Chapter 578 - 34: Slaying a Supreme, Devouring the Origin, Daluo Bloody Battle

Chapter 578: Chapter 34: Slaying a Supreme, Devouring the Origin, Daluo Bloody Battle

The true intent of Slaying, Ending, Slaughtering, and Trapping erupted. Every Buddha, Bodhisattva, Arhat, and Vajra within the Yellow River Basin was cut down, slaughtered, and exterminated!

Even two Eternal Daluos and one Artifact Holder Daluo fell, each one suppressed beneath a single sword, just like the Innocent Ancient Buddha!

"We agreed to a Daluo blood war. Naturally, it only ends in death."

Daoist Venerable Profound Clarity shook the Heaven-Opening Banner again, unleashing another wave of Chaos Sword Qi. The already heavily injured Immortal Mother was struck once more, crying out in agony!

Great Sun Buddha’s expression changed drastically.

"If a true Daluo Dao War breaks out, it will be the end of everything!"

"The end of everything?" Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable laughed, a sneer appearing on all six of his faces.

"Are you even worthy?"

He charged forward brazenly, all nine of his hands unleashing the Fighting Skill at once. He clashed with Great Sun Buddha, actually managing to overwhelm and savagely beat him down!

Guangcheng Zi and the others watched, utterly mesmerized. Great Sun Buddha was no ordinary Daluo...

To be frank, if Sakyamuni Buddha had not obtained half a Dao Fruit, he would have been merely on par with Great Sun Buddha. They were the respective leaders of this generation of the Buddhist Sect!

But now?

That Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable, unlike Daoist Monarch Profound Clarity, wasn’t using some unbelievable Supreme Treasure. He was relying solely on his own immense power, and yet he was still overwhelming and brutally beating Great Sun Buddha!

The latter was even coughing up blood, his body cracking apart. The flow of his own Time and Years fell into chaos; he was clearly in a terrible state!

After a moment of daze, Guangcheng Zi was the first to come to his senses. He declared in a resounding voice:

"The Daluo blood war... begins... today!"

The Jade Void Twelve Immortals, along with the Ancestral Dragon and Emperor Fengdu, all charged into the bloody fray.

Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable pummeled Great Sun Buddha, forcing him into a continuous retreat. Meanwhile, Daoist Monarch Profound Clarity used the Immortal Slaying Sword Array to strike at the Eternal and Artifact Holder-level Daluos, while also using the Heaven-Opening Banner to pressure Great Brightness Buddha, a [Supreme Daluo]!

But Guangcheng Zi and his allies were still at a disadvantage. The enemy simply had too many Daluo. Even with his two bodies, Lu Xuan could at most entangle a few of them...

However...

"How could I possibly be left out?"

A splendid light streaked across the horizon as the smiling Xuandu Daoist emerged, holding the Taiji Diagram. After listening to the sermon in the Purple Cloud Palace, he too had broken through, stepping into the realm of an Artifact Holder Daluo in a single stride.

Like Guangcheng Zi, he was only a hair’s breadth away from the Supreme level!

The Taiji Diagram hummed and glowed, transforming into a colossal image that descended to suppress their foes. Then, two more figures emerged from the River of Time—both of them were Supreme!

Emperor Xuanyuan attacked the Great Virtuous Buddha, another Supreme Daluo, while Shennong struck out at Infinite Splendor Buddha.

The two sides were locked in a chaotic melee. Though they appeared to be fighting within this single patch of the Celestial Vault, their battle in reality spanned all worlds and all realms, across the past and the future!

Soon...

DONG!

An Eternal-level Daluo was utterly slain, pierced through. Its imprint on time was annihilated, and its corpse plummeted from the sky, crashing into the Yellow River and kicking up monstrous waves!

A Daluo... had fallen!

Atop Emperor Pass, the Ten Halls Yama, the Four Seas Dragon Race, the myriad immortals, the Earth Deities, and all the others stared blankly. They watched the grand spectacle unfolding in the sky, a sight rarely witnessed since ancient times, their very hearts and souls trembling.

"A Daluo blood war..."

Golden Spirit Saint Mother was in a daze. Throughout history, Daluo blood wars were not uncommon, even happening from time to time.

But a Daluo conflict of this scale... was utterly unprecedented!!

’Perhaps even the arrival of the final apocalypse wouldn’t be as grand as this, would it??’

There were fifteen Daluos from the Daoist Sect, plus the Ancestral Dragon, Emperor Fengdu, and the two Ancient Human Emperors.

On the other side, the Buddhist Sect had deployed nearly its entire foundation—over twenty Daluos. If you included the Immortal Mother, Emperor Qing Hua, the Black Tortoise, and the others, their side had a total of thirty Daluo.

That was a grand total of forty-nine Daluos from both sides, warring within a single, narrow patch of the Celestial Vault!

One must understand, in the entire Great Heaven and Earth, plus all the Infinite Celestial Realms and Infinite Realms, just how many Daluos were there in total?

Seventy or eighty.

And a considerable number of them were lying dormant in some Ancient Realm...

In other words, at this very moment, in this very place, more than half of all Daluo in existence were fighting to the death.

And... it was becoming a complete rout!

Countless gazes were fixed upon those two towering figures.

Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable had hammered Great Sun Buddha to the brink of collapse, while Daoist Monarch Profound Clarity had already annihilated a second Daluo. A rain of Daluo blood once again showered down from the heavens.

"Both of you, that’s enough!"

Great Sun Buddha’s eyes were bloodshot with anguish. This was the entire foundation of the Buddhist Sect outside of Spirit Mountain, and in a mere instant, two Daluo had fallen!

Those were Daluo, beings who could traverse the expanse of Time! Every single one of them was absolutely crucial!

He could bear it no longer. A vast Dharma Wheel, his personal Dao Artifact, appeared in his hand. As it spun violently, it unleashed an immense might!

"Enough?"

Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable spoke with indifference:

"No. It is not enough. It is far from enough."

He had not used the Creation Jade Scroll or his Transcendent Traits, relying solely on the power of this True Self Incarnation. He exhausted everything, yet his position as the Emperor Earth Deity instantly replenished it all.

In the span of a single breath, a cycle of creation and destruction, his power was depleted eighty-four thousand times, only to be replenished eighty-four thousand times.

And the power from those eighty-four thousand depletions was channeled into a single strike!

"Today, I shall ascend to the Supreme level."

Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable raised the vast, mighty power condensed from eighty-four thousand depletions. Great Sun Buddha’s expression changed dramatically as he summoned the Vajra Realm Wheel, using its full power to defend himself!

However, in the very next instant...

Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable flashed a brilliant smile. The Infinite Innate Blood Sea, the eighty-four thousand points of light in his hand, and the secretly activated might of the Creation Jade Scroll all suddenly changed direction. The attack pierced through the Years, froze Time itself, and slammed into Great Brightness Buddha!

Great Brightness Buddha, who was using all his power to defend against the Heaven-Opening Banner, was completely caught off guard. He was pierced through by the strike. Cracks spread across his entire body starting from his head, and his countless imprints throughout the annals of time and history collapsed along with him!

HUMMM!!

In the dead silence that followed, a Supreme-level Daluo... had fallen.

Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable salvaged the origin essence of this Supreme Daluo and swallowed it in one gulp. His own countless imprints across time began to cohere, and he started to approach the [Supreme] level.

"And me."

Amidst the utter silence, Daoist Monarch Profound Clarity also smiled. The Heaven-Opening Banner trembled, but an Ancient Tree Branch stained with Emperor’s Blood had suddenly appeared in his left hand. It silently pierced through the void.

The Ancient Tree Branch stabbed into the River of Time, landing in the most ancient of eras.

In that most ancient of eras, the version of Profound Clarity who had been ordained as [God Lu Xuan] of the Ancient Celestial Court opened his eyes. He mobilized the full might of the Ancient Celestial Court, striking out toward the Western Buddha Land.

The power of the entire Ancient Celestial Court, channeled through that blood-stained branch, slashed down upon the Great Virtuous Buddha.

The Buddha, already entangled with Emperor Xuanyuan, coughed up blood and gave a tragic smile. Across every era and at every point in time, his various manifestations put their palms together and sighed softly:

"My Buddha is merciful."

He too disintegrated, perishing into nothingness.

Daoist Monarch Profound Clarity smiled, retrieved the Daluo’s origin essence, and also swallowed it in one gulp. Just like Profound Yellow Emperor Venerable, he began to glow, drawing ever closer to the Supreme level!

’Countless years of bitter cultivation couldn’t compare to a single mouthful of Daluo origin essence... Murder has always been the fastest path.’

With two Supreme Daluos slain, the battle became completely one-sided. Xuandu also annihilated an Artifact Holder Daluo, and Guangcheng Zi utterly crushed an Eternal Daluo.

The blood of Daluo dyed the entire Yellow River red. Throughout the Great Heaven and Earth—from the depths of the Nine Nether, across the boundless mountains and rivers, and up to the Thirty-Three Celestial Realms—everything trembled in fear.

"Enough!"

An angered voice rang out as an Ancient One approached!

"This ends now!"