Chapter 208
Chapter 208
People with excessively obsessive personalities are either madmen or the greatest masters in some particular field.
Ghost Buddha Faceless happened to be both.
With a howl, he threw himself upon the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess like a rabid beast and tore into her with his teeth.
He swallowed great chunks of foul flesh whole while the dagger in his right hand slashed madly.
Behind the bronze mask, his pale face was twisted with insanity.
“Kekekeke! Namo Amitabha Buddha! Die! Die! I will eat you alive and strip you to the bone!”
The Ghost Mother Evil Goddess was already struggling against the Thirty-Three Celestial Gods. Now that she also faced one who embodied the pinnacle of both ghosthood and Buddhahood, she immediately fell at a disadvantage.
She tried several times to fling Ghost Buddha Faceless off her body, but every attempt failed.
The intense pain drove the evil goddess mad as well.
She simply seized her own spine and drove it through Ghost Buddha’s back.
She struck so hard that it pierced them both.
“Let go, you stinking monk! Do you intend to perish together with this ancestor?!”
Ghost Buddha was already extreme by nature. Stimulated by the agony, he laughed even more wildly.
“Kekekeke! All beings suffer. To live is suffering! If a beast like you can deliver me, I would welcome it!”
“Kekekekeke!”
Amid the eerie laughter, the enormous weeping Buddha soared into the air and smashed toward the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess’s head.
The attack covered Ghost Buddha himself as well.
There is a saying in the Northern Lands:
In a fight, the weak fear the strong, and the strong fear those with no regard for their lives.
Watching Ghost Buddha, the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess realized that he was a madman-a complete lunatic who cared nothing for his own survival.
“Faceless, if you want to eat this ancestor alive, then I will eat you first!”
Her belly suddenly split open, exposing the writhing tendrils of flesh inside.
Like a carnivorous flower, it lunged forward and wrapped around Ghost Buddha, swallowing him whole where he clung to her.
It happened so smoothly that even the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess was surprised.
She froze for an instant, then threw back her head and laughed.
“Gagagaga! So that is all you amounted to, stinking monk! Devouring you will spare this ancestor a thousand years of bitter cultivation!”
And that was exactly what seemed to happen.
The Ghost Mother Evil Goddess slammed the end of her spine against the ground and chanted loudly.
“Heaven rejects, Earth abandons; nowhere remains for burial. Hundred ghosts and evil gods, shape my body and seek my root.”
Ghostly fire flickered in the eyes of the ox head atop her spine, and black smoke poured from its mouth.
When the smoke cleared, the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess had changed completely.
Her neck was half a meter long, and ten small heads had sprouted from it-the faces of the ten minor ghost deities.
Her frame was even more skeletal, while her belly had swollen like an overturned black pot. She now stood nearly twenty meters tall.
Laughing wildly, she opened her enormous mouth and swallowed the Thirty-Three Celestial Gods Hua Jiunan had summoned in a single gulp.
Everything happened too quickly for anyone to react.
When Chen Daji saw the Ghost Mother “eat” Ghost Buddha, hot blood surged through him and his eyes turned scarlet.
“Damn it, you big-bellied hag! Spit Bald Brother out right now!”
He pulled the blood-red longbow from his back, took up the giant arrow, and thrust it into his own thigh with a wet stab.
Then he nocked the arrow, still trailing flesh and blood, and fired.
“Take this! Right in your huge crotch!”
Having suffered once already, the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess did not dare be careless. She immediately dodged.
“Ignorant mortal, you will die next!”
She charged toward Chen Daji with earthshaking strides.
Terrified though he was, Chen Daji’s concern for Ghost Buddha kept him from dodging. Instead, trembling from head to foot, he nocked another arrow.
“B-B-Big-bellied hag, I’ll fight you to the death!”
At the critical moment, Hua Jiunan stepped in front of him and shielded him behind his body.
Pointing the Copper Coin Sword forward, he drew upon his last reserves of strength and chanted.
“I am the Heavenly Eye, moving in step with Heaven. My pupils are thunder and lightning; my radiance illuminates the Eight Extremities.
“The Five Stars stabilize their splendor, their light shining into the Dark Mystery. A thousand gods and ten thousand sages protect my true spirit.
“Mighty beasts of Heaven subdue the Five Weapons. Demons of the Five Heavens lose their bodies and see their forms destroyed. Wherever I stand, ten thousand gods come forth to welcome me…”
Before Hua Jiunan could finish the incantation, the Ghost Mother Evil Goddess abruptly stopped by herself, agony twisting her face.
Her belly swelled even larger, as though something were burrowing madly inside it.
Ghost Buddha Faceless’s crazed laughter rang from within.
“Kekekeke! Namo Amitabha Buddha! I’ll eat your heart first, then your liver! Beast, take your time savoring the torments of Asura Hell!”
The Ghost Mother Evil Goddess screamed and rolled across the ground.
“No! How are you still alive? Impossible!”