Buddha Light filled the sky, sacredness permeated the heavens, vast as a sea of suffering.
The Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata was draped in ten thousand zhang of golden light, the lotus beneath it blooming wildly. Its eyes were tightly shut, one hand held upright before its chest, the other in a palm posture, like the Western Heaven's Mount Sumeru, causing souls to tremble.
Here, Gu Qingfeng held Jun Xuanji, treading upon the Demon-Subduing Seal, his entire body burning with crimson gloomy flames.
Crimson filled the sky, evil permeated the heavens, roaring like a sea of blood!
A figure in white robes fluttered within the blood sea.
Three thousand strands of black hair danced wildly in the blood sea!
A pair of blood-red eyes boiled within the blood sea!
When the Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata attacked, as he raised his arm, he resembled a solitary, arrogant peak propping up the heavens; as his five fingers spread open, they were like five pillars of a Heavenly Demon; a sea of blood surged to the heavens in his palm, instantly blocking the palm strike of the Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata!
Boom!
Nong ba!
The Buddha Light filling the sky and the crimson filling the heavens intertwined, the sacredness permeating the heavens and the evil permeating the skies woven together.
Buddha Light against crimson!
Sacredness against evil!
The sacred Buddha Light was boundless and vast, the crimson evil endless and infinite!
At this moment, Gu Qingfeng was no longer Gu Qingfeng. He seemed like an undefeated War God from ancient times, an undying Slaughter God from the blood sea, an indestructible Demon God from the abyss, and even more like an immortal Evil God from hell!
"Abandoning Buddha, forgetting self, the heart of slaughter!"
"The intent of tyranny, the path of purgatory!"
"My heart is Asura, my spirit is purgatory!"
Gu Qingfeng roared to the heavens, crimson once again filling the sky, evil once again endless. With a single palm, he fiercely pushed, forcibly shoving the Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata back again and again.
"Great Sun Tathagata!
Open your eyes for me!"
Gu Qingfeng, holding Jun Xuanji, leaped into the air. The blood sea roared, submerging the entire world. He stood in the void, pointing at the Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata, sternly shouting: "Let this old man see your true Wrath Incarnation!"
"Evil creature!
Cease your arrogance!"
The Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata sat cross-legged upon the lotus, hands pressed together in prayer. When its tightly shut eyes opened, it was as if the Buddha Lord had descended. All things in time seemed to stop, time no longer flowed, space no longer evolved, everything seemed to halt, returning to the Buddha's unity.
Whoosh!
Golden light shone universally.
At this moment, Great Sun Tathagata was no longer an ancient Buddha statue.
It was a true Wrathful Body of Great Sun Tathagata!
A face with two arms, hair hanging loose over the shoulders, frowning brows and glaring eyes, three eyes seeming to open and close, eyes glaring straight ahead yet also seeming to look up with one and down with the other, teeth clenched tightly, two tiger fangs revealed at the corners of the mouth, one fang up and one down, presenting a great wrathful appearance.
Upper garment draped diagonally, lower garment a pleated skirt, right hand holding a sword, left hand gripping a lasso, seated cross-legged upon a lotus, surrounded by flames of wisdom, wearing a crown of five petals like five Buddhas, extinguishing all evil obstacles, with raging flames behind the head like the wrath of the Great Sun.
Three eyes wide open, the right eye looking upward, capable of binding the Heavenly Son Demon.
The left eye looking downward, burning away dragon demons and asuras.
The forehead eye looking straight ahead, subduing yakshas and rakshasas.
Its mouth was wide open, appearance extremely fierce.
Right hand raised high holding a dragon sword, left hand holding a vajra long lasso, one end of the lasso tied to a hook, the other end to a pestle, right leg bent, left knee kneeling on the ground, kneeling upon the lotus moon-wheel treasure seat.
Wrath Incarnation!
This was the true Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata!
"Evil creature!
Prepare to die!"
The Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata raised the dragon sword high, moving with the vajra long lasso.
"Just you?"
As Gu Qingfeng, holding Jun Xuanji with one hand, leaped up, the earth cracked, instantly turning into a crimson abyss. The blood sea boiled, roaring upward, devouring heaven and earth. Truly, blood shattered the earth and dyed the firmament, living beings perished to sacrifice to purgatory.
"Blood sacrifice to the Purgatory Sea, endless dead spirits!"
Whoosh!
From within the blood sea filling the sky, a flickering, uncertain death wraith crawled out, followed by two, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand...
Countless death wraiths crawled out from the blood sea. In an instant, the sky was filled with death wraiths!
Demonic howls!
Ghostly wails!
Long roars!
Sounds of slaughter!
Shrill screams!
Unceasing, filling the sky!
At this moment, Da Xing the Mad Monk, Fa Zheng, and the others hiding within the Demon-Subduing Seal were all frightened pale by this scene. Even though they were all Western Heaven Buddhas, here, they couldn't help but tremble in soul.
"Dead spirits...
Dead spirits everywhere!"
"What is...
this?"
Da Xing the Mad Monk was also badly frightened, holding his breath, staring at this scene, the corner of his mouth twitching, trembling intermittently: "Purgatory!
This is purgatory...
Purgatory!
He is sacrificing to purgatory!
Why can he sacrifice to purgatory..." Da Xing the Mad Monk knew Gu Qingfeng was mysterious, bizarre, and powerful beyond measure!
Yes!
He knew.
He just didn't know that after Gu Qingfeng was judged, his cultivation lost, all his powerful achievements completely scattered, he could still be so formidable!
So formidable that now, relying solely on his own mental will, he could actually perform a blood sacrifice to purgatory!
Purgatory!
This was a terrifying existence!
Everyone knew of purgatory's existence, but no one knew where purgatory was, and even fewer had ever made contact.
No one!
At least Da Xing the Mad Monk knew that among the Western Heaven's many Buddhas, none had ever touched purgatory!
He didn't know why Gu Qingfeng could perform a blood sacrifice to purgatory, and could even summon endless dead spirits!
How did he do it?
He didn't know!
Da Xing the Mad Monk couldn't imagine it either. At this moment, he had neither the time nor the mental energy to ponder, completely frightened into disarray by this scene!
Outside was no longer the world of Great Sun Tathagata, but a world belonging to purgatory. The blood sea filling the sky boiled and roared, the dead spirits filling the heavens wailed and howled demonically!
"Evil creature!"
The Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata roared angrily, Buddha Light shining universally, purifying everything. The blood sea filling the sky dried up, millions of dead spirits all scattered.
"Endless Purgatory Sea, endless dead spirits!
Let this old man see how you purify them!
How you deliver them!"
The blood sea boiled again, filled the sky again!
Dead spirits appeared again, roared again!
The Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata's Buddha Dharma was boundless, purifying all evil in the world, also delivering all dead spirits.
However, Gu Qingfeng used blood sacrifice to purgatory, endless and infinite. No matter how the Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata purified, no matter how it delivered, it could not purify them all, could not deliver them completely...
Suddenly!
The Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata waved its arms, forming the swastika Buddha Seal with its hands, eyes closing, uttering true words: "The Buddha told Subhuti, all Bodhisattva Mahasattvas should thus subdue their minds. All classes of beings, whether born from eggs, from wombs, from moisture, from transformation; whether with form or without form; whether with thought or without thought; whether neither with thought nor without thought, I cause them all to enter Nirvana without remainder and thus deliver them.
Thus delivering immeasurable, innumerable, boundless beings, in reality no beings are delivered. Why? Subhuti, if a Bodhisattva has the notion of a self, a person, a being, a life span..." The voice was like an ancient bell, the sound like thunder.
Vast words, awe-inspiring to the soul.
Buddha Dharma boundless, purifying the world.
This was the Great Sun Tathagata World-Purifying Mantra!
"Western Heaven Buddhas!
You think inviting the Wrath Incarnation of Great Sun Tathagata to chant the Great Sun Tathagata World-Purifying Mantra can deliver this old man?"
"Open your dog eyes wide and see clearly, let you witness this old man's Avici Uninterrupted Evil Asura Wrath Incarnation!"