Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 280 The Peerless Sword, The Origin of Brahma
The smugness and confidence on Brahma's face lasted for less than three breaths before he completely lost his composure.

As Xiao Luoyang took a step, a profound aura emanated from his body. The vast and boundless power of heaven and earth, like thunder, like all things, like volcanoes, like wind and snow, as if he were the world, he was heaven and earth, he was all things, and the profound meaning of everything instantly filled the entire world.

"???"

Brahma stared in horror, his eyes widening.

"Heaven!"

"You are actually a terrestrial celestial being?"

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and Brahma's inner energy surged violently within him. He looked up and saw a pair of eyes filled with mockery and coldness, which struck him like a thunderbolt.

The next moment, a gentle breeze blew by, and all the strange phenomena of heaven and earth subsided.

The Marrow Cleansing Sutra of the Seven-Tiered Pagoda of the Great Brahma, combined with the Tathagata's Palm, caused all sorts of strange phenomena in the sky. The Buddha's phantom, hundreds of feet tall, was like a dream, blown away by the phoenix into the heavens and earth.

And this is just the beginning.

Brahma was suddenly horrified to discover that the earth he was on seemed to have lost its gravity. The soil, rocks, trees, and everything in the ruins of Silver Glow Manor seemed unable to withstand the erosion of time and had turned into ashes.

Even he... can only be trapped in the cycle of reincarnation!?

"Namo Amitabha Buddha!!!" Brahma suddenly proclaimed the Buddha's name in a loud voice, his body radiating Buddhist light. Ignoring the danger of his own blood and qi flowing backward, he forcibly broke free from that terrifying state of mind that had been worn away by the years.

The consequence of giving his all was that Brahma suffered a severe backlash.

But he had no time to grieve or rejoice.

With just one glance from Xiao Luoyang, this virtuous and holy monk, who dared to call himself the Great Brahma, a deity of Buddhism, almost fell directly into the cycle of reincarnation. His true strength was absolutely terrifying beyond the imagination of the Great Brahma.

"Not bad, you actually managed to break free."

"It seems that Buddhism does have its merits."

Xiao Luoyang's voice of praise rang out, his tone so calm that it sent a chill down Da Fantian's spine. His nonchalant demeanor made it seem as if everything that had just happened was merely a casual test.

escape!
Without the slightest hesitation, Brahma stomped his foot, stirring up a cloud of dust, and at the same time grabbed Qiu Tangbai, who was still unconscious, and used the power of Shakyamuni throwing an elephant to smash him towards Xiao Luoyang and the others.

"He's dead!"

The guards, their eyes twitching as they were obscured by the dust and smoke, immediately knew the answer.

It's naive of a mere terrestrial deity to think they can escape from his ruler's clutches with such tricks.

Everyone knows that those in the Secret Guard who wield swords are the most ferocious and terrifying killers, but outsiders do not know that Xiao Luoyang was once one of Zhu Jinzhen's personal guards, and was later transferred to the Secret Guard as the deputy commander.

His swordsmanship was so superb that, looking across the entire world, he was second only to a very few others.

Zheng! !

The sword's trembling sound seemed to freeze even the void for a moment.

If anyone in Datong Prefecture is still awake, and looks up at Yinxia Manor, they will see a sword mark that stretches across the heavens and the earth, as if it were cut down from the heavens to the mortal world, or as if it came from some unknown place, piercing through the void and tearing through the world.

"The ultimate sword technique, the sword of unparalleled skill!"

All the guards stared wide-eyed, trying to observe Xiao Luoyang's sword strike.

This sword technique was created by Zhu Jinzhen. It is the most valuable and terrifying sword move in the Secret Guard's Scripture Pavilion. It consists of only one sword strike and requires only one strike.

Praised by countless swordsmen as having exhausted all the variations of swordsmanship in the world, its brilliance and terror lie not in the instant the sword is drawn, nor in the time before the sword falls.

This celestial sword, seemingly standing above the mortal world, is most terrifying for the moment it strikes down after its sword power reaches its peak!
That is a sword technique that can even freeze time.

"Such swordsmanship?" Brahma turned and fled four hundred feet away. The thought had barely formed when he realized that he was as if he had become disconnected from the entire world. It wasn't that space had been extended to an infinite distance, but rather that time seemed to be moving away from him.

His eyes widened, filled with terror and disbelief.

Brahma dared to call himself a god and had ambitions to rival or even surpass Bodhidharma, so he was naturally no ordinary person. However, it wasn't until Xiao Luoyang drew his sword and froze time within a few hundred feet around him in an instant that he realized just how big the gap was between him and Xiao Luoyang.

Under the clear night sky, even the chirping of insects and the gentle breeze seemed to stand still.

Within five hundred feet of Silver Glow Manor, fallen leaves hung suspended in the air, lamplight ceased to flicker, flames seemed to have lost their warmth and become icy, and even the dust and smoke raised by Brahma's stomp of his foot, which shattered the earth, were frozen in the air.

The distant lights of countless homes and the bright moon hanging high in the sky were like a fixed painting in the eyes of Dafantian, Qiutangbai, and everyone else, no longer vivid.

Absolute stillness.

At this moment, no words can describe the silence and horror of this scene.

That wasn't a frozen space, but rather time itself frozen in an instant, causing the world to lose its color.

Just for this world filled with death and darkness!
And that sword strike, which annihilated all human affairs and brought about death!
"Master, reincarnation is endless, life goes on and on, death is not to be feared!"

"Namo Amitabha Buddha, you have not yet understood the true meaning of life and death, and you are still attached to the surface. If one day you can understand the true meaning of life and death, you will not be far from the path of enlightenment."

In the moment of his death, Brahma's eyes were clear yet confused, as if he had returned to the scene when he was asked by his master how he viewed life and death. It was as if he had returned to the day before he graduated, when his master Bodhidharma praised him for "having grasped my essence" and realizing that "the four elements are inherently empty and the five aggregates are not real." He said that if he could persevere, he could become a god or a human, and surpass his master without a doubt.

He seemed to have gained some understanding of life and death, as if he wanted to trace back time and space to the past to tell his mentor the true meaning of death and the repentance of life.

But these were ultimately just his fantasies before he died.

Xiao Luoyang's sword strike had finally reached its end.

Within a hundred feet of Brahma's body, everything, including heaven and earth, including lifeless rocks, bamboo and trees, the bright moon and the gentle breeze, died at this moment!

Sizzle!

Two sword-like fingers, carrying an astonishing sharpness, lightly touched Brahma's back.

The boundless killing intent, at this moment, was like a great Brahma cultivating the Marrow Cleansing Scripture to the seventh level of the pagoda, almost reaching the subtle realm of the Buddha's saying that water contains 84,000 insects, yet he still could not understand why it could permeate his body and soul in an instant.

Time resumed its flow.

Brahma turned to look at Xiao Luoyang, who stood before him having finished his attack. His face was devoid of joy or sorrow, only the calm of death remained.
"Is the unity of heaven and man, and am I the will of heaven?"

"My journey is still long, though I cannot continue on it."

"But, if I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening!"

"This humble monk, Daoyu, is deeply grateful for your guidance and instruction."

When the last word was exhaled, Brahma, or Daoyu, also passed away on the spot.

Xiao Luoyang's sword strike was enough to annihilate even celestial beings and Buddhas.

Although Dao Yu considers himself a god, he is ultimately just a mortal immortal on land. How could he possibly withstand the killing intent of the sword that invades his soul?
The fact that he could drag out those words made Xiao Luoyang look at him with new respect: "The seven-tiered pagoda of the Marrow Cleansing Classic is indeed profound and extraordinary. However, Dao Yu, that monk's name sounds somewhat familiar."

"Commander, one of Bodhidharma's direct disciples is named Daoyu!"

"It was him?" Xiao Luoyang looked at the deceased Dao Yu in surprise, finally understanding why the other party dared to call himself the Great Brahma. No wonder that the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, which few people in Shaolin had mastered for thousands of years, had been practiced by him to the point of being comparable to the seven-story pagoda of Bodhidharma in the past.

It seems the other person is a direct disciple of Bodhidharma!

An ancient monster that has lived for hundreds of years!
(End of this chapter)