The Battle in Journey to the West
Chapter 345 - 305: Heavenly Emperor Falls into the Trap - Part 2

Chapter 345: Chapter 305: Heavenly Emperor Falls into the Trap - Part 2

After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, Vajrayana Buddhism prospered greatly. By then, it was very likely that Esoteric Buddhism’s Mahavairocana would become a saint, as this was a great merit. Moreover, Mahavairocana had already reached the semi-saint realm and was just one step away from becoming a saint. The Integration of the Five Great Wisdom Kings could even unleash sage-level combat power! Becoming a saint was not a difficult task for him, and if Mahavairocana did become a saint, it would only add insult to injury.

Chi Songzi travelled through the air, flying towards the region of Liaodong. At that moment, Huang Taiji was leading troops to attack Shanhai Pass, intent on forcefully breaking through the gates of Great Ming!

The Ming Dynasty was in imminent peril, on the verge of complete downfall. Chi Songzi had come out of seclusion this time solely to save the national destiny!

"Son of Heaven’s Mandate, unthinkable! I must slay Huang Taiji!" Chi Songzi clenched his teeth, "I must change history, otherwise the Human Path will perish, and all will turn to ashes, ruining the ideals of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors."

During the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, doors were not bolted at night, lost items remained untouched. It was truly a grand era, where people were simple and kind-hearted, scarcely anyone committing evil deeds, all emulating the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, economizing on clothing and food. The officials made it their paramount duty to benefit the people, unlike now and the future, where everyone just thinks about becoming officials to make a fortune and then exploit others, with very few benefitting the people.

Outside the pass, the sound of ironclad horses, and the Qing Army’s vast camps stood in front, stretching continuously, probably numbering two to three hundred thousand.

"The Ming dynasty’s military and political corruption has left the army extremely weak in fighting power! If it were in the days of the Human Emperor, pulling out any battalion of five thousand soldiers was enough to sweep through the entire Qing Army!" Chi Songzi shook his head repeatedly.

He utilized his Divine Skills to observe destiny, only to see inside the pass where the destiny was faltering, turning from purple to black, gradually drifting outside the pass, while outside it was a soaring purple aura, immensely noble! This was destiny! The entire destiny of the Southern Toad Continent had faltered and was hard to retrieve. Only by thoroughly defeating the Qing Army could the destiny gradually return to the Kunlun Mountains Dragon Vein and preserve the national destiny.

Chi Songzi muttered, "The decline has already set in, the defeat is certain! The destiny of the Ming army is faltering, morale is low, no matter what, they cannot defeat the Qing soldiers now, only I can make a move! I must find Huang Taiji and slay him first, killing these soldiers is pointless, as he will return to the grasslands and regroup his forces, which would be in vain and would also be held accountable."

Chi Songzi looked for traces of Huang Taiji, who as the founding Emperor of Qing possessed thick destiny, Dragon Qi, and was surrounded by purple aura, clearly visible at a glance.

"Found him!" Chi Songzi spotted amidst the central military tents where purple aura soared, destiny coiled into a dragon shape, as if a True Dragon had descended.

That was where Huang Taiji was!

"The universe in my hands, all transformations arise from my body!" Chi Songzi pinched a spell, ready to unleash his Divine Skills and flat the area.

"Boom!"

A loud boom rang out, as if the central military tent was struck by an invisible mountain, turning instantly to dust, and all inside died outright, their destiny also bursting open immediately.

Chi Songzi killed Huang Taiji and quickly fled far away. Soon after, the Nine Heavens would come to hunt him down, and although he was no match for them, he still had to flee, in pursuit of a slim chance of survival.

"Was it really so simple to exterminate the destiny of the Qing? I have a bad feeling about this." Chi Songzi pondered silently.

He raised all the weapons including the Xuanyuan Sword and Earthly Emperor Sword from the Three Sovereigns Sword, along with the Five Emperors’ Armor, sending them all flying to Flower-Fruit Mountain, then he fled with the Heavenly Emperor Sword.

Celestial Emperor Fuxi helped him obscure the Heavenly secrets, and he too was a principal culprit, who would face Heavenly Dao’s reckoning and had to confront the pursuit of the Nine Heavens, so they were now in life-and-death together.

The Qing Army’s camp was in chaos, with cries rising to the heavens. Chi Songzi gritted his teeth and asked, "Emperor, was it Huang Taiji who died?"

A cold laugh came through, "It wasn’t Huang Taiji who died, but Nurhaci!"

Chi Songzi looked up, only to see that the speaker was Shiqi Buddha from All Buddhas, looking withered, his smile resembling that of a ghastly zombie.

"Nurhaci? He has already died, Shiqi Buddha don’t spread alarmist talk." Fuxi’s voice came from within the Heavenly Emperor Sword.

"Ha ha! All of this is within the calculations of the Buddha Ancestor, he knew you would take action, so he prolonged Nurhaci’s life! Because Nurhaci is the source of chaos in the Human Path, so extending his life is in accordance with the Heavenly Dao, with shallow karma, and won’t bring about Heavenly Dao’s reckoning! While you, on the other hand, are strangling those who comply with Heaven and humanity, something unacceptable to the Heavenly Dao! Fuxi, even though your Eight Trigrams Mystical Arts are unparalleled in history, I doubt you expected we could pull off such a move!" Shiqi Buddha roared with laughter.

After Nurhaci’s death, it was Huang Taiji who took over. Chi Songzi had not expected that he was not killing Huang Taiji this time, but Nurhaci!

"What? The one I killed turned out to be Nurhaci, who should have been long dead? Huang Taiji is not dead?" Chi Songzi’s face flushed red with anger, murderously so.

Shiqi Buddha glanced at the void, where thunder surged as if a terrifying calamity was about to descend, and he sneered, "Huang Taiji has already gone to a secret place to negotiate with Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui wants to invite Qing soldiers into the pass to exterminate Li Zicheng, but this is inviting wolves into the house, a self-destructive trap! Once the destiny of the Qing enters the Southern Toad Continent, there’s no way it will leave again! Ha ha, ha ha ha!"

Shiqi Buddha laughed demonically, not bothering to speak further with Chi Songzi, and directly left.

Wu Sangui was not actually a treacherous traitor; he invited the Qing soldiers into the pass with good intentions, aiming to use poison to counteract poison, to exterminate the rebellious army of Li Zicheng. However, the Qing soldiers were too fierce, and Huang Taiji was far from as foolish as he imagined, so by doing this, he inadvertently fulfilled Huang Taiji, making himself a traitor condemned through the ages.