Chapter 849

Crack!

The greyish Great Dao sword slashed down onto the Jieyin Baochuang (Jieyin Precious Banner); compared to tearing through Saint Zhunti's defenses, Saint Jieyin's defenses did offer the greyish Great Dao sword some resistance.

And only some.

If Saint Zhunti's defense was paper-mâché, then Saint Jieyin's defense was wooden.

Facing the incomparably sharp greyish Great Dao sword, whether paper-mâché or wooden, the outcome was the same.

The sharp sword Qi was only briefly blocked for a moment before tearing through the Nine-Tier Jin Lian's protective barrier.

Immediately after, the Jin Gang Great Dao on the Jieyin Baochuang was also crushed like a rotten weed by the greyish Great Dao sword.

Just like with the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree, the greyish Great Dao sword also left a massive crack on the Jieyin Baochuang.

After shattering the Jieyin Baochuang, a large amount of sword Qi bypassed the banner and struck directly at the wrist of the Supreme Golden Body.

Crack!

The wrist of Saint Jieyin's Supreme Golden Body was instantly severed by the sword Qi.

Not just one wrist—to prevent any accidents, Luo Fu directly manipulated the sword Qi and, in the blink of an eye, severed all seventy-two hands of Saint Jieyin's Supreme Golden Body.

Having lost all its wrists, Saint Jieyin's Supreme Golden Body was unable to pick up the Jieyin Baochuang again in the short term.

Seizing this opportunity, the greyish Great Dao sword arrived directly above the Supreme Golden Body's head.

"When I become a Buddha, the Jin Lian shall not decay, the Golden Body shall not perish!"

Unlike Saint Zhunti, Saint Jieyin's formidable defense ultimately brought a sliver of hindrance to the greyish Great Dao sword.

With this sliver of hindrance, Saint Jieyin successfully bought himself a chance to act.

The Great Vow Dao was unleashed with full force, and the Buddhist light within his body began to burn madly, as if it cost nothing.

Not just the Buddhist light—even the wrists severed by Luo Fu began to burn.

These were the prices that had to be paid to unleash the Great Vow Dao.

All this burning Buddhist light and Golden Body was transformed into the power of the Jin Gang Great Dao and the Jin Lian, reinforcing the Supreme Golden Body.

In an instant, a phantom image of a Nine-Tier Jin Lian also rose beneath the Supreme Golden Body's feet.

Once the Nine-Tier Jin Lian phantom condensed, it immediately began to close, wrapping the Supreme Golden Body entirely.

The Jin Gang armor draped over the Supreme Golden Body grew even thicker under the reinforcement of the Jin Gang Great Dao.

In just an instant, the Supreme Golden Body was armed to the limit.

Apart from the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms and the power of Heaven's Dao, Saint Jieyin had deployed nearly every trump card he possessed.

The reason he did not summon the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms or mobilize the power of Heaven's Dao was not that he didn't want to, but that there was no time.

Whether summoning the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms or mobilizing the power of Heaven's Dao required time.

Only invoking the Great Vow Dao required no time.

The Great Vow Dao can be seen as a kind of Great Dao akin to equivalent exchange—as long as a sufficient price is paid, one can obtain anything one desires. 79694287

Of course, the Great Vow Dao also has its limits.

This limit is related to the degree to which the cultivator has comprehended the Great Vow Dao.

The Great Vow Dao below the Hunyuan layer can only fulfill great vows below the Hunyuan layer. This is also why, back then, Saint Jieyin had to make forty-eight great vows in order to obtain sufficient merit and fortune to prove his Dao and become a saint.

A saint belongs to the Hunyuan layer; with Saint Jieyin's comprehension of the Great Vow Dao, it was fundamentally impossible to prove his Dao and become a saint through a single great vow.

In fact, if Heaven's Dao had not opened a back door, even if Saint Jieyin had thrown out forty-eight great vows all at once, he still could not have proved his Dao and become a saint.

With Saint Jieyin's current comprehension of the Great Vow Dao, summoning the power of the Hunyuan layer was unlikely to be achievable.

But the power at the Sub-Saint limit—as long as Saint Jieyin wished, and was willing to pay a sufficient price, could be summoned in an instant, requiring no preparation time.

Hum!

Seeing that Saint Jieyin had actually seized the chance to add two layers of defense to himself through the Great Vow Dao, Luo Fu's mind stirred, and he directly connected with the greyish Great Dao sword that had just slain Saint Zhunti's Supreme Golden Body.

Under Luo Fu's意念 control, this greyish Great Dao sword tore through space on its own and appeared before Saint Jieyin's Supreme Golden Body.

After slaying Saint Zhunti's Supreme Golden Body, the greyish Great Dao sword had also consumed a great deal of power, but the aura of the Sword Great Dao it contained remained dense.

Under Luo Fu's control, the two greyish Great Dao swords merged with each other once again.

After merging with another greyish Great Dao sword—and one that was itself a three-in-one fusion—invisible sword Qi appeared around the greyish Great Dao sword and began uncontrollably slicing through the surrounding space.

The incomparably stable Chaos was carved into countless tiny spatial rifts by the sword Qi.

Swish!

The greyish Great Dao sword, whose aura had surged once more, also swelled many times in size; in terms of sheer volume, the greyish Great Dao sword was already no inferior to Saint Jieyin's Supreme Golden Body.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Under the sharp aura of the greyish Great Dao sword—sharp enough to sever the Great Dao itself—the flower bud formed by the Nine-Tier Jin Lian phantom was easily torn apart.

After tearing through the flower bud formed by the Nine-Tier Jin Lian, the greyish Great Dao sword appeared directly above the Supreme Golden Body's head, its massive blade slashing down toward the Supreme Golden Body.