We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

"Demon! The demon has indeed come to our door!" Near the mountain gate, a martial monk holding a staff glared angrily, braced himself with his feet, and roared, trying to dispel the fear in his heart with his power.

"Amitabha! Buddha and Bodhisattvas above, protect us!" Many monks, especially those novices who had just entered the temple and whose cultivation was still shallow, were pale with fright. Some even collapsed to the ground and could only instinctively and tearfully chant the Buddha's name, praying for the protection of the gods and Buddhas.

Their chanting became chaotic and trembling at that moment, and fear spread among them like a plague.

Only the white-bearded old monks sitting upright in the main hall and on the altar, as well as some monks with profound meditation skills, showed slight changes in expression, but their eyes remained focused.

They simply raised their chanting higher and more steadily, attempting to stabilize the formation with their own composure, appease the monks, and continuously channel more refined mental energy into the core of the formation.

Fahai, standing atop the light barrier, also trembled slightly, his robe billowing.

His expression was more solemn than ever before, as he felt the violent tremors emanating from the great formation below and the fluctuations in the disciples' emotions.

He rapidly formed hand seals, and mantras poured out from his mouth like a torrential rain. His profound Buddhist power surged forth without reservation, pouring into the lotus platform beneath his feet and then channeling it into the mountain-protecting array!

"Om-!"

With the blessing of Fahai's immense magical power, the shaky golden light shield shone brightly once more, and the Sanskrit characters flowing on its surface became clearer and brighter, as if they had come alive, emitting deep and majestic Buddhist chants. It withstood the fierce first wave of impact and stabilized itself again, with the golden light even more dazzling than before!
However, this earth-shattering impact was only the beginning, the loudest thunderclap before the storm!
Amidst the blue light following the impact, Xiao Qing's figure became clearly visible.

At this moment, she was no longer as lively and willful as she usually was. Her pretty face was covered with a frost as cold as a thousand-year-old ice, and her emerald eyes were burning with raging anger.

She floated in the air, tightly gripping the water-repelling bead, which was entirely blue and exuded a chilling aura, in one hand.

The bead spun rapidly in her palm, emitting a visible blue halo. Moisture in the surrounding air gathered and condensed towards it at an astonishing speed, and even fine ice crystals began to fall.

Xiaoqing took a deep breath and frantically poured the demonic power accumulated within her body for hundreds of years into the pearl in her palm!
"Water-repelling pearl! Heed my command! All waters flow to the source, open for me!"

With a clear yet powerful shout, the water-repelling pearl suddenly burst forth with a dazzling, eerie blue light!

The light was so intense that it almost turned the surrounding night into a deep sea!
Countless tiny, crystal-clear, sapphire-like water droplets shot out from the surface of the bead, densely suspended in the void around her.

These water droplets appear ordinary at first glance, emitting only a refreshing and cool mist.

But as Xiaoqing's demonic power continued to be activated and the water-repelling pearl's magical power was stimulated, these suspended water droplets began to undergo astonishing changes!
They spun and merged wildly as if they were alive, absorbing the omnipresent water essence in the world, and their volume expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

In the blink of an eye, those tiny water droplets transformed into enormous water spheres, each several meters in diameter, with turbulent surfaces and hidden whirlpools within!
These water spheres were a deep blue color, radiating immense pressure and extreme cold. Their numbers were increasing, densely packed, layer upon layer, and soon they formed a terrifying canopy of liquid stars that covered the entire sky above Jinshan Temple, so thick that even moonlight could not penetrate it!
"Not good! She's trying to break the formation with water! This is the Water-Repelling Pearl, a treasure of the aquatic race!" Fahai's pupils constricted sharply upon seeing this!
He recognized the origin of this pearl and was well aware of its terrifying power to control the water element.

If Xiaoqing were allowed to unleash her full power and condense boundless heavy water to continuously bombard the area...

Even the Vajra Subduing Demon Formation would likely be difficult to sustain for long!
Moreover, this move also foreshadows an even more terrifying follow-up plan!

"Disciples! Concentrate! Activate the 'Immovable King Seal' with all your might to suppress the water element! We must not allow her to succeed in drawing the water!" Fahai issued another thunderous command.

The monks at Jinshan Temple, having received clear instructions, suppressed their fear and immediately adjusted their hand seals and the scriptures they were chanting.

The monks slammed their staffs and knives on the ground, chanting mantras to subdue demons. Their muscles bulged and their blood and qi surged, attempting to use their masculine strength to resist the erosion of the water vapor.

The old monks then twirled their prayer beads and chanted more profound suppression scriptures, attempting to disrupt the condensation of water elements from the perspective of laws.

The surface of the entire golden light shield also revealed a blurry image of Acala, attempting to suppress the surging water elemental power below with the power of Buddhist teachings and prevent the water spheres from getting any closer.

However, Xiaoqing was faster and more determined!

"Break it for me!!!"

With a hateful shriek, Xiao Qingyu swung her hand forward suddenly!
The hundreds of enormous blue water spheres, suspended in the air and blotting out the sun, seemed to be siege boulders that had received a military order. With a piercing shriek that tore through the air, they slammed down on the golden light shield below with tremendous force, like a dense meteor shower!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Rumble—!!!"

For a moment, only deafening, continuous explosions filled the sky above Jinshan Temple! Like countless incredibly heavy liquid hammers, they were frantically and relentlessly bombarding the same point—the enormous golden light shield!
Each impact caused the light shield to tremble and twist violently, flashing with golden light like a candle flickering in the wind.

The water sphere burst open, turning into a torrential downpour of icy rain. However, upon contact with the light shield, it was evaporated by the high-temperature Buddhist power, rising into billowing white mist that enveloped the entire battlefield like a fairyland, yet was also filled with deadly killing intent!
The once incredibly sturdy golden light shield, though struggling to hold up thanks to the combined efforts of Fahai and the monks, finally began to show signs of weakness under the violent and intense bombardment of heavy water.

Fine cracks began to spread and expand on the surface of the light shield like a spider web. Although they were quickly and barely repaired by Buddhist power, the speed at which they appeared was getting faster and faster, and the speed at which they were repaired was getting slower and slower!

The color of the light shield gradually changed from pure gold to a somewhat dim color, even faintly revealing the scene of the temple inside!
"You wretched beast!" Fahai roared, beads of sweat forming on his forehead.

He was maintaining the great formation with one hand and activating Buddhist power with the other, and he already felt immense pressure.

He truly hadn't expected that this seemingly carefree little green snake could possess such power when it became fierce!
With just a water-repelling pearl and her less than a thousand years of cultivation, she was able to shake the protective array of Jinshan Temple, which had been built up over many years, to such an extent!

"Do you really think my Buddhist sect has no one to rely on?! Today, I'll show you, you frog in a well, what I've got to offer!"

Fahai took a deep breath and, without hesitation, forcefully threw the golden alms bowl he had been holding into the air!
"Om Mani Padme Hum!"

Accompanied by the solemn chanting of the six-syllable mantra, the golden alms bowl spun rapidly in the air and swelled in the wind!
In an instant, it transformed from the size of a bowl into a gigantic golden bowl, dozens of feet in diameter, resembling an inverted golden bell! The golden bowl hovered directly above Jinshan Temple, radiating a dazzling golden light more intense than the sun, illuminating everything below with crystal clarity! The bowl's mouth faced downwards, aimed at the frantically surging water sphere below!
"Golden alms bowl! The Buddha's power is boundless! Subdue demons and suppress evil! Give it to me—subdue them!!!"

Fahai pointed his fingers, like a sword, at the giant bowl, and let out a sharp shout!
In an instant, the interior of the enormous golden bowl seemed to transform into a bottomless golden vortex! An unimaginably powerful and terrifying suction force, seemingly capable of swallowing the heavens and earth, suddenly erupted from the bowl's opening!

The huge water sphere, which had been crashing down with great force, suddenly became like a rootless duckweed in the face of this suction force!

Their forward momentum suddenly halted, then they were forcibly pulled by that invisible force, and one by one they flew towards the golden bowl involuntarily! As they approached the bowl's rim, the surface of the water spheres churned and twisted violently, and their volume shrank rapidly at a visible speed. Finally, when they came into contact with the blazing Buddha light at the edge of the golden bowl, they all burst into disintegration into the purest water elemental energy, which was completely absorbed into the bowl and disappeared without a trace!
In just a few breaths, the sky-covering blue water sphere array was completely swept away by the purple-gold alms bowl!
The sky cleared up, with only residual moisture remaining in the air.

"Hmph! You think you can take away my Wanshui with this broken bowl? Wishful thinking!"

Although Xiaoqing was startled by what she saw, she remained calm and instead let out a sarcastic laugh.

She naturally recognized that this purple-gold alms bowl was Fahai's prized possession, a Buddhist treasure with boundless power.

But the water-repelling pearl in her hand is also an innate spiritual treasure left behind by the ancient aquatic tribe, specializing in water control. How could it be so easily restrained?

"You collect quickly, but I condense even faster! Water-repelling Pearl! Boundless Water Realm, give it to me—condense!!!"

Xiaoqing once again pushed her demonic power to its limit, even at the cost of depleting her own essence!

The deep blue light on the water-repelling bead was even more profound, as if it contained an endless ocean!

The water elemental energy that had just been absorbed by the golden alms bowl and had not yet been fully refined was forcibly pulled away from the edge of the bowl's suction range by the powerful summoning of the water-repelling pearl, and then re-gathered and condensed!
Moreover, the water sphere that was formed this time was darker in color, almost dark blue, and its volume seemed to have shrunk slightly, but the water elemental power contained within it was more condensed and heavier!
They are no longer just simple water spheres, but more like heavy water bombs compressed to the extreme!
"Go again!!!"

Xiao Qing waved her hand again, and a new wave of heavy water spheres, even more powerful than before, shot out like cannonballs, emitting an even sharper whistling sound, and once again slammed into the golden light shield that had just caught its breath!
"Boom!! Rumble!!!"

The sounds of even more violent and intense impacts resounded through the sky once again!
This time, although the Purple Gold Bowl was still trying its best to absorb, it was clearly struggling and could no longer collect all the water spheres as before! A considerable number of the heavy water spheres broke through the suction range and slammed solidly into the mountain-protecting formation!

"Click... click click..."

On the surface of the golden light shield, cracks spread wildly like lightning! The speed at which they could heal was far outpaced by the speed at which they were breaking!

The golden light of the protective barrier grew dimmer and dimmer, and even began to show tiny holes. Violent water vapor and icy demonic energy seeped in through the holes, causing the monks below to feel a chill run down their spines!

Just when the mountain-protecting formation was on the verge of collapse, and Fahai was distracted and doing his best to support it!
A terrifying pressure, far more vast, colder, and filled with a resolute and destructive aura than Xiaoqing's, suddenly descended from the heavens like an invisible giant mountain!

Everyone felt a tightness in their chest, as if their very souls had been frozen!
A figure dressed in white, pure white, quietly appeared in the night sky.

She stood silently in the void, her long hair moving without wind, her beauty unparalleled, like a fairy from the moon palace descending to earth, holy and noble, making people dare not look directly at her.

It was Bai Suzhen!
However, at this moment, her eyes, which were always full of affection and gentleness, were filled with endless coldness and a deep-seated killing intent!

Wherever his gaze fell, the air seemed to freeze!
The jade hairpin on her head, entirely emerald green and with an antique design—the Jade Wave Hairpin—was radiating a soft yet powerful emerald glow.

"Fahai!!!"

Bai Suzhen parted her lips slightly, and the three words she uttered were like a cold wind from the deepest hell, carrying endless resentment and killing intent, clearly reaching the ears of everyone in Jinshan Temple!

"A thousand years of cultivation, all for repaying a debt of gratitude! What do worldly love have to do with you?! You have repeatedly and relentlessly tormented me! You have caused my husband and I to be separated, and my young child to be left destitute! Today! I, Bai Suzhen, will make your Jinshan Temple pay the price for your past deeds! With this surging river, I will wash away the hatred in my heart! I will make you—pay for your blood debt!!!"

Before she finished speaking, she slowly raised her right hand and gently stroked the jade hairpin in her hair with her slender white fingers.

A vast, ocean-like, thousand-year-old demonic power, several times greater than Xiaoqing's, surged wildly from her body like a burst dam, pouring entirely into that small jade hairpin!

"Azure Wave Hairpin! Hear my command! Draw waters from the four seas, gather streams from all directions! Rage waves, surge like mountains, rise for me!!!"

With Bai Suzhen's resolute and delicate shout!

Suddenly, the hairpin burst forth with an extremely dazzling emerald light! A thick, seemingly heaven-and-earth-connecting emerald beam of light shot out from the tip of the hairpin, piercing straight into the sky, and then crashed down, like a dragon reaching out its claws, plunging fiercely into the ever-flowing Yangtze River below Jinshan Temple!
“BOOM Boom Boom Boom!!!”

The river surface, which had been only slightly rippling due to the influence of Xiaoqing's water-repelling pearl, went completely mad at this moment! The emerald green pillar of light, like the core of a gigantic vortex, spun and churned wildly!
The entire Yangtze River seemed to boil instantly! The water rose, roared, and churned at a visible speed! Towering waves, hundreds or even thousands of feet high, surged continuously from the river's center like ancient beasts awakening! The turbid waves crashed into the sky, splashing water everywhere; the scene was ten thousand times more spectacular and terrifying than watching the Qiantang River tidal bore! Countless aquatic creatures fled in terror amidst the waves!
"Oh no! She actually dares to stir up the waters of the Yangtze River?! She's gone mad! This snake demon has gone mad!" Fahai's face turned deathly pale instantly! Even with his great supernatural powers, he never expected that Bai Suzhen would be so reckless as to summon such a massive amount of water elemental power to unleash such a near-apocalyptic flood!
This is no longer a battle of wits, but a fight for complete annihilation!
He knew that once the Wuliang River was diverted to Jinshan Temple, not only would the hundreds of monks in the temple be reduced to fish and turtles, but all living beings within a hundred miles would be turned into fish and turtles! At that time, Bai Suzhen would certainly suffer divine retribution, but Jinshan Temple would also be completely erased from the world! He, Fahai, would become a sinner against Buddhism for all eternity!

"Amitabha! You beast! How dare you do this? Aren't you afraid of divine retribution?!" Fahai's eyes were bloodshot as he desperately channeled his magic power, trying to suppress the river with his golden alms bowl, while simultaneously shouting at Bai Suzhen in an attempt to shake her spirit.

However, what he received in return was Bai Suzhen's even colder and more resolute gaze, and her even more violent actions!
"Divine retribution? I fear no more! Today, only—water! floods! Jinshan!"

Bai Suzhen activated the Jade Wave Hairpin once more, and the emerald light pillar connecting heaven and earth suddenly trembled, splitting into an even more condensed and sharper beam of emerald light, like a divine sword that split the heavens and the earth, carrying unparalleled power, and fiercely slashed at the golden light shield that was already on the verge of shattering!

"Snap—!!!!!"

A crisp, loud sound, like glass shattering or the sky collapsing, rang out!

The Vajra Subduing Demon Formation, which embodied the combined efforts of Fahai and hundreds of monks and had protected Jinshan Temple for countless years, finally could not withstand this powerful blow!

Like a mirror struck by a giant hammer, the golden light shield was instantly covered with countless, shocking cracks from the point of impact! In the next instant, accompanied by a blinding flash of golden light and a violent explosion of energy, the entire light shield teetered on the brink of collapse! It almost crumbled and shattered!

"Amitabha! Bai Suzhen! You vile creature! For your own selfish grudge, you dare to incite natural disasters and cause the death of countless lives! Do you have any respect for the law?! Do you have any sense of justice?! Aren't you afraid of being eternally condemned to the Avici Hell and suffering endless torment?! Stop immediately! Otherwise, you will surely be punished by heaven! It will be too late for regrets!!!"

Fahai's eyes were bloodshot, almost spitting blood! He used the last bit of his magic power to frantically activate the damaged and dimmed purple-gold alms bowl, trying to suppress and control the uncontrollable Yangtze River water with the power of the Buddhist treasure. Although he knew it was almost like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, he shouted at the top of his lungs, trying to shake Bai Suzhen's mind, which was already consumed by hatred, with the power of karma and divine retribution.

However, what he received in return was Bai Suzhen's even colder, emptier eyes, as if she had lost all human emotions, and her actions that were even more frantic, resolute, and utterly reckless!

"Divine retribution? Karma? Hell?" Bai Suzhen let out a low laugh that seemed to come from an ancient icy plain, filled with endless mockery and sorrow. "When my husband was driven to the brink of death by you, where was Heaven? When my unborn child was almost stillborn, where was justice? When you speak of compassion yet act heartlessly, where is Buddha?!"

Today, in my heart, there is only one thought!

"Water! Flooding! Jinshan!!!"

She once again poured all the remaining demonic power in her body, along with her own essence and blood, into the Azure Wave Hairpin! The emerald pillar of light connecting heaven and earth trembled violently, its radiance reaching an unprecedented peak! Then, it no longer merely absorbed the river water, but split into a more condensed, sharper beam of emerald light, seemingly capable of severing cause and effect and shattering the laws of nature!

This beam of light was not aimed at Fahai, but rather, like the scythe of death, carried an unparalleled, all-severing power, fiercely striking at the last hope of Jinshan Temple—the remaining golden light shield—which was already riddled with cracks and on the verge of complete collapse.

He slashed through it!

"Crack——!"

A sound that seemed to come not from the mortal realm, but from the very origin of the world shattering, the chains of laws breaking—a sound so crisp yet containing endless despair—the final shattering sound!

The Vajra Subduing Demon Formation, which had gathered the power of Fahai and hundreds of monks, now had fewer than a hundred people who could still maintain their mental focus. This formation, which had protected Jinshan Temple through centuries of trials and tribulations and symbolized the majesty and protection of Buddhism, was now weakened by this supreme attack, which embodied Bai Suzhen's thousand years of cultivation and boundless hatred.

Finally, I couldn't hold on any longer!
Like a crystal dome struck hard by the hand of a god! The golden light shield, starting from the point where it was hit by the emerald beam, was instantly covered with countless, terrifying, huge cracks that spread like a spider web to every corner!

The next moment!

Accompanied by an extremely dazzling burst of golden light that momentarily blinded everyone, and a violent energy shockwave powerful enough to pulverize rocks, it spread wildly in all directions!
The entire enormous, unparalleled golden light shield—

—Boom!—Disintegrate!

—Completely—shattered!

It transformed into billions of tiny, golden star-like energy fragments, which danced wildly in the air for a moment like fluttering, mournful butterflies, before quickly losing all luster and energy, as if it had never existed, and completely vanished into the void!

The mountain gate has been breached!
The last barrier has vanished!

The majestic and solemn Jinshan Temple, with its thousand-year-old heritage, is now like an old warrior stripped of all armor, all weapons broken, unarmed and naked—completely, without cover, and utterly exposed before the cataclysmic flood summoned by Bai Suzhen with boundless hatred, a flood that is about to devour everything!

"River! Hear my command! Wash away all impurities! Destroy Jinshan! Give it to me—!!!"

A final glimmer of madness and resolve flashed in Bai Suzhen's eyes. All restraints had been removed, and she let out a final cry that resounded through the heavens and earth, like a siren, carrying a deadly allure and a melody of destruction!
That emerald pillar of light connecting heaven and earth transformed into a dark vortex that devoured the universe! It churned the boundless Yangtze River below, which was already boiling, roaring, and churning like the entrance to hell—

—Insanely!

—Never-ending!

—Like a marionette!

—It sucked up!

"Rumble—!!!" "Splash—!!!" "Waaaaah—!!!"

A deafening roar! The thunderous sound of rushing water tearing through the air! And the mournful howl of the wind, seemingly emanating from countless drowned souls! All intertwined, composing a symphony of despair for the end of the world!

There, the surface of the Yangtze River roared and churned like boiling water, as if lifted violently upwards from the river's center by an invisible giant hand.

No! That can no longer be called a river surface!
That is—the barrier of water!
Thick, towering mountain ranges, seemingly connecting heaven and earth! The water, murky like the deepest hell! Mixed with countless silt, uprooted ancient trees, jagged boulders, and even the remains of many aquatic creatures unable to escape! Forcibly lifted from the surging river!

They converged, merged, and compressed wildly in the air! Finally, they transformed into enormous, terrifying waves of water—dragons! Waves! Water! Dragons! Their massive forms were enough to obscure the stars and moon, their claws outstretched, their roars deafening!

These water dragons have scales made of churning mud, whiskers made of tangled water plants, eyes made of swirling whirlpools, and mouths spewing forth giant waves powerful enough to shatter mountain rocks!
They blot out the sky, their numbers numbering in the tens of millions! Vast and endless!

They carried a terrifying aura that could destroy all living beings and cleanse all existence! Like ancient demons breaking free of their chains! Like the floodwaters of the Milky Way bursting its banks!

Overwhelming!

Unstoppable!

Towards Jinshan Temple, which had lost all its protection, trembling on the edge of the raging storm, like a lamb to the slaughter—

—A raging—rush—away! ! !

"It's over..."

"Jinshan Temple...today...is truly... doomed..."

"Buddha... save... save me..."

Inside the monastery, the surviving monks, still conscious, gazed up at the raging floodwaters, a torrent of immense power and unstoppable speed, capable of instantly submerging an entire mountain. They felt the suffocating, damp, and cold air, the heavy, earthy smell, and the terrifying, crushing force and chilling aura of destruction contained within—force capable of crushing even steel in an instant.

Their faces were filled with nothing but endless, utter despair! And a deathly ashes!
Their last, faint chanting, like a candle flickering in the wind, came to an abrupt end! In their place came futile, instinctive cries and wails filled with boundless terror!
Jinshan is in grave danger!
Countless lives are hanging by a thread!
At that moment, words could not describe the palpable fear that permeated Jinshan Temple!
It does not originate from a single shock, but is a mixture of visual collapse, auditory roar, tactile coldness, and the most instinctive perception of death, like an invisible plague that instantly seizes the heart of every living being!

But this overwhelming fear was merely the cruel prelude to this catastrophe.

Above the sky, the boundless Yangtze River water, forcibly drawn up by Bai Suzhen with her Jade Wave Hairpin, has transformed into its most terrifying form—no longer a simple stream of water, but a series of turbid water walls, thousands of feet high and countless in width, like the gaping maws of ancient beasts!
Within the water wall lies silt accumulated over millions of years by the Yangtze River, churning uprooted giant trees, shattered shipwrecks, jagged underwater reefs, and even countless corpses of aquatic creatures unable to escape! Swept along by the raging power of the water element, they advance forward like deadly cannonballs along with the water wall!
Even more terrifying is that this water wall is not an inanimate object. Inside it lies the icy, bone-chilling demonic power that Bai Suzhen has accumulated over a thousand years of cultivation, as well as her monstrous rage that is so real that it can distort reality!

This terrifying wall of water, a mixture of physical destruction and the erosion of laws, possessed a destructive force capable of crushing mountains and purging all things. Like an ancient demon god breaking free from all constraints and driven solely by destruction, it hurtled towards the Jinshan Ancient Temple, now stripped of its last barrier and exposed to the world.

— Smash it down hard, mercilessly, right on top of me!
“Boom——!!!!!”

An indescribable roar! It was as if the entire sky had collapsed!

The first wave of water, like a giant hand slammed down from a god, slammed solidly onto the once solemn and majestic halls and pavilions of Jinshan Temple!

The fragile wood and stone structure was as fragile as paper in the face of such immense power!
"Crack! Crackle! Boom!!!"

The massive roof of the Mahavira Hall, capable of withstanding a century of wind and rain, was instantly crushed and shattered by the terrifying pressure upon contact with the wall of water! The thick main beams snapped like rotten wood! The walls collapsed with a deafening roar! Inside the hall, the tall and solemn golden statues of the Three Buddhas, overlooking all living beings, along with countless exquisite murals, prayer flags, and offering tables, were instantly swallowed, submerged, and washed away by the turbid torrent mixed with countless fragments of stone and wood!
Immediately afterwards, the Sutra Repository, the Arhat Hall, the Bell and Drum Tower, the monks' quarters, the pilgrims' rooms… one after another, these buildings, bearing a thousand years of history and faith, groaned under the relentless onslaught of the water walls, like building blocks trampled by a giant beast, before collapsing with a deafening roar! Broken tiles, snapped timbers, torn scriptures, scattered Buddha statues… everything was swept into the dark, cold, violently swirling torrent, vanishing into nothingness!
"what--!!!"

"Help! Water! Water is coming in!"

"My leg! It's trapped! Someone help me—uh..."

"Buddha! Open your eyes and see! Save your disciple—!!!"

Inside the temple, shrill, desperate screams filled with boundless pain rose and fell like a symphony of hell, instantly resounding throughout the entire Golden Mountain!
Those young novices and menial monks who usually only knew how to chant scriptures and worship Buddha, and were powerless to even kill a chicken, were as insignificant as ants in the face of such natural and man-made disasters! They were simply no match for the monstrous waves that rushed into the temple like wild horses!
Some had barely run out of their rooms when they were swept away by the oncoming giant waves, crashing into the broken walls and rubble, breaking their bones and muscles, and dying instantly!
Some tried to climb to higher ground, but were suddenly swept up by the surging undercurrent below and sucked into the water like fallen leaves. They only had time to let out a short groan before they disappeared completely without even making a splash!

Some were trapped under collapsed buildings, struggling and calling for help in vain in the icy floodwaters, watching helplessly as the water level continued to rise until they were completely submerged, their faces frozen with endless fear and despair!

Even the strong and robust monks who tried to organize resistance or rescue were helpless in the face of the overwhelming flood! Their staffs and knives looked ridiculous under the impact of the water, which was like an avalanche and a tsunami! Some tried to form a simple Arhat formation, but their formation collapsed when the first wave hit, and they were washed away like scarecrows!
In an instant! In just an instant!

The once bustling Jinshan Temple, a Buddhist holy site in Jiangnan with a history spanning a thousand years, has been completely destroyed! It has become a vast, turbid, and misty expanse, filled with the debris of buildings and the cries of those struggling for help.
What was once a sacred Buddhist site is now a living hell!
"You beast! How dare you do this?!"

Fahai, suspended above the flood, witnessed this horrific scene firsthand!
Watching countless vibrant lives being mercilessly devoured before his eyes, watching the ancient temple that embodied his life's faith and dedication be destroyed in an instant! His eyes instantly turned bloodshot! (End of Chapter)