Penglai Island raised its great array, and a magical power light shield, like an inverted glazed bowl, encapsulated dozens of mountains and rivers.
By a stream littered with pebbles danced the petals of countless immortal flowers, almost coming together to form the Flowers Fairy.
In a flurry of blossom rain, the stunningly beautiful face of the Flowers Fairy flickered in and out of sight as she looked at the sky, unspeakably astonished.
She had thought it was merely an insignificant demon from the Lower Realm, yet it could exchange blows with the Great Sage Equalling Heaven?
The air was torn apart, the East Sea encountered tremendous collateral pressure, the sea's surface rose with wave upon wave of vast ripples, the scene as terrifying as the apocalypse.
Li Changzhou, "Saint Master - Shura Path," "Concentration," "Divine Body - Low Level Omniscience," "Wisdom Pearl," his status surged with battle intent like a raging sea.
His spirit was so concentrated that under the condition of "Ability - Mana," he nearly birthed a 'Divine Will'.
Each move was meticulously crafted; the previous one cunning and tricky, the next one utterly forceful and fierce, now agile and nimble, then as unyielding as a mountain.
If the current him were to return to Mars, he could single-handedly sweep away those nearly thirty Immortals without doubt, and it would be an overwhelming victory.
Sun Wukong roared towards the heavens, uttering a wild beast-like excited roar.
"Good! After Erlang God, you're the first one to get me, Old Sun, excited. Today, I shall beat you to death!"
Flames of fury surged, and Sun Wukong also transformed into a six-meter-tall divine monkey.
The two exchanged blows, unleashing infinite Divine Power, as if heaven and earth themselves were colliding and shaking.
The Eyes of Golden Flame radiated piercing light, while blue lasers, just as unyielding, collided in the sky, the explosive light turning the world incandescent white.
Sun Wukong vanished in a flash, reappearing beside Li Changzhou.
An abstract monster-like creature instinctively swung its whip, pure physical strength unleashed, the force directly peeling off a layer of the sea surface, erecting a towering wall of water at the edge of the horizon.
Bang!
However, Sun Wukong struck Li Changzhou's cheek from another direction.
Struck on the face, his vision skewed, the dazzling blue light, like a Divine Sword, grazed the great array of Penglai, sliding down into the sea and evaporating infinite vapors.
The twisted flame monster staggered in the sky, but Sun Wukong did not pursue.
"You're still five hundred years behind me in a fight, Old Sun!" The monkey burst into laughter, feeling utterly invigorated.
Li Changzhou said nothing, his eyes only growing colder.
[The situation is dire. With Sun Wukong here, you can't start teleporting back to the Tongtian River, and you can't outpace him either.] Guanyin said solemnly.
[I have a plan.]
[What is it?]
Boom!
Despite the hundred meters separating them, when Sun Wukong's right leg soared, it transformed into a Divine Whip and ferociously lashed towards Li Changzhou.
Li Changzhou showed no sign of backing down, his strength exploding, his right leg equally colliding like a mountain-splitting strike.
Bang!
The sky shook, the sea swayed, as if the collision involved not two individuals, but heaven and earth themselves.
All his strength poured out like a deluge, but behind him, the Five Organs Gears turned, and his Divine Body once again tensed like a drawn bow, Hou Yi's Sun Shooting Fist, carrying a brilliant golden light, piercing towards Sun Wukong like a Divine Arrow.
Four streams of sea water coiled around the Fist Seal, each one carrying the boundless might of the ocean.
Sun Wukong took a short breath, and his monkey fist also stabbed forward like a viper, as fast as lightning.
Boom!!
Both retreated at the same time.
"Pfft!" Li Changzhou spat out a mouthful of blood.
Power-wise, his punch was not inferior, but his current status was incredibly unstable, akin to a hurriedly assembled race car competing against a professional one. Any cornering, acceleration, shook his internal components, even risking collapse.
Boom! Without a moment's respite, man and monkey collided again.
The hundreds, thousands of meters between them seemed irrelevant as they constantly clashed.
With every exchange, Li Changzhou had to spit blood, yet his fighting spirit remained undiminished, unyielding!
Sun Wukong was eager to exchange punches, and Li Changzhou responded in kind, their fists like heavenly pillars hammering each other above the East Sea.
If not for the unimaginably abundant Primordial Essence that claimed 'as long as one's body is half intact, it can recover,' the 'Divine Body - Low Level Resilient' wouldn't be fast enough to heal Li Changzhou's wounds!
Boom!
Their hands intertwined, fighting like four Heavenly Dragons tearing at each other.
"Ah!"
Sun Wukong roared like a wild beast, while Li Changzhou bellowed madly, their massive strength in a fierce contest within a small space.
With a thunderous roar, the sky darkened, lightning cracked between clouds, and the tremendous force even altered the space above the East Sea, exerting a powerful gravity like that of the Earth's core on their surroundings.
Sea water rose, floating in midair as if entering a vacuum of space.
Lightning roared, the weather turned as savage as when the Earth first formed.
Hisss!
The two separated, Sun Wukong casting off Li Changzhou's arms from his monkey paw.
The twisted flame monster stood with empty arms.
Even with the "Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique" mastered up to the thirteenth stage and possessing a 'Divine Body,' Li Changzhou was still no match for Sun Wukong in his most proficient and confident domain.
Bang!
His six-meter stature inflated to twelve meters.
Worse than the loss of his arms was the fierce depletion of his mana, no longer able to condense his physical divine power.
Each move, every exchange with Sun Wukong, fully unleashed his physical strength, every time accompanied by a significant loss of mana.
Due to the 'Three Waters - Blood Water,' his blood was also nearly burnt out.
In contrast, Sun Wukong, though momentarily unable to defeat Li Changzhou, was calm and composed. As an Earth Immortal, his mana was sufficient to exhaust any Immortal to death.
This was why the hand-to-hand combat limited his output. If he had a Divine Artifact like the Stabilizer, a casual swing would mean the release of a thousand years of mana, all his physical strength focused into the immense weight of the artifact, effortlessly achieving 'Gods and Buddhas obliterate at my purview.'