Journey to the West: Starting by taking Sun Wukong as my disciple!-Chapter 652 - 651 Sha Wujing Comes to Realization

He only realized after eating a person there last time that what he had always insisted on was not important at all.

By eating a person, he could gain more abilities than he would from several months of cultivation, which meant that eating one person would allow him to go without cultivating for several months.

Once he discovered this shortcut, Sha Wujing also began to eat people on a large scale.

But because of his misdeeds, he was punished, and at that time, he was severely injured in a joint attack by several cultivators, and he was close to being defeated by that group of cultivators.

In the last moment, he hid beneath the water, fortunately, those cultivators did not pursue further, after all, the water was his territory.

After he had recovered later on, he gradually understood these principles,

He was never a greedy person to begin with, and it was best to cultivate honestly, of course for those who came to him willingly, he naturally would not refuse.

And so he lived in a murky, muddled state for over a thousand years.

"Would you like to come back to Chaos Residence with me?"

Sha Wujing was still lost in his memories until he heard Shopkeeper Chen’s voice and came back to his senses.

This was Shopkeeper Chen’s voice, but why was it appearing here?

Sha Wujing’s head felt swollen with a slight headache, as if many things were forcefully burrowing into his mind, the previous stern voice and the voice similar to his own gradually took shape.

Now in his mind, there were not only voices but also images.

What was happening? Clearly, these were things happening to someone else, so why were they appearing in his own mind and feeling so familiar, as if he had experienced them himself? But ever since he woke up, he had always been in the Flowing Sand River, so how could he have such experiences?

Sha Wujing slapped his own head, but the images did not come out of his mind with this gesture, instead, they became more and more familiar, and more images appeared, not only those from the incident at that time but also the entire chain of events.

He belatedly realized that these were not someone else’s experiences entering his mind; these seemed to be his own experiences.

No wonder, Sha Wujing thought.

No wonder he hated the Immortal Officials from the Heavenly Realm from the very beginning when he was in the Flowing Sand River. Indeed, after such experiences, it would be impossible for him to treat them as ordinary if he could still treat them like regular beings.

After Sha Wujing understood all these things, the white light around him gradually disappeared, and the scenes around him moved swiftly past him like a carousel, eventually fixing on the scene of him just having a meal at the Chaos Residence.

Sha Wujing came to his senses, still unsure of what exactly had happened, unclear whether he was in a real environment or in an illusion brought about by the white light.

However, for him, the atmosphere of the Chaos Residence felt much safer compared to other environments.

Regardless of whether it was a real environment or an illusion, Sha Wujing let out a soft sigh, feeling as if he had returned home.

He hadn’t felt such peace of mind for thousands of years, and he dared not breathe too loudly, afraid that this illusion would disappear in the blink of an eye.

"Awake?"

Chen Nuo’s voice arose, and Sha Wujing quickly turned around upon hearing it; Chen Nuo was standing behind him, holding a cup of hot tea.

"Shopkeeper Chen," Sha Wujing began, then suddenly stopped, startled by his own voice.

It was different from the hoarse and terrifying voice he had as a Water Demon. Now it was rough yet composed, and while the timbre was similar, the difference was quite clear. This was his voice before he was banished to the mortal realm.

Chen Nuo naturally noticed the changes in Sha Wujing as well, having stood by and observed, he didn’t miss any detail regarding Sha Wujing’s transformation.

"You remember now."

What should have been a question was pronounced as a statement by Chen Nuo; he wasn’t asking Sha Wujing but was telling him.

"Yes," Sha Wujing answered, "I finally understand why I have such disdain for those from the Heavenly Realm."

Chen Nuo pushed the hot tea in his hands toward Sha Wujing, "There’s no rush to talk, take a sip of hot tea and freshen up first."

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Chen," Sha Wujing said as he took the tea and drank from it.

After drinking the tea, he exhaled softly, feeling the hot liquid trickle down his throat and gradually spread warmth throughout his body, even the last bit of malice seemed to be melted away by the hot tea.

This was indeed a bewildering affair; if it had occurred to anyone else, they would find it somewhat far-fetched, but having experienced it himself, he realized that such things could indeed transpire.

"I seem to have had a very long dream," said Sha Wujing, "I had never thought before that I wasn’t originally a demon. Although I don’t see being a demon as something bad, there is a significant difference between demons and Immortals."

He spoke with desolation, a mocking smile on his face, but Chen Nuo was all too clear about the sequence of events.

The experiences of Sha Wujing were almost identical to those of Tian Peng. It was laughable that, not only were their experiences the same, but even their fates in the end were the same.

If it weren’t for his God’s perspective, Chen Nuo might also have found it hard to believe, but precisely because he looked at it from a God’s perspective, he was fully aware of both their stories.

"When I was cast down to the mortal world, I just felt wronged and didn’t understand why the Jade Emperor would convict me with such results."

Sha Wujing said with a sudden trace of ridicule, "I only just now came to understand the saying that when you are in a situation, you’re blinded by it. The Jade Emperor’s clumsy acting was obviously geared towards punishing me, yet I was completely oblivious, even thinking about asking the Jade Emperor to seek justice for me."

The more Sha Wujing spoke, the colder his heart felt. When he first became an Immortal, he was admired by thousands, and even in the Immortal Realm, they flattered him, predicting an even greater future for him.

Indeed, he did have a great future, but who could have imagined that his future would be to be banished to the mortal realm by the Jade Emperor for the crime of breaking the Glazed Cup.

He had seen the faces of the divine officials at that time; everyone thought he was just unlucky to have crossed the Jade Emperor. And even later when they realized something was amiss, not one divine official objected to the Jade Emperor’s unreasonable execution.

They really weren’t afraid, Sha Wujing thought. How could they not consider that such injustice might one day befall them?

"I know about your situation," Chen Nuo said, "But do you know why you were banished to the mortal realm? Do you know the reason?"

Sha Wujing shook his head, as this was something he truly did not know. He couldn’t comprehend it back then, and naturally, he still couldn’t now.

At first, when he was banished, he had considered this matter, thinking that the Jade Emperor simply disliked him and was looking for any reason to banish him, but thinking about it now, it seemed that wasn’t the case.