Chapter 89: Monkey King Refines Golden Elixir, Sun Wukong Smashes Demon Elixir

  From then on, the two monkeys cultivated themselves separately. When they didn't understand something, they would ask their master for guidance. Every day, the two monkeys shared their own experiences and insights with each other. During this time, Sun Wukong witnessed what it meant to be a spiritual stone monkey.

  In the first year, Sun Yuan had several hundred years of cultivation experience, so his understanding of the Golden Elixir Tao was slightly stronger than that of Sun Wukong. However, as Bodhi's lectures progressed, by the end of the year, when Bodhi stopped teaching the Golden Elixir Tao, Sun Wukong's understanding of it had almost caught up with Sun Yuan's.

  In the second year, this was a year of self-cultivation for the two monkeys. In this year, although Sun Yuan had expected it early on, he was also deeply shocked. By the end of this year, Sun Wukong's understanding of the Golden Elixir Great Dao had already surpassed his own. Sun Wukong had found his own path.

  In the third year, on this day, Sun Wukong's figure appeared in front of him as he opened his eyes from meditation on a mountain cliff, seeking to refine the golden elixir.

  Sun Wukong's face was filled with excitement, and before the dark wind had dissipated, he pounced up and shouted "Brother, guess what level I've cultivated to?"

  Slowly exhaling a breath, he circulated his true energy back to his dantian. Sun Yuan exhaled and spoke out loud, "Has there been another breakthrough? You're actually able to land a hit on me, I haven't gained anything yet! What kind of bottleneck did you break through this time?"

  "Haha, this time is different from usual!" Monkey King grinned mischievously, his entire monkey face flushed with excitement, red as his buttocks. "I'm telling you, this time I've actually formed a Golden Elixir!"

  "Isn't that just forming a Golden Elixir? Look at how happy you are." Sun Yuan slightly shook his head, about to say something, but suddenly became distracted and stared blankly for a moment before saying "What, what did you say? You've formed a Golden Elixir?"

  "That's right, during this period of time, I've always felt that my cultivation has been somewhat unfulfilled. Finally, this morning, I exhausted all my strength and broke through this feeling of stagnation, and thus reached the level of Golden Elixir." The beautiful Monkey King also knew what Golden Elixir meant, and at this moment, he said with a joyful face.

  "Golden elixir, golden elixir!" Sun Yuan could hardly believe his ears, the shock was too great. Although he knew that the monkey's talent was not ordinary, he didn't expect it to be so sharp.

  "Hey! What's wrong with you?" Sun Wukong pushed the dazed Sun Yuan and said, "Brother, hurry up! Add a bit more effort, maybe tomorrow you'll be able to form your elixir."

  "Oh? What?" Sun Yuan was startled awake, as if in a dream, and clearly heard the monkey's words. He smiled wryly and said, "It's too early to say, but in terms of talent, I'm not even close to you, even if I were to flatter you. It's really enviable."

  "It's not possible!" The monkey stretched out his hand and swept away the dust on a nearby rock, then sat down with a puzzled expression. "Your true energy within your body hasn't already reached the balance of the five elements, and completed the transformation from gas to liquid? The gap between us in the Golden Elixir path shouldn't be that big, should it?"

  "What did you say?" As soon as he heard this, Sun Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he asked hastily. The impact of the Monkey King breaking through the legendary Golden Elixir Great Way was huge for him, and at this moment, he urgently needed something to shift his attention. The best way to do so was to learn that he also had hope for a breakthrough.

  "According to the ancestral method, the step before Dan Cheng is the liquefaction of true energy and achieving balance among the five elements, which both you and I have achieved." The Monkey King calmed his mind and said in a deep voice, "Based on my experience, as long as we continue to strengthen the evolution of the five-element true energy and become one with nature, when our divine thoughts touch a layer of membrane embryo, it won't be far from achieving Dan Cheng."

  "Have you touched the membrane of the fetus? Is it necessary to cultivate the true power of the five elements to perfection, reaching a state of spiritual clarity?" Sun Yuan thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said solemnly.

  "Ah, exactly this feeling, how? Have you also reached this critical juncture?" The Monkey King suddenly stood up, his face flushed with excitement.

  "No, it'll take some time, you go ahead and busy yourself! I have some insights that I must cultivate immediately, so I won't keep you waiting." Sun Yuan's face flashed a bitter smile, then he sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, starting to circulate his internal energy.

  Sun Wukong began to cultivate, and the Monkey King didn't bother him much. He turned around and jumped off the cliff, but actually went to play with his son. His cultivation had made such great progress that even Sun Wukong's monkey nature couldn't help but feel hot-blooded. It was estimated that it would be difficult to truly calm down in just a few days. At this moment, what he wanted most was to experience a big battle and calm the wildness surging inside his body. And at this time, Dragon Ball seemed to have become the best choice.

  After Sun Wukong's figure disappeared, Sun Yuan's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened wide, and the bitter expression on his face reappeared. From now on, Sun Yuan was truly surpassed by Sun Wukong. His hundreds of years of hard work and bitter cultivation had only earned him a little more than two years' time. Although he had expected this to happen, when it finally did, Sun Yuan still found it difficult to calm the sour feeling in his heart.

  After a long time, Sun Yuan suppressed the feeling of regret deeply in his heart and let out a sigh, thinking about his own path with some distress.

  According to Sun Wukong, it seemed that he had also reached the edge of Condensing Elixir, but only Sun Yuan himself knew that his true strength had already reached the level of Five Elements in balance and Qi liquefaction a year ago. At that time, the Monkey King had just grasped the meaning of Five Elements in balance, but in the following year, the Monkey King not only fully liquefied his Qi but also quickly reached the realm of Spiritual Enlightenment, while Sun Yuan's true strength in this year of bitter practice had only increased slightly, still far from the realm of Spiritual Enlightenment.

  Feeling the true power of his body, Sun Yuan furrowed his brow, but he was trapped in deep thought. Seeing Mei Houwang complete the golden elixir's trial, the anxious feeling in Sun Yuan's heart was simply indescribable.

  On the one hand, it was due to his innate desire for cultivation growth, and on the other hand, it was to avoid the Three Calamities Technique. Sun Yuan did not dare guarantee whether Bodhi Patriarch would teach him how to avoid the Three Calamities Technique without Monkey King as a companion, nor did he dare guarantee that he could complete the Golden Elixir's trial within these few short years. In fact, at his current speed of transforming yuanqi, even in the best-case scenario, Sun Yuan would need fifty years to accumulate true power.

  The sun sets and the moon rises, clouds disperse and fog emerges. The vast sky is already occupied by a multitude of stars. Sun Yuan still hasn't thought of a specific method. At this moment, he sits cross-legged on the ground, deeply pondering. The demonic pellets in his body automatically absorb the lunar essence emitted by the Taiyin star, slowly improving his physical quality and increasing his demonic cultivation.

  Suddenly, Sun Yuan's mind moved and the golden, round demon pill in his inner vision seemed to have given him a wake-up call. Since his true strength was not enough, could he convert this demon pill into true strength? This idea opened up a new path for Sun Yuan, and it seemed that there were new ideas emerging in his mind.

  In the rotating inner chamber, Sun Yuan carefully reversed the demon dan, and a pure power burst out from it, which was the real demon power. This demon power slowly penetrated into his true power under the control of Sun Yuan's heart and soul. Sun Yuan carefully observed all this, with a solemn expression, and it can be said that the success or failure of this attempt is crucial to Sun Yuan.

  The demonic energy slowly seeped into his true energy, and to Sun Yuan's surprise, when the demonic energy encountered his true energy, which was originally sluggish, suddenly became lively. Its running speed suddenly accelerated, and soon swallowed up all the demonic energy. After Sun Yuan checked, after swallowing these pure demonic energies, his true energy cultivation had a slight increase, although it was very small, but this proved that his demon pill was indeed useful.

  Overjoyed, Sun Yuan decisively made a drastic reversal of the demon pill, strongly enduring the wave after wave of painful feelings brought by the shattered demon pill. He reversed the demonic power in circles and continuously pushed the pure demonic power into the realm of true power.

  Five hours later, Sun Yuan's face was as pale as a sheet of white paper. A faint blue glow flashed across his face, and he suddenly slumped to one side. A mouthful of blood could no longer be endured, and it burst out of his mouth. His entire body almost fell into a coma. At this time, Sun Yuan thoroughly shattered his own demon core, destroying hundreds of years of demonic cultivation in an instant.

  If it weren't for Sun Yuan's mastery of the Heaven Splitting Palm, his demonic body and meridians would have been abnormally toughened, and this shattered demon pill alone would have been enough to take his life. However, even with his powerful demonic body, the sudden shattering of the demon pill still brought him enormous harm.

  It was several hours later that Sun Yuan barely recovered some of his mobility, he struggled to straighten up, sat cross-legged, and forcibly endured the discomfort, introspecting the changes within his body.

  What a relief it was for him that at this moment, despite the fact that his demonic power and cultivation were completely gone, and his demon core was also shattered and nowhere to be found, but the true energy in his body had made great progress, almost reaching the point of materialization, slowly flowing in a gel-like state within Sun Yuan's body, constantly repairing the damaged meridians due to the shattered demon core.

  In fact, the energy contained in the demon core that Sun Yuan has been cultivating for hundreds of years is not less than that of a newly formed golden core. However, the energy conversion process is extremely wasteful, so even when the demon core completely disappears, it only pushes the true power to the level of perfection, but does not directly push it to the point of forming a golden core.

  Although he felt that his current strength was much lower than before, but feeling the fullness of true energy in his body, Sun Yuan didn't have any regrets at all, instead he felt extremely happy.

  Although the demon pill is powerful, in Sun Yuan's mind it is only a transitional thing. What he really expects is the golden pill. Although in ancient times, there were also great powers that only refined demon pills, this process requires extremely high innate talent. Sun Yuan himself did not have that kind of talent, so naturally abandoned the demon pill and chose the orthodox golden pill.