Chapter 1778: Come Have Some Fun!

A flying sword with the surface of a star and the core of a sun has descended!

The four directions of heaven and earth, the cosmic star rivers, were pierced into utter ruin by this Law-Destroying sword-light, shattering into ten thousand streaks, causing the dharma domains of the Future Buddha Son and the Xing Tian Divine Son to fall apart in pieces; before their true strength could even engage, it was forcibly suppressed by sixty percent.

Their original strength was already inferior, and now they were forcibly suppressed by sixty percent on top of that!

How utterly unjust!

"What kind of rule is this?!"

The Xing Tian Divine Son wept blood.

This rule of tearing apart dharma domains the moment it appeared, this sword Dao of tearing apart dharma domains, was utterly unheard of — far too unfair, how could one possibly fight like this?

A terrifying, ice-cold crisis of life and death surged in like the tide, nearly drowning him.

A lethal life-and-death crisis appearing in an instant during a battle between Candidate Daozi and Shenzi — this was simply unimaginable.

"Kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The Xing Tian Divine Son suddenly bit his teeth to pieces.

He recklessly spurred his Divine Dao core, erupting with incense divine power far beyond his own limit, pouring it all into a Thunder Dragon Spear that had appeared in his hand at some unknown moment, making the thunder spear sway its head and come alive, instantly transforming into a terrifying five-clawed thunder dragon.

"Slay the divine enemy!"

"Kill the divine enemy!"

When the Xing Tian Divine Son began to fight for his life, the Xing Tian Divine Dao core within him blazed with radiance, manifesting warriors one by one clad in thunder armor and bearing halberds.

Each of them wore an expression of firm resolve, their bearing solemn and composed, their divine souls transparent and pure, their aura far surpassing the divine armies of Star Lords such as Gouchen Upper Palace — they were simply not soldiers of the same caliber.

Among this Xing Tian Divine Army, every single soldier was the most devout Wang Hou and general of dynasties past!

Every officer in the Xing Tian Divine Army was an incense divine chosen from among thousands in the Xing Tian Heavenly Court, skilled in slaughter, with pure faith!

When such a divine army appeared between heaven and earth, spreading layer upon layer of thunder rules and blossoming array upon array, it was as if another Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Candidate Daozi had revived.

An endless thunder world of thunder birth and death appeared within the Xing Tian Divine Army; upheld by them, the thunder world transformed into a suit of crackling, lightning-flashing thunder armor draped over the five-clawed thunder dragon in the sky.

In that instant, the five-clawed thunder dragon's momentum climbed once more!

"Roar!"

"Roar, roar!"

The five-clawed thunder dragon, condensing all its power, roared, bearing the force to destroy everything and the terrifying authority of divine punishment over all heavens, opening its bloody maw wide to bite down upon the Law-Destroying star in the sky.

The End-Law star fell as a matter of course, plummeting onto the thunder dragon unleashed by the Xing Tian Divine Son burning his Divine Dao core.

Boom!

Rumble!

The terrifying explosion destroyed space and rules, shattered thunder, and heaven and earth churned and tumbled in upheaval.

There was never

any stalemate.

In the span of a single instant, the result had already appeared.

A Thunder Dragon Spear with dimmed spiritual light was sent flying backward like scrap metal, piercing through layer upon layer of space — it could not be matched by force; even with the power of the Xing Tian Divine Army, it was the same, unable to alter the result by a hair.

The gap between the two had reached a terrifying degree!

"Puh!"

The Xing Tian Divine Son was struck as if by lightning, vomiting great mouthfuls of blood, his body slamming into space like a rotten sack, tearing space apart again and again, and he cried out in anguish: "Fourth-step!"

"Even a fifth-step Candidate Daozi!"

"A human sword cultivator approaching the fifth-step limit!"

He roared without end, in boundless despair.

Such a being was one meant to unify a great thousand worlds, even to unify multiple great thousand worlds!

How could such a being appear in the heartland of the Xing Tian Heavenly Court!

Had he gone mad?

A Candidate Daozi approaching the fifth-step limit, sneaking alone into the Xing Tian Heavenly Court — was it solely to slay him?

Mad!

Truly mad!

Even a fifth-step limit Candidate Daozi, once cornered by a Supreme, would still be doomed beyond doubt!

This was a wailing like a wild dog.

This wailing could not stop the falling of the flying sword — that brilliant, dazzling Law-Destroying star descended from the heavens, landing upon the Xing Tian Divine Son and his divine army; its mere radiance melted Xing Tian divine soldiers one by one, like the sun melting ice and snow.

"Well done!"

"Amitabha!"

The Future Buddha Son, like a wrathful Vajra, pressed his palms together and stood before the Law-Destroying star.

The instant this Buddha Son pressed his palms together, the Demon-Subduing Vajra Pestle before him transformed into a karmic fire red lotus that rose above his head, cascading down streams of indestructible Vajra tassels.

Vajra Sanskrit flowed outward in all directions, thick Buddhist essence spread on every side, forming a Buddhist pure land hard as Vajra, where hundreds of millions of common folk prostrated and worshipped.

Boom!

The Law-Destroying star descended.

The karmic fire red lotus atop the Monk's head met it first; the fiercely burning karmic fire incinerated cause and effect, incinerated karmic obstacles — one of the most fearsome flames of the Buddhist Dao, renowned across all heavens and myriad worlds, dreaded by countless powerful beings.

The instant this red lotus karmic fire made contact with the Law-Destroying star, it actually produced an obstruction, holding back this Law-Destroying star for the span of a single instant; the red lotus karmic fire burned the Law-Destroying light, wearing away this all-destroying radiance.

It held it back for a single instant.

Rumble!

The Future Buddha Son was caught in a terrifying explosion.

He retreated step by step, each step shattering ten thousand miles of space and tearing open spatial ravines hundreds of kilometers deep.

But even so, he never fled, never once let his hands fall from their prayer position, never stopped chanting the Buddha's name, and held his ground firmly in front of the Heavenly Punishment Divine Son, allowing his own—

Vajra Buddha Dharma Body to be torn apart, his flesh splitting with cracks like a tortoise's shell, yet still refusing to dodge.

The many spiritual lights faded. The Future Buddha Son, whose Vajra Dharma Body was cracked all over and whose golden Buddha blood flowed in streams, stood with palms pressed together amid the drifting clouds.

"Hahahaha!"

"Not bad!"

"At last you're not utterly, completely ants…"

Jiang Ding roared with wild laughter.

"Come!"

"Two of you, take another sword from me!"

"You have no idea how miserable, how lonely these past tens of thousands of years have been for me, nor how joyful, how happy I am right now."

"Come on!"

"Don't waste this glorious moment we have!"

Boom—!

The Great Sun Swordsman brought his blade down in a slash, laughing wildly.

Sun, moon, and stars wheeled; the light and time of heaven and earth flew past; the mysteries of all things in the universe were wholly subsumed into this single sword. Within the vast cosmic star river, two scroll-paintings as massive as heavenly pillars unfurled with a roar, and the living beings and cosmic space within them grew viscous beyond compare, rapidly collapsing from three dimensions toward a flat, two-dimensional plane.

Sword of Spatial Annihilation!

This sword was an immortal art inheritance. As the Great Sun Swordsman's attainments in the Six Paths of Reincarnation, in space, in annihilation dharma, in the sun, and in every other aspect deepened further and merged into one, its might grew ever more terrifying, as if heaven and earth, cause and effect, and time itself were all encompassed within it.

Within these scroll-paintings, even time itself froze solid.

An incomparably terrifying danger, an incomparably dreadful chill rose in the hearts of the Future Buddha Son and the Heavenly Punishment Divine Son, giving them no chance to celebrate their narrow escape from the calamity just past before they were plunged once more into life and death.

"Thus have I heard,"

"At one time, the Buddha was in the Jetavana Grove of Anathapindika in the kingdom of Śrāvastī, together with a gathering of great bhikkhus numbering one thousand two hundred and fifty. At that time, the World-Honored One, at the hour of meal…"

Amid such a terrifying killing intent that threatened utter extinction and nirvana, the Future Buddha Son sat down cross-legged with a perfectly calm expression, ceaselessly chanting sutras.

In the sound of his chanting, layer upon layer of worlds, layer upon layer of flower-leaves manifested throughout the cosmos, forming world upon world, Sanskrit characters illuminated by Buddhist light one after another, sheltering both him and the Heavenly Punishment Divine Son entirely within, creating a peaceful Buddha-realm that severed outside cause-and-effect and the killing intent of heaven and earth.