The appearance of the four top masters from both Buddhism and Daoism simultaneously even made Grandmaster Ha Ha and Xuanyuan Dharma King feel an impending sense of doomsday!

Evil Corpse Gu Chen wanted to immediately slip away and run for his life!

Having entangled and opposed the likes of Jile Perfected, Elder Kuzhu, and Master Changmei, three great powerhouses, for a thousand years, his most formidable skill had been the art of escape. He would flee at the first sign of trouble with such speed and finesse that everyone across the Three Sects of Buddhism, Dao, and Demon was left in awed silence!

But today, he did not run because his master was there, his omnipotent master who dared to challenge heaven and earth had returned!

The Sky Lusting Sect Leader did not believe in karma, nor in the resonance between the divine and the human, and did not think that Heavenly Tribulation was related to one's good or evil deeds.

Regardless of the tribulation, it was just like the uneven bumps on the ground.

One simply had to overcome whatever fate threw at him—if not, it meant one's own strength was lacking, so one should strive to enhance their strength and pass through it next time!

Thinking back to his master's fearless and unbridled glory of the old days, and comparing it to the past millennium where he himself was guerilla fighting, often being chased and cornered until scurrying away like a rat, Gu Chen, a demon that scared many, felt wronged and wanted to burst into tears.

This time, he would not run again. With his master there, he would fight to the death against his enemies!

Xuanyuan Dharma King's Dao Level was much higher than his, but his heart was even more apprehensive.

Xuanyuan Dharma King knew the tactics of the Orthodox Sects. Despite having high Mana and Dao Level, they preferred to entrap people, often using all sorts of schemes and plots to trap others. Many seemingly certain victories would invariably lead to a pitfall as soon as one exposed themselves!

The more powerful the Buddhist and Daoist masters were, the more they loved to scheme—it was truly indefensible!

A thousand years ago, when he followed his master from the West Sea to Central Earth, he suffered a great loss at the hands of the three elders of Emei.

Who could have imagined that such people from Emei would engage in plots and machinations!

Xuanyuan Dharma King's heart beat the retreat drum louder than Gu Chen's.

While they hesitated for a moment, the four great masters had already arrived nearby, and Qi Shuming and the others began to re-establish the Liangyi Dust Formation.

"Quick, go seize the Central Palace!"

A monster transmitted a message to Xuanyuan Dharma King.

Xuanyuan Dharma King, having dealt with the Emei Sect for so many years, was more familiar with the Liangyi Dust Formation than Grandmaster Ha Ha. Upon receiving the command from his senior, he immediately flew off to confront Qi Shuming.

Xuanyuan Dharma King shrank the Seven Evil Yin Divine Curtain to a hundred miles in radius and firmly occupied the central position. He sat on a black Lotus Platform, stretched out his hand, and with a gesture, released the Seven Evil Yin Blood Flame Divine Demons.

The seven demons circled around his Lotus Platform, arrayed in the formation of the Big Dipper Seven Stars, and simultaneously emitted a stream of blackish-red Light Energy, flying straight towards Qi Shuming.

Qi Shuming recognized the danger and hurriedly summoned the Pure Yang Treasure Pearl, erected two formation gates, and from within unleashed the Taiyin Pure Yang Immortal Fire to counterattack.

Shi Feiyang had been invisibly observing from the clouds all this while. Now that the Liangyi Dust Formation was being set up again, with the four great masters of Buddhism and Daoism overseeing its completion, he could leave unimpeded immediately, but if he stayed, he would be trapped within the formation again.

If those four ended up assisting the Emei Sect in annihilating the Sky Lusting Sect Leader afterward, it also wasn't impossible for them to join forces to eliminate him.

After all, aside from Li Jingxu, the other three had grievances against him to a lesser or greater extent.

Even if they took a vote, three to one, the outcome would inevitably evolve against his favor.

However, he still decided to stay.

His gaze turned to Grandmaster Ha Ha.

The key to breaking the situation lay with this old monster today, and of course, this creature also bore a grudge against him.

Selfish and self-serving, this aberrant left-path demon was still thinking about how to snatch a few monsters. After all, having invested a millennium's effort, he couldn't just let everything go to waste—recouping a little was better than nothing.

But he also knew that, given the current situation, once the Liangyi Dust Formation was completed, and with four peerless masters reinforcing it from the outside, even if he managed to capture a few monsters, he wouldn't be able to escape afterward!

So, he quickly discussed with Xuanyuan Dharma King, asking to be allowed to capture a few monsters in exchange for assisting Xuanyuan Dharma King in breaking the formation.

Before Xuanyuan Dharma King could reply, the monsters themselves refused, "Ha Ha, you old freak, even at a time like this, you are still delusional! As long as one of my clones escapes,

I will have hope of revival and rebirth in the future. But today, you will not escape your fate. If you don't flee before the Liangyi Dust Formation is erected, you will inevitably face the disaster of both body and soul being destroyed!"

Grandmaster Ha Ha knew their claims were true and felt somewhat shaky himself. Seeing the gates of the Liangyi Dust Formation being established one by one, he became anxious. He let out a long howl to the heavens, signalling his disciples, including the Five Poison Heavenly King Lie Baduo who had come to him in utter destitution, to attack the Eastern Annihilation Gate.

His disciples, including the Eighteen Arhats, Huo Wuliang, and the followers from the cave's Underground Palace, quickly flew up to join him. However, Lie Baduo was nowhere to be seen.

He soon realized that Lie Baduo had been hiding in the shadows, cautiously observing the duel between the two sides. Upon realizing that the four great Buddhist and Daoist experts had arrived and that defeat was inevitable for his side, he slipped away underground.

By this time, Lie Baduo had already reached thousands of miles away. He dared not return to Bai Man Mountain. Instead, he headed west, leaving Central Earth and fleeing to the West Sea West Pole Mountain, towards the Western Sect!

Grandmaster Ha Ha was so angry that he wanted to curse out loud, but now was not the time for swearing.

He led his disciples and followers, flying eastward at high speed to continue the assault on the Annihilation Gate.

The Annihilation Gate was still under the direction of Xuan Zhenzi, the most powerful in true effort among the two senior and three immortal experts. What was different this time was that behind the formation gate stood Zen Master Tian Meng, as well as Xie Shan and two women from Immortal City.

Zen Master Tian Meng did not act himself but had the two women from Immortal City set up the Seven Treasures Golden Banner.

The Seven Treasures Golden Banner was a demon-suppressing treasure used by Venerable Maluo Jieti from the West a thousand years ago, with infinite power. It was adorned with the Seven Treasures used for demon-suppression and had a ten-colored Sharira at its top.

Not only could the Sharira enhance the power of the Golden Banner, but also control the Seven Demon-suppressing Treasures below. It was unfortunate that when the two women of Immortal City acquired it, it had already returned to the Western regions.

Once activated, the treasure would immediately reduce any elves, ghosts, and monsters within a radius of 360 miles by half their Dao level if they failed to hide. Only by burrowing ten feet into the ground could they avoid this misfortune.

Among the world's Buddhist treasures, there were two ultimate ones: one was the Seven Treasures Golden Banner, and the other was the Conch Leaf Talisman. Xie Shan's Buddha Fire Heart Lamp could annihilate Blood God's Son, but even with sufficient lamp oil, it ranked slightly below these two treasures. Now without the oil, its power diminished even more. Although the Golden Banner lacked the ten-colored Sharira, it still possessed infinite power.

The two women from Immortal City, one to the left and one to the right, raised the Golden Banner. They both practiced the Demonic Destruction Treasure Scroll and put forth their full effort in casting, causing the banner to swell to over a hundred meters high. It was divided into seven layers, each containing a Buddhist treasure.

The first layer contained two Linked Treasure Circles radiating brilliant light; the second, a red Treasure Wheel surrounded by circling flames; the third, a Purple Gold Bowl; the fourth, a Golden Bell; the fifth, a Buddhist Wisdom Sword; the sixth, a Sacred Bell; and the seventh, a treasure mirror.

Each treasure, even taken individually, was a demon-suppressing treasure, but together within the Golden Banner, their power was unmatched.

Engraved upon the Golden Banner were numerous teachings that Venerable Maluo Jieti had heard before the Buddha long ago, all depicted in Sanskrit. It was surrounded by treasures such as strands of Yingluo, Golden Lamps, Golden Lotuses, Treasure Beads, and Corals, all of which slowly rotated along with the Golden Banner.

Once it was deployed, the Golden Banner immediately illuminated everything within a thousand miles.

Knowing the overwhelming power of the treasure, Zen Master Tian Meng usually forbade the two women of Immortal City from deploying it lightly. But now, he ordered them to set up the treasure within the formation gate, using the Immortal Array to block the Treasure Light from shining outward, instead directing it inward.

With Buddha's Light shining everywhere, not only was the interior of the Annihilation Gate lit up, but the entire Liangyi Dust Formation was coated in a layer of gold.

The first to bear the brunt was not Grandmaster Ha Ha and his disciples but Xuanyuan Dharma King. His Seven Evil Yin Divine Curtain was inherently vulnerable to the Buddha Light and was the first to be struck. As the Buddha Light hit it, it quickly dissipated, turning into wisps of black smoke that vanished in the intense light.

Xuanyuan Dharma King, shocked, quickly expelled True Qi to shrink the Yin Divine Curtain to less than ten acres in size, concentrating it to the extreme, churning continually with dense, flashing golden lightning.

Yet even so, it continued to be consumed by the Buddha Light.

The Seven Evil Shadows he had painstakingly cultivated for a millennium, like zombies exposed to sunlight, hissed and smoked as if on fire!

All seven demons howled in unison, and Xuanyuan Dharma King hurriedly provided some fresh hot blood to these demon heads to momentarily settle them.

These seven demon heads, nurtured carefully over years and bonded with his own breath, were far superior to the ordinary Divine Demons others could cultivate. But now, under the illumination of the Buddha Light, they could only exert half their original power!

Consequently, he was no match for Qi Shuming!

Qi Shuming released the Golden Fierce Fire Sword, accompanied by the sky-covering Invisible Sword Energy, along with the Taiqing Divine Light and several powerful artifacts he had obtained from Spiritual Jade Peak.

Xuanyuan Dharma King could not withstand the onslaught.

Around him, the monsters grew angry!

In the Buddha Light, their mana too was halved, and they felt unbearably uncomfortable, their irritation growing even stronger.

Having feasted on the fresh blood of Xuanyuan Dharma King and Evil Corpse Gu Chen, they now attacked Qi Shuming with rage. Some revealed their forms, some remained invisible, employing a multitude of tactics: some spewed tens of thousands of orbs of light, some fired tens of thousands of beams, some wielded countless arms attempting to capture souls, and others tried to suck the essence energy and fresh blood from Qi Shuming's body...

Forty-six monsters attacked simultaneously, and even with halved mana, Qi Shuming couldn't resist.

The four great Buddhist and Daoist experts had come today specifically for them, and now they took action one after another.

Li Jingxu attacked with tens of thousands of Taiyin Divine Thunders, interspersed with 36,000 Qiankun Needles, followed by several hundred thousand strands of Pure Yang Immortal Fire.

Yan Yingmu launched the Qiantian Taiyin Soundless Divine Thunder, a silent force that could suppress all demons and directly obliterate them, leaving body and soul destroyed—a thing even Deng Yin greatly feared.

Bai Mei Zen Master unleashed a barrage of Vajra Giant Spirit God Palm strikes.

Zen Master Tian Meng released the Boluo Divine Flame, causing a shower of golden Buddha Fire Light Rain to fall from the sky!

With the four grandmasters casting together, striking into the throng of monsters, they were met with intense howls of pain, a symphony of ghostly wails and divine shrieks. Nine monsters were instantly shattered, disintegrating into countless pieces, and several others suffered injuries, with the most severe losing half their bodies.

Xuanyuan Dharma King, Grandmaster Ha Ha, Evil Corpse Gu Chen, Blood Rock Hermit, the Eighteen Arhats, and the others, upon witnessing this scene, all shook with horror and fear!

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