Chapter 458 - 234: Vajra’s Furious Gaze! Yin Fire Blotting Out the Sky

Chapter 458: Chapter 234: Vajra’s Furious Gaze! Yin Fire Blotting Out the Sky

However, Chen Sheng’s brow furrowed slightly.

He could clearly feel that within the sea of fire, Monk Kongxu’s aura had weakened but had not yet collapsed.

Instead, a more condensed and dangerous power was gathering.

DONG—!

DONG—!

DONG—!

A deep and resonant tolling suddenly rang out from the center of the crimson sea of fire.

This tolling was not caused by a physical impact, but by a combination of pure, vigorous Buddhist True Essence and Sound Wave Divine Techniques.

Wherever the sound waves passed, the furiously burning, all-consuming Nine Nether Yin Fire was forcefully blasted open and pushed back, creating a clearing dozens of feet wide in the center of the inferno.

Three tolls of the bell, and the sea of fire parted!

A sharp glint flashed in Chen Sheng’s eyes.

’This Monk Kongxu is just as tough as I figured. Even the Nine Nether Yin Fire couldn’t take him down.’

"Amitabha Buddha..."

A Buddhist chant, thick with the stench of blood, drifted out from the sea of fire.

Monk Kongxu slowly walked out, his appearance drastically changed.

Blood trickled from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, staining half his face and the robes on his chest red, giving him a gruesome and terrifying appearance.

But the aura he exuded was deeper and vaster than before, faintly resonating with the world around him.

Monk Kongxu struggled to lift his hands, forming an ancient and complex Hand Seal. He began chanting obscure syllables in Sanskrit, and with every syllable he uttered, more blood poured from his mouth.

He was burning his life force and sacrificing his blood essence to cast a Buddhist Forbidden Technique that came at an immense cost but also possessed terrifying power.

"Oṃ! Ma! Ni!"

The Primordial Qi between heaven and earth began to churn violently and converge! A massive vortex of Primordial Qi rapidly formed with Monk Kongxu at its center.

At the center of the vortex, golden light crisscrossed as the phantasmal image of a furious Vajra, over four hundred feet tall and seeming to touch the very heavens, slowly condensed into form.

This Vajra phantom had three heads and six arms, wielding Magical Artifacts such as the Vajra Pestle, the Demon Suppression Circle, and the Demon-Slaying Sword. It had a sacred, dignified appearance, yet it seethed with killing intent, exuding a supreme majesty capable of suppressing all demons and heretics.

The Vajra’s Furious Gaze, the Dharma Aspect made manifest!

As Monk Kongxu roared the final three true words, the massive Vajra phantom’s six arms moved in unison. One of its giant palms, carrying terrifying might, locked onto Chen Sheng and Bai Qing’s auras and slammed down.

Before the giant palm even arrived, the immense pressure had already caused the ground below to crack inch by inch, and the air solidified like iron.

This was Monk Kongxu’s all-or-nothing attack, its power far surpassing any of his previous strikes!

Bai Qing’s expression changed drastically. She could feel the terrifying power contained within the palm strike; it was far beyond her ability to withstand.

She immediately thrust the already cracked bronze Treasure Mirror high above her head, pouring her True Essence into it without reservation.

CRACK!

The bronze Treasure Mirror could not withstand such violent power. The cracks on its surface instantly widened and spread before it shattered completely.

But at the same time, a brilliant beam of cyan light, so condensed it was almost corporeal, shot out from the fragments of the mirror. Filled with unstoppable determination, it surged up toward the descending Vajra Giant Palm.

BOOM—!!!

The cyan light and the giant palm collided, unleashing a heaven-and-earth-shattering explosion.

The condensed cyan light was incredibly sharp, managing to forcefully pierce a hole several feet wide through the center of the Vajra Giant Palm.

However, the palm’s descent only paused for a moment. Buddha Light flowed across its surface, and the hole began to rapidly close.

With the cyan light exhausted and her Treasure Mirror destroyed, Bai Qing suffered a backlash. She violently spat out a mouthful of blood, her aura flagging as she collapsed backward.

"Sect Leader Bai!"

Chen Sheng cried out, but he couldn’t spare the attention to help her.

After a brief pause, the Vajra Giant Palm continued its descent, now carrying an even more ferocious power! The force of its descent pressed his robes tight against his body and sent his hair whipping wildly.

ROAR—!!!

Facing this final, deadly strike, Chen Sheng’s eyes showed no fear. Instead, they blazed with an even more fervent battle intent.

The blood and qi throughout his body began to boil like molten lava.

The rumbling of the Thunder Sound became as dense as a drumroll. A powerful pillar of blood and vital energy shot toward the sky, completely fusing with the Nine Nether Yin Fire that swirled around him.

BANG!

Unable to withstand the pressure from within and without, the dark official robes on Chen Sheng’s upper body instantly exploded into countless fragments. This revealed a powerful torso that looked as if cast from steel, with corded muscles. Beneath his skin, crimson-gold light and blood-colored flame patterns faintly flowed.

"BREAK!!!"

Chen Sheng’s hands formed another Sealing Technique, but this time, it wasn’t just the Cyan Dragon Seal.

Red, gold, cyan, and black light erupted from his body, faintly corresponding to the four cardinal directions.

He was attempting to forcefully integrate the other Treasure Seals, which he had only recently comprehended and not yet mastered, into this all-or-nothing strike!

Although he didn’t fully succeed, the terrifying power he gathered combined the might of the Cyan Dragon, the ferocity of the White Tiger, the fire of the Vermilion Bird, and the resilience of the Black Tortoise.

Combined with his overwhelming vital energy and the Nine Nether Yin Fire, this power condensed before him into a crimson-gold giant dragon, larger, more solid, and more ferocious than any he had summoned before.

Its eyes blazed with fury, its draconic might boundless!

ROOOOAR—!!!

The crimson-gold flame dragon roared and surged upward, fearlessly crashing into the world-suppressing Vajra Giant Palm.

BOOOOOOM—!!!

This collision surpassed all that had come before.

An indescribable explosion of light bloomed in the sky above Golden Spring Mountain, as if a second sun had risen.

A terrifying shockwave expanded in a sphere, violently flinging away all buildings, trees, and even the battling crowds within a radius of thousands of feet.

Some of the weaker Martial Artists nearby were knocked unconscious instantly, bleeding from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth!

The light and dust slowly dissipated.

In the sky, the colossal Vajra phantom remained, but the giant palm it had struck with was completely gone. The Buddha Light at its severed wrist was chaotic, and the phantom itself had grown much dimmer and more indistinct, as if it could collapse at any moment.

The crimson-gold flame dragon Chen Sheng had condensed had also vanished.

As for Chen Sheng himself, his face was slightly pale, and a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. His saber-wielding right arm trembled slightly, the webbing between his thumb and forefinger torn open, with blood dripping down his wrist.

Yet his posture remained as straight as a spear, and his gaze was as sharp as ever, locked onto Monk Kongxu, whose aura was now rapidly fading and whose bleeding was even more severe.

A draw?!

No, perhaps... Chen Sheng even had a slight advantage?

He was only lightly injured, while Monk Kongxu had clearly paid a much greater price; his Vajra Dharma Aspect was on the verge of collapse.

Monk Kongxu’s eyes filled with incredulous horror.

’I burned my blood essence and used a Forbidden Technique, and I still can’t defeat this young man at the mid-stage of Profound Mastery?!’

But Chen Sheng had no intention of giving him a chance to breathe!

"Old bald ass, is that all you’ve got? Then it’s my turn!"

Chen Sheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, the killing intent in his eyes surging.

This time, he didn’t form a Sealing Technique. Instead, he abruptly threw his arms wide.

WHOOSH—!!!

With his body as the epicenter, the Nine Nether Yin Fire that had been swirling around him suddenly erupted as if doused in boiling oil.

The crimson flames spread and expanded wildly, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a terrifying sea of fire over a thousand feet wide.

Within the sea of fire, crimson flames raged. The heat waves distorted one’s vision, yet the fire also exuded a bone-chillingly cold, deathly aura, as if it sought to both incinerate and freeze the very space it occupied!

A sea of fire a thousand feet wide, blotting out the sky!

Chen Sheng stood at the center of the inferno like a Demon God commanding the flames.

His cold gaze pierced through the leaping flames, locking onto the dim Vajra phantom and Monk Kongxu behind it. He slowly raised his hands and made a grasping gesture.

"Burn!"

At his command, the thousand-foot sea of fire surged wildly as if it had a life of its own. It transformed into countless crimson fire snakes, fire waves, and fire dragons that swept in from all directions, converging to engulf the furious Vajra phantom and the Monk Kongxu it protected!

This time, he would drag the Buddhist Dharma Aspect, along with Monk Kongxu himself, into the purgatory of the Nine Nether Yin Fire and burn them to cinders!

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