Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2340 181: World-Shocking (Part 3)
Previously on Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant...
"Doesn't that mean he could totally fool every one of us?!"
"That's exactly why I warned before against grouping up so casually! Just moments ago, when he posed as Wisdom Longevity, he tricked us into setting up that formation on purpose. Who knows what other schemes he's hiding, likely waiting to ambush us from the dark!"
"We mustn't group together!"
All the Bodhisattvas came to an agreement.
Thoughts raced between their minds at high speed, but the deeper their exchange went, the more their spirits sank!
Never before had they faced an opponent this frustrating.
A master of shapeshifting who could also block their perceptions and command Telepathy turned out to be a total disaster!
"Hold on, with us linking minds like this, has he already slipped in among us?!"
As soon as this idea hit, every Bodhisattva's heart jolted hard!
A wave of undefined terror quickly rose up!
Sensing this panic, one Bodhisattva swiftly declared:
"Stay calm!"
"Sixteen individuals, sixteen streams of thought... the numbers line up, so he hasn't broken in!"
Right when the group started to settle, frantic messages from two Bodhisattvas arrived in quick succession:
"He's arrived!"
"He's launching a brutal assault!"
The Bodhisattvas tensed up and swiftly pinpointed locations according to their earlier plan.
"Hold steady, we're on our way!"
They prepared to move.
Meanwhile, two more Bodhisattvas, separated by distance, sent out desperate cries:
"I'm, I'm under attack as well!"
"Quick, come aid us!"
Two locations at once?!
Shock and confusion gripped the Bodhisattvas, and before they could make sense of it, two additional Bodhisattvas shouted out in haste:
"He's with our group too!"
"We're, we're getting hit now!"
"Ours as well!"
Suddenly, except for just a handful, as many as ten faced assaults!
"He's just one guy, no chance he overpowers us all, he's only stirring chaos to slip through! Don't get tricked, everyone!"
A voice boomed in their collective mind.
But right then, a Bodhisattva roared furiously through the link:
"Wisdom Injured, is that you? Why are you striking at me?!"
Before Wisdom Injured could reply, a Bodhisattva near Wisdom Injured interjected:
"Wisdom Power, no way, we're fighting back against that fiend, there's no..."
Those words cut off abruptly, replaced by a fierce outburst surging from Wisdom Power Bodhisattva's mind.
Through their shared Telepathy, the others instantly grasped the dire situation Wisdom Power Bodhisattva confronted, and it clearly displayed traces of Wisdom Power Bodhisattva's Divine Skills!
And nearly simultaneously, Wisdom Power Bodhisattva's mental voice halted completely!
Silence fell like a shroud!
Even the 'True Man Taiyi' launching attacks paused their strikes.
"Wisdom Power... Wisdom Power?!"
The Bodhisattva who had spoken moments ago now felt a profound, gut-wrenching cold!
Sixteen connections, reduced to fifteen in a flash.
Wisdom Power Bodhisattva had obviously perished!
And the 'Wisdom Injured' whom Wisdom Power Bodhisattva accused of the attack now lingered right by his side.
"I didn't! It wasn't me! I was battling that demon, we stood nearby, I must have brushed against Wisdom Power by mistake..."
Within the link, Wisdom Injured Bodhisattva frantically justified himself.
But nobody paid attention to his words.
Under the crushing weight, more than a dozen supreme Dao Treasures hurled wildly at Wisdom Injured Bodhisattva!
This included the nearby Bodhisattva who once backed him up.
With no room for doubt, facing the all-out onslaught from over a dozen Bodhisattvas, Wisdom Injured Bodhisattva stood no chance against it, and in a mix of desperation and rage, he faded from existence.
A heavy quiet descended.
Yet it ushered in an unusual peace.
"Is it gone?"
"Has that demon been defeated?"
In the quiet, the Bodhisattvas wondered inwardly, and as moments passed without disturbance, a spark of relief ignited in their hearts. They even started ignoring the enveloping gloom.
But the very next second.
Boom, boom, boom!
The surviving fourteen came under simultaneous assault!
Their brief elation plunged into despair!
Terror, far from fading, wrapped around them more tightly than ever!
Right now.
The Bodhisattvas, lost in dread, sensed that fiend lurking everywhere, poised to mimic a trusted ally at any instant. They refused to form arrays, refused to rely on partners, gripped only by icy shivers and a quaking, nightmarish, enraged, powerless frenzy born of fear!
Even surrounded by fellow Bodhisattvas, security felt absent.
Now targeted, like startled creatures, some shielded with elite Dao Treasures, while others, driven insane by panic, lashed out blindly nearby!
And one after another, they fell mute amid this frenzy...
Whoosh——
Out of nowhere, daylight burst forth.
Beneath the stunned stare of a youth in purple robes, in the vacant gazes of a withered elder and a crimson-garbed young man within a far-off light shield, in the astonishment of the Southern Great Bodhisattva and countless monks and cultivators watching the clash intently...
Clad in blue robes, Wang Ba emerged steadily from a fading shadow, his expression peaceful as he softly caressed the Candle Dragon wrapped around his arm.
Behind him... apart from a few stray limbs and fragments of shattered upper grade Dao Treasures, faintly capturing the savage ferocity of the hidden clash, those twenty-three Bodhisattvas seemed to have vanished entirely, as if they had never been...