Chapter 222: Buddha
The terrifying energy carried by the long purple giant tail smashed towards the ground of the tomb. The powerful sound of breaking the air was as if it was directly smashing the ground open.
“Buzz—”
A wave of golden energy spread out from the distant building. The moment the thick snake tail touched the building, a dazzling golden light flickered, forcefully canceling out the attack that could tear the earth apart.
When the smoke and dust dispersed, what appeared before everyone’s eyes was actually a giant golden Buddha statue!
“Tsk, you’re this old and still want to interfere?”
Looking at the giant statue emitting dazzling Buddhist light in the dark night, a fluctuation flashed in Masashi Sakuraba’s fierce eyes. He continued to gather energy with his clasped hands, and a purple energy snake head slowly rose from under his feet, roughly crushing the surrounding buildings and slowly rising into the air.
“Hey, old man, aren’t you afraid of death? You’re about to die, why aren’t you staying in your temple to live a good life, and getting involved in this mess?”
Several poisonous fangs shot towards the Buddha statue, stirring up several golden ripples. Masashi Sakuraba didn’t mind, as if he were chatting with an old friend he had known for many years, he spoke to the Buddha statue before his eyes.
“Birth, aging, sickness, and death are nothing more than natural laws, but in this old monk’s opinion, the stability of the real world and the spirit world is the most important thing.”
A vicissitudinous and wise voice came from the small house in the distance, and as the words slowly came out, it was a kind-faced old monk.
The old monk was wearing a tattered kasaya, and even from a distance, the patches on the kasaya could be clearly seen. His dry and thin skin seemed to allow one to see the blood vessels in his body. His white hair and beard, and his trembling body, were enough to prove his age.
“Old man, your ways are outdated. Wasn’t the so-called world-ending catastrophe also solved by an irrelevant outsider?”
Masashi Sakuraba’s expression changed when he saw the familiar old man before him. He crossed his arms and mocked with a sneer.
“But it was protected in the end, wasn’t it?”
The old man clasped his hands together tremblingly, but the smile on his face remained as kind as ever. He looked at Masashi Sakuraba high above and answered with a smile.
“……..”
“You will die.”
Looking at the old man before him, Masashi Sakuraba’s throat moved, but he still spoke indifferently.
“I know. Mu Nian died at your hands. I am not your opponent.”
The old man nodded, as if he were answering a casual question about whether he had eaten today, and calmly stated the end he was about to face.
“Coming here is just to fulfill a karma.”
As if guessing the question in the other party’s heart, the old man slowly released his hands, took off the circle of extremely worn prayer beads around his neck, held them in his hands, and faintly continued.
“Compared to karma, I believe in my own strength more!”
As if the energy had finished accumulating, the ground around the giant Buddha was split open by two large holes. Two purple energy giant pythons fiercely coiled around the Buddha. The golden Buddha light dispersed the evil purple energy like the sun, but the continuous supply of evil energy immediately replenished the melted parts. Instead, the Buddha began to crack little by little under the coiling of the two giant pythons.
“Om mani padme hum…….”
The obscure and difficult-to-understand scriptures were chanted from the old man’s mouth, turning into golden symbols that repaired the cracks on the Buddha statue. The prayer beads in his hands were also slowly spun by the old man, and streams of strange golden energy began to appear around his body.
“Talking about karma, isn’t it still the same old routine in the end?”
A trace of coldness flashed in the pale yellow snake pupil. Masashi Sakuraba’s right-hand skin wriggled, and his original flesh-colored skin instantly turned black, and his smooth skin was replaced by the black and shiny scale armor.
The two giant pythons fighting with the giant Buddha afar also seemed to have received energy augmentation. Terrifying spikes emerged from their bodies, and their scarlet eyes were filled with bloody killing intent.
“Crack—”
The sound of glass shattering echoed in the silent graveyard, and the arrogant giant golden Buddha that was originally in mid-air turned into countless light spots under the coiling of the two giant pythons and dissipated in mid-air.
The old man who was originally standing in place also seemed to be injured as a result, and his trembling body knelt down directly. Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
“It’s over, old man. I never thought that I, who was always considered mediocre by everyone, would reach the end……”
The giant snake crawled on the ground, crushing gravestones, and arrived in front of the old man. Masashi Sakuraba stood on top of the giant snake’s head, looking down at the extremely old man before him, and couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.
“Xiu…..Xiu Yi…..”
The familiar cry made the old man’s originally dazed eyes regain clarity. He tremblingly raised his head and called out the name he hadn’t called for many years.
“Our relationship ended decades ago, didn’t it? You were the one who drove me out with your own hands!”
Several poisonous fangs were flicked out from Masashi Sakuraba’s hand, directly locking all the old man’s joints. But even such an attack couldn’t knock the old man down. Allowing the flesh and blood on his body to be corrupted by evil energy, the Buddha beads in the old man’s hands spun faster and faster, and a Sanskrit chant slowly emanated from the old man’s body.
In the end, the gray-black prayer beads spun faster and faster, turning into a ball of golden light, integrating into the old man’s body. The poisonous fangs that had originally stuck in his joints were all melted directly. Golden energy gathered in the air, and the giant Buddha that had turned into fragments was once again condensed in the air.
However, this time the Buddha statue was no longer the kind-faced Maitreya of before, but had transformed into a fierce general with three heads and six arms, his eyes wide open in rage.
“Then, let me fulfill my final responsibility!!”
The old man’s tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, just like the giant Buddha behind him. His turbid eyes were only filled with golden rage. His clothes fluttered under the influence of the energy, and his entire body was lifted to the very top as the giant Buddha condensed.
“Sigh.”
Looking at the old man before him, Masashi Sakuraba did nothing. He silently withdrew his attacking hand, turned his body, and finally closed his eyes.
“Bang—”
A sharp and long sound echoed from the distance, followed by the familiar sound of shattering from behind, and the final sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Slowly opening his eyes, Masashi Sakuraba’s gaze turned to the figure lying on the ground in a pool of blood. His old body was no longer as strong as before, but his head, which was raised at the end, seemed to still be looking towards him.
The giant snake under his feet slowly dissipated, and Masashi Sakuraba landed beside the corpse on the ground. He crouched down, picked up the broken prayer beads, put them into his pocket, and looked up at the tall building in the distance that just blocked the moon.
“The era of psychics ended long ago.”
“Teacher……”
