Three Years, Then Three More-Thirteen Years Passed in a Flash!

"Six Ears?!"

Lu Qingfeng paused when he heard that.

A pair of eyes grew on the body of the Bamboo staff and looked toward the monkey. There, at the sides of the monkey's head, two tiny pairs of ears were indeed hidden, so faint they were almost impossible to detect.

They seemed to have just grown.

He was not the Spirit-Aware Stone Monkey.

You were the Six-Eared Macaque!

Within the Heavenly Cycle were five kinds of immortals: Heaven, Earth, gods, humans, and ghosts. There were five kinds of creatures: shelled, scaled, furred, feathered, and creeping. There were also the Four Monkeys of Chaos. They were neither Heaven, Earth, gods, humans, nor ghosts; neither shelled, scaled, furred, feathered, nor creeping. They belonged to none of the ten categories.

The first was the Spirit-Aware Stone Monkey, who understood transformations, recognized the seasons of Heaven, knew the advantages of Earth, and could shift the stars and change the constellations. The second was the Red-Rumped Macaque, who understood yin and yang, knew the affairs of men, was skilled at entering and leaving, and could evade death and prolong life. The third was the Long-Armed Gibbon, who could seize the sun and moon, shrink a thousand mountains, distinguish fortune from misfortune, and toy with Heaven and Earth. The fourth was the Six-Eared Macaque, who was skilled at listening, could discern principles, knew the past and future, and understood all things.

"You're the Six Ears?"

Lu Qingfeng looked at the monkey and asked, his voice clear as a child's.

"That's right. I'm Six Ears."

The monkey bared his teeth and grinned at Lu Qingfeng.

Not the Great Sage.

Lu Qingfeng quietly let out a breath.

So long as he had not delayed the Great Sage's apprenticeship, the Sage should not hold it against him.

But seeing