Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2322: 175: Audience
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In the southeast region of Huanyu Continent.
Azure Dragon Mountain Range.
The peaks soar up to ten thousand fathoms, looking like a massive Azure Dragon lying down, which is how it got its name.
Mystical Qi drifts through the atmosphere, turning this area into one of the few ultimate blessed lands in the nearby territories.
The Wanxiang Sect, Longevity Sect, and Youxian Temple hold control over this location. Thousands of years back, a massive disaster wrecked it, yet the Cultivators from the Three Sects rebuilt everything.
Following ages of calm, the peace shattered once more on this particular day.
Individuals radiating dense auras stepped through the skies and hovered overhead, with radiant Buddha light glowing behind them, resembling a grand sun, spotless like a holy figure.
They gazed down upon the Cultivators and ordinary folks inside the sect underneath.
Displaying looks of delight and mercy:
“Supreme True Buddha… All beings endure suffering, my Buddha offers compassion.”
As they mentioned mercy, the head monk wasted no time and slammed his palm downward, sending a huge handprint crashing toward the mountain range below. Right then, a dome-shaped barrier of light burst into existence inside the range, expanding fast from the core, and even firing off a ray that linked up with the Sky Dome and Realm Membrane overhead!
The handprint smashed down hard, smashing into the light barrier, which made the whole mountain range quake fiercely!
The barrier quivered a bit but soon channeled the impact to the Realm Membrane, and matching barrier arrays popped up right away in the far-off areas!
Around the nearby terrain, dome-shaped light barriers rose into view.
Next, the barrier in this spot steadied itself without delay.
Soon enough, an urgent clamor rang out from deep in the mountain range, as forms shot up into the heavens yet stayed inside the barrier's bounds, their faces filled with astonishment, anxiety, and grim resolve… A mix of feelings showed plainly, as they clearly hadn't anticipated the foes arriving out of nowhere.
“Linking the sect's arrays together into a single unit and even tying into the entire Domain… It looks like you've made thorough preparations.”
The monks suspended in the air witnessed this, showing mild astonishment, but nothing beyond that.
They had already unleashed a total assault on the Cloud Sky Realm; even with its Domain strengthened, the overwhelming onslaught from bodhisattvas and arhats had torn open breaches swiftly, leaving the Realm Membrane itself battered. While these arrays could hook into it, they couldn't last much longer.
“Advance, shatter the matching Realm Membrane point from inside here!”
“Dispatch the rest over to that side and smash it all together!”
With a single look, the leading Bodhisattva grasped the setup's complexity, barking orders to the other arhats without hesitation. Some monks then soared toward the Sky Dome, while the others scattered fast to hammer the dome-shaped light barriers underneath.
The lone Bodhisattva even summoned a Dharma Aspect as vast as a mountain.
The dome-shaped light barriers jolted wildly, even bouncing back bursts of light that the monks swatted aside effortlessly, redirecting them toward remote barriers and sparking dazzling flares.
Hearing the command, the arhats also headed for the Sky Dome.
They observed the Sky Dome overhead bending inward repeatedly, as if external forces pressed against it.
The safeguards within the Realm Membrane proved much feebler than those outside. Right now, the arhats closed in, pounding the Realm Membrane with all their might, which caused endless tiny fissures to spread rapidly across the Sky Dome!
As the fissures formed, the ties between the dome-shaped light barriers below and the Realm Membrane snapped apart quickly, and amid the monks' onslaught, the barriers encircling the mountain range started to waver and dim fiercely.
“If things continue like this, the moment the array crumbles, we'll all end up as captives of the Supreme True Buddha!”
Under the light barrier, every member of the Wanxiang Sect, Longevity Sect, and Youxian Temple who hadn't headed to the Cloud Sky Arena for the festivity had surfaced, assembling right below the shield.
Golden lotus flowers bloomed swiftly and covered the light barrier, mirroring the deeply serious expressions on the Cultivators' faces underneath.
The Cultivators huddled near a young man in ochre robes and a skinny elder, peering through the light barrier at the monks' forms in the sky and the arhats battering the Sky Dome, their looks utterly somber.
“One Bodhisattva, seven arhats, and plenty of other practitioners…”
“The Cloud Sky Sect established this array, so we lack control over it, but should the Realm Membrane up there shatter, this array will suffer damage too…”
“We have to halt them!”
The young man in ochre robes declared in a grave tone.
The skinny elder next to him knitted his brows at those words but held back from interfering; in this desperate fight for survival, charging ahead was the only option, so he added solemnly:
“Junior Brother, my wounds remain heavy, and right now you're the only one at Crossing Tribulation here, so take utmost care, just throw them off balance, avoid clashing head-on, I'll back you up from inside the array!”
“Don't worry, Senior Brother!”
The young man in ochre robes steadied his features in an instant, having journeyed far with his Senior Brother through endless trials, so despite the grim odds, fear barely stirred in him, and he acted with resolve. His form darted out from the barrier's edge, dodging the monks' strikes.
The second he burst out, an arhat smirked coldly and lunged to seize him!
The arhat's limbs stretched unnaturally far, extending as if without limit.
Qitian Patriarch kept his composure, letting his Primordial Spirit rise above his head, as the Dao Domain unfolded once more.
Inside it, a colossal tree loomed vaguely, echoing the Undying Divine Tree in the Longevity Sect of Little Cang World, though this one appeared even denser and loftier.
This marked the authentic Undying Divine Tree, Qitian Patriarch's Lifebound Spirit Plant, with the one in Longevity Sect merely a offshoot from this original.
Drawing power from the Undying Divine Tree, the Dao Domain anchored into the ground, quaking faintly to repel the far-stretched giant hands.