At the point of Chen Zhou’s bone spikes, the entire army of ghost servants launched an all-out charge toward the Ksitigarbha of Great Vows.
White bones surged like a tide, blotting out the sky.
Chen Zhou activated Bone Incarnation, possessing the body of Jian Huaishuang.
Wu Gou, seeing such a massive, swarming crowd of skeletons, was startled and quickly burrowed into the ground.
"Kill him! Kill that old bald ass!" Wu Gou poked his head out from behind a massive stone pillar, waving a femur he had picked up from somewhere like it was a war banner.
"Hey, big boss, can you handle this? Watch your aim and go for his lower vitals!"
Sitting atop his lotus platform, the Ksitigarbha of Great Vows pressed his palms together, his face filled with compassion.
"All beings are ignorant. This mortal husk is but a vessel across the sea of suffering. Why must you be so persistent in destroying it, Benefactor?"
"It would be better to drop the butcher's blade and merge with this seat to share in the bliss of Sukhavati."
"Bliss my ass!" Wu Gou spat on the ground. "You call that bliss? It’s pure disgust!"
Ksitigarbha’s brow furrowed slightly, his gaze toward Wu Gou filled with pity.
"You have been blinded by the filth of this dust-filled world. Once I have delivered him, I will naturally refine you as well, allowing you to regain your purity."
"Bah!" Wu Gou spat again. "I’m way cleaner than you."
In the center of the battlefield, the fighting grew increasingly tragic.
Ksitigarbha’s defense was indeed impeccable. The golden light constructed from the vow power of all beings was incredibly hard; the skeletons' attacks struggled to break through.
But Chen Zhou never performed useless actions.
As long as an attack could land, it was enough.
When the thousandth skeleton exploded in front of Ksitigarbha, the golden light of vow power was stained with a layer of ashen decay.
【Withering Venom】.
"What is this?" Ksitigarbha felt the smooth flow of vow power within his body begin to stagnate.
There was lethal poison within the white bones?
Ordinary corpse poison, even that from a ten-thousand-year-old zombie, could never penetrate his golden light of great vows.
Chen Zhou’s lips curled into a cold sneer as his ghost domain fully expanded. "A meeting gift for you. Do you like it?"
In that instant, heaven and earth changed color.
The battlefield was shrouded in ashen death qi. Countless pale, illusory bone hands reached out from the ground, clawing toward the great Buddha in the air.
"Since the benefactor refuses to repent, this monk can only resort to thunderous methods to subdue the demon."
A flash of impatience crossed Ksitigarbha’s eyes. Although his vow power was endless, this bizarre toxin made him feel nauseated.
He pressed his palms together, then suddenly spread them wide.
Ten thousand feet of Buddhist light erupted instantly, transforming into countless golden swords that scattered indiscriminately in all directions.
Thousands of skeletons were vaporized in a single moment, and even half of the Wolf Court ruins beneath Chen Zhou was sliced away.
However, as the dust settled, Chen Zhou remained suspended in the air. His ghost domain helped him isolate Ksitigarbha’s attack.
"Is that all?" Chen Zhou mocked.
"Your skeletal frame is indeed harder than this monk imagined," Ksitigarbha’s voice turned cold.
"It’s not that I’m hard; it’s that you’re weak." Chen Zhou pointed at Ksitigarbha’s chest. "The toxin has stacked a thousand times. How does it taste?"
As he spoke, Chen Zhou abruptly clenched his hand.
"Detonate."
Boom!
Hundreds of stacks of 【Withering Venom】 ignited instantly.
The golden light of vow power on Ksitigarbha’s body was rapidly infected by the deathly gray, becoming riddled with holes.
The violent explosion bypassed the vow power and acted directly on Ksitigarbha’s golden body, blasting his skin and flesh apart until he was a mangled mess.
"Nice! That was a great blast!" Wu Gou clapped and cheered from a distance. "Blast him in the face! This old bald ass cares about his reputation the most!"
Ksitigarbha looked down at his ruined body, but no pain appeared on his face. He smiled.
"It is merely a husk. If it is broken, I shall simply change into a new one."
Before his voice finished, Ksitigarbha suddenly reached out with both hands, grabbing the mangled flesh on his chest. He then forcibly tore his own skin of compassion down the middle.
The golden light of vow power dissipated as a revolting stench surged into the sky.
A humanoid monster flowing with black-brown corpse water and highly decayed muscles crawled out from the holy husk of the Ksitigarbha of Great Vows.
In an instant, a terrifying illusion of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood filled with rotting meat expanded wildly from his center.
"Hmm?" Chen Zhou’s eyebrows shot up.
Two domains collided violently in the air, crushing and devouring one another.
On one side was Chen Zhou’s bone purgatory, and on the other was Ksitigarbha’s decaying corpse kingdom.
Chen Zhou’s brow furrowed as he felt the pressure radiating from that domain.
"A ghost domain? You’re an evil spirit?"
In a flash, a secret mystery of the sword sect crossed Chen Zhou’s mind.
"Five hundred years ago, rumor had it that there was a humanoid evil spirit in the Dead Man’s Forest. It disappeared after a battle with the Gale Mountain Lord."
"So it was parasitized by an old undying thing like you."
No wonder he couldn't find any clues about that legendary evil spirit in the Dead Man’s Forest earlier; the evil spirit had already put on a cassock and was sitting in the temples of the Northern Region.
The rotting corpse spoke gently, "The benefactor is mistaken. Buddha is the skin; the corpse is the true form."
"It is not that this seat parasitized it, but rather that it took refuge in this seat."
Ksitigarbha controlled the decaying corpse body, stepping through the air one pace at a time. With every step, a lotus of rotting flesh grew beneath his feet.
"Although this vessel is an evil spirit, if there is a Buddha in its heart, then the evil spirit can also be a Buddha."
"This seat borrows its body to carry out the work of deliverance. If I do not enter hell, who will?"
"Bullshit!" Wu Gou’s face changed drastically in the distance as he shouted at Chen Zhou. "Be careful! An evil spirit is extraordinary; it cannot be compared to ordinary living beings!"
Chen Zhou naturally knew this; he himself was an evil spirit.
"Fine. If you want to enter hell, I’ll send you there."
Chen Zhou snorted coldly and summoned another wave of ghost servants.
He didn't care about the consumption at all. Regardless, the bone material he had accumulated was more than enough to squander.
However, a look of mockery appeared on Ksitigarbha’s decayed face.
Within the decaying domain at his feet, the earth suddenly bulged as if some behemoth was traveling underground.
"All beings are suffering; why struggle? Earth Dragon, send the benefactor on his way."
Boom!
The ground exploded, and a giant realm earthworm as thick as a mountain range burrowed out from beneath.
It had no eyes, only a giant maw filled with rows of circular teeth. Its entire body was rotten and foul-smelling. Although its aura had not yet reached the first symbiosis contract, it had reached the seventh stage.
A realm earthworm.
"Holy crap!" Wu Gou was so angry he was wiping tears away.
"You old bald ass, have you no shame?"
"How could you parasitize the Earth Dragon too? It accompanied you for a thousand years! How could you bring yourself to do it?!"
Ksitigarbha pressed his palms together. "It traveled underground often, stained by many impurities. It was already in agony."
"This seat bestowed the Buddhist dharma upon it, helping it escape the sea of suffering to become a Guardian Venerable. Is this not great mercy?"
"Mercy my ass!" Wu Gou cursed while looking at the realm earthworm with heartache.
The realm earthworm, however, possessed no sanity. It let out a sharp hiss and its massive body swept across, instantly crushing hundreds of skeletons into powder.
Chen Zhou’s eyes narrowed.
The realm earthworm was helping Ksitigarbha resist all attacks from the ghost servants, rendering the 【Withering Venom】 ineffective.
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