Chapter 743: Between Life and Death: The Ultimate Terror! Perishing Together with Sun Wukong

Without corresponding great Dao insights, Sun Wukong is merely an empty box.

Any peak Grand Luo Jinxian could easily defeat such a Sun Wukong.

With Luo Fu's wisdom, how could he do something so laborious and unrewarding?

The Dao of Battle, like the Dao of the Sword, is a profoundly unnatural Dao.

As long as one's insight improves, one's understanding of the Dao will rise accordingly.

To rapidly enhance the Dao of Battle, one must endure the Blood Battle Path, unleashing the fiercest battle intent in life-or-death moments.

Each life-or-death surge yields unpredictable gains in battle intent.

For instance, in that just-ended battle, Sun Wukong could have killed the fake Sun Wukong—he simply needed to unleash sufficient battle intent.

But Sun Wukong failed to do so, so the fake Sun Wukong smashed his skull with a single blow of the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

Since Sun Wukong didn't achieve it, then let him achieve it.

This is why Luo Fu rewound time to the very moment Sun Wukong faced life or death, rather than rewinding to the beginning.

Rewinding to the moment of life-or-death, Luo Fu preemptively draws out Sun Wukong's future life-or-death insights and layers them incrementally into every second.

These life-or-death insights belong to Sun Wukong himself, born under identical circumstances, and can perfectly integrate into his existing insights, making Sun Wukong's subconscious believe they are his own.

Subconscious acceptance is crucial.

A cultivator cannot deceive his own true heart—if Luo Fu merely shoved these life-or-death insights into Sun Wukong's mind,

Even if these insights came from the future Sun Wukong, their effect would be greatly diminished.

Intellectually, Sun Wukong might accept these insights, but subconsciously, he would struggle to truly believe them.

Because the future Sun Wukong is not him.

Since his subconscious rejects them, Sun Wukong can only treat these insights as reference material, unable to directly absorb or digest them.

Luo Fu's maneuver completely avoids this problem.

In a sense, Luo Fu merely amplified Sun Wukong's own life-or-death realizations.

How much it is amplified depends on how many cycles it takes Sun Wukong to avoid having his skull shattered by the fake Sun Wukong.

"Brilliant—utterly brilliant. The great terror between life and death cannot be controlled by anyone; in this way, Sun Wukong will be 100% certain he endured countless life-or-death blood battles before finally breaking through the Blood Battle Path."

After hearing Luo Fu's explanation, Xingtian's eyes brimmed with admiration.

Xingtian also comprehends the Dao of Battle, which is why he understands how unnatural the Dao of Battle's insights truly are.

If one's heart does not truly believe one is facing life or death, battle intent may rise slightly during blood battles, but the increase is extremely limited.

In the past, Xingtian tried countless methods to enhance his Dao of Battle.

For example, entering the Illusory Realm for life-or-death battles, or sealing his memories and cultivation base before fighting.

But the results were all mediocre.

Once he awoke from the Illusory Realm or regained his memories, the insights gained would be drastically weakened.

Because his subconscious did not accept those experiences as true life-or-death trials—he saw them only as ordinary cultivation or a game.

Such experiences could slightly boost battle intent, but they were not what Xingtian needed.

What Sun Wukong is experiencing now is different—even if Luo Fu revealed the truth to Sun Wukong, the gains from these experiences would not diminish much.

Because the life-or-death trials Sun Wukong endures are utterly real.

They are merely amplified.

The gains from life-or-death moments have no fixed limit; no one can know how much Sun Wukong's insights have been amplified.

Moreover, Luo Fu has no intention of revealing the truth to Sun Wukong.

While Luo Fu and Xingtian were speaking, the battle on the arena had already begun its second round.

Compared to the first round, Sun Wukong's battle intent had increased further, and his physical stiffness dissipated sooner.

Unfortunately, Sun Wukong was still a fraction too slow.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang of the fake Sun Wukong struck Sun Wukong's head, just as before.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang, swift as Lei Ting, locked Sun Wukong in place, leaving him no chance to dodge.

"If I die, you die with me—I'll take you down with me!"

The same roar erupted from Sun Wukong's mouth.

As before, Sun Wukong seized the Ruyi Jingu Bang with all his might and slammed it toward the fake Sun Wukong.

Boom!

Boom!

Unlike the first time, Sun Wukong recovered sooner this time, and his Ruyi Jingu Bang struck the fake Sun Wukong earlier.

Thus, this time, both died simultaneously.

Soon after Sun Wukong died, time on the arena reversed again.

In mere moments, both returned to the past, unaware.

As in the second round, Sun Wukong's battle intent grew even more this time—he only stiffened briefly before recovering.

But Sun Wukong still recovered a fraction too late.

So Sun Wukong chose again to perish alongside the fake Sun Wukong.

Of course, in Sun Wukong's eyes, this was still his first time dying with the fake Sun Wukong.

Time reversed again, beginning the fourth cycle.

Boom—

The battle intent from the first three cycles merged, filling Sun Wukong's mind with furious battle intent; the Dao of Battle itself began to manifest slightly, drawn forth by his battle intent.