Inside the royal palace, the frenzied Otherworldly Demon God laughed hysterically.
Golden Buddha blood stained its entire body, the Buddha’s corpse almost completely obliterated, and the monster’s head extended out from the remains of the Buddha’s golden body.
Glaring at the five puppets in the skies, the monster masquerading as the Great Radiant Buddha bellowed.
“Jiang Xiaoyu! You cannot kill me!”
“I tread upon this land, and I shall be eternal and indestructible!”
The monster, whose blood bar had been completely drained, now entered its final phase.
It struggled, howled, and slammed both hands onto the ground.
In the next moment, dazzling Buddha light surged endlessly up from beneath the earth, rapidly flowing into its body.
As the Buddha light poured into the monster’s body, the blood bar above its head began to grow at an alarming rate.
Seeing this, Li Muyang’s eyelid twitched violently.
This pseudo-Buddha had actually buried and stored the Buddha’s power underground?
Now, at this critical moment, the monster directly drew upon the buried energy to strengthen itself.
Like siphoning power from a battery…
Li Muyang’s face turned ashen upon witnessing the scene.
“What did you bury underground?!”
Such vast reserves of Buddha light could never be stored in an ordinary magic artifact.
As the pseudo-Buddha’s blood bar was replenished, Li Muyang suddenly came to a terrifying realization.
And with the monster’s savage grin as it unleashed its skill, his suspicion was confirmed.
The creature, originally bearing the Buddhist Law skills of the Great Radiant Buddha, suddenly displayed the divine skills and secret techniques of another Buddha.
As the colossal Buddhist swastika blanketed the heavens, the appearance of this new skill made Li Muyang’s expression even darker.
“…You’ve buried the corpses of other Buddhas underground!”
The flesh of celestial beings is the best battery to store their lifetime’s power!
The pseudo-Buddha before him was clearly stealing the Buddha light from another Buddha’s corpse to forcibly empower itself.
Inside the palace, the pseudo-Buddha laughed maniacally with a vicious gaze.
“Correct! But there’s no reward for you!”
The pseudo-Buddha’s body rapidly regenerated, its blood bar soon completely restored.
With a wave of its sleeve, the overwhelming Buddhist swastika surged toward Li Muyang like a tidal wave.
This was the ancient Buddha Shiye’s secret technique, Ten Thousand Buddhas Bowing to the Venerable!
Li Muyang immediately recognized it and hastily directed the five puppets to intercept.
At the same time, he grew increasingly irritated, bracing himself to reload the game yet again.
This Ten Thousand Buddhas Bowing to the Venerable was rumored to possess immense power, something he could not handle under such hasty circumstances.
Yet, as the overwhelming Buddhist swastika crashed in front of him, Li Muyang was surprised to find that although the five puppets struggled, they managed to hold the oppressive Buddha light at bay.
The skill unleashed through the stolen Buddha light failed to demonstrate its full might.
Seeing this, Li Muyang was slightly startled, then glanced at the pseudo-Buddha’s blood bar again. While seemingly replenished, its numerical value was only a tenth of its original maximum.
—This bastard is bluffing!
Realizing this, Li Muyang immediately calmed down.
He sneered coldly. “The Buddha light you stole doesn’t seem to comply with your wishes.”
“The Buddha light recognizes your monstrous nature and resists your command, so you’re only able to use a fraction of its true power!”
Now composed, Li Muyang adjusted his five puppets’ formation, reversing the tide of the Buddhist swastika light as he charged toward the pseudo-Buddha monster within.
But even as Li Muyang exposed its weakness, the pseudo-Buddha remained utterly unshaken.
It continued to cackle menacingly and said, “Jiang Xiaoyu! You’re indeed sharp-eyed, having spotted my flaw.”
“Yes, I’ve indeed been pushed to the brink by you! But so what?”
“You are also at your wit’s end, exhausted to the limit.”
“The Xuanji Talisman left to you by Fairy Qinghe is no longer usable.”
“Aside from these five puppets scraping the bottom of their strength, what else do you have left to rely on?”
“I’m near defeat, but even my final layer of fragile defense isn’t something a mere thief like you can break!”
The monster laughed madly, unleashing more Buddha light from its body, seemingly endless in quantity.
Li Muyang’s eyelid twitched wildly again, unnerved by the creature’s sheer lunacy.
But shortly after, he understood where the monster’s resolve came from.
As the pseudo-Buddha recklessly unleashed Buddha light to suppress the five puppets, it stomped one foot onto the ground.
From the calm earth below, yet another burst of radiant Buddha light ascended.
These radiant beams streamed continuously into the monster’s body, causing its aura to shift dramatically once again.
With the disappearance of the overwhelming Buddhist swastika light, the monster flung off its kasaya.
The kasaya expanded with the wind, transforming instantly into a vast golden ocean that engulfed Li Muyang and the five puppets in its depths.
Golden dragons rose relentlessly from the sea, endlessly targeting Li Muyang for annihilation.
—This monster had stolen yet another Buddha’s power!
Li Muyang’s face darkened to an extreme degree.
“Just how many Buddhas have you buried underground?”
This monster! It had buried not just one Buddha beneath the earth?
Holy crap!
What kind of lunatic is this?
No wonder, after the Dharma-Ending Age’s arrival, the Buddhist legacy had almost vanished from the world. It turns out all those Buddhas’ golden bodies were rounded up and hidden by this monster.
It’s even possible that their doctrines were seized as well!
Li Muyang’s expression grew grim as he glared at the monster before him.
At this moment, he finally felt the severity of the situation.
The monster hadn’t lied—Li Muyang himself truly had been driven into a desperate corner.
After expending every last bit of his strength and utilizing the Xuanji Talisman’s limited active time, he had finally drained the pseudo-Buddha’s blood bar, approaching the moment of execution.
Yet, just when the boss’s empty blood bar signaled its demise, it suddenly unearthed a new trump card from beneath the palace to replenish its health!
Even though the borrowed Buddha light was much weaker now, barely maintaining True Immortal Level strength…
It was still enough to crush Li Muyang’s five puppets, which were already completely spent of their energy.
Three minutes later, the failure CG popped up in his view.
Li Muyang stared blankly at the screen displaying the failure CG and muttered to himself.
“This damn thing… really knows how to surprise people!”
Taking a deep breath, Li Muyang re-entered the game.
He didn’t believe he couldn’t defeat this monster.
After all, it’s just a few Buddha corpses—he would grind it down regardless!
As long as he performed flawlessly during the initial attack phases, minimizing health and mana loss, the endgame would certainly give him an opening.
He refused to believe the royal palace’s buried Buddha corpses were infinite!
Li Muyang reloaded his save, charging once more into the Great Zhou royal palace.
Facing the Buddha’s golden body emerging from the palace halls, he immediately activated the Xuanji Talisman, summoning an illusion identical to the monster itself.
And thus, the fierce battle resumed!