Chapter 1035

The cheetah person's speed reached its limit during the charge. Its limbs barely touched the ground, its body streaking like a golden beam through the brush and rubble. Over a straight-line distance of 100 meters, with maneuvering, it was no more than 150 meters—a distance that took this cheetah person less than five seconds!

Empty Self and Akaluta launched pursuit behind it simultaneously, but the cheetah person's start was too fast, and they had already fallen behind by nearly two hundred meters. Akaluta's radiant form began charging energy, Empty Self also considered whether to immediately transform, but the cheetah person had already rushed into the area above the mountain ridge—however, at the moment the cheetah person approached Uesugi Muneyuki, thick fog appeared.

The fog came without warning. Originally, there was only a thin layer of morning mist on the ridge, but when the cheetah person reached about fifty meters from Uesugi Muneyuki, the mist suddenly expanded tenfold.

White, thick, almost solid-like fog surged out from behind the rocks, swallowing the brush, rubble, and the entire ridge's outline.

Fragmented "hiss-hiss~hiss-hiss" sounds came from within the fog.

At the instant the cheetah person rushed into the fog, its steps hesitated for the first time.

Because the thick fog contained not only water vapor, he could feel that a certain ominous aura permeated the mist—some aura that triggered its body's instinct to sound an alarm was continuously appearing.

His dark golden pupils desperately searched for Uesugi Muneyuki's shadow in the fog, but the fog was too dense—nothing beyond two meters was visible. And at that moment, some light appeared in the fog.

Oppressive sensations with different temperatures and dispositions surged simultaneously from all directions.

Straight ahead, deep in the fog, a dark golden light slowly condensed within the mist into a vague humanoid outline. That outline sat upon a giant, entirely golden peacock, whose tail feathers unfurled in the fog, each feather resembling a burning sutra.

To the left, another dark red light coalesced into a wrathful Vajra Pestle form—three heads, six arms, each hand holding a different ritual implement, glowing like an illuminated relief in the fog.

To the right, a deep blue light condensed into another Wisdom King, holding a vajra pestle and dharma wheel, stepping on a crushed skull; the furious expression on that face caused the surrounding fog to twist.

Behind, there were still fourth and fifth— the cheetah person had no time left to count.

Esoteric Buddhism Wisdom Kings?!

The Wisdom Kings' golden bodies had not yet solidified into physical form, but their presence was stronger than that of actual entities!

They pressed down simultaneously from above, below, left, right, front, and back—like the entire ridge had been transformed into an airtight altar-city.

The cheetah person's body trembled. Its legs began to disobey commands.

It crouched in place, its dark golden vertical pupils contracting violently, gulping hard.

These Wisdom Kings—aren't they from our great India?

Damn little Japanese, you lot of thieves stealing nations! Why don't you pay copyright fees?! And you've turned the Wisdom Kings into your own!!

Day Nima, refund money!!!

Before it could even question, it heard the sword's cry.

Uesugi Muneyuki stood at the very center of the fog, his right hand began drawing the sword—the Divine Sword Sword of Heavenly Clouds did not come from the scabbard; its manifestation surpassed all physical rules. The fog before Uesugi Muneyuki condensed into an incarnation of the Peacock Wisdom King, whose face was compassionate and solemn, but its mouth slowly opened, and from that mouth, a sword was spat out.

"Come slay the gods!" Uesugi Muneyuki gripped the hilt, drawing the Sword of Heavenly Clouds from the Peacock Wisdom King's mouth.

The blade of the Sword of Heavenly Clouds bore a dark golden sheen, with lines like liquid flame flowing along both sides of the edge, and complex threads wrapped around the hilt.

Sword of Heavenly Clouds. One of the Three Sacred Treasures, also known as the Kusanagi Sword.

The cheetah person did not recognize what that was, but its instinct knew.