Chapter 549: Bombarding Lingshan! The suddenly activated Lingshan formation!

Before breaking through to Quasi-Saint, Sun Wukong, relying on the blessing of the Chaos Demon Ape, had combat power almost at the mid-stage Quasi-Saint level.

After breaking through to Quasi-Saint, the Chaos Demon Ape’s blessing to Sun Wukong was not as great as before, but it still pushed Sun Wukong, who had just entered the Quasi-Saint level, to almost the late-stage Quasi-Saint level.

The gap between late-stage Quasi-Saint and the limit of Quasi-Saint was still quite large.

Under the full-force bombardment of the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, the Buddha-light condensed by the mountain-protecting formation fluctuated violently, seemingly having spent great effort to neutralize Sun Wukong’s full-force strike.

"Hmm?"

Seeing that his full-force strike had actually been blocked, a trace of surprise flashed in Sun Wukong’s eyes.

The entire Lingshan was already in chaos; Sun Wukong really couldn't think of anything else that could withstand his bombardment.

Only when he saw that the Buddha-light barrier blocking him was activated by the mountain-protecting formation did a trace of realization flash in Sun Wukong’s eyes.

As the largest power in the Three Realms, it was impossible for its holy land, Lingshan, to have no preparations. It was very normal to have a mountain-protecting formation.

Looking at the Buddha-light barrier blocking him, a trace of fighting spirit suddenly flashed in Sun Wukong’s eyes.

Compared to flattening Lingshan with one strike of his cudgel, Sun Wukong liked this better.

Obstacles made it more challenging.

Breaking the mountain-protecting formation and then flattening Lingshan was more meaningful than just flattening Lingshan alone.

As for whether he could break the mountain-protecting formation, Sun Wukong was very confident.

He could see that the mountain-protecting formation had no one presiding over it.

A formation without anyone presiding over it, no matter how powerful, would have a day when it was broken.

What’s more, after breaking through to become a Quasi-Saint, Sun Wukong’s strength had become even more powerful, which also made his confidence even stronger.

"Fight!"

A low roar rose in the depths of Sun Wukong’s heart.

His entire body’s fighting spirit began to boil uncontrollably, and a blood-colored fighting spirit that felt almost tangible rushed out of Sun Wukong’s body, directly dyeing the surrounding space red.

Stimulated by Sun Wukong’s fighting spirit, the Chaos Demon Ape phantom behind him also began to move; it stepped forward and merged into Sun Wukong’s body.

Immediately, Sun Wukong’s aura became even more violent.

Bursts of furious and fierce aura rose around Sun Wukong.

At this moment, Sun Wukong had turned into a true peerless fierce ape.

The Ruyi Golden Cudgel in his hand trembled slightly, and the surrounding air was immediately shaken away.

Roar!

A low roar that resounded through the entire Western Continent erupted from Sun Wukong’s mouth.

Sun Wukong gripped the Ruyi Golden Cudgel tightly, and strands of blood-colored patterns began to spread toward the cudgel.

The fierce aura caused the power lingering on the Ruyi Golden Cudgel to boil on its own.

"First Form of the Nine Heavens-Opening Strikes: Cudgel Sweeps Away the Demons!"

Without any hesitation, Sun Wukong once again unleashed his strongest attack move.

Terrifying blood-colored fighting spirit and tyrannical aura erupted on the Ruyi Golden Cudgel.

Holding the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, Sun Wukong seemed to have truly transformed into the Chaos Demon Ape that stepped on Chaos, shattered the void, and slaughtered all things.

Bang!

The Ruyi Golden Cudgel, carrying terrifying power, smashed onto the Buddha-light barrier again.

The Buddha-light barrier was directly dented by the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, and the Buddha-light began to fluctuate violently, trying to bounce the cudgel away.

Crack!

Under the immense force of the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, the Buddha-light barrier even began to emit cracking sounds, clearly on the verge of its limit.

Bang!

The mountain-protecting formation was, after all, personally set up by Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin; even without anyone presiding over it, it was not so easy to break.

Not breaking the Buddha-light barrier with one strike, Sun Wukong was not discouraged.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the mountain-protecting formation was at the end of its rope; if one strike didn't work, then he would just deliver a few more.

With the Ruyi Golden Cudgel just raised, Sun Wukong continued to drive the magic power in his body, bombarding the mountain-protecting formation.

"First Form of the Nine Heavens-Opening Strikes: Cudgel Sweeps Away the Demons!"

"First Form of the Nine Heavens-Opening Strikes: Cudgel Sweeps Away the Demons!"

"First Form of the Nine Heavens-Opening Strikes: Cudgel Sweeps Away the Demons!"

The Ruyi Golden Cudgel brought up bursts of phantoms, bombarding the mountain-protecting formation like a violent storm.

The violent and vast fighting spirit almost submerged one side of the mountain-protecting formation.

Sun Wukong primarily cultivated the Great Dao of War; as long as his fighting spirit did not cease, he would have infinite power.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Under the violent storm-like bombardment of the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, the mountain-protecting formation was clearly somewhat overwhelmed, and cracks appeared continuously on the Buddha-light barrier.

Although these cracks were repaired quickly after they appeared, if one observed carefully, one could see that the cracks on the Buddha-light barrier were getting larger and larger, and the speed of repair was getting slower and slower.

The mountain-protecting formations of other powers all used the earth’s ley lines as their foundation, absorbing the power of the ley lines to maintain their own operation.

Even without anyone presiding over them, the mountain-protecting formations could exert seven or eight tenths of their power.

Lingshan’s mountain-protecting formation was different.

The ancestral ley lines of the Western Continent were still in a shattered state, and there was not much power that could be utilized; the limited power still needed to suppress demonic energy.

Therefore, the power source of Lingshan’s mountain-protecting formation was not the ley lines, but the Buddhist disciples.

This was also a tactic commonly used by Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin.

Using believers as fuel was often much more useful than ley lines.

First, there was no need to consider the terrain.

General mountain-protecting formations needed to be set up according to the terrain so that they could extract the power of the ley lines.

The ley lines around Lingshan were shattered and contained a large amount of demonic energy; in the eyes of ordinary people, it was simply not suitable for setting up a mountain-protecting formation.

Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin setting up the Buddhist headquarters at Lingshan was not for the purpose of borrowing the power of the ley lines around Lingshan.

On the contrary, the purpose of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin establishing Lingshan was to suppress demonic energy and repair and nourish the ancestral ley lines of the earth.

Since it was for the purpose of repairing and nourishing the power of the ley lines, it was naturally impossible to borrow and mobilize the power of the ley lines.

Secondly, the power of the ley lines had a limit.

Extracting a large amount of ley line power easily affected the surrounding environment, thereby incurring a large amount of heaven and earth karma.

Most powers, unless they were at a life-and-death juncture, would not easily mobilize the full power of the mountain-protecting formation, precisely to avoid extracting too much ley line power.

Heaven and earth are impartial; all spirits can borrow power from heaven and earth at will, but they cannot do so excessively to the point of damaging heaven and earth itself, otherwise they would commit a crime against heaven.

Believers were different.

All spirits belong to the human path; wantonly slaughtering and converting all spirits would originally incur a crime against the human path and incur human path karma.

When the three paths of heaven, earth, and humanity are complete, even the strongest cultivators would not dare to slaughter ordinary living beings at will.

Because once too many living beings are slaughtered, they would be punished by the human path.

The threat of the strong to the weak is simply too great; if not constrained, even a single Da Luo Golden Immortal would be enough to easily destroy a small world and slaughter billions of living beings.