Yellow Court Daoist-Chapter 785 - 705: Undying Dao Body! Bodhi Golden Body! [Request Monthly Ticket!]

Just as Lu Qingfeng had expected.

The Jade Emperor summoned the Heavenly Mirror to locate the hiding place of the Monkey King—

It turned out he had hidden at the northern tip of the North Sea in the Heavenly Realm.

"The North Sea is a place where Ancient Demon Masters cultivate."

This was indeed a troublesome character.

The Jade Emperor's gaze swept over Randeng, Guanyin, and Ling Ji, noting that the three great powers of the West all maintained silence, observing with disinterest.

He immediately realized.

These three were probably also reluctant to entangle with that demon master.

Thus, he promptly ordered the Immortal Master Erlang to lead the Meishan Six Saints and one thousand two hundred grass gods to rush to the North Sea, to capture the demon monkey.

With this command,

Everything returned to its original plan.

Only, the setting for the duel between the Great Saint and the Little Saint had shifted from Huaguo Mountain to the North Sea.

The battle between the two saints underwent various changes, making it difficult to distinguish a clear winner. The Yang Realm slightly had the upper hand, but capturing Wukong was immensely challenging. Unexpectedly, Guanyin intervened, throwing a willow branch which unexpectedly caused Wukong to stumble and be captured by Yang Jian using the Binding Immortal Rope.

He was taken back to the Heavenly Court.

...

"Alas!"

Lu Qingfeng watched clearly and sighed.

The Great Sage Equalling Heaven, after all, could not escape this calamity and was captured by Yang Jian to Heaven, likely to go through a trial in the Old Lord's Elixir Furnace.

After that,

He was under Five-Finger Mountain for five hundred years.

What was strange, though, from beginning to end, the Supreme Daoist Ancestor of the Doushuai Temple never intervened, a discrepancy from the version Lu Qingfeng knew.

But though the Western Tour proceeded since he came, the major course hadn't changed, but the details were a complete mess.

This minor difference wasn't really significant.

Six-Eared, beside him, used his Divine Skills and also saw Wukong being captured, feeling distressed: "All gods and buddhas are scheming; it's hard to see how one could escape."

This was the realization of Wukong's powerlessness.

Understanding destiny.

Struggling painfully.

In the end, he had to return to the so-called 'right track,' living as those Great Powers laid out for him—it was indeed despairing.

"Cultivate diligently."

"There will eventually be a day when you can step beyond the chessboard and take control of it yourself."

Though Lu Qingfeng sighed inwardly, he encouraged Six-Eared with these words.

In that moment,

Lu Qingfeng summoned forth with one motion from the void, and a tender, rosy child sprang into existence - it was none other than the calabash clone that had left with the eighty-four thousand mountain monkeys and Wukong from Huaguo Mountain.

"This—"

Six-Eared looked towards Sixth Child and recognized him.

Lu Qingfeng explained: "My ninth younger brother knew he might not return and asked me to look after his monkey descendants."

Saying this,

He saw Sixth Child open his mouth, and eighty-four thousand plus mountain monkeys were released. They all wailed painfully, crying out 'Great King,' clearly aware that their own king had been captured by the Heavenly Court, his fate uncertain.

"Your king will be fine; stay here and wait in peace."

Lu Qingfeng reassured them.

He was also waiting.

...

In a blink of an eye,

Forty-nine years had passed.

On this day,

Lu Qingfeng was transferring Xuan Technique, comprehending the Dao.

Suddenly, his physical body transformed, consecutively revealing the true forms of the Twelve Ancestor Witches, each form fierce and terrifying, as if a Demon God had descended. In a thought, Mana swept across, his body encompassing the mysteries of Tong Xuan.

Infinite mysteries descended.

In a flash,

"My Dao is complete!"

Lu Qingfeng transformed his true form, twelve towering Dutian Ancestor Witches appeared above his head within the Qing cloud, each fiercely roaring but were all constrained within the Qing cloud. Lu Qingfeng's aura shifted, profound beyond words, seeming to undergo indescribable changes.

Hard to fully comprehend at the moment. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

He stood up.

A tunneling light flickered, Six-Eared appeared outside the cave, his face filled with joy, exclaiming: "Zhu Zi, have you achieved the Golden Immortal Realm?!"

He had long since attained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.

Having cultivated together, Lu Qingfeng's transformation was immediately felt by him.

"Yes."

Lu Qingfeng nodded, feeling boundless joy inside.

Having devoured countless Immortal Peaches in the Immortal Peach Orchard, and stealthily eaten the Golden Pills of the Old Lord at the Doushuai Temple, Wukong and Six-Eared had both advanced to the Golden Immortal Realm. He had lagged these years, silently cultivating in the mountains, but had finally realized the mysteries and reached the Golden Immortal Realm.

From now on, he too was among the top in the world.

"That's great!"

Six-Eared was even more thrilled than Lu Qingfeng, his joy uncontainable. Despite his earlier achievements, his nature hadn't changed; he remained as lively and spirited as ever.

Lu Qingfeng smiled.

Suddenly,

Both of them abruptly looked up, their gaze fixed on the south.

There in the south, Buddha Light shone brilliantly, a palm covering the heavens—

Boom!

Like the end of the world, it transformed into Five-Finger Mountain, thunderously crashing down at the border of the Two Realms Mountain in the Earth Realm. As the Buddha Palm descended and Five-Finger Mountain materialized, Lu Qingfeng and Six-Eared clearly saw, within the palm, under the mountain, an unmistakable struggling demon monkey being suppressed.

"Stone Monkey."

"Wukong."

Lu Qingfeng and Six-Eared recognized the demon monkey, one shocked, the other sighed.

The Great Sage Equalling Heaven, after all, was still suppressed under the Five-Finger Mountain.

"It was Tathagata who made the move!"

Six-Eared stared at the sky with clenched teeth.

Lu Qingfeng, however, looked towards the Two Realms Mountain, his expression shifted slightly as he slightly opened up the Dutian Divine Slaughter Great Array in the mountain.

Before long, they saw a Daoist approaching with large strides, wearing a golden cloud light Tai Chi Eight Diagrams robe, a golden silk belt around his waist, and a purple gold crown on his head.

"Wukong?"

"Stone Monkey?"

Lu Qingfeng and Six-Eared saw the newcomer and hesitated to recognize him for a moment.

This Daoist, transformed into a human form, bore a face nine parts similar to the Monkey King, but his aura was completely different, ethereal and transcendent. Added to witnessing the demon monkey suppressed under Five-Finger Mountain, doubts arose.

Yet, the Daoist smiled and said, "Do my two elder brothers not recognize their younger brother?"

It was indeed the Great Sage Equalling Heaven!

Six-Eared, astounded, hurriedly asked, "Ninth Brother, weren't you captured and taken back to the Heavenly Palace? How did you end up under Five-Finger Mountain, and how did you come out?!"

Lu Qingfeng was also curious.

They immediately led the Daoist into the cave dwelling.

Each took their seats.

They listened as the Daoist recounted, "After separating from my two brothers, I arrived at the Heavenly Realm North Sea. During earlier travels across the Four Seas and Four Extremes, I heard that in this North Sea, there hid a being of great power from ancient times called 'Ancient Demon Master,' renowned and formidable. Thus, I wanted to hide here, using the name of this Ancient Demon Master to deter the Heavenly Palace and Buddhist Sect. Unfortunately, the Ancient Demon Master did not appear, and I was caught in an awkward fight by Erlang Little Saint and Guanyin and was captured."

"In the Heavenly Palace, I was thrown into Old Lord's Elixir Furnace and refined for forty-nine days, refining everything I had swallowed – the immortal peaches, the Golden Core – into my body, assisting me in achieving the Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill and cultivating the Bodhi Golden Body and the Undying Dao Body. What you see now, is my Undying Dao Body."

Lu Qingfeng and Six-Eared listened attentively and marveled.

Turned out.

When the Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill is cultivated to its extreme, there are two paths.

One is the Undying Dao Body, achieving physical sanctification, indestructible through all calamities.

The other is Enlightenment, attaining the Bodhi Golden Body, neither tainted nor pure, neither born nor extinguished.

Both possess extraordinary abilities, deftly avoiding disasters and calamities, gifted with complete and endless power.

Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun also cultivated this technique, choosing the path of the Undying Dao Body and had already achieved it, thus in the North Sea, Wukong was no match for Yang Jian.

Until the experience in the Furnace of Eight Trigrams.

This helped Wukong's Mysterious Skill reach Great Success. Having been a disciple of Xu Puti Ancestor, practicing both Daoist and Buddhist teachings, he managed to cultivate both the Undying Dao Body and the Bodhi Dharma Body, greatly enhancing his spiritual power, overturning the Furnace of Eight Trigrams, causing chaos in the Tongming Hall, and nearly breaking through to the Palace of the Polestar.

Unfortunately, Jade Emperor invited the Buddha.

This great Buddha, presiding over the Western Heaven, is one of the top Great Powers beneath the Saints. Even though Wukong's Mysterious Skill achieved Great Success, he was not his match. Luckily, the Buddha for some reason did not wish to kill him, instead letting him invest his Bodhi Dharma Body into the Buddhist Sect, studying under Sect Leader Jin Chanzi of the Weishi Sect in the Saha Pure Land.

And his demon body was suppressed under the Five-Finger Mountain, to suffer for five hundred years, preserving the face of the Heavenly Court, providing an explanation to the Three Realms and Six Paths.

Only the Undying Dao Body escaped and remained free.

"So that's how it was!"

Lu Qingfeng looked at the Wukong Daoist before him, finally understanding the secrets.

Still, he admired this Great Saint's natural wit and nature; such difficult circumstances, such an outcome, though not perfect, he had indeed managed to break free.

Moreover.

The Dao body freely wanders.

The demon body is suppressed.

The Dharma body enters Buddhism.

For him, it might very well be a good thing.

With his visit, the Wukong Daoist shared with Lu Qingfeng and Six-Eared the events after their separation, stayed in the mountain for several days, recounting for a long time before taking the monkeys and his descendants and leaving.

Back to Huaguo Mountain.

With the demon body suppressed, and his defiance and havoc in Heaven resolved, neither the Heavenly Palace nor the Buddhist Sect could pursue it further. No matter how the Western Tour progresses, Huaguo Mountain will emerge as an extraordinarily detached force among the Three Realms.

Even if it cannot match Immortal Zhenyuan's Wuzhuang Temple in the short term, once Wukong Daoist's Dao ability advances, it might well match it.

Six-Eared watched Wukong Daoist leave and couldn't help but snort, "I worried for him, yet this Stone Monkey turns out better after his ordeal in the Furnace of Eight Diagrams. Now, with just the power of his Undying Dao Body alone, he has far surpassed me."

Six-Eared was vexed.

What about the calamities they spoke of?!

What kind of calamity was this?

Clearly, it was a tremendous opportunity.

Had I known this, why struggle, why not just obediently follow the arrangements of the immortals and Buddhists? Wouldn't it end up like this, achieving the same results?

Thinking this, Six-Eared suddenly laughed.

Although envious and jealous, seeing the Stone Monkey's accomplishments, breaking free and thus achieving great freedom and ease, brought joy to his heart.

Lu Qingfeng looked at Six-Eared and said with a smile, "Why bother so? If you can cultivate the Twelve Heavenly Demon God Skill to its ultimate, you too can manifest ancestral witches, mighty and powerful, not inferior to the Undying Dao Body or Bodhi Golden Body."

The Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill and the Twelve Heavenly Demon God Skill are both Sect Leader Level Techniques, without difference in their heights. When cultivated to Great Success, both possess unimaginably mighty power and divine skills.

Wukong took a step ahead.

Cultivating both the Undying Dao Body and Bodhi Golden Body in the Furnace of Eight Trigrams instead made Lu Qingfeng anticipate what could happen if the Twelve Heavenly Demon God Skill was cultivated to its extreme, manifesting the Twelve Demon God incarnations.

"In the world, the ancestral witch legends all return to Saint Zhou Green, but if Wukong can refine a Dao body and Dharma body from scratch, then so can I potentially refine a Demon God!"

Lu Qingfeng's thoughts were firm.

At worst.

He still has the Yellow Court Scripture in him. With Derivation, whether it's to continue strengthening it, or fusing it with another, or even starting from scratch to derive a new Sect Leader Level Mysterious Technique, there's much he can do, many ways to solve the predicament.

For now, he decided not to think further.

He continued to retreat, meticulously contemplating the subtle transformations from his recent ascension to Golden Immortal, while solidifying his cultivation level.

Time flew fast.

Another three hundred years had passed.

...

Today.

Lu Qingfeng abruptly got up, his face changing dramatically!