Chapter 52: We Invented The [bubble Underworld Dimension]!
Sealing the Blood Kesa into his chest cavity, the Eggplant Giant chose to sit cross-legged.
At this time, the vines behind him had already grown into the sky, extracting Starlight Energy and pouring it back into himself on the ground, providing inexhaustible power to suppress the Kesa Ghost.
At the same time, the tip of the vine that had grown to the sky began to symmetrically split into twelve parts, crawling in the sky along different directions, attempting to weave a rudimentary ‘grid’ to intercept more Starlight (Photosynthesis); it was also as if it wanted to weave a filter net above the firmament, fulfilling its promise of 【patching the sky】.
When the vines in the sky began to grow winding against gravity, the Eggplant Giant sitting on the ground struck the classic Buddhism pose of ‘one finger pointing to heaven, one finger pointing to earth’.
This both hinted at being the sole sovereign above heaven and below earth, and proved that it not only wanted to patch the sky, but also to suppress the earth.
Thus, the vine root tendrils beneath the great earth also began to grow and spread rapidly, following the smell of 【Yellow Springs】, advancing swiftly toward the direction of Vajra Temple.
Seeing this scene, the ‘Buddha Corpse Ghost’ who had chosen to coldly observe the Blood Kesa and Buddha Tomato’s struggle could no longer hold back, dispersing its subordinates to attack the transformed civilians, while it strode toward the Eggplant Giant.
With every step it took, space distorted, and when its foot landed, it appeared dozens of meters away. Advancing with the divine foot power of shrinking the earth, in just two or three steps it arrived before the Eggplant Giant, its chest Dharma Palm already finished forming the seal and gathering power, blasting out a Death Qi-filled Yellow Springs Dharma Seal, only to be directly swatted away by the Eggplant Giant’s palm larger than two small buildings.
The moment the Eggplant palm touched the Buddha Corpse Ghost, it suffered intense Death Qi invasion, exploding directly, with countless bright red Tomato Juice flesh spraying and splattering in the air, covering half of Na Ye City.
The severed surface of the mutilated wrist was also wrapped and covered by Yellow Springs Buddha Rhyme, emitting sizzling sounds of flesh corrosion, refusing to heal for a long time.
Meanwhile, the swatted Buddha Corpse Ghost turned into a meteor, shooting toward the direction of Vajra Temple. It was unclear whether this was the Eggplant Giant’s unintentional act or deliberate?
But this situation clearly suited the Buddha Corpse Ghost’s ideas; Vajra Temple was its home ground.
Since it could not stop the Eggplant Giant from achieving the Dao, it would return to Vajra Temple and use the Yellow Springs Pond to confront and maneuver against it. At least form a situation of one occupying the starry sky, one occupying the Underworld, mutually confronting and dividing the Bubble World in two.
It thought well, but while the corpse body’s meteor parabolic trajectory was still in the ascending phase, the vines originally spreading and growing in the sky suddenly halted, and the vine right in the direction of Vajra Temple began madly extracting nutrients from the vines in other directions, rapidly forming a Fruit, hanging in the sky.
Not only were the vines in other directions robbed of nutrients, but even on the Eggplant Giant’s torso (right arm), one of those serene-faced human gem Red Gems suddenly withered.
Abbot Duowen opened his eyes and sighed, as if lamenting the self-sacrifice of this eggplant-headed compatriot.
In the high air, when the Buddha Corpse Ghost ascended to the highest point, the huge Tomato Fruit hanging in the air suddenly burst, from which a blood-red five-finger great seal emerged, absorbing countless Starlight, heavily descending from the sky and slamming down onto the Buddha Corpse Ghost.
Bang!
One palm exploded it mid-air, scattering it into pieces of shredded flesh, accelerating its fall toward Vajra Temple.
Countless shreds of flesh attracted and coalesced with each other during the descent. The closer they got to Vajra Temple, the more abundant Yellow Springs power they absorbed.
Before this mass of flesh foam could land in Vajra Temple, it had already drawn endless Yellow Springs Death Qi, reshaping its original human body into a Corpse Hand, confronting the descending blood-colored Buddha Palm.
At this time, a mouth cracked open in the palm of the Corpse Hand, emitting a loud laugh: “Ah hahaha… Little Duowen brat, taste my Yellow Springs Vajra Great Hand Seal!”
The crimson palm descended from the sky, growing larger and larger, its shadow shrouding Vajra Temple. The Corpse Hand showed no fear, drawing massive Yellow Springs Death Qi from the Pond and forcefully meeting it.
At this moment, Yuan Zhu, through the 【Shadow Mouse】 left in Vajra Temple, hid in a corner mouse hole, watching this showdown from a first-person perspective.
Because it too was infused with Shadow Pollution, the Mouse could even produce faint resonance with those ‘Shadow Pre-prepared Meals’, serving as Yuan Zhu’s mole left in the temple.
Thus, the secretly peeping Mouse noticed that one or two ‘Shadow Pre-prepared Embryos’ were dragged into the sky amid the Corpse Hand’s frenzied absorption, turning into nourishment to feed the Yellow Springs Corpse Hand, clashing against the Star Buddha Tomato Palm in the sky.
“Eh?” A puzzled voice rang out in the air.
At the Mouse’s unseen palm center position, a mole-sized ink spot suddenly appeared, disrupting the Corpse Hand Dharma Palm’s original Death Qi circulation, creating a flaw.
“Who is it!?”
An angry shout rang out from the Corpse Hand’s palm center, followed by a ‘Ptoo!’ as another Shadow Embryo was spat out by the mouth, smashing straight toward the blood-red Buddha Hand.
“Damn it…”
Before it could finish cursing, the Corpse Hand collided with the Eggplant Palm dozens of times its size in mid-air.
Splatter! Splatter!! Splatter!!!
The blood-red Tomato Giant Hand was exploded mid-air, spraying out massive Tomato Flesh Juice like a torrential downpour, covering and flooding Vajra Temple. This dilapidated temple was instantly dyed red with bloody Tomato Juice, emitting a rich fruit and vegetable freshness, brimming with vitality for the moment.
At this time, a second red Buddha Hand condensed in the sky, growing and developing, then falling.
The Abbot Duowen sitting cross-legged on the ground sighed again and closed his eyes.
Just as the Corpse Hand organized its second counterattack, it hastily collided mid-air again, exploding the second blood-red Buddha Hand.
Another wave of Tomato Juice blood sea poured down from the sky, splashing onto every inch of land in Vajra Temple. Massive viscous flesh Tomato Juice flowed into the Pond, beginning to pollute the Yellow Springs Death Qi with vitality.
“Damn! Damn it, ptoo ptoo ptoo!”
The more Death Qi the Corpse Hand absorbed, the more off it felt; all sorts of strange pollutions were drawn up from the Pond—mouse flavor, Candle flavor, wild boar, crow… all unfamiliar pollutions it had never encountered in its life. Extremely foul tastes, extremely poor quality, all fermented and polluted by a petroleum-like black mucus, churning the pure Yellow Springs Death Qi into a mess.
Now, the Yellow Springs Death Qi it drew was tainted with even richer Tomato-flavored Vitality, and that vibrant life force was mixed with Deadly Poison stench (Filthy Blood). It was going mad!
When the Corpse Hand still attempted to organize a third counterattack, the third blood-red Buddha Hand smashed down from the sky. This time, before it could explode it mid-air, it was first suppressed in Vajra Temple by the crimson Buddha Hand.
Boom!
The giant hand successfully landed, one palm exploding the tallest Buddha Hall golden roof of Vajra Temple, then the Buddha Palm turning into claws, covering and grasping the entire temple, releasing infinite vitality.
Dense vines sprouted from the ground, bathed in Tomato Buddha Juice and growing wildly, quickly intertwining and weaving into a massive green bird’s nest, upside down over Vajra Temple, cooperating with the Buddha Palm to firmly enclose the temple.
At this time, the vine hanging above Vajra Temple began to droop downward and grow, ultimately connecting with the severed surface at the Buddha Palm’s wrist, receiving continuous Starlight replenishment from the sky, injecting it into the green bird’s nest Cage below, beginning to suppress Vajra Temple’s Yellow Springs Death Qi.
Not only that, the countless green vines on the ground also began spreading root tendrils underground, cooperating with the green prison on the surface to weave another root tendril prison, firmly wrapping Vajra Temple.
Soon, Yuan Zhu and the Mouse’s signal connection was cut off.
In the instant before the signal disconnected, he perceived that the entire Vajra Temple, along with the Yellow Springs Pond, had been sealed and locked by the Eggplant Giant’s vines and root tendrils, completely blocking this spring eye.
No!
The Eggplant did not block 【Yellow Springs】, but sealed Vajra Temple. When the ‘Death Qi’ inside Vajra Temple accumulated to a certain limit and balanced with the spring eye’s Pressure, Yellow Springs would no longer pour Death Qi into the Bubble World, equivalent to closing this spring eye.
But Yuan Zhu, who had already fled far away, had a different opinion.
The Bubble World’s ‘Yellow Springs Invasion’ was theoretically blocked, but he had personally surveyed Vajra Temple on-site and knew that the ‘Yellow Springs Pond’ had mild leakage into the Shadow Dimension.
Originally, Yellow Springs Death Qi gathered in Vajra Temple, enjoyed by the Corpse Ghosts, while dissipating in the Bubble World to revive Undead… only a small amount of Yellow Springs water would seep into the Shadow World, causing slow transformation.
But now, the Eggplant Giant suppressed the Corpse Ghosts, leaving Vajra Temple empty of ghosts. With the entire temple sealed, the excess accumulated Death Qi had nowhere to go and could only severely seep into the Shadow World, nourishing those Corpse Ghosts he had exiled into the Shadow Dimension, as well as the Pre-prepared Meals that hadn’t been wiped out.
It was imaginable that before the future ‘Shadow Yellow Springs Dimension’ was exposed, this place would become a paradise for Corpse Ghosts and Pre-prepared Meals. Without Vajra Temple’s Yellow Springs Buddha Rhyme to guide them, they could only accept dual pollution from ‘Yellow Springs’ and ‘Shadow’, developing freely by instinct…
Even the Shadow World itself would merge with 【Yellow Springs】, twisting and fusing into a brand new ‘Underworld affiliated layer’, adding bricks and tiles to the Bubble World until one day discovered by the Eggplant Giant.
By then, Yellow Springs power would have deeply polluted and transformed the Shadow Dimension, becoming part of the Bubble World. What could it do? Only continue to seal it…
“Tsk! Suddenly feel like this Bubble World has become worth looking forward to.”
If there was a chance, he wanted to return in the future to see how deliciously his ‘freed-range Pre-prepared Meals’ could grow, or to what disgusting extent they became inedible?
“Boss, did we do something particularly amazing? Pre-planning and setting the Bubble World’s future ‘Yellow Springs Underworld’ aesthetic and main species?”
“Uh… maybe? Let’s go, grab a few small Buddha Tomatoes to make into Pre-prepared Meals!”
