Chapter 2661
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2661
The emperor was furious. “You’re too weak to lock me down!”
Boom!
A white ball of flames was ignited on every strand of hair. The flames then slid down and were directed towards the iron chains.
The emperor clearly wanted to melt the chains of Persephone’s Folly Bridge, killing both Alex and Shelly in the process. However, the current Shelly was obviously stronger than before.
“Come to me, Five Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness!”
Splash!
A large amount of tea fell from the skies, landing on the emperor’s flaming hair, instantly extinguishing the fireballs. Even his hair was starting to corrode, releasing green smoke as each strand evaporated into green smoke…
The emperor had fairly strong hair, even the white flames couldn’t burn it off. Yet it stood no chance against the Five Flavoured Tea of Forgetfulness.
Shelly was merely returning the favor, letting the tea corrode his hair.
The emperor’s eyes reddened, but could only cut his newly grown hair out of desperation.
He howled, “Why do you have the Five Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness? I’ve already killed Old Lady Meng! Who are you? Why… Why do you look so familiar? Have I seen you before…”
Shelly was obviously the subject of his questions. She adjusted her hair stick and said, “If you still have the Palatial’s memories, you’ll probably realize who I am!”
The emperor stared at her for quite some time.
His eyes lit up brighter than the stars as he blurted out.
“You… Are you Rachel?”
Shelly nodded cockily.
Alex was silent, and his eyes darted around the two as confusion filled his mind.
He couldn’t help but think. ‘Don’t tell me… Was Shelly romantically involved with the Palatial? Dang. Now that’s scary.’
The emperor was utterly shocked. “Why are you here?”
Shelly pointed at Alex. “I’m his guardian. So I go wherever he goes.”
Upon hearing this, the emperor widened his eyes. “You? You, despite your status, became his guardian?”
‘Huh?’ Alex froze. ‘What does that mean?’
‘Is Shelly really strong? You’re just underestimating me, aren’t you?’
Shelly looked straight at the emperor. “Oh, Little Palatial, have you been studying Buddhism to the point it fried your brain? Just let it go. If you’re not going to follow Buddhism to its fullest, you will become a demon. Now that you’ve kept your promise, why don’t you hand your mission over to someone more suitable?”
The emperor seemed to be at a loss for a second there. However, his expression became determined once more, his eyes reddened as well. “So what if you’re Rachel? Buddha may have been cautious around you when you were the Starlord of the West, but you’re no longer that person!”
“Besides, even if Buddha showed up now, he wouldn’t be able to stop my legacy! My legacy, my beliefs, would soon be known within all Buddhists in the Siddhartha realm!”
“If you dare to get in my way, I’ll kill you regardless!”
“Rise, Tomb of the Corpse King!”
After the emperor declared war, there was no way of convincing him any further. All they could do was battle.
At the same time, there was a casket right underneath the largest tombstone within the Underworld Tomb. It was filled with carvings of a dragon and phoenix. The bronze casket shot out of the ground as the lid opened in midair. A male corpse of six foot five then jumped out of it, lunging towards the bridge.
“Argh!!!”
With a loud howl, corpse energy exploded in the air. It was the Corpse Princess’ father, the Corpse King.
They didn’t expect him to show up at all.
“Kill them!” The emperor ordered.
After receiving orders, the Corpse King immediately took action.
The chains of Persephone’s Folly Bridge flew out once more. However, the result was rather disappointing. The bridge didn’t seem to like beings like the Corpse King. Hence, the rusted chains gave up entirely, not doing their job anymore.
“Get lost!” The Corpse King roared, struggling out of all the chains by throwing them off.
A pale white sword appeared in his hands, filled with corpse energy as it swung down towards the two.
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“Holy sh*t!”
The sight of the deathly, utterly corroded white sword crashing down like a waterfall, made Alex scream in horror. Its pressure was so great that it could probably shake the entire Earth. Alex thought his skeleton was going to fall apart just from this.
The difference between their cultivation skills was way too noticeable.
Alex had the Ymir’s Divine Bone, Yin-Yang Chi, Yellow Obsidian Chi, the essence of the Five Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness, and the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell talismans to strengthen his skeleton.
Since he already felt such uneasiness from the attack, then others would have died before the sword even reached them.
“Dodge!” Shelly shouted at Alex, looking extremely concerned and panicked.
Despite this, Alex was much quicker than her, grabbing Shelly by the shoulder as he backed away with lightning speed.
At the very same time, the Corpse King’s sword slammed down harshly onto the stone railings of the bridge… Loud ringing filled the air as a large dent was created in the bloody railing of Persephone’s Folly Bridge. Even the stone was chipped off.
Alex turned arotmd, only to be met with that shocking scene.
“Your bridge! It’s broken!”
Shelly was heartbroken as well; her expressions darkened.
Alex snapped back to reality. “How could a mere Corpse King break the bridge? Is it that weak? I always thought that Persephone’s Folly Bridge was a supreme mystical tool!”
“Hmph, just take a good look at it. Are you sure it’s broken?”
“The railings have broken in half. Is that not considered broken?”
Just as Alex said that he noticed several faces on the bridge, lighting up as thousands of arms reached out, waving back and forth in a weird way. In just a few moments, the dent was repaired, and the bridge was magically restored. Even the stone disappeared into thin air.
“This..?”
Shelly didn’t explain but instead said, “This Corpse King’s power had exceeded the five elements. He is no longer of the three realms either. That’s why the bridge doesn’t have any effect on him. I don’t have any plan in mind, so… This is all you. ”
Alex’s expression changed. “I knew you were a scammer.”
Despite this, Shelly remained cocky. “I’m your guardian, not your personal bodyguard. I can guide you, but you have to do it yourself.”
“Guardian my a*s. You’re just the tool spirit of a treasure…”
“Tool spirit of a treasure…”
“Tool spirit…”
Alex’s words echoed in Shelly’s mind, making her extremely infuriated.
However, Alex had to muster up all his courage and stay alert at all times. He had to fight the Corpse King after all because he was the king’s current target.
The corrupted Corpse Sword looked as if it were Death’s Scythe, aiming at his neck.
Clank!
Alex took out Athena’s Golden Spear, blocking the attack. As the blades clashed against each other, sparks flew everywhere. Athena’s Golden Spear let out a painful cry, the blade seemed to have been dented.
“Sh*t!” Alex felt his heart drop. He had to return this divine spear after all.
As a treasure that had broken quite a few divine weapons, it was supposed to be very tough and hard.
Yet now, a mere corroded sword had dented the spear. At the same time, his skeleton was vibrating vigorously. Along with sheer frustration, he felt as if his bones were going to shatter.
Despite this, the mysterious bone patterns on his skeleton lit up, sending a type of mystic force to his entire body and increasing his defense.
The energy that the Corpse Sword sent down his body was blocked off with ease.
“Christ Almighty! That scared me to death. I thought I wouldn’t be able to take it!” Alex gasped.
If he had a heart, it would have been pounding like crazy now. He wasn’t sure if he could actually survive after all.
Dorothy and the others followed behind, so petrified they were sweating cold bullets.
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“Oh my god, he actually clocked that attack? Have his powers exceeded the gods? Is he Acro Divine now?!” Xerxes couldn’t help but blurt. He could not find the words to express his shock, knowing that he himself wouldn’t have been able to take that attack head-on.
However, the others had no idea that Shelly was mocking Alex in his mind palace. “Look at you cowering. What are you even scared of?”
Alex was furious. “What do you think? Can you not tell that this guy is at least five major stages stronger than me? Why don’t you have a turn then? Even if I’m Acro Divine, I still wouldn’t be able to fight this big guy here, right?”
Shelly didn’t care. “That’s your problem.”
Frustrated, he yelled at her out of rage. “Ugh, f*ck you!”
Shelly was annoyed. “I’ll f*ck you, you coward!”
“What?!” Alex froze up.
Nonetheless, his attention was drawn towards the Corpse King’s attack pattern. Since this was a tough battle, he couldn’t possibly let his guard down. He was putting his life on the line, after all.
“Argh..!” The Corpse King seemed angry that Alex didn’t die from his attack
Shouting, the king continued to swing the corrupted Corpse Sword towards Alex, attacking him furiously.
Clank! Clank! Clank!
Their weapons clashed with each other, filling the air with the sounds of metal. In the end, the golden spear was broken in half by the Corpse Sword.
Despite this, he noticed that the corroded sword was still unscathed. It remained rusty, with green, oxidized matter around it. Looking at it, one would think it would break from chopping wood, let alone clash with a divine weapon.
Reality was just that cruel. Despite being something that many would deem trash, that disgustingly corroded sword managed to break Athena’s Golden Spear.
This spear was her staff as the Goddess of War.
“Die!!!”
Alex was stunned, grabbing the broken spear with both his hands. Seeing this, the Corpse King took the chance and attacked once more, hoping to kill Alex in one go.
On a matter of life and death, Alex’s potential exploded, instantly activating the furnace of forbidden spells, attacking with the Great Icebound Curse.
Swish… Bzzrt…
As the sword swung downwards, the Corpse King felt a strong force bouncing back. The Great Icebound Spell first affected the Corpse King, freezing it completely.
Then the king’s body as well.
“Huh?”
“Could that be… The Ten-Point Forbidden Spell?”
The emperor was rather shocked when he noticed the curse Alex cast. Upon closer inspection, Alex’s attacks managed to slow down the Corpse king, too, stiffening him up by the second.
Nonetheless, the shock only lasted for a short while, and he was able to calm down right after. He didn’t lend the king a hand, nor did he use the power of the tomb to pressure Dorothy and the others. It felt as if he turned into a bystander, watching Alex and the Corpse King fight.
He would take a few glances at Shelly from time to time, clearly filled with mixed emotions.
‘Rachel, you were a legendary prodigy back then. You even looked down on Buddha!’
‘Yet now, you’re willing to be a mere tool spirit and this brat’s guardian. I’d really like to see what’s so special about him.’
‘If he just knows a few spells, then I’ll do you a good deed and kill him off. You won’t have to waste any more of your time too. I, the Palatial Bodhi, am still merciful at heart.’ The Corpse King thought.
The next second, he was so appalled that his eyeballs looked like they were going to pop out.
That was because of a bunch of old branches coming out of Alex’s forehead. They wrapped themselves around the Corpse Sword, dragging it in. Hence, Alex managed to steal the weapon successfully.
“That tree branch… What feeling is this? Could that be… Is that the Chaos tree?’
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The emperor jumped when he realized Alex could control a Chaos Tree. He thought what would happen if he were to receive recognition from the Chaos Tree. He then imagined this scenario but shook his head right after.
‘Even if I did get the tree, it wouldn’t be of any use to me. It’s not aligned with my strong beliefs, so it would just lead me down another path.’
‘As the Palatial, the Emperor of the Underworld was just a shell that I lent.’
Everything he did was to bring the Siddhartha realm back up. It’s just that his journey was different from the old Buddhist ways. Hence, he calmed down but felt rather disappointed upon realization. He still insisted that Rachel chose wrongly.
Alex possessed the Ten-Point Forbidden Spells and the ability to control the Chaos Tree. Even then, these powers would not be able to further his path in Buddhism.
On the contrary, these powers would only distract him from his main path, which would turn into obstacles in the long term.
‘Rachel, you should have chosen me!’
Just then, the broken spear disappeared into thin air, replaced by the corroded sword that once belonged to the Corpse King… Within seconds, the Chaos Tree was able to take the sword as its own, even wiping the Corpse King’s mental mark off.
“Looks like he’s one of his kind. He received the Chaos Tree’s recognition after all,” the emperor said softly to himself.
He noticed Shelly looking at him as she stood on Persephone’s Folly Bridge.
He grinned. “Rachel, this guy you found is pretty lucky. But that’s all he is. It’s impossible for him to be the leader of the Buddhists, turning us into the strongest clan in the universe. Buddhists need someone who truly understands Buddhism. However, he has learned such random skills, which just makes him impure.”
“So, Rachel, why don’t you join me instead?”
“Do what with you? Be a traitor, a villain against Buddhism? Or worse, a demon king?”
Shelly’s words were as sharp as needles, piercing right through his heart. In an instant, he was aggravated, screaming hysterically. He wanted to make Shelly regret saying such things to him.
At the same time, Shelly was observing the Soul Collection Coffin closely.
The gravitational force was digesting the trialists and bone demons on top of the Underworld Tomb. At the same time, the ones possessed by the weird energy started coming back to their senses.
Upon waking up, everyone was horrified to the point it made them sweat cold bullets. Their own two feet were standing inside of a coffin, next to a grave dug out just for them.
Many started shrieking in fear as if this situation was a nightmare to them… Some were actually sleeping at the time, yet summoned by the emperor while being asleep.
One couldn’t possibly stay calm after waking up to this.
“Where is this?”
“Where am I?”
“Who am I?”
Every person started asking themselves such questions after being awakened.
“Ahhh!!!”
“Why am I here? This is a graveyard! Have I died?”
Just then, a loud, clear female voice rang through the crowd. “Chase, aren’t we going to the foreign divine mountain to look for Lunafreya? We’re not even at the shore yet, so why are we here?”
This woman wasn’t just anyone. She was Luneth’s best friend, Cecilia.
‘Huh, I didn’t expect them to be summoned here either. And they were saved by Alex’s Soul Collection Coffin by coincidence.’
Shelly’s calm voice echoed within the tomb. “You all have been held captive by the Emperor of the Underworld. His goal was to borrow your lives to gain power. But the catch is… He’s not returning what he borrowed. Just look around…”
Her voice sounded mysterious, chiming in all the trialists‘ ears, and hearing this right after waking up only confused and frightened them more.
‘Using our lives… Without returning them too. Isn’t that equivalent to killing us?’
Moreover, the emperor was personally participating in this battle.
‘F*ck. Is anyone going to tell us what we’re supposed to do now?’
Shelly continued. “Do you guys see that sea of tombstones? Yeah, that’s what would happen to you all. If you die here, you will turn into a tombstone, with nothing of you left in this plane.”
“Impossible!”
“I refuse to believe this. Why would something like that happen?”
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Some didn’t want to believe her, their expressions turning cold.
Moreover, that person even attacked the trialist next to them a few seconds after voicing their opinion. They cut off the trialist’s head right off. After the man lost his head, he obviously couldn’t survive any longer. However, his soul was still not dead yet, expressing his rage.
Just then, something odd happened. When the person died, the coffin under their legs created some sort of mysterious energy. The energy restricted his body and mind, dragging him into the coffin.
Later on, the lid to the coffin closed on its own.
Splash!
The mud next to them seemed to be controlled by some type of law power, making it sink into the pit. In the blink of an eye, that person’s casket disappeared, but a tombstone somehow rose from the ground.
There seemed to be some words carved on it as well. ‘Here lies Benedict Marlenis, the disciple of Cloud Atlas clan from Galaxy Nova.’
In an instant, the people who saw this were insanely stunned. The rumors were true after all, those who died did have, in fact, turned into tombstones.
“That… She was telling the truth?”
“Would we end up like him too? Is there no way to survive?”
Everyone wanted an answer right there and then. They definitely didn’t want to just die in this realm. No one wanted that.
Shelly’s mysterious voice chimed into everyone’s ears again. She told them that they had to unite forces and defeat the emperor if they wanted to survive. However, first and foremost, they had to kill the Corpse King off.
Shelly could only speak to those trialists on top by inserting her divine consciousness into the tomb. Her methods were quite thorough, and even the emperor didn’t realize her tricks, despite controlling this entire realm.
“Kill the Corpse King?”
“Where is the Corpse King anyway?”
Some trialists weren’t all that bright, unable to understand Shelly’s words.
Everyone only realized that someone was fighting the king when Shelly pointed towards Alex. That fierce aura that courageous and determined attitude fired everyone up for this.
“Attack!” The people who woke up from the tomb rushed out.
With the help of the bridge, the trialists were able to leave the tomb with ease. Watching Alex and the Corpse King fight, everyone was shocked and helpless. It was because they couldn’t help at all.
However, Alex had just set a formation down, cooperating with the trialists’ positions, gathering everyone to kill the Corpse King together.
Boom!
Three minutes later, the king resigned to fatigue. When he had fallen from multiple long ranged attacks, Alex used his own weapon, The Corpse Sword and aimed it towards his neck.
The Corpse King then died under the fists of numerous trialists.
“Yay!”
“Haha! Oh my, that was the Corpse King, yet he still died with our combined forces!”
“Then would it be any harder to defeat the Emperor of the Underworld? I feel like we could totally do that with our current condition!”
“Where’s the emperor, huh? Where is he? Has he run away like a little coward?” The crowd was starting to get hyped up. Some even shouted cockily.
Despite this, the emperor huffed coldly, “You peasants, how dare you speak such foolish words? I’m not even interested in flicking my fingers in your direction. One spit from me is enough to drown all of you. Got it?”
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Even if all the trialists gathered their strength and took out a corpse king, it was obviously not enough in the eyes of the Grand Bodhisattva.
It was why he had given such a bold statement, a mouthful of saliva that drowned everyone. However, the trialists had just killed a corpse king and were in high spirits. They were very confident. This was because the existence of the corpse king was not by infamy, but in the past period, it had been a nightmare for many trialists, such as Daya and Shirley. They personally experienced the horror of that city. It was difficult to run out of it, and Channing stayed there forever…
“Hahaha! A mouthful of saliva to drown us? Are you daydreaming?”
“I’ll drown you with pee, do you believe it?”
“Look at him, guys, isn’t he the little dune inside the monk’s temple? Now that the Western Buddha Sect has been exterminated, here he is, still pretending. I think he is a pretender. Can such a person be the Supreme Emperor of the Underworld? I don‘t even believe it. He must be an impostor. I don’t know what he’s trying to do.”
“Come on. Come on, guys. Let’s do this together. Regardless of whether he is real or not, first, give him a break. Let him drink, eat meat and play with women… Any women here who have a special taste towards men? A female demon would do fine. This guy looks okay, so let’s give him meat Let him understand how beautiful the secular world is. Do not waste time in the monk temple, or you’ll end up being irresponsible to your parents.”
The group was in an elated mood, and they were not afraid of the Supreme Emperor.
After all, the Grand Bodhisattva’s current appearance was far worse compared to the corpse king.
Not to mention that there was no semblance of fierceness. He still looked very tender, delicious, and easy to bully.
“Me!”
In the crowd, there was really such a person. A woman wearing red clothes came out. One could not see how she looked, but she was certainly not a human but a female demon.
It had a tail!
She took a few steps forward, staring at the Grand Bodhisattva. With a curvaceous body, she shyly spoke, “Then, let me, a slave, try giving this little monk a taste of what is called unforgettable youth. Then, you will thank me for letting you know the feeling of a man. I guarantee you will come back in the future.”
She saw the Grand Bodhisattva with the face of a young boy with clear eyes. There was no danger at all.
So, her courage grew, and her pace increased.
Alex was speechless. This would really cause death. If the Grand Bodhisattva was seen as a harmless Buddhist teenage boy, one was very wrong.
Soon, Alex’s view was confirmed.
Poof!
The Grand Bodhisattva did not even look at the female demon.
Flexing his fingers, a breeze that did not feel particularly strong shot at the woman’s body. The next second, the woman let out a scream, her entire body was burning violently, fiercely like gasoline. The bystanders simply could not put the flames out, and there was no need to anyway-after just three seconds, the female demon’s entire body was burned away.
“Ah…”
“F*ck!”
“Why is this fire so strange? Is it the legendary flame of the Buddha’s wrath?”
All of a sudden, the trialists who were just laughing and teasing the monk were shocked, and their faces changed considerably.
Someone shouted, “The little monk is powerful… We’d better run first!”
Among the trialists, some people quickly backed up and wanted to escape. However, the Grand Bodhisattva directly opened his mouth and literally spat out a mouthful of saliva A modest mouthful of spittle was accompanied by a dotted splash, which landed on the crowd. In the next second, a strange change emerged.
The saliva that the Grand Bodhisattva spat carried some kind of law power. It glowed at this moment, illuminating a large area of trialists gathered there. In that one moment, the trialists who were enveloped by the light were immediately unable to breathe. Their souls were bound as if they were drowning.
They opened their mouths and breathed heavily. However, that feeling was as if a fish had gone ashore and couldn‘t breathe the oxygen they needed even if they opened their mouths.
“Ahh!”
“Help..! Help!”
Those who were affected by this symptom wave pinched their throats. It was very difficult to call for help. Those who were not enveloped by the light retreated in fear.
“Chase! Chase! What‘s wrong with you?”
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Those trialists who had just been tortured to death by the mysterious field in the light of the Grand Bodhisattva’ s saliva were almost literally drowning without water. Now, it was as if their tightly clenched necks had loosened, and all of them breathed heavily.
In fact, this was an illusion on the soul. It was actually the soul that was being held tightly, not the physical body. However, it was also hazardous.
The Grand Bodhisattva was not fear-mongering. Having been enveloped by that mysterious field power just now, it would create a drowning feeling, which was very real. Once one really could not support this illusion, one would really die… A soul death.
His time limit was an incense stick. In fact, some people couldn’t last that long.
There was, for example, a time-sequence for the people covered with light, roughly divided into two waves… The first wave of trialists was the worst because they were immersed in the drowning state for the longest time. At least eighty percent of the three hundred people and bone demons had soul death.
The Grand Bodhisattva was right. They were really drowned by his mouthful of saliva.
The second wave was going to be a little better, as the proportion of deaths dropped significantly. However, due to a large number of bases, a total of over a hundred were dead. For Dorothy and the others who were the last, their lives were unhindered, although the previous process was still unbearable.
“Cecilia, Cecilia… Wake up, wake up!”
Luneth’s voice rang out in the crowd. Cecilia was drowned as well because she saved Chase’s life and ended up being irradiated by the light.
Now, the spiritual domain was broken by Alex, but Cecilia did not wake up immediately.
“Second brother, second brother! You died so horribly!”
”Wife… What am I going to do when you die? You promised me that when we leave the underworld, we will have children. Without you, I will have to have children with other women!”
“Ruth, Ruth, my good granddaughter…”
Among the crowd of trialists, countless people came with cries of sorrow. This was because many of the deaths consisted of their brothers and sisters and partners.
It’s all over.
There was no pill that could cure regret to buy in this world.
At the same time, the Grand Bodhisattva froze for a while. He was a bit unable to accept such a fact. In the Buddha Heart contest, he had actually failed.
Alex had not only broken his spiritual domain, but more importantly, he found that the moment his spiritual domain was broken, it had actually reduced his spiritual power. His spiritual domain had been severely damaged… No, not hurt, but swallowed up. A large piece was missing.
Alex’s spiritual domain opened up and actually swallowed a large portion of his spiritual domain.
“How is this possible?”
“That spiritual domain of his, what the hell is that thing?”
The Grand Bodhisattva looked at Alex. Then, he found that he had long since rushed to the crowd and checked Cecilia’s condition.
Luneth had said that Cecilia was probably the key person who could lift the Witch Curse. Not only did Xerxes have the Witch Curse, but Jade also had it. Then, her middle school classmate, Hayley, who was once a childhood friend, seemed under a curse that was also the Witch Curse.
To undo this, Cecilia could not die.
“I’m afraid this situation is bad luck! ” Xerxes had already checked Cecilia’s situation. He shook his head and said he was also a doctor and could see the soul, but Cecilia’s soul was obviously dead.
As for Chase, who put Cecilia in this state, his soul had unfortunately perished entirely.
“Cecilia, don’t die! Don’t leave me behind!” Luneth cried out Her sisterly love was too deep to accept this situation.
At this time, Alex came over and hurriedly said, “Let me take a look.”
He opened his divine eye and looked down at Cecilia’s mind palace and consciousness. A moment later, he shouted, “Back off, everyone back off, she can still be saved.”
“Really?”
“Cecilia is not dead? Can she still come back to life?”
Alex nodded his head, “Don’t worry. It. Not will be possible!”