Chapter 2018: Unafraid of Sea-Heart Flame, Wukong

Sun Wukong curled his lips into a smile and said calmly, "As for this matter, I'll explain it to you after I beat you to the ground!"

Hearing Sun Wukong say this, anger flashed in the Priest's eyes. He said, "Just by relying on you? Do you think you can beat me just because you took my necklace?"

Sun Wukong raised his eyebrows and smiled, his demeanor extremely relaxed. "Why don't we give it a try!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Wukong lunged forward. In the blink of an eye, he arrived before the Priest, raised his staff, and struck toward the Priest's cheek.

Without the Space-Time Necklace, the Priest could no longer create black voids, so he hurriedly gathered his Qi to fly backward, holding his torch horizontally in front of him.

"Bang!"

With a loud boom, ripples of true Qi dispersed, and the torch in the Priest's hand was immediately struck, sending sparks flying everywhere.

Sun Wukong's strike was heavy and powerful. The Priest barely managed to block it; he felt a massive force travel through his arm, and his body could not help but be sent flying backward for over ten meters.

Seeing this, Sun Wukong realized that what Wu Feng said was indeed correct: without that Space-Time Necklace, the old man's cultivation base was clearly inferior to his own.

So, he lunged with both legs, the Ruyi Jingu Bang in his hand flashed with golden light, and he swept it horizontally again. A massive golden arc of light struck toward the Priest.

Seeing this, the Priest suddenly bent his legs and then extended them downward abruptly—the motion looked just like a frog swimming.

In this posture, his body also leaped upward several meters at an extremely fast speed.

Now hovering high in the air, he glanced at the torch in his hand, took a deep breath, and blew toward it.

Instantly, the flames on the torch surged; the scorching white fire looked unusually powerful.

Without waiting for Sun Wukong to turn back to attack, he slashed the torch downward, and a massive ball of white flame smashed toward Sun Wukong.

"Boom!"

With a loud explosion, Sun Wukong's entire body was engulfed by the ball of flame, and layers of heat waves began to emerge in the air.

The Priest hovered in mid-air, his eyes fixed firmly on Sun Wukong's position.

Suddenly, Sun Wukong reached out a hand from within the flames, swept his arm to the right, and the flames around him vanished.

The Priest's eyes were filled with shock; he even looked at the torch in his hand with some confusion.

"This fire of yours has no power to speak of against me."

Sun Wukong looked up at him with a smile in his eyes and said.

"What a freak. No one has ever been unafraid of my Sea-Heart Flame, and you actually…"

The Priest's expression was a mix of shock and anger as he spoke.

"Hmph!" Sun Wukong let out a cold laugh, cutting him off. "Surrender now, you monster. I will definitely capture you alive today."

The Priest's eyes darted around rapidly. Without the Space-Time Necklace, he could not neutralize Sun Wukong's attacks, and now the torch could not cause Sun Wukong any harm. From the two exchanges just now, he could already see that Sun Wukong's cultivation base was clearly above his own.

"Do you know what the consequences are for offending the River God?"

A fierce light flashed in the Priest's eyes as he stared fixedly at Sun Wukong and said.

"I don't know what the consequences are, but I do know that when I see monsters like you, there is only one thing to do: use my staff to flatten them!"

Sun Wukong met his gaze and said with extreme confidence. ===== CHAPTER 2020 =====