Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong-Chapter 728 - 729: Astonishing Group Battle (1st Update!)

"Buddha, no matter how talented you are, you are still a shameless scoundrel who betrays his masters and ancestors! For someone like you, no means are too extreme! Yes, today we brothers are indeed joining forces to punish you!"

Puti Patriarch chuckled coldly. Buddha’s talent was indeed exceptional; besides Sun Wukong, likely no one in the Three Realms could match him now. He had reached the pinnacle of the Merit Saint realm capable of Slaying the Three Corpses, and once he crossed that threshold, he would become like the Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor, a Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortal, advancing even faster in cultivation than Puti Patriarch himself.

Facing such an enemy, Puti Patriarch certainly wouldn’t talk about fairness—the most important thing was to win!

"You treacherous ingrate, I was truly blind to have taken you in as my disciple. Today, you will definitely pay the price for your actions! Junior brother, let’s go!"

Guiding Daoist knew that with his current cultivation strength, he probably couldn’t match Buddha; but so what?

If one person couldn’t handle it, then they would join forces! Even with Buddha’s formidable power, he could only match them when they teamed up!

The Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and the Guiding Golden Banner appeared in the hands of Puti Patriarch and Guiding Daoist, and the two attacked Buddha from left and right.

"Tathagata Palm!"

Buddha’s face grew increasingly gloomy. Puti Patriarch and Guiding Daoist were long-established Saint Realm powerhouses with extremely rich combat experience. Although his present cultivation strength surpassed both of theirs, the difference was extremely limited as long as he hadn’t united with the Three Corpses. The combined power of these two was not merely a simple sum of their individual strengths!

Today’s battle was going to be tough!

"Ha! Even this old Buddha has his day!"

High above, Sun Wukong continued to stimulate the Merit and Destiny to carve out a space in Heaven Realm. He could clearly see the battle between the high-ranking members of Flower-Fruit Mountain and the Buddhist Sect powerhouses, but he didn’t have the luxury to leave and assist in that battle. Reestablishing the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court had to begin with carving out Heaven Realm, a critical step. If anything went wrong in the meantime, even if the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court was established, it would just be a mediocre existence like the Human Heavenly Court, incapable of asserting dominance over the Three Realms.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The clouds around Flower-Fruit Mountain transformed into a massive battlefield. The shockwaves of intense power continually expanded outward, causing the very space to fray into black rifts. Fortunately, the Sect Protection Array of Flower-Fruit Mountain was already activated; the Primordial Unity Grand Formation did a much better job of resisting external attacks than the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation. The residual waves of power were all blocked by the Great Formation Barrier of the Primordial Unity Grand Formation and did not affect the Heaven Realm space that was still being perfected.

The Merit and Destiny continued to deplete. The Merit and Destiny originally stored inside the golden statue of Sun Wukong had long been exhausted. Fortunately, the Merit and Destiny of Jiang Liu’er and his four disciples sustained them, but as the Heaven Realm space was nearly completed, about ninety percent of their Merit and Destiny had been consumed.

"Stop!"

Sun Wukong halted the extraction of Merit and Destiny from Jiang Liu’er and his four disciples. He had a prior agreement to leave them ten percent of their Merit and Destiny for their use. To be a trustworthy monkey rather than a scoundrel like those others was essential.

However, the transfer of Merit and Destiny did not stop. Sun Wukong channeled the Merit and Destiny from within his body into the fixed realm array—Merit and Destiny he had previously extracted from the Buddha-viewing Pagoda, belonging to the Buddhist Sect, now being used for the reconstruction of the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court.

If Buddha and the others knew about this, they would probably burst their lungs in anger!

The structure of Heaven Realm space grew increasingly perfect. A part of Flower-Fruit Mountain was completely hidden within the Heaven Realm space, revealing only the peaks of the nine mountains flickering in and out of sight.

"Just a little more, and it will be complete!"

The biggest challenge in rebuilding the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court was establishing the Heaven Realm space. Once this step was completed, the subsequent steps, such as enveloping with auspicious clouds and irrigating with auspicious colors, would be minor matters.

From a distance, a auspicious cloud moved swiftly toward Flower-Fruit Mountain. It was the army of the Heavenly Court, and the commotion caused by Sun Wukong’s reopening of the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court had not gone unnoticed. All forces within the Three Realms had sensed it, and the Heavenly Court was certainly aware.

Moreover, this time the experts from the Buddhist Sect had engaged in full-scale battle with Flower-Fruit Mountain, and the eyes of the Heavenly Court were not blind, they could not fail to see.

The Jade Emperor had requested the aid of the Primordial Heavenly Venerate and personally led a million-strong army to join forces with the Buddhist Sect to prevent the establishment of the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court.

Within the Three Realms, having one Human Heavenly Court was already enough; the Jade Emperor would never allow another Heavenly Court to emerge among the Demon Clan!

"This is bad!"

Seeing the mighty army of the Heavenly Court from afar, Sun Wukong’s heart instantly sank. The elites of Flower-Fruit Mountain were mostly already clashing with the masters of the Buddhist Sect. The million-strong army of the Heavenly Court was manageable, but who would stand against the Jade Emperor and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable?

Amidst his inner anxiety, the army of the Heavenly Court had already arrived nearby. The Jade Emperor glimpsed the faint outline of Flower-Fruit Mountain in his eyes, which flashed with a fierce glint, and he commanded with a wave of his hand, "The Demon Clan is lawless, showing no respect for the heavenly order. Today, together with the Buddhas of the Buddhist Sect, we shall annihilate them! Attack!"

"Kill!"

The hordes of Immortals, Gods, and Heavenly Soldiers roared as they charged toward Flower-Fruit Mountain. Under Leng Xuan’s command, the members of the Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Cult also poured out from within the mountain and clashed with the throngs of the Heavenly Court’s immortals and soldiers.

"Brother, leave Buddha to me, you go and block Primordial. We mustn’t let him slaughter wantonly!"

A cold light flashed in Puti Patriarch’s eyes as he called out to the Guiding Daoist.

"Can you handle it alone, junior brother?"

The Guiding Daoist’s brows furrowed. He and Puti Patriarch had, together, firmly suppressed the Tathagata Buddha, but if he were to leave, the situation might very well reverse.

"Don’t worry, I’m not that weak!"

Puti Patriarch laughed. He, too, was a Merit Saint of the Slaying Three Corpses Cultivation, and although he was slightly inferior to the Tathagata Buddha, he possessed the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, which was sufficient to bridge the gap in strength between them, making it no problem to hold off the Tathagata Buddha!

"Then take care, junior brother!"

Knowing this was not the time for idle talk, the Guiding Daoist nodded, then withdrew from the battle and charged toward Primordial Heavenly Venerable, intercepting him before he could join the fray and start a massacre.

"Primordial brother, long time no see. Do you remember me?"

"Guiding? You indeed survived!"

Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s pupils suddenly contracted, "It seems the so-called evil body of Amitabha was just an excuse by the Buddhist Sect!"

"Primordial brother is indeed wise! Knowing that, why do you still assist the tyrant?"

"Assisting a tyrant? Laughable! In my view, the Demon Clan is the tyrant; they are the evil!"