A mediocre continent held a mediocre sandy area. Zhu Bajie followed his memories to find it, taking in everything about this sandy area. Immediately afterward, he shrank continuously, disappearing into the ordinary sand.

In the next moment, he appeared in a mystical place filled with patches of immortal clouds, both real and illusory.

Before long, he finally felt solid ground beneath his feet, standing on a star brimming with the fragrance of soil, surging oceans, and teeming life.

He even saw the propagation of humanity on this star, countless cities, and countries much like the Great Qian Dynasty.

"A grain of sand, a world." Zhu Bajie mused, looking at the star. This was a city named Beijing, bustling with people, traders, scholars, aspiring scholars and imperial examinees, as well as government officials, guards, and people from all walks of life.

"As expected of a Yang God. Although San Zang has explained it many times, this is the first time I've truly seen it." Zhu Bajie thought. He cultivated the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art, and his current realm was comparable to shattering the void, not inferior to a Yang God.

However, shattering the void and Yang God were two different paths. One cultivated the physical body, and the other cultivated the soul. The method of Zhetian was much weaker in cultivating the soul.

This also led to him only barely enduring the ninth thunder tribulation, despite being a powerful cultivator who had overcome tribulations, his soul was still far from reaching the Yang God level.

"This Yang God thought might be quite useful for me to achieve Yang God." Zhu Bajie thought. The star he was on now was transformed from the Yang God thought of the Supreme Dao Ancestor, Tai.

Tai was the strongest of the Yang Gods, with extraordinary cultivation. In fact, all Yang God experts possessed numerous methods. They could look down upon time, gaze into the past and future. Except for experts of the same level, there was nothing they couldn't know.

Besides that, their methods were also inconceivable. A single thought could transform into a world, just like this star, which was truly a world within a grain of sand. The people on this star were real lives, and like the Great Thousand World, there were also experts in this world, which was the Tai of the Supreme Dao.

"Let's swallow it." Zhu Bajie gazed at the thriving world, a seemingly gentle yet chilling smile appearing on the face of the handsome young man he had transformed into.

Rumble—

The void exploded, and vast divine power burst through the nine heavens. The entire star trembled as if it had encountered an immeasurable and inconceivable existence.

"What... what is that?!"

A living being exclaimed, looking up at the sky, his eyes filled with disbelief.

A boundless crack had opened in the void, like a supreme god opening its bloody maw, about to swallow the entire world.

"Break!"

A peak human immortal being shouted, his fist intent vibrating the void, piercing through tens of thousands of miles, but it was like a clay ox entering the sea, instantly swallowed up.

"Damn it, who exactly is it? How can there be such a strong person in the world?!" A ghost immortal who had endured several thunder tribulations roared, his thoughts diverging, rushing towards all directions, trying to escape the range covered by the crack.

But no matter how far his thoughts traveled, the crack still hung high in the sky, constantly expanding.

Endless darkness enveloped the entire star. A few breaths later, Zhu Bajie held a thumb-sized grain of sand in his hand, from which came the wails of billions of living beings.

With a thought, the grain of sand directly merged into his soul. In an instant, he absorbed and comprehended numerous mysteries.

"Yang God... so that's how it is."

Zhu Bajie had a flash of insight. His body suddenly grew taller, and his primordial spirit, having undergone nine thunder tribulations, seemed to have reached its limit. Suddenly, it transformed into a Heaven Swallowing Demon God, capable of swallowing billions of stars in one gulp. Even time could not escape, constantly being devoured by him.

"The time has come. Today, I shall become a Yang God!"

As he spoke these words, a sudden change occurred. The vast universe seemed to have been born because of Zhu Bajie, and the laws of heaven and earth seemed to have changed because of him. At that moment, the aura of his primordial spirit underwent a qualitative change. A large amount of origin energy frantically poured into his thoughts, ideas, and soul.

The primordial spirit emitted a dazzling light, pure, yang, and vast, with endless brilliance, like a supreme and great sun, its light sweeping across all directions, past and future, connecting ancient and modern times.

An aura that shook the heavens and earth, and dominated the universe, permeated the universe, as if expressing a meaning to the world: someone had achieved Yang God.

This was the highest realm of soul cultivation between heaven and earth, a pure yang body, a supreme body, perfectly divine, supreme, and innately perfect Taiji.

"Yang God, Shattering the Void..."

Zhu Bajie felt the changes in himself, his mind wandering beyond the heavens. At this moment, he truly became the source of all living beings in heaven and earth, infinitely wise, and blessed to all worlds.

"Is this the realm of a sage?!"

Zhu Bajie sighed in his heart. Merely shattering the void or becoming a Yang God could only be considered a half-sage. However, if both paths could be taken to the extreme, that would be the ultimate sublimation!

In the realm of a sage, cause and effect, destiny, and time and space were all within his control, coexisting with heaven and existing with the Dao, indestructible through ten thousand tribulations. The laws of the entire universe were now within reach.

"When I return to the Three Realms, who can still scheme against me?"

Zhu Bajie was delighted in his heart. Once he became a sage, it meant that he stood at the peak of the universe. Returning to the Three Realms, he would be the most powerful existence. Even the Jade Emperor of Heaven and the Tathagata of the Western Paradise would not dare to disrespect him.

"I wonder how Monkey is doing?"

Zhu Bajie's eyes pierced through the void. Even at his current level, he could not detect the slightest trace of Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong had entered this realm the earliest, and no one, including him, knew how far Sun Wukong had gone in this field.

...

In the void, there were rows of huge and magnificent palaces standing in succession, guarding an incomparably magnificent mausoleum in the middle. These palaces and mausoleums were actually condensed from small stars.

This mausoleum had fused countless stars, practically a new birthplace of civilization. Standing before this mausoleum, one could feel the boundless aura of civilization, as if when the Great Thousand World was destroyed and all civilizations were cut off, the civilization within this mausoleum would become the master of the next era.

"The Graves of the Philosophers..."

Sun Wukong stood outside this mausoleum, his eyes looking at the small mausoleums made of planets, standing in the void. This place could be said to span the past, present, and future, infinite void, infinite time, and infinite epochs of civilization.

This Graves of the Philosophers had not yet been opened, but as a powerhouse at the level of shattering the void and a Yang God, it was not difficult for Sun Wukong to enter here.

Stepping out, he entered the tomb complex, and suddenly time and space changed, and he appeared in an extremely gorgeous palace. This palace was full of pavilions, terraces and towers, waterside pavilions, and flower cities. Various poems and paintings were also hung on the walls. If they were placed in the Great Thousand World, they would all be supreme treasures.

Because the artistic conception of each painting, the essence of each article, and the connotation of each sentence could be compared to the supreme treasure of a Dao lineage, allowing people to advance by leaps and bounds.

However, Sun Wukong was only watching. With the derivation of his thoughts, he thoroughly understood it in a short time.

Buzz—

Just as he was preparing to continue forward, boundless darkness enveloped him. Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements all fell into pitch black. An boundless demon claw was grabbing towards Sun Wukong, demonic energy was monstrous, and it could easily pluck stars and seize the moon.

"The Demon Swallows the Sun and Moon, Kun Peng Refines Form, the first emperor of Yunmeng, Gu?" Sun Wukong joked with a smile.

"Not bad, I didn't expect there to be anyone in the world who recognizes me. It seems that you are also a master, but I have been cultivating here for five thousand years, and I have already realized the ultimate in heaven and earth. Today, you are destined to die here!" Emperor Gu's attack was earth-shattering and infinitely powerful. Even if he escaped to the edge of the universe, he could not escape this hand.

"You haven't even shattered the void, yet you dare to speak presumptuously about the ultimate in heaven and earth?" Sun Wukong shook his head, pointing a finger out, and the shocking thunder pierced through hundreds of millions of miles, instantly obliterating Gu's methods. Even his spiritual will and true spirit collapsed under this finger.

"Swallow!"

Sun Wukong shouted softly, and Gu's remaining power and will were all devoured and refined by Sun Wukong, instantly turning into his food, allowing him to take a step further on the road to the other shore.

"It seems that if I want to properly comprehend the Bridge to the Other Shore, I have to solve these troublesome old antiques first." Sun Wukong's thoughts seemed to lock onto a series of figures, and then a series of his true bodies and clones walked out of the small world he opened up.

He wanted to hunt the creatures in the Graves of the Philosophers, and use their insights to achieve himself, and constantly push forward his own path to the other shore.

"The Great Dao of Strength, forging ahead, I don't need to use luck or great vows to reach that step. Only by breaking the shackles with absolute strength can I achieve the other shore is the right way."

Sun Wukong thought. In this world, it was very difficult to successfully reach the other shore. Just like Hong Yi, in the end, he only took half a step by relying on the great vow of "May all beings be like dragons and reach the other shore", and did not truly ascend to the other shore.

Even because of this great vow, Hong Yi had to be trapped in this world and could not leave, unless the great vow became a reality, he could truly ascend to the other shore and transcend.

However, the possibility of all beings becoming dragons and reaching the other shore was almost zero, even in those worlds with perfect cultivation systems could not do it.

Just like the Two Sages of the West, they made so many great vows to become saints, but as time passed, they have not even completed one.

This great vow, in the eyes of others, was the hope of transcendence, but in the eyes of Sun Wukong, it was a shackle.

However, if he had not obtained the inheritance of the Ultimate Dao of Strength and had not been apprenticed to Jiang Xuan, if Sun Wukong had the opportunity to become a saint with great vows, he thought that he would not refuse.

"The stronger I become, the more I feel that the teacher is unfathomable. I wonder if I will have the possibility of reaching that level in the future?" Sun Wukong sighed, and then went to the depths of the Graves of the Philosophers.

As for the other true bodies and clones, they began to hunt the strong in the Graves of the Philosophers, devouring their insights into cultivation, turning them into their own insights, and thus taking a step further.

Before long, he came to a mysterious ancient land, where there was endless true energy, forming one mysterious formation after another, standing in the very center of the mausoleum, protecting a long bridge spanning the sky like a rainbow.

"Bridge to the Other Shore." Sun Wukong looked at the bridge, and endless mysteries came into view. He seemed to have touched a layer of barriers, and as long as he took a step further, he would have the hope of breaking the barriers and reaching the other shore.

"Who are you?" At this moment, a voice came from the Bridge to the Other Shore. There was actually a Daoist sitting there. The Daoist was wearing a Daoist robe embroidered with various artifacts, immortals, gods, Buddhas, demons, and thousands of worlds.

"The Great Emperor of Longevity? Indeed, a good capability." Sun Wukong did not answer the words of the Great Emperor of Longevity.

This Great Emperor of Longevity was known as the number one person of all time, the master of eternal life for all time, and the master of all immortals. Even just this voice contained the laws of heaven and earth and the mysteries of the universe. It could make people have the urge to "create the world with their own body".

"You know me?" The voice of the Great Emperor of Longevity sounded, and after a moment, he continued, "There is no trace of you in later generations. Although you are in the same realm as me, it is impossible for you to completely erase your traces in front of me. I will inevitably discover the clues."

"But I observe your body, but you have only been around for the past few decades, leaving a mark in the Great Thousand World. In addition, looking at the ancient and modern universe, there is no clue related to you at all."

Speaking of this, the Great Emperor of Longevity had already guessed something. The light of the flesh and the light of the soul covered the sky and the earth, enveloping this land, and it seemed that he could obliterate any living being in an instant.

"You... are you from the other shore? Or, outside the universe?"

"Hahaha..." Sun Wukong laughed, "As expected of the number one person of all time, the Great Emperor of Longevity, who is known as the closest to the other shore."

After laughing, his expression changed, his eyes were as bright as the sun, and he looked at the Great Emperor of Longevity and said, "That's right, I am from outside the universe, from another universe!"

Rumble!

The world shook, and the power of the Great Emperor of Longevity climbed to its peak. At this moment, his eyes emitted hundreds of millions of rays of light, seemingly deducing, and seemingly calculating.

"Did you accidentally fall into this world, or do you have a special way to come to this universe?" The Great Emperor of Longevity asked.

Sun Wukong looked at his expression, and after a deduction of his thoughts, he knew what he was thinking: "It's okay to tell you, we do have a special opportunity to come to this universe. If you want to use our hands to leave this universe, it's not impossible..."

At this point, the light in the eyes of the Great Emperor of Longevity became more and more dazzling, but then he heard Sun Wukong say: "However, you have to tell me all your insights about the other shore."

"How can I trust you?" The Great Emperor of Longevity asked.

"Whether you believe it or not is all up to you. It makes no difference to me. Even if you are unwilling to cooperate, I can suppress you and take away your insights." Sun Wukong laughed.

The Great Emperor of Longevity was indeed strong, but theoretically he was in the same realm as Sun Wukong, and Sun Wukong also had eight true bodies and clones. Working together, it was not difficult to suppress the Great Emperor of Longevity at all.

What's more, now the Great Emperor of Longevity had to suppress the Bridge to the Other Shore, and could not perfectly exert all his power, it would be even easier to suppress him.

"..." The Great Emperor of Longevity was silent for only a moment before saying: "Okay, I agree to cooperate with you and pass on all my insights about the other shore to you, and you will take me to another universe."

"Okay." Sun Wukong smiled. He wanted to cooperate with the Great Emperor of Longevity, and naturally it was not just to covet the insights of the other shore realm. However, those were just his guesses, so there was no need to rush, and he could plan it slowly. The most important thing now was to step into the other shore realm.