Sun Wukong, who had been startled awake in his dream, originally thought that being pinned under the Five-Finger Mountain was just a dream of his own. However, upon waking, he found himself truly pinned down by sothing. Sun Wukong opened his eyes to find complete darkness before him, and since he was lying on his back, he couldn’t move his limbs or body since they were being pressed down.
At this mont, Sun Wukong beca sowhat panicked. After all, the scene in the dream was too real, and he had mories of the painful experience of being suppressed under the Five-Finger Mountain which made him deeply aware of how painful being pinned down was.
However, although his heart was sowhat frantic, Sun Wukong did not sit and wait for death. Instead, he slowly tried to move his fingers. That’s when he discovered his fingers could move and seed to have touched sothing furry.
Gradually twisting his arms, he realized that while the object suppressing him was heavy, there was no seal to imprison his movents, so he slowly twisted his body more and more.
Finally, when Sun Wukong felt that the ti was right, he secretly gathered all his strength and made preparations to exert force with both arms. But just as he was gathering his strength, ready to push off what was on top of him, he suddenly felt a lightness, followed by a bright light in front of his eyes.
Catching his eyes wide open, Sun Wukong was suddenly stunned. Because standing before him was a person, Xi Zhao, holding sothing in his hand. Ah, it was a little fox! Seeing Xi Zhao’s barely contained laughter, Sun Wukong could easily guess what had happened!
At once, he stood up fiercely, ready to grab the little fox’s ears. But the little fox, held by Xi Zhao, stepped back two paces. "When I just woke up, I thought you had gone missing. Hahaha, then I suddenly found an extra monkey tail behind the little fox’s butt. I even thought that the little fox got hungry and ate you."
Having said that, Xi Zhao could no longer hold back, threw the little fox aside, and burst into laughter. The little fox also woke up at this mont, looking confused as if it didn’t know what it had done, and instinctively touched its belly with its front paws.
Seeing that the little fox actually used him as a mattress and still seed rather pleased with itself, Sun Wukong was imdiately furious and walked over with large strides. He then leaped towards the little fox, aiming to lie down on it. However, although the little fox had just woken up, its reflexes were extrely quick.
Sun Wukong was still in mid-air when the little fox had already darted away into the distance.
In Xi Zhao’s laughter that seed near madness, Sun Wukong smashed into the ground.
"Monkey, hahahaha, stop it, why get angry at a fox? Plus, you know her speed, you couldn’t catch up even if I gave you a leg up!"
The little fox in the distance seed to hear Xi Zhao’s words, really lifted one front leg, and still ran swiftly as if flying on just three legs, making several laps. It nearly drove Sun Wukong mad with anger.
After so roughhousing, the group took a brief rest, and then Sun Wukong suddenly asked, "Xi Zhao, you seem to be in a good mood today? Have you rembered what this place is?"
"I didn’t expect you, monkey, to have such a discerning eye. Since you are so sincerely asking , I’ll tell you. This vast plain is called the Hope Plain. Perhaps that na doesn’t an much to you, but rember, the Hope Plain is also known as the Supre Garden! That is to say, once we cross this plain, we can reach the Supre Pool!"
"Ah? Really? You’re not tricking , are you? We’ve arrived so soon?"
"Yeah, I didn’t expect it either. The direction the little fox chose to flee in was precisely towards the Supre Pool. I’m not sure if it was intentional or not. Otherwise, just relying on the two of us, we’d probably not have made it in ti!"
This news was very surprising to Sun Wukong. There was about a month left before the Supre Pool opened. Crossing this plain would only take a few days, aning that although they had been delayed by so matters, they would still arrive a month ahead of schedule.
Indeed, blessings and misfortunes co hand in hand. Arriving a full month early ant they had ample ti to recover and carefully investigate the Supre Pool. After all, the Supre Pool in the Netherworld World was no ordinary place, fraught with extre dangers.
It is said to contain naturally spawned Soul Beasts, and the Cosmic Creative Energy in the pool is even stronger, much like spatial turbulence raging inside the Supre Pool.
If soone unprepared were hit by the Power of Creation, they would be burst open by that imnse force. Therefore, proper preparation beforehand was absolutely necessary. The two had been very worried about not having enough ti to prepare before entering the Supre Pool, but now, all these concerns were no longer an issue.
After a brief rest, the two travelers and the fox continued on their way, with their target being the Great River that Sun Wukong had spotted with his fiery, golden eyes—a river that spanned the entire Hope Plain. By crossing that Great River and walking for another three to four days, they would arrive at Supre City.
Supre City was also one of the top ten Inner Cities and ranked among the top three in terms of strength.
What set Supre City apart from other Inner Cities was that it was under the direct jurisdiction of the Netherworld World, unlike the other Inner Cities, which were mostly populated by people from the Great Divine Nations and High Level worlds. Furthermore, Supre City was extrely mysterious, only appearing when the Supre Pool opened for its selection process.
It was said that everyone within Supre City was a Seven Patterns Supre or higher, powerful beings except, of course, those outsiders who ca to enter the Supre Pool. Moreover, the master of Supre City was enigmatic, with a level of mystery not far behind that of the Netherworld World’s Guardians. Everyone knew that the master was a woman, but nobody knew her appearance, age, or abilities.
Even the masters of the other top Inner Cities knew nothing about her! Although this year, the responsibility to open the Supre Pool was controlled by a city from the High Level world, Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm called Transforming Thunder City, Supre City still opened as scheduled.
Those not belonging to Transforming Thunder Ancestral Realm were flocking to Supre City, either to rest or to make their final preparations.
The Supre Pool opened once every ten years, and each ti, two great Inner Cities took charge, one as the main and the other as auxiliary. The number of people allowed in was also limited—only three thousand!
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Even so, the three thousand slots were indeed too scarce. For the Netherworld World, which had a population in the hundreds of billions, three thousand was far too few.
Therefore, ten days before the opening of the Supre Pool, a selection would take place among all those who reached there, and finally, three thousand would be chosen to enter the Supre Pool on the day it opened. The rest would have to turn back, although if they chose to stay, no one would stop them.
The selection process was known to be quite atrocious.
Yet, this did not deter the multitudes who ca every year. However, arrivals as late as Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao were indeed rare, but not unprecedented. For at this mont, Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao had just encountered a person—or rather, a young girl.
The girl was first noticed by the little fox while Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao were chatting and laughing along the way, and the fox was chasing butterflies behind them. When the little fox ca back from chasing butterflies, it ca with a young girl on its back. The girl appeared to be about eight or nine years old, wearing a pink dress and her cheeks as delicate as carved jade, incredibly adorable.
When the little fox first dashed in front of Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao with the young girl on its back, both n thought they were seeing things—after all, how could a little girl appear in the vast Hope Plain?
However, when the little fox ran past them a second ti, the two n exchanged glances and then simultaneously called the fox to a halt. The obedient fox tiptoed over to them with the smiling girl still on its back, holding a large butterfly in her hands.
"Little fox, do you know you have soone on your back?" That was asked by Xi Zhao.
The little fox nodded excitedly!
"Um, where did this person co from?"
The little fox looked up as if pondering and then shook its head vigorously.
"Hey, Uncle, you could’ve just asked directly. I can talk, you know. My na is Strawberry and I’m headed to the Supre Pool. Since we’ve run into each other, it’s perfect—we’re on the sa path!"
With a pat on the little fox’s head, the fox, brimming with excitent, carried the girl nad Strawberry off into the distance, leaving Sun Wukong and Xi Zhao looking at each other in bewildernt!
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