Chapter 269 - 258: Crossing Ancient and Modern Times to Sever the Past
Lu Ya plotted against Wukong, and after intercepting him, a great battle ensued, but it was difficult to prevail in such a short time. Eventually, he made a firm decision to blow up the Immortal-Slaying, God-Punishing treasure blade in his hand and sacrificed it to summon a jade figure, a thousand zhang tall and wielding a cold light that struck with tremendous force.
At this level of battle, magical treasures were the primary factor, followed by divine skills, representing a clash of actual strengths. There was absolutely no room for trickery; only head-on confrontation could resolve the fight.
Even when Wukong was in the Dream Dao and battled Amitabha Buddha, it took an entire month, which goes to show the might of the Sages.
Wukong couldn’t afford a protracted battle with his Great Dao injury, and neither could Lu Ya since the Great Sun Tathagata was wounded by the Victorious Fighting Buddha. If the Great Sun Tathagata were defeated, the situation would reverse, so both Lu Ya and Wukong had to fight with all their might.
Once the battle commenced, it was unknown how many of Wukong’s Primordial Spirit Thoughts were eroded away by the Great Dao Wound, and his vital energies were also severely weakened.
Lu Ya, with the jade figure, severely injured Wukong and then used a method to condense the accumulated essence of Separation Fire over many years into Divine Thunder for sacrifice.
When the Separation Fire Divine Thunder exploded, its power was no less than that of the Chaos Divine Thunder, after all, it was the Innate Separation Fire, with boundless might.
Wukong’s Three Thousand Great Paths ceaselessly operated, enveloping his body. As the Eastern Emperor Bell, a treasure capable of both attack and defense, was lent to the Victorious Fighting Buddha to deal with the Great Sun Tathagata, Wukong was at a significant disadvantage in this battle against Lu Ya.
"Die!" Lu Ya bellowed, splitting out a thousand Primordial Spirit Thoughts, wrapping them with the Innate Separation Fire Divine Thunder and hurling them down.
Sages possess ninety billion Primordial Spirit Thoughts; a thousand thoughts truly don’t amount to much for a Sage. But if more were used, it could harm their foundation, requiring gradual recovery to reach the saturation state of ninety billion thoughts again. These thoughts are like the conception of children, one Yin and one Yang, able to engender a new thought through their mutual interaction.
This is similar to the mystical union between Dao Companions, subtly mirroring each other and capable of engendering Primordial Spirit Thoughts.