I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

Li Lin's request was not excessive; in fact, it was insignificant—both the Kyuhozuka family and the Japanese official history compilation committee would have agreed without hesitation upon hearing it.

What does the sacrifice of one woman matter in the face of the devastating natural disasters unleashed by the disobedient gods?

"This... Waaah—"

Yuri Mariya let out a helpless lament, mourning not only for the woman she had never met, but also for her own fate.

So what if she's the highest-ranking priestess? In the face of disobedient gods and god-slayers, she's nothing more than a sacrifice and a bargaining chip.

Yuri Mariya said with a struggling expression, "But, but you don't have to do it yourself, do you?"

Li Lin found it increasingly strange; he wondered what this woman was imagining.

"That's impossible!" Li Lin shouted viciously. "Not only will I kill his mother, but I'll also break his little hook, smash it into pulp, stuff it into his mouth, and have forty big guys gang rape him for three months!"

"You, you're joking...you're joking, right?"

Yuri Mariya bit her finger in fright. It wasn't that she was frightened by Li Lin's brutality, but rather that she felt quite out of place in the face of his perverse methods.

In terms of brutality, Marquis Voban unleashed natural disasters to destroy port cities, turning the dead into his immortal servants; the Lord of Luohao would gouge out a person's eyes and cut off their ears if he were ever seen... Li Lin was no match for them.

But when it comes to their bottom line, they are far inferior to Master Li.

"It must be a joke. How could God do such a thing? Hehe..."

His initially confident tone gradually turned hesitant.

He might actually do it...

A thought suddenly occurred to Yuri Mariya.

In the silence, Li Lin raised his hand, and the cloud wall that had stretched from the sky to the ground lifted slightly.

In the data perspective, the color symbolizing the curse of Bi Ma Wen has gradually disappeared, and the curse used to suppress and restrain [Monkey God Lord - Great Sage Equal to Heaven] is breaking down one link after another.

Amidst the panicked cries of countless people, the distant Sunlight Mountain collapsed in the dust and smoke, while Mount Obagen, the highest peak in Sunlight City, trembled and emitted a long, mournful sound.

Amidst the despairing gazes of the priests and priestesses, the summit of Mount Obergen was shrouded in heavy clouds, while more than twenty bell-shaped volcanoes around it erupted simultaneously!

"God! Please don't do this!" Yuri Mariya knelt on the ground. "I am willing to break the seal for you! Please have mercy. Although the Kufuzuka family has been rude and offensive to you, those people are innocent."

"Please have mercy!"

Li Lin, who was easily swayed by gentle persuasion but not by force, angrily shouted, "I smoke, drink, and get perms, but I know I'm a good god!"

Yuri Mariya looked up at Li Lin blankly, her lips trembling as if she wanted to say something.

In the end, the priestess still didn't know how to respond, and could only mutter to herself, "But you..."

"Never mind, it's fine." Li Lin shook his head, his expression turned serious, and he closed his eyes calmly, saying, "I'm just thinking that it's a bit pathetic that you, a prestigious country like Japan, actually need a girl to save the day."

Li Lin raised his hand, and Orobas, wrapped around the four-colored coral, looked up and hissed at the sky.

In an instant, all was silent. The clouds above the volcano seemed to freeze, and the massive earthquake that had swept across the entire Kanto region abruptly stopped. The world was so quiet it made one want to vomit.

Yuri Mariya knelt on the ground, her face pale. She knew she had succeeded.

Ignoring her completely, Li Lin calmly looked at the pale-faced Chihiko Kyuhouzuka and said, "I thought you would come out and commit seppuku on your own initiative."

Li Lin casually handed Xin Yue to Wanli Gu Yuri: "Let's begin."

332 Two flowers bloom

"Eh?"

Yuri Mariya took Shin-chan, her mind blank.

As the highest-ranking priestess, the moment she received the seven-sword, she sensed that it was a divinely forged weapon that combined healing, the divinity of the serpent god, and the power to break curses. In other words, it was a divine sword on par with the legendary "Ame no Habakiri" and "Futsu no Mitama," and might even be able to rival the Ame no Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi without being at a disadvantage.

However, what puzzled Yuri Mariya the most was that when she touched the sword, she felt that the curse of the horse-riding spirit had been completely broken.

She's a completely useless witch.

So what is the significance of her holding this sword?

......

Netherland.

This is a world that contrasts with the present world, where order is even weaker, and countless bizarre and wonderful sights can be found.

The Netherworld is like an ocean, enveloping the entire world constructed by reality theory. From this perspective, the fragile world constructed by modern physics is actually an exception in this universe.

But this very real world can, in turn, influence the Netherworld—the myths built by the incense offerings and beliefs of all living beings manifest their own forms in the Netherworld.

In the real world, opposite the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, there is a magnificent palace that shines brightly in the sunlight. Surprisingly, it is not a Japanese palace, but its form is closer to the Forbidden City in China.

However, what feels extremely incongruous is that in the very center of the complex of buildings surrounded by vermilion palaces, there is not the Hall of Supreme Harmony rising from the ground, but a dilapidated thatched stable.

In the thatched stable, there were no horses, only a monkey that was about eighty centimeters long.

Its entire body is covered in golden fur, the color of which is bright, like flames or the sun.

"ah?"

The monkey stretched and nimbly got up from the straw mat, scratching its cheek.

"Oh dear, what's going on? Instead of sending a priestess to beg me, they broke the seal from the outside in first."

The monkey laughed heartily, accompanied by indescribable joy. A gray stone barrier meandered up from beneath his feet, a manifestation of the curse of Bi Ma Wen bound to the underworld, symbolizing the stripping away of its ferocious nature and then further confining it with restraint.

Its origins lie in the mythical lineage of "Bi Ma Wen" that originated from the mainland, as well as the incantations based on Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, and the Buddhist titles "Dong Zhao Shen Jun" and "Dong Zhao Da Quan Xian" added to it.

Just as the Buddha's Five Finger Mountain restrains the unruly mind, the great power that restrains it does not come from others, but from his own "enlightenment".

How can a person break free from their own constraints?

If the monkey were to actually cross this constraint, it would no longer be itself, and being unable to transcend the constraint would mean that it would be forever confined to this place.

Although the monkey god, who was bound and imprisoned by the curse of the horse god and stripped of his ferocious nature, did not feel that this was a prison, he would naturally break free from his cage once he was freed from the bondage by the nature of the snake god from outside.

"Sigh, sigh. Actually, being a lazy monkey isn't such a bad thing..."

The monkey stretched its body, baring its teeth at the golden sky. Its peaceful and joyful face was gone, replaced by a mocking smile of freedom.

The gray stone wall completely covered its body, and then a crisp clanging sound rang out from inside its body.

When the monkey appears as the "Monkey God," he is the "Keeper of the Heavenly Horses," who is worshipped and confined to the altar.

When he broke free from the constraints of being a stable boy and was reborn as a stone monkey, he revealed the magnificent spirit that had once stirred up the four seas and overturned the three realms.

The Monkey King, Sun Wukong, the Victorious Fighting Buddha... The Great Sage Equal to Heaven!

Suddenly, a heavy rumble of thunder came from the wind, as if mountains were churning on the earth.

The monkey broke free of the stones, raised its head, and a flash of intense firelight appeared in its eyes.

This city of Radiant Light was built to restrain monkeys. In the past, even when the seal was temporarily broken, they had never been able to move so freely.

Surely Nikko City couldn't have been destroyed by the earthquake, could it?

A thought suddenly flashed through the monkey's mind.

No, that's ridiculous.

In an instant, he rejected his own idea.

[A divine being travels to the North Sea in the morning and to Cangwu in the evening.]

The monkey climbed higher and higher on the clouds, like a crane soaring through the clouds, touching the golden sky.

He is not only a war god of "steel", but also a god born under the conquest of the Dragon and Serpent Star, and naturally knows countless spells.

Having regained his ferocious nature, he couldn't wait to break free of his cage, to meet the audacious being who had released him, and then, out of pity, spare his life.

"open!"

The golden sky was burned to a blazing white by the fiery flames of the Fiery Eyes. Burning divine weapons swept across the sky, and boundless heat burst forth from the Netherworld. Countless gazes turned toward the direction of the Eastern Palace, but were forced to look away by the scorching heat, which was like the blazing sun.

From this most thorough burning, the enraged Great Sage Equal to Heaven returned from the underworld!

Tearing apart the sky and trampling the earth, flames rose in a ring from the underworld and spread outwards.

"I am not the Monkey God. I am Heaven itself, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven—!"

"I am the Monkey King, born from a stone, possessing boundless supernatural powers and countless transformations. I have stolen elixirs from the Heavenly Palace, indulged in wine, ate peaches of immortality, practiced martial arts, committed acts of violence, and displayed wickedness! My surname is Sun, my given name is Wukong, and I call myself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"

The monkey laughed heartily and flew towards the cave entrance in the real world.

The rebellious god, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, is about to descend upon the world!

Finally, he crossed the boundary between the mortal world and the underworld and saw the sun of the mortal world again.

The next instant, an indescribable pressure came down on his shoulders, piercing through his collarbone cleanly.

The monkey's eyes widened.

The next instant, a crowbar flew in and struck the monkey in the groin.

As the priests and priestesses stared in disbelief, Li Lin's pure black pupils turned deep purple, and magnificent white antlers sprouted from the top of his head. In the golden-purple twilight, the fragrance of hawthorn blossoms filled the air. A ferocious suit of armor emerged from the void, transforming Li Lin into a three-and-a-half-meter-tall steel giant. The towering antlers protruded from the metal crown, pointing straight to the sky like spears.

The white snake leaped from the seven swords and coiled around Li Lin's armor.

The jade-colored shield representing the Rock King Emperor surrounded the outermost part, suppressing the divine aura rising from the monkey's body.

Why would such a mighty steel giant target the Monkey King's groin?