Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong-Chapter 537: The True Trump Card of the Tathagata Buddha (3rd Update!)

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"Not care about you? No, that's something my old Sun cannot do!"

Sun Wukong shook his head, a resolute color flashed in his eyes, and with a thought, he used his cloning divine powers, and a clone walked out from within him.

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Sun Wukong tossed the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod to his clone, nodded, and the clone, understanding, flew toward the location where the Tathagata Buddha's presence had appeared, gripping the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod in hand.

Meanwhile, Sun Wukong himself sped up the activation of his Void-Breaking Starry Eyes, continuing to break the Stellar Aura Chains.

It was close, only four chains left. After breaking these final four Stellar Aura Chains, Amitabha could be freed from the entrapment!

The moment Tathagata Buddha entered the Sukhavati Realm, intending to fly toward the cluster of peaks where the Nine Dragons Gathering Stars Formation was located, he saw Sun Wukong riding the clouds coming from the front, seemingly spotting him and immediately turning to fly in another direction.

"Demon Monkey, where do you think you're going?"

Tathagata Buddha was furious in his heart, indeed it was Sun Wukong who had barged into the Sukhavati Realm. Did this demon monkey think he, Tathagata Buddha, was made of clay?

"Tathagata bald donkey, catch up with my old Sun first before you say that!"

The clone of Sun Wukong let out a cold laugh, Somersault Cloud combined with Shrinking Earth into Inches divine skill, he performed Streaming Light Escape, transforming into a golden light that shot forward, disappearing in the blink of an eye over tens of thousands of miles.

"Ignorant demon monkey, this is the Sukhavati Realm, a small world of my Buddhist sect. No matter how fast you fly, can you turn the heavens upside down?"

With a cold snort, Tathagata Buddha took a step and covered hundreds of miles as if using Minor Teleportation, chasing after Sun Wukong's clone. It seemed as if the spatial laws of the Sukhavati Realm were completely at his command, unaffected by the third cataclysmic Immeasurable Calamity.

Glancing back with the corner of his eye, the brow of Sun Wukong's clone furrowed slightly. If things continued this way, it wouldn't be long before Tathagata Buddha caught up. Indeed, the Sukhavati Realm was the holy land of the Buddhist sect, even the laws of space were covertly aiding Tathagata Buddha.

Grinding his teeth, Sun Wukong's clone stopped running and turned to directly perform Nine Steps to Trample the Heavens. After quickly taking eight steps, he fiercely swung his rod at Tathagata Buddha.

"Heaven-Breaking Nine Rods!"

Having ascended to the Half-Step Saint Realm, Sun Wukong felt much less pressure when performing Heaven-Breaking Nine Rods. He no longer needed to accumulate energy and could use it directly. The clone he created with his divine cloning powers also held this ability.

With one swing of the rod, nine massive rod shadows materialized, encircling endless Great Dao Runes like Heavenly Pillars, and furiously bombarded Tathagata Buddha from nine different directions.

Boom!

The sound of thunder was unceasing, as if the entire world was about to be completely shattered under this one strike, space around trembled violently, and where the nine rod shadows passed, space fractured inch by inch, pulling out nine long black spatial rifts.

"What?"

Tathagata Buddha was startled inside, Sun Wukong had performed Heaven-Breaking Nine Rods before, but it was never as ferocious as this time. That supreme aura of annihilation that was suffocating even before reaching him made his scalp tighten suddenly.

"Dharma Body!"

"Tathagata Palm, Myriad Buddhas Worship!"

Tathagata Buddha did not dare to be negligent, he quickly activated his Dharma Body and blocked the nine rod shadows with a palm.

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The horrifying sound of impact, accompanied by the explosive fireworks, suddenly burst forth. Tathagata Buddha's ten-thousand-zhang tall golden body was struck, causing him to stagger back several steps in midair, his face full of shock.

How has Sun Wukong's strength increased so much?

The last time Tathagata Buddha had fought Sun Wukong was five hundred years ago. At that time, although Sun Wukong's combat power was monstrously abnormal, Tathagata Buddha was still confident he could suppress him. However, during today's encounter, Tathagata Buddha was horrified to discover that Sun Wukong's strength was now no weaker than his own!

Could this demon monkey have achieved sagehood by Proving the Tao?

A glint flashed in his eyes as Tathagata Buddha gazed at Sun Wukong's clone, who had tumbled twice in the air before stabilizing. His pupils suddenly constricted - Slaying Three Corpses Half-Step Quasi-Saint!

This demon monkey has actually chosen such a path to sagehood!

It is well known that before proving the Tao and becoming a saint, each slain corpse results in the saint's strength multiplying by a geometric progression. And the combat power of one who slays Three Corpses before proving the Tao and becoming a saint far exceeds that of those who become saints by slaying one or two corpses and relying on merit and destiny.

However, likewise, the difficulty of proving the Tao and becoming a saint also exponentially increases with each additional slain corpse. Sun Wukong is now a Half-Step Quasi-Saint who has slain Three Corpses. Does that mean he intends to follow in the footsteps of Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor, uniting with the Tao after slaying Three Corpses to attain sainthood?

This demon monkey actually aspires to ascend to the heavens in one step and become a Primordial Taiji Da Luo Golden Immortal. Such tremendous ambition!

Sun Wukong's current strength is probably no less than that of a Slaying One Corpse Merit Saint!

In other words, Sun Wukong's current combat power is probably no weaker than that of Tathagata Buddha!

Realizing this, Tathagata Buddha's face suddenly turned extremely unsightly. The speed of Sun Wukong's progress was indeed astonishing!

In just five hundred short years, from a Slaying Two Corpses Quasi-Saint to a Slaying Three Corpses Half-Step Saint, the difficulty is not in the least bit smaller than directly becoming a saint through merit and destiny. If he truly succeeds in uniting the Three Corpses with the Tao and attains sagehood, then there would likely be no one within the Three Realms who could contend with him, perhaps not even Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor, who is known as the Ancestor of All Paths, could be sure of defeating him!

"He must not be allowed to live and leave the Sukhavati Realm!"

A strong murderous intent surged in Tathagata Buddha's heart. Since Sun Wukong had come to the Sukhavati Realm this time, there was no way he could be allowed to leave alive. Otherwise, once he became a saint, it would spell the doom of the entire Buddhist Sect!

"Immeasurable Buddha Nation!"

"Endless merit flows into my body!"

Tathagata Buddha gritted his teeth and pushed the Immeasurable Buddha Nation to its maximum extent. A great amount of merit and destiny flowed out of each of the realm within, pouring into Tathagata Buddha's body.

As the merit and destiny flowed in, Tathagata Buddha's aura suddenly soared, and his ten-thousand-zhang tall golden body began to further expand, twenty thousand zhang, thirty thousand zhang... one hundred thousand zhang!

A massive one hundred thousand zhang tall golden body almost entirely covered the sky. At this moment, Tathagata Buddha seemed like the Divine King of the Sukhavati Realm, his body emitting a terrifying aura that shook the heavens, as he suddenly struck down at Sun Wukong's clone with his palm.

"Buddha Heart Strike!"

A golden giant palm that covered the entire sky reached down from above, pressing fiercely towards Sun Wukong's clone. The terrifying force pressed Sun Wukong's clone directly from midair onto the ground where he struggled to stabilize his form, and his bones creaked under the pressure.

"Is this Tathagata Buddha's true trump card?"

Sun Wukong's clone was greatly startled. The Buddha Heart Strike Tathagata Buddha had used this time was hundreds of times stronger than during their fight in the Heavenly Court!

Could the infusion of merit and destiny truly provide such a tremendous increase in strength?