Chapter Fifty-Three: Tianpeng: Will I Be Silenced?

Afterward, the celestial beings captured him, and in the end, Tathagata personally took action to suppress Sun Wukong.

"This is Sun Wukong's fate." Tianpeng took a deep breath. "But what about my fate?"

After reading so many copies of Journey to the West, Tianpeng discovered that he barely seemed to appear in the story.

When Tianpeng turned to the next page, his pupils suddenly contracted.

Because it was talking about him.

This was not part of the original Journey to the West. It could only be said that because Tianpeng was here, some of his deeds had been brought up.

After all, they could not let Tianpeng return disappointed.

He saw that, because he had gotten drunk, he had gone to harass Chang'e of the Moon Palace. Afterward, the Jade Emperor punished him and sent him to the underworld to reincarnate.

Then, by accident, he was reborn as a pig demon.

"Rustle..."

The Journey to the West flashed with white light and vanished from Tianpeng's hands.

Tianpeng had used up all his Exchange Points.

"I harassed Chang'e." Tianpeng's gaze hardened. He knew very well what kind of status Chang'e had. She had existed since the Witch-Demon Era—someone he could never afford to provoke. Why would he have provoked her?

There was clearly something fishy about this.

It was as if someone had been pushing things along from behind the scenes.

"Is this the fate Master was talking about?" Tianpeng murmured.

He thought of what Grand Master Xuandu had told him: that he would become one of the participants in the calamity.

"Become a pig demon." Tianpeng clenched his fists.

"Senior, is this my fate?" Tianpeng walked up to Wu Feng and asked respectfully.

"Tianpeng, all I can say is that this was your original fate. Now that you know your fate, will you continue walking down this path?" Wu Feng said meaningfully.

Just like Sun Wukong, an invisible hand seemed to be stirring things up behind Tianpeng as well.

"Senior, I understand." Tianpeng said, "I will definitely change my fate. No one can treat me like a puppet."

That was right.

It was obvious that in his original fate, Tianpeng had been nothing more than a puppet.

And the one controlling everything was an extremely terrifying powerhouse—or perhaps his teacher, Grand Master Xuandu.

This left Tianpeng with no desire to resist at all.

He would become one of the pilgrims and play the role of a grinning fool.

Perhaps that was the mask Tianpeng had given himself.

Now that he knew of the General Store's existence, Tianpeng had been given a new opportunity.

That was also why Tianpeng wanted to work harder.

"Tianpeng, don't get yourself killed too quickly." Wu Feng smiled.

"Ahem, Senior, do you have to be so cruel?" Tianpeng coughed. "I'll be careful."

"Senior, Tianpeng will take his leave."

After leaving the General Store, a profound technique surfaced in Tianpeng's mind.

The cultivation technique he had learned from Grand Master Xuandu could not compare to it in the slightest.

Yet there were some similarities between them.

"This is..."

"Upper Pure Sacred Law..."

Chapter Fifty-Three: Tianpeng: Will I Be Silenced?

Upper Pure Sacred Law.

It was said to be the cultivation technique practiced by Master of the Heavens, one of the Three Pure Ones.

Only Master of the Heavens' disciples—and specifically, his favored disciples—would be taught the Upper Pure Sacred Law.

Some ordinary disciples of the Interception Sect did not even have the qualifications to come into contact with the Upper Pure Sacred Law.

It was just like in the Expounding Sect, where only the Twelve Golden Immortals and a handful of other disciples had the chance to encounter it.

When Ksitigarbha attacked Spirit Mountain, Guanyin, Manjushri, and the others had used the Jade Pure Sacred Law.

Although Tianpeng was Grand Master Xuandu's disciple, strictly speaking, he could only be considered a nominal disciple.

How could a nominal disciple like him be taught the Supreme Pure Sacred Law, which was said to belong to the Sage Laozi?

Therefore, the technique Grand Master Xuandu had taught him was something else. Although it contained traces of the Supreme Pure Sacred Law, the gap between it and the true Supreme Pure Sacred Law was enormous.

With Tianpeng's aptitude as a member of the human race, he could not compare with Sun Wukong.

But after Grand Master Xuandu had piled Pills upon him, Tianpeng had still managed to become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal within a certain period.

However, all medicine had some toxicity. Becoming a Grand Unity Golden Immortal would be Tianpeng's limit. This trip to the General Store had given Tianpeng a chance to change himself.

After reading Journey to the West, Tianpeng directly comprehended the Jade Pure Sacred Law.

It was no weaker than the Heaven-Battling Art Sun Wukong had comprehended.

"However, I'm not a disciple of the Interception Sect. If I cultivate the Jade Pure Sacred Law, will they silence me?" Tianpeng was somewhat uneasy.

This was because there were too many disciples of the Interception Sect in the Heavenly Court. Among them was even Holy Mother Jin Ling, a direct disciple of Master of the Heavens. She was the Head of All Stars—the Dou Mu Yuan Jun.

The true number one in the List of Deities.

She was one of the most outstanding among the Quasi-Saints. If she learned that an outsider was cultivating the Jade Pure Sacred Law, she might kill him.

"Forget it. To transcend fate, I'll risk it." Tianpeng's gaze was resolute. Who would know what would happen if he did not take a gamble?

The Upper Pure Sacred Law was a technique that led directly to the Quasi-Saint realm.

"At worst, I'll steer clear of those Interception Sect disciples when I'm in the Heavenly Court." Tianpeng made up his mind.

"However, according to Journey to the West, I seem to have one more thing." Tianpeng stretched out both hands. "Come out..."

With a bang.

What appeared in Tianpeng's hands was a Nine-Tooth Rake.

"Uh..." Tianpeng felt a little sick to his stomach. "Is fate telling me that even if I can transcend fate, I still can't escape the Nine-Tooth Rake?"

Earlier, he had just exchanged the Nine-Tooth Rake for Exchange Points.

Not much time had even passed.

Yet the Nine-Tooth Rake had appeared in his hands once again.

If this was not fate, then what was?

"Forget it. A Nine-Tooth Rake is a Nine-Tooth Rake. From now on, you're my weapon." Tianpeng gripped the weapon in his hands.

This weapon had been obtained by Tianpeng himself, rather than being forged by Grand Supreme Elder Lao. That was the difference.

"General Store, I'll definitely come back."

With that thought, Tianpeng headed toward the Heavenly Court without looking back.

As for Wu Feng, since Tianpeng had obtained the Nine-Tooth Rake and the Jade Pure Sacred Law, Wu Feng had naturally obtained those two things as well—except that they had been enhanced.

"Starfall Nine-Tooth Rake."

A weapon flashing with dazzling silver light appeared in Wu Feng's hand. It had the same shape as the Nine-Tooth Rake in Tianpeng's hands, but its overall color and the feeling it gave off were completely different.

The weapon in Tianpeng's hands was more like a ceremonial artifact.

The one in Wu Feng's hands was a blatant murder weapon.

In Wu Feng's estimation, this weapon was at least a top-grade spiritual treasure.

"Not a bad haul." Wu Feng smiled as he put it away. Then he sensed the profound cultivation technique that had surfaced in his mind.

Pangu Body Refining Technique.

It was the cultivation technique obtained after the Jade Pure Sacred Law had been enhanced, and one of the techniques Pangu had cultivated back then.

It was precisely because he possessed the Pangu Body Refining Technique that Pangu had gained the qualifications to Prove Dao with Strength.

It was a dual evolution of the body and soul.

As for the so-called Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique of the current Primordial World, one could become a Saint after completing all nine revolutions.

It could only be said that this was merely an extremely small portion of the Pangu Body Refining Technique.

Yet even with just this portion, becoming a Saint through nine revolutions was exceptionally difficult. To this day, no one had become a Saint through this method of cultivation.

The demands it placed on aptitude and resources were simply too great.

Even after exhausting all the resources of the Primordial World, whether they could allow a living being to become a Saint through the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique remained a question mark.

As for the Sages of the current Primordial World, all of them had become Saints by Proving Dao with Merit.