Great Demon Sun Wukong-Chapter 307 - 296: The World Suppressing Stele Appears Again
Seeing the sun plummeting through the sky, Wukong had no time left to contemplate further. Even though he knew his body might already be in dire shape, feeling the piercing pressure and the power contained within that glaring sun, Wukong didn’t believe he could withstand that strike even if he returned to his true form. However, he also didn’t know whether his body would collapse after taking the hit head-on.
But Wukong couldn’t flee. If he dodged the sun now, the people fiercely battling below him would definitely retreat immediately, and the many advantages they had worked so hard to create could vanish into thin air. Wukong couldn’t let the situation they had paid such a huge price to create be destroyed.
Just as Xi Zhao and the others had discussed in the Genesis Palace that night, the Genesis Netherworld Alliance Army had an absolute advantage against any opposing force they faced. However, they couldn’t adopt a strategy of going all out in direct confrontation. Since they outnumbered the enemy and launched a surprise attack, unleashing their full force right from the start could likely send the opponents reeling in retreat.
But this would incur a risk, a risk that in the state of no hope for victory, the opponents might resort to extreme measures. Since the stakes in the Patrolling Celestial World were so high, everyone from each faction would fight to the death to ensure their side emerged as the ultimate victor.
But if they were immediately hit by a catastrophic disaster at the outset, would they, in their desperation, choose to self-destruct? Or would they destroy their own World Suppressing Stele? With the attitude, "If we’re going down, we’ll take you with us," it seemed likely that all powers had already prepared for such actions.
Therefore, after discussions between Xi Zhao and Jue Luan, they absolutely couldn’t go all out right from the beginning. If the enemy, thinking of a scorched-earth tactic, collectively self-destructed, it was estimated that not many of their own forces would survive. This was the Patrolling Celestial World; their enemies were not just those they faced but arguably every faction across the entire Patrolling Celestial World.
If they caused too much damage while attacking any faction, then they would have no part in the trials that followed. This was not the outcome that Xi Zhao or Jue Luan wanted to see. That’s why they opted for phased, tiered attacks when assaulting the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm. Indeed, one reason was for the first group to attract most of the enemy’s firepower, but it was also to erode the opposition bit by bit.
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If the plan succeeded, even if the opponents caught on later, there likely wouldn’t be many of them left with any combat power, rendering the threat from any self-destruction negligible. In fact, the plan proved to be quite successful. The initial fifteen that appeared were trapped right away, leading the people of the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm to believe the enemy wasn’t so remarkable.
Then, the second group of reinforcements got tangled up with just one person, the Thunder Sage, which gave them hope that victory could be theirs if they could just quickly wipe out those within the Great Formation. And the reason why Xi Zhao and the others later allowed the third team to strike and eliminate the Thunder Sage’s puppet and several people from the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm was because they had already spotted incoming reinforcements.
Therefore, although the Genesis Netherworld Alliance Army was imposing, when ten or so reinforcements appeared, the people of the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm still harbored hope. So, in the end, they decided to have ten people unleash their Thunder Spirit true forms to contend with them. While Wukong and Bai Yi fought, those ten who had unleashed their Thunder Spirit true forms were also locked in battle with their respective adversaries.
Once they unleashed their Thunder Spirit true forms, each person transformed into a mobile artillery with powerful Thunder System Taoist Techniques, all of them suspended mid-air, hammering out potent spells without cease, which left the Genesis Netherworld Alliance Army in disarray.
This act ignited an eager hope among the people of the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm. At that moment, they had only one thought: The enemy may be numerous, but they are not invincible! All they needed to do was hold off the opponent in front of them, wait until the ten Thunder Spirits wiped out those twenty-odd warriors, and then victory would surely be theirs. Holding onto this belief, those who had not reverted to their Thunder Spirit true forms and the reinforcements from the Myriad Spirits Realm fought even more fiercely.
Although their attack power increased and their Spiritual Power was rapidly depleting, a keen observer would notice that despite the brutality of the ten Thunder Spirits’ assaults, the people of the Genesis Netherworld only suffered symbolic, mild injuries. They appeared more panicked and defensively disheveled than wounded.
And by now, the massive white-hot sun created by Bai Yi was looming overhead. As the people of the Genesis Netherworld realized the falling sun and prepared to unleash their full strength to resist the Thunder Spirits, they suddenly heard Wukong yell, "I’ll hold it back, don’t get distracted!" The instant his words fell, an object appeared in Wukong’s hand, palm-sized and pitch-black, resembling a token.
As he summoned this thing, Sun Wukong’s hands suddenly came together in a clap, and then massive, vast emanations of Chaos Qi along with the Spiritual Power of the Earth Element poured into the token like rivers flowing into the sea. Affected by the attack of Wukong’s Spiritual Power, the token, originally the size of a palm, suddenly began to swell and eventually turned into a giant stele over fifty meters tall! When the Stele revealed its true form, an overwhelming deterrence swept over everyone like a blanket from the heavens.
Those who already knew Wukong possessed the World Suppressing Stele were less shocked, but those unaware were left with faces full of astonishment and disbelief upon feeling that unparalleled pressure. They immediately looked up at the source of the pressure, the colossal black Stele floating in mid-air!
"This, this is the World Suppressing Stele? How is that possible? How could the World Suppressing Stele appear here? And it’s the one from the Dominion of Soil?" Amid various cries filled with disbelief and incomprehension, many were plainly confused, Luo Chen among them.
As a prince of the Dominion of Soil, he would have been the next Domain Lord if not for the mysterious disaster involving their World Suppressing Stele that resulted in the destruction of the entire Dominion of Soil, ultimately turning it into what is now the Sand Realm, a ravaged land of sand. It could be said that the Dominion of Soil deterred its enemies with the Stele, but it was also because of the Stele that it met its demise.
Luo Chen had joined the Patrolling Celestial World trial with the goal of retrieving the World Suppressing Stele, and now, when the Stele of Wasteland Soil No. 3 belonging to the Dominion of Soil truly appeared before him, he couldn’t believe it. Moreover, he couldn’t understand how the Wasteland Stele ended up in Sun Wukong’s hands.
If the Wasteland Stele had appeared in the hands of any power, even the Annihilation Demon Nation or the Myriad Demons Country, he could have accepted it, because it was these Divine Kingdoms’ Alliance Forces that had destroyed the Dominion of Soil. However, the Netherworld World had always been on good terms with his Dominion of Soil, not sending a single soldier in the war that targeted them.
Yet now, the Wasteland Stele had appeared in the hands of someone from the Netherworld World. Could it be that the Netherworld World had secretly sent someone to take the World Suppressing Stele? But Master Xiao He, the Lord of the Genesis Divine Nation, had told him that the Wasteland Stele was placed in a very safe location. Just, just what was going on?
Compared to Luo Chen’s confusion, the Daoist Master Luo Lei and the people of the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm were suddenly stricken with indescribable horror. The Netherworld World actually brought the World Suppressing Stele into the Patrolling Celestial World; what could they possibly use to fight them now? That was the World Suppressing Stele, the Supreme Treasure that could deter a Divine Kingdom, something that only a Domain Lord could use and possess, yet now it was in the hands of this unknown, obscure person.
How could this not cause Daoist Master Luo Lei to feel panic? And for the others from the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm, the panic was even greater. Just as the World Suppressing Stele had subdued everyone present with its unique deterrence, Xi Zhao suddenly issued an order: "Attack, kill!" Following Xi Zhao’s command, everyone from the Netherworld World suddenly exploded into action.
Besides Sun Wukong, there were nineteen people from the Netherworld World. Unaffected by the World Suppressing Stele, they each unleashed their most powerful attacks upon their enemies upon Xi Zhao’s order. Xi Zhao, Flame God, Rogue Heart Sword Hero, Ming Wanjie, the Netherworld Five Battle Generals, and so on, each person instantly maximized their combat power, and their attacks held nothing back.
When the attacks of the nineteen people were released, those who had been somewhat dazed by the sudden appearance of the World Suppressing Stele immediately let out screams. These screams were particularly pronounced among the Thunder Spirits. Their true forms exploded open, and while they were nearly immune to physical damage, Spell and Taoist Techniques or elemental attribute attacks were doubly effective against them.
So, under the sudden assault from the people of the Netherworld World, five Thunder Spirits suffered devastating blows. Before they could fully deploy their strength, they had fallen here! But the casualties did not end there. The fallen five, faced by Xi Zhao, Flame God, Rogue Heart Sword Hero, and the Five Battle Generals. Yet, two Thunder Spirits who faced other powerful individuals from the Netherworld World did not die instantly but suffered grave injuries.
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As the two injured Thunder Spirits prepared to self-destruct and die with their enemies, two long knives instantly pierced their hearts. Then, a red and a black light exploded, and the two Thunder Spirits fell one after another. In addition to the seven Thunder Spirits, five more from the Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm and Myriad Spirits Realm perished at the same time.
The rapid descent of Bai Yi’s blazing white sun, amidst a roaring sound, directly collided with the Stele, which had nearly turned into a massive shield. At the same time, hundreds of streams of sand surged from the Stele, instantly binding the blazing white sun tightly. Moreover, the sand streams continued to erode and absorb the sun at a terrifying pace.
