Chapter 509: Chapter 509

He's quite good at making things happen. Every time he visits, he picks some fresh wild fruits. If it weren't for Nezha trying to maintain the dignity of the senior apprentice, they would have been playing together with the Monkey a long time ago.

Wukong also loves to visit the senior apprentice because he always hears some "secrets" that other Immortals don't know from him, like how the Seven Fairies of the Heavenly Court used to go down to bathe but stopped because they encountered a lecher.

The Barefoot Immortal doesn't like washing his feet and has a foot fetish, particularly fond of big feet.

The Dragon Palace of the East Sea has many treasures, and every time you claim to be an old neighbor, you can always get some benefits.

The cattle at Laojun's house in Doushuai Temple like to eat oranges.

King Yan of the underworld is just an old man who is the least formidable.

A certain Tota Buddha on Lingshan isn't bald; his hairstyle is actually a Magical Treasure.

For example, in Beihai, a Great Demon called Kunpeng, who claims to be a Demon Master, likes to eat excrement.

Even Master Puti is speechless about this. In this Primordial world, there is no Great Dao for recreational gossip, otherwise, why would this junior look for Hongmeng Purple Qi?

And why do you only talk about others without mentioning yourself, like how a certain Emperor Ziwei was hooking up with the Great Venerate's daughter before taking office, or how someone was beaten with bamboo shoots for repeatedly hitting on two disciples of a certain Saint?

Why don't you tell us in detail!

Ahem, it's not that I won't say it, but a good man doesn't dwell on past achievements; we should look forward.

Regardless of Master Puti's thoughts, Wukong listens with great interest, feeling more yearning for the outside world and gaining more understanding of those legendary Immortal Gods.

Perhaps listening to gossip can indeed ease internal anxiety?

Over the next two years, Wukong's heart began to calm down. He followed his fellow disciples in chanting and learning etiquette every day, and when free, he roamed around the senior apprentice's courtyard entrance. Unlike other fellow disciples, the senior apprentice had his own cultivation path, so whether he could hear gossip depended on luck.

Master Puti is speechless again, but either way, Wukong's anxious heart has calmed down, ready to begin formal teachings.

During a public class, after experiencing the classic scenes of "No Study, No Study" and getting knocked on the head, Master Puti was indeed vexed with the Monkey for not studying and only asking for the Immortality Technique. If only he would cultivate step by step, immortality wouldn't be out of reach.

As for wanting mortals to be immortal, that goes against the heavens; better to seek some Immortal Herbs and Spirit Fruit if you have the capacity.

The Monkey is straightforward; he only wants to be immortal and become strong. It's not that he refuses everything he is not interested in, but he is also clever, sneaking to squat at Master Puti's door until midnight.

Master Puti knows Shi Hou's little schemes but lets it go with the flow; the path of the disciple must ultimately be walked by himself. Once Master Puti confirmed Wukong's learning direction, he stopped blocking him, but this path was destined to be winding.

From that night on, Master Puti taught Wukong the methods of cultivation and transformation: the Great Heavenly Immortal Technique to enhance Mana and increase cultivation, the battle skills package the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill, the Avoiding Three Disasters Technique, and the Somersault Cloud. Google seaʀᴄh N0v3l.Fiɾe.net

The Great Heavenly Immortal Technique had long been prepared by Master Puti for Wukong, and nothing more needed to be said. The Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill was adapted by merging some Buddhist Sect characteristics into the Eight-Nine Profound Skills. Yang Jian's Eight-Nine Profound Skills focused on defense, whereas Wukong's increased endurance, though with slightly weaker transformation skills. Other skills like Dharma Heaven and Earth, immobilization spell, Body Outside Body, Fire (water) Avoidance, Climbing Cloud, among others, were included.

The Avoiding Three Disasters Technique includes avoiding lightning, avoiding fire, and avoiding wind. These three disasters are a sort of performance assessment by the Heavenly Court on Independent Immortals. If you pass, you can continue to roam freely without interference; if not, the physical body nourishes the Primordial, and the Divine Soul re-enters reincarnation for re-cultivation. This is a supplemental mechanism by the Heavenly Dao for ascension through the thunder tribulation. For truly powerful Immortals, it is nothing significant, but as for Wukong, revealing his identity too soon would be troublesome, thus considering this to avoid some issues.

Shi Hou had a high perception, and with Mana accumulated since the Heavenly Creation and Earth Breaking, his cultivation soared once he found the right upgrade path. Nezha took seven days to achieve Immortal Ascension; Wukong only took three days.

Moreover, he easily avoided Heavenly Thunder using the Lightning Avoidance Technique.

Nezha saw all of this and wasn't jealous of Wukong. To him now, a genius didn't equate with being qualified to face him.

"Senior brother, senior brother, look how I transformed this tree?"

The Monkey, after all, was still youthful and wanted to show off his skills as soon as he learned them, and the best audience was the senior apprentice.

Nezha looked at the stone monkey that had transformed into a large tree spinning around before him and couldn't help but grin. His transformation skills definitely reached an ancestor-level status, seeing the tail couldn't be hidden, trying to show off?

"Junior Brother, these are nothing but side paths; having solid skill is what truly matters."

Upon saying this, Nezha lightly stroked the nearby artificial mountain, and silently, a piece of it was smoothed out.

Wukong reverted to his original form, scratching his head, then punched the artificial mountain, which didn't move but left him grimacing in pain.

Unconvinced, he used Mana to punch the artificial mountain, still causing no damage. This is the dao field of Master Puti, where the entire Three Star Cave was unified. Unless you could move the whole Mountain of Mind and Heart, don't expect to harm any structure here.

Nezha could do it easily because he was strong, but Wukong was far from it.

Wukong stared at Nezha's slender, fair hand and suddenly recalled how when playing around with the senior apprentice, if the senior apprentice slightly exerted force, he would be torn apart?

The once rapidly inflating heart due to learning skills contracted sharply; now, Wukong had only one thought: I should practice more!

Subsequently, Wukong indeed restrained his playful side and committed more diligently to cultivation. Evidently, Master Puti was also deeply concerned for this disciple. As the master of the Mountain of Mind and Heart, he spared no great power to alter the time flow of the Mountain of Mind and Heart world. Only Master Puti himself and Nezha knew of this modification.

Nezha also benefited from Wukong's presence, having more time for cultivation. Three hundred years passed in the Mountain of Mind and Heart world, whereas only three years outside.

To the outside world, Shi Hou studied at the Mountain of Mind and Heart for ten years, but he cultivated inside for over three hundred years. Master Puti was also inspired by his nephew disciple, Nezha, realizing the principle that in teaching disciples, a slow start means lagging behind at every step.

In three years, even with high talent, Wukong could at best achieve the level of an Earth Immortal, but after three hundred years, the Monkey graduated with the cultivation of a Profound Immortal. Beyond that lay Golden Immortal, a state where even Yang Jian, only at this level, understood. Golden Immortal was no longer a common turnip; it was significant enough to make one's mark on the Primordial.

Even for a Profound Immortal, in the eyes of the Daoist Ancestor, it was akin to graduating from elementary school. When Nezha achieved that level, he took about the same time, only that the Monkey relied on his own accumulated efforts, while Nezha on fighting all the way.

The skills teachings were almost complete, so it was no surprise to Nezha when he was moved. The poor little Monkey, when chased away by Master Puti, almost softened Nezha's heart.

"Uncle Master, can you bear to let him go just like that?"

No, everyone has their own path to follow, and teachers can help, but they cannot walk it for them.

Nezha silently thought to himself that his teacher, Nuwa, was just like that too. She hadn't been in the Primordial for some time, and he kind of missed her.

Meanwhile, in the Chaos, where the beloved teacher Nuwa missed by Nezha was yawning in boredom, Chaos a boundless, disorderly space that made finding a suitable Chaos Demon God very difficult, let alone capturing one. Nuwa's journey was entirely a matter of chance. After fiddling with the Heavenly Observation Realm for a long time without any image appearing, she could only sigh and mutter: "I wonder if anything interesting is going on in the Primordial. It's all Old Deng's fault; if not for him, I'd still be at Nuwa Palace looking... watching over my adorable disciple!"