108 A Blossoming 500 Years (1/2)
100 years, the rivers and streams of Luoying Mountain ceaselessly flowed, irrigating the entire forest. All the young seedlings have cultivated into towering trees, and flowers have bloomed and withered countless cycles. There were no longer any traces of damage from the earthquake in the past, just a beautiful scenery in our eyes.
300 years, a few families and villagers from nearby Luoying Mountain have reclaimed the land and settled by the foot of the mountain. We watched as their children grew up, marry, and then have children of their own. Time very quickly passed, the little girl who was once young became a toothless granny, and the handsome young man had become an old grandpa. Through many cycles of life and death, their children continue to grow, then their grandchildren, then their great grandchildren…..mankind never stopped their tenacity and continual advancement, their little settlements becoming large villages of hundreds and thousands of people.
500 years, the Monkey King who was crushed under Wuzi Mountain has become a monk to learn and repent for his rebellious actions. He who had originally hated the Heavenly Realms has set off to the West to seek the Buddha for the Fruit of Virtue.
What are the Fruit of Virtue? My sworn brothers and I expectantly stared at Bull Devil Gege for answer, but he only smilingly said, ”It isn't really anything.”
”Since it isn't really anything, then why would he go look for it?”
”If I don't seek the Fruit of Virtue, then I can't come out of Wuzi Mountain. These years, my cute little monkey friends have suffered greatly from other demons. Without my support, they will have to continue living bitterly,” The Monkey King had his name changed to Sun Wukong, ”If you were in my position, would you go to seek the Fruit of Virtue?”
”I would, why wouldn't I? Humans suffer the harshness of reality and so can demons,”
Before I could even finish, Bull Devil interrupted. He mercilessly drank a big mouthful of wine, ”I remember back in the days us sworn brothers would constantly fight back to back, but now four out of the five have already gone their own ways.”
Numerous other demons sighed hearing these words and continued their binge drinking. After Bull Devil had become drunk, he grasped onto me and kept crying out, ”Luo Sha…..let's stop fighting, I'll go home once your fire calms…..”
I did not drink. Seeing their horrendous drunk appearances, I quickly left. As I left, I saw that Sun Wukong also hadn't drunk, he was sitting alone in the cold breeze with eyes full of sadness. I didn't want to disturb him so I left on the Hell Hound myself.
Thinking back to the past, I remember how Xiao'lin had come to the mortal realm just to help build a large house for us to live in, saying how it wasn't good for me and the baby to live in a cave. But this house they built was so big that it really had a lot of unnecessary space. There were 10-odd rooms, and with just Yin Zi and I, cleaning was too much of a chore. Yin Zi named it the Hua Residence after myself. Thus after completing their trials and becoming matured demons, Luo Luo and Jian Nan came to live with us. Wawa also came, since coming down to the Mortal Realm to play last time, she didn't appear to want to leave this lively place and happily became my personal maid. Jin Wen didn't come, she and Mo'lin got married. They lovingly spent their time together as a couple making medicine and growing herbs. Spending your days being happy is better than spending it unhappy, it's just that sometimes I would think of Jin Xian and Bi Qingshen Jun and can't help but cry. They said that excessive grief together with being pregnant would make child-birth difficult.
Xiao'lin arranged for several servants and maids to help with housework. Every few years, they were switched with others. Yin Zi took over financial and economic power as well as becoming the chief of the treasury, dealing with human affairs and becoming quite busy.
At the very beginning, hunters from the foot of the mountain would pry around to see what was up. Once we've had enough of this annoying behaviour, we asked Mo'lin to help us set up an Illusion Formation so no humans would dare come any closer to us. The only downside to this formation was that I was also unable to enter or exit it.