Chapter 334: Astonishing Guess

"Brother, don't rush to make a move yet." Su Chen stepped back two steps, gripped the Returning Ruins Divine Axe tightly, and had no intention of making a move.

But he said it too late; Sun Wukong had already rushed out.

"Just right, I've eaten a few spirit fruits; I'm full of energy."

Between speaking, Sun Wukong brandished the Ruyi Jingu Bang and chopped down at the black-scaled strange beast.

"Roar!"

The unknown strange beast lowered its horns and collided with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

"Clang!"

The Ruyi Jingu Bang collided with the pair of black horns on the strange beast's head, and the gang energy condensed on the beast's black horns actually blocked Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang.

The shockwave uprooted the forest and grass within a hundred feet, and the spiritual rain in the sky was shaken into water mist.

Sun Wukong's arms sank, and his brows rose.

What hard horns this beast had, and what great strength.

The strange beast was pushed back dozens of feet by the power of the Ruyi Jingu Bang, plowing four deep trenches in the ground with its four hooves.

But after standing firm, it had no fear, stared fixedly at Sun Wukong with blood-red eyes, and opened its mouth to emit a deafening roar.

Then it lowered its head, dug the ground with its four hooves, and rushed over again like a moving mountain.

Sun Wukong dodged the charge sideways, swept the Ruyi Jingu Bang horizontally, and fiercely whipped it on the strange beast's body.

Sparks flew from the strange beast's black scales, and the strange beast was whipped away, smashing a piece of ancient wood, but it climbed up almost as soon as it landed and continued to charge.

"Interesting." Sun Wukong looked at the strange beast that didn't fear death and revealed a trace of a smile. "This beast seems to know no magic spells at all, relying entirely on brute force, but this body is ridiculously sturdy."

He brandished the Ruyi Jingu Bang faster and faster, whipping the strange beast one stick after another.

The strange beast was whipped until its scales shattered and blood flew, but every time it struggled to stand up, using its horns, claws, and teeth to counterattack with all its might.

Its fighting style had no pattern at all, entirely the instinct of a wild beast.

Su Chen stood on the edge of the battlefield, watching the fight between Sun Wukong and the strange beast.

Sun Wukong fought the strange beast. Logically speaking, the commotion of a Great Luo Jinxian level battle should be greater, enough to tear space apart.

Every stick of the Ruyi Jingu Bang carried the power to destroy mountains and split the earth. In the outside world, this area's space would at least fluctuate constantly, causing a great commotion.

But Su Chen noticed that from the time Sun Wukong fought the strange beast until now, the space they were in was unusually stable, not moving at all.

Su Chen operated the "True Explanation of Hunyuan Jin Dan" to perceive the laws of heaven and earth.

After a moment, he discovered something wrong; the spatial structure here was unusually stable.

The purity of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also far exceeded the outside world, and even the laws of heaven and earth were easier to perceive here.

This place didn't look like a small world at all.

You know, small worlds generally exist attached to the Three Realms. Logically speaking, incomplete laws and fragile space are their natural defects.

But here it was the exact opposite; everything here seemed more complete and stable than the Three Realms.

Su Chen looked at the surrounding environment and then looked up at the giant mountain that couldn't be seen to the top.

A thought emerged from the depths of his mind.

He thought of how they came to this place—because of the space-time storm.

At the same time, he remembered the power of the Chaos Bell to suppress the Primordial World and reverse time and space.

Su Chen looked at the strange beast that was being beaten by Sun Wukong.

Great Luo Jinxian level physical strength, yet it didn't know any magic spells or divine abilities, and its fighting style was primitive to the point of being barbaric.

This kind of creature almost didn't exist in the current Three Realms.

But in a certain era, this kind of creature was everywhere.

All the clues were strung together in Su Chen's mind: the sweeping of the space-time storm, the power of the Chaos Bell to reverse time and space, the laws of heaven and earth more complete than the Three Realms, the extinct ancient immortal herbs, the ancient strange beasts with strong physical bodies but no divine abilities, this giant mountain connected to the sky...

"Hiss..." Su Chen thought of an unbelievable possibility and couldn't help but gasp.

"Brother!" Su Chen suddenly shouted at Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong was fighting with gusto. Hearing Su Chen's voice, the Ruyi Jingu Bang swelled to a dozen feet and smashed onto the strange beast's head.

The strange beast finally emitted a whimper, its huge body staggered backward, and it turned and ran wildly toward the depths of the ancient forest.

Sun Wukong raised his cudgel and was about to chase.

"Brother, don't chase." Su Chen's voice came again.

Sun Wukong stopped his steps, turned to look at Su Chen, a bit puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

Su Chen looked up at the giant mountain that pierced through heaven and earth.

"Brother, have you ever thought about why you can't see the top of this mountain?"

Sun Wukong was startled and also looked up.

The golden halo shrouded the mountain body, and the mountain trend extended upward, passing through the five-colored rays of light and disappearing into the end of the sky.

"The mountain is too high."

"Yes, the mountain is too high." Su Chen's voice was low, saying to Sun Wukong: "Brother, do you think it's possible that this mountain is supporting the sky, which is why you can't see the top?"

"What?" Sun Wukong's eyes widened, revealing a look of surprise.

Su Chen turned around and looked Sun Wukong in the eyes.

"Brother, I suspect we might not be in any interior space of the Mount Buzhou ruins."

"You perceive carefully; the laws of heaven and earth here are easier to perceive than the Three Realms, and the spatial structure is more stable than the Three Realms. Just now, you and that strange beast fought for so long, and a Great Luo Jinxian attacked with full force, but the void has been very stable. Which small world do you think can do this?"

Sun Wukong's golden pupils contracted.

Su Chen continued: "That strange beast, Great Luo Jinxian level physical strength, yet it doesn't know any magic spells or divine abilities. This kind of creature only existed in one era—the ancient Primordial period, before the Lich War. At that time, heaven and earth had just opened, the laws of heaven and earth were easy to perceive, and many creatures had not yet realized perfect techniques and divine abilities; their cultivation was all achieved naturally in a confused state."

"And the ancient immortal herbs everywhere here have long been extinct. The spiritual energy is so dense that it liquefies into rain. This environment only existed in the Primordial period."

Su Chen took a deep breath.

"Brother, the space-time storm in the depths of the Spirit Ruins swept us in, and the Chaos Bell itself has the power to reverse time and space. I suspect it's very likely that the superposition of the two forces sent us here."

He raised his hand and pointed to the giant mountain connected to the sky.

"I don't think we came to a small world, but to this real ancient Primordial period."

Sun Wukong was a bit dazed by Su Chen's series of analyses and guesses.

He looked at the vast land, looking up at the giant pillar that legend said supported heaven and earth.

The spiritual rain drizzled on the shoulders of the two.

In the depths of the ancient forest in the distance, a long hiss from an unknown strange beast came.

After a long while, Sun Wukong shrank the Ruyi Jingu Bang and put it back in his ear, suddenly laughing.

"Brother."

"Hmm?"

"This place has such abundant spiritual energy, immortal herbs are everywhere, and time is different from the outside..."

Sun Wukong turned his head and looked at Su Chen.

"You say, if we cultivate here, when we return to the original time, will we be qualified to go to the North Sea and settle the score with that old thing Kill Kun Peng?"