Flower-Fruit Mountain Blessed Land, Water Curtain Cave Grotto-Heaven

However, the stone monkey's movements still alerted the old monkey who had been watching him closely.

"Screee—!!!"

In an instant, an utterly shrill warning cry echoed across Flower-Fruit Mountain!

All the monkeys woke at once.

When they saw the stone monkey walking step by step toward the waterfall, like a forbidden land of death, the entire mountain erupted!

Damn it, they had all told him not to go, not to go.

Why the hell was he still going?

Hadn't his mother taught him to listen to his elders?!

The monkey troop surged forward like mad. The old ones blocked his path, the young ones clung to his legs, and the middle-aged ones formed a wall around him. Countless furry paws tugged at him, while countless eyes overflowed with primitive fear and pleading. Chattering, wailing, and cries to stop him blended into one chaotic din.

For a moment, the stone monkey's steps were held back.

He lowered his head and looked at these companions who had spent so many long years with him, a trace of reluctance flashing through his eyes.

But when he raised his head again and looked toward the endlessly rushing waterfall, which seemed to be beckoning him, the stirring from deep within his soul overwhelmed everything else.

He took a deep breath. The golden fur over his body stirred without wind, and a gentle yet irresistible force lightly shook away all the monkeys clinging to him.

He did not look back.

He merely muttered in his heart, I don't have a mother!

Soon, beneath the despairing, baffled, terrified gazes of the entire monkey tribe—

That golden figure resolutely walked up to the towering waterfall that swallowed all things.

The immense roar of water was deafening, and icy mist rushed into his face, soaking his golden fur.

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