"Great! The Dragon Master is saved..."

"But, it's just three minutes short. Is Dragon Master's sacrifice in vain?"

San Liu and Yu Shenfeng watched as Mu Jinyu was about to have his soul scattered, but Yin Li intervened in time, extracting his soul from the Buddhist Bell and returning it to his body.

Their tense heartstrings instantly relaxed.

They let out a long sigh of relief.

But soon after, realizing that only three minutes were left for everyone worldwide to complete a grand circulation of the Demon Breaking Technique with the bell's sound, and now without Mu Jinyu's soul guarding the bell, the Buddhist Bell was about to shatter, their hearts tensed up again, filled with a chill of despair and hopelessness.

Only three minutes left!

But they had no way to remedy it, having to watch the Buddhist Bell shatter, burying billions of people worldwide along with it. They were truly unwilling!

At that moment, they heard Sheng Rulai sigh lightly, his soul leaving his body and rushing onto the shattered Evil Buddha's Ancient Bell!

Causing the bell, which was continuously destroying its cracked fragments, to stop its self-destructive frenzy once again!

"Master!"

"Buddha Head!!"

"Buddha Head!"

Everyone present was stunned upon seeing this scene, immediately shouting out cries of sorrow.

With Mu Jinyu's strength, along with that special divine plant, he only managed to hold on for about eight minutes. Sheng Rulai was far weaker than Mu Jinyu and had no divine root to protect himself. Could he hold out for three minutes?

Afraid he might not even last a minute!

It was completely an act of moths flying into the flame!

Everyone's eyes brimmed with tears again, feeling moved, despair, unwillingness, and sorrow...

Even Mu Shao'ai hesitated, wanting to stop pushing the Buddhist Bell.

However, Yin Li calmly reminded him through transmission, "Don't let your efforts go to waste, keep going, old man."

"Sigh..." Mu Shao'ai, upon hearing this, could only grit his teeth and continue activating the Evil Buddha's Damaged Bell, letting its deafening bell sound resound powerfully across the world.

In truth, at this moment, he wished he could replace Sheng Rulai, protecting the bell with his soul!

With his Void Breaking Realm strength, he could easily last the final three minutes!

But unfortunately, if he went, those present in the Fanxu Realm wouldn't be able to drive the bell sound across the world, and more than half the people might die!

Thus, he could only helplessly watch Mu Jinyu and Sheng Rulai successively make such sacrifices while he, with the highest cultivation level present, remained a bystander.

Helpless indeed!

"Buddha Head!!"

"Master!"

In the radiating Buddha's Light, Sheng Rulai's disciple, Arhat, saw Sheng Rulai's soul leaving his body, leaping into the teetering Damaged Bell, and let out a mournful cry.

If possible, he truly wanted to replace his Master and bear all this.

In the scene, Sheng Rulai's soul entered the Evil Buddha's Ancient Bell, sitting cross-legged with a serene and calm expression. The faint Damaged Bell outside his body, upon receiving his Buddha Power, emitted a dim golden light, making him appear as if he were cultivating the Golden Bell Cover.

"Dong!!"

"Dong!!"

The bell sound rang continuously, resonating through the ages, powerfully across the world. The terrifying, purifying bell sound was unbearable even for Mu Jinyu, his face contorted in pain, but Sheng Rulai endured it all, his expression serene and calm, even wearing a hint of a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

Like the Tathagata smiling while holding a flower.

Fire engulfing the body, tortured by a thousand cuts, yet the world's harshest punishments seemed to have no effect on Sheng Rulai.

He could easily bear all of this.

This was why Yin Li eventually chose him.

Sheng Rulai sat cross-legged within the Damaged Bell. Although he heard the mournful cries of disciples and monks outside, he felt nothing. He sensed his soul cracking with each bell's toll, suffering soul injuries that were continuously splitting.

Perhaps he couldn't even last three minutes?

But at this moment, Sheng Rulai didn't think too much about it; he had already done his best...

He didn't want to think about so many burdens before dying...

Various fragmented memories continuously appeared in Sheng Rulai's mind. Some were memories he couldn't forget until death, some were deeply buried memories he dared not think about, and some were memories he had long forgotten but inexplicably resurfaced...

"Mother, father!"

In that memory, a ragged-clothed child stumbled toward a bleeding village, tripping on stones several times but still crying and getting up, passing over scattered corpses, and finally opening the door of a small wooden house.

He gazed at the three corpses inside, an elderly couple, and a two-year-old girl's body. The boy's pupils shrank sharply, feeling the world spinning, and he blacked out!

When he awoke, he had been discovered and adopted by an old monk passing by...

Then he embraced the Buddhist sect!

"Mother, father... little sister..."

Sheng Rulai's soul trembled, softly murmuring.

The scene shifted.

Sheng Rulai cultivated successfully but couldn't let go of his parents' and sister's revenge, ultimately descending the mountain and finding his old enemies, killing them ruthlessly!

But the sins he committed, due to his cultivation technique, led to the loss of his Buddha Yuan, and he was almost transformed into a devil, engulfed in demonic qi!

Eventually, his sins and madness were discovered by his sect, and the elders wanted to capture him, but his master, the kind-looking old monk, came in time to save him, expending his Life Origin to cleanse him of all sins and demonic qi, restoring him to his original form.

What his master said back then, he couldn't remember clearly, but he recalled the message: Not to give up on himself and to restore their monastery...

So he continued to advance step by step, from a little monk to ultimately blessed by Buddha's Light, becoming the Head of Ten Thousand Buddhas!

Changing his name to Sheng Rulai!

Various memories flooded in, Sheng Rulai smilingly sensed his soul continuously collapsing and shattering, unable to hear any of the cries or bell sounds around...

"Mother, father... little sister... Master... I'm coming to see you all..."

Sheng Rulai softly murmured, and as his vision went dark, he lost consciousness!

To everyone in the hall, Sheng Rulai's soul, sitting cross-legged in the shattered ancient bell, suddenly cracked like broken glass, and then burst into a scattering of resplendent golden light!

"Buddha Head!!"

"Master!!"

Everyone present couldn't help but let out a heart-wrenching cry!

Even the rebellious Peacock Great Ming King, at this moment, watched the scene with a complex expression, tears unwillingly rolling down his cheeks.

"Devil, demon, beastly monk, every word and phrase Sheng Rulai..."

Sheng Rulai's last words before departing seemed to softly resonate in their ears.

"Ha!"

Yin Li watched this scene with a solemn expression, continuously raising her small claws to catch the scattered golden light of Sheng Rulai's shattered soul, placing it back into the seemingly lifeless shell of Sheng Rulai.

She lowly uttered in her heart, "Bald monk, I hope you can survive..."

"Dong!!!"

The Evil Buddha's Ancient Bell let out one final mournful boom, resonating globally, and then shattered with a loud crash!

At this moment, everyone worldwide involuntarily mesmerized by the bell sound and practicing the Demon Breaking Technique opened their mouths in unison, exhaling a long breath of black demonic qi, completing a major heavenly circuit of the technique with no more life-threatening concerns!

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