Chapter 837: Each Showing Their Magical Powers and... the New Big Shot "Penguin Workshop"!?

"Ah! To think they have deployed a hundred thousand celestial soldiers and generals..."

Heavy clouds piled like mountains, tier upon tier, as the heavenly hosts entrenched themselves upon the mist, stretching as far as the eye could see in an endless expanse.

At the very apex, golden rays flashed and illuminated the world; this time, nearly the greater half of Heaven's entire military force had been requisitioned, with countless mighty deities and formidable generals, each bearing dharma treasures, glaring with furious eyes.

This was perhaps the very first time these cultivators and martial artists had ever beheld so many deities and immortals assembled.

With vast armies and a multitude of generals, surpassing even the military formations of the mortal realm, the grandeur of such a gathering of celestial spirits was beyond all imagination!

"What is the background of these Four Heavenly Kings... to actually duel the Great Sage for so many rounds!" One must know that the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, having consumed so many celestial elixirs and peaches of immortality by now, possessed a cultivation level that was utterly incomparable to before.

Swords unsheathed, their cold light sweeping across a thousand mountains; the pipa resounded, silencing all other melodies!

Upon the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, the various demon kings under the Great Sage's banner clutched their ears and wailed, stripped almost entirely of the strength to fight on.

Even the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, could not help but feel his head swim and his mind grow dizzy.

"How formidable—!"

Then came Prince Nezha and the Twenty-Eight Mansions taking turns in rotation, unleashing wind, thunder, water, and fire, fighting until the sky turned black and the earth grew dark.

"These deities are actually using numbers to overwhelm a single opponent!" Inside the new shop of the East Continent, Xiaoyue and a crowd of disciples from the Haotian Sect all watched with righteous indignation.

Yet Sun Wukong plucked a handful of his monkey fur and blew upon it, transforming them into thousands of Great Sages Equaling Heaven, each clad in golden armor and a phoenix-feather cap, each wielding a Golden Cudgel.

"Ah—!" This drew a chorus of screams from the Haotian Sect disciples, who clapped in pleasant surprise.

"The Great Sage Equaling Heaven is getting more and more powerful!"

"Naturally so. It is said that eating just one of those nine-thousand-year peaches grants longevity equal to heaven and earth, and who knows how many he has devoured!" exclaimed Yuebai, who was also at the Haotian Sect in the East Continent as an exchange student.

"Yes, yes, and those celestial elixirs!" Muqing also cried out in excitement while watching.

"What is the lineage of this True Lord Erlang of Jiangkou...?"

The crowd witnessed that, this time, the Heavenly Court had deployed True Lord Erlang from Jiangkou.

"To actually not fall into the slightest disadvantage..." Yu Yin, the Eldest Senior Sister of the Haotian Sect, also gazed at this majestic divine lord with a vertical eye upon his brow and said, "What kind of deity is this True Lord Erlang... to be so incredibly powerful!"

"To dare match his strength against Sun Wukong... Heavens above!"

"Why have we never seen this deity in the Heavenly Court before... Does he not reside in the heavens?"

"Look quickly! The Great Sage has turned into a small sparrow and flown away! This is the profound technique passed down by his patriarch to evade the Three Calamities, said to be capable of deceiving the eyes of heaven and earth..."

"My goodness, he was actually seen through by that three-eyed one! This deity can transform as well! He turned into a sparrowhawk! Ah! Now the small sparrow is in danger!"

"The Great Sage has changed too! He became a great egret!"

"This True Lord Erlang followed suit and transformed... Heavens! This True Lord Erlang is simply too formidable..."

As the fourth episode concluded, they had witnessed the Great Sage battling the God Erlang, the celestial blades and divine weapons on the Demon-Execution Platform, the divine thunder and heavenly fire striking the demon monkey, and the civilian and military fires of Laozi's crucible refining him, leaving the audience utterly spellbound and unable to tear themselves away.

"What kind of fire is this Samadhi True Fire—!" The crowd then saw Taishang Laojun actually sacrifice the Samadhi True Fire, which even caused Sun Wukong to shriek repeatedly from the burning.

"This old deity... is he this formidable at alchemy too!?"

"Then this time, could it be...?" Everyone looked toward the crucible with immense anxiety, listening to the Great Sage's successive agonizing wails; though the heavenly thunder and fires from before could not harm him in the slightest, at this moment, the hearts of the audience tightened in suspense.

When they saw the crucible explode, and a figure entirely bathed in raging flames, with eyes flashing a piercing golden light, actually break free and fight all the way to the Lingxiao Palace...

Watching the entirety of the Nine Heavens seemingly trodden to pieces by this monkey, while the gods retreated from the Lingxiao Palace, every cultivator, martial artist, and viewer of *Journey to the West* inside the shop erupted into cheers.

The entire shop, regardless of gender or age, fell into a state of absolute fervor!

Perhaps they had never imagined before that their hearts would be so moved, laughing or grieving, all for the sake of a monkey.

Whether he won or lost in the end no longer mattered, because the image of this monkey had perhaps already been indelibly etched into their minds—that silhouette facing the host of deities with a golden cudgel, that copper-skinned and iron-boned posture upon the Demon-Execution Platform, and that proud, world-defying heroism within the Lingxiao Palace...

Scene after scene formed the Great Sage Equaling Heaven whom they were gradually coming to know!

At this moment, they also came to understand... that there was a monkey king called the Handsome Monkey King, and a Great Sage Equaling Heaven who looked down upon heaven and earth!

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"Uh... Boss..." In the Canglan City shop, a large black dragon scratched its head with a claw, watching the ending theme song appear on the screen once more, knowing that today's fourth episode had concluded, "Didn't you say... that *League of Legends* was releasing a new champion bundle? Is it this Great Sage Equaling Heaven!?"

"What?! The new champion bundle is the Great Sage Equaling Heaven?!" A group of sharp-eared elves poked their heads over from afar, their voices rising by nearly a dozen decibels.

"That's right..." Caelanbel beside them said in realization, "It seemed the silhouette of that bundle was indeed in the shape of a monkey!"

"Ah—!" The crowd instantly grew restless with anticipation, "We want to buy this champion bundle!"

They saw that this bundle was further divided into a champion bundle and a champion skin bundle.

"Samadhi True Fire Sun Wukong...!?" An elf stared with wide eyes at this Sun Wukong, who was covered in raging flames with eyes flashing bright golden light, and shrieked, "Wow—! Isn't this..."

"His appearance right when he emerged from Laojun's crucible...!?"

"This is too cool! I want to buy this one—!"

"Ahhh—! I want to buy it too—!"

"I want to buy this Samadhi True Fire skin!"

"However..." The Grand Elder of the elf clan gently stroked his beard, sensing that matters were not so simple, and asked, "How did this Great Sage Equaling Heaven manage to go to the continent of Valoran..."

Although a single somersault cloud could cover a hundred and eight thousand miles, the distance to the continent of Valoran was not a matter of mere miles!

"Boss...!? Could it be that this continent of Valoran and this place are in the same world?"

Instantly, a group of elves, along with other knights and assassins, all looked on with a thirst for knowledge: "Boss... didn't you say this land only has a few continents like East, West, South, and North? Where did a continent of Valoran come from?"

"That's not right either... Although this continent of Valoran and the great continents in *Journey to the West* are like the West Continent to the East Continent, the four great continents do not exist here!"

"Uh...? This..." Boss Fang was truly stumped by the question.

But as the proprietor, when customers raised doubts about any product in the shop, he naturally had to provide an explanation. Thus, Boss Fang thought for a moment and said, "It's... like this. The god who created the continent of Valoran is indeed not from the same world as *Journey to the West*, but because..."

Boss Fang organized his words: "Because there is a powerful organization from the mysterious East called 'Tencent,' which contracted the entire Summoner's Rift. Therefore, to fulfill the wishes of the summoners from that mysterious East, the two worlds were connected."

"And at this time, the Great Sage felt lonely in Heaven, so he separated a strand of his divine consciousness to come here as an avatar, fighting to relieve his boredom," Boss Fang explained.

(Because the original *League of Legends* lore for Sun Wukong features the part of the Great Sage separated after achieving Buddhahood, which involved spoilers, the lore for the system-version new champion Sun Wukong had not yet been released.)

"'Tencent'...!?" Everyone looked at each other in mutual bewilderment. Why was the name of this organization so strange?!

They had heard of organizations named after the Qilin, Dragon, or Phoenix, but they had never heard of one named after a penguin! Furthermore, it was a colossal titan capable of buying out the entire Summoner's Rift!?

Subsequently, they looked toward the "QQ Chat" on the screen.

Everyone was shocked to the core: "Could it be—!?"

Heavens above—! We always thought this was just a free and simple chat tool that everyone possessed... We never expected that not only were the entities behind these games, like "Blizzard" and "Ubisoft," so incredible, but even behind this ordinary-looking chat tool that seemed nothing special, there stood such a colossal titan!?

In an instant, they could no longer look at the penguin icon wearing a red scarf in the bottom right corner of the screen in the same way again!

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