"Little friend, you don't have much time left." Jiang Zi Ya said, "As long as you bring me out, I promise that I will not make things difficult for you. Besides, after I become a god, I will bestow you the title of an Eternal National Master so that you don't need to continue on your questionable and unpromising work. Instead, you will be superior to all the billions of gods except for me alone. Isn't that a good thing?"
Sun Wukong and Hong Hai'er stopped talking. They knew that Jiang Zi Ya was capable of making such a promise and that it would be extremely tempting.
"Bah!" This time, I also learned Hong Hai'er's words, "You don't even care about the people that originally belonged to you here. You're selfish. How can I believe your promise? It's not important for me to become a god or not. In real history, Jiang Shang helped established the Zhou Dynasty that survived for eight hundred years, but he did not create gods. It's because people believe in the words of novelists and make some imaginations that you can live in this world. But you don't think that people believed you because of your contributions to the world, which is why Mr. Xu Zhong Lin made up stories of you. You only think that you could create gods and even rule all the gods, which is simply a reversion of the cause and effect! How is this any different from the current people who do not want to work hard but hope that the gods and ghosts would bestow blessings upon them? Throughout history, the world has only thrived through the efforts of tens of thousands of people. There is no kingdom flourishing through gods or Buddhas' immortal arts."
"How dare you!" Jiang Zi Ya was rendered speechless by my words, and his embarrassment turned into anger. He immediately waved the Immortal Beating Whip, and countless gods immediately attacked toward us.
I admired myself as well to speak in such a manner. I was secretly delighted, but I forgot about my current situation.
"You are right. The world has only thrived through the efforts of tens of thousands of people. There is no kingdom flourishing through gods or Buddhas' immortal arts." Sun Wukong nodded, "In that case, my trip here is not in vain."
As he spoke, he raised his Golden-banded Staff and shouted, "Transform!" Then the Golden-banded Staff turned into thousands of golden light beams, blocking all the enemies outside.
Then, Sun Wukong sat down with his legs crossed. He began to perform a hand seal and recited:
"I wish that when I perish, everyone will have their minds in peace and no longer have to worry!"
"I wish that when I perish, all Immortals and Buddhas will be free to roam the cause and effect!"
"I wish that when I perish, the world will continue to strengthen itself and never perish!"
When Hong Hai'er heard the first sentence, he was stunned and somehow cried.
"Great Decimation Technique!" Jiang Zi Ya said, "It's actually the Western Sect's Great Decimation Technique!" Then he sneered, "Although the power of the Great Decimation Technique is great, it's still unable to break the Apricot Yellow Flag. You merely sacrifice yourself in vain."
"Sacrifice?" I felt that something was wrong and asked Hong Hai'er what was going on.
"The Great Decimation Technique comes at the cost of one's own destruction." Hong Hai'er cried. "To fulfill his own wish. Uncle, it's been hundreds of years. I've only seen you for a few days. How could you …"
"Don't say that." Sun Wukong said as he lifted his eyelids. I could smell an unpleasant odor coming from him. I thought it was the scent of a monkey, but a moment ago his body was emitting a sweet fragrance without any stinky odor.
"The Five Exhaustions of Heavenly Man." Hong Hai'er wiped away his tears, "This is the Five Exhaustions of Heavenly Man." When Hong Hai'er said this, I suddenly thought of the few special traits of the Five Exhaustions of Heavenly Man. One of them was one's body being stinky, which showed that Great Sage was about to reach the end of his life.
"Hao Ning," Sun Wukong said to me softly, "Back then, when I arrived at the West with Monk Xuanzang, we were both led by the Buddha on a bottomless boat. Monk Xuanzang's dirty body fell from the boat, after which he became a Buddha. At that time, I also had one thing falling from the boat, and that was my Heart Ape. The people of this world only know that Monk Xuanzang's body was below the boat. They are not aware that there is a Heart Ape down there as well."
As he said that, he looked at me with his eyes bright. Hong Hai'er had no idea why Sun Wukong brought up this matter.
"The Heart Ape below the boat. The Heart Ape below the boat!" I kept muttering, and suddenly I figured something out. "The Heart Ape below the boat. Boat, the Ape, is that Zhou Yuan?" (Note: Boat in Chinese is homophonous with Chinese surname Zhou, while Ape in Chinese is homophonous with Yuan.)
So Zhou Yuan was actually the Heart Ape! I couldn't help but feel a flash of light in my mind, and what happened in the past few days flashed through my mind like a movie.
Sun Wukong nodded his head as he saw that I understood, "Zhou Yuan is doomed to lose his heart and soul. Originally, he, the Heart Ape behind the boat, and I, the Buddha of Victory, are doomed not be able to find each other for tens of thousand of tribulations. Because he cursed Avalokiteshvara that 'she should not have a husband forever,' and Avalokiteshvara was unwilling to tell me either. It was only on that day when Zhou Yuan unintentionally mentioned "she should not have a husband for forever" that I suddenly found out that he was also living in this world. It is a tribulation, and it is our fate. To my surprise, you have made much effort to help him, which might change his fate. I hope that you can keep your promise. If Zhou Yuan could retrieve his heart and defeat the Heart Ape in the future, then please hand this thing over to him."
As he said that, he turned the Golden-banded Staff into dust which then flew into space between my eyebrows.
Before I could say anything, the Great Sage used his last bit of energy to shout, "I'm calling for the Great Way of the Heavens and Earth with my Great Decimation, why don't you show yourself!"
With that, the Great Sage's eyes turned into two beams of golden light that pierced through the clouds. His entire body turned into dust, but that golden light did not extinguish, as if it was going to see through all the cause and effect as well as the flourishing and falling of the human world.
"I'm coming." A voice resounded throughout the universe.
Jiang Zi Ya trembled, "What is that?"
This voice seemed to contain great power. The soldiers below immediately became clear-minded, while Nezha and the other gods also escaped from the enchantment.
"Who is this? How come you are so powerful?" I muttered in my heart and looked towards Hong Hai'er, who shook his head, apparently clueless as well.
"Brother? Why are you here?" The sudden voice broke the enchantment of all the gods.
"Brother?" Whom was he calling? I was confused.
"I got it." The voice seemed to be talking to someone, "The Apricot Yellow Flag is about to break. Brother, you should get out of here now."
"Little bastard!" When Jiang Zi Ya heard that it had something to do with me, he immediately relaxed. "The Apricot Yellow flag is the Lord of Heaven's treasure. No one in this world could —— Oh my god, the Almighty Tianzun!"
As Jiang Zi Ya was speaking, a finger reached down from the sky and pointed towards the List of Creations far away. Following that, the yellow light on it was like glass shattered. When this yellow light fell onto the ground, it was still a small flag, but the yellow light was no longer there. Jiang Zi Ya was dumbstruck. He was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.
"It's time!" Hong Hai'er and I flew up. I touched the List of Creations and shouted, "Borrow Me Your Mana!"
It was as if we had passed for a thousand years, or merely an instant. I did not know, but when I opened my eyes, I was still in my living room, while Yan, Zhang Quan, and Liu Shuai were looking at me, but Hong Hai'er was not by my side. I could not care about these details. Without saying a word, I picked up my branded notebook and muttered, "Stellar Transposition!"
The notebook immediately floated in the air as yellow light radiated from it, causing it to tremble uncontrollably.
"The new god, show your true spirit!" I cried out.
"Fan Bing Bing," who was on the TV, walked out, wearing her pajamas. It seemed like Zhang Quan's deduction was not wrong. The knockoff List of Creations indeed had some effect.
At that moment, Zhang Quan suddenly said to Liu Shuai at this time, "Hurry up, absorb the power of the List of Creations!"
Liu Shuai was dumbstruck and asked, "How, what should I do to absorb it? I can't feel it. "
"Idiot, kiss her!" Zhang Quan roared, "Now she's avoiding body with true spirit. You can get the power of the void body from her mouth and run it through your entire body for one time. Once she becomes a real body, you can kiss her again and transform your void strength into a real one. Take your chance!"
"Is there such a good thing?" Liu Shuai was overjoyed. He crawled up and kissed the new quasi-deity, who did not avoid him but gave him a generous kiss. Probably because she was about to become a god, her erotic pleasure was different from that of a human.
"Hey, enough. She's not your girlfriend. Don't keep kissing her." Seeing that Liu Shuai was kissing so happily, Zhang Quan immediately burst into laughter and knocked on his head. Liu Shuai rubbed his head, beaming with joy, and wiped his mouth.
After Liu Shuai had finished kissing, I was about to give him the medicine from Avalokiteshvara, but at this moment, a beam of golden light suddenly came out of the book Creation of the Gods. The golden light turned into many strings reaching toward the new god.
"No! That's the Immortal Beating Whip! " Zhang Quan called out, but he did not dare touch it, "Hao Ning, do not let this golden light touch the new god. Otherwise, all the previous work will be for fruitless!"
Without even thinking about it, I used my final bit of power to shout out, "Stellar Transposition."
"Pah!" I turned the golden light around which then touched the medicine. After that, the medicine was like a painting that had been eroded by the wind for billions of years. In one breath, it turned from green to gray, and then into dust upon contact with the wind.
Without this median, even if the quasi-deity's true spirit came out, it would have nothing to rely on.
"Shit!" We had been plotting as much as we could, but we never predicted such a change.
As the new deity's true spirit was about to fade, "Fan Bing Bing" looked around and jumped to the side.
Then there was a flash of light, and I fainted.
After some time, I was woken up by Liu Shuai. I lay on the sofa, while he had a weird expression on his face. I sat up and looked around, but Zhang Quan was no longer there, nor did Yan in the mirror. There were only Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan with me.
Zhou Yuan sat opposite of me and looked with a smile that was so natural. In the past two weeks, I had never seen him smile so happily.
Seeing that I had woken up, Zhou Yuan stood up and walked over, extending his hand to me,
"Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Zhou Yuan."
"At the same time, I'm also a new God. I like this body. Since you said that I'm relying on my Wechat Moments, then I'll consider myself a 'moment god,' even though this name is a bit weird." Zhou Yuan frowned, but it seems like there was a light aura around him. Even his frown would not make people angry, only feeling comfortable instead.
"Thank you for saving me and helping me become a god." Seeing me stunned, Zhou Yuan extended his hand and smiled at me like the sun.
I slowly reached out my hand and held Zhou Yuan's hand. A wave of warmth washed over me.
Afterward, I turned to Liu Shuai with an expression of disbelief.
"Zhou Yuan, became a god?"