Volume 3: The Four Great Continents, Chapter 123: Rushing to Reinforce Jiaomo Palace (Three)

  All he heard was a loud "clang", and Manjushri only felt a surge of tremendous force coming from his chest, causing his blood to churn uncontrollably. He spat out a large mouthful of golden vital energy, and his body flew backward uncontrollably.

  Lei Hao gained momentum and showed no mercy, his legs suddenly bursting out with a fierce surge of magical power. His body soared high into the air, like a large bird swooping down towards Manjushri, seeking to take advantage of this opportunity to cut him down with his sword and settle the deep-seated grudge that had been building up over the years.

  Manjushri, still flying backwards, saw Lei Hao's ferocious pounce, his face unchanged, he stretched out his hand and from his palm shot a transparent, strange and abnormal pressure that enveloped Lei Hao like an overwhelming storm.

  Lei Hao's eyes couldn't see the aura of pressure, but his divine sense told him that a strange thing was rushing towards him from the front. At this time, Manjushri, who had exposed his empty door, was right in front of him. As long as he rushed over, he could kill him with one blow. With a fierce bite of his steel teeth, another burst of explosive power erupted from behind him, and his body shape accelerated again, rushing towards Manjushri like lightning.

  When Lei Hao charged into the oppressive atmosphere with a fierce momentum, a cold and piercing aura squeezed into his body from all sides. However, after just one breath, a thin layer of ice crystals formed on the surface of Lei Hao's skin, freezing him solid, and his attack was naturally interrupted.

  But this layer of ice crystal did not trap Lei Hao for long, only a fraction of a breath later, Lei Hao's eyes suddenly opened wide, tearing apart the ice crystals at the corners of his eyes. Then, a layer of fiery red magic quickly flashed across his entire body, and after this fiery red magic had traversed Lei Hao's body once, all the ice crystals that had trapped him instantly vanished without a trace.

  After escaping the predicament, Lei Hao raised his head to look at Wenshu, and silently thought it was a pity. At this time, Wenshu had already stabilized his body and was looking at Lei Hao with a serious expression.

  "Lei Shi is good at his skills, I am ashamed that I am not as good." Manjusri looked calmly at Lei Hao and said lightly.

  Lei Hao smiled lightly and said, "That's natural. If I were like you, having lived for tens of thousands of years, having been defeated by two families, and being beaten by younger generations to the point where I couldn't even find my way north... I would have cut my throat long ago, rather than losing face everywhere."

  Manjushri heard this and his face didn't show any signs of annoyance. He replied, "What's the point of winning or losing? Under the great trend of heaven, we are all just insignificant ants that can't control our own fate! Now that Lei Shi has such a good skill, why bother to help Zhou for evil purposes and join forces with Jiaomo Wang, a demon full of sin? Why not enter my Buddhist door early, cultivate your heart, and preserve your body in the great calamity?" Manjushri's voice was filled with a hint of compassion and a thread of helplessness.

  Lei Hao's face was calm and serene as he said, "As the Bodhisattva said, under the heavens, we are all just ants. Then why do we still need to cultivate?"

  Manjushri replied: "To enter the Way and avoid innumerable kalpas of suffering."

  Lei Hao asked again: "How can one enter the Tao?"

  "Manjushri recited a phrase 'Namo Original Master Shakyamuni Buddha' and then replied: 'Human law is based on the earth, the earth law is based on heaven, heaven law is based on Tao. Tao law is based on nature.'"

  Lei Hao heard this and said very seriously: "Since the Tao is natural, why must one forcibly seek to enter it? Whether in the past, present or future, I am just myself, that is the natural way of the Tao! So no matter what great calamity comes, I will use my battle knife to fight, to kill out a path that belongs to me! Why should I enter your Buddhism and become a mud sculpture that doesn't even know its own self?"

  Manjushri asked calmly after hearing this: "Is this the Tao of Lei Shi?"

  Lei Hao waved his hand with the Dragon Slayer and said in a calm tone: "This is the way of my heart!"

  Manjushri looked at Lei Hao, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes, and said with some disappointment: "Since the host is stubborn and unenlightened, I also have to use my magic to exorcise the demon."

  Lei Hao burst out laughing and said, "You bunch of bald donkeys are really boring. You can't win a fight, so you have to resort to spouting nonsense that moves heaven and earth, but after spewing a whole load of nonsense, you still want to fight! In that case, let's get on with it!" With that, Lei Hao swung his Dragon-Slaying Sword, unleashing a purple-red sword energy from afar that fiercely chopped towards Manjushri.

  Manjushri thought that he had not seen the knife of Lei Hao, and sat cross-legged on the lotus platform, reciting: "The inner fire is not yet extinguished, and you want to transcend the outer fire, but there is no such place. You monks have fallen into the net of views, and you want to transcend the iron net, but there is also no such place..."

  At this moment, Lei Hao's eyes suddenly changed, and the knife he was pointing at was no longer trying to Wen Shu, but Sun Wukong who was wearing a green Taoist robe.

  Lei Hao's eyes narrowed, and his mind quickly turned to thoughts. He knew that he must have been affected by Wenshu's illusion technique. Sun Wukong was being pressed under the Five Elements Mountain at this time, so how could he suddenly appear here?

  Lei Hao's face didn't change color, his hand added a heavy force, the Dragon Slaying Knife brought a shocking momentum and heavily chopped towards Sun Wukong in front of him.

  Before he could bring the knife down, Sun Wukong took out his familiar golden-hooped staff and held it up to block Lei Hao's Dragon-Slaying Knife.

  "Niu Tou, have you gone mad? How can you not even give a warning before raising your knife to chop me? Don't you know that your Dragon-Slaying Chop hurts when it lands on me?" Sun Wukong shouted with a grin, his expression and tone exactly the same as the Sun Wukong in Lei Hao's memory.

  Lei Hao was taken aback, the name "Cow Head" was only shouted by Sun Wukong! But Lei Hao's mind was still very clear, the Sun Wukong in front of him must be fake, so he kept moving his hands, holding the Dragon Slaying Knife and fighting with 'Sun Wukong'.

  Sun Wukong saw Lei Hao not stopping, so he continued to shout and jump around, holding the Golden Cudgel, refusing to fight Lei Hao, only occasionally when Lei Hao's knife aura was too fierce, he would strike out to disperse one or two of the knife auras, all of this was very similar to the Sun Wukong in Lei Hao's memory.

  After a few rounds, Lei Hao felt something was off. He had been brothers with Sun Wukong for hundreds of years and was extremely familiar with his fighting style. He could even use Sun's ultimate move himself. Every move this Sun Wukong made seemed too familiar to him, giving him the illusion that he was actually sparring with Sun on Mount Huaguo. Illusions can only create fake things, not to mention the flaws in speech are countless. As long as one carefully distinguishes, they can tell what's real and what's fake within a few breaths. But this 'Sun Wukong' in front of him didn't seem fake at all!

  Lei Hao's mind was filled with doubts, but his mouth suddenly let out a loud shout: "Qian Kun Yi Piao". As soon as he finished shouting, he swung the Dragon Slaying Sword in his hand with great force. The Dragon Slaying Sword, which emitted a faint yellow glow, suddenly expanded and transformed into a gigantic door panel hundreds of feet long and tens of feet wide the moment it left Lei Hao's hands. With an extremely sharp and fierce sword aura, it heavily smashed towards 'Sun Wukong'.

  Sun Wukong saw this and cursed, "What are you doing, Bull Head? You actually dare to use my own technique against me! I'm so angry I could die!" After finishing speaking, he also loudly shouted: "Qian Kun Yi Piao". As soon as the words left his mouth, he threw out the Golden-Hooped Rod in his hand. The golden light flashing Golden-Hooped Rod suddenly inflated and transformed into a gigantic rod several dozen feet long and thick, bringing with it an unstoppable crushing pressure rolling towards the Dragon-Slaying Knife in the sky.

  Lei Hao saw Sun Wukong's move that was identical to the one in his memory, and he was suddenly shocked.

  At this moment, the Dragon Slaying War Knife and the Golden Hoop Rod clashed heavily together. Lei Hao only felt that his move had struck a hard mountain wall, all his strength pouring out, without even a hint of recoil in his hand.

  Lei Hao thought for a moment, and instead believed that Sun Wukong's move was not made with full force. With the hardness of the Golden Cudgel, even if he let him chop it, he might not be able to chop it down. After the purple-red knife energy dissipated, Lei Hao put away the Dragon Slaying Sword and rushed forward, saying: "Dead monkey, how did you end up here?"

  Sun Wukong also put away the Golden Cudgel, a look of depression floating on his face. He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands towards Lei Hao, saying: "How would I know? Just now, for some reason, the five big characters on Mount Wutai disappeared, so I broke free from Mount Wutai and was just preparing to return to Huaguo Mountain when I was caught by a spell and brought here. As soon as I arrived, I saw you holding the Dragon Slaying Knife and chopping at me, without even responding to me."

  Lei Hao saw Sun Wukong's shrugging action and was certain that the Sun Wukong in front of him was real, because only he and Sun Wukong understood what this action meant. He stepped forward with joy and patted Sun Wukong's shoulder heavily, saying: "This is the lair of Jiao Erge, the Jiaomo Palace. The shameless trio from Ling Mountain attacked the Jiaomo Palace, I came to assist Jiao Erge, just now I was still fighting against Manjusri, you suddenly appeared, and I thought it was Manjusri's illusion, so when you called me, I didn't respond!"

  At this time, the Jiaomo Wang who was fighting with Guanyin and Puxian saw Leihao holding his hand in mid-air, slashing and chopping as if there was an enemy in front of him. However, Manjushri was reciting something non-stop above his head.

  The Demon King was shocked in his heart, and he opened his mouth to emit a thunderous dragon's roar, attempting to awaken Lei Hao who had been petrified. However, the sound of the dragon's roar was blocked by a transparent wall of magical energy dozens of feet away from Lei Hao, causing the sound waves to ripple back and forth like concentric circles on the surface of water.

  Pu Xian saw this and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He said disdainfully, "Don't waste your energy, Wan Jun's demon is doomed to die!"

  The Demon King shouted in a loud voice: "What did Manjusri's bald donkey do to the seventh brother of this king?"