Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2373 - 93: Soul Search
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Inside the domain.
Crimson light burst from Wang Ba's eyes. The monk facing him looked stunned, with a trace of red glow also sparking in his gaze.
Still, a subtle sign of resistance showed on his features.
It was as if he detected Wang Ba's probe into his mind and fought back fiercely...
Across from him, Wang Ba's stare grew sharper, filled with mild astonishment:
"An Arhat... How is he holding out like this?"
Using the laws of a Grand Realm alongside his soul force, he couldn't fully dominate the opponent, which genuinely caught him off guard.
A idea struck him suddenly; his Primordial Spirit shot out and plunged straight into the monk's forehead.
Initially, it resembled stepping into a bog, heavy with opposition, yet with a bit of force, he forced his way into the monk's Sea of Consciousness.
The Sea of Consciousness stretched endlessly, without limits.
Right then, inside the Sea, one side churned red like a sea of blood, while the other shimmered gold like rays from Buddhist teachings.
Where they met, a bare monk perched by himself, his face split down the middle by his nose—half red, half gold, shifting back and forth.
Faintly on the monk's form, intricate golden markings draped over him, writhing without end, as though burrowing into his skin and skeleton.
These intricate golden markings were exactly what shielded him from the erosion of Yin God Power.
"Could this be what's messing with his thoughts?"
Wang Ba couldn't stop thinking of the cultivators from the Reincarnation Six Paths who transformed wildly after bathing in the Six Paths Pond Water.
His brows knit together lightly.
Similar golden markings appeared on those cultivators and inside the black beast presented by Wisdom Truth Bodhisattva.
If his suspicion held true, these enigmatic golden markings served as the Supreme True Buddha's way to command his followers.
Even though his power now dwarfed the monk in front of him, boosted by the Yin God Power from Little Cang World, he remained unable to fully sway the man.
He halted for a moment, no delay, then lifted his hand and slammed it onto the monk's skull, unleashing the 'Soul Search Technique'.
In that instant, the whole Sea of Consciousness quivered without a sound!
Abruptly, fissures raced across it, beyond which a mighty, unrelenting power appeared to surge in.
Through the fissures, slim golden chains were dimly discernible, fragile-looking but fully halting that mighty power.
This result seemed to provoke the power, and right after, the entire Sea of Consciousness realm jolted fiercely, cracks sprouting everywhere, on the verge of crumbling...
Agony twisted the monk's face, his body melting into sludge swiftly, but the enigmatic golden markings sharpened in view, slithering like alive over the pale bones.
Wang Ba's look grew a touch grave.
None of what unfolded was actual; it was just the fallout from probing the monk's soul, displayed in the Sea of Consciousness.
The monk present was only a projection of his awareness inside the Sea of Consciousness.
That detail didn't matter.
What counted was his clear sense this time of the enigmatic golden markings within the monk, thwarting his dive into the man's mind.
Sure, he might ramp up the soul search's strength, but that would shatter the whole Sea of Consciousness realm, meaning total ruin of the opponent's awareness, leaving a mindless shell.
Far from his goal.
So, though his expression stayed serene like still water, he gradually pulled back his hand.
As his hand retreated.
The torment on the monk's face faded bit by bit, his body quietly reforming.
The fissures in the Sea of Consciousness realm mended quickly, and the golden chains hid away too.
But the enigmatic golden markings stayed plain on the monk's form, shifting about.
Golden radiance and crimson stood sharply divided, cleaving the monk and the full Sea of Consciousness realm in two.
"I refuse to accept this!"
A icy spark lit Wang Ba's eyes.
The instant after, his hand shot forward once more, clamping down on the monk's crown!
Pain etched the monk's face anew.
The just-mended body sloughed off again, the Sea of Consciousness realm splitting with myriad rifts...
In those rifts, intertwined golden chains loomed faintly, warding off every bit of invading force from beyond the Sea of Consciousness.
At the same time, as the golden chains battled the soul search's might.
Wang Ba fixed his gaze on the tormented monk ahead, his eyes exploding with red light!
The red light on the monk's face at last breached past his nose, inching a smidge into the golden shine that had blanketed it before...
Yin God Power paired with Soul Searching Technique surged together now!
Even if the golden chains sealed tight without gaps, a tiny weakness flickered in that split second.
Crimson flared in the monk's eyes at once!
It held just a brief instant, soon reverting to conflict, yet how could Wang Ba, ever vigilant on him, let that chance slip? Their gazes locked.
Right away, a small fragment of the monk's mind spilled forth.
"Perseverance stands as the key in Qi Refining..."
"Father, have no worries; someday, I'll restore our Ling Dynasty!"
"...Who in this world can rival me?"
"The Supreme True Buddha's people arrive? Never! I'd sooner perish than bow to those wicked monks..."
"To grasp all Buddhas across the three eras, contemplate the essence of the Dharma Realm; all arises from the mind alone... No beauty or ugliness exists in the Dharma Realm... Every thing springs from causes, every thing ends by causes. The Buddha taught that all such caused things are void..."
"Buddhas and common folk alike form from the six elements: earth, water, fire, wind, space, awareness... No divide exists between beings and Buddhas..."
"Supreme True Buddha, this layman clings to forms..."