Since Xuanzang had told him to try his strength, this Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was probably one of the strongest beings around, and there was a chance that Wu Yu would not win.

Wu Yu did not seek to win here either. As long as he could fight him to a standstill, that would be a sufficient accomplishment for Wu Yu already.

With the Ruyi Jingu Bang in hand, he summoned a golden light around his body. Lawful Embodiment of Heaven and Earth!

Growing to his maximum size, he faced his opponent at his physical peak.

"A mere junior? Challenging me?!" The black immortal buddha of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva showed disdain.

Seeing Wu Yu grow to the size of a lesser realm, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva snorted in contempt. His own black buddha world began to move.

Black mist swirling around it, it shook the entirety of Afterlife Hell!

The black buddha world opened its eyes.

In those eyes, there was Hell and death. Wu Yu felt a chill run down his spine, and his body began to shiver uncontrollably!

It was not because of fear, but because the temperature had suddenly dropped to an extreme.

He expanded the nimbus of golden light around his body. It strained ineffectively against the icy aura attack.

It was not just a pure cold that permeated the air, but one laced with the aura of death. Wu Yu felt the curse of rot eating away at him.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had not even attacked yet. Just the explosion of his aura alone was enough to make Wu Yu cringe from the pressure.

Wu Yu knew that he had to bring forth all he had, or he might not be able to withstand even a single attack from Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

"P... Pillar of the Skies!"

Wu Yu roared, sputtering and struggling. A strong golden light surrounded the Ruyi Jingu Bang!

He also used Violent Art to bring his staff to an even greater height.

Unless Wu Yu decided to immolate his apotheosis immortal energy, this was already his strongest attack. Not even Grand Supreme Elderly Lord could stand against it.

Alas, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was a force to be reckoned with in two worlds!

A hint of mockery played in his eyes as he watched the Jingu Bang swing towards him.

Another gust of cold air from his black buddha world.

"Ksitigarbha Polar Cyclic Seal!"

A huge bodhic seal appeared at his cry, forming before his black buddha world.

Wu Yu batted away desperately at it with his Ruyi Jingu Bang, but felt his defenses swallowed up and completely ignored.

The black palm print glowed with black light. It came crushing down on the Ruyi Jingu Bang, which moaned in misery!

Wu Yu could feel that the Ruyi Jingu Bang had been plunged into the deepest of hells. Seized up and frozen over by the icy energy, the Jingu Bang's golden light had been completely stifled.

His Pillar of the Skies and Violent Art had been completely shut down!

Enclosed by the extreme cold, Wu Yu could feel the Ruyi Jingu Bang being jerked out of his hand, and it penetrated deep into his bones.

"So strong!"

Wu Yu felt a mixture of shock and despair at being crushed so thoroughly!

He had thought that his consecutive breakthroughs would enable him to fight much better, but he had been unable to even take a single hit.

Therefore, if Wu Yu faced the Jade Emperor or Xuanzang, he stood zero chance of winning.

However, at the same time that Ksitigarbha Polar Cyclic Seal smashed him, Xuanzang intervened.

He and Wu Yu had come to take down the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Of course he would not sit idly by and watch Wu Yu get destroyed.

Golden light showered down, bathing all that Wu Yu could see.

The golden light froze the entire field!

In the next instant, Wu Yu felt that Ksitigarbha Polar Cyclic Seal had been nullified.

At the same time, the golden light expanded, reaching out to the corners of Afterlife Hell, displacing all of the black mists!

"Ah!"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva screwed his eyes shut, blinded. The pain seemed to ripple throughout his whole body.

However, he was not that easily beaten.

As the second most powerful tier of being in two worlds, he would not be so easily taken in, even by Xuanzang. Especially since Xuanzang's nine golden buddha worlds had been left behind in Heavenly Buddha's Domain.

He started to send forth more black mist from his black buddha world.

The black mist started to spread, fighting against Xuanzang's golden light!

Wu Yu closed his eyes shut. He found himself unable to even look.

Whether Xuanzang's golden light or the ghastly black mist of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, they all exuded pressure enough to break one's soul.

If these two powers were targeted at him, he would probably be dead hundreds of times over. There was no chance to survive this at all.

Only now did Wu Yu keenly feel Xuanzang's skill. Even so, he knew this was not his full strength.

"He's so strong...... If I want to kill the Jade Emperor and take revenge for the Demon Immortal Realm and the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal, then I still need to cultivate for a very long time!"

Wu Yu gritted his teeth and forced his eyes open. He saw that Afterlife Hell was being reduced to rubble around them.

However, it was clear that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was slowly but steadily losing. The golden buddha light was spreading, gradually pinning in Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

"Majestic buddha technique, Golden Scripture Ultimate Seal!"

Xuanzang chanted, his incantations summoning a golden scripture seal in midair.

The golden scripture seal flew out towards Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, whose expression turned to one of terror!

He could feel tha the Golden Scripture Ultimate Seal was beyond what he could handle. He suddenly felt the threat of death looming!