A Token of Love? Six-Eared Macaque!

Xuan Yang swore that since coming to the Primordial Wilderness, this was the first time he had slept so comfortably.

This sleep had left him utterly refreshed.

It was as though all the fatigue accumulated over countless years had been relieved in one go.

And he had even had a beautiful dream.

In the dream, the once lofty and sacred goddess had been tender as water, her face flushed with shyness as she confessed her feelings to him.

It truly put him in a wonderful mood.

Xuan Yang quickly got out of bed.

At a glance, he spotted a letter Wangshu had left on the table ahead.

With a flick of his finger, the letter lightly floated up from the table and landed in his hand.

Xuan Yang opened it and immediately could not help but laugh.

It turned out that the letter was Wangshu's farewell note.

But her reason for returning to the Lunar Star was written terribly awkwardly, and her handwriting was somewhat rushed, entirely lacking her usual composure.

Therefore, merely from the contents of the letter and that messy handwriting, Xuan Yang could already roughly imagine what the scene had been like...

Most likely, this goddess had calmed down after their earlier pleasure, only to grow bashful upon further thought and become unsure how she ought to face him.

So she had come up with such a clumsy excuse and fled back to the Lunar Star in a panic, intending to hide away and calm herself.

Thinking of this, Xuan Yang chuckled.

"She's rather cute."

But he could understand.

After all, Wangshu was a woman...

Even as a goddess, she could not help being somewhat reserved when it came to such matters.

Moreover, Wangshu differed from the other female cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness.

Some female cultivators truly regarded the pleasures between men and women as nothing more than ordinary enjoyment, so who knew how many Daoist companions they took.

But Wangshu, who had always remained on the Lunar Star and rarely left, was entirely different.

It would not be excessive to call her a pure and innocent maiden.

Before this, she had never cultivated through dual cultivation, and she placed immense importance on her chastity.

Otherwise, as a Great Power who cultivated immortality, she would not have become so flustered over this sort of thing.

Thus, seeing Wangshu react this way only made Xuan Yang even happier.

That enormous contrast was truly captivating.

In high spirits and flooded with inspiration, he took out his diary and immediately began writing.

Of course, Xuan Yang had never known from beginning to end that others could see his diary.

Thus, he naturally wrote without the slightest restraint.

Having experienced pleasure with Wangshu this time, he could hardly avoid describing it in the diary.

He directly broke his record!

This diary entry truly became the longest one Xuan Yang had ever written!

But what Xuan Yang did not know was...

Some rejoiced while others grieved!

While Xuan Yang eagerly wrote in his diary, recording the beauty of their pleasure...

Wangshu, who had already returned to the Lunar Star to calm down but could not resist reading the diary after Xuan Yang updated it, nearly broke down!

Her stunning, cold, noble face turned crimson.

She collapsed directly onto her bed.

"Ah!"

"Daoist Friend Xuan Yang! I beg you, stop writing!"

Wangshu let out a wail.

Although she did not regret choosing to follow her heart,

as one of the people involved, Wangshu still found it difficult to bear when she saw Xuan Yang describing what had happened again.

Especially since she had experienced it firsthand.

Thus, as Xuan Yang continued describing it in the diary, one vivid scene after another emerged in her mind.

It made her feel as though she were about to burn up with embarrassment.

And there was one even more important point... she was not the only one who could see this diary!

Besides her, Di Jun and Taiyi could see it! Chang Xi and Xi He could see it too!

Now Wangshu truly felt that she was about to die of embarrassment.

Although Xuan Yang was not the sort to write outright erotic prose in his diary...

just thinking that the other Diary Owners would see their relationship after Hongjun's sermon ended nearly made Wangshu faint.

Her lifelong reputation...

Thus, Wangshu's sense of social death grew stronger and stronger.

In the end, she was so weak all over that she completely collapsed on the bed.

But what relieved her somewhat was this.

Xuan Yang finally changed the subject.

As he wrote, he stopped writing about that matter.

Instead, he turned to another topic.

Come to think of it, Wangshu and I should have confirmed our relationship by now, right?

Given Wangshu's personality, she did not seem like some of the female immortals in the Primordial Wilderness who would take several Daoist companions at once.

So there should be no problem treating her as my woman.

But if so... I ought to show some sincerity!

After all, I have had my fill. I cannot just do nothing, can I?

Hmm... I should prepare a gift for her as a token of love.

But what gift should I give her?

A faint smile appeared on Wangshu's face when she saw this.

Though she had willingly given herself to Xuan Yang,

seeing that Xuan Yang had such consideration still made her very happy.

After all, what companion did not hope their other half would care for them a little more?

She continued reading the diary, intending to see what Xuan Yang planned next.

The diary's contents soon appeared.

Since I am giving a gift, I naturally have to give her something she likes...

If Wangshu does not like the gift, then I might as well not give it at all.

In that case, I will give Wangshu a zither!

She likes music. Giving her a zither is the most practical choice. Besides, a zither is romantic... It can serve as a Magic Artifact and be used to play music in daily life, killing two birds with one stone.

Then I will personally make a zither for her!

Fortunately, I have spent quite a bit of time studying artifact refinement over the years, so I am fairly experienced in that regard.

As for materials... I will use wood from the Moon Laurel Tree.

Wangshu cultivates the path of extreme yin, so the Magic Artifact she uses naturally ought to be a yin-attributed one. And the most yin thing in the Primordial Wilderness is the Moon Laurel Tree...

I happen to have some here. I asked Wangshu for it tens of thousands of years ago while making other things.

But Moon Laurel Tree wood alone is not enough. A zither needs strings, and silk is best for making strings.

Hmm... the silk should be yin-attributed as well.

I do have Fusang Heavenly Silkworms, but they are yang-attributed and not quite suitable.

So I should search the Primordial Wilderness for Ice Silkworms. Their silk is yin-attributed and would pair perfectly with Moon Laurel Tree wood.

The diary ended abruptly there.

Wangshu guessed that Xuan Yang had most likely left the Sun Star and gone into the Primordial Wilderness specifically to search for Ice Silkworm silk for her.

The corners of her lips immediately became difficult to suppress.

After all, as a homebody, Xuan Yang had barely traveled far in tens of thousands of years.

Yet now, not only had he carefully considered what gift to give her, he was even willing to personally travel far to gather materials.

That sentiment was truly precious.

Women were emotional creatures, and goddesses were no exception.

The same Magic Artifact, of equal quality and equal power, would become incomparably precious if it were carefully crafted by the one she loved.

Thus, Wangshu became increasingly delighted as she thought of this.

She also began to ponder, "Then I should prepare a gift for Daoist Friend Xuan Yang too."

"What should I prepare?"

In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.

Xuan Yang searched throughout the Primordial Wilderness and finally found Ice Silkworms atop an Extreme Cold Snow Mountain.

He felt immensely relieved and immediately began gathering the Ice Silkworm silk.

"Now the zither strings are taken care of."

Another thirty years passed.

Within the Extreme Cold Snow Mountain.

A monkey with a hairy face and thunder-god beak, six ears growing from his forehead, protruding fangs, grayish-yellow fur covering his entire body, and the cultivation of a True Immortal searched everywhere within the mountain.

While examining the golden diary in his Sea of Consciousness, he muttered to himself, "What Immortal Master Xuan Yang mentioned should be here..."

"Why have I still not found Immortal Master Xuan Yang?"

It turned out that the Six-Eared Macaque had also unexpectedly obtained Xuan Yang's diary.

But due to his low cultivation, Six-Eared Macaque had never been able to make use of many of the "strategies" Xuan Yang provided in the diary.

Even so, after countless years, Six-Eared Macaque's admiration and reverence for Xuan Yang had become as ceaseless as a surging river.

For he had also discovered that Xuan Yang possessed the ability to predict the future.

Moreover, Xuan Yang's insights into many things in the Primordial Wilderness were extraordinarily farsighted!

Not to mention that Xuan Yang was extremely powerful. To a little monkey like him, the cultivation of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal was already unimaginably formidable.

Thus, Six-Eared Macaque had long wanted to take Xuan Yang as his master.

Even during this sermon by Hongjun, though he had originally intended to eavesdrop...

because Xuan Yang had previously mentioned in his diary that the Dharma would not be passed to six ears, he had resolutely chosen to believe it!

Thus, even now during this sermon, Old Ancestor Hongjun had still not uttered the words, "The Dharma will not be passed to six ears."

And several decades ago, Six-Eared Macaque discovered through the diary that Xuan Yang had gone out.

So he had traveled countless miles and endured innumerable hardships to come specifically to this Extreme Cold Snow Mountain in search of Xuan Yang, intending to ask Xuan Yang to accept him as a disciple.

He continued searching the Extreme Cold Snow Mountain bitterly for ten years.

Finally, in one part of the Extreme Cold Snow Mountain, he found a Daoist gathering silkworm silk.

The Daoist was handsome, dressed in a golden robe, and possessed an extraordinary, transcendent bearing. At a glance, he was clearly a Great Power cultivator!

This filled Six-Eared Macaque with excitement.

He crept up to Xuan Yang, dropped to his knees, and repeatedly knocked his head against the ground. "Please, Immortal Master, accept me as your disciple!"

Xuan Yang had long noticed Six-Eared Macaque's arrival. What puzzled him was why Six-Eared Macaque was here.

Could they have merely met by coincidence?

However, it seemed that even now, he had not heard Hongjun utter the words, "The Dharma will not be passed to six ears."

Could it be that Six-Eared Macaque only began eavesdropping after this?

Xuan Yang continued pondering.

In any case, Six-Eared Macaque had not eavesdropped yet, so accepting him as a disciple would not count as offending Old Ancestor Hongjun.

And Six-Eared Macaque was one of the Four Monkeys of Chaos.

His aptitude was exceptional, his comprehension defied heaven, and he was well suited to cultivating the Nine Revolutions Mystic Origin Art Xuan Yang had obtained from the system.

If carefully nurtured, he would surely become someone remarkable in the future.

So, put that way, accepting him would not be a loss.

After a brief moment of thought, he finally agreed directly. "Very well. It seems you and I are fated. I shall accept you as my disciple."

"From today onward, you shall be called Six-Eared."

Six-Eared Macaque was instantly overjoyed.

After all, he had never expected things to go so smoothly.

He had only come with the mindset of trying his luck.

After all, in his eyes, Xuan Yang was an immortal far beyond his reach.

He had not expected to truly succeed.

Thus, Six-Eared Macaque repeatedly performed the three kneelings and nine kowtows before Xuan Yang, then remained kneeling where he was, awaiting Xuan Yang's instructions.

Xuan Yang flicked his finger and directly imparted the Nine Revolutions Mystic Origin Art to him, then told him to rise.

Six-Eared Macaque cheered and jumped about happily, making Xuan Yang unable to suppress a laugh.

He waved his hand again. "All right, little monkey. Stop standing there and come help gather the silkworm silk."

"I understand, Master!" Six-Eared Macaque did not dare delay and obediently stepped forward to help.

Of course, Xuan Yang accepting Six-Eared Macaque as a disciple was merely a minor interlude.

His main purpose was still to refine a zither for Wangshu.

Another ten years passed, and Xuan Yang finally gathered all the Ice Silkworm silk he needed.

He left behind a Sun Essence Fruit for the Ice Silkworm.

Then he took the Six-Eared Macaque back to the Sun Star and began refining a Magic Artifact.

In the blink of an eye, another thousand years passed.

The materials Xuan Yang chose were all exceptionally fine.

Whether it was Moon Laurel wood or Ice Silkworm silk, neither was anything ordinary.

Moreover, he infused a small amount of merit into the refinement process.

Thus, when Xuan Yang successfully refined the Magic Artifact, it directly reached the rank of a Postnatal Supreme Treasure.

Yet in Xuan Yang's eyes, a Postnatal Supreme Treasure was still somewhat unpresentable.

So he simply took out the Universe Cauldron, which had been nurtured for years with Solar True Fire, Fusang Tree wood, and Heavenly Dao merit.

Although the Universe Cauldron had suffered severe damage during the earlier Orthodox lineage dispute and still could not return to its peak,

under Xuan Yang's efforts over the years, it had now recovered to the level of a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure.

He tossed the newly refined zither into the Universe Cauldron and reversed yin and yang within it.

When the zither flew out of the Universe Cauldron once more, its rank immediately rose from a Postnatal Supreme Treasure to the level of an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

However, this was already the limit.

The current Universe Cauldron was not at its peak.

If it had been at its peak, the Universe Cauldron would have been an Innate Supreme Treasure.

It might then have been able to raise Xuan Yang's newly crafted Wooden Zither to the level of a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure.

But it no longer possessed such power.

"At least it's an Innate Spiritual Treasure."

"A gift is mainly about the thought behind it. I'm sure Wangshu won't mind."

Xuan Yang took the Wooden Zither and headed straight for the Lunar Star.

Meanwhile, the moment Wangshu sensed Xuan Yang's arrival, she immediately went out to greet him.

On one hand, after so many years, Wangshu had completely calmed down and could now ignore the awkwardness brought about by their previous intimacy, treating Xuan Yang normally.

On the other hand, Xuan Yang's heartfelt devotion over the years had moved Wangshu once again.

As the saying went, the rank of a Magic Artifact was unimportant. What mattered was that the sentiment behind it was priceless!

Thus, when they met this time, Wangshu was even remarkably proactive.

Under Xuan Yang's somewhat astonished gaze, the goddess strode forward and threw herself into his arms.

She gave Xuan Yang a big hug!

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