The Stone Monkey Is Born

In the east of the Primordial Wilderness lay a country known as Ao Lai Country.

This country bordered the Eastern Sea, and within it stood a famous mountain called Flower-Fruit Mountain.

This mountain was the ancestral vein of all the surrounding mountains, the dragon vein of the Three Islands. Since the Primordial Wilderness had first opened, it had stood upon the shores of the Eastern Sea, absorbing the purple qi of dawn and gathering the essence of the Eastern Sea.

Spring reigned upon the mountain throughout all four seasons; precious grasses and exotic flowers never withered, while green pines and emerald cypresses remained ever verdant.

Immortal peaches bore fruit year-round, and cultivated bamboo often held the clouds.

Yet strangely, despite being such a divinely blessed mountain, a paradise worthy of being called a celestial abode, it possessed no particularly powerful living beings.

Only a few ignorant little monkeys at the Earth Immortal realm frolicked among the peach groves, occasionally breathing in the essence of the sun and moon, yet unable even to achieve Form Transformation.

The entire mountain seemed to be sleeping, or perhaps... waiting.

Waiting for the stubborn stone atop the mountain to be born.

Until this day—

Rumble!!!

High above the nine heavens, three hundred and sixty-five Proper Stars of the Heavenly Cycle suddenly shone at once, casting down boundless starlight.

Beneath the Nine Netherworlds, seventy-two Earth Fiend Spirit Veins trembled in unison, surging forth with vast earthly qi.

An omen of sun and moon shining together appeared across the heavens, and all of Flower-Fruit Mountain was shrouded in a radiance resembling the first opening of Chaos.

The stubborn stone at the mountaintop, which had lain silent for countless Yuan Hui, suddenly erupted with hundreds of millions of rays of golden light!

"Crack—"

A fissure split open in