Chapter Thirty-Six: Advancement to Demon King

  After the purple dragon-shaped knife energy rushed out, it began to devour everything like a black hole in space.

  The familiar dormitory shattered, turning into a small handful of glowing fragments that were swept away by the purple dragon-shaped knife aura; The familiar school also shattered, and it too turned into a small handful of glowing fragments that were swept away by the purple dragon-shaped knife aura... In just a few seconds, the entire sky and earth had become a pile of glowing fragments that were swept away by the purple dragon-shaped knife aura.

  The world after was pitch black, so dark that there wasn't even a thread of light.

  The only things that weren't pitch black were two Lei Hao.

  Yes, Lei Hao, who had been slashing out knife energy, had unknowingly transformed into the Water Cavern's cow-haired, shoulder-length-haired, horned, and cyan-robed Lei Hao.

  The cow demon Lei Hao is also facing Lei Hao.

  It was that year on earth, a somewhat chubby, ordinary-looking, common, wearing a few hundred yuan casual outfit and sneakers, with a haircut of one inch, university student Lei Hao.

  Looking at the strange scene in front of him, Niu Yao Lei Hao opened his mouth indifferently: "Who are you." Three short words, without any hint of questioning, as if he already knew the answer.

  University student Lei Hao smiled, his big eyes narrowed into a line, with a hint of slyness in his gaze, and he smiled playfully. "Who do you say I am?" The voice of Jie Yun was very familiar to Lei Hao.

  Looking at university student Lei Hao's smile, Niu Yao Lei Hao had an illusion that he was now admiring himself in the mirror.

  Looking at the cow demon who didn't answer, university student Lei Hao spoke again: "How did you discover it?"

  Niu Yao Lei Hao listened and looked at the university student Lei Hao deeply, then spat out three words: "You know."

  University student Lei Hao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into tears, saying: "Is it not what Dad said? It doesn't sound like something he would say?"

  The cow demon Lei Hao nodded silently, without saying a word.

  University student Lei Hao was still crying, and his body shook more and more violently, finally letting out a hoarse cry as if he had exhausted all his strength.

  He cried out loudly: "I know, I know, I know you'll find out, but I just can't learn, I really can't. Why were we able to be so reckless back then?"

  Niu Ye Lei Hao also started crying, just like university student Lei Hao, from silently shedding tears to wailing loudly in the end.

  Two Lei Hao, who were identical in face but vastly different in every other way, stood in the darkness, wailing and crying uncontrollably.

  Half an hour later, university student Lei Hao seemed to have cried himself out and stopped crying. He stood still, dejected and muttering to himself with a hoarse and sorrowful voice: "Can't go back, can't go back... Wanting to be filial but parents are no longer around..."

  The cow demon Lei Hao gradually stopped crying, and just looked at the college student Lei Hao's disheartened muttering. After a long time, the cow demon Lei Hao spoke up, his voice still hoarse and sorrowful. "Lei Hao, stop messing around, go back." It was unclear whether he was talking to himself or the college student Lei Hao.

  The university student Lei Hao raised his head and looked at the Cow Demon Lei Hao. His eyes, which had lost their soul, suddenly burst out with a shocking light. He spoke to the Cow Demon Lei Hao in a slow and deliberate tone: "They need you, you have to go out, I won't stop you. But since we can both come here, you must be able to return. Otherwise, you will never be at peace." His voice was calm, but the Cow Demon Lei Hao did not doubt what he said.

  The ox demon Lei Hao stared straight at college student Lei Hao with an equally calm nod.

  The university student Lei Hao's shattered relief turned into a pile of glowing fragments that floated into his body.

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  Lei Hao opened his eyes wide, and the purple light that filled his vision made him feel a bit dazzled. However, Lei Hao did not close his eyes; he suddenly discovered that this world was different.

  The mountain is no longer a mountain, the cloud is no longer a cloud...

  Everything in front of him made Lei Hao feel extremely novel, as if he were a blind man opening his eyes to see the world for the first time, greedily staring at everything around him without stopping.

  Originally, everything can be composed of the five elements. Mountains are earth, water is water... Lei Hao's eyes condensed, and a purple aura appeared in front of him. This aura churned violently for a while before turning into a ball of clear water, not quite as impressive as Sun Wukong's instant transformation into water or clouds, but still managed to change after all.

  At this time, in Lei Hao's lower abdomen, the previous inner elixir position, a purple-golden thunderball the size of an index finger had replaced the inner elixir, sitting cross-legged and embracing his knees. His open eyes shone brightly, and with each breath, his small mouth seemed to stir up the thunderous power throughout his body, which was constantly surging and whistling. Every move he made seemed to contain immense might, and his entire body's fierce aura seemed to be saying: "I'm not someone to be trifled with."

  This is Lei Hao's Yuan Shen, he has successfully advanced.

  Lei Hao stood up, feeling that something was off about his height. He looked down and saw the mottled grey-black fur on his legs, and the reverse-jointed cow legs told him what state he was in. Lei Hao wanted to reach out and touch his horns, but then realized he didn't have hands - instead, he had two hooves.

  Lei Hao's eyes were closed, and after a second of thought, he muttered a few words to himself. A purple light flashed, and the cow demon that was originally standing there had disappeared. Instead, there was an ordinary, slightly chubby human youth.

  Looking at the two white hands, Lei Hao nodded in satisfaction, still feeling that this was the most comfortable. It wasn't until he habitually raised his hand that he discovered the two cow horns on his head were also gone. He furrowed his brow, and suddenly two thick and ferocious cow horns appeared out of thin air on his head. Lei Hao put his hands on them and rubbed them comfortably.

  Lei Hao didn't move after transforming, because he felt it, his heavenly tribulation was about to arrive, and he didn't dare hesitate. He opened his mouth and let out a loud shout: "Monkey!" The high-pitched voice echoed through the Fruit Mountain, startling countless birds and beasts.

  The bored Monkey King Sun Wukong, who had been drinking alone in a hammock at the Water Curtain Cave for two days, suddenly perked up his ears and disappeared along with the wine jar upon hearing Lei Hao's voice.

  "Damn it, you really have some skills, breaking through the 'small' Demon King took so long." The voice echoed above Lei Hao's head, and as soon as he heard it, he knew that Sun Wukong had arrived.

  "Get out, don't talk nonsense..." Lei Hao's luck and magical powers were strong as he snatched the wine jug from Sun Wukong's hands, tilted his head back and took a swig before continuing to say: "Why didn't you tell me that advancing to Demon King would come with heart demons?" Lei Hao's face was filled with an indescribable gloom. Whoever is confronted by their own darker side will inevitably feel gloomy.

  Sun Wukong, who had his wine jar stolen, was furious and was sizing up Lei Hao with a sinister look on his face, preparing to find a place to beat him up. But then Lei Hao said something that left Sun Wukong stunned: "Heart demon? What's that thing? Let me think about it for a moment... Ah, I remember my senior brother mentioning it to me before, but back then I had already broken through the Demon King level and didn't pay much attention..." As he muttered to himself, Sun Wukong's face suddenly became very embarrassed, and he looked at Lei Hao with a flattering expression.

  Lei Hao is standing in front of him, and he has the ability to snatch the wine jug from his hand. Even if he didn't notice, he must know that Lei Hao has successfully advanced. But since Lei Hao said so, he must have had a hard time during the promotion, which makes Sun Wukong feel a bit awkward.

  Lei Hao ignored him, poured himself a small tank of strong liquor, then slammed the tank shut, wiped his mouth with his sleeve before saying: "Let's not talk about anything else. This time you helped me resist the heavenly tribulation, so let's just forget about this matter." Lei Hao pointed to the tribulation clouds that had already begun to gather in the sky.

  Sun Wukong listened, nodding his head with a pleased expression. He looked like he had swindled an idiot and gotten a great bargain. His appearance was as if he feared Leihao would regret it, which made Leihao's head ache repeatedly.

  "This is ridiculous, the gap between demons is too big. " Lei Hao's face was filled with discontent. He was born earlier than Sun Wukong, transformed earlier than Sun Wukong, and cultivated earlier than Sun Wukong. When Lei Hao reached the peak of the inner elixir realm, this guy hadn't even started cultivating yet. After all this time, he just suddenly surpassed him, leaving Lei Hao not even qualified to eat his dust."

  Of course, Lei Hao was just a little annoyed. If such an abnormal talent were to be the enemy's, no matter how great the cost, Lei Hao would have dug a hole and buried him. But if it were his own brother, Lei Hao would just be all talk.

  Sun Wukong agreed to Lei Hao, and continued to chat with him with a nonchalant face. He casually pulled out two jars of wine from somewhere and threw one at Lei Hao, and they started drinking happily under the heavenly calamity. Lei Hao's eyes widened in shock, thinking that this guy was going to play dumb and leave after a while.

  But Lei Hao wasn't afraid, this heavenly tribulation even without Sun Wukong he had the confidence to withstand it. There was no reason, he just felt that way. This wasn't pretending to be tough, this was the demon king realm's intuition towards danger.

  When the cloud of calamity had already begun to roll incessantly, Sun Wukong lazily stretched out his monkey paws and gave Lei Hao a pat on the back.

  Lei Hao, who had just broken through to the Demon King level and was radiating an aura as bright as a streetlight in the middle of the night, was suddenly covered up by Sun Wukong's dirty and wine-stained paw, making him look like a stone on the side of the road.

  After giving Lei Hao a slap, the calamity clouds in the sky seemed to have lost their target, and the rolling calamity clouds had a tendency to disperse.

  At this time, Sun Wukong's figure blurred in one-hundredth of a second, and when he reappeared, the original Sun Wukong was gone, replaced by an extra 'Lei Hao', who looked exactly like him even down to his aura. This 'Lei Hao' still had the same sloppy posture as before, lying there drinking wine without moving at all.

  The dispersing dark clouds in the sky were drawn to Sun Wukong's 'Lei Hao' aura, and like a pack of starving wolves, they pounced on him recklessly.

  Lei Hao, who had long since dodged to the side with a wine jug in hand, ready to watch the commotion, was left agape. His pupils kept flashing with various colors of heavenly thunder. In Lei Hao's senses, they were all 'Geng Metal Thunder' and 'Bing Fire Thunder' types of five-elemental thunder attributes. These heavenly thunders didn't have much attacking power on Lei Hao himself, who had the attribute of thunder. If one or two came at a time, Lei Hao wouldn't even lose a single hair. But if two or three came at once, Lei Hao would be somewhat flustered. As for now, with over ten coming all at once, even if there were ten more Lei Haos, they would all have been blasted to smithereens.

  Heavenly thunder plus heavenly thunder, desperate situations are not just one plus one equals two, but at least one plus one equals ten.

  Lei Hao was left standing there with his mouth agape, holding the wine jug and stupidly watching as Sun Wukong endured ninety-nine heavenly thunderbolts in just half a minute.

  Half a minute later, the heavenly tribulation finished its thunderbolts and hastily dispersed. The mountain top shrouded in smoke also revealed itself. Lei Hao fixed his eyes to take a look, only to see Sun Wukong still in that crooked and twisted 'soul-stealing' posture, with the wine jug in his hand perfectly fine, not a single hair harmed.

  Lei Hao's Demon King Tian Lei actually passed away just like that...

  "What's the point of crossing the tribulation, it's too boring." Sun Wukong stretched his waist and said with a lazy face.

  "Labour and capital will have to be compared again, my head is like being trampled by a hundred donkeys." Lei Hao said with gritted teeth.

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