Chapter 207

Just as Ran Deng set the plan to kill Sun Wukong, the banquet in Flower Fruit Mountain had already ended.

The noise inside the Water Curtain Cave had dissipated.

The Bull Niu Mowang had wrapped his arm around Princess Tie Shan and returned to his cave dwelling in Flower Fruit Mountain, the Flood Dragon Niu Mowang and the other Great Sages had also drunkenly found their own stone beds to sleep on, and even Sun Wukong, who had just attained the Great Luo and was in high spirits, had drunkenly found a stone bed to lie down on.

Su Chen sat on a stone stool, his fingertips rubbing the cold cup.

He was not drunk.

At his realm, if he did not want to be drunk, no matter how strong the wine was, it could not make him drunk.

Su Chen sat alone on the stone stool; for some reason, there was an unshakeable chill in his heart.

"An illusion?" Su Chen frowned slightly and stood up to walk toward his stone room.

In the stone room, Su Chen sat cross-legged; perhaps he was too tired these days, and he fell into a deep sleep, which was rare.

What was even stranger was that Su Chen actually had a dream.

In the dream, he saw the seventy-two demon kings of the Demon Alliance turning into blood mist amidst their wails, and he saw the banner embroidered with the two characters "Demon Alliance" being snapped in half and falling into the scorched earth.

Twenty-four beads like scorching suns hung in the sky of Flower Fruit Mountain, and the water of the East Sea surged upward, only to be evaporated into scalding steam.

Sun Wukong was covered in blood, holding the Ruyi Jingu Bang in his hand; he was roaring at the void for the last time, only to be slapped into the sea by a giant golden palm falling from the clouds.

"No!"

Su Chen opened his eyes abruptly, and his whole body sprang up from the stone bed.

Cold sweat soaked his green shirt; Su Chen gasped for breath, that feeling of death, so real it was suffocating, lingering in his heart.

He walked quickly out of the stone room and stood at the entrance of the Water Curtain Cave, looking toward Flower Fruit Mountain outside the window.

The moonlight was cold and desolate, and occasionally a few bird calls came from the forest; everything seemed perfectly normal.

"No, something must have happened." Su Chen believed he would not have a dream for no reason.

He immediately circulated his magic power, trying to deduce the heavenly secrets, but the final result was that everything was normal.

"No, could someone have shielded the heavenly secrets?" Su Chen's heart sank, "Even I can't calculate it; this method is at least at the Great Luo level."

He did not hesitate at all and directly communicated with the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian deep in his sea of consciousness.

"Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, consume Heavenly Secret Points and deduce for me what my dream portends?"

Hum!

The Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian vibrated in Su Chen's sea of consciousness, and a line of large characters appeared on the treasure mirror:

【This deduction involves Semi-Sage karma, estimated to consume one hundred Heavenly Secret Points. Confirm deduction?】

Su Chen's eyelids twitched wildly; Semi-Sage karma?

"Confirm deduction!" Now was not the time to worry about Heavenly Secret Points; Su Chen confirmed without hesitation.

【Consuming one hundred Heavenly Secret Points. Deduction starting...】

【Remaining Heavenly Secret Points: 600】

The treasure mirror shone brightly, countless runes flowed like a waterfall, and finally, a passage of text appeared on the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian:

【The three Buddhas, Tathagata, Ran Deng, and Maitreya, have arrived. The Sea-Calming Pearls seal the universe, and the twenty-four heavens suppress the world.】

【Wipe out the real stone monkey Sun Wukong, support the fake Great Sage of Mount Wuzhi.】

Su Chen looked at the deduction result of the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, and his whole body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Tathagata, Maitreya, and Ran Deng were the Present, Future, and Past Buddhas of the Fomen.

All three were top-tier existences of the Fomen, all with Semi-Sage cultivation. Now all three had arrived, and they were carrying a top-tier innate spiritual treasure like the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

What kind of concept was this?

This was equivalent to three max-level bosses with divine gear coming to a newbie village to slaughter a Sun Wukong who had just ascended to the Great Luo.

"Shameless... simply shameless to the extreme!" Su Chen couldn't help but curse in his heart.

He had originally thought that the Fomen would be wary of the public opinion of the Three Realms and wouldn't dare to take direct action, but he didn't expect Tathagata and his gang to be so shameless, with three Semi-Sages arriving in person. It seemed the Fomen was determined to eliminate Monkey Brother, this unstable factor.

It seemed the Fomen had thought it through thoroughly: as long as the real Sun Wukong died, the discussions in the Three Realms about the "real and fake Monkey King" would naturally subside, because no one would speak for a dead person.

Su Chen looked up at the starry sky and found that the positions of the familiar stars had actually shifted.

Su Chen knew that it wasn't the stars that had shifted, but that space had been distorted.

That was likely Ran Deng's twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls having evolved into the "twenty-four heavens," completely stripping away the void for tens of thousands of miles. Flower Fruit Mountain was now an isolated island floating outside the Three Realms.

Su Chen's thoughts raced, trying hard to think of a way to break the situation, but facing the joint effort of the three Semi-Sages of the Fomen.

Even with Su Chen's memories of the truth of the Journey to the West world from his previous life, he couldn't think of any way.

"Damn it, are we really going to die here?" Su Chen cursed.

"Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, unlimited consumption, find me a glimmer of survival!"

【This deduction is estimated to consume two hundred Heavenly Secret Points. Confirm deduction?】

"Confirm deduction!"

【Consuming two hundred Heavenly Secret Points. Deduction starting...】

【Remaining Heavenly Secret Points: 400】

The treasure mirror shone brightly again, the runes on it flowed, and soon a passage of text appeared on the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian:

【The Sea-Calming Pearls evolve into the heavens; if one wants to break them, there is only the Heaven-Opening Axe.】

Su Chen looked at the prompt of the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, his brow furrowed tightly.

The outline of the "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" said that if one could master the thirty-six axes, one would have the opportunity to comprehend the true meaning of Heaven-Opening, combine the thirty-six axes into one, and strike out a Heaven-Opening Axe.

But now that disaster was imminent, he had yet to comprehend the thirty-sixth form, so how could he talk about striking out a Heaven-Opening Axe?

"No, the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian wouldn't provide me with something I couldn't possibly do; I must have misunderstood." Su Chen suddenly woke up and cursed: "Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian, you've consumed so many of my Heavenly Secret Points, can't you be a bit clearer?"

What Su Chen didn't expect was that as soon as he finished speaking, the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian actually responded, and a line of text appeared on it again:

【Spirit-Bright Stone Monkey, shifting stars and changing constellations; star baleful energy, traversing the heavens.】

"Spirit-Bright Stone Monkey, shifting stars and changing constellations." Su Chen felt a bit familiar with this sentence, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Suddenly he remembered: in the Journey to the West from his previous life, when Tathagata spoke of the four monkeys of the world, his evaluation of the Spirit-Bright Stone Monkey was: "Transforms, understands the timing of heaven, knows the advantages of the earth, shifts stars and changes constellations."

This was talking about the innate divine ability of the Spirit-Bright Stone Monkey; he had seen the first three points in Monkey Brother, but Monkey Brother had never shown the last point.

"Could it be that the method to break the situation lies with Monkey Brother?" Su Chen couldn't help but guess.

"No, then how should the second half of the sentence be explained?" Su Chen looked at the words "star baleful energy, traversing the heavens" and fell into deep thought again.

"Star baleful energy..." Su Chen muttered this term to himself, and suddenly he remembered the scene when he broke through in the Netherworld.

At that time, the star baleful energy tore through the barrier between the two realms, crossed space, and caused a great stir in the Netherworld.

"I understand!" Su Chen suddenly realized: "The meaning of the Heavenly Secret Tianji Baojian is that if I can attract the star baleful energy, I might be able to use it to break through the blockade of the Sea-Calming Pearls."