Primordial Era: Reborn as a Tortoise, with Unparalleled Comprehension

Chapter 168 Hongjun, I Await You (The End)

Western Paradise, Ling Mountain.

Great Thunder Temple.

The sounds of chanting and the light of Buddha shone brightly in this place.

The spiritual energy is abundant, and the world is clear and bright.

Today is the day when the Buddha of the Western Paradise preaches to all the Bodhisattvas and Vajras.

The scriptures flow and the laws permeate.

Hearing the Bodhisattva and Vajra nodding their heads, they were greatly enlightened.

"Where are those who went on their pilgrimage now?"

After the sermon was finished, the Buddha, who was at the head of the assembly, spoke in a majestic voice to Guanyin Bodhisattva, who was not far away, and asked her a question.

Guanyin calculated with her fingers and said, "Buddha, Tang Sanzang and his party have reached Lion Camel Ridge and are about to overcome their difficulties."

The Buddha nodded.

He had planned the ordeal at Lion Camel Ridge beforehand. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, it was to let Tang Sanzang witness the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the suffering of all living beings, so as to strengthen his belief in obtaining the scriptures.

"That's very good. Everything is in accordance with the Dharma, as one thinks, and as it is true."

"You may all leave, leave!"

Once the ordeal at Lion Camel Ridge is over, it means that Tang Sanzang and his companions will soon arrive at the Great Thunder Temple.

This great calamity is about to end, and his position as the Buddha will become more secure, with his fortune increasing and he may even advance further!

"Master, my path to enlightenment is about to be completed, can you see it?"

The Buddha looked into the void, his heart filled with excitement.

He merged Taoism and Buddhism to achieve a position of supreme authority, and from now on, this world will be ruled by him, the Tathagata Buddha!

"Buddha! Buddha!"

Just as the bodhisattvas and vajras were about to leave, a monk suddenly rushed in from outside, panicking and shouting.

The Buddha's gaze fell upon the monk, and a beam of light shot out, calming his mind. "Do not panic, what has caused this disturbance?"

The monk regained his composure and said calmly, "Buddha, several people have come from outside. They say they are from the Great Tang Dynasty in the East and have come here to seek the true scriptures."

Ok?

The Buddha shuddered and looked outside.

They discovered that Tang Sanzang, along with his disciples, had arrived outside the Great Thunderclap Temple at some point.

How could it be so fast?!

The Buddha's heart sank, and a bad premonition arose in his mind.

After a quick calculation, a surge of anger rose within him.

"This Tang Sanzang actually awakened his cultivation from his previous life and relied on it to overcome his tribulation!"

This behavior has made his previous arrangements less than perfect.

hum~~~

A ripple appeared inside the Great Thunderclap Temple.

Tang Sanzang appeared here with Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and Ao Lie.

Only then did the bodhisattvas react, staring in shock at the five of them, master and disciples.

Guanyin's face turned icy. "Tang Sanzang! You actually used your own cultivation to forcibly overcome this calamity!"

The merit I had just earned has flown away!

In an instant, the Great Thunderclap Temple was filled with murderous intent and flashing lightning.

Tang Sanzang remained calm. "If I didn't rely on my own cultivation to overcome this tribulation, what did I rely on?"

"Rely on you? Or forget it. This humble monk has already overcome this calamity. What about the true scriptures?"

The Buddha's eyes shone with Buddhist light. "Tang Sanzang, as a disciple of Buddhism, you have committed the sin of killing. I will cleanse your murderous intent, allow you to be reborn, and resume your journey to the West!"

Upon hearing Buddha's words, Tang Sanzang's expression changed. "Are you trying to renege on my promise of the scriptures?!"

Bang!

Before he finished speaking, his figure had already appeared in front of the Buddha.

Amidst the astonished expressions of the bodhisattvas and vajras of Mount Ling, his right hand traversed endless void and gripped the neck of the Buddha.

The aura he exuded left even the Buddha Tathagata completely bewildered.

Quasi-Saint! ? ?

Tang Sanzang's voice was filled with murderous intent as he asked, "Little fatty, where are my true scriptures!?"

boom!

While asking the question, Tang Sanzang clenched his left fist and unleashed a trillion punches upon the Buddha.

In an instant, the Buddha's six-zhang-tall golden body shattered, and his Buddha-light dissipated.

"My disciples, today the Buddhas of Mount Ling have acted shamelessly, actually breaking the precepts and lying."

"It seems he has fallen to demonic possession. This sacred mountain has been taken over by a great demon. Follow me to eliminate the demon and save the world!"

"Hehehe! Here comes Old Sun!"

boom!

The golden cudgel blotted out the sky and descended from the heavens, shattering the magic array of Mount Ling.

Sun Wukong's body swelled up dramatically, and he became entangled in a battle with a group of Buddhas.

"Wukong, your brother has arrived!"

The Six-Eared Macaque emerged from the void.

Behind him was a monkey resembling Sun Wukong, dressed in golden armor and wielding a heaven-reaching staff.

It joined the battle the moment it appeared.

In an instant, the countless creatures of the West were stunned.

Staring blankly at the sudden battle, he was completely bewildered.

This is not over yet.

The void suddenly darkened.

Suddenly, countless heavenly soldiers and generals appeared in the sky above Mount Ling. Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, holding his pagoda, roared, "The Great Demon has appeared on Western Mount Ling!"

"By order of the Heavenly Emperor, I shall subdue the demon today! All immortals, follow me, and fight!"

Countless heavenly soldiers and generals swarmed into Mount Ling like wasps.

At this moment, the heavens and earth trembled, and the aura of a great calamity permeated the air.

Stunned by Tang Sanzang's attack, Buddha looked at the heavenly soldiers in the void, trembling all over. "The rise of the West is the will of Heaven! Do you dare to defy Heaven?!"

Li Jing coldly looked at the disheveled Buddha, "Today, I am only here to eliminate demons; I will not participate in anything else!"

As if in response to his words, demonic energy spread throughout the four directions of Mount Ling.

Countless demons appeared from all directions.

"All immortals, vanquish the demon!"

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In the void, Gui Xuan looked at Ling Shan, who was embroiled in battle, with a calm expression.

After a long while, his gaze turned to the chaos.

There, two figures were floating.

Upon closer inspection, the two figures were identical; it was none other than Hongjun!

One is Hongjun from the third world of Investiture of the Gods, and the other is Hongjun from this world of Journey to the West.

They stood facing each other, the atmosphere heavy.

Hongjun chuckled lightly, "The changes below were orchestrated by you, weren't they? How laughable that you dared to try and weaken my power with this."

"If you can't succeed in colliding with the real thing, you're planning to devour this world through scheming? Aren't you afraid of being overwhelmed?"

Hongjun, the deity in charge of the Investiture of the Gods, remained calm and said, "You overestimate yourself. There's no need to scheme against you."

"You don't even look at what's happening in the world below. Anomalies are appearing, yet you're unaware of it. How pathetic."

The anomaly that caused the chaos in the prehistoric world was actually a great help to him.

Hongjun of this realm has already devoured the Six Saints, and is just one step away from completely achieving his true self and transforming the illusory into the real.

Fortunately, he stumbled upon this world by chance; otherwise, if it had become real and devoured his external body, everything would have ended.

Thinking of this, Hongjun's eyes flickered, "Could it be that you have already devoured the other primordial worlds?"

"You only just realized this? How pathetic," Hongjun of the Journey to the West said slowly. "I have already devoured five primordial worlds, and their reality is no less than yours."

"If I were to devour you further, I could immediately materialize and attain my true self!"

At this point, Hongjun of Journey to the West could no longer hold back and made his move instantly.

In an instant, chaos erupted, and the two Dao Ancestors clashed.

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The world's ocean.

Gui Xuan suddenly opened his eyes.

"The time has come!"

As he slowly stood up, endless dust fell from his body.

Looking around, the world sea that was once filled with Chaos Pearls is now covered in dust.

Those countless Chaos Pearls vanished completely, devoured by him.

Gui Xuan disappeared from sight and reappeared in the third primordial world.

"Tongtian, the time is ripe! Act now!"

When Gui Xuan's words reached Tongtian's ears on Jin'ao Island, Tongtian trembled, and the Four Swords of Zhuxian rose up in response.

"Fellow Daoists, why aren't you making a move yet!"

boom!

All the saints appeared together to suppress the world of Investiture of the Gods.

At the same time, Guixuan broke through the void and entered the Heavenly Dao Space World.

The Dao Fruit floated out and devoured the Heavenly Dao of the Third Primordial World!

This moment felt like an eternity.

The Guixuan Dream Transfer was successful, integrating the Third Primordial World into the Turtleback World.

With another movement, he was back in the world's ocean.

However, Hongjun, who was fighting in the Journey to the West world at that moment, was suddenly shaken.

His aura suddenly dropped.

Hongjun, the Journey to the West's master, noticed the anomaly and burst into wild laughter, "Hahaha!! I never expected that your world would also experience an anomaly, that your Dao would be stolen!"

"Let me devour you, achieve truth, and avenge you!"

Roar! ! !

A phantom image of a two-segmented earthworm appeared behind Hongjun in Journey to the West, opened its ferocious maw, and lunged to devour Hongjun in Investiture of the Gods.

However, at that moment, something unexpected happened.

Endless black energy swirled, enveloping Hongjun of the Investiture of the Gods world, causing him to disappear from the spot.

Hongjun, the Journey to the West expert, narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.

There, Rahu's entire body swelled with energy, having already devoured Hongjun, the God of Investiture.

"Rahu? No! You are the original Hongjun!"

Hongjun's expression changed drastically as he looked at Rahu in the distance.

The 'Rahu' smirked, and a grotesque, terrifying phantom of a cricket appeared behind him.

"I have searched for you for countless years, and finally I have found you again!"

Rahu's face was contorted with rage.

Then his body transformed, becoming the likeness of Hongjun, holding a book, and staring at Hongjun of Journey to the West with murderous intent in his eyes.

Before Hongjun could react, amidst his terrified expression, he opened the book in his hand and pressed down with his right index finger.

boom!

"No!!"

Hongjun, unwilling to accept this, roared and transformed into a stream of light, which was then absorbed into the book.

After doing all this, Hongjun's body gradually solidified.

His gaze turned to the void. "Fellow Daoist, have you finished devouring the Primordial Heavenly Dao?"

"If I don't finish absorbing it, I won't wait any longer."

A crack appeared in the void, and Guixuan emerged from within, looking at the initial Hongjun with admiration, "I knew something was wrong with you a long time ago, but I didn't expect you to be hiding it so well."

The so-called Rahu is merely Hongjun trapped within the world's ocean.

After devouring the Chaos Pearls within the World Sea, Gui Xuan had already attained enlightenment.

The Chaos Pearl, where the World Sea is located, is the very beginning of the primordial world.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to hold so many Chaos Pearls.

That Rahu was even more strange.

Upon seeing him today, it turned out to be Hongjun in disguise; he had almost been kept in the dark as well.

Fortunately, he had already completed his plan, and looked at Hongjun before him, his aura flickering.

Hongjun chuckled softly, "Since that's the case, then I shall achieve my own enlightenment."

"I am delighted to have you, an extraordinary witness."

Splash!

Initially, Hongjun flipped through the book in his hand violently, and images appeared on the fan-shaped surface of the book, which was the process of the world's coastal areas.

Then came the rustling sounds that Gui Xuan hadn't heard in a long time.

Amidst the rustling and chirping sounds, the body of the initial Hongjun gradually became ethereal, "Truth and falsehood intertwined, falsehood and truth intertwined."

"This dreamlike illusion is now in your hands."

After saying that, he disappeared completely.

In Gui Xuan's gaze, the initial Hongjun traversed endless dreams, transformed into the earthworm's true form, and devoured everything in sight.

One after another, the crickets were swallowed by him and eventually disappeared from Guixuan's sight.

Gui Xuan's eyes widened in shock, then his expression turned strange. "This is what they call an illusion?!"

As if he had thought of something, Gui Xuan integrated the Journey to the West world into the tortoise shell, and special rhythms appeared on his body.

Then several Chaos Pearls flew into his body.

Gui Xuan, on the other hand, appeared in a chaotic place.

"Is this the chaotic world where the nine-sectioned earthworm first appeared?"

Looking at the silent, empty world, Gui Xuan thought to himself.

After devouring all the Chaos Pearls within the World Ocean, he has achieved reality, transforming the illusory into the real.

The reason they didn't leave was to find out about the books in Hongjun's hands, as well as some previously unsolved mysteries.

Now it all seems somewhat ridiculous.

Golden light shimmered in Gui Xuan's eyes as he looked ahead, piercing through layers of space.

A series of rustling sounds reappeared, eventually becoming clearer.

There was a group of young children excitedly talking around a tattered book of myths.

The conversation revolved around ancient myths.

Gui Xuan chuckled softly, "So, this was my dream..."

boom!

The world collapsed, and chaos vanished.

Blue Star.

Inside a rented room.

A figure holding a turtle in its right hand and a sphere in its left hand slowly opened its eyes.

"What a sweet dream!"

Yang Gui looked at the tortoise in his arms and the ball in his hand, and chuckled to himself.

On the living room wall, a video of a group of young children discussing mythology is playing.

Yang Gui felt both regret and relief upon seeing this.

"This dream almost made me lose track of reality and get lost in it."

Shaking his head, Yang Gui got up and placed the turtle in the water. He stretched and stood by the door.

Looking out the window at the bustling crowds and passing cars, I felt dazed.

"myth···"

Just as he was about to turn around and go downstairs to buy something to eat, a conversation suddenly came from the TV on the wall.

"Myths are all fake. What's the point of reading them? We should believe in science!"

One of the children shouted.

This statement immediately drew rebuttals from the other children.

Then another child spoke up, "Whether it's true or not depends entirely on yourself. If I think it's true, then it's true!"

boom!

Upon hearing this, Yang Gui was shaken to his core.

Auras appeared on his body and eventually condensed in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Hahaha!!"

Yang Gui suddenly burst into laughter.

"Fake! Real!"

"It was all true!"

"I see!"

His dream came true!

That so-called silent and chaotic world was his dream.

A dream insect accidentally crawled into his dream, broke through the barrier between reality and illusion, and peeked at the television on the wall.

But they did not know the reason or the cause.

Using their own talents to condense the Book of Destiny and evolve destiny, they eventually realize the illusion and attempt to achieve reality.

That dream insect was none other than Hongjun!

"It seems the world isn't as simple as it appears on the surface..."

Yang Gui's gaze fell upon the universe, and a smile appeared on his lips.

hum~~~

With a surge of immense primordial spirit power, Yang Gui's gaze fell upon a park on Blue Star.

There was a chubby, white baby there, drinking milk from a bottle.

With a flick of his fingertip, Yang Gui sent out a stream of light that landed on the infant and transformed into a jade butterfly in his mind.

After all this was done, he disappeared from the rented room without a trace, and there was no further trace of Yang Gui on Blue Star.

Even the turtle and the sphere disappeared.

In the endless void, in a mysterious place.

Yang Gui stood on a twelve-petaled pure white lotus, with twelve illusory images of merit floating behind him, looking calmly at the billions of living beings before him.

far away.

Hongyun, Houtu, Zhenyuanzi, Taiqing, Yuqing, Shangqing, and Nuwa led countless creatures of the primordial world, standing in the heart of the primordial land.

"We pay our respects to the Dao Ancestor Guixuan!"

Gui Xuan nodded, and with a flick of his finger, the two Western Saints, whom he had suppressed for countless years, appeared in a sorry state in the prehistoric world.

Looking at the billions of living beings in the primordial world, he smiled bitterly, "The Dao Ancestor Guixuan has mercy!"

Gui Xuan nodded, his gaze falling once more on Blue Star.

With a flick of his finger, a beam of divine light fell upon the blue planet.

From then on, the spiritual energy of the blue planet was restored.

"Hongjun, I await your arrival!"

Thank you all so much. The data wasn't good, so this book is finished. There are many parts that weren't written well enough, and I hope you can forgive me. However, the ending remains the same. Thank you all for your continued support; I am deeply grateful.

Originally, I planned to write about a cataclysmic event that would shake a world, and then gradually lead all living beings in the primordial world toward reality; I apologize if it's not well written, thank you for your support!

(End of this chapter)