The Monkey King

In the quaint Qianxin Hall, the early morning sunlight shines in through the gaps in the windows, leaving spots on the quaint floor.

Deep in the main hall, Subhuti sat cross-legged on a futon, still holding the black piece of wood and carving the seal carefully with his head down.

"What, you just want to come back and sit back and watch?" he asked casually.

Qingfengzi, who was sitting next to him, nodded slightly and said: "After traveling for so many years, I am indeed a little tired. Maybe I am also getting old. Recently, I dream about the days in the Taoist temple in the past every night. I miss it so much that I go back. Come on. Please give me permission, Master."

Subhuti smiled faintly, and without stopping the seal carving knife in his hand, he lifted the piece of black wood and shined it at a different angle to the light, gently blew away the sawdust on it, then lowered his head and continued carving, and said slowly: "There's nothing wrong with this. You're just traveling, and you're not expelled from the school by me. It's just that the reason for coming back is probably not to miss you."

After saying that, he glanced at Qingfengzi meaningfully.

Qingfengzi opened his mouth slightly, but said nothing. He lowered his head and remained silent.

Not long after, Yu Yi was seen entering the hall with wind chimes.

As soon as he saw Qing Fengzi, Feng Ling's face turned pale. He turned around and wanted to leave, but Yu Yi grabbed his arm and pulled him in front of the two of them.

Feng Ling had no choice but to kneel down obediently and salute: "See...see Master, Master."

He didn't dare to look up, but his emerald-like eyes kept looking at Qingfengzi, feeling uneasy in his heart.

Subhuti nodded slightly and glanced at Qingfengzi.

Qingfengzi seemed a little embarrassed. He only glared at Fengchi and then stopped looking. He stared at the empty stone wall beside him, with an expression on his face that seemed a little unhappy.

Subhuti still lowered his head to carve the seal and said softly: "Say it."

Knowing that nothing could be hidden from his master, Subhuti, Qingfengzi could only cough twice, turned to stare at the wind chime and asked: "Have you gained anything from these two years of practice?"

With this stare, Feng Ling's head suddenly dropped even lower. A pair of small hands tightly held the corners of his robe, and he did not dare to speak.

"I see that your cultivation has regressed compared to when I saw you two years ago." After saying that, he slapped his palm on the floor.

There was a bang, and immediately, Feng Chime's petite body trembled slightly, biting her lips, tears falling down.

Seeing that the wind chime was already crying, Subhuti had to raise his head: "Okay, okay, she is still a child, isn't she just a Broad Spirit Pill. Yu Yi, go and call your Uncle Lingyun."

Yu Yi bowed and cupped his hands, glanced at Qing Fengzi, turned around and left the hall.

"Master, it's not just about the Kuoling Pill!" Qingfengzi turned around and shouted to Subhuti: "For more than a year, she has been hanging out with Junior Brother Wukong all day long, and has made no progress in her cultivation. Now she is ten years old. I'm so old, how can I keep going like this? I'm afraid I won't even be able to cultivate to the realm of refining gods by then, let alone the realm of transforming gods!"

I heard Subhuti mutter casually: "When you were ten years old, you were still herding cattle. Now you are in a different state of transformation?"

Hearing this, Feng Ling suddenly burst into tears and smiled. He had to pretend to wipe away tears with one hand and cover the corners of his raised mouth with his sleeves, biting his lips to hold back and dare not speak out.

"Master, this... this... this is different!"

"Why is it different? Your qualifications are higher than hers? As a teacher, I remember that there are many people who have poor qualifications like yours. If you hadn't been herding cattle every day and squatting at my door, an old god would pester me. Fang, I will never choose you as my first disciple."

This is revealed...

Qingfengzi's face suddenly turned red, and he could only shout angrily: "Master, you are my master!"

"You haven't been in Guanli for the past two years. Didn't I also bring the wind chime? She is also considered half of my disciple and half of my disciple."

Looking at Subhuti who continued to carve seals on wood as if nothing had happened, but with deadly sentences, and then at Feng Chime, whose eyes were as bent as the moon, crying and trying not to laugh, Qing Fengzi suddenly became angry and folded her arms. Hand said nothing.

At this time, Subhuti put down the wood in his hand, raised his head and said to the wind chime with a smile on his face: "Wind chime, go down first."

Feng Chime didn't dare to leave, so she could only look at Qing Fengzi with tears in her eyes.

Glancing at the wind chime, Qingfengzi said impatiently: "Go down."

"Thank you, Master." He kowtowed and walked out of the door.

After the wind chime left, Subhuti slowly said: "How can I not know what you nine brothers and sisters are thinking in their hearts?"

"But... Master, what do you think it should be like if this... continues like this!"

"Come on, come on, let's not pursue this matter." Subhuti waved his hands, rested his hands on the ground and relaxed his legs. He stood up unsteadily, straightened his clothes, put his hands behind his hands and stroked his beard and said, "The wind chime is here. Children are like pure jade and pure gold. When your tenth junior brother first came to the Taoist temple, he knew nothing about cultivating immortals, and it was inconvenient for him to make it clear as a teacher. If it weren't for the wind chimes, it would be really difficult. Although it was not intentional, it was said Get up, she has also done a great favor to the teacher and saved a lot of worry. The teacher will make up for you if you fall behind in practice, and will never lead your good disciple to bad. This matter has just been changed, and it will never happen in the future. Then reprimand her for it.”

"But, master, the tenth junior brother... Feng Chime is so close to him, I'm afraid he will..."

"I know you are nervous about your disciple." Subhuti patted Qingfengzi lightly on the shoulder and said, "But are you going to do it forcefully?"

Qingfengzi was speechless for a moment.

"Today she is still a child and is under your control. But sooner or later she will grow up. It only takes a few years to grow into a tall and graceful figure. For us cultivators, a few years is just a blink of an eye. Then... ...The Jade Emperor can't control the Seven Fairies, what can you do as a master? Just let nature take its course."

"Let nature take its course..." Qingfengzi repeated silently, feeling helpless.

At this moment, Ling Yunzi had walked in from outside the hall. As soon as he saw Qingfengzi from a distance, he wanted to turn around, but Subhuti stopped him.

"Sit down." Subhuti said, pointing to the empty futon beside him.

Helpless, Ling Yunzi had no choice but to timidly walk to the futon, but she did not dare to sit cross-legged like Qingfengzi. Instead, she knelt on the futon, lowered her head, and glanced at Qingfengzi from time to time, showing that she felt guilty.

Qingfengzi just had a cold face and didn't look at him.

But as a result, Ling Yunzi became even more uneasy.

Regardless of the knot between the two of them, Subhuti walked to the side of the bookshelf and carefully searched for something. Then he got straight to the point and said, "Kunlun Mountain is now in charge of Master Taiyi. I have already communicated with him through letters. You can do it tomorrow." Let’s set off.”

"We can set off tomorrow? But Junior Brother Wukong doesn't seem to want to go." Ling Yunzi replied carefully, his eyes still looking at Qingfengzi.

Pulling out two volumes of bamboo slips from the bookshelf, Subhuti walked up to Ling Yunzi and handed them to him: "This is the "Complete Volume of Golden Zun Taoism" promised to Master Taiyi by Master Taiyi, and I will deliver it to him on behalf of Master. As for this, it is This is the "Infinite Qiyun Sutra" given to Master Yuding. I think he will be happy based on his personality."

"Just give it to them like this?" Ling Yunzi opened his eyes in disbelief as he held two precious volumes.

"If you want to accept someone else's apprentice as your apprentice, you must give the other person enough respect. Otherwise, it will get out and it will be as if we have poached a corner, and it will easily cause trouble. When I accepted you as a teacher, I gave you more than one or two books. I really owe you, master and disciple, in my previous life. Hahahaha, that’s fine, it’s just a scripture, I just need to copy a few more copies for my master.” Subhuti snorted helplessly and laughed.

After laughing, he sat back on the futon.

Ling Yunzi could only lower his head slightly: "Master, I must let Yang Jian come back."

"Repay for what?" Subhuti sighed: "Will you get it back? It would be better if you and I cause less trouble. I will tell him about your junior brother Wukong, so there is no need for you to worry. Also."

Having said this, Subhuti paused, pointed at Qingfengzi and said, "You have to make amends with your senior brother about Kuo Ling Dan. How can other people's disciples get your turn to point fingers without giving instructions?" , and also gave me the Broad Spirit Pill?"

Hearing that Subhuti was going to be the Peacemaker, Ling Yunzi suddenly felt a lot more at ease. He quickly fell to the ground, lowered his head and admitted his mistake and said, "Junior brother, I have nothing to do. Please forgive me for this time."

Qingfengzi didn't buy it, and just snorted coldly: "Forgive me this time, there will be a next time! When I first joined the show, I just accepted it when I said it was too young to be young. Now that I am five hundred years old, is it still a big deal? I haven't even had a line in these years. If you change it, it can be said that you have no sincerity at all!”

Ling Yunzi suddenly felt awkward, and Subhuti had no choice but to come out to smooth things over again: "Okay, okay, now that you have admitted your mistake, let's get over it. Your little disciple became so angry after eating a Broad Spirit Pill, and my disciple almost If he killed me, shouldn't he be skinned? Hahahahaha."

Hearing this, Ling Yunzi couldn't help but feel a little thump in his heart...

Old man, I really didn’t miss anything...