Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2548: 252: Fierce Battle
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“Buzz—”
The surrounding void got stabilized by earth, fire, water, and wind, four colored lights swirling around it.
A colossal giant hand reflected in the Tianshang Buddha Lord's eyes, swiftly extending forward!
Faintly discernible on the palm's surface, ancient rocks covered it, crisscrossed by deep ravines…
For once, the Tianshang Buddha Lord felt utterly trapped, with no place to hide or flee!
Nearly at the same instant, he identified the source of this massive hand—
“Zhang’s Ruins!”
The Tianshang Buddha Lord’s expression shifted abruptly!
A sense of peril surged within his heart.
Right as he comprehended it, the enormous hand stretching from beyond the passage crashed down, fully engulfing him!
“Succeeded!”
Led by True Man Gai, the Mahayana Cultivators witnessed this, their morale soaring with shock and joy!
They marveled at the hand's origin and power, while rejoicing that the unprepared Tianshang Buddha Lord took the full palm strike.
Yet before these cultivators drew near, the next instant brought a mighty Buddhist chant resounding across the void!
“Om Mani Padme Hum!”
Every syllable hammered into hearts like the toll of morning bells and evening drums!
“Huh?!”
From beyond the corridor held steady by the four magic wands of earth, fire, water, and wind, a startled voice rang out.
Immediately following, boundless golden Buddha lights poured forth like flowing water from between the giant hand's fingers!
The clutching hand now met an unstoppable barrier, slowly pried apart bit by bit.
The following moment saw three massive Buddha statues erupt from inside the hand, swelling rapidly with the wind!
In a flash, these three Buddha statues dwarfed the giant hand entirely.
Sitting, standing, and reclining Buddhas embodied the Supreme True Buddha’s three Dharma Realms of past, present, and future!
Now, the Tianshang Buddha Lord stood shielded within the three Dharma Realms, all nearby lightning vanishing at once.
His icy, profound gaze swept across the blocked stone hand ahead and over Wang Ba, True Man Gai, and the rest near the passage.
Eyes narrowing, he swiftly saw through Wang Ba and others' scheme, snorting coldly:
“Well plotted!”
As the three Dharma Realms manifested, the cultivators fell into stunned silence.
True Man Gai's face grew grave, eyes locked on the three giant Buddhas:
“The three Dharma Realms are still here?!”
Wang Ba, positioned by the passage, also showed a grave look.
His eyes quickly swept the three giant Buddhas, detecting no plague aura, leaving him inwardly shocked and skeptical:
“Dispelled the plague so quickly? Impossible…”
The Disaster Plague Immortal's plague was uniquely potent, crafted to afflict cultivators. Even in weakened form, it could fell a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and as a Ninth-Tier power now, nothing in the Realm Sea should withstand it.
Though the Tianshang Buddha Lord surpassed typical Realm Sea cultivators in strength, with the Supreme True Buddha boasting profound roots and mysterious heritage, Wang Ba hadn't anticipated total nullification, but at least some delay.
Puzzled inside, his face betrayed no hint.
In this realm, impossibilities don't exist; what defies understanding just means one's cultivation falls short.
Luckily, enlisting Bu Gui from Zhang’s Ruins served to counter any Tianshang Buddha Lord defenses; this twist remained within expectations.
Without pause, he pressed on, channeling the Dharma Seal further.
The next instant, the passage upheld by the four staffs of earth, fire, water, and wind abruptly widened once more!
Nearly instantly, a hugely immense humanoid colossus lowered its head, stooping through the passage to emerge before all eyes.
Ancient stone armored the giant entirely, its imposing form rendering the three giant Buddhas childlike by contrast!
“Is this Zhang’s Ruins?!”
True Man Gai and companions gazed up at the titan involuntarily, momentarily dazed before recognition hit.
Minds first blanked, then realization dawned, unleashing successive waves of shock!
“Zhang’s Ruins, isn’t this where Rogue Cultivators gather?”
“How does it hold such terrifying power?!”
“Its aura feels no less than the three Dharma Realms…”
True Man Gai and Heavenly Monarch Chao, natives of the Great Realms, felt profound shock beyond words at that moment.
Not distant from Zhang’s Ruins, they held deep familiarity with this hub for rogue cultivators, fully cognizant of the various factions inside. However, scorned it they did, thanks to their vast resources and flawless inheritances, never bothering to cast an eye on Zhang’s Ruins—even aware of multiple Crossing Tribulation cultivators there, true regard they never gave it.
Even during Zhang Bokai’s foray into Zhang’s Ruins back then, he was viewed as mere cannon fodder.
Without Wang Ba’s abrupt rise, which later unified Zhang’s Ruins, the Mahayana Cultivators of the Great Realms would have persisted in overlooking this spot.
Who could have foreseen that this scorned ‘backwater’ stood as the ultimate peak within the Realm Sea.
In that instant, every heart brimmed with elation laced with tangled emotions.
True Man Gai grasped it at once, his eyes drawn irresistibly to Wang Ba positioned at the passage.
This poised and unflappable young cultivator now struck as even more enigmatic, almost unwittingly.
Zhang’s Ruins had quietly bordered the four Great Realms for ages without fanfare, but immediately upon True Man Taiyi’s arrival, it unleashed such breathtaking prowess—Gai simply couldn’t overlook Wang Ba’s hand in these events.