Zhang Xiren was gambling on the fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Shaolin Temple was gambling on its own fate.
If they win, Shaolin Temple will become the state religion of the Great Zhou Dynasty; if they lose, they will naturally belong to the traitorous faction.
Yang Cheng said to Yin Wuxie and the others, "You go and protect His Majesty. I'll take care of this old monk."
As he spoke, Yang Cheng turned his gaze to Xuanji, squinted his eyes and said, "Old monk, you're over a hundred years old and still working hard for Shaolin Temple. Your abbot is not fair. Why doesn't he come personally for such a dangerous matter?"
Xuanji was so old that he seemed unable to even open his eyes. Upon hearing this, he shook his head and said, "It is precisely because I am already over a hundred years old and have no fear of life and death that I have come here on my own initiative."
Shaolin Temple still needs an abbot, not an old monk like me who's about to die.
"General Yang, you are still young. It's not worth fighting to the death with an old monk like me. Why are you so persistent?"
Yang Cheng laughed loudly: "You monks are quite interesting. You talk about the Buddha's compassion, but your hearts are full of scheming."
"Since you're courting death, old monk, then I'll grant your wish!"
As Yang Cheng finished speaking, the blood oath erupted, and a surge of rich and powerful blood energy suddenly rose.
The blade's energy stretched for over ten zhang, and Yang Cheng's internal energy surged, almost reaching its maximum potential.
At the same time, the demon immortal Chang Cuiyu and the spirit of the soldier appeared simultaneously, attacking Xuanji from both sides.
Xuanji clasped his hands together and chanted Buddhist mantras. The power emanating from his thin body was astonishing.
A rich Buddhist light emanated from his body, like the rising sun, and the scorching power baked everything, as if the surrounding air was being distorted.
Amidst the rising sun, the image of the Great Sun Buddha faintly appeared.
With a single palm strike, Chang Cuiyun's demonic immortal body instantly vanished into a wisp of demonic energy.
The spirit of the soldier struck the Great Sun Tathagata, but it did not cause him any damage. Instead, it was annihilated by the same palm strike.
Yang Cheng's blade energy was already upon him, tearing through the Buddhist light, and the blade slashed straight towards Xuan Ji!
But Xuanji neither dodged nor evaded, directly taking Yang Cheng's knife head-on with his aged body!
In an instant, the fierce blade energy tore Xuan Ji's hands apart, leaving them a bloody mess. But he did not dodge or flinch. Instead, he gripped Yang Cheng's blade with one hand and struck Yang Cheng's chest with a palm strike!
Great Compassion Palm!
That palm strike was powerful and forceful. Yang Cheng met it with a punch and instantly felt a tremendous force strike him.
That powerful force was nothing like that of a centenarian! Even Baosheng Batu's supreme Vajra body was no more than that!
Yang Cheng suddenly noticed that Xuan Ji's hands, which had been torn apart and were covered in blood, had now completely healed!
"The Great Law of Changing the Sun! You are practicing the Great Law of Changing the Sun!"
Because of the Heaven-Stealing Divine Technique, Yang Cheng also inquired with Zhou Yan about what the Sun-Changing Great Technique actually looked like.
The Heaven-Stealing Divine Technique is a technique that steals the power of heaven, plundering power from the outside in. Therefore, it is extremely domineering. If you are not careful, you will be backfired and lose control of yourself.
The Great Sun Changing Technique is the opposite. It involves visualizing the Great Sun Tathagata and cultivating the Great Sun Golden Body from the inside out, possessing extremely strong recovery power and physical strength.
However, visualizing Vairocana Buddha is a test of one's mental strength. If one is not careful, one will be devoured by Vairocana Buddha, and one's mental strength will be burned through. At best, one will become mentally impaired, and at worst, one will become a vegetable.
Therefore, both the Stealing Heaven Divine Technique and the Changing Sun Technique are extremely high-threshold and high-risk cultivation methods.
However, once mastered, its power is incredibly formidable.
Moreover, these two can complement each other, cultivating both internal and external strengths. No wonder it possesses the power to transcend the limits of martial arts and shatter the void.
Xuanji said calmly, "Grand Commander Yang, you possess the Heaven-Stealing Divine Technique, so you must be quite familiar with the Sun-Changing Great Technique."
"With your current strength, you cannot kill this humble monk. In the end, you will be the one who runs out of power."
Yang Cheng shook his head and said, "Old monk, although you have practiced the Sun-Changing Technique your whole life and have mastered it, you may not understand what the true Sun-Changing Technique is. Martial arts training also requires a scientific approach."
Every world has its own power system, but ultimately, power is not without roots; it always has a source.
Where does the power of the Sun-Changing Technique come from?
In Yang Cheng's view, the Great Sun Changing Technique is to stimulate one's mental power by visualizing the Great Sun Tathagata, allowing the mental power to control the crazy division of one's own cells in order to achieve an increase in strength and extremely powerful recovery ability.
However, cell division has its limits, even for martial artists with strong physical bodies.
Once cell division exceeds a certain limit, it consumes the martial artist's lifespan itself.
Xuanji wouldn't analyze the essence of power with a high-dimensional mindset like Yang Cheng, but he himself had also realized this.
Therefore, he usually appears as a young monk, because this allows him to seal 99% of his power, keeping most of his cells dormant in order to prolong his lifespan.
Once he awakens all his cells and regains his peak power, his lifespan will be consumed like flowing water.
Yang Cheng drew his sword and retreated, unleashing the Heaven-Stealing Divine Technique. The surrounding spiritual energy was frantically absorbed into his body, transforming into a spiritual energy storm that swept across the area.
Although Xuanji didn't know what Yang Cheng meant by science, he sensed that something was amiss.
As the Buddha's light shone forth, Xuanji retreated hastily, but Yang Cheng deliberately detonated the vortex of spiritual energy, and the powerful shockwave blasted Xuanji away.
Amidst the scattered dust, Yang Cheng's blood and qi circulated wildly, his figure charging straight towards Xuan Ji like a cannonball. His blade flashed repeatedly, the crisscrossing qi like a storm, each strike leaving a several-foot-long gash on the ground.
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