Chapter 37

Above the West Sea, the water and sky were one color, vast and boundless.

Su Chen stepped on the green cloud, speeding toward the east at a steady pace.

The sea breeze blew toward him with a salty and damp aura, blowing his Daoist robe until it snapped, and his heart and mind also broadened accordingly.

"This West Sea is indeed vast and boundless."

Su Chen flew for a full three days, and as far as the eye could see, it was still the vast and endless blue ocean; he hadn't even seen a decent island.

During this period, he had also encountered some demon creatures stirring up trouble in the sea.

There were giant whales as large as mountains, whose breathing could trigger waves for a hundred miles; there were also schools of ferocious and bloodthirsty shark demons, and wherever they passed, the seawater was dyed red.

However, these demon creatures did not have high intelligence, and their cultivation was mostly very low; feeling the immortal aura on Su Chen from afar, they were all scared out of their wits, diving into the deep sea one after another, not daring to show their heads.

Su Chen was too lazy to pay attention to them.

His goal was very clear: to reach the Shenzhou of Dongsheng as quickly as possible and find Sun Wukong.

"I wonder how that monkey is doing now," Su Chen calculated secretly in his heart. "Calling himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and forcibly breaking into the Dragon Palace—this commotion is not small. The Heavenly Court side likely already has some movements."

He was not going there to help Sun Wukong fight against the Heavenly Court.

He had kept Patriarch Puti's warning in his heart the whole time.

The Great Tribulation is approaching; one must not easily enter the game.

He just wanted to act as a bystander and, at a critical moment, give that monkey a slight hint.

As long as he could make Sun Wukong's behavior deviate even slightly from the original work and change the established karma, he could obtain Heavenly Secret Points.

With Heavenly Secret Points, he could unlock the secret of that mysterious scroll.

"Rumble!"

Just as Su Chen was contemplating, the originally clear sky darkened without warning.

Large patches of dark clouds gathered from all directions, and in just a moment, they covered the entire sky tightly.

The sky instantly became like night, with only the occasional blinding electric light flashing through the gaps in the rolling dark clouds, illuminating the sea surface below that had begun to turn violent.

Raindrops the size of beans pelted down, soon forming a curtain of rain.

The gale howled, whipping up massive waves up to several dozen feet high that slammed fiercely, emitting a deafening roar.

"When Heaven has strange phenomena, there must be monsters."

Su Chen stopped the auspicious cloud, floating in mid-air, his brow furrowed slightly.

This wind and rain came too suspiciously, and it was mixed with a faint demon aura.

Clearly, this was not a natural phenomenon, but a demon creature at work.

He spread his spiritual sense, instantly covering the sea area for hundreds of miles around.

Soon, he discovered an unusually powerful demon aura in the deep sea several thousand feet below.

That demon aura was so vigorous that it far surpassed any demon creature he had encountered before.

"So it's someone's territory," Su Chen understood in his heart.

This West Sea was vast, and one didn't know how many powerful demon clans were hidden within it, claiming the sea as their own.

It was normal for someone to come out and "say hello" when he flew over their territory like this.

Following the principle of avoiding extra trouble, Su Chen prepared to take a detour to avoid this area.

However, just as he wanted to change direction, the sea surface below exploded with a "boom," forming a massive whirlpool.

A thick water column shot into the sky, and a Yaksha sea monster, three feet tall, with two horns on its head, wearing blue scale armor, and holding a massive steel trident, broke out of the water and blocked Su Chen's path.

The Yaksha sea monster stared fixedly at Su Chen with eyes as large as copper bells and shouted in a muffled voice: "Hey! Where did this Daoist come from, daring to trespass on my Great King's territory! Stop immediately and report your name!"

This Yaksha only had the cultivation of Returning to Emptiness; in Su Chen's eyes, it was no different from an ant.

But even if you beat a dog, you have to look at its master.

Su Chen performed a Daoist salute and said in a flat voice: "This priest is Wu Chen, a wandering Daoist who has come from the Western Continent of Xiuniu and wishes to go to the Shenzhou of Dongsheng. I have no intention of offending; I am merely passing through this place and hope you can make it convenient."

Upon hearing this, the Yaksha sea monster held its steel trident horizontally and sneered: "Hmph, you say you're just passing by, so you're just passing by? My Great King has an order: anyone passing through this Black Wind Sea area must leave behind road money!"

Upon hearing this, Su Chen couldn't help but be amused to the point of anger.

As a dignified Human Immortal, he was actually being extorted by a tiny Yaksha.

"What if I don't give it?" Su Chen's tone turned a few degrees colder.

"Don't give it?" The Yaksha sea monster brandished the steel trident in its hand and laughed wildly, "If you don't give it, leave your little life behind to be a snack for my Great King!"

Before its words had faded, it raised the steel trident, whipped up a malicious wave, and slammed it toward Su Chen's head.

Facing this Yaksha that didn't know whether to live or die, Su Chen was too lazy to even lift his eyelids.

He simply raised his right hand, held it in a sword finger, and pointed it into the air at the Yaksha.

"Freeze."

A word, spat out lightly.

The Yaksha sea monster, which had been aggressive and brandishing its steel trident, instantly froze in mid-air, the wild laughter on its face still frozen at the corners of its mouth.

Its body, along with the surrounding rain and waves, seemed to have been frozen by an invisible massive hand, unable to move.

The Yaksha sea monster's eyeballs turned in terror; it wanted to shout, but discovered it couldn't even make a sound.

"Get lost."

Su Chen spat out another word.

The binding force instantly vanished, and the Yaksha sea monster felt an irresistible massive force come over it; its body flew backward like a cannonball, drawing a parabola in the air, and with a "plop," it slammed into the seawater a hundred feet away, splashing up a massive wave.

After doing all this, Su Chen was too lazy to even look again and prepared to ride the cloud and leave.

However, just at this moment, a sinister voice drifted leisurely from the sea surface below.

"Hehe, what great majesty. You hit my subordinate in my Black Wind Sea area and want to just walk away like this?"

Accompanied by the voice, the sea surface below began to churn violently.

A demon aura many times more powerful than the previous Yaksha's surged into the sky.

The entire sea area seemed to have come alive at this moment.

Su Chen stopped his steps and looked at the churning sea surface below.

He knew the real master had arrived.

"Splash!"

The sea surface parted, and a youth wearing black royal robes, with a handsome but somewhat sinister face, stepped on a massive black octopus and slowly rose from the sea.

The moment he appeared, the violent wind and rain around him instantly calmed down.

The dark clouds dissipated, and the sunlight shone down again, as if the world-destroying scene just now had been nothing but a hallucination.

"Are you the master of this place?" Su Chen asked, looking at the black-robed youth.

The cultivation of this black-robed youth was already at the peak of the Demon Immortal Realm, only one step away from the Earth Immortal Realm.

His true form should be a black dragon that had cultivated for thousands of years.

No wonder he could claim to be king and hegemon in this place.