By the East Sea.
Sun Wukong finally woke slowly and discovered that the old man had long since vanished.
"Who exactly was that man? Why was he so insistent on taking me as his disciple, and why did he attack me?"
His heart was filled with confusion. It felt as though a shadow had been hanging over him all along.
After pondering for a while without coming up with anything, he could only bury this doubt deep in his heart for the time being.
After this incident, Sun Wukong deeply realized for the first time just how weak he was. Even though he had already cultivated to the Golden Immortal realm, he had still been like an ant in that old man's hands, utterly incapable of resisting. If the old man had wanted to kill him, he would have long since died without even a burial place.
This stirred within him a thirst for strength. He only wanted to raise his cultivation and power as quickly as possible. Only by becoming strong enough would he no longer be at others' mercy, with his life and death controlled by someone else.
Afterward, he threw himself into cultivation once more.
This time, it took him only a year to advance from the Golden Immortal realm to the Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
Great Sage Sun, who had been secretly protecting him, could not help but feel envious at the rapid progress of this world's Sun Wukong. If he himself had possessed the same good fortune back then, he probably would not have had merely early-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation when he left his master. He should have reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm instead.
However, the foundation bestowed upon him by the Five-Colored Divine Stone had been largely exhausted once he