Chapter 52

Do it as soon as you think of it!

Su Chen did not hesitate anymore; he stood up, removed the restriction at the entrance of the stone chamber, pushed open the heavy stone door, and walked toward the main hall of the Water Curtain Cave.

"Boom—"

The heavy stone door slowly opened, and the noisy monkey calls inside the Water Curtain Cave flooded in all at once.

Su Chen stepped out.

As soon as he came out of seclusion, he saw Sun Wukong squatting on a large rock not far away, holding a banana he didn't know where he had plucked, eating while bragging to several little monkeys beside him.

Sun Wukong was talking with great animation, spittle flying everywhere.

Seeing Su Chen come out, his eyes lit up; he stuffed the banana into his mouth in two or three bites, did a somersault, and landed in front of Su Chen.

"Little brother, you're out of seclusion? Why so fast?" Sun Wukong circled Su Chen twice, sizing him up.

"I've already gained something." Su Chen smiled. "Continuing seclusion doesn't have much meaning, so I came out."

"Haha, that's great." Sun Wukong clapped his hands. "Little brother, you came out just in time! Old Sun just got a few jars of good wine; you drink a few cups with me."

As he said this, he was about to pull Su Chen to drink.

"Brother Monkey, no rush to drink." Su Chen hurriedly stopped him. "I came out this time actually because there is one thing I would like to ask for your help with."

"Oh? What thing? Just say it!" Sun Wukong patted his chest and said boldly, "As long as it's something Old Sun can do, I won't refuse!"

"It's not a big deal either." Su Chen pondered for a moment, organizing his language. "It's like this: I recently had a sudden realization and comprehended a set of axe techniques, and I want to find a place to practice it properly. It's just that this set of axe techniques has a bit too much power, and the commotion might not be small, so it's not very convenient to perform it near the Water Curtain Cave. So, I want to ask Brother Monkey, is there any remote and quiet valley on Huaguo Mountain where I can practice?"

He didn't mention the "Heavenly Tian Gang San Shi-Six Axes," only saying it was an axe technique he had comprehended himself.

After all, the origin of this cultivation technique involves the Wu Clan, so it's better the fewer people know about it.

"Haha, what kind of big deal is this!" Sun Wukong waved his hand indifferently. "This is easy to handle! Our Huaguo Mountain doesn't have much else, but it has plenty of mountain gullies. I guarantee I'll find you one where you can toss and turn as much as you want!"

"Then I'll have to trouble Brother Monkey." Su Chen cupped his hands.

"We're family, why be so formal!" Sun Wukong waved his hand, then remembered something and asked, "By the way, little brother, do you have a handy weapon for practicing axe techniques? If not, Old Sun has a few here; although they can't compare to Old Sun's Ruyi Jingu Bang, they are still passable."

"About the weapon, I was just about to tell you." Su Chen smiled. "I'm preparing to refine one myself. It just so happens that I remember the various demon kings sent a lot of things that day, and there seem to be some good weapon-refining materials among them, so I was just thinking of asking Brother Monkey for some."

"Hey, what did Old Sun think it was!" After Su Chen finished speaking, Sun Wukong waved his big hand and said heroically, "Those pieces of scrap copper and iron, whatever you take a fancy to, just take them and use them. If it's not enough, Old Sun will go borrow some more for you."

"Then many thanks, Brother Monkey." Su Chen thanked him repeatedly.

This Brother Monkey really has nothing to say to him.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go pick materials first!"

Sun Wukong was an impatient person; he pulled Su Chen and walked toward the place where things were piled up in the Water Curtain Cave.

In a corner of the Water Curtain Cave, there was a mountain-like pile of various congratulatory gifts.

Jewelry, jade, spiritual herbs, immortal medicines, magic treasures, and weapons—everything was there, emitting various precious lights that dazzled the eyes.

Su Chen was not polite either; he directly activated his spiritual sense and began to carefully probe the pile of materials.

His goal was very clear: he wanted to find metal spiritual ores that were hard enough, heavy enough, and capable of bearing the domineering power of the "Heavenly Tian Gang San Shi-Six Axes."

"Eh? This is... Ten-Thousand-Year Black Iron?"

"And Red Flame Copper Essence?"

"Damn, such a large piece of refined gold? Which demon king sent this? So generous!"

Su Chen probed while secretly clicking his tongue in his heart.

The congratulatory gifts sent by these demon kings were indeed varied, and there was no lack of good things among them.

Soon, he selected several top-tier metal spiritual ores from the mountain-like pile of materials.

There was Ten-Thousand-Year Black Iron as heavy as a mountain, indestructible Star Steel, and Sun Refined Iron containing supreme Yang energy...

Any one of these materials, if taken out alone, would be enough to make cultivators in the outside world fight until they were bloody.

But in the Water Curtain Cave, they were just piled up casually.

"Little brother, just these?" Sun Wukong looked at the few pieces of metal Su Chen had picked out and scratched his head. "Do you want to take a few more?"

"Enough, enough." Su Chen couldn't laugh or cry. "Weapon-refining materials are valued for quality, not quantity."

With these materials, after smelting, refining an axe can be said to be more than enough.

"Brother Monkey, the materials are selected; take me to the valley you mentioned." Su Chen said.

"Alright!"

Sun Wukong responded, took the lead, and led Su Chen out of the Water Curtain Cave.

He didn't ride a cloud but took Su Chen and jumped through the high mountains and steep ridges of Huaguo Mountain.

Along the way, Su Chen also got to see the majesty and beauty of Huaguo Mountain.

It is truly worthy of being the ancestral vein of the ten continents and the coming dragon of the three islands.

Many spiritual herbs that had long been extinct in the outside world could be seen everywhere here.

The two crossed several mountain peaks and arrived at an extremely remote location.

They saw two ten-thousand-fathom-high mountains, like two huge stone doors, embracing each other to form a huge gourd-shaped valley.

The valley entrance was narrow, with only a sliver of sky light shining in.

The valley inside, however, had its own world, spacious and incomparable, with a radius of several miles.

The entire valley was surrounded by steep stone walls, and the stone walls presented a dark black color.

"Little brother, what do you think of this place?" Sun Wukong pointed to the valley and said, "The mountains on both sides are made of some kind of stone that is very hard. Even if Old Sun uses the Ruyi Jingu Bang, I have to put in some effort to break them. You practice your axe in here, no matter how you perform, you won't make much of a commotion!"

Su Chen touched it with his hand and found that the stone walls of the valley were indeed, as Sun Wukong said, much sturdier than ordinary rocks.

Most importantly, there was no vegetation here, and almost no demons or animals came here, so it was indeed an excellent place for seclusion and cultivation.

"Good place! Many thanks, Brother Monkey!" Su Chen nodded with satisfaction.

"Haha, as long as you're satisfied!" Sun Wukong laughed. "Then Old Sun won't disturb you. You practice here with peace of mind; if you have anything, just tell Old Sun directly."

"Good."

Sun Wukong gave a few instructions, then did a somersault, flipped onto the mountain peak, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

In the valley, only Su Chen was left.

"Then, let's begin!"

He laid out the selected weapon-refining materials on the ground one by one.

Then, he sat cross-legged and took a deep breath.

"Puff!"

A golden flame appeared from his fingertips.

It was his Hunyuan Jin Dan True Fire.

As soon as the Jin Dan True Fire appeared, the temperature of the entire valley rose significantly.

"Go!"

Su Chen pointed his hand, and the ball of Jin Dan True Fire flew toward the open space in front.

Su Chen sent various weapon-refining materials into the true fire to be tempered one by one.