Chapter 972: Earthly Sovereign Bell, Saikou!
“Brother Bell… you really screwed me over this time.”
Ye Qing let out a bitter chuckle as he took a moment to glance at the Earthly Sovereign Bell. He would be lying if he said he didn’t resent the Strange Artifact for ruining his plan, but then again, he would not have lasted this long without it. Hell, he might not even be here if he didn’t obtain the Earthly Sovereign Bell all those months ago. “Even if you’re planning on getting a new master, you could have waited until I killed that corrupt monk first—”
Ye Qing was still talking when the Earthly Sovereign Bell suddenly disappeared into nothing.
“What the hell! At least wait until I’m ‘dead’, you heartless thing!”
Ye Qing was speechless. It looked like the Earthly Sovereign Bell really was in a hurry to find a new master, but it couldn’t even wait until he ‘died’ before fucking off to heavens-know-where. Just how pragmatic could it get?!
And so the bitter chuckle continued, and Ye Qing cast his consciousness outward. It was time to receive whatever counterattack Nether Kṣitigarbha had prepared for him.
Rumble rumble rumble…
When he became conscious of his surroundings once more, Ye Qing realized that the flowing spring and dancing golden lotuses from before were all gone. In fact, it looked as if the Kingdom of Buddha was falling apart. Cracks were forming everywhere, and through the cracks, he could see a seated Buddha. He was so huge that his body penetrated all eight hells, and each hell was shining and forming some sort of mysterious runes on his body. They all seemed to be overflowing with infinite power.
The space he was in was practically a speck of dust compared to the Buddha, and he was even smaller than that.