ebookland Chapter 631 - 630: Western Heaven’s Great Mourning, Tathagata Destroys the Thirtyfold Heavens [Second Update]
Chapter 631 - 630: Western Heaven’s Great Mourning, Tathagata Destroys the Thirtyfold Heavens [Second Update]
The retreat of the Luminous Ancient Buddha left all onlookers astonished.
Many sympathetic gazes turned towards the East Buddha of this moment.
"Even a Saint can’t protect him?"
"This is the price of provoking someone who shouldn’t be provoked..."
The hearts of powerful figures from all sides were filled with sentiment.
Clearly, after today’s battle, the Taixu Celestial Venerable, standing above all Quasi-Saints, will no longer be contested by anyone!
There will also be no more debate about who is the foremost beneath the Saints.
If there is any debate.
It would only be one question.
Has the Taixu Celestial Venerable already reached a level comparable to a Saint?
Lin Heng withdrew his gaze, cold eyes landing on the face of the East Buddha, whose face no longer bore a composed smile, but only annoyance and sorrow.
Attaining the Tao and becoming a Saint, ruling the Buddha Country.
The boundless future, once within reach.
But who could have expected this.
Everything was but an illusion.
"The sea of suffering knows no bounds; turn your head, and there’s the shore..."
"Do I still have a shore to turn back to?"
The East Buddha asked Chao Lin Heng, eyes filled with misery.
"Heh..."
Lin Heng let out a chuckle and then expressionlessly struck the Buddha’s head with his palm.
With a loud boom.
The West’s preordained Future Buddha was utterly annihilated under countless gazes, body and path both extinguished.
Within the Western Heaven Buddha Country.
All statues of the Future Buddha, worshiped through incense, exploded at the same time.
Countless Buddhist disciples were stupefied.
The entire Western Heaven descended into great mourning.
...
[Congratulations to the host for successfully slaying an extreme Quasi-Saint, Saint’s Breath +15]
With the East Buddha’s fall, the notification in Lin Heng’s mind lit up as expected.
Meanwhile, the rewards for previously slaying thirty Quasi-Saints also scrolled through one by one.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully slaying a terminal Quasi-Saint, Saint’s Breath +1]
[Congratulations to the host for successfully slaying a mid-grade Quasi-Saint, Saint’s Breath +2]
[Congratulations to the host for successfully slaying a top-grade Quasi-Saint, Saint’s Breath +3]
[Congratulations to the host...]
The rewards for slaying Quasi-Saints couldn’t compare to that of the Venerable Emperor Chong’en, but with the sheer number Lin Heng killed this time—thirty-one in total!
It was almost a third of the obvious Quasi-Saints in the world.
The sheer quantity provided Lin Heng with an ample ninety strands of Saint’s Breath!
The injury from clashing with the Phoenix Blood Dragon Pattern Cauldron was also healed thanks to the reward of Saint’s Breath.
Standing under the starry sky, Lin Heng’s aura grew increasingly majestic.
Amidst the faint presence.
Had an aura akin to a Lord of Heavens and Earth.
Yet this Taixu Celestial Venerable, nearly invincible worldwide, bore no pride on his face.
He slowly walked to the side of the Cyan Snake, looking at Bai Suzhen with closed eyes in her embrace, Lin Heng’s heart filled with sorrow, and his tone was extremely bitter.
"I’m sorry." Lin Heng’s voice trembled slightly.
The scene before him.
Couldn’t help but remind him of when Bai Suzhen, newly freed from Leifeng Pagoda in the human world, came to beg him for a lifesaving elixir for the dying Cyan Snake she held.
Time had flown.
He had become infinitely stronger than back then.
Yet he could no longer save Bai Suzhen as he did the Cyan Snake at that time...
"Let’s go back." Xiao Qing spoke with teary eyes, forcing a smile.
"Alright." Lin Heng picked up Bai Suzhen and, before leaving, looked towards Mencius.
"Many thanks, Master Meng, for your valiant rescue today. This kindness and affection, Lin Mou will remember in his heart, and will repay in kind one day." Lin Heng said, with a heavy tone.
"Miss Bai’s misfortune, who dares speak of gratitude..." Mencius sighed, truly regretting Bai Suzhen’s death.
Lin Heng fell silent, his heart saddened, not wanting to say more, he glanced at the empty Celestial Dao Gate in the distance and said to Mencius, "The seat is likely uncontested now; Master Meng may go to attain the Tao and become a Saint."
Mencius shook his head: "Today’s battle has given Meng Ke insight, and I will walk my path."
Lin Heng paused, nodded: "Then it is farewell."
Mencius: "Alright."
After Lin Heng left, only Mencius remained, as he said, he had no thoughts about the Saint’s seat, and with a carefree glance at the Celestial Dao Gate, he left the place.
The once mighty and thunderous battlefield for Sainthood became desolate just like that.
The towering, sacred Celestial Dao Gate floated alone in the heavens, untended for a long time.
This scene truly left one sighing in lament.
In fact, many Quasi-Saints had contemplated it.
But unfortunately.
They didn’t compete for the initial Supreme Yang Qi.
And the Supreme Yang Qi is crucial for withstanding the Saint Tribulation.
So, even though the seat was unclaimed.
No Quasi-Saint dared to ascend the platform.
Though, as always, there are exceptions.
After long hesitation, a Quasi-Saint, unable to resist the allure of becoming a Saint, approached the Celestial Dao Gate.
And then became the first in this generation to perish miserably under the Saint Tribulation.
...
Eastern Immortal Realm.
The Daoist Celestial Court, by now, had plunged into complete panic.
The World Honored One of the Buddha Country, the Saint Tathagata, had truly unleashed immense mana.
Not like the probing of the Venerable Emperor Chong’en back then.
Every strike from the Tathagata Buddha contained power to obliterate heaven and earth.
He, from beyond the universe, with an overlooking posture over all realms, shattered the Celestial Court’s Thirty Heavens.
Now all Immortals fled beneath the Celestial Domain, countless beings trembled and prayed.
Only the Daoist Lord Yang Jian, wielding the Immortal Slaying Sword, opposed with all his might at the Third Heaven.
Yet, even with his Celestial Eye opened, even with fortune in his favor.
Facing a Saint exerting full strength still appeared helpless.
"Shen Gongbao, what’s the situation in the Southern Domain?"
"Has the Daoist Lord really appeared?"
"If he doesn’t hurry back, the Celestial Court faces imminent collapse!"
Tianpeng was already spinning with anxiety.
Because under the blockade of Saint’s Power, no one could escape; the Celestial Court was utterly chaotic.
Not only the beings but even gods were anxious with worry.
As anyone with insight could see, Daoist Lord Yang Jian was on the brink of exhaustion.
Once the last Third Heaven were destroyed, the Celestial Court would surely perish under the Tathagata’s Buddha’s Palm!
Their only hope remaining was that one person’s return.
For not long ago, the aura of the destruction of a Holy Soldier shook the universe.
Also noticed by the strong within the Celestial Court.
Shen Gongbao took advantage of the brief disruption of the Saint’s Power blockade, peered into the outside world, and was shocked to discover that the Celestial Venerable had returned and was currently battling in the Southern Immortal Realm!
This discovery stirred all the Immortals!
Yet with the passage of time, even with the Thirty Heavens shattered by the Tathagata, the Celestial Venerable still hadn’t appeared.
Leading to hearts filled with anxiety and dread.
What’s more terrifying is that the Tathagata’s assault grows ever more ferocious, as if he’s racing against time, wishing to swiftly end the Celestial Court.