439: The Buddha's Palm, one palm suppresses the monkey!

Then, we will use the clumsiest yet most reliable method: the Demon Sea tactic, grinding them down from a distance!

Using absolute numerical superiority and overwhelming attacks, we will thoroughly turn that area into a dead zone, grinding away the lives and wills of Lu Jiuyuan and the eighty thousand remnant troops beside him, bit by bit!

We will not give him any chance to counterattack at close range, nor any respite to recover and adjust his breathing!

"Pass the order!"

"The Seventh, Ninth, and Fifteenth Demon Calamity Legions, vanguard legions, enter!"

"Forces of the Bone-Eroding Demon Realm, Ten Thousand Bone Demon Army, enter!"

"Forces of the Plague Demon Swamp, Poison Puppet Legion, enter!"

One cold command after another was rapidly conveyed through demonic intent.

Rumble—!!!

The planar battlefield began to tremble, and the sky was once again stained by Devilish Qi.

Massive portals swung wide open, and squads of demon soldiers and generals flew out, filling the sky like locusts.

They were relatively uniformly equipped and formed strict formations; although they were only the vanguard, every single Demon Race soldier possessed at least the Qi equivalent to a Human Race Saint-Grade, squad leaders were at the Emperor-Grade, and commanders were at the Sovereign-Grade level!

The grand commanders were all Heavenly Demon Gods.

The dark, dense demon armor looked like moving mountain ranges, and the cold, sharp blades reflected the dark red light of the sky.

They did not rush to charge but stopped about a hundred miles away from the defensive line where Lu Jiuyuan was located, quickly forming massive attack demon formations that radiated a dense, baleful military aura!

Immediately after, the direct legions under the Bone-Eroding Devil Emperor and the Plague Devil Emperor also entered this war plane.

From the direction of the Bone-Eroding Demon Realm, the earth cracked open with countless fissures, and the dense "Ten Thousand Bone Demon Army," pieced together from various pale white bones, crawled out.

They were silent, with eerie green soul fire leaping in their eye sockets, holding bone blades and bone spears, converging into a bone sea that made one's hair stand on end.

In the blink of an eye, an army of over ten million from the Demon Race formed a massive, impenetrable encirclement within a hundred-mile radius of Lu Jiuyuan!

The population of the Demon Race was simply too vast; mobilizing such an army was as easy as the Human Race mobilizing a few thousand troops.

This was only because time was tight, and the number teleported over was extremely limited; if given enough time, they could easily gather an army of tens or even hundreds of billions.

In the sky, on the ground! Covering the sky and blocking the sun, filling the mountains and plains!

The encirclement formed by the ten-million-strong demon army was like an iron hoop constantly tightening, radiating a cold, bloodthirsty, and murderous aura.

The Bone-Eroding Devil Emperor, the Plague Devil Emperor, and the other seven Heavenly Demon Gods hovered high in the sky, their cold gazes fixed on the seemingly tottering figure in the center of the encirclement.

"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" ... Following nine shouts of "kill," the ten-million-strong army moved inward.

At the center of the encirclement, Lu Jiuyuan, who had been kneeling on one knee and gasping for breath, suddenly raised his head.

The wound on his forehead, pierced by the shadow thorn, had not yet recovered, looking exceptionally tragic.

With the mixed, steaming black Devilish Qi surrounding his body and his face still pale, he slowly stood up.

His movements were very slow, even carrying a hint of staggering, as if he might fall again at any moment.

But the moment he stood straight, an indescribable "momentum" quietly spread out with him as the center.

"Death throes!" the Bone-Eroding Devil Emperor coldly shouted.

Lu Jiuyuan slowly raised his right hand above his head, his five fingers slightly spread, palm facing upward.

This action was so simple, yet it seemed to contain some profound rhythm, drawing upon some mysterious power in the world.

He looked up at the sky, stained by Devilish Qi and shattered beyond recognition, and uttered a few syllables; the voice was not loud, yet it spread clearly across the entire battlefield:

"Buddha is not Buddha, and Demon is not Demon."

"One thought of purity is Mount Ling."

"What my heart sees..."

He paused for a moment, his gaze sweeping over the boundless, snarling demon tide around him, and a faint trace of mockery flashed deep in his eyes.

"...are all just noisy, leaping clowns."

The moment his words fell— "Hum—!!!"

A grand sound, as if from beyond the Nine Heavens and resounding in the depths of every living being's heart, suddenly roared!

Above Lu Jiuyuan's palm, the previously empty Void Realm suddenly erupted with boundless golden light!

Within the golden light, endless Sword Qi, phantom Dragons, phantom Phoenixes, phantom Dragon-Turtles... emerged from thin air, intertwining and flowing, while the fire of Nirvana burned fiercely.

"Have you ever seen a palm technique that descends from the heavens?"

In the terrified eyes of all the Demon Race, the vast golden light in Lu Jiuyuan's palm rapidly expanded and evolved!

In an instant, it transformed into a gigantic palm covering thousands of miles, purely condensed from golden light, Sword Qi, and Law!

The giant palm had distinct fingers and clearly visible palm prints, each one appearing to be a rushing river of Law. Within the palm, there were vaguely the phantoms of thousands of gods and demons conquering and slaughtering, looking somewhat familiar as if just seen, and even the phantoms of infinite worlds rising and falling in birth and death!

Once the giant palm appeared, it occupied the entire sky!

The ten million demon troops below, the continuous demon formations, and even those few Heavenly Demon Gods, all appeared as small as dust in contrast to this giant palm!

"Tathagata Palm..." Lu Jiuyuan's voice, like a great bell, resounded throughout the universe.

"...One palm presses the monkey."

The moment the last word "monkey" fell— the golden giant palm covering thousands of miles moved.

It did not strike down swiftly but pressed down slowly in a steady, unstoppable manner.

An absolute pressure, as if the sky were collapsing and the earth overturning, descended with the falling of the giant palm!

"Crack, crack, crack—!!!" Before the giant palm truly touched the ground, the earth below had already begun to groan under the unbearable weight, with countless bottomless cracks spreading in all directions!

The baleful military Devilish Qi, cursed poisonous mist, and bone spear arrays gathered by the ten-million-strong Demon Race army... in the face of this pure, vast Buddha light and world power containing the power of suppression and purification, melted and disintegrated rapidly like ice under the scorching sun!

"Block it!!!" The Bone-Eroding Devil Emperor roared, his demonic body erupting with monstrous black light, transforming into a colossal phantom of a bone demon that reached the heavens and stood on the earth, waving bone claws like mountains, defying the heavens as it fiercely met the slowly descending golden giant palm!

The Plague Devil Emperor also desperately urged the poisonous mist, condensing it into a ghastly green nine-headed poisonous Dragon, which roared and lunged at the giant palm.

The remaining seven Heavenly Demon Gods, as well as all Demon Race commanders above Divine-Grade, also unleashed all their power under the threat of death; thick beams of demonic light, terrifying innate demonic artifacts, and various sinister, vicious Divine Abilities, like a black meteor shower flowing against the current, frantically bombarded the giant palm that blocked the sun!

However— all attacks, whether it was the Bone-Eroding Devil Emperor's bone claws, the Plague Devil Emperor's poisonous Dragon, or the countless beams of demonic light and artifacts, when they touched the golden light and Law flowing in the palm of the giant hand, were like clay oxen entering the sea; they only splashed up insignificant ripples before being assimilated, purified, and annihilated by the vast Buddha light and world power!

The speed at which the giant palm descended did not change in the slightest.

"Huh—??? What is happening?"

"Boom—!!!" A deafening sound that could not be described in words.

It was not an explosion, but a collision between heaven and earth, a crushing of Law against Law.

The golden giant palm finally pressed firmly onto the ground.