Thinking They Had It

Shadows of the staff multiplied, completely sealing off every avenue of escape.

Then, at the instant they descended, they converged into a single strike, crashing down with overwhelming force!

Kui Wood Wolf was struck by the staff, his head bursting apart. His headless body swayed twice before collapsing to the ground, his divine soul shattered by that single blow.

His corpse did not even last a breath before exploding into a pile of dust, skipping even the stage of turning into sparks.

Sun Wu put away his staff and exhaled a breath thick with the scent of blood. "They're all dealt with."

After more than a month of pursuit, the last of the Twenty-Eight Mansions had died at his hands.

Not a single one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions sent down by the Heavenly Court had survived.

In other words, every one of them would need to be resurrected through the Investiture List.

After all, Tang Luo had not acted personally. With Sun Wu and the others' current abilities, they still had no way to completely destroy gods whose names were recorded on the Investiture List.

Across the Three Realms, there were only three and a half beings capable of truly killing someone while disregarding the Investiture List.

The first was the Tathagata Buddha of the Great Thunderclap Temple.

The second was the Supreme Lord of the Heavenly Court.

The third was naturally the suddenly emerged enemy of Buddhism, the Great Heavenly Demon Xuanzang—no one knew why this fellow had taken a Buddhist dharma name.

But if the actions of a heavenly demon could be inferred through common sense, then it would not be called a heavenly demon.

The final half was Patriarch Subhuti, the elusive master of the demon monkey Sun Wukong.

When Tang Luo had first appeared, many people