Heaven-Defying Rebel Sage
Chapter 274 - 262: The Buddha’s Wrathful Fire Refinement of the Great Sun

Chapter 274: Chapter 262: The Buddha’s Wrathful Fire Refinement of the Great Sun

Once Wukong had healed his Dao wounds at the Water Curtain Cave, he headed deep into the Celestial Realm. There, the Victorious Fighting Buddha was locked in combat with Lu Ya’s kindly corpse, Vairocana. The latter, having merged with Subhuti and commanding sixty billion thought forms, still possessed formidable strength.

The Victorious Fighting Buddha had fought for ten days, merely inflicting severe injuries without being able to determine the victor.

With Wukong’s arrival, the tide of battle turned, sealing Vairocana’s inevitable death!

The battles between Saints were too terrifying; the Primordial Golden Immortals—and other divine beasts dwelling deep within the Celestial Realm—scattered millions of miles away to avoid being affected. These beasts, all cultivated by Hong Jun and each possessing unique abilities at the level of Primordial Golden Immortals, would be Earth Immortal Realm’s first line of defense should the Chaos Heaven Demons break the Heavenly Dao Laws and invade.

Wukong joined the fight, and with a single strike of his staff, he sent Vairocana flying, breaking bones and tearing tendons.

Lu Ya hadn’t expected that, despite his scheming, he would end up causing his own death—an outcome that baffled him.

He had planned to cut down Wukong first, then reunite with Vairocana to escape. However, when he traveled through the time tunnel to the past, he encountered a past incarnation cultivated by the Victorious Fighting Buddha. Now, teamed with two against one, Lu Ya could only die full of regret within the time tunnel.

Vairocana felt desolate; this time, escape from doom was impossible. He was bound to die at the hands of the two.

Wukong raised the Great Revolution Seal, the Victorious Fighting Buddha took up the scythe, and Wukong hefted the axe.

Wukong said coldly, "You wanted to see my ’Strike of Opening the Heavens,’ didn’t you? Now, taste its power!"

Upon saying that, an overwhelming surge of energy erupted from Wukong, sweeping across the lands, his aura soaring limitlessly as if he were the ancient god Pangu, looking down upon heaven and earth.

Aware of his impending death, Vairocana still attempted a final struggle, displaying his Dharma Body as a huge sun rose behind him, seated within which was a colossal Buddha.

"Pangu opening the heavens!" Wukong bellowed with rage, his muscles bulging, mana swirling wildly as he drove the Primordial Great Strength Technique to its ultimate state.

This strike was unstoppable, capturing the essence of Pangu’s creation of the world—unparalleled in strength.

The strike, with Pangu’s force of opening the heavens, was unmatched and irresistible, shaking the entire Earth Immortal Realm to its core.

The Dharma Body of Vairocana behind raised both palms, attempting to catch Wukong’s axe with the Great Hand Seal.

"Boom!"

The axe met the hands of Vairocana’s Dharma Body, bursting with a powerful shockwave. The Dharma Body shattered instantly, and the red sun dissolved into specks of light that vanished.

Vairocana felt the force transmitted to him as if it could destroy heaven and earth, yet the power did not dissipate but was precisely contained around him.

Fighters in the Heavenly Dao Saint Realm could usually control their power fluctuations, preventing it from spreading and often looking less impressive than Taiyi Golden Immortals clashing. However, their strikes contained boundless force that would obliterate anything upon slight contact. Only when executing an extremely powerful ultimate skill would a Heavenly Dao Saint’s power ripple outward, yet Wukong managed such precision with his mighty skill, trapping all power around Vairocana with not a hint of leakage, showcasing incredible mastery.

"Splatter!"

Vairocana spat out a mouthful of old blood and was sent flying, feeling as if his Primordial Spirit was tearing apart.

After unleashing the Strike of Opening the Heavens, Wukong couldn’t help but feel deflated and exhausted. He swiftly cycled his cultivation technique to recover, while the Victorious Fighting Buddha, still wielding the scythe, charged back into the fray.

Vairocana, gravely wounded, could not withstand the Victorious Fighting Buddha and had no choice but to retreat continuously. Nevertheless, he was gashed open by the scythe’s blade, and golden Buddha’s blood sprayed into the air like blooming flowers.

The Victorious Fighting Buddha, a man of decisive killer instinct who took advantage of weakness, immediately summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell into the sky.

With a thunderous ring, the bell resonated boundless Dao tones, turning into waves that surged toward Vairocana to suppress him.

Great Sun Tathagata desperately resisted, but he still kept coughing up blood, and in that instant, fifty billion of his Primordial Spirit Thoughts were killed by the Taoist sound.

Victorious Fighting Buddha let out a light shout, and finally, at that moment, he unleashed his ultimate skill!

The collective will of the beings in the Ultimate Bliss World gathered in his hand, forming a delicate and exquisite Treasure Pagoda, its golden light dazzling, extremely eye-catching.

"Subhuti, you once took part in the gamble between Buddhism and Taoism, manipulating me in your palm, and it is not that I do not remember my teacher’s kindness, but you have gone too far, even more hateful than that sanctimonious Tang Monk! I am the tenth Heavenly Dao Saint, and the Heavenly Dao has decreed karmic cause and effect must come to an end, so today you may as well resign yourself to meet your fate!" Victorious Fighting Buddha shouted coldly, suppressing with the exquisite Treasure Pagoda, and used the bell sound to shock, pressing down on the Primordial Spirit Thoughts of the Great Sun Tathagata.

Great Sun Tathagata’s Primordial Spirit Thoughts could not operate smoothly, and as the exquisite Treasure Pagoda descended, he simply could not resist, and was directly trapped inside the Treasure Pagoda.

Then Victorious Fighting Buddha brought his palms together and said, "One might think the most powerful flames in this world are the Karmic Fires, but that is not so, the most formidable flames are those of a Buddha’s...rage!"

Lu Ya was born from the essence of Innate Separation Fire and naturally fears no flame, so for Victorious Fighting Buddha to refine the Great Sun Tathagata to death, he used the fire of Buddha’s fury!

Wukong, by extinguishing false Buddhas and achieving Nirvana as Victorious Fighting Buddha, was undoubtedly a true Buddha, elucidating the true essence of Amitabha Buddha’s Buddhist Family, discarding the strict monastic codes and disciplines, acting all according to one’s true heart, merciful as Buddha is, he also has times of being the Wrathful Vajra, a wrath that shakes Kunlun. Victorious Fighting Buddha has a great ultimate skill called the Fire of Buddha’s Fury, which is even more potent than the Karmic Fire, formless and intangible, with a temperature incredibly high, the mere touch of which would instantly turn one into pus.

Locked within the Treasure Pagoda, Great Sun Tathagata repeatedly struck out with the Great Hand Seal, attempting to shatter the pagoda, but it was to no avail.

Having been injured by Wukong and struck by Victorious Fighting Buddha, destroying fifty billion of his Primordial Spirit Thoughts, he was at his weakest, how could he possibly break free?

Victorious Fighting Buddha’s eyes opened wide, and he chanted Buddhist sounds that sent an invisible flame into the Treasure Pagoda.

"Buddha’s Fury!" With a light shout from Victorious Fighting Buddha, the formless flame exploded, confining Great Sun Tathagata in its center.

"I am born from the essence of Innate Separation Fire, and you use fire to burn me? You think it will kill me?" Great Sun Tathagata said with a cold laugh.

Nevertheless, Victorious Fighting Buddha replied, "Try and you’ll know!"

With that said, he formed a Dharma Seal with his hands, and endless waves of formless flame were born, all pouring into the Treasure Pagoda! Had the collective will of the beings not been the most resolute thing in the world, it would have likely been melted by this fire of Buddha’s fury. Inside, Great Sun Tathagata already felt something was amiss with this flame; it carried a strange substance and emotion, an emotion called anger... and moreover, the temperature of this flame was terrifyingly high!

Great Sun Tathagata felt that the essence of Innate Separation Fire could no longer protect him, and what’s more, his Primordial Spirit Thoughts had a sensation of bursting into flames!

"Not good! This flame is too terrifying, even more so than the Karmic Fire, stronger than the essence of Innate Separation Fire," Great Sun Tathagata was greatly shocked in his heart.

Surrounding him were the formless and intangible flames of Buddha’s wrath, and then the collective will of the beings also began to exert its force, pressing down in unison. The operation of Great Sun Tathagata’s Primordial Spirit Thoughts became even more strained, and the Treasure Pagoda also completely blocked any connection he had with the Heavenly Dao Laws, leaving him unable to use the Heavenly Dao Laws at this moment.

"Great Sun Tathagata, resign yourself to your punishment!" Victorious Fighting Buddha said in a deep tone, as he invoked the power of the Eastern Emperor Bell, sending oscillating sound waves.

Wave after wave of sounds passed through the windows of the Treasure Pagoda, shaking the eight wastelands. The Treasure Pagoda trembled, and Great Sun Tathagata felt that his Primordial Spirit Thoughts were starting to crack apart!

"Boundless... boundless calamity!" Great Sun Tathagata sat down cross-legged, speaking slowly, and at that moment, he let go—life and death are but a matter of a single thought.

The flesh and blood of Great Sun Tathagata exploded, leaving behind only five hundred and fifty billion Primordial Spirit Thoughts floating in the void, suppressed by the will of the Treasure Pagoda’s beings, unable even to cast his Divine Thought into Thunder spell. The Fire of Buddha’s Fury raged wildly, melting away the hundreds of billions of thoughts, continuously bursting them apart.

Victorious Fighting Buddha did not waste a single moment; all the molten Primordial Spirit Thoughts were collected by him and placed into a gourd.

The Primordial Spirit Thoughts of a Saint are an ultimate tonic; taking these thoughts to the Old Master later on, who knows, it may be possible to refine a few more Nine Revolutions Heavenly Dao Saint Pills in a short amount of time.

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