Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2428: 211: Taiyi!_3
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Yet, via this trial, he acquired fresh understandings regarding the four major rules.
"It's no surprise that Chong Hua enjoys battling with magic against foes… Indeed, one can discover plenty from such clashes."
In his mind, as he pondered, the trio of mighty bodhisattvas launched another assault together, though he stayed composed. A mere mental command sufficed: the illusory meditating Buddha in his grasp quivered faintly, dropping its false appearance, shifting into the Yellow Dao Domain that wrapped around him before surging ahead to confront the three bodhisattvas.
Buddha's radiance surged and smashed swiftly against the Yellow Dao Domain!
Much to the astonishment of observers, the forces stood clearly separated with no evident superiority!
"The Ruins Master… is truly holding off the three bodhisattvas?!"
Cheng Lianzi, guiding the Fire Stone, managed to wound one bodhisattva before pulling back rapidly, his attention gripped by Wang Ba's magical duel. Observing the clash between the factions right then, a mix of shock, delight, and dread surged within him.
To stand against three mighty bodhisattvas alone, such a being… he had once attempted to waylay…
The assembled monks found the sight before them hard to believe. These three bodhisattvas ranked as elite subordinates to the Tianshang Buddha Lord, but their united power failed to overpower True Man Taiyi—worse than the events that day in the Cloud Sky Realm!
With such thoughts in mind, numerous monks felt a twinge of fear, recalling how, back in the Cloud Sky Realm, the foe had seized many bodhisattvas and arhats by himself, etching a profound mark on their memories…
Beyond Zhang’s Ruins, the pair of concealed presences in the emptiness, upon witnessing this, were equally stunned.
"Xuan Yuanzi spoke truly…"
Upon the striking visage of the towering form, astonishment surfaced:
"This True Man Taiyi, achieving such heights in so brief a period… Reaching Mahayana seems merely a question of time."
His gaze wavered, as if reaching a quiet resolution.
At the same time, from another angle, the elderly silhouette's eyes gleamed with subtle amazement:
"This doesn't align entirely with what Fellow Daoist Chao and Liaochan described…"
A touch of gravity entered his gaze, followed by reflective contemplation.
Simultaneously.
The three bodhisattvas, particularly the Northern Great Bodhisattva who once chased Wang Ba, felt inner turmoil like raging seas!
Previously, mere surprise had come from the foe mimicking the Supreme True Buddha's techniques to deceive, but now the unshakeable power within the enemy's Dao Domain registered clearly!
Those rules pulsed densely, solidly, and full of life.
As a former cultivator himself, having shed his sins, he understood deeply that commanding such dominant rules demanded no mere chance.
"True Man Taiyi… possesses late-stage Crossing Tribulation power at present!"
"How is the progress this swift!"
"Merely three to four centuries have passed… During our last meeting in the Cloud Sky Realm, he was nowhere near my equal!"
Memories flooded him of their initial clash near the Hundred Herbs Realm, when True Man Taiyi amounted to a minor pest he could swat aside easily; even later in the Cloud Sky Realm, despite the foe's sharp rise in might, without the 'Great Land' artifact's shield, capture would have been simple.
Still, he had never foreseen that, across just three or four hundred years, the rival would transform utterly!
His Cultivation Base and realm both had surged dramatically.
Were they to duel today, he held zero assurance of prevailing.
Shock, fury, and remorse churned in his chest. Had he foreseen this day, he would have exhausted all tactics to slay him long ago!
Surrounded by myriad Buddha hands, the Northern Great Bodhisattva's expression darkened fiercely. Abruptly forming a seal, he chanted a spell under his breath, causing those Buddha hands to surge with power, infused with dragon-elephant and Vajra might, standing apart from the rest in their treacherous potency.
Concurrently, multiple elite Buddha treasures activated without a sound.
His two fellow bodhisattvas, linked in spirit, grasped his intent at once and ramped up their attacks to mask his actions.
Wang Ba, directing the Yellow Dao Domain, sensed the varied rules the three bodhisattvas wielded in their onslaught, enriching his grasp of Buddhism's four principal rules.
His insight into the Supreme True Buddha Dharma Gate, while not yet at a bodhisattva's level, gave him keen awareness of their techniques. Now, wielding the profoundly robust Yellow Dao Domain, blending cultivator arts with Supreme True Buddha Dharma Gate knowledge, he countered with rules and Dao Domain against the trio, holding them nearly at bay.
Suddenly, he perceived their assault quicken, a faint irregularity stirring in his thoughts.
"Hmm?"
An average cultivator might miss the shifts amid the swarm of 'hands of Buddha,' yet Wang Ba, versed deeply in the Supreme True Buddha Dharma Gate and elevated in realm, spotted the hidden irregularity right away.
Disentangling the strands, tracing the hints…
In a flash, he pinpointed the irregularity's origin.
"Northern Great Bodhisattva!"
His eyes narrowed, detecting how countless 'hands of Buddha' now brimmed with fused 'divine power' from the four great rules and various supreme Dao treasures; Wang Ba let out a cold huff, forgoing the Land-Parting Staff and simply flicking his sleeve!
There emerged the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Kirin—five sacred beasts—from within his sleeve, morphing into five radiant streaks that converged!
Becoming a scarlet divine creature!
Shaped like a yellow sack, flaming like alchemical blaze, sporting six limbs and four wings, devoid of distinct features!
This was the divine beast 'Chaos'!
It parted its jaws to unleash a howl akin to a canine's yelp.
Instantly, Yin and Yang inverted, the Five Elements tumbled into disorder, and earth, fire, water, wind all flipped!
The surrounding 'hands of Buddha' faltered briefly before drawing back!
The three bodhisattvas, unprepared, scrambled to react in alarm.
And during their frantic defense, Wang Ba strolled across the void effortlessly, extending his hand to seize; the Yellow Dao Domain trailed faithfully, reshaping into a massive palm that pierced the turbulent earth, fire, water, and wind, aiming straight for the Northern Great Bodhisattva!
The Northern Great Bodhisattva, occupied with countering his own prior 'divine power' seals, paled at the approaching giant hand and tried desperately to flee!
But then, an immense attractive force burst from that hand!
Trembling inwardly, he strained to mobilize rules for defiance, only to hear 'Chaos''s call again, scrambling the rules encircling him and stripping his defenses. Panic gripped him secretly, and soon the world before him spun, drawing him irresistibly into the pull!
Swish—
A sleeve twitch, and the Northern Great Bodhisattva vanished inside.
Wang Ba turned his steady gaze to the two remaining bodhisattvas, now frozen in disbelief, his tone even:
"Do you two possess further tricks? If none remain… kindly accompany him within my sleeve."