505 Hard for the Heart Monkey to Settle (1/2)
Crossing eighteen thousand li with a single somersault!
The monkey rose from the ground, seeming as if it had turned into lightning, moving rapidly like shooting stars. It roamed through the world in an instant, going wherever it wanted to.
It was an unprecedented sense of exhilaration!
Riding the Somersault Cloud, the monkey only felt that it was breaking free from an invisible restraint. The world was very big and it could go wherever it wanted to. The mountains, rivers, seas, continents... There was no longer anything restricting it.
This was the true meaning behind immortal cultivation.
One reason was for longevity, to gain a long lifespan. Another reason was for freedom, to be free and unrestrained...
The monkey really felt very free. It raised its head and cried out toward the sky, looking down on the mountains and rivers, looking up at the stars in the sky. It felt free.
The Somersault Cloud was as swift as lightning, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
It was only then did the monkey realize how foolish it was to be so proud previously. Compared to its current state, the speed it was moving at previously wasn't even comparable to that of a tortoise. The Patriarch wasn't wrong to say that it was crawling on clouds!
It secretly felt ashamed, but also felt great joy that it had mastered the great art!
[I have the Somersault Cloud!]
[I can go wherever I want to!]
[Roaming the world!]
[The world is big and free for me, Ol' Sun, to roam about freely!]
Having obtained longevity and cultivated invincible art, the monkey felt that its dream had been fulfilled. It was really a wonderful life.
Wonderful, life was really wonderful!
The monkey kept on howling, as if wanting to release all the gloominess accumulated in its heart.
The greed that had been lurking for a very long time rose in its heart.
The monkey suddenly felt that the world was below him, and that no one within the three realms could restrain him.
He had attained immortality, mastered incredible battle arts and Seventy-two Transformations. Moreover, he also gained a flying technique—the Somersault Cloud. It could go up to the sky and down into the ground. There was nothing it couldn't do...
Feng Lin hid deep in the monkey's heart and naturally noticed this.
Ancient cultivation mentioned: a wavering heart!
This was really true!
No matter how calm one's mind was, if they received enough shock and disturbances, great turbulence could rise.
The monkey had been through many rounds of tempering previously, and it had tempered its heart to maturity.
However, after attaining immortality and his dream of longevity, it lost the fear toward death. Many thoughts that had laid in dormancy in his heart floated up once again.
...
This somersault brought it very far away. The icy ocean in the northern sea, the snowy mountains, the deep abyss of the seas... Traces of the monkey could be found everywhere.
Roaming the seven seas and four regions in a single day, the monkey knew not what restraint was. It returned to Fangcun Mountain only after it had its fun. It then continued to stabilize his cultivation.
One day, a voice rang out from the distance while the monkey was meditating in seclusion.
”Is it martial junior Wukong in front?”
Hearing that a person had called its name, the monkey opened its eyes to take a look.
They were the fellow martial brothers who hadn't cared about it and even mocked it previously. Right now, all of them came over, wearing smiles, behaving unlike how they previously had done.
The person in the lead laughed and said, ”Martial junior Wukong, are you cultivating the Grand Fate Art? Have you learned the transformation art to evade the three calamities that Master had imparted to you?”
His tone was filled with admiration.
Hearing that, the monkey's eyes rolled and it felt very proud. ”I won't hide this from elder martial brother. Firstly, Master had imparted me with this, and secondly, I had also worked hard in my cultivation day and night. I've already learned those.”
What a great comprehension level this monkey had!
Everyone secretly mumbled in their hearts, feeling both envious and wary, but didn't show anything on their faces. They chipped in, ”You've already mastered them in such a short period? I don't believe you! If you dare, you should show it to us! I haven't seen such an amazing technique before!”
What an inferior attempt to goad it into making a move!
Feng Lin watched this scene coldly.
However, since the monkey had already attained immortality, it no longer suppressed its own innate character.
It had received a lot of cold glances from its martial brothers. It intentionally said, ”This should be how things are done! I'd like to request for martial brothers to come up with a topic. What do you want me to transform into?”
Everyone exchanged a glance. ”Then change into a pine tree.”
The monkey chanted the incantation and changed into a pine tree. It was extremely beautiful and tall that it seemed to shoot up to the clouds!
When everyone saw that, they instantly clapped and laughed, praising it. ”Good monkey! Good monkey!”
”You are able to turn into a pine tree that reaches the clouds, but can you change into a ferocious tiger that roars in the jungle?” asked someone else.
”That's simple!” The monkey smiled proudly, and in an instant, a big tiger with slit eyes stood on the spot, covered in stripes. It was majestic-looking.
Everyone continued to shower it praises again. ”The Seventy-two Transformations is really amazing!”
”That's of course!” The monkey returned to its original form, feeling very proud. ”This is the great art that the Patriarch had imparted to me! It's not something that ordinary people would be able to learn!”
Seeing that its fellow martial brothers who used to mock him were now treating it so warmly, the monkey felt very proud.