Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

Chapter 530: Chapter 530: Fire Demon Spirit (First Update!)

The entire Flower-Fruit Mountain Demon Cult suddenly plunged into a cultivation frenzy, with all the strong beings above the Quasi-Saint level going into the Heaven-Piercing Tower to cultivate. Daily affairs fell onto the shoulders of the little fox demon Sun Xiaoqing, the Through-Arm Ape Monkey Sun Wushuang, and the Chaos Demon King Sun Tong. However, the broad direction of their development had already been set, and the path laid out. The three only needed to continue expanding the circle of believers in the ways laid down by Leng Xuan and the others.

In the Borderlands, within the World Tree’s trunk.

“Swoosh!”

Sun Wukong’s figure flashed, and a fireball shot past him at high speed, exploding not far behind him. The terrifying wave of fire instantly swept across dozens of miles, enveloping Sun Wukong within it.

“This is really odd, isn’t this inside the World Tree? How could such strange Fire Demon Spirits exist here, aren’t they afraid of burning the World Tree down?”

Activating the Chaos Fire, he formed a layer of flame aura shield over the surface of his body, isolating the fire wave outside. Feeling the heat penetrating through the flame aura shield, Sun Wukong inwardly shivered, realizing the fire’s destructive power was indeed great. Had it not been for the Chaos Fire, he probably wouldn’t have been able to withstand even this burst of fire wave!

Sun Wukong had been walking and stopping within this World Tree for a full fifty years!

Initially, he thought he would quickly reach the heart of the World Tree, but later he discovered that he was overly optimistic. The enormity of the World Tree far surpassed Sun Wukong’s imagination. In the span of fifty years, he had only moved from the periphery of the World Tree to its core area – there was still a considerably long journey to the heart of the tree.

After entering the core area of the World Tree, Sun Wukong found that the kinds of bizarre creatures appearing had changed. The number of creatures similar to the animals on the trees outside began to decrease, and more and more were Elemental Spirits formed from various elements.

These Elemental Spirits were all condensed from certain elements, with the vast majority being of the five elemental types and natural elements, like the current Fire Demon Spirits.

There are also Elemental Spirits in the Three Realms that cultivate into demons, but compared to the Elemental Spirits within this World Tree, they are far too weak, not even in the same league!

Fire Demon Spirits at the Half-Step Saint level, such beings are unheard of in the Three Realms, not to mention seen!

Originally, Sun Wukong, possessing the Chaos Fire, the source of all fires under heaven, should not fear Fire Demon Spirits like this. However, the flames from this Fire Demon Spirit contained an extremely peculiar life force that could absorb the life force of those burned by it, causing Sun Wukong quite a headache. Even the Chaos Fire could not completely suppress this strange flame, only barely manage to hold it back.

“Strange, what exactly is this peculiar life force within the flames? Why can it absorb someone else’s life force?”

Sun Wukong was currently in a completely defensive state. He had just tried attacking the Fire Demon Spirit, but its form seemed as if ethereal, unaffected by attacks. The Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod passed straight through it without injuring it in the slightest, and the Chaos Fire attached to it did not have any effect either.

It was at this moment that Sun Wukong realized that even the Chaos Fire, hailed as the source of all fires, was not omnipotent. There actually existed flames that even the Chaos Fire could not suppress!

Ordinary attacks were ineffective against the Fire Demon Spirit, but Sun Wukong was not in a hurry. Instead, he entangled with the Fire Demon Spirit, activating his Void-Breaking Divine Eye to the fourth phase, the Void-Breaking Starry Eyes state, constantly observing the changes in the flames released by the Fire Demon Spirit. After all, he came to the Borderlands to find strong opponents for combat, to seek understanding of the Great Dao through continuous battle and to fill in his own deficiencies. Now that he had encountered such an opponent, what was there to complain about?

Another fireball shot towards Sun Wukong. The Fire Demon Spirit’s spiritual wisdom was not high; its combat was entirely instinctive. The technique for releasing energy skills was also not very sophisticated, repeating the same fireball attack over and over.

However, the terrifying flame power and destructive force contained within the fireball were not to be underestimated. Sun Wukong had previously dodged them all, countering the blast of the exploding fireballs with a protective shield of Chaos Fire flames, but this time he had no intention of dodging anymore!

“Break for your grandpa Sun!”

Concentrating and compressing the Chaos Fire onto the body of the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod as if covering it with a layer of spiked flame armor, Sun Wukong roared in his heart and smashed the rod fiercely into the fireball.

Boom!

The fireball, struck by the enormous external force, exploded instantly, and violent waves of flame surged from the shattered fireball towards Sun Wukong.

“Eh?”

Sun Wukong was not surprised by the ferocity of the flames gushing from the exploding fireball; he had anticipated this and had already prepared a Chaos Fire protective shield on the surface of the Ruyi Divine Armor, so he was not harmed. What did surprise him was the presence of two completely opposite forces—life and extinction—that emerged from the fireball at the moment of the explosion!

Inside the fireball, there had been a powerful life force, strong enough to devour other life forces, but in the instant the fireball burst, this life force suddenly transformed into an endless power of destruction mixed within the waves of fire, rushing out in all directions and generating an immensely destructive power.

The transformation from life to death at the moment the fireball exploded seemed so natural, so perfect, as if it was meant to be this way!

A flicker of revelation appeared in Sun Wukong’s mind, yet it was elusive, beyond full grasp. After warding off this wave of fire, he scratched the back of his head, somewhat eagerly, and charged at the Fire Demon Spirit again, “Another one!”

The Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod, swirling with Chaos Fire, struck the Fire Demon Spirit hard, and this time, unlike before when its body went ethereal allowing the rod to pass through harmlessly, it was solidly hit, emitting a miserable scream and getting blasted hundreds of zhang away.

“What’s going on?”

Sun Wukong was taken aback. He had launched so many attacks to no avail before—why didn’t the Fire Demon Spirit’s body turn ethereal this time?

Could it be that because it had unleashed the fireball attack, the Fire Demon’s body had a brief moment when it couldn’t enter an ethereal state?

A guess flashed through Sun Wukong’s mind, and the more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed. Without hesitation, he continued to launch even more fierce attacks on the Fire Demon Spirit.

The Fire Demon Spirit seemed enraged and spat out fireballs again, this time sending three fireballs in a ‘品’ character formation straight at Sun Wukong.

“Perfect timing!”

Sun Wukong swung the Ruyi Golden-Hooped Rod and hit them, and sure enough, the three fireballs exploded upon impact with the rod.