Sakyamuni inwardly cursed himself for spacing out just now. By the time he regained his senses, it was already too late—Lin Fan was long gone, vanished without a trace.
All he could hope for now was to catch up.
“Venerable Sakyamuni, please stay a moment,” Mur Feng blocked Sakyamuni’s path.
“Good disciple, I have urgent matters to attend to. Please allow me to pass,” Sakyamuni replied, his heart burning with impatience, though his expression remained calm and serene.
At this moment, countless experts had rushed after Lin Fan, yet Mur Feng had stayed behind, waiting precisely for Sakyamuni.
“Of course I can let you pass. However, I’ve heard of the Buddha Clan’s ‘Art of Salvation’—a technique of unfathomable power over gods and spirits. If Venerable Sakyamuni could part with it, I would be deeply grateful.”
Mur Feng had inherited the legacy of the Great Freedom尊佛, yet one crucial technique was missing—the Art of Salvation. If he could master it, using it to convert all beings and gather faith, then the cultivation arts of the Great Freedom尊佛 would reach an even higher level.
Upon hearing this, Sakyamuni’s eyes flickered with a sharp light as he clasped his hands together. “Good disciple, the Art of Salvation is a secret of the Buddha Clan, not to be passed on. I’m afraid I must disappoint you. Please, let me pass—I have urgent matters to attend to.”
“They say the Buddha answers all prayers, yet Venerable Sakyamuni refuses. It seems your cultivation hasn’t reached the level it should,” Mur Feng said coldly. “In that case, I shall take it myself.”
Mur Feng had already made his decision. Although Lin Fan had provoked him, killing him would bring no real benefit. It was far better to stop Sakyamuni and seize the Art of Salvation.
Even if Sakyamuni refused to hand it over, Mur Feng was prepared to subdue him, using soul-binding techniques to extract the Art of Salvation from him.
Though Sakyamuni was formidable, Mur Feng was not afraid.
“Good disciple, you are possessed by demons,” Sakyamuni said, his anger rising. If he delayed any longer, Lin Fan would truly escape, and finding him again would be nearly impossible.
As for Mur Feng, Sakyamuni felt helpless. He had seemed like such a peaceful young man, yet his heart was unexpectedly ruthless.
“Angry Buddha! Master, your Buddhist arts are indeed profound. But how about my Greedy Buddha?” Mur Feng smiled faintly, and suddenly, golden Buddhist light erupted like a waterfall, stretching across the heavens and earth, far surpassing Sakyamuni’s radiance.
“Sigh…” Sakyamuni sighed deeply, saying no more, and struck out a palm toward Mur Feng.
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“At this rate, my chances of escape have greatly increased,” Lin Fan flew through the void, glancing behind him from time to time.
A group of experts chased him like rabid dogs.
“Bald brat, if you still manage to find me this time, I’ll eat my own shit,” Lin Fan laughed inwardly. He held these pursuers in utter contempt. If he wished to strike back, wiping them out would be effortless.
But to avoid drawing attention, he had no intention of retaliating. Escaping was all he needed.
“Little bastard, stop right there!”
“We’ll chase you to the ends of the earth today if we must!”
“Damn brat, daring to provoke us! He doesn’t know the meaning of death!”
Yu Liutian and others roared in fury. They had already resolved to kill Lin Fan. Yu Liutian, in particular, was hot-tempered. He had been fuming ever since entering the secret realm.
And now Lin Fan had dared to provoke him directly, igniting his anger completely.
“Hmph, a bunch of fools. If it weren’t for avoiding that bald monk, I’d have slaughtered you all already,” Lin Fan’s figure flickered, his invisibility technique pushed to the limit. In the blink of an eye, he crossed vast distances.
In the void, Lin Fan moved like a fish in water. His powerful body resisted the violent currents of the void, which could slice through anything, yet caused him no harm whatsoever.
“This brat runs fast!”
“This movement technique is truly formidable. We must kill him and seize it.”
“That’s right. He stole the storage rings of the Three Corpse Ancestor and others. His wealth is staggering. Even if we gained nothing else in this secret realm, seizing his storage ring alone would make this journey worthwhile.”
To them, Lin Fan was a walking mountain of gold, and all of them wanted him dead.
“Damn it, they’re all like mad dogs,” Lin Fan thought as the distance between him and the pursuers widened. It wouldn’t be long before he completely escaped.
His second soul was already suppressing the Primordial Wood. Though powerful, the wood was nothing to Lin Fan—killing it would take but a moment.
“Hmm, what’s that up ahead?” Just then, Lin Fan furrowed his brow. In the distance, the sky churned with blood-red waves, an eerie sight.
The clouds at the horizon were blood-red and spreading rapidly. In an instant, the crimson sky loomed directly above Lin Fan.
“Look! What is that?”
The pursuing experts also noticed the anomaly, though they had no idea what was happening.
“There’s something strange ahead—perhaps a treasure is emerging!”
“Could it be the treasure of the Blood-Mist Demon Lord?”
……
“What the hell is this?” Lin Fan’s heart tightened. A bad omen crept into his mind.
Looking up, all he saw was a sea of red, as if he were submerged in an ocean of blood.
“Where there is strangeness, there is bound to be demons,” Lin Fan thought, wanting to flee quickly. Everything had become too eerie.
But just then, the strange crimson clouds suddenly pulsed with light, filled with countless ancient runes.
“Buzz!”
The void trembled violently as an irresistible force surged from all directions, forcefully ejecting Lin Fan from the void itself.
“What immense power!” Lin Fan’s heart pounded. This force was beyond his ability to resist. To be forcibly pulled from the void—no mere eighth-stage Divine Heaven expert with the Heaven Pill could accomplish such a feat.
“This is a force of imprisonment!”
Lin Fan felt his inner energy slow down, and even time itself seemed to crawl.
“Damn coward, hiding in the shadows!” Lin Fan halted, swinging his Fist of the Apocalypse with full force. A god of doom, wreathed in apocalyptic winds, struck into the void.
Yet when it struck the crimson sea, it vanished like a stone dropped into the ocean, leaving not even a ripple.
“Lin Fan, the Human Emperor, with such cultivation, you’ve made Lord Jie work so hard. Truly, you look impressive but are useless,” a vast voice echoed from all directions.
“Who is that?” Lin Fan’s expression changed. He clearly heard the name “Jie.” Could this be someone sent by the Ancient Clans?
At that moment, the other experts also grew wary, sensing a powerful presence filling the heavens and earth.
In an instant,
From the distant horizon, a figure appeared before their eyes.
It emerged like a swirl of black mist, gradually solidifying into form.
As the figure fully materialized, the entire world was plunged into blood-red light.
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