Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

Chapter 340: Chapter 340 Chaos Fire (First Update)

“The six-thousand-year-aged Victory Wine truly is incredible, it’s potency is four times stronger than that of the three-thousand-year version!”

Under the nourishment of the six-thousand-year Victory Wine, the originally somewhat depleted Chaos Primordial Force within Sun Wukong swiftly replenished, restoring him to his peak condition. Meanwhile, the Abandoned Heavenly Tribulation cloud launched its second wave of attacks. Amidst the flashing thunder light, streaks of black tribulation thunder burst forth from the cloud, bombarding Sun Wukong once again. However, this time, the tribulation thunder was not merely thunder; it was mixed with traces of black Demon Flame—specifically, the Nine Nether Demon Fire!

“Ruyi Divine Armor!”

With the increased power of the tribulation thunder, Sun Wukong dared not be careless. He summoned the Ruyi Divine Armor, a golden, shimmering armor that materialized on the surface of his body, emitting a protective aura that enveloped him entirely. As soon as the Divine Armor appeared, Sun Wukong’s aura abruptly intensified significantly. The Ruyi Divine Armor augmented his cultivation strength, and as Sun Wukong was already at the Quasi-Saint Realm, with the boost from the armor, he was now bordering on the Half-Step Saint Realm.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The black tribulation thunder, accompanied by the Nine Nether Demon Fire, struck the protective aura, causing Sun Wukong’s body to tremble violently. A piercing pain spread throughout his body. The protective aura blocked the black tribulation thunder, but the Nine Nether Demon Fire penetrated it and invaded Sun Wukong’s body.

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Sun Wukong groaned, a look of agony appearing on his face. The Chaos Primordial Force inside his body kicked into full gear, encapsulating the invading Nine Nether Demon Fire. Simultaneously, the Great Sun Golden Flames also charged at the Nine Nether Demon Fire. These two completely opposite flames—one Yin, one Yang, one cold, one hot—clashed and battled within Sun Wukong, turning his body into a battleground.

“Damn it, what kind of flame is this?”

Among the Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations, there were the Doomsday Thunder Disaster, the Great Sun Fire Disaster, and the Black Wind Disaster. But the strength of the Great Sun Fire Disaster’s flames was nothing compared to the Nine Nether Demon Fire. Sun Wukong had never encountered such chilling flames before. He had never ventured into the Nine Nether Demon Cave during his entry into the Myriad Beast Mountains. If it had been Heaven-Defying Demon Emperor Mu Chenxuan and his fellows, they would recognize this as the Nine Nether Demon Fire they had been dealing with for over a decade.

The bombardment of the Abandoned Heavenly Tribulation continued, with the Nine Nether Demon Fire persistently penetrating the Ruyi Divine Armor and invading Sun Wukong’s body, clashing with the Great Sun Golden Flames within. Initially, Sun Wukong appeared to be in great agony, but gradually, he discovered that, while clashing and attacking each other, the two types of flames seemed to be merging. A new type of flame slowly began to form within him.

“Is this… the aura of chaos? Could this flame possibly be the Chaos Fire that gives birth to all beings?”

In the beginning of heaven and earth, when Pangu perished, his body transformed into surging Chaos Flames, giving birth to all beings and forming the myriad races of the Ancient Primeval. While Sun Wukong had not witnessed such a scene, he could sense the strong vitality within the newly formed flames, definitively identifying them as the Chaos Fire responsible for birthing all beings!

“Chaos Fire, I, Old Sun, have actually mastered the Chaos Fire!”

At this moment, Sun Wukong’s heart was filled with astonishment. Surely, fortune and disaster are interconnected in this world. The Heavenly Abandonment Tribulation was a disaster, carelessly handled, it posed the risk of utter destruction, but the Chaos Fire represented fortune. With the Chaos Fire, Sun Wukong could now create all beings just as the Great God Pangu had, except that Pangu had transformed into the Chaos Fire which spawned the heaven and earth after his death, whereas Sun Wukong could directly control the Chaos Fire to create whatever he desired!

Of course, Sun Wukong was not arrogant enough to consider himself a peer of the Great God Pangu. Pangu was a Saint who had proven his way through strength, a Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal, fundamentally beyond the current Sun Wukong’s comparison.

In the past, with his limited strength and understanding of higher realms, Sun Wukong had scant knowledge, but after breaking through to the Quasi-Saint level, he finally grasped the distinction of realms above Da Luo Golden Immortal. Starting from Da Luo Golden Immortal, Slaying One Corpse was considered Quasi-Saint, Slaying Two Corpses was also Quasi-Saint, Slaying Three Corpses was Sub-Saint, and Three Corpses Unite with the Dao was considered a Saint, also known as Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortal. Meanwhile, those who Slayed One or Two or Three Corpses without uniting with the Dao but managed to reach the level of Saint through Merit were collectively called Merit Saints, also known as Primordial Da Luo Golden Immortals. Those who proved the Dao through strength were termed Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortals.

Among the Heavenly Dao Saints, the Primordial Da Luo Gold Immortal, also known as the Merit Saint, is the weakest. The Saints who have unified the Three Corpse, also known as the Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortals, are stronger than Merit Saints. The strongest is the Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal who has proven the Dao through strength.

From the Ancient Primeval times to the present, among these Saints who have appeared in the Three Realms, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Leader of Tongtian, Goddess Nuwa, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Heavenly Emperor Di Jun, as well as Tathagata Buddha who later proved the Dao and became a Saint, are all Merit Saints. The difference is that Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Heavenly Emperor Di Jun, and the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord are the strongest among Merit Saints as they became Saints through Sub-Saint status. The Leader of Tongtian and Primordial Heavenly Venerable, who became Saints as Quasi-Saints after Slaying Two Corpses, are next in strength. Goddess Nuwa and Tathagata Buddha, who became Saints as Quasi-Saints after Slaying One Corpse, are the weakest in strength.

There is only one Saint who has achieved the unification of Three Corpses, Taoist Ancestor Hong Jun, who attained the status of Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortal. Pangu, the only one to have proven the Dao through strength, is the Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal who opened the heavens and created the earth.

Actually, above the realm of the Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal, there exists a higher realm called the Chaos Saint, which requires proving the Tao through strength, additionally Slaying Three Corpses to Achieve the Dao, and accumulating virtue to prove the Tao once more. Only by combining the two can one attain the realm of the Chaos Saint, greatly surpassing the Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal. However, since the beginning of chaos until now, no one in the entire Three Realms has reached such a realm.

The most crucial missing piece is the Chaos Fire!

The Great God Pangu had grasped the Chaos Fire, but it was only in the last moment of his life that he understood it. Lacking sufficient strength, he forcibly opened the heavens which caused his body to suffer a huge backlash and collapse, unable to withstand it. The Chaos Fire could only allow his body to transform into the myriad things of heaven and earth, but it could not repair his physical body to prolong his life, nor did it allow him the opportunity to advance to a higher level.

As for Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor, having Slaying Three Corpses to Achieve the Dao and accumulated enough virtue, after countless years of cultivation, he grasped the Chaos Fire after the Divine Enthronement Battle, using it to reopen and reshape the heaven, earth, and the Three Realms. What he lacked was proving the Tao through strength. If he could prove the Tao through strength once more, he would be able to transcend the thresholds of Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortal and Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal, reaching the realm of a Chaos Saint.

Therefore, after reopening the Three Realms, Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor chose to seclude himself within the Thirty-Six Da Luo Heavens, focusing on cultivation in hopes of proving the Tao through strength to ascend a further step. Goddess Nuwa, naturally born with a Heavenly Demon Body, though she chose Slaying One Corpse to Attain Saint, was among all the saints the one most likely to prove the Tao through strength. Thus, she received an invitation from Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor to join him in seclusion within the Thirty-Six Da Luo Heavens, to jointly study the Great Dao of heaven and earth.

Of course, these are secrets of the Three Realms. Let alone Sun Wukong, even the existing Heavenly Dao Saints are not all aware of it. However, one thing Sun Wukong was sure of was that with the Chaos Fire, his future development had unlimited possibilities!

Emotionally stirred, the painful process of forming the Chaos Fire became somewhat more bearable. Sun Wukong reined in all his thoughts and mobilized the Great Sun Golden Flames within his body and the Nine Nether Demon Fire that had invaded his body to continuously combine, fully integrating into the Chaos Fire. It was a painful yet joyous sensation, treating the entire Heaven Forsaking Thunder Tribulation as a trial for fusing the Chaos Fire.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder continued to surge out from the clouds, relentlessly bombarding Sun Wukong, forcing his form to continuously compress the ground, causing the cracks in the earth to spread and the size of the pits to expand, now covering dozens of miles.

Vroom~!

As a wave of fluctuations emitted from the Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Clouds, the second wave of tribulation thunder bombardments ceased. Sun Wukong’s eyes tightly shut, he went from standing on the ground to sitting cross-legged, with the majority of his body directly blasted into the earth by the power of the Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder. Centered around him, a giant crater sixty miles in radius formed, the crater barren, everything other than Sun Wukong turned to naught by the power of the Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder.

Rumble!

The massive sound of thunder reappeared, the third wave, and the final attack of the Heaven Forsaking Thunder Tribulation began. This time, the tribulation thunder included not only the Nine Nether Demon Fire but also a very bizarre black wind, similar in nature to wind blades in a spatial storm, containing extremely destructive space force, which smashed down toward Sun Wukong.

With a tremendous sound, Sun Wukong almost got straight out flattened by this tribulation thunder containing world-ending thunder, Nine Nether Demon Fire, and spatial black wind. The combined strength of these three kinds of heavenly tribulations was too powerful. Only Sun Wukong could have withstood it; any other quasi-saint would have surely turned to ash under the tribulation thunder!

“Damn it, this Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder is deadly!”

Sun Wukong swallowed back the blood that surged to his throat. The Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod, which had been floating in front of him, was once again grasped in his hand, as relying only on the Ruyi Divine Armor’s defense was no longer sufficient to protect him completely. He had to switch from defense to offense to possibly withstand this Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder.

“Divine Power Dharma Aspect Heaven and Earth!”

“Heaven-Breaking Thirty-Six Sticks!”

With a thought, Sun Wukong unleashed the Divine Power Dharma Aspect Heaven and Earth. His body suddenly grew to thousands of feet tall, and the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod in his hand enlarged to resemble a heavenly pillar. The next moment, he fiercely struck upward toward the Heaven Forsaking Thunder Tribulation, manifesting a rod shadow tangible as reality, heavily colliding with the Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder.

The roaring sound erupted, the rod shadow of the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod collided with the Heaven Forsaking Tribulation Thunder creating a vast expanse of light and heat, completely engulfing Sun Wukong’s form within it.

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