Chapter 1242: Buddhist Secret Art: Garuda's Wings

Boom!

The beam fired by the Banyan Tree Orbital Annihilation Cannon streaked through the starry sky.

It was wrapped in the Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Dao Law Net, its might terrifying yet not destroying space; instead, it traveled by means of the ubiquitous rule-law nets of the universe, like a complex high-speed railway network, with rule-paths connecting any two points in the cosmos.

Unaffected, inescapable, arriving in an instant.

That beam of light shone upon the Brother Xuanwu Golden Body, no larger than a speck of cosmic dust among millions, shining only upon that one spot.

Countless Immortal Gate cultivators held their breath.

"This… impossible!"

That speck of cosmic dust roared.

This speck of cosmic dust suddenly blazed with brilliant light, as countless specks of Jin Chong Guang converged upon it.

These were the scattered fragments of the Brother Xuanwu Golden Body Dharma Form, hastily gathering. Countless golden specks of light converged and fused, and in the nick of time reformed into a mountain-sized Golden Armor Brother Xuanwu. Dense as a net, the indestructible Heavenly Dao rules spread in all directions—adamantine and imperishable, undying through time, able to endure alongside the universe itself.

The annihilation beam descended at this moment!

Whoosh!

This annihilation beam, like a hot knife through ice, only briefly stalled before melting through the Brother Xuanwu Golden Armor, piercing through and forcibly melting and destroying nearly half the body, obliterating every trace of life within.

Only drops of golden lava-like liquid remained, dripping into the starry sky, melting out one void black hole after another.

These things came from a seventh-stage Dao-Unification body-tempering cultivator; any single drop was a seventh-stage heavenly treasure, a world-shocking spirit-metal, incomparably precious—yet they were scattered without the slightest reluctance.

"Ah…"

The Golden Armor Brother Xuanwu let out a miserable shriek.

In the nick of time, he barely shifted his body, using his left arm to block the Banyan Tree Orbital Annihilation Cannon's blast, thus avoiding the result of his body collapsing under a single shot.

Gaining this momentary respite, all the scattered specks of Jin Chong Guang gathered completely, once again forming a ten-thousand-zhang divine spirit—an old man with a resolute face and eyes containing fury like a volcano.

"Great Sun!"

"Great Sun again!"

The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great-power roared in fury.

A crimson flash ignited in his pupils as an invisible void divine spear pierced through the emptiness, plunging into the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Taibai Netherworld Curse-Kill Grand Formation, intent on pinning the blue-clad youth standing at the Sun Star node to death.

"Dao-Unification…"

Jiang Ding trembled slightly, his heart chilled with dread.

This was an exceedingly terrifying seventh-stage Dao-Unification divine-soul attack technique—truly extravagant to use against him. If faced alone, a single glance from a Dao-Unification Divine Monarch would be enough to suppress and kill him; there would be no need for such trouble.

However, this was within the Immortal Gate's military formation!

Around him came a rustling sound—this was the Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong's branches and leaves spreading forth, forming a dark sea of trees,

hazy and indistinct, hovering between illusion and reality, as if within a dream.

The central formation-spirit computer divine-soul defense system—the Grand Void Illusion Realm!

Whoosh!

The Void divine spear shot forth, piercing through endless starry sky and the Primordial Magnetic Rule Law Net. This was not an attack of physical body or energy; it possessed terrifying penetrative power, invincible against lower-tier opponents.

However, upon encountering the Grand Void Illusion Realm, the divine-soul's penetrative power vanished.

This void divine spear plunged into the Grand Void Illusion Realm sustained by numerous grand formations, stirring up ripples that soon subsided, leaving no further effect.

"Fire!"

Yuan said calmly.

His voice never ceased, and the Immortal Gate's Banyan Tree Orbital Cannon fired once again.

Boom!

The Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Dao Law Net suddenly blazed brilliantly. Endless spiritual energy and cosmic starlight surged forth, flowing along the veins of the Heavenly Dao Law Net into the maw of the central Banyan Tree Orbital Cannon, blasting out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering world-destroying beam of light.

The dark light of annihilation illuminated the cosmic starry sky, relentless, granting no respite.

"East Pole Dongji Dongji Mo Men!"

"Concealment and assassination failed…"

The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great-power murmured.

Because of the Great Sun Flying Sword's presence, his concealment and assassination tactics had failed, but he was not disheartened, did not give up.

A great-power who had experienced countless battles and slaughters in his life, countless defeats and victories, would never compromise.

Brilliant Jin Chong Guang, the ten-thousand-zhang divine body forged as if from divine metal writhed, deformed, shrank, and finally transformed into an incomparably solid nine-zhang golden figure. The body had shrunk by more than a thousandfold, incomparably condensed and concentrated—solidity and imperishability received their most detailed interpretation at this moment.

And the transformation was not yet finished.

The muscles on the back of the nine-zhang golden figure bulged and rose, swelling and extending to both sides, and in a short time formed a pair of two-thousand-zhang-long golden wings. Each feather of the wings was as if forged from divine metal, clinking in the void, and a layer of Buddhist light permeated the wings.

"Praise be to the Lord of the Heavenly Palace…"

"May your lifespan be endless, may you possess the supreme speed under heaven, the light of the Sun Star not one ten-thousandth of yours…"

"Morning travels the Immortal-Falling Night, evening rests in the Blood Sea Heaven…"

From the void came the devout prayers of believers, one after another, continuing for hundreds of thousands of years, and even a very few brought down from the Upper Realm as incense offerings—voices that had continued praying for millions of years, or even longer.

Countless streams of incense divine power converged, blessing the wings of the nine-zhang golden figure, causing his speed to suddenly surge several times over!

Buddhist sect incense secret art—Garuda's Wings!

Legend has it that the Garuda is a colossal divine bird that feeds on dragons, and in Buddhism it ranks among the Eight Divisions of Devas and Nagas, possessing the supreme speed under heaven.

The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great-power's Ben Ming Fa treasure, the Brother Xuanwu Colossus, transformed into resplendent golden armor draped over his body, while the thousand-zhang golden wings swayed gently.

And in his hand appeared a dark-green longsword covered in serrated edges, imbued with endless resentment and curses. The spirits of the Azure Dragon, Zhu Que, Bai Hu, and Brother Xuanwu flickered ceaselessly upon this sword, emanating an ancient, weathered aura—without question an ancient artifact brought down from the Upper Realm.

"Kill!"

The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great-power swept his wings, longsword in hand, and transformed into a streak of light!

This streak of Jin Chong Guang possessed terrifying extreme speed; even the divine sense of a Void Refinement cultivator lost the ability to observe this streak of Jin Chong Guang.

This streak of Jin Chong Guang met the destructive beam descending from the azure sky, tracing a crooked trajectory as it smashed down upon it.

The sword-light was incomparably swift, even managing in that single instant to locate the critical energy nodes of the destructive beam, dodge its front, and precisely stab into them, shattering its spell structure.

The destructive beam stalled for an instant.

Boom!

Explosions erupted across the heavens.

Tens of thousands of kilometers of space shattered, the web of rules was destroyed, the starry cosmos churned violently, and the flow of the universe's endless nether astral gale currents was forcibly altered—such was the terrifying might.

"The broadside cannon fire's power has been dispersed…"

The hearts of many immortal sect cultivators sank.

Sure enough, within the slightly spilling spiritual light, an endless web of immortal Heavenly Dao rules spread forth.

"Demon sect,"

"Die!"

A nine-zhang golden figure bearing thousand-zhang twin wings on its back, gripping a dark-green curse greatsword, howled wildly, transformed into a streak of extreme-speed light, and charged toward the billions-strong fleet within the Star Demon Tree, pressing forward without retreat.