Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2339: 181: World-Shocking (Part 2)
“Oh no! It’s that antagonist!”
The very moment that notion flashed through his mind, the power he'd just felt against his Golden Body erupted with renewed fury!
Bang!
His Golden Body crumbled in an instant!
Before he could even respond, his awareness plunged into oblivion...
In that same instant, the insights from Wisdom Scripture Bodhisattva etched themselves into the minds of the remaining Bodhisattvas.
Every Bodhisattva felt a profound shock ripple through them.
Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva, who had arrived to join forces, experienced an abrupt wave of terror!
“Wisdom Longevity, are you alright!?”
“Wisdom Longevity, stay still, don’t act rashly!”
A dryness, absent for ages, gripped Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva's throat as panic gripped his core:
“I—I’m okay.”
“Hurry and rescue me; Wisdom Scripture has fallen already—he has to be right nearby...”
Yet, following a brief pause, the other Bodhisattvas rejected his desperate call outright.
“We can’t assist! That antagonist is luring us to shift, and any movement will create an opening!”
“Remain in place—no matter what, don’t budge!”
“Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva is beyond saving now!”
“That’s right; with Wisdom Scripture Bodhisattva slain, Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva stands isolated, so that antagonist will surely strike at him next...”
“All we can do is stand firm!”
“Once the Southern Great Bodhisattva overcomes his foe, we just need to hold out for his arrival...”
Through the barrage of mental exchanges, the disbelieving tone of Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva suddenly broke in:
“I—I don’t appear to be under assault?”
The mental chatter ceased abruptly.
During that short lull, a doubtful murmur finally emerged:
“Perhaps... that antagonist has departed already?”
“Or is this some kind of ruse?”
“Maybe the Southern Great Bodhisattva has triumphed over his rival? And now he’s rushing to our aid?!”
This speculation sparked hope across all the Bodhisattvas!
And right as that idea surfaced.
The heavens illuminated!
As the light spread, every Bodhisattva reflexively extended their perception to its limits!
Far off, clashes of spells echoed, battles raged with ferocity, formations thundered in activation, a chaos of noises merged, remote silhouettes of warring monks and cultivators appeared, semi-spherical barriers of divine radiance fired off, cascades of sparks rained down, and a youth in purple robes sheltered beneath a nearby Buddhist bowl...
All these shifts in that instant flooded into the consciousness of these Bodhisattvas.
“Precisely!”
“No illusion at all!”
“Nothing on my end either.”
“None whatsoever.”
Through their linked minds, the Bodhisattvas verified beyond question as the area brightened.
No deceptions lingered in their vicinity!
“However...”
“Where did the antagonist and that divine beast vanish to?”
“Where on earth is he?”
The Bodhisattvas compared their detections, yet not one sensed the Taiyi Taoist’s trace.
Still, as they scanned the area, far from easing their guard, their anxiety intensified.
At the start of their joint assault, twenty-three had stood united, yet in this brief span, six Bodhisattvas had perished or vanished. Such heavy casualties evoked the dread of confronting a late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator.
No—even that would be preferable!
The foe’s tactics proved utterly strange, exerting a crushing dominance!
“Let’s unite immediately!”
One among the Bodhisattvas urged swiftly.
The seventeen surviving Bodhisattvas, excluding Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva, had all formed pairs in the prior gloom to evade the antagonist’s ambushes.
Hearing the call, those seventeen swiftly converged, steering clear even of the slain Bodhisattvas’ remains lest the enemy lurked inside.
With the seventeen assembled, the Bodhisattvas at last exhaled in relief.
Though diminished by six from before, seventeen still formed a formidable array, and with their supreme Dao Treasures, they held a solid edge over any late-stage Crossing Tribulation cultivator.
Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva, rattled by the prior chaos, proposed right after they assembled:
“Why not set up a Formation!”
“With seventeen Bodhisattvas in Formation, no matter his tricks, he won’t stand a chance against us!”
“A Formation?”
Interest flickered among the Bodhisattvas.
At that point, one Bodhisattva abruptly furrowed his brow:
“One, two, three... fifteen, sixteen—no, we’re definitely seventeen strong here, but counting myself, why only sixteen mental voices?!”
“Hmm?”
At those words, the Bodhisattvas’ expressions twisted in alarm!
As intent stirred within, their linked perceptions swiftly uncovered the irregularity!
They dispersed on instinct, eyes locking simultaneously on Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva in their midst.
Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva offered a faint smile, his features warping subtly into True Man Taiyi’s likeness, his tone shifting fully to True Man Taiyi’s mild cadence laced with faint sorrow:
“This exposes a weakness, yet mending it proves simple enough.”
The Bodhisattvas’ countenances paled in horror, despair gripped their hearts, and ere they could respond, the world sank back into boundless night!
“Haste! Unite now!”
“Wait—no, watch for that antagonist! He’ll infiltrate us!”
“Pair off again! His shift in tactics shows this counters him effectively!”
“That antagonist excels in shapeshifting; without that slip, I nearly failed to detect Wisdom Longevity as his guise.”
“Yet, what if Wisdom Longevity Bodhisattva was swapped out right from the start?!”
“Does he wield Telepathy too?”
“It appears so... though before, he worried we’d sense his killing aura, forcing him to conceal it—and thus reveal himself. Still, he’s likely devised a counter by now.”