Journey to the West: The Demon Emperor

Chapter 129 Potential Reduced
Li Yang did not bring the Jade-faced Princess to the "Five Finger Mountain", but just watched silently from a distance.

Because in Li Yang's sight, there was a figure emitting bursts of Buddha's light perched on each of the five towering peaks.

Of course Li Yang knew that they were the "Five-Direction Jie Di" sent by Buddhism to guard Sun Wukong.

Now Li Yang doesn't want to attract too much attention from the Buddhist community so soon.

What's more, with Li Yang's current cultivation level and powerful pupil technique, this distance has no effect on him at all.

"Wuzhi Mountain" has been unattended for many years, and it is now midsummer, so the vegetation on it is lush.

Therefore, the only part of Sun Wukong exposed was his head, which had already been covered by dense weeds.

However, Li Yang's "Eye of Fortune" can not only see tangible things, but also observe mysterious forces without specific forms such as luck and fate.

Therefore, after Li Yang opened the "Eye of Fate", he instantly found where Sun Wukong was.

However, when Li Yang observed with the perspective of "Eye of Peering into Fortune", he discovered some clues about the "Five Finger Mountain" in front of him.

"Boom!!!"

Purple-gold light kept flashing in his eyes. After silently pushing the "Eye of Peering" to the extreme, Li Yang finally saw the true face of the "Five Finger Mountain" in front of him.

In Li Yang's sight, the "Five Fingers Mountain" turned into a wonderful world composed entirely of the "Five Elements".

In that world, the "five elements" of different colors are constantly flowing in an extremely mysterious way.

And under the "Five Elements World" is a giant ape that is also made up of three colors: white, yellow, and black.

Among them, yellow occupies the majority, while white and black are dotted like spots.

However, compared to the "Five Elements World" above it, the three colors that make up the monkey appear messy, as if they were forced together.

Under Li Yang's gaze, every time the "Five Elements World" that suppressed the monkey trembled, it would pull away a bit of the chaotic colors on the monkey's body.

At the same time, the "Five Elements World" will spit out a trace of pure ochre energy and merge it into the monkey's body to fill the previous gap.

As the monkey swallowed and exhaled, the colorful spots on its body gradually faded away, becoming more harmonious.

Looking at this mysterious scene and thinking about what happened to the monkey after it was born, a guess suddenly came to Li Yang's mind.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yang turned his gaze to the monkey's eyes.

Under the gaze of the "Eye of Fate", Li Yang could clearly see a cloud of black smoke covering the monkey's eyes.

The "Five Elements World" that suppressed the monkey kept washing away the black smoke with the pure power of the five elements, but it was completely unable to do anything about the smoke that had already merged with the monkey's eyes.

Looking at this scene, Li Yang finally confirmed his thoughts.

Now it seems that this monkey undoubtedly belongs to the Buddhist camp.

The existence of the "Five Finger Mountain" means that Buddhism is intentionally trying to temper the monkey's character and to resolve the hidden dangers in it.

As for the hidden danger of the monkey, if Li Yang guessed correctly, it was the result of a joint calculation between the Heavenly Court and Taoism.

When Sun Wukong made trouble in heaven, he swallowed a large amount of golden elixir and peaches.

In Li Yang's opinion, this must be a deal between Buddhism and Heaven, in order to allow the monkey to complete the accumulation of the five elements as soon as possible. After all, whether it is the golden elixir refined by Taishang Laojun or the peaches in the "Peach Garden", they are all treasures with a large amount of pure "five elements power".

Such a treasure is rare even in heaven, so it certainly wouldn't be given to the monkey for nothing.

If the monkey could completely digest the energy in the golden elixir and peaches on his own, he would probably be able to complete most of the journey of "Five Qis Returning to Origin" in no time.

However, Taishang Laojun used the trick of "refining monkey in the elixir furnace" to "help" the monkey to completely digest the energy in the body in a short period of time.

However, with the help of Taishang Laojun, the energy refined by the monkey did not help his own cultivation much. Instead, it was all melted into the monkey's body.

You should know that condensing the five energies in the chest is not intended to change your own physical constitution.

As a "spiritual stone monkey" born and raised by nature, the monkey is the purest "innate earth body".

Taishang Laojun melted a large amount of innate gold and water power into the monkey's body. Although it did greatly increase the monkey's combat power in a short period of time, it came at the cost of damaging the monkey's potential.

What confirmed Li Yang's guess, apart from the messy colors on the monkey's body, was the black smoke covering the monkey's eyes.

As we all know, the monkey was burned in the elixir furnace of Laozi, and under the smoke and fire, he developed a pair of "fire eyes and golden pupils".

In his previous life, when he was a child, Li Yang had envied the monkey’s eyes more than once.

But now it seems that the so-called "fire eyes and golden pupils" are just a nonsense made up by monkeys to make them look more attractive.

As the leader of the "Four Mischievous Monkeys", the Spiritual Stone Monkey is born with the ability to change, understand the weather and terrain, move stars and change constellations. He possesses extraordinary magical powers and wisdom.

His innate magical power lies in his eyes.

Just like the six-eared macaque, its six ears have the ability to "listen well, understand principles, know the past and the future, and understand everything."

When it was just born, the monkey's eyes burst into two infinite golden lights, which directly pierced through the thirty-three heavens and the eighteen levels of hell, alarming the three realms.

It can be said that the monkey’s eyes are born with the potential to achieve “great supernatural powers”.

If one cultivates it carefully in the future, there is a slight possibility of developing "supreme supernatural powers".

But after the monkey "cultivated" the "fire eyes and golden pupils" in Laojun's alchemy furnace, the monkey's eyes became afraid of wind and fire, and he fell into their trap more than once.

What should have been its strongest point turned out to be its biggest weakness.

Not only that, the pair of "spiritual eyes" that could go up to the heaven and look down into the underworld could not even see through the disguise of the White Bone Demon.

It has to be said that Monkey's "natural spiritual eyes" have indeed been mostly wasted.

However, considering the monkey's potential, it is normal for him to be plotted against by the Heavenly Court and Taoism!

After all, as an innate creature, the monkey is naturally qualified to pick the "Daluo Dao Fruit".

Coupled with the full training of Buddhism, once the monkey successfully obtains the "Daluo Dao Fruit", in this era, there will be one more "chess player" in the world.

Of course, the Heavenly Palace and Taoism would not sit idly by and watch Buddhism get such a helping hand again, so it was understandable that they chose to take advantage of the situation to destroy the monkey's potential.

After all, the golden elixir and peaches were a deal agreed upon in advance, and it was too late for the Buddhists to discover it afterwards.

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