Great Demon Sun Wukong

In fact, when the illusion of Chi You appeared, Sun Wukong knew he was not going to die just yet. However, it was only temporary! The Twelve Ancestral Witches had already dispersed the Great Formation after Chi You's strike, and the illusion of Chi You was gradually fading. Yet the Twelve Ancestral Witches still stood firmly around Sun Wukong, guarding him with all their might.

Sun Wukong didn't understand why the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who had been fighting him to the death and even killed the Six-Eared Macaque, were now standing around him protecting him instead of protecting Master Tongtian! There must be a reason for this. Otherwise, how could Master Tongtian possibly have saved him?

Although somewhat perplexed, Sun Wukong now had no time to comprehend it clearly. Because the destruction of the world had already begun!

The first to be affected was the very place where Sun Wukong stood. Originally an expansive plain in the far east, this plain suddenly began to crack open with countless giant fissures. These fissures extended right down to the Earth's core, and then, rolling magma began to emerge, quickly converging into numerous streams of lava.

After the land had fractured, the sky began to churn with countless tornadoes, and even vast tornadoes extended directly into the streams of lava. Then, the tornadoes began waving massive amounts of lava across the landscape.

In a moment's time, the world had turned into a mortal purgatory.

Heavenly Dao had really gone too far this time. In order to annihilate Sun Wukong completely, it did not hesitate to take this world down with him. However, Sun Wukong was truly frustrated because up to this point, he still didn't understand why he had angered Heavenly Dao so deeply to warrant such punishment, to the extent of not sparing the destruction of the world itself to destroy him!

Just then, the newly merged Five-Colored Divine Stone flashed and had already entered the sea of consciousness within Sun Wukong's forehead! Afterward, Sun Wukong suddenly froze, his eyes fiercely shining as if he had sensed something incredibly unbelievable. However, Sun Wukong's eyes soon calmed down, and at last, he took a deep breath and exhaled as if digesting some shocking cosmic secret!

"Heh, it really has gone too far!" Unable to help himself, Sun Wukong shook his head with a wry smile. Now, he finally understood the cause of all these events, and all the perplexities in his heart were unraveled. Shaking his head again, he put aside other thoughts. What was most important now was to stop the world-ending forces of Heavenly Dao!

Slowly standing up, Sun Wukong summoned the Jingu Bang with a wave of his right hand. Gazing intently at the Jingu Bang, Sun Wukong said, "Whether it's life or death this time depends on you."

Having said that, he threw the Jingu Bang skyward, then clasped his hands together and shouted, "World Suppressing Stele, Wasteland Soil Number Three, manifest, suppress!"

As his voice fell, a five-colored divine light suddenly shot from Sun Wukong's forehead, striking the Jingu Bang in mid-air. Shortly after, the Jingu Bang trembled, tearing open a portal in the void that led to the world within the artifact!

Once the portal was wide open, a black shadow suddenly burst forth from within the world of the Jingu Bang. After leaving the world within the artifact, the shadow rapidly expanded in the wind, instantly transforming into a hundred-meter-tall stupendous stele!

Carved on the front of the stele were the words: "World Suppressing Stele, Wasteland Soil Number Three." With the appearance of this World Suppressing Stele, Heavenly Dao seemed to be provoked again. Not only did the speed at which the land fell increase by more than tenfold, but even the space itself began to shatter.

Could it be that this World Suppressing Stele was actually what Heavenly Dao truly wanted to destroy?

As if confirming this guess, countless thunderbolts suddenly rained down from the Nine Heavens, including Destructive Divine Thunder, yin thunder of water and fire, and explosive lightning, among others. Almost all kinds of thunderbolts assaulted down all at once, and their target was only one—shattering that World Suppressing Stele!

However, all these ceased when a yellowish-brown light emitted by the World Suppressing Stele upon landing flickered. Countless divine thunders above the Nine Heavens dissipated in mid-air, the ground began to mend itself, and the tornadoes gradually subsided. The world-ending power of Heavenly Dao was actually suppressed by this single stele?

Seeing the might truly embodied by this stele, Sun Wukong couldn't help but recall the memories endowed to him by the Five-Colored Divine Stone!

Legend has it that after Pangu the Great God created the world, the heaven and earth were unstable and showing signs of healing. Hence, Pangu supported the sky with his body to prevent heaven and earth from returning to Chaos. At that moment, a stele descended from nowhere, broke through space, and stood underneath Pangu's feet.

As soon as the stele connected with the Earth, a miracle occurred, and the heaven and earth gradually stabilized. It seemed that this stele possessed the ability to solidify the world. However, having exhausted a tremendous amount of energy, Pangu was no longer needed to prop up the heavens but eventually collapsed and died.

After the fall of Pangu, the stele rose from the ground by itself and vanished without a trace.

Until, countless years later, Di Jun, the supreme leader of the Demon Clan, chanced upon this stele and rapidly led the Demon Clan to become the rulers of the Pangu Realm. All living beings were under the dominion of the Demon Clan! Later, Di Jun, bolstered by the power of the stele, collaborated with the Nine Heavens to construct numerous palaces of the thirty-three layers of Heavenly Palace.

From then on, the Demon Clan resided above in the Heavenly Palace.

However, one day, after comprehending Heavenly Dao and reaching the pinnacle of sainthood, Di Jun received the baptism of Heavenly Dao with his supreme talent. But just as the baptism of Heavenly Dao was nearing completion, he was sneak-attacked by someone. Not only was the baptism a failure, but Di Jun was also backfired upon by Heavenly Dao and killed.

Since then, the Demon Clan fell into internal strife, and the whereabouts of the World Suppressing Stele were unknown. Di Jun's death became a great unsolved mystery of the Demon Clan, with no one aware of who had plotted against him to this day.

Amid the Demon Clan's internal discord, the Taoist sect swiftly rose under the leadership of the Three Purities. Harnessing countless magic treasures and terrifyingly fast cultivation speeds, they eventually defeated the Demon Clan, took over Heaven, and ruled over the Pangu Realm.

Thus, the world regressed once again until the emergence of the Human Clan who began building nations across the Nine Provinces. Seeing the prosperity of humans and fearing future threats to Taoism, numerous Taoist experts joined hands to set up the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, seeking to erase the entire humanity with the waters of the Yellow River.

However, the Human Clan was destined to rise. When the Yellow River's waters overflowed, Yu the Great emerged from the Human Clan. Uniting the strength of the masses, he broke the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation. Realizing the formation was about to be breached, the Taoists sent people to the Mortal World in an attempt to kill Yu the Great.

Unexpectedly, Yu had a stele in his hand that slaughtered all the Taoist invaders.

Intimidated, the Taoists abandoned their suppression of the Human Clan in favor of cooperation.

Afterward, Yu the Great, with the help of the stele, swiftly broke the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and used the power of the stele to cast the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, dividing the Mortal World into nine great provinces: Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, and Yongzhou, suppressed by the Nine Tripod Cauldrons!

Once the world was settled, Yu the Great sealed the World Suppressing Stele within his Sea-Probing Needle and then sealed the Sea-Probing Needle at the bottom of the East Sea.

With the loss of the World Suppressing Stele, Yu the Great mysteriously passed away soon after.

Nevertheless, the Nine Tripod Cauldrons continued to suppress the Nine Provinces, ensuring the Mortal World's stability.

It was not until today that Sun Wukong, wielding the strength of the Five-Colored Divine Stone left by the great god Nuwa, broke Yu the Great's seal to reveal the World Suppressing Stele in the Mortal World.

At this thought, Sun Wukong could not help but feel a profound admiration for Nuwa. Tens of thousands of years ago, the great Nuwa had already foreseen the Demon Clan's great tribulation and used her supreme might to split the Five-Colored Divine Stone to deceive the Heavenly Dao.

She even detached her will and embedded it within the Earth Attribute Divine Stone, in the hope that one day, with Spiritual Wisdom fully developed, someone would gather the Five-Colored Divine Stones, break Yu the Great's seal, and obtain the power of the World Suppressing Stele to lead the Demon Clan to restore their splendor.

Even, Sun Wukong began to suspect whether Gonggong's furious assault on Mount Buzhou was so that Nuwa had an excuse to collect the Five-Colored Divine Stones!

The Twelve Ancestral Witches are the flesh of Chi You, and Chi You is the heart of Pangu the Great God! Thus, there is no lack of reason for the Twelve Ancestral Witches to help Nuwa defy the Heavenly Dao.

After all, Pangu's demise has an inseparable connection with the Heavenly Dao!

Returning to the present, as soon as the World Suppressing Stele appeared, countless earthy-yellow rays of light scattered in all directions, and soon the entire Pangu Realm was filled with this earthy-yellow light. As the light shone, the shattered void and the sunken earth mended bit by bit.

The World Suppressing Stele stabilized the world. Although the Heavenly Dao is strong, it still cannot withstand the World Suppressing Stele!

An hour later, the Pangu Realm had completely recovered to its original state, and the Heavenly Dao had no response whatsoever. If not for the presence of the Twelve Ancestral Witches around him, Sun Wukong might even think that nothing had happened.

When the Pangu Realm was thoroughly stabilized, the World Suppressing Stele suddenly trembled and then shrank to only one meter in size. However, no one dared to underestimate this stele anymore. It possessed the strength to defy this world.

Just as Sun Wukong let out a sigh of relief, the space next to the World Suppressing Stele suddenly rippled, and then a figure appeared out of nowhere and attempted to take away the World Suppressing Stele with a sweeping motion of his large sleeve.

At the same time, space fluctuated once again on both sides of the World Suppressing Stele, and two more figures emerged. Unlike the previous figure, these two directly attacked the one who tried to take the World Suppressing Stele.

Seeing his theft thwarted, the first figure waved his hands and swiftly retreated. At that moment, Sun Wukong realized someone was trying to snatch his World Suppressing Stele and, without hesitation, summoned the Jingu Bang to his hand with a gesture, and then touched the stele with one end of the staff.

Space cracked open, and the World Suppressing Stele automatically flew into the world within the Jingu Bang.

"Who are you? Why are you stealing my stele?"

But before Sun Wukong could finish speaking, several figures suddenly flew in from the distant sky. Warily turning his head, Sun Wukong's fiery eyes activated, but when he saw the faces of these newcomers clearly, he involuntarily gasped.

Soon, the newcomers landed. However, they all took positions behind the one who had attempted to snatch the World Suppressing Stele. Now, the appearances of the newcomers were clearly visible!
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First was an old man with white beard and eyebrows, holding a short whip, all smiles. Next to him stood a handsome young man, holding a yellow-orange gourd. Following them was a middle-aged man with eyebrows trailing to the ground.

Apart from these three, there were two others whom Sun Wukong recognized: King of the Heavenly Tower Li Jing and the previously escaped Primeval Lord of Heaven. Together with the earlier figure, there were five people in total!

Though Sun Wukong did not know the three, Sect Hierarch Tongtian recognized them clearly. Upon seeing these five figures, Tongtian felt truly fortunate he had not given in to despair, glad that he had survived.

Then, trails of light once again dashed across the sky, but this time, the newcomers all stood in front of Sun Wukong.

As everyone took their positions, one figure among this latter group stepped forward and said, "What? You think our Demon Clan is without protectors? Today, I, Hun Kun, am here. Let's see who dares to touch a single hair on Sun Wukong!"