Chapter 497: Chapter 281: Outsmarted by One’s Own Cleverness!

Boom!

Above Kumu Temple, a collision between the Nascent Soul and the Dharma Aspect instantly produced a light ball as dazzling as the sun.

The shockwave swept recklessly around, knocking down cultivators and mortals who had barely escaped at the edges, eliciting a series of mournful cries.

After falling, several cultivators with dirt-smudged faces struggled to raise their heads.

Then they saw a Golden Light Arhat falling from the giant light ball in the sky, rapidly approaching the ground in front of them when it suddenly stopped a hundred meters above the ground.

This caused the shockwave to merely level a layer of the earth’s surface.

As the dust settled, the figure of Master Xuanmu was revealed to those cultivators.

This caused them to gasp in shock.

In their hearts, the almost omnipotent Master Xuanmu of the region… actually appeared quite disheveled!

Even his left arm was missing from the shoulder down.

And this was also reflected in the thousand-meter-tall Golden Light Arhat Dharma Aspect in the sky.

The original Arhat Dharma Aspect with two heads and four arms now similarly had only the two arms on the right half remaining.

Around the broken arm of the Arhat Dharma Aspect, a faint aura of evil Qi lingered, preventing the Divine Body from regenerating.

“Hehehehe!”

The Old Monk Baimei, having the upper hand, sat cross-legged on the head of the White Bone Giant, looking at the disheveled Master Xuanmu with a mouth stretching wider and wider, and black ram horns slowly growing on his head.

Complementing the increasingly sinister black lotus mark on his forehead.

A sense of eerie beauty peculiarly radiated from the Old Monk Baimei.

“Master Xuanmu, why not join our Venerate with me?”

“And, by the way, hand over the headship to me as well.”

“After all, the current state of Kumu Temple is largely thanks to you too!”

“If not for you closing off for forty or fifty years at a time, leaving everything to be managed below, and never paying attention to those matters after you emerge… how could I have gotten this far under your watch!”

“Hehehe! It was a mistake for our master to choose you in the first place!”

The voice of Old Monk Baimei continuously echoed through the region.

And with an eerie allure, once heard, it would burrow into people’s minds like an insect.

In just a few breaths, it could drive a Qi Cultivation cultivator mad!

Fortunately, just as the cultivators and mortals noticed something wrong and began to wail in pain, a compassionate Buddhist chant reverberated through the air.

It cleansed the Demon Worms from their minds.

However, this brief moment of vulnerability was seized by Old Monk Baimei.

The massive hand of the White Bone Giant appeared in front of Master Xuanmu in an instant, colliding again with the hurriedly defended Arhat Dharma Aspect.

One strike shattered the remaining two arms of the Golden Light Arhat!

This made Master Xuanmu groan once more, his mouth oozing golden blood.

Despite internal injuries, Master Xuanmu used the kasaya wrapped around him to swiftly gather and collect all the cultivators and mortals on the ground into his kasaya.

Bang!

The White Bone Giant made another move, sending Master Xuanmu flying once again.

Just as another giant white bone hand appeared, aiming to grab the soaring Master Xuanmu,

The agile figure of the Demon Emperor White Ape appeared right in front of Master Xuanmu and swung its iron rod, striking the white bone hand.

The blow exploded most of the white bone palm in mid-air!

Then, the flying bone fragments transformed into several white bone evil ghosts two meters tall in the air, intending to fly back and recombine.

But the Demon Emperor White Ape furiously expanded to its original thirty-meter height and again swung an iron rod almost as long as its body, shattering the entire white bone arm while,

in the air, the white bone evil ghosts were also wiped out into ash under immense pressure!

From farther away, under the illumination of myriad rays of twilight, dozens of large Immortal Boats came speeding under the magical protection of a True Dragon a thousand meters long.

To accelerate their arrival, Su Ping had the East Sea Dragon Monarch Ao Li provide acceleration services.

It turned out to be a timely arrival, just as Master Xuanmu was losing, but before he was severely injured.

Su Ping’s gaze swept over the sinister Kumu Temple and saw black armored flying insects continuously emerging from the black mist.

His gaze then met with Old Monk Baimei, who also looked over.

In that instant of eye contact, Su Ping faintly saw the shadow of the Underground Palace’s Demon Lord on the other man.

After capturing the Demon Heart Old Monster, Su Ping had thought about striking first while the opponent was clearly unprepared.

However, through inquiries, he learned that this Avatar of the Seventh Son, a Child of the Evil God, although arrogant, was also very cautious.

Upon arrival, he had transformed that area of the Underground Palace into a movable Cave Heaven Secret Realm.

Since then, only those permitted by Him could enter the Underground Palace to meet him.

As for which region or which space the Underground Palace Secret Realm depended on… only that Child of the Evil God knew.

Not wanting to seek him out, yet the other kept him in mind.

Seeing the reinforcements arrive, Old Monk Baimei refrained from pursuing further attacks.

Instead, he simply smiled towards the direction of the Immortal Boats and then disappeared into the black mist.

Following closely, the Mountain Protection Array of Kumu Temple was activated.

Within the array, streams of black light surged, shining onto the swarm of black armored flying insects.

Then those black armored flying insects, as if coated with a layer of black light,

flew faster and more agilely, and the sea of insects formed by black armored flying insects even began to furiously collide against the Protective Divine Light of the Demon Emperor White Ape.