How can I teach the monkey well?
When Li Changshou returned to the Ling Tai Mountain, he began to think about that deep question.
For that, he even specially went to the mortal world to take a look and visit the craftsmen who performed monkey shows. He obtained some enlightenment and had many ideas.
The stone monkey must be a living being with abundant spirituality that far surpassed mortals.
It had no parents and started from a stone embryo. It could worship the Goddess Nuwa as its mother and become a strange living being that could not enter the Three Realms and Five Elements.
Li Changshou actually respected the stone monkey.
The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal …
What kind of hero and what kind of rash person had to be to be able to call himself that?
A newborn calf was not afraid of a tiger. A newborn stone monkey was not afraid of a Dao Ancestor.
If he wanted to teach the monkey, he had to start from two aspects.
One was to maintain his nature, and the other was to teach him the ability to fight.
The mysterious technique that Li Changshou liked the most was naturally the Eight-Nine Arcane Art. However, the Eight-Nine Arcane Art was now the Dao Sect's sect-protecting cultivation technique. It was only spread within a small range of the twelve Golden God of Chan School.
He could not obtain such a cultivation technique "in name".
Also, the monkey's mystical abilities of the Seventy-two Transformations, the Somersault Cloud, and the Metal Body had to reach the "mysterious" level before the monkey could deal with all kinds of disasters in the future.
Li Changshou had never thought of arranging or scheming against the monkey. He wanted the monkey to maintain its nature.
However, Li Changshou calculated and considered all sorts of situations.
In terms of "combat strength".
According to Yang Jian's combat strength at the end of the Great God-Conferment Tribulation, Yang Jian's strength would definitely increase by leaps and bounds after hundreds of years.
When the monkey wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, its combat strength should be on par with Yang Jian.
If the monkey were to live a carefree life in Mount Huaguo for tens of years after it was born, then it would take at least two to three hundred years for the monkey's spiritual power to transform into magical power and be on par with Yang Jian in the future.
That speed was already considered the limit.
After all, no matter how high the monkey's comprehension was, it could not rely on epiphanies to cultivate like him.
If he could not obtain the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, what should he teach the monkey?
There was also the technique of plucking hair and blowing the monkey's hair. Li Changshou naturally had more than ten ideas that he could impart to the monkey. The monkey also needed time to cultivate.
After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this problem was really troublesome.
Why not?
Prenatal education in advance?
Li Changshou pondered for a while and felt that he could take this opportunity to figure out the Dao Ancestor's background and see what solution the Dao Ancestor could give.
Therefore, he sat in the Bodhi House of the Cave of Crescent and Three Stars and pondered hard for several months. He let out a long sigh and said in a clear voice,
"Heavenly Dao, please tell me how to teach my disciple."
In the Purple Cloud Palace, the burly Daoist frowned slightly and revealed a look of disdain. He pointed at Fang Cun Shan.
In front of the Void Bodhi, wisps of treasure light surrounded it and condensed into three jade talismans.
Li Changshou stood up and bowed. He sighed and said, "Thank you, Heavenly Dao."
Then, he held the jade token in his hand and looked at it.
When he looked at the first jade token, Li Changshou chuckled in his heart. He realized that the method given by the Dao Ancestor was still to focus on the essence soul and comprehension. He wanted the Void Bodhi to help the monkey create a powerful body.
It was a simple and direct cheat.
This technique was called the Great Way of Heaven Immortal Art. The "Heaven Immortal" was not the meaning of the Heaven Immortal realm, but the meaning of the "Heaven Immortal".
With this technique, he could cultivate to the Dao Realm of the Gold God in a short period of time. If the monkey's comprehension was better and the Heavenly Dao gave him more insights, it would not be a problem for him to reach the Zenith Heaven in a few hundred years.
However, there was one thing. This technique was a quick cultivation technique. The Great Dao it carried was the Dao of Fighting.
That was a relatively vague concept. This Great Dao was born for fighting. Its main purpose was to let the living beings in the world fight endlessly and have the magical effect of becoming stronger the more they fought.
The disadvantage was also obvious. Apart from fighting and fighting, there would be no other insights.
It did not improve a Qi Practitioner's self-restraint, virtue, intelligence, beauty, and labor.
The Dao Ancestor had given a solution. He had saved himself some trouble. At most, he would leave some backup plans on the monkey that were beneficial to the monkey.
When he opened the second jade token, the Void Bodhi's expression did not change. However, Li Changshou cursed in his heart for the first time in a long time.
What?
What is it?
Seventy-two transformations. Seventy-two transformations could be transformed into plants, insects, stones, living creatures, and spiritual objects. It was a treasure to avoid disasters.
What Li Changshou could not accept was that the transformation incantations and mystical abilities cultivation techniques were the same as the improved transformation technique that he had written in the straw hut on Xiao Qiong Mount and passed to Yang Jian, Ling 'e, and Long Ji!
It was a copy of the transformation technique that he had studied back then!
Isn't the Dao Ancestor too much? He directly read the insights he had written in the jade token!
It was a free ride! The kind that did not even greet him!
Grass was a type of plant.
Li Changshou thought to himself that he was unlucky. However, he could only mutter in his main body's heart. The Void Bodhi's Dao heart was calm and even a little happy.
The third jade token recorded many powerful mystical abilities, such as the Vajra Iron Bones (strengthened version of the Heavenly Dao), the Dharma World, the Five-Element Avoidance Art, the Somersault Cloud, and so on.
As a supplement, Li Changshou would also teach Monkey some skills in fighting. These were not decided by cultivation techniques.
For example, the way to deal with being surrounded by burly men, the way to quickly sense the weaknesses of the array formation, the eighty-one tricks to recover in a fight, and the way to kill in close combat.
They were all precious summaries of combat experience.
Of course, these things had to be imparted subtly and could not be directly organized into a book.
If the Dao Ancestor suspected him because of such a small matter, he would lose more.
In front of the Heavenly Dao, Li Changshou began to ponder over the three jade tokens. He cultivated the cultivation techniques inside one by one and carefully comprehended them. He even added some "Void Dispelling" Great Dao.
The burly Lao Dao in the purple bamboo forest was rather satisfied.
In the past few years, the Buddhist Sect had just been settled. They had begun to preach, recruit disciples, and confer the title of Bodhisattva and Arhat.
Due to the fact that Duobao was originally the Eldest Senior Brother of Jie School, the disciples of Jie School who had been sent back to the Western Sect by Daoist Jie Yin were no longer limited to the Great Dao of Salvation and the Divine Banner of Reception.
There were still many experts among them.
In particular, the power of living beings in the world had been reduced again because of the Great God-Conferment Tribulation. The Saints did not appear, and the mighty figures retreated. Even the Gold God of the Zenith Heaven dared to call himself an expert. The strength of the spiritual mountain could not be underestimated.
After going one round, the Heavenly Dao prophecy of the Western Sect's prosperity was about to be realized.
The Saints and disciples of the Saints who had been fighting were either dead or injured.
The world was unpredictable, and the Heavenly Dao was unpredictable.
No one knew who would be the final winner until they reached the final step.
In Fangcun Mountain, the Void Bodhi revealed a peaceful smile. He closed his eyes and sensed the Great Dao of the world. His mind seemed relaxed, but he was actually in a tense state.
If he persevered, the day of retirement would not be far away.
In the tenth year of the Buddhist Sect's establishment, the East Ocean was filled with rays of light for several months. Strange phenomena appeared near Huaguo Mountain.
The demons seemed to have sensed something. Most of the lesser demons avoided Huaguo Mountain. The greater demons stared at the area with the most phenomena in Huaguo Mountain.
It was a huge array formation. It was unknown what treasures were hidden in the array formation.
An old demon said that ever since they discovered Huaguo Mountain, it was a forbidden area. There were mysterious Dao runes surrounding it. They would be terrified when they approached.
A few pieces of news spread among the demons along with the rays of light.
"A peerless Demon King will appear in Huaguo Mountain. He can lead the demons to the next glory."
"The peerless Demon King of Huaguo Mountain is no small matter. He has long been wrapped in the power of a Saint. It should be a scheme of a Saint."
"The peerless Demon King of Huaguo Mountain is a Divine General nurtured by the Celestial Court. He descended to destroy the demons."
The more the news spread, the more unbelievable it became. There were also bold demons who entered the fog.
However, they never returned. Their Life Souls disappeared.
That aroused the demons' desire to pry. They secretly captured a few human Qi Refinement cultivators with low cultivation levels and let them investigate inside. They also made the Qi Refinement cultivators leave a wisp of their Life Souls.
However, when the Qi Refinement cultivators entered, their Life Souls instantly dissipated.
A corpse was even thrown out. There was a line of golden words written on it.
"Demons retreat. Don't provoke the spirit embryo."
The inscription was a Buddhist mark. Just eight words and a mark were enough to make the experts of the demon race tremble in fear.
After a brief discussion, the demons decided to temporarily avoid Huaguo Mountain and wait for the future.
Finally, the rays of light on Huaguo Mountain flickered for 179 days.
The earth meridians on Huaguo Mountain trembled a few times. The group of mountain apes that had been left behind by the ape tribe and had yet to gain sentience were all confused.
…
In the Lingxiao Hall of the Celestial Court.
The Jade Emperor sat quietly on the throne. He had not moved for hundreds of years.
It was because he was indignant and stubborn.
In fact, the Jade Emperor knew that as long as he gave in and lowered his head, the chains on his body would dissipate. He could wear white clothes or yellow robes.
He was the first in the Heavenly Dao sequence and his cultivation level was at the perfected Zenith Heaven stage. Apart from killing him directly or punishing him with a huge crime within the laws of the Heavenly Dao, the Dao Ancestor could not touch him.
Why did he resist Teacher?
Actually, he was not resisting. He was just a little indignant about his teacher's heartlessness in handling some matters.
He was the living being closest to the Heavenly Dao.
His authority was bestowed by the Dao Ancestor. It was also the Dao Ancestor who gave him the position of the ruler of the Three Realms.
The ruler of the Three Realms …
The Jade Emperor laughed self-deprecatingly in his heart. However, he could not express anything because of the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao.
He was just a puppet of the Dao Ancestor.
He did not know how Chang Geng was doing in the Chaos Sea. He had previously said that he had a way to live in the Chaos Sea. He was still a little worried.
The Jade Emperor sometimes thought that if Daoist Duobao shouted that he, the Heavenly Emperor, would stand up to oppose the Heavenly Dao, would there be another situation today?
However …
In the end, he had too many worries, too many connections, and too many concerns.
Senior Brother Taiqing had actually tried to resist his teacher. He still could not separate his teacher from the Primordial World.
Teacher was already the will of the world.
If he, the "speaker" of the will of the world, went against the world, there would not be any decisive effect. However, it would cause the world to suffer an even greater calamity.
That would be a battle where the Heavenly Dao would overturn living beings.
That was because most living beings could not survive without the world. Therefore, the living beings were destined to be losers and had to compromise with the Heavenly Dao.
Apart from Chang Geng, no one knew the Heavenly Dao better than him, the Jade Emperor.
In fact, he had long known what the Dao Ancestor wanted to do. Before the Great God-Conferment Tribulation began, he had already seen the God-Conferment script.
In fact, the reason why he went to the Purple Cloud Palace to complain was not just because he, the Heavenly Emperor, was aggrieved and ignored by the disciples of the Saints of Jie School and Chan School.
More than that, he had seen too much and could not change it even if he wanted to. He felt too depressed.
Sometimes, the Jade Emperor even thought that if Chang Geng sat in his position, would he be able to counter his teacher?
Of course, that was just wishful thinking. He could not decide if he would abdicate or the next Heavenly Emperor.
The Jade Emperor, Child Hao Tian …
How ironic.
He and the Queen Mother were Connate lifeforms created by the Heavenly Dao. They were going to become the executors and guardians of the Heavenly Dao!
Forget it. It's useless to say that.
Chang Geng had done so much for the Celestial Court. In the end, he was only exiled.
Chang Geng was right. If he wanted to be a Heavenly Emperor who protected living beings, he had to learn to control his selfish desires and maintain enough rationality. He had to find a balance between the Heavenly Dao and living beings.
Now that the Three Realms were sealed, the Dao Ancestor had activated the origin power of the Heavenly Dao and turned it into a barrier of the world. He had sealed Chang Geng, the "escaped one", outside the world …
Previously, he had purified the Nine Polluted Springs and made the negative karma power in the world stay away from the world.
Wasn't a world that could exist forever without any variables or tribulations built just like that?
Ridiculous …
Ridiculous!
"Your Majesty."
A soft voice sounded from the side. The kind-looking, thin old crow held the horsetail whisk and bowed. He said warmly, "It's time to summon the gods for a meeting."
The Jade Emperor opened his eyes. His eyes were a little listless. He said calmly, "Summon."
"Yes."
The old crow replied and flicked his horsetail whisk. A melodious bell sounded outside the Lingxiao Hall.
Not long after, immortal light flew over from all over the 33 Heavens and turned into officials and generals. They lined up in front of the hall and walked with their heads lowered.
When the hundred righteous gods arrived, Old Crow Taibai, who was beside the Jade Emperor, called out. The gods lowered their heads and bowed to the Jade Emperor.
"Greetings, Your Majesty."
"Rise," the Jade Emperor said slowly and completed most of the "work" of the court meeting.
Under the guidance of Old Crow Taibai, the righteous gods on duty in the Hall of Enlightenment talked about the recent trivial matters of the Three Realms. Most of them were about the changes of the four seasons, the rain and dew, and the general situation of mortals' birth, aging, illness, and death.
There were also immortals who presented memorials. Old Crow Taibai read them one by one and picked out the important matters for the gods to discuss.
The entire court meeting was quite lively, and the efficiency was not low.
The Jade Emperor would occasionally say a few more words. They were all related to the governance of the Three Realms.
Today, a general recommended a few Heavenly Generals to officially enter the Divine level.
The Jade Emperor looked at the memorial and saw a familiar name.
Youqin Genya.
The Jade Emperor said directly, "General Youqin Genya will be listed as a fourth-rank righteous god. She will receive the salary of a third-rank righteous god. She will have the right to lead troops and become one of the gods of the Dou Division. From now on, she will be in charge of guarding the Moon Palace."
Many immortals below were stunned.
Old Crow Taibai smiled and said, "Your Majesty, is it because of the sudden promotion …"
"Huh?"
The Jade Emperor looked to the side, and Old Crow Taibai hurriedly lowered his head.
"Could it be that my words don't count?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. You will have the final say in the Celestial Court."
"Do it."
The Jade Emperor snorted and threw the memorial in his hand on the jade table. "Bestow General Youqin Genya the Demon-Slaying Divine Sword, get the Imperial Horse Supervisor to find a few Pegasi, and the Jade Pool to bestow immortal clothes and immortal peaches."
Mu Gong hurriedly said, "But Your Majesty, you should give General Youqin some credit."
"I like her. Isn't that enough credit?"
The Lingxiao Hall fell silent. The gods fell silent. Old Crow Taibai lowered his head and accepted the order. He ran away with his horsetail whisk.
The Jade Emperor said calmly, "Continue the discussion."
The gods accepted the order and resumed their previous rhythm. Many immortals were still letting their imaginations run wild. Those who knew the truth knew that it was just the Jade Emperor expressing his dissatisfaction with the Heavenly Dao and protecting Youqin Genya.
The Heavenly Dao would not deepen the conflict with the Jade Emperor just because of an ordinary Gold God whose memory had been modified.
Halfway through the court meeting, Youqin Genya had already received a large number of rewards and was even given a new residence.
Youqin Genya was a little puzzled. She stood up and looked at the Lingxiao Hall. She did not know why she had received so many rewards. She wanted to go to the Lingxiao Hall and ask the Jade Emperor to retract his order.
Suddenly, a seven-colored glow appeared between heaven and earth. It shone from the East Heavenly Gate, broke through the layers of heaven, and went straight to the Lingxiao Hall!
In the Lingxiao Hall, the Jade Emperor frowned. He thought that it was a warning from the Heavenly Dao.
However, when the Jade Emperor smashed the jade table and shouted, "What dares to challenge the power of the Celestial Court?" He stood up and was about to fight against the Heavenly Dao. The Clairvoyant and the Clairaudient rushed in from outside the hall.
"Report …"
"A glow shone from the Coast of the East Sea, shaking the Underworld of the Celestial Court!"
East Sea?
The Jade Emperor had some doubts. He carefully felt the operation of the Heavenly Dao and realized that the glow was not a warning from the Heavenly Dao.
He had misunderstood his teacher once.
"Probe!"
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