Chapter 273 : Exterminate Evil and Destroy Wickedness
Chapter 273: Exterminate Evil and Destroy Wickedness
“Are you certain you didn't hear what I said just now?”
Li Tianwei asked the System once again.
【No! I only saw your lips move.】
【What did you say just now?】
The System's voice was filled with confusion. It truly had not heard what Li Tianwei had just said.
“It seems there is still something beyond my perception that is restricting all of this.”
A trace of seriousness appeared in Li Tianwei's eyes.
However, Li Tianwei understood that this was not the time to concern himself with that matter. He first had to deal with what was happening in the Western Spirit Domain.
Li Tianwei shifted his gaze once more toward that patch of empty space.
There, Tianshu Demon Lord was also staring back at Li Tianwei. If previously Tianshu Demon Lord had thought Li Tianwei looking at him was merely a coincidence, then this time he was almost certain that Li Tianwei had truly bypassed the Cultivation World's barrier and seen beyond it—into the Interworld Rift where the Demon Lords currently resided.
“So what if you know? You still cannot change anything. You remain the enemy of every living being in the Western Spirit Domain.”
Tianshu Demon Lord said slowly as he extended his hand. Endless tentacles descended, gently disturbing the air.
Under Tianshu Demon Lord's manipulation, the people of the Western Spirit Domain, who had been fanatically cursing Li Tianwei, found a yearning for the Supreme arising within their eyes.
“Exterminate the demon! I want to go to the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss!”
“Buddha!”
“Namo Amitabha.”
Their voices echoed as the monks of the Great Lotus Temple immediately formed hand seals. Several Buddhist cultivators at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm revealed their Golden Bodies, and one Dharma Seal after another soared into the heavens.
In an instant, the winds and clouds changed violently, Buddhist chants reverberated throughout the sky, and an overwhelming pressure descended.
“Deliver immeasurable, countless, boundless sentient beings...”
“No self, no sentient being, Subhuti...”
The chanting continued to echo as one Vajra Arhat after another formed seals in the void, combining their attacks into one. Those towering Golden Arhats, countless zhang tall, appeared in all kinds of forms.
Some possessed eight-armed Buddha bodies.
Others had wrathful glaring eyes while wielding Buddhist treasures and vajras.
As these Golden Arhats formed their seals, Buddhist chants surrounded them, solemn and majestic...
Seeing this, Li Tianwei merely raised his eyes slightly.
Faced with the phantoms of those Golden Arhats and the combined assault of the Great Lotus Temple's many experts...
His expression showed almost no change.
The Tribulation Transcendence Realm could no longer threaten him.
However, in Li Tianwei's eyes, these people were merely those who had been incited and deceived.
There was no need to kill them all.
For once, he saw very little karma clinging to these powerful cultivators.
That also meant the Western Spirit Domain was unlike the Northern Spirit Domain. At the very least, the cultivators of the Western Spirit Domain had accomplished something worthwhile. Otherwise, they could not have rallied so many people.
Perhaps it was because of Buddhism.
Perhaps there were problems with their laws and doctrines.
Yet in the end, they had still restrained the emergence of many sins.
They had bound themselves.
Li Tianwei indeed despised and became angry at those who slandered him.
But the targets of his hostility had always been demons and those who behaved like demons. Thinking back to the disciples of Spirit Void Holy Land who had broken into his cave dwelling under the Evil Demons' influence, Li Tianwei had never once become angry with them.
Had it been anyone else, Li Tianwei would have struck without hesitation and eradicated them completely.
One thing had to be understood.
These people were not his enemies.
He had to distinguish clearly that the true enemy was the Evil Demon manipulating everything behind the scenes.
He only needed to keep his eyes fixed upon the real enemy.
That was Li Tianwei's judgment.
Therefore, he felt nothing toward the Western Spirit Domain's offensive.
At most...
He would simply teach them a lesson.
Li Tianwei gently brought his hands together.
The power of the Nascent Soul Realm erupted instantly.
An endless galaxy unfolded as more than fifteen hundred Intent Domains manifested completely.
Two Divine Abilities erupted simultaneously.
Under their continuous amplification, Li Tianwei's entire aura carried an ethereal sense of transcendence.
It was as though, at this moment, he had reached a certain critical threshold.
More accurately...
He had reached the very limit of the Cultivation World.
If he exerted just a little more power, he would immediately ascend.
That was the absolute limit of the Cultivation World.
Previously, Li Tianwei would never have displayed power at such a critical threshold.
But things were different now.
After arriving in the Western Spirit Domain and witnessing the phantom condensed by the Evil Demons, Li Tianwei had comprehended from it a method capable of suppressing that sensation of imminent ascension.
“Come.”
“You may come out as well. Why keep hiding behind the scenes?”
Li Tianwei pointed toward the heavens.
Ripples spread outward.
The world-shattering power that should have broken through the world's boundary because of Li Tianwei's eruption was completely restrained.
The monks of the Great Lotus Temple looked at Li Tianwei, who was surrounded by fifteen hundred Intent Domains despite possessing only Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, and their expressions changed drastically.
“As expected of the greatest demon beneath heaven. He has actually comprehended so many Intent Domains.”
“That's right. Every Intent Domain must be comprehended personally. A cultivator may spend an entire lifetime without comprehending even one.”
“The reason he possesses so many Intent Domains must be because he continuously slaughtered people and massacred living beings, thereby absorbing them from those living beings.”
“Otherwise, it would be impossible to comprehend so many Intent Domains. Surely one person cannot possess the wisdom accumulated over millions of years!”
Feeling Li Tianwei's aura, the monks of the Great Lotus Temple became even more convinced that Li Tianwei was the greatest evil.
Meanwhile, within the Interworld Rift, Tianshu Demon Lord also became completely serious after witnessing Li Tianwei's display.
“He is definitely not human. He actually controls the Power of the World just like us Evil Demons. These are not things cultivators could ever comprehend.”
Tianshu Demon Lord likewise completely removed Li Tianwei from the category of humanity.
In that case...
It was only natural that an existence capable of controlling the Power of the World could discover his true location.
“Let me add a little more fuel to the fire.”
Tianshu Demon Lord's gaze fell upon the monks of the Great Lotus Temple as his tentacles extended outward.
“Namo Amitabha.”
Suddenly, a solemn and majestic Buddhist chant echoed throughout heaven and earth.
At the same time, boundless Buddhist light manifested.
A phantom appeared high in the sky.
Upon a lotus throne sat a golden Buddha, bathed in supreme Buddhist radiance. Golden starlight scattered in every direction, causing everyone to unconsciously immerse themselves within it.
“The Buddha has manifested!”
“The Buddha...”
The sudden phantom immediately caused countless believers to kneel upon the ground with their palms pressed together as they began chanting scriptures.
“Buddha, bless us. Exterminate evil and destroy demons...”
The monks of the Great Lotus Temple became even more excited upon witnessing this.
“The Upper Realm has finally responded!”
“I too shall ascend to the Upper Realm!”
At that moment, those few Tribulation Transcendence monks had only one thought.
They wanted to serve the Buddha.
After the True Buddha manifested, under Tianshu Demon Lord's control, the Buddha merely waved his hand.
Five-Colored Immortal Radiance swept forth and poured directly into the bodies of the Great Lotus Temple's monks.
In an instant, the Arhat Dharma Forms they had manifested became increasingly sinister and terrifying.
Yet in the eyes of the people of the Western Spirit Domain...
Those Golden Arhats had simply been endowed with true spirituality.
They appeared even more lifelike.
Whether monks or ordinary people...
Their eyes became filled with fanaticism.
At this moment...
They completely regarded Li Tianwei as the Great Demon and Great Calamity.