0p0 #469 - Three Brothers
#469 - Three Brothers
“Sorry to have kept you waiting!”
The girl in the sky carried a hint of apology, as if she were the one arriving late to a banquet.
“Dealing with three Godslayers at once is a troublesome affair… but, in a way, this situation could be said to be just right. Heh heh heh, even the heavens are on my side this time.”
The Great Sage Equaling Heaven spoke in contradictions, and in an instant, its divine power surged.
—This power was immense, and also very pure.
It surpassed the power of any god Zun Zun had encountered, including Melqart, Verethragna, and Athena.
“Putting aside the appearance, you’ve finally regained the essence of 【Steel】… Very well, Great Sage! Let us settle this now!”
Luo Hao issued a challenge to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven in the sky, then stomped on the ground and shot into the clouds with lightning speed, intending to fight it to the death.
“—How dangerous!”
The golden auspicious cloud beneath the Great Sage Equaling Heaven’s feet retreated backward, easily dodging the attack, yet it made an expression as if it had been a near miss.
“I don’t intend to let you have your way now!”
It grinned, and the golden band around its head suddenly lengthened, striking Luo Hao’s lower back hard, sending her flying back down even faster than she had come.
Zun Zun quickly caught her.
He found Luo Hao’s eyes were glazed over, and her movements had become stiff.
This is…!?
“I’ve sealed her acupoints, sealing her movements. Although it’s only for a brief moment, it’s enough.”
The Great Sage Equaling Heaven said from high above.
As the purest Steel Heroic God, and one known for its martial prowess, its martial arts were naturally at their peak. Dealing with Luo Hao wouldn’t be too difficult… even though it was a sneak attack just now.
“––––!?”
Just as the Great Sage Equaling Heaven had said, Luo Hao only lost her senses for a brief moment before regaining clarity, but she had also missed the opportunity to continue fighting the rebellious god.
“Then, let’s end this fate that has existed since ancient times! But I’ll be dealing with all of you together!”
It stepped on golden auspicious clouds, coldly overlooking the things on the ground, but its eyes were only fixed on Zun Zun, Luo Hao, and Kusanagi Godou, disdaining to look at the others.
“Heavenly Beginning, Qian Yuan, all things are nourished, thus following Heaven!”
It formed a hand seal with one hand and began to chant an incantation.
“—The Earth is Kun!”
The ground of Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine’s Okusha, which had originally become a bald mountain, completely turned into solid stone, as if white snow had completely dyed the earth white. The ground Zun Zun and the others were standing on turned into gray stone in the blink of an eye.
“Hahaha! I will use the secret art of the Stone Mountain Grotto to confine you!”
The surrounding trees continuously turned into stone, and with Tosho-gu Shrine’s Okusha as the center, the petrification phenomenon spread around like ripples.
Zun Zun’s body also slowly sank into the ground.
First his ankles, then his knees, soon it would reach his waist, and before long it would be his chest, and finally his head.
Turning his head, he found that the other two were also in the same situation.
“Are you planning to seal us?”
“Hahaha, you guessed it!”
The Great Sage Equaling Heaven cheerfully answered Zun Zun’s question.
“You are Godslayers, the more you fight, the stronger you become. Fighting you is interesting, but you become even more terrifying after being injured, because you are a group of guys who can’t be looked at with common sense. I finally managed to revive, there’s no need to take that risk!”
It had to be said, it was really clever.
The more Godslayers fight, the more excited they become, and the stronger they become when injured. Then, thinking from another perspective, wouldn’t it be best to seal them before the fight?
“Godou!”
“Master!”
“—Zun Zun!?”
The priestesses and knights who had come with the three Godslayers called out their names, but at this time Zun Zun had already completely sunk into the stone.
It was pitch black here, but he could still see the faces of the two.
“Sun Wukong is proficient in immortal arts, a god with boundless divine power. Although he has the nature of the 【Steel】 God of War, he is also a god skilled in incantations. To be trapped by him using this method, we were too careless.”
Luo Hao muttered to herself in the darkness.
However, because the three were very close, she could be heard clearly.
“Zun Zun!”
Zun Zun’s heart skipped a beat.
“Sister…”
“Regarding your inaction just now, I will pursue it later. Can you leave this place now? If not, I will send you up.”
“Yes.”
Zun Zun put one arm around Luo Hao’s waist and grabbed Kusanagi Godou’s collar with the other. With a thought, he transformed into a gust of wind and disappeared from the depths of the earth.
In the next instant, the three appeared on the ground.
“—Hmm!?”
The Great Sage Equaling Heaven in the sky was somewhat surprised, it cheerfully waved the golden band around its head.
“As expected, you’ve returned. As expected of troublesome Godslayers, it seems you are as difficult to deal with as I thought.”
“Because someone is calling out to me.”
The authority of 【Wind】 allows him to reach any place, and it is even easier when someone is calling out to him. Just now, he relied on Erica’s call to escape from the secret art of the Stone Mountain Grotto.
“It’s a call of love!”
“…You’re enough.”
Zun Zun slightly turned his head, dodging Erica’s flying kiss. Even if they were intimate, he hoped she would consider the occasion.
Did she think he was like the kiss-ass next to him who was completely clueless and had to kiss girls every time he fought?
Kusanagi Godou sneezed, scratched his head, and wondered who was secretly cursing him.
“Then, next is the counterattack!”
“Not good, should I still retreat first?”
Seeing Luo Hao regain her momentum and make an expression as if she would definitely take its head this time, facing the fury of the most ferocious Godslayer, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven actually showed some intention of retreating.
“Want to escape? Dream on!”
“I don’t want to! This old Sun is very confident in his lightning-fast speed, even if it’s a distance of 108,000 miles, I can reach it in a single leap! Watch me––Waaah!”
Before it could finish speaking, it let out a miserable scream.
As if struck by an invisible blow, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven rolled around on the clouds, clutching his knees. Although his immense divine power remained unchanged, his body seemed unable to move freely.
Opportunity!
This was the downside of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven possessing Godou Kusanagi's body. Even with immense divine power at his disposal, he couldn't fully control the body.
"O Vajra power dwelling within me, now condense into a strike that will conquer all beneath the heavens!"
"Let all enemies fear me—for I am the embodiment of victory. Let lightning gather for me, protecting me from the unjust!"
"Pursuer, go and defeat my enemies!"
Luo Hao was the first to react, followed by Zun Zun and Godou Kusanagi. The three attacked simultaneously.
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A gigantic golden palm, fierce lightning, and two wolf fangs slammed down on the location of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.
However, his body vanished an instant before, reappearing a great distance away.
That was a truly close call.
"I didn't expect to be caught in such a trap by a moment of carelessness… Never mind, with a little more suppression, I can use even more powerful moves."
With that, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven waved his hand.
From within the petrified forest, numerous animals howled as they leaped and bounded out, filling the entire Nikko Palace.
They were monkeys covering the mountains and plains.
"My kingdom's subjects, quickly go and give my enemies—the Godslayers—a good show!"
As the Great Sage Equaling Heaven's voice faded, the monkeys emitted a cacophony of noises, their gazes towards Zun Zun and the others filled with murderous intent.
If it were just an ordinary monkey troop, it wouldn't be so troublesome, but—
A massive object descended from the sky.
"Careful!"
"Whoa!"
Zun Zun pulled the stunned Godou Kusanagi aside.
The rising dust gradually dissipated, revealing a gigantic monkey. The resounding thud of its landing caused the earth to tremble.
It was about 12 or 13 meters tall, with a strong build, long arms, and short legs. Its thick, short body resembled something between a gorilla and an ape.
But it wasn't over yet.
Boom, boom, boom—
Three consecutive sounds, as if the Four Heavenly Kings themselves, four gigantic apes completely surrounded them.
"They're Divine Beasts! They are the ape Divine Beasts who serve the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, possessing power comparable to dragons, unimaginably powerful!"
Yuri Mariya shouted.
Erica tightly gripped the silver rapier in her hand. She could barely manage one Divine Beast, let alone four together…
At that moment, Zun Zun shouted a mantra.
"You have violated the contract, bringing sin to the world. The Lord says—sinners must be punished. Crush their spines, extract their tendons, hair, and brains, trampling blood and mud together. If I am a sharp-toothed one who is difficult to approach, then according to the Lord's words, grant them destruction!"
Fortunately, these guys were gigantic apes, allowing his Boar Avatar to manifest. Moreover, the boar, sustained by Zun Zun's divine power, could last a long time and was very obedient.
Thus, as the boar rampaged through the monkey army like a tank, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven actually fell into a disadvantageous position.
Boars are actually quite difficult to control.
Just look at the original Godou Kusanagi to know that.
However, perhaps because it had been defeated by the Fairy Dragon once before, the current boar was very obedient, attacking wherever it was pointed.
But it still wasn't enough.
One boar could wreak havoc in the monkey army, but it was still only one boar, and it would eventually be defeated by the four attacking it. Moreover, it couldn't stop the other monkey troops, so Zun Zun summoned the Fairy Dragon and the Fairy Cat.
Seeing this, Luo Hao summoned her Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Godou Kusanagi also summoned a locust army.
A chaotic battle began.
In the Divine Beast war.
Erica and the others were of little use, and Zun Zun and the others needed to find the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, so their task was to protect themselves while driving away any ordinary people who accidentally wandered in.
Subsequently, the three Godslayers ran towards the direction of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. Along the way, they were naturally obstructed by the monkey army, but after the three exerted their respective powers, they soon saw their target.
The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, who was chanting Buddhist scriptures.
"Namo Ratna Trayaya, Namo Arya, Avalokiteshvaraya, Bodhisattvaya, Mahasattvaya, Mahakarunikaya…"
It was the Great Compassion Mantra!
Zun Zun was very familiar with this, after all, there were related songs in his previous life, and he had even specifically looked up the original text and annotations because he found it interesting.
—Taking refuge in the Three Jewels, taking refuge in the Compassionate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva who saves the world, beings in the world who feel all terrors and illnesses, vowing to proclaim the vast, perfect, unobstructed Great Compassion Mantra that saves from suffering and difficulty, to see through the troubles of birth and death, to understand the true light, and to take refuge in the Greatly Compassionate and Free Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.
The focus isn't on the latter part, but on taking refuge in the Three Jewels.
Taking refuge in the Three Jewels refers to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, which are the three major supports for Buddhist believers.
And with the Great Sage Equaling Heaven being proficient in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, what he is summoning is naturally someone who has an extremely deep connection with the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, and the Three Jewels, which is to say—
"Ooh, ooh, ooh—"
"Roar—"
One with a plump appearance, a prosperous physique, and a pig's face. His face was covered with dense, short black hair, with round eyes, short, stubby triangular ears, and a long nose. On both sides of his nose were short, sharp fangs.
Another with a sickly thin figure, resembling a demon. With jet-black skin, fiery red long hair, sharp corners of his eyes, and a necklace of nine small skull heads around his neck, wearing simple monastic robes.
Pigsy and Sandy.
The Journey to the West's three brothers, taking the stage!