Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

The letter had just unfolded when Nezha the Third Prince's voice sounded loudly from it, enfolding the Immortal Primordial Force, heard by the entire camp.

"The Third Prince has gone to the Two Realms' node to capture the Demon Monkey?"

"How did the Third Prince know that the Demon Monkey appeared at the Two Realms' node?"

"Who knows! With the Third Prince's mana, it shouldn't be hard to trace the Demon Monkey's whereabouts, right?"

"With the Third Prince making a move, that Demon Monkey should easily be captured!"

The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals quietly discussed among themselves, and those few who guessed a bit of the insider story also discreetly kept silent. This was a familial dispute between Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li Jing and Nezha the Third Prince, not something for them outsiders to worry about, lest they become the targets of vented fury, which would be truly unjust.

"Call that man back here for me!"

Upon hearing the voice emanating from the letter, Li Jing's heart sank, sensing trouble, and he hastily ordered the subordinate to chase after the patrol team captain who had just left. If the Third Prince Nezha was going to catch Sun Wukong at the Two Realms' node, he could have straightforwardly sought his approval. Why use such means to create such commotion and let everyone know?

There must be a problem!

Thinking of the Heavenly Court's messengers sent to comfort the troops, Li Jing felt a foreboding.

"I ask you, where are the Heavenly Court's comfort supplies?"

The patrol team captain was quickly chased back, and upon entering the commander's tent, Li Jing stood up from his commanding seat, took two steps forward, grabbed him by the collar, and demanded.

"The, the Third Prince took them..."

The patrol team captain was terrified—what was happening, and why was Lord Li's expression so frightening?

"You muddled fool!"

Li Jing, upon hearing this, was furious, flinging the patrol team captain to the ground. As he had suspected, Nezha had embezzled the funds!

No, it wasn't quite embezzlement—the vile child had cunningly let everyone in the camp think he was going to capture the Demon Monkey Sun Wukong. He could then justifiably take the comfort supplies. Even if he later sought to hold him accountable, at most he could be accused only of acting without prior approval and could not pin down any other blame.

If Sun Wukong were truly captured by him, then his merits would outweigh his faults; not only could he not be blamed, but he would have to be rewarded!

Damn it! This vile child had such a deep machination, playing such tricks on him!

Li Jing's anger was burning inside him, and as he glanced at the patrol team captain, who was now paralyzed with fear on the ground, he felt his fury hard to quell and stomped his foot and bellowed, "Get out! Get out of my sight! Far away!"

"Yes, yes!"

The patrol team captain fled from the tent in terror, rolling and crawling. Throughout, he was completely bewildered. He had merely been carrying out his routine patrol and delivery duties—who had he offended, and why was Lord Li so displeased with him? Rank pulls rank, and Lord Li being the commander-in-chief made it worse.

He resigned himself to bad luck, deciding to steer clear of this father and son in the future!

"Damn it, damn it all!"

Li Jing paced back and forth in the tent, his face alternating between expressions, veins on his forehead bulging. The guards inside the tent were also frightened, having never seen Lord Li so irate. Would this anger spill over to them?

Just as Nezha had predicted, Li Jing, upon understanding his mindset, was seething with rage, but he didn't have the courage to pursue Nezha alone into the Two Realms' node. In terms of cultivation, Li Jing was only at the Taiyi Scattered Immortal Realm, and his entire prowess relied on the Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda. Were he to enter the Two Realms' node, who knew what might happen?

The Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda might not always protect him. For such a wayward son as Nezha, it was not worth it!

After much thought, Li Jing called his aide-de-camp over and ordered, "Arrange for someone to watch over the edge of the Heavenly Lake near the Two Realms' node, and report back immediately via Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission at any stir! Go!"

"Yes, Marshal!"

All Li Jing could do now was to increase surveillance. Although Nezha had taken all the comfort supplies, at most those could enable him to restore his cultivation to the peak of the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm; there was absolutely no chance he would break through to the level of a Daluo Golden Immortal!

"Wayward son! Unless by some great fortune you capture Sun Wukong, I swear I will have you dragged to your death here in this Polar Realm of Heaven! Forget about escaping my control in this lifetime!"

A chilling growl echoed within the tent, causing all of Li Jing's trusted guards to shudder in unison, yet none dared to utter a word. They continued to stand erect as if they had heard nothing…

In the Netherworld, within the Hell Path of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realms.

"Huff~!"

A stream of white breath, like a band of silk, burst forth from Sun Wukong's mouth, stretching dozens of yards before gradually dissipating. His eyes sparkled with golden light as he stood up, his face alight with joy. He had finally completed the condensation of the Reincarnation Seal of the Hell Path, the last of the Six Paths Reincarnation seals.

Now, with all the seals gathered, he should be able to evolve the Six Paths of Reincarnation using his own strength!

With a single thought, the Power of Reincarnation began to swirl around his right fist.

The next moment, miniature channels of the Six Paths of Reincarnation manifested in front of Sun Wukong's fist—Heavenly Dao, Human Path, Asura Path, Animal Path, Hungry Ghost Path, Hell Path—the swirling vortexes of the six channels merged, slowly spinning together and emitting an unrivaled suction force, devouring the Reincarnation Power of the Hell Path like a whale.

"Hahaha!"

Sun Wukong retracted the evolved channels of the Six Paths Reincarnation and burst into uproarious laughter, his head thrown back. Mastering a single Reincarnation Seal and mastering all six were not merely six times more powerful—there was absolutely no comparison!

In the future during combat, he possessed yet another ultimate move; as long as someone had not reached the Saint Realm of the Heavenly Dao, they would absolutely be unable to withstand the Power of Reincarnation. If he sprung it suddenly, even a Quasi-Saint would be helpless!

Moreover, Sun Wukong felt that evolving these channels of the Six Paths Reincarnation might not be the ultimate form of gathering the six seals. Perhaps the separate channels could further fuse into a unique, singular channel of Reincarnation. If he reached such a realm, who within the Three Realms could possibly be his opponent?

"Tathagata Buddha, you wait for me! One day, I will stand atop your Spiritual Mountain and trample you beneath my feet! All the humiliation you inflicted upon me, I will reclaim tenfold, a hundredfold from you!"

Clasping his fists tightly, Sun Wukong bellowed skyward within the channels of Reincarnation, his voice echoing persistently...

At the peak of Spiritual Mountain, within the Great Thunder Sound Temple.

The Ancestral Buddha, who was meditating with closed eyes on a lotus pedestal, suddenly felt an ominous premonition stirring in his heart; he abruptly opened his eyes, his brows furrowed as he began to calculate with his fingers. After a long moment, a strange expression crossed his face.

"Strange, why can't I deduce the outcome?"

As a Heavenly Dao Saint, the fluctuations in his feelings were definitely not baseless. However, when Ancestral Buddha sought to calculate the origin of this ominous premonition through the Heavenly Dao, everything was unclear, failing to deduce anything useful. He could only vaguely sense that a formidable opponent was growing in the shadows, but he could not identify who it might be.

He had never experienced such an occurrence before.

"Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, is there anything unusual in Sukhavati Realm?"

Faced with the inquiry from Ancestral Buddha, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva who sat at his right, was somewhat surprised. Why had the Ancestral Buddha suddenly thought to ask about the Sukhavati Realm?

"Ancestral Buddha, there is nothing unusual in the Sukhavati Realm!"

"No disturbances from that person?"

"No! Your disciple has kept a close watch, and there has not been the slightest anomaly with that person!"

Ancestral Buddha nodded, his heart filled with even more doubt. If it wasn't that person, then who else in the Three Realms could pose a threat, growing unseen? He had already advanced to the Saint Realm of the Heavenly Dao, becoming the leader of a faith. He was no longer Duobao from the days within the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

Even Tongtian, the former revered leader of the Three Purities, was surpassed by him. Who within the Three Realms could then threaten him?

"Manjusri Bodhisattva, have you found the Six-Eared Macaque that I asked you to search for in the Southern Continent?"

Wondering about the implausibility yet clueless, Ancestral Buddha could only set this matter aside for the moment and turned to question Manjusri Bodhisattva, who sat on his left.

"Reporting to the Ancestral Buddha, your disciple followed your guidance to the Thousand Mechanisms Ridge in the Southern Continent, but did not find the Six-Eared Macaque that you mentioned. After inquiries, I learned that Flower-Fruit Mountain in East Victorious Divine Continent has gathered a large assembly of demons, calling demons from everywhere to join their alliance.

Even the demons with some cultivation from Thousand Mechanisms Ridge have all rushed there; perhaps the Six-Eared Macaque is among them," Manjusri Bodhisattva said respectfully, performing a Buddhist gesture.

"East Victorious Divine Continent? Flower-Fruit Mountain?"

Ancestral Buddha's brow furrowed slightly again as he calculated with his fingers. After a moment, a look of surprise flashed across his eyes; it was also hazy, and he could completely not probe into the situation within Flower-Fruit Mountain!

"Certainly, there must be a formation concealing the secrets of heaven in place, or else it would not be possible to block my investigation!"

As a Heavenly Dao Saint, a mere thought should suffice to examine all three realms, from the Heavenly Court down to the Netherworld—nothing could escape nor hide from a Saint's examination, unless there was an area concealed from Heavenly secrets.

Flower-Fruit Mountain had never been reported as a perilous or forbidden area, so there was only one possibility: someone must have set up a major Formation that conceals the workings of Heaven, covering the entire Flower-Fruit Mountain, which was why he could not probe the situation there!n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Could it be, that my hidden formidable enemy lies within this Flower-Fruit Mountain?"

People of the Demon Clan usually rely on their physical abilities in combat, rarely delving into Taoist Techniques and Divine Powers, let alone the way of formations. To have devised such a Formation that conceals the workings of Heaven, there must be a capable person within Flower-Fruit Mountain!