Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

Chapter 690: Chapter 691: Battle Against the Evil Emperor (2nd Update!) Chapter 690: Chapter 691: Battle Against the Evil Emperor (2nd Update!) A thunderous boom shook the heavens as a massive fireball descended upon Evil Emperor Island, causing the entire island to tremble violently. The fireball slowly sank into the ground and then, in the next moment, burst forth with a blinding light, spreading a wave of destructive shock across the entirety of Evil Emperor Island.

The entire Evil Emperor Island began to crack and fracture. Huge boulders plummeted into the sea, and the roar echoed everywhere, until the island was utterly obliterated within the intense light.

After a long while, the blinding light finally dissipated, and Evil Emperor Island had completely vanished, leaving only a swirling vortex in the water. The only thing left was a tall stone pillar at the very center of where the island had been, atop which stood a seductively handsome man exuding an indescribable evil charm.

It was the strongest of the Evil Race, the Evil Emperor at the Slaying One Corpse Merit Saint Realm!

Sun Wukong’s prediction was not wrong; the Evil Emperor had indeed been in closed-door cultivation, at a crucial moment, no less, and was refining the Life Primordial collected by his own race, attempting to expel the second corpse, the Evil Corpse, and break through to the Slaying Two Corpses Merit Saint Realm.

Unlike the myriad other races, it was exceedingly easy for the Evil Race to slay the first corpse, the Good Corpse. However, slaying the second corpse, the Evil Corpse, was extremely difficult because evil thoughts permeated their very beings, making it challenging to condense them and expel them as a whole.

For this reason, after returning to the Three Realms, the Evil Emperor had never set foot outside Evil Emperor Island. All the Life Essence he needed for cultivation was collected by other members of the Evil Race. Essentially, the vast majority of Life Essence gathered by the Evil Race was dedicated to the Evil Emperor to further his cultivation, hoping to gain an advantage in the future battles among the myriad races.

The Evil Emperor never imagined that someone would directly assault Evil Emperor Island, let alone that it would be Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equalling Heaven!

While Sun Wukong was on a killing spree on Evil Emperor Island, the Evil Emperor was cultivating at a critical moment, just a step away from his breakthrough, and he dared not move an inch, let alone go out to confront the attack!

He had assumed that Sun Wukong would delay for a while, killing the Evil Race members one by one to force him to come out. He didn’t expect this monkey to be so impatient, directly using a fireball of concentrated energy to annihilate both the Evil Race and Evil Emperor Island in one fell swoop. His breakthrough was also affected, and he failed to expel the Evil Corpse, getting stuck at the pinnacle of Slaying One Corpse Merit Saint.

“Great Sage Equalling Heaven!”

A cold voice erupted from the Evil Emperor as he soared up from the top of the stone pillar, the stones beneath his feet scattering into pieces.

“So you are the Evil Emperor? Finally willing to show yourself and stop hiding like a coward?”

Sun Wukong was unfazed by the frigid killing intent emanating from the Evil Emperor. Seeing him fly upward, the corner of Wukong’s mouth curled up into a wicked smile. “Except for you, all the members of the Evil Race are dead. Do you not care at all?”

“Care? They were but weak descendants. There’s nothing to care about! As long as I exist, they can one day be reborn!”

The Evil Emperor said coldly, his voice oozing indifference.

“Don’t care?”

Sun Wukong’s expression suddenly turned icy. “Such callousness towards your own race, truly befitting of the Evil Race, utterly drenched in evil Qi! Since that’s the case, I don’t need to hold back anymore!”

“Sun Wukong, you’ve destroyed our homeland, slain our people, I shall take your life today to repay these debts!”

The Evil Emperor let out a cold shout, and the next moment, his figure vanished on the spot. At the same time, a sharp and minute force aimed for the back of Sun Wukong’s neck.

“Not good!”

Facing the Evil Emperor, Sun Wukong, even though his mouth didn’t yield a fraction, had long made preparations for battle at any moment, without the slightest slackness. After all, the Evil Emperor was a genuine Saint-level powerhouse, a Slaying One Corpse Merit Saint and a Heavenly Dao Saint. One must never take a Heavenly Dao Saint lightly!

No sooner had the Evil Emperor disappeared than Sun Wukong’s heart cried out that it was a bad sign, and he immediately brought his Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod around to block to his rear side.

Clang!

With a crisp sound, the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod clashed viciously with some kind of weapon, and Sun Wukong’s form was sent tumbling forward. After spinning twice in mid-air, he violently steadied himself, stomping hard into the void, spinning around, and sweeping back with his rod, colliding once again with the Evil Emperor’s weapon.

Duang!

This time, Sun Wukong finally saw clearly that the Evil Emperor didn’t hold any long weapons; he merely wore a pair of gloves, emitting a faint cold light. The previous two attacks were both unleashed by the Evil Emperor with his bare hands!

“What a strange pair of gloves! What an evil weapon!”

Of course, Sun Wukong wasn’t foolish enough to truly think the Evil Emperor was fighting empty-handed; the energy fluctuations transmitted from the gloves were quite odd and didn’t seem like those that could be produced from bare hands.

Clearly, the gloves worn by the Evil Emperor were a kind of extraordinary weapon that could greatly enhance his combat power.

“Pretty quick reaction there, actually managing to dodge my two attacks!”

The Evil Emperor seemed somewhat surprised. He had originally thought his attacks were almost certain to hit Sun Wukong, but did not expect them to be blocked by him!

The Great Sage Equalling Heaven was indeed no simple character. Although he had not Proven the Tao and Become a Saint, the combat power he displayed already far surpassed the Half-Step Saint and Sub-Saint Realm, with almost no difference from a Heavenly Dao Saint!

This monkey, was a formidable enemy!

“Sun Wukong, I have heard of your fame, know that you’ve crossed hands with the Tathagata Buddha and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, and also know your combat power far exceeds your cultivation; you can compete with Heavenly Dao Saints. But I’m not the Buddha, and I’m certainly not the Primordial Heavenly, I won’t pull my punches just because your cultivation has not reached Heavenly Dao Saint!”

The Evil Emperor’s hands gently rubbed each other as his gaze toward Sun Wukong flashed coldly, his icy killing intent firmly locking on to Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong could tell that the Evil Emperor was not joking — all of his attacks would be delivered with full force, with no holding back!

But then, so what?

“Heh, that’s the spirit! Old Sun was just thinking of having a good, all-out fight to the death!”

His Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod paused in the void, and a towering aura suddenly surged from Sun Wukong’s body. Behind him, the ethereal shadows of the Destruction Great Dao, the Combat Dao, and the Fate Great Dao Dao Pillars emerged one after another.

These three Dao pillars were not yet fully condensed into solid form, unlike the Space-Time Great Dao, the Great Dao of Reincarnation, and the Chaos Dao. They required further understanding and absorption of the related Heavenly Dao Laws, and combat, in Sun Wukong’s view, was the best approach!

Especially when facing a Saint-level powerhouse like the Evil Emperor, this would definitely benefit the consolidation of the remaining three Dao pillars!