The Battle in Journey to the West
Chapter 302 - 266: The Three Emperors of the Flaming Cloud Cave Manifest_2

Chapter 302: Chapter 266: The Three Emperors of the Flaming Cloud Cave Manifest_2

The creator gods among the Buddhas of Mount Meru made their move, their momentum so vast it almost flattened the entire West Cow He State.

"So this is the ultimate force of the Buddhist sect, so terrifying that there are so many creators!" Wukong couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart, the crisis had been completely detonated by Chi Songzi’s slaying of Maitreya, prompting the Buddhas of Mount Meru to retaliate and avenge Maitreya.

Chi Songzi said coldly, "Tathagata, do you think that having more people will allow you to bully me? A hundred creators, in my eyes, are nothing more than that."

Chi Songzi was seen clenching a spell, invoking three Divine Swords, the legendary Three Sovereigns Swords!

The Heavenly Emperor Sword, the Earthly Emperor Sword, the Human Emperor Sword!

Celestial Emperor Fuxi’s Eight Trigrams Sword, Earth Emperor Shennong’s Earthly Emperor Sword, Human Emperor Xuanyuan’s Xuanyuan Sword! The Three Sovereigns governed the world with these three swords, and Tathagata believed that these Divine Swords were either damaged or lost in the endless void during the Middle Ancient wars, yet he never imagined they would be in Chi Songzi’s possession.

Chi Songzi had retreated from the world during the transition of power between Shennong and Xuanyuan, and later re-emerged as the Rain Mage during the reign of Emperor Ku, the second of the Five Emperors after Gongsun Xuanyuan. He was a high-ranking and powerful official in both reigns, so it was not strange that the Three Sovereigns Swords were entrusted to him in the end.

The name "Rain Mage" might not sound very domineering, but Chi Songzi was in fact an extraordinarily formidable master, otherwise, he would not have been so heavily relied upon.

"The Three Sovereigns Swords! It is indeed the Three Sovereigns Swords! The magical treasures crafted by the Human Clan’s Three Sovereigns with all their efforts, almost comparable to the Four Swords of Celestial Slaying." Someone recognized the three Divine Swords and couldn’t help but gasp, finding it incredible that Chi Songzi had brought out such terrifying Magical Treasures.

The sword is the king of weapons, a symbol of identity, authority, and righteousness. Ancient kings liked to carry swords, and these three had long been imbued with the aura of the Ancient Three Sovereigns, as well as their great merits in governing the world, making them Divine Artifacts for the Human Clan of the Four Great Continents! They were a hundred times more powerful than the Heirloom Seal of the Realm that came later.

The will of the Three Sovereigns lived on eternally, silently existing in all corners of the Four Great Continents. Now, with the appearance of the Three Sovereigns Swords, their collective will seemed poised to resuscitate.

The Three Sovereigns of the Flaming Cloud Cave were neither Sages of the Heavenly Dao nor Human Sages but existed somewhere in between, their mana falling within the realm of Semi-Saints!

Tathagata, taken aback, exclaimed, "The Three Sovereigns are cunning, to resurrect in such an unconventional manner! Well done, well done indeed, such strategy!"

The descendants of Yan Huang always remember themselves, with the Three Sovereigns governing and protecting peace, and such people, whose thoughts do not perish, now manifest their saintliness upon the Three Sovereigns Swords! To manifest saintliness is to manifest spirit, and in this world, the ones who receive the most Incense Power and Wishes are not the Buddhas or the Daoists, but the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the ancestors of the Human Clan. Fuxi’s plans were profoundly inscrutable, and he must have foreseen this, for the Three Sovereigns to manifest saintliness even after dying in battle!

"No, they have not truly resurrected, they merely exist in a peculiar way, manifesting their spirit! The Human Clan remembers the graces of the Three Sovereigns, granting them incredibly potent Incense Power and Wishes, even surpassing that of the Three Pure Ones and myself, thus they can manifest their spirit!"

Three figures appeared from the Three Sovereigns Swords, one with the body of a dragon and the head of a human, that was Fuxi; one dressed in simple cloth and holding a hoe, that was Shennong; the last one draped in a dragon robe, wearing a flat crown, with an aura like a rainbow, that was Human Emperor Gongsun Xuanyuan!

This time, too, a great crisis had arisen, with the All Buddhas mobilizing and Chi Songzi alone unlikely to withstand them, or else he would not have exposed such a great secret, causing the Three Sovereigns to manifest their spirit.

"The Three Saints of the Flaming Cloud Cave!" even the denizens of the Ming River were startled, as these three beings were born at the dawn of creation, inheriting the Heavenly Dao and establishing the Human Path.

The Ox Demon King, at this moment, trembled uncontrollably and almost fell to his knees. Adorned in the Chi You Battle Armor, this armor was precisely the one that had been broken by Gongsun Xuanyuan with the Xuanyuan Sword. Even Chi You had perished under the sword, and Xing Tian had his head severed. Such Magical Treasures had their own spiritual energy, and upon seeing Gongsun Xuanyuan, how could they not feel terror and tremble!

Not even the Three Pure Ones had expected the emergence of the Three Saints of the Flaming Cloud Cave. Chi Songzi’s invocation of the Three Sovereigns Swords had allowed them to manifest their spirit, almost as if they had resurrected.

Fuxi telepathically said, "Manifesting our spirit requires an immensely horrifying amount of Incense Power and Wishes. This time, the consumption is probably equivalent to a Buddha Ancestor’s accumulation of a thousand years’ worth of incense."

Gongsun Xuanyuan, with his proud bearing, gave a slight nod and declared, "Retreat quickly, or do not blame us if we three unleash slaughter upon you!"

Chi Songzi then revealed armors of the Five Directions, saying, "Although the Three Sovereigns are invincible in the world, the Buddhist sect is numerically superior after all. It is time to summon the Five Emperors."

The armors of the Five Directions released, belonging to Zhuanxu, Emperor Ku, Emperor Yao, Yu Shun, and Yu the Great, with their wills also eternally undying, stored in their armors and now manifesting their spirit through the boundless Wish Power accumulated by the Human Clan.

The Five Emperors appeared behind the Three Sovereigns, draped in their armors. Among these Five Emperors, three were descendants of Gongsun Xuanyuan.

The Five Emperors, referred to as the "Great Saints of China," were ancestors of the Human Clan, second only to the Three Sovereigns in status, and their accumulated Incense Power and Wishes were substantial.

Whether it was the Buddha Ancestor or the Daoist Ancestors, the Incense Power and Wishes all came from the Human Clan; that these ancestors of the Human Clan received more such power than either the Three Pure Ones or Tathagata was not a rare occurrence.

With the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors manifesting in unison, where the Three Sovereigns were Semi-Saint powerhouses, and the Five Emperors were Quasi-Saint powerhouses, most of the Buddhas present were creators, aside from the Three Worlds Buddha, none had reached the Quasi-Saint echelon. With the presence of these eight mighty figures, even hundreds of creators dared not move. Although the Buddhas of Mount Meru hadn’t all emerged, many ants can kill an elephant, and they could certainly annihilate the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in a fierce battle, but it would also inflict severe damage upon them.