Boom! Boom! Boom!
The black heart slowly and powerfully expanded and contracted, its surface marked with seven orifices, resembling a fetus in the womb, exuding an eerie and sinister aura. It guided the immortal hearts of Meng Qi and Master Da to synchronize with its pulsation. With each beat, torrents of negative emotions surged forth—sadness, nostalgia, pain, guilt, and oppression—enough to drive one mad.
Master Da sighed. Suddenly, the surroundings became serene, transforming into the graveyard and thatched cottage behind the Huamei Villa. There was only companionship, longing, devotion, and the relentless desire to bring her back. All his negative emotions had long dissipated with time.
She wouldn’t want to see me grieving…
Sword light erupted, delicate and gentle yet omnipresent, forming a vast net that blanketed the ancient bronze coffin.
Meng Qi’s immortal heart followed the rhythm for a few beats before suddenly accelerating, surpassing even the pace of the seven-orifice heart. Boom! Boom! Boom! An ancient and primal sensation spread around, influencing the contraction and expansion of the sinister heart.
The Yuanxin Seal cultivates the most primordial and ancient heart, capable of shaking the true soul or yuan-shen!
In an instant, his purple primordial heart overwhelmed the seven-aperture heart, restoring clarity to his mind. He raised his Supreme Tyrant’s Blade with his right hand.
This weathered bronze coffin indeed resembled the one seen within the Devil Ruins, with a similar aura. There was an eighty to ninety percent chance it was connected to the second-generation inheritor of the Devil Emperor’s Claw—the unparalleled devil monarch!
Yet, if he had already buried himself within the Devil Ruins, why would he appear here?
Even more puzzling, the coffin contained only a seven-orifice devil heart!
Could it be that multiple such coffins existed, each burying a part of the devil monarch’s body? Could each part correspond to a different avatar and identity—like the Seven-Orifice Devil Heart corresponding to the Ice and Snow Immortal Sovereign?
That would be too bizarre and horrifying!
Just contemplating it sent chills down the spine. No wonder he was considered the origin of human devilry, the progenitor of primordial devil cultivation!
Were it not for the devil monarch’s deep slumber, only awakening in times of life-or-death crisis, Meng Qi had no doubt that even with just the seven-orifice heart, it would rival legends.
Boom!
A thunderous crack split the air. The Supreme Tyrant’s Blade emitted a pure, righteous, and mighty resonance, dispelling the surrounding malevolence. The blade became translucent, as if forged from violet lightning, radiant and majestic.
As the blade’s light was about to follow the sword net toward the ancient bronze coffin and the seven-orifice devil heart within, the black, sinister heart suddenly spun rapidly, shedding its darkness. It became crystalline and translucent, as if crafted from ice.
Reflecting the blade and sword lights, it emitted a seven-colored brilliance, breathtakingly beautiful and dazzling.
Simultaneously, strange fluctuations arose, and the seven-colored radiance rapidly outlined a colossal peacock image, indistinguishable from the real thing.
The peacock had delicate eyes and a red crown, adorned with necklaces and prayer beads. Its tail bore five prominent feathers—red, green, yellow, white, and black—each emitting a corresponding light beam behind it, exuding an indescribable heaviness, hinting at chaos itself, seemingly representing all matter across the ten thousand worlds, the foundation of reality.
With a sweep of the white light from the five-colored radiance, the sky-filling sword net was dispelled, pulling Master Da directly into it!
Five-Color Divine Light!
Tai Li? No, this was Kong Xuan, the Great Bright King Peacock! Meng Qi’s eyes narrowed, recognizing the peacock’s identity.
Could the Seven-Orifice Devil Heart truly summon Kong Xuan?
That seemed utterly inconceivable!
The white light withdrew, rejoining the array behind the Great Bright King Peacock. Yet within it, sword lights surged, one after another, growing stronger, like continuously blooming fireworks, dazzling and magnificent, shaking the Five-Color Divine Light. Master Da seemed poised to break free at any moment, forcing the Great Bright King Peacock to remain rooted in place, exerting all his strength to suppress him.
This wasn’t Kong Xuan’s normal power… Meng Qi suddenly realized the situation.
Previously, the Seven-Orifice Devil Heart had displayed only illusory mental force, thus appearing nonexistent to their senses and observations. Now, it was employing mental force inversely, transforming imagined illusory adversaries into reality.
Fantasy becoming reality!
The greater the mind, the greater the power!
No wonder it was the Seven-Orifice Ice Soul Heart of the unparalleled devil monarch…
As Master Da and “Kong Xuan” reached a stalemate, Meng Qi swung his right hand, preparing to cleave with his blade and assist his companion. However, eerie fluctuations arose once more. The dimmed seven-colored radiance exhausted its last glimmer, outlining a golden, ferocious giant monkey.
Its face was fur-covered with a thunderous beak, its eyes blood-red, as large as a human. It wore a phoenix-winged golden crown, golden chainmail armor, and cloud-treading lotus boots. Clutching a thick, heavy golden staff, it was unmistakably the Great Sage Equal to Heaven—Sun Wukong!
Damn… After more than a decade, Meng Qi finally couldn’t help but curse internally. Could the Seven-Orifice Ice Heart conjure enemies any more exaggerated?
He was about to battle his childhood idol!
“Eat this, old Sun’s staff!” the ferocious monkey roared, leaping upward, gripping the golden staff with both hands, and swinging it down fiercely.
Cracks echoed incessantly. The void shattered as the staff’s tip formed a fist-sized vortex of chaos, voraciously consuming its surroundings and swelling rapidly.
An overwhelming pressure bore down. Before the staff even made contact, Meng Qi’s feet had already shattered the millennia-old frost, sinking deep into the ground as his immortal body began to show signs of crumbling.
Taking a deep breath, Meng Qi showed no trace of fear. Similarly, he unleashed the technique of “Returning All Things to Emptiness” and swung his blade.
Boom!
Purple lightning collapsed, forming a thumb-sized chaos hole. The Supreme Tyrant’s Blade collided with the golden staff, producing a terrifying explosion.
Boom!
Lightning and white brilliance radiated like ripples in a storm, spreading in all directions from the impact point. They shattered the unchanging ice pillars of ten thousand years, blew off the roofs of pavilions, and sent Meng Qi flying backward a hundred zhang. Yet the massive impact, upon entering the chaotic, dark glow surrounding him, naturally vanished without a trace.
“Waaah!” The ferocious monkey Sun Wukong, having gained the upper hand and not giving Meng Qi a moment’s respite, swung his golden staff at an unimaginable speed, forming one chaos hole after another, overwhelming Meng Qi with a sky-filling assault.
Meng Qi did not retreat but pressed forward, brandishing the Supreme Tyrant’s Blade with the technique “All Things Return to Void,” accelerating to the speed of traversing stars.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Sword and staff clashed relentlessly. Lightning flashed intermittently, as if encapsulating an entire world within. The tempest raged for miles, shattering the ice palace into dust, tearing apart the cave dwelling’s artificial starry sky until only a few dim stars remained, and churning the ground beneath into chaotic primordial forces—earth, fire, wind, and water.
Peng! Peng! Peng! Boom! Boom! Boom! Neither showed any hesitation. At such high speeds, they occasionally failed to react in time, getting struck by the Supreme Tyrant’s Blade or the golden staff. Yet the chaotic dark glow around them continuously absorbed and dissolved all damage. The golden giant’s body emitted a faint golden glow, leaving only slight white marks.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Boom! Boom! Boom! The golden monkey was sent flying backward, while Meng Qi plummeted into the chaotic primordial energies below. The dark, swirling radiance descending from his auspicious cloud trembled violently, losing much of its profound, devouring essence.
The counterforce was neutralized by the Infinite Seal. Meng Qi’s hands did not feel numb, but the monkey manifested from the Seven-Orifice Ice Heart indeed surpassed him slightly in the Eight-Nine Art, possessing greater strength. In a direct confrontation, Meng Qi would inevitably suffer losses.
As this thought arose, he saw the ferocious monkey Sun Wukong shake his body, countless hairs falling and transforming into countless Great Sages, each wielding a golden staff, attacking from all directions. The original monkey blended among them, indistinguishable.
Seeing this, Meng Qi shook his body, transforming into a human-headed, snake-bodied monster, entirely crimson, with eyes alternating between cold and hot, signifying the passage of time—none other than Zhurong’s transformation!
He intended to manipulate time, slowing his enemy to seize victory.
Just as time was about to slow, within the swarm of monkeys, the golden ape similarly transformed, also becoming a crimson, human-headed, snake-bodied monster, equally manipulating time as Zhurong!
Damn! Meng Qi finally understood why the Seven-Orifice Devil Heart had manifested Sun Wukong to confront him.
The surrounding earth, fire, wind, and water descended into chaos and darkness, as everything slowed—including Meng Qi. Yet, a jade lamp glowed in his vision, radiating black and white light that unveiled an illusory river of time. In an instant, he shattered the deceleration’s grip and soared high into the sky.
As he ascended, he saw a monkey standing proudly atop the clouds, holding a massive staff, almost blocking the sky, its red eyes like twin suns, blazing with brilliance.
Sun Wukong had somehow broken free from time’s constraint and manifested his Heavenly Mimicking Body, nearly tearing the heavens apart. The terrifying aura made Meng Qi shudder.
Yet, Meng Qi did not flinch. The earth, fire, wind, and water beneath his feet suddenly transformed into an endless sea of flames—Three Flavors True Fire, Jade Void Golden Fire, and more.
Flames spread, rapidly rising into towering smoke, rushing toward Sun Wukong’s face.
Black smoke billowed. Sun Wukong instinctively raised his hands to shield his eyes.
Seizing the moment, Meng Qi also manifested his Dharma Aspect of Heaven and Earth, his colossal form towering beneath the firmament as he stood astride earth, fire, wind, and water. With a sweep of his left sleeve, he isolated heaven and earth, creating a self-contained world of primordial chaos.
The Void Seal combined with the Hidden Heaven in Sleeve!
He had also read Journey to the West, naturally knowing the monkey’s weakness!
Sun Wukong was involuntarily drawn into Meng Qi’s sleeve, his eyes burning with fury, yet only filled with relentless combat will.
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