Chapter 579 - 330: The Buddhist Warring States
When the two slightly showed their skills, the entire audience was instantly shocked.
Qin Yuesheng unleashed his full momentum. After retrieving six Divine Soldiers from his Sumeru pouch and holding them, he was the first to move, leaping forward with great effort towards Yuantongzi.
Carrying a powerful gust, the earth cracked open, and yellow soil flew up — such is the strength of a Grandmaster.
The move made heaven and earth lose color.
Yuantongzi joined his palms, and a Buddha’s apparition as white and pure as jade suddenly emerged. This Buddha had three heads and four arms, with expressions of joy, sadness, and anger, holding four Buddhist Magical Artifacts. As Qin Yuesheng attacked, the Buddha immediately displayed its techniques.
Dark clouds swirled as day turned to night.
Qin Yuesheng’s vision blurred, suddenly losing sight of Yuantongzi’s figure.
The surrounding scene changed dramatically. Pillars of earth made from yellow soil rose to the sky, while torrents and floods poured from the heavens — a vision of disaster.
Qin Yuesheng frowned slightly. Even for a Grandmaster, to display such power so easily seemed overly exaggerated.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed with green and yellow light, two alien glows soared to the sky and dove to the earth.
In an instant, all abnormal visions disintegrated in front of Qin Yuesheng. Within moments, everything returned to normal.
Yuantongzi stood at a distance of about three yards away from Qin Yuesheng, reciting scriptures. When these apparitions were dispelled by Qin Yuesheng, the recitation was abruptly cut off, indicating that the monk had been using techniques to confuse others’ perception.
Seeing his methods so easily undone by Qin Yuesheng, Yuantongzi was naturally surprised. However, he wasn’t astonished for long, as Qin Yuesheng had already dashed to his side, wielding the Divine Soldiers without reservation.
Yuantongzi quickly retreated across the ground, and golden lotuses instantly bloomed beneath his steps. The Buddha beside him clapped its hands, directly meeting Qin Yuesheng’s offensive.
Boom!
A wave of energy erupted from Qin Yuesheng’s position, sweeping out over ten yards.
Yuantongzi pointed a finger, and the shadow of a Roc bird appeared, carrying him high into the sky, easily avoiding the force.
Seeing Yuantongzi escape into the sky, Qin Yuesheng immediately stamped his foot, aided by auspicious clouds, rising a hundred feet and promptly slashing with the ice-fire Divine Axe. As he wielded it, ice and fire converged, the power was considerable.
Yuantongzi’s expression remained unchanged as he threw a punch with one hand. Thick black liquid surged forward, forming a black ring behind him, hanging there.
Bam!
A seemingly ordinary punch met the ice-fire Divine Axe head on.
Qin Yuesheng glanced into the black ring, instantly witnessing a barren, desolate, and terrifying sea of flames. Within the flames, miserable figures roared, raising their hands to the sky in tragic cries.
Strings of resentment floated out, swirling around Yuantongzi with the wind. Even as a Grandmaster with a resolute character, at this moment, Qin Yuesheng couldn’t help but feel a hint of trepidation, as if the black ring indeed connected to an endless infernal hell.
"Are you truly a member of the Buddhist sect?" Qin Yuesheng couldn’t help but voice his question.
"Hell is everywhere in the world; you too are in it," Yuantongzi said calmly.
The forces of resentment rapidly gathered, ultimately transforming into a massive half-bodied skeleton, reaching towards Qin Yuesheng with a claw.
The moment the soldiers saw the half-bodied skeleton, whether from the Teng Armor army or the side of the Great Tang, they all clutched their heads in agony, their eyes turning red, expressions extremely fierce, as if witnessing the most horrifying sight imaginable.
Many with weaker mental fortitude began to vomit, convulsed violently, with not a few fainting unconscious.
In Qin Yuesheng’s eyes, what appeared was a giant, sinisterly smiling white-gowned old woman. Her white dress floated in the air, beneath a body as thin as firewood were masses of writhing veins, with a hideous, ugly, and horrifying face bearing a strange smile, accompanied by gray-white long hair fluttering in the air.
A claw, sharp like a hook, quickly approached, the sky began to darken.
Yuantongzi looked at Qin Yuesheng calmly — all humans have fear deep within their hearts, from regular people to Immortals, none were exceptions.
Such fear might be of snakes, a broken house in the dark night, an unexplained sound outside the window, or of monstrosities, dolls, or dogs.
The Divine Abilities that Yuantongzi currently utilized carried just this effect.
When Ancestor Damo established Damo Temple, he left behind a plethora of top-tier martial arts, alongside four famed Divine Skills known to the world.
However, nobody knew that Ancestor Damo actually created the most formidable martial art, named ’Purgatory Holy Wheel.’
According to later cultivators, the Purgatory Holy Wheel had transcended the nature of martial arts; they more commonly referred to it as ’Divine Abilities.’
When displayed, the Purgatory Holy Wheel could evoke the most primal fear within the hearts of all who witnessed it, causing foes to collapse before battle, losing their Spirit entirely, becoming completely insane.
It was said everywhere that Ancestor Damo was a consummate martial arts grandmaster, compassionate and righteous, with a heart embracing the world, known as the greatest benefactor.
Yet within the disciples of Damo Temple, there remained a concealed doubt as to why Ancestor Damo invented such an eerie Divine Ability as the ’Purgatory Holy Wheel.’
Qin Yuesheng gazed at the giant old woman with a sinister smile approaching. An uncontrollable tremor inexplicably surged in his heart.