I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 943: Chapter 237: Defeating Victorious Venerable

Tang Luo was not an outsider, so he naturally did not understand how illustrious Liaoyin’s reputation was. Had he known, he definitely would not have rashly revealed the Blood Asura God Shocking Finger, allowing Liaoyin to successfully cast the secret technique “Eight Auspicious Signs.” noveldrama

As the reincarnated spiritual child of the Esoteric Sect, Liaoyin exhibited exceptional talents from a young age. Not only did he possess the Power of the Dragon Elephant, but he also displayed astonishing comprehension of Buddhist teachings. He practiced the Esoteric Sect’s supreme technique, the “Great Sun Vajra Sutra,” for twenty-five years to minor accomplishment, mastering the three secrets of mantra, mudra, and visualization. Upon transcending the mundane, he was venerated as a Zen master, known as the Venerable with Three Secrets.

Later, having fully realized the “Vajra Sutra,” he achieved the rank of Vajra Arahant within the Esoteric Sect’s Eight Treasures Supernatural Powers. After wandering through Buddha’s Country for thirty years, undefeated in all of Buddha’s Country, he returned to the Esoteric Sect’s sacred mountain to meditate. Twenty years later, he broke out of seclusion, attained the title of Great Zen Master, and became a venerated figure of the Esoteric Sect, conferred the title of “Eternal Vajra Arhat” by the Zhongzhou Buddha’s Country. The Buddha Lord of the West bestowed upon him the honorific title “Victorious Venerable,” meaning he was invincible in battle!

Confronted with the Asura Divine Heart that the Feitian Sect had nurtured for thousands of years, Victorious Venerable Liaoyin’s combat will remained high, and he did not believe he would be defeated.

“Haah!”

Liaoyin burst out a shout, his hands forming the Grand Vajra Wheel Mudras. The golden wheel that Tang Luo had sent flying multiplied from one into a hundred, tracing a long arc across the sky and then flying back towards Tang Luo.

Unlike common illusionary techniques, each of the two hundred golden wheels was substantial, each an embodiment of the Dharma Aspect of the fundamental golden wheel, and each wheel contained Spiritual Power that exceeded the second transformation standard by quite a margin, inflicting over ten thousand points of spiritual damage!

The spiritual damage inflicted by the two fundamental golden wheels even surpassed thirty thousand points. Faced with such a divine skill, ordinary defenses were utterly useless. The only option was to counter-attack!

Tang Luo took a deep breath, assumed his stance, his punches swift as the wind and his vigor like a rainbow. His fist storm, comprising a combination of various types of vigor, lashed out like rain towards the multitude of golden wheels in the sky.

The horizon exploded into gold. Although the fist storm, melding three kinds of vigor, blocked the golden wheels, it also tied down Tang Luo’s fists. Meanwhile, Liaoyin, unfazed, shifted his hand seal to form another, a distinct Lion Seal!

The Six-Streak White Conch, the Thousand-Silk Auspicious Knot, and the Rohua Treasure Cover flew out, whirling above and below, closing in on the battlefield where the golden explosion had taken place. The Treasure Cover transformed into a sky-covering starry sky poised to envelop Tang Luo with no avenue for escape. Seeing the danger, Tang Luo wanted to execute his Ghost Shadow Step to flee, only to find his surroundings entrapped by the knot of the Thousand-Silk and no way to escape.

He tried using the Blood Asura God Shocking Finger to tear open a path of survival, but as he extended his finger, a distant and desolate conch horn blast echoed by his ear. Not only did it cause his head to spin and weaken his God’s Residence, but it also dispersed his Spiritual Power, causing a backlash in his Blood Fiend and injuring the Shangyang Meridian of his index finger.

Although Tang Luo’s physique was robust and he quickly recovered from the shock of the conch horn, the Thousand-Silk Auspicious Knot and Rohua Treasure Cover had already tightly encased him.

Not waiting for the golden threads to tighten, Tang Luo exerted control over his body with Spiritual Power, all six hundred plus muscles bursting with triple-layered vigor, forcefully tearing apart the Esoteric Sect’s divine power that was enough to split heavens.

The distant and desolate conch horn sounded again, yet this time Tang Luo did not grow dizzy, for after breaking through the Auspicious Knot, he controlled the muscles of his ear cochlea to contract, sealing his ear canals and cutting off the sound.

Before the starry sky transmuted by the Rohua Treasure Cover could envelop him, Tang Luo finally launched the Ghost Shadow Successive Flashes, pulling out multiple afterimages and continuously closing in on Liaoyin.

Among the Esoteric Sect’s Eight Treasures, the Auspicious Knot was broken, the Fan Bell rendered ineffective, and even the Rohua Treasure Cover was avoided. Liaoyin initially thought Tang Luo was merely an extraordinary martial arts master, but only upon engaging did he realize that the opponent’s strength far exceeded his expectations.

Faced against such a formidable martial arts master, an ordinary Esoteric Sect Zen master would only be able to evade their fiercest blows, but Liaoyin advanced instead of retreating.

Because he was the one holding the lustrous jade vase, seated on the White Lotus Divine Seat, with golden and silver fish circling his body, and the All-Dharma Victorious Vexillum guarding his crown—the Undefeated Holy Venerable!

Rising from the lotus seat, Liaoyin grasped the totemic Victorious Vexillum, appearing to slightly lean back as if unable to bear the enormous weight of the banner, then swung it down with the force of opening the heavens and splitting the earth.

The totemic boulder collided with the master of body arts in mid-air, unleashing countless strong winds, and the hard-beyond-stainless-steel Victorious Banner Clapped like a bronze bell, emitting a tremendous sound.

Liaoyin only felt an unparalleled massive force coming from the point of collision, and the huge pillar in his arms was almost ripped from his grasp.

Tang Luo also had a hard time. If it were merely a matter of strength, Liaoyin with the amplification of the Victorious Banner would not be his match, but this totem-like golden column was inscribed with the foundational sacred texts of the Esoteric Sect, “The Samadhi of Dili, the Unmovable Ming King’s Wrathful Messenger’s Chanting Method”, which corresponds to the Unmovable Ming King himself, the supreme deity.

As the Sect Head among the eight great Ming Kings of the Buddhist esoteric tradition, the Unmovable Ming King had supernatural abilities that could not be shaken, even Tang Luo’s full-strength attack infused with spiritual power could be completely absorbed.

The biggest problem with body techniques is that once your power has been completely absorbed, you then have to endure the reflected force from that object. Thus, after the strike, Tang Luo was sent flying by the Victorious Banner like a punching bag, unable to control his trajectory.

Liaoyin, standing on the lotus pedestal, quickly recovered and chased after with the Victorious Banner in his arms.

“Clang~”

“Clang~~”

“Clang~~~”

The collisions, each more forceful than the last, exploded in the sky. Tang Luo had already figured out that Liaoyin intended to use the nature of the Victorious Banner to drive him headlong into the starry sky manifested by the illusion of Ruo Hua’s treasure canopy.

His body collided with the Victorious Banner, constantly drawing closer to that starry sky. Even though it was an extremely dangerous situation, Tang Luo inexplicably felt a desire to laugh.

“Who would have thought that I’d also have a day when I’d be hammered in pursuit,” he thought.

If it weren’t for the need to conceal his identity, Tang Luo really would have liked to transform into a giant, snatch away the Victorious Banner, and hammer it on Liaoyin’s head, teaching him what true strength meant.

But that clearly wasn’t possible at the moment. The disadvantage of not having a large enough stature was undeniable at this instant. Even though he could withstand the force, in this vast void with no ground underfoot, he could only be pushed and pulled by the opponent.

After several strikes, he was getting closer to the starry sky beneath Ruo Hua’s treasure canopy. Although he had sealed his hearing, looking past Liaoyin the monk, he could see the throng of Arahants thinking victory was in their grasp, each one grinning with joy.

“Well, maybe it’s time to use some real skills, or else I’ll be underestimated!”

Having designed such a visage as Hook Chen, Tang Luo certainly hadn’t forgotten the design for aerial combat. If the Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads were still with him, using the ancient and far-famed secret treasure of the Imperial Magnetic Sword Sect, he would have been able to exchange blows with Liaoyin, but all thirty-six Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads had been destroyed in the Blood River, leaving him quite constrained.

Now that the Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads were gone, he had no choice but to employ a different method. With a thought, his black-sphere spirit emerged.

Unlike the brilliance it displayed at Martial Saint Mountain, the black sphere now reverted to its original appearance, pitch-black like ink, an abyss that threatened to swallow all light. Upon being imbued with spiritual power, it materialized into a solid object and braced against Tang Luo’s back.