Chapter 132: Spirit Officer of All Under Heaven

A storm of killing intent surged in Li Yanchu’s heart, and his gaze became as sharp as a saber.

Clang!

Dragging the Jiaoslayer behind him, he charged directly at Master Guanxin. A blindingly brilliant and overwhelming saber qi tore through layers of stone steps, carving a deep trench into the solid ground.

Unwilling to face Li Yanchu’s saber strike head-on, Master Guanxin and the others frowned and immediately dodged to the side. Instead, they sought to lure him into the center of their formation to surround and kill this clearly dangerous young Daoist. Immediately, the refined elder holding the iron sphere traced symbols on the ground with the tip of his foot to form a sinister formation.

Suddenly, Li Yanchu felt as though countless invisible vengeful spirits were rushing into his mind. This was a dark feng shui lethal technique, which used a graveyard formation to summon wicked ghosts and resentful souls to perform a cursed execution.

But in his chest, a vast and awe-inspiring divine power surged forth before enveloping his entire being in protection.

“I now invoke the divine might of Huo Luo General, the Supreme Enforcer of Heavenly Punishment. Command the Five Lightning to issue their decrees, and reduce all demons, evildoers, and malevolent spirits to dust. I humbly beseech your descent, and grant me the power of lightning to shield and protect. Spirit Officer Summoning Talisman, activate!”

At that moment, Li Yanchu’s aura soared. A mighty, divine power, which crossed realms of distance to arrive in this very place, seemed to descend upon him. He had activated a triple-enhanced Spirit Officer Summoning Talisman.

His eyes now glowed with divine light, and his entire body radiated golden brilliance. Faint flames circled around him, as if he had become a blazing avatar of divine wrath.

Spirit Officer Wang, the chief of the five hundred spirit officers of Heaven, had answered the call. He was an unstoppable force!

This was the first time Li Yanchu had used a Spirit Officer Summoning Talisman directly on his own body. The Divine Dao was a heavy burden, but the purer and more righteous the heart, the greater the divine power one could summon.

At this moment, Li Yanchu radiated like a blazing sun with such intensity that none dared look him in the eye. His gaze swept toward the refined elder holding the iron sphere, and the elder suddenly felt a violent tremor in his soul.

“How dare you cast such petty tricks from the shadows. You’re courting death!”Li Yanchu’s voice boomed like thunder, and the sheer force of it made the refined elder instinctively stumble back three steps, as if struck by lightning.

In the next instant, Li Yanchu vanished, only to reappear directly in front of the elder with his saber blazing in his hands like the scorching sun. With that, the yin-aligned feng shui formation beneath the elder’s feet used to summon ghosts and perform lethal curses was shattered instantly.

The elder’s heart sank, and he hurled the iron sphere toward Li Yanchu with full force. That iron sphere was an extremely sinister underworld artifact, and was imbued with vengeful, corrosive power.

Clang!

With a single slash, Li Yanchu shattered the sphere. Instantly, the iron sphere burst apart into a rain of razor-sharp fragments before scattering in all directions.

1,000 merit points gained!

The malevolent entity sealed within the iron sphere had been utterly destroyed, but the momentum of the Jiaoslayer didn’t stop; it carried through and swung straight at the elder’s head!

Seeing this, terror flashed in the elder’s eyes. After all, the underworld artifact he had painstakingly refined over years was destroyed in a single strike by this young Daoist. Panicked, he pulled a feng shui compass from his robes and twisted it sharply. In the next moment, his figure vanished and reappeared behind Master Guanxin.

“A feng shui master?” Li Yanchu frowned slightly.

The Bare Body Sect was said to have a feng shui expert who had laid a vast, deceptive formation in Longmen Village and even nurtured a monstrous flesh-beast within it.

Without hesitation, Li Yanchu slashed toward Master Guanxin again with blazing killing intent.

At the same time, Master Guanxin pressed his palms together and dropped into a deep bow. Behind him, a dignified and solemn golden radiant figure appeared.

This was a Buddhist divine technique.

Shing!

In an instant, the brilliant golden figure of sacred majesty was slashed apart. Master Guanxin was struck by the Jiaoslayer and sent flying, thereafter he slammed straight into the thick stone wall.

This tomb had been built by hollowing out an entire mountain, and now, Guanxin had been cleaved into the very mountain itself. With that, chunks of stone fell from above as the entire wall violently shook.

Seeing this, everyone was stunned! Master Guanxin had previously gone toe-to-toe with Master Shenshan without losing ground. Whatever power he had used, no one knew for sure, but the scene of him fighting a first-rate Buddhist master was still fresh in everyone’s memory.

And now, this so-called rising star of the Buddhist sect had just been knocked into a mountain wall with a single strike from Li Yanchu!?

However, Li Yanchu didn’t stop moving. His eyes burned with fierce determination, and his battle spirit soared ever higher. The more his battle spirit surged, the more he embodied the Divine Dao of great might and unrelenting drive, and the more divine power he could draw from Spirit Officer Wang, the legitimate god of the Celestial Court.

At this time, Master Wuxing saw only a blur before he suddenly felt a suffocating pressure crash down upon him.

Divine Astral Hands! Li Yanchu struck out with his palm, and dense and mighty blood and qi surged forth.

On the other hand, Master Wuxing instantly countered with both palms, and two golden palm shadows flew out to meet the blow head-on.

Boom!

Even with his mastery of the secret arts of the Western Vajra Sect, Master Wuxing was still blasted backward, and the sleeves on both his arms shredded into countless fluttering fragments.

Pfft!

He spat out a mouthful of blood, and his eyes widened with shock.

He’s so powerful!

Immediately, Li Yanchu followed up with another palm strike, this time unleashing a massive burst of energy like a clawing, roaring azure dragon. This time, Master Wuxing didn’t dare act carelessly. Instead, he twisted his body and dodged just in time.

Li Yanchu swept his leg sideways like a heavy, razor-sharp battle axe, striking directly at Master Wuxing’s waist. Though the palm strike had come first and the leg sweep followed, the two attacks landed almost simultaneously at such a fast speed that they seemed to blur together.

At this moment, Li Yanchu's speed was truly beyond belief.

But suddenly, a ferocious, vicious ghost manifested over Master Wuxing's body and lunged at Li Yanchu.

Boom!

Even this

Asura

, as Master Shenshan had called it, was sent flying by Li Yanchu’s kick, causing Master Wuxing to stagger backward seven or eight steps.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

He wasn’t actually a member of the Bare Body Sect, but rather a secret agent of the Western Vajra Sect, planted within the Central Plains’ Buddhist community. To pull this off, one needed not only extraordinary intelligence, but exceptional talent, even beyond that of an ordinary Buddhist prodigy.

This time, the Bare Body Sect had brought him in to help orchestrate this death trap and to seize the divine artifact hidden in the tomb. Even under the watchful eyes of so many, Master Wuxing was confident in his ability to escape unharmed. That alone showed how remarkable he was.

Yet now, he couldn’t even withstand a single move from this young Daoist!

Master Shenshan's eyes were filled with astonishment. One strike, and Li Yanchu had already forced back all three opponents!?

At that moment, Master Guanxin burst forth from the mountain wall while radiating a fierce aura. Golden Buddhist runes swirled across his body, and his expression had changed completely. Now, he looked cold, detached, and emotionless while he stood as if perched high among the clouds and overlooked the world below with divine indifference.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Li Yanchu’s battle spirit surged, and he strode forward in great strides and charged directly at Master Guanxin with unmatched ferocity. At this time, he appeared like a legitimate god of Heaven descending to the mortal realm.

Boom!

Master Guanxin pressed both palms downward, and instantly, a towering golden wall rose from the ground. The majestic and imposing wall continued to rise, like the Buddhist sacred mountain Lingshan Mountain[1] itself.

The moment it appeared, it unleashed a tremendous, earth-shaking pressure, which blanketed a radius of ten zhang in all directions. Then, it came crashing down toward Li Yanchu.

But there was not the slightest trace of fear in Li Yanchu’s eyes. Instead, his gaze blazed with unstoppable will.

Gripping the Jiaoslayer in both hands, he swung it with all his might. Then, a dazzling saber qi collided head-on with the golden mountain wall before exploding with an earth-shattering surge of force.

1. The Lingshan Mountain features one of the largest and most representative collections of Buddhism architecture and art in China.

The Lingshan Grand Buddha is an 88-meter-high bronze statue of Sakyamuni in the open air, 17 meters higher than the Grand Buddha at Leshan, it forms up the pattern of "Five Buddha in Five Directions" together with the Big Buddha to the south, the Grand Buddha at Leshan Mountain to the west, the Grand Buddha in Yungang Grottoes to the north and the Grand Buddha at the Longmen Grottoes in the central area. ☜