Cultivation Starts from Killing Pigs

Chapter 578 - 482: The Evil God Awakens, Terrifying Demon Realm

"How could this be?!"

Old Monk Rama’s eyes widened in horror, his body turning cold.

This eerie aura was very similar to the outside Buddha land. Although he knew that the power of the Black Ming King could infuse it, watching Buddha power turn into evil Qi was still hard to believe.

"He awakened early..."

Zhang Kui wasn’t surprised. The Evil God had nurtured a clone and could instantly sense the conditions of the entire Buddha land. Now that the secret cave was open, it was hard to hide.

Rumble!

As the Buddha power maintaining the secret cave was corrupted, large chunks of stone and dust collapsed around them, revealing the black void space behind.

"Go!"

Zhang Kui coldly snorted, rushing straight towards the entrance.

The Buddha land was originally filled with strange evil Qi but was chaotic and only knew instinctive retaliation. Now, with the appearance of the Evil God’s clone, it was fully endowed with spiritual wisdom.

Roar!

Accompanied by a strange roar, the black evil Qi at the cave entrance transformed into a claw-like black-scaled monstrous hand, reaching for the two of them.

Zhang Kui formed a sword technique with one hand, and a vast Sword Qi soared into the sky.

Boom!

Outside, the golden giant Buddha had already turned into a mottled, blackish-gray color, exuding sinister energy. With a loud boom, the vase it held exploded, and Zhang Kui and the others flew out, suspended in mid-air.

By this time, the Central Buddha Land Continent was in utter chaos, with collapsing mountains everywhere and a giant thousand-mile-long crack emanating a bloody glow. Above the sky, black clouds surged and churned, presenting an apocalyptic scene.

Two forces were in confrontation above the continent.

One side was the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm and the Deceitful Immortal Influence, which had strangely merged into one, with ghastly black tides from the Underworld surging outside and the center filled with a huge rain-like waterfall of sword light scattered about.

The other side was densely packed with black Buddha corpses, suspended above and below, completely surrounding them. Above the sky was a blob of motionless black tar-like ocean that faintly revealed a ferocious head, precisely the clone of the Evil God Black Ming King.

"Eh, it’s you?!"

Seeing Zhang Kui and the others break free, True Monarch Yinghai of the Deceitful Immortals was dumbfounded, not expecting to encounter old acquaintances after such twists and turns.

On the sword-shaped starship of the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm, the Buddhist cultivator Lian Sheng frowned slightly, raising his guard in his heart, "Taoist Friend Yinghai, who is he?"

Although Zhang Kui had concealed his cultivation, it was different from others. Lian Sheng, with his profound Buddhist skills and the Buddha’s eye sensing divine power, had a vague feeling:

This human Daoist seemed more dangerous than the Black Ming King’s clone in the sky!

"My lord, he..."

A few Deceitful Immortals, upon seeing Zhang Kui, immediately had a murderous intent, yet before they could speak, they were stopped by True Monarch Yinghai with a wave.

Only to see True Monarch Yinghai’s eyes flash with dark light as he suddenly burst into loud laughter, "Master Lian Sheng, this is none other than Taoist Friend Zhang Kui, the master of the Celestial Essence Star Realm, with profound Tao cultivation and heaven-penetrating skills. With his assistance, conquering the Colorless Star Realm won’t be a problem!"

"Oh, greetings to Taoist Friend Zhang."

Buddhist cultivator Lian Sheng replied in a neutral tone.

With the three forces converging, the situation was already complicated. He had no idea what True Monarch Yinghai meant.

True Monarch Yinghai revealed a faint smile; his current predicament was difficult, and he was well aware of Zhang Kui’s abilities. By revealing his identity, perhaps he could muddy the waters enough to secure victory amidst the chaos.

The Deceit Immortal Path had already proven to be a deception; the Immortal King’s legacy might be the key to breaking the stalemate!

Zhang Kui coldly glanced at the crowd without paying them any heed, instead looking towards the sky.

Where there are people, there will be Jianghu, and even immortals can’t escape it.

But these guys were really somewhat overconfident, as the Evil God’s clone had already been nurtured, yet they still conspired against each other.

Above the sky, a dark ocean inverted and surged with turbulence, blocking celestial light; only the blood-red lightning and the glow from the starship remained.

At the same time, astonishing evil intent surged forth, covering everything.

In everyone’s mind appeared an illusion:

It was a dark star zone where a giant black hole distorted space. The remaining few Sun Stars were incredibly dim, their light drawn out into bizarre, glowing yellows.

Around the black hole, a more massive black ocean spread, slowly wriggling like a living thing, seated upon which were countless black Buddhas. Strange and obscure scriptures resounded through the void...

"Uh...uh..."

Under the invasion of the Black Ming King’s evil divine intent, many True Immortals were immediately affected, uttering unintelligible sounds with eyes full of terror, their bodies gradually turning black.

"Sect Leader Zhang, save..."

Old Monk Rama was the most affected, his body rigid, the Buddhist beads he used for protection emitting dim Buddha light, cracking one by one.

Zhang Kui was naturally unaffected; even without using the Immortal King Tower, the black light of the Divine Protection Skill blocked all of the Evil God’s intent. He waved his hand, swiftly bringing Rama into the Chaos Heaven.

Boom!

On the side of the Deceitful Immortals and Celestial Craft Immortal Realm team, chaos had already erupted.

Some immortals were completely converted, blood light blazing in their eyes as they attacked ferociously, only to be besieged and killed immediately afterward.

"Quick, defend the array!"

True Monarch Yinghai and Old Monk Lian Sheng hastily ordered.

Quickly, the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm’s floating fortress—a fleet of sword-shaped starships—retracted, and the Profound Micro Divine Light—immune to all techniques—rose again.

On the Deceitful Immortals’ side, they struggled to sustain themselves, summoning massive quantities of strange black tides from the Underworld to block the outside, creating a chaotic space.

However, since it was the Evil God’s clone personally attacking, the divine light of the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm was compressed to extreme distortion, and even bigger swathes of strange entities from the Underworld turned into ashes.

"How can this be!"

"It’s just a clone; how can it possess such power?!"

Cries of astonishment echoed.

Zhang Kui slightly shook his head, uninterested.

Even though among these people were some old ghosts with thousands of years of Tao cultivation, none could match his experience fighting the Starry Sky Evil God.

After all, most people would either avoid the Starry Sky Evil God from a distance or would die long before, unlike himself, who constantly opposed these beings.

There were countless clones of the Starry Sky Evil God, indeed just needing a few Immortal Level masters to withdraw. He had once combined forces with others to destroy the Dark God’s clone.

But this place was too close to the Colorless Star Realm. The Black Ming King could remotely deliver power anytime, not to mention that the Buddha land was completely polluted, equivalent to fighting on home turf.

The most crucial point was that this Black Ming King was somewhat mysterious, not only having a connection to the Qianwu Immortal Monarch but also being capable of corrupting the Paradise Realm of Buddhist cultivators, and must not be treated like an ordinary Evil God.

"Go!"

The black ocean above the sky grew even more oppressive; True Monarch Yinghai and Old Monk Lian Sheng’s expressions changed, and they immediately ordered a retreat.

The Star Shifting Skill was not uncommon in the void, and now giving up on searching, the Deceptive Immorals’ starship and Celestial Craft’s fortress immediately emitted astonishing space fluctuations.

However, as soon as the spatial fluctuations of the two major forces’ starships appeared, they rapidly declined at a visible speed.

"Not good, the place has been sealed!"

"The Buddha land has turned into a Demon Realm, send for help quickly!"

Boom!

Before they could send out a signal, a colossal black-scaled claw—thousands of miles long—from the black ocean above the sky, enveloped in blood-colored lightning, descended with a roar.

The Black Ming King finally made a move, and the rest would not sit idly by.

Buzz!

The floating fortress of the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm hummed, all the starships radiating sword light, merging into a ten-thousand-foot long ancient light sword, charging toward the monstrous hand with terrifying killing intent.

Zhang Kui squinted his eyes slightly; the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm indeed had a trick up its sleeve. The combined sword light emitted by multiple starships was no weaker than his own Sword Array Cannon.

The Deceitful Immortals’ side also tapped into their reserves. Within the rolling black tide, numerous eerie entities from the Underworld continually fused, transforming into an eyeball as large as a mountain, filled with blood threads in its ash-gray depths, launching a black beam with a roar.

Boom!

The black beam, sword light, and monstrous hand clashed in mid-air, causing the heavens and earth to change color, the earth to tremble, and space to resonate. The already damaged Buddha land immediately showed signs of collapsing further.

One good point was that both sides were deadlocked.

"We held it off!"

"The Evil God’s clone is nothing more; if we hold out a bit longer, when the outside army sees, it will surely obliterate this clone!"

Both sides exclaimed in surprise, not expecting to withstand it.

Master Lian Sheng of the Celestial Craft Immortal Realm even uttered a Buddha’s name, raising a Golden Wheel Buddha Treasure and transforming it into the size of a mountain, ramming from another direction toward the giant black-scaled hand.

Zhang Kui did not act, his gaze fluctuating between light and dark.

From the very start, something felt off. The Black Ming King’s attack was much weaker than anticipated, and Lian Sheng’s offering of the Buddha Treasure confirmed it:

The Black Ming King’s power was highly restrained against Buddhist cultivators. How could he allow the Buddha Treasure to rampage unchecked?

They were all trapped in an illusion realm!

Outside the Buddha land, the fleets of the three powers were still waiting, and in their eyes, there was no black ocean or collapse above the Buddha land; it still quietly hovered in the void...