"Guanyin Buddha Friend, you—"

This strike from behind was completely unexpected by Manjusri; he never imagined that Guanyin and Tan Wuwei had united.

Clearly, they were supposed to be allies, having seized control of the Buddha Country together during the Awakened's seclusion, remaining like-minded individuals for years, not turning against each other even after his previous deception.

But now...

Tan Wuwei used divine skills to confuse the opponent's divination, including Manjusri's, preventing him from sensing the crisis in time, allowing Guanyin to succeed. Their alliance placed this ambitious person in the most disadvantageous situation.

"Are you aligning with the Heavenly Monarch?" Manjusri fully resisted, while attempting to delay with his words.

"No, it's just that I owed a favor once."

Guanyin spoke in a detached tone Manjusri had never heard before: "Back then, when Ji Jiji was schemed against by the Awakened and forced to relinquish his foundation in the Buddha Country after battling the Daoist Lord, it was me who received his gifting."

"Back then, I was able to enter the Buddha Country also thanks to Guanyin Buddha Friend's assistance," Tan Wuwei said leisurely.

"And now, compared to Manjusri Buddha Friend, I think allying with the Heavenly Monarch is more promising," Guanyin said lightly, "Manjusri Buddha Friend, your selfishness is too great."

First, forcing Guanyin to bow to the Immortal Queen, and then secretly scheming to seize Guanyin's incense thought power. The former was forced by circumstances, but the latter was purely driven by Manjusri's selfishness, betraying his allies.

Moreover, linking these events together reveals Manjusri hid part of his strength from the start. If he hadn't done this, perhaps Guanyin wouldn't have had to bow to the Immortal Queen.

The accumulation of these two matters was enough to sow discord between the two, merely contained because they shared a common enemy.

"Manjusri Buddha Friend wants to quickly perfect the Great Sun Tathagata Dharma Form and requires a strong person's thought power; since you've started, you won't stop now, Guanyin Buddha Friend can't trust you," Tan Wuwei said with the same distant voice, carrying an elevated aloofness, "This time, even if you can defeat Jiang Li, you'll still be injured and undergo transformation by us. Manjusri Buddha Friend, why don't you guess how much of the future I can actually see?"

How much of the future...

Tan Wuwei's reverse knowledge of the future is subject to various factors, especially when related to strong individuals. The stronger the existence, the wider the influence of their actions, causing variables to swiftly increase, thus limiting what Tan Wuwei sees in the future.

During combat with a strong opponent, she might only glimpse a future a few seconds ahead.

However, such a judgment of time doesn't depend on variables but rather Tan Wuwei's limits. If her limit allows seeing the future a day ahead but tells Manjusri only half a day's future, then...

Manjusri might develop a misjudgment regarding Tan Wuwei's foresight range, leading to unconscious guidance from Tan Wuwei.

It appears as if Manjusri is in command, and Tan Wuwei follows orders, but that's not necessarily the case. There might still be some deliberate guidance before reaching a point of manipulation by Tan Wuwei.

When a keen mind deduces this, Manjusri's mind is in turmoil.

It's not just from the humiliation of deception, but also due to the imminent major moves by Tan Wuwei.

Because she can see the future.

Purposely saying so, knowing Manjusri's already chaotic mental state would be affected.

But, what does knowing change?

As Manjusri's mind is in a mess, a White Lotus falls upon his Heavenly Spirit, and endless Buddhist chanting floods into his mind.

Tan Wuwei aims to transform Manjusri.

The method of transforming the people of Yong Province is now used on Manjusri.

However, Manjusri's strength and realm surpass Tan Wuwei, and transforming him isn't easy.

Recognizing this point, Manjusri swiftly suppresses his mind and stabilizes his mental state. In the Buddha Country, he is second only to the Awakened, thinking to transform him? Ridiculous!

Yet——

"Wouldn't Manjusri Buddha Friend want to consider how I managed to deceive you in incense thought power?" Tan Wuwei leisurely said, "Because I learned how to manipulate hearts from the Heavenly Monarch."

With her words, a foreboding feeling arose in Manjusri's mind, followed by sensing countless praises echoing in his mind, as if his thoughts were split in two parts, generating conflict.

"You... Guanyin Buddha Friend, after transforming me, is it to have me listen to Tan Wuwei? Or to the Heavenly Monarch? Or perhaps to you?" Manjusri's forehead also became sweat-drenched, yet still seeking a way to survive, "Today's me, might very well be tomorrow's you, Buddha Friend."

"That's no concern for Manjusri Buddha Friend," Guanyin said lightly from behind him.

Simultaneously, Tan Wuwei urged the Buddhist chanting, immense thought power surged into Manjusri's consciousness.

His face twisted, with one side appearing serene and the other struggling. Even amidst mental turmoil, he continued to resist.

Nonetheless, already severely injured, at this moment he couldn't withstand the combined spell of two third-grade individuals.

The chanting grew louder, deafeningly, starting to invade every corner of consciousness; Manjusri's resistance waned more.

"Lifeless Mother, True Void Home."

"Lifeless Mother, True Void Home."

"Namo Great Sun Tathagata Vairocana Buddha."

In the cascading praises, a bit of noise blended in, soon followed by a powerful thought power injected into his consciousness, countering Tan Wuwei's Buddhist chanting.

Someone was offering incense thought power to Manjusri, thought power capable of opposing the transformative chanting.

Manjusri grasped this final straw, merging with the thought power, attempting to stabilize his mind.

Yet as the thought power melded into consciousness, Manjusri found it seemed not directed toward him, but rather...

Within his consciousness, it felt like seeds were rooting and sprouting.

Deeply buried for long, at this moment allowed growth, unstoppable, extracting water, nutrients, breaking the earth.

A Buddha Image manifested within Manjusri's consciousness, becoming clear, and upon observing its form, it was unmistakably—

"Great Sun Tathagata!!!"

The peacefulness occupying half of the face was twisted, infinite horror appeared in Manjusri's left eye, while the right eye gradually emanated light.

The Dharma Image of the Great Sun Tathagata that had merged into the body came to life, its true master began to awaken.

A point of light appeared in the Sea of Consciousness, then filled every corner, even pressing against Tan Wuwei's Buddhist chant.

"Above heaven and under heaven, none can compare to Buddha,

In all worlds, none is like Him.

I see all existing things, yet none is like a Buddha.

Namo Vairocana Buddha."

A long chant echoed, Manjusri could feel himself being replaced, from the depths of consciousness to the physical body, every part was gradually being occupied by another existence.

At the same time, a seemingly ancient sigh resounded in the void, bringing infinite despair into Manjusri's heart.

He seemed to sense the last thread of vitality slipping away.

"No!" Manjusri struggled and shouted.

Meanwhile, Tan Wuwei's face changed suddenly.

Using the Divine Skill of foreseeing the future, she sensed the impending changes, without hesitation she retreated into the True Void Home, moving swiftly across the void.

"Boom!"

In less than a fraction of a moment, the Heaven Piercing Arrow and the Sun-Sorrowing Arrow pierced through the mountain, passed through the afterimage Tan Wuwei left behind, and penetrated Manjusri's body.

It entered right from the sword wound on his chest, piercing through the Tathagata Undestructible True Body, penetrated Manjusri's heart, then emerged from behind as a scarlet form.

It was a wooden whip, entirely scarlet, carrying an ancient aura and traces of time, delivering a fatal blow to Manjusri.

The Five Vile Qi within the heart aperture rapidly intensified, devouring Manjusri's Innate Buddha Qi, sweeping through the entire body along the blood vessels.

The Ochre Whip possessed the ability to transform Primordial Qi, especially when used against the Jiang family's Innate Qi. Although Manjusri's Innate Buddha Qi had assumed a different form, it could still be influenced by the Ochre Whip.

Using the Ochre Whip as the core, the Innate Buddha Qi transformed into Five Vile Qi, pervading the body and mind, infusing the decay from heaven and earth into every cell, every strand of True Qi, every divine thought.

"Ochre Whip..."

Manjusri suddenly gained a bit of freedom, lowering his head to gaze at the chest, seeing that whip piercing through his heart, "Jiang Li!"

Hate, resentment, sorrow, despair... emotions indescribable by words filled his mind.

"Jiang Li! Jiang Li! You—"

"I am unwilling!"

With a long howl to the sky, he lowered his head and met his demise.

This mighty figure of the Buddha Country, the leader of the Jiang Family, after experiencing numerous plots, rose to the peak only to fall abruptly into the abyss, ultimately dying here.

His Essence, Qi, and Spirit were all transformed into Five Vile Qi, even the Tathagata Undestructible True Body turned dark, the body solidified like a stone statue.

Then, the Five Vile Qi enveloping the body quickly retracted, accumulating back into the heart, absorbed by the Ochre Whip.

"Jiang Li!" Tan Wuwei softly cried.

Guanyin simultaneously flipped her palm, unleashing the Separation and Union Divine Light.

The Five Vile Qi was useless for others, rather it was harmful, but not necessarily for Jiang Li.

The Essence, Qi, and Spirit of Manjusri transformed into Five Vile Qi, more importantly, Manjusri also practiced the "Qi Tomb," even now with the foundational changes, there was still a commonality with Innate Qi.

If this were to fall into Jiang Li's hands, it would be endlessly problematic.

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In the Yellow Earth Plain, wind and sand rose, two figures stood on a high slope, watching from afar the mountain that was pierced, clearly observing the various changes.

"Alas—"

The Daoist Lord lightly sighed, lowered his right hand, "What Fellow Daoist Jiang said before was not wrong, he indeed disappointed me."

And the Great Venerable muttered in a low voice: "Such a method to cut off the old Daoist's possibility of action."

The True Spirit of the Great Sun Tathagata was awakened, Manjusri was destined to be replaced, if unwilling to face a resurrected ancient Buddha now, there was only one path to take — kill Manjusri.

Even the Daoist Lord could not preserve Manjusri under such circumstances, and the resurrected Great Sun Tathagata could not be manipulated. Therefore, Daoist Lord Li Boyang gave up on taking action.

Jiang Li, in this way, without spending any effort, avoided a confrontation with the Daoist Lord.

The last words he spoke to the two of them were, "Unfortunately, it will let you down."

Now, Jiang Li indeed disappointed both the Great Venerable and the Daoist Lord.

"Enough."

The Daoist Lord sighed lightly, his figure dissolved into Pure Light, gradually dispersed, leaving directly, ignoring the subsequent events.

With Manjusri dead, whether he stayed or not no longer mattered to the situation.

But for the other side, the matter was not yet over.

Amidst the suddenly roaring wind, a figure descended from above the dome.

Jiang Li, he arrived.

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