Chapter 1837 - 1416: Millions Devour the Buddha
There has always been a saying in this world: truth is often held in the hands of an extremely small number of people.
Just imagine, since this extremely small number of people can grasp the truth, they already possess abilities and intelligence far ahead of countless others.
As a person walks step by step from weakness toward strength, though he himself grows stronger with each step, the people he encounters also change from the weak of the past into the strong of today, becoming ever harder to deal with, and possessed of wisdom ordinary folk can hardly hope to reach.
At this moment, the enemies Jiang Dali faced—whether Moluo, Qin Shi Huang, or the four Family Heads of the Four Great Families—were all such people who were hard to deal with.
Indeed, aside from the Family Heads of the Four Great Families, who were still unfamiliar with the qi mechanism sensing of hostility between experts, both Moluo and Qin Shi Huang had already concealed their hostility extremely well, so that Jiang Dali’s ever-effective interface simply could not detect the existence of any hostile intent.
This could well be the greatest crisis of his Mixed Martial Arts career so far, an even more intense crisis than when he previously faced the oppression of Heavenly Will.
Yet this time, whether it was him or companions like Xiao Sanxiao—who among them could foresee the existence of the crisis in advance?
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Within the Land of Catastrophe, everyone was in full battle formation, ready to launch a destructive offensive against the Earth Crystal Core.
At this moment, everything was already prepared.
In Jiang Dali’s sensing, throughout the thousand-zhang abyss filled with Mingyun Crystal, the various Mingyun Crystals presented bizarre shapes; the qi mechanism they radiated far exceeded that of commonplace things between heaven and earth—qi that either spread like an open umbrella, coiled like a dragon, or crouched like a tiger—condensing and flooding together, making the qi of heaven and earth within the entire Land of Catastrophe thick like a pot of sticky porridge, rather than like the external world’s grid-like filament state.
Such dense heaven-and-earth qi was naturally far harder to tear apart in an instant by personal strength, harder to Shatter the Void.
This was also why, when Xiao Sanxiao said he could only perform Shattering Void once, Jiang Dali could understand.
"Brother Jiang. This old man promised to demonstrate for you the art of Shattering Void—this will now be the first time! Watch closely..."
Xiao Sanxiao slowly drew in a breath and stood tall and straight; his white robe fluttered of its own accord despite the absence of wind, a profound, unfathomable smile slipping from the corner of his mouth. Suddenly both palms shaped into claws, and he casually, almost artlessly, clawed toward the direction where the Earth Crystal Core lay.
In that instant his back hunched like a turtle; his face flushed scarlet as blood surged, then turned bluish-black. The momentum of his whole Body condensed and erupted, his robe suddenly tightening close to his Body, not a wrinkle stirring.
Jiang Dali’s tiger eyes narrowed; through keen qi mechanism sensing he sharply perceived the qi surging out of Xiao Sanxiao’s entire Body violently shoot up. As his hands clawed out, the qi mechanism seemed to transform into a gigantic, ferocious, razor-edged claw that reached out, savagely striking toward the Earth Crystal Core, and toward the heaven-and-earth qi as thick as sticky porridge.
BOOM!!——
The Void at a distance of barely one foot from the Earth Crystal Core suddenly turned like transparent water waves, curving inward and concaving, dragging that entire region of ground and the many Mingyun Crystals to slant toward the concave bend.
Everyone only felt a colossal, terrifying attraction force instantly transmit from over there, as though space itself had undergone a ferocious collapse.
"Break!"
A muffled shout like thunder abruptly burst from Xiao Sanxiao’s mouth.
At once, the qi mechanism thick as a curtain collapsed in an instant, going from surface to point, shattering in a flash into countless minute points.
A horrifying pitch-black rift split open near the Earth Crystal Core in a blink, diffusing an extremely shocking Absorption Force and terrifying pressure.
Jiang Dali’s gaze tightened; through sharp qi mechanism he perceived the subtle changes in Xiao Sanxiao at the instant he struck and shattered the qi of heaven and earth.
If the power of Shattering Void in the past tore apart the qi of heaven and earth as a clash of lines against lines, then the clash of qi mechanism now was a clash of points against surfaces.
The surrounding heaven-and-earth qi was like strands of lines woven into a mesh.
But here in this Land of Catastrophe, because the qi mechanism was truly too dense and viscous, lines woven together could no longer be described as a mesh, but rather as a tightly sealed curtain woven from countless filaments; the qi mechanism Xiao Sanxiao released was instead countless points that, in an instant, pierced through that curtain.
"Line and surface... wave and point... so this is the power of Shattering Void. What can simultaneously destroy the qi of heaven and earth is not only linear qi mechanism—it may also be point-form qi mechanism..."
A bolt of astonishing lightning seemed to flash through Jiang Dali’s brain; in a moment he understood many of the mysteries regarding Shattering Void, feeling that this path of Mysticism, once pushed to its end, was actually filled with ’point-line-wave-surface’ scientific theory. At the same time, a related notification sound rang in his brain.
At this moment, the suddenly appearing space rift was already venting its powerful Absorption Force and extremely dreadful space destruction force onto the many things within the surrounding space.
They saw large swaths of Mingyun Crystals and accompanying crystal stones within the region around the pitch-black space rift meet it once, and immediately be dragged in by the suction born from the space rift.
At the same time, the fundamental power of this world called ’space’ was already influencing the Earth Crystal Core that lay just one foot away.
It was a kind of terrifying power that, aside from Jiang Dali and Xiao Sanxiao, no one present could sense.
Only experts whose Body and brain had undergone a transformation after Returning to Truth Realm 9 could perceive this space fission.
Space is formless and without substance, omnipresent, encompassing all things.
It is like how people, being within air, often ignore the existence of air—except even more so.
Because on a road under high summer heat one can often see twisting, shimmering air—that is a change caused by light refraction—whereas changes in space are changes at the level of the spacetime dimension, utterly beyond the scope of human perception.
But at this moment, in the senses of Jiang Dali and Xiao Sanxiao, the birth of the space rift caused the surrounding space to likewise undergo collapse, curling up, and distortion.
Thereupon it seemed to drag the space nearby into change as well, directly affecting the Earth Crystal Core.
Within barely one-thousandth of a breath’s time, the Earth Crystal Core suddenly followed the space curling caused by the space rift, twisting and curling in a flash, altering its form.
When facing this fundamental world power of space, unless one can sever the source before its destructive power fully spreads...
Just like back then, when Jiang Dali and the others in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains jointly relied on their own powerful qi mechanism to interfere with the heaven-and-earth qi mechanism, sabotaging the space rift created by Qin Shi Huang, causing the rift to collapse.
Otherwise, once the space fluctuation spread, it would be almost impossible to stop; or rather, apart from the power of space itself, no other force could halt it—not even the Earth Crystal Core.
In utter silence, the Earth Crystal Core, originally oval in shape and pulsing like a beating heart, suddenly followed the contraction of space and shrank violently into a smaller spherical mass, its surface even twisted by spatial distortion into irregular wave-like patterns.
Yet under such terrifying root-level spatial force twisting and compressing it, the Earth Crystal Core actually did not explode, not even a thread of power leaked out.
This inconceivable scene left Jiang Dali and the others inwardly shaken to the core.
But almost at the same time, a dreadful, vast and majestic aura abruptly surged out as the Earth Crystal Core heaved and bulged.
Buzz!—
This surge of majestic qi mechanism was like a ring-shaped shockwave, slamming hard into the shrunken pitch-black space rift.
With a boom, it instantly caused the space rift to collapse and contract, like a marsh that, after having a hole torn open, slowly wriggles back to normal, suddenly returning to its former state.
’Swoosh!’
At this moment, the Earth Crystal Core that had turned spherical split open a seam at its center.
A strand of utterly icy, dazzling Golden Light was born within the crack, radiating an astonishing spiritual wave sufficient to confuse and disturb the human heart.
"It’s the Earth Intent!? Now! Strike!"
Jiang Dali’s eyes narrowed; with a shout, his Primordial Spirit’s power, which had been held in readiness, transformed without hesitation into two blinding, terrifying Primordial Spirit Shock Waves, like two beams of Extreme Light, blasting into the single eye that the Earth Crystal Core had opened.
"Dong!——"
At the same time, Hui Qi suddenly struck the Dharma Wood Fish, releasing a sound that stunned the soul and pierced straight into the heart; a ring of sound waves, accompanied by intense Buddhist Golden Light, erupted abruptly.
Hui Qi ’gurgled’ out a large mouthful of blood, his face like gold paper, his white beard stained red; the Yin Yang Two Gods in the ancestral acupoint between his brows trembled without cease under that astounding wood-fish sound, nearly being directly shaken apart.
A ring of Dharma Wood Fish Golden Light, unleashed by the wood fish and sufficient to severely wound experts of the Returning to Truth Realm, accompanied Jiang Dali’s Primordial Spirit Shock as they together surged into the Earth Crystal Core.
Immediately after came Yin Zhong’s later-yet-first-arriving Dragon God Skill spiritual assault.
Three peerless experts launching spiritual will attacks in the same instant—no matter how powerful the "Earth Intent" might be, it was absolutely impossible for it to remain wholly unscathed.
Indeed, at the very moment the two sides’ spiritual strikes collided—
Within the Golden Light, the "Earth Intent," filled with an icy, merciless meaning, was instantly shaken again and again, erupting in one circle after another of spiritual ripple-waves.
Jiang Dali only felt his mind humming and quaking, blood suddenly streaming from his seven orifices, his Primordial Spirit as if having slammed into a great mountain: though he had rammed a huge hole through that mountain, his own body felt as if it were about to come apart, the pain unbearable.
Fortunately, the spiritual assaults from the Dharma Wood Fish and Yin Zhong followed close on his heels.
But in that fleeting instant, a shocking reversal occurred... In the single eye opened by the Earth Crystal Core, those tiny human faces like flowing sand grains suddenly seemed, within this terrifying clash of spirits, to be jolted into motion, all of them screaming, howling, wailing in agony, baring fangs and claws as they tore free of the eye, blocking in front of the golden light wave released by the Dharma Wood Fish.
Countless commoners’ faces as a shield—tell me, even if one is a demon, would the demon dare slaughter millions of commoners? Let alone a Buddha?
"Amitabha Buddha!"
At that hair’s-breadth moment, the Dharma Golden Light capable of redeeming any sin suddenly halted, stopping before those countless twisted, anguished, howling tiny faces, transforming into a single Golden Body Buddha shadow, with Brahma-sound booming.
Then... the Golden Body Buddha was instantly submerged by the countless faces, devoured clean.
The Buddha’s body willingly becomes bodhi flesh, wishing to deliver the suffering of millions of commoners!
Just like that, so easily, the Dharma Golden Light was directly swallowed.
Yin Zhong’s spiritual assault, which followed close behind in the form of a dragon shadow surging forth, was even more like a stone stirring up just one wave upon the sea’s surface, drowned amid the countless densely packed golden faces.
"Pff—!"
Hui Qi, as if his heart had been gouged out, spewed a mouthful of fresh blood in torment.
"What!?"
Yin Zhong stared in absolute horror at those tens of thousands of vicious commoner faces devouring the Buddha, a conjecture he dared not believe surging up in his heart.
In that instant as Jiang Dali regained clarity, his expression too was one of stunned shock; yet before he could make his next decisive move, another sudden upheaval erupted...
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