Monochrome Sovereign [EN]: Chapter 1276

“What is this?!”Gong Gong, who was leading the charge, was startled to see the entire battlefield filled with evil energy.

Having mastered Buddhist divine skills that were the antithesis of Sama’s energy, he was even more surprised.

‘It’s as if a fire has broken out.’

The entire vast mountain range seemed to be emitting black smoke.

“Alliance Leader!”

The martial alliance forces, who had advanced together, also sensed the unusual atmosphere.

Even if they had not mastered Buddhist divine skills, they had ample battlefield experience. Although battlefields were filled with all sorts of negative energies such as fighting spirit and killing intent, it was definitely unusual for such a strong evil energy to be present.

Fwaaaang!

Gong Gong, who had hastily entered the battlefield, widened his eyes in an instant.

“Uwaaaah!!”

“Kill!”

“Hahahaha!”

“Tear them to pieces!”

Unbelievable madness, chilling screams.

Surprisingly, it was not the enemies but the martial artists who were showing such behavior.

Gong Gong’s eyes flashed.

‘They’ve been corrupted.’

He could tell at a glance. The widespread evil energy had infiltrated the minds of everyone within the area, regardless of friend or foe.

‘How could this be?!’

He couldn’t tell if it was the upper dantian [energy center in the head] or the middle dantian [energy center in the chest]. Perhaps it was both.

The important thing was that even the Taoists who had mastered the Taoist divine skills of Mount Hua were possessed by the evil energy and had lost their minds.

Uuuuuung!

He pushed his Immeasurable Great Power to its peak.

He looked at his allies first, not the enemies. His understanding, which had reached the extreme of the Immeasurable Mind Method, opened wide.

His two eyes shone with golden light. The intense gaze captured the flow of countless evil energies.

‘It’s a formation.’

Gong Gong’s face contorted.

‘Someone has corrupted this entire place with evil energy using a formation.’

The density was beyond imagination. He was not even sure if the elders of Shaolin would be able to resist it.

Gong Gong shouted.

“You all, stay where you are! No, retreat another hundred paces!”

“Understood!”

No explanation was needed. Despite everything, Gong Gong’s influence was at the pinnacle of the martial world.

The martial alliance forces quickly retreated to the rear. Their movements were truly swift and orderly.

Gong Gong looked around the battlefield once more.

‘This is…!’

Only then did he realize where this absurd evil energy had come from.

‘Those cavalrymen in the grasslands! They are the medium for the evil energy!’

Each of their bodies held a seed of terrible evil energy.

He didn’t know how such a thing was possible, but the important thing was that the vengeful spirits, stained with their blood and death, were endlessly increasing the density of this evil energy.

Vengeful spirits are souls filled with negative emotions such as anger, fear, and sorrow. They are the spirits of those who died unjustly or had strong lingering attachments to this world.

Vengeful spirits basically have the characteristics of being bound to a place, transferring emotions, and calling for death. Being bound to a place means they are attached to a specific location. Transferring emotions means they transfer their feelings to living beings. Calling for death means leading life to death or imbuing breath with the energy of death.

When a person enters a place with vengeful spirits, they feel a chill. If there are strong or numerous vengeful spirits, they enter through the Baihui point [the crown of the head], causing memory loss or making people unconsciously follow the actions the vengeful spirits desire. This is also called being possessed by a ghost.

This battlefield was literally a field of vengeful spirits.

The evil energy-filled vengeful spirits could turn even a living being full of yang energy into a madman in an instant. It was only because they were martial artists who had mastered internal energy cultivation that they were able to endure this much. If they were ordinary people, their souls and bodies would have already been separated.

Gong Gong could see how this battle had unfolded.

‘They planted evil energy in the grassland tribes and ordered them to carry out suicide attacks. As the Shaanxi martial forces killed them, the essence of the evil energy was activated.’

Anger flickered on Gong Gong’s face.

It was not the dark and gloomy anger of a vengeful spirit, but the anger of a Yama [a judge of the dead in Buddhist and East Asian mythology] facing an evil ghost.

‘To make human lives so worthless…!’

Thud!

Gong Gong, with a kick, sped down the hillside.

At some point, he saw a group of people. It was Hang Mu, the Seven Evil King, leading troops with iron cannons, returning from the side.

He wanted to rush over and punch him right away, but Gong Gong exercised patience.

‘As important as annihilating the enemy is breaking this formation. And I’m the only one who can do it.’

It wasn’t because he was particularly stronger.

The Immeasurable Great Power of Shaolin was the nemesis of all demonic arts. The Great Prajna Power would have been better, but the Immeasurable Great Power was also a supreme demonic subjugation skill of Shaolin.

‘The problem is whether there is anyone who can stop them.’

The Shaanxi martial artists were now almost insane.

They were only focused on killing every enemy they saw. Perhaps it was fortunate that they weren’t fighting each other? But that terrible thing could happen at any moment.

It was then.

“Alliance Leader!”

A thunderous voice cut through the noisy battlefield and reached Gong Gong’s ears.

Turning around, he saw Mak Won, leading Cheon Hyo-Rak and Hwa Hyang, breaking through the rear of the leading cavalry unit.

“We will stop them!”

They knew what to do without needing to talk.

Gong Gong neither nodded nor answered.

Now was the time to move.

Kwaaaang!

The Vajra Immovable Divine Skill was a divine skill that was at the pinnacle of the martial world. When that divine skill was used with the power of the Immeasurable Great Power, it instantly moved its master’s body to the middle of the battlefield.

Between the martial forces and the cavalry.

Gong Gong unleashed the Thousand-Pound Drop.

Kwaaaang!!

It was as if it weighed not a thousand pounds, but tens of thousands of pounds.

Gong Gong, who had landed on the ground, spreading fierce true energy, immediately closed his eyes and put his palms together.

“Om(唵).”

The single syllable of the Dharma sound, drawn out long.

The Immeasurable Great Power, pushed to its peak, spread Gong Gong’s Dharma sound to a radius of hundreds of feet.

The Shaanxi martial forces and cavalry, who had been screaming, paused.

Gong Gong opened his eyes again, his half-opened eyes were indifferent.

“One should develop the mind that abides nowhere.”

Uuuuuuung!

The sound spread far and wide.

One of the seventy-two arts of Shaolin, a unique martial art that represented Buddhism, and further, represented Shaolin, with an unrivaled reputation.

The Shaolin Lion’s Roar was unleashed.

“All forms are illusory. If one sees all forms as non-forms, one sees the Tathagata [a title for a Buddha]……”

The Dharma words of the Diamond Sutra, so familiar to those who had taken refuge in Buddhism, flowed out.

The Immeasurable Great Power and the Diamond Sutra.

One was the secret of Shaolin’s secrets, and the other was a scripture of truth that had spread beyond Buddhism to all parts of the world.

Even an excellent skill loses its value if not mastered, and one can stray from the truth if one takes a common skill lightly.

Gong Gong wholeheartedly drew up his true energy, and the Immeasurable Great Power, reading his will, bloomed into enlightenment and increased the power of demonic subjugation, and the Diamond Sutra became the outlet, spreading throughout the battlefield filled with evil energy.

Uuuuuuuuuung!!

It resonated and resonated again.

Sound is vibration, but this was not simply a vibration caused by the Lion’s Roar mixed with internal energy.

It was the tremor of energy, the groan of enlightenment stretching itself. Even in the battlefield filled with blood and death, Gong Gong’s voice, reciting the Dharma words of the Diamond Sutra without the slightest tension, became calmer and deeper as time passed.

“Huh? Huh?”

“Ughhh…….”

The Shaanxi martial artists stared blankly around them or let out strange groans.

Heeheeheeing!

The horses stopped advancing and repeatedly snorted at the unusual demonic subjugation power and Dharma words.

The condition of the soldiers on horseback was even worse. They all covered their ears or screamed, tearing at their hair and scratching their chests, and the force was so strong that they were covered in blood in an instant.

Cheeeeeeeek!

The evil energy that had accumulated on the battlefield writhed and emitted a hazy smoke.

Gong Gong’s eyebrows twitched.

‘It’s working.’

Frankly, it was a gamble. He had even thought that it might be better to make the enemies retreat a little more during that time.

But the sight of his allies, mad with rage and cutting down enemies, was too shocking. Even if they won this battle, it seemed difficult for them to live normal lives.

Even if they were to die, they should die as humans, not like this. If death was inevitable, they had to end their lives like humans, like people.

This was why Gong Gong was reciting the Diamond Sutra while consuming an enormous amount of true energy.

Fupupupupung!!

The thick smoke that had risen exploded and scattered.

The demonic subjugation power emitted by the Lion’s Roar was crushing the evil energy. It was an unbelievable sight, Gong Gong alone was breaking down the evil energy that had possessed tens of thousands of people.

But.

Trickle, trickle.

Blood flowed from Gong Gong’s nose and mouth.

The Immeasurable Great Power, which had become even more powerful after reaching the extreme, was used only for the Dharma words without controlling its power.

Because it was a Lion’s Roar that squeezed and exploded the dantian, the burden on the body was extreme. He had not even recited half of it, but his internal organs were already shaking and his dantian was writhing.

Gong Gong ignored the pain.

No, he thought he shouldn’t even feel the pain. Feeling pain was proof that his indifference had been broken.

“One should develop a mind that does not abide in form, nor in sound, nor in smell, nor in taste, nor in touch, nor in thought……”

Develop a mind without dwelling on form. Develop a mind without dwelling on sound, smell, taste, touch, or the object of the mind.

It was a path to enlightenment, a pledge to himself, and a message to all those possessed by evil energy.

One should develop a mind that abides nowhere, only then will the true universe open.

The most solid, the most brilliant, the fastest, the most destructive, and therefore the highest mantra of Vajra was breaking through the evil energy and madly shattering the prison of the mind filled with anguish.

“Uwaaaaaah!!”

“Aaaack!!”

Nearly half of the Shaanxi martial artists grabbed their heads and rolled on the ground at the demonic subjugation Dharma words, which conveyed their will with a supreme heart and pure desire.

But that was the limit. There was a limit to Gong Gong’s power.

It was then.

Uuuuuung.

A brilliant light flickered in Gong Gong’s half-opened eyes.

It was because the master of sound arts, who had stood behind him, was spreading true energy in all directions, increasing the transmission power of the Vajra Dharma words three or four times.

“Calm your mind and listen with all your heart, Alliance Leader. Your voice will cross mountains and reach the depths of rivers.”

It was a calm and pleasant voice.

Gong Gong’s subconscious knew who the owner of this voice was.

‘Senior Sound Master.’

Trust in Ha Eun-Gyo arose naturally.

He maintained the density of the Immeasurable Great Power, but reduced the power he was using to its peak.

The burden on his body dropped to less than half. Yet, the Lion’s Roar was spreading to a wider area, to a deeper place.

Ha Eun-Gyo, as a channel for the mantra, spread the voice of Gong Gong, the source of demonic subjugation.

With the collaboration of the two absolute masters, the battlefield quickly fell into a lull. Gray smoke writhed madly around them as they screamed and rolled on the ground, regardless of friend or foe.

It was an unbelievable sight.

They had achieved a feat that was almost mythical, but unfortunately, the enemy’s offensive was not easy.

Fupupupupung!!

The sound of explosions that erased the Dharma words.

The yellow poison bullets loaded into the golden iron cannons were being fired over the heads of the Shaanxi martial artists.