Ten Thousand Buddhas Devour Together

The Buddhist chanting stopped, and everyone lost the ability to move.

The Pearl Buddha Maiden remained facing the Buddha statue. A gap opened in the black hair on the back of her head, and an ugly face covered in red and white scars emerged. Its tightly shut eyes silently opened, one red and one purple, flickering with a faint fluorescent glow. What could only be called a slit rather than a mouth opened, and a chilling voice came from his mouth:

"Who told you to kill each other?"

His purple eye turned to the woman in green, and he said slowly, "You make a fuss when you have no grounds to stand on, act as though the world revolves around you, stir up trouble, argue unreasonably, and manipulate people's hearts. You have neither a Buddha's heart nor a Buddha's aspect. Let ten thousand Buddhas devour you together."

As his words fell, the white-bone Buddha statues surrounding the crowd moved.

The Buddhist chanting sounded again. The woman in green did not run at once. She glared at the face on the back of the Buddha maiden's head and shouted angrily, "How could you do this?"

That single sentence short-circuited everyone's brains. Only Xu Chunliang looked at her curiously...

Could she be a transmigrator too? That way of thinking is far too advanced...

The white-bone Buddha statues went around the others and pounced on the woman in green like dried corpses. As terror finally filled her eyes, they engulfed her, tearing away her hair, her eyes, her fingers, everything.

Miserable screams could faintly be heard through the chewing, but nothing was clear.

Taking advantage of the chance to move, Xu Chunliang quietly retreated four steps into the darkness behind him.

Soon, the white-bone Buddha statues scattered and returned to their original positions, resuming their former poses without the slightest sign of life.

It was as though the woman in green had never come into this world. The spot where she had stood was perfectly clean, without a single drop of blood.

The Buddhist chanting stopped again, and everyone lost the ability to move.

The face on the back of the Pearl Buddha Maiden's head spoke again, its red eye turning toward the saber-wielding man.

"Your rage makes your hair stand on end, and you draw your saber against others. You have the aspect of an arhat and shall be granted the attainment of an arhat!"

The Buddhist chanting rose, tentacles emerged, and the saber-wielding man screamed in agony. Without another glance at the bizarre scene, Xu Chunliang pushed off and quickly retreated into the darkness.

The Pearl Buddha Maiden, who faced the giant Buddha and recited the Heart Sutra, gave him a greater sense of danger than the darkness!

He would rather stay in that boundless darkness.

"Don't move, okay?" A dainty, adorable voice rang out. Xu Chunliang shuddered and froze in place, losing control of his body.

The hair on the back of the Pearl Buddha Maiden's head closed up, and she turned to look at Xu Chunliang, her eyes shining with innocent, adorable naivety. "Isn't my game fun? Why won't you play with me?"

Xu Chunliang looked at her coldly and said, "Fuck you."

"Hee-hee."

The Buddhist chanting stopped, and several tentacles wriggled out and engulfed Xu Chunliang.

Xu Chunliang died.

"You make a fuss when you have no grounds to stand on, act as though the world revolves around you, stir up trouble, argue unreasonably, and manipulate people's hearts. You have neither a Buddha's heart nor a Buddha's aspect. Let ten thousand Buddhas devour you together."

Ignoring the ugly face's judgment of the woman in green, Xu Chunliang slowly took four steps forward.

Since he could retreat no farther, he could only advance.

Li Baiyi, who had been quietly watching him all along, saw him move forward and fell into thought.

Could he have a way to break out of this predicament? Impossible! The pattern still isn't clear, and behind this Buddha maiden is another pair of eyes hidden in her hair, watching us. Making a move will cause the Buddhist chanting to stop. What could he possibly do?

Although he could not think of any way Xu Chunliang could deal with the Buddha maiden, Li Baiyi calculated his distance from the Pearl Buddha Maiden and quietly took three steps forward.

If Xu Chunliang showed him a hope of winning, he would also seize a chance to strike and give Xu Chunliang as much help as he could.

After the saber-wielding man was reduced to white bones as well, Yu Chunliang advanced seven steps, and Li Baiyi advanced five.

During this time, the two did not exchange a single glance.

The game continued. The Buddha maiden turned to worship the Buddha, and the Buddhist chanting rose again.

Someone shouted, "Run!" The crowd scattered. Some rushed toward the darkness, some charged at the Buddha maiden with their sabers, and others knelt on the ground and devoutly recited Buddhist scriptures.

The chanting stopped, and the hair on the back of the Buddha maiden's head split open again.

Her tentacles went precisely around Xu Chunliang and the others, instantly engulfing the burly swordsman who had rushed to the edge of the darkness.

Once he had been reduced to white bones in an instant, the tentacles switched targets and began disposing of a second person.

Xu Chunliang's expression was calm. Unconcerned by their deaths, he quietly pondered.

Can this Buddha maiden's tentacles only attack one person at a time? I'll test that later.

At first, I thought this was a game of red light, green light, but now it seems it isn't. She's killing the people farthest from her and closest to the darkness first. All that talk about what kind of Buddha you should become is nothing but a trick to divert attention. But the eyes on the back of her head are watching everyone at the same time. Anyone who shows signs of rushing toward the darkness is instantly wiped out on the pretext that they aren't playing the game properly.

But... is she afraid of something in the darkness? I don't think so. The black hair in the darkness burns when it enters the golden light, so by rights, it should be the black hair that's afraid of her. Unless...

Unless the golden light and she aren't on the same side!

Xu Chunliang looked up at the sarira in the giant seated Buddha's hand, which continually emitted golden light, and came to a realization.

Since the darkness isn't a way out, I can only run straight toward the light.

Or... destroy the light!

His gaze traveled upward to the giant Buddha statue in front of the Buddha maiden. Above the Buddha's chest, it was still utterly dark, as though the Buddha's head had been cut off.

Maybe that's why the Buddha doesn't look like a Buddha.

Xu Chunliang stopped thinking.

The game continued.

When Brother Yinjian was designated a sword-wielding asura, Xu Chunliang took five steps forward.

When a fat landlord holding an abacus was designated the Medicine Buddha, Xu Chunliang took three steps forward.

When Brother Axe was designated a tiger-subduing arhat, Xu Chunliang came within five steps behind the Buddha maiden. Li Baiyi likewise came within five steps behind her.

This was the first time Xu Chunliang and Li Baiyi met each other's eyes.

Attack!

Both saw the answer in the other's eyes.

So Chunliang drew his saber, and Baiyi drew his sword.

Awoo!

Eerie Tiger Howls at the Heavens!

A three-headed eerie tiger about ten feet tall appeared behind Xu Chunliang. Propelled by his saber's momentum, it pounced on the Pearl Buddha Maiden. Li Baiyi likewise unleashed a killing move, following his sword as sword qi crisscrossed the air!

But just then, the Buddhist chanting stopped!

So the Buddhist chanting could stop even while she was eating human flesh and blood?