I took off the Buddha's headband and threw it to the ground, then hung the skull of the Nine Lives Golden Cicada around my neck.

In front of me lay the bodies of numerous disciples of the Buddha.

Eighteen Guardian Blue Monks had already been killed without leaving a trace.

Five hundred Arhats and three thousand Jiedi had all fled in disarray.

Only Bodhisattva Manjushri was panting on Mount Ling, glaring angrily at me, but dared not approach.

Behind me stood a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers led by the Heavenly King Li Jing.

Yes, the Heavenly Court, weakened by the backlash of merit when facing the Buddhas on Mount Ling, had attacked the mountain.

The Buddhas of the Western Heaven underestimated my ruthlessness and the determination of the Jade Emperor.

The Arhat Long Dragon thought he could defeat me in one move, but he did not expect that the power brought to me by the Nine Lives Golden Cicada was the complete strength of a Perfect Taiyi Golden Immortal.

I beat him to the point of gasping for breath, forcing him to retreat to Mount Ling with only half his life left.

"Wu Jing! Mount Ling has treated you well. The Golden Arhat Body is a generous gift from the Buddha Tathagata to you. Why have you become a lackey of the Jade Emperor?"

I sneered:

"Arhat, you seem to have forgotten that I was once the Grand General of the Lingxiao Palace?"

"However, I am no longer in the ranks of immortals, and even Zhang Bairen cannot command me."

As I spoke, I used great magical power to suppress the Arhat Long Dragon with my hand, and the Demon-Subduing Staff pierced his chest.

"Why?" The Arhat Long Dragon murmured before his death.

"The Buddha's sect enslaves sentient beings. Now I want to reclaim my freedom."

"Is that all?"

"Yes, I simply do not want to serve your filthy Golden Arhat every day."

The eldest disciple's eyes turned bloodshot as he approached me with a staff: "Junior Brother, stop the nonsense. To be a slave, to endure countless hardships, all for the sake of toppling Mount Ling today and destroying all the Buddhas!"

The Monkey's hostility was even greater than mine.

The White Elephant, the mount of Samantabhadra, was clamoring in the formation.

"Second Brother! Let's start by getting rid of these lackeys of the Buddha's sect." I reminded Zhu Bajie.

Zhu Bajie charged up Mount Ling with his rake, engaging in a fierce battle with Samantabhadra's White Elephant.

On Lion Camel Ridge, neither side gained the upper hand.

If their master had not come to take them away, none of them would have survived.

This time, the backlash of merit and fortune affected these mounts as well, weakening their strength.

The Nine-Toothed Rake whirled in the wind, its three-foot-wide mouth no less formidable than the White Elephant's long trunk.

"Your master has too many matters to attend to. Keep your precepts, keep your damn precepts!"

The six tusks in the White Elephant's mouth represented the Six Perfections, among which keeping precepts was one, and Zhu Bajie detested the word "precepts."

Zhu Bajie poked ninety-nine holes in the White Elephant's body, then hooked the body onto the front of his rake, muttering, "An elephant that has eaten people probably tastes a bit sour."

I said, "Monkey, there's still the Green Lion."

The Monkey nodded, transformed in a flash, adorned in the Locking Gold Armor, the Purple Gold Crown, and the Cloud-Stepping Boots.

Every major battle, this Monkey always dressed up.

He was almost driven crazy during the Journey to the West.

Zhu Bajie's eyes lit up, "The Monkey loves grandeur. After we finish off Mount Ling, I'll also go to the Dragon King's place to get a new outfit. This outfit, the straight-cut sweatshirt, was embroidered by Cui Lan before she left."

I knew this fool was thinking about Cui Lan again, but I didn't know if he missed Ma'er, the Second Sister of Yunshan Cave.

The Monkey stepped on the Green Lion under Manjushri's feet, "Sun Wukong caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace, which was an internal conflict. When the Peach Banquet didn't assign a seat to this beast, you caused a commotion at the banquet, almost swallowing a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers?"

The lion trembled, "Great Sage, it was a misunderstanding!"

The Monkey stirred the lion's brain into tofu with one blow.

"What kind of monster are you pretending to be in front of me?"

The Green Lion and the White Elephant were both dead.

I pointed my staff at the Tathagata guarded by many Arhats in the Thunder Sound Temple:

"Tathagata, this is the evil result of your plan to establish the Journey to the West!"