Chapter 266 - 292: The Demon Beast’s Roar, the Rebirth Buddha Venerable! A Figure in White, a Sword

He glanced around, spotted a ravine in the distance, and gritting his teeth, dove inside.

’I can only pray that I’m not trampled to death by the rampaging Fierce Beasts,’ he thought, ’and that the medicinal herbs don’t get crushed either...’

On a distant mountaintop, Su Bai stood tall. He couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise as he watched the scene unfold.

The cultivation of the Martial Dao was not limited to the Human Race; it naturally included various demons and ghosts as well.

While there were slight differences in the specifics of their cultivation, the gap between them was not that significant.

This Wood Demon also had a Void Realm Cultivation, but the Demon Power within its Demon Body was incredibly profound. It had also connected with the Earth Spirit Vein and all the trees in the mountain range.

In a short time, the power it could unleash had surged several-fold!

At the same time, the Wood Demon’s pounding on the ground grew more frantic. The sound rolled out like thunder, its power utterly terrifying.

Su Bai did not rush to intervene.

’This Elder Hui De, just like Elder Huinian, has a rather heavy Sin Value, reaching Seven-Star,’ he mused. ’It’s fine to let him suffer a little.’

However, hearing the roars of beasts echoing from all directions, he couldn’t help but frown.

’Once a beast tide starts, the danger to the common people will be immense.’

"Go!"

He looked at the Silver-White Dog Demon sitting beside him and murmured.

The Silver-White Dog Demon naturally understood his meaning. In just a few leaps, its body began to swell to an immense size.

After a breath or two, it had transformed into a terrifying Great Demon over ninety feet tall, its fur flowing like a silver waterfall.

No one who saw it would believe it was the same white dog from before.

"AWOOOO!!"

The Dog Demon leaped onto a mountaintop, threw its head back at the deep, moonless night sky, and let out a long, reverberating roar.

The roar echoed far and wide through the mountain forest, not even fully drowned out by the Wood Demon’s ever-loudening, rhythmic pounding.

Then, roars began to answer from all directions.

Wolves howled, tigers roared, birds shrieked...

All manner of beasts and Demon Beasts answered the call.

AWOO!

The white dog leaped down and sprinted into the forest, its periodic roars keeping the beast packs in check.

It moved with incredible speed, as if treading on the very wind, and quickly vanished into the darkness.

Su Bai spared it a glance before his gaze returned to the colossal, ten-thousand-foot-tall Wood Demon.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Ghastly shrieks echoed through the night.

"You bald donkey! Why aren’t you dead yet!?"

A thousand arms waved in unison, like a thousand dragons and serpents dancing wildly through the air, as a wretched, furious howl erupted from the Wood Demon’s mouth.

By gathering and accumulating a massive amount of the mountains’ essence qi in its body, it was enduring pressure no less immense than that on Elder Hui De.

In fact, the pressure was even more intense.

The giant Wood Demon hammered the ground ferociously, making the earth ripple like waves.

Elder Hui De, meanwhile, was fleeing for his life like a gopher in a whack-a-mole game, repeatedly burrowing into the earth and not daring to surface.

But no matter how masterful his earth-escape technique was, he couldn’t possibly evade every blow from the Wood Demon.

By now, an untold number of his bones had been shattered, and blood streamed from his seven facial orifices.

’Damn it! How is this Wood Demon so terrifying?’

Elder Hui De’s mind was in turmoil.

The excruciating pain from his trembling, ruptured organs was a constant reminder: ’If this goes on, my physical body will be destroyed.’

Every Cultivator in the world understood the importance of the physical body. The Wansheng Institute itself was founded on entering the Dao through the flesh—how could he not grasp this?

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he burst from the earth. His fingers wove through seals, and ignoring the torrent of blood that spewed from his mouth, he let out a thunderous roar:

"Mighty Celestial Dragon! World Honored One Ksitigarbha!"

"Demon Subduing Seal! Suppress!"

Thirteen Buddhist syllables, seemingly taking on physical form, flew from his mouth and plunged into a crimson Pill Furnace that leaped from between his eyebrows.

He was putting his life on the line!

Each of those thirteen mere syllables contained a full year of his hard-won Buddha Power.

With that single utterance, thirteen years of his Cultivation vanished.

His Realm even dropped by an entire Layer!

But such a great price naturally bought immense power.

The next moment, the Pill Furnace shot into the sky, gathering the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi of the mountain range and swelling to ten thousand feet in size!

The mouth of the furnace spat a terrifying golden light, trailing a long wake as it instantly shattered countless giant, vine-like hands.

It smashed down toward the head of the savage Wood Demon!

"Bald donkey! Die!"

Endless pain flooded its senses, driving the massive Wood Demon into a frenzy.

Seeing the Pill Furnace smashing down on its head like a mountain, it showed no intention of defending itself.

Its thousand arms lashed out in unison toward Elder Hui De!

Forget the power of the attack itself; the violent, churning air currents alone were enough to uproot countless trees and send them hurtling into the sky!

’Not good! This Wood Demon wants to take me down with it!’

Spitting another mouthful of blood, Elder Hui De’s aura dropped to rock bottom. Seeing the thousand arms bearing down on him, his eyes widened in fury and desperation.

"Just a Wood Demon!"

Then, in a rage, he took out a wooden pendant and instantly crushed it.

BOOM!

The instant Elder Hui De crushed the pendant.

High in the firmament, the sky abruptly brightened. Countless rays of golden light surged and interwove, forming an immense, majestic face that filled half the sky.

The face was one of supreme nobility. The moment it appeared, waves of Buddhist chants echoed out, and the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi stirred in response.

It transformed into golden lotuses that drifted down from above.

For a moment, the entire night sky seemed to transform into a Buddhist kingdom.

The face was like that of a true Buddha descending upon the mortal world—sacred, inviolable, its majesty too awesome to behold directly.

The giant Buddha-face looked down upon the Wood Demon and spoke with indifference:

"Vile creature! You have some nerve!"

"Will you not surrender?"

Though it was but a calm, unhurried rebuke, tens of millions of lightning snakes danced high in the sky, creating a world-shaking spectacle.

In the Prefecture City hundreds of miles away, faint tremors could be felt. Countless people were startled from their sleep, feeling an inexplicable weight on their hearts, as if a great catastrophe was about to befall them.

"Rebirth Buddha Venerable!"

Upon seeing that face, both Chu An and Chen Tianhua felt their scalps tingle with fear, a sense of dread blooming in their hearts.

Given their positions, they naturally knew who that face belonged to.

Rebirth Buddha Venerable!

This Martial Arts Great Power was the strongest expert the Wansheng Institute had produced in a millennium. His status was equal to that of the Gui Chen Sect’s Sect Leader, and he was powerful enough to contend with the Lord of the State.

K-K-KRAK!

The instant the Buddha-face appeared, the Wood Demon in the forest froze as if struck by lightning, its Divine Spirit trembling and its body rendered completely motionless.

Under that single rebuke, its body even began to crumble and disintegrate.

Large chunks of vines and roots sloughed off its form.

A single rebuke had brought it to the brink of death!

Everyone who witnessed this felt a chill run down their spine. Chu An immediately retracted his Divine Power Technique, dispelling the image.

’A Feathered expert’s Divine Techniques are boundless,’ he thought. ’I’m afraid even a single glance from them could annihilate me.’

Chen Tianhua didn’t dare to watch any longer either, but just as he was about to shut down the Incense Mirror...

His expression froze.

Amid the brilliantly shining golden light of the image...

He saw a figure in a white robe.

In this person’s hand was a sword.

An ordinary Iron Sword, devoid of any mystical properties!