Chapter 136: Chapter 136: The Decisive Battle Atop Mount Putuo Chapter 136: Chapter 136: The Decisive Battle Atop Mount Putuo Who approaches, if not the Wudang Holy Mother, former disciple under the Tong Tian Sect Master!

She was celebrated in praise: “Since the creation of heaven and earth, my presence was known. I taught labor to cultivate spirit, feared by gods everywhere, despised by the ghostly soldiers of the Five Great Mountains, disturbing the harmony of the universe, the Big Dipper indistinguishable in the gloom, who in all eight directions is revered, the Nine Heavens unable to capture me, the lord over a hundred thousand demons!”

In the Battle for Deification of yesteryears, the Wudang Holy Mother had survived a calamity and vanished, but in truth, she was in secluded cultivation, awaiting the day she would emerge. Over these tens of thousands of years, she finally attained the peak of Primordial Golden Immortal, alongside beings like Xiang Liu and Guiche, reaching the Patriarch Level that touched upon the Heavenly Dao Laws, with formidable combat abilities.

The Wudang Holy Mother has an impressive background. Duobao Taoist was the direct and foremost disciple of Tong Tian, the Golden Spirit Holy Mother was the second, she was the third!

“Wudang Holy Mother, you seek to ruin my good deeds!” the five Great Ming Kings roared in anger, each summoning their magical treasures to strike.

The Wudang Holy Mother retorted furiously, “Duobao the traitor, today I shall surely send you to the Investiture of the Gods!”

With that, she raised her sword to meet the challenge, and Wukong seized this chance to join the fight, but was blocked by the Great Might Heavenly Dragon Bodhisattva.

How could the Wudang Holy Mother alone contend against the five Great Ming Kings? Wukong, feeling anxious in his heart, shouted, “Out of my way!” and swung his staff towards the top of Great Might Heavenly Dragon’s head.

The Great Might Heavenly Dragon, standing upon a dragon-like figure, gave a light chant and glared furiously, stretching his eight heads and sixteen arms, each holding a magical treasure to parry.

At that moment, Wukong united his Three Corpses, and with a swing of his staff, displayed extraordinary power. The eighteen magical treasures of the Great Might Heavenly Dragon were deployed in unison, but each was shattered one after another, with thirteen obliterated completely before Wukong’s staff was finally halted. Wukong then waved his left hand, holding a sickle, and swiftly slashed at the waist of the Great Might Heavenly Dragon!

The Great Might Heavenly Dragon, aware of the sickle’s might, dared not meet it with his golden body. He could withstand the Buddha Beating Staff and the Heavenly Mechanism Staff without issue, but not the sickle and axe spawned from the Great Revolution Seal! This magical treasure, forged by the collective will of living beings, possessed no ordinary power. In the future, when Wukong fulfilled his grand vow, its strength would ascend another level, truly comparable to an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

The Great Might Heavenly Dragon dodged sideways, then counterattacked with a punch that created thunderous sounds of wind and lightning, utterly pulverizing the void!

“Dang!”

Wukong parried with his staff. The punch landed squarely on the staff, bending it, but fortunately, the Buddha Beating Staff could transform itself and remained undamaged at its core.

“This physical body has been cultivated to a terrifying extent!” Wukong thought inwardly.

He only occasionally practiced the Primordial Body Refining Technique, mainly focusing on advancing his cultivation. Though the physical body of the Great Might Heavenly Dragon appeared terrifying, it was futile before a being with profound cultivation. Such techniques belonged to lesser paths unless one could reach the level of Pangu, whose fearsome physique allowed him to ascend as a Heavenly Dao Saint. However, even the mighty Pangu had met an early end before the great dao.

After losing in the conflict for the title of Green Emperor, the Great Might Heavenly Dragon had been ferocious. At this moment, even Wukong, running the Primordial Great Strength Technique, was no match for him in physical combat. Save for the Ancestral Witches, the Great Might Heavenly Dragon was indeed unmatched in the world.

However, Wukong had reached the level of Daluo Golden Immortal and possessed profound mana, along with various powerful magical treasures. Within just a dozen exchanges, the Great Might Heavenly Dragon showed signs of defeat. As the remaining magical treasures struck him, he resisted with his physical body alone, sustaining injuries but seemed indifferent, intending to trade blow for blow. However, protected by the sickle-axe, Wukong’s punches could not break through, and he also feared the sickle-axe, wary of even a single strike.

The Wudang Holy Mother fiercely battled the five Great Ming Kings, who all threw themselves into the fray, leaving her somewhat overwhelmed.

“Are you not going to act yet?” the Wudang Holy Mother sharply called out.

The Great Ming Kings, sensing danger, looked up to see a great seal descending from above, engraved with Mount Buzhou and inscribed with the characters for “Sky-Overturning”.

“Boom!”

The strike was not aimed at the Great Ming Kings but targeted at Jukong, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra. Jukong, unharmed, swiftly dodged it, while Manjushri and Samantabhadra, betrayed by their mounts, were struck heavily injured and could not escape. As their Primordial Spirits were about to flee the Niwan Palace, the great seal descended!

With one strike, both Manjushri and Samantabhadra were killed, their True Spirits heading to the Deification Platform.

The Great Ming Kings furiously exclaimed, “Guang Chengzi!”

Together, they exerted their strength, spurting Karmic Fire. The Wudang Holy Mother was struck in the chest by the Vajra Yaksha Ming King’s staff, sent flying and spewing blood. Yet she managed to hold her own, single-handedly restraining the five Great Ming Kings while Guang Chengzi secretly intervened, killing two Bodhisattvas in one strike.

Guang Chengzi revealed himself from the clouds, sneering, “Traitors never end well, all of you go to the Investiture of the Gods!”

With a flick of his finger, two divine swords surged from his robes—the Twin Swords!

Indeed, Guang Chengzi was highly skilled. A poem attests to this, saying, “Destined to awaken to the primary truth, meeting a saint on Zhongnan Mountain; showing the way to eternal brilliance, birthed anew as a perennial bloom. Though all of me speaks, the truth is hard to tell, another spring lies within the flying dust of the great earth; my path is clear in its entirety, uncomprehending even one character is most arduous.”

Jukong knew better than to underestimate, summoning his magical treasure to parry, but against Guang Chengzi’s Primordial Golden Immortal level of cultivation, how could Jukong stand a chance? Before long, Jukong was at a disadvantage.

The Great Ming King split off, sending Empty Head Militant to aid Jukong against Guang Chengzi.

Empty Head Militant shouted, “Guanyin is dead, the overall situation has shifted. You better flee while I hold this scoundrel off!”

Guang Chengzi had once detained Sun as his senior brother, so how could he not feel fear? At this moment, seeing Guang Chengzi’s Sky-Overturning Seal, he was so frightened that his legs trembled, thinking that the Lord of Primordial Beginning was watching by his side.

When Jun Tiuli Ming King confronted Guang Chengzi, a fierce battle ensued. Guang Chengzi’s magical treasure was formidable. Once he invoked the Sky-Overturning Seal, he struck Jun Tiuli’s back, sending him tumbling to the ground, spewing fresh blood, his physical body nearly collapsing!

Upon seeing this, Sun promptly used an Escape Technique to flee, displaying the Soaring Earth Golden Light, but then he saw a staff repel the Great Might Heavenly Dragon. The Heavenly Mechanism Staff was employed, and the Long-Armed Ape materialized, punching the ground. Sun was jolted out of the earth again!

“Where do you think you’re going!” Two arms, like colossal pillars reaching through the heavens, stretched down from the sky and punched Sun on the head and abdomen, and had it not been for his sturdy Golden Body, his head would have burst.

Who was the newcomer? It was none other than the Long-Armed Ape, General Yuan!

The blows Sun received got him reeling as if the rivers and seas had been overturned, leaving him dazed and disoriented.

With a bizarre cry, Yuan Hong charged forward, brandishing the Heaven-reaching Rod for a fierce overhead strike!

Sun, summoning his spirits, intercepted with the Demon-Subduing Pestle. They exchanged blows, leaving Sun’s hands numb, his palms split open, blood gushing forth.

How could Sun be a match for Yuan Hong? He was injured and had no desire to continue fighting, and was quickly knocked to the ground by Yuan Hong’s consecutive hits.

Though these events seem lengthy to describe, they happened in just an instant, so swiftly that even the nearby Zen Master Wuxin couldn’t intervene in time to help.

As Wuxin approached, another person wielding a sword charged in, employing the Splitting Heaven and Earth Sword Technique. It was Emperor Qin, Ying Zheng!

When Jun Tiuli Ming King saw this scene, he was ferocious with rage. He was entangled with Guang Chengzi when someone unexpectedly countered halfway!

“Green Emperor, do not panic, we are here to aid you!” Then they saw a group of Daluo Golden Immortals from Water Curtain Cave arrive, each wielding their magical treasures in attack.

All the major clan elders from the Demon Tribe arrived, totaling over a hundred Daluo Golden Immortals!

In fact, the patriarchs of the Demon Tribe had each withheld a move, which was to call upon their disciples; typically, each elder had at least five or six disciples, not to be used unless the survival of their race was at stake. But at Sun Wukong’s command, they had sent them out, and at once the heaven and earth lost color, as the Daluo Golden Immortals twisted the laws of nature, making the area appear eerily bizarre.

The five Great Ming Kings’ faces changed drastically, and even the Great Might Heavenly Dragon was exceedingly alarmed and had to retreat. The five Great Ming Kings also moved back together, forcing Yuan Hong and Ying Zheng away, gathering Sun and Zen Master Wuxin, along with the Great Might Heavenly Dragon among others, and set up a large formation.

Then, five massive Ming King Dharma Bodies rose from the ground, towering into the clouds, immovable as mountains, stirring like thunderous tremors. Countless magical treasures struck them, splattering blood, yet they could not be fundamentally wounded.

Guang Chengzi shouted, “Everyone hold back, let me strike him with the Sky-Overturning Seal!”

This Sky-Overturning Seal, with its profound implications and immense power, was directly invoked, aiming at the crown of the Immovable King!

The Immovable King replied, “Guang Chengzi, you once struck my Buddha with the Sky-Overturning Seal, merely causing my Buddha to stumble. To others, your Sky-Overturning Seal might appear formidable, but to us, it’s as trivial as dogs of clay and chickens of dirt!”

Guang Chengzi sneered and did not respond, striking with the Sky-Overturning Seal, but the effect was already lessened, causing only a slight tremor in the Immovable King. Once these five were united in their great formation, they were very difficult to deal with.

The formation of the five Great Ming Kings was exceptional. Guang Chengzi then used a dual sword technique, but still couldn’t injure the five, nor break the formation.

Sun Wukong frowned slightly and said, “If we cannot defeat them, we should leave. There may be trouble brewing soon!”

No sooner had these words fallen when from the west came a Buddhist Lion’s Roar: “Thinking of leaving? Too late!”

They saw Tathagata leading three thousand Buddhas, boundless Bodhisattvas, eight hundred Arhats, and countless Vajra descending, one after another. In an instant, Buddha’s Light covered the sky so densely that even the sun above lost its brilliance.

The faces of the five Great Ming Kings smirked with disdain, while those of the Demon Tribe drastically changed. They invoked talismans, which rushed toward Southern Ridge Demon Mountain to summon the Taiyi Golden Immortals from their clan.

Up until now, only Daluo Golden Immortals had arrived; seeing such a formation of the Buddhist sect, they had no choice but to call for those future Taiyi Golden Immortals.

Tathagata looked at Sun Wukong, smiling, but the smile was somewhat chilly, saying, “Sun Wukong, who would have thought you’d cause such a stir again? Do you wish to be suppressed by me for another five hundred years?”

Sun Wukong felt his blood boiling. He recalled the scene of his own suppression, saw Zixia’s death, and Little Qing being suppressed, and with a long howl, he shouted, “Tathagata, dare you battle!”

Though his strength was only that of a Daluo Golden Immortal, he could definitely fight a patriarch. However, compared to someone like Tathagata, who had already comprehended the laws of Heavenly Dao and was just shy of attaining the Primordial Dao Fruit, he was still significantly outmatched.

He wanted to fight, regardless of victory or defeat!

The outcome, whether auspicious or disastrous, will be revealed in the next episode.