Chapter 309: Palm Buddha Kingdom Killing the Demonic Heart

Yuwentai’s body instantly split in two, like decaying wood being ripped apart. His flesh, blood, and bones, utterly fragile against such extreme sharpness, burst violently.

At this very moment, a strange black stone, roughly the size of an egg, suddenly emerged from his shattered chest.

It was perfectly spherical and so profound that it seemed capable of swallowing all light. Its surface was covered with viscous, ink-like patterns that constantly twisted and shifted.

A terrifying demonic energy, hundreds of times denser and purer than what had been present on "Yuwentai" previously, erupted like a volcano dormant for ten thousand years, surging through the entire shattered palace.

This demonic energy carried the most primordial, soul-twisting evil will. Its mere emanation caused Ye Chen, who was fighting fiercely in the distance, to stumble and nearly lose his mental footing. It also made the Buddha light surrounding Saint Monk Huineng to flicker violently, like a candle flame in a strong wind.

“This is it!” Saint Monk Huineng’s eyes blazed with unprecedented determination; he had been waiting for the exact moment the true form was exposed! He formed hand seals, and a Sanskrit chant, like a resonant bell, vibrated through the void.

The sacred Buddha light, which had accumulated to its peak around him, no longer radiated outwards for protection. Instead, it transformed into a blindingly pure golden torrent, striking the hovering black stone with pinpoint accuracy.

“Om—!” The torrent of Buddha light was not an attack; rather, it instantly constructed an incredibly complex, three-dimensional array around the strange stone, composed of countless golden Sanskrit characters.

Each Sanskrit character contained the immense power of the Great Sun Demonic Art, capable of purifying all evil. Layer upon layer, they formed a golden cage, tightly trapping the inner demon’s true form within.

“Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle…” A violent corrosive sound arose. The Buddha light and demonic energy collided fiercely, gold and black interweaving, annihilating each other.

The golden array shone brightly, attempting to thoroughly purify and seal the demonic stone. However, the demonic essence contained within the inner demon’s true form was too vast and immense, like a boundless sea of defilement.

“Monk, I told you your Great Sun Demonic Art is not powerful enough,” the inner demon’s contemptuous voice echoed from within the surging demonic energy.

Immediately, an even more terrifying demonic energy surged forth. The Buddha light was visibly eroded, blackened, and dissolved at a rapid pace, dimming quickly like snow melting under a blazing sun.

Yuwentai’s previously shattered body instantly re-formed.

Saint Monk Huineng’s face instantly turned ashen.

“Hmph!” Gu Mo snorted coldly, took a step forward, and delivered a casual palm strike. It didn’t appear to carry much power.

Yet, in that instant, wherever the palm wind extended, space collapsed inch by inch.

Yuwentai’s remaining body, along with several yards of surrounding demonic energy, bricks, stones, and even the distorted air, were utterly pulverized into the finest dust by this single palm strike, completely obliterated by the furious power.

All that remained was the black demonic stone, struggling against the golden array, trembling violently in the residual shockwave of Gu Mo’s palm strike.

However, it only trembled slightly. This demonic stone, the true form of the inner demon, appeared to be a stone, but it was merely a manifested image. Its true existence was a substance beyond ascension, a materialized form of source qi, similar to the ancestral fire left after the Fire Qilin was killed.

Such an entity cannot be destroyed; it can only be sealed.

“Amitabha!” Saint Monk Huineng’s gaze was calm as he stated, “Great Hero Gu, this is the inner demon’s true form. This humble monk has suppressed it at Feilai Temple for thirty years. Even the Great Sun Demonic Art couldn’t destroy it; it could only purify it!”

Gu Mo replied, “But it appears now that it cannot be purified either.”

Saint Monk Huineng clasped his hands together and declared, “Amitabha, if I do not enter hell, who will?”

He uttered a low cry, brimming with supreme compassion and the spirit of sacrifice. His entire being transformed into a streaking light of burning golden Buddha flames, instantly traversing space. Astonishingly, he swallowed the black demonic stone, still enveloped by the Buddha light array, into his abdomen!

Gu Mo’s heart skipped a beat.

In that very instant, Saint Monk Huineng’s gaunt body suddenly swelled, as if countless black pythons were violently writhing and colliding beneath his skin.

He circulated his internal energy, and immense Buddha light suddenly burst forth.

The inner demon calmly stated, “Monk, you didn’t have to die, but you insisted on seeking it. You couldn’t seal me for thirty years; do you truly believe you can seal me by swallowing me? What is your physical body worth, anyway…”

Saint Monk Huineng completely ignored the inner demon. He sat cross-legged on the ground, and in that moment, the surging golden Buddha light suddenly vanished, instantly transforming into a violent, repulsive demonic energy.

This demonic energy was not an external invasion; it differed from the inner demon’s desire-fueled demonic qi.

This was a demonic energy imbued with an aura of destruction.

As pure and sacred as Saint Monk Huineng’s Buddha light had been, so vile was this demonic energy now. As compassionate as the Buddha light had been, so violent was this demonic energy now.

It instantly reversed roles, becoming a black cage infinitely stronger and more solid than the previous Buddha light array. It began to invade the stone that was the inner demon’s true form.

This was not purification. Instead, using his own body as a furnace and the “demonic” essence—which originated from a deeper layer of the Great Sun Demonic Art and was now fully activated by the inner demon’s true form—as chains, he initiated the most brutal self-imposed confinement of the same origin!

This unexpected turn of events greatly surprised Gu Mo.

Not only Gu Mo, but even the inner demon was astonished. After all, the Buddha light cultivated by Saint Monk Huineng was so pure and sacred it seemed beyond mortal realms. Who could have imagined that such a holy monk’s body could also harbor such a potent demonic nature, powerful enough to contend with the inner demon’s own magic?

Enveloped in demonic energy, Saint Monk Huineng said in a deep voice, “Many years ago, this humble monk discovered that the power cultivated through the Great Sun Demonic Art has two opposing sides. My mastery of the world’s most sacred Buddhist power meant that, correspondingly, I would also become the most deeply demonic entity in the world.

For all these years, the reason this humble monk required my disciples to assist in sealing the inner demon’s true form was my fear of exerting full power. I worried that once my Buddha light was exhausted, even if the inner demon was sealed, a second demon would emerge.

Only now do I understand how wrong I have been all these years. This Great Sun Demonic Art of mine exists solely to seal the inner demon’s true form. This implies that everything associated with it was created for that purpose, and that cultivating both Buddha and demon simultaneously is the true Great Dao.

It’s regrettable that this humble monk awakened a little late, but today, I shall ascend and suppress the inner demon!”

In that very instant, sacred Buddha light once again surged from Saint Monk Huineng’s body, transforming him into a being of both Buddha and demon, with both aspects coexisting simultaneously.

At this same instant, the vast power of his primordial spirit, now coexisting as Buddha and demon, surged forth. The energy of the Ascension realm manifested, and Saint Monk Huineng achieved a breakthrough to the Ascension realm!

This was not forced ascension through a secret technique; his realm had genuinely reached that level!

“Roar—!” A shriek, filled with unwillingness, anger, and a hint of surprise, erupted. It did not emanate from Huineng’s body, but from the void itself!

“Well done, Monk Huineng!” A phantom, twisted black shadow, existing between reality and illusion, suddenly shot skyward from Huineng’s Baihui acupoint.

It tore through space without hesitation, transforming into an extreme black line, and fled towards the heavens above!

This was the inner demon’s divine consciousness. It abandoned its true form, or perhaps it realized that the power erupting within Huineng had temporarily trapped its main body, and it had to seize this opportunity to escape the dangerous battlefield!

“Trying to escape?!” Gu Mo reacted with extreme swiftness. The moment the divine consciousness departed, his figure vanished from its spot, reappearing high in the sky an instant later. He teleported, pursuing the black line, space easily parting before him like ripples on water.

However, just as he was about to catch up to the inner demon’s divine consciousness, the dense demonic energy, gathered from the entire Wutong City and even broader regions below, like a vast ocean, suddenly boiled as if receiving an ultimate command!

“Rumble—!” The overwhelming demonic energy no longer ascended. Instead, it sank and condensed fiercely, like Mount Tai pressing down!

They transformed into countless immensely thick, jet-black chains, inscribed with bizarre demonic patterns. Each chain contained terrifying power to imprison space, defile primordial spirits, and corrode physical bodies. Like a vast net spanning the heavens, they instantly sealed all space within a hundred yards around Gu Mo, densely packed, layer upon layer, twisting and coiling to strangle him.

“Is that all you’ve got?” Gu Mo snorted coldly, and his Grand Void Sword was poised to strike, ready to sever these annoying shackles.

But in that instant, another anomaly occurred!

The void directly above Gu Mo’s head, without any warning, ripped open with a massive fissure!

A thin, square piece, roughly a yard in size, with incredibly sharp edges and a dark golden luster flowing across its surface, emerged from the void.

When its full form was revealed, it was, in fact, a scale.

The moment this scale appeared, Gu Mo felt an inexplicable tremor in his heart, sensing an odd familiarity.

Immediately, he felt a vast dragon’s might emanating from the scale, causing the oppressed space to ripple. It then powerfully slashed out, like a blade of divine punishment!

Its aim was incredibly precise, targeting Gu Mo, whose movements had been slightly delayed by the demonic energy chains!

“A dragon scale?” Gu Mo blurted out, sensing the scale’s aura.

The inner demon transformed into a wisp of demonic energy, instantly covering the dragon scale, and said in a deep voice, “Gu Mo, my true form has never been important to me. I gathered so much demonic energy not to activate my main body, but to kill you here!

This is a scale left behind when the Azure Dragon was slain. Although it doesn’t possess the world-shattering power of the Reverse Scale Blade, it can still kill any living being in this world, including you, a physical ascender!”

As the inner demon spoke to unsettle Gu Mo’s mind, it simultaneously activated the dragon scale, which hurtled downwards, tearing a fissure through the void itself.

It was an unparalleled destructive force.

However, instead of fear, Gu Mo’s eyes held an inexplicable excitement and a hint of amusement. In an instant, the Dragon God Art within him activated to its absolute peak!

“Roar—!” A majestic and sacred dragon’s roar, reverberating through the nine heavens and ten earths, erupted!

“What is this?” At this moment, the inner demon was utterly terrified, for it felt an even more immense dragon’s might.

At this moment, Gu Mo’s body rapidly transformed amidst dazzling white light. In the blink of an eye, a colossal dragon, covered entirely in dark translucent scales, with prominent horns, sharp five-clawed talons, and exuding endless majesty and immense power, stretched across the firmament!

Its massive dragon eyes, like two burning golden suns, coldly observed the descending giant blade of dragon scale.

A massive dragon claw extended, seemingly slow but actually faster than lightning, precisely grasping the dragon scale imbued with terrifying power. White light flowed over the dragon claw, containing the supreme dragon might capable of suppressing all heavens and controlling all scales!

“Clang—!” A colossal sound, piercing metal and shattering stone, echoed, sending violent ripples through space!

At this moment, the massive dragon scale fell into the dragon’s grasp, held as casually as a piece of ordinary debris!

No matter how the dragon scale vibrated or unleashed its space-cutting sharpness, it could not budge the dragon claw in the slightest.

“Using a dragon scale to kill a dragon, inner demon, you truly are a genius!” Gu Mo’s cold voice resonated from the dragon’s maw.

Had it been his previous Dragon God Art, perhaps this Azure Dragon scale might have had some minor effect on him. But now, with the Dragon God Art strengthened by the Battle God’s Tome, Gu Mo had transcended his previous state of possessing the spirit but lacking the true form, becoming a dragon with both form and spirit.

A mere dragon scale held no significance for him.

The inner demon’s divine consciousness retreated in that instant. In the black mist, its blood-red eyes revealed a human-like bewilderment, then it cursed loudly, “Master Chen, Master Qiu, those two wretched slaves have ruined me!”

In that instant, the colossal dragon body swung violently. Its dragon claw, gripping the scale like a world-splitting giant axe, slammed towards the black shadow of the inner demon’s divine consciousness, which was about to vanish into the void fissure, with ten times the force and speed it had arrived with!

“Those wretched slaves ruined me!” The black shadow formed by the inner demon’s divine consciousness let out a terrifying shriek.

It hadn’t known Gu Mo could transform into a dragon. It now harbored intense hatred for Master Chen and Master Qiu, because, residing in the heavens where one day equaled a year on Earth, it typically couldn’t monitor earthly affairs and thus had no idea Gu Mo was capable of draconic transformation.

Of course, even if it had known, it wouldn’t have given it much thought. After all, many martial arts in the human world could generate dragon-shaped qi, and with mental illusions, they would appear even more realistic.

However, while its ignorance was understandable, Master Chen and Master Qiu, who controlled the Chu Kingdom and resided in the mortal realm, couldn’t possibly be unaware of the truth. They had recently contacted it out of the blue, even sending it a dragon scale with unusual kindness.

“Wretched slaves, wretched slaves!” At this moment, the inner demon was certain that those two had deliberately set it up.

Its heart seethed with resentment.

However, there was no time for further thought, as the colossal dragon had torn through space and arrived. The inner demon hastily condensed its strongest demonic energy shield.

“Boom—!!!!” The colossal dragon ripped through space, arriving instantly. There was no standoff, only overwhelming destruction!

The shield formed by the demonic energy domain exploded like paper. The dragon’s might was vast, the divine dragon’s power surged, and the overwhelming force of the dragon’s claw unleashed itself without reservation upon the inner demon’s divine consciousness!

“Rip!” A muffled sound, like tearing cloth, reverberated. The incredibly condensed black shadow of the inner demon’s divine consciousness was violently torn and shattered by this impact and claw strike! It dissolved into countless fragmented wisps of black energy, scattering like ink dispersed by a raging wind!

“Ah—!! Those wretched slaves ruined me!!” The inner demon’s divine consciousness let out a painful and resentful shriek. The voice seemed to emanate from the Nine Nether Hell, filled with endless hatred.

But it was not completely annihilated. The scattered black energy instantly sensed something, and like rivers flowing into the sea, it furiously sank towards the ruined Northern Zhou Imperial Palace below, where the demonic energy was densest. Simultaneously, the imperial city’s defensive array activated.

The inner demon used the city’s pervasive demonic energy to instantly conceal itself.

“Trying to escape!” Gu Mo snorted coldly, his dragon body swayed, then he dove down, instantly transforming into human form, and immediately activated the Grand Law of Dao Heart Seed Demon.

An invisible yet vast and immense domain power instantly expanded with him at its center, engulfing the entire ruined imperial city!

This was precisely the Demonic Immortal Domain, a strengthened version of Dao Heart Seed Demon, which he had comprehended by combining it with the Battle God’s Tome. Now, fully unleashed, it transformed the entire imperial city into a colossal spiritual and energy prison.

Within the domain, the flow of demonic energy was greatly suppressed, space was reinforced and sealed, and every subtle fluctuation of demonic thought had nowhere to hide.

Gu Mo’s vast divine consciousness, like a precise heavenly net, instantly sank into every corner of the ruins, frantically scanning and searching for every trace of the inner demon’s consciousness after its dispersal.

Meanwhile, in a corner of the imperial palace ruins, Ye Chen leaned on his two swords, gasping violently. He was covered in blood, both from his enemies and himself.

The last few earth-shattering clashes between Gu Mo and the inner demon, and the resulting energy turbulence and spatial tremors, made him, the “Third Master of Chu Kingdom,” feel like a small boat tossed in a stormy sea. He had to exert all his strength to protect himself from being injured by the aftermath.

“Oh my goodness… When gods fight, mortals suffer… I’m utterly exhausted, I’m dying of thirst. This ‘Third Master of Chu Kingdom’ truly has no prestige…”

“Never mind, never mind. If I can’t stand against them, I can at least hide!”

Ye Chen wiped the blood and sweat from his face, feeling his throat parched. He quickly slipped away, afraid of accidentally getting caught up in the conflict again.

He looked around, seeing only crumbling walls, scattered debris, and corpses shrouded in demonic energy. He couldn’t find any clean water source.

Suddenly, he spotted a relatively intact ancient well not far away.

“Water!” Ye Chen’s eyes lit up, and he dragged his weary body towards it.

The well opening was deep, emitting faint wisps of cool air.

He unfastened the leather water pouch hanging from his waist, only to find it was torn.

Helpless, he found a half-broken wooden bucket near the well, tied a loose rope to it, and painstakingly lowered it.

“Plop!” The bucket seemed to hit the water’s surface.

Ye Chen vigorously cranked the winch, pulling the bucket up. The wooden bucket was heavy; it seemed to be full of water.

Ye Chen, panting, lifted the bucket to the well’s edge. He eagerly leaned over, wanting to scoop a handful of water to quench his thirst.

However, what met his eyes was not clear well water. On the murky surface of the water in the bucket, a swollen, pale human head floated distinctly.

The head’s eyes were tightly shut, its face contorted; it had clearly been dead for a long time.

Staring at the head, Ye Chen was speechless. Knowing he couldn’t drink water from this well, he instantly became irritated and said, “Brother, you’ve deprived me of water. Wouldn’t it be perfectly reasonable for me to kick your head like a ball?”

“Of course, it’s reasonable,” the head replied.

“Hahaha, you said it yourself, so don’t blame me…” Before he could finish, Ye Chen’s face suddenly froze. He slowly withdrew his hand and with difficulty looked back at the head.

The head’s tightly shut eyes suddenly opened! They were hollow and lifeless, yet in an instant, a strange black glint flashed within them!

On the head’s swollen, pale face, the corners of its mouth stiffly, little by little, curved upwards, stretching into a horrifying, inhuman smile.

Ye Chen’s blood seemed to instantly freeze, and his scalp prickled! A chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head. His stiff smile instantly contorted into something uglier than a sob, and he said with sorrowful despair, “Why me again…”

Just then, the inner demon within the head sensed Gu Mo’s divine consciousness sweeping over. It instantly withdrew from the head and surged towards Ye Chen.

In the next instant, a cold, evil, boundless spiritual torrent, laden with infinite demonic desires, surged like the waters of a breached Styx, brutally rushing towards the dam of Ye Chen’s sea of consciousness.

Then, it suddenly felt two strange masses of “qi” atop Ye Chen’s head, pressing down on it like two mountains.

“What the hell is this?” Nothing in the human world should be able to touch it, yet these two masses of “qi” slammed into it like two great mountains. The inner demon, already scattered by Gu Mo’s attack, was struck again and immediately knocked out of Ye Chen’s sea of consciousness.

In that very instant, Gu Mo’s divine consciousness swept over and instantly detected the inner demon.

“Buzz—!” Above the ruined imperial city, enveloped by the Demonic Immortal Domain, a sword hum suddenly resonated, piercing through souls and tearing apart heaven and earth!

A sword light, whose vastness and sharpness defied description, powerfully struck down from the heavens above!

That was not merely sword qi; it was a sword strike that condensed Gu Mo’s ultimate power at his current physical ascension realm, infused with the unparalleled sharpness of the Grand Void Sword, and further integrated with the Battle God’s Tome’s understanding of spatial laws!

It wasn’t a simple cleave; it was more like the very sky had ripped open a fissure, and a pure waterfall of light, condensed from destructive will, poured down!

Wherever the sword light reached, space no longer merely shattered; it was directly “annihilated”! It wasn’t cut; it was utterly erased from the plane of existence by that unmatched sword intent, leaving behind a deep, void, seemingly world-ending black trail, aimed directly at the core wisp of divine consciousness that the inner demon had just re-condensed within the demonic energy!

“Roar—!!!” The inner demon let out a roar mixed with shock and rage, its demonic shadow thicker than ever before.

The viscous demonic energy pervading the world, along with the Northern Zhou’s national destiny dragon qi—long corrupted and distorted by the inner demon—and the countless negative emotions like fear, despair, and violence hidden within the hearts of the demon-infected Northern Zhou populace, all instantly boiled and converged, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea!

Furthermore, a profound, weighty “power of the mortal realm,” imbued with the faint wills of billions of beings and the qi of national fate, was forcibly extracted and ignited!

“Rumble—!” Endless demonic energy, mixed with distorted national destiny and the collective aspirations of sentient beings, furiously churned and converged like a boiling cauldron of oil! At the core of the inner demon’s divine consciousness, an unimaginably vast, jet-black Dharma idol suddenly took shape!

This Dharma idol stood towering, connecting heaven and earth. Its face was indistinct, yet it bore the majesty of the Northern Zhou imperial family and the distorted faces of billions of demon-infected beings.

Its two palms suddenly lifted upwards, their centers densely covered with demonic patterns, spewing forth a tsunami-like torrent of filth. This torrent contained fragmented illusory images of mountains and rivers, and the wailing remnants of sentient beings, forming a colossal pair of hands imbued with national destiny, demonic energy, and the grievances of the mortal realm!

“Clang—” A colossal sound, as if the heavens and earth were being sundered, exploded!

The unparalleled sharpness of the Grand Void Sword fiercely cleaved into those colossal hands.

The resounding clang of metal filled the cosmos, and palpable shockwaves instantly swept across the surroundings.

The imperial city, already reduced to ruins, was, under the aftermath of this collision, as if brutally ploughed again by an invisible giant plow. Its surface was forcibly scraped away by several yards! Distant surviving city walls silently disintegrated into dust!

Gu Mo’s sword strike was astonishingly held back by the inner demon!

The two forces fiercely collided and annihilated each other, emitting a jarring, corrosive “sizzle.” Gold and black energy currents wildly splattered, tearing the sky into shreds.

From within the demonic idol, the inner demon’s hoarse, venomous, yet slightly crazed and triumphant roar echoed:

“Gu Mo! Today I miscalculated, underestimated you, and wrongly trusted those two wretched slaves! I truly cannot kill you! But—”

The demonic idol’s arms trembled violently under the sword’s pressure, riddled with cracks, yet they stubbornly held on.

“You, too, shouldn’t even dream of completely killing me. Innumerable people throughout the Northern Zhou Kingdom can be my avatars! Can you kill every person in this nation? Can you destroy this demonic kingdom, forged from national destiny and the grievances of the mortal realm?!”

As the inner demon roared, the entire territory of Northern Zhou seemed to resonate!

“Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—” Above the sky, the winds shifted. Countless massive, jet-black demonic energy tornadoes rose from all parts of Northern Zhou, furiously converging above Wutong City.

Each tornado carried countless twisted fragments of consciousness, shattered national destiny, and the power of the mortal realm.

This converging demonic energy and human power were no longer merely energy; around the demonic idol, they formed a colossal, defiled, and twisted domain.

Within the domain, countless miniature city illusions were faintly visible, and countless numb or ferocious figures writhed and wailed within them, emitting a repulsive aura of corruption. The sky was completely stained dark red, like a giant, inverted blood-colored demonic bowl, enveloping Gu Mo!

The Demonic Kingdom descended. A nation served as its demonic source, and all sentient beings as its fuel!

The inner demon’s voice resonated throughout the Demonic Kingdom domain: “This is—the Northern Zhou Demonic Kingdom! Gu Mo, this Demonic Kingdom is something I prepared for you for over a year. In seven hundred years, you are the only one who has prompted me to take such an endeavor so seriously. Yet, even so, I still cannot kill you.

However, you likewise cannot kill me. Let our grievances end here. Let us shake hands and make peace today. I will let you ascend. In the heavenly realm someday, we can still be colleagues. What do you say?”

Gu Mo’s expression remained impassive, yet his eyes were sharp as the rising sun, piercing through the dense demonic aura. He said softly, “Inner demon, you’re afraid!”

The inner demon said coldly, “What am I afraid of? What could I possibly fear in this mortal realm? Here, I am immortal and indestructible. No one can kill me, and you are no exception. I simply see no reason to continue fighting you. Missing out on your primordial spirit won’t affect me in the slightest!”

Gu Mo calmly stated, “What cannot be killed is your true form’s source qi, not you. You are merely an inner demon. Strictly speaking, the true form’s source qi is one thing, and the inner demon is another. The source qi cannot be killed, but you are merely the consciousness of that source qi; you will die!”

“Within the Demonic Kingdom, how will you kill me?!”

“Then I’ll try,” Gu Mo said calmly, his voice not loud, yet clearly penetrating the chaotic din within the demonic energy.

Before his words fully fell, Gu Mo made a move that instantly astonished the inner demon—he released the Grand Void Sword from his hand!

The Grand Void Sword, being sentient, let out a reluctant clear hum, yet it still obediently hovered by Gu Mo’s side.

Then, Gu Mo slowly clasped his hands together and placed them before his chest.

An extremely simple action, yet one that contained profound enlightenment and immense dignity!

“Om—Mani—Padme—Hum—” The ancient, magnificent, and soul-cleansing six-syllable mantra, the Sanskrit sound, did not emanate from Gu Mo’s mouth. Instead, it seemed to resonate from the depths of the endless void, from the very source of the river of time! This Sanskrit sound instantly overpowered the wailing within the demonic energy, echoing through heaven and earth like a great bell!

Around Gu Mo, boundless golden light burst forth! It was no longer the pure, sacred Buddha light of Saint Monk Huineng, but a brilliant golden glow that encompassed all phenomena, was incomparably mighty, and even faintly seemed to have chaos flowing within it!

Within the golden light, countless illusory Buddha figures appeared out of thin air! They were either sitting or standing, some with wrathful gazes like Vajras, others holding flowers with gentle smiles. Their forms varied, yet all possessed solemn and dignified appearances, radiating immense