Chapter 017: Able to Stoop or Stand

Huh?

When Wang Bo saw this, he couldn't help blinking, almost thinking he had misseen it—had Sun Wukong time-traveled?

Soon, Wang Bo saw the scene after Sun Wukong's time-travel.

After time-traveling, Sun Wukong entered the world of "A Chinese Odyssey," encountering another Sun Wukong from that world. The Sun Wukong of the "A Chinese Odyssey" world, seeing this world's Sun Wukong, thought he was an imposter posing as himself, and without a word, raised his staff to strike.

Sun Wukong naturally refused to show weakness and counterattacked without hesitation.

After they fought for a day and a night, this world's Sun Wukong killed the Sun Wukong of the "A Chinese Odyssey" world.

Seeing this, Wang Bo's mouth twitched a few times.

Who would have thought that the meeting of two Sun Wukongs from different worlds would end like this.

After the death of Sun Wukong from the "A Chinese Odyssey" world, Tang Sanzang had no protector, and the Buddhist sect was naturally unwilling. Thus, the compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva appeared.

She found the Sun Wukong from "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and ordered him to protect Tang Sanzang on his journey to the West to obtain the true scriptures.

But how could the arrogant King of Demons agree to this request? He attacked Guanyin Bodhisattva without hesitation, and then was killed by Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Yes, that's right, the King of Demons Sun Wukong was indeed killed by Guanyin Bodhisattva.

But as Wang Bo had said before, in the world of immortals and Buddhas, death is not the end.

It is a beginning.

After being killed, the King of Demons Sun Wukong reincarnated as a mortal.

And this mortal was... Zhizunbao.

Interestingly, not long after becoming Zhizunbao, the King of Demons Sun Wukong regained his past memories and recalled his identity.

This was thanks to his powerful demon soul.

However, the Sun Wukong who regained his memory did not clamor for revenge. After all, he was now just a mortal, how could he be a match for the immortals and Buddhas.

So Sun Wukong, on one hand, pretended not to have regained his memory, and on the other hand, secretly cultivated to enhance his strength.

Until one day, a woman named Chun Shiniang came to the stronghold where he lived.

Sun Wukong saw at a glance that this woman was a demon.

But his strength had not yet recovered, far inferior to this demon, so he played along with the demon while intensifying his cultivation.

However, not long after, another demon named Bai Jingjing came to the stronghold.

The two demons treated Sun Wukong like a monkey.

The King of Demons Sun Wukong, having never endured such humiliation, flew into a rage and stopped hiding. He fought a great battle with the two demons, ultimately being defeated by them.

After all, he had just regained his memory and had been cultivating for too short a time.

Naturally, he was no match for the two demons.

After the two demons defeated Sun Wukong, a woman appeared, saved Sun Wukong from being killed, and drove off Chun Shiniang and Bai Jingjing.

And this woman was none other than Wang Bo's colleague, also a host.

This woman had clearly seen "A Chinese Odyssey" and knew that before putting on the headband, Zhizunbao was just an ordinary person. But now Zhizunbao could actually fight Bai Jingjing and Chun Shiniang.

This was obviously different from the plot.

So she found a way to approach Sun Wukong, and after learning from him that Zhizunbao was actually a time-traveler, she unhesitatingly sent Zhizunbao, that is, Sun Wukong, back.

Thus, in the blink of an eye, Sun Wukong returned to the Lotus Cave under the Five Elements Mountain.

At first, Sun Wukong was somewhat angry, but later he fell into despair, because he knew that he, having reincarnated as a mortal, was no longer the King of Demons.

With his current strength, if he left this place, there would be only one outcome.

Being beaten to death alive.

So from that day on, Sun Wukong resigned himself to his fate, no longer thinking of leaving, but instead wanting to continue cultivating, and only leave when his cultivation had recovered.

Only then did Wang Bo understand why Sun Wukong, upon seeing him, did not want to leave.

So there was such a twist in the story.

The mighty King of Demons had become an ordinary person. Although he had some ordinary magical power, barely enough to avoid eating, such strength was far from enough to roam the world.

So Sun Wukong, having suffered a few losses, had made up his mind to lie low here until one day he recovered his former cultivation, then it would not be too late to go out.

Wang Bo saw the whole story clearly and let go. Sun Wukong immediately broke free, coldly scanning Wang Bo with a look that contained not only anger but also hidden murderous intent.

Clearly, this one knew what Wang Bo had just done.

If it were before, if someone dared to search his soul, Sun Wukong would have attacked without a word and beaten the person to death.

But now...

Having become an ordinary person, he no longer had the right to be arrogant. So Sun Wukong hid his murderous intent, lowered his head, and said, "Since you've gotten what you wanted, leave."

Wang Bo looked at this Sun Wukong with sympathy. From the time he was imprisoned by Tathagata, this Sun Wukong had experienced one failure after another: dying at the hands of Guanyin after time-travel, and after reincarnation, being bullied by two small demons he had previously looked down upon.

Chun Shiniang and Bai Jingjing seemed formidable, but in reality, they were very ordinary.

Demons like them were a dime a dozen in the world.

In the past, such demons were not even qualified to appear before Sun Wukong; Sun Wukong could kill them with a single breath.

Yet it was such demons who defeated the reincarnated Sun Wukong.

This made the arrogant Sun Wukong even doubt himself.

Having barely escaped the two demons, he then encountered Wang Bo's colleague, another host, and was forcibly sent back under the Five Elements Mountain.

These repeated failures had almost broken Sun Wukong's backbone, making him doubt life while also teaching this arrogant demon monkey what it meant to size up the situation, what it meant to play along, and what it meant to be able to stoop or stand.

Without that formidable power, he was no longer the King of Demons who dared to storm the Heavenly Court.

However, Wang Bo estimated that the day Sun Wukong's strength recovered, he would surely still be that arrogant King of Demons.

As for when Sun Wukong would recover, Wang Bo was not quite sure.

Of course, Wang Bo actually didn't care about that.

Hearing Sun Wukong's order to leave, Wang Bo nodded, turned around, and left. During the soul search, he had indeed obtained what he wanted, so there was no need to stay any longer.

After coming out of the cave, Wang Bo oriented himself toward Luoyang City and sped all the way, soon returning to Luoyang City.