??Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Indra Gains Great Destiny
Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Indra Gains Great Destiny
Emperor Gou Chen saw the bad turn of events and did not enter the Mountain and Rivers Sheji Map, escaping instead deep into the Ancient Battlefield.
In this Ancient Battlefield, there were many Great Formations, personally laid out by the Green Emperor and the Ancient Powers in years past. Emperor Gou Chen broke a Beidou Demon Subduing Formation and felt utterly drained, treading carefully with every step. Formations were everywhere, fearing there might be a dozen Great Formations, and a mont of inattention could trap him within.
Cursing under his breath, Emperor Gou Chen thought, “That Ling Weiyang really set a trap for . Where is the great fortune? It’s all damn great peril!”
Suddenly, he stepped into a Formation, and the desolate Ancient Battlefield transford into a land of knives and fiery seas.
Emperor Gou Chen’s heart chilled, cursing silently, “What kind of Formation is this!”
He was once the most outstanding individual of the Demon Tribe, becoming an unparalleled Taiyi Golden Immortal in the shortest amount of ti, not to ntion his profound Mana and the various mystical Divine Skills bestowed by the Heavenly Emperor. He had a deep understanding of formations. However, it was unknown why he later joined the Buddhist Sect, beca the Protector Heavenly King, and after the Deification War ended, he ascended the Deification Platform to beco Emperor Gou Chen.
From all directions surged Samadhi True Fire, covering the sky and earth unceasingly like the endless sea.
As a being with the body of a Golden Crow, how could Emperor Gou Chen fear fire? Even if what surged toward him now was the essence of True Sunfire, he wasn’t afraid! With a wave of his left hand, True Sunfire appeared, enveloping the Samadhi True Fire, and then with a deep breath, he inhaled it all into himself. Finally, burping contentedly, he exhaled so flas.
“Is this a Five Elents Formation? Heh, inadvertently stepping into the Formation’s eye, it seems I do have so luck,” Emperor Gou Chen remarked after observing with his Dharma Eye for a mont. His mind clear as a mirror, he had inadvertently stepped into the Formation’s eye by accident, a stroke of fate that allowed him to easily subdue a formidable Formation.
This Five Elents Formation originated from the Ancient Era. Though it still exists today, it is much weaker compared to its original form in the Ancient Era, and so of the materials for the Formation had disappeared without a trace.
Overjoyed, Emperor Gou Chen sat down cross-legged and closely sensed the location of the Magical Treasure suppressing the Formation’s eye.
Soon after, he opened his eyes, pointed a finger three feet in front of him, and the ground exploded, revealing a small tripod with three legs and two handles. Five divine dragons were coiled around this tripod, each holding a pearl in its mouth—black, white, yellow, green, and red, the sa as Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
Exhilarated, Emperor Gou Chen exclaid, “The Five Elents Cauldron, the Magical Treasure of the Holy Emperor Fuxi, heh heh! Indeed, it’s excellent, truly a stroke of great fortune!”
Having said this, he lifted the Five Elents Cauldron in his hands and, without even taking another look, hurriedly began to refine it with his Primordial Spirit’s Mana.
Fuxi was not a Saint, so a bit of his True Spirit naturally couldn’t last for 120,000 years. Thus, for Emperor Gou Chen, refining this Magical Treasure only took the ti of burning one stick of incense. After the Magical Treasure acknowledged its master, the Formation naturally beca his. The surrounding flas all ceased, receding to one side, under his control.
Since the Five Elents Cauldron was the Magical Treasure accompanying the life of the Holy Emperor Fuxi, it was thought to be of high quality. Therefore, Emperor Gou Chen was not in a rush and continued to refine the Five Elents Cauldron, intending to integrate it fully to avoid it being stolen and the True Spirit within it being scattered in just a few blows. Hence, he invoked the True Sunfire to ld a wisp of his True Spirit perfectly with the cauldron. This refining process took three days and three nights, and finally, it was as round and perfect as desired.
A glint of light burst from Emperor Gou Chen’s forehead as the cauldron entered it, settling in front of the Niwan Palace within. If soone wanted to ambush him and shatter his Niwan Palace, it would not be so easy. Having obtained the Five Elents Cauldron, the frustration in his heart dissipated. Even if he couldn’t seize the Green Emperor’s throne this ti, obtaining this cauldron was more than worth it.
“With this cauldron in hand, I need not fear Sun Wukong’s Magical Treasures! However, that space Magical Treasure is too bizarre; within an instant, it defeated eight experts. I must be careful,” Emperor Gou Chen thought to himself.
With the cauldron in his possession and his confidence boosted, Emperor Gou Chen went off in search of Sun Wukong to settle scores.
At this ti, Sun Wukong was mutually corroborating the Great Paths with Yuan Hong and making significant progress in learning the Staff Technique.
Wu Aotian of the Xuan Wu Clan was also heading in this direction at this ti, portending another fierce battle.
The Long-Ard Ape had an innate Divine Ability that could discern good and bad fortune. With a slight calculation, he felt an impulsive sensation and said, “I shall hide away! Soone is coming, and I fear it will be a fierce battle indeed!”
After a short wait, Wu Aotian from the Xuan Wu Clan arrived, and Wukong promptly lifted his staff.
Wu Aotian said, “I’ve just divined using the turtle shell that there’s a great calamity heading your way; it seems that Indra has obtained so powerful magical treasure and has co here to assist you.”
Wukong chuckled, “Why do you say that?”
Wu Aotian replied, “I am the Second Elder of the Xuan Wu Clan. The elder generation has long decided to establish you as the new Green Emperor to revitalize the Demon Tribe’s spirit and stand against the Heavenly Court and the Buddhist Sect. Now, with the Demon Tribe fragnted like loose sand and the characters from the Ancient era continuously falling due to injuries by the Great Paths, the Demon Tribe’s situation is indeed precarious.”
Wukong knew the turtle shell possessed unfathomable divinatory powers. It was said that Fuxi, the Holy Emperor, received the inspiration to lay out the Eight Trigrams in the void from this very turtle shell, which has natural patterns concealing the secrets of heaven. A careful revelation could lead to great fortunes! It was said that the people of the Xuan Wu Clan cultivated based on the natural patterns on the turtle shells they were born with; how they comprehended the Dharma Gate from these patterns remained a mystery to him.
Wukong secretly thought, “Yuan Hong also ntioned danger earlier. Since this man has co to assist
and also divined danger, it must be that Emperor Gou Chen really obtained so powerful magical treasure!” Yet his brow furrowed again, “How could this man divine that danger is coming for ? With the Hongng Purple Qi protecting , divination tactics should be ineffective, making fortunes and calamities hard to predict. However, Fuxi was able to divine this day, 120,000 years later, using the turtle shell’s powers, and since Wu Aotian is also from the Xuan Wu Clan, he must possess so tricks.”
Wukong questioned doubtfully, “How did you divine my fortune and misfortune?”
Wu Aotian explained, “I’ve divined that Indra has beco the Green Emperor. Since he’s taken up that role, you’re naturally in danger.”
Wukong realized that the art of divination was not a single path but many great ways. Even if one’s own fortunes could not be divined, others close to them could be, and through a series of divinations and one’s conjectures, one could fumble towards so origins.
Wukong nodded and said, “This art of divination is indeed miraculous, though I’m unaware of its origins.”
Wu Aotian then laughed and said, “Once your Golden Core is complete and you reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm, you’ll know a bit about it. If there’s a Divination thod you can learn, that would be even better.”
In the Ancient Era, Fuxi possessed trendous mana and cultivated the art of divination to an extrely profound level. Moreover, he invented the Eight Trigrams, arranging them in the void, showcasing his extraordinary brilliance! The legendary book “The Book of Changes” was said to be written by Fuxi. Unfortunately, it revealed too much of the heavenly secrets, leading to the burning of its core divination techniques, leaving only superficial bits. Yet even those remnants, when thoroughly studied by Marquis of Xi, Ji Chang, enabled him to understand the past and future, to know fortunes and fates, to know destiny… This demonstrates how formidable Fuxi was; he could likely calculate your demise with just a pinch of his fingers, without any need to act.
Having fought with Great Luo Golden Immortals, Wukong realized their formidable power, their strength elusive to fathom. During his battle with the Great Might Heavenly Dragon, he couldn’t discern its attack routes. If it weren’t for relying on the Green Lotus, he would have been defeated long ago.
This kind of power is known as rules.
How to explain it? Imagine throwing a pebble – it travels in a straight line before falling. But a Great Luo Golden Immortal can disrupt the rules: a pebble thrown by them might fall first and then travel in a straight line… Or, when a punch is aid at the face, one would expect the fist to co straight on, but if the rules are distorted, what the eyes see is a deviated trajectory of the fist attack – unpredictable and eerily strange.
For Wukong to perfect his Golden Core, it was not an easy task. He had imprinted over nine hundred Dao marks onto it, approaching a thousand. To achieve a perfect Golden Core, he feared he would need all Three Thousand Great Paths complete. However, this could result in an accumulation of strength that might rival a Sect Founder once he reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
This was an extrely difficult path, one that only Hong Jun, the ancestor, had taken.
He attained the status of a Heavenly Dao Saint, commanded Pangu to create the world, and after the opening of heaven, he captured much of the Hongng Purple Qi. With great determination, he seized the Three Thousand Great Paths within the Hongng Purple Qi and finally rged with the Heavenly Dao to beco one with the Great Path! In the past, when Tong Tian Sect Master established the Jie Taoist sect, outsiders said it ant seizing the chance for life that escaped during the evolution of the cosmos. Little did they know, Tong Tian Sect Master also had great determination to seize the Three Thousand Great Paths, but ultimately, he failed.
To beco a Heavenly Dao Saint and have one’s own path beco a fixed number, one would need great luck, great determination, and great wisdom. Evidently, Tong Tian Sect Master had the determination and wisdom, but what he lacked was that great luck.
The difficulty of attaining Dao has many perils, too nurous to na.
As Wu Aotian shared these words with Wukong, another subtle Dao mark appeared on Wukong’s Golden Core, nad the Way of Divination. This Dao mark was so subtle it was nearly non-existent. To perfect this mark, he would need a lot of ti and careful understanding.
He then sat down cross-legged with Wu Aotian to quietly wait for Emperor Gou Chen to arrive.
At that mont, Emperor Gou Chen was riding on a cloud ford from the Samadhi True Fire, flying towards this place with a Square Sky Halberd in his hand and a face full of determined killing intent!
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