# 1235
Chapter 1236: Great Sage Equal to Heaven
"Brother Monkey..."
Lin Qiye gazed at the towering golden figure, murmuring to himself.
He had witnessed everything that happened inside the Asylum of the Gods. Sun Wukong could advance his treatment through combat, so this time he had voluntarily broken free from fighting Gilgamesh in order to push his treatment progress to 100% in one go, to leave the asylum, and to rescue him and Gilgamesh from their predicament.
At the same time, Sun Wukong was also the patient who had been discharged the fastest so far.
"A Great Xia deity?!"
Sensing the fluctuation of power emanating from Sun Wukong, Innana and the two Sumerian gods in the sky were both greatly alarmed.
How was this possible? How could a Great Xia deity suddenly appear inside this treasury?
How did he get in?!
Innana had no time to think. She felt the violent aura closing in on her, her hairs standing on end, an ominous premonition rising in her heart. She quickly retreated.
But she was still a step too late.
Sun Wukong did not hesitate in the slightest. His eyes erupted with astonishing divine might, swirling sand danced wildly in the air. He gripped the Ruyi Jingu Bang tightly in both hands, raising it above his head...
And slammed it down!
As divine power poured in, the golden Ruyi Jingu Bang expanded visibly before the naked eye, transforming into a pillar that pierced the heavens. The massive shadow instantly covered Innana's rapidly retreating figure.
Innana's pupils constricted sharply!
BOOM—
The world-destroying Ruyi Jingu Bang crashed down, countless grains of sand were blasted into the air, the earth roared.
The sweeping gale blew the survivors lying in the ruins into the air. They flailed their arms in terror mid-flight, but a streak of night dyed their collars as a figure soared through the air, grabbing their bodies and gently setting them on the ground.
While Lin Qiye rescued the last residents of Wu City, he watched the figure in the smoke and dust, his heart filled with boundless emotion.
The Great Sage was truly the Great Sage. With just a single strike of his staff, the pillar that pierced the heavens rapidly shrank back into its golden-red form, returning to Sun Wukong's palm. His身形 drifted down from the sky, standing firm on the scorched earth.
From the billowing dust, Innana's disheveled form emerged. She clutched her already twisted and deformed left arm, barely standing in the midst of the ruined crater. Her white robes were tattered and torn.
"A Great Xia deity... why are you here?" Innana glared at Sun Wukong, bellowing, "Who are you?!"
Sun Wukong slung the Ruyi Jingu Bang over his shoulder and stepped out of the dust, his burning golden eyes casting a cold glance at her:
"Sun Wukong."
"Sun Wukong?" Innana's brow furrowed, as if finding the name somewhat familiar.
Sun Wukong ignored Innana and the moon god Nanna and fire god Gibil in the sky, his gaze falling directly on the puppet Hero-King standing among the countless divine artifacts, his eyes dull and lifeless.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
"Why... why would you save us?"
From behind Sun Wukong, Tali, who had narrowly escaped death, asked timidly.
Sun Wukong glanced at her and said calmly, "It was Ji... It was your king who asked me to save you."
"Our king?" Everyone was stunned. "But didn't our king die?"
"He didn't die." Sun Wukong paused for a moment.
"He will return."
In the sky, Nanna and the others who had witnessed Sun Wukong's strike with their own eyes had ashen expressions.
"Where did this Great Xia deity come from?" Gibil asked in confusion.
Nanna fell silent for a moment, his aged eyes narrowing into a dangerous arc:
"It doesn't matter. Since he appeared in the treasury, we absolutely cannot let him leave...
He is alone. Kill him and use him as a sacrifice for the Holy Grail."
Nanna raised his fingertip, and the puppet Hero-King below transformed into a streak of light, soaring toward Sun Wukong.
The countless divine artifacts seemed to respond to some call, dotting the sky like stars, like a thousand Damocles' swords poised to fall at any moment.
"Good, come."
Sun Wukong's feet slammed against the ground, his body bursting into the clouds like lightning as he clashed with the puppet Hero-King draped in royal robes and crowned in diadem!
The moment he raised his Ruyi Jingu Bang, the puppet Hero-King raised his palm and grasped toward the sky.
The King's Treasury shuddered once more!
Sun Wukong felt his hand lighten. The Ruyi Jingu Bang actually flew out of his palm on its own, transforming into a rainbow streak that shot into the clouds, joining the numerous divine artifacts suspended in the air.
After all, this was the interior of the King's Treasury.
And the King's Treasury possessed the attribute of "absolute obedience" over artifacts that entered its interior. Even the Ruyi Jingu Bang in Sun Wukong's hand could not escape this law. It was forcibly severed from his connection and completely contained.
At having his hands emptied, Sun Wukong's expression immediately grew grave.
Only now did he understand what Gilgamesh had meant by those words before he left.
The Gilgamesh who held the King's Treasury was simply worlds apart from the Gilgamesh inside the asylum.
Without the Ruyi Jingu Bang, Sun Wukong did not panic. He calmly gazed up at the puppet Hero-King. His golden-red battle robe rippled without wind.
Divine power gushed from his entire being. His lips parted slightly:
"Mirror Heaven to Earth."
The moment those words fell, the sky and earth changed color.
The already gloomy sky plunged rapidly into darkness. Yellow sand mixed with howling wind filled the heavens. Spiritual energy from heaven and earth rushed toward that golden figure at a staggering speed.
A suffocating oppressive force suddenly gripped everyone's heart!
From within the endlessly rotating vortex of spiritual energy, a towering giant emerged, breaking through the yellow sand and slowly rising to its feet.
It was a figure completely shrouded in swirling demonic energy, wearing the Phoenix-Wing Purple Gold Crown and cloaked in linked golden armor. It stood upon the yellow sand, its head nearly hidden among the clouds. Only those eyes, burning like gold, were blazingly bright as it looked down from above at the three gods and the puppet Hero-King below.
"What an enormous avatar!" Lin Qiye exclaimed at the sight.
His Heaven-Equaling Avatar was derived from Sun Wukong's divine ability, but in comparison, it was like a child beside a grown man—相差太多!
The Heaven-Equaling Avatar raised its colossal hand, slowly pressing toward the puppet Hero-King. It blotted out the sky, as if an entire heaven were falling.
Before the palm even landed, the terrifying wind pressure carved a palm imprint into the Vast Desert. Violent divine power surged toward the puppet Hero-King's face, yet those dull eyes still stared blankly at the nothingness before them.
Just as the palm was about to touch him, a hoarse voice suddenly rang out:
"Royal Decree: God's Ruins Prohibition."
An invisible domain expanded, engulfing that hand and the massive Heaven-Equaling Avatar entirely.
BOOM—!!
That world-destroying giant palm halted abruptly ten meters before the puppet Hero-King, as if an invisible wall was死死抵住 the avatar's advance!
The puppet Hero-King stepped forward into the air.