Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong-Chapter 601 - Yi Shoots the Nine Suns (First Update)
Chapter 601: Chapter 601 Yi Shoots the Nine Suns (First Update!)
Chapter 601: Chapter 601 Yi Shoots the Nine Suns (First Update!)
Stream after stream of flowing light converged toward the string of the Sun-shooting Bow, forming an arrow shimmering with divine light.
Zheng—!
Amidst a crisp twang of the bowstring, Hou Yi released his fingers gripping the string, and the arrow, formed from the essence qi of heaven and earth, shot toward one of the Golden Crows with dazzling divine light.
The Golden Crow attempted to dodge, but it was futile, and the arrow pierced directly through its chest. Its body violently burst apart, raining down a shower of golden blood.
The remaining Golden Crows, furious, launched even more ferocious attacks on Hou Yi’s soul, but he remained unmoved, his face expressionless, as he notched an arrow to the bow and aimed at the second Golden Crow.
The arrow reformed and fired, and another Golden Crow’s soul exploded into fragments.
The third arrow!
The fourth arrow!
After nine successive arrows, Hou Yi’s soul had shot down all nine Golden Crows in the sky. Then his figure began to fade, and eventually, it dissipated into nothingness. The intense heat that filled the valley disappeared abruptly, as if that scene had never occurred.
At that moment, Hou Yi’s soul also dispersed, transforming into specks of light that vanished without a trace.
“Is it over?”
Jiang Liu’er blinked his eyes. Was this the reenactment of the ancient scene where Hou Yi shot down the nine suns? It seemed entirely one-sided; there was no suspense whatsoever!
“This is merely a contest of obsessions between the nine Golden Crows and the soul of Hou Yi, strictly speaking, it’s not a competition of their actual souls!”
Different from Jiang Liu’er, Sun Wukong had already seen the signs; neither the nine Golden Crows nor Hou Yi holding the Sun-shooting Bow were truly formed from the concentration of real souls. They were just the obsessions of the souls.
A million years had passed, and both sides had long been dead, their way extinct for so many years, and yet the grudges and obsessions from those times still hadn’t been let go, enacting this sun-shooting scene day after day.
However, this was only the scene during the day. What would happen at night?
Curious, Sun Wukong pondered, but he did not foolishly wait for night to fall. They were here to gather Hou Yi’s soul so that it could enter Jiang Liu’er’s body to gestate, to then help Fairy Chang’er detoxify, not to watch the struggle between the souls of Hou Yi and the nine Golden Crows.
“Jiang Liu’er, it’s up to you now!”
Sun Wukong knew what to do to gather Hou Yi’s soul, but he could not help in this, because Hou Yi’s scattered soul needed to converge inside Jiang Liu’er’s body, not his. Only Jiang Liu’er could activate the Secret Technique to draw Hou Yi’s soul together.
“Immeasurable light, immeasurable heat, immeasurable merit, gather the boundless souls, soul of the ancient Great Witch Hou Yi, hear my call, return to the soul!”
Jiang Liu’er activated Immeasurable Merit Determination, and his body suddenly burst forth with immeasurable light and heat, like a giant beacon. The Merit Golden Light spread out in all directions, enveloping most of the valley within it.
Drawn by the Merit Golden Light, wisps of soul power emerged from all directions, converging towards Jiang Liu’er. The vast majority contained a hint of fiery strength, aggregating into the souls of Golden Crows around Jiang Liu’er—nine in total, precisely the souls of the nine great Golden Crows. The remaining soul power coalesced into a vague human figure, whose face was indistinct, but seemed to be holding a longbow in hand—it was undoubtedly Hou Yi!
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“Strange, why is Hou Yi’s soul so much lesser?”
The golden light in Sun Wukong’s eyes flared, and beneath his Void-Breaking Starry Eyes, he could clearly discern the state of the souls that had gathered—Hou Yi’s condensed soul had only one spirit and two wraiths, while two spirits and five wraiths were missing. If Jiang Liu’er were to continue nurturing them like this, he would probably end up nursing a fool with no sense of self!
“Great Saint, the souls of the nine Golden Crows are also incomplete!”
Jiang Liu’er’s comment alerted Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong checked the souls of the nine Golden Crows and found that they too were left with only one spirit and two wraiths, with two spirits and five wraiths nowhere to be seen. And no matter how Jiang Liu’er spurred on the Immeasurable Merit Determination to release the Merit Golden Light, not a trace of soul power emerged from the valley anymore.
“Old Sun gets it, the remaining two spirits and five wraiths are likely to manifest only at night!”
Thinking of the different sights in the external world during day and night, an epiphany struck Sun Wukong. Whether for Hou Yi or the nine great Golden Crows, the remaining two spirits and five wraiths were probably going to manifest only at night. In other words, Jiang Liu’er would have to maintain this state until evening!
“Maintain until evening? Great Saint, are you joking?”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Liu’er nearly leaped off the ground. He was currently exerting his full strength to invoke the Immeasurable Merit Determination and summon the souls within the valley, an extremely draining task. To persist until evening was practically tormenting him!
“Does Old Sun look like he’s joking?”
Sun Wukong raised an eyebrow and looked at Jiang Liu’er, “If you stop now, the one spirit and two wraiths that you’ve gathered will dissipate. If something goes wrong in the meantime, our journey here would have been in vain and Fairy Chang’er will remain beyond rescue!”
“This…”
Jiang Liu’er’s face was a picture of conflict. He certainly did not want to let his previous efforts go to waste, nor did he want Fairy Chang’er to not be saved, but he truly felt he couldn’t hold out till evening!
“Here, use this to hold on; you can do it. Old Sun believes in you!”
Sun Wukong stretched out his hand and threw, and a gourd of Victorious Fighting Wine flew towards Jiang Liu’er—it was the same gourd he’d taken a big swig from before and almost burst. Seeing this wine gourd filled with Victorious Fighting Wine, Jiang Liu’er’s face changed, but to persevere, he could only clench his teeth, catch it, and take a drink after pulling the stopper.
However, this time, Jiang Liu’er didn’t dare to guzzle it down like before. After taking a small sip and feeling the liquid turning into copious amounts of Essence Qi rampaging within his body, he quickly corked the bottle and put all his effort into spurring the Immeasurable Merit Determination to refine these Essence Qis, transforming them into the golden light of the Merit Golden Body.
Thus, with the aid of the Victorious Fighting Wine, Jiang Liu’er maintained the full-powered release of the Merit Golden Light in his Merit Golden Body until night fell.
As with outside of the valley, the moment night arrived, all signs of life vanished without a trace. Plants and trees retracted underground, replaced by skeletons emerging from beneath the surface, more numerous than those outside the valley. In an instant, the entire valley seemed to transform into a nightmarish hell, and Sun Wukong’s complexion changed as well.
“Not good! This place isn’t just the burial ground of the nine Golden Crows and Hou Yi, there are other Demon Gods here too!”
Watching wisps of black energy rapidly diffuse from the skeletons, Sun Wukong leaped into action, the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod firmly in his grasp.
