A Great Spirit confrontation is a contest of mind and heart, and even more so, a contest of soul.
This method is more profound and mysterious than so-called Immortal arts and divine abilities, and also more direct.
Immortal arts and divine abilities injure the physical body and Nascent Soul, while Great Spirit injures the mind, heart, and soul.
In the air.
Man Tu Fan's figure slowly descended, her Great Spirit, like a glacial tsunami, swept forth wildly, imposing and exceptionally fierce.
She walked forward step by step. With each step, her Great Spirit grew stronger. Countless glaciers madly shattered, filling the sky, like the end of an ice age. When it roared, its might surged forth overwhelmingly, crushing everything in its path.
It was truly terrifying to the extreme.
Monk Bu'er simply couldn't imagine to what degree a person's Great Spirit had to be powerful to contain such a frenzied, imposing force.
He didn't know.
Although he was a reincarnated being, having been an Immortal—a Sin Immortal at that—in his previous life, and also possessed his own Great Spirit, he merely possessed it. It held no imposing force to speak of.
This thing had no cultivation method; it was completely visualized. Each person's state of mind was different, so the Great Spirit they visualized was also different.
Sensing Man Tu Fan's Great Spirit, Monk Bu'er dared to conclude that this demoness's heart was like an icy river, overflowing with murderous intent.
Boom—
Man Tu Fan continued walking forward. The glacial tsunami of her Great Spirit grew even more frenzied. Opposite her, the man in white, Gu Qingfeng, stood unmoving, merely standing with his hands behind his back. Behind him, violet-azure flames burned wildly—violent and overbearing, darkly cold and yet silent. As they burned, they seemed to possess the power to incinerate the heavens, burning against Man Tu Fan's Great Spirit.
The Great Spirits of the two sides clashed head-on, one layer higher and stronger than the last.
The feeling was like two worlds colliding.
Extremely terrifying.
Monk Bu'er sat cross-legged on the ground, hands clasped together, chanting scriptures. A golden Buddha image protected his body, caught between the two Great Spirits. At this moment, he was as frightened as he could possibly be. When enveloped by Man Tu Fan's Great Spirit, he felt a sense of death, like a candle in a storm, ready to be extinguished at any moment.
Yet, when enveloped by Gu Qingfeng's Great Spirit, he felt a sense of despair, as if falling into endless darkness where there was nothing, only his own solitary, lonely spirit. That feeling was truly too dreadful!
What in the world were these two people?
This was too horrifying!
Boom— Crack!
The golden Buddha image protecting Monk Bu'er trembled slightly. The muscles at the corner of his mouth also twitched uncontrollably, because within the Great Spirits of both individuals, he detected the aura of Judgment.
Only sinners who have undergone Judgment will have their Great Spirit contain the aura of Judgment, and their Great Spirit will bear the branded traces of having been Judged.
Monk Bu'er had been Judged before, so he was very sensitive to the aura of Judgment.
Suppressing the fear in his heart, he cautiously probed over and discovered that within Man Tu Fan's Great Spirit, there were actually a full thirty-six Judgment brands, and they were all Heavenly Dao Judgments!
Good heavens!
What deeds had this demoness committed to be Judged by the heavens so many times?
Monk Bu'er had been a Sin Immortal before, Judged once by the Immortal Dao. He knew how terrifying Judgment was, and that was just Immortal Dao Judgment. Heavenly Dao Judgment was even more horrifying. Those old demons in the Heavenly Realm, if Judged once by the Heavenly Dao, would all have their souls scattered and annihilated. Even if someone could withstand a second Judgment, they couldn't withstand a third, because Heavenly Dao Judgment would continue endlessly until you were completely destroyed.
Now, this demoness's Great Spirit world actually contained thirty-six Judgment brands. To withstand thirty-six Heavenly Dao Judgments and still not be dead... this was truly...
Terrifying to such a degree.
Monk Bu'er knew that being sealed here by the Buddha Dao with the Eight-Trigram Never-Ending Seal and suppressed by the Lesser Prajna meant this demoness was certainly no simple figure. He just never expected her to be one who had withstood thirty-six Heavenly Judgments.
Such an existence had completely exceeded his range of understanding.
After probing Man Tu Fan's Great Spirit, Monk Bu'er went to probe Gu Qingfeng's Great Spirit. He knew Gu Qingfeng's Great Spirit also contained the aura of Judgment, and it seemed like quite a lot. But the moment he probed, his entire person instantly collapsed!
Because within Gu Qingfeng's Great Spirit world, he detected one Judgment trace after another, densely packed, too many to count—truly uncountable. There were Immortal Dao Judgments, Monster Dao Judgments, Heavenly Dao Judgments... traces of various Judgments intertwined and tangled chaotically, everywhere.
Good heavens, good heavens, good gracious heavens!
What kind of person was he?!
What deeds had he committed?!
How could there be Immortal Dao Judgments, Monster Dao Judgments, Heavenly Dao Judgments, Buddha Dao Judgments, and other messy Judgments of all kinds... everything you could think of...
Heavens above!
Earth below!
Did you flirt with the Immortal Dao Sovereign's wife?!
Or did you harass the Monster Dao Sovereign's lover?!
Did you dig up the Heavenly Dao Sovereign's ancestral graves?!
Or did you seduce a Bodhisattva in front of the Buddha Dao Sovereign?!
This is just too damn terrifying!
How can there be so many Judgments?!
How many Laws of the Great Daos must he have violated?!
How much sin must he have accumulated?!
And you're still adhering to what 'Three Lives, Three Deaths, and Three Extinctions'?!
Is that even useful anymore?!
With this body full of sin, forget adhering to Three Lives and Three Deaths; even if you adhered to Original Sin Life and Death, it wouldn't matter!
Good heavens!
Having been Judged by so many Great Daos, how did you survive?!
How could they possibly let you live?!
You are simply the source of sin! Even the damn Original Sin, upon seeing you, venerable elder, would probably kneel and kowtow, calling you the Ancestor of Sin!
Thud!
Monk Bu'er fell to the ground, fainted.
He was literally scared into unconsciousness. He simply couldn't withstand such a terrifying reality.
Not to mention him.
Even the white-haired demoness Man Tu Fan, her cold, peerlessly arrogant face now bore a complex expression—shock, horror, wariness, suspicion. She said in a grave voice, "Just what kind of person are you?
How can you bear so many Judgments?"
Gu Qingfeng paid no heed, only gazing solemnly at Man Tu Fan. For some reason, this woman before him gave him a very special feeling, one of seeming familiarity. Even more bizarrely, his own sealed soul was inexplicably stirred.
"Why do you give me a feeling of seeming familiarity?"
The one who asked this question was not Gu Qingfeng, but Man Tu Fan.
"You feel it too?"
Gu Qingfeng raised an eyebrow and asked, "And who are you?"
"Do we know each other?"
Gu Qingfeng shook his head. He was quite certain he did not know the woman before him. He tentatively asked, "How much do you know of cause and effect?"
"Cause and effect?"
Man Tu Fan murmured in a daze. Suddenly, her expression changed. Her Great Spirit instantly dissipated. Clutching her chest, she looked at Gu Qingfeng with a horrified expression and said in a deep voice, "My soul, how...
What kind of person are you?!
Why can you stir my soul!"
"That's something I wanted to ask you as well. My soul also seems to have been stirred by you..."
"You..." Man Tu Fan wanted to say something, but her mind suddenly became extremely chaotic. She leaped up and vanished in an instant.
"You wait. I will come find you!"