Chapter 49 - 49: Nine Yang Merging into One
The Sutras, all the Sutras?
This is their foundation, their accumulation, and the true confidence of the thousand-year-old temple. Would they really give them all?
Even Master Pudu, with his state of mind, almost cursed.
The surrounding monks all glared, their killing intent boiling.
Jiang Ming’s expression was indifferent, surrounded by a killing aura, simply staring at the abbot.
“Okay!” Master Pudu pondered and reluctantly nodded, “Jiang Donor, please state the remaining two conditions.”
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Second!” Jiang Ming revealed a smile, “Have one of the Great Grandmasters of your Great Dalin Temple pass away; third, exterminate the Sun and Moon Demon Sect.”
Master Pudu’s face suddenly turned ugly, his little compassion turning completely cold: “You’re not leaving my Dalin Temple any way out, Jiang Donor. Do you really think that by yourself, you can withstand the thousand years of accumulation of my Great Dalin Temple? Do you really think that your overwhelming power allows you to ignore everything?”
“Set the formation, subdue the demon!” Master Pudu’s voiced resonated like a ringing bronze bell, reverberating through the mountains, “The world has a great demon descending, bringing a calamity that will harm the common people and cause bloodshed for miles. We need to unite, subdue the demon, eliminate the monster, save the world from danger, and resolve the crisis hanging over it.”
The surrounding Rod Monks moved like shadows, displaying their lightness skills, surrounding Jiang Ming in the blink of an eye. They were well-aligned, their auras blending with each other and fusing with heaven and earth, causing changes in the tide of primal qi and forming a unique realm.
They all wore devouring gazes.
Slap, slap, slap…
Jiang Ming clapped his hands and praised, “As expected of the Abbot of Great Dalin Temple, the skill of blooming a lotus with your tongue and expelling fragrance is truly unmatched by ordinary people. Your Great Dalin Temple does not labor, yet your palaces are splendid and enchanting. 1 heard that every Buddha statue enshrined in each palace is made of gold. The fields of the people within a hundred miles of Great Dalin Temple have been cunningly snatched away and suppressed by you, enslaving the common people. Even the imperial laws do not reach here. Master Pudu, you tell me, who is the real demon?”
Master Pudu’s gaze was deep, staring at Jiang Ming with an unwavering expression, “Our Great Dalin Temple protects the surrounding people from disaster and teaches them the methods of strengthening their bodies and living a long life. Which of the households here does not remember the kindness of our Great Dalin Temple? In your mouth, however, it becomes a sin. A demon is a demon. No matter how much you quibble, it cannot change the nature of evil!”
“Everyone…” His voice suddenly rose again, shaking the mountains as birds flew and beasts roared, “To subdue the great demon, to restore the world’s order and peace, my Great Dalin Temple is willing to sacrifice our bodies to feed the demon, dedicating all temple disciples to hunt it down. Even if the Gate of the hill topples, even if a thousand disciples have drained their last drop of blood, even if the millennium tradition has been cut off, my Great Dalin Temple will fight the great demon. 1 ask Zhen Wu Sect, Chunyang Sect, Lengyue Palace, Divine Sword Villa, Sun and Moon Demon Sect, Divine Fist Sect, and the Northern Strong Expert to put aside their grievances and unite to eliminate the demon. My Great Dalin Temple will take the lead, and I ask my fellow daoists to help us, to restore the world’s balance and bring eternal peace to the world of martial arts.”
“Kill!” He waved his hand towards Jiang Ming.
The Rod Monks in the formation erupted with their attack.
Shadows of rods filled the sky, converging like the arrival of wind and thunder, twisting the air and shaking heaven and earth.
This made the onlookers all shocked.
“This attack can easily blast a master-class peak strong expert!” Lu Yuan felt it very clearly, his eyebrows furrowing.
He didn’t understand why Jiang Ming proposed three conditions that the Great Dalin Temple could never agree to, nor did he understand why, if he wanted to kill them, he let them set up the formation?
Wasn’t this seeking trouble?
Jiang Ming remained unmoved, merely watching as Master Pudu showed an astonished expression, as if he had truly become the great demon head that would bring about the end of the world.
He was utterly cast into the abyss in the name of righteousness.
In order to defeat the demon, for the greater good, for the human world, he cleverly connected all the strong experts. Even if the people from the demonic sect appeared, even if the Northern strong experts took action, they now had an excuse.
It would not allow the reputation of Dalin Temple to continue deteriorating.
At the same time, it also held the righteous path hostage: In the name of justice, do you dare not to act?”
“I’ve witnessed the power of blooming lotuses with your tongue, Jiang is impressed!”
Exclaiming, the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram appeared, forming a light shield that rotated and blocked the countless shadows of rods.
Bang…
The Tai Chi Light Shield trembled three times, twisted to the extreme, and finally broke with a snap.
“Without comprehending the Yin and Yang Realm, there’s still a big difference.” Jiang Ming frowned. In the next moment, the light shield reappeared.
This time it spun even faster.
It even truly showed two colors, one red and one white.
Red was hot and white was cold.
This was the intertwining of the Fire Realm and the Water Realm, a compromise.
The shadows of the rods didn’t stop, the explosions continued.
The light shield continued to shatter, but the attack couldn’t reach him.
This scene shocked all the onlookers.
Master Pudu’s expression changed and changed again. He knew better than anyone how terrifying the rod formation composed of more than a hundred martial monks was.
A Great Grandmaster trapped inside could be killed.
But now they couldn’t completely break the opponent’s defense?
He felt an unreal sensation.
“Battling to comprehend the Dao? We’ll tire you to death!” Master Pudu saw through Jiang Ming’s intention and a hint of fierceness flashed through his eyes.
Jiang Ming was indeed battling to comprehend the Dao.
The realm of Yin and Yang is too difficult to comprehend.
“To evolve further with water and fire, why does it feel even harder? Have I taken the wrong path?”
Jiang Ming couldn’t hold back his power.
In the end, he shook his head and sighed, “I was too arrogant, wanting to comprehend the realm of Yin and Yang all at once.”
“Also, the restrictions in this world are too great, there is no guidance from a towering figure, let alone interpretations from a higher realm!”
Jiang Ming suppressed the waves in his heart, and the light shield shattered with a loud bang.
Intense qi surged through his body, including the qi of Chunyang, Haoyang, Chuyang, Lieyang, and Jiaoyang.
Clang…
The long sword emerged, and qi immediately flowed along it, transforming into a fiery red color, like burning flames, as intense as the scorching sun.
Within the red, several similar but distinct Dao resonances were hidden, and then with a ‘boom’, the sword burst into flames.
A sword swept across the sky, cutting through the endless rod shadows.
“The power of nine true meanings!” An old monk beside Master Pudu exclaimed in horror, his pupils shrinking to the size of a needle tip, “Chuyang, Lesser Yang, Old Yang, Jiaoyang, Lieyang, Haoyang, Supreme Yang, Sun, Chunyang?”
He was Elder Monk Guangming, knowledgeable and well-informed. Although he was not sure about some specific realms, he immediately made a judgment based on the information he had obtained.
“You’ve actually comprehended all the ultimate realms contained in the Nine Yang True Scripture, how is that possible?”
“flow can there be such a monster in this world!”
Guangming was disheveled.
“Nine Yang Realms?” Master Pudu was horrified, and his eyes immediately turned red as he roared, “Attack, attack, use the Blood Sacrifice Demon Subjugation Array to kill him!”
Nine kinds of Yang Realms.
It was chilling to listen to them.
The key was that this guy seemed to be still comprehending them, and if all nine kinds of Yang were combined…
Master Pudu couldn’t help but shudder.
He also immediately issued an order.
All one hundred and eight rod monks slapped themselves on their bodies, and their faces suddenly flushed red. Their qi did not decrease, but instead, surged dramatically.
Almost doubling their power, all reaching the threshold of grandmasters.
Thirty-six of them soared into the air to attack from above.
The seventy-two rod monks on the ground sealed off the surroundings.
Rod shadows layered and intertwined, enveloping the entire area, making it impossible to distinguish between them.
However, the power fluctuations they contained made the spectators tremble in shock.
With this attack, even a mountain peak could be blasted.
Jiang Ming also revealed a solemn expression.
“This is more like it!” One of the goals of his trip was to use the power of Dalin Temple to hone himself.
It was impossible to comprehend Yin and Yang.
So, he tried to start with Yang.
If the nine kinds of Yang realms were merged, would the realm of Yang be born?
This was his idea.
Raising his head, he could not see sunlight or the sky, only the tide-like rod shadows.
The surrounding air had become unbearably viscous due to the pressure.
“Finally, I feel the pressure!” Jiang Ming’s eyebrows perked up, and his long sword buzzed, traversing the sky.
As the sword swung, flames surged, creating a sea of fire that enveloped the rod shadows from bottom to top.
Both forces intertwined and continuously collided.
Finally, the rod shadows exploded, and one hundred and eight martial monks were all sent flying out.
At the same time, two old monks suddenly made their moves with extraordinary agility, like ghosts, appearing on the left and right of Jiang Ming just as his sword light had just converged.
It was completely unexpected.
One pointed at his brow, while the other palm struck his back..