154 Strange Demon

A Buddhist divine ability emerged within Pang Yue's sea of consciousness.

—Great Mighty Dragon Form!

This technique condensed a Primordial Heavenly Dragon using Buddhist power, possessing boundless might.

When practiced to a profound level, it could recreate a fraction of the divine marvels of the Primordial Heavenly Dragon.

"If I integrate this method into the Boundless Light Buddha, it could make up for its shortcomings in offensive power..."

Pang Yue pondered silently to himself.

Although the Great Sun Glazed Precious Flame Buddhist Light of the Boundless Light Buddha was formidable, it still fell a notch short compared to his Ice Soul Divine Light and Frigid Demonic Intent Sword Scripture.

It was even slightly inferior to the Leaving Hatred Divine Light.

This was not because Buddhist divine abilities were weak, but rather that aside from subduing demons, Buddhism generally did not place excessive emphasis on slaughter and combat.

This Great Mighty Dragon Form divine ability, however, was a genuine demon-subduing method of extraordinary might, with an offensive power rivaling the Frigid Demonic Intent Sword.

Looking at Pang Yue, Ye Bing noticed that his aura had suddenly become filled with Buddhist intent, as if he had comprehended something from the Buddha statue, and could not help feeling slightly surprised.

"I originally thought he only excelled at comprehending demonic cultivation mental methods... Unexpectedly, he has such talent for Buddhist divine abilities as well!"

She waited quietly for Pang Yue for the time it took to burn a stick of incense.

Then she saw Pang Yue suddenly snap out of it, looking at her with a smile.

Ye Bing sighed with emotion, "If you ever go to the true Fallen Immortal Island, I'm afraid you'll make a fortune."

On Fallen Immortal Island, ancient ruins were everywhere, and there was no shortage of inheritances left behind by ancient grand-mastery cultivators, just like this stone Buddha before them.

However, those who could truly comprehend these inheritances were exceedingly rare.

As time passed, the true essence of the inheritances was no longer what it used to be, and the remnants left were barely one or two tenths of the originals.

Consequently, most similar ruins were like tasteless chicken ribs, failing to attract Core Formation cultivators of major sects like Ye Bing.

Only within those ancient ruins that were relatively well-preserved could one find inheritances with complete true essence!

Pang Yue said with pleasant anticipation, "I shall certainly go and explore them another day."

"Let's go and check out the next place!"

Ye Bing said with a complex tone.

After entering this primeval mystic realm, she felt the calamity fortune upon her growing increasingly intense.

In other words, her destined tribulation of fate was bound to be in one of these three places!

If she avoided it now, she could indeed preserve herself, but the price would be—never having any hope of advancing further in this lifetime!

...

The second ruin of the mystic realm.

This was a massive rift valley more than a thousand zhang deep.

Above the rift valley, a tattered dark purple grand array was still operating endlessly.

Streaks of purple lightning spread and flickered within the array, emitting rumbling sounds from time to time.

The array merged with the void, automatically drawing upon void primeval energy to transform it into a peculiar lightning power, which was quite ingenious.

In the rift valley below, there stood a dilapidated bluestone grand hall.

Ye Bing pointed a finger, and thousands of frost willow leaves appeared, sweeping outward and rushing across the tattered grand array.

Boom, boom, boom!

Frost and dark purple lightning intertwined and exploded.

Snowflakes fell in flurries through the air, and a biting chill instantly arose.

Countless frost willow leaves rotated and sliced, destroying all the pivot nodes of the grand array in just a few breaths of time.

That bluestone grand hall appeared before the two of them without any hindrance.

Pang Yue circulated his pupil technique, observed the bluestone grand hall carefully for a few moments, and let out a soft exclamation of surprise, "It's actually a sixth-tier magical treasure... What a pity, what a pity!"

Upon this bluestone grand hall, as many as fifty-nine restrictions were contained!

Yet at this moment, it was already tattered and broken beyond recognition.

The hall itself had also collapsed by more than half; even if Pang Yue wanted to repair it, the difficulty would be little less than refining a sixth-tier magical treasure from scratch.

Coupled with its damaged restrictions, deducing them back to completeness would consume even more mental energy and effort.

"Let's go inside and take a look."

Ye Bing spoke in a deep voice, flying out first and heading straight into the hall.

Pang Yue followed closely behind.

The moment they entered the hall, the space abruptly changed.

Pang Yue felt his body shrink countless times in an instant, as if he were a speck of dust falling into a giant's palace!

Inside the hall, although half of it had collapsed, one could still see ten thunder pools arranged in order across the center.

Most of the thunder pools were completely dried up.

Only two thunder pools still had faint purple lightning flickering at their centers.

Pang Yue and Ye Bing floated in the air of the hall like two specks of dust.

In comparison, every single thunder pool on the hall floor was a hundred miles in size.

Even the feeble purple lightning within the pools emitted a terrifying aura.

On the mural facing the front of the hall was a massive relief sculpture, carved with an eerie purple beastly pupil.

As soon as the two entered, they heard bursts of strange buzzing sounds, arising from nothingness and gradually growing deafening.

They saw countless purple moths suddenly fly out from the two thunder pools that still flickered with lightning.

These moths were roughly several zhang in size, colossal in build, with nearly transparent wings covered entirely in purple velvet, swarming toward the two of them.

Just as Ye Bing was about to make a move, Pang Yue spoke, "Hall Master, let me handle this."

These giant moths were merely at the Dao Foundation realm; although their numbers were astonishingly large, it played right into Pang Yue's hands.

A golden light flashed before him, and the Boundless Light Buddha emerged.

Sanskrit chants echoed continuously, and golden Buddhist light spread outward.

Bizarrely, the giant moths were completely unaffected and refused to be converted!

"Oh?"

Pang Yue's expression shifted slightly, and with a thought, the Great Sun Glazed Precious Flame Buddhist Light spread across a region of the void in an instant.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Wherever the Buddhist light reached, the giant purple moths immediately caught fire and turned to ash within the blink of an eye.

Many giant moths spat out purple lightning, attempting to attack the two of them, but that purple lightning was neutralized into nothingness by the Buddhist light before it even reached them.

Ye Bing said calmly, "These are foreign demons, born from a mixture of heavenly demon demonic intent, the lingering souls of ancient cultivators, and the slaughter qi of ancient battlefields. They most love to devour the vital blood of cultivators."

"Foreign demons are ever-changing and unpredictable, possessing bizarre divine abilities that often invade the mind and seize human physical bodies."

Looking at the surrounding giant purple moths, Pang Yue discovered that these foreign demons were indeed somewhat different from ordinary heavenly demons.

If inspected carefully with pupil techniques, one would find that these foreign demons actually possessed no physical entities.

Their core consisted of a chaotic mass of stray thoughts and lingering souls, while their outer shell was composed of strange baleful qi and primeval energy.

The combination of the two formed a bizarre equilibrium.

No wonder it was so difficult for the Boundless Light Buddha to convert them!

At this moment.

The Boundless Light Buddha had transformed to a size of a hundred zhang, its golden light vast and illuminating the entire hall.

Endless giant purple moths poured into the Buddhist light wave after wave, only to be utterly destroyed.

The Great Sun Glazed Precious Flame Buddhist Light excelled most at refining evil entities.

Moreover, the Buddhist power within the Boundless Light Buddha was boundless, making it least afraid of consumption.

If an ordinary sword cultivator fell into such a predicament, no matter how sharp their sword light might be, they would likely have their flying swords tainted by the endless foreign demons and their magical power completely exhausted...

Before long.

A brilliant streak of purple lightning instantly flashed through the Great Sun Glazed Precious Flame, appearing right before Pang Yue.

The power of the purple lightning was immense; although much of it was suppressed by the Buddhist light, the remaining might was still considerable.

"Core Formation-grade foreign demon?"

Pang Yue raised an eyebrow, and a fist-sized bone pellet spun and danced before him!

It was none other than the Bone Sarira!

This treasure had been refined by him from the skeletal remains of a Core Formation cultivator, and by now it had also become a first-tier magical treasure.

When the purple lightning struck the Bone Sarira, it was swallowed up cleanly in an instant.

The Bone Sarira spun gently, transforming into a bone mirror, and swallowed two more streaks of lightning together.

This Bone Sarira was the very magical treasure he had used back in the Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm of the Bone Demonic Sect.

It could devour the skeletal remains of various cultivators and spirit beasts, and transform into magical treasures such as the Mighty Bone Demon, Bone Dao Palace, Bone Thunder Mirror, Bridge of Helplessness, Seven-Killing Sword, Bone Divine Needle, Netherworld Profound Fire Ring, Bone Flute, and Bone Crossing-Heaven Shuttle.

Truly a treasure in hand, with inexhaustible wondrous uses!

Right now, Pang Yue was using the Bone Thunder Mirror to swallow the incoming lightning.

Looking out, he saw two giant purple moths exceeding a hundred zhang in length, their entire bodies wreathed in lightning, resisting the scorching heat of the Buddhist light as they launched long-range attacks toward Pang Yue.

Pang Yue tapped the Bone Thunder Mirror.

This bone mirror suddenly spun and transformed into an exquisite bone whistle!

He urged his magical power and blew fiercely into the bone whistle.

A bizarre, piercing whistle instantly swept through the entire hall.

The two Core Formation-grade giant purple moths bore the brunt of it, countless minuscule ripples suddenly appearing across their bodies.

The next moment.

The giant moths shattered into pieces!

The Bone Flute specialized in subduing the soul and spirit, and using it here yielded remarkably potent results.

Furthermore, many giant moths that had yet to rush into the Buddhist light disintegrated amidst the whistle.

Centered around the two of them, a massive fan-shaped void appeared!

Ye Bing glanced at Pang Yue and couldn't help sighing, "How come your methods are even more numerous than those of foreign demons and heavenly demons? How could an ordinary cultivator have the energy to practice so many divine abilities and techniques?"

"I myself am quite deficient in spiritual and mental attacks and defenses..."

As soon as she finished speaking, as if thinking of something, her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Pang Yue was startled at first, but then he too realized the truth.

Ye Bing possessed peerless strength, but spiritual and mental attacks and defenses were indeed her weak points!

Could that tribulation of fate... manifest right here?

The two exchanged a glance and heightened their vigilance simultaneously.

Pang Yue mentally focused, resolving that no matter what kind of attack came, he would deploy the Primordial Chaos Heavenly Demon divine ability at the very first moment to block it for Ye Bing and buy her an opportunity!

However.

The anticipated tribulation did not appear.

Half a day later.

Within the two thunder pools, countless Dao Foundation foreign demons and over a dozen Core Formation foreign demons had all been slain by Pang Yue.

The grand hall was left empty and desolate.

No more lightning flickered within the two thunder pools.

"Perhaps we were overthinking it."

Pang Yue smiled faintly at Ye Bing, turned his gaze toward the relief sculpture on the front wall of the hall, and was instantly captivated by the eerie purple beastly pupil.

Logan... this painting seems extraordinary...

The two flew close to the relief sculpture.

Suddenly, a drastic change occurred!

Right at the center of the eerie beastly pupil, a streak of purple alien brilliance flew out without warning, shooting straight toward Ye Bing!

Ye Bing reacted with astonishing speed, gathering countless frost willow leaves to block in front of the purple brilliance.

At the very same instant.

A patch of dark golden light patterns bloomed and expanded outward.

Time stagnated.

Yet that streak of purple brilliance merely gave a gentle struggle and instantly broke free from the dark golden light patterns.

Then, like an intangible object, it passed right through Ye Bing's defense of frost willow leaves and plunged directly into her forehead!

"No!"

Pang Yue's heart tightened, and a sword light materialized, slashing fiercely across the relief mural.

Swoosh!

The massive mural was cleaved apart in an instant by the sword light wielded by the sword puppet!

Yet Ye Bing stood motionless, her eyes tightly closed, lingering in the void without uttering a single word.

The snowflake mark on her forehead had unknowingly taken on a layer of eerie purple, intertwining and staining one another.

"What a sinister foreign demon; even the Primordial Chaos Heavenly Demon couldn't block it!"

Shock gripped Pang Yue's heart, and he could not help but cast aside his complacency.

Although the Primordial Chaos Heavenly Demon was formidable, it was after all still only at the early Core Formation stage.

When facing entities with deeper cultivation and greater strength, it ultimately still fell short!