265: Who is not afraid of the true Buddha?

Monk Yuelang's mouth twitched. "So, you've already got it all planned out, right? Who exactly are you?"

Tang Ku smiled slightly. "I told you, this Nine-Ringed Monk Staff of yours used to be my Magical Artifact!"

Only then did Yuelang recall that Tang Ku had indeed said something like that, but he still couldn't figure out who the person before him was.

This Nine-Ringed Monk Staff had been bestowed upon him by the Moonlight True Buddha, who was currently fighting that giant monster above, but he really didn't know its specific origins.

"Forget it, it seems you're also being kept in the dark..." Tang Ku chuckled. "From the moment I first saw you, I could tell you carry heavy karmic debt from killing. You are definitely not a true ascetic. You must have killed quite a few people before... Today is your chance to atone for your sins..."

As he spoke, Tang Ku raised the Nine-Ringed Monk Staff in his hand, ready to strike the Old Monk.

The Old Monk couldn't help but laugh loudly. "It seems you all came prepared. Ever since I turned to banditry, whenever I go down the mountain to pillage, I never leave any survivors. You're right about me having heavy karmic debt from killing, but if you want me to confess, there's no chance of that... With just you few people, don't even think about stopping me..."

As he spoke, the Old Monk suddenly stomped on the ground, sending sand and dust flying. He grabbed a handful, chanted something, and then scattered it into the air. In an instant, his entire body transformed into a yellowish streak of light, flying toward the sky.

Nezha couldn't help but sneer. "Five Elements Evasion Technique, nothing worth mentioning. Holy Monk, I'll go catch him and bring him back!"

Tang Ku chuckled. "This guy might have just started learning magic, so he's quite confident in his Earth Evasion technique. He really thinks he's an immortal... Go on, go on. Don't kill him yet; wait until I catch that fake Buddha, then we can interrogate them together!"

Nezha cupped his hands and laughed. "Understood... Uh... Wa-ya-ya-ya... Where do you think you're going, you demonic monk!"

After saying this, he stepped on his Wind Fire Wheels and chased after him into the sky like the wind.

Tang Ku smiled at the newly arrived monk. "Shi Jingmo, help the elders clean up the aftermath. That guy in the sky—Brick hasn't been able to take him down after all this time, so he's probably not a simple character. I need to capture him first, then we can talk!"

Shi Jingmo pressed his palms together and smiled. "You go ahead. I'll handle things here, rest assured!"

Tang Ku nodded and handed the Nine-Ringed Monk Staff to him, saying earnestly, "In the Buddhist path, only you can inherit my mantle. Take this Nine-Ringed Monk Staff for now. After we return to Chang'an, I will refine it into a Buddhist Magic Treasure. From now on, you will be my agent in this world... Hmm... These are all matters for later; we'll talk in detail when we get back..."

As he spoke, Tang Ku shot up from the ground and charged toward the two behemoths currently fighting.

Shi Jingmo was full of surprise, but he quickly calmed down. He respectfully held the Nine-Ringed Monk Staff across his arm, pressed his palms together, and bowed toward Tang Ku in the sky.

Xingyunzi, who was standing to the side, chuckled. "Great Master Shi Jingmo is also a high monk of the Buddhist path. From now on, the Holy Monk's lineage can be considered to have a successor!"

Wei Zheng stood by, stroking his beard and smiling, genuinely happy for Shi Jingmo.

High up in the air, Brick was roaring "Spare me!" while clashing fiercely with the Moonlight True Buddha. Several times, the Moonlight True Buddha thought this guy was going to surrender, but the angry expression and the relentless ferocity with which he charged forced him to abandon that thought. After several repetitions, he finally realized that this guy in front of him could only say that one phrase, and he could only judge his mood from the tone of his words.

"Fine, this is just a beast that hasn't fully transformed. However, although this thing is strange, the Samadhi True Fire it spews is the real deal. While it can't compare to Taishang Laojun's furnace fire, it's still a rare high-temperature flame... If I capture it, I could refine it into a Pill Furnace to use for refining my Nine Revolutions Golden Pill!"

The Moonlight True Buddha thought to himself.

He casually swatted away the fireballs and pillars of fire flying at him, then his figure flashed, and he appeared behind Brick, chuckling, "Go down..."

Boom!

Brick plummeted into the courtyard like a meteor. When he struggled to stand up, he suddenly smiled eerily at the Moonlight True Buddha and said, "I can only say three sentences!"

The Moonlight True Buddha was stunned and thought, "When did I ask you?"

But immediately after, he couldn't help but feel a chill behind his neck, as if a pair of sharp eyes were staring at him, making him feel hair-raisingly terrified.

He turned around suddenly, but there was nothing behind him.

"An illusion? But, my spiritual sense as a Great Demon shouldn't be wrong... Strange..."

In an instant, that hair-raising feeling that made goosebumps cover his skin returned. He turned around suddenly, but again saw nothing. However, he finally understood that there was indeed someone behind him; it was just that this person's movement speed was too fast. No matter how he turned, the person always hovered behind him like a ghost, making him unable to see or touch them.

After a brief thought, he suddenly smiled slightly. "Do you really think I can't see you?"

As he spoke, his neck suddenly stretched out like a giraffe's. He turned his head abruptly and was shocked to see the face of a bald monk...

Well, in his haste, he did indeed only see the face because he was simply too close to it.

The Moonlight True Buddha was startled, but before he could retract his neck, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his eyes. It turned out that in that split second, the monk opposite him had already poked his eyes with two fingers.

"Ah!"

The intense pain caused his brain to momentarily crash, and his neck whipped over like a soft lash, attacking wildly toward the position where Tang Ku had originally been.

Tang Ku withdrew his arms and kept dodging backward, teasing, "Your eyes are set too wide apart; I have to use both hands to poke them..."

The Moonlight True Buddha was furious. The lotus mark on his forehead flashed, and a phantom of a golden lotus suddenly descended from the sky, slamming down fiercely toward Tang Ku's head.

This lotus pedestal didn't look big—it could only accommodate one person standing—but the momentum was extremely fierce. To Tang Ku, it felt even heavier than Mount Tai.

Tang Ku was taken aback and teased, "My, oh my, this Magic Treasure must be from the Western Buddhist Realm... It looks a bit like Guanyin's lotus pedestal!"

As he spoke, he suddenly threw a punch upward, actually smashing the lotus pedestal away with brute force.

The Moonlight True Buddha had just recovered his vision when he saw this scene. His mouth twitched for a moment, and he exclaimed in shock, "You... who exactly are you? Why are you able to break my Magic Treasure?"

"Hehe, who am I... Why don't you take a guess..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a massive burst of Buddha Power erupted, and a Dharma form appeared behind Tang Ku, dazzlingly brilliant.

The Moonlight True Buddha's eyes almost popped out. He couldn't help but retreat in shock, exclaiming, "True... True Buddha?!"