Chapter 62: Monkey Mountain Incident
Ye Yier was completely speechless. Wasn’t the one who jumped out of the stone Sun Wukong?
In her world, Sun Wukong is a household name. He is from the four great Chinese classics, Journey to the West. Journey to the West, also known as The Story of the Western Journey, is one of the four great Chinese classics and was written by Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen. The book describes the legendary adventure story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Monk Sha protecting Monk Tang on his quest for Buddhist scriptures and going through 81 trials and tribulations.
Sun Wukong, nicknamed Xingzhe, is the eldest disciple of Tang Monk, and the elder brother of Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk. He can transform into 72 different forms and ride on clouds. He has a pair of golden eyes that can see through the disguises of demons and monsters; he can travel 108,000 miles with a somersault; his weapon, the Ruyi Jingu Bang, can be large or small and can change at will. He occupied the Flower and Fruit Mountain as the king, calling himself the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, and fought with the Buddha, and was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain for more than 500 years. Later, he was enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva and protected Tang Monk on his journey to the West to obtain the scriptures. After going through 81 trials and tribulations, he finally achieved his goal by retrieving the scriptures and was named Fighting and Victory Buddha.
Moreover, the place where Sun Wukong is king is called Huaguo Mountain. There is a Water Curtain Cave in Huaguo Mountain. Isn’t this the same place where the little monkey in front of you currently lives?
In Ye Yier's world, Sun Wukong was born from a spiritual root stone, and was one of the four monkeys. The four monkeys all had great magical powers and their own abilities, which made people admire them. Sun Wukong (Spiritual Stone Monkey) had great magical powers, knew everything, had the most masters, and had the most outstanding martial arts. He was a strange monkey. Of course, the other three monkeys: the red-butted horse monkey, the long-armed ape monkey, and the six-eared macaque also had outstanding martial arts, which made people admire them.
And now telling Ye Yier that there is also a monkey in this world that jumped out of a stone, how could she not be surprised.
Ye Yier regained her composure and looked at Shi Yan, "Shi Yan, is it common for a monkey to jump out of a stone here?"
Shi Yan thought about it, and finally shook his head and said, "No, at least I have only heard of this once in all these years."
Ye Yier looked at Mingxiang again, and Mingxiang said the same thing, "This is the first time I've heard of a monkey jumping out of a stone."
Shi Yan asked the little monkey curiously, "You jumped out of a stone, so do you have parents?"
The little monkey shook his head sadly, which made Shi Yan feel very pity.
"By the way, how do you know that the little monkey jumped out of the stone?" Shi Yan asked curiously.
Ye Yier told Shi Yan and others about Sun Wukong in the other world. They were all stunned. The Monkey King Sun Wukong in the Water Curtain Cave in the Flower-Fruit Mountain? Born and raised by heaven, nurtured by the immortal stone, this is really not much different from the little monkey. Especially the four big characters "Water Curtain Cave Heaven" on the stone wall, which are exactly the same as the residence of Sun Wukong in Ye Yier's world.
Perhaps it could be said to be a coincidence, but Water Curtain Cave and the Stone Monkey could not regard it as a coincidence no matter how hard they tried.
"Forget it, whether it's a coincidence or a human factor, this is not something we need to worry about now." Shi Yan said calmly. Although this matter is rather strange, it is still too far away for Shi Yan and is not something that he must figure out. "However, the name Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, is quite nice. Little monkey, how about you be called Sun Wukong from now on, and the title should be the Great Sage Equaling Heaven! Equal to Heaven, a saint as noble as heaven and earth, what a good name!"
"Aaaaah!" The little monkey looked very happy, jumping around lively.
In later generations, the name of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven Sun Wukong, who shocked the Xuanlong world, was given to him in this way.
"Forget it." Ye Yier waved her hands, she was not willing to pursue the matter. In fact, the little monkey's life experience only aroused her homesickness for the original world, so she asked about it.
The little monkey continued to lead everyone inside. After a while, it came to a broken boulder and pointed at it, shouting.
Xiao Li translated: "He said, this is the stone, the stone that gave birth to her!"
Shi Yan walked forward, stretched out his hand and slowly touched the boulder fragments. Although the fragments had exhausted their energy, they were still as smooth and shiny as a piece of divine jade.
Although the energy was exhausted, Shi Yan felt a slight fluctuation from it. This fluctuation was very weak, but Shi Yan felt that this fluctuation was what he had felt in the waterfall that fell from the sky before Ye Yier appeared in this world. But he didn't know what kind of fluctuation it was and what its function was!
So he asked like a little monkey, "Xiao Kong, can I take a piece away to study it?"
The little monkey nodded, telling Shi Yan to take it. Shi Yan picked a piece with stronger vibration and put it in the bag. He planned to show this piece to Cang Lan, maybe this phoenix that has lived for eight or nine hundred years knows something.
Further in, there is a stone house with a gap on the top of the stone roof that leads directly to the top of the mountain. The sun in the sky can shine into the stone room through this gap. The stars dotted by the sunlight are reflected on the walls of the stone room, which is very beautiful.
In this stone room, there is a crystal bed that emits thick mist. The crystal bed is crystal clear, sparkling under the sunlight, reflecting a gorgeous rainbow. Shi Yan came to the crystal bed and found that the crystal bed was not emitting thick mist formed by water vapor, but thick materialized spiritual power. The surging and rich spiritual energy makes people feel refreshed. Standing by the crystal bed, you can feel the surging and pure spiritual power absorbed by the pores on your body. You can imagine how fast the spiritual power will be absorbed by your body if you sit in the crystal bed.
This is such a wonderful treasure!
This crystal bed is where the little monkey practices. The little monkey said that this Water Curtain Cave has existed since he was born, and the layout has been like it is now, and the crystal bed also exists.
Shi Yan jumped up and tried it, and immediately felt that the speed of cultivation had increased a lot.
Ye Yier also climbed up curiously, "Wow, I feel a surge of energy flowing into my body, it feels so comfortable! I feel like I'm about to fly!"
Mingxiang and the others also climbed up, and it was just as Ye Yier said. The spiritual power was so strong that it really seemed to lift people up into the air.
So, several people sat cross-legged on the crystal table, practicing silently. The little monkey also sat cross-legged in the same way, looking at everyone with his big eyes.
Time passes very quickly during cultivation, so quickly that you cannot even feel the passage of time.
Shi Yan, Ye Yier, Mingxiang, Zier, and Xiaoli each took a side and sat cross-legged on the crystal bed. The crystal bed's spiritual power materialized into thick fog that gradually poured into the five people's bodies. The spiritual power intertwined together, forming a complex array pattern with the five people as the base.
But if you look closely, you can find that the starting point of this formation is actually on Ye Yier. The little monkey looked at the five people curiously, and then his face was full of confusion, because he felt a familiar breath fluctuation, which seemed to have been felt before. At that time, he was still sleeping in the spirit stone and didn't know what was happening in the outside world, but this fluctuation was firmly remembered in his mind.
This fluctuation is exactly the same as the fluctuation left by the broken spirit stone; perhaps they come from the same source!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Shi Yan and others opened their eyes at the same time, and saw that everyone's face was filled with excited smiles.
"I, I made a breakthrough!" Ye Yier was the first to shout out. She had practiced for the shortest time, but her cultivation was improving at a rapid pace.
Shi Yan also smiled and nodded, "Congratulations, but I also made a breakthrough!"
Mingxiang smiled and said, "Congratulations to you two. Although we have made a breakthrough, my cultivation has become more solid. I believe that a breakthrough is in sight!"
Zi'er and Xiaoli were similar, both had reached the top of their current cultivation, and they would be able to break through with just one more step. In just three days, the five people's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, and people could not help but marvel at the magic of this crystal bed.
Before leaving, Shi Yan wanted to move it away, but it seemed to have taken root and could not be moved, even using the Qiankun Curse. In the end, Shi Yan had to give up and reluctantly watched the crystal bed leave.
The little monkey stayed by Shi Yan's side for three whole days. During these three days, he never left his side, not even going to the daily Monkey King challenge. After everyone woke up today, he went to the back mountain to challenge the Monkey King. Shi Yan and the others were worried, so like last time, Ye Yier and Xiao Li teamed up to use the [Flowers Covering Willows Hidden] to the maximum, covering all five of them, and followed behind the little monkey.
As they walked, Mingxiang suddenly asked, "Don't you think it's too quiet?"
Shi Yan was stunned, and after carefully observing his surroundings, he replied, "Yes, it is too quiet. We are now in Monkey Mountain, and there should be monkeys everywhere!"
At this moment, the little monkey screamed and sped away in vain. In that place, a little fire monkey was lying on the ground with wounds all over his body, dying. Shi Yan and others hurried over, stood on the high slope and looked down, they were stunned.
Below, dozens of little fire monkeys and flame-top fire monkeys lay dying on the ground. The surroundings were littered with broken stones and wood chips, as well as many charred marks. It was a complete mess.
"What on earth happened!" Shi Yan looked at the others and saw the same confusion in each other's eyes.
The little monkey moved forward all the way, and Shi Yan and the others hurriedly followed, and finally they arrived at the top of Monkey Mountain and hid behind a stone chair five hundred meters away.
The monkey king, who was supposed to be standing on the stone chair, was lying on the ground like mud. In front of him were several human men. Since they had their backs to this side, Shi Yan and others could not see their faces clearly and did not know who these people were.
"Wait, this isn't..." After looking at their clothes, Shi Yan was stunned. Isn't this the uniform of Zhongtong Jianmen?