Chapter 729 - 663: Enlightened Divine Monkey_1
In front of Water Curtain Cave, the waterfall parted like a barrier opening.
A mysterious world had already revealed itself.
In that world, it seemed empty save for one gigantic boulder standing tall between Heaven and Earth.
“Esteemed benefactors, please follow me.”
Lu Shoushi spoke.
The crowd stepped into that world.
The untamed, primordial scent immediately hit them in the face.
The air was permeated with a scent of death.
Upon the land, there were nothing but stone corpses!
There were some horrific stone insects with bizarre forms, three-headed and six-armed stone Yakshas, and Great Peng Birds with eight stone wings…
“Are these… all Bizarre Beings?!”
The crowd was surprised.
Above this land lay endless white bones, all belonging to vanquished Ash Mist Creatures!
It was known that Ash Mist Creatures were extremely fearsome; during the Calamity Era, all Ten Spirits had fallen because of them.
Yet, in this world, there lay hundreds, thousands of Ash Mist Creature corpses!
Had the Divine Monkey killed so many beings before his death?
Moreover, even though those Ash Mist Creatures were dead, they would typically leave behind some mist.
But this world was spotlessly clean.
Not a wisp of mist remained.
“Monkey… woof, it was the Monkey!”
Big Black Dog looked at the giant stone ahead, excitement in its dog eyes.
“Dead Dog, this monkey… seems very strong.”
Wu Dade also couldn’t help but speak out.
Big Black Dog said:
“Of course, after all, it’s one of the most capable amongst the Ten Spirits… woof, I misspoke, only second to this Emperor!”
The crowd: “…”
Meanwhile, Lu Shoushi had already stepped forward, looking at the Divine Monkey Statue ahead, his face full of deep emotion.
“Divine Monkey… the words you left behind have all been fulfilled.”
“When Huang Yan rises, the beacon of war calms; Samsara emerges, Ghost Domain becomes empty… You should return to wage war across the heavens!”
He knelt before the Divine Monkey Statue, his eyes brimming with excitement and anticipation!
The Six-Eared Macaque Tribe, guarding for eternity, had paid a bloody price; finally, in this era…
Lu Ling also followed by his side, kneeling in front of the Divine Monkey Statue.
“Senior Li once said that a Stone Monkey sprang from a boulder on Flower-Fruit Mountain… it must be today!”
Lu Ling murmured devoutly.
And Nan Feng and the others, too, arrived in front of the Divine Monkey Statue.
Qing Chen stepped forward, his eyes clear, murmuring:
“Enlightened Divine Monkey…”
At that moment, his Divine King Domain involuntarily unfurled on its own!
The Divine King Domain, vast and boundless, where sacred chants echoed, seemingly evolving time and space.
History was affected, the years were whirling, and destiny descended in the fathomless…
Everyone felt it!
At this moment, they seemed to see through the corridors of time, a Divine Monkey conquering the heavens, radiating golden light, standing high with an iron rod in hand, disdainfully looking down on all worlds!
What followed was another scene.
It was a world in chaos, with Grey Mist oppressing the heavens, the Age of White Mist churning and roiling, with beings weeping blood, and powerful figures falling… like a world-ending catastrophe.
An otherworldly monk was meditating under the hazy and holy Bodhi Tree, with the Divine Monkey waiting beside him.
After a long while, the monk opened his eyes as if gazing toward the ends of the heavens, and said:
“I must also take the Ascendant Path.”
He stood up.
The Divine Monkey gripped his iron rod tightly and followed closely.
“You stay.”
The monk spoke softly:
“Years ago, that one went to quell the turmoil… never to return.”
“Now, with the Grey Mist heralding disaster, the fires of the Primordial Ancestral World are being snuffed out one after another… no one knows whether the Primordial Ancestral World can be preserved, or whether the Age of White Mist will end in this lifetime.”
“We must ensure the Fire Seed does not die out, otherwise, that one will become lost…”
“The iron rod in your hand was left by that one; you must take it with you to create a Pure Land, safeguarding the Fire Seed, to guide back that one’s path home…”
Upon hearing this, the Divine Monkey gripped the iron rod tightly and said:
“Those who take that path eventually turn into bizarre, ominous beings… no one can return. Can that one do it?”
The monk spoke firmly, word by word:
“He… he definitely can!”
“I must take the Ascendant Path.”
The monk departed, the hazy and holy Bodhi Tree transformed into a Zen Staff, falling into his hands.
He walked upon the clouds and vanished.
…
And then, the scene shifted!
Battle in the Yang Realm!
In the Calamity Epoch, the Ash Mist doomed the world. Ash Mist Creatures and Heretics kept emerging, wreaking havoc across the heavens, annihilating everything!
A Divine Monkey, fighting against the sky and the earth, laughed arrogantly amidst enemies, its iron cudgel smashing an Ash Mist Creature one after another!
The iron cudgel in its hand was incredibly terrifying. Its golden light glinted, overpowering all the heavens, and even the Ash Mist Creatures dared not face its edge!
“Thrilling, thrilling! Bring them on, you filthy Ash Mist scum!”
The Divine Monkey roared with laughter, charging forward and proving invincible in battle!
However, in its moment of invincibility, it suddenly turned its head to look towards a certain point in space and time.
In its Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze, it saw a series of phantoms.
It was somewhere in space and time, a monk in white stained with blood, killed and falling into a burial pit, the Bodhi Tree shattered, the Bodhi Seeds scattered throughout the heavens…
“No…”
The Divine Monkey’s eyes split with rage as it abruptly raised its hand and hurled the iron cudgel into the universe!
It sought to use that iron cudgel left by that someone to strike that space and time, to save the monk!
Deprived of the terrifying iron cudgel, the surrounding Ash Mist Creatures rallied for a comeback.
“Ash Mist scum… taste my iron fist!”
The Divine Monkey slammed its fists into the horde of Ash Mist Creatures, its divine might undiminished, but without the terrifying iron cudgel, the battle became incredibly tough.
Its prowess was awe-inspiring; its fists broke through the clouds, its Holy Blood boiled in battle, moving unfettered among the Ash Mist and at every bizarre turning.
A generation’s Divine Monkey fought all enemies barehanded!
Beneath its feet lay piled skeletons; its entire body was stained with blood.
Yet at that moment, an Edict tore open the sky, bringing endless Ash Mist, and descended upon the Divine Monkey!
That Edict… seemed to come from a terrifying World of Grey Mist.
The Divine Monkey’s earth-shaking power had alarmed the taboo existences within that world of grey mist.
The Divine Monkey burned its Holy Blood, transforming into raging flames, and charged towards the Edict!
The heavy mist Edict was actually ignited!
But the Divine Monkey also fell from the sky.
It had reached the end of its life!
Subduing enemies with its fists, burning its blood to challenge the forbidden Grey Mist Decree… It had reached its limit!
“Great calamities have begun…”
“Can ‘he’… really come back?”
As death approached, the Divine Monkey murmured, suddenly activating the last of its energy, igniting its Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze, and gazing down the stream of time.
“When Huang Yan rises, beacon fires quiet; Samsara emerges, Ghost Domain emptied…”
“I shall return, wage war across the heavens, hahaha, hahahaha!”
Not knowing what it saw, but the Divine Monkey burst into laughter, clearly full of satisfaction.
Suddenly, it closed its eyes and turned into a stone statue!
The dense, bizarre Ash Mist engulfed it.
…
The scene ended there.
Silence fell upon everyone who saw it.
Just how brutal was that battle?
With the Ten Spirits fallen, Qing Chen and others’ past selves perished in unknown lands…
The Ash Mist hung like dense leaden clouds over that ancient history.
And “that person” became everyone’s faith, their hope!
…
Qing Chen walked step by step towards the giant rock ahead.
Despite the years, a certain feeling arose in his heart. This rock evoked the most natural, most familiar emotions within him.
He looked at the giant rock and whispered softly:
“Return… battle the heavens once more!”
He was calling out, reaching out his hand, aiming to touch the rock.
“Be careful, when the Divine Monkey died, it was tainted by the bizarre Ash Mist!”
At this moment, Nan Feng uttered a reminder.
Big Black Dog was even more vigilant, keeping a watchful eye, just in case.
Yet when Qing Chen’s hand landed on the giant rock, not a trace of bizarre Ash Mist appeared.
As though it had never been there at all.
“That’s not right… what we just saw, just before the Divine Monkey’s death, it was clearly tainted… how could it…”
Everyone was puzzled.
The Big Black Dog, as if it had thought of something, had a very solemn look in its eyes.
“By my blood, I call you back!”
Qing Chen roared!
His hands bled, the blood dripping over the stone statue.
The blood seeped into the statue.
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