Chapter 3820: Suppressing the Indestructible
As he rushed out of White Pale Star, the Corpse Burier was completely exposed to the rules of heaven and earth. He was a person who should have died long ago, rejected by heaven and earth, and now could only rely on the burial shroud on his body to resist the burning of the world's power. No matter what, he had to kill Kui Liang Huang before he himself was incinerated, eliminating the threat to the Undying Blood Clan.
Kui Liang Huang felt the intense killing intent emanating from the Corpse Burier. He stopped pursuing Bing Huang and raised the Lamp of Life and Extinction high. The lamp's light cast the shadow of the Destiny Temple, majestic and magnificent, indestructible. "Life and Extinction take form, Destiny is eternal." His divine voice was high-pitched, resounding across this starry sky. At this moment, he had no need to take risks by attacking actively; he only needed to defend against the Corpse Burier's final killing strike before death to secure victory.
"Boom!" The Corpse Burier, like a fireball, broke through the air and pierced through the light shadow of the Lamp of Life and Extinction with his spear. The temple collapsed, and the lamp's light was extinguished. This spear was unstoppable, infinitely profound, breaking all illusions with pure power.
"Pfft!" The Eternal Spear struck Kui Liang Huang's physical body, piercing half of his head. A palm-sized piece of his skull was knocked flying. "A mere Lamp of Life and Extinction thinks it can stop me? If you were still wielding the original lamp, perhaps you could have done it!" The Corpse Burier shook the long spear in his hand, sending bright rivers of time flying from its shaft, then thrust again, aiming straight for Kui Liang Huang's heart.
Kui Liang Huang was extraordinarily formidable. Using his unfathomable spiritual power, he neutralized the power of time. Even after being struck by the Eternal Spear, he did not lose any lifespan and remained full of energy. Facing the Corpse Burier's second thrust, Kui Liang Huang used his spiritual power to execute a supreme divine technique, adding the rules of flowing light, space, and time to his body, instantly vanishing from this starry sky. His body flickered and appeared billions of miles away. But even so, the Eternal Spear thrust by the Corpse Burier grazed his shoulder, taking a piece of flesh with it.
"Where do you think you're going!" Blood-colored secret patterns emerged on the Corpse Burier's burial shroud as he ran through the void. Space continuously receded. In moments, he caught up to Kui Liang Huang and pierced his back with the spear, running him through. The Corpse Burier knew well that physical wounds could not harm Kui Liang Huang's foundation. He had to use the time power of the Eternal Spear to damage his lifespan and the ancient blood-fiend corpse energy contained in the burial shroud to break his divine soul.
The Corpse Burier swung his long spear, conjuring time dragons one after another, not giving Kui Liang Huang any chance to create distance again. Spear strike after spear strike landed on his body, piercing dozens of bloody holes. "Master Qi... is truly formidable... If your blood energy weren't depleted, you could shake even a Heavenly Venerable!" Kui Liang Huang's body continuously expanded, manifesting a giant divine form that soon reached millions of miles in height. The Corpse Burier also manifested a giant divine form. The two were like twin stars in the universe, constantly entwining, colliding, and chasing each other, emitting light as brilliant as stars, shaking the starry sky with their battle.
As his injuries increased, Kui Liang Huang could no longer use his spiritual power to wear down the time damage from the Eternal Spear, and his lifespan began to show signs of depletion.
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Within the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest, Sanskrit characters were like an ocean, and the sound of chanting sutras was melodious and unending. Shang Tian's Corpse could clearly feel his physical body, divine soul, and cultivation being suppressed by Buddhist power, rapidly declining. "No! I am an Indestructible Infinite. What Buddha in this world can make me equal to all beings?" Shang Tian's Corpse's pupils burned with demonic flames, his long hair stood on end, and dense lightning was released from his bones as he resisted the Buddhist power surging from all directions. At the same time, he held the Demon God Stone Pillar, stepped on a black ocean, and attacked Zhang Ruochen's true body. The Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd flew out first.
Zhang Ruochen stood beneath the Gui Ruler. Seeing that Shang Tian's Corpse was so powerful and difficult to suppress, he took out the Mani Pearl, activated it with the pure Buddhist energy within his body, and shouted again: "All beings are equal!" Golden Buddhist light tides surged from Zhang Ruochen's body. Immediately, the power of the Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd greatly diminished, and even its rotation slowed. Shang Tian's Corpse's body paused, his cultivation realm falling from Indestructible Infinite to the same level as Zhang Ruochen's.
Just as Shang Tian's Corpse was inwardly horrified, Zhang Ruochen executed a superb movement technique, bypassing the Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd and appearing before him. "Boom!" He struck with the Immovable Wisdom King Fist, nine-colored ancestral divine glow erupting from his fist. Shang Tian's Corpse swung the Demon God Stone Pillar to meet the fist seal. As they clashed, he felt as if the pillar had struck an unshakable divine mountain, his arm numbed by the recoil.
"Pfft!" The fist seal disappeared, and Zhang Ruochen's body transformed into a sword light. Before Shang Tian's Corpse could defend, the sword light pierced through his chest, spilling divine blood onto the demonic sea beneath his feet. The sword light passed through his chest and reformed into Zhang Ruochen's figure behind him. "Is the gap this large at the same cultivation level?" This thought flashed through Shang Tian's Corpse's mind as his body was struck by a palm and sent flying.
Even in such a desperate situation, he still used his powerful spiritual will to mobilize the Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd. Zhang Ruochen watched the flying halberd with indifference, merely moving his mind. The Earth Cauldron descended from above and heavily suppressed it. When Shang Tian was at the Indestructible Infinite realm and wielded the Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd, Zhang Ruochen naturally could not block it. But with Shang Tian's Corpse at the peak of Great Unbound Infinite, Zhang Ruochen could easily suppress this demonic artifact.
Shang Tian's Corpse burned the divine blood within his body, unleashing unparalleled physical power, trying to break the suppression of "All Beings Are Equal" with sheer physical strength. Zhang Ruochen held the Mani Pearl and walked toward him step by step, a Buddhist halo bright behind him, a lotus blooming with each step. "This is the Land of Ultimate Bliss, the ancestral realm of Buddha Kasyapa. This is the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation left by the Sixth Patriarch. These are two of the seven Buddhist treasures: the Suddhodana White Silver Tree and the Mani Pearl. You ask which Buddha can make you equal to all beings? My answer is: all the Buddhas of the heavens are here."
As he spoke these words, Zhang Ruochen's robes fluttered, and he floated up, sacred, dignified, ethereal, and vast. He lightly extended a palm. His hand was golden, and space was infinitely vast. Infinite Buddhist power purified the demonic energy, burned the demonic patterns, and heavily struck Shang Tian's Corpse. Shang Tian's Corpse was sent flying again, blood spilling from his mouth.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...
Zhang Ruochen stepped on lotuses, mobilizing the ancestral rules within the Land of Ultimate Bliss and the formation inscriptions within the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation. Like a living Buddha, he sent Shang Tian's Corpse flying again and again. After countless strikes, Shang Tian's Corpse's powerful physical body could no longer withstand it, and many cracks appeared. "Submit!" Zhang Ruochen's figure flickered, appearing above Shang Tian's Corpse's head. He formed a demon-subduing mudra and struck down with his palm, hitting the top of his head.
"Thump!" It sounded like a wooden fish being struck. Then came a shattering sound as Shang Tian's head exploded. This force transmitted down his spine and spread throughout his body. All his bones were shattered. Shang Tian's Corpse's divine soul seemed to scatter, falling into a brief state of unconsciousness. His body went limp and collapsed beneath a Suddhodana White Silver Tree.
"Clatter." Zhang Ruochen unleashed the Heavenly God Chain he had seized from Wu Bian, wrapped it around the demon corpse, and threw it into the Earth Cauldron. From the moment "All Beings Are Equal" was activated, Shang Tian's Corpse lost the ability to self-destruct his divine source in front of Zhang Ruochen, ending up in this state. Of course, through this battle, Zhang Ruochen tested that within the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, the "All Beings Are Equal" technique could at most be effective against cultivators at the initial stage of Indestructible Infinite. Earlier, Shang Tian's Corpse had nearly broken the "All Beings Are Equal" by burning his divine blood. Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen acted swiftly and did not give him time to break through the Buddhist power's suppression; otherwise, the outcome would have been uncertain.
Zhang Ruochen lightly raised his hand, suppressing the Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd, which flew into his palm. "What a demonic artifact, overflowing with killing intent. Only the Nine Cauldrons can suppress it." Zhang Ruochen sealed the Demon Ancestor Zi Wu Halberd, then flew out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest, standing atop the white silver tree, gazing at the starry sky where the Corpse Burier and Kui Liang Huang were clashing. There, space was shattered, gray and hazy, and the rules of heaven and earth were extremely chaotic. The auras of both the Corpse Burier and Kui Liang Huang had declined considerably. The Corpse Burier's aura had dropped, clearly due to massive blood energy loss, approaching death step by step. Kui Liang Huang's aura had dropped, likely because he had been severely wounded by the Corpse Burier and had his lifespan damaged by the Eternal Spear.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Emperor Talisman and activated it with his eighty-ninth-level spiritual power. The Emperor Talisman was a small white jade figure. Under the spiritual power's activation, dense black dots appeared inside the white jade, each dot a talisman pattern, patterns that only an Ancestor could draw. There were so many talisman patterns that the small white jade figure soon turned into a piece of black jade. Zhang Ruochen controlled the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, standing in a sea of silver light, and charged into the chaotic battlefield.
The Corpse Burier's stern voice rang out: "Leave immediately! Take White Pale Star, Bing Huang, and the others away from here. This battlefield is not something your current cultivation can participate in." Clearly, the Corpse Burier's condition was very bad, on the verge of death. He might not be able to hold on much longer. "I can suppress an Indestructible Infinite. What battle in this world is beyond my ability to participate?" Zhang Ruochen's will was firm, his tone filled with surging battle intent, fearless of anything.
Kui Liang Huang had been worried that the Corpse Burier would self-destruct his divine source before dying, but he had been unable to break away and create distance. Seeing Zhang Ruochen charge into the battlefield, his worries immediately dissipated. "Ruochen, what boldness!" Kui Liang Huang's voice carried a hint of laughter. He then abandoned the Corpse Burier, leaped through space, and charged toward the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation. The Ten Thousand Buddha Formation was certainly formidable, but Kui Liang Huang's formation mastery was arguably second in the world, and he had absolute confidence in breaking it with a single thought. Once the formation was broken, capturing Zhang Ruochen would be as easy as turning his hand.
But something unexpected happened. Just as he approached the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation and was releasing his spiritual power to fully break the formation, Zhang Ruochen inside the formation actually charged out. "What audacity!" Kui Liang Huang genuinely admired Zhang Ruochen's courage, because at this critical moment of breaking the formation, his own defenses were at their weakest. Zhang Ruochen had judged the timing perfectly, but the gap in their cultivation was too great! Even if Zhang Ruochen possessed the combat power of an initial-stage Indestructible Infinite, Kui Liang Huang was still unafraid. His pupils glowed with the light of Fate, and he released a spiritual power attack with his gaze.
"Swoosh—" Zhang Ruochen's body was wrapped in black talisman patterns, as if he had transformed into a human-shaped divine talisman. "The Emperor Talisman!" Kui Liang Huang's insight was extraordinary, and he recognized it instantly, his heart trembling. He wanted to retreat and defend, but it was too late. With the Emperor Talisman on his body, Zhang Ruochen felt as if he had become the former Talisman Emperor Heavenly Venerable, his entire power surging. He threw a punch, and talisman light spread for eighty thousand miles, striking the heart of Kui Liang Huang's millions-of-miles-tall giant divine form.