"To tell you the truth, if I had truly been struck down by that Great Sage's staff... this old monk would have had no choice but to enter Nirvana, the kind where I vanished from the Primordial Era forever."
Gasp!
In other words, body and soul would have been utterly destroyed!
Great Sun Rulai grew even more confused. "Then how did the World Honored One punish Monkey?"
That day, Rulai had overturned Monkey with a single palm strike, then dropped two Five Finger Mountains upon him in succession. It had truly been an unparalleled display of dominance.
Great Sun Rulai had been so shaken that his mind wavered.
He had even secretly sighed, My Buddha Dharma is boundless!
Who would have thought it was all an illusion?!
Rulai looked around, pondered for a moment, and finally transmitted his voice to Great Sun Rulai.
"Buddha Ancestor, you are the Buddha Ancestor of Esoteric Buddhism and an important figure in our Buddhism."
"This matter cannot be hidden from you."
"That day, this old monk truly believed I was about to enter Nirvana!"
"The kind where I would disperse into the River of Time and Space, never to return!"
Great Sun Rulai's eyes widened abruptly.
So that was how it was?!
But why... had he been able to unleash such power back then?
Rulai lowered his voice even further, barely louder than a mosquito's buzz.
"Just as this old monk was in despair, the Dao Ancestor descended and revealed his divine presence within my Primordial Spirit Sea of Consciousness... Using supreme Supernatural Powers, he turned danger into safety for me..."
"You know what happened afterward."
Of course Great Sun Rulai knew.
Afterward, Rulai displayed tremendous divine might and overturned Sun Wukong in one stroke, nearly suppressing him.
Even though Rulai had not completely