Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Divine Light! First in All Ages, a Rainbow Across Heaven and Earth!

Boundless light swept across the vast heavens and endless earth. Wherever one looked, there was nothing but dazzling color.

All who saw it, from Immortal Gods high above to ordinary folk living ordinary lives, were captivated, their hearts and minds swaying.

Whoosh~

Something rippled outward like flowing water. At last, the boundless light between heaven and earth slowly drew inward and began to subside.

Just then, a clear, prolonged cry rang out amid the colors filling the sky. It could pierce metal and split stone, and it brimmed with unrestrained delight.

The Heaven-Equaling True Sage stood atop a bank of roiling clouds, his ninety-thousand-zhang dharma body bearing the Divine Precious Iron across one shoulder like a Heavenly Pillar. Wisps of cloud drifted around him. He brushed them aside with a casual motion full of boundless pride.

He raised his head. His eyes seemed to burn as he looked toward the horizon. Wherever his gaze fell, the already brilliant clouds of sunset flared as though his eyes had set them alight, becoming a sea of molten gold that flowed for ten thousand li, so magnificent it stole the breath away.

"Phew~"

The figures of more than a dozen bodhisattvas were concealed behind that burning golden glow, their expressions grave.

Their brief clash had settled nothing, but they already sensed that they could not subdue this defiant Heaven-Equaling True Sage on their own.

"He's grown stronger still!"

The bodhisattvas exchanged helpless looks.

Three hundred years ago, formidable as Monkey had been, he could at most hold his own against six or seven Heavenly Immortals of the same rank. Now their numbers had nearly doubled, yet he remained at ease. It made no sense!

On Spirit Mountain, the World-Illuminating Ever-Abiding Buddha sighed softly and turned toward the Formless Pure-Flow Buddha. The latter nodded