Chapter 135: Heaven and Earth Are One Finger, All Things Are One Horse
The Daoist Lord opens the Taiji, ruling the world with the Dao, allowing Jiang Li to witness the prowess of this oldest supreme being.
[Dao Rules the World, yet its ghosts are not divine] can render all Dao Fruit abilities and divine skills ineffective, while the Daoist Lord himself cultivates One Qi to Three Pure Ones and Nine Heavens Demon Clearing True Technique. It's as powerful as divine skills, truly the most formidable illusion god in this Dao Fruit System.
Even just a Primordial Spirit is enough to engage with any third grade.
However, the Awakened does not fall behind.
See the Buddha's energy rising like clouds and mist, materializing an upper body phantom of a Buddha above the Stone Pavilion, its eyes opening and shining light over the world.
In an instant, the world turned upside down, and the world Jiang Li saw had changed its appearance.
The monk's dwelling and sacred bell manifest, the earth becomes crimson gold, the sky like glazed glass, seemingly a world of Pure Land, with a towering Bodhi Tree appearing in the center, draped with myriad auspicious energies.
The original Daoist Temple is gone, replaced by an awe-inspiring scene, half the world becomes the Buddha Country, while the other half resembles a cosmic void, deep and boundless, with Taiji crushing the expanding Buddha realm.
In the blink of an eye, heaven and earth are changed, the Daoist Lord and the Awakened face each other, Taiji and the Buddha's phantom opposing across the void.
An endless clash of Qi Mechanism and power, generating wave after wave, with the Buddha's Pure Land and the cosmic void continuously expanding, Taiji and the Buddha both rapidly swelling.
First like mountains, then magnified a hundred, thousand times, the Buddha holding up the heavens, Taiji like a starry sky, the heavens and earth occupied by both.
Before them, Jiang Li and Li Qinglian seemed like insignificant ants, any Qi Mechanism like vast rivers, capable of overwhelming the two.
Is the might of the supreme truly this terrifying?
'No.'
Facing these two entities occupying heaven and earth, Jiang Li's Mental State calmed after a brief upheaval.
He has faced third grade supremes before, and even with the power of the heavens here, he maintained some grasp and understanding of this Realm. Not to mention a Primordial Spirit and a Spiritual Thought Body are here, even if the two supremes personally came, they couldn't form star-like bodies.
'This is not reality.'
A vertical line slowly cracked open at his brow, and his Heavenly Eye opened, splitting his view.
Under the Heavenly Eye's observation, they were still within the Daoist Temple, but through his eyes, they were in this scene of two worlds colliding.
One is reality, while the other...
'is like a dream's heart world.'
Jiang Li, having fought tirelessly in dreams before, deeply experienced change and made a judgment.
The Awakened's true body was still meditating, only a Spiritual Thought came, inferior to the Daoist Lord's Three Pure Ones. But this didn't mean the Awakened couldn't exert power.
A powerful Spiritual Thought pulled everyone into the heart world, and even meditating in the Buddha Country, the Awakened could still wield significant power. In this heart world, anything imagined could be realized; their spiritual cultivation and Daoist canon determined strength, and if defeated, even if not dead, they'd be severely wounded.
In some way, this is like creating another world where the two act at will.
This is a similar but opposite method to the Moluo Sword Manual, turning real into illusory and battling in the heart world.
Now, the star-like massive entities displayed their awe-inspiring powers, the Taiji revolving, embracing Yin while bearing Yang, colliding like a black hole and crushing everything.
And that Buddha's phantom transformed again, amidst the vast Buddha's energy, another Buddha rose.
A crimson flame ignited within the Buddha's Pure Land, with one Buddha after another manifesting, seven in total, like seven stars, sitting in tandem.
"Seven Buddhas' Sin Erasure!" Jiang Li, witnessing this, immediately recognized the Awakened's signature move.
By turning his thoughts into the Seven Buddhas of the past, chanting the Seven Buddhas' Sin Extinguishing Mantra, eliminating all karmic sins.
The Awakened is one of the few in the Buddha Country not cultivating Summoning Techniques, yet his understanding of them is considered the strongest. He's able to use his own Dao Fruit as a vessel, with thoughts as energy, manifesting Seven Buddhas' Dharma Manifestations, surpassing many who practice Summoning Techniques.
When the Seven Buddhas appeared, the entire heart world shook as if it couldn't bear the past Seven Buddhas' great power, where the Buddha Light touched, waves were born in the heaven and earth.
Yet the Taiji on the other hand didn't give in either.
The black and white two elements, although simple, lacked the grandeur of the Seven Buddhas, but their charm didn't fall behind, Yin and Yang revolving, integrating clarity and dross, the Taiji Formation encompassing all things, being upright and peaceful yet dominantly unparalleled.
No matter your myriad techniques, I crush them all.
The Yin and Yang poles operate the world, revealing the Nine Heavens Demon Clearing True Technique's dominance, the stronger the enemy, the stronger I become, Taiji expanding endlessly.
Only by maintaining a stalemate without a true fight does Jiang Li and Li Qinglian avoid getting caught. Nonetheless, they still experienced the terror of the supreme directly.
In this heart world, Perception is more vivid and deep, showcasing the two's Daoist skills and foundations.
The clash between Seven Buddhas and Taiji causes violent tremors in the heart world, holding in deadlock for a long time. If in reality, Daoist Lord cultivating Nine Heavens Demon Clearing True Technique might take the upper hand in Power, but in the heart world, neither spiritual mechanism nor Five Vile Qi could enter, so their abilities could only be contested with pure spiritual cultivation and Daoist canon, remaining evenly matched.