I'm Dreaming of a Journey to the West

"Extreme Fire Demon Slash!" Following a deafening roar, Li Chen's body instantly burst out with dazzling light, and his figure quickly split apart like a phantom. In the blink of an eye, eight clones that were exactly the same as him appeared.

The nine Li Chens moved in unison, as if as one. They gripped the incredibly heavy golden cudgel tightly in their hands and simultaneously exerted force, lifting it high above their heads. At this moment, flames shot up from the golden cudgel, and raging flames wrapped around it, as if to burn the entire world to ashes.

These flames seemed to contain endless anger and hatred. They were roaring and screaming, expressing the humiliation of Sun Wukong being suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain by Tathagata Buddha for five hundred years, as well as the blood feud of the tragic destruction of the Flower-Fruit Mountain in the past and now, and the deaths of countless monkeys!

Facing the onslaught, the Tathagata Buddha remained calm, his solemn face expressionless. He opened his mouth slightly, and a strange and terrifying demonic sound gushed out: "Eight Sounds of Heavenly Thunder!" The sound was like thunder exploding from the nine heavens, as powerful as a thousand horses galloping. Wherever it reached, the wind and clouds shifted, and space distorted.

This was the supreme Buddhist skill—the Eight Sounds of Heavenly Thunder, its power enough to terrify all demons and monsters in the world. However, how could Li Chen easily show weakness? Seeing the Tathagata Buddha's thunderous sound sweeping towards him like a tidal wave, he didn't flinch, a flicker of determination in his eyes.

Instantly, the nine Li Chens' bodies began to tremble violently, and rays of blue-red light continuously poured out of their bodies, quickly converging together to form a huge ball of light. Then, as if finding an outlet, the ball of light poured into their mouths.

"Thunder—the wrath of thunder!" Another roar echoed through the heavens as nine earth-shattering thunderclaps erupted simultaneously from Li Chen and his clones. Like a giant dragon emerging from the sea, these thunderclaps, with the power to annihilate the heavens and earth, slammed directly into the demonic sound unleashed by Tathagata Buddha!

At that moment, two extremely powerful thunderclaps collided in the air, stirring up thousands of waves and thousands of miles of clouds. On one side was the Tathagata Buddha, who had ruled the Buddhist world for thousands of years, and on the other was Li Chen, the quasi-saint who had killed several ancient witches and was feared by the immortal world.

Neither of them gave in, neither holding back. A powerful force erupted from the center of their clash! Several Buddhist disciples who tried to step forward to help were all killed by this terrifying force! Each of them died with blood gushing from all seven orifices, their internal organs shattered!

Both of them took several steps back. The face of Tathagata Buddha was filled with horror. He had not expected that although Li Chen's strength was that of a quasi-saint, his strength and destructive power had definitely reached the level of a saint. No wonder Tongtian Sect Master was so afraid of Li Chen, and several great ancestor witches died at the hands of Li Chen one after another.

"Sun Wukong! Aren't you going to defeat the Lightning Ancestral Witch next?"

The Tathagata Buddha persuaded him earnestly. At this point, he was already feeling the urge to retreat, not wanting to continue this fierce battle. He tried to buy time by saying that Li Chen was going to defeat the Ancestral Witch of Lightning next!

It turned out that Tathagata Buddha, with his unfathomable divine powers, had long since sensed several exceptionally powerful auras rapidly approaching Flower-Fruit Mountain. Furthermore, after careful investigation, he was shocked to discover that these newcomers bore no trace of the magical power of his own sect. What could this mean? Undoubtedly, all the Buddhist disciples he had previously dispatched to besiege Flower-Fruit Mountain had been annihilated!

Thinking of this, Tathagata Buddha couldn't help but take a deep breath. If he continued to fight with Sun Wukong here, the consequences would be unimaginable when Li Chen's reinforcements arrived. By then, I'm afraid the entire Buddhist community would face a catastrophe! As he thought of this, beads of sweat gradually seeped out of Tathagata Buddha's forehead, and his expression became increasingly solemn.

He had already made a detailed observation of Flower-Fruit Mountain. Aside from the few refined demon leaders left behind by Li Chen, the rest of the group fell into two categories: one was an army of lesser demons personally trained by Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, and the other was simply a few untrained monkey demons.

How could such a mob of people possess enough strength to wipe out the powerful Buddhist disciples under his command? This was simply a fantasy!

At this moment, a sneer was heard. It turned out that Li Chen was looking at the other party with a mocking face and asked, "Why, where did your arrogance of vowing to save me go?" Recalling the thrilling battle that had just ended, Li Chen couldn't help but feel an indescribable sense of exhilaration in his heart.

This battle was so exciting that the blood in his body seemed to boil instantly, as hot as a blazing flame.

At this moment, every drop of blood flowing in his body seemed to be shouting madly, longing to taste the precious blood of Tathagata Buddha!

Now, there is only one thought in his mind - to fight endlessly, constantly waving the weapon in his hand, and fighting a desperate battle with the enemy until the last moment of his life!

At this moment, the mysterious forces emanating from Mount Huaguo surged like an undercurrent, alerting Li Chen. However, by this moment, he was already brimming with fighting spirit, his entire body like a sword unsheathed, unstoppable.

Li Chen clearly felt the surging power within him, like the roar of an endless ocean or the rumble of violent thunder. This overwhelming force bolstered his confidence, even creating a false sense of security—even if more Buddhist disciples came, they would be nothing more than the souls of the dead under his baton! He had never anticipated that these seemingly unfamiliar forces would actually be his allies.

Li Chen was seen muttering something, and an obscure spell flowed out from between his lips and teeth: "Water Demon Explosion!" With this shout, his body slowly rose up and went straight into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a heart-pounding energy gathered in his hands and formed a dazzling beam of light, like a meteor across the sky, rushing towards the direction where the Buddha was with the power to destroy the world.

The beam of light struck the Tathagata Buddha with lightning speed. In an instant, the sky and earth changed color, and the wind and clouds roiled. There was a deafening roar, and the Tathagata Buddha's body trembled violently. A mouthful of golden blood gushed out of his mouth, like a golden lotus in full bloom in the air.

At this moment, Tathagata Buddha was in a state of panic. He had never imagined that the disciples he had sent to encircle and suppress Huaguo Mountain would be completely annihilated, with not a single one spared. The current battle situation made him feel even more pressured. On the front line, Li Chen joined forces with powerful warriors like Fairy Hibiscus and Gong Gong, and their fighting power was in no way inferior to that of the Buddhist disciples he led.

In addition, he was distracted by the water explosion attack from Li Chen and was injured. He no longer had the strength to kill Li Chen! But there was no other way, he could only bite the bullet and continue to fight Li Chen.