"It's more interesting to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight!"
Pushi Zhang spread his arms and stretched lazily. He reached out to sheath his long saber, only to remember that its red scabbard had been destroyed by Yan Shouyi's dharma body earlier.
He stuck the long saber into the ground in frustration and sat down cross-legged.
The Wuliang Hall collapsed. In front of the ruins, Yan Shouyi faced Abbess Miaohui, who had completely transformed into an Asura, feeling unprecedented pressure.
"I possess the body of a Heavenly Fiend Corpse Puppet, which is naturally impervious to blades, spears, water, and fire, and can quickly recover from injuries, barely stepping out of the mortal realm... But Asuras were never mortals to begin with. How can I possibly fight her?"
Yan Shouyi was under immense mental pressure but had no room to retreat.
If he retreated, who would protect Mount Emei?
What would happen to his friends from the Folk Research Society if that Pushi succeeded?
Yan Shouyi flicked his Zanpakuto and charged at Abbess Miaohui!
"Heavenly thunder rumbles, divine thunder booms. Dragon thunder roars, water thunder churns. Earth commands thunder and fire, lightning crisscrosses. Divine power unleashed, evil spirits extinguished. The Lord commands, hasten to obey!"
The Five Thunder True Method!
A bolt of heavenly thunder descended, striking directly at Abbess Miaohui's head!
However, the Five Thunder True Method caused no damage to Abbess Miaohui. On the contrary, its power was completely absorbed by the black halo behind her!
When the last wisp of power was absorbed by the halo, golden lightning serpents subtly coiled around it!
"It's over!"
Yan Shouyi's expression changed drastically, realizing his miscalculation. The Five Thunder True Method was used by Longhu Mountain to deal with malevolent entities. However, Asuras were inherently Buddhist, even belonging to the three good realms in the Six Paths. Therefore, the Five Thunder True Method had no effect on Abbess Miaohui.
"Heh..."
Abbess Miaohui clasped her six hands together. The lightning from the halo gathered towards her palms and then erupted into a beam of light, piercing directly towards Yan Shouyi!
Yan Shouyi, unable to dodge, was engulfed by the beam. He immediately felt a scorching sensation all over his body!
Looking down, his hands were indeed engulfed in golden flames, instantly burning him to the point of being unrecognizable!
The Five Thunder True Method worked on malevolent entities, and Yan Shouyi himself, being a Heavenly Fiend Corpse Puppet, was such an entity!
Unexpectedly, in this exchange, Yan Shouyi had lifted a rock only to drop it on his own feet.
The intense pain rendered Yan Shouyi immobile. His body was riddled with holes from the golden flames, and even his face had two large openings, through which his two rows of teeth could be seen...
In this critical moment, Yan Shouyi's dharma body arrived and rammed his true body out of the beam's range.
Gaining a moment's respite, Yan Shouyi's injuries began to recover quickly, but he was incapacitated for the time being.
He could only transfer his consciousness to his dharma body, take the Zanpakuto from its hand, and carry his true body to flee.
However, Abbess Miaohui would naturally not let go of such an excellent opportunity to attack.
Abbess Miaohui, like a small mountain, leaped in front of Yan Shouyi. Her giant palm slammed down, as if the Five Fingers Mountain of the Tathagata, intending to suppress Yan Shouyi!
The Glacial Dharma Body's pupils contracted. According to Yan Shouyi's judgment, neither his dharma body nor his true body could escape this strike!
"Amitabha!"
In the nick of time, Abbess Guanyun intervened.
She flicked her whisk, which unfurled like an octopus, its tentacles entangling Abbess Miaohui's six arms and two legs!
Then, Abbess Guanyun leaped behind Abbess Miaohui and held the whisk tightly, preventing her from attacking Yan Shouyi.
"Shouyi, quickly go!" Abbess Guanyun shouted.
With his true body severely wounded, staying put was akin to waiting for slaughter. Therefore, Yan Shouyi did not hesitate and controlled his dharma body to carry his true body and retreat.
At the same time, Wen Yuxian was also busy.
She clasped her hands together, and visible cold air condensed on her arms. As she opened her palms, more than a dozen toothpick-sized flying swords had condensed in her palms.
But as her brow furrowed tighter, the dozen small swords rapidly grew, transforming into gleaming, transparent flying swords!
"Emei Swordplay!"
Wen Yuxian pointed her sword at Abbess Miaohui, and the dozen flying swords shot out instantly, piercing into Abbess Miaohui's body one after another, then flying out from behind her, leaving more than a dozen bloody holes on her!
This display was no different from the immortal beings who could fly with swords in myths.
Wen Yuxian and Abbess Guanyun were not minor figures. They had simply refrained from using lethal force earlier due to Abbess Miaohui's status.
Now that Yan Shouyi's life was threatened, they could no longer hold back.
More than a dozen flying swords passed through Abbess Miaohui's chest, but Wen Yuxian knew that this was not enough to kill an Asura.
Abbess Miaohui's six arms spread wide simultaneously, each hand forming a different Buddhist seal, and the wounds on her chest healed rapidly.
Concurrently, the dozen bloody flying swords, which should have returned to Wen Yuxian, suddenly had their blood ignite into flames midway, melting all the swords!
This was not the end. The melted swords' blood did not disappear but dripped onto Abbess Guanyun's whisk.
The whisk also caught fire, burning along the tail strands all the way to Abbess Guanyun's face.
Abbess Guanyun did not want to back down. Gritting her teeth, she held the whisk and chanted the "Great Sun Tathagata True Sutra," channeling streams of Buddhist light into the whisk to counter the flames.
"President!"
The others quickly ran over to reunite with Yan Shouyi.
Seeing Yan Shouyi's true body so heavily injured, Long Feicheng was furious. "Brother Yan, wait. I'll go chop that ghost-calling Pushi for you!"
If it weren't for that damned Pushi, Abbess Miaohui wouldn't have turned into an Asura.
Zhuge Ji maintained some composure. "Little Brother Long, Pushi has stopped beating the wooden fish, which means Abbess Miaohui's transformation into an Asura is no longer related to him. Let's focus on how to deal with Abbess Miaohui!"
Ye Tianyuan sighed. "An Asura is no longer mortal. My skills are of no use against Abbess Miaohui."
Tian Juer also had no ideas. Besides her brute strength, her only other skill was using the Primordial Gu to save people.
Yan Nanfei gritted his teeth. "Should we all retreat back to Feilai Hall again?"
"No!"
Yan Shouyi, controlling the Glacial Dharma Body, firmly shook his head. "We can't play into Li Gengmiao's hands anymore. Pushi dares not kill me now, which means I have countless opportunities to try again. There will always be a way to deal with Abbess Miaohui!"
In fact, by this point, Pushi's objective of obstructing Yan Shouyi had been achieved. However, he still lingered nearby, unwilling to leave, precisely because he was worried that Abbess Miaohui might actually kill Yan Shouyi.