Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2340 181: World-Shocking (Part 3)
Previously on Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant...
"Doesn't that mean he could fully trick every one of us?!"
"That's exactly why I warned earlier against bunching up too soon! Just moments ago, when he posed as Wisdom Longevity, he tricked us into setting up a formation on purpose. Who knows what other schemes he's hiding—likely waiting to ambush us from the dark!"
"We mustn't group up!"
All the Bodhisattvas came to an agreement.
Thoughts raced swiftly between their minds, but the deeper the exchange, the more their spirits sank!
Never before had they faced an adversary so vexing and hard to pin down.
A master of shapeshifting who could also block their perceptions and command Telepathy turned into an absolute horror!
"Hold on, with us linking minds like this, has he already slipped in among us?!"
As soon as this idea surfaced, every Bodhisattva's heart jolted hard!
A vague terror quickly welled up inside them!
Sensing the rising panic, one Bodhisattva swiftly interjected:
"Stay calm!"
"Sixteen minds, sixteen streams of thought... the numbers line up, so he hasn't gotten in!"
With everyone starting to settle, the frantic signals from two Bodhisattvas hit right after:
"He's here!"
"He's launching a brutal strike!"
The Bodhisattvas tensed up and hastily pinpointed their spots according to the earlier plan.
"Hold steady, we're rushing over!"
They prepared to move.
Right then, two more Bodhisattvas, separated by some distance, cried out in haste:
"I'm, I'm under assault too!"
"Quick, back us up!"
Two locations at once?!
Shock and confusion gripped the Bodhisattvas, and before they could make sense of it, two others shouted in quick succession:
"He's with us now!"
"We're, we're getting hit too!"
"Ours too!"
In a flash, except for just a handful, as many as ten were facing attacks!
"He's just a single foe; there's no chance he overpowers us all—he's only stirring chaos to his advantage! Don't get lured in, everyone!"
A voice boomed mentally from one of them.
But right away, a furious mental roar from a Bodhisattva erupted:
"Wisdom Injured, is that you? Why are you coming after me?!"
Before Wisdom Injured could reply, a nearby Bodhisattva to him cut in:
"Wisdom Power, no way—that can't be, we're fighting back against that fiend, there's no..."
The sentence trailed off unfinished, when a fierce burst suddenly ripped through Wisdom Power Bodhisattva's mental link.
Through their shared Telepathy, all sensed it instantly—it matched precisely what Wisdom Power Bodhisattva endured right then, and it bore the clear marks of his Divine Skills!
And nearly simultaneously, Wisdom Power Bodhisattva's inner voice cut off sharply!
Silence fell like a shroud!
Even the 'True Man Taiyi' who had been striking stopped the onslaught.
"Wisdom Power... Wisdom Power?!"
The Bodhisattva who'd just voiced doubt now felt a profound, gut-wrenching cold!
Sixteen connections before—now only fifteen lingered.
Wisdom Power Bodhisattva had obviously perished!
And the 'Wisdom Injured' whom Wisdom Power Bodhisattva accused of the strike now hovered directly at his side.
"I didn't! It wasn't me! I was striking back at that fiend—we were side by side, I must have brushed against Wisdom Power by mistake..."
Wisdom Injured Bodhisattva pleaded desperately in his mind.
But his words fell on deaf ears.
Under the crushing weight, more than a dozen supreme Dao Treasures hurled wildly at Wisdom Injured Bodhisattva!
This included the close ally who'd once aided him.
No room for doubt—against the all-out barrage from over a dozen Bodhisattvas, Wisdom Injured Bodhisattva stood no chance, and in a swirl of desperation and rage, he faded from existence.
A heavy hush descended.
Yet it carried an unusual peace.
"Is it gone?"
"Has that fiend been slain?"
In the quiet, the Bodhisattvas pondered inwardly, and as nothing stirred with the passing moments, a spark of relief ignited in their cores. They even started ignoring the encroaching gloom around them.
But the very next second.
Boom, boom, boom!
The leftover fourteen faced strikes all at once!
Their budding hope crashed into despair!
Terror, far from fading, wrapped around them tighter than ever!
Right now.
The Bodhisattvas, sunk in dread, sensed that fiend lurking everywhere, poised to mimic a trusted face in an instant. They refused to form arrays, refused to rely on partners, gripped only by icy dread and a quaking, nightmarish blend of rage, helplessness, and fear-driven frenzy!
Even surrounded by fellow Bodhisattvas, security felt like an illusion.
Now assaulted, like startled prey, some shielded with elite Dao Treasures, while others, driven mad by panic, lashed out blindly in all directions!
And one after another, they fell quiet amid the frenzy...
Whoosh——
Out of nowhere, light flooded the sky.
Beneath the stunned stare of a youth in purple robes, in the vacant gazes of a withered elder and a youth clad in red within a far-off barrier of light, in the stunned eyes of the Southern Great Bodhisattva and countless monks and cultivators watching the clash intently...
Clad in blue robes, Wang Ba emerged steadily from a fading veil of shadow, his expression peaceful as he softly caressed the Candle Dragon wound around his arm.
Trailing him... apart from a few stray limbs and fragments of shattered high-tier Dao Treasures, which faintly echoed the savage ferocity of the hidden clash, those twenty-three Bodhisattvas seemed erased entirely, as though they had never been...