Chapter 226: Corpse Bone Giant Buddha, Wild Thunder Filling the Sky!

A sinister roar, as if ten thousand ghosts were wailing in unison, came from all directions. Accompanied by a terrifying sound, the surroundings seemed to come alive; the earth trembled violently, and the surging Corpse Tide suddenly parted, rolling and tossing like endless waves.

The entire world darkened as a massive black shadow, like a demon supporting Heaven and Earth, rose from beneath the ground.

What appeared before all the cultivators was an unprecedentedly massive, terrifying monster.

This monster was composed entirely of extremely filthy soil and thousands upon thousands of skeletal remains. These remains were not ordinary corpses, but rather hideous and terrifying Corpse Demons; the corpses of humans, birds, and beasts were all tangled and intertwined, ultimately forming a mountain of corpses shaped like a giant, sitting Buddha!

From its body, an evil, cold, and deathly aura, as if accumulated and brewed for hundreds or thousands of years, spread out to cover the sky and earth. The baleful energy pressing down between Heaven and Earth felt like a heavy, condensed mountain, settling firmly upon everyone's heart.

The moment the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha appeared, an incomparably absurd and rebellious aura of wild evil rolled and dispersed, filling the space for dozens of miles around, causing the faces of the hundreds of cultivators present to change, their hearts pounding with fear.

At the very front of the battle line, the War Hall Elder Xing Tianding, who stood in the void, and the other two Deputy Hall Masters had cold and stern expressions:

"The Corpse Bone Buddha, it really is this beast!"

"Five years ago, this beast's body was shattered by the joint efforts of three True Monarchs; have you forgotten the pain so quickly after the wound has healed!"

"Fellow Daoists, be careful. I observe that its ferocity seems even more brutal than it was five years ago. True Monarch Huanglong is already on his way; we only need to entangle it for now!"

The Corpse Bone Buddha is one of the three known Four-Tier Heavenly Corpses in the Yin Corpse Mountain Range.

This corpse looks evil and grotesque, but in reality, it is a Corpse Demon transformed from a great Buddhist cultivator.

This Buddhist cultivator hailed from Pudu Mountain, a Buddhist sect in Xiyanzhou. This sect collapsed overnight after the Corpse Demon Catastrophe spread to Xiyanzhou. Even their presiding Elder Yuanhui sacrificed himself for righteousness, fighting the Corpse Tide alone to buy time for the evacuation of Gatekeepers, disciples, and countless mortals.

The result, naturally, was that this Nascent Soul Great Cultivator fell from exhaustion amidst the Corpse Tide, was infected by corpse poison, and mutated into a powerful Corpse Demon.

After mutating into a Corpse Demon, this compassionate Buddhist cultivator immediately became a Heavenly Corpse that brought disaster to the world. Furthermore, due to some unknown mutation, it was no longer a mere Corpse King or Flying Zombie formed from a single corpse; it had gathered countless remains, along with geomantic Yin veins and filthy baleful energy, into one body, becoming a terrifying, near-immortal Corpse Demon!

Whether it is a Corpse King or a Heavenly Corpse, to completely destroy it, one must destroy the vital head. However, the true body of the Corpse Bone Buddha is hidden within that massive body condensed from countless corpse soil and remains, capable of hiding and shifting at any time, making it extremely difficult to lock onto.

This led to the fact that even with Nascent Soul Great Cultivators working together, it is extremely difficult to kill it.

The Corpse Bone Buddha is not only extremely difficult to kill, but most terrifyingly, it is of the utmost filth and impurity. Wherever it passes, the corpse aura is monstrous; cultivators with low cultivation levels, even if it just passes by them, will be corrupted by the corpse aura and turn into Corpse Demons, losing their sanity. Ordinary Dharma Treasures that land on it are not only useless but will also likely be destroyed by the pollution of the filthy energy.

Such an existence, even with Jiedan Late Stage cultivators like Xing Tianding present, along with seven battle-hardened Golden Core Real Persons, could not be confronted head-on. They could only notify True Monarch Huanglong to come and handle it, but everyone present had to first entangle the opponent to prevent the defensive line from being completely overrun.

"All cultivators below the Golden Core stage, form arrays to resist the enemy!"

"Other fellow Daoists, follow us to meet the enemy together; we must not let this demon leave the Yin Corpse Mountain Range!"

Xing Tianding immediately let out a long whistle and was the first to fly up with the two War Hall Elders. Although the other Golden Core cultivators were intimidated by the terrifying might of the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha, seeing Xing Tianding and the others take the lead, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and fly forward.

Only Lu Yuan, whose eyes were flashing at this moment, flew out to meet the enemy alongside Qin Ruoning, while transmitting his voice via Divine Sense:

"Fellow Daoist Qin, if there is any critical situation later, you must not worry about me."

Qin Ruoning was suddenly stunned, recalling something: "Fellow Daoist Lu, you?"

At this moment, there was clearly no time to explain in detail. Lu Yuan only nodded slightly. Almost at the same time, the dark earth ahead had now completely turned into a surging sea of floodwaters, with large amounts of filthy soil mixed with remains flowing violently. The facial features on the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha were vaguely visible; although it had no real eyes, it seemed to sense the approach of Xing Tianding and the other cultivators.

The Corpse Soil Buddha opened its giant mouth, and a surging, billowing black energy and yellow clouds sprayed out crazily. An unimaginable stench of corpses filled the entire world, completely obscuring the stars and moonlight in the sky.

At this time, the air within a radius of several miles was filled with an extremely dense corpse aura. Ordinary people would turn into Corpse Demons with a single breath. Xing Tianding let out a cold snort, and suddenly a thunderclap broke through the air. Across the vast firmament, the Dharma sword between his brows suddenly shone with golden light, drawing thousands of thunderbolts that flickered like spirit snakes, piercing the boundless darkness and striking down with a boom!

Boom—

Thousands of thunder snakes tore through the long sky and the darkness, instantly tearing a huge gap in the rolling tide of corpse aura. Then, the remaining power of the thunder snakes slammed into the body of the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha.

The power of thunder is the most rigid and Yang, grand and domineering, the nemesis of all evil and filth. Although Xing Tianding is only a Jiedan Late Stage cultivator, under the wild thunder filling the sky, he still blasted more than a dozen pits several feet wide into the body of the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha.

On the left and right, the two Deputy Hall Masters did not want to be outdone. One cast a Dharma spell, and giant meteors of fire instantly formed in the void, crashing toward the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha like meteorites hitting the earth;

In the hands of the other appeared a long spear, entirely golden and piercing with blood-red light. Amidst the clanging sound of the spear that shook Heaven and Earth, it thrust forward with a sharp, unstoppable momentum that could pierce the sky and break the earth. Wherever the spear passed, the air was completely evacuated, forming a cone-shaped torrent that destroyed everything, piercing and shredding all corpse remains and mud in its path!

The three major Golden Core cultivators attacked with all their might, and the power was truly astonishing. But this seemed to enrage the giant Buddha in the sea of corpses. It emitted thousands of terrifying hissing sounds, and a thick darkness, which could not be cleansed even if the vast ocean were poured out, manifested around its body.

Within the darkness, more than a hundred hideous and terrifying giant eyes suddenly appeared, emitting green, ghostly firelight, blinking constantly. Then, beams of light, glowing with a miserable hue amidst the pitch black, shot out from these giant eyes, flying rapidly toward all the attacking Golden Core cultivators in all directions like thousands of sharp arrows!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.

Wherever the light arrows passed, mists of miserable green spread, swallowing all light sources. Where they touched, the grass and trees on the ground withered instantly, decaying and rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into ashes. The ground turned into a withered black, and even the sand and stones on the ground were eroded into a pot of molten liquid; all life was extinguished under this corrosion.

"Careful!"

Sensing an extremely dangerous aura from these light arrows, Lu Yuan, who had not yet attacked, easily dodged the incoming rain of strange evil light arrows with his Wind Control Supernatural Power, while reminding:

"Do not let these light arrows touch you, and do not use Dharma Artifacts to block them!"

Qin Ruoning naturally had a sharp eye; her figure dodged nimbly amidst the rain of evil light arrows. Not far away, most of the other cultivators also brought out their true skills, each using different methods to dodge the beams of miserable green evil light.

However, as a Four-Tier Heavenly Corpse, its attack methods were naturally far from simple. With a roar, the frequency and speed at which the hundred giant eyes around its body fired evil light suddenly climbed by a large margin, and each eye locked onto a different Golden Core cultivator, firing evil light like a battery!

Chi, chi, chi, chi, chi!

In an instant, countless beams of evil light were like a violent storm, their speed like thunder and lightning, sweeping in all directions.

Such a surge in speed and frequency instantly left most of the Golden Core cultivators shocked and angry, flustered and retreating in a panic.

Not a hundred feet away from Lu Yuan, a short and sturdy Golden Core cultivator, despite having dual protection from a Dharma Power shield and high-grade protective Talismans, was still directly pierced by a beam of evil light, which grazed his shoulder!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.

Visibly, his shoulder instantly rotted, flesh and blood decaying, and bones dissolving. This cultivator was clearly an experienced person; he immediately roared and used a Dharma Artifact to sever his entire right arm along with his shoulder!

After blood sprayed across the sky, this Golden Core cultivator barely saved his life and retreated in terror. But even so, he was not the unluckiest. Amidst the terrifying evil light released by the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha, another Golden Core cultivator was a bit slow in his movements and ended up being locked onto by several giant eyes, taking a barrage of seven or eight beams of evil light. As a result, his entire person—Dharma Artifacts and flesh and blood alike—immediately rotted and decomposed in the air, turning into blood that splattered everywhere!

Only a few blinks after the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha appeared, a Golden Core cultivator was already seriously injured and killed.

Even Lu Yuan's side was locked onto by multiple evil eyes on the giant Buddha, with beams of evil light shooting at him one after another.

However, his 【Sword Technique】 had already become a Supernatural Power; although the evil light was fast, it was not faster than his sword light. Coupled with the blessing of the 【Slaying Demons】 Supernatural Power, all the evil light shooting at him could not get close and was shredded on the spot.

He even had the energy to support Qin Ruoning. If his sword light had not arrived in time, taking her to fly back, Qin Ruoning, who was facing more than a dozen beams of evil light at the time, would have had her Dharma Artifacts completely destroyed even if she hadn't been injured, and would not have been as safe and sound as she was now.

Boom, boom, boom.

Casualties appeared. After a group of Golden Core cultivators were killed or injured and retreated in a panic, the giant Buddha, guarded by thousands of Corpse Tides, made a sound like wild laughter, and then began to move amidst the earth-shaking tremors.

Inconceivably, although its figure was extremely massive, standing over twenty zhang tall like a small mountain, its movement seemed to mobilize the earth's veins, and its massive body began to move rapidly as if using the "shortening the earth" technique.

"Beast, stay here!"

As a War Hall Elder, Xing Tianding naturally could not watch this giant corpse pass through the defensive line, and immediately shouted, his whole body bursting with vast Dharma Power fluctuations.

Boom!

The next moment, deafening thunder spread across the sky. The massive thunder, which seemed capable of shattering one's soul, shook the wilderness, as if the entire firmament had begun to rage.

The earth-shaking thunder seemed to resound directly within their hearts; whether it was the Golden Core Cultivators nearby or the thousands of low-level cultivators in the distance waiting in formation, their heartbeats seemed to stop for an instant.

Crackle!

In less than the blink of an eye, behind Xingtian Ding in the void, a brilliant electric light suddenly exploded rapidly; the overcast clouds across the sky surged madly, and countless fine electric lights suddenly burst forth from the void, then countless electric lights intertwined and combined, violently gathering into a domineering thunder-light qilin that seemed to fill Heaven and Earth.

At the same time the thunder-light qilin appeared, the firmament became ravaged by wild winds, and the overcast clouds surged wildly, as if the sky were collapsing. Between the cracks in the overcast clouds, thunder roared across the horizon, and bolts of Heavenly Thunder connected Heaven to Earth, swaying and rolling incessantly, flashing across the sky and weaving into a thunderous purgatory filled with an aura of destruction!

As if having used some means far exceeding his own capacity to bear, Xingtian Ding's face turned pale as he looked down at the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha, which was moving at high speed and about to charge the front line:

"Die, evil demon!!"

The thunder-surging overcast clouds emitted a vast roar more surging and intimidating than thunderous waves, and then hundreds, thousands of blinding, violent, terrifying thunderbolts filled with destructive intent flashed forth, and in one-tenth of an instant, they all struck toward the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha with a destructive momentum that seemed to want to tear the entire firmament to shreds!

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!

Destructive thunder-light exploded and splashed, the air in the sky shook violently, a wave-like shockwave surged out in all directions, and then came a giant sound like the sky collapsing and the earth cracking, enough to shatter a person's eardrums. Once the sound reached its extreme, one could hear nothing at all. In the silent void, one could only see the sky twisting and shaking violently, the overcast clouds shattering, the thunderbolts disintegrating, the electric light dissipating, and the void itself seeming as if it were about to be torn apart by the violently scattering thunder!

Yet, having suffered such a fierce thunderous strike, hundreds and thousands of Corpse Demons around the Corpse Bone Giant Buddha hissed and screamed, turning into fly ash, and even the giant Buddha, with its surging fierce might and arrogance, had huge wounds torn into its body by the thunder-light filling the sky!

But what was horrifying was this.

Such violent destruction and trauma did not last long; just as a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar was heard,

from the chest of the giant Buddha, which had been blasted open by the wild thunder, a dark, gloomy giant hole suddenly spread and expanded.

On the edges of this hole, one could see countless corpses wriggling within, dense and layered, emitting bursts of ear-piercing, strange sounds that made one's scalp tingle upon hearing them. Moreover, the deeper one looked into the giant hole, the more profound, evil, and bottomless it appeared; at the very depths, one could only see a large mass of space, like mist and ink, pitch-black and incomparably profound, chaotic and bottomless, seemingly leading to a terrifying, unfathomable world of death devoid of any life or light.

And what was even more inconceivable was this.

The moment this unfathomable corpse hole appeared, it immediately exerted a terrifying suction force, forming a vast and surging vortex of airflow, not only wantonly devouring the surrounding Corpse Demon remains but also, like a black hole, swallowing all the Heavenly Thunder that was striking toward it!