junior, I'll present this to you—"
"Go to the West!!!"
"Whoosh!!!"
There were no flashy sword moves, no grand display of power.
Only a simple, direct, and swift sword light, as if it had been unleashed before the thought of "drawing the sword" even arose, like the first ray of light piercing through eternal darkness, gently slashed towards the World-Honored One One's golden, radiant figure, which was dissipating into a lotus.
boom-
The golden light around the World Honored One suddenly burst out, layers of phantoms of the Buddha sat cross-legged and chanted sutras, the endless "Swastika" Buddha seals formed an indestructible barrier, and the vast power of faith turned into a colorful wheel of light to protect behind him!
But beneath this ancient sword, it was as if nothing existed!
The hazy sword light ignored the boundless golden light, ignored the layers of illusory Buddhist realms, ignored the indestructible swastika barrier, and ignored the vast power of faith and vows.
"Laugh--!"
Where the sword flashed, the golden light vanished silently, like ink marks erased by an eraser.
The illusory image of the Buddhist kingdom faded away with mournful cries, the swastika barrier cracked smoothly, and the halo of faith and vows dimmed and shattered.
Time seemed to stretch out and freeze at this moment.
The World-Honored One remained motionless.
A thin, gray thread emerged from between his brows, running straight down, across his nose, lips, jaw, and chest—
The next moment.
"Buzz----"
The World-Honored One's figure, along with the lingering Buddha light around him that had not yet completely extinguished, transformed into countless tiny golden specks of light, like sand sculptures scattered by the wind, before utterly annihilating and dissipating into the world.
Only Qi Yun remained, pale-faced, weak, with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, but still standing tall.
"Your methods are excellent, benefactor. This humble monk will remember you." The World-Honored One's voice drifted slowly from the void, still calm and indifferent, but Qi Yun seemed to detect a different flavor in it.
Clang-
The Immortal-Extinguishing Sword emitted a faint yet satisfied chime, circling Qi Yun twice.
Finally, a flash of gray light disappeared into Qi Yun's brow, vanishing and returning to the depths of the Immortal-Slaying Dao Fruit in the the Unseen.
Above the West Sea, between heaven and earth.
The Buddha's light dissipated, and the chanting ceased.