Boom!

With a loud explosion, the enormous, ugly, foul-smelling demon body of True Immortal Ruyi crashed heavily to the ground and shattered into pieces!

A head, blinded in one eye, rolled and stirred up a cloud of dust!

"Tsk!"

I withdrew my magical power that allowed me to transform and reverted from the giant ape back to my normal size, approaching the head and staring at it coldly.

This battle, although not particularly strenuous for me, demonstrated that True Immortal Ruyi was nearly immortal. It took several attempts to finally knock him down from the clouds. Such a terrifying vitality is beyond what ordinary beings possess.

"Sun Wukong! Hahaha! What a Sun Wukong!"

"Truly deserving of being a naturally-born spiritual fetus, claiming the wonders of the universe. What a perfect fetus! What a perfect fetus indeed!"

The crazed expression on the only remaining face of True Immortal Ruyi showed no fear. He laughed wildly, seemingly unconcerned with his dire situation.

"Madman."

I coldly uttered these words and decided to ignore his crazed declarations, heading straight for the Reincarnation Spring!

The Reincarnation Spring lay deep within the Gathering Immortal Temple. The farther I walked, the more I felt an overwhelming coldness seeping into my bones. Even my kind of being felt as though even my soul might freeze.

In a daze, I seemed to sense countless infant spirits crowding and stacking together, approaching me, pulling at me, silently screaming at me. They were filled with boundless resentment, scarier than the vengeful spirits of the eighteen levels of hell, as if all the infant spirits who had died prematurely across the three realms had gathered here, never reincarnating.

Faintly, a small spring mouth appeared before my eyes.

I forced myself to look. The clear spring water reflected my image. But soon, I felt the world spinning!

After a flash of light, I found myself in front of the gates of the Palace of the Country of Women!

"How could this be?"

I stared dumbly at the buildings, confused by this unexpected turn of events.

At this moment, a scent of blood slowly wafted from the palace, causing me to tense up!

Could it be... something went wrong?

Without thinking further, I took a large stride

into the palace, but the sight before me struck me like a thunderbolt!

Pigsy and Sand Monk lay with wide-open eyes outside the main hall, their abdomens hollowed out, dead without closure!

Several palace women knelt beside them, seeming to gnaw at something!

In the dark main hall, countless pieces of flesh wriggled. Among them, I saw my Master personally carve open his stomach, pulling out a demonic infant!

He smiled:

"Wukong, eat it! Such an unparalleled treasure is hard to find in this world!"

My Master spoke, his mouth curving into an exaggerated arc as he laughed, black blood flowing from his eyes!

A moment later, he suddenly stood up, hurling the sack of Reincarnation Spring Water at me, and shouted angrily:

"You monkey... why do you want to harm us!?"

Bam!

A dull sound awoke me from the scene before me!

An uncontrollable, raging fury surged from my heart!

"Aaaaah!"

"Demon... how dare you mock me, the Great Sage! You seek death!"

In a fit of rage, my golden cudgel expanded in the wind!

For five hundred years I've cultivated my temper, but the world seems to have forgotten that I was once the mad monkey who dared to storm the Heavenly Palace on a whim!

Boundless celestial energy surged within my divine body as I crazily unleashed my powers!

Haunting human skins! Blood-red flesh!

Watch, as the Great Sage smashes all of you into pulp!

"Kill kill kill!"

My eyes red, nearly losing myself, I rampaged through the Country of Women. I wanted to completely destroy this place!

I didn't know how much time passed. Gasping for breath, I collapsed to the ground, almost exhausted, with hardly any strength left to lift a finger!

At that moment, in a daze, I seemed to see a pair of familiar beautiful eyes before me.

What kind of eyes were they!

Compassionate, disappointed, sacred... as if a galaxy was contained within them.

I lost consciousness!