Chapter 1064
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Chapter 1064 Covenant of the Gods
The Purifying Altar Envoy’s face looked extremely unpleasant.
“True immortal, I have an idea…” Just as he seemed to think of something and was halfway through his sentence, another excited voice came from beside him.
“Second senior brother, First senior brother has arrived!”
The speaker was a golden arhat wearing white monk’s robes. He looked at the somersault cloud rapidly descending from the distant sky, his eyes showing delight.
The Purifying Altar Envoy’s eyes brightened, and he immediately stood up.
“Monkey brother!! Monkey brother, we’re over here!”
He seemed to have forgotten his identity as a Buddhist envoy, excitedly waving both hands, his solemn monk’s face showing an adorably silly expression.
The Victorious Fighting Buddha wearing a kasaya landed before them, the corners of his mouth curling into a smile.
“Idiot, Sandy, are you both uninjured?”
“No, we’re perfectly fine. Monkey brother, where’s Master?” The Purifying Altar Envoy curiously looked behind him.
“Master went south, the mist is advancing faster there,” replied the Victorious Fighting Buddha. His golden eyes gazed at the black mist not far away, his brows furrowing slightly, the hair on his body standing slightly on end.
“Such evil mist…” he muttered.
“Great Sage, please quickly think of a way to stop the mist,” the God of Thunder and Goddess of Lightning hurriedly flew over. “We’ve tried all sorts of methods, but nothing works against this mist… If this continues, all the common people around will suffer.”
The Victorious Fighting Buddha stood on the barren land, looking up at the black mist that filled the sky and earth, rolling toward him. All light was devoured by the mist, like a giant beast covering the sky and earth, baring its ferocious fangs at all living beings.
Before it, the forms of all deities seemed as insignificant as grains of sand.
The fierce wind swept up flying sand, making the Victorious Fighting Buddha’s kasaya flap loudly. He snorted coldly, his eyes bursting with spirited fighting intent.
“I want to see… what evil spirit this really is!”
He stepped forward forcefully, surging divine power mixed with Buddha-light erupting from within his body, instantly condensing into a giant ape Buddha manifestation with flowing light. It slowly rose from the barren ground, like a giant supporting the sky, holding up the dim and gloomy heavens.
The hair on the Buddha-ape manifestation was clearly visible down to the last strand, flying in the fierce wind. It roared at the black mist before it, shattering several small mountains around it!
Lin Qiye stood beside the Queen Mother of the West, witnessing the emergence of the Buddha-ape manifestation, his heart trembling.
So this was the power of the Victorious Fighting Buddha at his peak… Just standing far away and observing made one lose their composure. However, compared to Sun Wukong’s [Equal to Heaven Manifestation] in the hospital, although powerful, Lin Qiye felt this Buddha-ape manifestation was missing something.
The Buddha-ape manifestation extended its hand, pinched near its ear, and the next moment a golden staff appeared in its palm, rapidly extending and instantly growing as large as a mountain.
It raised the golden-hooped rod, the Buddha-light around its body erupting violently. Powerful waves of energy carrying dazzling light that was impossible to look at directly smashed toward the rolling black mist in front. With a thunderous boom, the ground beneath split open at an alarming speed.
The mist, under the strike of the golden-hooped rod, seemed to have physical form and suddenly paused.
This strike from the Victorious Fighting Buddha directly blocked one corner of the mist, but the mist on both sides in the distance continued to surge forward. It was like a rolling river—even if the Victorious Fighting Buddha could block one section of waves, the rest would continue flowing forward without pause.
But the scene before them meant that the mist was not unstoppable.
“Monkey, let me help you!”
A familiar voice came from the distance, and the next moment a blue divine manifestation rose from the ground, growing until it was the same height as the Victorious Fighting Buddha’s ape manifestation. Yang Jian held his three-pointed double-edged blade in one hand, silver light surging around him like tides, and the vertical eye in the center of his manifestation’s forehead suddenly opened.
[Pure Origin Manifestation].
Under the gaze of that vertical eye, the mist before him seemed to be pressed down by an invisible hand, barely restrained in place, and only after a long while did it begin to move forward extremely slowly.
At the same time, at another border, a man wearing a black imperial robe emerged from the netherworld, his right hand holding six rotating silver rings, his expression extremely solemn.
“This emperor arrives late…”
With a lift of his right hand, the six spinning silver rings flew out one after another, expanding infinitely, like six circular barriers standing before the mist.
With the Fengdu Emperor’s intervention, tens of kilometers of mist invasion were immediately stabilized. The pressure on the Victorious Fighting Buddha and Yang Jian lightened, and then other Great Xia deities also took action, various divine lights surging to the edge of the mist, delaying its advance.
But delay did not mean complete blockage. The area covered by this mist was too vast, encompassing every inch of Great Xia’s borders. Even with the deities joining forces to block the western border, mist continued to pour in from other places.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye felt extremely anxious. Although he knew everything before him was false, the unprecedented sense of immersion made him feel as if he were truly in the time a hundred years ago.
“Your Majesty, is there really no way to stop this mist?”
“Of course there is,” the Queen Mother of the West slowly spoke. “A hundred years ago, after this palace and the immortals intervened, we basically stabilized the mist’s spread for hundreds of miles around. With the Primordial Heavenly Lord in the east, the Lord of Moral Virtue in the north, and the Jade Emperor in the south, the mist invasion into Great Xia was actually blocked by more than half…
But this mist is too cunning. As long as there is the slightest gap, it will pour in, taking the lives of all mortals within a dozen miles in just a breath. It’s too difficult to block with divine power alone.”
“What about other methods? Are ancient formations also useless?”
“The ancient formations recorded by the Heavenly Court can indeed resist the mist invasion, but Great Xia’s territory is too vast. Even the Cosmic Star Formation of the ancient demon court cannot cover all of Great Xia. I have calculated the maximum coverage of the Cosmic Star Formation, and with full power, it can only protect about one-fifth of Great Xia’s territory.”
“One-fifth…”
Hearing this number, a bitter feeling rose in Lin Qiye’s heart.
Protecting only one-fifth meant that hundreds of millions of lives would be lost in the mist. The coverage of this formation might be enough to shelter the entire territory of some western countries, but for the vast land of Great Xia, it was far from sufficient.
“This means the only way is to…”
Before Lin Qiye could finish, a resounding voice came from the void in the sky:
“The Heavenly Lord commands!
The great calamity has arrived, all beings suffer! Our Great Xia deities have received mortal incense for thousands of years, and must now act!
After ten breaths, the Heavenly Court will shatter its origin, transforming into nine divine stele bases to guard the borders.
All Great Xia deities willing to sacrifice themselves shall use their divine bodies and power to forge the nation-protecting steles, establishing an eternal protective formation to repel evil spirits beyond the borders, ensuring the safety of all people and peace throughout the land!
From now on, our souls will re-enter the cycle of reincarnation, experiencing tribulations again. When the day comes that the Heavenly Court is rebuilt, we shall all return.
At that time, the divine might of our Great Xia will once again shake the universe and return to the world!
Fellow immortals, we shall… meet again in the next life.”
