Chapter 878: All Tinted Rose (I)
The massive black-purple bowl continued to loom in the sky, its hollow, circular center glowing with a radiance like intertwined branches and leaves that blanketed the heavens. Pale golden, curling clouds spread outward and settled motionless above.
Now that the true form of the Kongsijiang Demon Bowl had been revealed, not a single person across Jiangnan or Jiangbei could rise on wind. All were forced to the riverbanks. Even Li Qinghong, riding Celestial Thunder and bolstered by a feathered robe, could only hover forty meters above the ground.
She looked upward as the rumbling from the sky slowly descended. All the cultivators around her were wounded, but she clutched her spear tightly and turned toward Si Yuanli.
She asked quietly, "Senior, do you have a treasure that can ascend?"
Si Yuanli was intently examining the Kongsijiang Demon Bowl, bitterness filling his heart. Just as Si Boxiu had granted the Huai River Map, the monks above summoning Maha’s bowl technically didn’t count as direct intervention... But the Maha’s control over Master Monks was unlike that of the Purple Mansion Realm cultivators. When the stubborn Master Monks claimed they were slaying a demon, who could really argue?
"The Kongsijiang Demon Bowl is nurtured by a Maha... now that it's revealed... who could possibly ascend..." Si Yuanli murmured, "He’s dead set on using these Master Monks to exchange for a competent Merciful One... If they can’t share in the treasures of Anhuai Heaven later, this alone is still a worthwhile reward..."
Although Li Qinghong didn’t fully understand the intricacies of Buddhist cultivation, she had heard that many Mahas were deeply moved and personally intervened when Tang Shedu rebelled. At this moment, Li Xuanfeng's appeal was likely even greater...
Just as Si Yuanli finished speaking, the sky-darkening Kongsijiang Demon Bowl began to shift again. The two black rings on the bowl began to gradually glow golden, and a distant, ethereal decree echoed.
"Compassionate karmic fire. Burn the wicked, and punish the evil!"
The voice drifted down and lasted only a moment before everyone instinctively covered their ears. The black-purple hue in the sky turned deep crimson, and the multicolored clouds transformed into a fiery blaze.
The entire sky now seemed to burn with erratically flickering flames. A thunderous roar followed, "The karmic fire is here, the fiend is doomed!"