Immortality Cultivation: I Can increase My Stats Using Clansmen's Qi-Blood

Chapter 657: Chapter 316: A Battle of the Mortal Transcendence Realm_2
 

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“He possessed the cultivation of the Mortal Transcendence Intermediate Stage, yet he unleashed power nearing the Mortal Transcendence Late Stage.”

“The Mortal Transcendence of the Yan Family, it seems I have underestimated you somewhat.”

The old monk, who sat cross-legged.

Waved his hand, recalling the gigantic White Buddha Beads from the void.

He shrank the string of White Buddha Beads back to their original size.

After they returned to his right hand,

He silently closed his eyes and pressed his palms together in prayer.

From his mouth, he began to murmur some Buddhist scriptures that were somewhat unclear to the listener.

As the old monk’s murmuring resonated,

A colossal Buddha statue, its color milky white and formed from Qi-Blood Force mixed with a trace of Spiritual Power, slowly appeared behind the monk of the White Brahma Temple.

At first, the enormous statue seemed somewhat illusory.

The figure of the Buddha was somewhat faint and indistinct.

But as time passed, and the old monk from the White Brahma Temple continuously injected more of that special White Brahma Force,

The figure of the Buddha gradually became more solid.

Behind the statue, an extremely sacred and dazzling white light suddenly flashed.

An eerie aura of the Buddha, compelling people to kneel uncontrollably,

Also emanated from the increasingly solid figure of the Buddha.

[Mortals who have seen my Buddha, why do not you kneel?!!]

A voice filled with sacred cadence

Suddenly thundered across the heaven and earth.

An extremely tempting emotion suddenly took root and sprouted in Yan Yiqing’s heart.

The disciples of Buddhism are most skilled at beguiling the heart.

And the White Brahma Temple, as one of the Three Great Demonic Forces of Buddhism,

Had studied the art of manipulating the heart to an extremely profound degree.

With the emergence of the colossal Buddha statue, not to mention a cultivator in the Mortal Transcendence Intermediate Stage, even cultivators in the Mortal Transcendence Late Stage often could not resist the influence of the Buddha statue.

Thus, they would kneel before the Buddha statue.

And with the cultivator’s act of kneeling, their path of cultivation would also shatter to pieces.

By the time the cultivator realized what had happened,

They would be fortunate to exert even fifty to sixty percent of their strength and cultivation level.

In more serious cases, their cultivation could plummet drastically.

This was not beyond the realm of possibility.

“Kneel to you?”

Yan Yiqing gritted his teeth.

Using the Spiritual Sword in his hand, he made a cut across the palm of his hand.

As the crimson sword sliced open Yan Yiqing’s palm,

Bright red blood slowly dripped from his hand.

An intense pain suddenly surged through his mind.

However, it was precisely this pain, which could be excruciating enough to cause an ordinary person to despair,

That allowed Yan Yiqing, with his extremely strong willpower, to no longer be influenced by the Buddha statue radiating waves of holy white light.

“Want me to kneel to you?”

“Are you worthy?”

After Yan Yiqing’s emotions gradually returned to calm,

He stepped forward, sword in hand, and walked slowly towards the cross-legged, praying old monk of the White Brahma Temple.

He, Yan Yiqing,

As the founder of the Great Flame Dynasty.

As the strongest among the Royal Yan Family of the Great Flame Dynasty.

He initially rose from nothing and reached his current position step by step.

What he relied on was not so-called destiny.

What he could always count on was his absolutely firm conviction, as well as his cultivation level and strength amassed bit by bit through his own efforts.

“If this is the extent of your strength…”

“Then, this battle should come to an end.”

As his voice fell,

Yan Yiqing’s figure suddenly became blurry.

It seemed that in an instant, he had vanished on the spot.

Had he disappeared?

Did he run away?

The White Brahma Temple’s old monk sitting cross-legged on the ground couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.

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However, it was only a moment later.

He soon caught sight of the last surviving sword cultivator from the Royal Yan Family of the Great Flame Dynasty, at the Mortal Transcendence Realm.

“To be able to shake off the influence of the Buddha statue on oneself in such a short time,”

“Such an existence, yet merely at the Intermediate Stage of Mortal Transcendence?”

The old monk’s eyes remained slightly squinted.

As he pondered quietly in his heart, he continued to observe the figure of Yan Yiqing, now disappearing from sight, now blurred.

For the first time, a grave expression appeared in those narrowed eyes.

It had to be said that this person’s strength indeed exceeded his expectations.

He hadn’t anticipated that in such a small place,

there would still be such a person.

He acknowledged this person’s strength and temperament.

However, what a pity…

It truly was quite a pity.

Even so, this last remaining Mortal Transcendence from the Yan Family was still destined to walk the path of death.

Yes, outside the White Lotus Prefecture where the White Brahma Temple was located,

his control over the White Brahma Lotus was indeed much weaker.

The White Brahma Lotus’s enhancement of his strength and cultivation would be greatly diminished.

But that doesn’t mean,

the White Brahma Lotus would be rendered useless.

The White Brahma Lotus, an object known among the worldly things as one of the ultimate artifacts of evil,

was worshipped by the people of the White Brahma Temple as their only sacred artifact.

There naturally were reasons for this.

“Yes indeed!”

After a moment of silence, the old monk seated cross-legged silently gazed at Yan Yiqing’s figure, which had become almost too blurry to discern.

He let out a slight sigh and then said in a low voice, “What you said is indeed correct.”

“This battle, truly, should come to an end.”

“Nevertheless, it’s somewhat regrettable that,”

“the victor can only be me, while you…”

“will utterly fall right here.”

“And the Great Flame Dynasty that you built with your own hands will also gradually vanish from this continent after your demise, becoming a speck of dust in history.”

“With the passage of time, it will be slowly forgotten by the world.”

The old monk murmured these words softly.

Meanwhile, Yan Yiqing, who was holding a crimson longsword and moving through the void, leaping quickly, seemed to pay no heed to the old monk’s words.

He simply gripped the longsword in his hand tightly.

Then, with a terrifyingly fast speed, he kept closing the distance to the old monk from White Brahma Temple.

“It’s over…”

After Yan Yiqing reached a certain proximity to the old monk,

he exhaled slowly.

The crimson longsword he clutched in his hand,

now aimed at the throat of the old monk, swept down swiftly.

It appeared as though Yan Yiqing intended to behead the old monk in a single stroke.

However, unsurprisingly, the unexpected occurred.

Before Yan Yiqing’s crimson longsword could swing down,

the old monk from the White Brahma Temple conjured a small, palm-sized white lotus flower from within himself, its color supremely sacred and pure.

With the emergence of the white lotus,

a thin, cicada-wing-like energy shield formed around the old monk, powered by the distinctive White Brahma Force.

[Clang!]

The crimson longsword in Yan Yiqing’s hand swung down.

An extremely hot aura, seeming capable of incinerating everything, flowed across the surface of the crimson longsword.

Yet, even with all of Yan Yiqing’s might behind the sword,

he was unable to break the energy shield that had suddenly appeared around the old monk, forged by the special White Brahma Force.

“A Mortal Transcendence from the Yan Family,”

“you have compelled me to summon the sacred artifact of my White Brahma Temple, the White Brahma Lotus.”

“Even if you die here and now, you can take pride in that.”

The old monk murmured softly,

Subsequently, he controlled the pure white and seemingly holy and harmless White Brahma Lotus,

to move toward the direction of Yan Yiqing.