Chapter 788: The Strongest Being in the Heaven界排名第一強者!!!!!注：
ow arriving" The mayor, busy entertaining guests, hurried over.The pretty little girl Wu Loxue, who was carved from a jade block and very cute indeed, also walked up with her father. Consequently, Zhe...Chapter 788: The Strongest Being in the Heavenly Realm
"S...Sun Wukong"
Hao Ren almost immediately blurted out this name without hesitation.
When he discovered that the supreme treasure of the Dragon God Temple was the Ruyi Jingu Bang (Magic如意金箍棒), he was still somewhat surprised. But now, upon seeing the bearded cultivator standing before him, he instantly thought of that legendary figure!
"Heh heh! You also know my name!" The cultivator chuckled and then suddenly changed his expression. "But you, a mere minor cultivator, dare to address me as the Great Sage Equaling Heaven (齊天大聖)!"
Hum!
A jade green rod appeared in the palm of his hand. "If one can refine the Ruyi Jingu Bang, they cannot be a common cultivator. Let's see you take this on!"
Rush rush rush... The green rod produced an endless series of green shadows that gave Hao Ren no time to react before launching towards him like a tidal wave.
Hao Ren was taken aback, thinking that this guy was even more reckless than the legend. The spiritual energy of the Ruyi Jingu Bang gushed out from his palms and met head-on with the nearly continuous green rods.
Having refined the Ruyi Jingu Bang, Hao Ren used sword techniques to counter it, while Sun Wukong employed genuine staff techniques!
The spearhead of all weapons was the staff; its technique could sweep through a multitude. "A staff sweeps through an army" (棍掃一大片).
Under the support of the black dragon horse, Hao Ren spewed out a stream of dark light, while Zhao Kuo lifted his Black Dragon Lance and charged at Sun Wukong.
"Three against one Haha, funny!"
Sun Wukong split into three forms with his staff, lightly tapping both the black dragon horse and Zhao Kuo away over hundreds of meters. Both felt their demon cores (妖丹) and dragon cores (龍丹) heavily damaged, unable to get up for a moment.
Rush rush... The intent of the staff, like endless river water, surged toward Hao Ren!
"You dare use the Ruyi Jingu Bang"
The green shadows of the staff formed an unbroken chain, instantly thrusting towards Hao Ren's chest with a violent strike.
While Sun Wukong had trained in the Heavenly Realm and the deities feared him causing trouble, they advised him to return the Ruyi Jingu Bang to the East Sea. However, feeling lonely as a high-level cultivator, he thought keeping it nearby was useless; thus, he placed it in the sea to suppress demonic energy.
Who would have thought that thousands of years later, this boy not only used it as a weapon but also refined it into his life-bound treasure!
This could be considered tarnishing the glory of Great Sage Equaling Heaven (齊天大聖)!
In those days, he searched the world and found no one who could defeat him. In the Wan妖Sea, the great demon kings were defeated bloody by him; in Penglai Immortal Mountain, the patriarch of earthly immortals, Zhenyuanzi (鎮元子), set up the "Seven Slaughter Array" to barely restrain him.
However, Zhenyuanzi was too easy-going. Sun Wukong somehow got swayed and befriended him, making it hard to take action against him.
Then he rushed into the eighth layer of heaven, beating up all cultivators in the Thunderous Heaven sect (神霄派) until they were crawling on the ground, then to the Heavenly Realm where he roused a united front of cultivators against him. Eventually, he even smashed the Heavenly Palace.
Only when Western Queen Mother invited nine dragons for help did Yazi among them barely match his strength in battle. But Sun Wukong, relying on his self-learned Heaven Thunder Staff Techniques (天雷棍法), still managed to beat Yazi until he was bruised all over.
Just when the nine dragons were evenly matched with him and Zhenyuanzi intervened to mediate from land, Sun Wukong showed respect by agreeing to train in the Heavenly Realm.
In these thousand years of training, his character gradually became more stable. The titles bestowed upon him as "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" (齊天大聖) by Zhenyuanzi, Western Queen Mother, and Eastern Lord Gong spread throughout heaven and earth.
How could Hao Ren imagine he would have to fight Sun Wukong Facing the layers of jade rods, he could only employ Tenfold Ambush Formation with sword arrays to defend himself.
"Oh, Heavenly Dao power!" Sun Wukong looked at Hao Ren in surprise and gripped the staff’s end with both hands. "Harnessing heavenly dao power to defy heavenly dao!"
Calling Sun Wukong the number one genius of heaven and earth wouldn't be an overstatement; he had reached Seven Lotus Petals (七瓣蓮) within a few hundred years, and after battling nine dragons—especially against Yazi—he broke through to Eight Lotus Petals (八瓣蓮).
During this thousand-year period, he sought opportunities to advance to the Infinite Divine Power realm of Nine Lotus Petals (九瓣蓮), but found no one capable of fighting him!
Western Queen Mother and Zhenyuanzi were merely Seven Lotus Petals (七瓣蓮); legends told that only the vanished Void-Creating Dragon reached Nine Lotus Petals (九瓣蓮).
This boy who burst into Heavenly Palace now looked formidable but was barely at Five Lotus Petals (五瓣蓮), greatly disappointing Sun Wukong!
Back then, he had been at Seven Lotus Petals (七瓣蓮) when causing chaos in the Heavenly Realm. Contemporary cultivators were becoming weaker and weaker!
However... Hòu Rén's body was filled with the power of the Heavenly Dao, which surprised Sun Wukong a bit. In theory, this indicated that the Heavenly Dao favored him and hoped he would bear its responsibilities to overcome some great calamity, but instead, he had attacked!
This is truly bizarre!
Back then when I attacked, there was no protection from the Heavenly Dao; I charged upward against fierce heavenly lightning!
Fighting Hòu Rén is like fighting the Heavenly Dao itself. And yet, Hòu Rén comes to Heaven with such determination and intent on disrupting the Heavenly Dao!
Sun Wukong was also confused by the vast power of the Heavenly Dao in Hòu Rén's sword light.
But Sun Wukong still had some hope... Could defeating the Heavenly Dao allow me to break through to the Nine Petals Lotus realm
Bang… The spiritual energy of Sun Wukong’s green staff suddenly intensified!
The reason he chose a fragile jade staff as his weapon was that by this point, his strength had reached the level where even plucking leaves and picking flowers could be considered treasures. Only by using the weakest jade stick would these celestial cultivators feel at ease.
But they were overly naive; just because Sun Wukong used a jade staff didn’t mean he couldn't defeat them!
When Hòu Rén saw the green shadow condense into a clear jade staff, he suddenly felt as if Mount Tai had come crashing down on him. His entire body was restrained and unable to dodge!
It seemed like there were places where one could avoid it, yet nowhere at all!
"This level of skill is still inferior to my retrieval of the Divine Needle," Sun Wukong’s jade staff tapped Hòu Rén’s Divine Needle.
Hòu Rén felt his hands suddenly explode. The Heaven and Earth divine treasure, the Divine Needle, was pushed up by this slight tap from the jade staff!
Even though he wielded a Divine Needle that was identical to his own mind, he still couldn’t compete with Sun Wukong's casually used jade stick!
It was as if holding a sword capable of cutting through iron like mud had failed to sever an ordinary branch from the enemy and even been suppressed by it!
Fighting instinct told Hòu Rén he couldn’t lose his weapon, so despite being shaken loose, his hands suddenly clamped onto the Divine Needle again.
He would retrieve it no matter what!
"Let go!" Sun Wukong’s jade staff flicked, wrapping a lingering power around the Divine Needle and finally pulling it up.
Ting… The icy cold Divine Needle entered Sun Wukong's hands, instantly giving him a sense of familiarity.
That jade stick he usually never used wasn't as useful; this Divine Needle was still better! These useless celestial immortals were afraid that I’d cause chaos in the Heavenly Palace again if they let me take the Divine Needle back to the Dragon King’s palace!
Whoosh… Sun Wukong swung the Divine Needle, flinging out glittering gold and silver光芒。
Bold and magnificent! Heaven shakes, earth stirs!
This radiance was so blinding that Hòu Rén could barely open his eyes. This was truly the might of the Divine Needle!
Suddenly, Sun Wukong felt a strong urge to cause chaos in the Heavenly Palace again and see if these cultivators had improved in a thousand years!
"Boy, give me back my Divine Needle and I’ll spare your life!" Just as Sun Wukong was about to take possession of the Divine Needle, he realized it still maintained a spiritual connection with Hòu Rén. Instantly, he activated his Eight Petals Lotus realm and tried to wipe out Hòu Rén's divine consciousness.
"Eh" He suddenly softly cried out in surprise.
He found that the Divine Needle’s fusion with Hòu Rén’s spirit was so firm; he couldn’t erase it!
Hòu Rên’s Five Elements Mystic Crystal inside his body had completely merged with the Divine Needle. To wipe away the divine consciousness on this Divine Needle, one would have to kill him!
"Are you a treasure spirit of the Divine Needle" Sun Wukong narrowed his eyes, looking at Hòu Rên in confusion.
From his perspective, the only explanation was that Hòu Rén had possessed a self-generated treasure spirit of the Divine Needle. This Divine Needle… Was destined to belong to Hòu Rén!
Buzz… The Divine Needle vanished from Sun Wukong's hand and automatically returned to Hòu Rên’s body.
Since Sun Wukong didn’t practice the Five Elements technique but had ascended level by level as a young demon king, he was unaware of the Dragon Clan cultivators’ Mystic Crystal. He knew nothing about how Hòu Rén had refined the ten-thousand-year Seven-Hearted Multicolored Lotus into the finest Five Elements Mystic Crystal that naturally harmonized with this world’s best Chaos Divine Treasure, the Divine Needle.
"Since you have such good fortune, then join me in cultivation!" Sun Wukong suddenly reached for Hòu Rén.
Hao Ren unleashed a sword aura, took two steps, and smoothly performed the Mystic Water Sword Technique! The Dinghai Divine Needle emerged from his palm, automatically transforming into a longsword with a golden blade and silver handle!
The Five Elements combined with thunder; Hao Ren wielded his sword to draw a flexible curve, thrusting toward Sun Wukong's arm.
"I want to take you as my disciple, yet you still dare not submit!"
Living in the Heavenly Realm, Sun Wukong had nothing to do and was bored out of his mind. Now that he saw a young cultivator who could perfectly fuse with the Dinghai Divine Needle come to the Heavenly Realm, he wanted to take a disciple for some fun. Yet this fellow dared to resist!
Now looking at Hao Ren from the Five-Petal Lotus realm, Sun Wukong saw him as nothing other than the self-evolving treasure spirit of the Dinghai Divine Needle, or at least someone who had fused with its treasure spirit. Keeping him by his side to cultivate was not wrong!
Mokkirin and Zhao Kuo rushed over when they saw Hao Ren and Sun Wukong tangled up.
With two kicks, Sun Wukong sent them flying in opposite directions.
"If you don’t submit, I’ll beat you into submission!" Sun Wukong went bare-handed against Hao Ren.
He suppressed his realm to the Five-Petal Lotus realm and was determined to defeat Hao Ren even if it meant going unarmed!
In this thousand-year period, he had found no opponents. He could only lower his realm to fight those in the Six- and Seven-Petal Lotus realms. To his surprise, his martial arts skills improved, but his realm didn’t progress at all.
Those cultivators from the Six- and Seven-Petal Lotus realms were already terrified of him; they sent their apprentices to stand guard outside the palace so that when Sun Wukong arrived, they could flee through the back door.
It had been ages since Sun Wukong had lowered his realm to this level!
Bang bang bang! With each punch, Sun Wukong’s fists were full of power. Even Hao Ren’s longsword transformed from the Dinghai Divine Needle couldn’t harm him.
F*ck… Hao Ren was pushed back step by step and finally got angry. He suddenly retracted the Dinghai Divine Needle, leaped forward, steadied his legs, and used the Pushing Moon to See the Sea technique of the Donghai Dragon Palace’s foundation boxing!
Zhao Kuo, who had gotten up from touching his chest, was stunned.
Hao Ren didn’t use the Dinghai Divine Needle but instead fought Sun Wukong with the Donghai Dragon Palace’s foundation boxing
"Hehe…" Sun Wukong’s fists and feet suddenly sped up, leaving a myriad of illusory tracks behind him.
Hao Ren took in a deep breath, circulated his Five-Petal Lotus realm energy fully, made the sword aura-like power surge through his meridians, countered blow for blow, and fought faster and faster.
It seemed as though both of them were turning east then west; Zhao Kuo and Mokkirin’s heads couldn’t keep up. Reaching a realm surpassing Core Formation and Heavenly Dragon realms, they still used the simplest boxing and footwork to fight!
How could this be
Whoosh… A streak of light flew from below and suddenly stopped at the Heavenly Gate.
This gray-robed cultivator was precisely Zhenyuanzi.
Zhenyuanzi thought that Hao Ren would rush to the Heavenly Realm based on a personal grudge. Even if he could force back those celestial soldiers, he wouldn’t be able to break through the Eighth Heaven’s Shenxiao Dao defense; thus, he had sent the furious and severely injured Yazi to his Penglai Immortal Mountain before rushing off in a hurry.
Yazi may have a penchant for killing, but that also represented the turning of heaven’s will. The world’s forces would unify after fragmentation, and vice versa; Yazi’s appearance would mean slaughtering many lives, which was his duty bestowed by heaven.
Zhenyuanzi understood that Hao Ren was still young and didn’t know these things yet. He knew he hadn’t transcended the ordinary human realm and couldn’t view changes in the world with a calm mind. All he hoped for was that this “younger brother” who looked decent wouldn’t stir up more trouble.
Back then, Sun Wukong rushed to the Heavenly Realm in his self-cultivated Eight-Petal Lotus realm, nearly causing havoc throughout the palace; Yazi gritted his teeth and stopped him from making things worse. Hence, Empress Xi favored Yazi because of his merit. If heaven’s will was ever endangered again, it would still rely on Yazi to prevent catastrophe.
But how could Hao Ren know about this To Empress Xi, Hao Ren had injured Yazi out of personal grudge.
When Zhenyuanzi kindly advised and left Yazi in the Penglai Immortal Mountain for treatment before rushing to the Eighth Heaven in a panic, he unexpectedly discovered that Hao Ren hadn’t been stopped by the Eighth Heaven’s defenses. He immediately rushed to save him at the Heavenly Realm.
When he saw Hao Ren fighting Sun Wukong, Zhenyuanzi’s head buzzed; he quickly rushed up and tried to persuade them: "Second Brother, Second Brother… Third Brother, Third Brother… Stop fighting!"
However, how could Hao Ren and Sun Wukong stop when they were in the heat of battle
In Hao Ren’s heart, there was no longer any admiration; he intended to defeat Sun Wukong one way or another. Sun Wukong had found that Hao Ren wasn’t as weak as he thought—he could even incorporate sword techniques into ordinary boxing and fighting at this unstable Five-Petal Lotus realm was already formidable.
Bang bang… Hao Ren and Sun Wukong exchanged several more punches and kicks.
"Second brother! Second brother! Third brother! Third brother!"
Zhenyuanzi circled around them, moving from left to right and front to back. He didn't look like a mediator but more like an umpire. He wanted to separate them but was worried that it might intensify their anger.
Hao Ren and Sun Wukong had completely figured out each other's fighting style, punching and kicking relentlessly without regard for the other’s status.
Zhenyuanzi saw that they were in a deadlock with no signs of wanting to kill each other. He decided not to rush them and stood aside, calculating with his fingers.
"Ah..." He suddenly lifted his head in alarm, a hint of panic in his eyes.
He had made a mistake!
The development of events led him to recalculate. To his surprise, he found that Hao Ren wasn't the chosen one by the Heavenly Dao after all!
The workings of the heavenly order were unpredictable, but as an ancestor among earthly immortals, he should have been able to glimpse a bit of its secrets and make preparations accordingly. However, despite numerous opportunities leading him to believe that Hao Ren was indeed the chosen one, he now realized...
Hao Ren wasn't the chosen one by Heavenly Dao, yet he had refined the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, which according to the rules of Heavenly Dao should have been refined by the correct individual!
Zhenyuanzi was immediately alarmed.
The rotation of Heavenly Dao was precise; even a slight error could cause significant consequences. His carefree life in the Sea of Ten Thousand Demons depended on selecting the right individuals every five hundred years, but he had made an error!
Sweat trickled down Zhenyuanzi's forehead as he furrowed his brow and quickly recast his calculations.
Strange, why are there four... The more anxious he became, the more confused he got. Suddenly, he realized that there were actually four beings charging towards the Heavenly Realm!
Hao Ren, Black Ink Qilin, Zhao Kuo from East Sea, and one other who was it
Why was there an extra one!
Zhenyuanzi carefully recalculated to confirm that indeed another being was part of the predetermined sequence.
In his Seven Lotus Petals realm, he could not detect anyone hiding around him. Could it be that the dragon who had disrupted the heavens also followed them up
Zhenyuanzi felt something amiss and wanted to stop Hao Ren and Sun Wukong when a pair of sharp voices suddenly rang out from within the Heavenly Palace.
Lulinlin and Luli, dressed in blue and green graceful gossamer, rushed out!
Heavenly Nine Maidens, the Pavilion Masters of the Celestial Heart Hall—Satisfied and Contented!
"Sir!"
Lulinlin and Luli shot forth two beams of light that instantly landed beside Hao Ren.
"Humph..." They snorted as they each produced Yin-Yang Rings, standing left and right to attack Sun Wukong!
Upon learning from the Celestial Heart Hall that Hao Ren had charged into the upper realm, their hearts were suddenly filled with excitement... Sir finally arrived!
When they learned that Hao Ren was battling with the strongest in Heaven, the Heavenly Monkey, they could no longer hold back and flew out with their respective法寶.
During the time apart from Hao Ren, every moment had been spent thinking of him. If not for Queen Mother Xi Wangmu restraining them, they would have rushed down to find him!
Now that Hao Ren was in a battle at the Heavenly Realm’s entrance, what reason did they have to stay behind
If Hao Ren rebelled against Heaven, they would join him in his rebellion!
If Queen Mother Xi Wangmu wanted to punish them, so be it.
They only wished for a life without regret!
Their highest cultivation levels were fully unleashed. Like Hao Ren, their bodies and hearts were linked as they fought alongside him—Seven Lotus Petals!!
(To Be Continued)torcycles to roar and spew black smoke."Boss, Boss!" At the water canteen entrance of Donghai University, a member of the rock climbing club ran up to Huang Xujie. "That Hao Ren is being surrounded by...