For a moment, Wang Wu truly wondered if he was still inside an illusion realm.
Everything that had just happened had been far too real—so real that he could no longer tell whether this moment was real or false.
Fortunately, as time slowly passed, his reason and senses finally returned, tardy as they were. As long as they had returned, that was enough.
Now that he thought back on the illusion realm from before, which had been nearly impossible to distinguish from reality, he finally found several points that disproved it.
First, with such an intense battle earlier, if the Stone Monster had been watching that Human cultivator hunter all along, how could it possibly have remained undisturbed?
The likeliest outcome was that it would have burrowed out and wiped out both the humans and demons in one fell swoop. They might even have tasted fresher.
Second, at a distance of over thirty li, even with Wang Wu's current Level 15 perception, there was no way he could have heard Tiger Vanguard so clearly. Even if Tiger Vanguard had a loud voice, he could not possibly have heard Bear Sixteen's conversation that distinctly.
Third, with Ape Bupuo badly injured and dragging along dead weight like Little Mountain Pig, how could they possibly have taken such a wide detour and shaken off the Stone Monster?
Fourth was the matter of the Stone Monster not pursuing them into the Black Forest. Even if there were things in the Black Forest that frightened it, since they had managed to kill their way out, as long as they did not venture too deep, catching a few fresh ingredients should not have been a problem.
In short, it had been a trap within a trap, luring him into the Black Forest.
Once he entered, it