Heaven-Defying Rebel Sage
Chapter 322 - 304: Outsmarting Each Other, Who’s More Astute?

Chapter 322: Chapter 304: Outsmarting Each Other, Who’s More Astute?

As Wukong and Xuan Ming began crafting the Great Slaughter War Spear in the Chaotic World using the Pangu’s Turbid Qi, Xuan Ming experienced an incredibly peculiar sensation; should the Great Slaughter War Spear be successfully crafted, the Slaughter Qi within her would completely form into a talisman, unlocking the Great Slaughter Technique!

Each "Great" Dao Technique is an incredibly formidable force. The Great Dao Demon God himself used such magic to conquer half the territories. Otherwise, he would absolutely not have been able to defeat Hong Jun and the others.

"If I grasp the Great Slaughter Technique, it would truly be astounding! Possessing a ’Great’ Dao Technique for protection is simply invincible!" Xuan Ming realized with clarity in her heart that once the Great Slaughter War Spear was crafted, it would condense into a Slaughter Talisman and unlock the Great Slaughter Technique, allowing her to slaughter the world.

Under the blows of the Revolution Hammer, the Great Slaughter War Spear continuously warped, growing longer and shorter, yet it never lost its spear-like form.

At this moment, Immortal Yang Mei suddenly had a whim and exclaimed, "Someone is crafting a Great Dao Divine Artifact? Wonderful, excellent! I shall devour this divine artifact and advance my Mana even further—it must be that Intelligent Stone Monkey. Last time he struck me with a sneak attack, now I shall strike him with one."

"Hmm?"

A thought struck Wukong’s mind as the Yin and Yang energies flowed, with the Power of Creation also beginning to operate, and he said, "Someone is plotting against me!"

Xuan Ming inquired, "Who is it?"

Wukong grinned and replied, "Yang Mei! Last time I hit him with a sneak attack, and now he wants to hit me with one. Heh heh!"

Xuan Ming nodded slightly and said, "Great Dao Sages can obscure heaven’s secrets and the rules, how could you possibly predict this?"

Wukong let out a strange laugh, "I have grasped the Grand Yin Yang Technique, which is even more formidable than the Eight Trigrams Technique! Moreover, I’ve absorbed the Power of Creation, from which no change can escape! Though Yang Mei is powerful, with both my Grand Yin Yang and Creation Techniques operating, I can still sense his plot."

Xuan Ming also couldn’t help but smile slightly and said, "Well then, let’s give him a sneak attack in return!"

Wukong pondered for a moment and said, "That’s not appropriate; you shouldn’t expose yourself yet. If we fail to take down Immortal Yang Mei this time, the upcoming calamity will be troublesome! As for me, I have grasped the Dao Techniques of Grand Reincarnation, Grand Yin Yang, and Creation; I can manifest the Victorious Fighting Buddha, hide in the void, and still maintain most of my strength to resist. Later, the Victorious Fighting Buddha can sneak attack him."

Xuan Ming responded indifferently, "Having achieved the status of a Great Dao Sage, I do indeed wish to test my skills, but given what you’ve said, let’s forget it."

"Haha, haha! No rush, there will be opportunities later. This is a critical moment; we cannot afford to be careless," Wukong laughed.

Little did Yang Mei, dreaming, expect that Wukong, since the inception of Heaven and Earth, had grasped the subtleties of Yin and Yang. Now, with Yin and Yang combined with Reincarnation, his magic was even more enigmatic and unfathomable. Additionally, having acquired the Creation Jade Butterfly from Hong Jun and absorbed a trace of the Power of Creation, he had mastered the Creation Technique—a truly significant achievement! Feeling the fluctuations of Dao, Yang Mei speculated that Wukong was crafting a Great Dao Divine Artifact. With this thought, he plotted to strike at the moment the artifact was completed, to take the artifact by surprise, devour it, and consume Wukong as well, achieving utter perfection!

"Haha, hahaha! Intelligent Stone Monkey, you will definitely die by my hands this time. Rumor has it that beings like you are intimately connected to the Power of Creation, and by devouring you, I will be able to absorb the Power of Creation even more prolifically," Yang Mei laughed aloud, "By then, the supreme title of Creation Supreme won’t be far!" Immortal Yang Mei roared with laughter and then flew toward the location where Wukong and Xuan Ming were crafting the Great Slaughter War Spear.

After traveling an unknown number of light years, he finally arrived, and saw Wukong and Xuan Ming rotating around the Qiankun Cauldron, channeling their Mana.

"Good, very good! Once you have crafted this war spear, I will strike suddenly, catching you off guard and then devour both the spear and you, thus paving my way to the Dao," Yang Mei stealthily concealed his form, not revealing the slightest trace.

However, at that moment, the Victorious Fighting Buddha, hidden by the Seven Treasure Dharma Wheel, had a vertical eye open at the location of his third eye. This was the Buddha Ancestor’s Dharma Eye, a Buddha Eye that penetrated everything, dispelled fallacies, and was the most truthful eye. Under the scrutiny of the Buddha Ancestor’s Dharma Eye, nothing illusionary could escape, let alone for the ultimate god of the Buddhist Sect, the ultimate Buddha, the Turning Wheel Sage King!

Wukong communicated telepathically with Xuan Ming, "He’s here; Yang Mei has truly come! The Victorious Fighting Buddha is currently watching him with the Eye of Truth. He has mastered the Great Devouring Technique and can devour everything. He probably has his eyes on our crafted Great Slaughter War Spear, a rarely seen Great Dao Divine Artifact."

Xuan Ming nodded slightly, "Good! Let’s have the Victorious Fighting Buddha deliver a lethal strike, trying to keep him here."

Wukong, however, said, "Keeping him here is unreal_entry_points .html. We can only make him suffer a huge loss."

At this moment, Yang Mei was in a state of unawareness that made him undetectable, but he could not escape the eyes of the Victorious Fighting Buddha. Every move was monitored by the Victorious Fighting Buddha, who then relayed Yang Mei’s actions to Wukong. Only when Yang Mei made his move would Wukong be ready to counterattack, while the Victorious Fighting Buddha would also strike stealthily!

It was indeed a case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Yang Mei, who had been scheming against others all his life, unexpectedly also fell into a trap.

"Impressive, truly worthy of being the Intelligent Stone Monkey. Just a few hundred years have passed, and his cultivation level has already improved! He might even have a chance to enter the Creation World. But, no matter how talented, he is merely my sustenance! Once I devour him, I will gain the favor of Creation and stand a better chance of becoming the Creation Supreme." Immortal Yang Mei observed sharply while secretly being shocked, not expecting Wukong to become so formidable in just three hundred years.

The Intelligent Stone Monkey, the Ancient Divine Ape, these two unique species are favored by Creation.

This is something inexplicable, just like loving someone without knowing exactly what you love about them. Creation itself has no will, no thoughts, merely being the origin of everything, the endpoint of all things. Whose favor it bestows is beyond anyone’s control, even the Creation Supreme cannot influence it.

One year, two years, three years...

Time slowly passed, and in the Chaos without sun or moon, it felt like an eon had passed, the endless Chaos Qi made it incredibly oppressive, a force of destruction brewing within it, and at the same time, an aura of slaughter began to emerge. No wonder, the Chaotic World was abandoned by the Great Creation World, it’s too vast; even the Creation Supreme would likely find it difficult to fully explore, and the destructive power of the Chaos Qi made it too barren.

"Good, just the last touch needed! Xuan Ming, quickly infuse your Slaughter Profound Ice True Qi into it, then use the moment created by the Great Slaughter War Spear to condense all the slaughter energy in your body into a talisman, and then, the sky is high and the sea wide for the taking!"

Wukong was overjoyed, indeed about to coalesce a Great Dao Divine Artifact, the Pangu’s physical body’s impurity really was a superb material, "Great Slaughter Technique, truly powerful, this majestic aura of slaughter, if not for my desperate concealment with the Grand Yin Yang Technique, it might even alert the Great Dao principles and surprise Immortal Yang Mei, causing many unforeseen changes!"

"So this scoundrel is crafting a Great Dao Divine Artifact for his beloved, but what a waste, with the means of a Heavenly Dao Saint, who dares to wield the full power of a Great Dao Divine Artifact? If so, surely it would end like Pangu, ignorant of heaven’s height and earth’s depth, and perish together with his path." Immortal Yang Mei’s long eyebrows twitched slightly, growing more and more excited as he had waited a full nine hundred years for the Divine Artifact to be successfully crafted.

Although cultivators do not value worldly matters, Immortal Yang Mei felt a burning impatience, like a starving beggar watching food being cooked but not yet ready to eat. Now the food was about to be fully cooked, how could his heart not be excited and uncontrollable?

He inadvertently revealed a trace of his presence, and Wukong instantly looked in this direction, but seemingly found nothing and shook his head, which surprised Immortal Yang Mei, almost exposing himself.

"What’s wrong?" Xuan Ming asked, pretending to be casual.

"Nothing, it just felt like someone was spying, but I think I’m just being paranoid," Wukong said.

Immortal Yang Mei chuckled to himself, "Clever lad, almost spotted me, Grand Ancestor! If Grand Ancestor were discovered, wouldn’t my billion years have been lived in vain? You’re still far from seeing through Grand Ancestor’s disguise!"

Wukong also sneered inwardly, Immortal Yang Mei releasing a trace of his presence - if he did not show any reaction, it would only arouse his suspicion, after all, this man was an ancient creature who had lived for over a hundred million years, an extremely ancient being! Any slight hint could be captured by him. This man was shrewd enough to extract oil from a stone crevice, even plucking a single eyelash would reveal it to be hollow.

"Hoo hoo hoo!"

Xuan Ming continuously exhaled Primordial Qi, while Wukong covered the energy above with the Grand Yin Yang Technique to avoid detection. Sure enough, Immortal Yang Mei noticed nothing odd, thinking that Xuan Ming was just integrating his Primordial Qi and Essence Blood into the Divine Artifact, beginning the final quenching.

Traces of slaughter energy gathered above Xuan Ming’s spirit platform, then the king of thoughts condensed these auras of slaughter together.

"Kill!!!"

A massive ’KILL’ character formed into a giant talisman, directly adhering to the king of thoughts at the pinnacle of the Nine-Layered Pagoda, the other countless thoughts around trembling, sensing this massive aura of slaughter, which was exceedingly terrifying.

If this talisman were to burst, it could instantly wipe out all of Xuan Ming’s thoughts clean, but Xuan Ming had cultivated his technique to utmost purity and was in a Realm of unity with heaven and earth, further suppressed by the king of thoughts, making it impossible for the talisman to explode.

"Good! Great Slaughter War Spear, come forth!"

Wukong stretched out his giant hand, pulling the Great Slaughter War Spear out, Xuan Ming exhaled another mouthful of Primordial Qi, a talisman condensing on the spear’s shaft.

"Alright, take action!"

At this moment, Immortal Yang Mei suddenly sprung into action!

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