Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 1808 Time and Space Wilderness
Wutian's perverse and outrageous actions did not last long.

It has only been a little over five hundred years since Buddhism flourished after the pilgrimage to the West. For a great religion founded by sages, five hundred years is but a fleeting moment.

When the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the former Western religion were trapped in the depths of the Blood Sea, and the three great Bodhisattvas were each sweeping the snow from their own doorsteps, the Buddhist fortune was activated, and Sun Wukong bravely stepped forward.

In the first battle, Sun Wukong fought against Wutian. The monkey was severely injured by the Twelfth Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus. If it weren't for the desperate rescue by the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit at the critical moment, Sun Wukong might have died in battle on Mount Ling.

While the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit was carrying his former disciple to seek a master to heal him, the gate of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars Cave on Lingtai Fangcun Mountain opened once again to Sun Wukong.

Returning to the tutelage of Patriarch Bodhi, Sun Wukong learned the location of the remaining seventeen relics. He infiltrated Mount Ling a second time, and although he was injured by Wutian again, he stole all the relics of the saint.

He absorbed the power of the saints from the relics, and then went into seclusion, seclusion, and more seclusion.

After more than half a year of arduous cultivation, Sun Wukong attained the Great Luo Dao Fruit. Together with the relic in his body, a total of eighteen relics transformed into a string of Buddhist beads, which suppressed the Twelfth Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and completely destroyed the demon-possessed Wutian, allowing the Buddha's light to reappear on Mount Ling.

Mount Ling has returned, and Maitreya Buddha has also returned. However, the prestige of this Buddha has greatly declined. When Wutian occupied Mount Ling, he used a large amount of spiritual materials and slaughtered monks to create demonic soldiers. Now, all of these spiritual materials have turned to ashes.

If you have money, you're the boss; if you don't have money? Who's going to follow you if you don't have money!
The Buddhist disciples come from diverse backgrounds. While conflicts can be resolved when there are shared interests, the current lack of various spiritual materials, supernatural powers, and magical arts has exacerbated the conflicts between the original Western Buddhist disciples and the later Buddhist disciples. Maitreya had no choice but to loosen the restrictions and allow Buddhist disciples to establish their own sects outside of Buddhism, so that they no longer need to gather together on Mount Ling to cultivate.

The sacred mountains and blessed lands of the Western world were almost completely divided up, and even many famous mountains in the East had been visited by Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. It is difficult to break three arrows, but it is too easy to break one arrow. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were scattered in various places, and the last bit of cohesion of Buddhism also vanished.

Mount Ling returned to the hands of the former Western Sect disciples, seemingly the same as before, yet also somewhat different.

After its period of great prosperity following the Journey to the West, Buddhism gradually entered a period of decline. The Tongtian Sect Leader, still refining the Ten-Turn Immortal Pill, was overjoyed. "Serves you right! You've finally met your match!"
Around the same time, Deng Chanyu's cultivation of the Way of Time and Space also reached a new stage.

A giant silver serpent of unknown length coiled at the end of the river of time. The serpent not only devoured all the flesh and blood belonging to Juntian, but also devoured all his brothers and sisters who had gained life at the same time.

It is the only one at the end of time.

This is similar to Houtu's reincarnation; at this moment, the giant serpent of time can also be considered a kind of life continuation for Juntian.

Lady Pingxin is not Houtu, and the giant serpent of time at this moment is not Juntian.

However, it remained very hostile towards Deng Chanyu. Whenever it sensed that she was stealing the power of time from the depths of space, the giant serpent would constantly roar at the surrounding area in the realm of time.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Standing behind the grid formed by golden spatial threads and silver temporal threads, Deng Chanyu looked at the giant snake with a provocative expression.

"If I hadn't given you life, you'd be nothing more than a mindless wisp of energy. How dare you roar at me? You beast! You're tired of living!" If the environment weren't so inappropriate, she would have yelled, "Come here!"

When the giant serpent saw her appear, the old grudges of Juntian and the new hatred for stealing the power of time converged. Forget about being a creator, I want you dead!
The giant snake slammed into the grid like a madman, its scales cut into countless bloody gashes by the crisscrossing threads, and one of its fangs was even sliced ​​in half.

The thin mesh, as thin as a cicada's wing, blocked the enormous impact of the giant snake with just a slight tremor.

With her hands behind her back, Deng Chanyu continued to provoke the giant snake with trash talk, and the giant snake launched wave after wave of fierce attacks, but no matter how much force it used, it could not break through this thin barrier.

So, I guess I've already mastered the basics of my spacetime power?
She felt the giant serpent wasn't powerful enough, and imagined Nuwa enraged, about to kill her. She figured she could stop it with a spacetime barrier. Well, the image was too vivid; she wouldn't dare think about it again.
Deng Chanyu continuously drew upon spatial and temporal power to reinforce the serpent. The giant serpent was extremely powerful, but its control over temporal power was far too rudimentary. Deng Chanyu used less than one percent of its power, and combined with a little spatial power, she could easily block the giant serpent in the blink of an eye.

They went back and forth, and the stalemate lasted for an unknown period of time.

The giant serpent was covered in wounds, and it had released most of the spiritual energy that had accumulated at the end of the River of Time. From Deng Chanyu's perspective, the spiritual energy storm on the other side of the Origin Wall was almost gone. The Candle Dragon that had been hanging on the wall like a sticker had become fatter because most of the spiritual energy storm had been consumed at the source.

Seeing that it couldn't do anything to Deng Chanyu, the Time Serpent roared defiantly before disappearing into the depths of the "pool" and never showing itself again.

"Cowardly trash! Do you dare to come out?" Just as Deng Chanyu removed the spacetime barrier, the giant snake suddenly rushed out.

It's fast, but Deng Chanyu is even faster; these are all things they've already mastered.

A thinner but stronger spacetime barrier appeared. The giant serpent, already injured, crashed into it twice and, finding no hope of breaking through, swam back to the "pool".

Deng Chanyu pretended to retreat, and the giant snake rushed out to attack. She once again set up a spacetime barrier to defend herself. The two sides fought back and forth for more than ten cycles. When Deng Chanyu was feeling a little tired, the giant snake disappeared completely.

"I'm really out of magic power! Come out now! If you swallow me, you'll become the Serpent of Time and Space! Hurry up!" Deng Chanyu shouted from the edge of the "pool".

She had used this trick twice before, and this was the third time, but it was clearly no longer effective.

Seeing the giant snake feigning death and remaining motionless, she sneered, took out the Heavenly Dao Brush, and drew a small boat in the "pool." She then sailed alone, slowly heading towards an area beyond the River of Time.

"Where is this place? It's quite desolate." Deng Chanyu looked around. After she had gained control of a portion of the power of time and combined it with the power of space to form the power of spacetime, a certain signal appeared in her mind. She searched all the way and finally arrived here.

This is the intersection of time and space.

The world before her could be described as a wilderness in her mind. If we were to give it another name, it could be called the "Wilderness of Time and Space." This was a realm that neither time nor space could penetrate; it was both the beginning and the end.

(End of this chapter)