Sun Wukong was taken aback: "Predicting the future?"
Fang Xiu ignored his questioning and continued, "The reason you couldn't attack me is because of the Dao of Nothingness. At that time, I was in a state of nothingness and was immune to any attack."
"Predicting the future? The Way of Nothingness? So that's it, so that's it!" Sun Wukong shouted excitedly, finally solving the mystery that had troubled him for so long.
He did not deny it and immediately sent out two beams of spiritual light into Fang Xiu's body.
Fang Xiu immediately felt countless mysterious and obscure runes appear in his mind, namely the Somersault Cloud and the Seventy-Two Transformations.
There's not much to say about the Somersault Cloud; it's a flying technique that's very convenient for traveling. In the ancient mythological era, although it wasn't the fastest, it was still considered a top-tier flying technique.
As for the Seventy-Two Transformations, Fang Xiu was somewhat surprised. He had always thought that the Seventy-Two Transformations were seventy-two different transformations, but after receiving Sun Wukong's inheritance, he realized that the Seventy-Two Transformations were also called the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations, which were seventy-two kinds of supernatural powers.
The art of transformation is just one of many supernatural powers.
The complete Seventy-Two Transformations of the Earthly Fiends are divided into: Communicating with the Netherworld, Driving Away Spirits, Carrying Mountains, Forbidding Water, Borrowing Wind, Spreading Fog, Praying for Sunshine, Praying for Rain, Sitting in Fire, Entering Water, Obscuring the Sun, Riding the Wind, Boiling Stones, Spitting Flames, Swallowing Knives, Pot Heaven, Divine Travel, Walking on Water, Staff Disintegration, Splitting the Body, Invisibility, Regenerating the Head, Fixing the Body, Slaying Demons, Inviting Immortals, Chasing Souls, Capturing the Soul, Summoning Clouds, Taking the Moon, Transporting, Marrying Dreams, Disintegration, Entrusting the Staff, Cutting Off Flow, Averting Disasters, Resolving Calamities, Yellow and White, Swordsmanship, Guessing, Earth Element, Star Numbers, Forming Arrays, Deception, Spraying Transformation, Finger Transformation, Corpse Disintegration, Shifting Scenery, Summoning, Going Nearby, Gathering Beasts, Taming Birds, Qi Forbidden, Great Strength, Penetrating Stones, Generating Light, Barrier Clothing, Guiding, Taking Food, Opening Walls, Leaping Over Rocks, Sprouting the Head, Climbing and Copying, Drinking Water, Lying in Snow, Exposing to the Sun, Playing with Pills, Talisman Water, Medicine, Knowing the Time, Knowing the Place, Abstaining from Grains, Nightmare Prayer.
After mastering the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends, one can be described as omnipotent in the eyes of ordinary people, encompassing almost all kinds of magical arts and supernatural powers.
After completing the transaction with Sun Wukong and giving instructions on the follow-up plan, Fang Xiu immediately returned to the Heavenly Court. He did not stay at Flower Fruit Mountain to watch the battle, because there was no need for it.
The three powerful immortals who came to participate in the battle, Li Jing, Nezha, and Yang Jian, were not corrupted by demonic energy. The remaining 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals did not even have immortal bodies, or even reach the level of demigods, so they could not hide from the corruption of demonic energy.
Therefore, the Queen Mother of the West did not corrupt these lowly soldiers. It would have been useless to corrupt them anyway. Even if all the soldiers of the Heavenly Court were corrupted, they would not be able to withstand a top-level immortal god.
In the Heavenly Court, Fang Xiu asked the Jade Emperor for a quiet room and began his seclusion.
Because he won't need to appear later, according to the plot, Sun Wukong will first fight Yang Jian and others in the mortal realm, then be captured and imprisoned in the alchemy furnace. Only after Sun Wukong overturns the alchemy furnace will the havoc in the Heavenly Palace begin, and that's when he will need to appear.
This period of time was used to digest the characters for "Earth" and "Universe" in the Nine Dragons Supreme Method, as well as the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends.
With the twenty-fold time acceleration activated, Fang Xiu immersed himself in cultivation.
The first thing he studied was the Jade Emperor's understanding of the character "宙" (Zhou), because he understood only the character "宙" best. He was encountering the character "地" (Di) and the Seventy-Two Transformations of the Earthly Fiends for the first time, which would definitely take a long time. Therefore, he had to start with the simplest thing.
With the help of the Jade Emperor's experience, he quickly grasped the concepts, and his mastery of the Way of Time improved rapidly. The most significant change was that he could now accelerate time up to thirty times.
Even the idea of time standing still is beginning to emerge.
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Several days later.
Deep within the Heavenly Court, in the Tushita Palace, boom!
A deafening roar erupted.
A massive bronze alchemy furnace, several meters tall, was struck with tremendous force and overturned to the ground. Rolling Samadhi Fire flowed out of the furnace, burning through the floor of the main hall and flowing down to the lower realm.
"Hehe, I, Old Sun, have come out!" A monkey covered in charred remains leaped out, its terrifying power sweeping across the entire Heavenly Court.
It was Sun Wukong!
Feigning anger, he pulled out his golden cudgel and struck at the South Heavenly Gate, cursing as he did so: "You old Jade Emperor, you dared to lock me, Old Sun, in the alchemy furnace! You didn't expect this, did you? I'm out! Today, your reign as Jade Emperor is over. As the saying goes, emperors take turns, and this year it's my turn! You can sit in the Lingxiao Palace, and so can I!"
While Sun Wukong was smashing things up, he was secretly enjoying himself. He felt even better than when he stole the elixir of immortality. He could curse the Jade Emperor without restraint and not be punished afterwards. Was there anything more enjoyable in the world?
"Something terrible has happened! Sun Wukong has escaped!"
"Help! That demonic monkey... Ah!!"
Sun Wukong slapped the shouting man away with his staff and said coldly, "Call me the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"
As the commotion he caused grew, Li Jing and others, who had rehearsed in advance, began to arrange for a large number of immortals and gods to deal with Sun Wukong, while the truly top immortals and gods did not take action.
In the quiet room, Fang Xiu sensed the movement in the Heavenly Court and opened his eyes, in which seemed to see the river of time rushing.
"Has the story begun? Perfect timing, I've almost grasped the meaning of the character '宙'."
The next moment, he slowly stood up and said softly, "Time stands still."
Buzz!
A strange buzzing sound rang out, and time seemed to freeze within a ten-mile radius centered on him, with everything falling into a state of stillness.
The incense burner placed in the quiet room had wisps of smoke floating in mid-air, while the churning sea of clouds outside stopped moving, and the cranes flapping their wings in the sky seemed to have become specimens, hanging in the air.
Within this ten-mile radius, the only living being capable of movement is Fang Xiu.
Snap!
He snapped his fingers, and the state of time standing still was instantly lifted, and everything that had been still resumed its original movement.
"Is the range of time stillness only ten miles? That's still too small. Moreover, time stillness probably won't be very effective against beings like immortals and gods who have transcended the river of time. We still need to continue to study the Dao of Time."
He could sense that the potential of the Way of Time was far greater than this, as evidenced by the death rollback. Although it was also the Way of Time, the death rollback could even encompass immortals and gods.
If I possessed that level of mastery over time, and then used the technique of stopping time, even immortals and gods would be unable to act.
After briefly trying out his new abilities, Fang Xiu disappeared from the quiet room. He was going to check how many immortals and gods had been infected by the demonic energy, and also to witness the mythical legend of Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace.
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