221: That man is here.

Lin Chuping’s Dharma Body descended!

He was clad in golden-purple Divine Robes, wearing a crown with a mianlyu, a halo of faith shining behind him, his face divine and indifferent.

His image was that of the Heavenly Dao’s will walking among mortals!

Unfortunately, as soon as he spoke, his image plummeted.

“System, I never thought I’d be able to put on such a grand show one day!”

“Even when I used to spend money in games, I couldn’t get this effect.”

“System, take a picture for me!”

“System?”

Lin Chuping called out twice in his mind before remembering—he had muted it earlier because he found it annoying!

‘It would be such a pity if there were no audience for such an epic scene!’

With a thought, he instantly unmuted the System.

“Beep! Host! You finally remembered…”

“Holy crap!!! Σ (° △ ° |||) ︴”

“What a huge lump of charcoal!”

As soon as the System appeared, it was stunned by the Demon Buddha confronting Lin Chuping.

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“Roar—!!!”

Seeing Lin Chuping appear, the Demon Buddha abandoned the temple, and its condensed giant hand slammed towards Lin Chuping’s Dharma Body in the air!

“You false god who usurped the Heavenly Dao! Taste the resentment that makes all beings sink! My power here is the Karma Fire of Avici, which will surely burn away all your illusory Divine Light!”

The Demon Buddha’s voice was no longer a mere roar, but a shriek mixed with billions of resentful Souls, full of malice, piercing directly into the Divine Soul!

As it roared, a waterfall mixed with countless fragments of suffering Souls spewed from its giant mouth!

The waterfall emitted a stench strong enough to make a True Immortal vomit, like an inverted River Styx, pouring down over Lin Chuping’s Dharma Body in the air!

Wherever it passed, even space made a “sizzling” sound as if being corroded, leaving streaks of black stains!

Lin Chuping looked at the saliva spraying directly towards him with a headache and quickly dodged.

“Damn it, this inhuman, ghostly thing even has such disgusting attack methods!”

“Roar—! Can you dodge it, false god!”

Seeing its attack miss, the Demon Buddha’s giant mouth roared even louder, and the filthy waterfall it spewed did not dissipate; instead, it transformed into countless dense human figures, overwhelming the sky and biting towards Lin Chuping’s Dharma Body!

Each figure let out a desperate wail, piercing directly into the Soul.

“System! This thing doesn’t play fair!”

Lin Chuping shrieked in his mind, but his movements were not slow in the slightest.

With a thought, the shining halo of faith behind him suddenly accelerated its rotation!

Following his will, the halo of faith erupted with ten thousand feet of golden-purple Divine Radiance!

The light was no longer a gentle illumination, but transformed into countless incomparably sharp arrows of light, carrying the magnificent Divine Might that purifies all evil, shooting towards the sky-filling black shadows!

This halo of faith was an inheritance from the previous Heavenly Dao.

It was said to be a genuine Buddhist product.

“Chichi chichi—”

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

The Holy Light arrows and the filthy venomous snakes collided violently in the air! Wherever the golden light reached, the black snakes let out shrill screams, rapidly melting and evaporating like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun, turning into wisps of foul-smelling black smoke.

The golden light was endless, yet the Demon Buddha’s power was equally vast and terrifying.

The filthy waterfall seemed to be connected to the source of Avici Hell; as soon as one area of human figures was purified, even more immediately spawned from the waterfall!

The front line of light and darkness fiercely contended and stalemated in the air.

The entire sky was divided into two major camps: golden-purple and filthy black.

“Hehehehe! False god! Do you feel the weight of all beings sinking?”

“Noisy!”

Lin Chuping’s Dharma Body still had a divine and indifferent face, but his voice carried a hint of impatience.

“Is this all you’ve got?”

“It’s not even enough to give my Dharma Body a pedicure!”

He raised his right hand, and the Divine Power brewing in the halo of faith suddenly compressed, and a golden-purple beam of light, ten times thicker and more condensed than all previous light arrows combined, shot out with a roar, piercing directly into the core of the Demon Buddha’s colossal body.

This strike, carrying the majestic Heavenly Might, aimed to penetrate this blasphemous existence!

“Roar—!”

The Demon Buddha’s colossal body suddenly shrank, not completely dodging, but instantly piling countless wriggling limbs and twisted faces in the path of the light beam, forming a shield!

“Boom—!!!!”

Countless resentful Souls were completely purified and evaporated the moment they made contact, and the Demon Buddha’s colossal body also stumbled backward under this immense force, causing the earth to collapse with a roar!

The shield it had condensed was blasted with a huge charred gap.

“Ugh…”

The Demon Buddha let out a muffled roar; clearly, this blow had caused it no small loss.

The filthy black Qi on the parts of its body scorched by the Divine Fire churned violently, attempting to repair itself, but much slower than before.

Lin Chuping raised his guard, however, the anticipated even more violent counterattack did not immediately arrive.

The Demon Buddha’s colossal body subtly adjusted its posture, no longer in an all-out offensive stance, but rather as if seeking some balance in the confrontation.

“False god…”

“Your power… indeed exceeds my expectations.”

Lin Chuping paused slightly, wondering what this big lump of charcoal wanted to do?

However, his recent full-power strike had consumed a great deal, and it was precisely the time he needed to recover.

So the Dharma Body remained still, waiting for further developments.

The Demon Buddha’s giant “arm” slowly rose, pointing to the polluted, torn earth beneath their feet, and the distant, gloomy outline of the Buddhist kingdom.

“This world has long been tainted by the Karma Fire of Avici; it is my Demonic Domain!”

“You usurped the power of the Heavenly Dao, mighty for a time, but do you think you can completely purify this boundless Demonic Land and dispel these billions of sinking Souls?”

“Hmph, wishful thinking! Your Divine Power will eventually run out, but my Karma Fire is endless!”

As it spoke, the Demon Buddha changed its tone, its giant “eyes” locking tightly onto Lin Chuping.

“I see that you are not a native deity of this realm; what do you seek by descending here? Nothing more than a corner of land, a bit of incense and faith!”

“This dilapidated temple, along with the hundred-mile wasteland it guards, I can… concede to you!”

The Demon Buddha’s giant, filthy finger slashed fiercely through the Void Realm!

“Let this be the boundary!”

“You occupy this corner, I rule the Buddhist kingdom! We’ll keep to our own affairs! You receive your incense, I enjoy my sinking! No mutual infringement, each in our own place! How about it?”

Lin Chuping: “…”

If he weren’t the Heavenly Dao, he would actually be a little tempted.

“Beep! Host! It’s probing! It’s stalling for time! Playing a delaying tactic! This lump of charcoal is very bad! (｀⌒ ´ メ)”

The System immediately jumped out to analyze, its tone indignant.

“Nonsense! I’m not blind!”

Lin Chuping cursed inwardly, “This lump of charcoal is really shameless; if it can’t win, it wants to negotiate? And ‘concede’ it to me? This was my territory to begin with!”

“Letting it use it for a bit, and now it wants to usurp it? How could there be such a good thing!”