Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2326 - 176: Peerless
Previously on Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant...
Realm Sea.
The Reclining Buddha closed his eyes, appearing lost in profound slumber.
A lotus flower rested in his grasp.
Within the stamen of the flower, the Buddha Kingdom displayed a vision of utter peace.
Clad in spotless white garments, monks and faithful followers moved across temples, the Mortal Realm, and the Underworld, their faces lit with expressions of delight and contentment...
Carefree and unburdened by any concerns, they embodied pure joy.
Resembling the Human Buddha Country or the Pure Land of Extreme Joy, this idyllic vista felt eternal...
That illusion shattered at this instant, as a massive, ominous shadow from the outer void swallowed the Buddha Kingdom whole!
Multiple enormous eyes, brimming with murderous intent and savagery, fixed on the monks and ordinary folk inside the Buddha Kingdom, radiating fierce desire.
With a droning hum, as if myriad voices blended together, savage forms lunged toward the Buddha Kingdom...
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Within the Buddha Kingdom, monks and mortals snapped out of their reverie, gazing dazedly at the dark silhouettes blotting the heavens, though traces of happy grins lingered on their features, as though fear had deserted them entirely.
In every temple, across the Underworld.
Bodhisattvas and Arhats sensed the peril, rising into the air with grave looks, they soared forth to clash against the oncoming demonic entities and wild beasts, meeting the gigantic silhouettes descending from the cosmos.
"Those are the Innate Divine Demons of the Quiet Cave!"
"How could they strike now, when they're so distant from our domain?!"
"The three Great Bodhisattvas aren't present; they can't possibly rush back soon..."
"Hurry, summon the Western Great Bodhisattva!"
Nearly at the same instant.
From the lotus's core, a tiny Buddha statue burst forth abruptly, swelling swiftly until it spanned half a Domain in moments, its stern visage aglow with radiant gold, positioning itself in front of the lotus and compelling the advancing Innate Divine Demons to pull back.
From behind, demonic spirits emerged, darting past the Buddha statue in a flash to resume battle with the onrushing Innate Divine Demons.
Monks trailed after and encircled the Buddha statue, offering reverent bows and intoning the sacred name:
"Supreme True Buddha, greetings, Western Great Bodhisattva."
The Western Great Bodhisattva offered no reply, staring intently forward, his sight sweeping beyond the assaulting Innate Divine Demons to a distant expanse, where vast silhouettes obstructing the Realm Sea's Void remained motionless.
His attention locked on the immense form enthroned amidst them, crowned with twin horns on its brow, its features largely human yet eerily captivating, scales adorning its cheeks.
His eyes tightened, a flicker of unease surfaced, and he uttered in a hushed tone:
"Master of Quiet Cave, we've shared no enmity in the past or present—why assault my Pure Land?"
The immense form lounged in the emptiness, dismissing any answer, simply flicking its hand:
"Kill!"
The Innate Divine Demons who had held back initially, stirred by the command from the immense form, bared a savage hunger in their stares and surged toward the demonic spirits and monks with wicked grins!
Just as these Innate Divine Demons launched their assault, torrents of spells and Sword Qi erupted openly, hurtling straight for the Buddha Kingdom!
When these upheavals grew clear, the Buddha statue's eyes first flared wide, then comprehension dawned:
"It's the Cloud Sky Realm!"
At the same time.
In the adjacent void, a handsome cultivator in robes etched with cloud motifs watched the spectacular surge from the Reclining Buddha's palm, before gradually shifting his eyes away.
As if addressing his own thoughts, he whispered:
"The chaos begins here—surely you on the other side face no issues, correct?"
A voice tinged with slight worry resounded from the void:
"Taoist Brother Zhang, fear not, we've made it; as soon as those fiendish monks withdraw, they'll be gone for good!"
"Excellent."
The cloud-robed cultivator gave a subtle nod, but his expression stayed rigid, as he turned back to observe the Reclining Buddha, where golden radiance fractured amid the onslaught from Quiet Cave's Innate Divine Demons and the forces under his command; despite the many monks still defending this Pure Land, they yielded ground inch by inch.
Relief didn't cross his eyes; rather, concern deepened.
"Tianshang Buddha... where could he possibly be?"
...
"... All beings endure suffering; we've arrived to guide you to the Realm of Extreme Bliss!"
With that merciful tone reverberating from afar.
One section of the sky dome crumbled, hordes of Chaos Origin Substances poured through, morphing into endless heavenly tribulations!
The sky dome's rupture sparked immediate chain reactions.
Below, the formation nodes linked to the Realm Membrane quaked violently, while the central beams of the protective light shield tying to the sky dome faded without a sound.
The protective light shield teetered on the edge of collapse.
Within the shield, the three sects' cultivators paled in shock.
The elderly man's spirit plummeted:
"The Realm Membrane is breached once more!"
He had thought that, following years of setbacks, bolstered by the massive labors of sect cultivators and those from Cloud Sky Sect in mending and reinforcing it, this disaster would unfold differently.
But the sky dome's downfall hurled him into memories of the prior rupture, haunting as a recurring nightmare.
Countless Wanxiang Sect cultivators met their end in that catastrophe, their True Spirits reborn or utterly erased; he himself bore unhealing wounds, and the three sects lingered in the aftermath's shadow.
Aided by Longevity Sect disciples, the youth in crimson attire forced himself upright, his presence faint, his vitality sapped.
Even after vanquishing two Arhats earlier, grievous harm had befallen him from a coordinated strike by three others, his wounds bordering on fatal.
Fortuitously, his Lifebound Spirit Plant, the Undying Divine Tree, channeled steady Qingmu life force, supporting his slow mending.