The pinnacle of fury! A boundless Sword Intent!
Its power could cleave mountains, part seas, split light, and sunder waves! The sword’s target was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who was currently focused entirely on suppressing the White-haired True Daoist and the Qiu Long.
At that moment, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was at a delicate juncture, shifting his power.
His Dark Gold Buddha Dharma Aspect had just heavily injured the Qiu Long with the Prison Guardian seal and used the Soul Crossing light curtain to push the White-haired True Daoist to the brink of collapse. The might of the Buddha Array enveloped the area, its aura firmly locked onto his two primary targets to prevent any final counterattack.
The White-haired True Daoist’s desperate, roaring shriek of the name ’Xu Yunfan’ was utterly wretched.
Though it had put him on alert, his senses registered it as nothing more than the desperate cry of a dying man. Besides, the aura of this supposed Xu Yunfan had not actually appeared.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said faintly, "With all the evil in this world, who could possibly save you?"
A savage grin spread across the White-haired True Daoist’s face.
"You are the only evil in this turbid world!"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s brow furrowed slightly.
However, this momentary lapse in vigilance toward a third party—a consequence of focusing all his power on suppression—created a fatal opening.
The speed of that destructive sword light—one that condensed a dual-layered essence of Fury Kill and was driven by the Returning Ruins Tribulation Divine Techniques—surpassed Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s expectations.
The sword light didn’t approach in a grand and righteous manner. Instead, it carried the most primitive and brutal killing intent, like a poisoned dagger thrust from the depths of the Nine Netherworld—vicious, precise, and fast!
KRRRACK!
The moment the destructive sword light struck, the massive body of the Dark Gold Buddha Dharma Aspect—woven from pure Buddha Power and the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation Law—shattered with a deafening crack, like a glazed mirror struck by a boulder.
Countless fine fissures instantly spiderwebbed across the entire Dharma Aspect. Its supreme majesty, which suppressed the Sea of Suffering and purified lost souls, collapsed violently, like a punctured balloon.
A massive backlash of Buddha Power violently shook Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s body as he sat on his lotus throne. The Buddha Light veiling his face fluctuated wildly, revealing, for the first time, a look of utter disbelief.
"What?!"
For the first time, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s compassionate voice was tinged with shock and fury.
He snapped his head up, his gaze piercing through the dissipating aftershocks of the Buddha Light and the roiling, chaotic energy, finally locking onto the source of the sword light.
It was a figure with a cold aura, holding an Ancient Sword covered in cracks.
It was Xu Yunfan.
All that met the Bodhisattva’s gaze was a pair of deep, frigid eyes.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva started to speak.
But Xu Yunfan gave him no opportunity to catch his breath.
The first sword strike, which shattered the Dharma Aspect, was only the beginning.
"True Martial, sacrifice!"
Another command issued from Xu Yunfan’s lips.
Controlled by him, Han Shi gripped the wailing, trembling, crack-riddled True Martial Sword with both hands. Without hesitation, he poured everything into it: all of his comprehension of the Sword Dao, the vast Purple Gold Divine Sky Thunderbolt pushed to its absolute limit by the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture, and the Power of the Origin of Li Guang Ranyan Dao Fruit from Red Sun True Monarch, which had been suddenly and completely refined.
The True Martial Sword, a Magical Treasure Level Sword Artifact, was hit with a deluge of violent energy far beyond its limits. Its simple, ancient blade instantly erupted in a blinding light as Purple Gold Thunderbolt and crimson, flowing flames madly intertwined around it.
The next moment.
BOOM!!!
Unable to bear the strain any longer, the True Martial Sword let out an earth-shattering cry and completely exploded.
Countless fragments, each containing Destruction Thunderbolt, world-burning flames, and the purest Fury Killing Sword Intent, transformed into a composite torrent of Sword Gang a hundred times more brilliant and a thousand times more terrifying than before.
This Sword Gang was no longer just about the intent of destruction and returning to ruin.
Its outer layer was the Purple Gold Divine Thunder that tore through the gloom of the Sea of Suffering. Its core was the crimson Light-Departing Flame that incinerated all things. And the spine running through it was the essence of the Fury Killing Sword Intent—relentless, undying, and growing stronger with rage.
Under the command of Xu Yunfan’s will, the three powers resonated and amplified each other in an unbelievable way. They merged into an incandescent torrent that seemed to tear through Reincarnation and pierce Yin and Yang, hurtling at a speed beyond perception toward Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who had just been grievously wounded and whose Buddha Country Grotto Heaven was shaking violently from the destruction of his Dharma Aspect.
"The Fury Kill Sword is not sheathed until it draws blood."
Xu Yunfan’s voice, as if speaking through Han Shi’s mouth, echoed across the battlefield.
"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, this time, I shall borrow your body to quell the fury I have accumulated for nearly a hundred years."
Han Shi had his thirty-plus years, and Xu Yunfan had his.
Adding them together... well, the claim wasn’t entirely wrong.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s pupils contracted.
He had just suffered the backlash from his Dharma Aspect’s collapse. His Buddha Country Grotto Heaven was on the verge of crumbling, and his Protective Buddha Light was fluctuating violently as it tried to reform.
This sacrificial Sword Gang—a fusion of the three ultimate destructive powers of thunder, fire, and Fury Kill—was too fast, too fierce, too vicious!
It was unavoidable!
"Prajna Sumeru Barrier!"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva roared, no longer able to maintain his compassionate demeanor. His hands flew through seals as he forcibly condensed his remaining Buddha Power and the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation Law.
A Glazed Golden Wall, formed from the illusions of countless seated Buddhas chanting scriptures, instantly manifested before him. It was his ultimate defensive Divine Technique, his ace in the hole.
However, PFFT!
The incandescent, composite Sword Gang was like a red-hot poker stabbing into thin ice. The Thunderbolt, imbued with the Divine Sky True Intent to break the Ten Thousand Laws, ripped through the Glazed Golden Wall’s defenses first. The Light-Departing Flame followed close behind, furiously incinerating and evaporating the Buddha Light and Wish Power.
At its core, the Fury Killing Sword Intent, carrying Xu Yunfan’s absolute will to kill and Han Shi’s towering, hateful flames, bored through like the sharpest drill.
"Argh!"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva let out a pained grunt.
The Glazed Golden Wall shattered.
Its momentum unabated, the incandescent Sword Gang plunged viciously into the illusion of his Buddha Country Grotto Heaven, which was already shaking violently from the destruction of his Dharma Aspect.
KRA-KA-CRACK!
The heart-stopping sound of space shattering rang out.
A massive hole was brutally punched straight through Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s Buddha Country Grotto Heaven.
Countless illusory Buddha Halls and stupas collapsed, the Bodhi Holy Tree withered, and the Laws flowing within the Grotto Heaven instantly fell into chaos.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s Golden Body trembled violently. A trickle of pale golden Buddha’s Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his aura plummeted like a river bursting its banks.
For the first time, his compassionate and solemn face became pale and savage.
One sword strike! Just two sword strikes!
Controlling Han Shi’s body, Xu Yunfan had used the True Martial Sword as a sacrifice, fused multiple powers, and brutally inflicted heavy wounds upon a powerful Bodhisattva, leaving his Buddha Country Grotto Heaven on the brink of collapse.
But it wasn’t over.
Xu Yunfan’s assaults were always an interlocking chain, relentless until death.
"Array, activate!"
The very instant the composite Sword Gang struck Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Xu Yunfan had already moved on to the next step.
Through Han Shi’s hands, he performed a long-prepared Array Technique. His Divine Thought instantly connected to the Nine Nether Profound Evil Slaughter Immortal Thunder Array, which had been set up eight hundred li away, surrounding the White Bone Island for thousands of li, concealed within the Sea of Suffering’s blood waves and white bones.
RUMBLE!!!
The entire Sea of Suffering was seized by an invisible giant hand and viciously churned.
With Han Shi’s—or rather, Xu Yunfan’s—current position as the epicenter, countless dark red, Sword-shaped Array Banners erupted from the whirlpools of the Sea of Blood and the mounds of white bones in every direction.
On the surfaces of the banners, profound Thunder Runes flickered wildly, greedily absorbing the endless Yin Evil Death Qi and intangible killing karma from the Sea of Suffering.
The Grand Array was instantly activated to its absolute peak.
The sky was no longer just gloomy; it was now completely covered by a storm of violent thunderclouds.