During the Ancient Era, a couple had died here. They perished for the sake of humankind; demons from the Primordial Age had appeared on Earth again. All of the practitioners of the world gathered to withstand the onslaught of the demons, and the Earth was consumed by war at that time. The demons were much stronger than an average practitioner, and many of them were even more powerful than the geniuses in the mortal world.
This was only a spot out of the thousands of battlefields on Earth, and a terribly brutal battle had been waged here. Thousands of demons had infiltrated this region in a bid to destroy the Buddhist sect that resided on Ermei Mountain. Arhats, Bodhisattvas and Devarajas appeared to engage the demons, but the forces of evil were too huge and powerful. It was a one-sided battle, and the corpses of the buddhists were soon strewn all over the mountain.
Even the physical manifestation of the ancient Buddha was forced to intervene, but it could also not help much. Whatever technique it used was nullified, and when the manifestation was defeated, the buddhists knelt down and chanted the name of Buddha himself as they knelt, their eyes filled with despair.
"Roar!"
At this instant, a huge roar shook the Heavens, and a golden flash shot upward, revealing a figure wielding a long golden staff that stood before Ermei Mountain. It was a divine monkey, and its golden fur was even more piercing than sunlight, causing it to look as if it had been casted from gold.
Beside him was a nine-tailed fox, and both of them faced the demons on their own. They looked back at the kneeling buddhists before turning back to glare angrily at the demonic horde.
The divine monkey pointed its staff at its opponents and chided them angrily, "How dare you infiltrate China? I'll have your lives for this!!"
He swung his staff forward, and it grew hundreds of kilometers long and about five kilometers wide instantly. It swept toward the demons with the might of the monkey's fury, and hundreds of demons were crushed to death. All of the demons began to fear for their lives, as they knew he was a god built for killing. They kept their guard up and activated 1000 of their strongest companions to get rid of him.
The divine monkey was completely unafraid and shot upward with staff in hand, streaking across the skies like a gold shooting star. The instant he came into contact with his opponents, dozens of them became seriously wounded. Both sides then engaged in combat, while the remaining demons charged toward the nine-tailed fox. The two deities' level of cultivation was extremely high, but they could not handle so many demons at the same time. Furthermore, the demons were much stronger than the practitioners of this land.
The divine monkey and nine-tailed fox were immensely powerful, but they were still a small step away from turning immortal. Soon, they were outnumbered, but they managed to kill all of the demons before they perished. The divine monkey delivered a child into Stone Gate Pass, but when it dragged its broken body back to the battlefield, it realized that the nine-tailed fox had already perished.
She had transformed into a lake after death, and her bones nourished back the charred land to life. The divine monkey roared in frustration and wanted to dash over, but its lower limbs crumbled just after it had taken one step. His body began to crumble, and he seemed to be grabbing something, but eventually his good hand was also shattered.
His ashes also turned into a pool of water, and he used his powers of Tao to bury his broken heart in the ground with his last breath. Later, the spot where they died were filled with azaleas- the favorite flower of the nine-tailed fox. The divine monkey had remembered that she told him once that she wished to see azaleas blooming wherever she went.
These two heroes who saved humankind had died so tragically, but what made Wang Bugui truly angry was not that they could not be buried together, but because someone had emerged to tamper with the Stone Gate Pass. The divine monkey had sent their child into the pass because he wanted his child to absorb the aura of this naturally advantageous land and grow well.
Not only did that person stop their child from growing well, he or she had trapped the child in the pass until now. The person had left a spirit of the array behind, and it had been absorbing the life force of anyone who chanced upon the pass to bolster the strength of the seal on the pass. What the locals called 'the green mist of the Mountain Gods' was actually the doing of this spirit. As Wang Bugui thought about the heroic and tragic sacrifice of the divine beasts, his body was filled with rage.
They should have been heroes to all humankind, but yet their offspring was being treated in such a bad manner. This was lamentable and tragic! Wang Bugui used his powers of Tao to seal off the entire Wang Bugui and charged angrily toward Stone Gate Pass. His speed was so great that he reached the spot within seconds.
He then released an insane amount of blood vigor, and his body was covered in a crystalline golden glow. As he leaped up into the air, there was a huge booming sound. "Appear before me, spirit of the array! Your death is near!" he shouted angrily.
"Boom!"
The spirit knew that the youth was here to look for trouble, and it did not hesitate to attack. A green ray shot toward Wang Bugui, but he smashed it into bits with a blow of his Break Heaven Fist. Dozens of green rays followed closely behind, and he dodged the first two by leaping backward. He cocked his body sideways and leaped into the air again to dodge a few more rays of energy, before kicking another of those strange lights. He made use of the momentum to leap up into the sky before charging down again with a Meteorite Kick.
Booming sounds were created as all of the green rays of energy were destroyed. The spirit summoned hundreds of lost souls to engage his opponent, but Wang Bugui sent them back to the Underworld with his Kick of the Universe; they did not last even two seconds. The youth moved first and blocked the exit of the spirit, and he realized that it was actually a green scaly dragon.
"Don't force my hand, human. Even though you possess power of the Void Returning Realm, don't think that I'll be afraid of you. Leaving now will be beneficial to both of us!" the dragon threatened.
Wang Bugui observed that the person who had created the magical seal was obviously very skilled in Tao. The spirit had existed for a long time, but it could still manifest itself as a dragon, and it was even a few realms stronger than him. This did not mean that he was afraid of it, however. He pointed at its head before proclaiming proudly, "You're already quaking before we've fought. Why don't you crawl over to me and beg for death!"
"Fine, fine, fine! I'll definitely be drinking your blood and feasting on your flesh today!" the dragon replied angrily, irritated at having been threatened by a small kid. It opened its mouth wide and shot out toward Wang Bugui.
The youth surrounded his limbs with blood prana power and swung his fists at his opponent. They came into contact in a split second, and the dragon released several green bolts of energy from its mouth. Wang Bugui shattered them with one blow of his Break Heaven Fist before dodging sideway to escape being bitten. The dragon followed closely behind, however, and swept its body at him. He crossed his hands together to block the blow, but was sent hurtling backward.
The green dragon did not let up and came charging toward him again. Wang Bugui quickly shifted positions in the air and channeled the Hell Step of his Aguity Limit esoteric skill, dodging the lethal bite with his phantom-like footwork. In the next instant, he appeared above the dragon and rained down punches and kicks with the force of a gale. In a few short seconds, he had already made hundreds of attacks, but the scales of the dragon were extremely tough, and it was not seriously wounded.
Its scales stood up as it released a huge amount of green mist into the surroudings, and soon the skies at this region was enveloped in it. At the same time, it summoned a thick haze to limit the vision of his opponent to lesser than 250 meters. Wang Bugui frowned slightly and used his sixth sense to avoid the poisonous green mist. He wanted to find the dragon, but it had seemingly disappeared into thin air and he could not find it even with his sense field.
It would still attempt to attack from many different angles, and even though he had used his sixth sense to avoid a few blows, he could not entirely avoid being hit. Luckily, his physique was alarming and he only suffered superificial wounds from blows that could kill other practitioners. Now, he knew that the mist was created by the magical formation, and the green dragon, which was the spirit of the array, could merge with it. No wonder his sense field could not find it.
"Observe how I break this formation!"
He came up with a solution after understanding how the formation worked; it drew on the aura from Nature. He channeled the Reversal Method and absorbed the energy for his own, as well as all of the natural aura from Stone Gate Pass. The formation dissolved by itself, and the mist dispersed. The dragon was forced to show itself, and it spewed out green mist while gazing coldly at the person in front of him.
It knew that this person was bent on killing it, and there was no way for it to escape. As such, it charged forward while unleashing all of its powers. It wanted to fight the youth to the death! The will to survive forced its power to increase further, and it was at a higher realm than Wang Bugui. It launched a kamikaze attack on the boy and blood rained down from the skies.
It came from both the spirit and Wang Bugui. They were consumed by blood lust and did not defend at all. The dragon spat out a huge green scissors from its mouth, and it flew toward Wang Bugui with alarming speed. Wang Bugui stopped its momentum with one blow of his Break Heaven Fist, and he followed up with another Extreme Heaven Explosion before concluding with a heavy kick.
"Clack!"
A huge sound was produced by the huge scissors and it fragmented into pieces. The dragon spewed out a big mouthful of blood. The scissors was a magical treasure that it had spend thousands of years to create, and it was part of his life force as well. Breaking it was akin to seriously wounding the spirit directly. Wang Bugui was not better off by much, however. His limbs were nearly shattered after breaking the scissors, and he channeled his Whole after Thousand Disasters technique to quickly repair his broken body.
Upon seeing this, the dragon unleashed a forbidden art with the intention of dying alone with his opponent. Its power immediately expanded by a great portion, and it swung its tail downward angrily.
"Roar!"
Wang Bugui met the blow with one strike of his Kick of the Universe. There was a huge boom, and the dragon's tail was kicked into bits. Wang Bugui's leg had twisted from the force of the blow, but he secretly channeled the Supplementary Technique and charged toward the dragon, which had opened its huge mouth.
The dragon was charging toward him, its body surrounded by several bolts of energy. Wang Bugui knocked two of them away with his fists and somersaulted in the air to avoid its bite. He then gave out three Meteorite Kicks, smashing three more bolts of energy into pieces. When he was still preparing to unleash his final attack, another green ray of light had already been released by the dragon.
He could only utilize his Undefeatable Body of the World to take on the full force of the blow. There was a loud boom as his body flew backward into the clouds, and the residual force caused him to keep somersaulting. Upon seeing that, the spirit channeled all of its Tao powers and opened its huge mouth wide while shooting upward into the skies.
Wang Bugui forcefully steadied himself by using Hell Steps. He looked angrily at the huge red mouth of his opponent and directed all of his remaining divine aura and blood prana power into his legs, before swooping down with a Kick of the Universe. In an instant, he was about to come into contact with the huge mouth of the spirit.
"Clack!"
The huge mouth clamped up; the dragon had swallowed Wang Bugui whole. However, it could feel a wild surge of energy tearing its body from the inside out.
"Roar!"
The dragon roared in indignation as its body began to split apart from head to toe, a terrible looking crack traveling down its body. A golden glow was even emanating from the crack, and then a golden figure covered entirely in blood shot out of its body.
"Rumble!"
The dragon's body exploded in mid-air, giving out a huge sound. The terrible energy shockwave scattered all of the clouds in the sky.
Only Wang Bugui remained in the air. He looked like a golden demonic god as he stood there covered in the dragon's blood. He watched chunks of the spirit's flesh rain down from the skies unemotionally, and they transformed into wisps of green vapor along the way down.