Chapter 29

In the Eastern Shengzhou, at the Flower and Fruit Mountain, a shocking battle was unfolding. The combatants were the forces of Heaven and the forces of Flower and Fruit Mountain. Due to Sun Wukong's disruption of the Peach Blossom Banquet, the two sides could no longer reconcile, and the only way out was a fight to the death. Otherwise, the Heavenly Court would lose face and even threaten its rule over the three realms. Therefore, this time, the Jade Emperor was determined and dispatched most of the Heavenly Court's warriors, determined to level Flower and Fruit Mountain in one fell swoop.

On the side of the Heavenly Court, Li Jing led the Third Prince Nezha, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, and a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, descending from the sky.

On the side of Flower and Fruit Mountain, Sun Wukong led the Horned Demon King, the Seventy-Two Cave Demon Kings, and four valiant generals, along with the assistance of Yang Zhen, engaging the heavenly deities in a battle that shook the heavens and darkened the sun and moon.

Yang Zhen carefully observed the heavenly generals sent by the Heavenly Court. Apart from Li Jing and Nezha, who had extraordinary cultivation, there were indeed some formidable figures among the Twenty-Eight Constellations, whose cultivation and magical powers even surpassed Sun Wukong in his normal state. However, Sun Wukong had just consumed five gourds of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. Since Sun Wukong was a stone-born monkey, the power of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir was not enough to rupture his meridians, so this tremendous power was stored within his body, neither absorbed nor dissipated.

Fortunately, because the Heavenly Court wanted to capture Sun Wukong, this war provided an opportunity for the power stored in Sun Wukong's body to be put to use. Sun Wukong's Ruyi Golden Cudgel flew up and down, each strike exerted with full force. Despite being surrounded by over a dozen heavenly generals, he still held his own. The battle was truly earth-shattering and ghost-weeping, causing mountains to crumble, rivers to reverse, and the sky to turn dark, as if the laws of the world were collapsing.

Dark clouds hung low in the sky, pressing down heavily.

As the Thunder Department deities cast their spells, countless heavenly thunders struck Flower and Fruit Mountain, startling the monkeys and mountain spirits to flee for their lives.

Once the battle began, Sun Wukong held off the Third Prince Nezha, Li Jing, the Four Heavenly Kings, and several of the Twenty-Eight Constellations. With the participation of the Horned Demon King, the Seventy-Two Cave Demon Kings, and the four valiant generals, although they were still at a disadvantage against the Heavenly Court's experts, they could still hold out for a while.

Yang Zhen, seeing this, broke free from the Qiumu Lang who was facing him, manipulating the Three Pure Fires to form a hundred-meter-long fire dragon, which directly plunged into the ranks of the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, intent on wiping them out. Only by eliminating these heavenly soldiers could the monkeys and mountain spirits on Flower and Fruit Mountain be safe. Moreover, as long as Yang Zhen did not refine the souls of these heavenly soldiers, they could be reborn into the divine path and return to the Heavenly Court after another lifetime, so there was no need to worry about excessive killing affecting his virtue.

Qiumu Lang, responsible for restraining Yang Zhen, immediately guessed Yang Zhen's plan. He accelerated, taking advantage of the moment when Yang Zhen was held back by the heavenly soldiers, and flashed in front of Yang Zhen, wielding a long saber to attack him.

"Get out of my way, or die!" Yang Zhen's eyes fixed on the charging Qiumu Lang, his expression turning cold. He took a step forward, and a mighty aura erupted like a thunderclap. He separated a small fire dragon from the larger one to entangle Qiumu Lang, while he himself leaped over Qiumu Lang to continue eliminating the heavenly soldiers.

Qiumu Lang, one of the Seven Western White Tiger Constellations, was the first of the Western constellations. His cultivation was also extremely high. In "Journey to the West," even after losing his "Sarira Lustrous Inner Elixir," Qiumu Lang could still fight Sun Wukong to a draw for fifty to sixty rounds. If he hadn't lost his inner elixar, Sun Wukong might not have been able to defeat him.

However, Qiumu Lang had not yet cultivated the "Sarira Lustrous Inner Elixir" at this time, but his current cultivation, the "Three Flowers Immortality Formula," was also extraordinary, making his physical combat skills absolutely superior to Yang Zhen. Therefore, Yang Zhen did not engage him in close combat. As long as the heavenly soldiers suffered heavy losses, the monkeys on Flower and Fruit Mountain could survive, and then they could counterattack Li Jing and Nezha later.

The fire dragon composed of the Three Pure Fires twisted and flew through the formation formed by the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, unstoppable. Wherever it went, all the heavenly soldiers were burned to ashes, their souls flying toward the Six Paths of Rebirth.

Yang Zhen's massacre had already caught the attention of the Heavenly Court. However, Li Jing and Nezha were still besieging Sun Wukong and could not break away. So Li Jing ordered several of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, "You few go and assist Qiumu Lang in restraining this demon. You must stop him, or the consequences will be dire."

Li Jing was extremely frustrated. One monkey was already difficult to deal with, and now there was another cat demon who could use the Three Pure Fires, truly an inauspicious start.

The several constellations, receiving the order and not wanting Yang Zhen to continue his rampage, abandoned their opponents and rushed toward Yang Zhen. Joining them was the Northern Dhritarashtra, and Qiumu Lang, who had freed himself from the Three Pure Fires. It seemed that Li Jing not only wanted to restrain Yang Zhen but also intended to eliminate him.

Sensing the movement of the Heavenly Court, Yang Zhen's lips curled into a smile. "It seems Li Jing takes me seriously. I can't disappoint him."

With a light laugh, Yang Zhen stopped and no longer controlled the fire dragon, allowing the flames to spread. As he watched the five constellations and the Northern Dhritarashtra attack, Yang Zhen's eyes turned cold, and a powerful and terrifying Three Pure Fire erupted from his body at an unimaginable speed, forming a mysterious red lotus platform around him.

As the firelight appeared, the enormous red lotus platform extended infinitely, like a moving inferno, turning the entire hundred-meter area into a sea of fire, with flames reaching the sky. Yang Zhen stood in the air, the Three Pure Fires beneath his feet arranged in a lotus pattern, shooting out countless fire pillars that fiercely attacked the Northern Dhritarashtra and the five constellations.

Stunned, not only the Northern Dhritarashtra and Qiumu Lang, but even Li Jing and the others, who had been closely watching Yang Zhen, were shocked. They had never imagined that anyone could summon such a shocking Three Pure Fire.

In their minds, being able to summon a hundred-meter-long fire dragon was already Yang Zhen's limit, but they never expected him to unleash such intense Three Pure Fire.

Nezha was even more astonished. Nezha's master, Taiyi Zhenren, had a treasure called the Nine-Dragon Fire Canopy, which, when used, would produce nine fire dragons that released the Three Pure Fire, with astonishing power. However, when Nezha saw Yang Zhen's attack, he realized that the Nine-Dragon Fire Canopy was completely outclassed. If not for the fact that the fire dragons from the Nine-Dragon Fire Canopy could form an array, this treasure that shook the three realms would have been completely overshadowed by Yang Zhen.

Who is this man?