Mid-air.
As the battle between the two offspring intensified, many wounds gradually appeared on the bodies of the Buddha statue and the giant squid.
Comparing the two, the king squid is not only inferior to the Buddha statue in terms of strength, but its wound healing speed is also far slower than the other.
At first glance, the injuries on its body were much more serious than those on the Buddha statue.
But there is only one thing that the Buddha statue cannot compare with.
The power of the giant squid seems to be endless. Although it recovers its wounds slowly, it never stops.
Looking back at the Buddha statue.
As long as the great Buddhist monks stop torturing themselves because of too much pain, the 'power of pain' supplied to the Buddha statue will be cut off immediately.
Without the 'power of pain', the Buddha statue's injuries will no longer heal on its own, and will show fatigue in the battle with the giant squid.
Therefore, in order to prevent the Buddha statue from being at a disadvantage in the battle, the great Buddhist monks gritted their teeth and persisted in self-torture even though their bodies were dripping with blood.
'puff'!
Finally, a monk was too seriously injured during the self-inflicted process and could no longer hold on. He vomited blood and fell to the ground.
"Wuwen you"
Seeing the monk fall to the ground, a look of panic appeared in Xuansi's eyes.
He glanced at the squid that was fighting with the Buddha statue in the sky, and said to the monks: "Brothers, if this continues, sooner or later we will be eaten alive."
"So the only way to defeat the enemy is to increase the amount of 'power of pain' generated and take down the giant squid in one go!"
As he spoke, a ruthless look appeared in Xuansi's eyes, and he quickly took out coal, fire tongs, tweezers, steel tongs and other various torture tools from his luggage.
Xuansi gritted his teeth and said, "Everyone, increase your efforts. As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, who will?"
"Amitabha!"
After hearing this, the monks proclaimed the Buddha's name and then took out a variety of torture instruments from their bags behind them.
Some of these instruments of torture can be tolerated by the monks even if they survive.
However, there are very few ingenious and "imaginative" torture instruments. Let alone experiencing them personally, just taking a look at them will make the monks feel a shudder in their hearts.
But these torture instruments, the great Buddhist monks will experience them one by one.
In order to buy more time for the people to escape and to complete the teleportation array in the Liang Palace, they were willing to suffer this inhuman torture.
Thinking of this, the monks in Xiashan City felt inexplicably shocked, and everyone had expressions of excitement and admiration on their faces.
I don’t know who started it first.
Finally, a monk took the initiative to stand up and bowed to the great Buddhist monks: "Master's righteous deed! I admire you!"
"Master Gaoyi!"
As soon as these words came out, more and more monks clasped their fists or bowed to the great Buddhist monks.
at the same time.
After the great Buddhist monks increased their efforts and released more 'power of pain', the strength of the Buddha statue in the sky also increased at this moment.
When it waves its palms, countless giant palms can be seen around it.
This caused the damage it caused to the giant squid to increase several times in this instant.
Finally, the King Squid's recovery ability could no longer keep up with the damage caused by the Buddha statue.
As time passed, the cuttlefish began to suffer more and more injuries on its body, until finally it let out a violent cry and its entire body fell to the ground.
This squid is dying.
It struggled to float from the ground to the air again, but saw a giant palm directly above it attacking it again.
With the shadow of his palm flying, the squid was soon unable to even struggle and had completely stopped moving.
"Dead?"
Upstairs in the west city of Xia Shan City.
Looking at the giant squid that fell to the ground and seemed to have lost its voice, Li Zhuo showed joy on his face.
only
When he looked back at Xuan Si and others who had fallen to the ground, the smile on his face disappeared in an instant, and he stood silent.
Li Zhuo was stunned, but a follower around him saw through his thoughts, so he stepped forward and felt the heartbeats of the great Buddhist monks with his hands.
Then he said: "Sir, nearly half of these monks have been hurt to death. As for the rest of the monks, including Abbot Xuansi, they should have fainted from the pain."
Li Zhuo closed his eyes, as if he couldn't bear to watch anymore: "Take these great Buddhist monks away from Xiashan City, let them cultivate themselves well if they are not dead, and let them be buried alive if they are dead!"
"No!" After the attendant responded, he began to direct the nearby monks to lead the great Buddhist monks away from the battlefield.
At the same time.
After the death of the King Squid, the ancient immortals took the initiative to move towards the west tower of Xiashan City.
Seeing this scene, Li Zhuo and other monks immediately felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy and looked on guard.
But the ancient immortal who led the team said: "After the death of the king squid, all its flesh and blood will turn into pollution and completely infect this area."
"So, you uncontaminated monks should not be able to stay in Xiashan City any longer."
"So, please pick a place." The team leader Gu Xian continued: "Tomorrow at noon, we are going to compete with you monks from the Liang Kingdom."
"Have you ever competed?" Li Zhuo was stunned when he heard this: "How do you want to compete? What do you plan to bet on?"
The leader of the team, Gu Xian, said expressionlessly: "The method of the competition is very simple: just mark out a stage, and then simply compete with fists and kicks."
"Those who die or admit defeat are considered out of the game."
"This competition will continue until everyone is defeated and no one dares to challenge, then it will be considered over."
"In addition, in this competition, if we, the ancient immortals, lose, we will no longer drive the ferocious beasts to attack the Liang Kingdom."
"Then what if we, the Liang Kingdom, lose?" Li Zhuo asked.
The ancient immortal remained expressionless: "If you lose, then naturally the whole country will have to believe in Sir 'Woo'."
"At that time, all the monks in the Liang Kingdom must switch to Master 'Wu Si''s 'Strength of Flesh and Blood'."
"The entire Daliang Kingdom will be dominated by flesh and blood!"
"Okay, our Daliang Kingdom has accepted this competition!" Li Zhuo responded, and then said: "But why do we have to wait until tomorrow?"
The team leader Gu Xian said: "Because, I need you to call all the monks in Daliang who are above the embryonic stage to come to the competition venue to watch."
"Okay!" Li Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "Go northeast from Xiashan City. There will be Ruyun City about five hundred miles away."
"Tomorrow, we will have a showdown outside Ruyun City!"
"Okay, it's settled!" Now that the battle location has been decided, Gu Xian stopped talking nonsense.
He just said to the other monks: "Remember, if you Liang Kingdom monks fail to keep your appointment tomorrow, more ferocious beasts will continue to invade your Liang Kingdom!"
After leaving these words, the team leader Gu Xian took the rest of the people and left from the horizon.
Lean less.
On the tower of Xia Shan City.
Looking at the departing figures of the Ancient Immortals, Lei Lei couldn't help but ask: "Why didn't those Ancient Immortals just take action directly, but instead agreed to have a duel tomorrow? Is there any explanation for this?"
"That's a big statement."
Yun Rusong smiled bitterly and said: "Although I don't know where those ancient immortals came from, it is obvious that those ancient immortals are the subordinates of the indescribable creature 'Wu Si'."
"They're doing it for 'Woo'."
"So, the purpose of their invasion of Daliang is nothing more than to spread the teachings of 'Wu'u' and get more people to believe in 'Wu'u'."
Yun Rusong continued: "To put it more bluntly: Those ancient immortals invaded Daliang Kingdom not to massacre the people of Liming, but to enslave all of us."
"Therefore, simply using force to bleed Daliang into rivers will not achieve their true purpose."
"What they want is the hearts of the people. They want to completely crush the spirit and will of all the monks in the Liang Kingdom."
"They don't intend to kill people, but they want to kill people's hearts!"
"It is precisely because of this that he asked for the competition to be held tomorrow, and asked that all the monks in the Liang Kingdom be present to watch."
"Heart-killing?" Lei Lei suddenly said: "The ancient immortals have quite clear ideas!"
He then added: "Then since you already know their purpose, why did you agree to their fight just now?"
"Because we have no choice." Yun Rushong said with a bitter smile: "What was just before us was only two choices."
"The first is to let the ancient immortals continue to drive the vicious beasts to invade the Liang Kingdom, and then we Liang Kingdom monks will fight to the death with the vicious beasts."
"This is obviously unwise."
"So there is only the second option left - to accept the competition proposed by the ancient immortals."
"Is it possible that we have a third option?" While Lei Lei and Yun Rusong were talking, Zhong Ran said from the side: "Since the ancient immortals are not trying to kill everyone, they are not trying to kill all of us in Daliang Kingdom. Go ahead and die, then why don’t we just surrender to the ancient immortal?”
"After surrendering, it is nothing more than switching from belief in 'Buddha' to belief in 'Wu Si', an indescribable creature."
"There doesn't seem to be much difference between the two, right?"
"The difference is huge!" Li Zhuo explained: "The indescribable creature 'Buddha' mainly feeds on the 'power of pain'."
"And the emotion of 'pain' is inherently disgusting to humans."
"It is precisely because of disgust that we will not indulge in it. Therefore, there are only a few people who believe in 'Buddha', such as the monks of Great Buddhism."
"But 'Woo' is different."
"'Wuwei' feeds on human desire. And the emotion of desire is inherently pursued by humans."
"Even if there is no 'Woo', human beings will find ways to satisfy their own desires. If they are tempted by 'Woo' again, wouldn't they go completely crazy?"
Li Zhuo gave an example: "If you can't imagine the consequences, you can refer to the people in Xingzhou."
"They are the first people to be affected by 'Wu Si' and contaminated by the 'power of flesh and blood'."
"They're all crazy"
"It is precisely because desires are difficult to control, and precisely because the 'power of flesh and blood' can drive people into madness, that our Daliang Kingdom has deployed the 'Wanli Aura of Light' to separate Xingzhou and Leizhou."
"In short, the pollution caused by 'Wubi' is really too harmful, and it is countless times more powerful than the pollution caused by 'Buddha'."
"Therefore, there is no need to say more about the surrender." Li Zhuo turned to say: "The most urgent task now is to first discuss who should fight tomorrow."
Yun Rusong thought for a while and said: "First of all, apart from Xuan Si, who has been seriously injured, there is no need to say more about our five deep dive monks. We will all have to play by then."
"After all, according to the rules, there is no limit to the number of people in this arena competition, so if there are more people, the effect of the wheel battle can be exerted. Even if you go up and consume a lot, it will not be a loss."
"That's right." Li Zhuo continued: "Except for our five deep dive monks"
As he said that, he glanced at Ni Li and other late-stage blood elixir monks present: "Fellow Taoists, are there any of you who would like to participate in tomorrow's competition?"
"Everyone has heard what the ancient immortal said before: During the competition, as long as either party dies or admits defeat, it will be over."
"So, if you are really no match, it's okay to admit defeat."
"I don't ask you to win, I just ask you to go up and consume the physical strength of those ancient immortals. It shouldn't be difficult to do just that, right?"
Below the west tower of Xiashan City.
Upon hearing this, all the Blood Pill stage monks looked at each other and were speechless.
Seeing this scene, Li Zhuo said again: "After this competition, I will select the five monks who have persisted the longest from all of you blood elixir stage monks who participated in the competition."
"At that time, those five people can enter my Daliang Kingdom's secret treasury to choose a treasure of their choice."
In order to dispel the concerns of the Blood Pill Stage monks, Li Zhuo did not forget to add after offering the reward: "Also, I want to tell you a secret: the secret vault of the Liang Kingdom can actually be moved and taken away. "
"So even if you leave Daliang Kingdom, as long as you still follow the army, you can still enjoy the promises I made."
"how?"
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
This time, monks responded quickly.
Among the crowd, Ni Li was the first to speak: "In that case, count me in tomorrow's competition!"
As soon as he said this, another monk followed him and said, "Count me in too."
"And me!" Boyazhi followed closely behind.
Chenghuo and others faced the giant squid late at night.
After Squid was killed and Gu Xian left, everyone discussed the competition with Gu Xian all night long. By dawn, most of them looked tired.
So in order to recharge his batteries, Li Zhuo ordered all the monks to disperse and wait until noon before regrouping outside Ruyun City, five hundred miles to the east.
…
——Three years ago, due to the chaos caused by the young Buddhist monk Wu Sheng, a 'Buddha egg' appeared in Ruyun City.
Since then, Ruyun City has completely become an empty city due to pollution.
and no one can enter it again.
Therefore, this competition between Liang Guo monks and ancient immortals can only be held in the open space outside Ruyun City.
Since this competition was only held in the ring, not a real war, there was no invasion by giant ferocious beasts.
Therefore, nearly 90% of the monks in Daliang came to the competition venue.
Everyone waited until three quarters past noon when they saw the ancient immortals wearing Yin Yang Tai Chi fish robes arriving at the competition venue on time.
"Fellow Taoists."
Since it was a competition, before it was time to quarrel, Li Zhuo politely called the ancient immortals 'fellow Taoists'.
He said: "So, shall we start the competition now?"
"Not urgent."
The one who spoke was the ancient immortal who led the team last night.
He glanced at the monks who came to the competition venue and said: "It only takes half a day. Those monks with slower feet probably won't have time to come over, so wait a little longer."
Li Zhuo's purpose was to delay as much time as possible so that the teleportation array in the Liangguo Imperial Palace could be completed as soon as possible.
So seeing that the leader of the ancient immortal had to 'wait a little longer', he naturally wanted it.
So he responded: "Okay, just wait!"
(End of chapter)
