44: Ancestor! Please lend your grandson a hand and borrow some firewood!

Immediately after, one powerful figure after another stepped out from the Formation nodes and the cracks in the Void Realm:

The Four Great Bodhisattvas, some holding lotus pedestals, some carrying treasure bottles, some wielding swords of wisdom, or forming the Abhaya Mudra. Their countenances were solemn, and their compassionate aura contained a grand temperament that could suppress Hell, with wheels of pure Bodhisattva Power Of Will revolving around them.

The Eight Great Wisdom Kings, eyes wide with fury, held various Diamond Subduing Magical Artifacts. Their wrathful appearances were enough to terrify ghosts and gods, and their violent Battle Intent and slaughtering Buddhist light stirred the clouds.

The Twelve Vajras had bodies that seemed cast from diamond, their muscles bulging. Every step made the earth tremble, their pure physical strength reaching the level of Law.

The Eighteen Arhats stood in a strict Formation, some in meditation, some subduing dragons, others taming tigers, each with a magnificent presence. Their Arhat golden bodies linked together, making them indestructible.

The One Hundred and Eight Venerables had their auras connected, turning into a sea of shimmering golden clouds. Their chanting transformed into physical sonic weapons, cleansing the Divine Soul.

However, this was not all.

Behind these top Buddhist combatants, space twisted again, and a completely different aura surged out—violent, chaotic, defiant, and sinister!

The four Protectors of the Demonic Path were shrouded in rolling Devilish Qi. Some had bone wings on their backs, others had horns on their heads. Their demonic pupils were blood-red, and the demonic weapons in their hands flickered with destructive black light.

The twelve Elders had experienced and gloomy auras, their Demonic Techniques being eerie. Some had phantoms of ten thousand demons worshipping behind them, while others had poisonous swamps that corroded all things spreading beneath their feet.

And then there were the thousands of elite Disciples of the Demonic Cult pouring out like a black tide. Their Devilish Qi linked together, blotting out the sun and forming a strange and grim contrast with the Buddhist light above.

Buddhist light was above, shining and suppressing; Devilish Qi was below, churning and eroding. Chu Ye and the other three were caught right in the narrow gap between light and darkness.

Chu Ye's eyes were sharp as knives, instantly seeing through all the mist.

"So that's how it is..." His voice was calm but carried a bone-chilling coldness. "The Southern Region never had a true conflict between Buddha and Demon. The Buddha is you, and the Demon is also you."

"Three Lives Buddha... no, perhaps I should call you a 'Buddha-Demon Integrated' monster! Your devouring and Fusion of the Daoist essence from Abbess Jing An is clear evidence. You self-directed and acted out that distress letter to lure me here."

"Your goal is to use me, this 'variable', as a sacrifice to perform that Heaven-Defying fate-changing evil technique of Buddha-Demon integration to truly achieve Immortal Ascension! What a grand game, what a ruthless heart!"

The scene from the prophecy tablet was perfectly replicated at this moment.

"Unfortunately," Chu Ye said, facing this dead-end situation. Instead of fear, he showed a wild smile. "You can call for backup, but can't I?"

He communicated with the hundred phoenix diagram in his mind and suddenly pulled his hands to both sides.

"Rip!"

It was as if the sky itself was being torn apart!

The hundred phoenix diagram expanded infinitely behind him. It was no longer a scroll but a giant gateway leading to another world!

"Great Qin warriors, follow me to slay evil!" Although Empress was in a fierce battle with the Present Buddha, she still sent out a sliver of Divine Thought to issue a majestic command.

"Boom—!!!"

More than thirty Great Emperors from the Eastern Region erupted like long-suppressed volcanoes! They formed battle Formations, some transforming into ten-thousand-foot-tall war god avatars, some drawing the power of the Nine Heavens' starry river, and others unfolding Imperial Dao Domains that covered the sky... The boundless Emperors Might mixed with the aura of iron-blooded slaughter, charging into the battlefield like a bursting flood, directly crashing into the seemingly endless sea of Buddhist Venerables and the Vajra-Arhat lines!

In an instant, Divine Abilities clashed, treasure light exploded, and Emperor blood and Buddha blood began to splatter!

"Witch!" The Witch Queen gave a clear chant, communicating with the ancient times.

The true bodies of the Twelve Ancestral Witches of the Western Region roared, some breathing out world-burning Witch Fire, some summoning phantoms of primeval Vicious Beasts, and others spreading curses of decaying stars... Six old witches even joined forces to unfold an "Eternal Heaven-Burying Witch Domain" that shrouded the battlefield. Within it, the flow of time was chaotic and Karma was reversed, specifically designed to erode the Buddhist Power Of Will system built on stable order.

The power of witch craft and the Buddhist golden light engaged in a silent and deadly struggle of erosion and counter-erosion.

"Those who offend my Chu Clan shall die!" Old Ancestor's hair and beard flared with anger as his immortal light surged. He directly went for the four Protectors and several Elders with the strongest Devilish Qi, striking with the Chu Imperial Clan's guardian imperial technique, the "Imperial Sovereign World-Suppressing Fist."

The Fist Intent was vast, like a Human Emperor patrolling the heavens, suppressing all disobedience. Wherever it passed, demonic shadows shattered and flesh flew. It truly created a river of blood, with demonic wails and miserable shrieks echoing incessantly!

The battlefield instantly escalated from three Immortal Rank duels to a super chaotic battle affecting tens of thousands of miles!

Imperial techniques, Buddhist arts, Demonic Techniques, and witch curses... various terrifying energy storms raged and collided, completely reshaping and annihilating all the terrain around the Sea of Three Lives Reincarnation.

Countless cracks were torn in the sky, and the earth sank and rose as if the end of the world had come.

Chu Ye stood in the center of this world-destroying storm. His figure seemed small, but his eyes were incredibly clear.

He saw everything clearly, realizing that the three Incarnations of the Three Lives Buddha were essentially weaker than Empress and the other two women. The reason they could hold their ground or even gain a slight advantage was entirely due to the endless infusion of energy from the sea of Power Of Will beneath their feet!

"Cut off the root, and the form will collapse on its own!"

He no longer hesitated and fully activated the heavenly secret abacus. The abacus beads flew like lightning, calculating the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.

At the same time, he drew upon the Origin power of the primordial tree embryo within him, and a surge of Grandmist Primordial Qi, representing Innate Chaos and the vitality of creation, poured out.

He even used his former Demonic Path cultivation, which had been transformed and encompassed by immortal power, as a special "catalyst." Using his finger as a brush, he drew an extremely ancient taboo Formation in the air, specifically designed against holy Power Of Will and collective faith: the "Tainted Earth Spirit-Devouring Anti-Buddha Formation"!

As soon as the Formation patterns appeared, they emitted an ominous aura that dimmed the Buddhist light and agitated the Devilish Qi.

"Old Ancestor! Please lend your grandson a hand, lend me the 'firewood'!" Chu Ye shouted.

Hearing this, Old Ancestor laughed and agreed despite being in a fierce battle with demonic experts: "Good grandson! Watch your Old Ancestor send you 'firewood'!"

His immortal power surged, transforming into a giant immortal essence hand that blotted out the sun, its patterns like dragons and mountains. It suddenly reached into the area where the Demonic Cult Disciples were most densely packed and closed its fingers!

"No—!" "Old Ancestor, save me!"

Countless terrified Demonic Cult Disciples, along with several Elders, were scooped up like ants. No matter how they struggled or unleashed Demonic Techniques, their attacks on the immortal essence hand were like mud sinking into the sea.

The giant hand returned, throwing the thousands of captured demonic beings, along with their boiling Devilish Qi, essence blood, and soul malice, all at once into the core eye of the Tainted Earth Spirit-Devouring Anti-Buddha Formation that Chu Ye was forming!

With thousands of demonic beings as sacrifices, Grandmist Qi as the Foundation, the heavenly secret abacus to stabilize the universe, and the demonic catalyst as the medicinal primer!

The Formation roared into operation!

"Wooo—!!"

The sounds of ghosts wailing and gods howling resounded through heaven and earth, as if the gates of Hell had been opened.

In the center of the Formation, infinite Devilish Qi, resentment, and essence blood were compressed, transformed, and purified. Combined with the dual nature of creation and destruction of the Grandmist Primordial Qi, they finally condensed into an indescribable pitch-black giant hand.

This hand had nails curved like hooks, and the patterns on its palm were a twisted aggregation of billions of pained faces, entwined with the purest Laws of "filth," "destruction," and "ending."

The moment it appeared, the Buddhist light above dimmed, and the Devilish Qi below prostrated, as if it were the natural enemy of all holiness and order!

"Fall!"

Chu Ye pointed his fingers like a sword and suddenly slashed downward!

The pitch-black giant hand, carrying the aura of silence that ends all things, ignored spatial distance and Buddhist light purification, and struck directly at the core of the vast sea of Power Of Will, hitting the connection between the Three Lives Buddha's golden bodies and the sea of Power Of Will!

Using the filth of ten thousand demons to defile the source of the Pure Land!

Using the power of extreme evil to break the light of the most holy!

"No—!! How dare you destroy my ten-thousand-year Foundation!!!"

The three Incarnations of the Three Lives Buddha simultaneously let out earth-shattering roars and shrieks. They tried to return to help, but were pinned down by Empress, the Witch Queen, and the Fox Immortal. Their power even fluctuated because the Power Of Will supply was instantly interfered with and polluted by the Formation.

The pitch-black giant hand slammed down fiercely!

"Sizzle—!!!"

Like a red-hot iron plunging into snow!

The moment the golden sea of Power Of Will came into contact with the pitch-black giant hand, a terrifying corrosive sound erupted! The pure Power Of Will was rapidly polluted, disintegrated, and evaporated!

Countless points of faith light wailed and went out. The torrent of energy supporting the three Incarnations suddenly cut off and became chaotic!