Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

The Guanyin Pavilion stands amidst the surging waves of the Western Sea!
Jiang Sheng, the Crested Ibis Demon Lord, along with the Ying Tian Demon Lord, Emperor Liu Yuan, the Golden Lion White Armor, and other trial participants, were all caught off guard when they landed on the vast ocean.

Jiang Sheng stood on the water's surface, gazing at the boundless blue waves before him. The dampness and the sea's stench were crystal clear. Jiang Sheng could even smell the dragon's stench of the Western Sea White Dragons hidden millions of miles beneath the seabed.

Jiang Sheng knew this sea area all too well: "Mountain and River Boundary, Western Sea."

No one expected that the barrier set up by the Western Buddha, the Pure Lotus Guanyin Bodhisattva of the Western Sea, one of the Five Elders, would actually manifest the Western Sea, the boundary between mountains and rivers of the past.

Standing on the boundless sea, Jiang Sheng began to ponder the key to breaking through this impasse. The Pure Lotus Guanyin Bodhisattva was a great power in the Buddhist Lapis Lazuli Path, and she came from the Lesser Light Realm. She did not have a close relationship with either the Eastern Heaven Daoist School or the Penglai Daoist Sect.

Compared to the first trial where he received secret help from the Great Sage of Divine Wind and Daoist Jingxuan, Jiang Sheng did not receive such good treatment in the second trial. If Guanyin Bodhisattva were to secretly intervene, it would be to assist the Venerable of the Lapis Lazuli Path of Buddhism or the God of Heaven. This had nothing to do with anything else; it was entirely a matter of stance.

"The names of this level should be understood separately: Western Sea, Surging Waves, and Guanyin's Gate. Now that I am in the Western Sea, doesn't that mean..."

Jiang Sheng's heart skipped a beat and he turned around abruptly. He was shocked to see a wave that was tens of thousands of miles high sweeping in. As the wave rose, the once calm West Sea suddenly became turbulent. Waves surged one after another, forming giant waves that were tens of thousands of miles high, crashing down with such force that it seemed as if they would shatter this world.

Upon seeing the wave, Jiang Sheng immediately darted forward without stopping.

In this second trial, Jiang Sheng's divine sense and magical power were not restricted, so he could perceive things with unparalleled clarity. The vast ocean waves were no ordinary supernatural power. Not to mention a Five Tribulation True Monarch, even a Mahayana Immortal Monarch would be directly slammed into the Western Sea by the waves.

Given the sheer power of those giant waves, they would have been pulverized into dust the moment they hit the Western Sea.

"The storm has begun, so Guanyin Gate is the key to overcoming this obstacle!"

"Look at these raging waves that blot out the sky and seem poised to cover the entire sea; perhaps only the Guanyin Palace can offer some protection."

"Thinking about it this way, where in the Western Sea should Guanyin Temple be located?"

Jiang Sheng pondered as he soared through the air, searching for the Guanyin Palace across the vast ocean. Behind him, towering waves stretched for tens of millions of miles, soon covering the entire sea. Thunder roared, lightning flashed, and gales howled. The towering waves reached the heavens and the earth, their immense power enough to shatter mountains and continents. This power was no longer the simple divine ability of immortals and gods; it was the wrath of heaven and earth, and the essence of pure Yang.

The Great Bodhisattva Guanyin of the Western Sea Pure Lotus is a pure Yang Taoist. With a single thought of Taoism, she can shake heaven and earth and affect all the heavens!
Hey~
A distant, ethereal cry rang out. Jiang Sheng turned his head and saw endless, towering waves that had risen the sea surface tens of thousands of miles high. Behind him, amidst the raging storms that seemed to stretch to the heavens and the earth, countless spirits of the Western Sea, some thousands or even tens of thousands of feet long and seemingly composed entirely of seawater, were swimming in the raging waves. Their target seemed to be him!

Realizing this, Jiang Sheng understood that it was unlikely he could easily find the location of Guanyin Que.

As he watched the spirits of the Western Sea leap out of the storm amidst the raging winds and waves, carrying endless thunder and water, Jiang Sheng's right hand twitched slightly, and a magic sword with a sky-blue body was already in his hand.

As the spirit of the Western Sea pressed down, the magic sword in Jiang Sheng's hand was also wrapped with azure tribulation light. In an instant, a mottled sword beam shot through the sky, striking the sea and sky.

"Severing Heaven, Breaking All Laws!"

The vast western sea is a small world, with raging waves rising and covering the sky.

At this moment, the geniuses of various races in this Western Sea world were unaware of their predicament, but the immortals, Buddhas, saints and gods watching from inside the Lingxiao Palace, as well as the gods, demons, ghosts and monsters from all sides outside the South Heavenly Gate, and the geniuses of the myriad races who had been eliminated, could see it clearly.

The entire small world was swept by raging waves from all directions, like giant ripples constantly shrinking towards the center. Amidst these world-destroying storms, the trial participants scattered across the Western Sea had to speed up in an attempt to escape the onslaught of the raging waves.

As the raging waves from all directions gradually receded, the number of prodigies from all races within the Western Sea's small world also steadily decreased. It was evident that some prodigies with slightly slower escape speeds were slammed onto the sea surface by the giant waves and instantly turned into blood mist and dust. Others, though faster, crashed head-on into another giant wave, resulting in their flesh being mangled and swallowed up on the spot.
These exceptional talents will not die in this trial. As a powerful figure in the Buddhist Lapis Lazuli Path, the Pure Lotus Guanyin Bodhisattva is compassionate. This trial only distinguishes between victory and defeat, not life and death. Even the losers can live safely, only losing the opportunity to advance further.

The winner, Pure Lotus Bodhisattva, had already placed the reward in the Western Sea.

At this moment, as the waves surged in all directions, the number of the seven thousand geniuses on the Western Sea continued to decrease. Whether they were True Monarchs of the Xuanmen, Heavenly Demons of the Demon Race, Divine Monarchs of the Divine Path, or Venerables of the Buddhist Sect, it seemed that they could only flee for their lives under these giant waves.

But upon closer inspection, one will find that some people on the Western Sea are indeed quite lucky.

Some Buddhist celestial beings easily crossed the sea to find Guanyin Palace, while some divine emperors observed the eight directions, comprehended the secrets of heaven, and avoided the giant waves and raging winds. Some unorthodox immortals, though lacking in cultivation, found Guanyin Palace by chance while running across the Western Sea. But most others struggled to survive amidst the raging winds and waves and kept running in silence.

The golden lion and the white-armored beast were running away with their heads down. Behind them, one after another, towering waves stretched for millions of miles. The sea behind them had risen more than ten thousand miles. The terrifying waves, capable of destroying everything, swept in with the sound of muffled thunder. The splashing water even pierced through layers of void, causing the heavens and earth to tremble.

Jin Ni didn't even glance at the terrifying scene behind her, and pressed forward with all her might. She wasn't unfamiliar with dealing with these giant waves before.

However, the golden flames formed from her innate divine power were extinguished by the water waves before they even traveled ten thousand miles. Despite being made of steel and possessing unparalleled strength capable of shaking mountains and tremors, when the Golden Lion punched the water waves, the rebound caused its flesh to tear apart and its tendons to go numb, leaving its entire arm instantly a bloody mess.

With that punch, Jin Ni felt as if it had not struck a wave of water, but rather its ancestor's entire body of scales.

It should be noted that the Golden Lion had also traveled through the Middle Thousand Worlds, once igniting billions of miles of ocean with golden flames and punching through millions of miles of mountains. But now, in front of this mere ten thousand miles of surging waves, the Golden Lion has hit a wall, and is so dizzy from the impact that if the White Armor hadn't intervened, the Golden Lion would have been slammed into the Western Sea by the crashing waves and turned into mincemeat.

"These waves are really annoying. They can't be broken or stopped, and they keep chasing after people. Do they have to knock us into the sea before they'll stop?"

Jin Ni spoke with considerable anger. Her bloodied arm had already recovered. The injury was nothing to a Heavenly Demon who was a descendant of the Great Sage. However, the force of the backlash remained in Jin Ni's flesh and meridians, making it impossible for her to exert any force with her arm. At this moment, Jin Ni could only place half of her hopes on Bai Jia.

As Bai Jia pulled Jin Ni forward, he would occasionally turn his head to look at the raging waves behind them: "Jin Ni, these waves seem to be consciously driving us. If we can't outrun them, this trial may end before we see the end of the road."

Upon hearing this, Jin Ni looked troubled; how could she not have noticed this as well?

But in this situation, she really had no other choice, after all, this trial was personally handled by a great bodhisattva at the Dao-holding realm.

"Oh, isn't this the Golden Lion Demon Lord? How come you look so disheveled after just a short absence?"

A rather frivolous voice came from behind. Jin Ni turned his head and saw that Ying Tian Demon Lord had appeared a million miles away at some point.

This discovery shocked Jin Ni. With her divine sense, she could see even the slightest movement within a radius of tens of millions of miles, if not the most minute detail.

But Ying Tian suddenly appeared a million miles away from him!

It should be known that beings at the Refinement of Void level can easily cover tens or even millions of miles when using their supernatural powers. For those at the Fifth Tribulation level, this distance of millions of miles has already exceeded the safety limit!

How did Ying Tian get here?!
Although he was surprised and suspicious, Jin Ni showed no fear on his face: "Heh, Ying Tian, ​​you actually came to find me and Bai Jia. Could it be that you couldn't handle the giant waves and have nowhere else to go?" Upon hearing this, Jin Ni did not expect that Ying Tian Demon Lord would show a momentary embarrassment on his face, as if Jin Ni had hit the nail on the head.

"Ahem, it's just a little storm, nothing to us dragons."

"I just feel that, being of the same race from the Great Thousand World of Demons, we should join hands and move forward together. What do you two think?"

Yingtian Demon Lord appeared quite sincere, but in reality, he was truly out of options.

Although the dragons of the four seas, which are from different regions of mountains and rivers, have always lived in the sea, the Yinglong clan is not without the ability to swim.

Dragons can rise and hide, grow large and shrink small. Soaring through the clouds, driving thunder and lightning, and summoning wind and rain are all innate abilities. Therefore, the Demon Lord Yingtian did not find the raging winds and waves of this level particularly troublesome at first. It was not until those towering waves roared in that the Demon Lord Yingtian activated his ability to summon wind and rain.

Subsequently, the raging winds and waves that were originally thousands of miles high instantly expanded several times under the innate divine power of Yingtian Demon Lord, and were accompanied by lightning. In an instant, storms rose everywhere, thunder roared and lightning flashed. Even Yingtian Demon Lord was almost smashed to pieces and fell into the sea in this storm that could be described as earth-shattering.

Therefore, Yingtian Demon Lord had to activate the talent of the Yinglong clan to perform a directional teleportation. Unfortunately, this place was not the outside world, but a trial ground set up by the Bodhisattva Guanyin of the Western Sea. Therefore, Yingtian Demon Lord's directional teleportation became a random movement, which is why he suddenly appeared beside the Golden Lion Demon Lord and the White Armor Demon Lord.

Not to mention that the Golden Lion Demon Lord was filled with suspicion and secretly on guard, even the Yingtian Demon Lord himself was startled.

As fellow celestial demons, and fellow cultivators at the Fifth Tribulation level, how could Demon Lord Yingtian not know the taboos within the Fifth Tribulation? If someone like him were to suddenly appear within someone else's safety zone and be killed without any recourse, then Demon Lord Yingtian had no choice but to show some remorse and then join forces with Demon Lord Jinni and Demon Lord Baijia.

Faced with the proposal of joining forces put forward by Ying Tian Demon Lord, Jin Ni Demon Lord hesitated. At this moment, Bai Jia Demon Lord said in a voice transmission, "Let's join forces. We are both demons. At least he won't harm us at this time. Otherwise, if word gets out, he will be the one who suffers."

Although the White-Armored Demon Lord usually doesn't express his opinions much and always listens to the Golden Lion Demon Lord's commands like an honest person, as long as the White-Armored Demon Lord speaks, the Golden Lion Demon Lord will listen: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

After making up his mind, the Golden Lion Demon Lord looked at the Yingtian Demon Lord: "Yingtian, since you want to join forces, let's act together. By the way, have you found the location of Guanyin Palace?"

They are all outstanding talents who have emerged from sacred lands. The Heavenly Demons may seem reckless, but that does not mean they are stupid. On the contrary, the reason why the Heavenly Demons appear so reckless and straightforward is because they do not usually encounter anything that requires them to use their brains too much.

The celestial demons' powerful physical bodies and supernatural abilities are enough to handle all daily matters. Even if they encounter any danger, the celestial demons can often break through it using their own strength.

Over time, the impression gradually formed throughout the myriad realms that most demons were crude, stupid, and brainless. However, it is easy to imagine what would happen to those who had this impression when they encountered celestial demons.

The celestial demons rely on their formidable strength without needing to use their brains, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent. After being baptized by the storms in this small world of the Western Sea, the Golden Lion Demon Lord realized that he couldn't find a way through the barrier by strength alone, and thus he had to find the location of Guanyin Palace.

Yingtian Demon Lord was clearly aware of this, but he was also not very clear about the location of Guanyin Palace, and having just experienced a random teleportation, he was completely clueless when faced with Jinni Demon Lord's question.

Seeing this, the Golden Lion Demon Lord felt helpless. He looked back at the increasingly imposing giant waves chasing after him and said helplessly, "What else can we do now? Let's keep running. Eventually, we'll see hope."

Thus, on the vast Western Sea, the three celestial demons accelerated their journey, none of them willing to stop and catch their breath even for a moment. Behind them, the giant waves grew ever larger. With the superposition of the waves, one of them was hundreds of thousands of miles high and low. The earth-shattering, sky-piercing tidal wave roared in, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The muffled thunder and the splashing waves it generated made the space within a radius of millions of miles extremely fragile. Heaven and earth trembled under such great power, and the surrounding space cried out incessantly, as if it would collapse at any moment.

As the three celestial demons fled in silence, more and more other prodigies appeared in the surrounding area.

Within a radius of tens of millions of miles, the Golden Lion Demon Lord sensed divine power fluctuations from the divine path, the magical energy of the Xuanmen sect, and traces of the Buddhist path of lapis lazuli.
Humans, gods, ghosts, demons, and all the geniuses of various races were crammed into this small area of ​​tens of millions of miles. At this moment, no one cared about anyone else, and they were all desperately fleeing, searching for the traces of Guanyin Que.

Meanwhile, inside the lotus pavilion, several figures were resting and recovering.

Gazing at the towering waves beyond the lotus pavilion, a beautiful female immortal looked worried: "Are we really just going to watch them be swallowed by the waves?"

"We can't get past this second hurdle on our own."

This lotus-shaped pavilion is the Guanyin Pavilion, or more precisely, its outer perimeter.

To truly pass the second level, simply finding Guanyin Que is not enough; you must enter the core hall of Guanyin Que to truly pass the level.

The female immortal had already tried, but she couldn't get through using her power. This wasn't just because this place was a Buddhist temple, but also because several enormous figures blocked the way between the outer perimeter and the inner hall of the Guanyin Pavilion.
Seeing the female immortal's worry, a handsome monk with clear eyes and red lips and white teeth chanted a Buddhist prayer and said slowly, "Don't be anxious, benefactor. This test will not eliminate everyone."

"The Antarctic Longevity Emperor said that only half of them will be eliminated in this test. Among our group of more than 7,000 people, at least 3,000 will have the chance to pass."

"We have only arrived here by chance, and we can barely take care of ourselves, so how can we help others?"

"We might as well conserve our energy first, and observe the movements between the outer platform and the inner hall to find a way to break the deadlock. Once everyone is gathered, we'll have a plan."

Upon hearing this, a divine lord declared loudly, "Venerable Putai is right. Fairy Zhenguang, you should rest and recuperate."

Upon hearing this, the female immortal had no choice but to nod: "That's the only way."

Seeing this, the deity looked at the monk Putai and asked, "Venerable Putai, in your opinion, who will be the next to find Guanyin Que?"

The monk Putai held his prayer beads in his hand, looking indifferent: "In my humble opinion, outside the Three Realms, the Demon Lord Yingtian of the Kuocang Realm, the Golden Lion Demon Lord and the White Armor Demon Lord of the Great Wilderness Realm, the Emperor Liuyuan of the Southern Red Realm, the Venerable Zhidu of the Kongfei Realm, the Immortal Duoming of the Mingzhou Realm, and the Crested Ibis Demon Lord of the Zhuming Realm, all have the potential to enter the Guanyin Palace."

Upon hearing this, the Divine Lord was somewhat puzzled: "Why does the Venerable One only talk about what is outside the Three Realms and Great Thousand Worlds, and not about what is inside the Three Realms and Great Thousand Worlds?"

The monk Putai glanced at the deity, already considering him a dead man. He could speak freely outside the Three Realms, but within the Three Realms, was he someone who could speak so freely?
Is it the Taoists of the Eastern Heaven who can say this, or the Buddhists of the Western Heaven who can say it?

Although Putai was a cultivator at the fifth level of cultivation, he was able to enter the Guanyin Palace not because of his great abilities, but simply because he came from the Pure Lotus Temple in the Lesser Light Realm.

Putai had a clear understanding of this struggle for the throne, which is why he refrained from commenting on anyone within the Three Realms.

Faced with the deity's question, the monk Putai simply sat down, clasped his hands together, and chanted the Buddha's name:

"Amitabha." (End of this chapter)