Chapter 260: The True Form of the Water Ape Great Sage Arrives; Guoshi Wang Unleashes His Fury

A remote and dark boundary space.

All around was vast, cold, and silent.

At this moment, the power of time and space suddenly swirled like a vortex, and three figures were slowly emerging.

They were none other than Fang Longye and Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva, who had been repelled here from Nanzhan Buzhou, as well as the Water Ape Great Sage who had been hiding in the void all along.

"This is indeed a good place."

Fang Longye stood firm, looked around with great interest, and could not help but smile.

It was not that the scenery of this boundary space was anything extraordinary; this space had no earth, mountains, or rivers, just a void, so there was no scenery to speak of.

The reason he said this boundary space was a good place was that it happened to belong to a starry sky structure.

In the vast, gloomy space, there was a thin mist of stellar essence.

Occasionally, stars would fall, trailing tails that illuminated the surroundings, bringing a moment of brightness.

Once the stars passed, the lingering light faded from bright to dim, leaving only a little behind.

For him, who had once refined the Heavenly Star Vine, this battlefield could at least be considered to have the advantage of terrain.

Although, looking at the situation, it seemed it didn't matter whether he had it or not.

"Come to think of it, does this count as me enjoying the treatment of a Taiyi Realm expert fighting someone in advance?"

Fang Longye smiled to himself.

According to his understanding—

Because the destructive power of cultivators increases greatly once they reach the Taiyi Realm, every move is accompanied by the laws of the Great Dao, and they can easily destroy the world.

The impact is too great, and the damage caused to the world is difficult to restore afterward.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, battles between Taiyi experts are tacitly moved to the outer starry sky.

There, you can let go and do whatever you want, with absolutely no one to care.

After all, everyone is a person of status; having finally cultivated to the Taiyi Realm, it is not worth it to make the world loathe you over some minor disputes.

Of course, this only applies to ordinary disputes that do not involve Life and Death, such as sparring or gambling.

If it truly involves Life and Death, such as attacking someone's dojo directly, or for some non-negotiable interest, then one cannot care so much.

Just like the three of them who had gradually started to fight with True Fire just now, who would still care about those things? Who would still worry about whether it would damage the world?

If it had really reached that point, and these immortals and gods could still worry about such things, the past Calamities of the world would not have caused the world to turn upside down so easily.

The vast area in the very center of the Primordial World would not have changed from 'Mount Zhou' to 'Mount Buzhou', and then to the current 'Buzhou Abyss'.

"Dragon Lord, this is a boundary space opened up by the Human Race using the River Map and Luo Scroll in the past. The stability of the space is a hundred or a thousand times greater than that of the Earth Immortal Realm."

"People like us who have fought with True Fire can naturally let go here and resolve our grievances."

The Water Ape Great Sage jumped over to Fang Longye's side, but seeing Fang Longye looking around with a thoughtful expression, he assumed he was not very familiar with this place, so he explained.

"No wonder—"

Although Fang Longye had gained a lot of understanding of all aspects of Nanzhan Buzhou from the Jinghe Dragon King and the Green Bull Divine Venerable, he had a sudden realization at this moment.

He had not known before that this boundary space was actually opened up by the River Map and Luo Scroll.

"No wonder this boundary space has a starry sky structure—" Fang Longye thought to himself.

The great fame of the River Map and Luo Scroll was known to anyone with even a slight familiarity with ancient times.

These two treasures were Innate Spiritual Treasures, born together with the world, containing the rules of the Great Dao; although they were not weapons of slaughter, they possessed infinite marvelous uses.

Initially, they were the companion Spirit Treasures of Yao Huang Dijun, who used the River Map and Luo Scroll to comprehend the Zhou Tian Star Array that shocked the Primordial World.

For the Human Race to use them to open up a starry universe was naturally an easy task.

Looking around, his thoughts wandered for a moment, but it was only for a brief moment before Fang Longye cast them aside.

This was because Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva, after stabilizing his figure, had taken out another treasure, preparing to bless himself and continue the battle with them.

A lotus flower suddenly grew beneath him, replacing the Dharma lotus originally formed by his own Buddhist light.

This lotus flower was only about a zhang in size, with nine petals and a reddish-gold pistil; golden Buddhist Curses flowed from top to bottom, numbering more than ten thousand.

As soon as it appeared, mysterious scriptures resonated, connecting to the unknown.

"Merit Golden Lotus?"

Fang Longye's eyes were bright, and although he was asking, there was a sense of certainty in his tone.

"Exactly!"

Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva's expression was solemn, the lotus throne beneath him rising slowly, shining with gold.

It drew the surrounding semi-circular Buddhist radiance to leap incessantly, and countless phantoms of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas appeared and disappeared, chanting scriptures and expounding the Dharma.

It was as if ten thousand Buddhas were blessing him.

"Donor, if you return my Spirit Treasure, we will cease hostilities today, and I will not pursue the matter of the Water Ape donor today. Otherwise—"

"Otherwise what?" Fang Longye sneered, "A second-generation Merit Golden Lotus, you really think of it as a trump card?"

It's not even an Innate Spiritual Treasure; if you're scared, just be scared, why pretend to be magnanimous?

"Also, you really dare to take out treasures again? Are you not afraid of my Five-Colored Divine Light?"

"Donor, feel free to try!"

Fang Longye withdrew his smile and thought: "This old bald donkey is so certain; could it be that this Merit Golden Lotus really has something special?"

Thinking this, his hands were not slow. A streak of Five-Colored Divine Light rushed straight toward the Merit Golden Lotus, but it did not move at all.

"Donor, stop wasting your effort!"

Seeing Fang Longye cast several streaks of Five-Colored Divine Light one after another, Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva sat firmly on the lotus throne, unmoved, with a smile on his face.

"The Innate Merit Golden Lotus has been refined by the Saints of my Brahma sect for I don't know how many epochs; it has long since developed its own wonders, far surpassing other Spiritual Roots and Dharma Treasures of the same rank."

"The Merit Lotus Seeds it produces are truly rare treasures; the Merit Golden Lotus grown by irrigating it with one's own merit, while not an Innate one, is also not of the acquired category."

"The donor is indeed extraordinary to have been recognized by the Peacock Great Wisdom King and to have cultivated the Five-Colored Divine Light."

"It is just that with current attainments, it is normal to be unable to do what one wishes when facing this object."

Of course, he did not say everything.

The most critical point is that this Merit Golden Lotus was nourished by his own merit, and the closeness of its connection to him is by no means comparable to other external objects.

With the two superimposed, he finally had the confidence to face Fang Longye's Five-Colored Divine Light.

"Hmph! Do you think you are the only one with treasures in your hands? As if anyone else lacks a trump card~"

Fang Longye put away the Five-Colored Divine Light, chuckled coldly, and a magnificent divine ring naturally emerged behind him.

It expanded and contracted, its brilliance dazzling.

Dragon heads in a thousand postures bit the ring's body. As seal script characters flickered in and out of existence, Yin and Yang and the Five Elements intertwined, and various rules circulated, radiating ten thousand rays of light with a magnificent atmosphere.

The divine ring emitted sound, a peerless dragon roar that suppressed the Buddhist and Bodhisattva chanting murmurs drawn out by the Golden Lotus beneath Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva's feet.

"It seems that today, Benefactor is determined to have a fish-die-and-net-break outcome with me?"

Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva sat upright on the Merit Golden Lotus, withdrew his smile, and sighed on his face.

Previously, they had exchanged an unknown number of rounds, and both sides had a rough understanding of the current situation.

Although Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva was only at the perfection of the Golden Immortal realm, he was in the same realm as Fang Longye and Water Ape Great Sage.

But his Dao cultivation was far higher than the two of them, and in a one-versus-two situation, they had fought to a draw.

Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva did not believe that if things truly went awry, they would not fear him choosing to perish together, a fish-die-and-net-break outcome. "Hmph! Fish die and the net breaks?"

"Do you dare to gamble and see if the net will break when the fish dies?"

Before Fang Longye could reply, a cold laugh was heard coming from afar, and rolling demonic Qi crashed directly through the spatial barrier.

It arrived in this boundary space.

Thunder clapped, the momentum immense.

It was as if the Heavenly River had overturned, the water rippling, its color dark and mysterious, its bottom unseen, the sound of waves slapping against stones.

Then the waves opened like two wings spreading, and from within, a white ape leaped out.

Clad in armor, his hands reaching past his knees, he held a bronze axe, his eyes shooting out golden light that surged ten thousand miles, smashing a distant star into powder, condensed and not scattering.

The white ape stepped on the water and arrived through the air.

To the side, Water Ape Great Sage gave a cold laugh at Guoshi Wang.

He nodded at Fang Longye, then directly dissipated into a ray of divine light, submerged into the white ape's brow, and disappeared.

This newly arrived white ape was precisely the true form of Water Ape Great Sage.

"Dragon Lord, I was delayed by some matters and have arrived a bit late!" The white ape held the bronze axe, came before Fang Longye, and apologized repeatedly.

"Not late, not late! You arrived at just the right time~"

Fang Longye waved his hand while sizing up the true form of this Water Ape Great Sage, and could not help but think to himself: "Different, truly different."

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the path taken, this true form of Water Ape Great Sage could be said to be a completely different person from his avatar.

Observing the previous words and deeds of his avatar, it could be said that they belonged to the conduct of a thorough swordsman, and a swordsman who walked in the shadows at that.

With a Formless Killing Sword in hand, killing without a trace, it was equivalent to a technique-oriented style, which could be described as an assassin.

Looking at his true form, he was tall and burly, maintaining the true form of a water ape, sixteen feet tall, with thick hair all over his body, especially the chest hair, which was particularly conspicuous.

His demonic Qi was not restrained in the slightest, surging into the sky, spreading out in mid-air, circulating all around, looking vibrant and spirited.

It was like a thousand-foot pine, ancient and lush, verdant and towering, unmoved by wind or rain.

It was also like the vast ocean, exceptionally flamboyant.

Fierce, irritable, aggressive, intense.

A thorough great Demon!

Compared to the avatar, he was more equivalent to a warrior.

By observing Qi to know the person, even without seeing his true form strike, Fang Longye could understand his style, which was completely different from the path taken by the avatar, drawing from the grandeur of the Dao of Water.

Magnificent and imposing, using momentum to pressure others.

Sure enough—

After this true form of Water Ape Great Sage paid his respects to Fang Longye, he immediately picked up the ancient-looking great axe in his hand and, without a word, smashed it directly at Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva.

"Not good!"

Although Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva urged the Golden Lotus beneath him to block this strike from Water Ape Great Sage, he trembled as if struck by lightning.

"Yǔhuáng Yuè?"

Guoshi Wang's expression was ugly as he looked at the ancient-looking great axe in Water Ape Great Sage's hand, finally recalling the origin of this great axe.

For a moment, he felt as if facing a formidable enemy.

As one of the personal heavy treasures of Yu Huang when he tamed the floods in the past, the Yǔhuáng Yuè had an extraordinary origin and was nourished by merit, possessing incredible power that directly targeted a cultivator's Dao cultivation, making it impossible to guard against.

Although the strike of the Yǔhuáng Yuè just now was blocked by his Merit Golden Lotus, inexplicable power still fell upon him, forcibly shaving away nearly one Yuanhui of his Dao cultivation.

Once the great axe fell, the painstaking cultivation of one Yuanhui was all in vain.

Although he had entered cultivation and had some years, his accumulated Dao cultivation was decent, but how many Yuanhui could he have to be consumed like this?

"Yǔhuáng Yuè?"

Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva's expression changed, and Fang Longye was no less so, his heart filled with astonishment.

According to what he knew, the one behind this Water Ape Great Sage was none other than Wuzhiqi, who had been suppressed by Yu Huang in Huaijing.

This was a thorough opponent of Yu Huang! He did not know how he had obtained the recognition of Yu Huang's treasure. "Haha! Old bald donkey, you are quite knowledgeable. Since you know that what your grandfather holds is the Yǔhuáng Yuè, why don't you surrender?"

Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva glanced at Fang Longye to the side, feeling hatred in his heart.

If it were not for this meddling evil dragon who used the Five-Colored Divine Light to take away the most precious Spirit Treasure in his hand.

With the offensive and defensive capabilities of the 'Ganges Sand Sumeru Pot', how could he have fallen into such a strapped situation? "Now I can only use offense as defense!"

Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva hardened his heart and shouted, "Fine, fine, fine! Two donors, this is what you have forced upon this old monk!"

"Six-Syllable Mantra, merge entirely into my body!"

Immediately, from the Great Brightness Auspicious Cloud atop his head, a Talisman Order leaped out, glowing with a lustrous and brilliant radiance.

"Om, mani, padme, hum!"

The golden radiance of the Six-Syllable Mantra shone brilliantly like the great sun, drawing forth Brahma sounds and Buddhist chants that arrived in layers, even condensing into a Necklace Canopy and Relic Lotus that covered space and time.

One by one, the bucket-sized swastika scriptures rose continuously like stars, spreading in all directions to form a Cángtāi Màntúluó Fǎjiè, wrapping him within it.

No matter how Fang Longye and Water Ape Great Sage attacked from the outside, it only caused ripples to appear.

In the dark, a power so vast it was hard to describe surged and descended upon Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva, who was inside the Cángtāi Màntúluó Fǎjiè.

Stimulated by this power, Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva could not help but reveal his Dharma body, becoming as large as a mountain. His entire body was of sandalwood gold, with a necklace hanging from his shoulders and clear eyes, yet an exceptionally painful expression appeared on his face.

Clearly, accommodating the Six-Syllable Mantra into his body was not without a price for Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva.

The reason is also easy to understand.

Do not look at how he was previously unaffected when he blessed himself with the Six-Syllable Mantra; that was because the methods of the two were completely different.

His previous method was to stimulate the Buddhist power within the Six-Syllable Mantra Talisman written by a Dàluó that he carried on his person.

It was a blessing, not an accommodation.

Like now, completely accommodating the Six-Syllable Mantra written by a Dàluó into his true body meant directly bearing the Dàluó Zhēnyì within the Six-Syllable Mantra Talisman.

The pressure received was completely different.

What kind of realm is Dàluó? For living beings below Dàluó, it is completely equivalent to the existence of another dimension.

Such a hand-written spell is beyond Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva's realm by an unknown amount; how could it be so easy to bear?

Outside the Cángtāi Màntúluó Fǎjiè formed by the Six-Syllable Mantra, Fang Longye felt the increasingly magnificent Buddhist principles and his heart leaped.

"Good fellow~ No wonder in the past life's Journey to the West, after Sun Wukong was suppressed by Five Elements Mountain and was about to run out, Tathagata Buddha dropped a Six-Syllable Mantra slip, and he had no power to resist."

What he was facing now was only a Dàluó's handwriting, and he already felt a sense of powerlessness. One can imagine what kind of power the hand-written spell of Tathagata Buddha, this person of Great Divine Ability, would have.

Not to mention that Sun Wukong might have only been a Taiyi Loose Immortal at that time; even if he had attained Dàluó, he might not necessarily fare well if he encountered a Six-Syllable Mantra slip written by Tathagata.

However, that is just saying so.

Facing the Aura of Guoshi Wang Bodhisattva in the Cángtāi Màntúluó Fǎjiè, which had already exceeded that of a Golden Immortal, Fang Longye remained calm and composed despite the alarm bells ringing in his heart.

He had not the slightest bit of fear, but instead felt eager to give it a try.

With his left hand tucked in his sleeve, stroking the texture of the Zhanxian Gourd, Fang Longye thought to himself, "It seems the borrowed Zhanxian Gourd can finally come in handy~"

(End of this chapter)