Finally, after who knew how long, Sun Wukong slowly awoke. The first thing he did upon waking was to immediately check on the Jingu Bang within his sea of consciousness. To his surprise, he found himself dumbfounded once again because the earth system Spiritual Charm that had been in his sea of consciousness had vanished without a trace. All that remained was the empty sea of consciousness, and, no, not quite empty—there was also the Jingu Bang, floating up and down in the middle of it.
Wukong had no idea what had happened. He had tried every possible method but could not absorb the slightest bit of the earth system Spiritual Charm, and now it was gone. Where did it go?