Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 386 The Most Suitable Battle Tactics

"So be it! Now that you have taken the Heaven-Mending Stone, there is no need for me to hide it any longer."

"Youngster! Today I will show you the price for forcing me to reveal my true form!" The Five-Colored Flame Buddha revealed his form, his voice majestic and echoing around him. This demeanor perfectly illustrated what it meant to be subservient to Yang Jian but strike hard against Qiu Chuji.

Even when their identities are exposed, their attitudes differ drastically depending on the opponent.

Of course, this is only natural, after all, who was Qiu Chuji?

In terms of both strength and reputation, he is still far inferior to that Manifestation Saint True Lord.

"You can do it! Then come on!" Qiu Chuji dispersed the lingering energy of the Five Elements, leaving only the Dragon Bone Sword in his hand. After a few exchanges, his hands were already warmed up, and he gradually mastered the rhythm of this level of combat.

In fact, the underlying logic is very similar to the battles in the martial arts world, except that the information that needs to be processed and the energy mobilized in an instant are on a much higher level.

At this moment, Qiu Chuji's fighting spirit soared even higher, and he wanted to learn more from the Flame Five-Light Buddha who had been forced to reveal his true form.

After all, such an opportunity is too rare.

A being of the Great Immortal level is no less than a "minor figure" in any world, even the myriad realms. Fighting such a being would, in most cases, have far-reaching consequences.

Only this Fiery Five-Light Buddha concealed his identity and whereabouts in order to steal the creation within the Heaven-Mending Stone, thus isolating this unexpected battle and preventing it from involving further clashes.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the lineage of Dipankara Buddha is relatively unpopular in the Western Paradise.

If it is the current Buddhist lineage, or the future Buddhist lineage, even if it is temporarily separated from other lineages and some 'accidental' possibilities are interspersed, they will be amplified.

To experience such a smooth and enjoyable learning and fighting experience is almost impossible.

At this moment, chaotic air currents surged wildly within the void rifts created by the fight.

The two figures collided violently, passing through layers of spatial barriers, causing many floating celestial bodies to crack as a result.

However, these two figures were not Qiu Chuji's or the Flaming Five-Light Buddha's true forms.

Rather, it was a 'thought' that burst forth and coalesced in an instant.

The idea of ​​cutting a thought into an independent entity, then carrying it with immense energy, and launching a reckless, self-destructive charge and attack—this was first demonstrated by the Five-Light Flame Buddha, and then Qiu Chuji learned from and imitated it.

He possesses the Qi of Creation, which allows him to learn anything much faster than normal.

Moreover, Qiu Chuji keenly realized that this fighting style was very suitable for him to use as a regular fighting method.

After all, by using thought as the basis for warfare, he had more room for experimentation and trial and error.

As the battle continued, more thoughts coalesced into different figures, which began to appear and collide fiercely in different areas.

In one scene, the green-robed Taoist priest's sword tip raised nine streaks of crimson light, which shot down like a sun crown exploding, carrying a vast sword intent that could annihilate all things.

The brown-robed monk opposite him emitted boundless Buddhist light from the prayer beads around his neck, and the illusory image of the Vajra pestle, which was dozens of feet tall, solidified from the void. The dragon-shaped lightning wrapped around the pestle touched the sword energy, causing spiderweb-like cracks to appear in the entire area.

In another scene, the Taoist priest flew thirty feet on a yin-yang fish pattern. When his Taoist bun was loosened, the sword in his hand flicked out seven cold stars.

Each point of starlight that landed transformed into a ten-foot-tall talisman sword, forming a Big Dipper array that trapped the monk's surrounding space.

Golden and blue flames rose from within the sword formation, causing the sword shadows to sizzle.

The monk's eyes widened in anger. He formed the Fearless Mudra with his left palm and shattered the two talisman swords. His right palm then pulled out half of the Demon-Subduing Pestle from between his eyebrows. The chaos separated where the pestle's tail swept across, forcefully cleaving out turbid energy from the sword formation and sending it surging toward Qiu Chuji's main body. However, it was blocked by the new thought that burst forth from Qiu Chuji.

In another scene, the sound of a sword reverberated, scattering the air currents for miles around. An incredibly concentrated sword beam flew out from the Taoist's sleeve, transforming into a cunning green snake.

The green snake burrowed into the monk's golden body, and the sound of metal clashing turned into tangible ripples that spread outwards.

Then the golden body shattered, Buddha's blood splattered across the sky, and the Taoist priest who spat out green snakes attacked the Five-Colored Flame Buddha, stirring up frost in an attempt to extinguish the fire.

A single victory in one thought does not mean victory in every thought.

In another battlefield, a drop of blood seeped from the Taoist's tiger's mouth and was instantly ignited. The monk clasped his hands together and summoned boundless rage, which ignited the Taoist's body and burned it to ashes.

Destruction and rebirth, clearly a battlefield between two people, are about to unleash the force of a thousand armies.

Thoughts collide with thoughts, ideas fight with ideas.

Ordinary people's thoughts are confined to their minds, and no matter how turbulent or violent they may be, they are basically harmless.

However, once the thoughts and ideas of the two great immortals manifested, their destructive power was enough to destroy a small to medium-sized world.

If this fight continues, it could very well turn into a protracted tug-of-war.

Until one side runs out of ideas, the image formed by the convergence of thoughts appears repeatedly, thus revealing a flaw and closing in.

Qiu Chuji gradually realized that something was wrong.

The old man is definitely leading the charge.

This tactic may seem fair, but in reality, with the long accumulation of experience of the Five-Light Buddha of Flames, he already had a large number of well-formed ideas that he could mobilize in an instant, just like memorizing a large number of mature chess scores before a game.

After Qiu Chuji used some of his usual methods with his thoughts, every battle idea that came to him afterward was a sudden flash of inspiration, and such execution was definitely unstable.

Anyone's accumulation requires a process. Once Qiu Chuji's inspiration stops flowing, his level will plummet.

Even if Qiu Chuji's primordial spirit is strong and he can sever more thoughts to participate in the battle, it will only be a continuous self-consumption, like drinking poison to quench thirst.

As for stopping now and ceasing to follow this rhythm?
The risks are also very high.

Because the battle situation has changed, the originally evenly matched situation has now been altered.

Just like a game of cards has already begun and the strategy has been determined, it's not impossible to change the rules at this point... but there will definitely be a price to pay.

After realizing this, Qiu Chuji did not hurriedly change his rhythm and tactics, but instead continued to 'delay' the Flame Five Lights Buddha, as if he was gambling on luck, betting that his accumulated experience and inspiration could withstand the attrition.

About an hour or two later, the Five-Light Buddha of Flames looked at the battlefield, which had expanded to a radius of ten thousand miles, and the thousands of thought avatars of both sides that were moving out of this battlefield. His expression was somewhat stiff and bitter.

Much of his accumulated knowledge over the years has been unearthed, yet Qiu Chuji's performance still shows no signs of fatigue.

Is this the kind of accumulation a 'little guy' should have?

The Five-Colored Flame Buddha didn't understand.

This also breeds more jealousy and resentment.

What is the connection between the Buddhist concept of "emptiness of the four elements" and his innate supernatural abilities?
Although he wasn't among the first to set the rules during the 'startup', he still benefited from the ride and became a beneficiary. Many Buddhist rituals, precepts, and rules no longer applied to him. After another half hour, the situation on the battlefield began to shift.

Qiu Chuji's 'troop strength' completely surpassed that of the Flaming Five Lights Buddha, and he began a large-scale counterattack.

"I don't believe you can really comprehend it so quickly!" The Flaming Five-Light Buddha chose to 'go all in,' sending out all the remaining thought models at once, and began trying to reclaim the battlefield.

He believed that Qiu Chuji was about to run out of steam, and that the previous mass troop buildup was just to create the illusion that he was not weakening at all.

Qiu Chuji's battle line did indeed retreat a bit, but soon these different thought clones actually combined to form a huge sword formation, mobilizing more terrifying energy, shuttling back and forth in the battlefield, annihilating and strangling a large number of thoughts of the Flame Five Lights Buddha.

Meanwhile, more of Qiu Chuji's mental clones are pouring into the battlefield, joining at any time and entering the formation. While coordinating perfectly, they also possess independent flexibility and unique characteristics.

"This is impossible!"

"In order to maintain full combat power, the avatars are not forcibly controlled by the main consciousness. In this way, although the avatars lack precise coordination, they liberate combat power and become more practical."

"After all, even the primordial spirit of immortals and Buddhas cannot match thousands or tens of thousands of powerful combat clones in an instant, and manipulate their behavior with exquisite precision, and handle the instantaneous changes on the battlefield with keen sensitivity." The Five-Light Flame Buddha looked at Qiu Chuji with apprehension.

It was because he had personally witnessed Qiu Chuji grow rapidly from a novice in the Mind Splitting Style of combat that he could not accept that Qiu Chuji had actually surpassed him and completed the most difficult part of this combat style.

In fact, this kind of battle tactic is quite common among immortals and Buddhas, but those who can unify their myriad thoughts into one, maintaining their individual changes and sensitivity while achieving unity and forming a formation, are extremely rare.

Qiu Chuji was able to maintain the steady increase of his thought clones and even gradually integrate them, naturally because his primordial spirit had already possessed certain characteristics of the Great Luo.

Those things that are almost impossible for a Great Immortal or Immortal are as natural and simple as breathing for Qiu Chuji, who possesses the characteristics of a Great Luo Primordial Spirit; they are an instinctive ability.

Qiu Chuji's lifespan was indeed insufficient, so his accumulated knowledge could not compare to that of the Buddha of Five Lights and Flames. However, he could simultaneously broaden the scope of a large number of lives, making up for the missing accumulation in an instant.

Thanks to the Buddha of Five Flames, because of his selfless dedication, Qiu Chuji found a fighting method that was very suitable for him at this stage.

With this theory, even if he encountered an opponent at the level of a Golden Immortal, he could choose to mass produce troops and try to contend with them by attacking them like ants biting an elephant.

A thousand, ten thousand, or even tens of thousands of immortals or great immortals might not even be a threat to a Golden Immortal.

However, once these forces are integrated, they should not be underestimated.

Group combat tactics are always useful.

Otherwise, why would the Heavenly Court need so many heavenly soldiers and generals?
This is because, if many forces at one or two or three lower levels combine together, they can still create a deterrent effect, provided the methods are correct.

As Qiu Chuji unleashed his advantages, the Five-Colored Flame Buddha was gradually suppressed and lost the possibility of resistance.

At this point, he faced the same predicament that Qiu Chuji had initially faced.

It's impossible to change the course of the battle now.

He could defeat and crush any single thought clone of Qiu Chuji on his own, but faced with the overwhelming force of the entire group, the Five-Light Flame Buddha had no chance of winning.

In battles of the same level, the mass-production strategy becomes invincible in the mid-to-late game.

Tens of thousands of Qiu Chuji's battle thought clones, carrying even more turbulent and powerful primordial energy than the previous Five Elements Waves, were like boundless mountains, completely suppressing the Flame Five Lights Buddha.

Under the suppression of the array of sword shadows, the golden light on the surface of the Flame Five-Light Buddha began to dim gradually, just like a Buddha statue in a temple that has been neglected and uncleaned for a long time, and has become covered with a grayish-brown gloom, no longer bright and beautiful, no longer majestic and solemn, but strange and broken.

"I lost!"

"I admit defeat this time. I promise you, I'll only bother you once more. If that still doesn't work... then our karma will be over!"

"Of course, I only represent myself!" Even in this situation, the Five-Light Flame Buddha was still not truly convinced. He only thought that he had chosen the wrong way to fight. He originally wanted to teach Qiu Chuji, this junior, how to be an immortal with overwhelming force, but now... he himself had been taught a lesson. He could only blame his bad luck.

Qiu Chuji's talent in the Battle Spirit Clone technique is too strong!
Terribly strong!
"Ha!" Qiu Chuji almost laughed.

They've already been beaten to this state, and they're still being stubborn?

Although considering that behind the Five-Colored Flame Buddha is the Dipankara Buddha, Qiu Chuji is unlikely to directly chop him up... unless he takes action before the Buddha reveals his true form.

However, it is still feasible to imitate Yang Jian and inflict some real damage on him.

"Do you want a next time?" Qiu Chuji asked.

"Is it not allowed?" The Five-Light Flame Buddha saw the displeasure on Qiu Chuji's face, but he did not flinch and remained confident.

"Of course not!"

"You might be very confident that I wouldn't dare kill you."

“But everyone here has connections. You don’t really think that I could seize such a great opportunity from you, with Yang Jian protecting me… just because I’m an unknown rogue cultivator, do you?” Qiu Chuji said to the Flaming Five-Light Buddha.

Since we can't kill them, let's use our connections and reason with them.

Master Qiu has always been a reasonable and kind Taoist priest.

Upon hearing this, the Five-Colored Flame Buddha paused, then sighed and said, "No wonder... I was careless!"

"Of the Twelve Golden Immortals, which one is your master?"

"I might even have some connection with you; years ago you even called me 'Uncle-Master'!"

The Five-Colored Flame Buddha is considered a disciple of Dipankara Buddha, who was the vice leader of the Chan Sect and was of the same generation as Yuanshi Tianzun.

So don't be fooled by the appearance of the Flaming Five-Colored Buddha Vegetable; he is indeed of high seniority.

Theoretically speaking, Yang Jian and Nezha should both call him "Uncle-Master," but since Dipankara Buddha has long since passed away, the old distinction of seniority has become meaningless.

If you lack the ability, trying to save face is just asking for trouble.

Qiu Chuji reached out and pulled out the Jade Void Bell, which appeared in his palm.

This was also the first time that Qiu Chuji had used his physical body to catch the Jade Void Bell and gain physical control over this treasure.

before?

He simply couldn't bear the weight of the Jade Void Bell.

Only now, with his primordial spirit and physical body taking great strides, can he hold the Jade Void Bell in his hand and manifest his true form.

(End of this chapter)