The four great masters of Buddhism and Daoism simultaneously struck, blasting the monsters into pieces, shattering them to smithereens.
However, even though these beings were shattered, they did not die.
Those that were not destroyed immediately opened their massive jaws and began to devour everything in a frenzy.
All forty-eight creatures carried the will and memory of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader, effectively serving as his incarnations. For a thousand years, he propagated through reproduction and splitting, fusing through mutual consumption—over and over!
His overall strength continuously grew and underwent qualitative changes in these cycles of splitting and merging because, during the process, Grandmaster Ha Ha also invested a great deal of resources.
If these forty-eight were to recombine into one, upon the final revival of the Sky Lusting Sect Leader, he would be many times stronger than when he first began a millennium ago!
