Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 854 A Game Master's Visit

Just as the light pollution spell effects enveloped the Great Thunderclap Temple, a huge black shadow also loomed over everyone's heads.

A colossal mountain appeared out of nowhere, descending from the sky with the force to engulf the entire three fleets, bringing with it an overwhelming sense of oppression.

The Five Elements suppress the Five Finger Mountain!

It is a materialized product transformed from the great handprint of the Buddha, with a powerful sealing effect. It has a dual-effect judgment. If the judgment fails, it will directly cause pure physical pressure damage, which is enough to kill most player units instantly. If the judgment succeeds, it will forcibly seal the target. During the seal, the target will be unable to move or use any items or skills. The duration is unknown.

Cheng Tian noticed that when the two Great Sages looked up, the monkey hair on their bodies stood up visibly!

This shows just how severe the two monkeys' PTSD symptoms were at Five Elements Mountain; the Great Sage, the Demon King, almost revealed his true form as a stone ape and charged directly at Five Elements Mountain.

Having already been oppressed once, he didn't want to be oppressed a second time.

However, at this critical juncture, two people reacted even more quickly.

Cheng and Erlang Shen drew their small, single-handed axes from their waists, which then swelled in the wind, becoming the size and shape of a mountain-splitting axe, and slashed directly at the descending Five Elements Mountain!

The Five Elements Mountain might be able to suppress most of the entities related to Journey to the West, but looking at the entire Journey to the West world, there is nothing more capable of restraining the Five Elements Mountain than the Mountain-Splitting Axe.

Faced with the targeted strikes of two massive axe blades, the Five Fingers Mountain, imbued with immense power, was instantly cleaved into three, and the sealing effect vanished on the spot.

But the moment the giant axe finished splitting the mountain, the Five Elements Mountain transformed back into a fleshy palm, allowing the two axes to pass through the gaps between its "split" fingers. The fleshy palm, maintaining its downward trend, continued to press down on the ground without slowing down at all.

This attack from the Buddha has reverted from a combination of magical effects to a purely physical strike.

Buddha's Palm!

Almost instantly, the two Great Sages slammed their magical weapons into the ground without hesitation. With the chant of "Great Great Great Great," they grew wildly and directly met the Buddha's palm.

The earth shook... the mountains trembled!
The two straight pillars, without the sealing effect of the Five Elements Mountain, actually withstood the Buddha's palm print, buying the fleet below precious time to escape.

The two Marshals, one large and one small, immediately issued orders for the fleet to disperse in all directions to avoid being wiped out in one fell swoop.

But soon everyone discovered the problem: whether it was the ships or the individuals, even if they had objectively taken the action of scattering and moving away, when they subconsciously looked back, they would find that the ships that were originally beside them were still there, and had not moved away at all.

This also made everyone realize that the Buddha, who still hadn't shown himself normally, had probably already activated his "Buddha Kingdom in the Palm of His Hand," which even the Great Sage Equaling Heaven couldn't escape!
While launching the inescapable Buddha Kingdom in the palm of his hand, he simultaneously unleashed the devastating Tathagata Palm, an attack aimed at annihilating the three-way allied forces.

Moreover, compared to pure supernatural powers, the Buddha's Palm of Buddha skill has truly reached the level of a domain, and it is no longer something that can be easily broken by conventional means such as suppressing magic or interrupting spellcasting.

However, at this crucial juncture, which could directly influence the outcome of the Great Expedition, Cheng Tian and the Demon King Great Sage almost simultaneously hallucinated strange sound effects. They sounded somewhat like the lingering effect of some magical substance brushing against one's face, and had a clear source.

Just as Cheng was about to activate the protective barrier to see if he could withstand the Tathagata's Palm, he immediately followed the sound and fixed his gaze on the middle finger of the Tathagata, which had been unable to continue pressing down because the palm had been blocked by the two Ruyi.

A thought suddenly occurred to Cheng, who immediately abandoned the action of opening the barrier. Then, like a small missile being launched, he shot directly to the very close range of the Buddha's palm amidst the unwilling and puzzled gazes of many people.

"...How did it happen back then?"

Cheng Tian muttered something under his breath, knowing this was no time to waste, so he stopped thinking about it. Amidst the stunned gazes of countless people, he pulled down his pants, used his skeletal claws to straighten a gun that could only be conjured from hellfire, and aimed it like a pillar at the Buddha's middle finger. Then—

A powerful pillar of flame erupted and mercilessly struck the inside of Buddha's middle finger!
Cheng Tian's intentions were obvious: he planned to imitate the Monkey King and leave a "I was here" mark on Buddha's middle finger.

However, this kid got the details of the matter wrong, and the mistakes were quite baffling.

The Great Sage's original method was to use a large brush to leave the words "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven was here" on the Buddha's middle finger before sprinkling urine at the base of the finger to mark the territory. However, Cheng Tian's memory seems to have confused the two, making it appear as if he used urine to create the "I was here" mark on someone's finger.

What Katsura Kotaro...

If it were just an ordinary bath, it would probably only involve a personal insult. But now, Cheng, transformed into the Ghost Rider, is using a bath that is a genuine hellfire. Not only does it have a passive effect that the more sinful the target, the greater the damage, but it can also cause irreversible damage to the soul.

In other words, the moment Cheng Tian's water hit the Buddha, the Buddha's soul was also permanently damaged in the corresponding location. If the Buddha were to enter reincarnation normally, the mark Cheng Tian left on the inside of his finger would follow him forever as a congenital scar!
This was indeed intolerable to Tathagata… but the Demon King Great Sage, realizing what Cheng Tian was doing, had already unleashed all his magical power, almost roaring as he let out a cry—

"Certainly!!!!!"

With a huge golden character "定" (ding) covering the Buddha's palm, Cheng Tian was free to wield his brush and splash ink at will!

"A gaming expert was here."

The eight large characters left by the scorching torrents of hellfire were successfully imprinted on the inside of the Buddha's middle finger before the immobilization spell dissipated.

At that very moment, Cheng Tian shivered.

Along with the chills, a notification panel also appeared.

[You discovered and completed the hidden Easter egg/achievement in Black Myth: Wukong – "Game master, I was here."]

(End of this chapter)