Chapter 494: Chapter 494

With just one strike, Thunder Sound Temple suffered grievous losses! Updates are released by ⓝovelFire.net

"Kill!" Soul Annihilation commanded coldly. He looked towards the Buddha of Understanding the Law, who was engaged in a dharma debate. As Soul Annihilation took a single step, his boundless killing intent made the heavens and earth tremble.

Soul Nine Eagle and Soul Eight Fate sneered, their gazes sharp and icy. They turned towards the Monk of the World of Suffering and the Saving the World Bodhisattva respectively, launching their attacks simultaneously. Black demonic energy surged into the sky, pulverizing the Void into ash and transforming it into a land of annihilation.

The remaining three hundred-plus experts charged toward the powerhouses of Thunder Sound Temple, White Horse Temple, and Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.

Layers of deathly black energy and chains filled the sky, causing the nine heavens and ten earths to tremble. Emperor Level laws swept through, as if the Western Buddhist Paradise would explode in the next breath.

In the overwhelming shockwaves, some monks with weaker cultivations were directly shaken until they bled from all seven orifices and fainted. Mountains collapsed, the Void was utterly obliterated—a scene of apocalyptic devastation!

"This humble monk is enraged!"

Above the main hall, the Buddha of Understanding the Law, who had been discussing dharma with his eyes closed, opened them, two beams of Buddhist light shooting forth. With a wave of his hands, a Buddhist staff appeared and smashed downwards.

The staff swept through the world, severing the cosmos!

The staff, like a God Mountain, struck the two chains, shaking the vast sky. Countless brilliant lights exploded, and an astonishing crash resounded throughout the universe. The golden Buddhist staff and the blood-black chains! The entire world seemed to be split in two.

"Shatter!" A smirk touched Soul Annihilation’s lips, a glint flashing in his eyes. The black demonic energy within him roiled, coalescing into a colossal black dragon that overshadowed the Heavenly Universe, its vast pressure blanketing everything.

The black dragon soared, crashing towards the Buddha of Understanding the Law.

A large expanse of the Heavenly Universe shattered.

The Buddha of Understanding the Law’s body was sent flying, crashing into the magnificent Great Buddha Hall and gouging out a massive crater, sending rubble flying everywhere.

「Dozens of miles away.」

Soul Nine Eagle roared, "Eagle Soars Through the Vast Sky!" His hair and beard shot upwards, and his eyes blazed with two beams of blood-red light. He gathered astonishing power, preparing to slay the Monk of the World of Suffering.

In his hands, two chains wreathed in black demonic energy transformed into two mighty eagles. They spread their powerful wings, battling across the expansive sky. As their wings beat, the winds and clouds of heaven and earth churned, forming two black tornadoes. The entire Western Buddhist Paradise was buffeted, losing its brilliance.

"Vajra Fist!" The Monk of the World of Suffering’s expression was grave. Buddhist light flared from beneath his bronze skin. He clenched his fists, an endless fist aura rampaging through the world like a world-destroying strike.

The tornadoes howled, obliterating the Void wherever they passed.

"Break!" the Monk of the World of Suffering roared, throwing a punch!

A golden fist imprint scattered the first oncoming tornado. Then, he threw another punch, shattering the second tornado and destroying the endless sky.

Standing in the shattered Void, the Monk of the World of Suffering gleamed with golden light, his Buddhist radiance dazzling, as if he were cast from gold. Even his tattered kasaya appeared exceptionally sacred.

"Go!" Soul Nine Eagle’s expression remained unchanged.

The two giant eagles, transformed from the chains, soared to the ninth heaven, circled high above, then dived. Their feathers bristled, shooting out countless streams of potent energy.

"Shatter! Shatter! Shatter!" the Monk of the World of Suffering roared. In one-thousandth of an instant, he threw dozens of punches.

Dozens of resplendent golden fist imprints covered the universe, augmented by Buddhist principles and the artistic conception of the suffering world, appearing immensely powerful.

Yet, no matter how strong, there were limits, constrained by the puncher’s own strength. As the Buddha of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple and a peerless expert of the Second Era, the Monk of the World of Suffering’s cultivation was not weak, having reached the mid-stage of the Origin Great Emperor Realm. However, he was still one realm lower than Soul Nine Eagle.

The eagles struck from the sky!

All the fist imprints filling the heavens were pierced through.

The Monk of the World of Suffering staggered, two deep claw marks appearing on his chest. Blood gushed out, dyeing his yellow kasaya red and releasing a thick scent of blood. Through the wounds, his beating heart could be seen, enveloped in a dim Buddhist light, like a dying flame of life about to be extinguished.

「On a more distant battlefield.」

Soul Eight Fate sneered, his face savage. "Old nun, it’s time to send you on your way!"

He glared at the Saving the World Bodhisattva, holding a chain in his right hand. He struck his chest hard with his left hand, spitting out a mouthful of essence blood that burned like a blazing fireball.

As his essence blood incinerated, Soul Eight Fate’s power skyrocketed, reaching the late-stage of the Origin Great Emperor Realm. Black demonic energy billowed around him, making him resemble a descending demon.

Actually, none of the experts from the Eternal Temple were originally surnamed Soul. Only those who broke through to the Emperor Realm earned the right to bear ’Soul’ as their surname, to be known by a Soul name as they roamed the world.

According to tradition, the names of Eternal Temple experts were related to their Cultivation Techniques. For instance, Soul Nine Eagle cultivated the "Mysterious Eagle Locks the Heavens Art," while Soul Eight Fate cultivated the "Ten Thousand Blood Ten Thousand Battle Art."

He could operate his Cultivation Technique, using the burning of his essence blood as a medium to enhance his strength and fight across cultivation realms! That was why he was named Soul Eight Fate, implying he possessed eight lives!

"Go!" Soul Eight Fate roared. Infinite killing intent erupted as his chain swept through the Void. The boundless, astonishing might struck the Saving the World Bodhisattva directly.

Instantly, the Saving the World Bodhisattva was sent flying, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood, her aura weakening considerably. Among the three great Buddhist leaders, her cultivation realm was the lowest, and her combat strength the weakest.

In the blink of an eye, the Buddha of Understanding the Law, the Monk of the World of Suffering, and the Saving the World Bodhisattva were all defeated, losing most of their combat strength.

"Die!" Soul Annihilation howled, black demonic energy enveloping the sky. Behind him, it transformed into a new dimension, its boundless power entirely infused into his chain as he prepared to utterly destroy the Buddha of Understanding the Law.

"Kill! Kill!" Soul Nine Eagle and Soul Eight Fate roared. Their killing intent surged to the heavens, forming two rivers of slaughter that annihilated all life.

The expressions of the three great Buddhist leaders changed drastically. They defended with all their might but were still forced into a continuous retreat, transforming from golden Buddhas into blood-soaked ones, their lives hanging by a thread.

"Buddhas!" the senior monks of the three great temples cried out in grief and shock upon seeing this.

"Perish!" With blazing killing intent in their eyes, Soul Annihilation and his two companions unleashed their ultimate attacks. They smiled, as if already envisioning the three great Buddhist leaders dying and their souls returning to the Western Paradise.

But just then, a long, resonant Buddhist chant emanated from the forbidden area of the Western Buddhist Paradise.

Instantly, a transcendent Buddhist Way manifested, transforming the ruined Western Buddhist Paradise into a new Myriad Buddhas World, where Buddhist chants echoed and ten thousand Buddhas received worship.

Soul Annihilation and his companions looked up, their eyes wide with astonishment. The three hundred-plus experts of the Eternal Temple also looked up, their gazes dazed, an irrepressible urge to worship welling within them.

A golden palm print materialized, covered in black Buddhist seals. It blotted out the sky and sun, imbued with the laws of both Buddha and demon. A single finger from it seemed capable of destroying an entire Dao Domain.

In an instant, the expressions of Soul Annihilation and his companions changed drastically. Terror filled them as they were swatted away, flesh and blood scattering through the air.

The remaining three hundred-plus experts from the Eternal Temple were stunned, their faces etched with disbelief. They felt a suffocating pressure before their bodies exploded, leaving not even bones behind.

"Thunder Sound Temple still has a Sect-Guarding Expert!"

From amidst the ruins, Soul Annihilation and his companions screamed in horror, their eyes filled with dread. Without a second thought, they turned and fled.

They hadn’t even seen their assailant, yet a single palm print descending from the sky had grievously wounded the three of them!

Just how powerful is that expert from Thunder Sound Temple?

"Disrupt the Dharma Discussion Assembly and expect to retreat unscathed?"

Within the forbidden area, inside the barrier, Buddha Wisdom Absolute murmured to himself. Golden and black Buddhist light flickered alternately around his body as he struck out with another palm.

Across the firmament of the Western Buddhist Paradise, another palm print descended from the sky!

This palm possessed the power to cover the Azure heavens and decide the fate of the universe!