The wormhole, though only the size of a three-bedroom apartment, was relentlessly churning out little figures like a machine.
If it were to be called a wormhole.
It was more akin to a queen ant!
Clearly, the little figures inside the wormhole had not yet departed, nor had they the slightest inkling that pursuers would follow. They persisted in their ways, continuing to huddle.
Even planning to emerge and cause trouble!
"Invisibility!"
Seeing that more clues about his second brother, Wu Zhiqi, were not found, but these miniature figures had arrived, Sun Kong was not disheartened. He then chanted a spell.
He immediately turned invisible beside the wormhole.
Then.
He focused his gaze.
It was better not to look.
Upon looking, he saw a scene that almost made him burst into laughter.
He saw that the little figures spat out by this wormhole this time were of the same height and size as previously calculated, and their cultivation remained at the middle stage of Earth Immortal.
But there were many comical aspects about them.
Firstly, their posture when walking was extremely peculiar. Despite being less than three inches tall and palm-sized, in the vicinity of the border between the Spiritually abundant Earth Immortal Realm and the Mortal Realm.
Facing clumps of grass that were dozens of times taller than them, they did not walk obediently but instead hopped and skipped.
Their movements were like rabbits.
It looked utterly comical.
Secondly, these little figures seemed to lack the ability to cultivate and improve their cultivation. Although they survived by absorbing the sap of plants, they were unable to absorb the spiritual energy within.
Instead, they expelled the vast amounts of spiritual energy as excrement.
But indeed.
The digestive and transformative abilities of these little fellows were extraordinarily strong.
The spiritual energy they could not digest, after being expelled, was no longer in its original form but had transformed into spirit stones.
These spirit stones were crystal clear and translucent.
The concentration of spiritual energy contained within was purified more than tenfold.
Such spirit stones would be of little use to those above the Earth Immortal realm, but for those below the Earth Immortal realm, they were incredibly beneficial.
Any single one of them could easily create a "master" of the Nascent Soul stage.
Although, in the Earth Immortal Realm, such Nascent Soul masters were as common as dogs, because Earth Immortals themselves were everywhere, let alone Nascent Soul cultivators who weren't even immortals?
However, for the spiritually scarce Mortal Realm, such rapidly and massively produced Nascent Soul masters would be powerful figures.
One must know that in the mortal world, the spiritual energy density decreased in a geometric progression.
The most abundant was, of course, the Heavenly Realm.
Next was the Earth Immortal Realm.
Finally, there was the Mortal Realm.
In the Heavenly Realm, led by the Heavenly Court, along with the orthodox immortals and rogue immortals, as well as the abodes of the Six Sages beyond the Thirty-Third Heaven.
All of them relied on the most abundant spiritual energy here for survival.
Thus, more high-level masters were created.
The Earth Immortal Realm was the domain of Quasi-Saints and Primordial Golden Immortals, below the Sages.
Although the spiritual energy concentration was not as abundant as in the Heavenly Realm, it was influenced by far fewer restrictions, heavenly tribulations, and other adverse factors.
This led to the emergence of famous sects like Mount Huaguo, Spirit Mountain, Wuzhuang Temple, the Sea of Blood, the Great River of the Underworld, and the Great River of the Yellow Springs.
And this Mortal Realm was the most despised.
Not only was the spiritual energy scarce, causing any Earth Immortal who arrived to be able to frighten people within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, being regarded as an supreme immortal and receiving all sorts of worship.
Moreover, it was far inferior to the Earth Immortal Realm, where one could achieve immortality in a few years, and the Heavenly Realm in a few days. In the Mortal Realm, achieving immortality was incredibly difficult.
From the limits of mortals, the Great Perfection of Houtian, one had to undergo Qi Introduction, Nascent Soul, Void Returning, and finally overcome the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation to possibly become an Earth Immortal.
Each step was fraught with peril.
Each step was like a long march.
No wonder the script of the Journey to the West, predetermined by the Heavenly Dao, was set to occur five hundred years later in the Earth Immortal Realm, with a version of the Tang Dynasty bearing the same name as the Tang Dynasty in the Mortal Realm!
Not for any other reason.
It was because the spiritual energy in the Mortal Realm could not sustain the participation of various forces in the eighty-one tribulations. It was feared that even one tribulation could claim the lives of countless beings here!
"Mass-producing Nascent Soul masters in the Earth Immortal Realm?"
"Is this a mistake?"
"Or, is that new Six-Eared Macaque doing some extreme move that I can't even understand?"
While Sun Kong was somewhat confused, he saw that the spirit stones excreted by the over a million little figures were changing again.
He saw.
A little figure at the forefront, ten inches tall, like their leader. Seeing that the total number of spirit stones had exceeded one hundred million, this guy came among the little figures.
He decisively gave an order!
"Stop, stop, everyone stop!"
"Don't waste any more spiritual energy."
"Although the spiritual energy in the Earth Immortal Realm is inexhaustible, it's a shame to waste it like this. Hurry and bring all the spirit stones to me so I can personally perform the aggregation spell."
"You guys eat and excrete comfortably, but don't forget, it was 'that lord' who gave us this opportunity to multiply and grow continuously. Anyone who dares to ruin his great plan, I will be the first to not let him off!"
While saying these words, this little figure leader, despite being no taller than a normal person's forearm, was indeed cunning and shrewd. As the hundreds of millions of spirit stones were carried over by the numerous little figures.
He suddenly opened his mouth.
And cast a very common swallowing spell.
But the next second.
This little figure leader achieved something that Sun Kong could not believe. He actually swallowed over a hundred million spirit stones into his belly, expanding himself to become a hundred zhang tall.
Then.
After a period of astonishingly strong digestion, what he expelled was a crystal clear egg that emanated a power not inferior to a Golden Immortal.
Or, it should be called a golden dung egg.
The name was unpleasant.
But this golden dung egg was regarded by them as a supreme treasure. The moment the golden dung egg appeared, including the little figure leader and the million little figures, they all lost a large amount of cultivation.
From the already weak middle stage of Earth Immortal, they fell to the Great Perfection of Void Returning.
And under Sun Kong's incomprehensible gaze, they dragged their tired and weak bodies, hunched over with straight legs, and slowly, little by little, carried the basketball-sized golden dung egg back into the wormhole.
It seemed that it still needed to undergo some further processing to be completely successful!
"Is the new Six-Eared Macaque recruiting a bunch of dung beetles to do his work?"
Sun Kong could truly not understand such a bizarre method, even more peculiar than his own.
He was not polite.
He immediately transformed into a gust of clear wind and drilled into the wormhole.
Before he could make any other discoveries.
He first heard a familiar yet unfamiliar dialogue!
"I, Old Pig, agree with Master Brother Six-Eared's approach. We must be one step ahead and produce more of that thing to have a chance of being faster than that Sun Monkey."
A pig demon, playing the role of Zhu Bajie, said.
"Second Brother, don't get so excited. As for me, it's better to move first. Last time, we were almost ruined by that Wu Zhiqi. Who knows if he has anyone else behind him?"
Another sand demon, very much like Sha Wujing, spoke these words, retorting to the pig demon.
The two demons were arguing.
Just then, Sun Kong poked his head out, revealing the large head of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Handsome Monkey King, known throughout the Primordial Three Realms.
Instantly shocking them!