Guan Kong held the Primordial Creation Cauldron, his heart filled with excitement.
This is a supreme innate treasure!
How many of these are there in the entire primordial world?
Those are all in the hands of a few religious leaders and saints.
Even the two Western religious leaders and the goddess Nuwa never possessed such a treasure.
Although she knew that her teacher was never short of magical treasures, she never expected that he would bestow such a treasure so casually.
Of course, there was no need for her to be modest between master and disciple. Since her teacher had bestowed this treasure upon her, he must have thought it through carefully, so she didn't need to pretend to be reserved and refuse.
After expressing her gratitude, she immediately sat down in the hall and began refining the treasure.
She was also afraid that something might go wrong during the ritual, and she would feel at ease if a teacher was there to watch over her.
In just a few days, she had left a primordial spirit imprint deep within the treasure's essence, thus completely taking possession of it.
It will be difficult for others to take this treasure away in the future. However, in order to fully unleash the power of the Creation Cauldron, she will need to completely refine the innate divine restrictions within the treasure.
This is a gradual process that cannot be completed in a short period of time.
Moreover, this innate treasure is something used by sages. She has only severed two corpses and is still far from achieving the Primordial Dao Fruit. She does not have the cultivation and strength to refine all the restrictions in a short period of time.
If one's cultivation level is insufficient, even possessing an innate supreme treasure will prevent one from unleashing its full power...
Just as Guan Kong was refining the Creation Cauldron, the stone monkey in the lower realm, out of fear of the cycle of life and death, embarked on a journey to seek immortality.
Guided by fate, he crossed the East China Sea, enduring countless hardships, and finally found Lingtai Fangcun Mountain...
At the same time, Xuandu Daoist of Bajing Palace also summoned his disciple, Marshal Tianpeng, to the heavens and expounded the Great Dao to him.
Meanwhile, Yuanshi Tianzun was not idle either. He immediately ordered the White Crane Boy to go to the Heavenly Court to pay respects to the Jade Emperor.
Not long after, a deity from the Chan Sect was granted a title by the Jade Emperor and became the Curtain-Raising General of the Lingxiao Palace.
Meanwhile, at the Western Paradise, the Buddha also summoned Guanyin Bodhisattva to the Great Hall and gave her a few instructions.
After receiving the order, the Bodhisattva rode on auspicious clouds to the Western Sea, where he met the Dragon King of the Western Sea and gave him a detailed instruction...
A vast and desolate curtain was gradually drawn back...
All of this had nothing to do with the Jie Sect or the Taoism; both sides remained extremely quiet...
Time flies, and years pass by.
The stone monkey became a disciple of the Bodhi Patriarch in the Seven Stars Cave of the Moonlit Mountain on the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. He learned a lot of skills, but later, because he showed off in front of others, he incurred the displeasure of the Bodhi Patriarch, who then banished him from the mountain.
At this point, the stone monkey already had a name: Sun Wukong...
After being expelled from the Seven Star Cave, Sun Wukong returned directly to Flower Fruit Mountain in the East Sea and lived a carefree and happy life.
Because he had cultivated superb skills, his name quickly spread among the demons, and he later formed a brotherhood with six great demons.
His six brothers were all renowned figures among the demon race, and each of them possessed supernatural powers that were no less than those of Sun Wukong himself.
If he were just living his carefree life like this, that would be fine.
Unfortunately, his fate was already sealed.
So, under the deliberate enticement of certain people, he unknowingly committed a grave offense.
He first went to the Dragon Palace of the East Sea to steal the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, and later he even went to the Underworld to forcibly alter the Book of Life and Death, ruining the cycle of reincarnation.
Then the Dragon King and the Underworld jointly reported him to the Heavenly Court.
The Jade Emperor naturally wanted to send troops to subdue Sun Wukong, but was persuaded by Taibai Jinxing to stop and instead offer Sun Wukong a pardon.
After all, he was a wild mountain demon who knew nothing. In the end, he was easily persuaded by Taibai Jinxing and tricked into going to the Heavenly Court, where he was appointed as Bi Ma Wen, a minor official without any rank.
When some people who knew about Sun Wukong's background learned of this, they almost laughed themselves to death.
In the end, Sun Wukong found out he had been tricked, and naturally became furious and rebelled against Heaven.
Then he gathered six sworn brothers, proclaimed the "Seven Great Sages," and prepared to fight against the Heavenly Court.
He called himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
However, when the Heavenly Court ordered Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, to lead heavenly soldiers and generals to punish them...
Seeing that things were not going well, the six Great Sages all slipped away and ran away.
Before the battle even began, Sun Wukong suffered such a fierce backstab.
The usually innocent monkey had never seen anything like this before, and it must have been so angry it almost vomited blood...
However, the heavenly soldiers and generals had already surrounded Flower Fruit Mountain, so he had no choice but to lead the monkeys and their offspring from Flower Fruit Mountain to fight them.
It must be said that this naturally born stone monkey was indeed powerful; the heavenly soldiers and generals led by Li Tianwang were no match for him at all.
Even Nezha, the Third Prince, who was known as the vanguard general of the Xiqi army during the Investiture of the Gods and killed many true immortals of the Jie Sect, was wounded and returned after facing Sun Wukong.
This expedition was naturally a crushing defeat for the Heavenly Court.
The Jade Emperor was furious and naturally wanted to send a large army to attack again, but Venus stepped forward and persuaded the Jade Emperor to stop.
Next, the Heavenly Court, naturally, followed the same old routine, once again offering Sun Wukong a chance to be recruited.
Although Sun Wukong was simple and honest, he also knew that how could his monkey followers on Flower Fruit Mountain possibly stand against the Heavenly Court?
Seeing that Venus had come to recruit him with the Jade Emperor's permission, he only put on a show and eventually went to heaven with him.
As a result, the Jade Emperor actually bestowed upon him the title of Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
But despite its impressive title, it's all talk and no action.
With this title, he probably couldn't even command a single ordinary celestial soldier.
The Heavenly Court was actually taking advantage of his ignorance and treating him like a fool...
However, he accepted it happily, and in the end, in front of all the immortals and gods in the Lingxiao Palace, he even asked what rank the Great Sage Equaling Heaven was, and how much higher he was than the Keeper of the Heavenly Horses.
Taibai Jinxing, suppressing his laughter, explained to him that the Great Sage Equaling Heaven was of the highest rank, and could not possibly be compared to the mere Keeper of the Heavenly Horses.
Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong immediately accepted with delight, completely oblivious to the strange looks in the eyes of the immortals and gods on either side...
Since the title of Great Sage Equaling Heaven did not grant him any real power, Sun Wukong was naturally bored in the Heavenly Court and spent his days wandering around, eventually becoming superficial friends with some immortals and gods.
In the end, some immortals couldn't stand it anymore and asked the Jade Emperor to give Sun Wukong a job.
The Jade Emperor readily agreed and actually assigned Sun Wukong a task: to guard the Peach Garden.
When some immortals and gods heard about this, they all shook their heads.
They had no idea what their emperor was thinking, actually ordering a monkey to guard the peach orchard.
What's the difference between this and putting a mouse into a rice jar?
This is because they're afraid Sun Wukong won't steal the food...
At this moment, Guan Kongye had finished refining the Creation Cauldron and then followed Hu Le into the Chaos.
The master and disciple headed deeper into the chaos...
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