The Monkey King

Half a month later, Huaguoshan.

Heavy rain fell on the ground, and the heaven and earth seemed to be soaked in mist.

A young figure held on to the bamboo hat with one hand and grabbed the raincoat with the other hand, and quickly shuttled through the rain. His eyes had already been beaten by the rain and could not open.

Not long after, this handsome boy landed outside a cave. He hurriedly threw off his rain gear, revealing a silver Taoist robe. He rushed into the cave in the rain and knelt down on the ground.

"Disciple meets Master!"

At the entrance of the cave, where the rain could not hit him, Taishang Laojun stood with his back to the boy and his hands behind his back, looking up at the rain clouds in the sky. Beside him stood a boy wearing a golden robe.

The Taoist boy in silver was slightly surprised when he saw the Taoist boy in gold.

"I have received the message you sent. Is that monster monkey really focusing on teaching monsters to read and write?"

"To tell the master, it is indeed true. The disciple is also very confused and really doesn't know what his intention is."

The Supreme Being took a deep breath, shook his sleeves and stretched out a hand. A drop of drizzle happened to fall from above and floated in the palm of his hand. He seemed to be thinking about something and did not speak. He just moved his five fingers slightly. More raindrops gathered in the palm of his hand and condensed together. As the five fingers swayed, they slowly changed, forming a human-like outline in the blink of an eye.

The two children beside him stayed silently, staring at the portrait, not daring to say a word.

As he remained silent like this, the facial features of the figure formed by the rainwater gradually became clearer, and his face was actually covered with down.

After staring at the figure for a long time, the Supreme Being let out a long sigh, and with a flick of his hand, the newly sculpted figure was blown into a mist and dispersed in the wind.

"I didn't expect that he would actually do this. Outside of heaven, it's really impossible to figure it out." The Supreme Being stroking his long beard sighed and laughed.

"Master, do you need the disciple to do something to prevent him from doing it?"

The Supreme Leader shook his head slowly, staring intently at the splashing water at the entrance of the cave, and said: "The rope for taming the beast should be tightened little by little. If there is too much movement, it will force him to fight to the death. , in the end...what good will it do to me?"

"What the master said is true."

"The demon monkey is cunning. I am afraid that you are too young in cultivation and will not be able to handle it well. This time I have brought your senior brother here with me. From now on, you two will be stationed here permanently. Every move of the demon monkey must be investigated. , be sure to report in a timely manner, and must not slack off... also, must not alert the enemy."

"Disciple, obey!"

Slowly turned around, glanced at the two of them, and said calmly: "This matter is of great importance, even if the monster monkey notices it, there is nothing wrong. However, please don't leak it to the outside world, so as to save you a lot of trouble. Wait, you need to remember.”

"Disciples remember the master's teachings."

The Supreme Being nodded and disappeared without a trace with a flick of his sleeves.

Only two boys, Jin and Silver, were left at the wet cave entrance.

The golden boy raised his head and sighed: "It's okay to let the demon monkey notice it? The other party is only in the realm of refining gods. How can we let the demon monkey notice it? Master is too worried."

The silver boy patted the water on his body and stood up. Looking at the golden boy, he cupped his hands and said with a faint smile, "I didn't expect that the master even called my senior brother."

"Hmph." Jintongzi glanced at him contemptuously, folded his hands and said, "Before leaving, the master repeatedly warned that no matter how big or small, everything needs to be investigated and reported, but you didn't even wait for such a big thing as Monkey Monkey's devoted study. It took three months to report back, how could you not send me?"

Silver Boy's face suddenly turned red.

It was true that he had omitted to report this matter, but from any angle he looked at it like a monkey's game, but he didn't understand why the master valued it so much.

After holding it in for a long time, he opened his mouth and said: "Junior brother is stupid and doesn't know the secret of this demonic monkey metallurgy. Please explain it clearly."

The golden boy opened his mouth, but hesitated for a long time and did not say anything. He only said: "I can't explain it to you! The master wants you to report everything in detail, but you choose it on your own. You are already a great person." Wrong, why bother with his secret!"

After that, he turned around and walked away, leaving Silver Boy standing alone at the entrance of the cave.

In fact, the golden boy himself hasn't figured it out yet. Just looking at the face of the Supreme Being, even a fool knows that there is something serious about this matter. At this time, he just wanted to show off his airs as a senior brother and teach his junior brother, but who knew that he would not be able to continue the training after being asked this question.

When the golden boy's figure completely disappeared into the depths of the cave, the silver boy muttered: "Master didn't blame me, it's your turn to blame! In my opinion, you haven't figured it out yourself."

After that, he made a face towards the depths of the cave and followed.

The rainy season in Huaguo Mountain is extremely long. When the sky cleared up early the next morning, the two boys Jin and Yin hurried out, fearing that another rain cloud would drift over the sea and they would have to get wet in the rain again. Embarrassed.

The cave they live in at this time is thirty miles northeast of Shuiliandong, which is exactly ten miles longer than the twenty-mile detection range maintained by Duan Zui. However, depending on the situation, they may have to move soon.

As he becomes increasingly familiar with Huaguoshan, Duanzui is gradually expanding the scope of his investigation. Although it is not easy to find them with short-mouthed cultivation, people always slack off sometimes. If they are not careful, it will be troublesome for the other party to find out.

Taishang Laojun said before: "It's okay to let the monster monkey find out." But in the end, they are here to monitor people. If the people being monitored know their existence, it will not be so easy to do things. When the time comes for the other party to resort to some deceptive trick, if something goes wrong, none of them will be able to bear the responsibility.

Soon, the golden boy, led by the silver boy, went around in circles, using rocks and vegetation to evade the second group of secret whistles and sneak into the inner perimeter of Huaguo Mountain, and finally stopped in a bush one mile away from the Water Curtain Cave.

Glancing at the silver boy who was carefully hiding in the grass with a wary look on his face, the golden boy pushed aside the grass and looked outside. He was surrounded by lush green trees and saw nothing.

"Are you too nervous?"

Thinking about it, he leaned slightly and was about to stand up, but was pulled back by Silver Boy.

"what?"

"Shh!"

Looking in the direction pointed by Yin Tongzi, I saw the branches and leaves moving slightly, and a figure jumped down from the tree. It was a bat spirit.

"I thought I heard something just now."

A snake spirit appeared silently behind a rock not far away.

"I think I heard it too."

The two monsters, holding weapons, approached step by step towards the grass where the boy was hiding.

The golden boy hiding in the grass was so frightened that he was sweating, but the silver boy looked much calmer. He reached out to pick up the stone, flicked it with one finger, and hit a branch not far away.

Suddenly, the branches and leaves rustled.

"over there!"

The two goblins flew towards the branch. Not only these two goblins, but there was movement in all directions. At one time, more than five goblins appeared from every corner.

Taking advantage of this chaos, Silver Boy tugged on Golden Boy's sleeve, and the two of them ran along the way they came.

Before he had even taken a few steps, he saw three monsters running towards him in front of him.

At the critical moment, the two of them ducked into the reeds nearby.

After a while, two groups of monsters converged and searched back and forth less than five feet in front of them, scaring the golden boy to the point of breaking out in a cold sweat.

Looking sideways, he saw that Yin Tongzi's face was also covered in cold sweat.

They just held their breath and waited. After about an hour of burning incense, the monsters who had found nothing dispersed, and the two boys finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Half an hour later, at the edge of a stream twenty miles away from the Water Curtain Cave, the silver boy rolled up his sleeves and held a gourd to fill water by the stream, while the golden boy was still in shock and sat aside blankly.

After filling it with water, the silver boy walked over slowly and handed the gourd to the golden boy, saying, "Drink some water."

The golden boy quickly took the gourd and poured it into his mouth. The water leaking from the corner of his mouth wet the clothes on his chest. After a while, he put down the gourd and wiped his mouth, then gasped: "What happened just now? Why didn't I feel their presence at all?"

"I don't know either." Silver Boy put down his rolled-up sleeves, sat next to Golden Boy, and said expressionlessly: "They seem to have some secret method of sneaking. They are clearly just monsters in the Nascent Realm, but If you don't pay attention, you can hide the evil spirit to such an extent that even the two of us in the God Refining Realm have a hard time detecting it. Those secret whistles in the open are sometimes just a cover, and the real secret whistle is still behind. Now one mile away, it's already me It’s the limit of what can be achieved.”

The golden boy wiped his sweat with his sleeve and turned around and asked, "Have you ever been discovered by them? If you have been aware of it, it will be troublesome in the future."

"should not."

"should?"

"It was not like this when I first came here. These monsters are easy to sense. But later I found that their monster aura gradually faded away, not only the monster aura, but also their spiritual power. It took me a lot of effort to figure it out. How to accurately sense them... In fact, the effect is limited. Some of the stronger ones cannot even be sensed until they are within ten feet." After that, the silver boy grabbed the gourd in the golden boy's hand and drank. He took a sip of water and said, "Within a range of ten feet, we can be exposed accidentally. The master gave us a magic weapon that can completely hide our spiritual power, but he didn't give us a magic weapon that makes us invisible."

As for the art of transformation, these two Taoist boys who are disciples of Taishang Laojun and are cultivators of the God Refining Realm must also understand it. But once it is used, the spiritual power will definitely leak out. An unfamiliar spiritual power wave appeared in Huaguo Mountain... but it increased the chance of being noticed by Yang Chan and Monkey.

If you reach the realm of transformation into gods, you might be able to make an envoy, the realm of refining gods, but forget it.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Thinking of the scene just now, the golden boy was still frightened.

"I told you repeatedly this morning to be careful. Do you believe it?" After a slight pause and licking his lips, Silver Boy stared at the dark mouth of the gourd and said, "The monsters here are more cultivated than other monster forces. The level is not high, but it is as difficult as I have ever seen. Not only the defenses are tight, but the vigilance is extremely high, and there is also a secret method of stealth. Here, I am not doing nothing as you think."

Hearing this, the golden boy lowered his head and remained silent.

After being silent for a long time, the golden boy raised his head and said, "Tomorrow we will spread the 'boundary sand' first."

"Did you bring 'Jie Sha'?"

"Yes." Jintongzi nodded silently: "Master must also know that this monster monkey is difficult to deal with, so he asked me to bring 'Jie Sha' over. Anyway, we need to know when they come in and out."

While the two children were having a heated discussion, a monkey yawned lazily on a tree not far away.

…

In the dark stone room, the monkey was buried in a pile of bamboo slips, rummaging around for something.

Yang Chan quietly came to the door of the stone chamber and whispered: "They are here again."

"them?"

"Well, there's one more person wearing a golden Taoist robe today."