583. Chapter 566: Discuss the Dao with Tathagata
The Fat Monk looked at the Horizon with a smile, then lowered his gaze to the Dragon Carriage. Discovering that all surrounding eyes were focused on the Monkey, he moved, taking a step that carried him directly through the three thousand Xuanjia Army and the hundreds of Expert Guards, appearing outside the Dragon Carriage. He saluted the inside of the Dragon Carriage with a single palm:
"Benefactor has a great affinity with our Buddhist Sect; it is fitting that you should enter our Buddhist Sect!"
The Fat Monk had used some unknown divine ability. He was clearly standing right before the Dragon Carriage, yet neither the Guards with their considerable martial arts cultivation nor the Reincarnators with their myriad abilities seemed to notice the Monk at all.
The Fat Monk looked at the bright yellow curtains on the Dragon Carriage, a smile appearing on his face. While these Outer Realm Heavenly Demons possessed some strange and clever things, the success or failure of the matters did not lie here.
As long as he performed conversion on the Human Emperor, all of this mortal fortune would belong to the Buddhist Sect. By then, not only would the Buddhist Sect flourish in This World, but without the empowerment of the human realm, Xuan Tan Merit Buddha, as the opener of This World's Universe, would be able to suppress that Outer Realm Heavenly Demon in one fell swoop, converting the Demon into a Buddha. This World would also be entirely transformed into a Buddha Land.
Whoosh whoosh~~~ The Fat Monk's mind stirred. Arriving beside the Dragon Carriage, he was about to reach out and lift the bright yellow curtains. His chubby, large finger hadn't even touched the curtains.
The bright yellow curtains embroidered with Dragon patterns were lifted from the inside. A small figure, carved from pink jade, rubbed her eyes and yawned as she looked at the Fat Monk before her.
"Who are you? Who are you looking for?"
The Fat Monk looked down at the small figure and was momentarily stunned. However, a compassionate smile immediately appeared on his face:
"Amitabha Buddha, Little Princess, this Old Monk has an affinity with your Imperial Father and has specially come to perform conversion on him, to go to the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and enjoy boundless blessing!"
The small figure opened her large, dark eyes wide, examining the Fat Monk before her. After hearing his words, the small figure put her finger in her mouth, sucking on it as if pondering the meaning of the Fat Monk's words.
As a child of two or three years old, the Fat Monk's talk of affinity, conversion, and Western Heaven was too profound for her.
But this didn't stump the small figure. She bit her finger and blinked her large eyes: "You wait here, I'll go tell Imperial Father!" Without waiting for the Fat Monk to reply, she dropped the curtains and ran crookedly into the Dragon Carriage on her short legs.
"Amitabha Buddha!"
The Fat Monk was not in a hurry. He watched the Dragon Carriage with a smile, clearly hearing the conversation between the small figure and the Human Emperor inside the Dragon Carriage.
"There's a bald, fat Old Man who says he has an affinity with Imperial Father and wants to take him to Western Heaven!"
The small figure articulated the Fat Monk's words 'accurately' and fluently.
Hearing the small figure's retelling, the Fat Monk's mouth couldn't help but twitch. The words were the same, but the meaning was completely different—worlds apart.
Inside the Dragon Carriage, Li Shimin, dressed in casual clothes, looked helplessly at the small figure before him. He reached out and pinched her chubby cheeks, then looked at Tang Song opposite him with a wry smile:
"Uncle Tang, did you hear that? The Monk outside says he has an affinity with me and wants to take me to Western Heaven!"
"This person is the World Honored Tathagata of This World. If he performs conversion on you, you can at least be granted a Golden Body Arhat position at Spirit Mountain. I think you, Er Feng, should just go along with it!"
A teasing voice came from inside the Dragon Carriage. The Fat Monk's heart trembled. With his divine ability, he hadn't detected the person speaking inside the Dragon Carriage.
Who was the Fat Monk? The Present Buddha of the Three Ages of Buddhism, the Lord of Spirit Mountain in This World, the World Honored Tathagata.
Someone had actually hidden from his mystic eye right under his nose. The smiling Fat Monk's complexion couldn't help but change, his face unable to conceal his shock.
"Excellent, excellent!"
After a moment of silence, a smile appeared on the mortal form of the World Honored Tathagata. "May I ask which Fellow Daoist is here!"
As the Fat Monk spoke, the ten thousand li Void Space was instantly filled with a powerful momentum. The person here was no longer the harmless-looking Fat Monk, but the World Honored Tathagata descending upon the mortal world.
Separated by a layer of bright yellow curtains, Tang Song's complexion remained unchanged, without the slightest hint of emotion. He said calmly, "Fellow Daoist is too kind. The People of the World call me Heavenly Emperor! Shouldn't the Old Monk address me as Great Heavenly Venerable!"
"Heavenly Emperor! Great Heavenly Venerable? Five hundred years ago, that Fierce Monkey was stubborn and caused chaos in the Heavenly Palace, smashing the Jade Emperor's heavenly spirit with that staff. What divine ability do you possess that you dare presumptuously call yourself Heavenly Emperor!"
The Old Buddha's smile remained unchanged as he spoke with a smile.
A slight ripple rose in his mind.
He roughly knew the identity of the person behind the curtains.
Originally, in his calculations, as long as he performed conversion on the Human Emperor, the outcome of this chess game would be decided. He hadn't expected this Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to have left a backup plan.
He was naturally unwilling to retreat now, so he spoke with mockery.
"Heh heh!"
Tang Song smiled, too lazy to play word games with the Monk. In the depths of his gaze, flames seemed to burn: "I've long heard that the Buddhist Sect's abilities are astonishing. Fellow Daoist is the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas in This World. If you are willing to grant me guidance, I think it would be excellent!"
The World Honored Tathagata was naturally a top expert in This World. Not only in This World, but in any world where a Tathagata existed, the Tathagata would surely be the peak, or even the absolute peak, of that world.
However, Tang Song felt no fear in his heart. Instead, his fighting spirit surged, eager to test the abilities of this World Honored Tathagata!
"Good! Good! Good!" Tathagata laughed three times, the smile on his face slightly receding.
Using his mystic eye at this moment, he could clearly see the true body of the person within the curtains. A deity shrouded in endless radiance sat upon a throne, surrounded by countless Gods faintly visible.
His eyebrows, however, were exactly the same as that Outer Realm Heavenly Demon.
Tathagata's gaze fluctuated slightly, radiance flickering. The great prosperity of the Buddhist Dao was the heaven's will of This World. Five hundred years ago, he used the hand of the King of Ten Thousand Monsters to plot against the Jade Emperor, causing the Jade Emperor to perish five hundred years ago.
The Jade Emperor held the highest divine position in the Heavenly Court. Since the Jade Emperor perished at the hands of the King of Ten Thousand Monsters over five hundred years ago, not only did the Heavenly Court decline, but the Daoist Sect of This World also gradually disappeared.
This was also the reason for the rampant demon monsters in the Central Plains over the past five hundred years.
He hadn't expected this Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to have stolen the divine position of Heavenly Emperor. One must know that his World Honored Tathagata was merely one of the Five Elders of the Five Directions in the Heavenly Court.
Every cause has its effect; is this not heaven's will?
Tathagata clasped his hands together and sighed softly. Separated by the Dragon Carriage, he suddenly extended a palm: "Then let this Old Monk see what divine ability Benefactor possesses to dare call yourself Heavenly Emperor!"
Buzz~~~ As the Old Buddha extended this palm, buzz buzz buzz~~~~ waves of Buddhist chanting echoed for ten thousand li. Buddhist light illuminated the Great Thousand World, covering all things, reaching everywhere, existing everywhere!
Golden light and Sanskrit chanting were born in the Void Space. Tang Song looked up. Amidst the boundless Buddhist light, a golden palm grew larger against the wind, instantly transforming into a sky-shading and sun-blocking great hand, pressing down upon him.
Tang Song saw clearly that within this great hand, an infinitely bright world faintly floated.
"Palm Buddha Kingdom again! Does your Buddhist Sect have no other divine abilities!" Tang Song's gaze flickered slightly, his expression dismissive on the surface. His eyes, however, narrowed slightly, carefully observing the Buddhist palm coming towards him. He saw that beneath the endless Buddhist light, countless Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats seemed to appear! These Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were all lifelike, with solemn and dignified appearances, collectively emitting countless waves of grand chanting. As this palm was pushed out, they provided empowerment, erupting with supreme power capable of overturning Qiankun and annihilating everything!
"Tathagata Divine Palm, your big palm is indeed not bad! It's certainly enough to slap someone around!"
Amidst the vast ocean of Buddhist light, Tang Song's gaze flickered slightly, praising it.
He had experienced this Buddhist Sect divine ability at the hands of Xuan Tan Merit Buddha.
Although Tathagata's cultivation base was not as high as Xuanzang, who had already cultivated into a Great Luo Buddha, that Monk's Tathagata Divine Palm, compared to the palm struck by this true master before him, lacked something, and that was the domineering aura of being the only one!
"Since Benefactor's Demonic Blade is not here, what abilities do you have to escape this Old Monk's palm!"
Behind the striking palm, a Buddha Golden Body slowly rose from the Star Sea. Stars were beneath its lotus flower seat, and the sun and moon circled before its chest. It spoke slowly, its Buddhist voice lingering. Although that Outer Realm Heavenly Demon was powerful, it relied on the empowerment of mortal fortune and that fiercely unparalleled Demonic Blade.
At this moment, the Heavenly Demon's main body was discussing the Dao with the Heavenly Dao Beyond the Heavens. What remained here was merely an incarnation. Without the Demonic Blade in hand, how could it withstand his Tathagata Divine Palm?
"Although the Demonic Heaven Blood Transformation Blade is not here, I also have a few fist techniques. It's a good opportunity to have the Monk help me taste and evaluate them!"
Tang Song's voice sounded like bolts of thunder in Tathagata's ears.
Amidst the endless Buddhist chanting, Tang Song smiled coldly and stepped forward with a roar!
"Take this punch!"
As Tang Song took a step, his five fingers slowly clenched. Silently, he threw a fist.
Beneath his skin, which was as clear as glazed tiles, every blood vessel was clearly visible, and the golden blood flowing freely within could be seen.
As he threw his fist, the blood throughout his body roared, and his five zang organs and six fu organs trembled.
Boom~~~ The vast qi and blood intertwined with fist intent, transforming into long dragons that shook the sky, meeting the striking Tathagata Divine Palm.
In Tang Song's punch, black and white Yin Yang qi flow circulated. Heaven and Earth seemed to transform into a great mill, driven by the substantialized fist intent and the infinite blood qi power. A grinding sound echoed in the Void Space, and Space-Time was constantly ground into powder.
This Yin-Yang Great Mill was a peerless technique Tang Song had comprehended from the Taiji Diagram. Using Heaven and Earth as the grinding mill, and Yin Yang qi to grind and twist.
Between the black and white streaking light, everything in Heaven and Earth was swept up by this 'Great Grinding Mill'.
Behind Tang Song, within the Divine Radiance, countless Golden Armored Divine Beings simultaneously threw punches. These were the Gods under the rule of the Heavenly Emperor in This World, and even in many Cycle Worlds, providing empowerment. In the next moment, the Tathagata Divine Palm and Tang Song's fist collided with a roar! The Yin-Yang World Destruction Grinding Mill fiercely crashed into the Palm Buddha Kingdom.
Rumble~~~ Heaven and Earth became one color in the Primordial Chaos. Under the layers of ripples, even the Void Space exploded.
Crash!
Like the Heavenly River breaking, primordial qi burst forth like a torrent, pouring out in all directions.
After several moments, a vast golden light appeared in Heaven and Earth.
A giant Yin-Yang Grinding Mill pierced through the endless sea of light of Buddhist light, colliding with the Palm Buddha Kingdom countless times.
With a roar, both shattered.
Rumble rumble!!
Endless light and shadow flowed. Inside and outside the Dragon Carriage, the two stood and sat separated by the bright yellow curtains, as if the exchange just now was merely an illusion.
"Amitabha Buddha, Heavenly Emperor's abilities are indeed astonishing!"
Tathagata clasped his hands together and sighed.
A deep fist print appeared on his chest. His Golden Body, under the two-color Yin-Yang qi flow, was slightly weakened, its radiance dimmed by more than half.
"Old Monk, your skills are not bad either!" Tang Song sat inside the Dragon Carriage. Several seams were torn in his brocade robe, and a huge palm print was faintly visible on his physical body, which was as clear as jade.
Above the sky, one hundred thousand Jaegers advanced wave after wave, supported by the roaring fighter jets and the artillery fire of the Motherships, contending with the King of Ten Thousand Monsters.
One hundred thousand Jaegers had already lost half their number, but the optical computers of the remaining Jaegers were constantly optimizing their bodies based on their clashes with the Monkey.
The Monkey possessed Samadhi True Fire. So, they used the Sentinels' X-Gene and nanobots to generate a barrier layer. After sacrificing over three hundred Jaegers for experiments, the killing power of the Samadhi True Fire against these Jaegers was reduced by seventy percent.
The Monkey possessed the divine ability of Outer Body Incarnation and was skilled in group combat. Tens of thousands of Jaegers formed a formation to resist, blocking off a Sky Net Earth Net in the air leading to the Motherships. Even though the Monkey, the King of Ten Thousand Monsters, had monstrous monster qi, he was temporarily trapped within this net.
The two sides fought for two hours at an altitude of tens of thousands of feet. The sky above shook incessantly, and the Void Space was a tangled mess. Boom! Boom! Boom! Taking advantage of a Jaeger running out of energy, the Monkey seized the weakness, used a divine ability, and found an opportunity to somersault to a formation core of the net. The Monkey's fangs were bared, his eyes completely red, and his rolling monster qi erupted. He suddenly transformed, his head reaching the sky, his body like a mountain, his gaze like pillars,
He held the Sky-Supporting Giant Pillar transformed from the Ruyi Jingu Bang in both hands, sweeping across ten thousand li of sky, instantly sending hundreds of surrounding Jaegers flying.
"Die! All of you die!!"
Rumble!
The Monkey, having used the Imitate Heaven and Earth Divine Ability, took advantage of the formation being disrupted by him and swung the Sky-Supporting Giant Pillar in his hand. A single sweep cleared ten thousand li of smoke and clouds. Within ten thousand li, all primordial qi, light, and tangible and intangible matter wailed and roared.
Exploding! Collapsing! Everything within sight was shattered by this powerful and domineering aura staff!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Thousands of Jaegers within the great formation were all struck flying by a single blow.
Large quantities of nanobots exploded from these Jaegers. The Monkey laughed heartily. Taking advantage of the opportunity for these small things to reassemble, he flew upwards, heading towards the Ironclad Ships above.
Dozens of Motherships' engines sprayed blue flames, accelerating towards Outer Space.
"Hahaha! Trying to escape?! Watch me flatten you!"
The Monkey laughed and was about to chase after the Ironclad Ships when he heard a voice in the Void Space that was extremely familiar to him: "Fellow Daoist is too kind. The People of the World call me Heavenly Emperor!!"
The Monkey's body trembled. He subconsciously touched his chest. Although the blade wound there had healed, it seemed to ache faintly at this moment.
The Monkey bared his fangs, a bloodthirsty radiance flashing across his monkey face: "It's you!!"
The Monkey's crimson gaze pierced through the sky, looking down beneath the rolling Void Space turbulence.
(end of chapter)