419: A lifetime of defiance, a single crack!

The Monkey King's eyes burned with crimson gold, and dark golden demonic flames soared from his body. With muscles knotted on his arms, he poured all his strength, along with the resentment and anger accumulated over several lifetimes of Reincarnation, into this single strike!

"Boom—!!!"

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage Array shattered at the sound!

Like a smashed glazed lamp, it turned into billions of golden specks of light, scattering and flying in all directions!

A powerful backlash force rolled back like a tsunami. All the Buddhist masters participating in the array were thrown away like kites with broken strings, crashing into countless halls of Mount Ling. For a moment, wails filled Mount Ling, and the Buddha light dimmed!

One strike, and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Array was broken!

The Monkey King stood holding his staff in the center of the shattered Mount Ling plaza, his crimson gold cape flapping violently in the chaotic turbulence of energy.

He panted slightly, but the Battle Intent in his Fiery Eyes of Truth burned to its peak!

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the layers of shattered Void Realm, looking up at the firmament.

"Rulai! Your disciples are useless now! Now, it's your turn!"

The sound waves rolled out.

Lu Jiuyuan stood behind the Monkey King, looking at the devastation before him, and feeling the seemingly limitless, majestic power emanating from the monkey, his own heart stirred with heroic spirit.

This is not just the King of Demon Kings; this is the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven!

This is that defiant Soul who dares to swing his staff at the supreme existence!

"Monkey King."

Rulai's voice was grand and deep, coming from beyond the heavens!

"You broke free from the golden fillet, gathered the Karma of many lifetimes, and forcibly ascended to this realm; it is indeed rare."

"However, external power is ultimately illusory. The power you see is just another layer of shackles. The resistance you perform is still within the cycle."

The Monkey King sneered and pointed his golden-hooped rod at the firmament: "Cut the crap! Whether it's shackles or a cycle, we'll only know after we fight!"

"Today, Old Sun does not fight for justice or transcendence, but only to give you one strike!"

"One strike to shatter this false tranquility of yours! One strike to wake up these fallen sentient beings!"

"Hi! Take this strike from Old Sun!"

He spoke no more; all his will, all his power, all his past and future were condensed here!

With a leap!

His body grew to ten thousand zhang in size, his iron staff held high to the sky, and he smashed it toward the firmament!

The entire sky suddenly darkened.

It was not dark clouds blocking the sun, but an indescribable "existence," far deeper and heavier than the night, covering everything.

The lingering Buddha light of Mount Ling, the twinkling stars in the distance, and even the shattered earth below... all light was instantly swallowed and covered.

A palm slowly reached out from that boundless, dark Void Realm.

It was too big!

So big that it surpassed the limits of vision and the scope of understanding!

The texture of the palm was like gullies running through the sea of stars, like galaxies carrying life and death!

This was the supreme existence that spanned the starry sky and sat in the sea of the Universe, casting a glance and dropping a palm toward this world that was like a grain of sand in its hand!

Covering the stars! Obscuring the galaxy!

The invisible pressure brought by its mere appearance turned the shattered Mount Ling below into dust, and left the remaining Bodhisattvas and Arhats stuck in a state of stagnation, like mosquitoes trapped in amber!

Lu Jiuyuan felt a tremor from the depths of his Soul; his tempered body was almost on the verge of collapsing. He felt like a small boat in a raging storm, ready to be completely erased by this pure, crushing existence at any moment!

"Isn't it exciting?"

"Exciting!"

Lu Jiuyuan looked at Old Daoist Zhang beside him: "Coming here directly to watch the show, isn't it a bit undignified?"

"Everyone is watching happily! If I didn't come, both of you would be dead! With a single thought, the world is reopened; life and death are within the palm's edge, you don't understand!"

Lu Jiuyuan was silent for a moment, then raised his hand and chopped off the head of a nearby heavily injured Arhat.

This could also be considered fighting side by side!

Looking up at the sky, vast and immeasurable! Is this... the real Rulai?

It was completely different from the phantom of the giant palm he had seen in the Hall of Miraculous Mist that supported thousands of worlds!

This was a real arrival, carrying supreme will and absolute power!

And the Monkey King, with his ten-thousand-zhang giant ape dharma body, seemed so... tiny beneath this giant palm that covered the firmament!

Like an ant rushing toward the sky, like a firefly throwing itself at a mountain!

But in his eyes, there was not a trace of fear!

The crimson golden flames burned to the extreme instead; it was anger, it was resentment, it was the determination to break fate, it was the madness of doing what one knows cannot be done!

"Well... come... then!"

The Monkey King let out a roar that cracked the Void Realm, his ten-thousand-zhang dharma body expanded again, forcibly opening up a violent and chaotic Domain of his own against the backdrop of absolute darkness!

He gripped the golden-hooped rod, which had also become incomparably huge, with both hands, burning and pouring in all the power that had been boiling for lifetimes, that unyielding will, and that "truth" that Lu Jiuyuan had ignited in his heart!

The golden-hooped rod seemed to have turned into pure light!

"Open... for... Old... Sun!"

He poured everything he had into the giant rod, with the momentum to split heaven and earth and reverse the Universe, and fiercely met the giant Rulai palm that was slowly pressing down and covering the firmament!

On one side was the giant Buddhist palm that symbolized absolute order, controlled Reincarnation, and covered the sea of stars!

On the other was the primordial rod that gathered the Karma of many lifetimes, burned with unyielding will, and sought to break fate!

Time seemed to lose its meaning at this moment.

Space was as fragile as thin paper at this moment.

In Lu Jiuyuan's almost frozen vision, the primordial rod and the giant Buddhist palm finally—

Made contact.

"Hum—!!!"

The point of contact did not burst with light, but... nothingness!

Pure, all-consuming nothingness!

Light, sound, energy, Law... everything tangible and intangible was completely annihilated at the point of contact and returned to nothingness!

The giant palm covering the firmament suddenly stalled in its descent!

The surging galaxy in the palm and the light of life and death at the tip of the rod engaged in the most essential and cruel collision and annihilation!

The Monkey King's ten-thousand-zhang dharma body trembled violently, and dark golden blood sprayed from his seven orifices, but he gritted his teeth, his eyes blood-red, his arm muscles tearing inch by inch, yet he still held the golden-hooped rod firmly, pushing upward crazily!

"Open!! Open ahhhh—!!!"

He roared and burned, as if he wanted to merge his own life and his own Soul into this strike!

The giant palm covering the firmament was actually pushed... slightly upward by this strike that he had poured everything into!

Although it was only a sliver!

But beneath that absolute, seemingly eternal giant palm, this slight lift was like a thunderbolt in the dark night, shocking every existence that could perceive this scene!

"Crack..."

A faint but incredibly clear cracking sound came from one of the galaxy textures on the giant palm!

A tiny crack appeared on that seemingly indestructible palm!

Although the crack was instantly submerged and repaired by the surging energy, its appearance itself was a miracle!

An unprecedented variable!

"Roar—!!!"

The Monkey King let out a roar mixed with pain and extreme pleasure; he felt it!

He did it! He truly shook this supreme existence!

However, the giant palm covering the firmament paused slightly, and then, with a more steady and irresistible posture, it slowly pressed down again.

It was as if that slight lift just now was merely a giant elephant shaking its body casually after being bitten by a gnat.

A more majestic and profound power, like the weight of the entire Universe, was transmitted down through the giant palm!

"Puff—!"

The Monkey King could no longer support it; his ten-thousand-zhang dharma body was covered with cracks like porcelain, and his massive body fell from the high sky like a meteor!

The golden-hooped rod in his hand also let out a mournful cry, its light dimming rapidly as it shrank and fell with him.

"Monkey!"

Lu Jiuyuan transformed his body into a sword rainbow, ignoring the terrifying pressure that was still permeating, and forcibly rushed forward to catch the Monkey King's shrunken, scarred true body.