Chapter 808: The Perfect Plan

The figure in the sky was unbridled and defiant, like a god or a demon, like a vortex drawing every gaze.

The great banner behind him snapped loudly in the raging gale.

It made him look exceptionally tall.

He hovered in midair for a while, as if savoring the breath of freedom.

Sun Wukong, having dealt with the extraterritorial demon army, descended back onto the stone bridge.

"Eldest Senior Brother!"

Ao Yulie rushed over and hugged Sun Wukong tight, spinning in circles with the magic of love, "You're back!"

"Put me down."

Sun Wukong's face darkened as he spoke, "Bastard, my feet are off the ground! Would it kill you to crouch down and hug me?"

But seeing Ao Yulie this excited, he couldn't bring himself to free a hand to teach this little junior brother a lesson.

"Eldest Senior Brother." Zhu Bajie stepped back a few paces, trying to meet Sun Wukong's eyes levelly.

"Bajie." Sun Wukong grinned, "Still Bajie who's considerate and sensible."

"Though, aren't you smiling a bit too happily? Thinking you can slack off from now on and just lie on the ground sleeping the day away?"

"What's going on?"

Tang Luo strolled over unhurriedly, addressing Zhu Bajie.

"It's like this, Master..." Zhu Bajie recounted everything that had happened in this world one by one.

Sun Wukong, meanwhile, looked at Sha Wujing, his gaze a bit strange: "Old Sha?"

Sha Wujing nodded steadily, looking at this man who was unfamiliar yet carried a familiar handsomeness, defiance, and wildness — just a bit shorter: "Eldest Senior Brother."

Sun Wukong smiled, not dwelling on Sha Wujing's changes; his nostrils flared twice: "I smell a disgusting stench."

"Heh, Stinking Monkey Bimawen, since when do you sniff out scents?" Yang Jian's voice came from inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

"No wonder I found it disgusting." Sun Wukong laughed as he walked over to the Eight Trigrams Furnace, rapping on it, "How did you end up locked in here too? Did you fall out completely with your uncle and imitate my Great Havoc in Heaven? Pathetic, Three-Eye."

"Learn from you and get pinned under a mountain for hundreds of years?" Yang Jian mocked.

"A guy who can't get out of a furnace has the nerve to say that?"

"Haven't you stayed in a furnace before?"

"I got myself out. Can you get out?"

"You think I can't get out?"

The two of them, upon "meeting," just bickered nonstop right there.

Xiaotian Dog provided accompaniment on the side.

Tang Luo and the others moved aside, leaving the "battlefield" to these two.

After Zhu Bajie explained the situation with the extraterritorial demons in detail, Tang Luo nodded: "I see. I thought this mission had nothing to do with us anymore."

We stayed in that world that seemed real yet fake for quite a long time; whether the time flow matched the outside world, and whether it would affect the mission, were all unknowns.

Tang Luo had long prepared for mission failure.

Now the mission hasn't failed, but the difficulty has become extremely, extremely high.

This mission is like the first God-Demon Game mission; if we can find the key point, completing the mission would be relatively easy.

Under normal circumstances, God-Demon Walkers arriving with a mission would certainly keep constant watch on this world's changes.

If the slight disturbances caused by the extraterritorial demons during their dormancy were detected and located by God-Demon Walkers, it would be equivalent to declaring war before the enemy had even finished developing.

That way the mission difficulty would definitely drop significantly.

It wouldn't have reached the current extent at all — extraterritorial demon army pressing the borders, critically precarious.

Of course, even at the current situation, it's not utterly hopeless for God-Demon Walkers; they could just find a place to hide and wait for mission failure and return.

Because the main force against the extraterritorial demons isn't them, but this world's Destiny Artifact Bearers.

And the mission completion requirements are rather ambiguous; the appearance of God-Demon Walker mercy isn't impossible either.

Maybe in the middle of killing, the mission suddenly completes.

More powerful and wise God-Demon Walkers, like Kongming, would most likely engage in close cooperation with this world's native powers.

For instance, becoming a strategist or the like, to better complete the mission.

Even if they can't become a strategist, joining the Destiny Artifact Bearers' camp is still a good choice for God-Demon Walkers.

Destiny Artifact Bearers don't possess any extremely special, inimitable traits.

If one must name the biggest trait, it's that they possess power far surpassing ordinary people.

Coincidentally, God-Demon Walkers have this too; produce a piece of equipment or find a weapon in this world, and they can pass themselves off as Destiny Artifact Bearers.

This isn't difficult.

Then they can hide themselves within the Destiny Artifact Bearers' ranks and engage in a certain degree of slaughter.

Whether it's mission completion, failure, or just riding it out safely depends on luck.

In short, for normal God-Demon Walkers, the current situation — normal operation would definitely be to "cooperate" with Destiny Artifact Bearers, plan slowly, take the long view.

But for Tang Luo and his group —

"Wukong, get ready. In a bit we'll go together and slaughter those extraterritorial demons until not a scale remains."

Tang Luo said.

Plan formulated, success rate 99%, mission completion probability 99%.

Simple, fast, and efficient.

Perfect plan!

"No can do, Master." Result: Sun Wukong refused.

"Huh?" Zhu Bajie and Ao Yulie froze, how strange, why would Eldest Senior Brother refuse?

This hasn't even started yet, but if one were to block it, usually it's only after the fight is nearly over.

"Cough, cough." Sun Wukong coughed twice, the armor and banner on his body had already disappeared, replaced by a set of ordinary robes.

He looked a bit less wild and unruly, not so eye-catching anymore.

"Actually, I only have the strength for one strike now." He said.

"One strike's strength?"

"Yeah, after one strike, I must rest for a period of time." Sun Wukong's expression was somewhat displeased, "Damn Maitreya! Once I, Old Sun, fully recover, I'll definitely go find trouble with him."

The suspected mastermind behind Maitreya, despite Tang Luo's intervention leading to the final failure,

was not without achievements.

Originally, under normal circumstances, Sun Wukong would have emerged unharmed, and even in a stronger form than before.

Now Sun Wukong was forced to emerge prematurely, also leaving behind certain aftereffects.

Not particularly severe, but he cannot act rashly; after acting, he needs a long time to recover to avoid backlash and decline in strength.

"Then just now, your aura soared to the heavens, sweeping away thousands of troops with a single move—what's the meaning of that?" Tang Luo said unhappily.

Even if fiercer, only one second—what use could it have?

After that second, one must rest for half a year before having another second.

This second is so precious, yet no one knows to cherish it.

"Held back too long, just moving around a bit." Sun Wukong gave an awkward smile; upon emerging, he happened to be at the peak of his aura, saw the extraterritorial celestial demons coming to deliver food, and couldn't help but act.

After all, the posture displayed by the extraterritorial celestial demons was too suitable.

Not acting would make Sun Wukong feel sorry for these howling enemies charging forward.

As for the consequences, Sun Wukong had not considered them.

Master, junior brothers are all here, and this guy San Yang Yang is also here—what's there to overthink so much?

This is trust in everyone, absolutely not because he got a sudden urge, his hands itched and he couldn't help but rush in directly.

"Hahaha, so you only have one strike, huh, monkey." Yang Jian laughed without hesitation right there.

"Better than having none at all." Sun Wukong lowered his head and glanced at the greatly changed Xiaotian Dog, "Look, your dog can even run outside."

"I heard you were almost tamed into a dog?" Yang Jian said.

"Pah, just because of him?" Sun Wukong snorted in disdain.

That remark wasn't entirely a lie; even without Tang Luo's involvement, given Sun Wukong's nature, he wouldn't be tamed by the suspected Maitreya fellow.

Only, during the long years in that world, in the special struggle,

Sun Wukong was actually in a disadvantaged position, and the final outcome might have been erupting with his last strike in the struggle.

He could die, but he would not be tamed.

"By the way, Master. I feel that world seems not entirely a false world formed from my inner projection and transformation; it might actually be real." Sun Wukong said, looking at Tang Luo.

"Is that so?" Tang Luo responded, "Half true, half false?"

Sun Wukong nodded, relying on his generated existence, the people and events in that world are not necessarily all false.

But as he fully awakens and returns, that world will inevitably cease to exist.

Those people inside have a high chance of being swept into the chaotic spacetime turbulence, arriving in other worlds.

Or they might perish along with the world's disappearance.

Even Sun Wukong himself cannot clearly determine who will truly exist and survive, and who will disappear.

After all, he is the origin, the seed, but not the planter.

The planter is that suspected mastermind behind Maitreya.

And even if it were Maitreya, he cannot control what happens after the world shatters and perishes.

"Senior Brother, what happened when the Mountain Sea Realm shattered, how did you come here, being 'pressed' under Five Finger Mountain—was it the Tathagata, and then who later..." Zhu Bajie asked a series of questions.

When Tang Luo and Sun Wukong had not yet awakened and returned.

The extraterritorial celestial demon issue is relatively important.

Now both have returned; even if Sun Wukong only has the so-called one-strike strength, the extraterritorial celestial demon issue is no longer a problem.

On the contrary, the Mountain Sea Realm and those mysterious people are relatively more important.

"At that time I was in 'Heaven Beyond Heaven.'" Sun Wukong furrowed his brows, recalling while speaking, "I just felt a power so immense it reached the extreme, descending to destroy everything—"

"Then you saw a palm descending from the sky?" Ao Yulie interjected, expression very frightened.

Imagine, an immeasurably huge palm descending from the sky, destroying the Mountain Sea Realm.

Not to mention Sun Wukong, even the Tathagata and Taishang these powerful beings could not resist, tsk tsk.

Sun Wukong on the spot broke Ao Yulie's boring fantasy: "No. Just a powerful force, without a concrete form, I also couldn't judge whether it came from some existence or was purely a destructive force born from the void."

Given Sun Wukong's nature, having already sensed it, it's naturally impossible for him to sit and wait for death.

Actively rushing forward became an inevitable thing.

Then, this arrogant fellow almost died.

The Mountain Sea Realm shattered, the great collapse began, time and space fell into utter chaos.

Sun Wukong faced the difficulty head-on, was rescued by someone, and afterward formed the Five Finger Mountain "pressing" in this world.

Who exactly that mysterious person was, at that time he truly didn't see, nor notice. Based on intuition, Sun Wukong said, there's an eighty percent chance it was the Tathagata.

Besides the Tathagata, who else would have nothing to do and press him under Five Finger Mountain—even if it was actually to save people.

As for the Tathagata pressing Sun Wukong under Five Finger Mountain, he seems particularly fond of this matter.

As for the later enhancer of the Golden Cudgel.

Sun Wukong took out the Golden Cudgel, his eyes flickering, he reached out and lightly stroked it: "This aura belongs to my kind teacher."

Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Xieyue Sansheng Cave, Patriarch Subhuti.