Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

The Twenty-Four Heavens roared into action, the once invisible worlds within them beginning to clarify. A vast force from the worlds surged wildly, converging upon Ran Deng Buddha's right palm. Behind him, a colossal Dharma Body materialized once more, pressing down fiercely on Sun Wukong.

"Big brother, be careful!"

Little Fox Demon Sun Xiaoqing stood on the stone bridge outside the entrance to Water Curtain Cave Heaven, her face filled with anxiety as she stared at Sun Wukong in midair, her hand clutching Leng Xuan's garment tightly.

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Leng Xuan put his arm around Little Fox Demon Sun Xiaoqing's shoulders to comfort her, his eyes also fixed intensely on Sun Wukong in midair. In fact, he was just as nervous and worried.

"Have you figured out the boss's cultivation? How come I can't tell at all what realm he has reached?"

Jiao Demon King and the other Five Great Demon Kings had been focusing all their attention on Sun Wukong since he appeared.

Initially unable to discern the depth of Sun Wukong's cultivation, Jiao Demon King thought Sun Wukong was deliberately concealing his aura, but even after Sun Wukong had engaged Ran Deng Buddha, he still couldn't see through Sun Wukong's specific cultivation level, which was very strange!

"I can't see it either!"

Peng Demon King shook his head, saying, "The boss's strength far exceeds ours. Perhaps he has some special method to hide his cultivation from us."

"Let's hope the boss can repel that Ran Deng Buddha, otherwise we really can't escape disaster today!"

Macaque King sighed, his gaze unwaveringly fixed on Sun Wukong in midair. Sun Wukong was now the last hope for Flower-Fruit Mountain; if even he couldn't withstand Ran Deng Buddha, the destruction of Flower-Fruit Mountain might happen in an instant.

While the Demon Race secretly discussed, Sun Wukong had already clashed fiercely once again with Ran Deng Buddha.

The Great Brightness Palm transformed into a huge golden Buddha Palm pressing towards Sun Wukong, its might astonishing, more powerful than the previous palm strike that roared towards Green Lotus Sword Immortal Luo Bai and the entire Water Curtain Cave Heaven from the sky. However, Sun Wukong's face showed no trace of fear.

Instead, a sneer of ridicule and triumph arose on his face as his gaze swept over the twenty-four Heaven's Worlds' illusory shadows manifested behind Ran Deng Buddha's head. A flash of gold shimmered in his eyes, and his figure suddenly moved.

"Heaven-Breaking Seventy-Two Sticks!"

The Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod turned into a wrist-thick staff and flew back into Sun Wukong's hand. He flicked his wrist and executed the Heaven-Breaking Stick Technique towards the Great Brightness Palm.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless staff shadows hammered upon the golden Buddha Palm, the terrifying aftershocks spreading towards all directions, causing the faces of Leng Xuan and other Flower-Fruit Mountain Demons to dramatically change. They hurriedly retreated back into Water Curtain Cave Heaven and collectively erected a barrier to seal the entrance, desperately withstanding the impact of the residual force.

The ferocious residual force impacted the ground, carving deep gullies. Aside from the mountain ranges housing the Nine Dragon Veins, the rest of the terra firma on Flower-Fruit Mountain was densely filled with gullies, and massive displacements occurred throughout the mountains.

"Retreat! Everyone, pull back beyond ten miles!"

The Heavenly Court army had already surrounded and sealed off the surroundings of Flower-Fruit Mountain. However, at this moment, under the alarmed cries of Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li Jing, they hastily retreated to the distant sky. Caught in a city gate fire, the aftershocks of the battle between Sun Wukong and Ran Deng Buddha were not something they could withstand.

They needed to quickly move out of range to avoid being impacted to an undeserved death!

"How can this demon monkey's strength be so terrifying?"

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva stabilized himself several miles away, watching the towering mushroom cloud rise from the direction of Flower-Fruit Mountain. He couldn't help but draw in a cold breath. Originally, he thought the Six-Eared Macaque, Bull Demon King, and Green Lotus Sword Immortal Luo Bai were freakishly talented, but Sun Wukong turned out to be even more aberrant than them!

Confronting the Great Brightness Palm strike of Ran Deng Buddha's Dharma Body True Form, Sun Wukong was actually able to resist head-on! Moreover, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva could clearly feel that Sun Wukong's stick technique, very similar to the Six-Eared Macaque's, was much more powerful, not at all weaker than the Great Brightness Palm.

The staff shadows and the golden Buddha Palm collided, stopping the immense golden Buddha Palm abruptly, unable to descend any further.

"This Sun Wukong is indeed formidable! No wonder he can possess such a spirit-rich site like Flower-Fruit Mountain and gather so many exceptionally talented and spectacular beings!"

Guanyin Bodhisattva stood on the top of a distant mountain peak, watching the ongoing battle between Sun Wukong and Ran Deng Buddha. Her eyes flashed with admiration, Ran Deng Buddha's strength being second only to Buddha in the entire Western Heavenly Buddhist Sect.

Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva acknowledged their inferiority to him, and thus they did not dispute his declarations along the way. She never imagined there could be someone at the Da Luo Golden Immortal Realm who could withstand Ran Deng Buddha's Great Brightness Palm!

Indeed, it was the Da Luo Golden Immortal Realm. Guanyin Bodhisattva, with her divine skills of mind-reading, could not discern Sun Wukong's cultivation level, yet she could detect it and confirm without doubt that he was indeed a Da Luo Golden Immortal!

Between a Da Luo Golden Immortal and a Half-Step Saint lies more than an entire Great Realm. The performance of individuals like Bull Demon King was already spectacular, yet Sun Wukong's combat power was even more grotesque, capable of rivaling Ran Deng Buddha!

"Sun Wukong... This is your strength? Indeed, very powerful!"

Erlang God Yang Jian narrowed his eyes; a flash of brilliance in the vertical eye at his brow swept over Sun Wukong from head to toe, finding not the slightest weakness. Under the gaze of the Heavenly Eye, Sun Wukong's cultivation, hidden by the Chaos Primordial Force, was revealed.

He was a Da Luo Golden Immortal just like Erlang God Yang Jian, but his combat power left even Yang Jian feeling deeply alarmed!

No wonder Nezha held him in such high regard. Originally, Erlang God Yang Jian thought Nezha had somewhat exaggerated, but now it seemed, he had been quite conservative! This Beautiful Monkey King Sun Wukong was truly freakish. Perhaps only such a monstrous individual would dare to brazenly oppose the Heavenly Court like this?

The Heaven-Breaking Seventy-Two Sticks shattered Ran Deng Buddha's Great Brightness Palm, and Sun Wukong's figure burst out from the shattered golden Buddha palm, fiercely charging at Ran Deng Buddha.

"Damned demon monkey!"

A shock went through Ran Deng Buddha's heart; his Great Brightness Palm had failed to restrain Sun Wukong. The demon monkey's strength was too defiantly heavenly! Was he really just a Da Luo Golden Immortal? Could he have been mistaken?

Seeing Sun Wukong already lunging towards him, Ran Deng Buddha had no choice but to wield the Qiankun Ruler and engage Sun Wukong in close combat.

Speaking of close combat power, those who had cultivated the Eight-Nine Profound Skill were unmatched within their class, not to mention Sun Wukong, who had mastered the Eight-Nine Profound Skill to a state of great accomplishment and invented the Heaven-Breaking Stick Technique.

His close combat capabilities were nearly invincible under the heavens, and with this exchange, Ran Deng Buddha's advantage in cultivation realm was again reduced by several degrees, completely suppressed by Sun Wukong.

"Damn it! Just a Da Luo Golden Immortal demon monkey, how could this seat lose to such a guy!"

Ran Deng Buddha's current mood could be described in one word—enraged. This kind of emotion had not appeared on him for many years. Although Six-Eared Macaque, Bull Demon King, and a few others had contended against him for a while, even causing him some injury, they were ultimately no match for him.

Unlike this demon monkey Sun Wukong, who was so perverse, his combat power was actually on par with him!

"Twenty-Four Heavens, full power!"

Ran Deng Buddha fully activated the Buddha Primordial Force, and waves of profound Buddhist chant spread across heaven and earth.

The ambit of the Twenty-Four Heavens suddenly expanded many times over, their world images becoming much clearer, and visible threads of world power dispersed from the images of the Twenty-Four Heavens' worlds, converging upon the Qiankun Ruler, appearing immensely formidable.

"Not good! That old thing Ran Deng wants to use the power of the worlds against the boss!"

In terms of cultivation strength, within Flower-Fruit Mountain, Sun Wukong was supreme, but in terms of knowledge, it was Leng Xuan who was the most experienced and informed. Among them, it was he who first realized that Ran Deng Buddha was harnessing the world power of the Twenty-Four Heavens.

Heavenly Dao Saints could form their own domains and summon domain power, thereby possessing strength far surpassing ordinary immortals and Buddhas. When a domain further develops, it becomes a world, and domain power evolves into world power. With Ran Deng Buddha's strength, it was impossible to command world power, but with the Sea-Calming Pearl, it was a different story.

Twenty-Four Ocean-Calming Pearls, transformed into the Twenty-Four Heavens, became twenty-four small worlds of the Buddhist Sect, where the disciples of the Western Paradise could cultivate.

As the owner of the Sea-Calming Pearls, Ran Deng Buddha naturally could harness the world power of the Twenty-Four Heavens transformed by the Sea-Calming Pearls, also his greatest reliance for becoming an Ancient Buddha of the past!

"World power, huh?"

Sun Wukong also perceived Ran Deng Buddha's intention. Had it been before his visit to Heavenly Dragon Valley, he would have been utterly baffled, but now things were different. The great battle with Cultivation Heavenly Venerable had exposed him to the terrifying nature of domain power, which, when further developed, becomes world power—the advanced form of domain power.

However, the world power invoked by Ran Deng Buddha seemed to still fall short of the true world power.

The Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds were not complete worlds, merely twenty-four small worlds. The process of the Buddhist Sect's disciples cultivating within them also stabilized and expanded the small worlds. If developed to the limit, they could indeed form twenty-four real worlds, but such a process was exceedingly lengthy and currently only a nascent form was present.

Strictly speaking, the world power contained within the current Twenty-Four Heavens' Worlds was less than the domain power within the domain of the Sword of Annihilation.

"Demon monkey, you will pay for your deeds!"

"World power of the Twenty-Four Heavens, suppress!"

With a roar that echoed across heaven and earth, Ran Deng Buddha flipped his palm, as if the whole world had reversed, unending world power compressing down upon Sun Wukong.