Chapter 674

"This doesn't look good." Ao Yulie said.

The aura emanating from the Pill Resentment made him feel immense pressure—well, confirmed, it's stronger than him, he can't beat it!

Moreover, this is the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and as a "Pill Immortal," he can transform the pervasive medicinal power for his own use, at least partially mobilize it.

Counts as half a home field.

"Second Senior Brother! Can you win?" Ao Yulie looked at Zhu Bajie.

It's decided, you're the one, go, Zhu Ganglie!

"This thing is really toxic." Zhu Bajie answered irrelevantly, it's not a question of whether he can win or not, the Pill Resentment is truly a special kind of existence.

Especially in such an environment, once formed, it's hard to suppress.

The best method, of course, is for the Eight Trigrams Furnace's great formation to unleash heavenly thunder and the Six Ding Divine Fire, blasting it into charcoal, burning it to ashes, and finally even the "bone ash" would be scattered, turning into the purest medicinal power.

However, there is no heavenly thunder or divine fire.

If there were, the Pill Resentment might not necessarily be born.

"Don't panic, hold steady, we can win, look at Yang Jian!" Zhu Bajie pointed at Mu Yang.

At this moment, the aura on Mu Yang's body kept rising and falling, extremely unstable, but at the instant of its peak, they seemed to see the former Erlang Shen!

The Baolian Deng and Yang Chan transformed into an umbrella that opened, hovering above Mu Yang's head, emitting warm light.

On the other side, inside the carriage, a person slowly stepped out.

"Aowu?"

"No way! Second Senior Brother, can Yang Jian still fight?" Ao Yulie widened his eyes.

The Pill Resentment that walked out from inside the carriage wore a full set of silver-white armor, golden flowing patterns, and behind it, a bright yellow silk ribbon fluttered in midair.

On its forehead was a red vertical mark.

Its appearance was actually sixty percent similar to Yang Jian!

Not similar to the current Mu Yang, but similar to the former Yang Jian by sixty percent.

The aura on the Pill Resentment's body resonated with that on Mu Yang's body, even giving a faint feeling of merging into one.

More similar to Yang Jian than Mu Yang is, conversely, the current Mu Yang doesn't resemble Yang Jian much.

"A bit strange."

"Could we have made a mistake?"

"No, even if we made a mistake, how could the Baolian Umbrella and the dog possibly be wrong!" Zhu Bajie looked at the Tiangou.

The Tiangou also had a dog face covered in confusion, not understanding why the Pill Resentment looked so similar to Yang Jian.

After all, she is also a remnant soul reborn, retaining some memory fragments to recognize Yang Jian is already the limit.

"Wait, let me think, let me think……" Zhu Bajie fell into deep thought.

Exactly which one is the true Yang Jian.

Mu Yang, Pill Resentment?

Or are both? Or perhaps, neither?

Suddenly, the auras of the Pill Resentment and Mu Yang rose simultaneously, and a faint phantom appeared behind Mu Yang.

The Pill Resentment let out a roar: "Mine!"

That phantom was about to detach from Mu Yang's body, but the umbrella hovering above Mu Yang's head emitted strong light, preventing the phantom's departure.

However, that's about the limit.

Mu Yang's lowered head suddenly lifted, his eyes and forehead suddenly bursting forth with golden light.

His appearance changed silently, becoming exactly like the Yang Jian familiar to Zhu Bajie, Ao Yulie, and the others.

"So that's how it is……"

Yang Jian's pupils displayed brilliant gold, and a golden vertical pupil also appeared on his forehead.

However, the vertical pupil on his forehead existed for only one second before completely closing.

Only two slightly curved, somewhat narrow lines remained, forming an eye-shaped golden pattern.

"Sever!"

Yang Jian spoke, his voice steady and cold.

The "Baolian Umbrella" on his head trembled slightly, as if refusing.

Without a word, he reached out, grasped the umbrella, and Yang Jian swung it fiercely.

His unstable rising aura, along with the phantom behind him, simultaneously dissipated.

The Pill Resentment let out a burst of angry roar: "No!"

The feeling of almost merging with Yang Jian vanished instantly, and its appearance also began to change.

It became seventy percent similar to Dan Ling, thirty percent similar to Yang Jian.

The vertical mark on its forehead began to expand, almost exposing the entire eyeball.

Around the black pupil, it was filled with red blood threads.

Twitching as if, it frenziedly rotated, just like those creations of Number One.

The silver-gold patterned armor on its body turned into black-blood patterned armor.

"This is Yang Jian."

Ao Yulie pointed at Yang Jian and said.

"Everyone can see that, but he now looks a bit weak." Zhu Bajie said.

Yang Jian can't fight anymore!

The phantom behind him dissipated, Yang Jian's aura declined, and even standing seemed a bit difficult.

Conversely, the Pill Resentment's aura rose, stronger than when it first appeared, by quite a bit.

Yang Jian looked at the Pill Resentment, his brows furrowing slightly. Gripping his umbrella, he stepped back to where Zhu Bajie and the others were. "Where's your master?"

Ao Yulie pointed at the sky.

"Fine. Then you two hold the line first; wait for your master to come down and deal with it." Yang Jian signaled for the two to charge forward.

"What about you?" Ao Yulie asked.

"I naturally have to heal my injuries; otherwise I won't even have the strength for a single fight." Yang Jian straightforwardly sat cross-legged, the umbrella placed at his side.

And on his body, a faint glow indistinctly emerged.

This was the consecration power belonging to the Merit Jade Lotus, the final life-saving measure Tang Luo had secretly left on him, now actively triggered by Yang Jian to heal his wounds.

At least ensuring he would still have the strength for a fight in a moment.

"What's the deal with this thing?" Zhu Bajie reached out and gripped it, the Nine-Tooth Rake appearing in his hand.

His form also shifted from human shape into an upright wild boar with a cyan-black face and tusks, his figure swelling to over three meters, looking extremely ferocious.

Ao Yulie's dragon transformation also became increasingly distinct.

Both emitted towering ferocious flames, looking not the least bit like Buddhist disciples.

More like demons.

The Howling Celestial Dog also entered combat form, its massive body burning with black flames on its four limbs and spine, letting out a beast roar that resounded through the clouds.

Dispelling a trace of the drifting "Poison Pill Fragrance".

"All kinds of coincidences." Yang Jian looked at the Pill Resentment, who bore some resemblance to himself. "Even more difficult than that monkey's birth."

The monkey he spoke of referred to Sun Wukong.

The manifestation of this Pill Resentment indeed required even more "blessed origins" than the "birth" of the Spirit Stone Monkey Sun Wukong.

First, this is the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the place where countless immortal pills and wondrous medicines were refined; looking across the entire Mountains and Seas World, there could not possibly be a first environment like the inside of the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Second, the Eight Trigrams Furnace has been in an unattended state for a very long time.

Whether it was the Grand Supreme Elder Lord or the furnace-tending daoist boys, there were none at all.

Only Yang Jian alone was within it, constantly cycling "refining the self," recovering from extremely severe injuries.

The grand formation was still operating, but its basic function was "refining pills," "refining Yang Jian," not searching for a possible pill spirit that might be born.

Third point, Yang Jian's remnant body!

Yang Jian is also a representative figure of "achieving sainthood through the fleshly body," but he differs from Nezha, whose spirit and flesh are unified, with no distinction between body and soul.

He still has a body and a soul.

For example, Tang Luo's Soul Ferry cannot be used on Nezha, but it can be used on Yang Jian.

And Yang Jian's injuries were truly too severe; after the Grand Supreme Elder Lord placed him in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, his soul and body separated, his true spirit sank into slumber, temporarily forgetting and sealing away the past, undergoing reincarnation trials, taking the path of reshaping his body to recover.

The original remnant body then slowly ferried the remaining power bit by bit to the recovering Yang Jian.

By the day of recovery, the body could even be stronger than before.

It's just that Yang Jian's remnant body was found by the Pill Spirit.

The initial Pill Spirit didn't actually count as the current Pill Resentment; it was merely an aggregation of numerous remnant thoughts, not yet fully formed.

It was in a muddled state, unaware of its true identity; all its behaviors were driven by instinct.

Including various modification experiments, seemingly to deal with the Heaven Apex Star people, but in reality all were "polluting" Yang Jian's shattered remnant body.

Until the Pill Spirit fused into Yang Jian's shattered remnant body did the Pill Resentment truly count as born.

Without Yang Jian's shattered remnant body, the Pill Resentment would have no vessel; wanting to be born would likewise not be so simple.

Last point, even if the Pill Resentment was born.

It still had to face a great tribulation that was almost impossible to survive — the Eight Trigrams Furnace's grand formation.

Heavenly thunder and Six Ding Divine Fire descended together; whether "spirit" or "resentment," even if it had usurped Yang Jian's ruined body and was considerably powerful right at birth, it would still be hard to resist.

As it happened, the grand formation was busy dealing with Tang Luo.

Not even a single superfluous bolt of heavenly thunder could fall.

The Pill Resentment passed through this gate unscathed, its strength advancing a step further.

Next came the "body seizure" between Yang Jian and the Pill Resentment.

Relying on the connection between the remnant body and Yang Jian, the Pill Resentment wanted to completely devour this once-powerful Manifested Sage Erlang True Lord.

Yang Jian had not yet recovered to a level where he could contend with it.

So he decided on the spot, decisively severing the connection between the two, crushing the accumulation of many years in one go, to avoid having it seized by the Pill Resentment.

His decisiveness was absolute, stopping the Pill Resentment from growing to an uncontestable degree.

This thing, given a bit of time, would even become another "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" — no, the Spirit Stone Monkey didn't have such strength at its initial birth.

If he grew following Sun Wukong's trajectory, finding one or two good teachers, his future achievements would be limitless.

Although there were no good teachers inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, there was a vast amount of medicinal power permeating it.

This is also why, after Yang Jian recovered his memories, he didn't hesitate to abandon his years of accumulation, decisively making a clean break.

Right now the Pill Resentment isn't making a move immediately either; it is also constantly converting the surrounding medicinal power for its own use.

Yang Jian needs time to heal; it also needs time to grow.

Fortunately, the current growth speed definitely isn't as fast as just now.

"..."

Yang Jian focused on two things at once, briefly explaining the situation; Zhu Bajie and Ao Yulie both didn't quite know what to say.

The Pill Resentment, turns out it's actually a super rare protected animal?

So many conditions — lacking any single one of them, aside from a tiny deviation, the Pill Resentment before us would not have appeared.

From the perspective of birth, it really is much more difficult than Eldest Senior Brother's Spirit Stone Monkey manifestation.

Even more precious than Eldest Senior Brother.

"Qitian Dasheng" is not impossible either.

Zhu Bajie let out a light breath, and black arcs of electricity appeared in midair; the sky, the earth, suddenly turned black.

A hemispherical Gui Water Yin Thunder Milky Way Grand Array enveloped them.

Beneath the Pill Resentment, a vortex of black lightning instantly appeared, trapping it to death!

Upon grasping the Nine-Tooth Nail Rake, Zhu Bajie had not merely listened to Yang Jian's words; he had already joined forces with Ao Yulie and secretly laid down the Gui Water Yin Thunder Milky Way Grand Array.

Cutting off the Pill Resentment from continuing to absorb the surrounding medicinal power and converting it for its own use.

"Go."

Zhu Bajie extended a hand toward Ao Yulie, then the Nine-Tooth Nail Rake in his hand rose up, fierce flames and drifting snow.

Ao Yulie coordinated with him to activate the grand array; black Yin thunder permeated, the vortex surged, a black lightning dragon descended roaring!

The fellow disciples joined forces, their opening move a thunderous strike!