Huhu huh~

Between heaven and earth, a hurricane raged.

This wind was enormous and unparalleled, howling for ten thousand li. It connected to the high sky above, rolling up earth and stones below.

From the foot of the mountain rolling up to the mountaintop, it uprooted ancient trees of ten thousand years, overturned giant stones of a thousand jun, swept away soldiers and killed, twisted the enemy army. Making that cloud-covered and fog-hidden Longchan Ridge have to reveal its true appearance.

Under the manipulation of Cao Ji, Jiang Wang only then recognized what was called military array killing technique, only then deeply understood what “gather crowd into array” meant.

The great army controlled by Cao Ji, its soldiers came from different forces, different sects, and could not be called tacit. Although those who came to the maze world for battle must have received certain military training, the trained military arrays of Yanggu, Jieming Island, or Diaohai Tower also did not overlap.

But Cao Ji turned decay into magic, returned chaos to order, forcefully combined the messy and different military arrays into one whole. Using a method similar to piecing together puppet bodies with parts, he completed the great integration of military forces.

The three thousand li Longchan Ridge had fortresses armed to the teeth and terrifying evil beasts as tall as several dozen zhang. Strange thorns, evil moss pools, evil soul beehives… it could be said that danger was everywhere.

But the human race army under Cao Ji’s command just horizontally traversed. Like a merciless and flawless giant stone, it just continuously rolled forward.

Was it only the hurricane that connected sky and earth? Was it only the arrow rain like a sky curtain? Rumbling!

That grand world rolling with thunder was actually pierced by a war flag stained with blood. As strong as the Dragon Clan royal lord Tai Yong, he also had to once again abandon the defense line and retreat.

The war flag fluttered, itself drawing heavenly light to illuminate the full mountain.

The Yang character flag held by Yue Jie was the last flag of the Great Yang Empire.

The great empire that once dominated the eastern domain, only the last wisp of afterglow, fluttering on today’s Longchan Ridge.

Now people still wear Yang armor, iron spears performing to the end of cold edges. The old military might seemed to be seen.

“I will not retreat a step! Those who block me die!” Yue Jie walked on foot up the mountain, holding his spear and advancing: “Longchan Ridge is vast with three thousand li, today advance three thousand li!”

Jiang Wang was in the military array, becoming a part of the human race’s angry tide, to swallow that eternally existing high ridge.

In his heart, there were truly no remaining thoughts, completely without self. He only felt the vastness, only captured the killing. As a warrior, one part among thousands of warriors, at this moment the only thing to do was, under Cao Ji’s clear and accurate commands, rush to every most appropriate position.

Five Yuan Dao True Monarchs, together attacking Longchan Ridge, what was this concept? The great array seemed like paper, the majestic mountain only like a mud ball.

What copper wall iron wall!

Cao Ji controlled the whole army, simply urging the military forces into an angry sea, fundamentally without a single gap. Clearly, he was attacking the mountain and knocking on the gate, which should have involved a bit of sawing back and forth, yet it seemed like pouncing to kill mayflies, crushing ants.

On Longchan Ridge, only one Great Prison Royal Lord Zhong Xi could slightly contend with it in the military array.

But there were also Yue Jie, Zhu Sui, Yu Liyang, and Peng Chongjian, four Yuan Dao True Monarchs personally as the vanguard arrows, at Cao Ji’s disposal. Relying only on Xiyang and Tai Yong, two royal lords, how could they defend? Which defense line could not be pierced?

Yue Jie saying today they would advance three thousand li was not entirely mad words. The human race’s great army had charged the array until now, without a single tide retreating!

From killing the evil soul beehive to the Sitting Zen Cave, the time consumed was not over half a teacup.

This cave was the famous Zen cultivation place of the Sea Clan. In the twelve pure lands of Longchan Ridge, it ranked third. Here were means, within which killing intent was hidden.

But Zhu Sui just lifted the lantern and sent it—the hidden soldiers were not yet out, the array was not yet opened, the Sanskrit sound was just moving—the candle fire in the white paper lantern had already spread throughout this cave, burning everything inside to ashes.

Even what means the Sea Clan exactly hid inside was not seen in time.

The vast Saha Dragon Domain, operated for unknown many years. Longchan Ridge was even more the holy land in the hearts of many Sea Clans.

But once the human race invaded, their momentum was unstoppable.

Peach blossoms all the way opened up the mountain, Taiyi Mountain crashed into Longchan Ridge.

One could not say the array defenses on Longchan Ridge were not strong enough, one could not say Zhong Xi was not skilled in defense, one could not say the Sea Clan warriors were not tough enough. Even Xiyang and Tai Yong among them, also were bodies intercepting the flood, leading the fight with their lives.

But here in the Saha Dragon Domain, the human race’s power compared to the Sea Clan’s was indeed disparate. And it was an all-aspect crushing, from high-level combat power to army power. And it was Cao Ji, this kind of famous general who never made mistakes, presiding over the war! As long as a little advantage could appear on the chessboard, Cao Ji could maintain the advantage to the endgame, not to mention the current such great advantage, such abundance.

Famous sect prodigies, elite soldiers and strong generals, all that should be there was there. Yuan Dao combat power could even have two more!

He fundamentally did not want any array changes with Zhong Xi, divided advance and joint strike, just naked crushing, endless military array Dao techniques washing the ground.

If military array Dao techniques didn’t wash it clean, then the True Monarchs would come to wash again. Washing Longchan Ridge into Bald Dragon Mountain!

Just like this, they pushed up.

The human tide was like the sea, the flags actually messy.

But every flag was the human race’s flag. And it waved without falling, and it rose higher and higher!

Longchan Ridge was majestic and powerful, always high and unattainable, never having been captured by the human race.

It was not a simple mountain ridge, it was the core of the Saha Dragon Domain, and also the place of spiritual support for many Sea Clans, possessing great significance. Within it were twelve pure lands, like Sitting Zen Cave, etc. It had eighteen evil prisons, like evil moss pools, etc. It had mountain-鎮 Vajra, it had ridge-protecting Galan…

But all was useless.

The Saha Dragon Domain almost formed a world of its own. Until now, within the domain, there were still many Sea Clans resisting. But the human race had already killed to this domain’s absolute vital place.

The human race’s great army crushed all the way horizontally. Although it was the road of going up the mountain and climbing the ridge, it was like a knife breaking bamboo, the speed getting faster and faster.

When the Yang character flag personally held by Yue Jie finally inserted itself before the core of Longchan Ridge, “Heaven Buddha Temple,” it meant that this war of subjugating the Saha Dragon Domain had already welcomed its end.

At least for the Saha Dragon Domain, it was so.

Heaven Buddha Temple was said to be a temple, but it actually had no bricks and stones. It was a vibrant, tens of thousands of zhang tall, heaven-reaching great tree, with a hollowed tree trunk, carved and built. The tree bark had Buddha sculptures, and the branches and leaves were all Bodhi.

Under the tree was pure energy, but now it had already been dispersed by blood.

Great Prison Royal Lord Zhong Xi, Red Eyebrow Royal Lord Xiyang, and the Dragon Clan royal lord Tai Yong—three absolute peak strong ones of the Sea Clan, at this moment, each with injuries. Standing side by side in front of Heaven Buddha Temple, their gazes swept over the fluttering flags, seeing the human race warriors surging tide after tide to this place.

Mountains full of tributaries, finally converging into such a majestic sea.

They had already used all means, exhausted everything, put all the arrangements made in Longchan Ridge over long years to use, filled all the guarding heavy soldiers to death, and finally had no plan left.

Even Great Prison Royal Lord Zhong Xi was already on the verge of death, Red Eyebrow Royal Lord Xiyang also several times escaped from the gates of hell! Even the strongest among the three royal lords, Tai Yong, was not pierced through his Dao principle world?

They all already saw the dead end, and all stayed here. Both for the regret of this war, and also for the hate of the Sea Clan!

Zhu Sui, Yu Liyang, and Peng Chongjian walked to Yue Jie’s side, calmly gazing at the three Sea Clan royal lords.

The disabled-armor, broken-arm Cao Ji also walked out from the military array, standing in the middle of the four True Monarchs.

At this time, they only needed to prevent the cornered beasts from fighting back, and pay less price. With five against three, there was no need to further consume the lives of soldiers.

If the Yuan Dao strong ones were taken as the arrowheads, then the Cave True and God Presence realm cultivators would also form arrays and advance.

Dangerously almost killed—now also injured body not healed—Dongwang Valley’s Left Envoy Du E, Ji Ke Yi, who knows where he was nursing his injury; Qin Zhen, who had been folded from Diaohai Tower; Chong Guang and Yang Feng, who had rushed from the East Sea Dragon Palace.

Qing Fu Yan Qing, Shang Feng Chen, Zhi Tao, Fu Yan Qing…

Of course, this also included Jiang Wang, and Zhu Biqiong, who was tightly following at Jiang Wang’s side… and wherever Jiang Wang and Zhu Biqiong were, there Zhu Qingru’s ears would perk up.

Seeing Jiang Wang walk toward Yu Liyang, her ears pricked up even higher.

“Heaven Buddha Temple?” Jiang Wang, without a speck of blood, walked to behind Yu Liyang, somewhat doubtful.

He had once studied at Jixia Academy, learning the “Bodhi Sitting Dao Sutra,” which recorded the words and deeds of the World Honored One. The Academy lectured on strict Zen intent, was proficient in Buddhist Dharma, especially having very deep research on the “Bodhi Notes” that Buddhist gate venerables recited as if memorizing, and the lessons taught were extremely good.

Therefore, he also had some impression of the characters “Heaven Buddha.”

In the “Bodhi Sitting Dao Sutra,” it mentioned the disciples of the World Honored One, among whom there was indeed one honored as “Heaven Buddha”! But later, for some unknown reason, this honorable name was not widely transmitted, unlike the other direct disciples of the World Honored One, who either opened their own Dao lineages or whose Dharma was transmitted for ten thousand generations.

Such a resplendent Buddha title, in the end, was silenced.

Of course, the winds of history are always like smoke. What kind of heroes, what kind of endings, it is not strange.

Only to encounter a temple named as such in this Longchan Ridge, it inevitably produced associations.

“Very curious?” Yu Liyang seemed to completely understand Jiang Wang’s thoughts, gazing at the Heaven Buddha Temple in front, his tone lightly smiled: “Heaven Buddha is namely Dragon Buddha.”

Heaven Buddha is namely Dragon Buddha!?

Among the direct transmissions of the World Honored One, the most spiritual disciple, the mysterious existence with the honorable title “Heaven Buddha,” was actually the Dragon Buddha of the middle ancient era?

That one who summoned countless Dragon Clans, made them convert to the Buddhist gate’s Dragon Buddha? That one who followed the World Honored One and helped the human race win the human-dragon war?

In the Hanging Temple’s Descending Dragon Courtyard, “Buddha Palm Descending Dragon” still stands, a commemoration of this glorious history.

But the name Dragon Buddha, for the human race, certainly had immeasurable merit; for the group that was defeated and retreated to the sea, then his sins were extremely great!

The so-called “Dragon Buddha” should be a traitor of the Dragon Clan, hated to the bone by the Dragon Clan, how could a temple be established here, and still be memorialized!?

This completely did not make sense.

But what kind of figure was Yu Liyang? Since he publicly gave the answer, it naturally would not be wrong. So what hidden circumstances actually existed in that segment of history in the middle ancient era?

For example, was Dragon Buddha summoning countless Dragon Clans not an act of betrayal, not for helping the human race? Is it possible that initially Dragon Buddha, with the Buddha title, conferred a large number of protector heavenly dragons, not leaning toward the human race, but thinking that the Buddhist gate leaned toward the Dragon Clan?

In other words, as the World Honored One’s disciple, Dragon Buddha was tricked by the World Honored One! This could also explain the cause of that Dragon Breath Sandalwood Tree!

According to Chen Zhi Tao, a very long time ago, the Dragon Breath Sandalwood Tree was the most precious sandalwood, which had great benefits for Buddhist gate cultivators. This seems to corroborate the period when the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist gate were intimately close. And now’s Dragon Breath Sandalwood Tree, every wisp of miasma emitted, is a deadly poison targeted at Buddhist gate cultivators, the more profound the Buddhist Dharma, the more difficult it is to save from the poison.

Who could understand Buddha so well, and hate Buddha so much?

If it was truly as Jiang Wang speculated, only Dragon Buddha!

The Dragon Clan and the human race have had periods of intimate closeness, and periods of co-governing the present world, although regarding the latter point, the human race no longer admits it.

But in the traces of history, Jiang Wang had already glimpsed it.

Precisely because the Dragon Clan and the human race were once that close, the Dragon Clan came under the name of the World Honored One, achieving the honorable title “Heaven Buddha.” At that time, they must have thought of master kindness and disciple filial piety, same door harmony. Until later, racial strife.

And thinking a deeper layer… Did the World Honored One back then accept Heaven Buddha, whether it was just for the later human-dragon war to lay out?

Such a scheme only matched the handiwork of the World Honored One!

Having experienced the demon world trip, knowing ancient secrets, and viewing human race history from another angle, Jiang Wang had already learned to mutually verify and explore the truth.

Yu Liyang’s single sentence “Heaven Buddha is namely Dragon Buddha” made him think too much, too much. The fog of history continuously blew open, and the truth of the world vaguely appeared!

And if Heaven Buddha was namely Dragon Buddha, the present Heaven Buddha Temple, this Longchan Ridge underfoot, and even the entire Saha Dragon Domain, also probably had more significant meaning. Only then would human race military commanders, with Qi Xiao and Cao Ji at the core, place heavy bets here!

But these were only in Jiang Wang’s heart. He was silent, no more words.

Cao Ji and other Yuan Dao strong ones were obviously not strange to the present Heaven Buddha Temple. Hearing Yu Liyang say “Heaven Buddha is namely Dragon Buddha,” they also had no additional reaction.

Perhaps at the Cave True stage, they already understood.

“Several royal lords, today victory and defeat have already been decided, why must you do meaningless—” Cao Ji opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly bit his teeth!

Because just at this moment, he had already detected the great vibration affecting the entire maze world. A Yuan Dao body had died!

A body of great power scattered, returning to the heaven and earth’s Yuan Qi.

The control of Dao principles had already been let go, like a caged bird returning to nature. The Dao body collapsed, instead supplementing the heaven’s deficiencies.

This was as recorded in “Toward Cangwu,” “True Monarch dies, great benefit to heaven!”

No matter if an absolute peak strong one died in the present world or the vast sea, it could create a short-term blessed land. Under special means blessing, it could often persist for a segment of time longer.

So why was it said that the heavenly demon’s self-raised heavenly demon altar could help the demon clan open a new heaven? That was essentially a Yuan Dao strong one using their lifetime cultivation, returning to heaven and earth, feeding back to their clan.

The heavenly demon altar was the greatest creation that could fully utilize the value of a Yuan Dao’s self-destruction.

And in the rule-chaotic maze world, the death of a Yuan Dao, the greatest change it could produce, was to give great support to the maze world, allowing the maze world to give birth to a brand new domain!

Not like the human race camp or the Huangtai domain, slowly completely transforming the maze world domain into an embodiment of a certain clan’s rule. But beyond the existing domains, regenerating domains.

That is to say, in fact, expanding the scope of the maze world. The maze world fed on corpses and was greatly supplemented!

Who was this fallen True Monarch strong one? There was indeed no need to ask anymore…

“Jiang Wang, ah.” Cao Ji’s voice rolled down from between his teeth, falling. He was already as fast as possible! Very fast! But the Sea Clan had also fought to the end, exhausting everything.

Zhu Sui, Yu Liyang, Peng Chongjian, and Yue Jie, all did not speak. True Person Chong Guang’s divine light was dim, True Person Qin Zhen’s face was deathly pale.

Jiang Wang’s hand pressed his long sword, he lifted his eyes, puzzled: “Does the Great Commander have any instructions?”

“Some fields, you can never find back—” Cao Ji only said this sentence, then no more words. One-armed, with disabled armor, he was the first to kill toward the Sea Clan royal lords.

Why speak?!

Either kill the three royal lords in front on the spot, overturn Heaven Buddha Temple, and trample Longchan Ridge flat.

Or wait for more Sea Clan royal lords to free themselves and rush to support, making the sacrifice on the East Sea Dragon Palace side in vain! He, Cao Ji, absolutely would not allow it!