Chapter 1031: Battle the Mirror Again (2nd Update!)
The Demon Court has entered closed cultivation!
Just as the Demon General Yuanmo predicted, everyone in the Demon Court, including Sun Wukong, has entered the Heavenly Que Realm for closed cultivation!
The experts from the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court, coming through the passage from the Two Realms to the Yuan Realm's Heavenly Que Realm, originally full of confidence, suddenly realized that in the Yuan Realm, a Primordial Taiji Da Luo Gold Immortal or a Primordial Wuji Da Luo Gold Immortal just barely reached the lowest Yuan Soldier Realm, and anything below the Yuan Soldier Realm was considered unremarkable!
They, all the ones who arrived at the Yuan Realm's Heavenly Que Realm through the passage from the Two Realms, were unremarkable!
While Sun Wukong and others, at the very least, had reached the Domain King Realm, far stronger than them, more than just a little bit!
Especially the Six Great Demon Kings of the Three Realms, except for Bull Demon King, who was unlucky enough to draw lots and ended up guarding the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court, the other five all arrived at the Yuan Realm. All five were Heavenly Dao Saints, yet even in the Yuan Realm, they were still considered unremarkable.
Originally, in the Three Realms, Nezha and others whose cultivation was only one or two levels higher than theirs, now had cultivation strength far surpassing them, a gap akin to a chasm!
This tremendous contrast left these proud and arrogant experts unable to accept it!
But even if they couldn't accept it, they had to accept it. The facts were laid bare, the gap was right there, and if they didn't dare even to accept it, how could they talk about catching up?
Deeply stimulated, the Jiao Demon King and the other Five Great Demon Kings went into closed cultivation immediately. They were the first to choose closed cultivation after coming to the Yuan Realm!
With the closed cultivation of the Jiao Demon King and the other five, everyone else followed suit, eventually including everyone who ascended from the Three Realms, such as Zi Xia Fairy, who also went into closed cultivation.
Those who ascended through the new passage from the Two Realms all went into closed cultivation. Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor and others also fittingly chose to enter closed cultivation. It was just right that their cultivation had just made a huge breakthrough and needed a good period to settle down. At such time, closed cultivation would allow the rapidly growing cultivation to truly stabilize.
With Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor and others in closed cultivation, and the brothers and sisters who ascended from the Three Realms also in closed cultivation, even Zi Xia Fairy went into closed cultivation, leaving Sun Wukong suddenly alone, with no one to talk with.
No, there was still someone to talk to, the Cold General Yuan Bing, who was always watching Sun Wukong from afar. But those deeply complex eyes filled with affection gave Sun Wukong a headache. He would rather have no one to talk to than face Cold General Yuan Bing.
So Sun Wukong also entered closed cultivation. Although he knew in his heart that the best way for him to improve his cultivation was not through closed cultivation but by fighting strong opponents, he chose to enter closed cultivation to avoid Cold General Yuan Bing's gaze.
Inside the trial space of the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Vault.
This is the trial space of the Fifth Level.
Sun Wukong looked at his reflection standing opposite and laughed, "This type of combat training suits old Sun! I should have come here long ago!"
Initially, when he entered closed cultivation, Sun Wukong, like Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor and others, also did quiet meditation, but he was never one to sit still!
The nature of monkeys is to be active, and Sun Wukong was no exception. Expecting him to sit like Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor for years? Forget it; he had no such patience!
After half a year of quiet meditation, Sun Wukong couldn't endure it anymore. If he continued to sit still, he would die of boredom. Besides meditating, where could he find an opponent at his level to duel and train?
It was Cold General Yuan Bing's words that reminded Sun Wukong: "If you really want to find an opponent, battling yourself is actually the best."
Sun Wukong was stunned at that moment. He remembered the scene during the final trial in the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Vault where he fought against his own reflection. At that time, he surpassed his own limits, using his true form to exert the Chaos Decision, while his clone used the Reversal Chaos Decision, mixing the generated Primordial Forces to form a more destructive power, which finally defeated his own reflection.
His cultivation was also improved during that confrontation.
Now that Sun Wukong has become the master of the Heavenly Que Realm, everything in the Heavenly Que Realm can be freely controlled with a single thought. Since this is the case, why not have another duel with his own reflection?
Even if he couldn't surpass himself as last time, an intense battle would surely enhance his cultivation strength!
After all, that reflection of Sun Wukong was far stronger than any equal-level opponent!
"Let's start!"
Narrowing his eyes, Sun Wukong summoned his External Incarnation, and the reflection also called forth its External Incarnation.
"Reverse!"
Just like last time, the External Incarnation used the Reversal Chaos Decision, forming Generative Primordial Force and Destructive Primordial Force, and combined with the true form's Chaos Primordial Force to create a Tai Chi Diagram.
Last time, Sun Wukong barely mixed the Life-Death Primordial Force and Chaos Primordial Force into Mixed Primordial Force with just one experience, but upon doing it again, he found the pressure was not as intense as the last exertion.
It seemed that his body had already begun to slowly adapt to the enormous pressure brought by the Mixed Primordial Force.
However, Sun Wukong did not feel the slightest relief because this time the reflection was also strengthened!
The reflection he formed last time couldn't mix the Primordial Force, but this time the reflection, after summoning the External Incarnation, also began to fuse the Mixed Primordial Force like him, and the speed of generating Mixed Primordial Force was no slower than his.
It could be said that this time the reflection had perfectly copied all his abilities and synchronously enhanced them.
Wanting to defeat the reflection was even more challenging than last time without a decrease!
With a flash of determination in his eyes, Sun Wukong took a deep breath, looked up at the reflection on the opposite side that was condensing Mixed Primordial Force, and said, "So what if the reflection got stronger? As long as old Sun gets stronger, that's enough!"
Sun Wukong infused the Mixed Primordial Force into the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod in his hand, which began to glow astonishingly bright. Shouting fiercely, he swung the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod towards the reflection.
At the same moment, the reflection also swung its staff, infused with Mixed Primordial Force, towards Sun Wukong.
The two staffs collided with a heavy thud, a spatial rift appeared at the collision point, suddenly expanding into a massive black hole.
Sun Wukong felt as if he was struck by lightning, his entire form was instantly blasted away a thousand feet, and the same happened to the reflection.
The terrifying destructive power surged from the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod into Sun Wukong's body, and he felt his body being torn inch by inch under this overwhelming destructive force, unable to help but let out a scream. His vision suddenly blackened.
Upon reopening his eyes, Sun Wukong found himself standing before the gate of the Heavenly Emperor's Treasure Vault, but that feeling of his body and even his Divine Soul being torn apart still lingered vividly in his memory!