Ancient Godly Monarch

That crazy old freak appeared in the midst of the dark clouds. He resembled a true god of death, a grim reaper that controlled the lives of the populace.

His eyes were no longer muddy but gleamed with extreme sharpness instead. He stared fixedly at the gigantic buddha ahead. His astral soul then manifested, it was in the form of a grim reaper, tall, majestic, imposing and completely robed in black, materialized from death qi. His eyes manifested cycles of complex runes. Each cycle was so complicated that people would find their lives slipping away just by being gazed at.

When he turned his gaze towards the western world army, strands of divine will packed with the power of death descended from the sky. In the next instant, the countless experts among the western world army suddenly began to radiate death qi as death spirits were born, appearing behind them. These death spirits then started to devour their lives and souls.

“A heretic and evil dao.” A buddha voice rang out. Golden light filled the sky, wanting to expel the death spirits. The two sources of energy began to clash in mid-air. At the same time, the boundless buddhic light bore down on the Grim Reaper, wanting to extinguish the death spirits.

“You harness the faith and fate power of people of the world to accomplish your ambitions, ignoring their wills. Who is the true evil?” The expression of the crazy old freak turned extremely cold. These people who were brainwashed and converted their faith to Buddhism had basically already lost themselves, becoming mindless tools of the western world. The Buddha Sovereign gathered these people and formed an army. This is then a true act of great evil. It was too terrifying.

“Your dao is the heretic and evil one, what would you know of faith? The Buddhist Sect seeks to deliver the people of the world from their suffering. One day when the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms is united under the Buddhist Sect, peace would then reign, everyone’s hearts would be filled with kindness, there would be no more evil.” The buddha’s voice echoed out loud, the soldiers in the western world army continued with their chants, expelling the death qi, destroying the death spirits. Buddhic light illuminates everything. Under the gigantic ancient buddha, everything seemed so tiny and inconsequential.

“Seems like that old fellow won’t be able to contend against that giant buddha.” Qin Wentian silently mused. The Godking of the Universe Region took so many lives as hostages, channeling their faith to form the gigantic buddha statue. If an ancient godking was to return, even they might not be the Buddha Sovereign’s match. The crazy old freak might be strong, but he would at most be on-par with the Buddha Sovereign. This was proven by the fact that he failed to protect Ancient Azure Mystic back then. There’s no way he would be stronger than the Buddha Sovereign. And now, not only has the Buddha Sovereign returned, he could augment himself through the faith of the western world army, how terrifying was he exactly?

The old freak stared ahead, the number of people in the western army filled his vision and a single glance wasn’t able to see them all. That gigantic ancient buddha statue in the air seemed to be an invincible existence. That bald donkey was indeed much stronger compared to back then.

Qin Wentian’s figure flashed. His gaze landed on the surrounding space as time started to reverse. He wanted to teleport the western army into a spacetime where he has control over. However, the endless buddhic chants in the air interfered with his dao, he had no way to execute it. When the power of a dao art like the buddhic chants reached a certain level, all other dao arts would be rendered ineffective.

“Zha!” A sound akin to the true speech of buddha dao rang out, boring down on Qin Wentian’s heart. It felt like heavenly might and was extremely difficult to resist. There seemed to be numerous buddhas weighing down on his heart. All the buddha-dao constellations bore down on him, causing him to groan. This felt almost impossible to endure.

In the next moment, boundless buddhic light radiated from the nine heavenly layers. Those buddha-dao constellations directly cast their images downwards, transforming into giant buddhas that applied pressure on everyone. The might spread towards the floating palace, and similarly, placing the people around Qin Wentian under its pressure. This was truly comparable to a supreme world-destroying divine technique.

Qin Wentian’s figure flashed. He moved with lightning speed, flying towards one of the floating palaces. His loved ones resided here, if the gigantic buddha destroyed this, the ending would be unimaginably dire. Countless experts flew out from the floating palaces in all directions, their expressions were extremely unsightly to behold. The Buddha Sovereign gathered the power of the buddhist cultivators and the converted people of the world on himself alone. Was there truly no way to break this?

If they couldn’t break the power of the western world army, they would have no chance of victory.

Qin Wentian soared into the air, using the dao of the starry space to envelop his floating palace. By glancing at it, this entire floating palace began to shift through space and time and soared even higher. A buddha constellation manifested a buddha but Qin Wentian lifted his hand and directly punched a hole through the buddha, not allowing it to interfere.

“Powerful. As expected of somebody that defeated myself in this current age multiple times.” Yue Changkong spoke to Qin Wentian who was in the air.

However, such strength still wasn’t enough to win against the bald donkey of the western world.

If one wanted to win against the Buddha Sovereign, there’s only a single method. They had to sever his connection with the western world army and stop him from absorbing the faith energy they provided. If not, that bald donkey would be akin to a transcender among them, no one would be able to stop him. Even Yue Changkong himself wouldn’t be able to do anything at that point of time.

Those heavenly deities from the various hegemonic powers around Yue Changkong felt their hearts trembling violently. Simply too powerful, that gigantic buddha from the western world was simply an invincible existence to them. Also, Qin Wentian was much stronger than before, he basically had transformed completely. The young man from back then was already one of the characters that stood at the peak of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms now.

Qin Wentian’s expression turned unsightly. He was trying to figure a way to break the connection.

At this moment, a lanky figure in green suddenly appeared in the sky and slowly strode over. The cycle of samsara could be seen in his eyes and when he strode over, the starlight from the sky seemed to follow him. Several constellations cast their light on him. It was like wherever he goes to, the area there would be bathed in starlight.

“What a powerful faith energy.” That figure calmly spoke. He walked to the side of Qin Wentian. The two of them were so handsome and extraordinary.

“The Godking of the Universe Region controls the faith of the entire western world and those people he converted. He wants to use their fates and faith energy to transcend.” Qin Wentian spoke.

“The power of faith touches on the eight senses of buddhism. He is controlling people through their will. I’ve cultivated for two lifetimes and my current cultivation base can be of use to you. However, I alone cannot resist such powerful might. We will require the joint forces of many deities to be able to do something.” The figure in green spoke. He was none other than Hua Taixu.

In truth, he has already been cultivating in the nine heavenly layers in the Heaven Vault since a long time ago. He was in closed-door seclusion for countless years and refused to exit as he gained insights into the heaven daos. He wanted to completely fuse his insights over his two lifetimes and even when the deity-level battle broke out in the Heaven Vault back then, he still chose not to end his seclusion and didn’t participate in that battle. Only until today when an even more terrifying deity-level battle was about to erupt, did he finally appear.

“What should we do?”

“His control over the eight senses is extremely strong. Now, he is taking the multitude of lives as hostages and using their faith of the western world army, allowing him to channel endless might into his buddhic dao arts. If we wish to sever the connection between him and them, our wills have to enter their sea of consciousness and force them to awaken. I cultivate in the dao of samsara and I can create an illusory cycle of samsara that’s powered by the heavenly dao, slowly severing the connection. But, I need you guys to protect me from all external threats as well as defend me from the attacks launched by the Buddha Sovereign.”

Hua Taixu spoke. Qin Wentian’s eyes flashed. It seemed that Hua Taixu also had some understanding of Buddhism’s eight senses and knew how to break it. From this, one could tell that his control over the dao of samsara was exceedingly strong. But if even he wasn’t able to break the connection between the western world army and the Buddha Sovereign, no one in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms would be able to do so unless they transcended.