Chapter 64
Chapter 64
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: Unknown
Chapter Title: Battle Against the Evil Bodhisattva
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Qianyang Mountain, an unnamed village—this was where Chen Shi and the others had disguised themselves as porcelain to hide from the Evil Bodhisattva. At the center of the village, the Evil Bodhisattva sat upright, gathering the vital energies from all directions. The vigorous life force of every living creature within a hundred li surged into its body.
Demonic energy emanated from its body into the heavens and earth, influencing the scant surviving humans and evils in the demonic domain.
Most villages had already been destroyed by it. Various spirit beasts and mountain spirits had also been turned into porcelain. There were truly few people left surviving in the demonic domain.
It sought to thoroughly demonize this territory, using itself as the core to complete a metamorphosis.
It was a demon, but after its birth, its conscious mind wasn't particularly strong. It mostly followed bodily instincts. It instinctively wanted to seize all life force, instinctively wanted to corrupt everything it could pollute, until transforming it into its ideal form.
In truth, it had been born long ago.
That was over six thousand years ago. It had just emerged and was about to act on instinct when it was captured by that powerful man.
That man sealed it into this porcelain body, merging it with the porcelain to become a single entity.
This method filled it with fear.
It had always been bound within this body. When the body was damaged, it was harmed; when the body was maimed, it was maimed.
He treated it like a treasure, using it as the eye of an array in the Kiln Works, turning a grand demon into a tool for exploitation.
But fortunately, waves of foolish humans intruded into the Kiln Works, allowing it to absorb their life force and gradually grow stronger.
Until that day not long ago, when many people came to the Kiln Works, including humans who had formed nascent souls—the most delicious nourishment for it, filling it with狂喜.
It felt like a seed on the verge of sprouting, breaking through the soil at this moment.
Six thousand years of waiting, all for today!
It unfurled its demonic domain, turning this spacetime into fertile soil to nurture itself. Once it thoroughly demonized this place and absorbed all the land's life force, it would complete its metamorphosis and sublimate into another form of life.
Another kind of life form, even more powerful and perfect.
It sensed the metamorphosis drawing ever closer. At most a hundred days from now, it would complete the transformation.
It eagerly anticipated this metamorphosis.
At that moment, the Evil Bodhisattva's four faces slowly opened their eyes, gazing in four different directions.
Young Master Xiao, exuding the noble aura of aristocratic descent, approached with his long sword Fine Waist at his waist, hilt downward.
On another side, the little old lady carrying the Ram's Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp shone a beam of bright light on its demonic soul hidden in the porcelain, first suppressing its power.
From the other two directions, the tall and proud Jin Hongying advanced, while Li Jindou sat in his cart, his two porcelain legs swaying slightly.
The Evil Bodhisattva slowly rose, its four faces displaying joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure. The eight treasures in its hands—Sun Pearl, Moon Pearl, Soul-Shaking Bell, Demon-Subduing Pestle, Banana Leaf Fan, Bow, Arrow, and Golden Brick—gradually lit up. Patterns of various talismans adorned the treasures, emanating golden light that showed no trace of demonic nature.
But anyone whose gaze fell on these treasures or who was illuminated by the golden light would feel their mind twist into disorder, involuntarily giving rise to all sorts of demonic thoughts and losing their sanity.
Fortunately, Granny Sha had arrived first with the Ram's Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp, suppressing its demonic soul and nature, so the Evil Bodhisattva could not affect their minds.
Without the Ram's Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp, the four of them wouldn't even have a chance to fight.
However, the Ram's Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp could not suppress the porcelainization.
Young Master Xiao, Jin Hongying, Li Jindou, and Granny Sha all noticed their wounds beginning to itch, hardening rigidly as blood and portions of skin started to turn to porcelain.
Their wounds were their weak points, the first to be affected by the Evil Bodhisattva.
Especially Li Jindou, who had once turned into a Porcelain Doll, with his two legs still in a porcelain state and not fully refined, suffered the greatest influence.
He could feel the porcelainization creeping up from his legs.
But he said nothing, remaining fully focused, preparing for a fatal strike.
When enemies meet, no words are needed!
Talismans lit up all over the Evil Bodhisattva's body. Sure enough, they activated from its eight eyes, then extended like flowing light through its meridians to its eight arms!
In the instant it brandished its eight weapons, a thin streak of flowing light shot forth with a ding, piercing the wrist of the arm holding the Sun Pearl and severing most of the power transmitted through that meridian's talismans!
It was a small sword, tiny beyond compare, only three or four inches long. After piercing its wrist, it darted like a sparrow, weaving left and right among its other seven arms, clanging repeatedly, striking eight times in an instant!
Each of these eight strikes landed at exquisitely precise spots—the central nodes where its power flowed through the arms to the treasures!
The power of the Evil Bodhisattva's eight weapons dropped dramatically, unable to even reach thirty percent of normal!
At that moment, a majestic nascent soul appeared behind Li Jindou. Soul and embryo united, activating the Six Yin Jade Wheels. Six massive sword wheels howled into motion, arriving before the Evil Bodhisattva in the next instant!
The six jade wheels sliced and danced up and down, clashing with the airborne Sun and Moon Pearls, ringing out as water and fire erupted, mana surging.
A tall nascent soul emerged behind Jin Hongying, gathering qi into a sword. As she executed her sword art, the tall nascent soul swung a crimson sword qi downward!
She wasn't from a noble house. She cultivated the Evil-Slaying Crimson Ledger Art of the Divine Mechanism Battalion—a common technique of the battalion, yet refined by this woman to a profound level.
Accompanying this sword qi downward were thousands of sword qis from behind, one after another. When the front sword qi was blocked, the rear ones merged with it, greatly amplifying the sword art's power.
The Evil Bodhisattva met this sword with the Demon-Subduing Pestle. The first sword qi's power could be easily blocked, but as more sword qis merged with the first, the pestle cracked under the blade, nearly split in two!
At the same time, Granny Sha stomped her foot. The earth churned like black mud and sand, trapping the Evil Bodhisattva's form and leaving it without leverage.
Then, the eight trigrams of heaven, earth, water, fire, lake, mountain, wind, and thunder howled forth. Mountains crushed down, lightning rained, water and fire surged together, engulfing the Evil Bodhisattva!
The Evil Bodhisattva activated the Soul-Shaking Bell to withstand Granny Sha's assault while hurling the Golden Brick, which transformed into a golden mountain pressing down on her.
Just as it seemed about to succeed, a sword light flashed, knocking the Golden Brick away.
Young Master Xiao's long sword Fine Waist unsheathed and flew out, deflected the Golden Brick, then veered to stab at the Evil Bodhisattva's eyes!
The Evil Bodhisattva tried to unleash the treasures' power, but whenever it was about to activate, Young Master Xiao's Shrike Sword precisely struck the central nodes, dissipating sixty to seventy percent of its raging power.
The Six Yin Jade Wheels swept aside the Sun and Moon Pearls, smashing into the Evil Bodhisattva, sending shards of blue-and-white porcelain flying!
On the other side, Jin Hongying's crimson sword qi severed the Demon-Subduing Pestle and cleaved into the Evil Bodhisattva's shoulder, lopping off one arm.
Granny Sha's various trigram forms shifted unpredictably, bombarding the Evil Bodhisattva one after another.
At the same time, Fine Waist and Shrike pierced its eyes one by one!
"Got it!"
Everyone's hearts rejoiced. The Evil Bodhisattva's massive body suddenly froze in place.
Then, with a crash, it shattered like broken porcelain. Countless shards rained down, clattering.
Li Jindou laughed heartily. "Good, good! As expected of my worthy grandson—his plan was spot on! We've truly slain this bastard!"
Granny Sha let out a long breath too, smiling. "This was all thanks to Little Ten deciphering the talismans on its body."
Jin Hongying also relaxed, that last sword having nearly depleted her mana, leaving her fatigued.
Young Master Xiao frowned slightly, not recalling Fine Waist and Shrike. The two swords still hovered over the pile of porcelain fragments.
Though Chen Shi and Li Tianqing's scheme was excellent, giving them full knowledge of the Evil Bodhisattva's power flows—and they had indeed shattered its body with it—the ease of it all made him feel something was off.
"Moreover, the demonic domain hasn't dissipated."
He remained on high alert.
Suddenly, the porcelain shards rustled loudly. A shrill voice emanated from them, like a human cry mixed with bird calls.
"It hurts so much! You've hurt me so bad!"
Young Master Xiao's expression changed. Fine Waist and Shrike immediately stabbed toward the pile!
Suddenly, the two swords halted. Fine Waist was gripped by a bloody hand, while Shrike was pinched between two bloody fingers!
Young Master Xiao immediately sensed the swords' wails. A powerful evil force was corroding them, grinding away their spirits!
"Hiss!"
From the pile of shards, a blood-drenched figure slowly rose—much shorter than the Evil Bodhisattva but still about fifteen feet tall, with six faces, like a miniature version of the Evil Bodhisattva.
Yet it was flesh and blood, merely skinless.
The Evil Bodhisattva's shell had been its skin.
Now that the shell was broken, it was equivalent to being flayed alive.
An intangible thought intruded from nowhere, burrowing into the minds of Young Master Xiao, Jin Hongying, and the others, eroding their spirits. The world in their eyes took on strange colors—heaven and earth spun and twisted, mountains stretched like noodles, shaking wildly.
"Wearing the seven stars on my head, the dharma aligns with the Heavenly Dipper. The Director of Fate preserves my years, the Recorder protects my life!"
Granny Sha held the lamp in one hand and strode forward, her Gangstep pushing her aura to the limit, white hair flying wildly.
"Cinnabar writ ninefold, warding off disasters and omens. White silk as talisman, exterminating all malignance. Yu steps the path of expulsion, Chiyou flees the troops!"
She pinched a sword mudra and pointed.
"Urgent as the law decree! Begone—"
The blood-drenched Evil Bodhisattva's body shuddered slightly. Young Master Xiao, Jin Hongying, and Li Jindou snapped out of the illusions. Fine Waist and Shrike seized the chance to fly free, though the two divine weapons were greatly depleted.
The blood-soaked Evil Bodhisattva suddenly opened its eyes, glaring at Granny Sha. She took a heavy blow, grunting as blood overflowed from her mouth.
Her heart sank.
The skinless Evil Bodhisattva was stronger than before!
Suddenly, its eight hands madly clawed at its body, tearing off chunks of flesh in agony.
Porcelain shards were growing from its flesh like skin. Though the Evil Bodhisattva scratched in pain, a new layer of blue-and-white porcelain skin quickly regenerated.
"Why can't I still escape? Why am I still trapped in your bindings!"
The Evil Bodhisattva roared, then glared viciously at the four. "You've ruined my metamorphosis and ascension, left me in this prison. Today, you'll all become my nourishment!"
In the distance, atop Mysterious Mountain, the Great Serpent Mysterious Mountain witnessed this and sighed. "In the end, they still can't do it."
"Brother Daoist, I'm going." Chen Yindu bowed to the great serpent.
Mysterious Mountain's spirit returned the courtesy, watching as he headed toward the Evil Bodhisattva.
Between the great mountains and the firmament, an aged voice resounded.
"Heaven-Earth Mysterious Sect, root of myriad qi. Broad cultivation through eons, proving my divine powers. Within and without the three realms, I alone am supreme!"
The departing figure grew ever taller, as if truly shrouded in heaven-earth qi, having proven divine powers through eons.
"Body cloaked in golden light, enveloping my form. Unseen to the eye, unheard to the ear. Encompassing heaven and earth, nurturing the masses. Recite myriad times, body radiates light!"
Golden light protected his body, illuminating everywhere with brilliance, shining upon the demonic domain.
"Guards of the three realms, five emperors attend. Myriad gods pay homage, commanding thunder. Ghosts and demons perish, spirits and monsters dissolve. Within, thunderbolts crash; the Thunder God hides his name. Penetrating wisdom intersects, five joys ascend!"
Golden light manifested swiftly, shielding my body!
In the golden light, myriad talismans emerged. Vaguely, it seemed as if the myriad deities of华夏, bearing radiant halos, drifted like clouds toward that land thick with demonic qi—