Chapter 357: Swallowing the Divine Thunder Yan King Fist, Slaying the Great Dharma Master, On the Verge of Death Tears Fall, Wanting
359. Chapter 353 Swallowing the Divine Thunder Yan King Fist, Slaying the Great Dharma Master, On the Verge of Death Tears Fall, Wanting to Wash Away All Sins【Seek Monthly Ticket】
Thump-thump-thump-thump—!
That was the sound of the heart beating violently, as if it were stirring all the blood in the body.
Inside the chest cavity.
One Dao fruit bounced, and along with it many other Dao fruits also bounced.
Ripples spread in the heart's tide, circles expanding to the blood, flesh, tendons, bones, and cells throughout the body!
As if it were driving the whole body to move.
"It's the Thunder Magnetic Rail!"
Beneath the black-and-white divided Yan King mask, Li Che's eyes shone brightly!
A bolt of Divine Thunder captured by the Great Dharma Master Huangmei within the Heavenly Gate caused Li Che's Thunder Magnetic Rail Dao fruit to jump wildly and violently.
Excited!
Too excited!
Just like the excitement Xixi felt when she smelled the braised pork her mother made!
Too fragrant!
Want to eat!
Bang bang bang—
Each jump of the Dao fruit seemed as if electric currents were surging through the entire body.
But Li Che was very rational!
Because it was the Divine Thunder Tribulation, a Divine Thunder Tribulation that even experts of the Divine Tribulation Realm treat with caution.
Li Che naturally wouldn't just rush forward because the Dao fruit said it was fragrant and he wanted to eat it.
If he were to be struck dead……
Li Che would have nowhere to cry.
Living in this world, with a wife and daughter, Li Che naturally must tread as if on thin ice.
But feeling Huangmei's continuously rising aura, it was precisely relying on the connection of the Divine Thunder that hung down from the Heavenly Gate.
Li Che also sensed that something was wrong.
Feeling the mighty jumping Dao fruit……
Li Che slowly closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, his heart involuntarily twitched slightly.
He suddenly stimulated the Dao fruit.
The Dao fruit burst forth!
A nascent form of divine ability……
Divine Thunder!
The Divine Thunder True Law: urgent as law, righteous thunder envelops the body, calamity tribulation cannot stain!
Zizzle!
Countless jumping thunderbolts of light flashed around Li Che's body, swiftly shimmering, like swift serpents coiling rapidly, then gathering upon his physique, forming an exquisitely refined thunder armor.
Divine Thunder Armor!
And every inch of Li Che's flesh and blood was imbued with Divine Thunder, even his hair strands were stained with Divine Thunder!
His body lunged forward violently, the raging gust sweeping in blew upon his hair!
Then it was fiercely shattered, like smashing a mirror.
Beneath the black-and-white divided mask, his eyes instantly had crackling Divine Thunder surging forth!
Three Calamities Divine Thunder, Divine Tribulation retreats!
And he, Li Che, does not retreat but advances!
Li Che's speed was too fast, like a horizontal thunderbolt between heaven and earth, suddenly shooting out, a few leaps in midair brought him beneath Huangmei's Heavenly Gate.
Because Huangmei was locked in battle with Lü Taibai, and having triggered the Dao Essence Tribulation Buddha, Huangmei was supremely confident, a transcendence at the realm level.
So, he didn't think the Netherworld Yan King could stir up any waves.
Thus, he did not pay attention to the Netherworld Yan King's movements.
Thus, Li Che came almost unobstructed beneath the Heavenly Gate, facing that Divine Thunder dragon head-on!
Gazing at the thunder releasing terror to the extreme, distorting the void!
Li Che took a deep breath.
His body twisted, shooting out like a cannonball.
He struck upon one of the Three Calamities, the Divine Thunder!
The Divine Thunder Armor on his body gleamed brightly!
I, with Divine Thunder, bear Divine Thunder!
Boom——!!!
At the moment of colliding with the thunder.
Li Che felt that everything between heaven and earth…… had completely fallen silent.
Only a sound emerged from his throat, repressed and unavoidable.
"Refreshing!"
……
……
Boom—boom—boom!
The violent air currents raged and intertwined incessantly, howling and surging, striking between heaven and earth!
Even within the Ink City Fengdu drawn forth by Li Che's divine ability.
It also manifested incredibly heavy leaden clouds, a change in the heavenly and earthly phenomena; wherever it is, as if heaven and earth will be altered!
This is the unmatched, fierce might of the top-tier powerhouse who truly stands at the pinnacle of martial dao!
As Huang Mei, standing at the summit of the Martial Dao, opened the Heavenly Gate, flinging it wide open, it was as if he let the divine heavenly river beyond the gate pour down, causing divinity and martial dao to achieve an almost perfect fusion at this moment!
That is the foundation of divine martial arts, and also the beginning of the divine tribulation!
Huang Mei harbors great ambition; he clearly does not merely wish to step into the divine tribulation, but when he proves the Dao in the divine tribulation, he also seeks to push his martial dao into the divine realm, becoming a true war god above the Martial Saint!
Beyond the Heavenly Gate, divinity boils!
A golden bolt of lightning intertwined, letting out a long roar like a dragon's cry, stirring up the sound of layered air currents bursting apart!
It resembled a golden divine dragon, lifelike, with countless golden lightning bolts intertwining into true dragon scales, each scale flashing and shining, like the Godly Heaven Dragon raised by immortals above the nine heavens!
That is... the Divine Thunder, one of the Three Calamities!
Extremely terrifying lightning; even a single bolt, if a peak martial saint touches it, they die instantly; if they pull it, they are injured!
Even a top-tier peak, opening the Heavenly Gate and channeling its divinity can only barely withstand it!
That is the calamity of the Divine Tribulation realm!
It is the true power of heaven and earth's will made manifest!
Regarding the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations, there is a saying that all disasters and tribulations are punishments descended after the will of heaven and earth condenses and materializes!
To resist the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations is actually the process of contending with heaven and earth!
It is the gradual process of transcending heaven and earth!
At this very moment...
The Ink City Fengdu was in turmoil; endless darkness was completely dispelled, the black hue as if coated with a layer of golden light.
That is the radiance emitted when the Divine Thunder, like a dragon wildly lashing from within the Heavenly Gate, is flung forth!
Compared to Buddha's light, it is far too scorching, brilliant and vast; any ghost or monster illuminated by it will utterly melt away!
The Divine Thunder hung down from the Heavenly Gate, linking with Huang Mei's fully released Dao Essence Tribulation Buddha!
The Dao Essence turned and flowed; it was the Killing Life Dao Essence!
What Huang Mei comprehended was the Killing Life Dao Essence, cultivating the Dao Essence of the Wrath-Eyed Divine Thunder Buddha of Killing Life!
It is an enhancement and transformation of the Vajra Dharma Aspect!
Extremely powerful!
Although Lü Taibai's Dao Essence Slaying God Wind Tribulation Sword is powerful, he lacks great confidence in being able to annihilate the Golden Dao Essence Tribulation Buddha and then slay Huang Mei!
Even more, the Divine Thunder in attack is even more overbearing and fierce!
However.
Just as Lü Taibai drew out the Dao Essence Tribulation Sword nurtured in his glabella, intending to fuse it into the Taibai Sword to fully unleash its slaughtering power.
Yet he heard Huang Mei's furious, uncontainable roar!
"What are you doing?!"
Lü Taibai stared, stunned...
He looked up, silver hair flying, his expression stagnant, slightly weird, weirdly so.
This Underworld Yama King...
He actually just blankly charged straight at the Divine Thunder?
Crazy?!
A madman!!!
That is the Divine Thunder, one of the Three Calamities; even Huang Mei, a martial saint powerhouse who has stood for years at the peak of the Four-Opened Heavenly Gate Martial Saint, dare not lightly touch it, only daring to attempt to draw a single bolt of Divine Thunder and then bind it with Dao Essence for refinement.
So that when he later faces the true Three Calamities Divine Thunder, he can mitigate its threat.
First, by fusing Dao Essence with the chosen one of the Three Calamities, it is equivalent to fixing the type of Dao position; basically one can only continue along this path, persistently cultivating.
The reason to proceed slowly is because the calamity is too terrifying.
This was proven by sacrificing the lives of many powerful martial saint peaks and divine embryo great gods!
It is built upon countless piles of white bones!
The Underworld Yama King... actually dares to use his body to hard-collide with the Divine Thunder?
He'll die, right?!
Lü Taibai's eyes narrowed.
In the next instant, a look of shock and dread welled up from the depths of his eyes unbidden.
Because he saw that Underworld Yama King wearing a black-and-white divided starry mask, like a simpleton, bluntly ramming into the Divine Thunder drawn forth from Huang Mei's Heavenly Gate!
The incredibly thick Divine Thunder was like a true golden lightning dragon, extending horizontally from within!
Extremely horrifying!
Bang——!!!
The Underworld Yama King thus barbarically struck at the junction between the Divine Thunder beyond the Heavenly Gate and Huang Mei's Dao Essence Tribulation Buddha.
Bang bang bang——!!!
The terrifying explosion burst forth; the Underworld Yama King seemed, in an instant, to be swallowed by countless dazzling lightning bolts, the exploding lightning arcs distorting space, shattering the void, stirring up layers of turbulent ripples that spread outward in concentric circles!
Lü Taibai stared in astonishment, but the golden light, blazing to the extreme, turned into a blinding white incandescence!
Within that white incandescence, Lü Taibai did not see the Underworld Yama King shattered to pieces.
Instead, he saw the Underworld Yama King with arms outstretched, as if embracing that massive Divine Thunder, allowing it to strike his body.
Boom—exploded, and with his fleshly body he blocked and stopped the Divine Thunder.
It simply hovered there in the high heavens.
On the Underworld Yama King's body, over eighty thousand pores seemed to open simultaneously in an instant, frantically drawing in the Divine Thunder.
That terrifying, boundless Three Disasters' pressure made the air of the entire Mo City Fengdu become extremely viscous.
The Underworld Yama King, struck by the Divine Thunder, kept falling down to the mortal realm.
But, he at least... forcibly intercepted Huang Mei's Divine Thunder!
He severed the connection between the Dao Yun and the Divine Thunder!
"Yama Brother... you're awesome!"
Lü Taibai clicked his tongue!
What a formidable body tempering!
What kind of fleshly body is this?!
The Underworld Yama King's fleshly body has probably reached the ultimate of the Four Open Heaven Gate Martial Saint!
A fleshly body capable of outright resisting the Divine Thunder... truly rare!
Huang Mei was furious beyond restraint!
His eyes filled with shock and anger, his two golden brows constantly twisting wildly, feeling the severance between the Divine Thunder and his own Dao Yun, for a moment the aura of the Dao Yun Jie Fo actually dropped by about twenty percent.
Moreover, as time passed, unable to continue linking with the Divine Thunder, the power of the Dao Yun Jie Fo would keep dropping, eventually falling below seventy percent!
So, Huang Mei manipulated the Slaughter-Life Wrathful-Eye Dao Yun Jie Buddha Dharma Aspect, and with one punch swept away Lü Taibai's Exterminating-God Wind Tribulation Sword!
His body moved, shattering the airflow.
He leapt up, intending to charge at the Underworld Yama King, first to slay him!
Originally, after Huang Mei unleashed the Dao Yun Jie Fo, he completely disregarded the Underworld Yama King.
Even if one were a pure martial apex, facing the Dao Yun Jie Fo would be naught but trash, defeatable in three moves.
So, Huang Mei's main target was set on Lü Taibai.
Who would have thought that the Underworld Yama King, whom he didn't value, could actually pull off such a trick!
"Hahahaha——"
"Huang Mei, you old bald donkey, what are you running for? Fight me! My sword is already starving and thirsty!"
Lü Taibai's silver hair flew, each strand stained with vast sword qi.
The invisible wind howled and swirled—that was the Exterminating-God Wind, though only a wisp, it belongs to the true Three Disasters, utterly terrifying!
It merged into the sword qi, hidden within the Great River Sword Qi!
Boom——!!!
Lü Taibai laughed loudly to the heavens!
His laughing breath rose, he raised his hand, the tribulation sword rose!
He struck out with all his might!
The Taibai Sword he gripped had no technique, merely a slow upward swing!
In an instant, within the already trembling Mo City Fengdu, heaven shook and earth moved!
The naked eye could see a silver sword qi, like a raging tide's roar, piercing the void, suddenly rising, rolling upward!
In a flash it cut through the explosive airflow of thousands of zhang!
This had already surpassed ordinary sword techniques, no longer mere swordsmanship, lying between Dao; a single sword rise, as if heaven and earth stirred a great wind, the sword hidden in the wind, the wind sweeps past, leaving no trace of its slaughter!
All the more miraculous, all the more blade-like brilliance revealed!
All the more killing intent erupting!
Boom——!!!
What seemed a gentle, wind-like sword was actually boundless ferocity; it was the means of drawing down Divine Thunder to empower the Dao Yun Jie Fo alongside Huang Mei, a common method!
It was the true trump card hidden at the bottom of the chest!
At this moment, the entire Mo City Fengdu was swept up in a terrifying gale!
It seemed to annihilate everything, freezing souls into oblivion, the terrifying sword-qi god-wind that sweeps away!
Buddha light shone, the angry Buddha let out a long roar!
Faced with such a heaven-shaking, earth-moving sword akin to an immortal's, even Huang Mei, hidden within the Dao Yun Jie Buddha Dharma Aspect, dared not show the slightest contempt; he must prepare rigorously!
Buddha light constructed, lightning entwined, reconvening into a terrifying Thunder Buddha Palm!
As if truly existing, like a canopy propping up, it slapped toward that sword!
Boom—rumble—
Sword qi ran rampant, Buddha light burst and flashed!
The Buddha Palm seemed to be struck by a branding iron, like melting ice cream, it melted away bit by bit!
The Buddha light actually turned into substantive golden water droplets, pattering down onto the ground, corroding the already ruined ground of Mo City into one pit after another!
Huang Mei's complexion slightly changed!
"No... my Dao Yun Jie Fo is beginning to weaken; after the Divine Thunder was severed... it keeps weakening, this cannot continue!"
"If my Dao Yun Jie Fo is severed by Lü Taibai's tribulation sword..."
Huang Mei's deep, abyss-like eyes gradually trembled, revealing a hint of terror.
"I will die!"
Boom!
The sword qi unleashed by Lü Taibai with all his might was smashed back onto the ground, the entire Mo City ground exploded and shattered into pieces.
Huang Mei clenched his five fingers tightly, and the Cosmos Jade burst forth with seven-colored light.
In an instant, four golden wooden carvings floated around him, those four Sacred Hand Divine Eagles taking on the form of Golden Body Arhats!
Huang Mei bit his index finger, flicking out four drops of crimson!
The crimson dots landed on the brow of each Golden Body Arhat Sacred Hand Divine Eagle; instantly, the Arhats opened their eyes, as if revived!
Terrific qi and blood blazed forth, a Buddha phantom appearing behind, erupting qi and blood, coupled with surging vigor and intertwined Buddha light, and beneath the divine eagles, lifelike as if blood flowed through vessels, as if granting these divine eagles true vitality!
Boom——!!!
The four Sacred Hand Divine Eagles, in an instant sublimated, fully burned, actually gaining peak-level power in a moment.
Transforming into four golden streaks, they shot at breakneck speed toward the mad Yama King who was frenziedly siphoning his God Firmament Thunder!
Intending to sever the netherworld Yama King's siphoning motion!
Lü Taibai frowned, flicking his finger to unleash a sword.
Sword light raged, seeking to cleave and explode these four briefly burning divine natures, erupting with peak power from the Sacred Hand Divine Eagles!
Though only a fleeting splendor, it was nonetheless peak combat power; though not top-tier peak, if it interfered with the Yama King's siphoning of the heavenly tribulation thunder, Huang Mei might possibly regain the power of the Dao Yun Tribulation Buddha!
However, at this life-and-death moment, Huang Mei became incredibly ferocious, the Dao Yun Tribulation Buddha with killing intent and angry eyes; after shattering that sword qi, he frenziedly clashed with Lü Taibai, even though cracks appeared on his dharma phantom from the sword qi, he did not retreat in the slightest.
Huang Mei clearly understood that he must restore the Dao Yun Tribulation Buddha's connection to the God Firmament Thunder, otherwise…
He would really die!
However.
Huang Mei's heart quickly sank to the bottom of the valley.
Because…
A chubby figure, face full of smiles, stepped forward to block the four divine eagle Arhats.
"Yue Huanglong?!"
Huang Mei stared blankly.
Beneath the Hunter King's mask, Lü Taibai also stared blankly.
Not…
Why would Yue Huanglong appear here?
Yue Huanglong, however, gave no reply; the fat on his body instantly evaporated, his aura rising steadily, the Mystic Gate Divine Seed floating and shining, directly detonating!
A dusky Netherworld Gate lay across the firmament above.
Next, Yue Huanglong directly climbed to the height of top-tier peak, battling alongside the four divine eagle Arhats.
The four divine eagle Arhats, burning their divine essence to achieve a fleeting splendor, reached first-rate peak strength.
Yet, there remained a gap to top-tier peak.
Completely suppressed by Yue Huanglong, and after just a few moves, he was explosively blown apart by Yue Huanglong's ferocity, shattering into countless flying wood chips.
It seemed he thought of something, and Yue Huanglong's face twitched.
Heartbroken immensely.
Thinking of his lord's greedy nature!
These Sacred Hand Divine Eagles are all treasures!
Damaging just one would make Yue Huanglong ache for a long time; this is an excellent opportunity to curry favor with his lord!
Yue Huanglong immediately switched tactics, from planning to blast the divine eagle Arhats, to suppressing and wearing down their divinity, finally collecting the divine eagles.
The situation…
Seemed to have stalled just like that.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Li Che was smashed down by the God Firmament Thunder onto the top of a strange rectangular building, as if drawing heavenly thunder to strike his body.
A God Firmament Thunder was tremendously mighty!
Li Che bathed in the lightning, yet clearly felt the 【Lightning Magnetic Track】 Dao Fruit unprecedentedly active, surpassing any Dao Fruit's vitality, frenziedly siphoning this God Firmament Thunder, one of the three calamities!
Under the thunder, Li Che's bones, like steel and iron, seemed to be illuminated!
Yet Li Che could sense, under the frantic siphoning of this God Firmament Thunder,
the Dao Fruit's ripeness surged wildly!
I don't know how long this bliss lasted…
Li Che felt that this God Firmament Thunder, one of the three calamities, was gradually weakening; finally… breath like a drifting silk, as if devoid of power.
Sizzle——
Heat waves rolled, distorting the void.
Faintly, one could see the void as if cracks were appearing.
Actually shattered by the exploding God Firmament Thunder.
Among cultivators worldwide, there is a consensus: only the power of a Divine Tribulation realm can break the mundane void…
The Divine Tribulation, hailed as the true realm of human true immortals!
Being able to break the void is precisely why it is not tolerated by heaven and earth!
Like Lü Taibai, who wields the Dao Yun Tribulation Sword, and Huang Mei, who embodies the Dao Yun Tribulation Buddha, they actually possess the power to break the void, but they must unleash it fully to do so.
A gust of wind and waves blew past.
Li Che maintained the motion of arms outstretched, his whole body slowly awakening from the comfortable immersion.
His fleshly body had undergone tempering as if forged through countless hammer strikes…
It was truly extremely comfortable.
Before his eyes, a prompt like flowing gold appeared.
His gaze swept over.
【Dragon-Elephant Crucible: Pure Martial Purity (90%)】
Even though absorbing and swallowing the Divine Firmament Thunder Tribulation was not the main attack of the Dragon-Elephant Diamond Dao Fruit, the leaked thunderous power still tempered the physique and played a significant role in refining the pure martial body!
This caused Li Che's pure martial body to reach ninety percent!
Ninety percent pure martial body!
Li Che clenched his five fingers, mighty power surging and rolling, his whole body trembled, as if every pore was spewing forth vast power!
The Qi Sea Golden Pool, within the Dragon-Elephant Crucible, slowly spread out, and in an instant reached a hundred zhang!
A hundred-zhang Qi Sea Golden Pool!
Li Che let out a low, deep laugh from his throat!
He grew stronger, he grew stronger again!
His body twisted, his gaze fell upon Huang Mei, who was completely suppressed by Lü Tai Bai.
"Huang Mei, you bald donkey, it's time to hit the road!"
Li Che stood atop the Sovereign's high tower, his five fingers suddenly flung open.
In an instant, the arrest gods that had walked out of the Ink City buildings all showed fervent and excited expressions on their faces!
Every single black silk thread on each arrest god, completely linked to Ink City, madly wound toward Li Che's palm.
Like the threads a puppeteer uses to manipulate puppets.
Li Che clenched his five fingers.
A thought stirred!
In an instant.
The power of these arrest gods actually flowed along those black silk threads, transmitting and surging into Li Che's body, causing the power from his detonation of six Qimen Divine Seeds to continually grow stronger and stronger…
Huang Jianjiu, You Liqing, Su Leibao, Yan Jing… the primal gang and blood of these four Qi Sea Martial Saints were all superimposed onto Li Che's body!
Plus Yue Huanglong, who subdued the three Divine Condor Arhats…
Plus the power of the deceased strong ones from the Xiao Lingyin Temple…
Madly surging in!
The arrest citizens of the city, united as one!
The people's power, all gathered into the Sovereign's body!
Boom——!!!
Li Che stomped down heavily with one step, the entire building instantly exploded, countless smoke and dust surged up like rolling mushroom clouds!
Yet Li Che's body rose like a great sun from the mushroom cloud.
As if burning up his lifetime's brilliance in an instant.
The scorching, ultimate pure martial golden qi and blood, like the golden crow of the great sun patrolling in myth!
"Kill——!!!"
A long howl!
In the boiling, surging qi and blood like a great sun, the Netherworld's Yama thrust forward a punch!
Sound waves like thunder, fist light like lightning!
A divine dragon traverses, the giant elephant shakes the heavens!
Dragon-Elephant Unified Form!
Myriad Transformations Dragon-Elephant!
A single move of divine seed martial art at the level of True Martial of the Divine Transformation, which Li Che himself created, at this moment evolved to the utmost!
Golden divine dragon and golden giant elephant!
The divine dragon coils around the giant elephant!
Descending from the heavens!
This is all the insights and cultivation of Li Che's martial arts up to now, fully manifested in this punch!
Plus the ultimate killing heart and killing intent!
Thinking that Huang Mei actually used vile means to trigger the Hell Lotus power within Xixi's body, intending to burn Xixi's life and detonate that time bomb that caused Li Che anguish.
Li Che's anger became completely uncontainable!
Vent, vent!
In this punch, everything is vented!
Boom——!!!
This punch, too blazing, the Dragon-Elephant phantom apparition, as if familiar crossing the void, air waves surged and cleared, mighty wind like a tide, boomingly descended upon Huang Mei's head!
"This punch…… Divine Transformation True Martial! So overbearing, so terrifying!"
"Is this the Netherworld Yama's all-out punch?!"
Lü Tai Bai gripped the Tai Bai sword, the sword implement trembling wildly.
"This punch…… is stunning, strong!"
Absolutely has the strength ranking among the top five before the Heavenly Gate Pass!
Huang Mei raised his head, the Buddha dharma image of the Dao Tribulation Sword, covered in cracks from Lü Tai Bai's Dao Tribulation Sword strike, also lifted its head.
It seemed somewhat bewildered, gazing at this punch descending from the heavens.
Bang——!!!
The sound of explosion burst forth, as if the entire Ink City were crumbling inch by inch!
And Huang Mei's Dao Tribulation Buddha dharma image, lacking the replenishment of Divine Firmament Thunder, completely slipped and fell to the power of the supreme pinnacle level.
The Dao Tribulation became rootless duckweed, scattering apart, as if merging into the Ink City Fengdu.
But at this moment, Huang Mei could no longer attend to these.
Because, that punch shattered the Vajra Dharma Appearance!
Yet the punch's force did not diminish at all; beneath the black-and-white divided mask, his eyes burst forth with rolling killing intent.
The Underworld Yama King landed before Huang Mei's face, a horizontal thrust punch!
The fist's radiance was fierce; the Dragon Elephant Combined Furnace came crashing down!
Boom——!!!
Huang Mei also thrust his fist horizontally, like an Arhat's straight punch!
Clashing fist against fist with the Underworld Yama King!
Pfft!
Huang Mei spat out blood; his three-life body severed past and future, leaving only the present body of now.
Once the present body dies, he truly dies!
No means of revival, no backup resurrection!
He's done!
Huang Mei's face skin trembled violently, a flush rose; never imagining he would die in this way!
The Underworld Yama King's aura was mighty; Huang Mei felt as if he were fighting not one person, but thousands!
Behind him, one after another shadowy figures stood, vague and indistinct, like ghosts, as the Underworld Yama King threw his punch…
He revealed a stiff smile, staring fixedly at him!
Pfft!
Pfft!
Huang Mei took several punches in a row, spitting blood continuously, spitting blood nonstop!
Lü Taibai gripped the Taibai Sword, sheathing the Dao-Yun Tribulation Sword, his face deathly pale, utterly ashen.
Maintaining the Dao-Yun Tribulation Sword and the God-Exterminating Wind's power was still somewhat taxing for him.
After all, he was not a true God-Tribulation realm cultivator, and had never possessed the God-Exterminating Wind's Dao position.
But Lü Taibai also knew Huang Mei was at the end of his rope.
Even without needing the Dao-Yun Tribulation Sword, combined with the Underworld Yama King's siege…
Huang Mei would surely die!
Pfft——!!!
A sword qi rampaged and pierced through Huang Mei's chest!
A heavy punch smashed down, striking Huang Mei's crown!
Concentric-ring-like rippling air waves, like a great surge rolling up on the Grand Canal, spread outward in all directions.
It shoved countless fragments of rubble from the ruins of Mo City completely to the city's edge!
Dead silence.
Annihilation.
The Underworld Yama King and Lü Taibai vanished in an instant.
Only Huang Mei remained, his body swaying as he stood there, like a drunken monk who could barely stay upright.
"Hahaha… hahaha…"
"This poor monk… is going to die."
"Oh Buddha… this poor monk is going to die…"
Blood poured from Huang Mei's mouth, nose, and eyes; he was utterly miserable, his aged self instantly becoming infinitely aged.
He had completely lost any youthful vitality.
He spat out mouthfuls of blood.
Afterwards he spread his arms, weeping and laughing to the heavens, as if plunged into utter madness.
"I, Huang Mei… am actually going to die…"
Suddenly his voice sank low.
He sat cross-legged.
A thread of blood dripped from his mouth.
"I, Huang Mei, began cultivating Buddhism at three, hailed as a once-in-a-millennium Buddhist prodigy! A true Buddha reborn, with innate Buddha-heart! At six, I left the Xiao Lingyin Temple, traversed the three hundred cities of Xiling… I saw frozen corpses on the roads, the people lamenting endlessly as they followed Buddhist law, sacrificing their children, flaying and extracting bones…"
"What kind of Buddha-land is this? This is human purgatory, it's hell!"
"Back then, my Buddha-heart surged, I was furious, I disbelieved, I rebelled… I wanted to forge a new Buddhism, to change this state, to empty hell, to make Buddha-land no longer hellish, so that countless people would not fall into hell…"
"From six to ten, then twenty, thirty, fifty, a hundred…"
"Now this old monk is seven hundred thirty-six years old…"
Huang Mei raised his head…
Blood and tears streaked across.
"I have forgotten the great vow I made at six; the old monk himself sits in hell, holding a high position, cultivating a Buddhism that draws on the people's blood as its source, becoming a Buddha who cultivates purgatory."
"The six-year-old me wanted to forge a new Buddhism, but a lifetime of delay… the old monk… ended up seated in Buddha-land's hell, ruling over the Buddha-country of purgatory."
"Hahahaha…"
Huang Mei's bloodshot eyes flung open, staring at the Underworld Yama King, staring at Lü Taibai wearing the Hunter King's mask…
He tremblingly pressed his palms together.
He opened his mouth, wanting to recite the purest Buddhism he had first begun studying at three.
But…
His withered, cracked lips, smeared with bloody crimson, opened slightly.
He trembled slightly.
Yet he had long forgotten it completely.
He couldn't recite a single Buddhist verse.
Clearly, at three years old, he was devout and full of longing.
His Buddha-heart was transparent and clear……
But why……
He now.
Not a single word could he chant?
A drop of blood-tear, like bodhi glazed glass, slid down silently.
It hit the ground, like porcelain, shattering into pieces.
Huang Mei's head drooped down.
His breath faded away.
Beneath his mask, Lü Taibai's complexion was deathly pale; gazing at the utterly dead Huang Mei, he felt little joy, only a sense of loss.
"The West Mausoleum Dao borders the Western Regions Buddhist Land; in the Transformed Hell Buddhist Kingdom, a Huang Mei has died, yet another will arise……"
"Cannot kill them all, cannot finish killing……"
"Brother Yanwang…… if one day my sword grows weary, can you finish the killing?"
Lü Taibai raised his Supreme White Sword.
The Underworld King Yan wearing a black-and-white half-mask had indifferent eyes, without a ripple.
Golden qi blood and crimson mist rolled over his body, making the Underworld King Yan's form ever more strange and elusive.
"In this world, there is no force that cannot be utterly destroyed……"
"There is, but only because your guarding obsession is not strong enough!"
"It's only because your sword is not sharp enough."
Lü Taibai blinked in surprise.
Because his sword…… isn't sharp enough?
Suddenly, Lü Taibai's eyes flickered; his gaze fell upon the ring of quietly burning Hell Lotus Fire atop the exposed golden finger bones……
After the Buddha's light could no longer hold it back……
It suddenly flared, consuming Huang Mei's flesh and blood entirely.
Finally……
Only a gleaming golden skeleton remained, clad in torn monk's robes, seated in lotus position on the ground.
That year, Hell was not empty; a six-year-old little monk made a great vow.
Now he is seven hundred thirty-six years old.
The little monk became an old monk.
Hell remains not empty.
Suddenly.
A mass of rolling golden qi blood surged forth, and the Underworld King Yan appeared before the golden-boned remains of Huang Mei.
His five fingers slowly rose and pressed against the golden skull.
A faint voice, tinged with a slight laugh, echoed back and forth.
"The dragon slayer inevitably becomes an evil dragon, but you already are one."
"Before an evil dragon dies, its repentance sheds a blood-tear—do you think that washes away sin, leaving a clear conscience?"
"If you seek atonement, Hell is no good place to go."
"Hell is too crowded; it cannot hold you."
"Come, take a trip to the Underworld."
End of Chapter
