In that mont, the sky vanished.
Lü Yang looked up, but the sky was gone. The murky clouds had dissipated, and the sun, moon, and stars had all dimd. In their place, a Celestial River with no visible beginning or end coiled around the horizon.
’Starlight? The Milky Way?’
Lü Yang couldn’t tell. He could only see the boundless Celestial River flowing slowly by. It reached up to the do of the heavens, rging sea and sky into one, and pressed down upon the mountains, forcing every peak to bow its head.
The first to bear the brunt was the Primal Daoist Evil. It didn’t even have ti to react. It just looked up at the sky, the boundless Celestial River reflected in its eyes. Then, the river’s water began to pour out from those sa eyes, dissolving its skin and flesh, its muscles and bones, lting its entire body away inch by inch.
Without a word, Lü Yang surged forward to grab it.
And yet, the Primal Daoist Evil remained completely still. It just stood there in a daze as its lips parted to release a deep sigh:
"Fruit of Gully-Rill Water."
With those words, the Primal Daoist Evil fell into a dead silence. At the sa ti, the Emperor’s Golden Seal of Tushita lost its luster and fell to the ground like an ordinary object.
Lü Yang, of course, was happy to take it all.
He then looked around and saw Ying Tongshou and Ye Xingfeng still kneeling on the ground, just as motionless as the Primal Daoist Evil had been.
Then a breeze blew past, and their bones dissolved and their flesh unraveled.
WHOOSH!
Two Perfected Persons at the Mid-phase of Foundation Establishnt—one a peerless Sword Cultivator who had even refined his Sword Heart and Sword Intent—had their very Dharma Bodies scattered by a re breeze!
With a CLANG, Ying Tongshou’s Storage Bag and Ye Xingfeng’s painstakingly forged Lifebound Flying Sword fell to the ground. Without a second thought, Lü Yang imdiately collected everything. Just then, another great boom echoed from the heavens, from the very edge of the world, forcing him to look up once more.
High in the sky, he saw a cascade of fiery sparks falling from the void.
Lü Yang opened his Dharma Eye, pushing the Prophetic Orrery at the center of his brow to its absolute limit. The Light of Bing Fire illuminated the entire world, and only then could he begin to make out the scene unfolding across heaven and earth.
The surface of the sea... was rising.
No, that wasn’t right. To be precise, a section of the sea was rising. Lü Yang couldn’t see how large it was, only that the distant horizon was now clearly misaligned!
’A part of the sea... is flying?’
Lü Yang looked up and peered into the distance, his gaze piercing through the Thirty-six Layers of Gang Cloud and countless veils of mist. Only then did he vaguely make out a face, partially obscured by the haze.
’A Perfected Lord’s... Dharma Appearance!’
Lü Yang had seen one once before, during the Battle for the Dao. But back then, he had yet to reach Foundation Establishnt and had only viewed it from a great distance. It hadn’t felt nearly as real as this.
Then he saw it: the colossal face that filled the sky and covered the earth lowered its gaze slightly.
It glanced at him.
No, it didn’t just glance at him. It blinked. In fact, it gave him a flirtatious wink, expressing a feeling of extre delight.
However, as the object of her wink, Lü Yang’s vision suddenly went black. He couldn’t withstand it at all. His soul was nearly blasted out of his body, and two streams of bloody tears flowed from his eyes. He hurriedly ducked his head, not daring to et the gaze of the face in the sky again.
But from that fleeting glimpse, he already understood what was happening.
In that instant, nearly half of the entire Overseas region had fallen into the palm of World Purger Fei Xue. She was lifting it up, just like one would cup water in their hands, hoisting it clean into the air!
........
「Inland, in the direction of the West River region.」
Fortune’s Flying Light was like a bolt of lightning. Empowered by his Treasure Brilliance Blessed Land, a single step could cross tens of thousands of miles. He flew neck and neck with a hazy, graceful figure.
"Amitabha..."
The hazy figure revealed her form, bathed in a clear Buddha Light. It was none other than Bhumba Bodhisattva, inhabiting the body of Guang Ming. Her face, however, was twisted in anger.
"...Stop following !"
The Perfected Fortune didn’t dare hesitate, blurting out, "Bodhisattva, I am willing to join the Pure Land! I am also willing to rge my Treasure Brilliance Blessed Land into it!"
With the Perfected Fortune’s keen eye, he could naturally tell that Bhumba Bodhisattva’s current avatar was fundantally different from the avatars of the other two Perfected Lords. The other two had arrived on a whim, but Bhumba Bodhisattva’s appearance was clearly preditated. As a result, she had invested the most power into her avatar!
Therefore, if he wanted to live, she was his only hope.
The Perfected Fortune reasoned that he was, after all, the reincarnation of a Golden Core. Although he no longer had his Fruit, his body still contained his Gold Attribute nature, which would be of great use to the Pure Land.
In the past, he might have hesitated.
But now, with World Purger Fei Xue herself on the scene, if he didn’t make a decision, his chances of survival were next to none. And no matter what, living was better than dying.
"You wish to join my Pure Land?"
For a split second, Bhumba Bodhisattva was actually tempted. But before she could say another word, she felt a gentle breeze wash over her.
The breeze carried a hint of moisture, and in an instant, the sensation turned icy cold, as if a handful of clear spring water from a mountain gully had been splashed on her face. Her vision blurred, and she felt as if she were in a dream, unable to distinguish up from down. She vaguely heard the tinkling of water, and then with a WHOOSH, her form dissipated.
BOOM!
A Splendid Light descended from the sky like a flood bursting from a broken dam. In a single instant, it blasted the avatar into a shower of golden sparks, leaving it with no power to resist!
「In the West River region, within the Deep Bliss Pure Land.」
Having long since stopped her sermon, Bhumba Bodhisattva, her fine brows tightly knit, snapped her eyes open. She had finally lost her usual composure.
"That Mad Woman! Why did it have to be first? I hadn’t even agreed to his offer yet!"
In that mont, Bhumba Bodhisattva’s tranquility was shattered. She displayed the full range of worldly emotions, spewing a stream of profanities like a common fishwife cursing in the street.
After a good while, she finally snapped back to her senses.
’This is bad... The destruction of my avatar is affecting my true self!’
The next second, she hastily stabilized her Buddha Light, swiftly cutting away the distracting thoughts from her mind. She began to quietly chant Buddhist Scriptures, no longer daring to pay any mind to the affairs of the outside world.
「anwhile, back in the Overseas region.」
As the light of Bhumba Bodhisattva’s avatar shattered, the Perfected Fortune was left standing in place with a helpless look on his face. After a long mont, he let out a heavy sigh.
The next second, the Treasure Brilliance Blessed Land behind him began to dim at a visible rate. His entire body beca covered in a dense network of alarming cracks. No matter how he circulated his Mana or used his Abilities, he couldn’t nd them. All he could do was watch.
"Mid-phase... Such suffering!"
Before the words had even left his lips, the Perfected Fortune exploded. His shattering body transford into streaks of fiery light, each one like a teor falling toward the sea.
At almost the sa ti, two other bursts of fire exploded in the sky.
The avatars of the Daoist Court Emperor and the Sword Pavilion True Monarch.
For a mont, Lü Yang, watching from below, could only see the sky fill with falling sparks. But before they could even reach the sea, they were all extinguished by the boundless Celestial River.
Only at this mont did Lü Yang realize how needless his earlier worries had been.
’As if World Purger Fei Xue couldn’t handle a little trouble like this?’
’She killed every single one of them!’
’Ye Xingfeng, Blood Demon Zhenren, Ying Tongshou, the Primal Daoist Evil, the Perfected Fortune, the Perfected Lord avatars... World Purger Fei Xue made no distinction, slaughtering them all in one fell swoop!’
Just then, Lü Yang suddenly looked up. The boundless Celestial River continued its slow, inexorable flow. A sound rode upon its waves, traveling from south to north and west to east, instantly reaching the Dao Court, the Pure Land, and even the Sword Pavilion. It was not a voice speaking words, but a peal of utterly ecstatic laughter:
"AHAHAHA!"
The laughter was so fervent that Cultivators below Foundation Establishnt, whose Positions were too low, couldn’t even control themselves. They were forced to join in, laughing along with the voice from the heavens.
At almost the sa instant, powerful Qi traces surged up from all four corners of the world.
At this, the laughter stopped abruptly. The atmosphere shifted in an instant, as if a warm sumr day had turned into the cruelest, coldest winter. Finally, all that remained was a single, chilling question:
"Who wants to fight ?"
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