Chapter 139: Chapter 139: Wukong Severely Injures Pilanpo Chapter 139: Chapter 139: Wukong Severely Injures Pilanpo But Sun Wukong, while carrying the Green Lotus, suddenly struck out, aiming to hit Birupaksa on the crown with his staff, only to see Birupaksa holding a flower basket and tossing it into the air. Instantly, a hundred flowers bloomed, a hundred birds sang, and a myriad of celestial illusions appeared, trapping Sun Wukong within them.

Wukong was entangled by the three hundred and fifty million Demon-Extinguishing Divine Needles and couldn’t free his hands. Now that he had split himself into Sun Wukong, he could only barely resist with his Magical Treasure. He dared not split off the Heaven-Defying Taoist any longer.

Sun Wukong let out a light shout and twisted a spell with his hand, saying, “Morning Spring Finger!”

He pointed at the illusion before him, and immediately, a massive tree trunk materialized, a hundred zhang thick and ten thousand zhang long, sweeping across directly.

The Green Emperor was the Green Lotus incarnate, the lord of all wood. Once the Morning Spring Finger was employed, it immediately shattered the illusion of the flower basket and rolled towards Birupaksa.

Birupaksa’s expression changed slightly. This monkey’s abilities were indeed no small matter. She could be seen chanting an incantation and lifting up a wooden fish to sacrifice. The chanting of three thousand Buddhas could be heard, and the apparitions of three thousand Buddhas manifested in the void, each stretching out a hand. Three thousand giant palms caught the Morning Spring Finger hard and fast!

Seeing this scene, whether it was the Buddhist Sect or the Demon Tribe, everyone was shocked. Bodhisattva Birupaksa truly was powerful, having refined the Dharma Bodies of three thousand Buddhas from the Western Heaven! This was definitely a feat capable of making one a Buddha or a Sect Founder. Yet, Birupaksa was somewhat casual and did not wish to become a Buddha but was content to remain a Bodhisattva.

Birupaksa shouted, “Buddhas, Suppress the Prison!”

The Dharma Bodies of the three thousand Buddhas acted in unison, bombarding with all kinds of exquisite Buddhist techniques. The Six Syllable Mantra thundered incessantly, as if it were truly within the Great Thunderclap Monastery of the Western Heaven.

Sun Wukong’s face changed. Birupaksa was too formidable. Although her realm was not as high as Tathagata’s, her methods were extremely clever, and her spells were first-class! On his Creation Heavenly Mechanism Staff, he manifested a Fiery Divine Ape, which spouted Samadhi True Fire from its mouth to burn the three thousand Buddhas.

How could the hands of the three thousand Buddhas be so easily blocked? They instantly shattered the Fiery Divine Ape into dust; then, six characters of Buddhist True Words transformed into giant mountains and pressed towards Sun Wukong!

Sun Wukong lifted the Green Lotus high, and Mana coursed through it as if a river merged into the sea, swarming into the Green Lotus. The Lotus swiftly grew taller—one zhang, ninety zhang, nine hundred zhang—until it reached nine thousand zhang before it stopped. Immediately, Chaos Qi poured out with a thunderous rumble, grinding the Six Syllable Mantra into dust. Yet, after executing this move, Sun Wukong also felt that his Mana was overly depleted, leaving him quite exhausted.

“One Arrow Embraces the Three Pure Ones!” With no hesitation, Sun Wukong took the opportunity to shoot an arrow.

“Two Arrows Pierce Tong Tian!” Following the first arrow, the second arrow was shot out, aimed directly at the Tong Tian acupoint.

“Three Arrows Sever the Xuanji!” Without any pause, he drew the third arrow and shot it towards the Xuanji acupoint.

“Four Arrows Break the Great Barrier!”

“Five Arrows Wound the Qi Sea!”

“Six Arrows Shatter the Heavenly Spirit!”

“Seven Arrows Sever the Center Extreme!”

“Eight Arrows Annihilate Demons and Gods!”

“Nine Arrows Suppress the Nation!”

Not willing to give Birupaksa any chance to react, Sun Wukong completely depleted his Mana. With a furious shout, a string of incantations echoed throughout the Ninefold Heavens. He shot out each of the nine arrows with the Sun Shooting Divine Bow, with every pull as full as a crescent moon. These nine arrows, shot separately, were more powerful than firing the “Nine Arrows Settle the Mountains and Rivers” in one go, but they also consumed more Mana. The Nine Consecutive Arrows were of unmatched might!

“Once, Hou Yi was only a Taiyi Golden Immortal when he shot and killed nine peerless Golden Crows of the Great Luo Golden Immortal level with these nine arrows under the command of Di Jun!”

“If Sun Wukong, a Daluo Golden Immortal, wields them, isn’t that even more formidable?”

As Sun Wukong released these nine arrows, the arrows on his Golden Core within trembled continuously, and each arrow’s power was exponentially greater than Hou Yi’s by tens, hundreds, even thousands of times!

Birupaksa saw eleven golden beams streaking towards her, carrying a hint of blood-red, leaving her no way to heaven and no door to earth. The overwhelmingly terrifying aura made one shudder, and then eleven golden beams turned into nine Golden Crows, each screeching towards the sky and rushing at Birupaksa!

“So I have heard!” Birupaksa uttered softly.

The Dharma Bodies of the three thousand Buddhas also placed their hands together and said, “So I have heard!”

Then the True Bodies of the three thousand Buddhas paused slightly and said again, “So I have heard!”

Golden light splashed from above the True Bodies of the three thousand Buddhas, entering the Dharma Bodies, and then all three thousand Dharma Bodies acted together, each lifting up their Magical Treasures or Dharma Seals to catch, encircling Birupaksa in the center.

“How shameless, actually borrowing the Mana of the True Bodies of the three thousand Buddhas!” Yuan Hong cursed loudly.

“The cultivation techniques of our Buddhist Sect are interconnected. Great General Yuan, your words are utterly groundless,” Burning Lamp said with a smile.

“All of you from the Buddhist Sect are just like that, with faces so thick it’s unbearable, no wonder you’re so hypocritical!” Yuan Hong retorted.

While the two exchanged words, those nine arrows had already collided with the three thousand Buddhas!

As though destroying the heaven and extinguishing the earth, the Buddha’s Light and blood light erupted, blasting the void into dust layer by layer, then being mended by the Laws of the Heavenly Dao, then turning to dust again and being mended one more time… This cycle repeated over and over, for at least a dozen times, before the golden light and blood light finally subsided.

All three thousand Buddha Dharma Bodies dissolved into nothingness, and Birupaksa was sweating profusely, her collar soaked through, no longer displaying the composed and elegant demeanor from before.

The nine arrows had come too swiftly, and Sun Wukong had acted so suddenly that, had the mana of the three thousand Buddhas truly been borrowed in time, it would not have been impossible to grind those nine arrows into powder. Birupaksa wouldn’t have ended up in such a sorry state.

Sun Wukong was so exhausted he lost all strength and directly transformed into a wisp of green smoke that entered Wukong’s body. Struck by the nine arrows, Birupaksa had no chance to control the Demon-Extinguishing Divine Needles. The 350 million Divine Needles were swept away by Wukong’s World-Cleansing Dust Whisk and then forcefully struck by the Great Revolution Seal, sending them all back into the gourd from which they came.

An axe transformed into a mountainous size and slashed directly at the gourd!

Birupaksa was greatly shocked and hastily cast a spell to retrieve the gourd. That charged strike was enough to split the gourd open. A loss too great to compensate for, and it would require who knows how long to refine it again.

“Splitting Heaven and Earth!” Wukong uttered softly; his muscles swelled as he wielded the axe, channeling the unstoppable essence of Pangu’s act of creation.

For a moment, darkness consumed heaven and earth, as if returning to primordial chaos. The axe and the one wielding it became one. Hongmeng Purple Qi flowed inside him as the Three Thousand Great Paths simultaneously trembled, combining in harmony with all the paths of heaven and earth! Birupaksa’s complexion drastically changed. She knew this was the moment between life and death—the deciding blow from Wukong; victory and defeat hung in the balance. But could the essence of Splitting Heaven and Earth be stopped? Such power was truly terrifying.

Wukong’s seven orifices all emitted Samadhi True Fire, and his bones and muscles crackled as if about to burst from the immense pressure!

“Birupaksa, retreat quickly!” Maitreya’s face changed drastically as he shouted abruptly.

Birupaksa wanted to retreat, but how could she escape the pressing essence of the axe? She had no choice but to cross her arms and form the Great Hand Seal while three thousand Buddhas simultaneously chanted, their Buddhist hymns reverberating like the sound of a massive bell. In this critical moment, Birupaksa actually condensed an Amitabha Buddha Dharma Body!

The three thousand Buddha Dharma Bodies shattered and converged into the single Dharma Body of Amitabha Buddha!

“Thus have I heard,” Amitabha Buddha’s Dharma Body spoke quietly, forming the Vajra Seal to intercept.

With a long howl from Wukong, the axe came crashing down furiously!

“Booming!”

A Taiyi Golden Immortal simply fainted on the spot, blood spewing from his mouth from the shockwaves, as the Great Luo Golden Immortals quickly cast spells to protect those behind them to prevent further damage.

Amitabha Buddha’s Dharma Body, with the Vajra Seal, actually endured the mighty blow of the axe!

Wukong roared, “Revolutionary will, nothing it cannot break! How could a mere Dharma Body stop me? Break for me!”

He bit his tongue tip, spraying a mouthful of Essence Blood onto the axe. Its power surged unknown bounds, slicing through Amitabha’s Dharma Body and coming down with a vengeance!

“Thump!”

Luckily, the Dharma Body had absorbed over ninety percent of the force from the axe blow. Birupaksa, struck squarely by the axe, instantly turned into a bloody gourd, blood pouring from her seven orifices as she was flung away, her Primordial Spirit trembling violently as though it might have been shaken out if it hadn’t been refined to perfection by the Sect Founder.

With a shriek, Birupaksa fell to the ground, blood constantly spilling from her mouth as she shakily stood up.

Wukong fared no better, a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth, his body limp, barely able to maintain flight.

Fearing Buddhist Sect treachery, Yuan Hong used divine skills to capture him, bringing him into the Demon Tribe’s ranks for safety.

“Is Green Emperor alright?” asked Di Lin.

Without a word, Wukong sat cross-legged and began to recuperate his energies.

On the other side, Birupaksa was more severely injured, critically wounded and near death. Glazed Light King Medicine Buddha quickly drew her over and formed a Dharma Seal, with two thousand Yakshas chanting incantations behind him. Buddha’s Light surged wildly, flowing like a river and seemingly solidifying as it trickled bit by bit into Birupaksa Bodhisattva’s Niwan Palace, stabilizing her condition in a short time.

“Amitabha! Enough! These demons plague the Mortal World, having slain the compassionate and merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva and others. Now they have injured Birupaksa Bodhisattva. They are unforgivable! Our Buddhism is merciful, but there is also a time for the Wrathful Vajra! Do not hold back, fellow Buddhists—send these demons to the Deification Platform!” Tathagata roared angrily, his eyes bulging.

All the Buddhas looked angrily, taking on the aspect of the Wrathful Vajra; Buddha’s Light rose, and they all let out the Lion’s Roar together.

“Roar!”

The Buddhist Lion’s Roar stunned the hearts and spirits of the weaker members of the Demon Tribe, shattering their Dao hearts and dispersing their Three Souls and Seven Spirits, leaving only their True Spirits to head toward the Deification Platform.

“You hypocritical Buddhas, if all beings are equal, why do you sit high upon Spiritual Mountain and dictate orders!” Yuan Hong shouted angrily.

“Demon, spare us your words. Today you shall die here! Heaven exhibits kindness by allowing you to ascend the Deification Platform!” shouted Burning Lamp loudly.

The Demon Tribe members were dizzy from the Buddhist Lion’s Roar but quickly stabilized themselves with their Magical Treasures. Then, both sides prepared for a great battle, making hand seals, Dharma Seals, and readying their most powerful Magical Treasures.

This was a battle that drew the attention of the whole world. What puzzled Tathagata was that, aside from a few disciples of the Lord of the Primordial Beginning, the Taoist Sect had no others participating. It was indeed strange—didn’t the Taoist Sect value balance? Now, the Buddhist Sect had laid all their foundations bare, yet the Taoist Sect remained unmoved!

What happens next? Stay tuned for the following episode to find out.