Honghuang: Eat a Hunyuan Daluo

After Sun Wukong met Jin Chanzi, Li Ke, the mortal warrior sent by Li Shimin to protect Tang Sanzang, became of little use.

Li Ke also tactfully took his leave.

However, because he had been protecting Jin Chanzi for half a year, a trace of merit was bestowed upon him, and a wisp of fortune entered his family.

Because of this stroke of luck, Li Ke's son is destined for greatness, and will at least leave his mark on history.

After Li Ke left, Sun Wukong and Jin Chanzi stared at each other.

After a long while, Jin Chanzi spoke first, saying, "The Monkey King's cultivation is probably close to the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, so why should he get involved in the Journey to the West?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong retorted irritably, "Do you think I, Old Sun, want this? Aren't I in the same boat as you?"

"I see. Then, Monkey King, we must support each other from now on."

"That's how it should be."

After making their agreement, the two set off.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Kong Xuan, Yunxiao, and Youqin Yueyue, who were from Yingzhou Immortal Island, gathered together for the first time.

Back when Sun Wukong was first born, Bai Jing had sent the three of them to do something, and now the matter has naturally been completed.

"Master, I have found the Six-Eared Macaque on your orders and taught him supernatural powers in my avatar. Now the Six-Eared Macaque has broken through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm," Yunxiao said first.

Upon hearing this, Youqin Yueyue chimed in, "Teacher, as you instructed, I released Wuzhiqi and took him under my wing to teach him. He recently broke through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm and comprehended the Law of War."

After saying that, Youqin Yueyue looked at Kong Xuan, and Kong Xuan also said, "Master, Yuan Hong is already a Hunyuan Golden Immortal, and he has just broken through as well."

“That’s right. After Sun Wukong’s journey to the West, with the help of his merits and fortune, breaking through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm is a sure thing. Now, only Liu Er is missing. You should pay more attention to Yunxiao Liu Er and try to help him break through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm as soon as possible,” Bai Jing said.

Yunxiao bowed and accepted the order.

"Well done. These four mischievous monkeys might be useful as a backup plan in the future. You may all step down!"

After bowing respectfully, the three left Yingzhou Immortal Island.

"Senior brother, what do you think Master wants these four chaotic monkeys for? Even if all four monkeys break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, they won't be of any use to the Supreme Being, will they?" Youqin Yueyue asked.

"Who knows! But Master always has his own ideas about what to do, so let's not speculate," Kong Xuan replied.

"That's true. Master is never wrong. Just listen to him."

"Senior Brother, Junior Sister would like to spar with you. Does Senior Brother have the time?" Yunxiao asked as soon as Youqin Yueyue finished speaking.

Of all Bai Jing's disciples, Kong Xuan, Yun Xiao, Shen Nong, and You Qin Yueyue have become saints.

However, among the four, only Kong Xuan and Yun Xiao have attained the Dao through the laws. One cultivates the Five Elements Dao, which ranks high among the Three Thousand Daos, while the other has created his own Dao of Illusion and Reality. Who is stronger between the two is of great interest not only to outsiders but also to Bai Jing's other disciples.

Youqin Yueyue knew she was no match for Yunxiao and Kongxuan. As for Shennong, she was confident she could overpower him if he didn't borrow the power of human destiny, but if he did, she would never be able to defeat him.

Of course, Qin Yueyue is not weak either. Even if Kong Xuan and Yun Xiao wanted to take her down, the final result would only be one dead and one seriously injured, and the latter would have to recuperate for dozens of eons.

Kong Xuan was somewhat surprised by Yunxiao's suggestion, because Yunxiao did not like fighting, so why did he suddenly propose to spar with him today?

"Junior sister, have you gained new insights?" Kong Xuan asked tentatively.

"There are some, but this insight still needs to be verified by my senior brother's Five Elements Dao."

Kong Xuan became interested as well: "Alright, then let's have a friendly spar!"

After saying this, Kong Xuan made a thought, and the surrounding space was instantly divided and reorganized, creating a middle-thousand world with ease.

Yunxiao and Youqin Yueyue worked together to stabilize the Middle Thousand World, using it as their battlefield.

The newly formed world was in chaos, with nothing inside. Qin Yueyue was responsible for maintaining this world, preventing the aftershocks of their battle from destroying it.

Kong Xuan and Yun Xiao stood facing each other. Although they had not yet made a move, the surrounding space had already begun to tremble slightly under the pressure of their auras.

Youqin Yueyue sat cross-legged at the edge of the world, her hands forming a hand seal. She quickly used her saintly power to create an invisible barrier to stabilize this newly born world.

After the space stopped trembling, Kong Xuan took the lead and waved his five fingers lightly. Five dazzling rays of light rose from behind him, red, blue, white, black and yellow intertwined to form a five-colored divine light that swept towards the sky.

This divine light was originally Kong Xuan's innate supernatural power, capable of sweeping away anything. After Kong Xuan became a saint, this divine light contained the power of the Five Elements Great Dao, capable of sweeping all matter, energy, and even laws into the Five Elements cycle and crushing them into dust.

Seeing this, Yunxiao remained unmoved. She simply raised her hand, and the Dao of Reality and Illusion flowed, causing the void in front of her to suddenly distort and transform into an invisible illusory mirror.

The five-colored divine light crashed into the mirror, but vanished without a trace, like a mud ox sinking into the sea.

Yunxiao chuckled and said, "Senior brother, there's no need to hold back. Just go ahead and make your move."

Kong Xuan nodded upon hearing this, and the five-colored light behind him turned into a dark and profound anti-five-colored divine light.

The anti-five-colored divine light devours everything, like a black hole, consuming all things, both tangible and intangible, even distorting and absorbing light and laws.

The anti-five-colored divine light swept in, attempting to swallow the illusory mirror in the clouds along with her into the vortex of the five elements.

Yunxiao remained calm and composed. The Dao of Illusion and Reality shifted again, and the illusory mirror instantly materialized into a crystal-clear giant mountain. The mountain's body circulated the two energies of illusion and reality, appearing both real and illusory.

The anti-five-colored divine light crashed into the giant mountain, intending to devour it, but discovered that the mountain was actually fake.

However, the next second, the shift between reality and illusion within the mountain dissipated most of the power of the anti-five-colored divine light. Although the remaining divine light shook the giant mountain, it could not devour it.

"Junior Sister's Dao of Illusion and Reality is indeed profound." Kong Xuan laughed loudly, formed hand seals, and fully activated the Dao of Five Elements. Behind him, five-colored divine light condensed into a Five Elements Dharma Image, which held five element divine weapons.

Golden sword, wooden staff, water droplets, fire lotus, earth shield—each strike embodied the profound principles of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint, attacking towards the clouds. The clouds, too, moved with a thought, transforming the surrounding space into a peculiar realm where reality and illusion intertwined. The golden sword slashed down, but her form became ethereal; the sword's edge pierced through, yet found no point of contact.

As the fiery lotus burned, she materialized the ethereal into reality, conjuring a frozen ocean of ice to extinguish the flames.

As the earthen shield pressed down, she turned herself into nothingness, and the earthen shield crashed into nothingness.

Yunxiao immediately retaliated, conjuring thousands of sword energies out of thin air in the void. Each sword energy was transformed from the void into reality, containing the law of destruction, and pierced straight at Kong Xuan.

Kong Xuanzheng's five-colored divine light rose again, sweeping away thousands of sword energies. The reverse five-colored divine light followed closely, devouring the virtual and real domain constructed by the clouds.

The two exchanged blows, their Five Elements Dao and the Dao of Illusion and Reality intertwining and colliding, causing chaos and turmoil within the Middle Thousand World, with laws surging and a faint sign of collapse.

Youqin Yueyue is doing her best to stabilize the world, but she also feels the pressure increasing.

As the battle reached its climax, Yunxiao suddenly took a step back, clasped his hands together, and pushed the Dao of Illusion and Reality to its limit. Countless illusory worlds appeared in the surrounding chaos, each world seemingly real yet illusory, containing different laws, like thousands of mirror images, surrounding Kong Xuan completely.

"Senior brother, the inspiration I just mentioned is from this myriad realms of reality and illusion. Please give me your opinion."

After hearing Yunxiao's words, Kong Xuan laughed loudly and said, "Haha! Good! Junior Sister, please go ahead and do as you please."

Yunxiao nodded, his hands forming hand seals as the Dao of Reality and Illusion flowed around him. The myriad realms of reality and illusion that appeared in the chaos were like countless stars, layer upon layer, surrounding Kong Xuan completely.

Each virtual world is both real and illusory, containing different laws: some worlds are filled with raging flames that burn everything; some worlds are frozen in ice that freezes time and space; some worlds are filled with thunder that destroys everything; and some worlds are full of life, yet hide deadly dangers.

These worlds intertwine to form a chaotic realm where reality and illusion coexist, seemingly endless, attempting to trap Kong Xuan within it and obliterate his Five Elements Dao.

The myriad realms of reality and illusion in the clouds reveal the ultimate power of creation and destruction of the Great Dao of Reality and Illusion.

Each world is both a phantom projection and can be transformed into reality, becoming a real attack. The myriad worlds are like a vast net, echoing each other, their laws intertwined, forming a near-perfect suppression domain.

Kong Xuan found himself amidst a world that seemed to shift unpredictably. One moment he was engulfed in flames, the next he was eroded by ice, and then he was struck by lightning. In some places, the world even transformed into an invisible illusion, attempting to disturb his mind.

Even more terrifying is that the virtual and real worlds are not simply a means of attack, but rather a core technology that transforms the virtual and real worlds. Any attack aimed at the world will be neutralized and dissipated into nothingness.

However, the world's own counterattack can transform from the abstract into the concrete, unleashing real and deadly destructive power.

Yunxiao stood at the center of all realms, like a sovereign. With a wave of her hand, the world turned and the laws changed. Her offense and defense were seamlessly connected, forcing Kong Xuan to deal with her with all her might.

"Senior brother, do you have a way to break through my myriad realms of illusion and reality?" Yunxiao's cold voice came from within the myriad realms, carrying a hint of probing.

Kong Xuan's eyes burned with fighting spirit. Facing the immense pressure from the myriad realms of reality and illusion, he shouted, "Junior Sister's move is indeed a good technique! But it still can't do anything to me."

As soon as Kong Xuan finished speaking, the Five Elements Dharma Image behind him became more and more solid. The five great powers of metal, wood, water, fire and earth intertwined and transformed into five pillars of light that pierced through heaven and earth.

Golden light is sharp, cleaving through the void; wood light is vibrant with life, giving rise to endless birth and death; water light is supple, encompassing everything; fire light is blazing, burning all things; earth light is heavy, suppressing all laws.

The power of the five elements operates according to the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint, forming a perfect five-element cycle, like an indestructible five-element array, facing the myriad realms of reality and illusion.

With a thought, Kong Xuan activated the Five Elements Grand Array at full power. Golden light pierced through a world of thunder, unstoppable, cleaving it in two; fire followed closely, incinerating a frozen world and turning the ice into water; water light, flexible and resilient, dissolved the entanglements of a world of life; wood light, embodying creation and destruction, devoured the laws of an illusory world; earth light, heavy and imposing, suppressed a world of flames, causing it to collapse. The Five Elements Great Dao, through its force of decomposition and reconstruction, gradually dismantled the structure of the myriad realms of reality and illusion.

"The five elements generate each other, in an endless cycle; the five elements counteract each other, and nothing is insurmountable!" Kong Xuan shouted. The Five Elements Formation transformed into a five-colored giant wheel, crushing everything in its path. The myriad realms of reality and illusion collapsed under the crushing weight of the giant wheel, turning into chaotic fragments.

Although Yunxiao's realm of illusion and reality was wondrous, it showed signs of weakness under the absolute power of the Five Elements Dao.

Standing in the center of the myriad realms, Yunxiao felt the terrifying pressure of the Five Elements Grand Array, but a glimmer of understanding flashed in his eyes.

She noticed the flaw in the myriad realms of reality and illusion—although the variations were endless, the laws of each world were too scattered to be condensed into a truly unsolvable force.

Kong Xuan's Five Elements Dao, with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth as its core, circulates endlessly and integrates offense and defense, which just happened to inspire her.

"The essence of the Dao of Illusion and Reality lies in transformation. If we can bring the power of all worlds together and simplify the complex, we may be able to make further progress!" Yunxiao's heart stirred, and the Dao of Illusion and Reality rapidly deduced. He formed hand seals, and the myriad worlds of illusion and reality suddenly shrank, transforming into a unique pearl that blended illusion and reality.

The surface of the pearl swirled with both real and illusory energies, seemingly both real and unreal, yet it contained the power of all realms and exuded an aura that seemed to crush everything.

Yunxiao gave a soft shout, and the Chaos Pearl met the Five Elements Giant Wheel. The pearl seemed small, but the moment it touched the giant wheel, it unleashed a terrifying power of transformation between reality and illusion. The crushing force of the Five Elements Giant Wheel was neutralized by the pearl and dissipated by most of it.

The pearl itself materialized from the void, transforming into a pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth, and launched a counterattack against Kong Xuan.

Seeing this, Kong Xuan's eyes flashed with admiration. He activated the Five Elements Dharma Image with all his might, and the positive and negative five-colored divine light came out at the same time. The positive five-colored divine light swept towards the pillar of light, while the negative five-colored divine light devoured its power.

The collision of the two unleashed a devastating shockwave, causing the Middle Thousand World to tremble violently. Qin Yueyue tried her best to stabilize the world, but she turned pale and almost couldn't hold on.

Just as the battle was about to spiral out of control, Yunxiao and Kongxuan stopped fighting at the same time.

The Chaos Pearl in the clouds dissipated, and Kong Xuan's Five Elements Wheel returned to calm. The two exchanged a glance and both revealed knowing smiles.

"Junior Sister, your understanding of the Dao of Illusion and Reality has advanced another step. Congratulations!" Kong Xuan said loudly, putting away the Five Elements Dharma Image.

"Many thanks to Senior Brother for his assistance with the Five Elements Dao, which enabled Yunxiao to perfect his supernatural powers." Yunxiao bowed slightly, his eyes filled with joy.

Through this exchange, she condensed the scattered power of the myriad realms of reality and illusion into a Chaos Pearl, thus making up for the deficiencies in her supernatural abilities and achieving the purpose of the exchange.

Youqin Yueyue breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew the magic that had stabilized the world, and smiled, "You two senior brothers and sisters have truly broadened my horizons. This Middle Thousand World was almost lost!"

Kong Xuan and Yun Xiao exchanged a smile. Although the battle was undecided, both of them had gained something, so it could be considered a draw.

Even Qin Yueyue, who was just watching the show, benefited from it. She wondered if she could add some of the power of the five elements to her own supernatural abilities. Ideally, she could also learn from Senior Sister Yunxiao's Dao of Illusion and Reality, using illusions that were difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion to increase the allure of her supernatural abilities.

As she pondered, a glint flashed in Youqin Yueyue's eyes, clearly indicating that she had already made up her mind.

After the three left the Middle Thousand World, Kong Xuan waved his hand, and the Middle Thousand World immediately collapsed. Yunxiao and Youqin Yueyue took their leave, seemingly returning to their secluded cultivation. (End of Chapter)