boom!
Whoosh!
Bang!
Ksitigarbha and Di Ting plummeted from the sky like cannonballs, smashing the ground below into a bottomless crater.
Although Di Ting could hear what others were thinking, he did not know that Xiang Yu was so strong. Similarly, Ksitigarbha did not expect that a character whose cultivation was not even at the Golden Immortal level could use power comparable to that of a Great Luo Immortal!
As a result, Ksitigarbha was used as a cannonball by Xiang Yu to smash into the Di Ting below, directly injuring the Taiyi Realm Di Ting.
However, Ksitigarbha's lotus platform is indeed quite powerful. Even after Xiang Yu ate the Dragon Ball and used the Overlord's Halberd, he couldn't break it. He only managed to shatter a petal of the lotus platform.
"You dare to harm my mount and destroy my magic treasure! I will cast you into the eighteenth level of hell to suffer the torment of reincarnation for countless lifetimes!" Ksitigarbha clasped his hands together, his golden body rising from the ground, holding a jewel in his left hand and a staff in his right, standing on a giant lotus flower. Upon closer inspection, the lotus flower was missing a petal.
"With you?" Xiang Yu swung his Overlord Divine Halberd and charged forward again, determined to end the battle before the Dragon Balls expired.
boom!
With a loud crash, the Overlord's Halberd struck the top of Ksitigarbha's golden body, but it did not cause any damage.
Undeterred, Xiang Yu continued his relentless hacking, the booming sounds echoing endlessly, but with little effect; the golden statue before him truly remained unmoved.
"Only when all sentient beings are liberated will I attain enlightenment; only when hell is emptied will I vow to become a Buddha!" Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva held his staff horizontally at his elbows, and his hands once again formed the lotus mudra. The jewel floated in the air, shining brightly, as if he were to continue the move he had just failed to complete.
"The defensive power of a Great Luo Golden Immortal is indeed astonishing, but..." Xiang Yu said, then suddenly leaped upwards and disappeared before Ksitigarbha's eyes.
"Trying to escape? The Buddha's power is boundless!" The golden body of Ksitigarbha suddenly emitted a dense golden light, instantly illuminating the entire underworld, yet Xiang Yu's shadow was nowhere to be found!
No matter how powerful the concealment technique, it is impossible to evade the detection of this move unless the opponent has already left the underworld, but how is that possible?
"This is impossible!" No matter how much Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva intensified the golden light, it was useless. At this moment, the suspended pearl had also finished accumulating power. The entire pearl was as hot as the sun, and all the light and magical power fluctuations were contained within it, constantly swirling above Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's head.
Xiang Yu snorted coldly and tried to open a door from the inside of the Ksitigarbha Golden Body by piercing through its thick outer skin in the alternate dimension. However, to his surprise, the golden body was actually solid!
"Could this golden statue be Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?"
Xiang Yu didn't believe it and continued to search carefully. Suddenly, he looked up and locked his gaze on the precious pearl.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva also did not believe that Xiang Yu had escaped from this place. "Di Ting, stop pretending to be dead. Can you hear him?"
The giant head of the mythical beast Di Ting in the deep pit shook and stood up. "I didn't hear anything, but when he disappeared, I heard his inner voice. He wanted to enter the Bodhisattva's body through another dimension."
Xiang Yu turned his gaze back to the mythical beast Di Ting, saying, "If this beast is not eliminated, it will be difficult to defeat Ksitigarbha."
Suddenly, Di Ting found himself surrounded by greenery, and then he was kicked hard in the butt and fell into the green space.
Xiang Yu brandished his halberd, shouting, "Submit, or die!"
Di Ting shuddered. "If Ksitigarbha is not dead, I cannot submit. You might as well kill me."
"Understood." Xiang Yu locked Di Ting in a small space by himself, and then reappeared in front of Di Zang.
"What have you done to Di Ting?" Ksitigarbha asked coldly.
"I ate it!" Xiang Yu swung his Overlord Divine Halberd and vanished instantly, only to reappear above the precious pearl.
boom!
The pearl, which was about half a zhang in diameter, instantly deviated from its original flight path and crashed into the forehead of the Ksitigarbha statue.
Clang!
The pearl bounced off and headed straight for Xiang Yu, accelerating instantly as it crashed into him.
Clang!
Xiang Yu swung his Overlord Halberd and slashed it hard, sending the pearl flying back. But this time, the pearl didn't hit Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva; instead, it circled around and came back, heading straight for Xiang Yu.
"Salvation for all sentient beings!" Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva clasped his hands together, and the precious pearl that Xiang Yu had knocked away suddenly transformed into countless others, each of which was a physical entity!
Clang! Clang! Clang...
The sound included the sound of Xiang Yu knocking away the pearl, and the sound of the pearl hitting the armor. Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and endured it, while activating the effect of a virtual equipment on his body, the Radiant Moon, which was the Invincible Golden Body!
However, this invincible golden body has a drawback: you can't move or use skills.
Clang! Clang! Clang...
The pearls collided one after another, layer upon layer, quickly trapping Xiang Yu within them, and constantly squeezing him, just like teeth chewing.
At that very moment, Ksitigarbha's countless jewels were instantly swallowed up by a green light.
"Your precious pearl is mine now." Xiang Yu was somewhat surprised. He had originally thought that the true form of Ksitigarbha was hidden in the pearl, but now it seemed that was not the case. After the pearl entered the alternate dimension and its connection with the underworld was severed, it immediately returned to its original form.
The golden statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva slightly raised the corners of its mouth. "As long as I don't die, even if you obtain the pearl, you won't dare to use it. Your strength is much greater than when you fought the Ten Kings of Hell. You must have temporarily increased your level through some kind of secret technique, right? As long as you can't break through my invincible golden body, the final victory will be mine, unless you use that strange spatial ability to flee without a fight. Am I right?"
"Can't break this?" Xiang Yu roared and leaped onto Ksitigarbha's head. "Then try taking this move of mine!"
"Come at me, I won't hide." After saying this, Ksitigarbha activated the lotus platform beneath him, adding another layer of golden light protection.
"Alright!" Xiang Yu began to gather his strength, frantically pouring his domineering energy into the Overlord Divine Halberd. At the same time, Hao Jiu also continuously poured energy into it. From this moment on, the weight of the Overlord Divine Halberd increased wildly, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times!
fall!
Xiang Yu gripped the Overlord's Halberd with both hands and charged downwards with all his might, instantly reaching the top of Ksitigarbha's head!
Ksitigarbha was greatly shaken. This was a sign that would appear only when life and death were at stake. He decisively raised his staff and blocked upwards!
Click!
Splash...
Rumble...
The staff snapped in two, the golden shield shattered, and the sharp edge of the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's brow clashed with the Overlord's Divine Halberd, producing a terrifying roar!
After a moment, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva clasped his hands together and closed his eyes, saying, "Treat Di Ting well..."
Spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly from the center of Ksitigarbha's forehead, then with a soft "poof," they vanished into starlight.
Xiang Yu gasped for breath, only to find that the surroundings had suddenly turned into a sea of blood, and above that sea of blood, a huge throne of white bones was floating!
Chapter 544 Ming Yue
Desolate and lonely, a mixture of ice and fire.
The moon has no atmosphere, so the temperature difference between day and night is extreme.
Daytime temperatures are above 100 degrees Celsius, but at night they can drop to nearly -200 degrees Celsius.
What's worse is that there are nearly 700 hours in a day here, which is equivalent to half a month of daylight followed by half a month of darkness, making it completely unsuitable for life.
However, a century ago, two countries conquered the moon. As long as they make good use of solar energy, the temperature problem is not difficult to solve.
With the launch of giant warships, transportation capabilities have become extremely powerful, making it possible to build cities and factories on the moon.
Country A's lunar base was built relatively early, but it occupies a very small area. It was converted from a crater with a diameter of about one kilometer, and it has never been truly completed. Only a small portion of it is usable.
Country C's lunar base was built relatively late, but it was completed in just ten years. The selected crater was also nearly a hundred times larger than Country A's, making it the undisputed leading space power.
However, country A, the second-largest player, did not give up on space and the moon. By using moral blackmail against country C, it forcefully curbed country C's development of the moon. Even when country C wanted to build a second space warship, it would attract countless criticisms.
Among them, some public intellectuals from Country C contributed the most, constantly inciting the public to stop Country C from continuing to enhance its space power. Their reasons were quite valid, such as it was a waste of manpower and resources, that a single warship was already enough to dominate the world, and that more energy should be used for people's livelihood, etc.
While tying down Country C's hands and feet, Country A was also working hard to complete the construction of its lunar base and continuously upgrading its space warships.
Some insightful people in Country C saw through Country A's ambitions, but given the current international environment, and the fact that some people in Country C had been kneeling for too long and couldn't stand up, they voiced their support for Country A through various means.
Helpless, Country C can only try its best to enhance its existing military strength to deter Country A and maintain the current peace.
No one knows how long this peace can last, because war could break out at any time.
Puff, puff, puff.
A small spaceship approached Country A's lunar base as easily as a fart. Although Country C promised not to attack unless attacked and not to shoot down other countries' spaceships without cause, Country A still did not believe it.
The only large warship remains at the lunar base for maintenance year-round, continuing to transport personnel and supplies to the lunar base in a piecemeal fashion.
On this small spaceship came a special guest: a superhuman bio-engineered human from Country A, codenamed Blood Demon, who had been lurking for several days and had secretly boarded the ship.
After the spaceship landed, Blood Demon removed his helmet and tore off his spacesuit; he had to dress like this to disguise himself as an ordinary astronaut.
In fact, he doesn't need to wear a spacesuit; cosmic rays, particle radiation, high and low temperatures won't cause him any harm at all.
The lung capacity of biochemically modified humans is also quite astonishing; they can even absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, forming a self-sufficient cycle.
Country C's method of cultivating domineering aura is highly classified. Without the Yuan Energy Training Machine, other countries would not be able to mass-produce domineering warriors.
Therefore, countries led by Country A are doing their utmost to develop bio-engineered humans, which, combined with advanced elemental energy weapons, make them very powerful in combat.
Although Country C strictly controls the export of energy for military purposes, it is impossible to prevent other countries from using it for military purposes. Therefore, the whereabouts of the multi-energy box cannot be monitored in real time.
Every year, a large number of energy boxes are lost. Even if the supply of one box is reduced by a hundred in the next period, it still can't stop the loss. Everyone knows this.
Of course, the reason why Country C dares to do this is that the quality of civilian-use elemental energy is inferior to that of Country C's military-use energy, and the power of the same amount is naturally somewhat inferior.
However, it has been nearly a century since Country C opened up its energy resources to benefit the world, so it is perfectly normal for scientists from various countries to copy some of these things.
"Is everything ready?" Blood Demon asked the commander of Country A's lunar base as he approached.
"Everything is ready. You'll have three hours to rest, then move out immediately!" The base commander couldn't hide his fervor.
Blood Demon clenched his fist. "It won't take three hours. We'll begin the operation in a quarter of an hour. Give the order immediately."
"Hahaha...Great! Country C is finished now!"
...
At Country C's lunar base, everything is normal.
An elderly man with gray hair walked into the base command tower carrying a stack of documents and took the elevator to the command hall.
There was only one busty little girl watching anime inside, occasionally giggling.
"Alice, where did they all go? What about Sage Number 2?" The old man waved his hand in front of the other person's eyes.
Alice glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. "Oh, it's Elder Deng. They've all gone out. The Sage said there's an operation tonight, so we need to prepare in advance."
"An operation? What operation? This Number 2 is practically a carbon copy of him, and he's increasingly disregarding me," Old Deng said angrily.
“Even if I told you, you wouldn’t be able to help. You’re like me; as long as you don’t cause trouble, that’s enough.” Alice suddenly remembered something and quickly paused the anime, switching to the computer screen. “Old Deng, Old Fang just sent a message that a very important guest has arrived at Cangquan Base. He’s suspected to be a deity, extremely powerful, and requests to meet the Sage.”
"A deity? Don't be ridiculous. The so-called deity descending to earth was just a beautiful lie told by the sage to encourage us. Wait, no. That guy Number 2 isn't going to ask me to impersonate the sage again, is he?" Old Deng said with a wry smile.