Yu Di sat atop a peach tree. He picked a peach, took a bite, and asked,
The Four Monkeys of Chaos were among the Chaos Demon Gods, formed from the division of the Chaos Demon Ape!
Now, all Four Monkeys of Chaos had appeared in the world. The Six-Eared Macaque had taken Saint Tian Chen as his master and had now attained a realm above sainthood—the Saint Ninth Heaven. Before long, he would set foot into the Chaos Realm.
The Red-butt Monkey had been found by the Six-Eared Macaque during Da Yu's flood control. Seeing that they shared the same bloodline, the Six-Eared Macaque had treated him as his younger brother and taught him. He had now attained the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, becoming Immortal and Undying. It was believed that before long, he would reach the Quasi-Saint realm!
During the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, the Long-armed Ape Monkey had been taken in by the Buddhist Sect. Together with the Six-Winged Golden Cicada, he had become a disciple of the present Buddha, Duobao Tathagata. He had cultivated the Supreme Bodhi Relic and the Supreme Chaos Demon Ape Golden Body, reaching the Quasi-Saint realm in strength. He was a major powerhouse of the Buddhist Sect!
Now, only the Spirit Stone Monkey remained.
The Buddhist Dharma of the Buddhist Sect was the orthodox Buddhist Dao, not the insignificant little path it had once been. Thus, the golden body could cultivate all things and cultivate the self. This was what Duobao had comprehended: Buddha was Dao, and all things were rooted in Dao.
Moreover, since Buddha was Dao and fundamentally the self, it was unlike the original story, where one could neither marry nor have children, nor eat meat. None of those restrictions existed in the present Buddhist Sect!
The present Buddhist