Strange Blood Cocoon, Taking the Six-Eared Macaque as Disciple

"An Innate Being is being born?"

Su Ming understood instantly.

This Blood Pool was likely formed from the crystallized blood essence of a fallen Chaos Demon God, and after countless epochs, it had finally nurtured a new Innate Being.

Judging by its aura, its Origin was extraordinary—perhaps not inferior to the Twelve Ancestral Magi!

However, this being seemed to be in trouble. Its birth process was obstructed, and its Life Origin was steadily draining away.

If no one helped, it would likely dissolve into a pool of blood within a thousand years, vanishing completely from heaven and earth.

Su Ming's gaze flickered.

Save it, or not?

He had no connection with this unborn being. If he stood by and did nothing, no one could blame him.

But on second thought, he had inherited Pangu's legacy and carried the Pangu Bloodline. All living beings in the primordial wilderness could be considered descendants of Father God.

Moreover, his future enemy was Hongjun—the entire Heavenly Dao itself. Having an ally with an extraordinary Origin was never a bad thing.

A flash of resolve passed through his eyes.

"Fine, consider it a good deed."

Su Ming walked to the edge of the Blood Pool and sat down cross-legged.

He didn't directly channel his mana—that would be too crude and might damage the being's Origin.

He slowly closed his eyes. In his Sea of Consciousness, the lotus platform fused with the fragment of the Creation Jade Disc trembled slightly.

The next moment, a vast and profound Dao Sound flowed from his lips.

"The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name..."

He was preaching the most fundamental Great Dao Outline he had just comprehended from the Creation Jade Disc!

Every word contained the Ultimate Truth of heaven and earth.

Every syllable seemed to resonate with the laws of this realm.

Golden lotuses manifested out of thin air in the valley, then merged into the Blood Pool.

The Blood Cocoon, which had been restless and unstable, suddenly went still the moment it heard the Dao Sound!

Then, it began to pulse in a mysterious rhythm, synchronizing with Su Ming's preaching.

Threads of pure Life Origin were greedily absorbed from the Blood Pool, replenishing its previous depletion. Its once-unstable aura gradually grew thick and solid.

Su Ming extended his Spiritual Sense into the Blood Cocoon, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

What was being nurtured inside this Blood Cocoon was none other than the Six-Eared Macaque—a being not among the ten categories of life, skilled in hearing sounds, discerning principles, knowing past and future, and understanding all things!

"The Four Mixed-World Monkeys, masters of transformation, knowers of heavenly timing, understanders of earthly advantages, movers of stars and constellations..."

A forgotten secret from later ages surfaced in Su Ming's mind.

In the myths of his past life, this macaque had eavesdropped on Hongjun's Preaching the Dao, was denounced as "the law is not transmitted to six ears," and ultimately met a tragic end—its true spirit ground to dust by the Buddha's Palm.

Its heaven-reaching divine abilities had become nothing but a joke, serving only as a stepping stone for others.

"The law is not transmitted to six ears?"

A cold smile curled at the corner of Su Ming's mouth.

The fate Hongjun spoke of was the fate ordained by the Heavenly Dao—the fate that Hongjun himself recognized.

Anything beyond his control was an anomaly, was fated to be excluded!

And Su Ming himself was precisely the greatest anomaly in the primordial wilderness!

"Your destiny cannot be decided by Hongjun. Today, I, Su Ming, am here. Your fate—I will change it!"

He could clearly sense that the Six-Eared Macaque's Origin within the Blood Cocoon was draining at an alarming rate.

Though it was born with an extraordinary Origin, its path to transformation had taken a wrong turn. The Dao Fruit Foundation it had forcibly condensed was unstable and was now rebelling against its own body.

If no one intervened, even if it managed to be born, it would inevitably suffer an irreparable Dao Injury, laying the groundwork for its future tragedy.

This was the Heavenly Mandate!

A being with such a heaven-defying Origin was inherently rejected by heaven and earth from birth!

A sharp gleam of divine light flashed in Su Ming's eyes. The Three-Flower Lotus Platform above his head, within his Auspicious Cloud, suddenly blazed with brilliant radiance.

The fragment of the Creation Jade Disc fused within it trembled lightly.

Hum!

An indescribably mysterious Dao resonance spread from Su Ming's body. It carried no earth-shattering might, but it contained the supreme principle of the birth of heaven and earth and the evolution of all things.

He did not choose to forcibly infuse his mana. Instead, he transformed the most fundamental and pure Dao Ultimate Truth he had comprehended from the Creation Jade Disc fragment into an intangible heavenly sound, slowly yet with crystal clarity, transmitting it into the Blood Cocoon.

"The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao..."

"One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things..."

"Yin and Yang revolve, the Five Elements generate each other—this is the foundation of heaven and earth..."

Sentence after sentence of Dao Words were not spoken aloud but evolved through Divine Sense, pointing directly to the source of the Great Dao.

For the Six-Eared Macaque at this moment, this was nothing less than the sweetest dew, the most timely lifeline!

His originally violent and unstable mana, which had been rampaging and colliding everywhere, began to grow docile and orderly under the guidance of this Dao Heavenly Sound.

His Dao foundation, on the verge of collapse, seemed to find its backbone, beginning to recondense and solidify in a way more perfect and more attuned to Heaven and Earth.

The pulsing of the Blood Cocoon, from its initial frantic urgency, gradually became steady and powerful.

Each beat resonated with some ultimate principle of Heaven and Earth, merging into the pulse of the entire valley.

That aura of a peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal was no longer ethereal but had become condensed, weighty, and unfathomable.

Su Ming watched all this quietly, his expression as calm as an ancient well.

Changing the fate of a living being, especially an Innate Divine Being like the Six-Eared Macaque who bore great Destiny, would inevitably entangle him with the Heavenly Dao.

But he did not care.

Between him and Hongjun, it was already a situation of life-and-death, no reconciliation.

Shaking the Heavenly Dao was precisely what he intended to do!

Crack—

A crisp sound of splitting was especially clear in the silent valley.

A crack appeared on the Blood Cocoon.

Then, the crack spread rapidly like a spiderweb.

Boom!

A ten-thousand-zhang Crimson Gold Divine Light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire valley in a blaze of brightness.

The Blood Cocoon exploded, and a thin, small figure slowly walked out from within.

He was covered in brilliant golden fur, his face resembling an ape, but most peculiar of all, on both sides of his head grew three pairs of ears—six ears in total!

At this moment, those six ears were trembling slightly, as if listening to the most wondrous celestial music in the world.

The Six-Eared Macaque opened his eyes, and the chaos and confusion within them instantly faded, replaced by boundless clarity and shock.

He did not pay attention to his newly transformed body, nor did he sense his now rock-solid, powerful strength. Instead, he walked straight toward Su Ming and knelt deeply.

"Disciple Six-Ears kowtows in gratitude for Senior's Grace of Creation!"

His voice, though young, was filled with heartfelt gratitude and reverence.

"Without Senior's Dao Heavenly Sound to sort out my origin and set right what was wrong, this disciple would have already collapsed at the foundation, turned to a handful of ashes, and scattered between Heaven and Earth!"

His Innate Divine Ability allowed him to hear all sounds in the world.

Just now, inside the Blood Cocoon, he had not only "heard" Su Ming's Dao Ultimate Truth but also "heard" his own precarious trajectory of fate.

He knew clearly that it was this mysterious man before him who had pulled him back from the brink of eternal doom!

This grace was heavier than Mount Tai!

Su Ming looked at the kneeling Six-Eared Macaque, his expression calm.

"Rise."

"Our meeting is Fate."

Upon hearing this, the Six-Eared Macaque did not rise but instead kowtowed heavily again, his tone extremely earnest.

"Senior! This disciple's Origin is shallow, but thanks to Senior's enlightenment, I have come to understand the preciousness of the Great Dao! I beg Senior to accept me as a disciple! Six-Ears is willing to serve Senior for life, to go through fire and water without refusal!"

He knew that what the man before him possessed was a true, transcendent Great Dao far beyond his imagination!

This leg, he was going to cling to today! Even if Jesus came, he wouldn't stop him—he said so himself!

Seeing the undisguised longing and determination in the Six-Eared Macaque's eyes, Su Ming's heart stirred slightly.

This monkey had a nature that remembered kindness and repaid it.

"Do you know that if you take me as your master, what you will face in the future may be the hostility of the entire world, and even directly confront the lofty Dao Ancestor of the Profound Gate."

Su Ming's voice was soft, but it struck the Six-Eared Macaque's heart like a heavy hammer.

The Six-Eared Macaque lifted his head abruptly, his eyes devoid of any fear, instead burning with blazing battle intent.

"Disciple does not know what the Dao Ancestor of the Profound Gate is; I only know that Master has given me a second life! If Heaven wants me dead, I will defy Heaven! If the Dao Ancestor becomes an enemy, this disciple is willing to be Master's vanguard, to fight a bloody battle through the Nine Heavens!"

Deep in his bones, he had always harbored untamed wildness.

Su Ming's enlightenment had not only saved his life but also made him see the invisible shackles of fate.

Rather than being a pawn at others' mercy, it was better to follow this unfathomable master and fight a magnificent war!

"Good!"

Su Ming finally revealed a hint of a smile.

"From today onward, you are the First Disciple under my, Su Ming's, tutelage!"

He raised a finger, and a Mysterious Light shot into the Six-Eared Macaque's brow.

"Disciple Six-Ears pays respects to Master!"

Six-Eared Macaque kowtowed once more. This time, it was a formal disciple-worshiping ceremony.

After the ceremony, he rose and stood respectfully behind Su Ming, his eyes brimming with excitement and joy.

Su Ming nodded in satisfaction and, with Six-Ears in tow, strolled out of the valley.

The Innate Restriction that shrouded the entire valley was as if it didn't exist before him.