Chapter 747

Xu Fu finally used his trump card. One saw the starship's cave heaven and the ship body merge, and that terrifying god and demon revived within the starship.

One saw the starship cave heaven suddenly open, and a vague bronze giant hand suddenly reached out from the cave heaven, bombarding toward E Lai.

E Lai's powerful Witch body was immediately blasted into the deepest part of the void, and his indestructible Witch body was nearly shattered...

As soon as this giant hand appeared, the ghost and god Witch soldiers who were surrounding the Penglai starship immediately lost their footing and were blown away by that vast momentum.

Even the group of cultivators who had run dozens of miles away along the white bone bridge, including the Primordial Spirit True Immortals with the highest cultivation, were all blown away by a wave of air and pressed onto the white bone bridge!

The Primordial Spirit True Immortals were forced by this vast momentum to press tightly against the bridge surface, unable to breathe or resist!

That bronze giant hand emitted a vast, incomparable, and extremely powerful terrifying aura. Even in front of this hand, the Primordial Spirit True Immortals were like ants.

This bronze giant hand had already fully manifested, and its aura was more than a hundred times stronger than the finger summoned by the Penglai Soul Transformation expert with all his might...

It was as if standing behind it was a god who stood tall and looked down on all living beings!

It was hard to imagine how terrifying the complete manifestation of the Han Xian Qin Golden Man would be. Just one hand was enough to compare with those bronze divine statues that Brother Qian Chen had asked the Creation Cauldron and the Western Kunlun Mirror to build together. At this moment, even the ancient E Lai was easily suppressed by this hand.

Xu Fu's face turned stern. Although he had used the starship god and demon to hide the giant hand he summoned, this terrifying momentum falling into the eyes of those who cared would only make them guess many things.

But things had reached this point, and he had no choice but to expose the means he had prepared for the Golden Man in the Return to Ruins.

Going a step further, he actually opened his five fingers, and the bronze giant hand struck toward the bronze divine statue that the Merchant Ancestor Yan Bo had walked into...

The bronze divine statue that the Merchant Ancestor's demonic soul had walked into, at this moment, the entire silent bronze statue began to revive.

The Han Xian Qin giant's hand shrouded the divine statue. Accompanied by the opening of a hand, it was as if the entire world was shrinking rapidly, throwing itself into the palm of that Han Xian Qin Golden Man. Even the Zhu Rong bronze statue was pressed until it shrank rapidly, and its ten-thousand-zhang body was like a nine-foot bronze man in front of that palm.

Crack, crack!

The surrounding void made sounds of being unable to bear the weight. From that giant palm that shrouded half of the white bone bridge, Brother Qian Chen saw the marks he had left behind. The entire palm print constituted a powerful and incomparable formation. As the incomparably terrifying power pressed down, it was impossible to match.

This palm, in the Buddhist sect, was like the Buddha Kingdom in the palm.

In the Daoist sect, it was like the palm of the Heavenly Emperor.

In the divine path, countless formation patterns in this palm constituted a divine kingdom. In the Martial Dao, this palm pressed down, and it could also be called the Five-Finger Mountain!

Only then did Brother Qian Chen know what kind of gap existed between the bronze divine statue he had prepared for the Yu Yu Jiuyou gods and demons and the Han Xian Qin Golden Man.

Even if the Creation Cauldron took action, it could not smooth out the gap between the Han Xian Qin Golden Men built by the painstaking efforts of countless alchemists over a million years. The formation patterns of this palm integrated countless formations, and even the smallest pattern in the palm print was comparable to the seal of a magic treasure.

This was the integration of the power of magic treasures, the power of heaven-shaking formations, supreme divine abilities, and Martial Dao principles—all of it fused into one, like the Great Dao in front of one!

And Xu Fu used the starship god and demon as the spirit and the cave heaven as the qi sea to drive this treasure...

But the core Great Dao that manipulated the Golden Man, Brother Qian Chen actually recognized—it was exactly "Whirling Creation!"

If there were only bronze divine statues, even if these statues were built by the joint efforts of the three supreme treasures: the Dao Dust Bead, the Creation Cauldron, and the Western Kunlun Mirror, facing the strike of the Han Xian Qin Golden Man, I fear they would have been shattered. But the Merchant Ancestor's demonic soul had already been summoned by Brother Qian Chen from the Nine Nethers. At this moment, it was fusing with the Zhu Rong Demon Blade, and the powers of the Dao Dust Bead, the Western Kunlun Mirror, the Creation Cauldron, and even the Yin-Yang Fan were all washing its true spirit, transforming it into "Zhu Rong"!

The Merchant Ancestor's remnant soul actively cooperated with these calls, and the remnant soul began to condense a brand-new true spirit brand.

The bronze divine statue stood steadily in place. Just as the Golden Man's giant hand struck toward it, the terrifying incense fire accumulated by Penglai for ten thousand years was drawn out like water, driving the Golden Man's strike. Although Xu Fu had already attained the Dao Lord level, this split soul of his was still drained of more than half of its power, becoming illusory.

Despite facing the pressure of a magic treasure at the Dao Lord level, with almost a complete Dao fruit floating in this palm, the body of the bronze divine statue remained towering and heavy!

"Ten chariots of dragon flags, the great millet is carried! A thousand miles of territory, where the people stop, starting from the four seas..."

The low and solemn "Black Bird" finally chanted to this point. In the Yu Yu Jiuyou Yinhe behind, black mist rolled, and the most powerful war weapons of the Heavenly Merchant Divine Dynasty—bronze war chariots—rolled out from the darkness!

Carrying the Primordial Spirit Long Wang who had fled like a refugee, he noticed the heavy aura and couldn't help but turn pale.

He looked back and saw dragon flags fluttering on the war chariots, bronze dragon patterns, and bone horse heads with horns like dragons!

These were all Witch patterns inscribed by Witch priests using True Dragons as sacrifices...

The terrifying sacrificial customs of the Heavenly Merchant Divine Dynasty: their Witch priests slaughtered True Dragons and slaughtered all living beings. Various powerful creatures of that era were dragged onto the sacrificial altar by those ghosts, gods, and Witch priests, beheaded, and then their essence blood and divine souls were pierced into Witch patterns or sealed into Witch weapons.

Amidst the sacrifices of countless Heavenly Merchant ancestors in the Yinhe behind, the Merchant Ancestor's remnant soul finally thoroughly transformed, condensing a brand-new true spirit brand.

The bronze divine statue slowly raised its head, and boundless divine fire suddenly burned on its body. That fire was the human fire sacrificed by the Heavenly Merchant for hundreds of millions of years, the divine fire condensed by ghosts and gods, the heavenly fire descended by divine thunder, the stone fire burning in the deepest earth caves of the earth, and the fire of the divine wood burned during sacrifices...

Heaven, Earth, Human, Ghost, God, Spirit, Wood, Stone, Void—nine kinds of true fire gathered in one place, and the Great Divine Ability of perfection—Nine-Flavor Taiyin Zhenhuo—transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang flame dragon!

Suddenly, the red dragon under the bronze divine statue came to life!

The huge bronze divine statue opened its mouth and roared. The flame dragon under its feet danced and coiled around its body. The divine statue opened its mouth and inhaled, and boundless divine fire surged into its mouth, surging within its body. One saw the bronze divine statue's momentum soar, and a scorching sun rose in its hand, like a layer of heavenly realm!

Turning Stone into Gold is the transformation of material nature to achieve immortality; it is a supreme method of the Immortal Dao, which is why it is a Great Divine Ability.

If this divine ability did not belong to the Dao of Creation and lacked the power of slaughter, it would surely have its name among the Thirty-Six Great Divine Abilities of Heavenly Gang!

Xin Xin Hengping thoroughly penetrated the golden body with the Mirror of Reflecting Gall. He stared at the dim light above that single green lamp and suddenly said: "Just now, I saw the green lamp beside the golden body had not extinguished, so I knew this golden body was unusual!"

"Because the green lamp burns with Buddha-nature; as long as the Buddha-nature is not extinguished, the green lamp will not be extinguished. And the Daoist friend's Primordial Spirit will also not be extinguished!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the many Penglai Elders beside him were stunned. One said in disbelief: "Sinking in the Yu Jiuyou Yinhe for ten thousand years, even a Primordial Spirit would inevitably perish; how could it be maintained until now?"

"If a Soul Transformation expert went down, I fear they wouldn't last three days! Even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal couldn't support themselves for ten thousand years without dying, right!"

Several Elders found it hard to believe.

Xin Xin Hengping, however, said calmly: "You were able to support yourself for ten thousand years entirely because of the two supreme treasures beside you. The green lamp before the Buddha burns long and never extinguishes, protecting your spirit! And this Underworld Treasure pottery vat was formed by sensing Yu Jiuyou during burial, capable of resisting the erosion of Yu Jiuyou qi, protecting your flesh!"

"Moreover, Daoist friend, I fear you were not swept into the Yu Jiuyou Yinhe after entering nirvana... but rather your own world decayed, fell into Gui Xu, and you had no choice but to enter the pottery vat and enter nirvana!"

He looked at the golden body, which had been plated with a layer of gold but remained dead and silent, without any fluctuations.

Xin Xin Hengping suddenly struck, pointing at its Heavenly Spirit: "Your sarira is in your skull! Daoist friend, do you truly want me to force you?"

A faint light suddenly lit up in the eyes of the golden body, coming from the suddenly ignited green lamp beside it, reflecting in its eyes.

The gaunt corpse, which had been hanging its head, slowly raised it, chanted a Buddhist name, and said: "This old monk is already a dead man; why must the benefactor force me so bitterly?"

"My Huazang Small World perished after passing through forty-eight thousand kalpas!"

"My Buddha's one hundred thousand disciples entered nirvana... All kinds of faith and vows entered my remains, only then allowing me to achieve this golden body! There were also the Four Directions Pure Lands offering the long-burning green lamp, the Nirvana Vat Niche, the Huayan Treasure Tree, the Wonderful Treasury Golden Body... combining the power of all the Pure Lands, burying the Tripitaka Great Scriptures into my body!"

"This old monk voluntarily followed the Huazang world into nirvana, drifting in Yu Jiuyou, only to bury the living beings of my Huazang... to act as a Buddha monument!"

"In the Gui Xu kalpa, the Nirvana Vat Niche was broken, the Huayan Treasure Tree was lost... leaving only this old monk's old body, one broken vat, one green lamp... drifting into the Yu Jiuyou Yinhe, missing the living beings of my world here!"

"In the past, someone once told this old monk... when a person dies, they have three yin bodies: the flesh dies as the upper yin falls, the soul returns as the middle yin departs... when all memories in the human world are gone and karma is settled, it is the lower yin dissipating!"

"Now, this old monk has already... forgotten the Buddhist Dharma, extinguished the thoughts, extinguished the Buddha-heart, settled the remnant thoughts... only to remember the twenty-six billion sentient beings of my Huazang world, using my Primordial Spirit to remember a world, continuing until this old monk completely dissipates! This body... is an external object; the benefactor may take it, only asking... do not extinguish this trace of thought!"

The old monk frankly told everything, saying that his Primordial Spirit was burying a world, burying the living beings in his memories, and had no more value.

Therefore, he could discard the green lamp and the broken vat, only asking to finish his last life, entering nirvana along with the living beings!

But a strange light appeared in Xin Xin Hengping's eyes, and he smiled slightly: "Daoist friend, you achieved the Primordial Spirit; although you have suffered much erosion in the Yu Jiuyou Yinhe, the essence of the Primordial Spirit is not extinguished. My sect masters supreme methods of creation and might be able to extend your life! Why not defect to my sect and leave behind the last incense for the Huazang world?"

The old monk sighed: "When the Huazang world perished, many fellow Daoists had already fled to other worlds; how can there be any talk of continuing the tradition?"

"The reason... this old monk... entered nirvana with the living beings is that my heart had already died... since the heart is dead, why must the body live? Now I am not who I was, but merely a segment of memory, a segment of longing!" The broken golden body seemed to have exhausted its last strength, sighing lingeringly, stumbling, and speaking this passage with extreme difficulty.

"In that case, Daoist friend, your memories preserve all the legacies of the Huazang world. Since you have no heart to continue the tradition, why not gift this legacy to us."

"In this way, the scriptures of the Huazang world and its legacy will continue forever with my sect; wouldn't that fulfill your regret, Daoist friend?"

"You want... the scriptures?" The golden body said word by word, with difficulty.

"Unfortunately, three thousand years ago, I forgot the last of the scriptures... I had originally recorded the Huazang Tripitaka! Alas... in these years of nirvana, I actually felt that every blade of grass, every tree, every flower, every smile, every greeting in that world... was actually... more worth remembering than those scriptures."

"So when my Primordial Spirit... gradually weakened..."

"When I had to slowly start... forgetting..."

The gaunt old monk revealed a calm, composed, and indifferent smile, carrying a trace of longing, and said slowly: "Therefore, I can no longer... recite a single word!"

"Daoist friend, why not think about it again?" Xin Xin Hengping's expression grew cold, and he said with his hands behind his back: "Otherwise, don't blame us for not showing consideration!"

He reached out, his fingernails pointing at the golden body's Heavenly Spirit, piercing the scalp and touching the skull, where a crystal-clear bone, different from the other withered yellow and quiet bone matter, lay!

The golden-bodied old monk slowly closed his eyes, pressing his palms together, intending to enter nirvana. Although he could not end his life in long contemplation, he did not want the last pure land of his spiritual platform to be desecrated by others.

Let it go!

But just at this moment, the layer of gold lacquer on his body suddenly acted like ten thousand long nails, piercing into his body, fixing all his magic power and breath. At the same time, Xin Xin Hengping suddenly inserted his fingers into the golden body's skull, and together with it, thoroughly sealed that point of sarira Buddha-bone.

"If you won't drink the toast, you'll be forced to drink the forfeit!"

Xin Xin Hengping dug out the sarira Buddha-bone and began to search the soul...

The old monk's trace of remnant thought calmly unfolded his Primordial Spirit.

A world, solemn and dignified, like a three-story pagoda, illuminated by Buddha-light, where all the common people in the world offered incense to monks, without strife, peaceful and beautiful, unfolded slowly like a scroll. Every face was so vivid.

Whether this was the true appearance of the Huazang world no longer mattered! But it was the Huazang in the old monk's memories...

They greeted each other, as usual, starting a new day.

However, white kalpa fire had already ignited in the sky, and a finger, like a heavenly pillar, pierced into this world. Along with the falling kalpa fire, no one felt pain, no one felt fear, and there was no wailing; everything simply disappeared into the kalpa fire.

Xin Xin Hengping's divine sense broke into a pure land and tore open the Scripture Treasury Hall, but the scriptures inside were truly as the old monk had said, empty of a single word!

"Damn it! What he said was actually true!"

The furious Xin Xin Hengping squeezed the sarira Buddha-bone, thoroughly extinguishing everything within it.

Living beings?

What use did he have for these living beings?

A wisp of green smoke from the green lamp finally dissipated slowly, and the last trace of light fell...

At the moment of the curtain call, Brother Qian Chen's demonic sense also stepped into the Scripture Treasury Hall. Looking at the countless wordless scriptures falling into the kalpa fire, Brother Qian Chen, representing the laws of Yu Jiuyou, seemed to be holding a funeral for the last memories of an entire world!

"You don't care? Yu Jiuyou cares!"

"Therefore, Yu Jiuyou must also make people bury—accompany in burial—the swan song of a world!"

A world died at this moment, along with memories, along with a thought, along with wisps of green smoke...

In the pitch-black Yinhe, some things swept over. Under the infinite Yu Jiuyou qi, something surged into the old monk's golden body like a great tide.

That was the tombstone—recognized by Yu Jiuyou, bearing the destruction of a world, bearing its past!

Xin Xin Hengping twisted the sarira Buddha-bone, his expression indifferent, and was about to kick the golden body down with disdain when he suddenly saw a withered finger reach out in front of him. With a speed that seemed slow but which he could not react to at all, it gently plucked the sarira Buddha-bone from between his fingers.

The Buddha corpse stood up and placed the sarira back into its own skull!

Yes, it had no Buddha-fruit in life, but after death, it had already become a Buddha...

Because, Yu Jiuyou recognized it; it was the living beings, and the living beings were the Buddha!

The withered and decayed golden body slowly raised its head, and the gold lacquer plated by Turning Stone into Gold rapidly dimmed, turning into slightly blackened gold rust. Xin Xin Hengping trembled all over, his heart filled with wild alarm, and he flew back into the depths of the starship.