Chapter Thirty-Three: The Guide

  After the Eight Trigrams Flame was shot, Sun Wukong withdrew his giant ape form. At this time, Sun Wukong had already figured out why the Eight Trigrams Flame immediately attacked him as soon as he revealed his name. Because from Nezha's memory, Sun Wukong learned that the Five-Colored Divine Stone, except for his own earth-based and Nezha's gold-based human forms, the other three were kept by some ancient great clans.

  After Nuwa mended the sky, she had a premonition that she would soon become one with the Tao, so she used her remaining life to use the shell of the giant turtle for divination. The result of the divination showed that the demonic tribe's luck was exhausted and that there would be a catastrophic disaster in a million years. Nuwa left a glimmer of hope for the demonic tribe by dividing a five-colored divine stone into five parts and scattering them across the nine continents. She also secretly dispatched several major tribes of the demonic tribe to guard them, and learned through divination that later on, someone named Qi Tian Da Sheng Sun Wukong would come to retrieve the Five Elements Divine Stones. This person named Sun Wukong was invincible in battle and incredibly powerful, and would be the last hope for the demonic tribe.

  At this point, the great goddess Nuwa transformed into a divine being. Dispersed in the heavens and earth, however these five major tribes inherited the will of Goddess Nuwa, vowing to guard the Five Elements Divine Stones with their lives. After that, a war shook the Three Realms, after which only 30-40% of the millions of demons remained, all of whom were old, weak, sick or disabled.

  From then on, the demon clan was in decline. However, the five major clans had sent their top masters to hide with the five divine stones before the war. Even if the demon clan was destroyed, they were not allowed to appear unless a person named Sun Wukong came.

  After another million years passed, the alien tribes that guarded the earth and metal attribute divine stones had an accident, causing two divine stones to fall into the mortal world. Because of falling into the mortal world, they were contaminated with too much mortal aura, so they underwent a strange transformation. The golden attribute divine stone transformed into Nezha, and the earth attribute divine stone merged with the aura of the top of Mount Huaguo and the surrounding monkey group, giving birth to a stone monkey.

  And in these million years, the guardians of the other three divine stones were not quiet either. They encountered dozens of people named Sun Wukong who came to collect the divine stones one after another. However, due to insufficient strength, they were defeated by the guardians of the three clans one after another.

  Here is the translation:

  Doubts arose again, why are there so many people named Sun Wukong looking for the divine stone? Because when that earth-attribute divine stone fell into the mortal world and sensed human energy, it took shape. However, after this divine stone first took shape, it was not the current Sun Wukong, but a human being also named Sun Wukong. After this human Sun Wukong grew up, he inherited the memories that Nüwa left in the divine stone, so human Sun Wukong began to search for the remaining five divine stones.

  Unfortunately, after Sun Wukong found the fire attribute divine stone with great difficulty, he was defeated by Meng Hui's move "One Dream Three Thousand Realms" due to his insufficient strength. From then on, he never recovered and eventually died.

  After Sun Wukong's death, his soul and body returned again, transforming into a giant boulder. After that, he was reborn repeatedly, dying repeatedly. All because of insufficient strength, unable to smoothly obtain the divine stone. And the leaders of the three tribes did not stop this behavior, because Nüwa said that the true hope of the demon tribe is to be invincible in battle. No one can defeat him.

  However, this reincarnation has its pros and cons. The advantage is that each rebirth increases Sun Wukong's strength, but the disadvantage is equally great, which is that with each cycle of reincarnation, the memory inheritance of Nüwa in the divine stone becomes a little fainter.

  Until the forty-ninth rebirth, it is now the Monkey King Sun Wukong. At birth, his strength had the cultivation of Daluo Jinxian, and after the bitter practice of Bodhi Patriarch, he even reached the middle emperor level. Unfortunately, due to the number of rebirths reaching the limit, all memories about Nüwa's inheritance were lost. So until later, with the fusion of Nezha's divine stone, he finally understood his mission.

  Nezha is another story, let's not mention it for now.

  Time returned to the present, after understanding everything, Sun Wukong naturally no longer had the intention of killing Huo Yan, until he realized that the opponent was just testing his own strength. Although he had made a fatal move, it wasn't strange, but rather a matter of mission. The Five Elements Divine Stone isn't something that anyone can obtain.

  A moment later, a figure flew in from afar and headed straight for the location of Hachigane En. Sun Wukong knew that someone from the Water Clan had arrived. Although the other party was a bit too aggressive, after all, there was no malice, and they had injured people, so it was still necessary to go over and take a look. Otherwise, it would be too unreasonable, after all, in a while, he still had to go get the Water System Godstone, and the relationship shouldn't be too awkward. So, Sun Wukong walked slowly towards the direction of the incoming person.

  When he got halfway, he saw Yagami Hiei being driven by another person, stumbling and walking over. Sun Wukong hadn't spoken yet, but Yagami Hiei spoke up: "Sun Wukong, you've finally come. We've waited for tens of millions of years, and you've finally come. And to think that you defeated me effortlessly, this proves that you are the true hope of our demon tribe. Welcome back."

  After saying this, it seemed to have stirred up the wound again, and he fainted once more. This time, even if Sun Wukong's face was thicker than usual, he couldn't help but turn red with shame. The entire tribe had worked tirelessly for hundreds of millions of years to protect the divine stone without wavering in the slightest. Yet, he himself had severely injured their leader, leaving him on the brink of death - this was truly inexcusable.

  Just as Sun Wukong was at a loss for what to do out of guilt, the aquatic person who was propping up the Eight Spirit Flames waved his hand and said: "You don't need to feel guilty. If we really count it, our aquatic tribe has killed you a total of 15 times. Although 14 of those times were because you were defeated by us and lost your will to fight, we still can't escape. So you don't need to blame yourself, all of this is for the sake of the demon tribe. Let's go, follow me to the Demon Ice Castle. That's where our aquatic tribe gathers.

  Since the other party has said so, Sun Wukong couldn't say anything more, otherwise it would be too hypocritical. So he followed the water tribe person and flew back to the water tribe gathering place - Yao Bing City!

  After Monkey King followed the man and continued to fly north for three hours, a huge city built entirely of ice suddenly appeared. The entire ice city was surrounded by a massive wall. The wall was estimated to be over 100 meters high and 30 meters thick, just like a giant iceberg.

  But when Sun Wukong and the aquatic person drove the Eight Spirit Flame to the city gate, Sun Wukong was shocked again. The previous shock was due to the grandeur of the Ice City, but this time it was because of its luxury. Why is that? It's because when Sun Wukong walked through the city gate, he suddenly discovered that the hundred-meter-high and thirty-meter-thick giant city wall of the Ice City was actually built entirely with Lingfeng ice.

  Lingfeng Ice is a precious material that only exists in extremely cold places. A palm-sized piece requires an ice mountain located in an extremely cold and dark place to be blown by a spiritual wind for over a hundred years, after which the ice mountain will shrink into a palm-sized piece of ice, which is then known as Lingfeng Ice.

  But this spiritual wind is not ordinary, it's a very strange kind of wind. When this wind blows, all things can't feel it at all. No matter what will directly pass through. Only when encountering extremely cold ice mountains, will it appear. Surrounding an ice mountain and rotating non-stop. Until the entire ice mountain turns into a piece of spiritual wind ice.

  The visible Lingfeng ice is rare. However, the water tribe actually used this ice to build a huge city wall, what a magnificent stroke!

  The aquatic tribe member saw the shock in Sun Wukong's eyes, but only smiled slightly and didn't say anything. He just stood there waiting for Sun Wukong. It seemed that he wasn't worried about the injury of the Eight Gods Flame at all, however, this was indeed the case. The aquatic tribe members, no matter how severe their injuries were, as long as they weren't dead and could return to the Demon Ice Castle within 12 hours, didn't need to worry at all.

  So the aquatic person just quietly waited for Sun Wukong. A moment later, Sun Wukong suddenly woke up with a start and became even more embarrassed. Fortunately, the other party didn't say anything, but just smiled faintly and drove the Eight Spirit Flames directly into the city. Sun Wukong hurried to follow, as if after the aquatic person appeared, Sun Wukong had become even more embarrassed without realizing it.

  After walking through the thirty-meter-long city gate, Sun Wukong's eyes lit up. It turned out that inside and outside the city were completely different. Outside was a vast expanse of ice and snow, while inside it was a paradise on earth. There were flowers, trees, leaves, and fruits. Moreover, the fragrance of these fruits was so familiar. Sun Wukong suddenly had tears all over his face, but at this moment, his eyes suddenly saw a place. In an instant, Sun Wukong was like seeing a ghost, as if struck by lightning. He stood still on the spot, half-breathless and motionless.

  Following the gaze of Sun Wukong, however, was a huge mountain with a waterfall on it. The mountainside on both sides of the waterfall had been flattened by someone using immense magical power.

  A couplet on the wall: The upper line is "Flower and Fruit Mountain blessed land", the lower line is "Water Curtain Cave heavenly cave!"