Bab 1727: Upaya yang Melelahkan

Seluruh rangkaian peristiwa terjadi terlalu cepat, membuat Li Changsheng benar-benar tercengang.

Sebelumnya, dia bahkan memiliki harapan yang muluk-muluk bahwa mereka dapat sedikit melukai tubuh fisik Zhao Han, yang berpotensi memberikan dampak yang menentukan pada situasi keseluruhan. Tetapi siapa yang menyangka bahwa kedua orang ini akan dikalahkan begitu cepat?

Kekalahan Xuan Bajing masih bisa dimaafkan, karena gerakannya cukup brilian. Meskipun demikian, dialah yang terluka.

Adapun kekalahan Guan Chouhai, itu tidak lebih dari lelucon. Xuan Bajing telah berhasil menguji kemampuan khusus musuh untuknya, namun dia malah membuat dirinya sendiri pingsan!

Li Changsheng mengira Guan Chouhai cukup cerdas. Mengapa otaknya kacau hari ini?

Kedua klon itu menyerang Li Changsheng, Xuan Bajing, dan Guan Chouhai saat itu juga, berencana untuk mengambil kesempatan untuk sepenuhnya melenyapkan mereka.

Guan Chouhai pingsan adalah satu hal, tetapi Li Changsheng dan Xuan Bajing dipenuhi dengan keputusasaan. Mereka terluka parah dan tidak memiliki kekuatan untuk melawan balik. Mereka hanya bisa menyaksikan kematian yang tak terhindarkan mendekat.

Tepat saat itu, Tetua Xuan Dou dan biksu muda Jie Se, yang sebelumnya mengamati situasi bersama beberapa Taois, dengan cepat bergegas untuk menyelamatkan tetua sekte mereka. Sayangnya, meskipun tingkat kultivasi mereka tinggi, ini adalah serangan dari seorang grandmaster yang telah mengkultivasi jiwa yin. Jeritan menyedihkan memenuhi udara satu demi satu. Mereka menderita banyak korban hampir seketika.

Ketika melihat Tetua Xuan Dou, yang baru saja bertarung dengannya, terbunuh dengan begitu mudah, Jie Se sangat ketakutan hingga wajahnya pucat pasi. Dia berpikir, Seolah-olah orang-orang ini bahkan bukan dari Kuil Ketenangan; yang mati adalah Taois, bukan biksu! Dia berbalik dan lari menyelamatkan diri.

Tapi bagaimana mungkin kedua sosok itu membiarkannya pergi? Mereka segera mengejar, senjata mereka masih berlumuran darah.

Jie Se mulai berteriak minta tolong. “Aku akan mati, aku akan mati! Guru, selamatkan aku!”

Proyeksi Buddha di udara tiba-tiba mengangkat tangannya dan menyerang ke arah ‘Guan Chouhai’ dan ‘Xuan Bajing’. Sebuah tangan muncul di tengah awan, dan sesaat kemudian, tangan itu menghantam mereka seperti Gunung Tai. Meskipun keduanya tangguh, mereka bukanlah tandingan proyeksi Buddha yang sebanding dengan roh purba dewa bumi. Mereka dengan cepat menghindar ke belakang.

With a cold snort, Zhao Han’s primordial spirit also interfered, striking aside the buddha’s hand. Seemingly having noticed Master Jian Huang’s weakness, he took the chance to aim his finger at Jie Se. His seemingly ordinary finger looked as if it were crushing an ant. It was so overwhelmingly powerful that Jie Se couldn’t resist in the slightest, and could only watch as that finger pressed down.

Master Jian Huang naturally wouldn’t just let that happen without doing anything. The buddha projection quickly rushed over to save him. However, Zhao Han’s primordial spirit had a strange smile as it took the chance to attack the buddha projection.

Previously, with King Qi as the main force and Master Jian Huang as the support, both sides had maintained excellent teamwork and managed to briefly hold Zhao Han off. And yet now, with the disciple as bait, Master Jian Huang took the initiative to attack. That produced a crack in their coordination.

For Zhao Han, there was no way he would let such an opportunity go. A fist, a palm, and a finger struck the buddha projection. It flickered continuously, and in the end, it could no longer hold on, dissipating into the air.

Below, the seated Master Jian Huang didn’t vomit blood, but no one would think he was completely fine. His skin began to crack all over, as if he were made of broken glass. A cold wind blew across Golden Peak, and a chunk of skin fell from his face, revealing a pitch-black void behind it. Then, his entire body could no longer hold on, fully breaking apart piece by piece. With a gust of wind, he dissolved into ashes.

When he saw Master Jian Huang try to help his disciple, King Qi immediately realized that the situation was bad. He quickly rushed over, but he was still too late. The buddha statue was already broken. Even someone with his level of mental strength felt a brief moment of alarm when he saw Master Jian Huang turn into ashes. After all, without the monk’s support, he was definitely not Zhao Han’s match.

Zhao Han seemed to have foreseen that. After killing Master Jian Huang, he used the momentum to continue his assault.

King Qi defended himself in a panic. Unfortunately, Zhao Han had been number one in this world for too long and was full of experience, not giving him any opportunities. Soon after, King Qi’s defenses broke down bit by bit. In the end, a fist imprint slammed into his chest, causing his massive figure to collapse. He could no longer hold on and returned to his body once more.

Zhao Han exhaled in relief. Taking down two powerful opponents in succession so quickly was difficult even for someone of his cultivation. He practically hadn’t held back at all. All of his cultivation had erupted in the shortest possible amount of time.

Menghadapi Guru Jian Huang saja sudah sulit, tetapi pada akhirnya, Raja Qi juga seorang immortal bumi. Zhao Han harus mengerahkan seluruh tenaganya untuk bisa melukainya dengan serius. Namun sekarang, dia sudah berhasil mengatasi dua musuh yang paling merepotkan. Dengan kekuatan immortal buminya, dia bisa kembali ke kondisi terkuatnya hanya dalam beberapa detik. Semua orang lain hanyalah seekor semut di hadapannya.

Namun, sesuatu yang sama sekali tidak terduga tiba-tiba terjadi. Suara sakral Buddha memenuhi udara, dan bunga lotus berjatuhan dari langit. Biksu kecil itu kini benar-benar tenang, rasa takutnya yang sebelumnya hilang. Lingkaran cahaya muncul di belakang kepalanya yang botak. Seluruh sosoknya juga menjadi sangat suci dan bermartabat.

Ekspresi Zhao Han berubah drastis. Dia dengan cepat menghindar ke belakang, tetapi sayangnya, dia baru saja mengalahkan dua musuh besar. Dia baru saja menghabiskan kekuatannya dan belum bisa pulih.

Pada saat yang sama, tangan Jie Se tiba-tiba mulai bergerak, langsung menerapkan beberapa segel magis ke tubuh Zhao Han.

Roh primordial Zhao Han kembali ke tubuhnya. Sosoknya yang tinggi dan perkasa sedikit terhuyung, dan dia duduk di tanah. Dia selalu memandang orang lain dari sudut pandang yang tak terkalahkan; kapan dia pernah menunjukkan keadaan yang begitu menyedihkan kepada orang lain sebelumnya?

Guo Zhi dan Pengawal Kekaisaran lainnya merasa ngeri ketika melihat itu. Mereka bergegas membantunya. Namun, tangan Jie Se menyatu dan cahaya merah menyapu keluar. Pengawal Kekaisaran dan Utusan Bersulam yang tersisa langsung terbakar, berubah menjadi abu dalam sekejap mata.

Para pejabat sipil dan militer di tengah gunung terkejut. Mengapa ada aura dewa bumi lain sekarang? Kemunculan dewa bumi yang berturut-turut membuat bahkan yang paling tenang, Meng Yi dan Bi Qi, duduk tegak. Meskipun Yang Mulia sangat tangguh, keadaan akan menjadi berbahaya jika ini terus berlanjut! Karena itu, mereka memberi perintah kepada pasukan yang menunggu di bawah untuk membawa Meriam Pengepungan Rune. Mereka telah memutuskan untuk menerobos formasi pertahanan gunung Sekte Matahari yang Adil.

Wajah Zhao Han memerah padam. Ia menatap Jie Se yang berada di dekatnya dengan tatapan penuh kebencian dan meludah, “Kau bukan biksu kecil itu. Siapa sebenarnya kau?”

Jie Se menyatukan kedua tangannya, berkata, “Biksu malang ini tentu saja Jie Se. Namun, biksu ini juga memiliki nama lain di masa lalu, Ruhua. Saya yakin Yang Mulia mengetahui nama itu.”

“Jadi kaulah pelakunya!” seru Zhao Han, matanya menyipit.

King Qi was gasping for breath too, but he was filled with even more shock. He also knew that name. Ruhua had been the abbot of a generation in Tranquility Temple, as well as the master of the current abbot, Master Jian Huang. He was rumored to have been the most outstanding genius in Tranquility Temple in the past thousand years, as well as the one who had had the highest chance of breaking through into the earth immortal rank.

Unfortunately, Zhao Han had risen up and suppressed an entire generation. Ruhua had known that he could not surpass Zhao Han, and due to his age, he had passed away with great regret.

But who would have thought that he actually hadn’t died, and had even become Master Jian Huang’s disciple?!

“No, something’s not right. The way you interacted with Master Jian Huang before couldn’t have been fake. If you were his master, how could you have put on such a perfect appearance?” Zhao Han asked gravely. He clearly had his own informants on Violet Mountain and knew about such details clearly.

“Without this method, how could we have hidden from your majesty?” Monk Ruhua replied with a smile. “Actually, not even Jian Huang knew about this. In order to deceive the entire world, I sealed my sea of consciousness. Normally, I really was just Jie Se. Only in that instant did I recall everything and learn of my own plans.”

Zhao Han said with a sneer, “It was an excellent scheme, as expected. But you Buddhists always preach about a heart of compassion, and yet in the end, you even deceived your own disciple, sacrificing his life to scheme against me. What buddha are you even cultivating at this point, what dao?!”

King Qi’s entire body turned ice-cold. Hadn’t he also been used like a tool in this scheme? If Ruhua had informed him of his real identity beforehand, then together with Master Jian Huang and the others, they could have had a chance of winning against Zhao Han. But this man just had to have chosen the most treacherous method. Now, so many people had died so miserably, while he and Zhao Han were both in terrible states. Only Ruhua was still in his strongest state.

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