The Monkey King

Looking at Shi Yuxuan's tightly closed eyes, looking at the tears in the corners of her eyes, and looking at her look of dying, Monkey suddenly smiled.

"Haha. Do you really think I'm a murderer?" The monkey let go of his hand, turned around and walked away, saying: "I didn't kill the people, that's all. But if there is another time, it's hard to say whether I will kill someone. . The way of the practitioner is very cruel, and I really need someone to practice with."

Shi Yuxuan opened her eyes suddenly and looked at the monkey's back in astonishment.

When the monkey walked not far away, picked up his walking stick and walked towards the cave, she said, "Then do you know who the murderer is?"

The monkey turned around and asked, "I said I knew, do you believe me?"

"I believe it!" Shi Yuxuan nodded sharply.

"I really do not know."

Hearing these words, Shi Yuxuan's eyes suddenly dimmed a bit.

Looking at the tulip-like woman in front of him, Monkey hesitated for a while and said calmly: "However, I know who is suspected."

"who?"

"What's that guy's name? Wang Luqi. Today I saw him arguing with a woman in the forest, a woman wearing blue clothes?"

"Eldest brother?"

"What? You don't believe it?" Monkey put the walking stick on his shoulder and looked at Shi Yuxuan with a smile.

Shi Yuxuan slowly shook her head and said with some disappointment: "No, I believe it. I know something about them..."

"Okay, now I've asked all the questions that need to be asked, and I've answered the ones that need to be answered. There's nothing more I can tell you."

This means seeing off guests.

Shi Yuxuan nodded silently and said softly: "Thank you, fellow Taoist, and take care."

After that, he turned around and disappeared into the woods.

Looking at the direction where the opponent's back disappeared, the monkey sighed.

As soon as he turned around, he saw the jade tripod sitting at the entrance of the cave.

"Brother Yuding is not in the cave studying Taoism with my senior brother. Why did he come out?" Monkey carried the cloud walking stick and walked to sit next to him, looking up at the stars together.

"After all, I still have the Way of the Walker at my core. I prefer the Way of the Walker." Yuding looked at the dark sky, pursed his lips, nodded and smiled.

The monkey sighed deeply and lowered his head.

He is not a person like Subhuti, and he hates that kind of person, but he just wants to be that kind of person.

The bad thing is... he doesn't seem to be that kind of person. This made him slightly depressed.

Asking himself, although he warned himself countless times in his heart, the death of the Taoist disciple named Yu He had nothing to do with him.

But in the end, I still sympathize. Even if it was only for a moment, he still sympathized with Yu He. Otherwise, he would not tell what he says he knows.

The enlightened person's way of deduction, the calculation of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, what is most needed is ruthlessness and unintentional. If it cannot be done, even if it is a hundred meters dense, there will still be a gap.

But how many people in this world can be so ruthless and unintentional? Even the Buddha who Ling Yunzi said had lost his heart and soul still had the pursuit of Buddhism in his heart.

At the entrance of Jinxia Cave, one was smiling and the other was crestfallen. The two sat next to each other for a long time. The jade tripod suddenly bumped into the monkey's shoulder and said: "Hey, don't be crestfallen. I think this is good. If you can only be you You, why bother trying to be someone else?”

"Um?" The monkey raised his head and looked at the jade tripod.

"I realized this sentence a long time ago. In the past, I always wanted to learn how to do things and think like my senior brothers. But no matter how I imitated it, I couldn't do it. On the contrary, I was delayed a lot. Later, one day I realized it, and then …”

"Then?"

Yuding suddenly burst into laughter, stared at the stars in the sky and replied: "Then it became like this."

Turning around, he spread his hands and looked at the monkey with a smile.

Is this good? I couldn't understand what the jade tripod wanted to say at all.

The monkey muttered contemptuously in his heart. He also raised his head and looked at the stars in the sky.

"By the way, you couldn't sense her spiritual power just now?"

"Yes, the spiritual power of the Enlightenment Path is delicate and soft, and can be retracted and released to the extreme. The Walker Path does lack this advantage."

"I do have a secret method that can detect spiritual power." Yuding said with a smile.

"oh?"

Yu Ding lowered his head and took out a palm-sized disk from his sleeve with a smile: "When I first started to cultivate immortality, my spiritual power perception ability was second to none among my brothers. Even though I later became an immortal, Compared to them, I am a little behind in the realm of gods. So I did this."

Taking the disk handed over by Jade Cauldron, the monkey placed it under the moonlight and looked at it carefully.

It is made of wood, like a saucer, with a slightly pointed corner protruding from one end, a Bagua in the middle, and surrounded by red fine lines of the magic circle.

Under the moonlight, these fine lines gleam with fluorescence.

"How... how do you find out about this?"

The jade tripod took the disk back from the monkey's hand, pointed its sharp corner at the monkey, and said, "Don't move, relax, don't use your spiritual power. Yes, that's it."

As he spoke, he pressed one hand on the Tai Chi diagram, and suddenly, the fine red lines around the circle began to rotate as if they were alive. The strokes that make up the hexagram also flash rapidly.

After a while, the light on the hexagram was basically fixed, but one of the remaining hexagrams continued to flash back and forth.

"did you see?"

"See." The monkey was stunned.

"Do you understand?" Yuding proudly handed the plate to the monkey.

Holding the disk in both hands, the monkey said blankly: "You understand, my spiritual power is between 510 and 530."

Yuding was shocked by this statement. He pointed at Yuanpan and asked, "Do you really understand?"

"These are numbers, right?" the monkey asked.

"Hey, you have learned the Tao of Enlightenment well. You can read the Bagua diagram quite accurately." Yuding smiled cheerfully and said, "This is called the Soul Exploration Plate, and I'll give it to you."

"How does this work?"

"It's okay, little one, I'll just make another one."

The monkey was not polite and said immediately: "Thank you then."

"This thing is actually not bad. No matter how the opponent hides his spiritual power, as long as he is pointed at it, no matter how weak the spiritual power is, he can't escape. It's just that it's not as convenient to use as his own perception. But there are also advantages, that is, against the spiritual power. The measurement of force is accurate, unlike perception, which relies entirely on feelings, and even if there are errors or omissions, it cannot be explained clearly.”

"It's really a good thing." The monkey couldn't help but sigh, holding it in the palm of his hand like a treasure.

Seeing this scene, Jade Cauldron was in a state of disbelief. His little things were considered heretical in the world of cultivating immortals, and even his senior brothers looked down upon them.

Feeling happy, he patted the monkey on the shoulder and said cheerfully: "As long as you like it, there are many little things like me. If you like it, I will give you a few more. Hahahaha. You have to live here anyway. For some time, you have some basic knowledge of the Way of Enlightenment. You can read the books in my cave as you like. There is no harm in learning more."

After getting the jade tripod, Monkey's life will become much more fulfilling in the next few days.

The books and various items in Jinxia Cave were originally piled up in a mess, but since Yang Chan came, they suddenly became much tidier, and they were sorted and put away carefully.

When the monkey looked through it, he also found a lot of things that were different from the Xianyue Sanxing Cave.

It was not without reason that Yuding was discriminated against by his fellow disciples and even ignored in front of the door. In standard terms, those things of his are just small inventions and are heresy.

Come to think of it, Jade Cauldron's qualifications are not really bad, but he is not focused on improving his cultivation level at all, but he is extremely enthusiastic about those magical arrays and magic weapons. Moreover, most of his works do not require the use of any unprecedented consumables, but just make use of some commonplace things.

Of course, the power can be ignored for the time being.

The days went by like this, and the incident seemed to have passed just like that. Half a month later, the monkey reminded Ling Yunzi that it was time to go back, and Ling Yunzi casually replied: "The time has not come yet, stay a few more days." Then he prevaricates and plays chess and drinks in Yuding every day.

The monkey's heart is always thinking about the Three-Star Cave of the Inclined Moon. To be precise, it is thinking about Subhuti, the Seventy-two Transformations and the Somersault Cloud.

But since Ling Yunzi said that the time has not come yet, then let's wait.

A month passed in the blink of an eye, and the monkey couldn't help mentioning it again in front of Ling Yunzi. This time Ling Yunzi's statement changed to: "I haven't waited for Master Taiyi's reply yet."

So, another month later, the reply came, and Master Taiyi sent someone directly to Jinxia Cave. The Taoist disciple who sent the letter even said that his master had been waiting for Ling Yunzi for a long time and never showed up, so he had to send someone to deliver it.

It seems that the group of people stayed in Kunlun Mountain for too long, and they were ordered to be kicked out in disguise. Monkey thought.

But after receiving the reply, Ling Yunzi still didn't move his butt.

"What is this for?" Monkey couldn't help but think.

If it is just about learning the seventy-two transformations and somersault clouds, what the monkey is more looking forward to is how Subhuti will use it to let monkeys who can only reach the divine realm learn the Taoist methods that can only be learned by the divine realm.

But no matter how anxious the monkey is, Ling Yunzi always excuses himself with various reasons.

If he continues to stay like this, after a year, Monkey may just learn the seventy-two transformations here and go back to the capital.

Don't forget, Master Yuding also knows the seventy-two transformations. The most important thing is that he is very easy to talk to.

This made Monkey start to question whether he really had the wrong master as Yang Chan said.

One morning three months after arriving in Kunlun Mountain, the monkey was practicing stick skills outside the cave.

Suddenly, a burst of broken drums came from outside.

The monkey froze suddenly, stood straight and listened carefully.

"This is... a war drum?" This thought flashed through his mind, and the monkey was immediately startled.