Chapter 45

Hui Ku manipulated the Golden Light Arhats to attack Lin Feng, who countered with the Dizang Sutra, temporarily holding off the Golden Light Arhats' assault.

Although surprised that Lin Feng knew the Dizang Sutra, Hui Ku's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was now half relieved. He felt that Lin Feng's resistance was not strong at all, not even reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, let alone the Golden Core stage.

Hui Ku sneered coldly, "Is this all you've got to show off in front of this poor monk? I knew you were just a fraud. I could have sent you to the afterlife without even using the Dharma Array."

Lin Feng glanced at him indifferently and said, "You're nothing but a frog at the bottom of a well, guarding the remains of your ancestors and spouting nonsense here."

Hui Ku's face changed. "You dare to say that again, you thief?"

Lin Feng shook his head calmly. "Is this Dharma Array the source of your arrogance? Today, I will shatter your delusions and make you see your true self."

Hui Ku laughed in anger. "I'll crush you, you thief. You can barely hold off one Arhat, but..."

He clasped his hands together, his tone sinister. "...but can you hold off twenty-four of them?" With a mental command, twenty-four Golden Light Arhats surrounded Lin Feng. Each Arhat was several dozen meters tall, and together they created an overwhelming, sky-blocking, and world-destroying pressure.

Hui Ku stared at Lin Feng and said, word by word, "I will send you to hell today. You must spit out the Unmoving Vajra Mantra and the Dizang Sutra. These are the secret techniques of our Great Thunderclap Temple. How dare you possess them!"

Lin Feng looked up at the surrounding Golden Light Arhats with a calm expression. In terms of height and size, it was as if he had entered a land of giants.

"A small Dharma Array, I don't even need to act myself. My two disciples are enough."

Hui Ku was stunned, then suddenly sensed someone trying to collect a relic that served as the array's focal point. He was instantly furious. "You two little brats, how dare you!"

When Lin Feng had attracted most of Hui Ku's attention, Xiao Yan and Xiao Budian were overlooked by the monk.

In Hui Ku's view, one was at the Sixth Level of Qi Cultivation, and the other at the Seventh Level. The mental suppression from the Buddha Light Array alone could make them collapse.

But the Thunder Zen and the golden paper had taken effect, not only helping the two resist the array's pressure but also causing the array to misjudge them as allies.

"Over here!" Xiao Yan led the way to a corner of the array. Under the pale golden mist, a light spot on the ground shone brightly. Upon closer inspection, it was a relic.

Xiao Budian cheered, "Just as Master said." Before they acted, Lin Feng had told them that the Twenty-Four Heavenly Arhats Array was straightforward and had no deceptive elements. The relics, once scattered by Hui Ku, remained in fixed positions on the ground. Memorizing these positions allowed them to find the relics once inside the array.

However, the array's attack was too strong, manifesting twenty-four Golden Light Arhats with the strength of Foundation Establishment cultivators. Once an enemy entered the array, they were immediately surrounded and attacked, leaving no time to find and destroy the relics.

Now that Lin Feng had attracted the array's and Hui Ku's attention, Xiao Yan and Xiao Budian found their opportunity to search for the relics.

The relics were not stationary but deeply embedded in the ground, emitting a pale golden light that dyed the surrounding area golden.

Xiao Yan stomped on the golden ground with a heavy thud. The ground, harder than fine steel, was clearly affected by the relics' magical power.

The two disciples looked at each other, and Xiao Yan nodded. "Let's do it. I'll protect you."

Xiao Budian took out the golden paper and approached the relic. As soon as he got close, the relic emitted a Buddhist chant, as if warning him.

"Good stuff, good stuff," Xiao Budian said, showing his bright little tiger teeth. He shook the golden paper and covered the relic.

As soon as the golden paper touched the relic, the relic became quiet. Xiao Budian's next actions were brutal. He spread his fingers and dug into the ground with both hands, creating a pit.

Xiao Budian used both hands to dig up a clump of soil, like pulling a radish.

With a hard slap, the clump of soil, still emitting a pale golden light and as hard as fine steel, was instantly shattered, leaving the relic intact and resting on the golden paper.

Xiao Yan watched, his mouth twitching. The whole process was like a seemingly harmless man using the most gentle, polite, and harmless way to coax a girl into drinking a sleeping potion, then immediately showing his true colors and forcing her.

"You have a lot of nerve!" Hui Ku's angry voice echoed, and a huge Golden Light Arhat suddenly rushed forward, aiming a punch at Xiao Budian's head.

Xiao Yan immediately used the Thunder Zen, as Lin Feng had taught him, to meet the Golden Light Arhat.

The Golden Light Arhat's fist touched the Thunder Zen, which immediately burst into a dazzling Buddhist light. As the light flowed, the Golden Light Arhat's movements hesitated, and it retracted half of its strength.

The remaining strength was no match for the Thunder Zen, which displayed its powerful defensive capabilities and deflected the house-sized fist.

By this time, Xiao Budian had completely wrapped the relic in the golden paper, which isolated the relic's Buddhist light and sealed its magical power, preventing any leakage.

Hui Ku was dumbfounded. His Twenty-Four Heavenly Arhats Array was incredibly powerful, and its only weakness was that the twenty-four relics, as the array's focal points, were all necessary. If even one was missing, the array would collapse.

The Buddhist chants faded, the sandalwood incense gradually dissipated, and the pale golden mist dispersed.

The Twenty-Four Heavenly Arhats Array, which had once left three Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Jiulao, helpless, was now broken!

Xiao Yan and Xiao Budian were also stunned, not expecting to break the array so easily, just as Lin Feng had said.

Lin Feng secretly sighed in relief. His two disciples didn't know, but he had once again walked a tightrope, and this time he had succeeded.

Success was due to careful planning and a lot of luck.

First, Hui Ku was plagued by contaminated blood, using most of his energy to clear it, leaving him with little strength to control the Twenty-Four Heavenly Arhats Array. Otherwise, he would have noticed Xiao Yan's actions and stopped them in time.

Second, due to the system's hidden benefits, Hui Ku couldn't see Lin Feng's true cultivation level. Subconsciously, he treated Lin Feng as a major threat, attracting all of Hui Ku's attention. At the beginning, Hui Ku didn't dare to attack with full force, only using one Arhat to test Lin Feng, allowing Lin Feng to withstand the critical first wave of attacks and buy time for Xiao Yan and Xiao Budian.

Third, as Lin Feng had predicted, the Thunder Zen and the golden paper, being Buddhist artifacts, easily resonated with each other. Without much interference from Hui Ku, they successfully resisted the array's attacks and collected the relic.

Finally, and most importantly, Hui Ku's strength was greatly diminished by the contaminated blood. Otherwise, even if Lin Feng had broken the array, he would still not be a match for Hui Ku at the Foundation Establishment stage.

These were the factors that led to Lin Feng's victory. Without any one of them, the plan would have failed.

Of course, without any one of them, Lin Feng would have continued to wait for the right opportunity and not come to confront Hui Ku.

Daring to act meant having a high chance of success!

Lin Feng turned to Xiao Budian and Xiao Yan and said, "Collect the other relics."

Xiao Budian immediately ran around, treating the place like his own vegetable garden, happily continuing his "radish-pulling" task. He quickly collected the remaining twenty-three relics and handed them to Lin Feng along with the first one.

Seeing his life's work in Lin Feng's hands, Hui Ku's eyes gradually turned blood red. He roared, "Thief!" In his shock and anger, his magical power became unstable, the green flames could no longer suppress the contaminated blood, and his protective Buddhist light was instantly breached by the contaminated blood.

Lin Feng, seeing Hui Ku covered in contaminated blood, secretly made a V sign. He had Xiao Budian collect the other relics to deliberately anger Hui Ku. If the monk was directly dissolved by the contaminated blood, it would be even better.

But Hui Ku disappointed him. The irritable monk suddenly calmed down, withdrawing all his protective magical power, allowing the contaminated blood to spread over his entire body, crazily eroding his hard-earned magical power. Hui Ku remained unmoved, his gaze coldly fixed on Lin Feng.

At that moment, all the madness, irritability, and anger vanished from Hui Ku's body, leaving only a cold, murderous intent in his eyes.

Lin Feng knew it was bad. Indeed, Hui Ku said coldly, "I am destined to go to hell, but before I go, I will take you, this evil demon, with me!"

In the next moment, a shocking magical power surge erupted from Hui Ku. A small black hole appeared above his head, drawing everything around it into the void.

Dust, sand, and even the contaminated blood from the Netherworld Blood River around Hui Ku flew into the air, heading toward the black hole.

The immense suction force made Xiao Yan and Xiao Budian lose their footing, their feet leaving the ground as they were about to be sucked into the black hole.

Hui Ku roared, "Evil demon, receive this poor monk's final attack, the Blissful Cycle! Let's enter the cycle of rebirth and go to hell together..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a blinding, fierce white lightning bolt struck, blasting the exhausted Hui Ku into a cloud of blood mist!

The Northern Polar Magnetic Light!

Lin Feng extended his right hand, forming a gun with his fingers, then brought it to his lips and blew lightly. "I was waiting for you, you baldy!"

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