The Monkey King

In the green forest in the mountains, the wind chime walked step by step, reaching out to wipe away the sweat.

After flying all night, she didn't even fly away from Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. How long would it take for her to reach Dongsheng China at such a speed?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shook her head vigorously, as if she wanted to get rid of this thought.

The consequence of using the elixir provided by Subhuti to shorten the cultivation breakthrough time is that she is now like a premature baby, her spiritual power is exhausted with casual use, and she has the name of the God Refining Realm but no reality of the God Refining Realm. .

As for the magic techniques that one should know in the God Refining Realm, it is impossible to talk about them.

In the final analysis, spiritual practice must be done step by step, and it is really a heresy to encourage the growth of the seedlings.

Really unable to walk, she leaned under a big tree, took off the package from her shoulders, let go, and kicked up a light dust.

To her now, the package seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, which made her wonder if she had brought too much.

But after thinking about it, she felt that these things were necessary.

Sitting cross-legged under the tree, she began to rest while re-accumulating her spiritual power.

The path of the enlightened person is not as good as the path of the practitioner. It is not a good thing to repeatedly deplete the spiritual power and then re-accumulate it. A large amount of hostility will remain in the process, which is undoubtedly fatal to the enlightened Taoist cultivators who are extremely demanding on their character.

But besides this method, what else can she do?

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she opened her eyes and looked around warily, feeling uneasy in her heart.

This was the first time she had left Xianyue Sanxing Cave in such a long life, and she knew nothing about the outside world. But flying over the woods last night and listening to the roaring all night long reminded her that the world was far more dangerous than she imagined.

This made her faintly afraid.

Her legs were a little numb. She held on to the tree trunk and tried to stand up, but suddenly found that her whole body was so soft that she couldn't exert any strength at all.

He hasn't accumulated much spiritual energy yet, so in this situation, it's impossible to continue.

Sighing lightly, she had no choice but to decide to rest here for a while. It's best to take a nap so you can recover faster.

But as soon as she sat down, she heard the roar of a beast in the distance. She stood up in shock and looked around in panic.

Blinking his emerald eyes. She clutched her chest, swallowed, trembling, and one hand quietly reached for the dagger hidden in her boot.

After a while, she really didn't see any further movement, so she sat down carefully again, but she didn't dare to close her eyes no matter what.

"It's only been less than a day, and I'm like this...how can I do that?" She clutched her chest, taking deep breaths to try to calm herself down and cheer herself up: "I can do it. I will definitely do it! Monkeys can learn from flowers and fruits. I can walk from Lingtai Fangcun Mountain to Huaguo Mountain. I can definitely do it! Even if it takes ten years, I can..."

His eyes couldn't help but become moist.

Curled up in the shade of a tree, the girl looked around pitifully, like an abandoned little wild cat.

Another deep breath.

After staying in silence for a while, she felt that her body was no longer so weak, and then she stood up again. Turn around and look at the treetops.

"It should be safer to sleep in a tree, right? He is a monkey, so he should have often slept in trees when he came here."

She thought, and tried to use her spiritual power tentatively. As a result, her body only floated up slightly and then fell down again. She tried to climb with her hands, but the tree bark was extremely slippery, and she couldn't find the right position no matter what.

"It's better to accumulate some spiritual power and fly up."

The bright sunshine shone through the gaps in the leaves and fell on the face with some tears, and she stared blankly. There is a feeling of palpitations.

It's a long road, thousands of miles, and there's no telling how many dangers are waiting for her ahead.

"It's okay. Compared to what he encountered, this is nothing." She smiled as brightly as the sun. He nodded heavily, as if to cheer himself up.

"Little girl, do you want me to help you?"

A voice came from behind.

She turned around in shock, covered her mouth and almost screamed.

An old man wearing an orange Bagua Taoist robe was already standing silently only two feet away from her. The old man was stroking his long beard. With a peaceful smile on his face.

Feng Chime looked the old man up and down.

Xianfeng Taoist, wearing an orange Taoist robe without any wind, looks absolutely extraordinary. The expression between his eyebrows gave people an unfathomable feeling.

Feng Chime's cultivation level was average and she couldn't sense the other person's specific cultivation level, but for some reason, she suddenly thought of Subhuti.

After looking at the other party blankly for a long time, Fengchi asked softly: "Old sir, what are you doing here?"

The old man smiled and said: "I'm just passing by here. Little girl, you are alone, where do you want to go?"

"I want to go to Dongsheng China."

"Why are you going to Dongsheng China?"

"I want to find someone...well, no, I'm looking for a monkey." Feng Chime covered his chest, finally calming down from the shock just now, and sat down with some exhaustion: "Old sir, where do you want to go?"

"I'm also going to Dongsheng Shenzhou to meet an old friend." The old man raised his head, stroked his white beard, and said with a friendly smile: "You want to find a monkey. Then, how about you and I go together for a while?"

"Are we traveling together?" Feng Ling blinked and looked at the other party in confusion.

"What? Are you still afraid that I will drag you down?"

"No, no, no." Feng Ling said quickly: "Old sir, I'm afraid that I'm dragging you down. You must be an immortal, right? I haven't mastered Taoism yet. If you walk with me, I'm afraid you will walk very slowly."

"Just take your time, it doesn't matter. Hahahaha. Anyway, immortality is too fast, and it's hard to pass the time."

Feng Chime nodded heavily and said with a smile: "That's fine."

With one more person beside him, Feng Chime suddenly felt a sense of security, and his anxious heart finally relaxed.

When the other party sat down, Feng Ling suddenly remembered something and asked quickly: "Old sir, have you eaten anything?"

The old man glanced at her, smiled lightly and said, "No."

"Are you bringing dry food again?"

"No."

"I brought some dry food." Feng Chime lowered his head and rummaged through the package, took out two pancakes and handed them over: "Here are these for you."

The old man just looked at the pancake, but did not reach out to take it.

"Oh, yes, there is water." Feng Chime also handed over his own kettle.

The old man shook his head helplessly. He reached out and took it, hesitated for a while, then took a small bite of the pancake and took a sip of water. The brow wrinkled slightly.

"Isn't it delicious?" Feng Chime asked.

"No, I just haven't eaten pancakes for a long time, so I'm not used to it."

Yes, a long time, probably tens of thousands of years, he thought.

Looking at the pancake in his hand, the old man carefully took another bite and asked slowly: "Little girl, you gave me your dry food so easily without asking me who I am. This place is eight hundred miles east. But there’s no one left, so what will you do then?”

"If there's no one around, I'll just hunt." Feng Ling took out the dagger hidden in his boot and shook it.

"Can't hunt?"

"If I can't hunt, I can still pick wild vegetables... I also brought an atlas of wild vegetables. I have to take this step anyway. Besides, even if there is someone else, I don't have the money to buy them."

"You don't take any money with you when you go out?"

"It's not that I don't bring it, it's that I don't have it. The temple doesn't give out money, and if it does, there's no place to use it."

"Then do you have the gold spirit with you?"

"No." Feng Chime shook his head: "I have heard of it. It seems to be the currency of heaven. But our Xianyue Sanxing Cave never uses that."

The old man smiled lightly, holding the kettle in one hand and biting the pancake into his mouth. He reached into his sleeves and dug around, took out a small bulging bag and threw it in front of the wind chime. Then he took the pancake in his mouth again and said, "I'll give this to you. I'll use it as the money to buy pancakes from you." .”

The rope on the small bag was not tied tightly, and a few gold essences scattered out.

The wind chime blinked and looked at it for a long time. Said: "Old sir, this is... this is not silver."

"This is gold essence. Mortals probably can't tell. It's just used as ordinary gold anyway. Even if it is used as beads, they should be willing to exchange such beautiful beads."

"So many gold spirits!" Feng Chime was shocked: "I heard that gold spirits are very precious. That is the salary given by heaven to the heavenly army and gods. The old gentleman must be a god in heaven, right?"

"So be it."

"There are so many gold spirits, old sir... which god are you?" Feng Chime asked cautiously.

"Well, my name is Li Changgeng."

He had forgotten how long it had been since no one called him this name.

"Li Changgeng, Li Changgeng..." Feng Ling recited silently several times. After thinking about it, he never thought of such a great god.

The old man chuckled: "It's normal that I haven't heard of him. It's just a name, and he doesn't care much. He's just an idle person with no real power. He usually just makes elixirs and stuff."

The wind chime reached out and gathered the scattered things back into the bag, and then pushed the bag back to the old man.

"What? No?"

Wind Chime shook his head and said: "I can't have it. It's too expensive. Two pancakes are not worth so much. And Mr. Li, you must have been saving for a long time, right? I heard that a general in heaven only has a few hundred gold essence a year."

Taoism is taught at Sanxing Cave in Xianyue, and the Tao Te Ching is naturally among the teachings. Just because of Subhuti, many unnecessary things have been omitted.

Feng Ling, who had never been out of Xianyue Sanxing Cave, naturally didn't know that Li Changgeng was Taishang Laojun's real name.

Biting the pancake, the Supreme Master looked at the bag filled with gold essence placed in front of him, at the wind chime with a serious look on his face, at the bag again, and at the wind chime again. He repeated this process several times before reaching out and wrapping the bag. He untied the rope, took out a gold essence from it, and said, "It's time to put this away."

"Old sir, that's not what I meant. What I meant is that I'm treating you to the pancakes without paying for them."

Probably feeling that it would be useless to talk any more, the Supreme Being didn't try to persuade him any more. He just put the golden essence into his pocket, ate the pancakes by himself, and said leisurely: "Little girl, you trust people so easily, and you also have If you don’t take advantage of it, you will suffer a lot.”

"'The five colors make one blind; the five tones make one deaf; the five tastes make one's mouth refreshed; galloping and hunting make one's heart go crazy; rare goods make one's way.'" After reciting a paragraph loudly, the wind chime looked at the Supreme Being suspiciously and asked: "Old sir, are you really a god?"

"Yes, Chapter 12 of the Tao Te Ching." The Supreme Master stuffed the pancake into his mouth, chewed it, and turned to look at the sky, pretending to be dumbfounded.

He said this himself, and it's a bit too much for someone to teach him a lesson in return...

"Your master taught you well. Really, he taught you better than me." After a while, he could only say this under the gaze of Feng Chime.

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