“The Great Sage Equal to Heaven?” The Azure Emperor suddenly narrowed his eyes.
Zhang Sanfeng, Dongfang Bubai, Ximen Chuixue, and Dugu Qiubai appeared confused.
That banner came with the monkey. Although the monkey had not fully manifested yet, it already emanated overwhelming might.
Irritable and ruthless. The ferocity of the king of ten thousand beasts burst out.
The words on the banner made the monkey demon even more ostentatious.
Equal to Heaven? Who would dare use such a name?
The Azure Emperor’s face sank. He initially wanted to mock Gu Hai. There had never been a Great Sage Equal to Heaven in this world. What more a monkey? However, the monkey’s intensifying aura forced him to swallow his words.
“Could Gu Hai be the reincarnation of a powerhouse from before eight hundred thousand years ago?” The Azure Emperor’s face turned sullen.
The Azure Emperor knew that the Thirty-Two Line-Pair World Ritual Array could manifest Upper Heavenly Palace Realm experts. However, it required someone with deep knowledge or memories of that expert to manifest such an expert. Gu Hai has such a deep impression of this monkey? If that is the case, then such a monkey did exist. Why have I not heard of it before?
As the monkey’s appearance grew clearer, a ferocious and irritable countenance slowly came to light.
“Roar!”
The monkey reared its head back and roared. Churning dark clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, quickly eddying around the monkey. As the dark clouds pressed down, windstorms kicked up everywhere. It seemed like the end of the world, making everyone’s heart pound.
Wearing golden chainmail and a phoenix-wings headdress, the monkey ferociously stomped with its shoe.
Boom!
The entire Borderless Heavenly Capital shuddered as a ruthless and tyrannical aura—an aura that declared oneself supreme—burst out. The monkey immediately became the focus of everyone’s attention.
“Is it this monkey?” the Azure Emperor said coldly.
“Huh?” The monkey immediately looked at the Azure Emperor with a ferocious expression, emanating a tyrannical aura.
“Great Sage!” Gu Hai called out from the side.
“Huh?” The monkey suddenly turned its head to look at Gu Hai. When it looked at Gu Hai, it did not show the respect that Zhang Sanfeng and the others did. Instead, it appeared incredibly cold.
“This humble one is Gu Hai. I used this ritual array to manifest you. Would you help this humble one eliminate this invader?” Gu Hai asked gravely.
As Gu Hai spoke, he looked at the Azure Emperor.
The monkey glared. “You dare you spout such nonsense. You manifested me?”
The monkey glared at Gu Hai, anger evident on its face. The Azure Emperor raised his eyebrows. “To think that the cloud beast your ritual array manifested does not listen to you?”
The monkey turned its head and looked coldly at the Azure Emperor. “This Old Sun can tell that you are nothing good with just one look. Humph! I’ll just beat you up first!”
Boom!
The monkey immediately soared into the sky and punched at the Azure Emperor.
“Humph! Brutish monkey, you are seeking a beating!” the Azure Emperor snorted coldly as he counterpunched.
Two fists clashed.
Boom!
Space shook and countless sparks flew where the fists met.
The Azure Emperor took a step back from the clash while the monkey held its ground.
“What a hard piece of wood! Humph! It is only fit for firewood!” the monkey snorted coldly.
As the monkey spoke, it reached into its ear, pinched, and pulled out a small stick. However, when the small stick appeared, the Azure Emperor’s face suddenly sank. It seemed he sensed something that countered him.
“Humph! A metal-attributed enchanted treasure? Watch my Boundless Falling Wood!” the Azure Emperor shouted.
Buzz!
Suddenly, one hundred three-kilometer-long logs appeared out of nowhere, rushing at the monkey. The manifestation of the logs dyed the entire world green.
“Rotten dummy, how dare you try to show off before this Old Sun? Break!”
The stick suddenly enlarged into a humongous staff with a row of words on it: “Malleable Golden Staff.”
[TL Note: The Malleable Golden Staff is the iconic weapon of the Monkey King. Here is a Wikipedia entry on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruyi_Jingu_Bang.]
The staff swung towards those gigantic logs.
Boom!
The one hundred logs suddenly exploded. The monkey pressed its advantage, swinging its staff at the Azure Emperor. The Azure Emperor’s figure flashed, but the staff moved even faster.
Boom!
When the staff landed, the Azure Emperor’s body flared with dazzling azure light.
“The Azure Emperor’s projection cracked!” Zhang Sanfeng’s expression changed.
Previously, Ximen Chuixue and Dugu Qiubai could not harm the Azure Emperor at all, no matter what they did. This monkey was that strong?
“You dastardly thing! Our Azure Iron Divine Wood! Gu Hai, we came here to issue you an invitation. How dare you treat us like this?” the Azure Emperor suddenly shouted in a rage.
Gu Hai looked coldly at the Azure Emperor from the plaza.
“What a load of nonsense! I could tell right away that you are nothing good. Eat a staff strike from this Old Sun!” The monkey swung his staff again.
“Brutish monkey, you are seeking death! Our true body is not here. Otherwise, it would be easy to destroy you!” The Azure Emperor sent a palm strike at the monkey.
Boom!
The staff and the palm clashed. The staff sent the Azure Emperor flying again. Now, even more cracks appeared on his body.
“Imperial Lord!” the Azure Emperor’s subordinates cried out.
“Brutish monkey, your staff is of the metal attribute. If not for this staff countering our clone, we would…” The Azure Emperor swung a whip in a rage.
“Go die!” The monkey did not waste its time on words, wielding its staff again.
Boom!
The clash blew up the Azure Emperor’s right arm and sent him flying into the horizon.
“Humph! Gu Hai, just you wait! Our true body will arrive soon! Hah!” the Azure Emperor roared ferociously, feeling depressed.
“Did this Old Sun say you could leave?” the monkey said while baring its fangs.
“Humph! You are just a cloud beast from a ritual array. Can you come out?” the Azure Emperor sneered.
As the Azure Emperor spoke coldly, he shot into the distance, reaching the horizon in the blink of an eye. He moved too quickly; no one could catch up.
“Flee? This Old Sun can travel fifty-four thousand kilometers in one somersault. To think you want to flee before this Old Sun?” the monkey snorted coldly.
The monkey immediately performed a somersault, chasing the Azure Emperor.
“He left?” Countless Han Nation officials appeared shocked.
This monkey can escape the constraints of the ritual array?
“What? How could you come out?” The Azure Emperor glared.
“Hah!” The monkey swung its staff down as it glared back.
Boom!
The Azure Emperor’s projection clone exploded.
As the projection exploded, the Azure Emperor’s furious roar rang out, “Brutish monkey, just you wait. We will be coming soon! We will be coming to destroy you! Hah!”
“What a load of nonsense!” the monkey snorted coldly.
Whoosh!
The monkey immediately flew back to Borderless Heavenly Capital.
“Monkey? Great Sage Equal to Heaven?”
“Your Majesty, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven you manifested is very incredible!”
“Long live Your Majesty! May Your Majesty live for ten thousand years!”
The Han Royal Dynasty citizens cheered.
The monkey arrived at Borderless Heavenly Capital. Everything before it seemed strange. The only thing familiar was that banner.
Great Sage Equal to Heaven?
“Roar! Roar! Roar! What is this place? Where is this?” the monkey roared as it glared.
Gu Hai looked at the monkey and frowned slightly. “You were birthed from this ritual array.”
“That’s not right. I am the beautiful monkey king, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, of Mount Huaguo’s Waterfall Cave, Sun Wukong! The Jade Emperor trapped this Old Sun, using the monkeys of Mount Huaguo to threaten me. He tried to refine this Old Sun into a pill in the Eight Trigram Furnace. After I escaped, I destroyed his Sky Treasure Palace and killed countless heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals. It was that old fool Gautama who tricked me into Five Fingers Mountain. Old fool Gautama? Old fool Gautama? What’s not right. Why am I here? It’s you. You saved me from Five Fingers Mountain?” the monkey said with a glare.
“Uh…what you said is about right. I manifested the Sun Wukong that was just suppressed under Five Fingers Mountain.” Gu Hai nodded.
“Then, it is right. You saved me, and I helped you beat that bastard to death earlier. We do not owe each other anything now. Now, I am going to seek out old fool Gautama for revenge. Old fool Gautama!” The monkey suddenly turned enraged. His rage even burned the dark clouds in the sky red.
“Uh…but…” Gu Hai suddenly did not know how to explain this.
Is there something wrong with the Thirty-Two Line-Pair World Ritual Array? Why did it manifest such a monkey?
“Old fool Gautama stays in the west. I am not familiar with anything in this place. Are there a lot of monks staying in the west?” the monkey asked while glaring.
“Uh…there is indeed a Spirit Mountain Holy Land in the west. It is one of the three holy lands of the world,” one of the officials at the side explained.
“The Spirit Mountain Holy Land? That’s it. It should be right. The Spirit Mountain Holy Land, Major Leiyin Temple, the Lord Gautama Buddha?” The monkey finally heard a familiar name.
“It’s the Present Buddha!” that official cried out.
“The Present Buddha is the Gautama Buddha, just under a different name? Humph! The Spirit Mountain Holy Land? Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! This Old Sun just wrecked the heavenly palace. Now, I’ll destroy your Spirit Mountain Holy Land! Old fool Gautama, Old Sun is coming!” the monkey shouted.
The monkey extended its hand and grabbed that Great Sage Equal to Heaven banner. Then, its figure flashed, heading west at an extreme speed, instantly vanishing over the horizon.
Gu Hai: “…”
That Spirit Mountain Holy Land was not Earth’s Spirit Mountain Holy Land. Gu Hai wanted to stop Sun Wukong but was too late. The monkey had already vanished over the horizon to cause trouble for the Spirit Mountain Holy Land.
Gu Hai felt conflicted. The monks of Spirit Mountain Holy Land are going to suffer an undeserved disaster?
How could it be like this? How did that monkey just go out?
Dongfang Bubai, Ximen Chuixue, Dugu Qiubai, and Zhang Sanfeng immediately flew to the periphery. However, they immediately returned after doing that.
“Emperor Gu, why could that monkey leave the ritual array? Did he come to life?” Dongfang Bubai asked, feeling shocked.
Gu Hai’s eyelids twitched wildly as he studied the ritual array before him. However, his brows furrowed.
“I’m not sure. This Thirty-Two Line-Pair World Ritual Array has already deviated from Old Mister Guan Qi’s Thirty-Two Line-Pair World Ritual Array. It is not quite complete yet. Perhaps something happened earlier. That monkey did surpass the ritual array’s control,” Gu Hai said with a frown.
“Ah? Then, we…?” Dongfang Bubai’s eyes lit up.
“I will continue studying this. Since the monkey can leave the ritual array, you should also have a chance to leave one day,” Gu Hai said with certainty.
Dongfang Bubai’s eyes lit up. “Excellent! We will have to trouble Emperor Gu, then.”
Although the four could not leave the ritual array now, there was hope for the future since there was the precedent of the monkey.
“Huh?” Gu Hai suddenly narrowed his eyes when he saw the Azure Emperor’s subordinates fleeing.
Dongfang Bubai noticed the murderous intent in Gu Hai’s eyes, so he waved his hand.
Buzz!
One hundred needles shot out of the ritual array and pierced the foreheads of the Azure Emperor’s subordinates.
“Ah!” the group in the distance screamed.
“Gu Hai, quickly release me! Otherwise, you all can forget about surviving when the Azure Emperor’s true body arrives!”
“The imperial lord will arrive soon. The moment he arrives will be the moment of Borderless Heavenly Capital’s destruction!”
“The imperial lord’s projection’s power is not even one percent of his actual strength. Even that monkey will be useless. When the imperial lord arrives, all of you will die! Quickly release us!”
The Azure Emperor’s subordinates yelled in anger.
“Humph!” Dongfang Bubai snorted coldly as he pulled on the red threads connected to his finger.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Azure Emperor’s subordinates all exploded.
Chapters for June: 26 / 30
