"rciful Palm!"
As soon as the Bodhisattva manifestation appeared, it imdiately turned and struck out toward the elder, who was as tall as a five-story building. The elder looked on with contempt, swinging his fist toward the Bodhisattva.
A deafening explosion imdiately followed as shockwaves rolled backward.
Gongsun Miao Tong and the others retreated to a safe distance, their mouths agape as they stared at the scene in shock, unable to speak. This was a battle they could no longer ddle in. It was also the most ferocious fight they had ever witnessed.
Even the elders who were desperately bombarding the grand formation’s barrier could not help but stop their attacks to watch the two giants fight. Their hearts trembled, fearing they would be killed instantly if they joined the fray!
SWOOSH!
The mysterious elder was pushed back dozens of ters by the shockwave before he steadied himself. The Bodhisattva manifestation maintained a benevolent expression, its palm suspended in the air.
"What kind of technique is this? Who taught you?" the elder, shrouded in black mist, asked Su Xuan.
"I developed it myself. Is there a problem?" Su Xuan replied nonchalantly. He then rose from his seated ditative posture and walked step by step toward the elder.
The Bodhisattva manifestation mirrored his movents, also walking toward the elder.
The elder muttered, "This looks a lot like a Dharma Idol!"
"Then call it a Dharma Idol," Su Xuan said.
Su Xuan clenched his fist and swung. The Bodhisattva clenched its fist and swung in unison.
The elder’s expression turned grim. With heart-shaking steps, he charged toward the Bodhisattva.
"Elder Ma, is this your disciple?" the Grand Elder asked Ma Beiqiu, turning his gaze away from the intense battlefield, his voice thick with suspicion.
He’d die before he believed Su Xuan was a disciple trained by Ma Beiqiu! Who in the world could train such a disciple?
"I’m puzzled too!" Ma Beiqiu’s mouth hung open, his face just as bewildered. Even if his disciple was hiding his true strength, he couldn’t possibly surpass him, his master! Besides, he himself didn’t know how to manifest such a Bodhisattva Dharma Idol!
A mont later, the elders suddenly felt a tremor in their hearts. This is bad!
They saw the two colossal figures in the great pit suddenly separate, each retreating a hundred ters. The giant mysterious elder had already lost an arm, becoming a one-ard behemoth. Su Xuan’s Bodhisattva Dharma Idol had also crumbled by nearly half, yet it still wore an expression of compassion.
"You have truly exceeded my expectations!" the elder exclaid as he voluntarily backed away. He held his solitary arm up and began rapidly forming hand seals. A wave of energy emanated from him, expanding outward.
The next second, a long crack split open on the floor of the pit. A horde of Shi Jia Generals, riding various fierce beasts, surged out from the fissure. Each general possessed terrifying combat power that was infinitesimally close to the Observing Appearance Realm.
Seeing this ferocious army, Gongsun Miao Tong couldn’t help but retreat even further. If she were to be overrun by such a force, not even her bones would be left! She and the others were also extrely worried about Su Xuan, fearing he couldn’t possibly withstand this army alone.
"We can’t retreat any further!" Gongsun Miao Tong suddenly stopped, a powerful fighting spirit surging within her. She suddenly realized that if she kept retreating and let Su Xuan fight alone, her Dao Heart would suffer even if he won. Her cultivation would stagnate.
"Fight!" she roared. "We’ll fight together!"
Gongsun Miao Tong charged forward, intending to lend Su Xuan a hand.
"Senior Sister, don’t!"
"Sothing’s happening!"
Her fellow disciples from Immortal Mountain hurriedly grabbed her arm, pointing at Su Xuan’s Bodhisattva Dharma Idol with horror-stricken faces.
Gongsun Miao Tong looked up in astonishnt and exclaid, "What is he trying to do?"
She saw the six-story-tall Bodhisattva Dharma Idol shrinking rapidly. Soon, it was only as tall as a three-story building, then the height of a single story. Eventually, it shrank to the size of an ordinary person. Although its form had diminished, the aura radiating from it was terrifying.
Su Xuan’s lips parted slightly. "A bomb," he declared, staring at the mysterious elder. "I’ll blast you to smithereens!"
The Bodhisattva skimd across the ground, swiftly colliding with the Shi Jia Generals on their ferocious mounts.
RUMBLE!
The Shi Jia Generals were incapable of withstanding the Bodhisattva’s charge and instantly exploded into clouds of black mist. The Bodhisattva continued to speed forward, rapidly closing the distance with the mysterious elder.
SWOOSH!
Just then, a streak of light descended outside the crater’s barrier.
"Who is it?" The elders imdiately looked up to see a woman of unparalleled beauty floating in mid-air, standing atop a sword as exquisite as jade.
"Su Pei of the Yu Xian Sect, here to assist!" the woman announced. With a wave of her hand, the sword beneath her feet flew out, slashing fiercely at the formation’s barrier.
With help from soone so deeply connected to Ancestor ng, they could finally relax. The elders heaved a collective sigh of relief.
"He intends to perish together with the monsters from below," Su Pei said coolly. "Elders, you should stop just watching the show."
As Su Pei’s sword struck, the formation’s barrier shuddered, and a crack appeared, though it did not completely shatter. The elders quickly joined forces to attack the barrier.
"Uh..." Su Xuan suddenly looked up at the sky. He sensed the disturbance in the barrier and began to feel anxious. No one knew that he was in the middle of a... plan!
The very next mont, the grand formation’s barrier split open down the middle, and figures dove down from the sky. Su Pei was at the forefront, followed by the elders on their flying mounts.
"Stop ssing things up!" Su Xuan complained. He quickly bit his finger, ford a seal, and gestured at the Bodhisattva. "Quick, quick, quick!"
Urged on by Su Xuan, the Bodhisattva no longer bothered with the Shi Jia Generals. It flew into the air and, as if teleporting, appeared directly in front of the mysterious elder.
"Explode!" Su Xuan clapped his hands together forcefully.
The Bodhisattva exploded.
A massive mushroom cloud surged into the sky, and the resulting dust and smoke almost instantly enveloped the entire bottom of the crater. It was like a nuclear detonation. Gongsun Miao Tong and the others were thrown back by the blast wave, landing in the distance, all rendered unconscious.
SWOOSH!
Su Pei’s Whitehead Sword automatically positioned itself in front of her, shielding her from the blast’s aftershock. The elders, however, fared much worse. Their mounts tumbled uncontrollably in the air, and unable to stabilize themselves, they plumted into the mushroom cloud.
After what seed like an eternity, the dust and smoke finally cleared enough to reveal the scene at the center of the explosion.
"A step too late." Su Pei hovered above the epicenter, her brow tightly furrowed.
The explosion had carved out a horrifyingly large crater. The massive mysterious elder lay within it, only the tattered lower half of his body remaining. The Shi Jia Generals were in an even more miserable state; their remains were almost unrecognizable, with only fragnts of shattered armor scattered across the ground. The gateway the mysterious elder had previously summoned was also gone without a trace. Presumably, the Blood Net Formation had been completely obliterated by the blast.
"Where is he?" The other elders ran over, standing at the edge of the crater and searching for any sign of Su Xuan, but they found nothing.
The second elder, Ma Beiqiu, suddenly burst into tears. "My disciple... he’s perished! Not even his bones are left..."
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