Ch 162: A Buddha Entangled by Calamity Qi? Heroic Spirit Intervention – God Slaying!

Suddenly, Chu Mo’s expression turned stern, and he raised his palm without hesitation.

“Great Power: Space Ancestral Sorcery.”

Brilliant spatial divine light suddenly erupted, and Chu Mo’s body transformed into a semi-corporeal state.

Then, scorching Buddha-demon light swept out, completely shattering and annihilating the void where Chu Mo was.

Chu Mo manifested the form of an Ancestral Sorcerer. When he realized that this attack couldn’t be avoided by simply hiding in the void, he reacted with extreme speed. With a thought, he was like a Kunpeng, possessing the fastest speed in the world. In just a few breaths, he was thousands of miles away.

“…Can you escape?” A cold and furious roar suddenly echoed at this moment. A terrifying handprint, radiating boundless golden light and an overwhelming killing intent, condensed in the sky and pressed down towards Chu Mo’s direction.

Chu Mo glanced at it, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. He deduced a great deal of information, and a monstrous wave surged in his heart.

【Name】: ??? Honored One

【Divine Position】: Sandalwood Merit Buddha

【Realm】: Human Immortal Ninth Realm （Heaven and Earth Curse/Entangled by Calamity Qi）

Chu Mo knew of the Sandalwood Merit Buddha. If he remembered correctly, this was the Buddha position bestowed upon Tang Sanzang after he successfully completed his journey to the West. However, the one who attacked was clearly not the real Tang Sanzang, just like the Purifying Altar Envoy from before…

No, considering that his name included “Honored One”…

“Are you an incarnation of the demon Mara?” Chu Mo’s voice caused the massive, sky-covering hand to pause for a moment, before descending again with even greater fury.

Chu Mo’s pupils constricted. At this moment, he felt as if the surrounding world had solidified. Although it wasn’t completely impossible to use space techniques to teleport, it was clearly extremely difficult.

However, it was only difficult. Chu Mo teleported again, hundreds of kilometers away. Although the towering hand followed like a shadow, getting closer and closer, “This won’t work…”

If things continued like this, in another ten breaths, Chu Mo would definitely be captured by that hand. He didn’t want to know what the consequences would be if he was truly suppressed!

“Too strong. Why is his realm Human Immortal Ninth Realm? Isn’t the limit of Heaven and Earth… Wait, the Heaven and Earth Curse. So, he forcibly abandoned this incarnation that had refined a powerful divine position just to kill me? Entangled by Calamity Qi? Wait a minute… Could it be!”

Chu Mo’s eyes twitched. He finally realized the truth. Most likely, South Asia was the Buddha’s lair. That made sense. The Great Tang’s Journey to the West involved traveling thousands of miles to South Asia… From this, one could imagine the close relationship between this place and the Buddhist Realm.

Here, he directly detonated the Calamity Qi, which was no different from digging up the roots of the human world for the Western Paradise. Even the one who seemed to be an incarnation of that Honored One was entangled by Calamity Qi. From this, one could imagine that the Honored One’s main body was probably not in good condition either…

“But if that’s the case! Then I don’t actually need to defeat him… I just need to delay, delay until his lifespan is severed by the Heavenly Dao, and that will be enough!”

With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Chu Mo finally stopped dodging and abruptly pressed his palms together.

“Imperial Edict: Ten Thousand Ghosts Revive! Souls Return to the Netherworld!”

The divine position of the Netherworld Emperor trembled slightly at this moment.

A continuous, vast mountain range condensed around Chu Mo, as if the real Mount Tai had crossed realms at this moment. The eerie and the sacred coexisted…

A gate connecting the human world and the Netherworld, was faintly visible on the summit of Mount Tai.

The souls of the living beings who had died in South Asia, the Buddhist cultivators who had gone mad and exploded, the souls that had not yet dissipated, were all drawn by some force at this moment. Amidst the roars and howls, they directly appeared beside Chu Mo and, empowered by a strange force, transformed directly into evil ghosts.

“Kill!” Chu Mo pointed his hand towards the terrifying hand in the distance.

The souls roared ferociously. The Netherworld Emperor might be able to summon them and have some control over them, but he couldn’t make them willingly sacrifice themselves. However… Chu Mo’s strength lay in the fact that he also controlled the Ghost Control Art!

Therefore, he, this Netherworld Emperor, was perhaps the one in history with the strongest control over ghosts!

At this moment, the souls frantically self-combusted, burning and squeezing out all their soul power, unleashing the most brilliant divine light to forcibly contend against that giant hand. Moreover, countless Buddhist cultivators and living beings were dying every moment, and their souls were constantly replenishing the ranks.

For a time, they actually managed to resist that sky-covering hand.

The Heavenly Court.

The Jade Emperor gasped, and after sorting out the situation, his eyelids kept twitching. “He actually… actually has such a move?”

The Jade Emperor suddenly felt a little numb and his heart palpitated. He was glad that Chu Mo hadn’t targeted him and stuffed that Calamity Qi into the Heavenly Realm… Although the two realms of Heaven and Man couldn’t be easily traversed by ordinary people, Chu Mo was clearly not an ordinary person.

“However, if he really did that, the human world would also be affected… It’s possible that he didn’t not think of it, but was considering the Great Ming.” Thoughts surged in the Jade Emperor’s mind. He glanced at the Western Paradise.

He could vaguely sense that the Buddha, who had been sitting steadily on the fishing platform, watching him and Chu Mo play chess and laughing, was now in a very unstable mood… No, not just his mood, his condition seemed to be terrible as well.

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Above the South Asian sky.

“You think you can protect your little life with such a humble trick?!” Amidst the furious voice, boundless Buddha light bloomed. A scarlet kasaya suddenly appeared, growing against the wind, and directly enveloped all the countless ghosts within it.

A massive Buddhist swastika slowly appeared, directly sealing the ghosts.

“You, this demonic and evil Netherworld God, this seat will now completely annihilate you…” A man with a face like jade, androgynous features, bare arms, a cold expression, and a Buddha crown on his head appeared before Chu Mo. He extended a palm, “…completely annihilate you…”

In response…

Chu Mo subconsciously…

Heroic Spirit Intervention – Human Race Sage Emperor!

This was the first Heroic Spirit that Chu Mo had condensed. Although, theoretically speaking, this was the weakest of the three Heroic Spirits he currently possessed… However, after careful analysis, Chu Mo realized that summoning him to appear at this moment was the most appropriate.

If he summoned the Great Ming Preceptor again, the Preceptor wouldn’t be able to completely turn the tables in the current situation… The Five Emperors’ Great Divine Power was certainly powerful, but he currently had the divine position of the Netherworld Emperor and also mastered the Great Power Space Ancestral Sorcery… Adding all of that together, how much weaker would he be compared to the Five Emperors’ Great Divine Power?

And the Human Race Sage Emperor had a move that might be able to shake the situation under the current circumstances – God Slaying!

Chu Mo had long discovered that it wasn’t guaranteed that he could condense a Heroic Spirit skill just by doing something. For example, he had killed gods in almost all three of his lives, but there were very few moves that targeted divine resistance… He didn’t awaken in the lifetime where he was a Sage Regent.

Although he awakened a God-Seizing Method that targeted divinity in the lifetime of the Great Ming Preceptor, it was clear that its direct frontal destructive power wasn’t as good as God Slaying…

In this instant, all the energy within Chu Mo’s body erupted. He felt his power sublimate to the extreme that he could sublimate to at this moment. He collided head-on with the Sandalwood Merit Buddha…

Chu Mo felt as if he had returned to his mortal days, being violently struck by a speeding train, his body seeming to completely explode… No, it had already exploded, and countless blood was flying everywhere.

However… With the Principle Investigation Method activated, the malice released by the Sandalwood Merit Buddha was too powerful and profound, causing Chu Mo’s body to quickly reassemble, but his face also turned pale, constantly gasping for breath, clearly injuring the origin of his soul.

The Sandalwood Merit Buddha stared at Chu Mo with a gloomy expression. He didn’t continue to attack. A small cut clearly appeared on the palm that had collided earlier.

This seemed insignificant!

However, the Calamity Qi surging between heaven and earth, that curse from the heavens, was now frantically wrapping around that wound, constantly seeping into the Sandalwood Merit Buddha’s body.

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The situation is over!

“Good, very good, Netherworld Emperor!” The Sandalwood Merit Buddha spoke coldly. His fair and handsome face was now covered with dense black cracks. “This monk didn’t expect that you would actually lay down such a piece… You already thought of it when you released the Calamity Qi, didn’t you? You even deliberately went to the overseas continent first to disrupt this monk’s thoughts!”

Chu Mo: “…”

No, he really just wanted to find a place to release the Calamity Qi at random at first. However, judging from this tone, his actions had clearly made the Honored One who was paying attention to him misunderstand… Coupled with the fact that his Space Great Power allowed him to run too fast, that one didn’t react in time, which allowed him to directly unleash it and succeed.

It could only be said that he planted flowers intentionally, but they didn’t bloom; he planted willows unintentionally, but they grew into a shade…

“However, the game has only just begun! Don’t let me catch a cha…” The Sandalwood Merit Buddha didn’t even finish his words. Chu Mo directly darted in front of him, reaching out his palm and piercing through his chest.

“…God-Seizing Method.”

The Sandalwood Merit Buddha’s expression stiffened for a moment, and a look of astonishment, disbelief, and confusion appeared in his eyes. But then he sensed something, thought of something, and all the astonishment transformed into malice.

“So that’s how it is… Interesting! To be able to develop such a method, remarkable… But have you ever thought that the current me doesn’t just have authority, but also Calamity Qi!”

People die for wealth, and birds die for food. The Sandalwood Merit Buddha originally thought that he had no way to deal with Chu Mo, but he never expected that the situation would suddenly take a turn for the better… He laughed frantically and silently, sparing no cost to infuse all the energy within his body, along with the Calamity Qi, into Chu Mo’s body.

But soon, he looked at Chu Mo, who had a calm expression as if he hadn’t been affected in the slightest, and his smile froze.

“…How is that possible?!”

Point Allocation, activate!

【In the 170th year, you successfully digested the mysteries of the divine position you obtained using the God-Seizing Method! You successfully awakened the Power: Western Paradise Scriptures.

The Sandalwood Merit Buddha once went to the Western Paradise to obtain scriptures, and he walked in the human world, symbolizing the highest inheritance of the Buddhist tradition.

This Power grants you additional understanding of the many mysteries of Buddhism… At the same time, when using Buddhist techniques, you can use this Power to additionally increase the damage by one to three percent.】

“Goodbye.” Chu Mo smiled as he stared at the shattered Sandalwood Merit Buddha with disappointment and anger.

The Sandalwood Merit Buddha’s reasoning was very sound. The Calamity Qi hadn’t been entangling Chu Mo before because there was a formation diagram to block it. Chu Mo was now contacting and even absorbing it, which seemed very suicidal…

But in reality, under the Point Allocation Deduction state, whether he went mad or experienced any other adverse reactions, none of it would affect his main body. Of course, Chu Mo had also thought about what would happen if it affected his main body…

If that really happened, then he would just die… It wouldn’t be bad to obtain the results of an experiment with that! Chu Mo had already prepared for the worst… After all, he figured that he might have to deal with Calamity Qi many times in the future… But fortunately, he seemed to have won the gamble!

“The only pity is that he was also a Buddha. Why isn’t the Power he condensed a Great Power!” After sighing, Chu Mo thought for a moment, cupped his fist towards the sky, and said with a sincere voice and a smile.

“But no matter what, thank you for the gift, Buddha.”

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The Western Paradise Buddhist Realm.

The Great Thunderclap Temple was silent.

The Buddhas were all entangled in Calamity Qi, chanting scriptures and guarding their minds. But even so, they could feel the towering rage emanating from the Buddha… It seemed to completely burn and destroy everything in the world.

Several Buddhas frowned. Even though they were entangled by Calamity Qi, they were still a little confused at this moment. Logically speaking, the Honored One, as an enlightened one, should have a detached state of mind. Even if he encountered such a thing, he should be able to remain calm.

Just like these Buddhas, even if they suffered such a disaster out of nowhere, they would sigh and sigh, and they would still take action against Chu Mo when they saw him in the future, but they would never lose their composure to that extent just because they couldn’t scheme against Chu Mo… Was this still an enlightened one? This Buddha…

The confusion in their minds only lasted until a sound rang out again in their ears—

“Praise Amitabha Buddha!”

Their brains seemed to blank out for a moment, and they immediately felt that everything was normal. They recited a sentence of Amitabha Buddha and continued to try their best to suppress the raging Calamity Qi.

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Above the South Asian continent.

With a wry smile, Chu Mo glanced again at the desolate land and continued to stay here for a while.

Using the Space Great Power, he traveled through various regions of South Asia, using the authority of the Netherworld Emperor to collect a large number of powerful ghosts and imprinted the Ghost Control Brand on their souls.

Among them, there were one hundred and eighty-one Transcendent Realm Buddha ghosts… There were also four Immortal Realm ghosts. For Chu Mo, it was a complete haul…

After wandering around a few more times and confirming that almost everyone who should have died had died, and there was nothing good to salvage, Chu Mo used the Space Great Power, took a step, crossed the vast distance, and directly appeared by the West Lake in Hangzhou.

During the time that Chu Mo disappeared, the White Maiden seemed to have vaguely realized something. She had finished dressing up and was sitting quietly on a small boat floating on the West Lake, prepared for the worst. If her husband really had an accident because of her…

However, fortunately…

She stared blankly at Chu Mo standing in the distance, as if she had returned to that day many years ago.

A drizzle suddenly fell.

Chu Mo’s eyes twitched. He subconsciously glanced towards the north and could see Fa Hai standing on a mountain peak, doing his best to push his power to make the rain fall, so that all the scenes would match the day they first met many years ago…

Although… No matter how you think about it, there were many flaws in what Fa Hai was doing.

Complaining inwardly, Chu Mo slowly came to the river and invited elegantly, “Miss, would you like to come home with me?”

Bai Suzhen was stunned for a long time before suddenly laughing, her beauty captivating the world. “How could you be like this… However, I’ll agree to you!”