128: Chapter 128 What is there to fear in the boundless Buddha light? The sword immortal carries a gourd and treads upon the golden body.

Ye Xiu clapped his hands, and the Void Realm around him distorted for a moment.

He no longer suppressed his cultivation of the Sendai Second Heaven, and his entire being transformed directly into a long rainbow of gold and silver that pierced through the heavens and earth.

With a terrifying speed that tore through space, he instantly vanished above Kuji Ridge.

At the border between The Great Ruins and Yankang, Ghost Gate Gorge.

Above the firmament, one half was the gentle golden light emitted by the solar divine ship, while the other half remained firmly occupied by Buddhist golden light so thick it could not be dispersed.

The phantom of Master Ma's one-armed, glaring Vajra had already dissipated; clearly, the reminiscing was over, and he had returned to Canlao Village.

But in that boundless ocean of Buddha light, that thousand-foot-tall, solemn Dharma image of Lao Yuilai...

…had not withdrawn to the Great Leiyin Sect as Ye Xiu had expected.

He sat cross-legged on a twelve-petaled Karma golden lotus, his eyes slightly closed, his hands fingering a string of prayer beads made from the sarira of high monks.

With every movement, the surrounding space resonated with a low, muffled sound of Sanskrit chanting.

He was waiting for someone.

He was waiting for the variable that had beheaded the Head of the Arhat Hall, shattered Mount Sumeru, and was so unpredictable that even he, the Sect Leader of the Great Leiyin Sect, could not see through.

"Boom!"

The distant sea of clouds exploded with a roar.

An incomparably violent aura, intermingled with two distinct yet perfectly fused forces—the ultimate Pure Yang True Fire and the vitality of Taiyi Wood—shot forth like a peerless Flying Sword.

It violently smashed through the sky full of Buddha light and stopped steadily directly in front of Yuilai's Dharma image.

Dressed in white like snow, a wine gourd hanging from his waist.

Ye Xiu stepped on the Void Realm, not a single bit of Qi leaking from his body.

Yet merely by standing there, the surrounding Buddhist golden light recoiled uncontrollably, as if encountering its natural predator.

"Old monk, Master Ma has already returned. Why are you, this great Buddha, still standing here in Ghost Gate Gorge, blowing in the cold wind?"

Ye Xiu uncorked the wine gourd at his waist, tilted his head back to take a swig of strong Western Regions liquor, and a playful, wild laugh curled the corners of his lips:

"What? Did you not receive a sound beating from this Sect Leader, and now you're reluctant to return to your Mount Sumeru?"

Yuilai's Dharma image slowly opened his eyes.

They were a pair of eyes that seemed to have seen through the vicissitudes of eternity, devoid of sorrow or joy.

But the instant his gaze fell upon Ye Xiu, Lao Yuilai's fingers, which were fingering the prayer beads, stiffened imperceptibly.

"Amitabha."

Lao Yuilai's voice was vast and majestic, carrying an unquestionable sense of oppression:

"The grievances between this old monk and that foolish disciple are already in the past.

But the true purpose of this old monk's trip today was never him from the beginning; it was you, Benefactor Ye."

"Oh?"

Ye Xiu raised an eyebrow, feigning surprise.

"So, you old monk ran all this way just to deliver your head to this Sect Leader?"

Facing Ye Xiu's arrogant provocation, Lao Yuilai did not get angry but laughed instead, a deep, sharp light flashing in his eyes.

"Benefactor Ye jests.

While on Mount Sumeru, this old monk observed the great change in the atmosphere of The Great Ruins, with a proud sun breaking through the sky.

I knew that an extraordinary variable had appeared in the world.

The Crown Prince's meager intelligence naturally could not deceive this old monk's Dharma Eye."

Lao Yuilai pressed his palms together, and the ten thousand feet of Buddha light around him instantly boiled:

"It is absolutely impossible for someone in the Nine Transformations of Dragonization to catch a Golden Crow with bare hands. This old monk has been waiting, waiting for Benefactor Ye to appear.

This old monk would like to see if this Divine Altar you have just built can truly bear the weight of your monstrous killing Karma!"

The dagger was revealed!

The Great Leiyin Sect had been able to stand at the Peak of Yankang's martial arts for thousands of years not solely by relying on compassion.

Facing a Prodigy who governed the Heavenly Demon Sect, held the solar divine ship, and could even break the shackles of the Realm...

…the best way to deal with him was not to negotiate peace, but to kill him completely while his wings were not yet fully grown!

Lao Yuilai had previously used the excuse of "reminiscing" with Master Ma, but in reality, he had been secretly using Buddhist Dharma to deduce Ye Xiu's depth.

He concluded that no matter how high Ye Xiu's talent was, at most he had just stepped into the first level of the Sendai Realm; his Realm could not possibly be stable!

And he, Lao Yuilai, had already been a peerless ancient Buddha at the fifth level of the Sendai Realm three hundred years ago!

A four-level suppression in the Realm—this was the absolute confidence that allowed Lao Yuilai to remain here and "wait" for Ye Xiu!

"Want to use me to establish your authority?"

Ye Xiu understood the subtext of Lao Yuilai's words and couldn't help but throw his head back and laugh wildly.

The laughter reverberated through the clouds, shaking the surrounding Buddha light until it shattered inch by inch.

"Old bald donkey, you have quite the scheme. Unfortunately, you calculated one thing wrong."

Ye Xiu slowly suppressed his smile, his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes instantly transforming into two soul-captivating divine suns:

"Not only have I built a Divine Altar, but while I was just taking a stroll... I happened to step onto the second level!"

The moment his words fell.

Ye Xiu no longer held anything back!

"Rumble!!!"

A Sendai pressure, ten times more terrifying than before at the bottom of the Sun Well, erupted from within Ye Xiu's body!

Within his Sea of Consciousness, that white jade Sendai, which had originally only had one level, now revealed a perfect form of two levels, one above the other!

The first level burned with the extreme Yang True Fire of the Pure Yang Golden Crow, while the second level circulated with the endless vitality of the Taiyi Building Wood.

One life, one death; one wood, one fire. They generated and restrained each other, endless and ceaseless!

"Sendai Second Heaven?!"

On Lao Yuilai's face, which had been as calm as an ancient well, uncontrollable shock finally appeared.

How is this possible?

Half an hour ago at the bottom of the Sun Well, this kid had clearly just broken through his Realm.

How did he go out for a stroll and directly cross the barrier of a hundred years of bitter cultivation, stepping into the second level?!

But as the number one person in Buddhism, Lao Yuilai's combat proficiency was extremely high. His shock lasted only for an instant before he made a decisive decision to strike first!

"Great Might Heavenly Dragon, World Honored Ksitigarbha! Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, suppress the evil spirits!"

Lao Yuilai shouted angrily, the right arm of his thousand-foot Dharma image suddenly raised, his wide kasaya expanding in the wind, covering the sky and the sun.

A giant hand that covered the sky, forged from pure gold, with the lines on its palm transforming into mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars.

Carrying the terrifying power of Law capable of crushing a Small World, it descended from the Nine Heavens, covering Ye Xiu's head!

This was a true Supreme Buddhist Divine Ability—[Buddha Kingdom in the Palm]!

Once enveloped by this giant hand, one would be forcibly dragged into the absolute Domain constructed by Lao Yuilai using his five-level Divine Altar, never to be reincarnated for eternity.

Facing such a world-shaking Divine Ability that would make any Grandmaster in the world despair.

Ye Xiu not only did not dodge, but he didn't even draw the Flying Sword from his waist.

"Buddha Kingdom in the Palm? With a place as small as your palm, you dare to call it a Kingdom?!"

Ye Xiu sneered, the blood and Qi of his Nine Transformations of Dragonization at Great Perfection surging violently.

The muscles of his right arm bulged high, and gold and silver dragon scale patterns instantly covered his entire arm.

"Pure Yang as the blade, Taiyi as the bone. Break for me!"

Ye Xiu stepped on the Void Realm, advancing instead of retreating against the giant hand descending from the sky, like an ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex defying the heavens, and punched directly!

"Dong!!!"

The two, one large and one small, completely disproportionate, collided in mid-air with a roar.

There was no flashy exchange of Spells, only the crushing of the most extreme power and Law!

This punch from Ye Xiu gathered the full foundation of his two-level Divine Altar.

On the fist, the golden Pure Yang True Fire burned crazily at the Karma Laws on the Buddha hand;

the cyan Taiyi Wood Qi acted like countless indestructible divine needles, directly piercing through the barrier of the Buddha Kingdom that claimed to be "Vajra Indestructible."

"Crack... crack, crack!"

In Lao Yuilai's terrified gaze, his [Buddha Kingdom in the Palm], which he was so proud of...

…actually began to crack from the center of the palm where it made contact with Ye Xiu's fist, revealing shocking black spatial rifts!

"Impossible! How could my five-level Divine Altar Golden Body be shattered by your punch?!"

A trace of golden Buddha blood spilled from the corner of Lao Yuilai's mouth as he frantically urged his Qi to try and repair his Dharma image.

"Is the fifth level so impressive? Today, this Sect Leader will trample your Golden Body and let you know what it means to slaughter a dog across levels!"

Ye Xiu roared wildly, his figure suddenly soaring high in mid-air.

He actually followed the cracks in the giant hand, like a bolt of white lightning.

He broke through the blockade of the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and instantly appeared directly above the thousand-foot Yuilai Dharma image!

"Bald donkey, take a kick from me!"

Ye Xiu was in mid-air, his right leg like a giant axe splitting the heavens and earth.

Carrying a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the Void Realm, it fiercely hacked down at the incomparably large bald head of Yuilai's Dharma image!

This kick not only contained the extreme Realm of the Physical Body of the Nine Transformations of Dragonization at Great Perfection, but it also compressed the pressure of the two-level Divine Altar in his Sea of Consciousness to the extreme.

"Arrogant!"

Lao Yuilai was furious. As a Supreme figure of Buddhism, when had he ever been humiliated by someone riding on his head like this?

He suddenly raised his hands upwards, and a huge golden light shield engraved with the " 卍" Buddhist seal instantly formed above his head, attempting to withstand Ye Xiu's kick head-on.

However.

The moment Ye Xiu's sole heavily stepped onto that golden light shield...

…Lao Yuilai finally truly understood what kind of unreasonable monster he was facing.

"Boom—Clatter!"

That " 卍" light shield, capable of withstanding the combined volley of a million-strong army, was under this kick from Ye Xiu...

…unable to last even half a breath, it was trampled into pieces on the spot as if it were fragile glass!

Ye Xiu's kick did not lose its momentum, landing on the top of Yuilai's Dharma image like a hot knife through butter.

"Bang!!!"

A deafening roar echoed across ten thousand miles of The Great Ruins.

Under that unrivaled, absolute violence, the thousand-foot-tall, solemn Golden Body Dharma image of Yuilai...

…was actually forced by Ye Xiu's kick, starting from the top of its head, to crack with a huge fissure that ran through its entire body!

"Pfft!"

The Golden Body was broken, the Dharma image collapsed.

"Rumble!"

Lao Yuilai's true body slammed heavily into the mountain range below Ghost Gate Gorge.

The mountain range, stretching for tens of miles, was smashed until it directly fractured and collapsed, kicking up clouds of dust.

One kick!

Just one kick!

The ten thousand feet of Buddha light had now completely dissipated.

Only Ye Xiu, in his white robes, stood proudly above the Nine Heavens.

He held that purple-red wine gourd in one hand, tilted his head back to take a swig of the spicy, strong liquor, and let the wine drip down his chin onto his white clothes.

He looked down condescendingly at the ruins below, where a huge deep pit had been smashed, his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes filled with an unexcelled arrogance and disdain.

"Old bald donkey, is this the foundation of your Great Leiyin Sect?"