Those time travelers that year

"What's wrong?! If you don't leave, I, Old Sun, will knock you down with this stick!"

"...This, Your Excellency..." The god-ancestor Gnivia, her face pale, managed a weak smile as she said, "...This has absolutely nothing to do with us, this..."

"Don't give me all that nonsense!" Unfortunately, Guinevere tried to avoid the conflict with words, but it was clear the monkey wasn't keen. "In mythology, I'm utterly fed up with all that nonsense in Buddhist scriptures. I finally got rid of those bald thieves, and I, Old Sun, have no desire to engage in any more debates with others!"

"I'll be frank...aren't you two monsters accomplices to evil?!"

“Of course not!” Grenvia said. “My uncle and I have absolutely no connection with evil people, especially…”

"Especially those you consider evil, those mortals who defeated gods and Buddhas, right?!" The monkey interrupted Guinevia's conversation, baring his teeth as he said, "...some self-righteous gods, Buddhas, and demons who descended to the mortal realm and acted recklessly, um, were defeated by these youngsters, and then had a portion of their power stolen by them." Staring intently at the pale-faced Guinevia, the monkey continued, "And then...you all think that these youngsters who defeated the wicked gods, Buddhas, and demons are evil, are rebellious...I, Old Sun, am not wrong, am I!"

“Your Excellency, please allow me to explain…” Guinevere hurriedly said, “It is precisely because of those wicked individuals who have murdered gods that this world is in such chaos. Therefore…”

Unfortunately, before she could finish speaking, the monkey interrupted Guinevere again, "So, you want to wake up some fool and continue this so-called savior hoax?! Hehehehe... Hahahaha, I, Old Sun, really think you two monsters are incredibly stupid! Not only have those gods and Buddhas' lowly schemes made you two female monsters run around in circles, but even the guy you've been following is a fool!"

"...Do you understand now? You two vixens, your so-called savior, your so-called hero, your so-called warrior... in reality, he's just a stupid, dim-witted fool." The monkey laughed loudly. "Of course, he's not completely stupid, otherwise he wouldn't be hiding from you!"

"What!?" Guinevia exclaimed.

"Don't you understand!?" The monkey stood up from his seated position, standing above the clouds, looking at the God of War and the God Ancestor. "It's not that you can't find him, nor that you've forgotten him, but that he has intentionally chosen to hide and sleep, just not wanting to wake up—you two foolish demons."

“This is impossible!” Guinevia shouted angrily. “...Your Excellency, you have no right to insult the savior.”

"Not qualified?" the monkey replied dismissively. "Then who gave him the qualifications to be the savior!?"

"This is the decision of the gods!"

"God?!" The monkey sneered, his lazy demeanor vanishing instantly, replaced by a renewed, indomitable spirit. "Decided by God?! Huh! Answer me! Which damned god decided this... I, Old Sun, will go and smash him to pieces right now!"

"No one's fate is predetermined by so-called gods and Buddhas. The savior you speak of is merely the malice of those gods and Buddhas, a puppet they use to suppress resistance." With his golden cudgel in hand, the monkey's deep voice reached Guinevia's ears. "The reckless gods and Buddhas are defeated and punished by mortals, while the so-called savior goes to punish those who defeated the reckless gods and Buddhas… You tell me, this is the savior? Instead of suppressing those who act recklessly, he eliminates the rebels?!"

546. The Monkey King

"If that's the case, then we don't need that savior you're talking about!"

Grasping the Ruyi Jingu Bang, the divine treasure that stabilizes the Milky Way, wearing a phoenix-winged purple-gold crown, a golden chainmail armor, and lotus-silk cloud-walking boots, the fiery red cloak behind him, a symbol of resistance, shimmered gold and red in the firelight. Similarly, within his fiery eyes burned a flame of unyielding spirit. This monkey, who had broken free from mythology as a rebel, roared: "There has never been a savior, nor is there any need for gods or emperors!"

"We were born free, who dares to be high above us!" With a roar and a furious howl, carrying the indomitable will of the rebels, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, swung his 13,500-jin Ruyi Jingu Bang (Golden Cudgel) with thunderous force, smashing it down towards the God of War and the God Ancestor.

The neighing of horses rang out, and Lancelot, gripping his lance and crackling with lightning, charged directly at the monkey's swung Ruyi Jingu Bang. Unlike Guinevere, who intended to persuade the monkey with words, Lancelot knew from the beginning that this monkey would absolutely not let them leave.

This isn't a matter of right or wrong, or of stance; it's a difference in ideology. This monkey is now a rebel, a hero embodying humanity's hopes and legacy. It is a natural enemy of these gods, far more so than those Campiones.

Is it the inviolability of divine authority, or resistance that overthrows tyranny...?

This is a completely irreconcilable contradiction, a fundamental difference in ideology. Neither side can persuade the other. The only thing they can do is to completely destroy those who disagree with them.

While Guinevere attempted negotiations, Lancelot secretly amassed his power. Just as he had anticipated, this monkey would never let any deity escape. Even the so-called Last King—the monkey's will was simple and clear: to utterly annihilate all the high and mighty gods and Buddhas, bringing them to the dust.

The knight's lance thrust out, carrying almost all of Lancelot's divine power and the glory of the invincible god of war, directly confronting the divine weapon famous in mythology—the Ruyi Jingu Bang, the divine treasure that stabilizes the bottom of the Milky Way.

Only the Monkey King possesses the Ruyi Jingu Bang (Golden Cudgel); otherwise, it's just an iron rod.

Lancelot didn't know this principle, but that didn't stop him from showing an expression of horror for the first time in his life the instant the lance and the golden cudgel made contact.

When the tip of the lance collided with the Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff), it shattered instantly. Over extended periods of time, the God of War could clearly see that the tip of the lance began to crack upon contact with the staff, and was then utterly crushed by the immense force transmitted from the staff.

It was a terrifying, unparalleled power, not based on divine authority, nor the might of a divine weapon, but simply, utterly pure power. With this strike, it seemed as if countless shouts, countless yearnings, countless roars echoed… The God of War was momentarily stunned. It seemed like an illusion, a mirage, but Lancelot, in that instant, saw within his fiery eyes the roars of countless figures.

Those were ordinary people, countless ordinary people's longings, and these longings came together to transform into the purest form of trust.

The Victorious Fighting Buddha and Sun Wukong may fail, but the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, as the rebel, will never fail.

This is the will expressed by countless vast thoughts, a will strong enough to crush the will of Lancelot, the god of war. The invincible fighting will of the god of war is as insignificant as dust before this magnificent longing.

Boom!

Lancelot's lance was shattered instantly; the attack, imbued with almost all of his divine power, was suppressed by the Monkey King in the most violent way. His indomitable fighting spirit was utterly crushed by the will formed from that magnificent longing.

Not only in terms of pure force, but also in terms of will, Lancelot was utterly defeated.

Certainly, the heart of God is unbreakable. However, the collective thoughts of mortals can crush even the most unbreakable heart. Only the hope of heroes can gather the thoughts of all living beings and transform them into the greatest power.

The Monkey King Sun Wukong of today is not a god, not a Buddha, not an immortal, nor a demon... but rather, the hope of being called a hero.

With just one strike, Lancelot completely lost the strength and determination to fight again. If it weren't for his honed martial arts and intuition, which allowed him to slightly deflect the trajectory of the golden cudgel at the critical moment by using the shattering of the knight's lance, then the fate awaiting the God of War and the Ancestor of Gods would have been to be smashed to pieces by a single blow.

However, even if he managed to save himself, the God of War lost his weapon and the hand that held the gun. The bones in his entire hand were shattered beyond repair by the immense force. The transmitted force churned his internal organs, causing him to cough up blood.

Although her armor wasn't hit head-on by the golden cudgel, the aftershock caused it to crack, and even the helmet that had been concealing her face shattered into pieces, revealing her beautiful face hidden beneath it.

Despite his own severe injuries, the war god, coughing up blood and looking utterly defeated, managed to protect Guinevia, whom he was embracing. After barely managing to block the attack, he quickly steered his mount away on a lightning bolt, heading straight for the torn spatial rift. Simply fleeing wouldn't be enough to shake off this monkey with its superhuman speed; his only option now was to take a gamble and plunge into the shattered rift.

Neither Lancelot nor Guinevere knew that after swinging that staff, the monkey did not choose to follow up with a strike. Although the Somersault Cloud's speed was enough to allow the monkey to deliver a second blow in an instant, the monkey did not move.

"Hmph! What on earth did that guy stuff into my body?!" The immense power surging within him astonished even the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. This God of War began trying to calm and control the surging magical power within him, which had far exceeded normal levels. "Pangu's Five Extremes!!!!" The monkey bared his teeth, scratching his head with his furry hands. He had discovered something ominous within his body. "Pangu's techniques... This bastard is just playing me for fools, making me bear the karma of Pangu! You damned bastard!" His fiery eyes swept in another direction, and reflected in his vision was a smiling Xia Er waving to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. Immediately afterward, a divine thought message arrived at the monkey's location.

"Oh dear! You know, when I was a kid, I was a huge fan of yours, Great Sage!" Xia Er said calmly. "Of course, as a fan, I've prepared a gift for you that will allow you to completely sever all ties with the Buddhist karmic connections, and never again be linked to them..."

"You brat!" the monkey shouted in that direction, "I, Old Sun, have no karma with Buddhism, but I've gotten myself into the karma of Pangu, the creator of the world!"

547. Modified Monkey

From the very beginning, Xia Er had considered how to summon the Monkey King in his full form in this world. Simply pulling the monkey out of mythology would inevitably cause problems due to the influence of that mythology. After all, the bald-headed monk's divine status in Buddhism was simply too unreliable.

Like that monkey who descended as a demon king, yet somehow possessed a ridiculously weak Buddhist divine status. Xia Er didn't want someone who lacked fighting spirit, who, when something went wrong, would simply throw the problem to the gods and Buddhas without a second thought.

What he needs is a god of war, someone with sufficient fighting power, not a Sun Wukong who has already learned to compromise and shirk responsibility.

The problem is, given the nature of this world's rules, the summoned monkey is unlikely to be the simplest version of the Monkey King. It wasn't until the plane carrying them to the destination that Xia Er came up with a solution, albeit a less-than-ideal one.

Doesn't Buddhism teach about cause and effect? ​​Wasn't Sun Wukong becoming the Victorious Fighting Buddha because he was influenced by the cause and effect at the bottom of this pit? So, let's find a way to help the monkey sever the cause and effect of Buddhism, so that the Victorious Fighting Buddha remains the Victorious Fighting Buddha, and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven remains the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

Doesn't Buddhism emphasize cause and effect? ​​Then let's give the Great Sage Equaling Heaven an enormous karmic debt and see if this Buddhist deity has the courage and the audacity to bear such a huge karmic burden.

So, when Xia Er entered the seal by going around the back door and set off a huge fire to reenact the events of Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace, he also took the opportunity to tamper with the 'embryo' that had not yet transformed into the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.

Since he acted without malicious intent, it didn't cause any resistance at the time. Then, at that moment, Xia Er secretly copied and pasted the god-level cultivation technique he had obtained from the Divine Weapon World and transferred it in.

It wasn't the Great Rakshasa Divine Skill obtained from the sect leader, nor the Seven Limits of Devouring Heaven and Destroying Earth that I witnessed from Chi You, nor the Supreme Art of Ascending Heaven and Exiting Earth by Fuxi or the Hun Tian Bao Jian by Nuwa...

Instead, it was copied from the Shennong Ruler—the Five Elements of Pangu.

Although the worlds are different, Xia Er does not believe that a mere Buddhist deity has the ability or the right to bear the consequences of Pangu's karma.

Then, just as Xia Er had predicted, the Buddhist deity had no reason to clash with the Pangu Five Elements that Xia Er had engraved into the monkey's body. When the monkey broke free, it shattered the monk's phantom with a single blow, severing the last thread of causality between itself and the Buddhist deity.

"So that's it! According to the fighting spirit, a modified Hong Kong comic version of the Monkey King is definitely very powerful!" That's what Xia Er thinks. "When it comes to the fighting spirit, the Monkey King is very strong. At this time, we need to add the template from the Hong Kong comic system that the higher the fighting spirit, the more likely he is to have unlimited power-ups and cheat codes."

"Nangong's cheating skills all rely on this template to achieve leapfrog growth, and the sect leader is the same. So if we give this template to the monkey, this monkey will definitely be able to reach the level of a god."

Just as Charles had imagined, the monkey was indeed incredibly powerful. With a single blow, Lancelot's all-out attack was easily crushed, instantly crippling one of Lancelot's arms and severely injuring him, almost completely dissipating his fighting ability.

If Lancelot hadn't run fast, and if the monkey hadn't almost lost control of its power without realizing it, forcing it to pause briefly to familiarize itself with and control its surging power, Lancelot would have seized the only opportunity to rush into the fault line and escape with the god Gnevia.

After baring its teeth for a while, the monkey had no choice but to look away. When Xia Er gave it the cheat, there was no malice in it at all; it was purely to enhance the monkey's combat ability.

Incidentally, it also helps the monkey completely break free from the limitations of Buddhist deity status.

Of course, the Buddhist deity and karma were finally freed from him. From then on, for this monkey, he was the Victorious Fighting Buddha, but he was no longer the Victorious Fighting Buddha; he was now just a monkey named Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

However, the monkey, born of nature, was ironically linked to Pangu by the power of the Five Elements...

In response, Ciel stated that it was merely an accident, and he swore on Nyaruko's honor that it had absolutely nothing to do with him. Please believe his sincere eyes...

The Five Elements of Pangu are divided into five levels: Heaven, Earth, Man, Matter, and Intent. They are incredibly powerful, but their weakness is that their overwhelming power can generate a shrill aura, requiring a high degree of mental fortitude from the controller.

The monkey's personality is not good at all, so just in case, the monkey that Xia Er summoned was based on the character of the Monkey King, to guide those who sing his praises and believe in him, and to help the Monkey King reshape a powerful mind with the accumulated wealth of billions of people over hundreds of years.

Even if there is a slight difference, causing the monkey's senses to be partially tainted by the beliefs of all living beings, it doesn't matter... On the contrary, this makes the monkey's mind incredibly resilient, and a mere scream is nothing to it.

The term "Tianji" (天极) signifies the Dao, principles, nature, and even the universe. The universe, in this context, refers to the four cardinal directions (Yu) and the past and present (Zhou). It encompasses both time and space, representing the laws of nature and the so-called Great Dao.

The term "Earth's Edge" signifies the earth, which, with its profound virtue, bears and sustains all things, including the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth). Therefore, it is a manifestation of various natural forces.

The ultimate goal of humanity is to elevate oneself, encompassing heaven, earth, and humanity, with humanity connecting heaven and earth within this framework. Therefore, this serves to liberate one's life and to explore and develop one's own potential.

The ultimate state of things is the filling and content of space and time, referring to all objects, including spiritual objects and physical objects, which refers to the use and control of power.

The ultimate meaning encompasses subjectivity, self, and mind. It refers to emotions, as well as the soul and spirit.

Five different aspects, five closely related areas, work together to strengthen this monkey, which is now absolutely godlike, the most powerful monkey in history.

In terms of both his understanding of power and his own magical abilities, he far surpassed the Victorious Fighting Buddha. Coupled with his heart and will stained crimson with light, the most powerful monkey in history was born.

Let alone a mere military god, even if the Buddha himself appeared again, a single Five Finger Mountain wouldn't be able to suppress this monkey. Unless it's the Buddha's Palm, the Buddha's Heaven-Shattering Slash, the Buddha's Moon-Severing Axe, the Buddha's Star-Destroying Halberd, or the Buddha's Million Primordial Swords (well, some strange stuff has been mixed in).

And the mere Last King... heh...

……

After a moment of reflection, and once he was certain that he had mastered the power and wouldn't be blown to pieces by it, the monkey bared his teeth and glared at the hidden Xia Er before looking away.

Favors are hard to repay! This monkey has no desire to get too involved with Xia Er, lest it end up like the Buddhist sect did, selling itself into trouble.

With his gaze fixed on the fault line, and empowered by his intent, the monkey's divine sense pierced through the chaotic spacetime fault, firmly locking onto the fleeing God of War, and he chuckled.

In his eyes, he did not see a so-called weak woman, but two gods, two gods used as pawns by countless gods and Buddhas to suppress the rebels.

The Monkey King's response was simply to beat it up.

"The Golden Cudgel, so big, so big, so big, so big!!!"

548. The Laws of Heaven and Earth

Lancelot, the God of War, despite his severe injuries, forced his way into the spacetime rift with the Divine Ancestor Guinevere. This near-death experience was miraculously overcome by the two of them; the God of War, having entered the rift, ultimately protected Guinevere and made it through, without getting lost in the spatial rift.

Even now, this war god's condition has reached its worst point in history. One arm is useless, his armor is almost completely destroyed, and his divine power is nearly exhausted.

But they eventually broke through.

However, before they could even catch their breath, or even see the figures below, and before they realized they had escaped one danger only to fall into another...

From behind, that blood-and-fire-like will followed again, its surging killing intent carrying unparalleled momentum, forcefully breaking through the gap in the space-time rift.

It was a giant club, as massive as an ancient mountain.

The divine weapon named the Heavenly River Bottom-Fixing Divine Treasure Ruyi Jingu Bang, at this moment, was like a mountain that reached the heavens and the earth, forcefully breaking through the space-time rift, directly ignoring all obstacles, and arriving one after another with the momentum of shattering the void.

"Hey, monster! Take this from me, Old Sun!"

The defiant voice boomed like thunder in the sky, echoing in all directions. To the astonishment of the Campiones, the massive club, as large as a mountain, was grasped by an equally enormous, hairy hand and then brought down from the sky.