"Alright, there's no need to be tense. I bear you no ill will, and there's no need for you to deny or hide anything. I've long known that Flower-Fruit Mountain is the third Nine Dragons Gathering Stars Formation within the Three Realms. Otherwise, why would I have had the Heaven-Defying Demon Emperor Mu Chenxuan sealed there?"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord waved his hand, signaling Sun Wukong to relax. However, Sun Wukong's brows furrowed. From what the Grand Supre Elderly Lord was saying, he had known about the Nine Dragons Gathering Stars Formation at Flower-Fruit Mountain for a long ti. All of this had indeed been arranged by him!
"Speak then, Elderly Lord, what exactly do you want to do?"
Sun Wukong's expression darkened. It seed he had thought too simply about the Grand Supre Elderly Lord. He had originally thought that the war between Immortals and Demons was orchestrated solely by the Jade Emperor and the Grand Supre Elderly Lord was rely assisting. However, it seed not to be so simple – the Grand Supre Elderly Lord appeared to be the true mastermind!
"I don't an to do anything in particular, I just want to tell you not to bother with those petty tricks in front of . I know the details of your Flower-Fruit Mountain very well. If I really wanted to harm you, I wouldn't need to make any effort myself.
I would only need to speak to the Jade Emperor, and a million troops from the Heavenly Court would raze your Flower-Fruit Mountain to the ground instantly. Do you believe it or not?"
Sun Wukong fell silent, his eyes turning a dark golden color. In his pupils, a heavy pupil slowly revolved as he stared carefully at the Grand Supre Elderly Lord, who still appeared serene, with no sign of surging Immortal Primordial Force. Sun Wukong let his guard down; at least for now, it appeared the Grand Supre Elderly Lord had no intention of attacking him.
But what was he really thinking, and why tell him all this?
"Alright, as I said, I have no ill intentions toward you and no ill intentions toward Flower-Fruit Mountain!"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord waved his hand. "Within your Flower-Fruit Mountain is the Nine Dragons Gathering Stars Formation, able to gather Stellar Spiritual Qi. I discovered this thousands of years before the great war between Immortals and Demons.
That is a fortune of Flower-Fruit Mountain and not of the Heavenly Court, so I haven't told the Jade Emperor about it, neither in the past, nor now, nor will I in the future. You can be assured of that."
"As for the Heaven-Defying Demon Emperor Mu Chenxuan, sealing him for so many years was enough. After all, he was also a victim back then. Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all beings as sacrificial straws. However, there is always a sliver of hope left in everything. Since you rescued him, that was his fate, as well as an opportunity for Flower-Fruit Mountain. I won't interfere with this matter!"
"So, can I take it that you are showing goodwill to , Elderly Lord?"
Sun Wukong narrowed his eyes. The Grand Supre Elderly Lord spoke these words very calmly, and there was no change in the energy inside his body. It truly seed he had no malice, revealing all this now – since it wasn't a desperate revelation, it must be a sign of goodwill.
But why?
"Goodwill? Hmm, you could see it that way!"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord nodded, suddenly fixing Sun Wukong with a piercing gaze, as if a fla was burning in his eyes, seemingly wanting to see right through Sun Wukong. "The Heavenly Dao Saint can communicate with the Heavenly Dao and deduce the Zhou Tian of all things, but solely your monkey's existence remains indecipherable to .
There's only one possibility – that your fate does not lie within the course of the Heavenly Dao. In other words, you are the greatest variable under this Heavenly Dao!"
My fate does not lie within the course of the Heavenly Dao? The greatest variable under the Heavenly Dao?
The Taotie at his side was shocked, his mouth wide open as he looked at Sun Wukong as if seeing him for the first ti. anwhile, Sun Wukong maintained a stoic expression. This was the first ti soone had so clearly revealed his deepest secrets. Other than the fact that he was reincarnated and living a second life, the Grand Supre Elderly Lord seed to see through him quite thoroughly!
"There were so words I wouldn't have told you, as your cultivation strength wasn't enough. However, since we've talked this far and considering your identity as a variable of the Heavenly Dao, I might as well say more. You must have heard of the Imasurable Calamity, haven't you?"
"Yes, when Pangu opened the heaven, the Prival opened up, and when the Heavenly Dao began to form, there was talk of the Imasurable Great Calamity. Legend has it that the first Great Calamity was the Witch-Demon War, and the second was the Divine Enthronent battle."
Sun Wukong thought for a mont. He had read about this in the ancient texts at the Three-Star Cave Heaven's Scripture Pavilion, and he had copied them to the Heaven-Piercing Tower in the Water Curtain Cave Heaven for the Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Race to review and study.
"That's right! Not bad, eh?"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord praised with a look of admiration. "But do you know that the third Great Imasurable Calamity is about to arrive, and this calamity could very likely determine the course of the final Great Calamity, deciding the future of the Three Realms!"
The third Great Imasurable Calamity!
Sun Wukong and the Taotie looked at each other, this being the first ti they had heard of this!
"Elderly Lord, what exactly is this third Great Imasurable Calamity? When will it co? What are its characteristics?"
Sun Wukong pressed with urgency, and Taotie too watched The Grand Supre Elderly Lord with a nervous expression. For every boundless calamity, countless beings inevitably perished. Read latest stories on My Virtual Library Empire
During the first boundless calamity, the Witch-Demon War, the Witch Race and the Demon Clan suffered countless deaths and injuries, and mbers from various races who got involved in the great war also experienced significant casualties, drastically reducing the number of beings in the Ancient Prival.
In the second boundless calamity, the Confernt of Gods Battle, the number of perished immortals was incalculable. Many immortals ascended the Confernt of Gods Platform, their divine soul marks entered the Investiture of the Gods list. Yet, many more had not even the qualifications to ascend the platform and could only vanish alongside the calamity from the world.
It could be said that these two calamities served as a purification of the beings in the Three Realms, a natural selection where the survivors flourished while the failures found no place even for their graves!
Now, The Grand Supre Elderly Lord has declared that the third boundless calamity is upon us. What will this boundless calamity entail, and how many beings will fall during this calamity? Or more precisely, which race's beings will fall in this boundless calamity? Could there be mbers from the Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Race or the Demon Race among them?
This was the issue of utmost concern for Sun Wukong and Taotie!
"I do not know!"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord spread his hands, spoke with conviction, yet nearly made Sun Wukong and Taotie, who were sitting upright seriously listening, almost fall to the ground.
"Old Lord, you can't pull one over us like this! It was you who said the third boundless calamity was coming, how co you suddenly know nothing now?"
Sun Wukong, frustrated, thought to himself: Are all these Heavenly Dao Saints like this, speaking in riddles and becoming vague and uncertain when it matters most?
"I truly do not know!"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord shook his head and bitterly smiled, "Although I am the head of the Three Purities, having slain two of my corporal forms to accumulate rit to Prove the Tao and Beco a Saint, enabling to communicate with the Heavenly Dao and calculate all beings under Zhou Tian, I am not omnipotent nor omniscient!
I can sense that the third boundless calamity is imminent, but I cannot calculate when exactly it will occur, nor the specific causes of this world's great calamity. All I can do is to take precautions in advance and minimize the impact of this third boundless calamity as much as possible!"
Sun Wukong nodded in understanding. Indeed, Heavenly Dao Saints are not all-powerful. Otherwise, Tathagata Buddha would have already calculated his origin and co directly from Spiritual Mountain to Flower-Fruit Mountain and not allowed him to slowly develop and grow in strength.
"Therefore, Wukong, now you should understand why I regard you differently, right? Your destiny is not within the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, the calamity numbers of the third boundless calamity have the least impact on you. Perhaps there might even be a significant transformation because of you, sothing even I cannot achieve!"
The Grand Supre Elderly Lord looked at Sun Wukong and said in a serious tone, "That is why I am willing to be on friendly terms with you, exchanging Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs for your Victorious Fighting Wine. The higher your strength improves, the greater your capacity to influence the boundless calamity in the future will be."
Sun Wukong stared intently at The Grand Supre Elderly Lord, as if seeing the old man for the first ti, and for a mont did not know what to say.
"Alright, you don't need to look so somber. Although I am the Sect Hierarch of Human Cult, one of the Taoist Three Purities, since I have beco a Heavenly Dao Saint, I won't care too much about racial differences. You represent the interests of the Demon Clan, and the arrangents you have at Flower-Fruit Mountain are clear to . I will not interfere or ntion them to the Jade Emperor.
What Flower-Fruit Mountain develops into, whether your relationship with the Heavenly Court will be friends or foes, these are for you to decide. Within my capabilities, I can offer so help. Do you understand?"
After speaking his piece, The Grand Supre Elderly Lord sat silently on the ditation cushion, quietly observing Sun Wukong, not saying more, knowing the impact his words would have on Sun Wukong and giving the monkey so ti to digest.
"Whew~!"
Sun Wukong indeed was greatly shaken. All along, he thought his plans were seamless, always feeling that because he was reborn, he could preemptively take initiative and predict enemies.
Yet, he had not expected that The Grand Supre Elderly Lord had already seen through everything quite clearly, that his preparations, his defensive asures were like a joke in front of The Grand Supre Elderly Lord!
Had it not been for his rebirth and his fate not tied to the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, making The Grand Supre Elderly Lord take a different view of him, he would have probably already fallen into sches like in his previous life and beco a pitiful pawn once again, thinking he could break the shackles of destiny to control his freedom!
"Old Lord, I want to ask you a question," Sun Wukong said.
"Ask away!"
"These matters of mine, the Nine Dragons Gathering Stars Formation at Flower-Fruit Mountain, besides you, who else knows? Does Primordial Heavenly Venerate know?"
In the Buddhist Sect, Sun Wukong was most wary of Tathagata Buddha; in the Taoist Sect, he was most concerned about the Primordial Heavenly Venerate, one of the Three Purities. That fellow had never been fond of the Demon Clan. If all that The Grand Supre Elderly Lord had ntioned were also known to the Primordial Heavenly Venerate, then matters could beco troubleso!
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