"This junior pays his respects to the Victorious Fighting Buddha."
Ye Fan performed the rites of a junior before the old sacred ape, addressing him as an ancient Buddha.
Since the Fighting Saint King called himself the Victorious Fighting Buddha, Ye Fan interacted with him according to the relationship between Daoism and Buddhism.
Here, Gu Tianshu—both friend and foe to him—had to be mentioned.
Eighty thousand years ago, when Gu Tianshu was a Great Saint, he had carved words beneath the Wushi Dao Platform: Today, I fought the Fighting Battle Sacred Ape and suffered a narrow defeat. Considering that he came bearing the Emperor Jade, I allowed him to take three Medicine Kings and leave.
Two thousand years ago, the Victorious Fighting Buddha broke free from his seal. Following the traces left behind by one who had attained the Dao, he explored all the way into Ancient Emperor Mountain, where he encountered the human Great Saint sealed by Great Emperor Wushi.
Gu Tianshu was defeated. Considering that he held the Emperor Jade, he permitted him to take a single ancient Medicine King.
That earth-shaking battle between Great Saints ended with Gu Tianshu narrowly winning by a single move.
In the silent contest to break into the Quasi-Emperor realm, who would gain the upper hand?
During the battle at the Central Plains Immortal Mansion, they had hunted the Undying Emperor's Divine Thought. The human Great Saint had entered seclusion with a fragment of an Ancient Emperor, seeking to break through the bottleneck of the Quasi-Emperor realm.
The Victorious Fighting Buddha could only overtake him by relying on the supreme extinguished Dao Fruit of the Buddhist Emperor.
"The only Desolate Ancient Sacred Body to break the curse in the post-Desolate Ancient era, a prodigy of the Dao Sect—I have heard of you..."