Western Niu Hezhou

Lingjiu Mountain.

Great Leiyin Temple.

The ancient Buddha at the highest seat looked increasingly solemn.

"Golden Wing!" Dingguang Tathagata called out.

Once the Yuyi Immortal, who now also serves as a mount under The Buddha, upon hearing his master's call, promptly came before The Buddha, knelt, and bowed, "What does the master command?"

"The situation in the Heavenly Court has changed!" Behind Dingguang Tathagata, the Infinite Buddha Light illuminated the Western Pure Land, and with the utterance of the supreme Buddha's chant, he spoke gravely: "Take my Talismanic Decree and go to the Northern Continent. Request Bai Ze and Kunpeng to hasten to the Heavenly Court to assist our forces!"

"By your command!" The Yuyi Immortal bowed respectfully and, taking the Talismanic Decree, immediately turned and departed.

With the world's utmost speed, although the Northern Continent was a distant journey, it was but a stone's throw away for him.

On the other side, Dingguang Tathagata also sent a wisp of Divine Thought, slicing through space and arriving directly at the eighteenth layer of the Netherworld.

Near the estuary of the forgetful river, he encountered Ksitigarbha who was in the process of enlightening the spirits of the dead.

This Bodhisattva, who was once a direct disciple of the two Sect Hierarchs of the Western Sect alongside the Pharmacist and Maitreya, should have leveraged the boundless destiny during the evolution of the Buddhist Sect to achieve supreme enlightenment and become a Buddha.

However, he chose to enter the Underworld, and made the Great Vow, "Until the hells are empty, I vow not to become a Buddha."

From then on, he was confined within the Underworld forever, unable to leave.

He also earned the title of the foremost among the Buddhist Bodhisattvas.

"The situation at hand isn't optimistic. You need to employ the power of your Great Vow to safeguard our Buddhist Sect. Additionally, you must also go to the Blood Sea and request Ming River to take action," Dingguang Tathagata succinctly conveyed his intention.

Ksitigarbha, as if he had anticipated this, without a word accepted the decree, mounted an Auspicious Cloud, and headed towards the Netherworld Blood Sea.

Afterwards, Dingguang Tathagata's Divine Thought returned to his body, looking around, he said: "All Bodhisattvas, Venerables, Arhats, and protector attendants, follow me to the Heavenly Court to break the Myriad Immortals Formation."

Having said that, he waved his hand, and a Qiankun Ruler spontaneously emerged in mid-air.

The Qiankun Ruler, controlling the power of space, easily opened a massive Light Gate leading directly to the Heavenly Court.

Through the Light Gate, one could already see the dire battlefield on the other side.

A towering Buddha was grappling with an equally immense giant, with each movement, spaces shattered in vast expanses.

In the distance, Pharmacist Glazed Buddha protected himself with his Glazed Medicine World while trying to suppress a Sword Immortal that bore the likeness of Sunlight Bodhisattva inside a Glazed Medicine Tripod.

Beside him, Maitreya Buddha summoned an Acquired Human Species Bag, blowing fierce winds that left Duobao Taoist weak and dizzy, nearly captured by the Medicine Tripod.

Elsewhere, Joyful Buddha was locked in combat with the Jade Emperor, while Virochana Buddha faced off against Golden Mother.

The two sides were embroiled in a fierce battle.

What, however, drew the focus of the multitude of Bodhisattvas, Venerables, and Arhats, was a Great Formation constructed from the gathering of thousands of smaller arrays.

Outskirts of the Great Formation were shrouded in chaos; gloomy clouds filled the sky, blood light soared heavenward. A mere glance and those Venerables and Arhats of lesser Dao Xing felt their Primordial Spirits tearing apart.

As for the true nature within the Great Formation, they lacked the ability to see.

However, the Bodhisattvas could clearly discern that at the center of the Myriad Immortals Formation, stood an exceptionally resplendent and overwhelming figure.

She wielded the Six Soul Banner with a forceful shake.

This was already her seventh time shaking the Six Soul Banner.

And with this shake, those several Buddhas suddenly coughed blood from their mouths and noses, their bodies bearing numerous fine cracks.

Mysteriously, these cracks were unhealable!

Even as several Buddhas circulated their mana, simply reconstructing parts of their physical forms, the new bodies still bore the same fine cracks, as if the Buddhas were inherently flawed!

Seeing the peculiar threat of the Six Soul Banner, now greatly endangering himself and the other four Buddhas as well as Moonlight Bodhisattva, Dingguang Tathagata hesitated no longer, directly transforming into a golden light that merged with the colossal Buddha locked in battle with Yu Yuan.

"Excellent, excellent!"

The compassionate Buddha chant thundered.

One head after another grew from the shoulders of the colossal Buddha, each manifesting the various aspects of sentient beings: birth, aging, sickness, death, love and separation, antipathy, unfulfilled desires, and the raging flames of the five aggregates.

Only the middle head, bearing the visage of Dingguang Tathagata, remained dignified and composed, loudly praising, "All beings suffer, only our Western Paradise prevails!"

Upon saying this, thousands of Buddha hands extended from both sides of his body.

Each of the Buddha hands radiated with Infinite Buddha Light.

"Our Buddha is compassionate, seeking to deliver all sentient beings!"

The chanting of countless believers echoed throughout the universe.

The compassion overflowed beyond the heavens.

Those thousands of Buddha hands, like unfolding lotus blossoms, each held a Qiankun Ruler, Treasure Lamp, fish-gut sword, Golden Bow, Silver Spear, Divine Pestle, Treasure rasp, Buddha Bottle...

At the same time, the Buddha Dharma Image swelled again, breaking through the constraints of Heaven and Earth.

The enormous heads, each akin to the ancient mountains of Ancient Times, reached beyond the thirty-three heavens to the star-filled skies, where celestial bodies were drawn by a formidable gravitational pull, even altering paths that had remained unchanged since the Ancient Era.

This Buddha Dharma Image was so colossal that even Yu Yuan, who had displayed the Heavenly Earth Transformation Divine Skill, seemed like a mere child before it.

And other figures appeared no more significant than ants in its presence.

The Buddha Dharma Image, steeped in the power of incense-burnt faith, evolved into infinite strength.

Its thousands of hands overlapped in front of its chest to form a lotus shape, directly suppressing the Myriad Immortals Formation below.

At this moment, to destroy the Myriad Immortals Formation was the Western Buddhist Sect's primary mission.

Otherwise, after the forty-nine prostrations, there would have been five Buddhas, led by Dingguang Tathagata, facing their downfall.

Oh yes, and there's the additional Moonlight Bodhisattva.

Naturally, Yu Yuan would not let this happen, and without a second word, he threw his fist, as massive as a mountain, to meet the challenge.

"Boom!"

At the moment of impact, the Heavenly Vault shattered.

Yu Yuan could not withstand the force; his muscles and bones broke in numerous places, and he staggered backwards for hundreds of thousands of miles before halting his retreat.

"Move aside!"

The magnificent Buddha Dharma Image resonated with Buddhist chants.

"Dream on!"

Yu Yuan laughed heartily.

At this moment, the Bodhisattvas, Venerables, Arhats, and protectors of the Buddhist Sect were all attempting to breach the Myriad Immortals Formation, aiming to prevent the Golden Spirit Saint Mother from shaking the Six Soul Banner. Yet, the Myriad Immortals Formation, which integrated the essence of thousands of Great Formations, was most formidable in defense.

After all, the core purpose of this Myriad Immortals Formation was to precisely target and eliminate the enemy's strongest forces. Apart from the Six Soul Banner which was intended for "decapitation," all other parts were designed for defense.

As such, as long as they could hold off the few Buddhas led by Dingguang Tathagata, all would be well; the rest had no chance of breaching the Myriad Immortals Formation, nor could they threaten the Golden Spirit Saint Mother and the Six Soul Banner.

Unless, as before, it could be dismantled from the inside.

Although Dingguang Tathagata was powerful, it was not difficult for Yu Yuan to stop him.

He slowly wore down the opposition, allowing these near-Quasi-Saint Great Power Level Buddhas to approach their end little by little, feeling the onset of death...

But then an unforeseen event swiftly occurred.

On the ninth shake of the Six Soul Banner by the Golden Spirit Saint Mother, she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and even her beautiful face showed a fine crack!

Simultaneously, many Jie Sect disciples within the Myriad Immortals Formation turned pale, bleeding from their mouths and noses.

A backlash?

Yu Yuan was shocked when he heard the joyful voice of Virochana Buddha from afar.

"The Myriad Immortals Formation, the Myriad Immortals Formation... requires the presence of myriads of immortals to be worthy of its name!!!

"The Six Soul Banner is indeed a supreme treasure, which should be personally handled by the Sect Hierarch of Tongtian and powered by the collective strength of Jie Sect's myriads of immortals, costing not only Mana but also the Jie Sect's fortune, spiritual energy, and so forth...

But now you have only a thousand-plus disciples, forcibly driving the Six Soul Banner, each swing imposes a tremendous burden on yourselves!

I'm afraid you won't last the forty-nine necessary swings and will all turn into ashes!"

"What can you do about it even if you are right, you traitor?" Zhao Gongming responded coldly, "Don't forget, we're all enlisted on the Investiture of the Gods. Even if our spirits scatter today in driving the Six Soul Banner, we can still be reborn later!"

Virochana Buddha's recently formed smile froze on his face.

Then he clenched his teeth and said, "I refuse to believe that you can hold on to the very end!"

As though in response to his words, the Golden Spirit Saint Mother shook the Six Soul Banner once again.

Silently, the physical bodies of several Buddhas split open, and even their Primordial Spirits were torn and crushed by an invisible force.

This power was undodgeable and unstoppable.

One could only watch as their physical and Primordial Spirits took the successive heavy blows.

At the same time, blood flowed from all seven orifices of the Golden Spirit Saint Mother, and the crack on her face grew larger, appearing exceptionally ferocious.

By comparison, Zhao Gongming and the others merely bled from their mouths and noses.

Evidently, the one shaking the Six Soul Banner bore a much greater backlash than the rest.

Zhao Gongming noticed this and urgently called out, "Sister, let me do it!"

Qiong Xiao, Bi Xiao, and others also expressed their willingness to take over the control of the Six Soul Banner from the Golden Spirit Saint Mother.

Just then, a clear voice resounded:

"No one should fight with me for this task, it's mine alone to undertake!"

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