Buddhist and Daoist
After the Jade Lock Devil Heart's sword pierced through all the Heavenly Secrets Evolution, this immortal finally revealed his true form.
Unexpectedly, the immortal's body was not as noble and magnificent as imagined. It was a shell of skin and bones, with blackened bones and grayish skin, exuding an aura of decay and old age. In particular, its dark, hollow eyes showed almost no divine light.
But as thousands upon thousands of destinies, causes and effects, and divine will swarmed into the body like bees returning to their nest, the other person's physical body visibly swelled up.
The withered skin was stretched open again, the sunken chest slowly rose, and a faint blood color emerged from beneath the ashen skin; in those dark, hollow eyes, a divine light suddenly shone brightly, the light so intense that it seemed to pierce through heaven and earth and penetrate the nine heavens.
However, the consequence was that all the experts in this realm who reached the Refining Spirit to Return to the Void level felt the changes in the celestial order.
On the ancient and weathered Cloud-Soaring Mountain, a middle-aged swordsman suddenly stopped stroking his sword, looked towards the direction of Demon-Subduing City, his face first showing a hint of surprise, then a hint of a smile.
"A clever trick to deceive the heavens, a false image to conceal the true phoenix twins—so that's how it is."
From the Thunder Sect and the Nine Heavens Thunder Manor, one terrifying Thunder Dao Primordial Spirit after another manifested from the churning dark clouds; their figures were as large as mountains, their bodies wrapped in thick lightning, and each gaze pierced the sky like lightning, heading towards the Demon-Subduing City.
A celestial being descended to earth?
"Which immortal is it, perhaps from my Thunder Ministry Department?"
"Me, Thunder Ministry? Ha~"
Should we cast a spell to pray to the higher realms?
"No need," a hoarse but infinitely domineering voice slowly rang out.
"Since it's the Thunder Commandery Domain, it's most likely one of those immortals from back then."
These words startled many Primordial Spirit experts.
When the Five Thunders Devil-Subduing Great General was besieged, although the main force was the Orthodox Mystic Gate sect, there were also many incarnate immortals, reincarnated immortals, and even the founders of the Demon and Buddhist sects. Although they all ascended back to the upper realm after the battle, it is possible that one or two sects secretly stayed behind.
Even if we take a step back and say that one or two of the original followers of the Five Thunders Devil-Subduing Great General managed to escape after his death, it's not impossible that they did manage to do so.
The three Daoist gates of the Heavenly Edict Manor —Dongzhen, Dongxuan, and Dongshen—opened wide, and a figure entered each gate.
Not only the righteous path, but also the Five Temples of Buddhism and the five major demonic sects were alarmed.
There was no other way. Just as the forty-nine Orthodox God were reaching perfection and ascending to heaven one after another, a celestial being suddenly descended to earth. This undoubtedly touched a nerve with all the important figures in this world.
The immortal figure undoubtedly knew this as well, and sighed softly, his voice neither male nor female.
Why press him so hard?
"Senior is joking. Senior has been hiding here for a thousand years, and finally couldn't wait to emerge into the world. In order to conceal his aura of rebirth, he even created a fake Thunder God to cover it up, and even linked it with the Five Thunders Devil-Subduing Great General, trying to divert our attention. Is such a distortion of facts and reversal of right and wrong really well-intentioned?"
After Bai Ningjie shattered the heavenly secrets with a single sword strike, everyone present resumed their activities. Daoist Yun Shuo's face was pale, and he looked like he had suffered a great loss of vitality, but his eyes were bright and exceptionally spirited.
"Hmph, junior, do you really think I don't know you're secretly gossiping?"
"Immortal," the immortal said coldly, his jade-like hand sweeping lightly across the area. In the next instant, the primordial energy and Spiritual Qi within a thousand miles were swept away once again, as if an invisible giant hand had drawn away all the energy from this world. The Eight Trigrams and Eight Gates manifested by Daoist Yun Shuo were shattered by this light sweep, with five gates being destroyed. The sword shadows that had not yet manifested within the gates did not even have a chance to emerge before dying inside the body, turning into wisps of green smoke and dissipating.
The next moment, the "Jade Lock Devil Heart" cleaved through the void once more. Facing this sword, the immortal clearly showed some apprehension. With a grab of the void, the space a thousand feet in front of him instantly froze. With each inch the demonic sword advanced, the released chilling aura froze the air.
Rolling thunderclouds.
Bai Ningjie's body was covered in frost: fine ice crystals condensed on her eyebrows, hair, and clothes, her breath turned into white mist in the air, and her sword-wielding arm trembled slightly, clearly under great pressure.
The immortal then grabbed at the air with both hands, turning yin into yang and yang into yin. The Ghost God and the sun were simultaneously shattered. Zhen'ezi's Ghost God and the Yang Spirit incarnation of Mingting burst, disintegrated, and vanished like bubbles under the grasp of those invisible hands. Both Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit were broken, leaving only two dim Primordial Spirit that flew backward and crashed heavily into the distant ruins, barely clinging to life.
In the blink of an eye, the disciples of the prestigious sects, who were considered high and mighty by everyone, were all crippled and had no chance to fight back.
The power of an immortal is terrifying.
The immortal looked in a certain direction from the Demon-Subduing City, revealing a rare hint of resentment and loss of composure.
"I was almost there to complete my mission, but then I ran into a brain-dead idiot who ruined everything!"
However, it seemed somewhat wary of the Demon-Subduing City. After saying just this, it directly stepped into the "Heavenly Palace." As soon as it entered, the "Heavenly Palace" that Zhang Zhixian had created using the Great Art of Heavenly Law opened wide, and the two locked lightning shadows, as well as the two lightning shadows in the city, all entered its body.
"This is impossible!!"
Zhang Zhixian felt the very fabric of heaven and earth reversed, his pupils widening suddenly as he once again experienced the terror of his memories being altered.
Terror.
In fact, as one of the younger generation who had cultivated the "General Outline of Heavenly Ordinances" to a high level, he was the first to notice something was wrong, and then his memories were secretly altered by this person.
"The Three Heavenly Palaces have evolved; do you know where I came from?"
The "immortal" shook his head, about to shatter the void and leave this place.
It had a premonition that the days ahead might not be easy.
However, the Demon-Subduing City vanished the next moment.
The thunderclouds that had stretched for thousands of miles also disappeared.
Instead, two enormous golden Buddha Golden Body, one above the other, lay flat between heaven and earth.
The Buddha above sits cross-legged atop the heavens, his head disappearing into the starry sky, his Golden Body merging with the celestial canopy; the Buddha below lies supine on the earth, his back connected to the earth's veins, as if a giant Buddha rising from the earth itself.
The two Golden Body sit facing each other, sandwiching the entire world in the center, like two temple doors slowly closing.
Beside the Golden Body head on the ground, on the earlobe, lay a familiar figure—the Jingtu Master Jingtu, who watched this scene with a face full of excitement and shock: his mouth was agape, the wine jar slipped from his hand and shattered on the ground, the wine soaking the area but not causing any ill effects.
Jue stared intently at the two Golden Body that stretched across the sky, his eyes filled with fanaticism and awe.
"Little bald monk, watch carefully, this is how you use the Emptiness-Bliss Great Mudra."
As the Buddha spoke, the next moment, the upper and lower Golden Body Buddhas simultaneously clasped their hands together. In an instant, countless illusions of Buddhist kingdoms, including the sands of the Ganges, the eight treasures of the Buddha, Vajra maidens, and flying apsaras scattering flowers, all manifested under this single palm strike; it was as if the entire world was encompassed within it.
The immortal finally revealed his fury.
"Bald monk, you're almost at the point of perfecting your Dharma body, why don't you go stay in your Buddhist realm? Why do you insist on staying in this Azure Mysterious Realm? Aren't you afraid that the few branches passed down from Jade Pure One will kill you?"
"Hehe, they're beheading monks from the Form Realm, what does it have to do with me, a bald monk from the Emptiness Realm? Of course, those bald monks from the Emptiness Realm aren't exactly saints either, just like me."
Facing the Great Mudra of the Dharma Body level, the immortal smiled coldly, and two cold rainbows finally burst forth from his palms, one above and one below. Wherever the frost of the Nine Heavens passed, the two Buddhas were quickly frozen, and then the entire world returned to its original state, including the Demon-Subduing City, the Heavenly Tribulation Thunderclouds, and the shattered Ascension Platform within the thunderclouds.
The immortal's expression changed again, because on the Ascension Platform, all the ascension power was extracted. The remaining ascension power was collected from the cracks in the rocks, from the fissures, and from the dust, and condensed into a dazzling pillar of light. In an instant, the pillar of light transformed into an ascension sword shadow, carrying the momentum to cut through all the shackles of this world, and slashed towards it!
Whether it was an attack from righteous disciples or a Buddhist Great Mudra, this immortal could handle it with ease. However, faced with this attack, the immortal was blasted down on the spot.
"You already knew about the Chan Master Bukong of the Nine Buddha Dao, Master Bukong, and your Tiangu sister, Aunt Tiangu of the Immortal-Go Sect!"
Seeing that the Buddha and the Daoist were entangled with the immortal, Bai Ningjie's pupils widened, and she instantly turned to look at her senior brother. By now, she understood perfectly well that the reason her senior brother had been delaying for so long was to wait for the Buddha and the Daoist.
The key point is, he didn't tell me!!
Master Yun Shuo sighed and said, "Junior Sister, don't think I'm some kind of divine strategist. I'm just preparing for the worst. Chan Master Bukong is a close friend of mine despite our age difference, and he knows the Womb Matrix Earth-Transference Art. He can come to most parts of the Azure Mysterious Realm whenever he wants. As for Tiangu, it was only because I discovered an abandoned Ascension Platform here that I sent a message to the Thirty-Three Heavenly Dao as a precaution. Who could have imagined that both the worst and the best scenarios would occur?"
"I didn't think you were some kind of genius; why didn't you tell me anything!"
Bai Ningjie glared and roared angrily.
"Junior sister, actually, I don't think there's much of a problem with people who have brains or those who don't," Yun Shuo earnestly advised, "But someone like you, who has some brains but not much, is very prone to getting into trouble. Even someone like Zhang Zhixian, who cultivates the will of Heaven, can be deceived. If you get fooled, I, your senior brother, can't withstand your sword."
Bai Ningjie stared intently at his opponent until the opponent felt a chill run down his spine, then he picked up his sword again and soared into the sky, charging towards the "immortal" opposite him.
Yun Shuo gave a bitter smile, knowing that his future was probably going to be quite bleak.