"If there’s truly Seventeen Stances, then this blade, used by Zhou Housheng to cut down the Dun Jia Supreme, isn’t it a bit of a waste?"

The incense fire Taoist felt a bit regretful, lamenting that this "Seventeen Stances" blade, upon its emergence, could only sever the Dun Jia Supreme...

"A famous blade deserves to behead a famous person."

"Hey, Old Incense, I feel you’re pretty famous yourself. How about this, I’ll borrow the blade from Zhou Xuan and let him cut you down with it?"

"Crow’s mouth, talking nonsense." The incense fire Taoist felt rather offended...

...

Mingjiang Prefecture, Xie Family’s Cave, Battlefield Stage.

After Zhou Xuan emerged from the Secret Realm, he only saw Shocking Heavenly King from the Buddha Country’s Four Stances, already headless and divided.

His body, shattered into pieces, scattered all over.

However, Zhou Xuan noticed that the fragments of Shocking Heavenly King’s body had no sense of flesh and blood but were like piece after piece of... stone.

"What’s going on here?"

Earlier, inside the Secret Realm, Zhou Xuan, along with the Engineer and Miss Qiang, was studying how to reach the realm of "Human World Drama God" and couldn’t quite grasp the situation on the stage.

But he also didn’t want to loudly inquire, to avoid raising the incense fire Taoist’s suspicions.

Fortunately, Li Changxun was excessively gossipy, practically a big mouth, chatting with Yun Ziliang about what had just happened.

"These Buddha Country people have so many ghostly tricks. To avoid having their incense fire reduced, they actually took the initiative to cut down Shocking Heavenly King."

"They probably know each other well, knowing their incense fire level is slightly inferior to those Dun Jia Supremes... those Supremes, after having their incense fire shorn, nearly fell below the nine Incense level,

so if the four Buddha Country people got shorn, they’d definitely drop to eight Incense.

Eight Incense Buddha Country people fighting against Xuanzi would be like chopping vegetables."

Yun Ziliang saw through the Medicine Buddha’s intentions and summarized to Li Changxun, "Sacrificing one person to preserve the combat power of three is a worthwhile deal for the Buddha Country people."

The incense fire Taoist echoed their sentiments, "These Buddha Country folks possess both an iron-blooded sense and understand the rationale of severing an arm to save the body. Their years of dominating the starry sky indeed have traces to follow."

Li Changxun scratched his head, feeling that today the incense fire Taoist seemed a bit off—after all, this is the Incense Fire Taoist God, how did he become a lickspittle of the Buddha Country today, leaving an opening embracing their praise.

However, due to the incense fire Taoist’s status, Li Changxun dared not speak directly about it.

At this moment, Zhou Xuan stood silently by, catching up on the "plot" he missed as Li Changxun and Yun Ziliang exchanged words.

"Oh, losing the support of the audience in the stage leads to a reduction in some incense fires, so the Buddha Country Four Stances, to avoid the loss of incense fire, forcibly cut down Shocking Heavenly King, using his corpse to block the entirety of the incense fire reduction."

Now, Zhou Xuan understood why Shocking Heavenly King’s remaining pieces had turned to stone.

The incense fire energy within his body was completely absorbed by the stage, leaving no spiritual energy, thus, the remnants became like dead stone. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"The third rule is about to begin."

Zhou Xuan murmured to himself.

Within the stage, he had set three rules.

The first rule forced severe attrition on the Tunnel Armor Sect and Buddha Country’s Five Stances.

The second rule reduced the strength of the four Dun Jia Supremes, while further reducing Buddha Country’s Five Stances.

"But my third rule is different; it won’t weaken your strength but will enhance your cultivation."

Zhou Xuan thought with a smile...