560. Chapter 543: The Pig Demon's Story
"Boom!"
On the Ground, amidst the treetops of a large tree, the Predator, hidden in the shadows, activated its Shoulder Cannon at the opportune moment.
A violent explosion sound rang out, and the Pig Demon was once again enveloped by a fireball.
"Do you really think your Grandpa Pig is a vegetarian!"
A string of curses rang out. From within the firelight, a Nine-Toothed Rake flew out. The surrounding Heaven and Earth spiritual qi surged rapidly. The rake arrived above the Predator's head, and violent, formless spatial turbulence rolled, tearing Space into pieces. The Predator was directly ripped into pieces by the spatial turbulence.
The Predator clan is notoriously difficult to provoke in the Samsara Palace.
Besides the fact that many tribesmen of this Clan serve in the Heavenly Court, another reason is that every Predator's armor contains a set of self-destruct devices.
The power of each Predator's self-destruct device varies, but even the weakest self-destruct device has the power equivalent to the explosion of a thousand tons of TNT!
The wrist device on the scattered Predator's severed wrist, sensing the disappearance of the Predator's life aura, immediately activated the internal self-destruct program. After a few short beeps.
The Pig Demon, who was just about to land, clearly detected with his keen perception that beneath his feet, a surge of powerful destructive power instantly erupted.
Before attaining the Dao, the Pig Demon was famously cunning, lazy, gluttonous, and slippery. This wasn't necessarily a derogatory term. On the Journey to the West, he encountered countless powerful demon monsters, and it was precisely by relying on his minor cleverness that he avoided danger time and time again.
Sensing the danger, he instantly flashed and leaped dozens of miles away.
Even from dozens of miles away, the Pig Demon could sense a terrifying voice roaring from the ground. He clearly perceived that the small piece of Space he had just left had almost instantly collapsed.
The Heaven and Earth origin energy there was completely occupied, torn apart, and destroyed by the destructive energy!
"A True Immortal level talisman!" The Pig Demon watched the rising mushroom cloud from afar, muttering to himself. He rubbed his large belly, "If my true body were here, such talismans could naturally be extinguished with a flick of my hand!"
"Master is truly biased. This clone he manifested for me, Old Pig, is indeed a bit weak. But then don't blame me, Old Pig, for not exerting myself for you."
The Pig Demon's small eyes blinked. He raised his hand and beckoned, and the Nine-Toothed Rake whistled and flew into his palm.
The self-destruct device inside the Predator's wrist device was at least comparable to a million-ton level nuclear warhead. The trees within an area of dozens of miles were instantly and completely levelled.
Large swathes of hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old ancient trees were directly turned into charred remains. The dozen or so Reincarnators who had tracked the Pig Demon into the Jungle were also shattered in the surging shockwave filled with radioactive dust and heatwave.
Twenty miles away from the explosion core area, in a mountain forest, Whitebeard and Uchiha Madara were already fighting fiercely.
Where Whitebeard stood, the moisture in the air condensed into frost flowers.
An icy cold wind sound howled. Whitebeard took a step, his formidable body pushing aside the omnipresent air, emitting a piercing sonic boom.
Amidst the sonic boom, Whitebeard's spine suddenly straightened like a great dragon. His body suddenly expanded to over ten meters tall, and the skin of his bare upper body turned a dark blue.
Rumble! Then, amidst the air's unbearable wailing, crackling sounds!
Whitebeard clenched his five fingers, and amidst the turbulent qi flow, he formed a fist intent and smashed it towards Uchiha Madara before him with a rumble.
Whitebeard was known as the strongest man in the Pirate World!
His most glorious battle record was fighting the Navy's Three Great Admirals with his aging body.
At this moment, Whitebeard, who had fused with the Frost Giant bloodline and undergone decades of tempering in the Cycle World, had increased his martial power level by more than tenfold.
When he punched down, the air within an area of several hundred zhang vibrated and fluctuated, as if countless artillery shells had suddenly exploded.
Bang! Where the fist wind went, ripples rose in Space.
Spiderweb-like white patterns spread, an anomaly caused by the air being unable to withstand the intense vibration.
Under Whitebeard's fist wind, the Fire Release Wall, which Uchiha Madara had spat out, dozens of meters high and sky-shading and sun-blocking, was directly extinguished by this fist wind.
After the Fire Release Wall was extinguished, Uchiha Madara's astonished figure was revealed.
Before Whitebeard's fist even got close, Uchiha Madara felt a cold fist wind blowing, causing his face to tremble. Realizing that he couldn't take this punch head-on, Uchiha Madara condensed Chakra at the soles of his feet and used the Body Flicker Technique. His figure flashed, avoiding Whitebeard's punch.
"Rumble!"
Whitebeard's punch smashed heavily onto the Ground. A dozens-of-zhang wide fist intent appeared directly on the mountain rocks Ground. From the fist intent, canyon-like cracks spread out, and the mountain rocks were quickly covered with a layer of frost.
The entire mountain peak let out sounds of the Mountain Body breaking.
"What powerful Taijutsu!"
Uchiha Madara watched the collapsing Mountain Body beneath his feet from afar, a huge wave surging in his heart.
The destructive power of this big guy's single punch even surpassed Hashirama's True Several Thousand Hands at full power.
Although Uchiha Madara was surprised by Whitebeard's strength, having also experienced several pioneering missions, his strength had also far exceeded the original plot.
With a blink of his Rinnegan, Uchiha Madara raised his hand, and countless blades formed behind his back.
These blades, flashing with golden light, did not possess a physical form, but those blades, seemingly condensed from golden flames, looked exceptionally fierce.
The overwhelming golden flame blades occupied most of the horizon. The mountain forest, which had been ice sealing under Whitebeard's fist wind, directly began to burn under the high temperature of these golden flame blades.
Thick smoke rose everywhere.
With a gaze from Uchiha Madara, countless golden flame blades whistled and stabbed towards Whitebeard.
Whitebeard laughed heartily, "Hoh hoh hoh!" He swung the Green Dragon Crescent Blade in his hand heroically. With a single swing, an Azure Dragon Phantom shook its head and tail and pounced towards the golden flame blades in the sky.
The golden blades and the Azure Dragon Phantom collided, amidst a fierce roaring sound.
The mountain peak beneath their feet could no longer bear it and collapsed with a crash amidst the aftermath of their exchange of blows!
"What powerful strength! Is this the strength of top-tier Reincarnators?" Wanrenwang soared in the air, watching the two fighting. No words could describe the shock in his heart.
The strength displayed by either of these two individuals had already surpassed Dao Xuan holding the Zhuxian Ancient Sword.
"Immortal destiny! This Samsara Palace is truly the immortal destiny leading to the path to immortality! One day I will also master such strength, no, I will become an immortal!" A fire of desire named ambition surged in Wanrenwang's eyes.
Zhang Xiaofan, not far away, glanced at his father-in-law, his brow slightly furrowed.
"Soru!"
Whitebeard's figure flashed. His massive body left afterimages in the air. He was as agile as a paper figurine drifting in the wind.
For his body size of over ten meters tall, his speed was so fast it was incredibly unbelievable! Uchiha Madara seemed to have completely failed to anticipate that Whitebeard also possessed a movement technique similar to the Body Flicker Technique.
By the time he reacted, Whitebeard's figure was already deeply branded in his eyes.
There was no time to dodge. His body twisted slightly, and he raised his arm. Without needing to form a Hand Seal, an Earth Wall rose from the ground, blocking above his head.
Rumble!
The peerless fist intent pressed down. Whitebeard ignored any resistance from Uchiha Madara. He smashed through the dozens of meters thick Earth Release Mud Wall with a single punch and slammed his fist heavily onto his head.
Bang! A low, muffled thud. Under the shocked gaze of the surrounding Reincarnators watching, Uchiha Madara was directly blown up by Whitebeard's punch.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Flashing golden light spots drifted in the Sky with the wind.
"Hmm?"
Whitebeard withdrew his fist and stood tall. Suddenly, his eyebrow twitched, and he threw another punch. In the Void Space, a figure leisurely appeared. He raised his arm and grabbed. The purple energy arm of the exoskeleton condensed around his entire body performed the same action as him.
"Shadow Clone!"
"Susanoo!"
Among the Akatsuki members watching from afar, someone called out the Ninjutsu Uchiha Madara used.
Uchiha Madara, who had activated Susanoo, was encased in a layer of purple energy armor and became as tall as Whitebeard.
As the two massive figures clashed, their fists and feet met. A series of muffled thunder-like sounds echoed in the Sky. The scattered shockwaves shattered the cloud layer into tiny cloud fragments, and the Sky became clear blue for a time.
In terms of Taijutsu, Uchiha Madara was far inferior to Whitebeard, who had acquired the Frost Giant bloodline. However, Uchiha Madara's endless Ninjutsu and Taoist Arts also gave Whitebeard a headache.
Whitebeard followed the path of One Force Overcomes Ten Skills. His formidable physique combined with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's Ability, plus the bonus from the Frost Giant bloodline, and equipped with top-tier Three-Color Haki and a top-tier Magic Tool level Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
Uchiha Madara temporarily had no way against Whitebeard, and he even faintly regretted having provoked this big guy.
Over a dozen Reincarnators were scattered around, watching the two fight. As for the Pig Demon who had escaped, that wasn't important. After all, the strength the Pig Demon displayed was too weak.
Even if they let that Pig Demon run for a Shichen, where could he escape to?
One should know that several Reincarnators who followed the technology route had deployed their reconnaissance methods the moment they arrived in this Cycle World.
Portable satellite base stations, nuclear-powered small reconnaissance aircraft, and some had even deployed a small reconnaissance spaceship.
"Beep Beep Beep—"
A tall figure completely covered in silver-gray armor was originally standing quietly on a mountain rock, looking up and watching the show. The high-frequency camera under his smart helmet was continuously recording the footage of Whitebeard and Uchiha Madara fighting.
Suddenly, the footage playing before him paused, and his vision turned completely red. "Alarm, Alarm, detecting high-energy explosion reaction, level 3 power, arriving in 11 seconds."
The silver-gray armored man, carrying a Chainsword on his back, suddenly looked up into the distance. Through the long-range vision module loaded in his smart helmet, the rising mushroom cloud twenty miles away came directly into his view.
Abad pulled Diego the Toad, who was crouching on a Boulder wearing floral shorts, threw him onto his shoulder. The armor's power module under his feet operated at full power. Purple energy light waves flowed over the silver-gray armor like an electric net. The next second, two blue flames sprayed out from under his feet, carrying him shooting up into the sky.
The dozen or so Reincarnators who were watching Whitebeard and Uchiha Madara fight also had their faces change drastically when the explosion sound rang out in the distance.
Each used their abilities to dodge the incoming explosion shockwave. A Reincarnator wearing a clown mask on his face took out a skateboard from his Spatial Equipment. The Goblin Glider carried him speeding into the distance. Some Reincarnators took out flying equipment, and even some with a pair of large blood-colored wings spread out behind them, flapping their bat wings and escaping into the distance.
Reincarnators who dared to come to an unfamiliar Cycle World for pioneering naturally had some skills.
Of course, there were also those who couldn't fly. A Reincarnator bellowed, and the clothes on his body burst open. His body size instantly expanded several times, turning into a small gray-green Giant.
He stomped his feet on the Ground, leaping into the air over ten meters high. With a few leaping bounds, he disappeared into the Ruins of this mountain forest; Wanrenwang pulled Biyao's hand and used Sword Control to shoot up into the sky. Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi followed closely behind.
On the Akatsuki side, Konan waved her sleeve, and a large number of talismans were empowered onto Nagato and the others. Several Ninjas either flew or used Earth Escape, disappearing without a trace simultaneously.
Whitebeard and Uchiha Madara exchanged a punch, amidst the sound of fierce collision, both flew backward.
"Hoh hoh hoh! It seems we can't fight today!"
Whitebeard's gaze looked towards the firelight rising in the distance. His keen perception from Observation Haki allowed him to sense the power of the explosion.
"We'll have a good match again when we have the opportunity!"
Uchiha Madara looked deeply at Whitebeard, and a hint of mutual appreciation actually appeared in his Rinnegan. A Black Hole seemed to flash in his eyes, and the next second, Uchiha Madara's figure directly disappeared.
Whitebeard glanced at the sweeping shockwave, stepped on Moonwalk, and also dodged into the distance.
Rumble!
After a huge muffled thunder-like roaring sound, all the trees on Fuling Mountain were turned into charred remains, and rocks flew everywhere. Except for the Mountain Peak that disintegrated during Whitebeard and Uchiha Madara's fight, several hills were all shortened by over ten meters.
Not long after the explosion.
"Heh heh!" The Pig Demon, sporting a pig head and a large belly, appeared at the Gao Village Ruins.
At this moment, he had transformed into a set of luxurious clothes. If not for the pig head, he would look exactly like a wealthy landlord.
He stood in the Pile of Rocks, patting his large belly. "Heh heh, I heard long ago that you, Master, you old man, picked a Ninth-Grade lotus flower from the Eight Treasures Merit Lotus Pond and used it to evolve a World, verifying your Way of Da Luo!"
"It's just that in my previous life, I, Old Pig, was at least the Head of the Four Holy Sages of the North, Marshal Tianpeng who commanded the 100,000 Heavenly River Navy, and in Spirit Mountain, I was respectfully called Purification Altar Messenger Bodhisattva. What kind of identity is it to give me one where I was killed by an adulterer?"
Outside the World, the young monk in a plain white monk's robe seemed to hear the Pig Demon's muttering. Even with his six senses pure and boundless Buddhist dharma, he felt anger rise in his heart at what this scoundrel said. He almost smashed down with a golden alms bowl to flatten this scoundrel's pig head.
Evolving a complete World is not easy, even for a Great Principle. First, creating a World requires an object of reliance.
The lotus flower in the Spirit Mountain's Eight Treasures Merit Pond was born from the condensed thoughts of believers from immeasurable worlds like grains of sand. Its spiritual nature far surpassed ordinary innate spiritual items.
Ninth-Grade lotus flowers, there were no more than a handful in the entire Eight Treasures Merit Pond. If he weren't the Buddha Venerable's Second Personal Disciple and had made great contributions to the Buddhist Sect by evangelizing, this Ninth-Grade lotus flower would not have fallen into his hands.
The young monk used the lotus flower as a foundation. With flowers blooming and falling, he evolved the cycle of birth and death of a Middle Thousand World.
He attained the Way of Da Luo through the merit from the Journey to the West. Normally speaking, once one attains Da Luo, they can consolidate the timeline of their attainment, making themselves complete in the past and future, with no more weakness.
Unfortunately, his path of attainment involved too many Great Experts. To consolidate that timeline, let alone him being the Buddha Venerable's Second Personal Disciple, even if the Buddha Venerable personally acted, it couldn't be done.
It was precisely because of this that he evolved this World, using his incarnation as the protagonist, retracing the path of the Journey to the West, hoping to transfer his path of attainment to this World he created.
Therefore, in this World, there is neither the Heavenly Court nor Immortals/Deities. What appears more are Demons and Buddhas related to the Buddhist Sect.
The Buddha Venerable's Second Personal Disciple's influence might not be effective in the Daoist Sect or the Heavenly Court, but in Spirit Mountain, many in the Buddhist Sect were willing to give this Golden Cicada some face.
They invested their incarnations into this World, filling it with its core members and flesh and blood. The four-man group from the Journey to the West, Sudhana, the Nine-Headed Golden Condor... all were like this.
Their cultivation bases were strong or weak. For example, the Victorious Fighting Buddha, like Golden Cicada, his nominal Master, achieved Da Luo through the Journey to the West, and his cultivation base is even above this Master.
That's why the Great Protector of Flower and Fruit Mountain in this World is so formidable.
As for the Pig Demon, his main body is merely a Golden Immortal Bodhisattva. The projection of his incarnation into this World is not just weak, but terrible to behold.
For some purpose, the white-robed monk borrowed his weapon from the Pig Demon's main body. By using the spirit on the Nine-Toothed Rake, the Pig Demon's strength surged to the True Immortal realm.
It's just that this scoundrel's talkativeness made the white-robed monk twirl his prayer beads slightly faster.
(end of chapter)