bioinnovel Chapter 401 The Mother of the Monkey King?
Chapter 401 The Mother of the Monkey King?
The outline of the Ruins gradually became clear in the deepest part of the void.
It is not a mountain, not a palace, not any architectural form processed by a system of laws.
It was a vast primordial void rift, with no layers of laws deposited at its edges, nor any chaotic gray mist, only an extremely pure and dark void.
In the very center of the void hangs an extremely narrow rift, the internal structure of which is completely different from the external one.
Outside is the void, inside is the desolate land, and between the two is an extremely thin membrane of laws.
The light flowing across the surface of the membrane was extremely faint and ancient, so ancient that even the Eastern Emperor's heart in the Xu's chest cavity could not detect its frequency of laws.
"The laws and structures of the entrance membrane and the sealing runes of the Creation Jade Tablet engraved by Hongjun on the dome of Zixiao Palace share the same wavelength. The wavelength is extremely narrow, so narrow that only the will of all living beings on Pangu's axe can resonate with it."
"The entrance is drifting, not fast, but its trajectory is extremely irregular. The laws within the Ruins are awakening at an accelerated pace, with the frequency doubling compared to before."
"The signal of the living being's law is also accelerating, at a greater rate than the echo. It's about to fully awaken."
Xu placed his right hand on his chest, translating all the data of laws sensed by his heart's pulse network into specific information in his chest cavity, speaking at an extremely fast pace.
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist, gripped it with both hands, and the will of all living beings surged from the golden threads in his palms into the axe handle, shooting out an extremely bright golden light from the tip of the axe blade.
The light struck the extremely narrow crack in the center of the entrance membrane. The laws and patterns inside the membrane stopped flowing the instant they came into contact with the will of all living beings. The crack then expanded to the sides on its own, widening to a width that only allowed one person to pass sideways.
"Should we retrieve the fragments first or find living creatures first after we go in?"
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel into the void, and the aftershocks of the great calamity on the cudgel exploded into a circle of silver-white arcs of electricity.
"First, retrieve the fragments. We don't yet know what the first instinct of a living being is after it awakens. Once we retrieve the fragments, all nine blades of the Pangu Axe will be returned to their positions, the laws governing all living beings will be complete, and we'll have a trump card whether we fight or negotiate. The Ruins, the precise location of the echo."
Su Fan squeezed into the rift, stepping into the primordial void inside the Ruins of Desolation.
There was no ground beneath my feet, only an extremely dark and empty void.
There were no fragments of laws, no chaotic gray mist, not even the most basic law fragments in the void.
This is a primordial void that has never been touched by any system of laws.
He raised the Pangu Axe above his head, and the golden light on the axe blade cleaved a bright rift of law in the void, the rift extending into the depths of the void, reaching the direction of the strongest echo signal.
Xu squeezed into the crevice, stepping barefoot into the void.
With no law-based membrane supporting his feet, he floated in the void, maintaining stability only through the law-based resonance between the Eastern Emperor's heart and the stone embryo's core in his chest.
He closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, then pointed to a faint dark golden light in the depths of nothingness.
The light was extremely distant and faint, and the rhythm of each flash was perfectly synchronized with the jumping frequency of the golden line on the blade of Pangu's axe.
That is the core of the Ruins, the location where the first fragment of the axe blade cleaved out by Pangu when he created the world is sealed.
The echoing light formed a very faint halo of law around the fragment, and within the halo, a tiny axe-shaped point of light could be seen.
That was the one with the highest density of laws among the nine fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe, and the one that sealed Pangu's primordial will most strongly.
"The fragment is located at the core of the Ruins of Desolation. The core is surrounded by an extremely thick layer of primordial law sedimentation, which was formed spontaneously over 30,000 years in the Ruins of Desolation, and its law structure is extremely unstable."
"You can get the fragment by splitting the sediment layer with Pangu's Axe. But something is moving at the edge of the sediment layer. That living thing is right below the sediment layer."
Xu opened his eyes.
Su Fan hoisted the axe onto his shoulder and flew towards the core of the Ruins of the Land of No Return, stepping on the golden law membrane.
Sun Wukong and Xu followed behind.
After flying for quite some time, the three of them finally approached the extremely thick layer of primordial laws deposited on the outer perimeter of the core.
The sedimentary layer is extremely thick and dark, and the patterns flowing on the surface are extremely ancient and primitive. They are not chaotic laws, not causal laws, and not patterns from any known system of laws.
It is the original law structure that the Land of Ruins itself condensed from nothingness over 30,000 years. The structure is extremely unstable, and each flow will cause extremely fine law cracks to explode on the surface of the sedimentary layer.
A very faint shadow was wriggling directly beneath the sediment layer.
The peristalsis is extremely slow but powerful, and each peristalsis pushes the sediment layer upwards by a tiny bit.
It is that living thing.
Its aura of law is extremely ancient and vast, so vast that the law structure of the sedimentary layer itself began to show extremely fine cracks under the pressure of its aura.
It's almost fully awake.
"It is located directly beneath the sedimentary layer, and it is extremely large, so large that it occupies the entire core of the Ruins."
"It has been here for 30,000 years. After Pangu split the world, the first fragment of the axe blade fell here, and it is under the fragment."
"It wasn't attracted by the debris; it always lived here. The Ruins are its nest."
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel against the surface of the sedimentary layer, the end of the cudgel wedging into an extremely deep crack in the laws of nature.
The aftershocks of the great calamity on the rod propagated along the cracks into the depths of the sedimentary layer, where they were blocked by an extremely ancient and thick layer of law-based scales when they reached the surface of the living object.
The patterns on the scales were extremely complex and primitive, so complex that the electric arcs from the aftermath of countless eons bounced off the scales on their own, unable to penetrate them at all.
"It is not an enemy. Its laws and frequencies contain no aggressive instincts, only a deep dormant consciousness."
"It had been sleeping in the Land of Ruins for countless years. The shockwave of Pangu's creation of the world once shook it from its deeper slumber, but it was not completely awakened."
"It turned over and continued sleeping, sleeping for thirty thousand years. Now, the echoes of the laws of the Ruins have awakened it from its shallow sleep, and it is now fully awakening."
"What is the first instinct after awakening? It cannot be detected by the heart's circulatory network, but its legal structure contains an extremely ancient legal memory, the content of which is related to Pangu."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest.
Su Fan gripped the axe with both hands, channeling the will of all living beings into the axe blade. The golden light on the axe blade cleaved a bright crack of law on the surface of the sedimentary layer.
The fissure extends from the top of the sedimentary layer to the bottom, cleaving through the entire original law sedimentary layer.
After the axe blade cleaved through it, the sedimentary layer collapsed to both sides, exposing the core of the Ruins.
The tiny axe-shaped point of light hangs in the very center of the core.
Fragments of the first axe blade that Pangu cleaved when he created the world.
The laws and patterns flowing on the surface of the fragments were extremely ancient and bright, so bright that the core of the entire desolate land was illuminated by its light as a very faint dark gold.
The living creature was lurking directly beneath the fragment.
The creature was enormous, so large that when Su Fan stood at the edge of the sedimentary layer and looked down, he could only see a tiny part of its scales.
The patterns of laws flowing on the surface of the scales are extremely ancient and primitive, so ancient that even the oldest chaotic law runes recorded on the Hongjun Stone Tablet appear young in comparison.
It was perched directly beneath the core of the Ruins, its body coiling around the core in countless circles, the outermost scales having merged with the primordial law sedimentation layer of the Ruins.
Its head was buried deep within its body, obscuring its facial features, but a deep, old axe mark could be seen embedded in the center of its head.
The shape of the axe mark perfectly matches the chopping angle of the Pangu axe blade.
That was when Pangu cleaved out the first axe blade fragment. As the fragment flew out, the aftershock of the axe blade swept across its head, leaving this axe mark on the hardest scales of law on its head.
It didn't fight back; it just turned over and went back to sleep.
"The first thing Pangu saw after splitting the chaos wasn't chaos itself, it was this. It had been here all along."
Su Fan gripped the axe handle tightly.
The creature suddenly opened its eyes as soon as Su Fan finished speaking.
Its eyes are enormous, so enormous that each eye is as wide as the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
There were no pupils in its eye sockets, only two extremely dense and ancient dark gold law light spheres. The law patterns flowing inside the light spheres were extremely complex and primitive, so complex that the heart's pulsation network paused briefly when it came into contact with its gaze.
It raised its head, and the old axe mark on its head was very conspicuous in the void.
It looked down at Su Fan, at the Pangu Axe in Su Fan's hand, and at the faint golden light on the axe blade, and remained silent for a long time.
Then he began to speak, his voice extremely deep and slow, with long intervals between each word.
The intervals were so long that even the fragments of laws in the void stopped drifting away.
"When Pangu cleaved the first axe, what he split open was not chaos, but his own nest."
"I slept in the Land of Ruins for countless eons. When Pangu cleaved my nest with his axe, the nest shattered, and chaos poured out from the cracks in the nest."
"Pangu thought he had split the chaos, but in fact he had split the nest shell of his own god. After the nest shell shattered, the chaos overflowed, so he continued to cleave with a second and a third axe, splitting the overflowing chaos layer by layer, and thus creating the primordial world."
"I was awakened by his axe, rolled over, and was grazed on the top of my head by the aftershock of his axe blade, leaving this scar."
"I'm too lazy to bother with him, so I'll continue sleeping. I've been sleeping for 30,000 years, and now I've been awakened again by your will of the Path of All Beings."
Su Fan's hand holding the axe handle trembled very slightly.
He remained silent for a moment, then stuck the Pangu Axe blade-down at his feet and asked a question.
"What was inside the nest shell before Pangu cleaved it with his first axe?"
"Inside the nest shell is my true form. Outside the nest shell is nothingness. Nothingness is more ancient than the void, more ancient than chaos, and more ancient than any system of laws."
"There is nothing in the void except for myself. I have been sleeping in the void for countless eons. During my slumber, my body secretes law fluid on its own, which condenses into an extremely thick layer of law sedimentation inside the nest shell."
"After Pangu shattered the nest shell, the layer of laws deposited inside the nest shell was shattered by the shock wave of the Heaven-Opening Axe, breaking into twelve largest pieces and countless smaller fragments."
"The twelve largest fragments were swept into the depths of chaos by the shockwave, and later evolved into twelve chaotic stone embryos."
"The largest of the twelve stone embryos is the monkey beside you. The smallest one was absorbed by the axe in your hand."
Su Fan looked down at the extremely thin golden line on the palm of his left hand.
The will of all living beings within the thin thread pulsated slightly, its frequency perfectly synchronized with the frequency of the golden light on the blade of Pangu's axe, and also slightly overlapping with the pulsating frequency of the two dark golden orbs of law light in the eye sockets of the living being before them.
He raised his left hand to his eyes, looking at the thin line on his palm, and suddenly remembered what Chang'e had said under the laurel tree.
The Path of All Beings is not a new path. Before Pangu created the world, there were twelve chaotic stone embryos in the chaos.
What Chang'e didn't say was that before the twelve Chaos Stone Embryos became stone embryos, they were fragments of the law sedimentation layer inside the living creature's nest shell.
The root of all beings lies not in chaos, nor in Pangu's protective will, but in the nest of this living being.
Su Fan pulled the axe from the ground, blade facing down, and looked up at the living creature's enormous dark gold eye sockets.
"The twelve Chaos Stone Embryos were formed from fragments of your nest shell. The Great Sage was the largest fragment of your nest shell, and he was soaked in the law slurry inside your nest shell, so he sprang from the Chaos Stone Embryo. What is your relationship with him?"
The living creature's dark golden gaze shifted from Su Fan to Sun Wukong's face.
It remained silent for a long time, then spoke, its voice deeper and slower than before.
"He is not formed from the fragments of the God's nest shell. The fragments of the nest shell are merely the outer shell of the stone embryo. The core of the laws within the stone embryo is the crystallization of the laws secreted by the God during his slumber, which condensed inside the nest shell."
"He is a living symbiotic entity of laws that evolved spontaneously within the stone shell of the law crystallization."
"He was gestating in the stone embryo for countless years. On the day he emerged, I turned over in the Ruins of the Land of Ruins. The old axe mark on my head was shaken by the shockwave of the laws from the shattering of the nest shell fragments, and it cracked open a little more."
"At the time, I thought it was Pangu chopping down with his axe again. But when I opened my eyes, I realized it wasn't Pangu, but a stone monkey."
Sun Wukong remained silent.
He slammed the golden cudgel into the air, carried it to the creature directly beneath him, and looked up at the extremely wide and dark old axe mark.
He remained silent for a long time before speaking.
"I always thought I sprang from a stone. Later I learned I was a primordial stone embryo. Still later I learned that the twelve stone embryos were formed by the laws of chaos after Pangu created the world."
"I thought I was part of chaos from the very beginning. But you say chaos isn't even a root. Chaos is what formed after fragments of your nest spilled out."
"I am not a seed of chaos either; I am a crystallization of laws that grew from a fragment of your nest shell. You are my mother. My mother is not stone, not chaos, but you."
The living creature's dark golden eyes narrowed slightly.
It lowered its head until it was level with Sun Wukong's eye level, and then spoke.
"For 30,000 years, I have never referred to myself as mother and child. After the nest shell fragments shattered, the crystallized laws evolved on their own. You evolved on your own, not created by me."
"But the core of the laws within you does indeed originate from the sap of laws within my nest. If you acknowledge me as your mother, I will acknowledge you as my son."
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder and took a step forward.
"Since the Great Sage is your son, can we discuss the fragment? The last fragment of the Pangu Axe is embedded directly above the core of your nest shell. After removing it, all nine blades of the Pangu Axe will be returned to their original positions, and the laws of all living beings will be complete."
"Without taking the fragment, the closed loop of the laws of Pangu Axe will always be incomplete. Will taking the fragment damage your nest's core?"
"That fragment has been embedded directly above the core of the God's Nest Shell for 30,000 years, and has already merged with the law membrane of the Nest Shell Core."
"Forcibly removing the fragments will tear the law membrane of the core of the nest shell. After the membrane is torn, I will fall into a deep sleep again, which will last for at least three thousand huiyuan."
"But I can actively expel the fragments from the core of the nest shell. After the fragments are expelled, the law membrane of the core of the nest shell will heal itself. After the healing, I will not fall asleep, but I will briefly lose consciousness during the healing process."
"During the period of unconsciousness, my divine instincts will automatically take over my body. My divine instincts have an extremely strong rejection reaction to external laws, and this desolate land will temporarily become an extremely dangerous law-restricted area."
"You must leave the Land of Ruins before I lose consciousness, otherwise my divine instincts will expel you as foreign laws."
"How long will it take to expel the fragments?" Su Fan asked.
"Expelling the fragments only takes a very short time. However, before that, the law secretion system inside the core of the nest shell needs to be activated, and the activation process takes some time."
"During that time, I will use the Nest Shell Law to temporarily seal the entrance to the Ruins of Desolation. After it is sealed, outsiders will not be able to enter, and you will not be able to leave."
"After the fragments are expelled, before I lose consciousness, I will reopen the entrance to let you out. However, if you approach the core of my nest shell during the closure period, my innate laws will be triggered prematurely."
"Once triggered, the entrance will be permanently closed, and you will be trapped in the Ruins forever."
"We'll stay put during the lockdown. How long?" Su Fan asked.
"According to the timeline of the primordial era, it won't be long. You can afford to wait. That stone monkey, before I lose consciousness, I have something to say to you."
"The core of the law within you originated from the law slurry inside the nest shell of this god, but after evolving on its own for so many years in the stone embryo, it is no longer the slurry of law you brought out from the fragments of the nest shell."
"You are yourself. You are Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Monkey King on the journey to the West, the stone that guards the South Heavenly Gate, and a member of the primordial world's mortal realm. The fragments of the nest shell are merely your starting point; the path you walk is your own."
After saying this, the creature buried its head deep into its body again and closed its eyes.
The law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins of the Land of Nothingness began to heal itself the instant it closed its eyes. The healing speed was extremely fast, and the entrance was completely sealed within a few breaths.
Su Fan stuck the Pangu Axe at his feet and sat cross-legged on the edge of the sedimentary layer.
Sun Wukong placed his golden cudgel across his lap, squatted down directly below the old axe mark on the creature's head, and remained silent for a long time.
Xu stood barefoot to the side, his right hand pressed against the pale gold line on his chest, focusing all his perception of the heart's pulse network on the activation progress of the secretion system of the laws within the core of the nest.
The waiting time slowly passed in the extremely dark and silent void of the Ruins.
The law secretion system inside the core of the nest shell is activated on its own, and the activation speed is extremely stable.
Sun Wukong squatted below the old axe mark, his monkey eyes reflecting the old wound that had not healed for 30,000 years.
He took the last peach from his pocket, wiped it on his old battle robe, took a bite, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.
"My mother was the only god in the void. When Pangu shattered my mother's nest, she didn't hold it against him. When I made a great disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, Buddha suppressed me for five hundred years, but I didn't hold it against him afterward either."
"My mother and I have the same temper. If we get hit, we're too lazy to fight back. We just turn over and go back to sleep. But this time, my mother expelled the fragments from the Primordial World. After the fragments were removed, the laws of all living beings were complete, and the membrane defense line was reinforced. No matter how many explorers come from the outer gods, they can't overturn the heavens."
"My mother helped Honghuang in this round, so I have to do something for her. After the fragments are taken away, I will stay in the Ruins for a while to guard the core of the nest for my mother until she recovers."
Su Fan didn't speak, he just nodded.
Xu opened his eyes and moved his right hand away from his chest.
"The law-secreting system within the core of the nest shell has been activated. The fragments have begun to be expelled."
The moment the fragments began to be expelled, the extremely thick law membrane directly above the core of the nest shell spontaneously cracked open, revealing a very fine crack.
The crack spreads outwards from where the fragment is embedded, at a slow but very uniform rate.
The liquid of law gushing out from each crevice was an extremely pale dark gold, completely identical in color to the two orbs of light in the living creature's eye sockets.
The fragment slowly sank down to the very center of the crevice. With each inch it sank, the law secretion system inside the core of the nest injected a new layer of law slurry into the spot where the fragment had been embedded.
The sap solidifies spontaneously the instant it comes into contact with the empty space outside the nest shell, forming an extremely thin healing membrane wall.
The membrane walls are stacked layer by layer, and the stacking speed is slightly slower than the settling speed of the fragments.
The moment the fragment completely detached from the core of the nest shell, the last layer of the healing membrane sealed the old axe mark on the surface of the nest shell core that had not healed for 30,000 years.
The fragment floated directly above the core of the nest shell, its surface bearing extremely bright and ancient law patterns, so bright that the entire core of the Ruins was illuminated by its light into a very faint dark gold.
Su Fan stood up, gripped the axe with both hands, raised the Pangu Axe above his head, and aimed the axe blade at the very center of the fragment.
The will of all beings surged from the golden threads in the palm and flowed into the axe handle, shooting out an extremely bright golden light from the tip of the axe blade.
The light struck the surface of the fragment, and the fragment activated itself the moment it came into contact with the will of all living beings, flying towards the Pangu Axe along the direction of the light.
Its flight path was extremely stable, leaving a faint ripple of law in the void after each flight.
It stopped directly in front of the Pangu Axe blade, hovering at the tip and slowly rotating, its rotation rhythm perfectly synchronized with the beating frequency of the Eastern Emperor's heart in the Xu's chest cavity.
Su Fan pushed the axe blade forward, and the moment the fragments made contact with the axe blade, all nine axe blade fragments returned to their original positions.
The golden light on the blade of the Pangu Axe suddenly subsided after the fragments returned to their places, and then exploded again after subsiding to the extreme.
The burst of light was not gold, not cyan, not white, but a very faint chaotic primary color formed by the superposition of the three.
The primary light spread along the axe blade towards the handle, and when it reached the end of the handle, it automatically flowed into the extremely thin golden line in Su Fan's left palm.
The will of all beings within the thin line suddenly accelerated upon receiving the primary light, then stabilized again after reaching its limit.
After stabilizing, the dark golden light on the surface of the fine line subsided by a third, and the subsided light flowed along his arm into the depths of his mind.
He closed his eyes, and an extremely ancient law exploded in his mind.
In the scene, Pangu stands in the pile of fragments of the nest shell in the Land of Ruins, holding the Heaven-Opening Axe in his hand, the blade still covered with the law liquid splashed out when the nest shell fragments collapsed.
He looked down at the enormous living creature at his feet, which was perched in the core of the Ruins. Dark gold law fluid was still oozing from the wound on the creature's head, which had just been swept by the aftershocks of the axe blade.
The slurry flows down the scales and solidifies on its own into an extremely thin layer of law-based sediment when it reaches the core surface of the nest shell.
Pangu slammed his axe on the ground and spoke three sentences to the living beings.
These three sentences are the first, second, and third sentences spoken by Pangu after he created the world. They are sealed deep within the last fragment of the axe blade and have never been captured by any system of laws for 30,000 years.
Now that the fragments have returned to their original positions, these three sentences flowed into the depths of Su Fan's spiritual platform along with the will of all living beings.
"The chaos emanating from the fragments of the hive is expanding outwards, and once it reaches its limit, it will collapse inwards. If you don't cleave the chaos, the collapse will suck your hive core in and crush it. You continue to sleep; I'll cleave the chaos."
Su Fan suddenly opened his eyes.
He lowered the Pangu Axe from the void, placing it blade-down at his feet, and looked down at the old axe mark on the living creature's head, which was being covered layer by layer by the healing membrane.
It turns out that Pangu splitting the nest shell was not an accident. It was because chaos began to expand after the nest shell was broken. If chaos had not been split, the singularity of laws generated by the collapse of chaos would have crushed the entire Ruins Land.
The axe blow that landed on the living creature's head wasn't from the aftershock.
It was Pangu who deliberately cleaved it, his purpose being to wake the living creature and confirm that she was still alive.
The creature turned over and continued sleeping, and only then did Pangu feel at ease to split the chaos.
Fearing that the collapse of chaos would disturb her sleep, he cleaved with countless axes, creating the primordial world, the Heavenly Dao, and the Void.
He carved out a complete system of laws, sealing all the fragments of chaos on the outskirts of the primordial world, allowing the laws of chaos to circulate on their own without disturbing the peace of the Ruins.
Before leaving, he left the first axe blade fragment above the core of the nest shell, the fragment containing the guardian will.
The role of the Guardian Will is not to protect the primordial world, but to restart the cycle when the cycle of the laws of chaos goes out of control.
May the fragments of chaos never collapse, and never disturb her sleep.
The creature twitched very slightly before the wound completely sealed the old axe mark.
She raised her head from the deepest part of her body, looked at Su Fan, looked at Sun Wukong, and looked at the extremely faint chaotic primordial light on the blade of the Pangu Axe, and spoke her last words.
"Pangu split the chaos not to create heaven and earth, but to prevent chaos from disturbing my sleep. The first axe blow he wielded on my nest shell was the gentlest axe blow I have ever seen."
After saying this, the creature closed its eyes again, and the healing membrane completely sealed the surface of the old axe mark.
Before her instinctive laws took over her body, she opened the entrance to the Ruins of Desolation on her own.
The entrance opens not towards the membrane wall, but towards the South Heavenly Gate.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel into the void, took out the command flag from his robes, and unfurled it. The lotus flower on the flag was imprinted on the extremely dark void of the Ruins of Desolation, shining brightly.
He planted the command flag next to the old axe mark that had just healed on the creature's head, the flagpole penetrating three inches into the scale.
"My mother, this flag belongs to Nezha. He planted it on the Chen Tang Pass city wall before he returned his bones to his father, and it never fell down. I'm planting it here for you to keep you company. I'm going to take care of some business, and I'll be right back."
The living creature did not answer.
Her instinct for the laws had taken over her body, and the extremely thick and ancient scales of laws around her began to circulate on their own, the rhythm of which was completely synchronized with the law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins of Desolation.
Sun Wukong, carrying his golden cudgel, turned and walked towards the entrance, followed by Su Fan carrying the Pangu Axe, with Xu walking barefoot at the very back.
The three passed through the entrance and returned from the ruins to the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
The golden light of Mars shone on the city bricks. Nezha was squatting on the crenellation, eating a peach. When he saw Sun Wukong walk out of the entrance, he stuffed the peach into his mouth and stood up.
"Great Sage, where is your command flag?"
"It's stuck on my mother's head. She's sleeping, and the command flag is keeping her company. She said that Pangu split the chaos to prevent it from disturbing her sleep. I said that Buddha suppressed me for five hundred years to block the entrance to the Void."
"I have the same temper as her; I don't fight back even if someone disturbs my sleep. Pangu and Buddha are quite similar; one was afraid of disturbing my mother, and the other was afraid of drafts at the Guixu Gate. Both of them were suppressing people—one suppressed Chaos, and the other suppressed me."
Nezha was silent for a moment, then slammed his fire-tipped spear to the ground.
"Pangu and Tathagata both do the work of oppressing people. So, who is more powerful, your mother or Tathagata?"
"My mother is amazing. She slept alone in the void for countless eons, and she didn't even care when Pangu split the nest open. When Buddha suppressed me for five hundred years, I went to the Western Paradise to ask him for the title of Victorious Fighting Buddha. My mother didn't even want a title."
Sun Wukong took out the last peach from his pocket, wiped it on his old battle robe, and took a bite.
He squatted on the edge of the stack, the golden light of Mars reflected in his monkey eyes. He chewed the peach twice, swallowed it, and grinned.