Chapter 1616: Mysterious

"Well done!"

"If you don't court death, you won't die..."

Outside the restriction, Duan Jiude and Er Gouzi clapped like seals in unison.

To be fair, they had seen many people courting death, including themselves; they were all excellent examples of courting death.

But to court death to this extent like these few Immortal Kings was truly rare in the world.

They actually wanted to use their physical bodies to absorb the ancient catastrophe?

Even if the Immortal Emperors of the Four Heavenly Gates were here, they would probably give a thumbs up and sincerely sigh: "Good fellow, that's a good trick."

Duan Jiude carried his hands behind his back, his face revealing a sense of vicissitudes, sighing: "I have to say, this is what they call 'the country produces talents in every generation, and each generation replaces the old'."

Er Gouzi also stood up, changed into those floral trunks, and flicked the cape behind him: "That's right, as the saying goes, the waves of the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. Teacher Duan, we are old."

"That's right, Teacher Er Gou, it's time for us to think of some new tricks."

The Immortal King on the side felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart upon hearing this.

Your virtue-lacking dog methods are already famous enough!

Don't innovate anymore!

Are you not going to let people live!

However, this Immortal King still felt quite lucky that he was one step slower than the others just now.

Otherwise, the few charred corpses lying there might have included his own.

Inside the restriction, an atmosphere of panic was gradually spreading.

"Didn't they say that those ancient catastrophes weren't very powerful?"

"Are you blind! Didn't you see the corpses already laid out here!"

"These are all peak Immortal King experts... can they not even block a bit of shattered golden light?"

What they didn't know was that as Xu Que's strength continued to grow, the ancient catastrophes that appeared were becoming stronger and stronger.

Even this time, without them knowing, Xu Que had already felt that the ancient catastrophe had undergone some unknown changes.

Even he had suffered a considerable impact just now.

For some unknown reason, these ancient catastrophes seemed to be vaguely transforming into the truly terrifying ancient catastrophes of the past that made people turn pale at the mention of them.

Legend has it that once a true ancient catastrophe appears, even an Immortal Emperor cannot block it!

The tribulation he was undergoing now was merely a fake catastrophe that had the form but not the spirit.

But none of that mattered; seeing these guys get struck to death directly was what Xu Que loved to see most.

"It's not over yet!" Xu Que sneered, continuing to accelerate his absorption of the ancient catastrophe. "Want to learn from me and absorb the ancient catastrophe? Simply overestimating your capabilities. You can't even handle a bit of power that leaked out from this Pretentious Saint, yet you have the guts to hunt me down? Ridiculous!"

Everyone's faces were ugly to the extreme, but they couldn't even say a word of rebuttal.

The facts were right before their eyes; a peak Immortal King expert had just absorbed a bit of the lightning light after the ancient catastrophe shattered, and they had died directly.

And Xu Que not only absorbed the lightning light, but even shattered that golden dragon formed entirely by the ancient catastrophe.

And the result?

Nothing happened, not even a hair was lost!

And he was only at the Great Luo Golden Immortal stage; who would dare believe this if it were said out loud?

At the same time, an old monk with a face full of sorrow was rushing here.

"The aura of a Buddha has actually appeared here... could it be that a True Buddha has appeared in the world?"

The old monk's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked into the distance, his eyes filled with golden auspicious clouds, with lightning flashing within them, appearing extremely terrifying.

"Someone is undergoing tribulation here... I must rush over as soon as possible, otherwise if the True Buddha falls into the hands of others, I fear the Buddha Realm will never rise again!"

As his voice fell, the old monk's figure had already rushed out for dozens of miles.

Within a few breaths, he had arrived outside the restriction, standing on a sand dune, looking at the restriction not far away.

"It's actually a restriction set up by dozens of Immortal Kings and Immortal Venerables. Is it to protect this person undergoing tribulation?" The old monk narrowed his eyes, stared for a moment, then shook his head. "No, they are not here to protect this person, but to imprison this person!"

Er Gouzi, who was chatting with Duan Jiude, suddenly changed his expression and looked left and right: "Strange... I seem to have felt a familiar aura."

"A familiar aura? Do you have an old acquaintance here?" Duan Jiude frowned, looked around, and suddenly became vigilant. "Teacher Er Gou, you didn't offend someone in the past and have them come knocking, did you?"

"Nonsense! This Divine Venerable has always acted uprightly, how could I make enemies everywhere? That's clearly something only you would do!"

"Stop farting! This old man's nickname is Duan Jiude the Virtuous Gentleman, the Righteous Little Gentleman. Would I do something as shameless as stealing chickens and dogs?"

After a few words, the two started bickering again.

The Immortal King on the side silently moved further away; he felt from the bottom of his heart that as long as these two were arguing, they were definitely plotting some scam.

However, what was strange was that even though the old monk was standing not far from Er Gouzi and Duan Jiude, neither they nor the onlookers, the Immortal Kings, ever cast their gaze over.

It was as if they couldn't see this old monk at all.

"Boom!"

Just as Xu Que finished speaking, a series of thunderous explosions came from the black clouds in the sky again.

The thick black clouds rolled, and the golden lightning that had been densely packed within them gradually condensed, forming several massive golden dragons.

These giant dragons shuttled back and forth in the black clouds, their golden light shining.

But beneath this gorgeous exterior, an indescribably terrifying power was hidden.

"This... is actually an ancient catastrophe? And there are so many of them!" A flash of brilliance burst from the old monk's turbid old eyes, overflowing with intense shock.

He had thought that the tribulation of the person undergoing it here was about to end, who would have thought he would see an ancient catastrophe that is rarely seen in a thousand years!

"Could it be that the person undergoing tribulation here is the True Buddha of my Buddha Realm?" the old monk muttered.

He had lived for a very long time, and his understanding of the ancient catastrophe and the Heavenly Dao far exceeded everyone present.

The ancient catastrophe was originally set by the Heavenly Dao to restrict mortal cultivation, specifically targeting existences like gods, Buddhas, and demons that had transcended the control of the Heavenly Dao.

According to ancient records, it is said that when the Ancient Buddha underwent tribulation, a full nine golden dragons of the ancient catastrophe descended to the world, attempting to block his promotion.

You must know that the ancient catastrophe at that time was the real deal, far from what Xu Que's current ancient catastrophe could compare to.

Nine is the extreme number; nine golden dragons represented that the Heavenly Dao was extremely unwilling for this person to undergo tribulation, so it wanted to suppress him with the massive power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Watching this person undergo tribulation, there are dozens of golden dragons; although their power is not as recorded in ancient books, placed in today's world, it is enough to become a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation that will be recorded in history!

Thinking of this, the old monk suddenly sat cross-legged, put his hands together, and began to chant Buddhist scriptures in a low voice.