Chapter 148: Analyzing the Divine: The Seventh God-Slayer

After spending a night at the hotel, Li An began his true business.

He summoned the chieftains of the Four Great Families and directly ordered them to take him to the Western Heaven Palace.

The chieftains of the Four Great Families exchanged glances, unsure what to do.

After all, the one imprisoned inside the Western Heaven Palace had been trapped by Susano-o, and had helped their Sakura Nation repel many invading enemies.

Naturally, they did not wish for that one to come to harm.

Now Li An was going to the Western Heaven Palace—clearly, he was targeting that one.

Seeing the chieftains of the Four Great Families remain silent, Li An's expression instantly turned cold.

"It seems you still haven't corrected your attitude!" Li An raised his hand and clenched it through the air; immediately, the chieftains of Sayagū, Kuhōzuka, and Rencheng exploded into bloody ruin.

Only Seishūin Ran remained, trembling.

Li An walked up to Seishūin Ran, lifted her delicate chin, and asked: "Do you know what to do now?"

"Y-yes!" Seishūin Ran nodded frantically.

"Then lead the way!" Li An withdrew his hand and spoke with icy tone.

"Yes!" Seishūin Ran stood up shakily and led Li An to the Western Heaven Palace.

The Western Heaven Palace was merely a small palace, primarily built to imprison the unyielding god Sun Wukong from Chinese mythology.

Besides the Western Heaven Palace, there was also the Bimawen Curse.

The Western Heaven Palace represented the Great Thunderclap Temple of myth, while the Bimawen Curse represented the Heavenly Court's weakening of Sun Wukong's divine status.

This was meant to erode Sun Wukong's will, forcing him to willingly remain imprisoned here as a pet of the Sakura Nation.

Whenever the Sakura Nation faced an enemy too powerful to resist, they released the monkey to deal with it.

After the monkey killed or drove off the enemy, they locked it away again.

The mighty Qi Tian Da Sheng of China, humiliated like this by the little days—utterly unforgivable.

Luo Hao had come to the Sakura Nation more than once because of this, determined to slay that disgraceful monkey.

But the Bimawen Curse was extremely difficult to break; Luo Hao tried several times and failed.

Although the original novel portrayed Luo Hao as cruel, Li An admired her personality.

After all, she truly loved her nation!

Voban Hou Jue was utterly despised by Luo Hao for killing the unyielding god Zhu Rong of China, and she had tried several times to kill that old bastard.

And when she learned Sun Wukong was imprisoned in the Sakura Nation, she schemed endlessly to eliminate that shameful monkey.

In his past life, Li An had been a passionate youth with intense patriotism.

Even reborn into the Anime World, he still held deep feelings for China.

In his view, that monkey was merely a so-called Monkey God, not Sun Wukong.

His childhood idol, the Qi Tian Da Sheng, had been humiliated like this—he refused to accept it!

Following Seishūin Ran to the Western Heaven Palace, Li An saw a gaunt old monkey, like an animal kept in a zoo.

What a disgraceful thing!

The old monkey, seeing Li An, flickered a hint of surprise in his eyes: "You're a strange one—are you compatriot or enemy?"

Clearly, the old monkey sensed two utterly contradictory energies on Li An: divine and god-slayer.

Li An ignored the old monkey and commanded the King of Wisdom: "King of Wisdom, analyze and break the Bimawen Curse!"

【Beginning analysis!】

In the original novel, breaking the Bimawen Curse required three elements.

First, the manifestation of the Dragon-Snake's divine status.

Second, a sword imbued with a weakening enchantment.

Third, a shrine maiden with exorcism ability, wielding the sword and channeling spiritual power to sever the binding curse.

Gathering all three elements was extremely difficult.

Li An had read the original novel and could naturally gather all three elements.

But he found it too troublesome—he used his finger as a sword and activated the Power of Sword of Beginning and End!

【Analysis successful!】

The King of Wisdom's voice sounded.

But Li An didn't care—he didn't need to know if analysis succeeded; his Sword of Beginning and End could sever anything, even causality.

The Bimawen Curse? Naturally, it could be cut.

Perhaps because of his newly acquired power, he had momentarily forgotten.

Now he remembered—he used it directly.

Li An's finger traced the old monkey's body.

Crack!

A crisp sound rang out—the old monkey's body seemed to have had some shackles severed.

As the Bimawen Curse was broken, the old monkey's previously listless expression suddenly changed.

His gaunt body began to swell, muscles bulging across his frame.

Seishūin Ran, watching this, turned pale.

She had never imagined Li An had actually broken the Bimawen Curse.

After all, even the Wu Xia King Luo Hao had failed to do so.

She had originally planned to bring Li An here, expecting him to fail to break the curse and leave.

But the outcome was far beyond her expectations.

With the Bimawen Curse broken, the Sakura Nation's enslavement of the monkey would surely drive the monkey into a frenzy of revenge.

This time the situation is serious—Sakura Country is in danger!

"Hahahaha, Old Sun has remembered."

"Old Sun is not the Divine Lord of Apes—Old Sun is Heaven itself, the existence that rivals Heaven!"

"Old Sun is the Monkey King born from stone, with boundless divine powers and ten thousand transformations—in the Heavenly Palace he stole elixir pills, guzzled wine, snuck into the peaches of immortality, challenged the martial gods, wrought havoc, and showed his might!"

"My surname is Sun, my given name is Wukong, and I call myself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"

But before the monkey could finish speaking, Li An slapped him right on the forehead.

Smack!

The monkey fell over on cue and passed out!

"What a racket—as if a nobody like you deserves the name Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven?" Li An said contemptuously.

Qingqiu Yuan Lan, seeing this scene, once again widened her eyes in astonishment.

The legendary Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Victorious Fighting Buddha Sun Wukong—was knocked out with a single slap just like that?

Just how terrifying is the strength of this seventh God-Slayer!

No wonder he slew the Sword King and the Wolf King in succession, earning the title of King of God-Slayers.

After Li An knocked the monkey out, he took a three-star travel sword from the Primordial God treasury, empowered it with the Authority of Beginning and End, and with one slash lopped off the monkey's head.