The Monk was dead, and everything around him crumbled in an instant. The isolating darkness vanished in a flash, and all the black qi dissipated without a trace. Light returned.
The Life Crane Sect was still a chaotic mess, the ground trembling and enormous booms echoing from all directions.
The battle was clearly far from over; in fact, it had reached a fever pitch.
Countless residences had vanished, reduced to rubble. Flames flickered everywhere.
"Hahahaha! Die! Die! Die! All of you, die!"
An enormous, hundred-foot-long dragon of human heads—Wild Forbidden's transformed state—twisted and coiled in midair, laughing maniacally as it vented its fury.
With a sudden inhalation, it spewed a torrent of ferocious, dark red flames from its mouth.
The two monster Buddhas, once Monks, spun their Demon-Slaying Pestles in unison. Aided by the Sanskrit characters that sealed the Life Crane Sect, they resisted the surging waves of fire, holding their own against Wild Forbidden.
