Chapter 32: The Death of the Demon King of Chaos (Part 1)

  "The Ox-Head, the Demon King's Realm and the Inner Elixir Realm are completely different." Sun Wukong lazily lay on a white cloud, basking in the warm sunlight, and said to Lei Hao who was sitting cross-legged at the top of the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits.

  "I understand it's different, but how is it different?" Lei Hao raised an eyebrow and looked at Sun Wukong with a puzzled expression.

  Sun Wukong didn't answer, and jumped down from the cloud with his furry monkey paws spread out. A stream of golden light slowly rose up from the center of Sun Wukong's palm. Lei Hao saw that this golden energy was constantly twisting into various shapes - sometimes a peach shape, sometimes a banana shape, and finally transformed into a vivid monkey head, its expression identical to Sun Wukong's face. Then, seeing the golden light retract, a gentle transformation occurred, and the golden light turned into a white cloud; after another transformation, it turned into a clear water...

  Lei Hao was stunned and amazed.

  Lei Hao has had magical powers for over a hundred years, but he never knew that magic could be used this way.

  Lei Hao's magical power can do what? It can transform into a fierce energy like explosives, killing enemies; it can transform into a gentle energy like clear water to nourish the body, increase physical strength and enhance power. It can also create an energy vortex in the palm of his hand, generating suction to attract and capture weapons, that's all.

  Lei Hao had previously read the description of the Demon King Realm in "Shangqing Treasure Mirror" and didn't think much of it. In his mind, the greatest effect of the Demon King Realm was that one's magical power became even more profound, further nourishing the flesh and increasing strength to enhance overall power. As for what "Shangqing Treasure Mirror" said about magical power entering subtlety, he didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a fancy trick.

  Now that I see Sun Wukong's magical powers, I understand that he is too narrow-minded. The Demon King is not just someone who has stronger magical powers and physical body than the Inner Dan Realm, but a completely different realm.

  "The Jindan realm is still mortal after all, just like human practitioners, can possess powerful magical powers, but ultimately it's just a handful of yellow earth, unaware of the heavenly numbers, and cannot achieve immortality. The initial stage of the Demon King realm corresponds to the Earth Immortal, which is an immortal, although it's only the lowest level of immortal, I can slap to death dozens with one palm, but that's still an immortal. It's able to vaguely predict some of the causes and consequences of what's happening in front of them, is a being that can achieve immortality." Sun Wukong said seriously to Lei Hao.

  "The most important thing is that only when one reaches the Demon King realm can they be considered to have formally entered the threshold of cultivation, and their magical powers can possess the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. The cultivation of the Demon King realm is to grasp the origin of the five elements. If you can master any one of the elemental origins perfectly, you can break through to the Demon God realm. Of course, the more elemental origins you master, the stronger your magical powers will be, and the harder it will be to break through to the Demon God realm. I have already mastered the origin of the gold element to 80%."

  "The key to breaking through the Demon King realm lies in merging one's divine sense into their magical powers, gradually understanding the properties of their own magical powers. Once you've fully merged your divine sense into your magical powers and given birth to a divine consciousness, as long as you can comprehend the origin of fire and lightning, you'll be able to condense your primordial spirit and successfully advance in rank." Sun Wukong explained the process of breaking through in great detail. However, he forgot something, which almost caused Lei Hao's advancement to fail.

  Lei Hao was stunned and scratched his cow horn, spreading his hands and saying: "Then what about me?" A violent surge of purple magic power rose from Lei Hao's hand.

  Sun Wukong was also stunned when he saw it, and he too scratched his golden fur on his face, saying: "Damn, unreasonable, unreasonable... Fire Thunder belongs to the Li fire of the five elements, how did a cow demon in the inner elixir realm get the power of fire thunder?"

  Sun Wukong wasn't unfamiliar with Lei Hao's purple magic, it's just that at the time he was a monkey demon even more rustic than Lei Hao and hadn't cultivated yet, how could he distinguish that Lei Hao had thunderfire magic.

  Sun Wukong stretched out his divine consciousness and carefully probed Lei Hao's magical powers, then said: "Your current magical powers are still incomplete in terms of thunderfire."

  Lei Hao stopped and furrowed his brow, asking: "Just say whether this is good or bad."

  Sun Wukong thought for a moment and said, "It should be nothing serious."

  Lei Hao listened and shrugged his shoulders, saying: "Then it's settled."

  Sun Wukong suddenly understood that Leihao's fire and thunder power was brought out by the tribulation of the 39th heaven, generally speaking, only demons and gods dare to bring heavenly thunder into their bodies, even demon kings don't have the guts to do so. Even if they had the guts to try, almost none of them survived. Therefore, even if the fire and thunder power appears, it is still at the level of a demon god. Leihao was initially helpless, with no formation or artifact to cross the tribulation, but he managed to cross the most difficult 39th heaven tribulation in the inner dan realm. Fortunately, Leihao had advanced to the inner dan realm and had no karma on his body, so the power of the heavenly tribulation was very pure and could be absorbed by the inner dan, allowing him to absorb a thread of heavenly thunder power.

  So, the heavens are just a ruthless tyrant who can bully you to death when you're soft; but if you can be hard, they'll become even more gentle. Lei Hao's character has always been tough and resilient, especially after crossing over and being unbound, his thoroughly desperate nature was fully displayed, so he also gained unexpected benefits from the heavens' bullying of the weak and fear of the strong.

  ………

  "Alright, that's all I can teach you about breaking through to the Demon King realm. As for the technique, I promised my master not to spread it outside when I left the sect. You can start now." Sun Wukong said with a mischievous tone, using his pinky to pick his nose, as if advancing to the Demon King was an easy matter.

  Of course, with Sun Wukong's abnormal Spiritual Stone Monkey talent, plus his cheap master 'Grape Old Ancestor', it's possible that advancing to the rank of Demon King is just a matter of time. Not seeing him for just a few years and he'll be at the late stage of the Demon King realm? It's worth noting that Lei Hao spent over a hundred years cultivating from the initial stage of the Inner Elixir Realm to its peak, and the time it takes to cultivate from the initial stage of the Demon King Realm to the later stage is...

  If there wasn't a great opportunity, it would only be a geometric growth, otherwise this country's borders wouldn't even have one mid-term demon king.

  Lei Hao looked at Sun Wukong with a painful expression after hearing this, fortunately he was prepared, and he had also roughly guessed that 'Grape Old Ancestor' would not allow Sun Wukong to pass on his 72 transformations. After finishing the joke, can a profound technique like the 72 transformations be passed down? This is the top-level method for achieving physical immortality, comparable to Yang Jian's eight or nine profound techniques. If it could be passed down, why didn't any of the small monsters in the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits in "Journey to the West" produce one or two outstanding big monsters?

  Lei Hao was speechless for a moment, then he closed his eyes and entered meditation. In his mind, the purple energy within him began to stir, and tiny particles of lightning danced joyfully inside Lei Hao's body.

  Lei Hao slowly infused his divine sense into the law power, gradually experiencing the subtlety of the origin of thunder and fire.

  What is the origin of thunder? Lei Hao first thought of justice. Because most of the time, heavenly tribulation appears in the form of thunder, and what it represents is the punishment of this world by heaven and earth. For example, cultivation is a behavior that harms heaven and earth for personal gain, so every cultivator will have heavenly tribulation when breaking through their current realm; similarly, if an ordinary person commits a heinous crime, heaven and earth will also descend with thunder to scatter their soul, and the saying "heavenly punishment" in this world is absolutely not empty words.

  After thinking about justice, Lei Hao thought of brutality again. The power of thunder and lightning represents the unreasonableness that is unparalleled, even if it means mutual destruction, it will tear the enemy to pieces. This point made Lei Hao deeply moved. Since breaking through the inner dan boundary, Lei Hao led the Lei army and other demon caves into battle. When he used his skills, the enemies were generally blown up into a bloody mist. Even if there was an inner dan boundary demon who could withstand it at that time, they would be severely injured, with their internal organs turned into a pulp, and could only slowly recover through a long period of time.

  As Lei Hao's understanding of Lei deepened with his eyes closed tightly, the spiritual energy within him also began to change.

  The purple magical power is now slowing down its rotation speed, and the thunder power that was jumping wildly is now following the rotation of the magical power in an orderly manner, with a tendency to be assimilated. It's no longer the magical power containing thunder power, but the real thunder attribute magical power. The demonic aura on Lei Hao's body is also fading away bit by bit, and a pure and noble immortal aura is rising from his body.

  A wondrous and ineffable aura slowly emanated from Lei Hao's body, drifting over the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits and wafting further away.

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  Sun Wukong flew back to the top of Leihao's head after he entered meditation, seemingly basking in the sun lazily. In reality, his divine consciousness was closely monitoring all the movements within a hundred miles around Leihao. As Leihao was currently undergoing a breakthrough, he would naturally emit an aura that would attract some unenlightened spirits and possibly even powerful enemies from the surroundings. If Leihao were to be disturbed during meditation and forced out of his cultivation state, it would cause great harm to his divine mind, perhaps delaying his breakthrough to the Demon King by several hundred years again.

  Sun Wukong had never mentioned this to Lei Hao, in his heart, as long as he was there, nothing could get close to Lei Hao within a fifty-mile radius, hmm, except for the little fox, no one else was allowed.

  Suddenly, Sun Wukong's lazy eyes sparkled with a sharp light, and he slowly smiled, his long fangs reflecting the sunlight. "It turns out there really are people who deliver themselves to death." The murmured voice was unclear whether it was excitement or melancholy.

  Who is the outsider from a hundred miles outside of Mount Huaguo? It was indeed the Húnshì Mówáng ( 混世魔王 ) from the Water Cavern of Kānyuán Mountain.

  Yes, it is indeed the demonic king of the mundane world with a gloomy face and fully armed.

  Lei Hao has been staying in the Water Curtain Cave since his last battle with Hu Dajun and has not returned to the Water Wasteland Cave. Even his subordinates, Lei Wei and Lei Zijun, have rarely visited the Water Wasteland Cave. The Demon King of the Mortal World understood that Lei Hao was taking a stand and indicating to him that he would no longer be his subordinate.

  The Demon King of the Mixed World didn't pay much attention to Lei Hao originally, although he had already seen that Lei Hao had the strength to rival him. However, he always thought that he was restrained by the face of the Demon King and couldn't make a move. He felt that if he really decided to kill Lei Hao, the outcome would definitely be Lei Hao's death and his own survival, even if he would be injured.

  Until recently, the Demon King of Mixed Worlds had just received detailed information about Lei Hao's killing of the Purple Bat King in the Bat Cave, and his views changed.

  There are moles of the Demon King in the Leiwen Army, which is certain. After all, he is the overlord of the Shuixu Cave. Leihao also knew about it, but he had never thought much about the Shuixu Cave, so he didn't care. However, the Demon King obtained some information about Leihao's killing of the Zi Bat King from the heart of the Leiwen Army. Based on this information, Leihao inferred the level of strength that the Zi Bat King had exerted at that time, which shocked him greatly. The level of strength exerted by the Zi Bat King was absolutely no less than that of the Demon King. When he thought about how the Zi Bat King didn't even leave a corpse behind, he inferred that the Zi Bat King must have used some secret techniques to launch such a powerful attack.

  But even so, Zi Bat King is dead, while Lei Hao is still alive and living a comfortable life.

  This made the Demon King of the Mixed World feel a little fearful. To know that Lei Hao, who had killed the Purple Bat King, was still at the Inner Dan level. After learning that Lei Hao might have obtained the demon king's technique from the Bat Cave, the Demon King of the Mixed World couldn't sit still. He felt an unprecedented threat, a threat even greater than what the Green Snake King had posed to him back then - the threat of death.

  Lei Hao's internal elixir can kill a powerful demon king, but if he breaks through to the demon king level and Lei Hao gets him into trouble with the Demon King of Mixed Worlds, will he still be able to survive?

  This is the heart of the demon king who carefully measured the belly of a gentleman, and he and Lei Hao's conflict was never in his mind. He also wanted to repay the kindness of the demon king's help years ago and save him once.

  The mysterious aura emitted when breaking through to the Demon King realm, Lei Hao, a mere inner dan boundary cultivator, was unaware of it, but the Mixed World Demon King was not. Today, he sensed this aura and came, not intending to take Lei Hao's life, only needing to interrupt his breakthrough would suffice. As long as Lei Hao didn't advance to the Demon King realm, even after several hundred years of cultivation, he wouldn't pose any threat to him.

  As for the news of the return of the Handsome Monkey King from the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, the Demon King of the Mixed World completely ignored it. Who is the Handsome Monkey King? A monkey demon who couldn't even reach the inner elixir realm more than a decade ago?

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