373: Chapter 360 The Fate of the Two Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti

Lin Feng's foot hovered three inches above Tathagata's Primordial Spirit.

It stopped.

It wasn't that he didn't want to step down, but no matter how hard he tried, these final three inches seemed to have become an insurmountable chasm. Even the air around him had become harder than divine iron.

The wind stopped.

The clouds stilled.

Even the golden fragments floating in mid-air remained static, reflecting an eerie light.

The entire world seemed to have turned into a still photograph.

An indescribable, trans-dimensional, and life-and-death-transcending grand will slowly descended from the Nine Heavens.

Under this will, Lin Feng's proud "half-step Saint" cultivation was like an ant facing a Dragon, laughably insignificant. His Chaos Demon God Body was even suppressed to the point where it began to automatically regress.

"Sigh..."

A sigh echoed throughout the Three Realms.

There was no anger in this sigh, only a high-and-mighty indifference, a loneliness that had seen through the vicissitudes of time and viewed all things as straw dogs.

The sky suddenly split open.

Purple Qi came from the east for thirty thousand miles—no, it came from the west.

A rain of flowers fell from the sky, and golden lotuses gushed from the earth. The ruinous Spirit Mountain actually began to rapidly restore itself within this phenomenon. The collapsed Great Hall stood tall once more, and the dried-up Pool of Karma filled again.

Two figures slowly walked out from the Void Realm.

The person on the left had a distressed expression, wore coarse linen clothes, stepped on a Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Karma, and had a Jie Yin Divine Banner suspended behind his head. He was the Great Sect Leader of the Western Sect—Daoist Jie Yin.

The person on the right had his hair in twin buns, was sallow-faced and thin, held the seven-treasure wonderful tree, and wore a half-smiling expression. He was the Second Sect Leader of the Western Sect—Daoist Zhunti.

Saints!

True Primordial Origin Grand Unity Golden Immortals!

Saints who are immortal and eternal, untainted by Karma through myriad tribulations, who can know the past and future with a single thought, and destroy heaven and earth with another!

They finally couldn't sit still anymore.

Tathagata had been blasted apart and Spirit Mountain had been razed. If they didn't come out now, the Luck of the Western Sect would truly be severed, and the planning of countless kalpas would go to waste.

"Greetings, the two Sect Leaders!"

Tathagata's Primordial Spirit, who had already closed his eyes in despair, suddenly saw these two and wailed piteously as if he had seen his own father, "This Disciple is incompetent! I allowed this demon to destroy Spirit Mountain! Please, Saints, uphold justice! Kill this Devil Head!"

Daoist Jie Yin didn't even spare Tathagata a glance, merely waving his hand gently.

A soft golden light enveloped Tathagata, instantly stabilizing his Primordial Spirit that was on the verge of dissipating.

"Foolish child," Jie Yin said indifferently, his tone betraying no emotion, "Your skills were inferior, and your Dao Heart was unstable; it was destined for you to face this tribulation. Withdraw."

Then, both of their gazes fell upon Lin Feng simultaneously.

At that moment, Lin Feng felt every cell in his body screaming, and his Soul seemed as if it would be crushed directly by these two gazes.

Is this a Saint?

Just a gaze made him unable to move? This wasn't just a difference in power; it was a crushing weight from a higher level of existence.

"Lin Feng."

Daoist Zhunti shook the seven-treasure wonderful tree in his hand and spoke with a smile. His voice was very soft, yet it rang directly in Lin Feng's mind, shaking his Divine Soul.

"You are an Anomaly, not part of the Five Elements, and not within the Heavenly Dao. Originally, the two of us considered your difficult cultivation and wanted to leave you a sliver of life to serve as our Western Protector, which would have been a stroke of fortune. Unfortunately, your hostility is too heavy, and your killing intent is sky-high."

"Today, you have not only destroyed Spirit Mountain but also ruined the grand trend of the Heavenly Dao."

"For this crime, you deserve death."

There was no trial, no defense. If a Saint said you were guilty, you were guilty. If a Saint said you should die, you must die. This was the will of the Heavenly Dao, beyond question.

Lin Feng gritted his teeth, desperately mobilizing the Chaos energy within him, trying to break through this invisible confinement.

Creak... creak...

His bones groaned, his blood vessels burst, and beads of blood seeped from the surface of his skin. But he still stubbornly raised his head, staring fixedly at the two high-and-mighty Saints.

"Saints... are you so great?"

Lin Feng squeezed out a few words through his teeth, blood overflowing from the corners of his mouth, yet his gaze remained defiant. "When the small one is beaten, the old one comes. Is this the only trick your Western Sect has? If you're so capable, why don't you eat me too!"

"Presumptuous."

The smile on Zhunti's face vanished.

An ant actually dared to talk back? This was a provocation to the dignity of a Saint.

"Since you are not convinced, then let me show you that below the Saints, all are but ants."

Zhunti slowly raised the seven-treasure wonderful tree in his hand.

This seemingly ordinary branch gave a gentle brush.

There were no light or shadow effects, nor any world-shaking sounds.

But this simple brush seemed to sweep away all life and Laws around Lin Feng.

"Boom!!!"

Lin Feng felt as if the entire world had collapsed.

An unmatched and irresistible force struck his chest directly.

"Pfft!"

Lin Feng was like a kite with a broken string, instantly flying back tens of thousands of meters, violently smashing through several newly restored peaks, and finally embedding himself deep into the earth, creating a bottomless crater.

"System! Shield!"

[Shield shattered! Energy at zero! Host's life signs dropped to 10%!]

One strike.

Just a casual brush.

Lin Feng's "Chaos Demon God Body," which could crush Tathagata, almost disintegrated directly. His internal organs were displaced, and his Meridians were shattered.

This was the power of a Saint. Not in the same dimension, impossible to understand, impossible to resist.

"Divine Lord!"

In the distance, Kong Xuan wanted to rush over to the rescue, but was met with a cold glance from Daoist Jie Yin.

"Vile creature, why have you not returned to your place?"

One look.

Kong Xuan's powerful Five-Colored Divine Light instantly dissipated, and his whole body was frozen in place, maintaining a charging posture but unable to move an inch, only able to watch helplessly.

Despair.

True despair had arrived.

Zhunti took a step forward, directly crossing space to arrive above the deep pit where Lin Feng had fallen.

He looked down from above at the blood-covered, dying Lin Feng, his eyes devoid of any ripple, as if looking at a dead dog.

"It's over, Anomaly."

"I will extract your Soul, examine your memories, and see just what kind of sacred being you are."

"Then, I will completely erase all traces of you from the long river of time."

Zhunti reached out his hand and made a grasping motion towards Lin Feng in the air.

Lin Feng felt his Soul being brutally stripped from his body; the tearing pain made him almost faint.

Am I really going to die here?

No!

I haven't lost yet!

Lin Feng lay in the mud, his hands desperately clutching the ground, his fingernails broken and dripping with blood.

"System... you bastard..."

"I'm about to die... are you still holding back?"

"If you don't step up... we're both finished!"

Lin Feng let out a final roar in his mind.

It seemed to sense the host's death-defying determination, or perhaps the threat of the Saint-level Law intrusion.

The System, which had always been greedy, sarcastic, and even a bit of a swindler, finally let out a different notification sound at this moment.

This voice was cold and mechanical, yet it sounded like heavenly music.

[Ding!]

[Detected that the host has encountered force majeure (Saint-level Law suppression).]

[Detected that the host possesses "Unyielding Will".]

[Ultimate Authority Protocol... unsealing.]

Zhunti's hand was about to touch Lin Feng's Soul, and the despairing suction had already begun to blur Lin Feng's consciousness.

Right then.

In Lin Feng's mind, that familiar blue interface suddenly shattered, turning into a sky full of red data streams.