Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong

The Yuan Realm Era Day marks the day the Dimensional Gate between the Yuan Realm and Han Hai Realm opened, a day which began the five-thousand-year dark age of the Yuan Realm!

Divine Envoys from the Cangqiong Immortal Palace in Han Hai Realm rushed out of the Dimensional Gate, sweeping the Yuan Realm with unmatched power, gathering leaders from various major forces in the Heavenly Dao Sect. Any resistance was utterly obliterated by a single strike from a yellow-clad Divine Envoy of the Cangqiong Immortal Palace, their bodies crushed, spirits and forms annihilated, without any ability to retaliate!

The entire Yuan Realm was in shock, and everyone feared for their safety!

The world level of Han Hai Realm was far superior to the Yuan Realm, not even on the same scale, where even a casual Divine Envoy could effortlessly kill a Domain Saint Realm expert of the Yuan Realm.

The leaders of various major forces in the Yuan Realm, totaling hundreds, were wiped out by three yellow-clad Divine Envoys in less than a minute, showing no effort, leaving the remaining people terrified.

Despair spread across everyone's hearts, they lost all courage to resist, choosing shameful surrender. Some even shamelessly groveled before the Divine Envoys from the Cangqiong Immortal Palace.

Not only did they grovel before the Divine Envoys of the Cangqiong Immortal Palace, but also before the representative in the Yuan Realm, Mu Yin, Sect Master of the Primordial Spirit Sect, who became the true figure of authority in the Yuan Realm.

Given that the Yuan Realm's world level is much lower than Han Hai Realm, the Divine Envoys of the Cangqiong Immortal Palace could descend upon the Yuan Realm in a short time and suppress it, but they could not remain for long, so they needed to support a proxy to manage the Yuan Realm for them.

Mu Yin, the Sect Master of the Primordial Spirit Sect, was the chosen proxy, a condition agreed upon before the opening of the Dimensional Gate.

While the world level of the Yuan Realm truly was inferior to Han Hai Realm, some special resources were not present in Han Hai Realm, among which the Mystic Yang Ore was the most crucial.

Mystic Yang Ore was not considered a good ore in the Yuan Realm, rarely sought after, but in Han Hai Realm, it could be turned into common currency because it contained Mystic Spirit Qi, the foundational spiritual energy there.

This secret was only shared by a Divine Envoy from the Cangqiong Immortal Palace with Mu Yin, and Mu Yin kept it tightly packed, for it was a secret related to cultivation at higher levels!

With the support of the Cangqiong Immortal Palace, the Primordial Spirit Sect became the premiere sect in the Yuan Realm, setting up numerous branches in the Four Continents to closely monitor the movements of all sect forces within the Yuan Realm.

For Mu Yin, the Sect Master of the Primordial Spirit Sect, these five thousand years were his most glorious, with no forces in the Yuan Realm daring to oppose him, even the once-arrogant Undying Heavenly Demon Emperor of the Undying Heaven Demon Clan was obliged to be respectful before him, not to mention others.

The deposits of Mystic Yang Ore in the Yuan Realm are extremely rich, arguably the most abundant, but previously no force knew how to utilize it, using it merely for Alchemy and Artifact Refining, and consuming very little.

The vast majority of Mystic Yang Ore is distributed deep underground within the territories of the Four Continents, apart from the deep sea connection areas of the Four Continents.

This entire region is known as the Endless Sea.

The Endless Sea contains much more Mystic Yang Ore than the land above the Four Continents, thus the power saturating the Endless Sea is Mystic Spirit Qi, distinct from the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi on land, depleting the strength of Yuan Realm's experts upon entry into Endless Sea.

Not even the strongest Domain Saint Realm expert could endure in the Endless Sea for ten days.

The intent of the Cangqiong Immortal Palace in suppressing the Yuan Realm was not for securing a dimension inferior in strength to Han Hai Realm, but rather for its Mystic Yang Ore.

Therefore, every year the Yuan Realm has to hand over a large amount of Mystic Yang Ore to the Cangqiong Immortal Palace, and the task of collecting the ore was naturally assigned by Mu Yin to the leaders of various sect forces in the Yuan Realm, even replacing the original entry fees of cities from Spirit Stone to Mystic Yang Ore.

Although Mystic Yang Ore is plentiful in the Yuan Realm and easy to mine, it's monopolized by major sects, and those who are not part of these sects, the loose cultivators, can only gather Mystic Yang Ore in areas beyond their influence.

Many turned their sights on the Endless Sea.

Yet, the environment of the Endless Sea is so harsh that Yuan Realm powerhouses could hardly withstand it, and these risk-taking loose cultivator experts could only search its peripheries.

During the five thousand years of darkness, the Yuan Realm completely ceased development, all experts, except those from the Primordial Spirit Sect, became mere tools for collecting Mystic Yang Ore for the Cangqiong Immortal Palace.

However, amidst the widespread misfortune, one event brought joy to the Yuan Realm: originally, the Dimensional Annihilation meant to occur three thousand years after the Yuan Realm Era Day was thwarted when a Divine Envoy from the Cangqiong Immortal Palace used Supreme Magical Power to sever the core of destruction force decreed by the Heavenly Dao, allowing all creatures of the Yuan Realm to survive this disaster, continuing their existence.

And due to this, the Yuan Realm surrendered without resistance to the Cangqiong Immortal Palace, most people accepting their fate as the enslaved.

One day, five thousand years later, in the deep sea of the Endless Sea, within a Mystic Yang Ore vein, a sudden violent spatial disturbance occurred, a space passage manifested, and from it emerged a figure.

It was Sun Wukong!

"Finally back to the Yuan Realm! It wasn't easy!"

Sun Wukong stretched widely upon emerging, took a deep breath, and nearly choked.

"What place is this? Such strange power! Am I in the sea? Could this be the Endless Sea?"

In the entire Yuan Realm, the only place with seawater is the Endless Sea, as Sun Wukong well knew, and he also knew it was filled with a power completely different from that on land.

After careful sensing, Sun Wukong confirmed that the new entry and exit point to the Yuan Realm from the Heavenly Que Realm was indeed opened in the deep sea of the Endless Sea!

Five thousand years ago, to avoid becoming a puppet-slave of the Cangqiong Immortal Palace of Han Hai Realm, Sun Wukong consulted with Hong Jun Daoist Ancestor and others to make the decision to completely separate the Heavenly Que Realm from the Yuan Realm, banishing it to the Endless Void.

Now, finally he has returned to the Yuan Realm, though unexpectedly, the exit opened within the Endless Sea!