Chapter 96 Chapter 89 The Battle Begins!
Regardless of whether these few people were intentionally ignoring her, their apparent indifference in her presence was enough to infuriate Chang’er. "You dare to disregard others in such a manner," she scolded with a delicate shout. With her arms outstretched, Chang’er suddenly began to spin on the spot.
As she rotated, myriad crescent moon blades the size of forearms whizzed out from between her palms. Moreover, these flying crescent moons seemed to be under Chang’er’s control, each targeting one of the six individuals opposite her.
Just as both Sun Wukong and the Six-Eared Macaque thought to step forward and block the moons, the red-haired giant burst into laughter, "Let me warm up first, hahaha." After that, the man’s hands transformed in an instant into a pair of dragon claws, except the right claw was crimson red, while the left was deep blue.
Then, the innumerable flying crescent moons were all knocked down by the pair of dragon claws. The speed at which these dragon claws moved even surpassed the Six-Eared Macaque’s limit of visual capture. Only the middle-aged scholar and Sun Wukong, who had opened his fiery eyes, could clearly discern the movements.
All one hundred and eight crescent moons were knocked down by the red-haired giant’s dragon claws and scattered around him. However, the red-haired giant was not at ease; the slight trembling of his hands indicated that the one hundred and eight crescent moons were not so easily caught. Nevertheless, this move was intercepted.
"Hmph, let’s see how formidable your pair of dragon claws are," Chang’er said, preparing to unleash an even more powerful technique. Just then, three wisps of clear clouds suddenly drifted from the distance. At first glance, the clouds were on the horizon, but in the blink of an eye, they had arrived up close.
The seven individuals present, including Chang’er herself, needless to say, possessed profound and mysterious cultivation as an embodiment of Heavenly Dao. The red-haired giant, Zhu Long Zhu Jiuyin, also held peak Saint Realm strength and, being one of the surviving members of the dragon kind, had many incredible divine skills.
The middle-aged scholar was none other than the Ancient Times’ Demon Master Kunpeng. Kunpeng, almost a being from the Primordial Era, survived countless years of cultivation and even the Great War between Gods and Demons without falling. Underestimating him would result in unimaginable consequences.
By this time, Sun Wukong also possessed peak Saint Realm strength. Although Sun Wukong had not attained oneness with the Great Dao for certain reasons, his merging of the four Five-Colored Divine Stones was something no one dared to belittle.
Sun Wukong himself had always wondered why, after returning from his studies under Patriarch Subhuti at Fangcun Mountain in the Spiritual Mountain, his cultivation was at the pinnacle of Emperor Level.
After stealthily consuming the Supreme Elder Lord’s Supreme Golden Elixir, his strength far exceeded the Emperor Level, reaching the early stages of the Saint Realm, yet he had never attained oneness with the Great Dao.
Even after earning the title of Buddha for conquering battles as his other self, and with his Heaven-Supporting Giant Ape form, Sun Wukong planned to cut off his three corpses to reach the Great Dao. Unexpectedly, both of his corpses were destroyed in a battle with the Jade Emperor, plunging Wukong into a period of profound confusion.
With no alternatives, Wukong decided to prove the Dao through strength, cultivating the Supreme Golden Body.
However, after devouring and integrating the first Five-Colored Divine Stone, he felt an indescribable transformation. With each Divine Stone he merged, his strength would greatly increase, a level of ascension that might take others tens or hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation to achieve. And yet, despite the clear increase in power, he just couldn’t attain oneness with the Great Dao.
He couldn’t gain the recognition of Heaven and Earth.
Reasonably speaking, when he merged with the Water Attribute Divine Stone, he had grasped the grand way of water, and he had also understood some minor paths of the Wood System, Metal Series, and even the later Fire System. Normally, grasping any grand way would immediately result in sainthood and recognition by the laws of Heaven and Earth.
The Great Dao encompasses three thousand paths; minor paths are countless. Yet uniquely, he comprehended both the grand and minor ways but couldn’t attain the Dao. What suffering it was to realize the Dao without attaining it!
Therefore, this situation had led to Sun Wukong as he now was, possessing peak Saint Realm combat power but unable to utilize the grand ways of Heaven and Earth. This was why all of Wukong’s battles had always been close quarters combat, relying on his flesh-and-blood strength. In the eyes of a Saint unable to wield the great ways, mundane spells were mere child’s play.
However, from the moment he laid eyes on Chang’er, Sun Wukong gained a sudden insight, a glimmer of understanding as to why he had been unable to reach the Great Dao.
Not to mention that Sun Wukong held peak Saint Realm strength, even Six-Eared Macaque, Mu Jingshi, and Meng Gui were also Saint powerhouses. Yet among the seven present Saints, aside from Demon Master Kunpeng, the remaining six could not discern how the three wisps of clear clouds had appeared.
This eerie scene had the other six on high alert in an instant.
"Don’t panic, there’s no need to worry. Would the great Primeval Heavenly Venerate really have the face to sneak attack these juniors?" After the three clear clouds descended, Demon Master Kunpeng immediately stepped forward, shielding Zhu Long and Sun Wukong and the others behind him.
Hearing Kunpeng speak thus, Sect Hierarch Tongtian suddenly roared with rage, "Benefiting from your glib tongue, today, our goal is to annihilate all of you." Experience new tales on empire
At this moment, Sun Wukong also recognized the newcomers as none other than Supreme Elder Lord and Sect Hierarch Tongtian, and the third one must certainly be Primeval Heavenly Venerate, especially since Senior Kunpeng had just disclosed his identity.
Now, at the entrance to the Hidden Wood Forest in the far east, could be said to have gathered the remaining peak experts of the Demon Clan and Taoist sects.
From the Demon Clan, there was Kunpeng, one of the top experts of the Ancient Demon Clan; Zhu Jiuyin, Zhu Long, the number one war general under Ancient Demon Emperor Di Jun; Sun Wukong, the current Demon King, who was the Great Sage Equalling Heaven that had merged four pieces of the Five-Colored Divine Stone and became a Saint at the pinnacle of power; the Six-Eared Macaque Demon Emperor, who possessed six drops of Divine Dragon True Blood, two of which came from the five Ancestral Dragons; Mu Jingshi, clan leader of the remaining Ancient Spiritual Wood Clan, whose Wood System Taoist Techniques were unfathomable, and who was said to possess recovery abilities comparable to Supreme Elder Lord’s Supreme Golden Elixir; Meng Gui, the clan leader of the Ancient Illusion Demon Clan, with formidable illusion techniques that could deceive the heavens and were unmatched even by Saints during Ancient Times, and whose current clan leader had even surpassed his predecessor.
On the Taoist side, there was Chang’er, the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, whose strength and cultivation were rumored to have surpassed the Saint Realm, and as an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, she surely possessed extremely powerful Divine Skills; the Three Pure Ones of the Taoist Sect, Sect Hierarch Tongtian stood at the pinnacle of the Saint Realm and had fought numerous Demon Clan leaders in the great war of Heaven without sustaining a scratch.
Even Patriarch Bodhi could only barely suppress him by using the Supreme Treasure, Bodhi Branch.
Supreme Elder Lord, who was at the early stage of the Saint Realm, had been gravely injured but not killed in the war of Heaven, and although he lost the Eight Trigrams Furnace, under the assistance of Primeval Heavenly Venerate, not only did his injuries heal completely, he even turned misfortune into a blessing, boosting his strength to the intermediate phase of the Saint Realm.
It was unclear who was stronger between the two factions, but one thing was certain: this great battle was inevitable. Leaving aside the deep enmity between Sect Hierarch Tongtian and Supreme Elder Lord with Sun Wukong, just the determination in Chang’er’s demeanor that she must exterminate Sun Wukong sealed the inevitability of this battle.
Although Chang’er knew that the Three Pure Ones appearing at this time surely meant they intended to use her power to entirely eliminate the remaining high-end combat power of the Demon Clan, and should they succeed this time, the Demon Clan would practically be finished. Without the Saints, the remaining few Demon Emperors could not stir much trouble.
And Buddhism, heh, Buddhism knew the best; had it not been for her last intervention, that pig demon might have eradicated Buddhism completely.
Huh? Pig demon? Why was there an odd feeling in her heart every time she thought of this beast? Although she had passed out before due to using great magical power, she sealed the other Chang’er’s Divine Sense the moment she woke up. Strange indeed.
However, even with the clear awareness of being used, Chang’er said nothing. They were using her, and wasn’t she using them just the same? As long as the Three Pure Ones could tie down the others, she could eliminate Sun Wukong as quickly as possible.
She had only been testing her strength before. With this in mind, Chang’er slowly raised her hand and removed the two earrings from her right ear.
In an instant, Chang’er’s strength and momentum surged by a whole two times! Already possessing the strength at the peak of the Saint Realm, this sudden increase was utterly astonishing, wasn’t it?
Just as Sun Wukong was taken aback, Chang’er had already vanished from her spot, the next moment, she appeared behind Sun Wukong. Before Sun Wukong could react, a White Silk Ribbon was already wrapped around his neck.
Sun Wukong, danger!