Chapter 604: Chapter 281: Immovable Ming King_2

“What’s wrong? Has the Zhou Family’s Nuo God burned incense for eight sticks but still lacks confidence, coming to surround me?”

“Saintess, you are now nothing more than a stray dog. Everyone in the Bone Elder Association has the right to kill you. Someone like you, who’s lost all their prestige, should not meddle on the battlefield and hold up the fight between Young Master and the Buddha Country’s Three-headed Stone Buddha.”

Zhou Xuan facing off against the Three-headed Stone Buddha needed a fair battleground.

Since fairness demanded a one-on-one duel, what place did the Saint Heir and Saintess have in this contest?

The Saint Heir and Saintess sneered, lifting the Tao Flame Fierce Sun and launching an attack on the Painter and his allies.

Even before Zhou Xuan and the Three-headed Stone Buddha began their clash, these two had already begun their confrontation.

Since this was a pivotal battle between Jing Country and Buddha Country, the Painter this time was not just hiding. Instead, he tore through space repeatedly, engaging the Saint Heir and Saintess in relentless combat. Though he couldn’t defeat them, he resolutely ensured that they wouldn’t disturb the critical duel between Zhou Xuan and the Three-headed Stone Buddha.

At this moment, the Three-headed Stone Buddha’s Dharma Image rapidly took form once again. Three Golden Bodies were already beginning to take shape,

while Zhou Xuan’s Mountain and River Map was also starting to gather momentum.

“You Jing Country people, always ganging up on others,” the Three-headed Stone Buddha said mockingly, eyes closed.

“If we were truly ganging up on you, would you still have the chance to reveal these three Vajra Bodies?”

Zhou Xuan, unmoved by the taunts, simply allowed Bone Teeth to continue drawing the Mountain and River Map onto the canvas of reality.

Meanwhile, he glanced up at the sky.

In the heavens, two crimson Divine Silks fluttered. The Heavenly God’s Fire had shifted from directly above Mingjiang Prefecture to hovering over the skies of Peng Town.

Through a faint layer of white clouds, Zhou Xuan glimpsed a vague silhouette cloaked in dark Daoist robes.

Now, the two Heavenly Vault God-level figures of Mingjiang Prefecture—the God of Suffering and the incense fire Taoist—were spectators to Zhou Xuan’s battle with the Three-headed Stone Buddha.

This first confrontation between a Buddha Country prodigy and a Jing Country genius had drawn far too many eyes.

Would the techniques cultivated beyond Jing Country’s Nine Sticks of Incense prove superior, or would Buddha Country’s Nine Revolutions pinnacle Golden Body surpass them? Everyone awaited the answer.

But Zhou Xuan was never one to follow strict convention.

Even as Bone Teeth rapidly drew the Mountain and River Map, the speed of its manifestation lagged behind the Golden Bodies of the Stone Buddha.

Having assessed the situation, Zhou Xuan didn’t wait for the Mountain and River Map’s complete formation. Instead, he activated the Divine Armor technique multiple times, teleporting instantly to the Three-headed Stone Buddha’s side.

“Star Body Technique!”

Zhou Xuan’s arsenal wasn’t limited to the Mountain and River Map, which surpassed the Nine Sticks of Incense. He also wielded the Star Law of the third realm.

He intended to use his mastery over the law to delay the Stone Buddha’s Dharma Body formation.

If the Stone Buddha completed the Bright King Golden Body first, it would seize the decisive advantage.

In high-level duels such as this, obtaining the initiative was always paramount.

“You’re not afraid of death, are you?”

The Three-headed Stone Buddha felt Zhou Xuan’s colossal power and abruptly opened his eyes. Gripping the Thunderbolt Incarnation blade in both hands, he slashed ferociously at Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan immediately switched tactics, initiating the Star Transformation Technique. His body dissolved into shimmering star dust, causing the blade’s momentum to cut through empty space.

However, the Stone Buddha’s blade techniques, derived from the great Nuodai body that had traversed the “Wuwen Mountain” Tangkou, combined with the incense offerings of eight contemplating levels, generated a thunderous force unmatched in intensity. The sixteen blades of lightning from Wuwen Mountain, brandished with majestic power,

swept through, cleaving nothing but projecting blade momentum like mountain and ocean tides, crashing down upon Zhou Xuan’s countless particles of star dust.

The blade’s sheer bravado spelled danger. Zhou Xuan sensed the threat and allowed one particle of star dust to reconstitute his true form. Then, using the Divine Armor technique, he teleported dozens of meters away, barely escaping the blade force.

Despite the broken momentum of the horizontal slash, Zhou Xuan appeared unfazed by the peerless blade force from moments ago. Activating the Divine Armor again, he launched himself towards the Stone Buddha.

Meanwhile, one of the Three-headed Stone Buddha’s Golden Bodies had already fully formed. With two hands it seized two Thunderbolt Incarnation blades.

Four blades—one slicing horizontally to block Zhou Xuan’s path of advance,

two descending vertically to seal his upward retreat,

and the final blade spiraling fiercely, unleashing a stormy lightning strike aimed directly at Zhou Xuan’s body.

This time, Zhou Xuan didn’t retreat. He twisted his body, almost like a coiled rope, and activated the Divine Armor technique. Amid the four intersecting blade forces, he improbably found a safe haven.

“Star Body.”

Zhou Xuan was not one to settle for safety. In the refuge he found, he immediately counterattacked. With the Star Body, his form solidified like an unyielding glacier. He drove a punch towards the Stone Buddha’s Golden Body.

Bang!

A tremendous crash resounded throughout Peng Town.

Golden light mingled with icy shards, scattering everywhere. Zhou Xuan’s left arm appeared to bear faint cracks,

while the Stone Buddha’s Golden Body staggered, retreating dozens of meters.

“The Bright King Golden Body is nothing special after all.”

Zhou Xuan sneered but remained extraordinarily composed. Teleporting once more to the Stone Buddha’s side, he continued his relentless assault.

“The second Golden Body is complete. Take up the blades.”

The Three-headed Stone Buddha’s second Golden Body took form, seizing another two Thunderbolt Incarnation blades. This time, with six blades unleashed, he sought to wield an unparalleled blade momentum to utterly annihilate Zhou Xuan…

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Yun Ziliang gazed upon the close-quarters battle between Zhou Xuan and the Three-headed Stone Buddha. For a moment, he even began doubting whether Zhou Xuan’s strategy was wise.

“Damn that Stone Buddha, he sure knows how to choose a Tangkou. Among the four great Nuodai fixed to their spots, why did he have to pick Wuwen Mountain?”

Yun Ziliang broke into a cold sweat on Zhou Xuan’s behalf.

Li Chengfeng sighed, remarking, “The name of Wuwen Mountain carries its own weight—’With a blade three feet long in hand, ask not who comes.’

Without the skill to slay gods, who would dare utter such arrogance?

Among the sixteen powers at the Heavenly Dome God Level, in terms of combat strength, it’s not the first, but certainly the second or third.”