Chapter 753 - 402: Gathering the Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, Rebirth as a Da Luo, Saint’s Wager

Chapter 753: Chapter 402: Gathering the Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, Rebirth as a Da Luo, Saint’s Wager

"No, why is the Chaos Bell in his hands?"

A voice, exasperated and frantic, suddenly came from Yu Sheng’s mouth. He paused, unmoving, as the Buddha Relics within the Buddha Country behind him abruptly exploded, and unimaginable Buddhist power blasted Su Yu away.

In the distant land of Xijulu, on Mount Sumeru, the center of the Western Sect, the Buddha’s light shone brightly, countless Buddhas surrounding the mountain, chanting with palms together, reciting "Amitabha."

The Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha bowed toward Mount Sumeru’s direction, speaking loudly:

"I wish to entrust myself into the calamity, and I ask the Sect Hierarch for protection!"

Mount Sumeru was silent for a moment, and a beam of golden light descended.

The Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha caught the golden light, reassured in his heart, clasped his hands and exclaimed:

"Amitabha!"

His entire body burst with Buddha’s light and burned, and soon his whole being transformed into a relic and vanished into the void.

The next moment, a crisp bell sound emanated from Mount Sumeru, echoed by the bells of billions of temples below, spreading layer upon layer to Ziniuhezhou. Soon, it was known across the Three Realms that the Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha had entered nirvana.

In the Blue Traces Archipelago, Su Yu erupted, breaking Yu Sheng’s defenses, and immediately collected all thirteen Sea-Calming Pearls and stored them within the Chaos Pearl. The Chaos Spiritual Treasure began to boil, its essence rapidly swelling like a balloon, and he too received feedback from the source, his true form as a Chaos Demon God commencing an uncontrollable ascension.

On the other side, as the Buddha Relics exploded, a Daluo Buddha’s accumulated Buddhist power erupted, forming an enormous Buddha’s shadow that enveloped Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng sat upright at the center of the Buddha’s shadow, eyes closed and unmoving, having lost any sign of life.

But this state lasted only for a few seconds; the deceased Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, his Buddha light surged, dyeing the void gold, celestial maidens descended from the sky, and heavenly dragons encircled him. His aura rapidly expanded; in the blink of an eye, he gathered the five energies in his chest and three flowers upon his head, and a golden nature was born.

Yu Sheng had ascended to a Golden Immortal.

But this was just the beginning; after ascending, his power continued to surge wildly, reaching mid Golden Immortal, late Golden Immortal, and finally a full Golden Immortal in no time.

Soon after, a relic shot up to the heavens, weaving Dao fruits, directly ascending to Daluo, an astonishing speed, all within less than a minute.

"Shit!"

An angry curse came from the void:

"How shameless of the bald donkeys of Buddhism to cheat like this!"

"Exactly, not only did they play around by gifting so many treasures, but the esteemed Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha directly entrusted himself to reincarnation, how can others even compete?"

"I can’t accept this, I’m going to report it."

"Me too."

"Count me in on...

"Before the words were finished, a clear ’Amitabha’ resounded near the ears of all observing races’ Daluo, and everyone paused, afraid to speak; cold sweat immediately surfaced on their foreheads.

"Amitabha!"

The Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha, completely reincarnated, restored all his powers, raised his head to glance around, and then looked at Su Yu, who also seemed to be in a cocoon, ascending, and showed a compassionate expression:

"Benefactor, slaughtering billions of living beings is a great sin, but my Buddha is compassionate and will save all living beings. As long as the benefactor lays down the butcher’s knife, he can achieve Buddhahood on the spot!"

With that, he unhesitatingly stretched out his hand, and a golden large hand formed from condensed Buddha light pressed towards Su Yu.

This move appeared unremarkable from the outside, but to Su Yu, it seemed to cover the sky and was omnipresent, feeling inescapable no matter how he tried to dodge it.

He had previously battled against Lamp-Burning’s thought incarnation, feeling as if it were unstoppable, terrifyingly powerful. Yet only when facing the true Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha did he understand what true Daluo meant.

Without hesitation, he wielded the Chaos Bell and fiercely struck it:

"DONG!"

A tangible ripple exploded, shattering the covering hand into four or five pieces.

However, Lamp-Burning merely pointed a finger, golden light flashed, and the shattered Buddha hand recombined perfectly and pressed down again.

At his level of cultivation, there’s no such notion as spell cooldown; as long as there is enough mana, all Buddhist Skills and Divine Techniques can be infinitely activated.

And each move and strike reached the sublime level; ordinary spells in their hands were indistinguishable from supreme Divine Techniques.

With just this one Buddhist grasp technique, Lamp-Burning pinned Su Yu firmly in place, no matter how he maneuvered the Chaos Bell, it was barely sufficient for self-preservation.

This was not because the Chaos Bell wasn’t powerful enough but due to the vast gulf in realms.

If it were any regular Taiyi Daluo, with Su Yu’s current strength, he could fully withstand a direct confrontation and perhaps even achieve victory, only needing to endure a prolonged battle.

But the Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha wasn’t an ordinary Daluo; he emerged during the Ancient Primordial Era, a peer of the Three Purities, had entered Purple Cloud Palace to listen to the Dao, undeniably a master of Great Divine Techniques, his strength far exceeding that of an ordinary Daluo.

Su Yu, being only at Golden Immortal cultivation, was doing remarkably well to hold out this long.

But he could not last; he currently possessed over 500 billion mana, and activating the Chaos Bell at least required 10 billion mana at the lowest and up to 1 trillion mana at the maximum. Although shattering the Ancient Buddha’s palm didn’t consume the maximum mana, it still required a staggering trillion mana, and he couldn’t sustain many more clashes with his current reserves of over 500 billion mana.

Lamp-Burning Ancient Buddha was aware of this, so he wasn’t in any rush, methodically pressing down hand after hand, exhausting his mana.

"No, if this continues, I’ll definitely be drained to death."

After another bell chime dispersing Lamp-Burning, Su Yu quickly deliberated strategies for breaking the impasse in his mind.

The Five-Color Divine Light was not something to rely on; regular Daluo could withstand it, and a master of Great Divine Techniques like Lamp-Burning certainly could, unless he ascended to Daluo Golden Immortal, by which, with this Divine Technique, he could assure his own safety, no matter how fiercely Lamp-Burning attacked, he wouldn’t break the defense.

The Divine Technique of the Law of Time was also out of consideration since that Buddha Relic could ignore the Law of Time just now.