I start by accepting Sun Wukong as my disciple and reshape the Journey to the West

Chapter 84: Breaking Guanyin's attack again
Yang Jian led four generals, two generals, and his seven brothers to land in front of Huaguo Mountain.

"You've all heard of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. He's no pushover. Ordinary tactics are useless against him. You should stay in the four corners to stabilize the formation. Be careful not to let the heavenly soldiers and generals take action!"

In response to Yang Jian's order, the four generals responded in unison.

"For this battle, there are three military orders:

First: No one is allowed to actually hurt the Monkey King. He can only be captured alive without any harm.

Second: Whether I win or lose this battle, it is all determined by fate. If I lose and die in battle, I must not cause any trouble for the Monkey King!
Third: If I win, do not ridicule the Great Sage, just treat me normally! You all understand!

"Yes!" The four generals and others responded in unison.

"Wang!"

"Of course you can make a move, you are part of my own strength!"

Before Yang Jian finished his words, Howling Sky Dog had already disappeared into the void. The space around Yang Jian was slightly distorted, and it was obvious that Howling Sky Dog had appeared beside Yang Jian.

Yang Jian landed in front of Huaguo Mountain. Although he already knew that Sun Wukong had proclaimed himself the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, when he saw the words on the flag, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "The Saint is really arrogant!"

Yang Jian didn't think that a stone monkey born and raised by nature would give himself such a disrespectful name. Since he was born and raised by nature, he should seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. How could he seek his own death like this?

The Great Sage had already received a message from his subordinates, and now he was dressed properly and ordered his generals to form a battle line.

The Great Sage carefully examined Yang Jian, then glanced at Dongfang Shuo. "He's quite handsome, yes! But not to the point where Master would be so partial to him, right?!"

Dongfang Shuo quietly added, "Maybe he's kind?"

"Oh? What's the reason?"

"In the past, he split a mountain to save his mother, a man of great filial piety. After being deified, he guarded the Guanjiangkou Pass and was worshipped by the people. It is said that whenever there was a demonic disturbance in Guanjiangkou, they would come out in full force! The people held him in high esteem."

"If that's true, it makes sense, but I still feel that Master is biased. What ability does he have to deserve such partiality from Master?"

"What does senior brother mean?"

"I want to test his skills."

"Brother, if you are more careful, you can certainly test it, but the result..."

"I know it, I know it. I try my best and then lose to him. I'm familiar with this routine. Isn't it the same with the King of Hell and the Dragon King? It's just that the roles are reversed this time!" Sun Wukong interrupted Dongfang Shuo directly.

"Brother, just be sensible!"

The brothers here were chatting happily and deciding on a strategy, Erlang Shen said loudly.

"Listen up, Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven of Mount Huaguo. I am the nephew of the Jade Emperor, and the son of King Huiling. I have been ordered to capture you. If you surrender obediently, there is still room for maneuver!"

"I've long heard of the name of Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun. Seeing him in person today, he's truly a distinguished figure. You may be obeying orders, but as the saying goes, a general on the battlefield is not bound by his sovereign's orders! Besides, I'm a stone monkey, so I'm a bit stubborn!"

The Monkey King's golden cudgel appeared in his hand: "So please use all your abilities, so that I can feel at ease!"

Yang Jian raised the corner of his mouth: "I was just thinking of testing the Great Sage's abilities, so I can know the difference between me and the Great Sage!"

The trident appeared in Yang Jian's hand, and he walked forward, with the remaining half of the sentence brewing in his mind: Why doesn't the saint accept me as his disciple!

The moment the golden cudgel collided with the trident, the entire Flower-Fruit Mountain shook three times.

Sun Wukong grinned, and the shadow of his stick suddenly became like a torrential rain, and each afterimage was wrapped in the sound of wind and thunder.

Yang Jian's trident spun horizontally like a moon, forcibly splitting a gap in the sky full of stick shadows. Thousands of sparks flew out from the entanglement of the two men's weapons, and actually burned the sea of ​​clouds dry!
"Good move!" Sun Wukong suddenly pulled away, shoved the golden fork stick into his ears, and formed seals with his hands: "Change!"

In an instant, it turned into a big roc, and with its sharp claws, it tore open the sky and went straight for Yang Jian's head.

But the three-pointed spear had already transformed into a giant python that was ten thousand feet long and hovered in the air. Its tongue moved in and out, trapping the Peng bird in its seven-inch position.

Sun Wukong was secretly shocked. The Peng's body suddenly shrank into a swimming fish and dived into the East China Sea. A black ice cage suddenly condensed out of thin air on the water surface - Yang Jian had actually transformed into a patrolling sea yaksha and was walking on the waves.

Seventy-two changes rotate endlessly among the clouds and waves.

When Sun Wukong turned into a rock, the opposite side turned into a mountain axe; when he turned into a stream of fire, the Milky Way would flow backwards towards him.

Over a hundred rounds passed in the blink of an eye, and cold sweat began to seep down his back. How could this be a martial arts duel? It was like fighting with one's reflection in front of a bronze mirror, and even anticipating the enemy.

Wang!
A canine tooth suddenly appeared in the void and bit Sun Wukong's somersault cloud tail, causing Sun Wukong to stagger in fear.

In that split second, Yang Jian's celestial eye on his forehead shone with divine light, and his three-pointed halberd pierced through seventy-two layers of illusion, the tip of the halberd just barely touching the Monkey King's throat. Sun Wukong hurriedly tried to use his escape technique, but saw Yang Jian's pupil between his eyebrows flashing like a star, once again preemptively intercepting his escape.

"Brother, that somersault is brilliant." Dongfang Shuo laughed heartily in the middle of the formation, clapping his hands. "The timing of Roaring Sky Dog's missed attack was like it had been rehearsed a thousand times."

Sun Wukong had no time to respond at this moment. He danced with his golden cudgel so hard that no water could get through it, but his heart was filled with huge waves: Yang Jian's methods were exactly the same as his own. If he didn't have the somersault cloud in his hand, he would have lost long ago.

Yang Jian was also becoming increasingly alarmed as the battle progressed. Sun Wukong had only been around for a few years. Even with a sage's guidance, wasn't he incredibly familiar with the 72 transformations? Why did it feel like he knew them better than he did? Could he even enter the cycle of reincarnation to practice them? He hadn't heard that the Xuantian Sage possessed the power of reincarnation!

The golden cudgel and the trident had clashed countless times, the sparks from the friction between the two divine weapons only fueling their fury. Both men were riled up in anger, yet neither wanted to concede defeat. Sun Wukong spun to dissipate the force, the end of his cudgel sweeping across Yang Jian's face. The resulting gust of wind flattened half a mountain. Amidst a shower of gravel, Erlang Shen advanced, not retreating, the tip of his halberd piercing the Great Sage's left ribs faster than a meteor.

"Come on!" Sun Wukong's golden eyes lit up, and he clamped the halberd under his armpit and pushed the ground with one foot to lift up the rock layer hundreds of feet high.

Yang Jian took advantage of the situation and flew into the air, stirring the clouds with his three-pointed halberd to transform into a blue dragon. However, the monkey danced his golden cudgel into a windmill, twisting the dragon-shaped clouds into cotton wool all over the sky.

"True Lord, your methods are impressive! But don't underestimate me, Old Sun!"

Sun Wukong suddenly used his magic to transform the sky and the earth. His ten thousand foot long monkey body broke through the sky and he slapped Yang Jian with his giant palm, with fire surging in his palm.

Yang Jian's third eye on his forehead widened angrily, and he also turned into a towering giant. He attacked with his three-pointed spear wrapped in weak water and black ice. The collision of ice and fire exploded into a rainbow that stretched for thousands of miles.

"It's not over yet! Change for me!" Sun Wukong plucked out his hair and transformed into thousands of clones, and the shadows of his sticks in the sky formed a golden net.

Yang Jian sneered, slamming his trident to the ground. Phantoms of silver-armored celestial soldiers erupted from his body, each precisely blocking a golden cudgel. The clash of weapons was as dense as a torrential rain, shaking the East China Sea to a hundred-foot-high surge.

"Monkey head, admit defeat quickly and don't miss the important matter!" Yang Jian said angrily as the stick and halberd collided fiercely again.

"I'll admit defeat when it's time. I, Old Sun, haven't had enough fun yet!"

Sun Wukong suddenly shrank to the size of a mustard seed and rushed along the halberd towards Yang Jian's wrist.

Erlang Shen's pupils suddenly shrank, and the trident instantly turned into a double-edged dagger, the blade of which brushed against the Monkey King's cheek as it fell.

Sun Wukong revealed his true form in pain, and his golden cudgel swept across the enemy but hit nothing - Yang Jian had gotten behind him at some point and hit the monkey king's tailbone with his knee.

"Now!" Sun Wukong staggered and threw the golden cudgel with his backhand.

The magic iron suddenly turned into flying needles all over the sky, covering the major acupoints on Yang Jian's body like a rainstorm.

"I've been on guard against your dirty tricks!" Erlang Shen shook out his silver armor cloak, and the cloth rolled up and wrapped up thousands of monkey hair needles. When the cloak was unfolded again, there was nothing inside.

"Put it away!" It turned out that the monkey noticed that there was something strange about the True Lord's cloak, so he didn't dare to show off and put away his golden cudgel early.

"Change!"

Sun Wukong transformed into a three-headed, six-armed being, his six golden cudgels dancing in a way that changed the world. Yang Jian's eyes shed tears of blood as he rehearsed every impact of his cudgels, but despite Sun Wukong's dazzling cudgel movements, Yang Jian still managed to block them.

Roaring Sky Dog finally found a flaw and bit Sun Wukong's ankle from mid-air. Yang Jian's three-pointed spear was about to strangle him, but the Monkey King's eyes shone with a golden light. His bitten right leg suddenly transformed into a stone pillar, and his true body had already evaded the clouds. This maneuver, a substitution of one for another, took even the divine light of the Heavenly Eye half a breath too late to catch up.

"Come again!"

Sun Wukong wiped the golden blood from the corner of his mouth, inserted his golden cudgel into the ground to gain leverage, and turned into a golden meteor that crashed into Yang Jian.

"I can't lose!" If Yang Jian really had other abilities, Wukong would have accepted them, but it was obvious that the opponent's various methods were the same as his, so he couldn't lose.

This has nothing to do with anything else, it's just a matter of fighting for this moment.

As Yang Jian blocked with his halberd, the mountain beneath his feet crumbled. Their weapons clashed in a stalemate, the surging immortal energy crushing all vegetation within a thousand miles into dust, frightening the Four Heavenly Kings and their celestial soldiers into retreating again and again.

The True Lord also became furious: "You monkey are going too far. You still refuse to admit defeat!"

"Don't even think about it!" The Great Sage certainly knew what Erlang Shen meant.

"The saint truly has a plan for everything!" Seeing the Great Sage's eyes crimson, Erlang Shen smiled and immediately looked into the void: "I, the True Lord Erlang Xiansheng of Guanjiangkou, have received the Jade Emperor's order to capture the demon monkey. Unfortunately, the demon monkey is quite skilled, and I cannot take it all down by myself. I hereby request the help of the Great Purity Daode Tianzun!"

"What do you mean?" Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen came into close combat, their eyes full of confusion.

"They are all ordinary means, and they are my disciples, so I am afraid they are quite arrogant. I hope that True Lord will share a bit of this merit to protect the face of my useless disciple and complete this mission." Erlang Shen said this in the tone of Ye Xuantian.

"Master!" Sun Wukong's nose was slightly sour. "Since Master has spoken, if the Taishang Laojun really takes action, I will grant your wish!"

True Lord Erlang laughed heartily. "Thank you so much, Great Sage! Please show your skills well, for no one will spar with you in the future."

“Hmph, you say it!” The Great Sage’s image of heaven and earth became a little bigger, and he attacked with all his strength.

It was said that in the Lingxiao Palace, after a long period of no response, Bodhisattva Guanyin stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has recommended the True Lord, and I also want to see what methods the True Lord has and how he can subdue the demon monkey. I wonder if I can go out of the South Heaven Gate to see him!"

"Since the Bodhisattva has spoken, there is nothing wrong with that. I also want to see what that demon monkey can do."

The Jade Emperor responded and immediately went to the South Heaven Gate with Taishang, Guanyin, Queen Mother and all the immortals.

The heavenly soldiers and generals had already received the order and opened the gates to observe from afar. The clairaudients and clairvoyants came forward to report the battle situation. Upon hearing that the situation was at a stalemate, Guanyin was about to speak: "Since this is the case, I can help..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Erlang Shen's voice coming from afar.

"I, the Holy Lord Erlang of Guanjiangkou, have received the Jade Emperor's order to capture the demon monkey. Unfortunately, the demon monkey is quite skilled, and I cannot take it all down alone. Therefore, I request the assistance of the Heavenly Lord of Great Purity and Daode!"

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