Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

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The Tathagata Buddha let out a surprised "eh" as his Golden Buddha Hand was blasted away. This was his ultimate move, the Tathagata Palm, which had always been unbeatable, comparable to a divine weapon, but it was deflected by a demon monkey whose cultivation was only at the level of a Daluo Golden Immortal!

Wait! A demon monkey with such combat power was very rare, he hadn't been able to deduce the name and origin of this demon monkey just now. Could it be that it was the Beautiful Monkey King, Sun Wukong?

With this thought, the Tathagata Buddha's eyebrows suddenly knitted together. He unleashed another Tathagata Palm towards the direction where Sun Wukong was fleeing, but it was blocked by one of Wukong's clones.

"Heaven-Breaking Eighteen Rods!"

The Heaven-Breaking Eighteen Rods, several times more powerful than the Heaven-Breaking Thirty-Six Sticks, roared out. Sun Wukong's clone held nothing back, pouring all of its Chaos Primordial Force into the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod, forming a rod shadow that seemed tangible, with Taoist seals winding around it.

The shadow struck the Buddha's golden palm, resulting in a thunderous explosion that echoed across the summit of Spiritual Mountain. The Tathagata Palm and the rod shadow dissipated simultaneously, and with the disappearance of Wukong's clone, the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod made a turn and flew straight towards the horizon.

The Tathagata Buddha tried to intercept it but was too late, and he watched it disappear at the end of heaven and earth.

"What a monkey, Sun Wukong! Even mastered cloning divine powers! Seeing this, this demon monkey seems indeed more suited to fulfill the grand plan than the Six-Eared Macaque..."

The Tathagata Buddha's gaze pierced through the walls of the Great Thunder Sound Temple and looked far away in the direction where Sun Wukong had vanished, a meaningful gleam flashing in his eyes.

Whoosh!

A hundred miles away from Spiritual Mountain, Sun Wukong stopped in his tracks. Moments later, a golden light flew from behind him, quickly shrinking and entering his ear, following his meridians to nestle in his dantian; it was the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod.

After absorbing the stems of the thirty-six-grade Pure World Green Lotus, the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod had been elevated to the rank of a superior grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. Moreover, having nurtured it within his body for so many years, it had already become attuned to Sun Wukong's intentions, and no one else could possibly control it.

Regardless of the distance, the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod would always autonomously return to Sun Wukong's side.

"The old Tathagata is indeed formidable! The strength of the Heavenly Dao Saint is not something I can contend with at the moment!"

With a muffled grunt, Sun Wukong reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes shining with a cold light. The clone created by his cloning divine powers had unleashed strength beyond its limit and clashed against the Tathagata Buddha's Tathagata Palm.

Although it had managed to disperse the Tathagata Palm, the clone was extinguished due to the backlash of the ultimate move and the impact. The destruction of a clone caused no small damage to Wukong's original body.

Had it not been for his body beginning to transform into a Chaotic Divine Body, which granted him far superior endurance and recovery abilities compared to ordinary people, it would have been more than just spitting blood.

Promoting his Chaos Primordial Force to heal his injuries, Sun Wukong continued flying towards Flower-Fruit Mountain without stopping. He wondered if Leng Xuan and the others could hold off Ran Deng Buddha; he hoped they could hold on until he arrived back!

In the sky above Flower-Fruit Mountain.

In the end, Leng Xuan and the others were no match for Ran Deng Buddha's Dharma Body's Golden Giant Palm. Despite their combined attack, it was scattered by the Qiankun Ruler imbued with the power of the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds.

They were sent flying out, vomiting blood and crashing to the ground, barely managing to stand up once more, though devoid of any strength, not even able to summon their clouds.

Among them, only Leng Xuan and Luo Bai still had the strength to fight. Luo Bai was less injured than the others due to the protection of the Purple Lightning Blue Glint Sword, while Leng Xuan relied on the protective formations. Together, they managed to laboriously hold off Ran Deng Buddha, though their injuries worsened bit by bit during the combat.

Finally, as the Qiankun Ruler from Ran Deng Buddha swept over them once more, Leng Xuan and Luo Bai were sent flying, vomiting blood as they fell from mid-air, their faces deathly pale. They had no more strength to fight. They exchanged glances, both seeing despair and unwillingness in the other's eyes.

The absolute gap between their levels of cultivation could not be bridged by numbers; they had done their best!

But still, they were not reconciled!

"Brother Monkey, I can't fulfill my promise. I can't hold Flower-Fruit Mountain..."

To change fate is, after all, just a delusion..."

With a bitter smile, Luo Bai and Leng Xuan closed their eyes. Above the sky, Ran Deng Buddha's face showed a ferocious cold smile; joining his hands in a seal, he lifted the Qiankun Ruler high. Enhanced by the force of the Twenty-Four Heavens, he wielded it in his Dharma Body's hands and furiously brought it down towards Flower-Fruit Mountain.

"Bald donkey, don't you dare hurt my brothers!"

Just as the Qiankun Ruler was about to smash down on Leng Xuan and the others, and obliterate them along with Flower-Fruit Mountain, suddenly a golden staff shot from the horizon like a meteor, accompanied by a thunderous roar. It struck the Qiankun Ruler fiercely, deflecting it and pulverizing an adjacent mountain peak of Flower-Fruit Mountain.

Following the golden staff, a figure enveloped in golden light emerged. As the light dissipated, Sun Wukong, majestic in his Ruyi Battle Armor, stood in midair in front of Leng Xuan and the others, firmly holding the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod behind them. His red cloak billowed behind him, radiating an aura of authority!

"It's Brother Monkey!"

"Big brother!"

"Am I seeing things? Wasn't the Great King taken into the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds? How could he have raced over from the horizon?"

Luo Bai, Leng Xuan, and Jiao Demon King, along with the rest of the Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Race, all widened their eyes in disbelief as they looked at the majestic figure standing proudly in mid-air. Just when they had completely given up hope, Sun Wukong unexpectedly arrived back on the battlefield and blocked the fatal strike from Ran Deng Buddha!

It was a critical moment, simply inconceivable!

Not just the members of the Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Race, even the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals of the Heavenly Court were dumbfounded. Just as the leaders of the Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Race were about to be captured, Sun Wukong reappeared! This was just too absurd!

"Demon Monkey, it's you? This is impossible!"

Among them all, the most shocked was Ran Deng Buddha. Sun Wukong was personally taken by him into the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds. Although it was mainly because Sun Wukong himself wanted to rush in, the fact that he was taken into the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds was beyond doubt. How did he come out?

"Qiankun Bag, open!"

Pulling out the replica of the Qiankun Bag, Sun Wukong released Nezha from inside. He nodded toward Leng Xuan and the others, tossing a bottle of Healing Immortal Pill to Nezha, "Leng Xuan and the rest are seriously injured. Nezha, take care of them, take them into the Water Curtain Cave Heaven to recover and don't let them get implicated! This bald thief, I, Old Sun, will deal with him!"

"Wukong, be careful!"

Nezha nodded, not saying much, and with a wave of his hand, several strands of invisible force lifted Leng Xuan, Luo Bai, and the others, flying towards the Water Curtain Cave Heaven.

"It's Nezha! He's come out too!"

Nezha's appearance caused Ran Deng Buddha's pupils to abruptly contract. He finally understood Sun Wukong's intentions – his rushing into the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds was to rescue Nezha!

Ran Deng Buddha had sensed both Sun Wukong's and Nezha's presence disappearing from the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds and thought they had been done in by the creatures that contained the worlds' forces, but they had actually come out!

But where exactly did they break free from the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds? Besides Ran Deng Buddha, the owner of the Sea-Calming Pearl, who can use the power of the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds and open its pathways anywhere, it seems that only within the Great Thunder Sound Temple of Western Heaven Spiritual Mountain is there a space node for Buddhist Sect disciples to enter for cultivation.

Could it be that Sun Wukong and Nezha escaped from that space node of the Great Thunder Sound Temple?

Yes! It must be so! Other than this, Ran Deng Buddha truly couldn't think of any other way they could have escaped from the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds without his notice.

"That Demon Monkey has some nerve! To actually dare to break into the Great Thunder Sound Temple!"

Ran Deng Buddha's brows furrowed, and the smug look on his face had long since vanished without a trace following Sun Wukong's reappearance.

The Great Thunder Sound Temple, what place is that? It is the gate of the Western Heavenly Buddhist Sect, the Ancestral Buddha's place of Dao, where the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the entire Western Heavenly Buddhist Sect discuss the Dharma and debate in suitable Treasure Halls. It's not somewhere just anyone can enter or leave as they wish!

But now the fact remains that Sun Wukong and Nezha apparently left the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds from the space node of Western Heaven Spiritual Mountain's Great Thunder Sound Temple. Moreover, they managed to escape beneath the watchful eyes of the Buddhist Sect's masters, especially the Tathagata Buddha, and rushed back to Flower-Fruit Mountain.

His figure stood so arrogantly in mid-air, with the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod in his hand pointing at him from a distance, Ran Deng Buddha could do nothing but accept it, though he didn't want to believe it.

"Humph, it must have been pure luck that he wasn't discovered. Otherwise, how could a mere Demon Monkey escape from Spiritual Mountain!"

After a cold snort, a trace of cold fierceness flashed in Ran Deng Buddha's eyes. He did not believe that Sun Wukong could have escaped from the Great Thunder Sound Temple if he were discovered; after all, the Tathagata Buddha and the host of the Buddhist Sect's masters are not for show!

"Stinking bald donkey, you dared to hurt my brothers and subordinates, I, Old Sun, definitely won't let you off easily today!"

After flying and healing along the way, the injuries Sun Wukong had sustained due to the annihilation of his clones had almost completely recovered under the effects of the Chaos Primordial Force.

At this moment with a low roar, without waiting for Ran Deng Buddha to respond, he dashed forward, the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod wrapped in fiery True Solar Fire, as he brought it down in a mighty cleave towards Ran Deng Buddha's head.

"You overestimate yourself, Demon Monkey. This venerable one wants to see what abilities you have to be so insolent!"

A glimmer of irritation flashed in Ran Deng Buddha's eyes. Even if Sun Wukong had escaped from the Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds, he was still only a Daluo Golden Immortal. How dare he be so reckless!