Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong-Chapter 238 - : Devouring the Calamity Clouds (1st Update)
Chapter 238: Chapter 238: Devouring the Calamity Clouds (1st Update)
At the Thirty-Three Layer of Heaven’s Sky of Resentment, outside the Doushui Palace, Sun Wukong and a male figure with a somewhat exotic appearance stood in front of the palace gate, looking at the Bagua pattern above, he gave a sneaky chuckle.
The male figure was none other than the transformed human form of the Demonic Beast Taotie. It wasn’t that Taotie couldn’t take on a human form; for a Quasi-Saint it wasn’t difficult to take on any form at all, it was merely a matter of willingness.
“Say, Great Saint, why have we come to the Doushui Palace?”
The one who chuckled was Sun Wukong alone. From the beginning to the end, Taotie was completely confused. He didn’t understand why Sun Wukong had brought him to the Doushui Palace.
After escaping from the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, they could have headed straight for the Southern Heavenly Gate to leave the Heavenly Court. Even if the guard at the Southern Heavenly Gate activated the Heavenly Gate Barrier and closed it off, with their strength, they could definitely force their way out. However, Sun Wukong did not do so; instead, he dragged Taotie along the Heavenly Ladder to the Sky of Resentment in the Thirty-Three Layer of Heaven. Along the way, the Heavenly Soldiers guarding the ladder were all put down by Wukong’s sleep bugs, and after they’d passed, Sun Wukong withdrew the sleep bugs. The soldiers simply thought they had dozed off and didn’t pay it any mind, let alone suspect that someone had quietly traversed the Heavenly Ladder while they were asleep.
“To come to this Doushui Palace is, of course, to pay a visit to The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord!”
Wukong smirked, “Of course, it’s also to ask the venerable lord for some Nine-Turn Golden Elixir!”
“The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir? The legendary elixir that can revive the dead and bone to flesh?”
Taotie had heard of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, said to be a divine elixir that The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord refined from the essence of heaven and earth, the glory of the sun and moon, by gathering all kinds of spiritual things from the world and condensing the essence of the five elements. The process from the beginning of the elixir to its completion took a total of forty-nine years, each time yielding three gourds, each with forty-nine pills. During the refining period, one couldn’t leave for a moment, or else all prior effort would be wasted.
What, was The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord currently refining this divine elixir?
“That’s right, the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir!”
Sun Wukong nodded, “That’s one of the lord’s treasures! The Entire Heavenly Court is now searching for you under martial law, but they’d never dream that we’d come to the Doushui Palace!”
“Great Saint, the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir takes forty-nine years to refine each time, we came over now, I’m afraid it might not have been successfully refined yet?”
Indeed, the Doushui Palace at the Sky of Resentment was a good place to avoid being hunted down by the Heavenly Court, but just waiting at the Doushui Palace gate wasn’t going to accomplish anything, right? If the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir wasn’t ready, their wait would be in vain. Taotie was quite puzzled as to what Sun Wukong really meant.
“Soon, it will be completed in a couple of days!”
A gleam flashed through Sun Wukong’s eyes. He remembered clearly that in his previous life, The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord’s batch of Nine-Turn Golden Elixir was successfully refined a year before the Peach Banquet began. However, since he planned to offer the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir to the Jade Emperor at the Peach Banquet, it ended up being cheaper for Sun Wukong.
In his previous life, Sun Wukong had sneaked into the Doushui Palace and stolen the Golden Core. In this life, he would march in openly to ask The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord for some Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. He reasoned that The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord should not refuse, after all, Sun Wukong had long suspected that in his previous life, The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord had intentionally let him into the Doushui Palace to steal the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. Otherwise, with the cultivation strength of a Heavenly Dao Saint like The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, he would have been under the cover of the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao in his former life, so how could he not have predicted this?
The way of the Heavenly Dao has its patterns, and the general direction wouldn’t change much. Although many things had changed in this life due to Sun Wukong’s rebirth, there wasn’t much interaction between him and The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, so it probably wouldn’t affect the latter’s destined path. In other words, if nothing out of the ordinary happened, The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord was likely to succeed in refining the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir in the next few days.
“Soon?”
Taotie was puzzled and didn’t understand how Sun Wukong knew that The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord would be refining the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir in these few days.
However, since Sun Wukong didn’t say more, Taotie didn’t feel it was right to inquire further. He could only sit with Sun Wukong in front of the Doushui Palace gate and quietly wait, and this wait lasted half a month.
During that half-month, the Heavenly Court’s search for Taotie continued unabated. Almost the entire Heavenly Court was turned upside down, yet not a trace of Taotie was found. No one could have imagined that Taotie would dare to come to the Sky of Resentment in the Thirty-Three Layer of Heaven, and sit so brazenly in front of the Doushui Palace’s gate.
As for Sun Wukong, nobody knew that he was the one who had rescued Taotie from within the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation. Plus, he had always been slack, never going to the Naval Marshal’s Mansion to report, and would wander around, so no one would have suspicions if he disappeared for ten days or half a month.
Because of the incident with Taotie breaking the seal and causing chaos in the Heavenly Court, the grand competition in the Heavenly Court was postponed. The entire Heavenly Court was searching for Taotie’s whereabouts, with no one mentioning the grand competition for the time being. Marshal Tianpeng, Zhu Tianpeng, was warned by the Queen Mother and didn’t dare to blame Sun Wukong anymore. The Jade Emperor seemed to have heard something from the Queen Mother, and his intention to summon Sun Wukong for questioning also came to nothing.
“Great Saint, how much longer must we wait here?”
Taotie was never one to be patient. After half a month in front of the Doushui Palace, he became restless, stood up, and paced back and forth beside Sun Wukong, finally unable to resist asking the meditating Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong opened his eyes and glanced indifferently at Taotie, his tone very calm, “What’s the rush? No one is going to disturb us here anyway. Isn’t it nice for you to rest and heal in peace? Be patient, it should happen soon!”
“But Great Saint, my wounds have healed long ago!”
Indeed, Taotie had sustained serious injuries, but as an ancient fierce beast enhanced by the demon spirit qi of the Demonic Realm, its healing capacity was astonishing. Half a month had passed, and its wounds had already healed. Hearing Wukong’s words made it even more anxious, looking as if it were on pins and needles.
“Then just meditate and cultivate with patience. The Golden Core should be formed by now… no, it has already been formed!”
Just as Sun Wukong was speaking, a flash of golden light sparked in his eyes, and he looked up at the top of the Doushui Palace. A smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, and he saw a stream of essence qi, invisible to the naked eye, rushing up from the top of the Doushui Palace to the sky. Then, a rumble of thunder erupted above, and a vast expanse of thunder clouds appeared out of nowhere atop the palace.
“Tribulation Thunder? Is someone undergoing their tribulation? No, this intensity of tribulation thunder is far beyond what the Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations’ heavenly thunder can compare to!”
Taotie’s mouth fell open in shock at the sight of the vast thunder clouds in the sky, its face full of confusion. But it saw Sun Wukong spring into action, charging towards the thunder clouds.
“This isn’t a cultivator’s tribulation thunder; it’s the Pill Tribulation of a divine elixir descending into the world! The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir of The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord is ready! Hey, let old Sun give him an early gift!”
Cultivators will face the Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations, and those with the most monstrous innate abilities will also trigger the Heavenly Dao’s response, beckoning down Tribulation Thunder when breaking through to great realms. Similarly, the birth of a divine elixir that transcends the bound of Heavenly Dao will also provoke a response in the form of a Pill Tribulation. Elixirs obviously have no means to withstand the Pill Tribulation; it requires the alchemist to fend it off, or someone like Sun Wukong to intervene.
With The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord’s cultivation strength, a mere Pill Tribulation was naturally a trifle. Sun Wukong merely intended to neutralize the Pill Tribulation before The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord could, thereby indebting the lord to a favor. After all, once the Pill Tribulation had been neutralized, The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord would have to acknowledge it, whether he liked it or not!
Boom!
Sun Wukong soared directly into the thunder clouds, which was a blatant challenge, a slap in the face to the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation. The Heavenly Dao was enraged, and the thunder clouds erupted into chaos. Massive bolts of thunder and lightning surged towards Sun Wukong, relentlessly striking him.
“Great Saint!”
Taotie cried out in shock. Had Sun Wukong gone mad? No one had ever dared to charge into the tribulation clouds to confront the tribulation thunder; it was akin to provoking the Heavenly Dao, which would result in being bombarded by several times more tribulation thunder!
“Don’t worry, old Sun is fine!”
The voice of Sun Wukong came from within the tribulation clouds, causing Taotie’s expression to shift. It then saw the thunder clouds rapidly shrinking towards the center as if a black hole was devouring them.
As Taotie looked on in amazement, the diminishing thunder clouds revealed a figure, an image as if a Demon God had descended—Sun Wukong himself. There he was, floating serenely in mid-air, his arms stretched out as bolt after bolt of tribulation thunder was voraciously absorbed into his body. His entire being seemed to have become a gigantic black hole, and at first glance, Taotie even thought it was his innate Devouring Divine Power!
Quickly, all the tribulation thunder and clouds were consumed by Sun Wukong, who let out a light burp as if nothing had happened and casually stepped down from the sky.
“Great Saint, those Pill Tribulation clouds…”
Taotie opened its mouth, wanting to say something but stopped midway, leaving only a face filled with astonishment and disbelief.
“Old Sun ate them. Mmm, not a bad taste, and my cultivation has increased a bit!”
Sun Wukong smacked his lips, looking quite pleased with himself, and even a little regretful, “Just wished there had been a little more, that would have been better!”
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“…”
Taotie was speechless, feeling an urge to roll its eyes. It had thought its status as an ancient fierce beast was formidable, but Sun Wukong was even more bizarre, daring to charge into the tribulation clouds to directly devour the tribulation thunder and clouds. Taotie had never even considered such an act before!
Its innate Devouring Divine Power was indeed formidable, but there were limits to the strength it could absorb. To directly devour tribulation clouds and thunder like this, it wouldn’t be able to fully digest them in a short time and would surely burst!
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