Chapter 646 - 65: Little Monkey Meets Big Monkey, Bodhi Meets Lu Xuan, The Great Saint’s Back Is Broken

Chapter 646: Chapter 65: Little Monkey Meets Big Monkey, Bodhi Meets Lu Xuan, The Great Saint’s Back Is Broken

Bodhi was coughing up blood. The Demon Ancestor was gritting her teeth. Their expressions were grim, tinged with shock and suspicion.

"Lu Xuan..."

Staring at the Great Emperor seated within the Great Heaven and Earth, who was smiling as he watched them, Ancient Bodhi Buddha murmured:

"That power just now was not his own. It came from the Great Heaven and Earth. This Fellow Daoist Lu seems to have found a new path."

Fu Xi appeared from nowhere, his expression complex. He spoke softly:

"It is indeed extraordinary. I can see his status has changed. He is no longer just the Lord of the Dao Dynasty, but can now be called the Lord of Heaven and Earth, wielding the Great Will of Heaven and Earth... ’How did he do it?’"

The Demon Ancestor lifted her eyelids:

"It must be a Transcendent Trait." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Her expression was dark. To be struck by a sudden attack and then publicly rebuked was a great loss of face. She was nearly overcome by the impulse to march into the Great Heaven and Earth and fight Lu Xuan to the death!

Ancient Bodhi Buddha saw what was happening and gently advised:

"Each of The Three Pristine Ones has an incarnation sitting within the Dao Dynasty, and the Supreme has not yet completely fallen. This is not the time for a complete falling-out..."

He paused, narrowing his eyes slightly.

"Speaking of which, there is something strange about the National Preceptor, Lin Lingsu, appointed by Fellow Daoist Lu this time. I cannot see through him."

The Demon Ancestor closed her eyes for a long moment, her anger seemingly subsiding. She spoke coldly:

"There is indeed a problem. It must be a contingency plan he has with The Three Pristine Ones. In countless ancient calendars, Lin Lingsu has always been a great calamity for your Buddhist Sect. Now, he has appeared early, erupting alongside the calamity of the Journey to the West..."

As she spoke, she glanced aside into the deep shadows:

"Taiyi, are you still confident you can chew through a tough bone like Lu Xuan?"

"It’s no matter."

Taiyi strolled over, wisps of Chaos coiling around his body. As his eyes opened and closed, starlight shimmered and a Great Sun blazed.

He said nonchalantly:

"Wielding the Great Will of Heaven and Earth... a very mysterious technique, likely a Transcendent Trait. But it’s not impossible to deal with. The final kalpa is approaching. It is time for the Great Heaven and Earth to decline!"

After a pause,

Taiyi lowered his gaze, brimming with confidence:

"Lu Xuan is approaching the Dao Fruit. The moment he fully steps into that realm will be when I devour him. He will merge with me, becoming my nourishment and helping me take another step forward!"

The Demon Ancestor’s expression softened slightly. She pondered for a moment:

"That may be so, but Lu Xuan is still in control of the Great Heaven and Earth, having become its Lord. Complications have arisen for the Journey to the West.

I have seen that the Goddess seems to have also descended into this period of the Years. This time, it may be the final battle... We should prepare in advance!"

"Of course."

Ancient Bodhi Buddha nodded, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze profound:

"I will send an order to Shakyamuni. I shall personally enter the flow of Years, just as I have countless times in the past, to become the monkey’s master. I will teach him the Earthly Fiend Seventy-two Methods and grant him the Great Buddha’s Grace!"

The Buddha Mother also raised her head:

"Guanyin has reverted to Merciful. I shall take her place in this role."

The Demon Ancestor smoothed the hair at her temples, revealing a long, snow-white neck:

"I will personally lead the demons to set up the eighty-one tribulations. With every trial the monkey endures, he will draw one step closer to Buddhahood. Once the eighty-one tribulations are complete and Sun Wukong becomes a Buddha, the Journey to the West will conclude, and the Daoist Sect... will also meet its end!"

The few Supreme Beings had all decided on their roles. They looked down upon the Great Heaven and Earth together, but consciously or unconsciously, they all avoided looking at the Emperor of the Three Realms, the Lord of Heaven and Earth. Instead, they focused their gazes on a playful monkey on a certain Divine Mountain.

"The Journey to the West shall begin. This game will decide victory and defeat. The conflict between the Buddhist and Daoist Sects is about to end!"

The Demon Ancestor’s final words sealed the matter. Her Ni Chang robes fluttered gently as she looked down upon the past and present, as if seeing a vision of The Three Pristine Ones’ crushing defeat and the Goddess’s collapse.

She whispered:

"Today’s events will be settled eventually, Lu Xuan..."

[In the 29,000th year of the Dao Calendar, there was peace across the land. Emperor Lu personally presided over the court, summoning all officials from the heavens and the earth for an audience. He decreed the Daoist Lin Lingsu as the National Preceptor of the Dao Dynasty.]

[In the same year, Emperor Lu toured the Three Realms. Billions of living beings kowtowed in worship.]

[Twenty-seven years later, Emperor Lu vanished without a trace.]

[In the same year, a demon monkey from Huaguo Mountain began to cross the sea, a journey that would last thirty years.]

「Celestial Realm, Thirty-Six Celestial Realms.」

"By my decree, Marshal Tianpeng and the General of the Rolling Curtain have violated the laws. Strip them of their titles and demote them from their positions."

The Celestial Duke declared the order, and the two Ancient Immortals entered the Human World.

"By my decree, the White Dragon Ao Lie caused a sea disaster, throwing the wind and rain of a region into disharmony for three full days. Demote him from his position and strip him of his title."

The Human Lord issued the edict, and a pure white True Dragon was sealed within a stretch of the sea.

On the same day, an iron staff fell from Douluo Palace and plunged into the East Sea Dragon Palace. The Dao Rhyme of a Dao Fruit erupted, causing the East Sea to tremble for a hundred days without cease.

A hundred days later, a monkey poling a Treasure Raft, having crossed thirty million li of the sea, finally reached the shore.

"This sea... it’s really huge..."

The little monkey shook its sopping wet fur, patted its chest, and seemed still shaken by the experience:

"I paddled for ten thousand days and nights just to see this shore! I’m never crossing the sea again, never again!"

Although it was born of heaven and earth, nearly Innate, and possessed an Immortal’s Physique from birth, its mind was still that of a child. It could not bear the loneliness, let alone over ten thousand solitary days and nights with only the sea for company...

But this monkey was also carefree. With a shake of its head, it cast aside thirty years of solitude. It began to hop and skip, happily shouting to itself:

"Off to find an Immortal! Off to find an Immortal!"

On the first day, it came to a village and, scratching its ears and cheeks, addressed an old man at the village entrance:

"Old man, old man, do you know where I can find an Immortal?"

"An Immortal? You’re a talking monkey. Aren’t you an immortal yourself?"

"Nonsense, nonsense!"

The little monkey retorted, dissatisfied:

"If talking makes you an Immortal, wouldn’t everyone be an Immortal? Immortals can move mountains and drain seas, fly through the sky and burrow into the earth, summon the wind and call the rain!"

The little old man took a puff from his dry pipe, exhaling a swirling cloud of smoke:

"Like this, you mean?"