Chapter 175: You Are Too Weak
"Auto-release the seal?"
Song Qi felt dizzy. Just as this doubt arose in his mind, before he even had time to think, another wave of intense pain struck him!
He felt that his spiritual energy had been squeezed to its absolute limit.
His brain was utterly incapable of any cognitive processing.
"No, that angel isn't dead yet."
"I can't pass out!"
"Otherwise, the EXP card will be wasted!"
If he were to faint, all of his summoned spirits would be forcibly recalled to their original worlds.
Not only would the impending experience points vanish, but he might also fall into an extremely hazardous state!
Song Qi forcefully rallied his spirits and looked into the distance.
......
Song Qi's spiritual energy was pushed to the extreme.
In return, the power of the Great Sage was unleashed!
He leaped into the air, his body arching like a giant bow!
"Where do you think you're going?!"
The previously tiny Golden-Hooped Rod now appeared as massive as a small hill.
Carrying unmatched and overwhelming momentum, it fiercely smashed toward the formless giant hand!
The giant eye in the sky seemed enraged!
"Presumptuous!"
"The mercy of the gods is finite!"
"I have already given you a chance. Since you do not cherish it, then perish right here and now!"
That formless giant hand slowly raised, driving boundless power and a pure, holy radiance as it struck down with a ferocious palm print!
One could only feel a thunderclap exploding right beside their ear!
And then the entire world fell silent.
Everything grew utterly soundless!
Even Song Qi in the distance entered a brief state of temporary deafness!
The sound generated by a mere collision was actually enough to cause temporary deafness in him, a person who had activated the Wukong template and possessed a constitution exceeding ten thousand points!
High up in the heavens.
Wukong was sent flying backward in reverse.
Meanwhile, the giant eye revealed a look of sheer horror!
After this blow, the surface of its giant hand appeared undamaged, but internally, its energy had already begun to churn in disorder!
This proved that the opponent's strike had indeed inflicted massive, tangible damage upon it!
Helpless, not daring to linger any longer, the giant hand grasped the Soul Orb and rapidly retreated.
Yet in the next instant, without the slightest pause or interval, Wukong lunged back with even greater speed!
This time, the force behind the Golden-Hooped Rod was even more astonishing!
Countless rod afterimages filled the air, and as they swung, the very sky was churned into fragments! idioms!
"Vile wretch!!!"
"Do you even know who you are fighting against?!"
Wukong acted as though he heard nothing, his body tensing and arching backward to the absolute limit....
"Eat this.... Old Sun's rod!"
Whoosh!
The rod shadow condensed and plummeted downward decisively.
The giant hand and the Golden-Hooped Rod collided once more.
And then....
Thud!
The moment the two collided, time itself seemed to freeze!
Everything before their eyes was locked in place!
The entire world stood still like a painting, and then....
Rumble!!!!!!
The entire world was torn apart!
The canvas of the world was ripped brutally and ruthlessly into fragments from the very center!
A void large enough to be called a spatial rift appeared overhead!
Crack!
Countless fractures emerged across the surface of the giant hand!
The deity in the sky finally displayed a look of panic!
Once Kayle died, their decades of meticulous plotting in this world would be ruined in an instant!
"Damned beast!!!"
"Hear this well!"
His eyes turned blood-red, completely losing their previous leisurely and arrogant demeanor!
"Standing before you is a Tier-1 deity of the Church of Light!"
"An absolute true god born in a higher plane, ruler of one hundred thirty-seven thousand six hundred and forty-two worlds!!!"
"A magnificent existence second only to the God of Light!"
"This is your final chance for redemption!"
"Otherwise, I shall personally lead billions of believers to invade your world and the world you reside in, destroying everyone and everything you hold dear!!!"
"Cast into the endless cycle of reincarnation to suffer all imaginable terrors!!!"
His voice was hysterical!
Yet it conveyed a sense of absolute natural entitlement!
Leaving no room to doubt the veracity of his words!
Clearly, to him, obliterating an entire world was no rare feat at all.
Hearing this, Wukong paused for a fraction of a second.
"Invade my world?"
Seeing him finally react, the deity in the sky assumed the opponent had grown afraid.
However, before he could continue his intimidation, Sun Wukong lifted the Golden-Hooped Rod once again.
"If you have the capability, come and try it!"
"This old Sun is looking forward to it immensely!"
"But for now....."
"Eat another of Old Sun's rods!!!"
Boom!
The rod descended once more.
This was already their third collision.
The giant hand finally fractured!
The orb storing the angel's soul was exposed as a result.
"Stop!!!"
A wave of consciousness erupted from beyond the world, frantically trying to obstruct him.
Yet Wukong remained indifferent, ignoring the obstruction entirely as he twirled the rod in a couple of flourishes and brought it down heavily once more!
Snap!
The golden Soul Orb was struck and shattered!
The pristine white soul named Kayle instantly turned into nothingness....
"Abominable!"
"Abominable, ahhhhh!!!!"
The giant eye in the sky turned crimson, driven mad with rage!
"Just who on earth are you!?"
"Tell me!!!"
"Who am I?"
"Hehe...."
Wukong withdrew his rod, looked up toward the high heavens, and reined in his aura.
In his eyes, the opponent's aura anchored to this world was rapidly fading away.
There was truly no saving them now.
"This old Sun changes neither name nor surname when traveling; remember this well!"
"You may call me.... the Buddha Tathagata!"
....
[Experience points +150 billion!]
[World Origin +16!]
The system prompt echoed in Song Qi's ears.
A white light flashed above his head three consecutive times!
Song Qi was already halfway to level 66, and coupled with the batches of monsters that had died from the fallout of the battle, his level surged from level 66 all the way to level 69!
Song Qi looked upward once more. Following the angel's death, the giant eye had also vanished from the sky.
"It's... over."
At this moment, his spiritual energy was completely depleted.
The state of Big Brother Monkey after unsealing was simply too tyrannical!
So much so that he couldn't sustain it for long!
Confirming that the enemy had been eliminated and there were no other immediate threats nearby...
He could hold on no longer, tumbling headfirst to the ground.
Plop!
As he lost consciousness, all of his summoned spirits vanished from the spot simultaneously.
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How much time had passed....
Song Qi slowly regained consciousness. Opening his eyes, he found that the sky had grown completely dark.
He tried to get up, but the moment he moved, a splitting headache assailed him!
It felt as though countless fine needles had been jammed into his brain.
A sharp, dense throbbing radiated deep within his mind.
It hurt so much that he broke out in a cold sweat!
"Tsk!"
Helpless, Song Qi retrieved [Greed].
With a flash of white light, the cooldown of [Song of Life] instantly reset to zero.
Thud, thud, thud!
Heaven and earth resonated together!
A warm current poured into his body from all directions.
Song Qi let out a few comfortable groans.
Within mere seconds, the injury to his brain was soothed, and the stabbing pain vanished.
Ten seconds later, Song Qi finally returned to his normal state.
"Whew!"
"I finally managed to survive!"
He sighed with emotion.
Then he pulled out his phone from his system inventory to check the time.
"Only a few hours have passed. Good, good, at least I didn't pass out for days."
"I never expected that angel to be so powerful, though."
"Di Xin and the other two couldn't defeat it even when joining forces, and didn't even force out its trump card."
"In the end, it still took Big Brother Monkey stepping in to finally secure the victory."
"As expected, Big Brother Monkey's strength is unquestionable."
"However..... how did he manage to unlock the seal on his own?!"
Song Qi was momentarily baffled.
One had to know that although Lü Bu and Ying Zheng had also unlocked 50% of their seals, they had done so by utilizing the meditation mat and comprehending the power of the World Origin.
Moreover, after unsealing, the two of them hadn't imposed much of a burden on him.
Why was it that when Big Brother Monkey unsealed a mere 10%, he couldn't handle the strain?
"Could it be that this seal isn't meant to restrict the summoned spirits' strength, but rather to prevent my mental capacity from being drained dry?"
A sudden realization dawned on him.
He finally understood the system's intention behind placing seals on all the summoned spirits.
Come to think of it, if Lü Bu had no seal, wouldn't he have collapsed the very instant he summoned him?
What he hadn't expected, however, was that with his current spiritual attributes, he couldn't even sustain 10% of Big Brother Monkey's power.
"Does that mean in the future, Big Brother Monkey can only be used as my ultimate trump card?"
"He can't be used as regular combat power?"
Pondering this, he opened the system, scrolled down for a moment, and brought up the Great Sage's information panel.
Summoned Spirit: Sun Wukong
Level: 69
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Equipment: [Ruyi Jingu Bang (Sealed)], [Primordial Sarira (Sealed)]
Status: [Sealed: Restricted by the summoner's strength, Sun Wukong has not displayed his full power. Prior to completely releasing his power, his level will synchronize with the summoner's level.]
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"Eh? Didn't he unseal 10%?"
"Why is he sealed again?"
"Well.... let me test it."
Song Qi was stunned, then tentatively issued a call.
Pop!
Monkey King, draped in a monk's robe, reappeared by his side once more.
Furthermore, Song Qi's spiritual energy showed no signs of depletion.
"He really did return to normal!"
"The drain on my spiritual energy is entirely within a manageable range."
"So the system automatically sealed Big Brother Monkey back up? That's quite considerate of it."
He said in pleasant surprise.
This way, he could still deploy Big Brother Monkey as conventional combat strength without worrying about collapsing from the strain!
Hearing this, the Great Sage sitting cross-legged upon the lotus platform cast a helpless side-eye at him.
"What pupil-draining nonsense are you muttering?"
"I saw that you, mere brat, couldn't even sustain one percent of my strength, so I sealed myself back up."
"Huh?"
Song Qi looked bewildered.
You could seal yourself back up?
Unsealing at will.
Sealing at will.
Turns out Big Brother Monkey didn't care about giving the system any face at all, huh?
At this, the Great Sage sighed, lowered his hands which had been clasped together, and resumed his unconventional posture.
Lying on his side, propping his head with one hand, he said helplessly.
"At most, I can unseal 30% right now."
"But alas, you're just too weak, kid."
"Your soul strength is far too low!"
"Besides, I noticed you're wearing quite a few strange trinkets."
"While those things can boost your spiritual energy, they are completely useless for your actual foundation!"
"How much of my seal I can release depends entirely on your base spiritual power!"
"Stop always relying on external objects to raise your upper limit; your own base spiritual power needs to catch up as well!"