Chapter 392: Chapter 270: This Time, He Was Truly Provoked

Blood splattered as flesh was torn asunder. Thick smoke billowed from the mangled remains, charring them black.

Just then, the Great Buddha formed from countless Buddhist Mantras finally reacted, striking at Yang An with its palm.

Yang An met its palm with a straight punch.

BOOM—

The immense force of the impact radiated outward, instantly demolishing the surrounding courtyard walls and buildings.

These Buddhist Mantras were truly bizarre. Though their power was no match for Yang An’s, they were incredibly hard, like forged steel.

The palm strike forced Yang An back two steps. However, the Buddhist Mantras covering the Great Buddha’s body began to tremble, looking as if they were about to disperse. Despite this, it launched another attack at Yang An.

Instead of advancing to meet the attack, Yang An retreated. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

’What’s the point in fighting something like a summoned creature? My real goal is to kill someone, not just to have a brawl.’

The strike missed. Yang An had already retreated a good distance in an instant, a smile spreading across his face.

A cold glint flashed in the air. At some unknown moment, he had maneuvered his Spinal True Feather into the mangled flesh he had just torn apart. It began to churn and slice with frenzied abandon.

A flash of red flickered within the white light. The Lighting Technique instantly ignited the shredded flesh, and like a spark on a dry prairie, it was rapidly reduced to flying ash.

The Great Buddha, as if flying into a humiliated rage, charged forward recklessly. With a single palm strike, it knocked back all the White Feathers. It then dissolved back into countless Buddhist Mantras that swarmed toward the burning gore, enveloping the portions that had not yet turned to ash.

"I knew you’d come back!"

At some point, Yang An had appeared in front of the Buddhist Mantras. One of his arms was already suffused with golden Dust as he threw another punch.

The gathered Buddhist Mantras were instantly scattered, only to abruptly explode. They transformed into a cloud of black qi that enveloped the remaining flesh and disappeared in a flash.

A large crater was blasted into the ground. The few Buddhist Mantras that remained dimmed and quickly vanished into nothing.

’He actually managed to run away?’

Yang An stood in the center of the crater, completely unharmed. He just hadn’t expected that guy to get away.

In just a single instant, the man had reappeared several thousand meters away.

It looked like some kind of Escape Technique capable of instantaneous travel.

Fortunately, he had quietly used the Qi Seal Sensing Technique on the man earlier, leaving behind a Qi Seal for tracking. He was instantly able to pinpoint his foe’s current location.

’Chase!’

Without a moment’s hesitation, Yang An moved to give chase. He had no intention of leaving his opponent any opportunity to grow stronger.

’This guy managed to escape from me when he’s only at the Visceral Stone level. Granted, that was only because I wasn’t using my full strength.’

’But what if he uses the Joyful Shrine Association to reach the Corpse Transformation stage?’

’If we were at the same Cultivation Level, what would he be capable of? I don’t even want to think about it!’

But just as Yang An shot forward a hundred meters, ready to hunt his target down without mercy, a world-shaking explosion suddenly erupted from the opposite direction, not far away. The entire Great Virtue Temple trembled for a moment.

Yang An froze mid-stride. He turned to look toward the source of the commotion, his eyes glinting.

’Grand View Cave Zen!’

’Someone’s making a move on Grand View Cave Zen!’

’I can’t give chase. I have to get to Grand View Cave Zen.’

’Compared to slaughtering that guy, it’s more important to get to Grand View Cave Zen and secure the next set of cultivation materials for the Jade Kala Vajra Body.’

’If I’m late and someone else gets to them first, things will only get more complicated.’

He weighed the pros and cons in an instant. This was something he had decided to do long ago; he couldn’t abandon it now.

Yang An swiftly changed direction and sped toward Grand View Cave Zen.

In just a few breaths, he reached the outskirts of Grand View Cave Zen, landing lightly on the eaves of a roof.

His eyes fell upon numerous figures emerging from the shadows. They were all charging toward Grand View Cave Zen, their faces alight with ecstatic joy.

Among them were cultivators at the Corpse Transformation and even Zombie God realms. Anyone at the Visceral Stone level or below wouldn’t dare try to fish in these troubled waters.

Meanwhile, a massive gap had been torn open in the thick layer of gray fog that surrounded Grand View Cave Zen. The fog along the edges of the breach was rapidly dissipating.

Every person who had appeared was now attempting to charge through that gap into Grand View Cave Zen.