Great Demon Sun Wukong

Zhu Bajie had always been incredibly gluttonous, and ever since he led the Demon Clan in attacking Heaven and stole the Supreme Elder Lord’s Immortal Pills, Zhu Bajie had completely lost his resistance to such dazzling Elixirs. Thus, seeing the nine Golden Cores in the secret compartment, Zhu Bajie didn’t think twice before swallowing them.

"Heh heh, this old Jade Emperor sure has a lot of nice things. These Golden Cores are even hidden underneath the dragon throne. Heh heh heh, but today, they are a bargain for this old pig,"

Just as he finished speaking, before Bajie could even stand up, a violent pain suddenly surged in his belly, and then in an intensely fiery sensation, he passed out.

What Zhu Bajie didn’t know was that these nine Golden Cores were not what any Supreme Elder Lord’s Immortal Pills were; these were transformed from the nine Golden Crows, shot down by the great witch Hou Yi, containing the most pure True Solar Fire of this world.

Ancient legends tell of the Demon Clan Emperor, Di Jun, and Xi He, who had ten sons. They possessed both divine and human characteristics and were the incarnations of Golden Crows, the three-legged solar birds capable of flight.

However, these ten Golden Crows did not heed Di Jun’s warning, and their outing above the Nine Heavens caused the Mortal World to scorch, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.

The great witch Hou Yi, wielding the Sun Shooting Divine Bow, shot down nine Golden Crows from the sky. This act rescued the Mortal World from calamity. Yet, slaying the sons of Emperor Di Jun was a capital offence, although Di Jun pardoned Hou Yi considering he acted for the common folk.

Nevertheless, Di Jun, having lost nine sons, was overcome with grief. So he used Great Magical Power to convert the nine Golden Crows’ souls and their innate True Solar Fire into nine Supreme Golden Elixirs.

He hoped that one day he would find a way to resurrect his sons. But he never expected that a great war would ensue, and even nobility like Emperor Di Jun would fall.

With the decline of the Demon Clan and the rise of the Taoist Sect, after countless calamities, Hao Tian became the Jade Emperor. Through fortune, he came to possess these nine Solar Gold Elixirs. However, the True Solar Fire within these nine Gold Elixirs was immense, and even the Jade Emperor dared not consume them carelessly.

To realize that the energy released by a single sun is sufficient for all living beings in the Pangu Realm, the energy from nine suns would equate to the energy of nine worlds.

Yet, because of the Imperial Dragon Qi inherent to the Jade Emperor, if he were to merge and devour them one by one, the effects would be greatly diminished, and it would be good to absorb a tenth of a single Solar Gold Elixir. How could the Jade Emperor bear to waste such a precious thing?

Therefore, it was sealed within a Cold Ice Box, hoping to find the ultimate Cold Thing to neutralize it someday so that he might smelt the nine Solar Gold Elixirs in one fell swoop. Then, in the world, he would have no rival, not even the Tathagata of the Western Paradise could withstand a snap of his fingers.

But who could have imagined, before the Jade Emperor found the ultimate Cold Thing, Heaven would fall to Buddhism, and he himself would perish. Thus, these nine Solar Gold Elixirs remained beneath the dragon throne, unknown to all.

Now, they had been accidentally consumed by Zhu Bajie, and in that moment, the True Solar Fire that erupted had directly reduced Zhu Bajie to nothingness. And this burst of flames was the very fire that covered the sky the Buddhist disciples saw for the first time.

However, miracles often occur precisely when they are least expected, for that which occurs unexpectedly, that is the miracle. And Zhu Bajie created just such a miracle.

Although the nine Solar Gold Elixirs had instantly reduced Zhu Bajie to nothingness, let’s not forget that Zhu Bajie was no ordinary Immortal. His body was now formed by Sanzang using the Void Transcendence Flower with the Red Lotus Karma Fire. As long as the Karmic Force in this world persists, Zhu Bajie would be immortal.

So when the True Solar Fire burnt out the Red Lotus Karma Fire that constituted Zhu Bajie’s body, a strange thing occurred—somehow, a wisp of the Red Lotus Karma Fire ignited amidst the raging True Solar Fire.

Logically, this should have been impossible. There are different levels of strange flame in the world, and no matter what, True Solar Fire is more than a level higher than the Red Lotus Karma Fire. It could be said that True Solar Fire is the highest level of flame that the Pangu Realm can accommodate.

So, when the Solar Goldfire had just erupted, it instantly burned Zhu Bajie’s Red Lotus Fire Body to ash.

Therefore, this scene, which defied all reason, occurred. The Red Lotus Karma Fire, despite being of a much lower tier than the Solar Goldfire, stubbornly and persistently burned amidst the encompassing flames of the Solar Goldfire.

Luckily, at this moment, Zhu Bajie’s Divine Sense was comatose, otherwise, if he had witnessed this scene, he surely would have been scared to death.

At the same time, one must also acknowledge the incredible luck of Zhu Bajie. Had he ingested these nine Golden Cores before they came into the Jade Emperor’s possession, regardless of any miracles the Red Lotus Karma Fire could perform, it wouldn’t have stood a chance to persist even for a moment. At that time, the nine Solar Gold Elixirs contained the complete souls of nine Golden Crows.

However, after being acquired by the Jade Emperor, in order to facilitate his own integration and devouring, the Jade Emperor paid a tremendous price to erase the souls and wills of the nine Golden Crows, leaving behind only the pure essence of Solar Goldfire.

If the Jade Emperor knew that he paid a huge price only to inadvertently benefit Zhu Bajie, who knows if he would have been so angry that he came back to life.

Soon, Zhu Bajie’s consciousness began to slowly clear up. At the moment of awakening, when he discovered he was reduced to merely a wisp of flame, Zhu Bajie was so frightened that his soul almost fled.

Now he was different from before, all of his soul and Divine Sense had transformed into Red Lotus Karma Fire, and if this last wisp of flame were extinguished, then he would truly cease to exist—completely dissipated.

And when Zhu Bajie’s Divine Sense conducted a brief exploration, he fainted again from shock. Not only did he discover that he was reduced to a wisp of flame, but he was also enveloped by the massive, boundless Solar Goldfire. This... Wasn’t this tantamount to being sentenced to death? Zhu Bajie knew all too well the terror of Solar Goldfire.

Time passed, unknown how long, when Zhu Bajie awoke once more, and this time he was much calmer. After all, he had died before, what was there to be afraid of?

After waking up, he found that he hadn’t died, and that the wisp of his Red Lotus Karma Fire was still burning tenaciously. Furthermore, the terrifying Solar Goldfire simply surrounded his Red Lotus Karma Fire but had not devoured it.

This discovery made Zhu Bajie even calmer. In fact, Zhu Bajie thought it was quite simple; he had been unconscious for certainly no short amount of time, and since the Solar Goldfire hadn’t burned his Red Lotus Karma Fire then, it probably wouldn’t now. Otherwise, how could his feeble and pitiful Red Lotus Karma Fire possibly withstand it?

With this thought, Zhu Bajie completely let go of his worries. The first thing he did after calming down was to try and control his Red Lotus Karma Fire to see if he could escape. Although the Solar Goldfire hadn’t attacked him, it felt unbearable. It was like standing naked among a pack of hungry wolves.

However, when Zhu Bajie moved his Divine Sense, he was surprised to find that not only the Red Lotus Karma Fire but even the surrounding Solar Goldfire were very obedient. With a thought, the Solar Goldfire again moved in harmony with Zhu Bajie’s Divine Sense, and it seemed almost excited?

This truly left Zhu Bajie bewildered—what in the world was happening? Could he be dreaming? But that didn’t seem likely either.

Out of curiosity, Zhu Bajie tried to shape the Red Lotus Karma Fire into a body, and what happened next was even more surprising. The all-encompassing Solar Goldfire seemed to receive some command and rolled back, and in the blink of an eye, shaped into a figure with a pig’s head and a human’s body.

And this body was formed entirely out of the purest Solar Goldfire.

At this moment, Zhu Bajie was utterly dumbfounded, silently gazing at the nine resplendent Golden Cores within him, uncertain of what to do next.