Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2343: 182: Downfall_3

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Bai Lechan, in purple robes, suddenly appeared to shield Wang Ba from the assault of Great Bodhisattvas Ridi and Moon Truth, unleashing nine sword-lights to shatter their giant palms and declaring himself their foe. With the Realm Membrane broken and formations failing, the battle intensified as Bodhisattvas and Arhats pressed the cultivators, but Wang Ba summoned his brush Dao Treasure, inscribing 'kill' characters that felled nearly forty Arhats and disrupted enemy lines, allowing Cloud Sky Realm's forces to regain some ground. Amid the chaos, a grave warning struck Wang Ba, who evaded a sealing attack just as the Northern Great Bodhisattva entered through the realm's breach, his eyes burning with greed to convert Wang Ba for immense merit.

“This time, no one can come to your rescue!”

The intense greed blazing in the Northern Great Bodhisattva’s gaze made Wang Ba’s heart shudder with cold fear!

Right then, the gravity of his predicament hit him fully.

In the Cloud Sky Realm, four cultivators at the late tribulation-crossing stage, Bai Lechan among them, found themselves locked in fierce struggles with their foes. Against the Northern Great Bodhisattva, the mid-stage tribulation-crossing experts were equally trapped and unable to break free, and even those with some leeway couldn’t rush to help without risk.

Regarding Master Chao—Heavenly Monarch Chao, the one who had saved him once—he was now locked in an epic clash beyond the realm against the seated Buddha thought to be Tianshang Buddha. Blinding radiance poured from it, obscuring all details, but it was obvious he couldn’t spare any aid for a rescue…

Right now, Wang Ba stood isolated, confronting the Northern Great Bodhisattva by himself.

“Remember… if things get too dangerous, get out right away. It’s not running away, it’s safeguarding the true opportunity.”

This very phrase surged into Wang Ba’s thoughts at that instant.

Master Chao had shared these words with him prior to venturing beyond the realm.

Bai Lechan had also repeated this advice to him on numerous occasions.

“But…”

Wang Ba’s hand instinctively clutched at his sleeve, his eyes narrowing with intent.

Hidden in that sleeve, the Wu Monkey King was poised to burst forth anytime, ready to strike when the Northern Great Bodhisattva drew near for the kill, delivering an unforgettable blow to the foe…

However, since he’d pulled this move once already, Wang Ba truly doubted its effectiveness now.

While he pondered this deeply.

The wild, frantic roars echoing from beyond the realm came to an abrupt stop in that very moment!

It resembled a massive beast in full sprint halting dead, or a downpour that suddenly dried up!

This jarring shift from chaos to calm brought no tranquility; instead, it hinted at a far more tremendous upheaval brewing. Laden with suffocating pressure, it snapped everyone into heightened vigilance and focus.

“Beyond the realm… what’s going on?”

The youth in purple robes thrust forward a palm strike, repelling the Great Bodhisattvas Ridi and Moon Truth with nine sword pillars, before turning his serious gaze outward, a subtle dread and shadow creeping into his mind.

Yet in the direction he stared, only golden brilliance filled the view, revealing nothing, clarifying zilch…

He wasn’t alone; Wang Ba, the Northern Great Bodhisattva, the Southern Great Bodhisattva… all the high-level cultivators present sensed the anomaly and peered beyond the realm, only to discern nothing clear.

Time itself appeared to freeze in silence then.

Until an unheard-of noise, bursting through the tension, finally rang out alongside the impact of something enormous—

Boom!!!

Beneath the stunned stares of everyone.

Fierce tremors rocked everything!

Nearly simultaneously, at the realm membrane’s center between two vast rifts, it buckled sharply inward, as though struck by a colossal force.

This realm membrane, which could repel mid-stage tribulation-crossing cultivators, now seemed as flimsy as mere parchment!

Rip!

A tremendous rent tore through the realm membrane, and then the Ten Thousand Headed Lion Beast, tumbling like a lifeless hound, hurtled into the realm, slamming into the earth; its light barrier faded swiftly, the ground collapsed and fractured in haste, myriad lives pulverized and erased…

Including even the monks among them.

What sort of disaster was this!

Wang Ba himself, witnessing the spectacle, felt his thoughts quake wildly!

“The beasts… Master Chao!”

And in the midst of this turmoil, a voice wafted from beyond the realm—remote and immense, divine and holy, tinged with sorrow but icy—declaring:

“Xiahou Demon has fallen in battle.”

“True Man Gai has fled in defeat.”

“The Master of Quiet Cave has also fled in defeat…”

“You all schemed so meticulously, yet in the end, you can’t endure my Buddha’s true will.”

“Heavenly Monarch Chao, with no more of those beasts left, do you possess any other tricks?”

“Why not guide the billions of souls in this Cloud Sky Realm to seek shelter in the true Buddha together…”