Chapter 685 - 376: Making a Move, Part 2

Hai Xin’s figure cut through the air like a black line, rushing before Hai Shu’s Dharma Body in an instant.

The size difference between the two was like that of a mountain to a reef, but Hai Xin didn’t retreat a single step.

Hai Shu reacted quickly. From the enormous Demonious Lotus Platform beneath him, countless arms shot toward Hai Xin. But Hai Xin dodged them with nimble movements and struck Hai Shu’s Dharma Body with his palm.

Hai Shu’s massive hand slammed down, attempting to grab Hai Xin and crush him to pieces.

But even faster, Hai Xin’s body was instantly stained completely black. A massive, vertical Black Pupil suddenly opened, with Hai Xin’s physical body as its eye socket.

Hai Shu’s palm slammed down, blocked by a layer of infinite ripples. But it only held for an instant before his hand was about to seize Hai Xin.

But in the next moment, the massive Black Pupil that Hai Xin had become suddenly transferred onto Hai Shu’s Dharma Body, right where Hai Xin’s palm had touched.

BOOM!

Hai Xin was viciously grabbed by the huge hand of Hai Shu’s Dharma Body. Blood sprayed from between its fingers. In the blink of an eye, Hai Xin was reduced to a handful of mangled flesh.

But at that moment, the Black Pupil on the Dharma Body shattered, erupting into ferocious black flames.

"Put it out! This is Karmic Fire!"

"Kill him! Kill Hai Xin! Kill him!"

"That bastard transferred the Karmic Fire to our body! He’s too vicious!"

"I’ll put out the fire! You guys hurry up and kill him!"

Suddenly, the heads connected to the Dharma Body erupted in a cacophony. Some panicked, trying to extinguish the Karmic Fire burning on the Dharma Body, while others just wanted Hai Xin dead.

More and more black blood flowed from the Dharma Body’s seven orifices, and increasingly thick black smoke drifted from its form.

"You lot! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill all of you!"

Hai Shu seemed to go berserk. He suddenly grabbed two of the heads and viciously yanked them in front of him, his face contorted with irrepressible malice.

’If it weren’t for the sake of becoming a Buddha, why would I ever have wanted to fuse with this rabble?’

’They’re too noisy! So damn noisy!’

Hai Shu was agitated and uneasy. The more his components were in disarray, the faster the backlash from the Dharma Body’s fusion would erupt, and the more unstable the Dharma Body would become.

He clutched the pulped remains of Hai Xin in one hand, while with the other, he dragged two of the giant heads and pressed them against the burning Karmic Fire. This insane spectacle made the surrounding Demon Fiends and Monks keep their distance, not daring to get any closer.

"If you want to put out the fire so badly, then eat it."

Hai Shu’s face was a mask of madness as he relentlessly scrubbed the two heads’ faces against his body. The two captured heads spewed vicious curses, but while enduring the might of the Karmic Fire, they had no choice but to rub it out.

Ultimately, the Karmic Fire was extinguished. After all, it was only Karmic Fire sparked by Hai Xin; the Dharma Body had merely been tainted by it.

Now, in Hai Shu’s grasp, Hai Xin was grievously injured and had little strength left to resist. The power of the Karmic Fire he had guided had become pathetically weak.

But even so, Hai Shu’s Dharma Body began to tremble violently.

When a fusion of so many from the Insect Dao failed to act in unison, the backlash incurred by the Dharma Body would arrive swiftly.

The Buddhist Mantras clinging to the surface of the Dharma Body began to show signs of cracking.

The two heads Hai Shu had released returned to their original positions, but they shot him a venomous glare.

More and more black blood seeped out from the Dharma Body, flowing to the ground and instantly pooling into a foul-smelling Blood Lake.

Hai Shu, however, tightly gripped the pulped flesh of Hai Xin, which was still trying to recover, while his other hand lifted the caged Piglet from the ground.

"I told you before, you overestimate yourself. I tried to give you a chance, but you remained stubbornly defiant.

Now, you will watch as I devour the Dharma Body of a Great Bodhisattva and attain the rank of Buddha.

As for these Demon Fiends that escaped from the Eternal Prison, no matter how many there are, they will all become fodder for my Great Virtue Temple, allowing my Great Virtue Temple to produce even more Bodhisattvas.

You must be furious, aren’t you? Take that fury with you and go to Hell!"

Hai Shu’s tone was slow and unhurried, as if he wasn’t the least bit concerned about the pain from the Dharma Body’s erupting backlash.

Hai Xin had been imprisoned in the Eternal Prison for countless ages, but hadn’t he, Hai Shu, also bowed and scraped before the Forbidden Calamity for countless ages?

Now, Hai Xin was about to die at his hands, and the Forbidden Calamity’s Reincarnation Dharma Body was about to be devoured by him. The Great Virtue Temple would finally be his to command. He too had waited for this day for a very, very long time.

’Once I become a Buddha, all my past humiliation will vanish like smoke. From then on, no one will be able to stop me.’

The giant hand holding Hai Xin trembled from the Dharma Body’s backlash, yet it slowly, steadily tightened its grip.

Hai Shu savored this process. He wanted to see Hai Xin, in his final moments of death, witness the cage shatter and the Forbidden Calamity’s Dharma Body be devoured.

A grinding sound of joints came from the massive Dharma Body. Wisps of black energy emanated from the tightening fist. Hai Xin could not make a sound, nor could he resist. He could only await the arrival of death.

But suddenly, Hai Shu’s movements halted. The hand crushing Hai Xin froze. The Dharma Body abruptly lowered its colossal head to look down at its own torso. Each of the Insect Dao heads also looked down with strange expressions on their faces.

They had already extinguished the Karmic Fire, but now, a ferocious, scorching heat suddenly flared up from beneath them.