Chapter 988: Chapter 986: The First Tribulation of All Heavens 3

Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

The Dream-Making Expert

The Supreme Tathagata's massive hand, which had been gripping Lin Qi, suddenly trembled.

Then even the Supreme Tathagata's true body visibly shook.

Immediately after, a world-shaking roar burst forth from the Supreme Tathagata's mouth, like a supernova exploding.

In an instant, it ignited the Saha Macrocosm beneath his feet, which had already been torn apart.

"Fire Cloud, you're courting death!"

The Supreme Tathagata roared, his fury igniting the void, murderous and decisive.

He was about to crush Lin Qi to death on the spot.

But in the next instant.

One after another, figures even greater than the Cosmos descended in unison — overwhelming, magnificent, their willpower astonishing the heavens.

With an irresistible posture, they all struck at once.

They forcibly rescued Lin Qi from the deterrence of the Buddhist order's eight Supreme true bodies.

Then pairs of cold, merciless gazes fell upon Lin Qi.

Just a gaze alone, yet it seemed as though it could utterly annihilate Lin Qi into ash.

Just one collective stare.

Lin Qi coughed up blood violently, suffering an unprecedented heavy injury.

The heaviest injury he had suffered since beginning his cultivation.

A hair's breadth. Truly just a hair's breadth.

Lin Qi felt he would die under the gazes of the Supremes.

With only the final sliver of his life remaining, he was finally sent away by the Supremes.

And the next second.

An unbelievable war — a war where one Supreme true body after another entered the field — erupted in an instant.

No questions. No words.

Only killing moves hurled wildly at each other, an unspoken understanding between them.

The Cosmos shattered, war ignited across the Starry Sky.

The flames of war from the battle of the Supreme true bodies instantly ignited the entire Boundary-Wall Void Sea.

Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, it swept through the various Cosmos of the Myriad Realms.

This war had been started by Lin Qi's desperate scheme.

And it finally erupted as a joint siege against the Buddhist order's eight Supremes, launched by the four Great Supreme Forces.

No — it wasn't just all the Supremes of the Divine, Demon, Spirit, and Dao four Great Supreme Forces taking the field in person.

There was also the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm.

And the Heavenly Demon Fire Cloud.

Especially the move of the Heavenly Demon Fire Cloud.

This first Heavenly Demon of the Myriad Realms, born of circumstance, seemingly with little presence, not accepted by the Supremes or the Heavenly Immortals.

At this moment, he became the true fuse of this supreme war.

It could be said that Fire Cloud was the true key that made this war, triggered by Lin Qi, ultimately cause the Divine, Spirit, Demon, and Dao to resolutely tear up the Covenant and join forces to besiege the Buddhist order.

Because this fellow had launched a sneak attack on the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm where the Supreme Tathagata resided.

With supreme power, he had without scruple torn apart the cosmic boundary wall of the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm, firing the first shot in the annihilation of the Buddhist order.

Thus becoming the last straw that crushed the Buddhist order.

And it was precisely because the Heavenly Demon Fire Cloud took the lead in the charge, firing the first shot.

That made the other four Great Factions' Supremes immediately realize a supreme war could not be avoided.

And that joining forces to besiege the Buddhist order would yield the greatest benefits.

Because the Supremes of the Myriad Realms were essentially equivalent to nuclear weapons.

So none of the Supremes truly wanted to enter the field and fight.

But once someone truly entered the field and struck.

Then the other Supremes had no choice but to move as well.

And since they had no choice but to enter the field and fight.

Then, weighing the pros and cons, joining forces to annihilate the Buddhist order and divide up the power vacuum left behind after the Buddhist order's destruction —

Naturally was the choice that maximized benefits.

At the end of the day.

No matter how unexpected Lin Qi's scheme was, no matter how exquisite and tempting his borrowing of momentum and provocation.

Ultimately, it still required an existence truly at the same realm and status as the Supremes to take the lead, to fire the first shot.

Otherwise.

Even if they knew all too well the benefits that would come from annihilating the Buddhist order.

They would likewise weigh the pros and cons, consider the casualties in war, consider the damage to their original alliance's fighting strength after annihilating the Buddhist order.

Thus they would prefer to choose stability, keeping the entire tide of events firmly in their grasp.

After all, the advantage had always been theirs. Naturally, they would not want to casually cut off one of their own arms.

So if one wanted them to truly kick a man when he was down.

The prerequisite was, in the end, to first make the Buddhist order fall into the well.

The Sixth Precept, descended in the name of the Demon Buddha, had indeed severed all future possibilities for the Buddhist order in the new world.

But in the end, there was no way to truly affect or weaken the Buddhist order's present power.

Even though Lin Qi had already made the Peerless Young Master and the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor cooperate.

In the past and the present, sending troops to Spirit Mountain.

But in the end, no true Supreme Heavenly Immortal had taken action.

The Supreme Heavenly Immortals could not easily take action either.

Because for the Five Supreme Forces, the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm would always be the enemy that needed to be resisted and guarded against first and foremost.

So if the Supreme Heavenly Immortals truly cooperated with Lin Qi to strike at the Supreme Tathagata within the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm in the past and present.

Then instead, it would stir up the Five Supreme Forces' shared hatred of the enemy, thereby consolidating their alliance.

Fortunately, Fire Cloud, this Heavenly Demon, had taken action, and became the last straw that crushed the Buddhist order.

Lin Qi did not know why Fire Cloud had taken action, and headed straight for the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm, launching a sneak attack on the Supreme Tathagata.

But clearly, this time Fire Cloud had done him a great favor.

Even if Fire Cloud was only trying to snatch a cheap profit.

Even if Fire Cloud had perhaps already chosen to grab a haul and run.

But it did not matter anymore.

What mattered was Fire Cloud's move.

It made all the Supremes realize that right now, this moment, was indeed the best opportunity to annihilate the Buddhist order.

No Supreme could stay out of it.

No Supreme could profit as the fisherman.

Thus, a tacit understanding was naturally reached.

All the Supreme true bodies of the Divine, Demon, Spirit, and Dao four Great Supreme Forces took the field, besieging the Buddhist order's eight Supremes in the present.

And the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm also decisively acted in the past: Supreme Heavenly Immortals descended upon the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm, beginning to besiege the past body of the Supreme Tathagata.

And thereby drew out the past bodies of the Buddhist order's other seven Supremes.

Past and present.

Simultaneously targeting the Buddhist order — a supreme war truly sufficient to exterminate the Buddhist order had thus begun.

The Buddhist order's eight Supremes said nothing, no anger, no questions.

Because what the Supremes thought, the Supremes themselves knew.

So there was nothing left to say.

Because if the positions were reversed, if it were them —

They too would seize this opportunity, striking without a shred of hesitation.

The Myriad Realms' Supreme seats were, in the end, still too many.

The new world after the Great Destruction perhaps truly could accommodate them all.

But if a few competitors could be fewer, why not.

Only, they were unwilling to accept it.

That damned Heaven-Abandoning Emperor, daring to scheme against Supremes with the body of an ant.

And even more damned Fire Cloud.

"Tathagata, find them, kill them!"

A long cry.

A Buddhist order Supreme roared in fury.

The Supreme Tathagata's face was expressionless, his body transforming into billions.

An avatar rose from a single thought above the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm, killing intent surging to the heavens, locking onto Fire Cloud, that Heavenly Demon.

At the same time, another avatar traced the trail, pursuing Lin Qi, who had been sent away by the Supremes.

The remaining billions of avatars followed the River of Time of the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm, scattering across all ages.

Within the River of Time — fight! Fight! Fight!

The other seven Buddhist order Supremes were the same, their bodies transforming across all ages, with supreme and unsurpassed bodies, battling in the depths of the River of Time.

In the past and the present, meeting the Supremes of All Heavens in battle.

What tribulation of rise and fall the Buddhist order would face under the legendary Great Destruction —

Now it could no longer be known.

But the Myriad Realms ought to know.

Today's Buddhist order Great Calamity was the Myriad Realms' first calamity under the Great Destruction!