Chapter 762: Chapter 763: Sacrifice of the 12 Heavens (2nd Update!)

Three golden Heavenly Pillars, twined with the endless power of the Great Dao’s laws, manifested and soared toward the colossal Buddha Palm descending from the sky, almost simultaneously colliding with the Buddha Palm, blocking it from coming down.

The overwhelming strength spread in all directions, and with each contact between the golden Heavenly Pillars and the Buddha Palm, a series of thunderous roars resounded. Sun Wukong felt an immense pressure seeping through the Golden Buddha Palm, pressing down on him; even the Heaven-Breaking Three Sticks couldn’t fully block it.

“What terrifying strength! Is this the power obtained after sacrificing the Twelve Small Worlds? It already has the might to destroy worlds!”

Sun Wukong was inwardly shocked. The pressure from the Golden Buddha Palm was too great; even his ultimate move, Nine Steps to Trample the Heavens, combined with the Heaven-Breaking Three Sticks, couldn’t fully withstand it. Space cracks spread in all directions, fracturing into spatial black holes and slowly expanding.

Violent spatial storms gushed out from the black holes, sweeping over Sun Wukong’s entire body. It was the crushing force of the laws, and even Sun Wukong, with his strong physical body, felt as if he was about to be torn apart.

“Chaos Clock!”

Not daring to be careless, Sun Wukong summoned the Chaos Clock. It floated above his head, its body casting a ring of light that enveloped him firmly, as the Ruyi Divine Armor materialized around him.

Ran Deng Buddha’s strike was immensely powerful, and Sun Wukong had no choice but to use all the skills at the bottom of his box.

The success or failure would be determined by this single effort!

The rumbling sound echoed throughout the Three Realms, and forces everywhere turned their attention toward the direction of the Western Sea.

Within the Great Thunder Sound Temple at Western Heaven Spiritual Mountain.

Tathagata Buddha looked up toward the Western Sea. He was well aware that Ran Deng Buddha had engaged with Sun Wukong. The blood rain from before must have been due to the fall of the Wing Emperor, as many lifebound soul lamps within Spiritual Mountain had been extinguished, but none belonged to Ran Deng Buddha. All these should be from those Buddha Bodhisattvas who had followed Ran Deng Buddha this time.

Unwittingly, Ran Deng Buddha had developed such a great influence within the Buddhist sect. If it weren’t for dealing with Sun Wukong, dealing with the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court, these people would likely not have been exposed.

“Ancestral Buddha, such great strength, is it truly emitted by Ran Deng Buddha?”

The smile on Maitreya Buddha’s face, who stood beside Tathagata Buddha, had already vanished, leaving only a look of utter shock. He followed the path of Slaying Three Corpses to Merge with the Dao and Become a Saint, and recently succeeded in severing the Third Corpse, yet he was still a considerable distance from merging with the Dao and reaching saintly ascension.

As Tathagata Buddha said, the time when Maitreya Buddha becomes an Ancestral Buddha is in the future!

Maitreya Buddha hadn’t really thought highly of Ran Deng Buddha. Even though Ran Deng was a Slaying Two Corpses Merit Saint, Maitreya Buddha regarded him as nothing special since his potential had been exhausted, with no room for further progress.

Yet Maitreya Buddha had not anticipated that Ran Deng Buddha could burst forth with such world-shocking and horrifying power. Such strength, perhaps even Tathagata Buddha could not emit now, could he?

“Indeed, it’s Ran Deng! He sacrificed the beings of the Twelve Heavens, and this force is the Power of Destruction obtained afterward!”

To sacrifice small worlds, offering the beings within as well as the realm itself for great strength, is a tactic Tathagata Buddha also knows. However, he has never done it, as it’s akin to scooping up water to save a boiling pot!

“Sacrifice of the Twelve Heavens? Are they twelve of the Twenty-Four Heavens? Where have the other Twelve Heavens gone?”

“Sun Wukong has taken them away!”

Tathagata Buddha shook his head indifferently. Although the merit and destiny of the westward scripture-seeking journey had been largely snatched away by the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court, a small part still descended upon the Western Heaven Spiritual Mountain. Most of this merit and destiny had been absorbed by Tathagata Buddha himself, who was now on the verge of uniting with the Dao by slaying the Three Corpses. His ability to sense the situations in the Three Realms had greatly strengthened, and he was no longer affected by the Great Dao Laws.

“That damn Ran Deng! He’s using the entire Buddhist Sect’s destiny as the price to deal with Sun Wukong!”

Maitreya Buddha’s complexion changed; the Twenty-Four Heavens had become a major source of faith for the entire Buddhist Sect, concerning its entire destiny. Ran Deng Buddha had actually burned the Twelve Heavens as a sacrifice, which meant cutting off the Buddhist Sect’s destiny!

“If he could really deal with that Sun Wukong, it would be worth it, but I’m afraid it won’t be so easy!”

Tathagata Buddha gently shook his head and sighed. He could now sense the situation at the center of the battlefield. After Sun Wukong had deployed the Chaos Clock and the Ruyi Divine Armor, the destructive power Ran Deng Buddha gained by sacrificing the Twelve Heavens could no longer affect him!

“Seven Great Dao! That Sun Wukong actually possesses seven Great Dao, six of which rank among the top ten, and furthermore, four have already condensed into physical form!”

Tathagata Buddha’s words caused Maitreya Buddha to widen his eyes dramatically, staggering back two steps and almost falling from his lotus throne. He exclaimed in disbelief, “Seven Great Dao? How is that possible? Even the Heavenly Dao Saint would find it difficult to possess so many Great Dao, how did that demon monkey do it?”

“Do not underestimate that Sun Wukong!”

A peculiar brilliance flashed in Tathagata Buddha’s eyes, the color of wisdom only seen upon touching the true Great Dao, “Didn’t the sky above previously show the image of him becoming a Saint?”

“Are you referring to the time he failed to break through to the Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortal stage?”

“Failed? Perhaps it wasn’t a failure, after all?”

Tathagata Buddha let out a cold laugh, “This seat estimates that at that time, he had already slain the Three Corpses to merge with the Dao and become a Saint. Due to some reasons, he then reduced his cultivation back to the Half-Step Saint Realm by himself.”

“Slay the Three Corpses to merge with the Dao and become a Saint? That demon monkey? How could that be?”

A feeling named fear surged in Maitreya’s heart, so strong it felt as though a massive hand was tightly gripping and squeezing his heart mercilessly.

“Nothing is impossible! Otherwise, it would be inexplicable that he comprehended so much of the Great Dao before the Saint Realm, with such formidable combat power!”

Tathagata Buddha’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a sharp gleam passed through them as he spoke in a deep voice, “Slaying the Three Corpses to achieve the Dao didn’t satisfy him; he still wishes to prove the Dao with strength! That Sun Wukong, his ambitions are indeed lofty!”

Maitreya Buddha’s eyes suddenly widened as he thought of a legend, “Are you saying that Sun Wukong wants to attain, to attain…”

“A Chaos Saint!”

Tathagata Buddha spoke deliberately, word by word, as if a thunderclap had exploded in the void. Maitreya Buddha felt as though he had been struck by heavenly thunder, leaving him speechless for a long while.

Those who could discern the precise situation on the battlefield were not only the Tathagata Buddha. Three others had reached the late stages of the Merit Saint Realm after slaying the Three Corpses and were on the edge of uniting with the Dao, just like Tathagata Buddha: the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord from the Heavenly Court’s Doushui Palace, the Leader of Tongtian from the Greenwave Palace, and the Puti Patriarch from the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court at Flower-Fruit Mountain!