Chapter 497: Hundreds of Millions of Believers as a Backing

The Thirty-Six Heavens of the Celestial Realm, each could be considered a large world.

Even the Celestial Realm, as the ruler of the Three Realms, only had thirty-six large worlds.

It is evident how rare large worlds are.

After all, in terms of volume, a large world is only one level lower than the current Primordial World.

Ten thousand Buddha realms added together, at the very least, could be comparable to hundreds of large worlds.

At the most, they could be comparable to thousands of large worlds.

With the energy of thousands of large worlds gathered together, even a Saint might not be able to withstand it.

The magic power of a Saint can indeed be called boundless, but the energy of thousands of large worlds added together can also be called boundless.

Possessing such a foundation, with Saints not appearing, the two Western Sages did not think anyone could contend with them.

*Boom!*

The purifying beam bombarded the Ten Thousand Buddha Array.

Contrary to the clean and neat dissolution of the giant Buddha palm earlier, after the purifying beam landed on the Ten Thousand Buddha Array, although it was also dissolving the Buddha-light barrier, the speed of dissolution decreased visibly to the naked eye.

The Nine-Rank Golden Lotus was one of the strongest defensive spiritual treasures in the Primordial World; even facing the purifying light, it could play a very good defensive role.

The mirror array gathered the power of one million Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls, and the emitted purifying beam was full of the power of the Dao; even for the barrier condensed by the Nine-Rank Golden Lotus, the purifying light could dissolve a little.

However, the Buddha realms in the Ten Thousand Buddha Array had already merged into one, and the Buddha-light contained within was massive.

As the Buddha realms circulated, the places where the purifying light had just dissolved were immediately repaired by the surrounding Buddha-light.

Not only that, the hundreds of millions of believers in the Buddha realms were still praying continuously.

Countless power of faith, mixed with boundless Sanskrit, turned into Buddha-light and merged into the barrier, making up for the consumption of the barrier.

The Buddha-light consumed by the purifying light was completely replenished by the hundreds of millions of believers without any effort.

Even, the power of faith generated by the hundreds of millions of believers had a large surplus, which was turned into golden light by the two Western Sages, continuing to reinforce the space around the Western Continent of Cattle-God.

After a stalemate for a while, the purifying light was completely consumed by the endless Buddha-light.

The purifying beam condensed by the mirror array did not cause any harm to the Ten Thousand Buddha Array.

After blocking the attack of the mirror array, the hundreds of millions of believers in the Ten Thousand Buddha Array did not stop praying.

The two Western Sages were clearly not people who would take a beating without fighting back; compared to Luo Fu, they hoped to end the Journey to the West calamity as soon as possible.

Summoning the past and future Three Thousand Buddha Realms was not without a price.

Every second the past and future Three Thousand Buddha Realms stayed in the present, a certain price had to be paid.

If it were not for the fact that the things Luo Fu brought out were too important to the two Western Sages.

If it were not for the Journey to the West calamity, which related to whether Buddhism could flourish.

If it were not for the fact that the two Western Sages had a sudden whim and felt that the outcome of the Journey to the West bet was extremely important to them.

The two Western Sages would not have been able to summon the past and current Three Thousand Buddha Realms.

Using the Ten Thousand Buddha Array to deal with Sun Wukong and the others was simply equivalent to using an anti-aircraft gun to hit a Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree branch.

Boundless Buddha-light, under the prayers of the believers, began to condense in the air.

When intercepting the purifying beam earlier, the Ten Thousand Buddha Array only condensed a giant Buddha palm.

This time it was different; the Buddha-light gathered by the Ten Thousand Buddha Array this time far exceeded the last time.

The speed at which the Buddha-light condensed into shape was extremely fast; in the blink of an eye, a giant golden Buddha appeared above the Western Continent of Cattle-God.

This golden Buddha was extremely huge.

Its entire body looked even larger than the entire Western Continent of Cattle-God.

The golden Buddha sat cross-legged in the void, and the giant Nine-Rank Golden Lotus appeared as a lotus throne beneath the golden Buddha.

Not only the Nine-Rank Golden Lotus, but the golden Buddha's right hand also held something: the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree.

*Swish!*

The golden Buddha slowly raised its right hand, and boundless Buddha-light gathered toward the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree; with the power of the Buddha-light, the golden Buddha waved its right hand directly at the mirror array.

A massive seven-colored Buddha-light immediately shot out from the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree, sweeping toward the mirror array.

The Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree's characteristic of being able to brush away all things did not have much effect on the Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls.

In a situation where the status was not equal, the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree could not brush the Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls at all.

However, the Buddha-light brushed out from the golden Buddha's hand was too massive.

Even if it could not exert the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree's characteristic of brushing away everything, the Buddha-light itself was enough to require the mirror array to respond.

This was the terrifying aspect of the Ten Thousand Buddha Array: gathering the power of ten thousand Buddha realms into one, it was enough to erupt with extremely terrifying power.

To a certain extent, the power of the Ten Thousand Buddha Array was actually somewhat similar to the Heavenly Dao.

The reason the Heavenly Dao was so powerful was that it could mobilize the power of the entire world.

The volume of the Ten Thousand Buddha Array could not compare to the Primordial World, but like the Heavenly Dao, the Ten Thousand Buddha Array mobilized and gathered the power of the world, the full power of ten thousand medium-sized worlds.

At any time, volume is a factor that cannot be ignored.

When the realms are not much different, volume determines everything.

*Hum!*

The giant seven-colored light struck the mirror array fiercely.

Under the bombardment of the Buddha-light, the mirror array began to vibrate violently, and all one million Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls began to erupt with purifying light; the originally gentle purifying light became extremely dazzling.

All the purifying light converged at the center of the mirror array, consuming and countering the Buddha-light.

Under the eruption of the one million Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls, the Buddha-light waved by the golden Buddha, after persisting for a few breaths, was completely dissolved.

Although it successfully dissolved the Buddha-light, the mirror array also paid a significant price.

Compared to the beginning, the mirror array had risen by a full several hundred meters, and the purifying light emitted by the one million Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls had also become somewhat dim.

Clearly, the previous consumption had exhausted a lot of energy from the mirror array.

Compared to the Ten Thousand Buddha Array, which had the support of ten thousand Buddha realms and the backing of hundreds of millions of believers, and could continuously replenish its consumption, the mirror array fought entirely on the energy stored within its body.

Fighting solely on stored energy, it would decrease with every use.

If the battle lasted too long, the one million Heaven-Purifying Divine Pearls would very likely be drained of all their energy.

This was the drawback of spiritual treasures lacking an owner.

The energy stored by the spiritual treasure itself was extremely limited, and the speed at which the spiritual treasure recovered energy was not fast.

Without the support of an owner, it was difficult for a spiritual treasure to erupt with its true power.

Only by relying on the continuous support of the owner's magic power could a spiritual treasure truly erupt with power without any scruples.