Chapter 455: Peach Buddha

Chapter 455: Peach Buddha

"Xiao Nanfeng, have you been provoking me all this time? Were you deliberately luring me to the capital of Chou? Do you think that the Ox Yanluo can kill me?" the blood peach tree demanded.

Xiao Nanfeng ignored it and shouted, "Ox Yanluo, it's skilled at darting into others' mindscapes, and I can only isolate it now while in a harmonized state. You had better be careful not to let it escape!"

The Ox Yanluo narrowed his eyes. With a wave of his hand, he shouted, "Everyone, leave the capital of Chou, now!"

"Understood!" Countless cursed effigies turned to flee.

The blood peach tree could sense the imminent danger. It immediately reined in its domain. The peach blossoms vanished from sight.

"Ox Yanluo, it's trying to run! Be careful!" Xiao Nanfeng shouted.

Although the Ox Yanluo seemed confused, he stared at the blood peach tree. If Xiao Nanfeng really were telling the truth, this would truly be a tremendous gift.

"Peach Buddha? Is that really you?" The Ox Yanluo's eyes lit up.

"Ox Yanluo, Xiao Nanfeng currently possesses three Yanluo Courts. You aren't going to let him go this easily, are you?" The blood peach tree immediately tried to distract the Ox Yanluo.

"Oh? In that case, you are the Peach Buddha, then? It's been a hundred thousand years. To think you would give me such a big surprise! Truly, I didn't even have to work to find you. Haha!" The Ox Yanluo's face was filled with greed.

Just then, a figure charged in from afar. The figure stopped in mid-air in a gust of wind.

Everyone blanched upon seeing who had come.

"Tiger Yanluo, what are you doing here?" The Ox Yanluo stared at his opponent warily, immediately on guard.

He wasn't afraid of the Tiger Yanluo; he was afraid that this was another one of Xiao Nanfeng's schemes.

"We're the only two Yanluo Lords in the Netherworld Palace now. Of course I'd show up after hearing of such a big commotion around your capital. What's more, I heard all manner of reports of a domain of snow and peach blossoms appearing all across the Netherworld Palace. It'd be harder for me not to notice." Then, he turned to the blood peach tree and the silver moon. "My subordinates told me that they heard Xiao Nanfeng's voice from the domain. Ha, Xiao Nanfeng, have you reached the realm of True Yin? You dare to brave the Netherworld Palace once again because of your cultivation? How bold! And this must have been the Rabbit Yanluo's mysterious opponent. What a familiar aura."

A voice could be heard from afar. "King, Xiao Nanfeng told the Ox Yanluo that this peach tree was the Peach Buddha from a hundred thousand years ago. It allegedly swallowed up the Snake and Rabbit Yanluos, and is skilled at intruding into others' mindscapes!"

Everyone turned to the speaker, a tiger-headed humanoid. Clearly, he was a spy that the Tiger Yanluo had assigned to the capital of Chou.

"Oh? The Peach Buddha? In that case, you must have four pages of the Earthly Branches right now." The Tiger Yanluo's eyes lit up with greed.

The blood peach tree hmphed. It could sense that there would be a difficult battle up ahead.

Suddenly, the Ox Yanluo shouted, "Tiger Yanluo, this is none of your business. Leave my capital immediately!"

"Ox Yanluo, do you intend to start a quarrel with me and give them a chance to escape?" The Tiger Yanluo smirked.

The Ox Yanluo frowned and turned to the blood peach tree, which was swiftly flying away.

The Tiger Yanluo made his move then, leaping straight to the front of the blood peach tree. He punched forward in a burst of wind, causing the tree to reel back.

Xiao Nanfeng's heart sank. He knew he wouldn't be able to avoid a confrontation now. "Let's see if you really can outlast me, then. After all, in my domain, I've already harmonized with the world. You won't be able to catch me. Let's bet on whether you'll exhaust all my spiritual power first, or if the Tiger Yanluo can devour the Peach Buddha first."

The Ox Yanluo frowned. Although he appeared confident, he was actually paying careful attention to the fight occurring in the distance. Once the Tiger Yanluo devoured the Peach Buddha, he would soon be dead, too.

"Ha! Do you really think you'll be able to last that long? I can speed up the rate of your consumption of spiritual power. Break!"

The paper money suddenly began to fly haphazardly and violently as it struck the blizzard's snowflakes and caused Xiao Nanfeng's domain to start to dissipate. Even more spiritual power would be necessary to maintain it.

Even so, Xiao Nanfeng wasn't fearful. He was gambling on the Ox Yanluo's patience, or lack thereof. He didn't believe that the Ox Yanluo would continue wasting time on him when there was easier prey.

Indeed, after some time, the Ox Yanluo couldn't hold on any longer. He was worried that the fight between the Tiger Yanluo and Peach Buddha had come to an end. Frustrated, he lifted his head and looked toward the silver moon.

"Draining your domain like this really does take too much time—but I could simply break your silver moon apart," the Ox Yanluo murmured.

With a wave of his sleeve, he sent countless flocks of paper money, like a rampaging sea, straight toward Xiao Nanfeng's silver moon. Just as the attack was about to land, the silver moon suddenly widened its maw and sucked violently, devouring all the paper money headed its way.

It resolved the crisis within moments, causing the Ox Yanluo's eyes to twitch.

"No wonder the Peach Buddha wasn't able to deal with this silver moon of yours. As expected, there's something wrong. If I can't get to those three Yanluo Courts with my paper money, then I'll use my own Yanluo Court. Now, die!" the Ox Yanluo demanded.

A Yanluo Court flew out of the Ox Yanluo's sleeve and headed straight for Xiao Nanfeng's silver moon. This wasn't his own Yanluo Court, but rather one that he had obtained recently. He had partially attuned to the Yanluo Court, and it boasted tremendous strength.

Just then, a beam of starlight fell from the skies, encapsulating the Ox Yanluo's body.

"What?" The Ox Yanluo looked up at the sky.

Out of nowhere, the sky had lit up with 361 glowing stars, each shooting down a beam of starlight and encapsulating the Ox Yanluo within. A spherical barrier formed to trap him.

At that very moment, the paper money all around him seemed to lose its sense of gravity. They fell slowly to the ground.

"A starlit barrier!" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed.

"Where did this formation come from? Do you really think you can trap me? Break!" the Ox Yanluo demanded.

He punched at the starlit barrier, which shuddered but didn't shatter.

"Impossible. How could this barrier be so strong? Again!" the Ox Yanluo thundered.

As he launched a barrage of fists at the barrier, it finally began to crack, but the starlight repaired any cracks in no time at all.

"Who's there? Show yourself!" the Ox Yanluo howled.

A black-robed man appeared in the distance. He shouted, "Xiao Nanfeng, the starlit barrier won't be able to trap him for long. We have to leave, now!"

"Blue Lantern? You really are still alive!" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed in excitement.