This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered-Chapter 703 - 599: Kill Three Birds with One Stone!

Xia Kun's strike was an overt stratagem.
Whether it was Liang Yi and the others being forced to reveal themselves because of his strike, or Liang Yi and the others thinking he was just bluffing and thus dying under this strike, or even the person here is not Liang Yi but some other Mystical Mechanism Cultivator, Xia Kun actually didn't care.
Xia Kun didn't want to know what the Mystical Mechanism Cultivator who appeared here intended to do; as long as they were dead they would accomplish nothing, he only cared about the result.
"Amitabha!"
Just as Xia Kun's smile grew increasingly ferocious, preparing to directly crush the already-formed Palm World, a solemn and majestic Buddhist chant suddenly erupted. The delicate and small Palm World, resembling the reflection of Beimo, shattered like a fragile glass illusion under the chant!
Xia Kun's smile froze, his right hand slowly retracting, and he turned with a dark face to look at a Buddha Lotus that appeared at an unknown time from the direction of Ten Thousand Miles Mountain.
The power to create the Palm World came from his ability to control this piece of heaven and earth, which was also the fundamental reason for Xia Kun's confidence that there was no ambush here.
Now that the world had collapsed, it meant that a Cultivator who exceeded his control had appeared.
"Isn't that the homeless dog, the bald Bodhi monk of Zen?"
Xia Kun crossed his arms, looking with a smile that was not quite a smile at the white-browed old man slowly stepping out of the Buddha Lotus...
The old man wore a clean and simple red kasaya and held a light cyan-colored staff in his hand, its golden rings moving on their own without wind, creating a crisp sound.
The visitor was none other than the master of Zen, Bodhi Chan Master.
Bodhi Chan Master stood serenely, lowering his eyes, ignoring Xia Kun's sarcastic tone. Instead, he calmly said to Xia Kun;
"Master Xia is in a fine mood, still lingering here at such a time. Could it be that after seeing our Zen's Palm World Buddha once, you became infatuated and sneaked here to secretly learn and practice?"
He had faced Xia Kun several times since the war, even holding Xia Kun back when Zen retreated from Beimo, buying time for his disciples. After so many encounters, both of them were well acquainted with each other.
Although the style and conception were completely different, Bodhi Chan Master instantly recognized that Xia Kun's Palm World was inspired by the Palm World Buddha of Zen. After all, they were both cultivators of Body Cultivation at the Great Perfection of the Ninth Realm; it was normal to blaze one's own trail once the direction was set.
"You think I care for it?"
Caught red-handed by the true owner, Xia Kun snorted coldly, full of disdain.
Having clashed so many times with this bald old geezer, Xia Kun had an unforgettable memory of the old man's Palm World Buddha. Once it was opened, the bald monk was as fierce as if he had taken some powerful elixir.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Xia Kun indeed found this move a bit troublesome, and so he had spent some effort contemplating it. The result of his contemplation was the Palm World he had just used.
"What now? Want to have another go with me right here?"
The moment Xia Kun saw Bodhi Chan Master appear, he realized he might have fallen into a trap. Previously, when he had been investigating, he hadn't detected the slightest breath from this old bald monk.
But since he had arrived here so quickly, he must have been prepared and watching this place.
So at this point, Xia Kun had already begun to think about retreat, planning to go back and figure out what exactly went wrong.
If the intelligence sent by Yu Huanyu had been tampered with by others, it would certainly be tainted with the aura of Mystical Mechanism Cultivators, something that could not be erased no matter what.
Yet, the intelligence they saw bore not the slightest trace of Mystical Mechanism Cultivators, only Abyss Demon Qi, which indicated that there was no issue with the intelligence itself.
"So what exactly went wrong? Was it Yu Huanyu? Or someone within our own Abyss...?"
Xia Kun pondered while observing the unperturbed Bodhi Chan Master.
"Amitabha! Why the rush, Master Xia? Since you've come, have a seat before leaving."
Bodhi Chan Master intoned a Buddhist chant and gently pounded his cyan staff toward the Void beneath his feet. Suddenly, thousands of Buddha illusions appeared, with a Buddha Lotus blooming under each Great Buddha.
The lotuses were dazzling, with thousands of Buddhas in the sky!
"A Buddha blooms from the lotus, Palm World Buddha!"
Xia Kun's voice seemed to squeeze through his clenched teeth, his face growing extremely somber.
Seeing Bodhi Chan Master's overwhelming approach and activating his powerful domain as soon as they met, Xia Kun was completely sure he had stepped into a trap. If this weren't a trap, would this old bald monk dare to act this way?
But Xia Kun was not a fool; they were old rivals, well aware of each other's capabilities. The Palm World Buddha was Bodhi Chan Master's domain, which indeed was powerful enough that even he needed to temporarily dodge its edge. However, he had enough time to react and escape the area before the Buddha's domain engulfed him.
"Old bald geezer! A parting gift for you!"
Xia Kun sneered coldly, his figure moving in an instant. His body dashed towards the outer region of the sea of lotuses at a speed that shattered the Void, but the position where he just stood was occupied by an identical shadow laughing viciously as it threw a punch, extremely rigid and powerful, towards the Sand Sea!
No matter what trap the old bald geezer had set up, his entry into the game had become a fact.
But Xia Kun was not a fool. Besides him and Bodhi, there was also a person who lured him here, who must have a significant connection with Bodhi Chan Master.
His punch was without reserve, and if not for a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Ninth Realm, it would be an instant death—that much Xia Kun was confident about.
And when the old bald geezer opened the Buddha's domain, it was not that he couldn't move. To save someone or chase after him—the result was obvious.