Chapter 3786: Indestructible Divine Body Perfected
Seemingly as light as a brushing breeze, Pina Yejia's palm strike was exquisitely profound, the palm imprint shifting between the real and the illusory, sending both the Four Cauldrons and Zhang Ruochen flying outward.
Like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, the unbreakable four-directional defensive power formed by the Four Cauldrons and the Four Symbols was shattered and scattered. The Four Symbols nearly collapsed, and the Four Cauldrons flew off in four different directions.
Without giving Zhang Ruochen any chance to regroup, Pina Yejia's legs vanished before his body, and with a flicker of movement, he charged straight at Zhang Ruochen, forming a Mudra Seal with his hand and striking directly at Zhang Ruochen's Mysterious Embryo below his abdomen.
This was exactly the same technique he had used moments ago to extract Murong Tailai's Divine Sea.
Within eighteen zhang, Zhang Ruochen's speed, strength, spirit, and even his control over time and space were all at their peak, making him fearless against any opponent.
Yet, despite unleashing all his power, he could not block Pina Yejia's Divine Foot Transcendence.
The Mudra Seal, like the Buddha plucking a flower, seemed to pluck the order of the Heavenly Dao, ready to unleash extraordinary might at his fingertips.
"Immovable Wisdom King Fist!"
Zhang Ruochen formed a fist seal with the five fingers of his right hand, each knuckle cracking like thunder.
Gathering the full force of his body, he threw a punch.
Under the threat of life and death, Zhang Ruochen's mental state reached an unprecedented peak, entering a mysterious realm of emptiness and unity. He gained a deeper understanding of the Immovable Wisdom King Fist, comprehending the twenty-first layer of fist intent.
The fist force surged through his blood qi, divine soul, and Mysterious Embryo, connecting various Dao and law rules. In an instant, the power erupted, shattering space.
Pina Yejia's entire body radiated golden light. Without changing his finger seal, he avoided the most violent part of Zhang Ruochen's fist, striking like an eagle's beak at Zhang Ruochen's wrist.
"Smack!"
Zhang Ruochen had lent his Qilin Fist Gloves to Nutian Shenzun. Taking this blow from Pina Yejia, his hand bones snapped with a sound, blood splattering, and excruciating pain coursed through his entire body.
All the fist force in that moment drained away completely.
If it were any other cultivator, suffering such a blow would surely cause their soul to scatter and their confidence to shatter.
Once such a thought arose, death would not be far off, and they would inevitably follow in Murong Tailai's footsteps, being suppressed by Pina Yejia within a few moves.
After shattering Zhang Ruochen's wrist bones, Pina Yejia gave him no chance to catch his breath. With his other hand, Buddha light radiated ten thousand zhang, building up power, then struck like lightning toward Zhang Ruochen's chest.
The two were engaged in close combat, within arm's reach. Pina Yejia's first and second strikes had almost no time interval between them.
Even an Indestructible Infinite initial stage powerhouse, after having their hand bones shattered, would absolutely be unable to avoid this follow-up strike.
But, unexpectedly, Pina Yejia's second palm strike hit nothing but air.
"Oh!"
Pina Yejia was secretly astonished, his gaze fixed on Zhang Ruochen as he flew out from his right side, space twisting infinitely, time seeming to stand still.
The two passed each other.
Without any pause, Zhang Ruochen gripped the Eternal Spear, racing against time, aiming to thrust a spear that would reverse the outcome before Pina Yejia could turn around.
At their level of cultivation, turning or not turning, they could still unleash earth-shattering power.
But in close combat, victory or defeat could be decided in the blink of an eye, and the back was the greatest opening.
The Eternal Spear released the power of time order, suppressing Pina Yejia's mobility.
Yet, just as Zhang Ruochen thrust the spear, he lost his target. Pina Yejia had shifted behind him, and a Buddha's voice rang out: "Good courage! With your cultivation, even while injured, you dare to take the initiative to attack me. Unfortunately, your cultivation is far too lacking. If you had perfected your Five Elements cultivation, this spear might have been unavoidable for me."
Pina Yejia appeared behind Zhang Ruochen, like striking a wooden fish, pointing a finger at his head.
Zhang Ruochen had no time to change his stance or defend. The Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal appeared beneath his feet, and his body teleported away.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh..."
Zhang Ruochen's mastery of space was profound, and he believed he could surpass Qingcheng Yun's Radiant Light Path with his Way of Space.
But Pina Yejia's Divine Foot Transcendence was terrifying, following like a shadow. After only five teleportations, Zhang Ruochen felt he could no longer evade. He had no choice but to form a sword seal with his fingers and strike out, colliding with the Buddha finger that emerged from space.
Pina Yejia was nowhere to be seen, only a single Buddha finger.
Like an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, the barrier between heaven and earth turned into a watery curtain, with the Buddha finger at its center, stirring countless ripples.
Zhang Ruochen's two fingers snapped, his left hand also mangled and bloody, unable to lift it anymore.
"Not bad. To evade my five pursuits, you are far superior to that Tailai Heavenly being. You must possess a considerable amount of Space Essence, don't you? With your Space Essence, my Divine Foot Transcendence will become even more flawless."
Pina Yejia stepped out from the heavenly and earthly barrier, hands clasped together, standing opposite Zhang Ruochen.
Then, he transformed into myriad forms, each wearing a large red kasaya, surrounding Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen's arms bled profusely, but his battle will burned like a blazing divine furnace, never extinguishing. He said, "Your remnant soul has seized your previous life's physical body, hasn't it? I'm very curious, is your physical body truly an Ancestor's body? Are you really the Kasyapa Buddha?"
"In the starry sky, you were already probing me. Why are you so concerned about this? Whether it's Pina Yejia or Kasyapa, aren't they both already things of the past?"
Pina Yejia's gaze suddenly turned toward the summit of Baogai Divine Mountain, where the Sakridagamin Golden Staff trembled violently, gradually being swallowed by the Snow Wind Continent Divine Formation.
All his avatars, with kasayas fluttering, condensed a heaven-reaching giant hand, reaching into the void to retrieve the Sakridagamin Golden Staff.
"Your opponent is me!"
Zhang Ruochen roared, charging straight at Pina Yejia.
His right arm, which had been shattered, had already recovered. Gripping the Eternal Spear, he thrust it directly at Pina Yejia's back.
Pina Yejia was secretly shocked, not expecting Zhang Ruochen's perception and recognition ability to be so terrifying, accurately pinpointing his true body.
This spear was aimed straight at his true body.
Pina Yejia had absolute confidence that, with his Golden Body, he could withstand this spear.
But he would be injured!
What troubled him more was that on Zhang Ruochen's arm, nine-colored Ancestor Divine Qi and Ancestor Rules appeared, forcing him to abandon the Sakridagamin Golden Staff. He swept his kasaya sleeve, creating a storm of wind and waves that surged toward Zhang Ruochen.
Pina Yejia was genuinely angered, his killing intent soaring to the heavens.
"Taking the Buddha Relic inside your body can compensate for the loss of the Sakridagamin Golden Staff. With these Buddha Relics, my Golden Body's strength can recover several levels."
For the first time, Pina Yejia stopped referring to himself as "this humble monk."
He could see that Zhang Ruochen's arm had recovered so quickly precisely because of the Buddha Relics within him.
The spear Zhang Ruochen thrust with all his might was swept wildly by Pina Yejia's kasaya sleeve, like steering a boat in a raging sea—helpless and completely beyond his control.
And beneath the sleeve, a palm suddenly struck out.
Zhang Ruochen felt the threat of death. His consciousness and divine soul became crystal clear. The Wuji Divine Dao within him operated to its extreme, with countless Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seals spinning in every drop of blood and every strand of hair.
The eighty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety relics inside him, along with the divine pill energy he had previously consumed, burned at a rate a thousand or ten thousand times faster than usual, merging with his flesh and blood.
"Boom!"
Pina Yejia's palm struck Zhang Ruochen's chest, sinking slightly, shattering his internal organs, and covering his ribs with dense cracks as they caved inward.
But that was where it stopped.
Logically, taking such a solid palm strike, any cultivator below Indestructible Infinite, even if not torn to pieces, would have their chest pierced through.
Pina Yejia noticed that Zhang Ruochen's skin was unusually tough, covered in a layer of resilient skin membrane.
"I see."
Pina Yejia did not think the defense of the Heavenly Venerable Treasure Gauze was particularly remarkable. In fact, this treasure robe made from the skin of the Xinghuan Heavenly Venerable was already damaged.
Just as Pina Yejia planned to change his technique and cripple Zhang Ruochen's combat power in one move, he discovered that a significant amount of the Buddha power from his earlier palm strike had been absorbed into Zhang Ruochen's body.
The palm pressed against Zhang Ruochen's chest sank as if into a mud pit.
A Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal emerged on Zhang Ruochen's chest, pulling at him, as if trying to drag him into the abyssal hell within Zhang Ruochen's body.
He met Zhang Ruochen's eyes and saw within them an inexhaustible fighting spirit, as if it could never be extinguished.
"Boom!"
Pina Yejia was extraordinarily skilled. He broke free from this pulling force, turned his palm into a fist, and sent Zhang Ruochen flying with a heavy blow.
Zhang Ruochen's body crashed into Murong Tailai's Divine Realm World below, shattering the golden earth, connecting it to the Void World, turning it into a chaotic mess.
Pina Yejia did not rashly strike again, carefully observing Zhang Ruochen's condition.
He found that the Buddha Relics within Zhang Ruochen were dissolving at an astonishing speed, and the various forces within his body were converging, like a chaotic scene of heaven and earth being created.
And his physical body was growing stronger, evolving in an unimaginable direction.
"Amitabha! I was previously consumed by anger, blinding my eyes, and failed to notice that your physical body is so profoundly mysterious. Unfortunately, you are not a woman; otherwise, if we cultivated together in dual cultivation, we could surely ascend to the Ancestor Realm together."
Pina Yejia spoke as if he had discovered a wondrous thing in the world. After expressing his amazement, his aura turned icy cold. "But now, you must die."
"Whoosh!"
A Radiant Divine Arrow carrying Ancestor blood flew from afar, blocked by the Buddha ring manifested behind Pina Yejia, shattering upon impact.
A Fuya had already retrieved the Sakridagamin Golden Staff, holding a Crystal Bow, and said, "Legend has it that you are one aspect of the Kasyapa Buddha. Now it seems your Golden Body is so strong—it's not that simple, is it?"
Pina Yejia ignored A Fuya and went straight for Zhang Ruochen.
His desire to kill Zhang Ruochen was stronger than ever.
He felt that once Zhang Ruochen completed this transformation, today's absolute advantage in victory would begin to tilt.
"If you want to kill Zhang Ruochen, you'll have to go through me first."
Xiu Chen Heavenly God, piloting the Sundial, charged out of Baogai Divine Mountain, manifesting a Time Divine Sea, and smashed toward Pina Yejia like a meteor.
But distant water cannot quench a nearby fire. Pina Yejia pointed a finger at Zhang Ruochen's Mysterious Embryo below his abdomen, completely breaking the defense of the Heavenly Venerable Treasure Gauze.
"Whoosh!"
Zhang Ruochen let out a long roar. From his Mysterious Embryo, nine-colored Ancestor Divine Qi and Ancestor Rules burst forth.
The Buddha Relics within him completely melted, and the divine pill he had previously consumed from Xionghai Divine Venerable to charge into Indestructible Infinite was fully absorbed. His body instantly turned golden, as if forged from gold, containing a sea of stars within, radiating billions of light beams.
The Indestructible Divine Body was perfected!
The sound of blood qi flowing within Zhang Ruochen's body roared like a divine river. He threw a punch, striking directly at Pina Yejia's face.
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