Great Demon Sun Wukong

Even the battle between Chi Ghost and the Spirit Controller seemed to be affected, the originally tentative attacks suddenly became a matter of life and death. The Spirit Controller's Heavenly Venerate Level souls had reached a count of five. Five against one, and although those five were only soul bodies, incapable of launching the most direct physical attacks, they were still five Heavenly Venerates. The Spirit Controller's methods were truly impressive. Now it seemed that the reason why the Spirit Controller's cultivation hadn't advanced an inch in a million years was probably because he had devoted all his time and energy to refining these Heavenly Venerate Level souls.

Even during Ancient Times, the number of Heavenly Venerate strong practitioners was limited, and the majority of them fell in that one battle, destroyed both physically and spiritually. It can be said that it was not easy for the Spirit Controller to have obtained these five Heavenly Venerate souls. However, this put Chi Ghost under tremendous pressure. Fortunately, his true form was that of a Heavenly Punishment Evil Ghost, which had a considerable restraining effect on soul bodies, otherwise, he might have been defeated in just a few rounds.

The Spirit Controller was also having a hard time at this moment; the difficulty presented by Chi Ghost was beyond his expectation. Half a Chinese Hour had passed since Dao Zhun sealed the Annihilation Nine Headed Serpent, and although he had no idea how long Dao Zhun could maintain the seal, judging from the loss of spiritual power from Dao Zhun's body, it was estimated that in half to one Chinese Hour, the Annihilation Nine Headed Serpent would surely break the seal. By then, it was unpredictable what the enraged serpent would do, but the Spirit Controller was certain that escaping from here would not be easy.

Therefore, the Spirit Controller was extremely anxious, yet there was little he could do. If it were a common Heavenly Venerate strong practitioner, his five Heavenly Venerate souls could have swiftly determined the victor, but Chi Ghost made those souls quite wary. For a moment, the Spirit Controller had no other choice but to attack with all his might and hope for an unexpected twist, or else he would truly suffer a great loss this time.

On the other side, Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao had their towering hundred-zhang shadows punch fiercely against each other, instantly unleashing a visible wave of might that radiated outwards from the point of impact. Being the closest to the collision, Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao were the first to bear the brunt of the impact force. This force seemed insignificant at first touch, but as soon as it hit, both Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao were filled with shock, and after the force passed through their bodies, they both turned pale and spewed out blood.

However, at this very moment, Xi Zhao's face revealed a victorious smile. Although his move and Sun Wukong's were almost identical in execution and astonishingly similar in power, Xi Zhao had practiced this move countless times and was very clear about the effects it would cause. On the contrary, Sun Wukong was not as familiar with this move, not only because it was his first time using it, but also because the description of this move in his memory was quite vague.

Therefore, Sun Wukong instinctively used the move and threw the punch, doing nothing more afterward but to maintain it with all his might. But when those two hundred-zhang phantoms collided and generated extremely strong fluctuations, an unexpected situation arose for Sun Wukong. The two towering phantoms, they actually merged in passing, and before Sun Wukong could figure out what had happened, Xi Zhao's hundred-zhang black shadow had already passed through his grey shadow and pounced directly at him.

And Sun Wukong's grey shadow also passed through the black one, heading towards Xi Zhao. What is going on? How could this be? Is this move just a facade with no real attack power? Shocked and scared, Sun Wukong alarmingly discovered that he was completely locked down by the black shadow, not just his own Qi but also the surrounding space was completely sealed, meaning he could neither use the Spatial Sand nor activate the reset.

At this moment, the black shadow had completely pierced through the grey shadow and emerged right in front of Sun Wukong. Lifting its right fist again, it smashed down towards Sun Wukong. This time, Sun Wukong truly experienced the helplessness of being totally restrained by the Seal Heavenly Stamp, and it was the Spirit that was locked down by the Seal Heavenly Stamp's Fourth Layer Realm's Divine Sense. The hunter was pecked by the geese today; Sun Wukong had certainly not expected that Xi Zhao's move was not only similar in appearance to his own but that they were the same move. The feeling of being immobilized by the Seal Heavenly Stamp was all too familiar to Sun Wukong.

As the fist was about to smash into him, in his urgency, Sun Wukong couldn't think of any way to counter this attack. His body was completely immobilized; dodging was utterly impossible, nor could he use Spatial Sand to flee, and reset was not an option. It seemed he was left with no choice but to endure the blow with his body. But he was all too aware of the power of this strike, and though his flesh was likewise extremely mighty, and he was currently in the form of the Chaos Giant, trying to resist this attack would more likely lead to doom than fortune.

Just then, a bead inside the Dantian of Sun Wukong's body suddenly lit up. To be precise, it was half a bead. It was the very half of the Life-bound Divine Bead that the Saint Armor Turtle split into two and gave to Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao when they were in the small valley in the Netherworld World. The half that Sun Wukong possessed had always been kept within his Dantian, and he neither absorbed nor refined it, believing that this half-bead would be of great use someday.

Now, at last, this half-bead came into play, and at the most critical moment at that. Of course, this half of the Saint Armor Turtle's Divine Bead could not possibly withstand the black shadow's punch. However, after a flash within Sun Wukong's Dantian, the bead appeared in front of Sun Wukong. The bead's light drastically intensified and transformed into a Tortoise Shell of the Saint Armor Turtle, blocking him. That wasn't all; simultaneously with the bead's transformation into the Tortoise Shell, a person suddenly appeared between Sun Wukong and the shell.

This person was none other than Zhibei. Zhibei's Peeking Spirit Turtle was the ancestor of all tortoise-like Divine Beasts, and the Saint Armor Turtle was naturally among them. Moreover, having lost his combat power, Zhibei's precognitive abilities had not just doubled. As soon as the Saint Armor Turtle's half-bead appeared, Zhibei, already sensing the situation on Sun Wukong's side through the aura connection between the Peeking Spirit Turtle and the Saint Armor Turtle, used the time-space kill from the Nine-Destruction Copper Coins to traverse the spatial barrier and appear in front of Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong was quite surprised by the appearance of Zhibei. He could not understand why Zhibei would suddenly show up here and even stand in front of him, clearly intending to block the strike for him. But before Sun Wukong could say anything, the black shadow's punch had already directly struck the Tortoise Shell that the half-bead had turned into. Although the shell came from the Saint Armor Turtle, the level disparity meant it only hindered the massive punch for a fraction of a second before the black giant fist came crashing down again.

Zhibei did not speak, nor did he even glance back. He raised all nine of the Nine-Destruction Copper Coins, affixing them to nine vital acupoints on his body. Simultaneously, the Peeking Spirit Turtle fused into his chest, and with his right hand raised, a pattern representing the thirty-six constellations emerged on the back of his hand. Then, a very small Tortoise Shell shield appeared in the palm of his right hand. This time, it belonged to the Peeking Spirit Turtle.

Then, the black shadow's gigantic fist collided with Zhibei's disproportionately small palm. The punch that had shattered the Saint Armor Turtle's Tortoise Shell was abruptly halted, caught by Zhibei's raised right palm. The impact of the fist, though stopped, still carried enough force to create a punch-sized hole in the cave wall behind Sun Wukong.

On the other side, the grey shadow of Sun Wukong also launched an attack towards Xi Zhao, but Xi Zhao was well-prepared. He used Formless Vanishing with his left hand, and the Divine Weapon actually took on Xi Zhao's form. Meanwhile, Xi Zhao vanished, with the Formless Vanishing duplicate taking the real Xi Zhao's place. As Sun Wukong's grey shadow landed a punch on Zhibei's right palm, the black shadow's punch also struck the Formless Vanishing duplicate of Xi Zhao.

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