Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2334: 179: Striving with All Their Might (Happy Lunar New Year! Surprise!)
Previously on Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant...
Boom——
Streams of light crisscrossed across the heavens, erupting into even brighter splendor, wrapping the whole Cloud Sky Realm in a wild, fractured, yet magnificent display.
This chaos unfolded alongside the fierce clashes of innumerable cultivators and monks.
Right then, the youth in purple robes called out in a hushed tone.
“Fellow Daoist Taiyi, I need your protection now!”
With those words, he dropped to the ground in a cross-legged position, his fingers flying through a series of seals!
In a flash, he linked up rapidly with the entire Domain!
Wang Ba picked up on the ripples emanating from the purple-robed youth, his heart tightening as he realized:
“Has he gained the Realm Spirit’s approval too?”
At the same instant, the Cloud Sky Realm stirred to life, quivering softly while it swiftly drew in the vast Chaos Origin Substance nearby, and the tears in the Realm Membrane started mending at a rapid pace!
“This is bad—they’re trying to seal us inside!”
One of the monks spotted the shifts in the Realm Membrane, his face twisting in alarm as he shouted the warning.
Right away, a Bodhisattva lunged ahead, offering up his Dao Treasure to shatter the Realm Membrane anew.
But just then.
From the earth below, countless dome-shaped light barriers rose up without a sound, sending rays of light from their peaks directly up to the firmament!
In an instant, the Realm Membrane fused together with all those light shields on the ground!
Every blow the Bodhisattva landed on the Realm Membrane got spread out instantly by the array of shield formations rooted below, where hordes of cultivators poured their efforts into holding them steady!
The overwhelming force scattered away in moments!
From inside those shields, bursts of divine radiance fired off occasionally, and anything in their path—even an Arhat caught off guard—would suffer injuries.
Now, under the onslaught from the Supreme True Buddha’s forces, the defenses that the Cloud Sky Realm had built up over the years revealed their true power at last.
On the other side, the cultivators emerging from the Taoist Field wasted no time, rushing to engage their designated foes.
Even though the monks outnumbered them, they found themselves thrown into disarray for the moment, scrambling to fight back.
Still, the Supreme True Buddha’s army had conquered realms far and wide; they were no pushovers.
The Eastern Great Bodhisattva, manifesting through his Dharma Aspect upon entering the realm, wore a grave expression without a hint of fear, snatching up several early-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivators nearby and stuffing them into the pouch at his side, before declaring in a resonant voice:
“Fellow Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and practitioners, rally to me and the Southern Great Bodhisattva—stay together.”
Their ranks of Bodhisattvas and Arhats vastly outnumbered those of the Cloud Sky Realm.
Despite the influx of Crossing Tribulation cultivators rushing to aid, they remained at a disadvantage in the big picture.
By overwhelming with sheer numbers, dominating through strength, and deploying a massive formation to crush the enemy, that’s how they could truly exploit their edge—instead of dueling one-on-one with spells; naturally, the key factor was their late-stage Crossing Tribulation experts, plus even a True Man Taiyi in their midst, who, while not at late-stage Crossing Tribulation himself, matched that level against Bodhisattvas and Arhats.
A single slip could lead to heavy losses among Bodhisattvas and Arhats, causing them great distress and possibly stalling the spread of Buddhist Law, which was no small matter.
“You bald demon, don’t get cocky—I’ll cut you down!”
A late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator who’d come to help, pent-up and itching for action, finally charged in, waving a banner infused with Evil Qi at the Eastern Great Bodhisattva.
The Eastern Great Bodhisattva’s face stayed calm, but with more than twenty Bodhisattvas already clustered behind him, they all moved as one upon witnessing the attack!
Shock flashed across the late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator’s features!
Confronted by almost twenty Dao Treasures at once, even with his advanced cultivation, he wouldn’t dare meet them head-on.
He dodged away in a hurry, and right at that second, the Eastern Great Bodhisattva struck suddenly, hurling a luminous Shariputra at the late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator!
The late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator didn’t take it lightly, calling forth his banner without delay, but that Shariputra, small as it seemed, carried tremendous force, smashing through several banners one after another.
Alarmed, he twisted aside desperately!
“Fellow Daoist Er, stay calm—I’ve got your back!”
Soon after, another late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator swooped in, gripping an armlet Dao Treasure, empowering it with his energy; the armlet collided with the Shariputra, and afterward, both artifacts flew back to their wielders.
That armlet Dao Treasure had been sold by Wang Ba to the Cloud Sky Sect as a premium item and was now lent to the cultivator who needed it most.
The Eastern Great Bodhisattva’s eyes narrowed coldly at the sight, and without pause, he and the monks at his back dove into battle against these two late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivators…
All the while.
The Southern Great Bodhisattva, clad in his blazing red monk robes, smashed a middle-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator’s Dao Domain with one palm strike, seized him with ease, slapped on a seal, and tucked him away into his sleeve in a blink.
He raised his head a bit, feeling the alterations in the Realm Membrane, his face turning somewhat stern.
Next, his eyes pierced through the emptiness, peering into the distance, where he saw the Eastern Great Bodhisattva held in place, spotted the purple-robed youth controlling the whole Domain and linking it to the formation like a trap, and his stare grew icy.
Without hesitation, his form shot forward at top speed toward the purple-robed youth.
However, in that instant, a Cloud Sky Sect Daoist-robed figure intercepted him, clutching a treasure tower that bobbed lightly up and down—it was one of the three elite Dao Treasures Wang Ba had handed over to the Cloud Sky Sect earlier.
Upon spotting this figure, the Southern Great Bodhisattva narrowed his gaze:
“Think you can block me?”
The Cloud Sky Sect cultivator’s expression grew resolute; though he too stood at late-stage Crossing Tribulation, he’d just stepped into it recently, nowhere near the might of the Great Bodhisattva facing him, so he merely replied in a steady murmur:
“I’ll give it everything I’ve got!”
With that, he urged the treasure tower onward, sending it hurtling at the Southern Great Bodhisattva!
The Southern Great Bodhisattva let out a cold huff, lifting his hand as though to seize it; his palm looked plain enough, yet it felt like it could pulverize the void without effort!