Underworld, before the Ghost Gate.
A Buddha, with half of its face decayed, half golden body, half skeleton, was attempting to manifest and open the boundary between the Ghost Gate and the mortal world.
The Buddha took out the Fengdu Sacred Seal, connecting the underworld gates with supreme divine techniques.
At a certain moment, as the sacred seal communicated the three bridges with the Netherworld, existing across three thousand realms, the Nai River traversed the bridges of gold, silver, and iron, transforming into a grand river of three paths, gushing towards the Ghost Gate as if a floodgate had been opened!
The Buddha rejoiced in his heart, even the ghost fire in his hollow eyes flashed with more colors.
As the redirected river of three paths rushed to break open the Ghost Gate, about to pour into the Ancient Yin River Dao, the Buddha seized the opportunity to step forward, planning to enter the mortal world and completely eliminate the one who disrupted the Ghost Law and the plan of the Nine Netherworlds Dharma Master.
However, just as the Buddha had half-stepped into the Yin River, about to wreak havoc in the mortal world, a three-eyed Divine Being clad in dark robes and silver armor, wielding a three-tipped blade, descended from the sky, pointing his weapon directly at the Ghost Gate!
The Divine Being roared angrily, and his three-tipped blade wielded the force to split mountains and seas, slashing towards the Buddha's Dharma corpse.
The Buddha slightly raised his eyebrows, his face showing a bitter expression, somewhat surprised as he said, "The celestial path is severed, the Celestial Emperor prohibits gods from descending, how have you come to the mortal world?"
With one eye tightly shut and two eyes wide open in anger, the three-eyed Divine Being spun his blade, the tip pointing to the ground, and shouted clearly, "The Celestial Emperor's prohibition is for the gods of the upper realms, what business is that of my transcendental self?"
Without further ado, the three-eyed Divine Being pressed forward, his profound techniques swirling to the extreme, vowing to drive the Buddha back into the Ghost Gate!
"Delusion!"
The Buddha roared in anger, his face transformed from bitter to a wrathful vajra expression, his hands formed Buddha seals, and behind him appeared the Lumbini Buddha realm, manifesting the phantoms of 'Mahamaya' and 'Prajna Buddhas'.
Yet, the manifestations of the Buddhas showed no signs of prajna wisdom, but rather, each emitted a wicked gleam in their eyes, with all prajna wisdom turning into the five poisonous roots of greed, anger, ignorance, pride, and stagnation!
The phantom Buddhas glared at the three-eyed Divine Being like wolves and tigers, like ferocious demons and spirits.
Simultaneously, the apparition of 'Mahamaya', mother of all Buddhas across realms, rose infinitely behind the Buddha.
The mother of the Buddha led various Buddha figures like a monk possessed by evil, reciting countless filthy and chaotic thoughts, attempting to corrupt others' divine thoughts and wisdom.
As sinister thoughts infiltrated the mind, the three-eyed Divine Being furrowed his brows, showing a painful expression.
Faintly, numerous regrettable memories floated to the surface, along with emotions of blame and helplessness congesting his mind.
The assault of the three-eyed Divine Being momentarily faltered.
But in high-level cultivator battles, a momentary misstep is the beginning of a descent into the abyss.
The evil Buddha's Dharma corpse surged with demonic intent, his form elevated by several meters, and three heads and six arms emerged around him.
Bowl, Buddha beads, wooden fish, human skin drum, demon-subduing staff... six kinds of Buddhist magical weapons radiating brilliantly!
The three-eyed Divine Being used his three-tipped blade to fend off the Ming King Sword and the Vajra trident, while drawing the Immortal Killing Sword from his waist to block the descending purple-gold bowl above.
Yet, the three-eyed Divine Being overlooked the terrifying power inherent in the Dharma corpse's physical body, and after deflecting most of the Buddha artifacts, a demon-subduing staff, imbued with immense ghost power, suddenly slammed towards him!
The Divine General in dark robes and yin armor, lacking strength, could only rely on his physical body to withstand the staff blow.
The Buddha's malevolent corpse's horrifying power transmitted to his chest, causing the three-eyed Divine Being to grunt, his body propelling like a cannonball towards a distant hill of graves, raising a cloud of dust,
The evil Buddha retrieved the demon-subduing staff and took steps towards the Ghost Gate once more.
Yet, the Buddha's Dharma corpse only took one step before retracting his foot.
He looked into the distance, seeing where the three-eyed Divine Being had fallen, suddenly erupting with intense magical power fluctuations, and then a hundred-meter tall apparition of the Divine General emerged from the ground.
At this moment, the three-eyed Divine Being, standing at a hundred meters tall, no longer wielded the three-tipped blade, but instead held a massive axe with a simple and heavy design.
"The pathways of the three realms are severed, the Dharma corpse shall not enter the mortal realm, nor shall the gods and Buddhas of the upper realms enter the Netherworld, nor descend to any world, how dare you transgress, coming and going from the Netherworld?"
The three-eyed Divine Being positioned himself horizontally before the Ghost Gate, exuding the aura of one man defending the pass against ten thousand!
Before his words were finished, from dozens of miles away, the three-eyed Divine Being had already raised the world-opening axe.
Laminated layers upon layers up to thirty-five, the world-opening axe carried a destructive force, sweeping down savagely!
The Buddha's Dharma corpse attempted to dodge, only to find that the world-opening axe had already locked onto his presence.
The Dharma corpse unleashed the power of the three corpses, Pengju, Pengzhi, Pengjiao, employing the magical power of the evil Buddha's Dharma corpse behind the Buddha land, visibly strengthening, the entire Yin River seemed to resonate with Buddhist chants and mantras.
After blocking with one axe, a tenth of the Buddha realm behind the Dharma corpse dissipated, as the evil Buddha itself retreated a step towards the Ghost Gate.
The evil Buddha's Dharma corpse barely managed to step onto the brink of the Ghost Gate. Fire surged in his heart, his aura uncontrollably volatile as he shouted, "This axe technique... were the recent events in the Yin River your doing? How dare you act alone?"
Responding to the Buddha's Dharma corpse was a lighthearted voice from beyond the Ghost Gate, a hundred miles away: "Disgraceful descendant, open your blind eyes and see clearly, your grandfather is still here!"
The Buddha glanced aside and saw in the distant horizon a golden steel hoop as large as a star, carrying the might to collapse mountains and overturn seas, rushing straight towards the Ghost Gate!
At the same time, the towering world-opening axe wielded by the three-eyed Divine Being also fell once more!
The Buddha, half squeezed into the Yin River, roared defiantly, while a myriad of Buddha apparitions behind him chanted scriptures, yet were still forced back in a joint offensive by these two individuals.
Ancient Yin River Dao.
The three-eyed Divine Being watched the Ghost Gate close and disappear, shouting urgently, "Quickly seal the pass with the Mountain River Society Diagram! Enclose this area with the Nine Dragons Sacred Fire Screen, ensuring the Dharma corpse cannot enter the Yin River any further!"