Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 480 - 477: New Spatial Rift

He looked up at Lu Ren standing in front of him. The other’s attitude clearly indicated that unless he signed this Dharma Seal contract, Lu Ren would definitely not let him leave this Sealed Forbidden Land.

"Even if it means dragging you down with me?" Sun Wukong squinted his eyes.

Lu Ren knew exactly what Sun Wukong meant. He nodded slightly, "Even if it means dragging me down with you."

Sun Wukong was like a ticking time bomb. If they didn’t plan ahead for the conversation, given his impatient nature from years of waiting, it would definitely lead to major problems.

Sun Wukong stared intently at Lu Ren for a long time before slowly crushing the Dharma Seal.

Soon after, the Dharma Seal dissolved into starlight, slowly merging into Sun Wukong’s body. Lu Ren felt an inexplicable connection with Sun Wukong, which finally allowed him to relax.

At this moment, the relationship between the man and the monkey slightly eased, and Sun Wukong urged, "Alright, my whole life I’ve never yielded to anyone. Who would have thought that I’d have to face aging now."

Lu Ren glanced at him, "You could have been born with pride, the novels portray you as rebellious, standing till death even when facing death."

"There are novels about me?" Sun Wukong was genuinely interested and started stretching his limbs.

"Who would have thought your Human Race would even sing about demons, it surprised me a bit. Rather than being afraid, they endured."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ren cast a cold glance at Sun Wukong. He understood what he meant, implying that the Human Race had a particularly inferior servile nature.

He showed a slight smile, "I think you should read the novel’s content, then make a judgment."

Sun Wukong saw the mockery on Lu Ren’s face, clearly understanding that the content Lu Ren referred to didn’t seem to be anything positive.

Lu Ren was too lazy to argue further with Sun Wukong. If it were ordinary times, he would have punched him long ago, rather than looking amicable and not striking now.

"Alright, tell me, where is the King Yu’s Cauldron you know of?"

Sun Wukong grinned, exposing his full set of fangs, "Right beneath my feet. Back then, that damned Tathagata specifically activated a King Yu’s Cauldron to serve as the formation eye to seal me."

Lu Ren’s expression moved slightly, then circulated True Power. Intense radiance erupted from beneath his feet, shattering the region of the Sealed Forbidden Land into layers of fragments.

Rumbling!!

The entire underground space trembled slightly due to this disturbance, and the monitors watching from afar outside kept vigilant after detecting the seismic waves below.

Before Lu Ren went down, he authorized them to immediately fire if they detected only one life form emerging that wasn’t him, and simultaneously detonate the hydrogen bomb placed there.

Underground.

Those ancient runes burst with intense light due to the stimulation, but finally just flickered a few times before ceasing activity as the entire place cracked.

The platform alone pierced thousands of meters downward. Although Lu Ren hadn’t descended it, he didn’t mind much, just casually followed as the rubble rolled down, and he fell with them.

Nearby, Sun Wukong, shackled with broken chains and still having his inner True Power confined, was still agile despite his nearing exhausted lifeforce. His Physique was strong and flexible, easily maneuvering through the scattered stones.

After landing, he glanced at Sun Wukong, who landed lightly not far from him, and said nothing. This guy, even without True Essence, had a Physique that was tough, needing extremely sharp Divine Soldiers to break through his defense.

Feeling the surprising heat from beneath his feet, Lu Ren was shocked to find the temperature here nearly at a hundred degrees, clearly indicating a subterranean lava flow.

Sweeping away shattered metal stones randomly, Lu Ren looked around, frowning slightly, "Where’s the Cauldron?"

Other than broken stones everywhere, there was nothing else below, no sign of the King Yu’s Cauldron that Sun Wukong spoke of.

Sun Wukong searched around, his brows furrowing tightly, "I clearly saw Tathagata using King Yu’s Cauldron as a formation eye to connect this formation...so where has it gone?"

Sniffing the air, he hesitated in surprise, "What’s this thing? How did the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism become such a stink?"

With the dispersal of the sealing formation in this enclosure, polluted Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism seeped in, surprising Sun Wukong greatly.

Agitatedly scratching his fur, which was sparse due to his aged, declining Qi and Blood, the sparse hair made him appear even balder as he scratched.

"What’s happening, what’s happening, what’s wrong with this world?! What happened here?!"

Watching Sun Wukong frantically scratching his head, Lu Ren commented in surprise, "You don’t know the changes in the world?"

"I’d have no idea, sealed by that Tathagata brat for so many years, I have no clue what’s happening outside...ugh, ugh, ugh, this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism stinks worse than the old dung I used to drop!"

Lu Ren looked at Sun Wukong with pity. This old monkey was an Earth Immortal Level power who had been forcibly trapped here, unaware of the outside world’s changes, mutations, or pollution. It was hard to say whether this was misfortune or luck.

After pondering a bit, he didn’t continue on this topic and asked, "Do you know where the Cauldron is...eh?!"

As his words were still being spoken, Lu Ren’s face showed a hint of uncertainty and surprise before his gaze was drawn to the center, where an area began slowly distorting, about two meters above the ground.

"Ding, you’ve discovered a space rift passage, possibly leading somewhere..."

With the system’s prompt in his mind, Lu Ren’s vertical eye between his brows opened and closed, his Heart Eye Perspective upgrading rapidly, transforming the surrounding view into a series of point, line, and plane images before his eyes.

And at the center below, Lu Ren saw a space channel like a collapsing pit, plunging downwards.

"Eh, what is this thing?"

Sun Wukong, with his keen senses, watched the tiny center point with amazement, suddenly becoming excited: "Yes, yes! This is the Secret Realm passage, the King Yu’s Cauldron must have fallen inside there, Lu Ren, shall we go in?!"

As his words fell, Sun Wukong was overjoyed and lunged forward. However, mid-air, he suddenly halted, glancing back at Lu Ren, who stood ghostly before him, grasping his tail tightly.

Sun Wukong’s temper flared, his tail stiffened, and leveraging his momentum, he spun around with a kick towards Lu Ren’s face.

Lu Ren raised his hand in a deflective motion, slightly loosening the grip on Sun Wukong’s tail.

Upon contact with Sun Wukong, Lu Ren’s heart was filled with surprise, the other’s Power was extraordinarily immense.