Infinite Gods Reign Supreme

Chapter 55: Karma Extinct, Love and Hatred Vanish

The Bodhisattva once told Si Ming, 'You already have a flawless body.' If the Great Black Buddha Mother had been able to eavesdrop when He said those words, that would have been the moment when Si Ming's plan came closest to failure.

Unfortunately, the Great Black Buddha Mother did not have that ability.

And Si Ming's so-called 'flawless body' is obviously not because his enhancement configuration is flawless.

The Bodhisattva is not referring to a power structure.

The Bodhisattva refers to pure power!

Because Si Ming's strongest and most unparalleled domain in the entire Celestial Team isn't actually his absorption of only a tiny bit of Death Divinity, nor his development of only a sliver of Night Battle Qi—no, his greatest strength lies in his attributes that far surpass the Alliance's six dimensions!
All attributes, 1000 points.

Among the Celestial Team, whose average enhancement level is only B, the second strongest members, besides him, barely reach half of one of his six dimensions in terms of their most outstanding attribute. Furthermore, in the world of reincarnation, even the most powerful skill, regardless of its multiplier, will ultimately depend on the reincarnator's base attributes!
The second stage of the gene lock has been activated.

Si Ming had already discovered that only he, upon unlocking the second stage of his genetic lock, could and needed to expand his body so recklessly. This was because the power he possessed when going all out was so immense that he had to significantly increase his physique in order to effectively unleash all his strength.

A towering giant, four meters tall, stood majestically on the earth. The bio-nanosuit, capable of extending autonomously with changes in body shape, now stretched taut like a bodysuit. The Buddha Mother's true form, with its eight arms, appeared as small as a dwarf before Si Ming. And the next moment, the Greatsword of Sin, now downgraded from a greatsword to a one-handed sword, pierced fiercely into the Buddha Mother's chest!
'Boom—!!' A burst of pitch-black flames erupted suddenly. The friction between the blade and the bronze was piercing and sharp, yet the process of it being pierced was as swift as a long nail piercing rubber.

Evil explosion.

The air suddenly exploded.

The burst of pitch-black flames carved a smooth trench over a hundred meters long into the ground behind the Buddha Mother's true form. The battlefield, previously divided by the insect swarm's tentacles, was now two-thirds pierced through in that instant!
His companions turned sharply to look at him, some excited, some surprised. In any case, this was the first time they had witnessed Simin's power.

That power of close-quarters combat that is never needed.

The true form of the Buddha Mother let out a sharp roar, and the offerings held in her eight arms, as well as the hand seals she maintained, all loosened at that moment. Teeth, hair, ears, skulls, and all the fragments fell to the ground, and the eight bronze arms slammed down on Si Ming.

Those were incredibly powerful punches; every punch and palm strike from the Buddha Mother tore through the air, creating vast, murky white sonic barriers. Yet, despite such swift attacks, her enemy neither dodged nor blocked.

It was like a wall, a black wall.

It was like a mountain, an immortal mountain.

The storm crashed against the mountains, ultimately only stirring up some dust. When the Buddha Mother's true form delivered her final punch, scattering the dust, the form of her enemy reappeared before her.

A faint fist-shaped mark is slowly fading on the black nanofibers. A resilient layer of twilight-colored aura wraps around it, without any external or internal damage.

Its enemy grinned—the black helmet could no longer conceal the once handsome face. Tough muscles twisted and intertwined, neither human nor monster. Yet, in the other consciousness connected to the Buddha Mother's true form, it sensed the terror of death.

"It doesn't hurt or itch."

The hand gripping the sword loosens. The clenched fist is raised.

The head of the Buddha Mother's true form, along with the red cloth covering it, exploded into powder.

A sharp, agonizing scream rang out.

The screams were filled with a familiar scent to those who had reincarnated.

A massive aura of curse erupted from the severed head of the Buddha Mother's true form, lashing outwards like a living creature, tearing and biting in all directions. Yet, their most desired target—the one they most wanted to tear apart and destroy—remained steadfastly unmoved.

Their bites are weak and ineffective.

Their struggles are a joke.

In the end, their efforts were in vain, and they reassembled, revealing the face known to the reincarnators from within the thick black fog of curses.

Li Ruonan's appearance.

Its face was filled with terror, almost frantic, and before it could utter a single word, all its emotions transformed into hysterical despair.

"What are you doing... No, no! You can't do this! Mother Buddha... Mother Buddha!"

"Don't abandon me!"

The flames of sin burned fiercely. And Si Ming's millstone-like hand had already grasped its face, which was formed from black mist.

The bronze Buddha statue suddenly convulsed violently, as if something was writhing and struggling inside. Even Li Ruonan, who was formed from the black mist, showed signs of being cut off and discarded.

However, the willow branch bracelet on Si Ming's wrist had already transformed into chains that bound the Buddha statue.

While evil spirits are indeed immortal, their immortality hinges on their lack of connection to mortals like humans. The Great Black Buddha Mother's ability to possess such agency and unleash such a massive catastrophe stems entirely from the bond she established with Li Ruonan six years prior. Although this bond only fully materialized after Li Ruonan offered her daughter, Duoduo (Chen Letong), as a sacrifice, it remains her fatal weakness.

Now, it's time to pay the price.

"Wake up." The words escaped Siming's lips in a whisper.

This is both a verdict and an execution.

The dark flames then burst forth.

..............................

Li Ruonan suddenly shivered.

It opened its eyes, only to find itself in unfamiliar territory. Thick white fog obscured the view, and the group of cultivators—possibly a secret special forces unit—and the towering, terrifying, dark-skinned killer had vanished without a trace.

Is it a dream?
Yes, yes! It must be a dream. It's a dream of the Buddha Mother testing her followers... Where in the world are there so many strange and highly accomplished spiritual practitioners? This all makes no sense!
It let out a long sigh of relief, then suddenly straightened up. Its hands clasped together in a reversed position, forming the hand gesture of a sacrificial curse ritual; its eyes lowered, and it uttered a devout prayer.

Misfortune and fortune are interdependent, life and death are determined by one's reputation... Misfortune and fortune are interdependent, life and death are determined by one's reputation...

Disciple Li Ruonan wishes to dedicate everything to the Great Black Buddha Mother...

The thick white fog swayed, as if sighing, or perhaps trying to chew on something. And from the depths of the fog, a faint, weak sound arose.

"Li Ruonan... Li Ruonan..." It was a familiar voice.

It suddenly raised its head, its face full of surprise.

"Is that Adong! Did you come to find me?"—Adong was Duoduo's father and her beloved. Six years ago, it was Adong who was the first to die in the tunnel.

The thick fog continued to sway, and a blurry figure gradually appeared before Li Ruonan. It was a tall young man with a deathly pale face. His mouth was stuffed with hair, and his empty eye sockets were filled with necrotic teeth. His appearance caused Li Ruonan to scream, her voice filled with surprise and then with terror.

"You...what's wrong with you?"

Ah Dong lowered his head slightly to look at it, and large teeth fell from his eye sockets like tears.

"Why...why did you do this..." His face, which was stuffed with hair, twitched, and he made indistinct sounds.

"What...what did I do? I didn't do anything..."

Ah Dong sighed and disappeared. The surrounding fog seemed to thin out slightly. From the fog emerged another young man with no teeth in his mouth, Ah Dong's younger brother, Ah Yuan, the second person to die six years ago. It was he who brought out the camera containing the secret of the curse from the tunnel.

"Why did you take that camera... You knew it was cursed..."

Li Ruonan's mind flashed back to her experience at the tunnel entrance six years ago. The little girl who had fed her water was pushed to the ground by her because she said there was a curse on the camera, which she didn't believe at all.

"I was in such a hurry at the time, how could I have thought of so much... It's not like you two grown men ended up with one dead and the other going crazy, how can you blame me?"

A Yuan gave a bitter smile, and his figure disappeared into the thick fog. The surrounding fog thinned even further. Faintly, one could see many figures on the other side of the fog.

Li Ruonan's heart began to pound violently. She realized that something terrible was happening around her.

“Ruonan…show Mom the footage from the camera, and Mom won’t blame you.”

Two mangled figures appeared beside it; they were its parents, who had died after watching the cursed video.

"But Dad doesn't remember raising you into this kind of person... You should make up for your own mistakes and bear the consequences yourself. Why drag others down with you..."

"Dad, Mom..." it murmured, then suddenly jolted awake. "I didn't want to, I didn't want to! But if I don't do it, I'll die! I don't want to die, Dad, Mom, I don't want to die! I just want to live... Is it wrong for me to want to live!?"

The two elderly people disappeared.

At this moment, the thick fog finally thinned enough. It could finally see what lay beyond the fog layer—people, a dense crowd of people. And the person standing at the very front was even quite familiar to it.

It saw its attending physician, who had provided it with six years of psychological treatment, die in a fire after watching a cursed video.

It saw Lan Jie, the social worker who had been so kind to help it reunite with Duo Duo, being controlled by the Buddha Mother and forced to swallow a piece of burning glass.

It saw the two policemen she killed with the cursed video, it saw Xie Qiming, the loving adoptive father of Duoduo who volunteered to investigate the Buddha Mother's secret... It saw many people who died because of it, directly or indirectly. And they all stood neatly on the other side of the fog, waiting for something to happen.

It was about to happen, it was destined to happen... its heart was filled with fear.

"It's none of my business...it's none of my business! Go find the Buddha Mother! What kind of skill is it to bully a weak woman like me...It was A-Dong! It was A-Dong who insisted on going into the tunnel. I'm a victim too! What's wrong with just wanting to live!"

The fog thinned out, and it instinctively looked around.

The next moment, a petite figure appeared in front of her.

It's Duoduo.

It immediately clung to Duoduo as if it had found a lifeline.

"Duoduo, Duoduo! Duoduo won't leave Mommy, right? Duoduo will protect Mommy, right? Everything Mommy does is for Duoduo... Duoduo is a good girl, Mommy is counting on Duoduo now..."

It kept talking and talking, trying to convince Duoduo, and also trying to convince itself. However, the little girl it was holding tightly just raised her head indifferently.

"Mommy, it's bad."

She suddenly disintegrated into a cloud of white mist.

The next moment, the obstructing fog completely vanished. And the countless victims all wore bloodthirsty smiles.

It's time for revenge, it's time to pay the price.

They swarmed forward, reaching out their hands for revenge towards Li Ruonan, who was surrounded in the middle. Flesh was torn off piece by piece, and the culprit let out a sharp scream in pain.

It pleaded, wailed, and cursed incessantly. But in the end, the crowd overwhelmed it.

Si Ming withdrew his gaze.

Further into the distance, the Great Black Buddha Mother, bound by willow branches, was being torn apart by vengeful spirits a hundred or a thousand times stronger than Li Ruonan. The dim flames flickered and burned until even this bloodless, tearless, painless, and heartless being let out unbearable screams and wails.

This is sin.

The raging fire of sin erodes their essence and outward appearance. The immortal and indestructible evil has finally met its end, but before that end arrives in the outside world a second later, it will linger in the raging fire of sin for at least another thousand years.

'Peng——'

The bronze Buddha statue, engulfed by the flames of sin and the entanglement of willow branches, was reduced to ashes. Meanwhile, a female skeleton, constantly burning, was brought to life by necromancy.

Using a living person to refine a soul is a major taboo and should not be done lightly.

Just as the God of War announced the score, the broken willow branch gently bounced up and tapped Si Ming's palm.

This can be considered a minor punishment to serve as a warning.

(End of this chapter)