Acquiring the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin, Encountering the Six-Eared Macaque

Chapter 0023: Collecting the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin, Encountering Six-Eared Macaque—Same Old Routine

The Heaven-Veiling Restriction deceived and directly fooled this layer of Innate Restrictions.

Cangyuan passed through so openly, but under the deception of the Heaven-Veiling Restriction, the Innate Restrictions did not sense any living being approaching, so naturally there was no obstruction or even attack.

Inside the cave was an independent small world.

Not very large.

With Cangyuan's Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level Primordial Spirit probing, he soon saw the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin at the center of the small world!

There, a golden coin floated prominently, its outline round with a square groove in the middle, embodying the saying of round heaven and square earth.

And on both sides of the coin, two small wings grew.

It was wreathed in dazzling spiritual charm, its spiritual light illuminating the entire small world, with the Law of Commerce so dense it even condensed into law chains sealing the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin from all sides for protection.

The Law of Commerce.

Or... the Law of Transaction.

In the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao used the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin to strip away Senior Brother Gongming's twenty-four Sea-Fixing Divine Pearls and the Dragon Binding Rope, two Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures.

The essence was transaction.

Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao traded their own luck with the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin.

The Treasure Dropping Golden Coin took their luck to help them strip away others' spiritual treasures.

Of course, limited to spiritual treasures.

Weapons could not be stripped.

Precisely because Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao used the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin to strip away Senior Brother Gongming's two Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures, their own fortune declined, otherwise they would not have died and ended up on the Investiture of the Gods, even becoming subordinates of Zhao Gongming after being enshrined.

Simply put, if one's own fortune is vast enough to not care about the traded amount, they can use the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin recklessly; if not... it's better to use it cautiously.

Cangyuan used the Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure Heart Piercing Lock to scatter the Law of Commerce chains sealing all directions.

The Treasure Dropping Golden Coin flapped its two small wings trying to flee, but Cangyuan grabbed it in one hand.

Held in his grasp.

With the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin in hand, a smile appeared on Cangyuan's face.

"This Poor Daoist's luck is truly not bad—just passing by a divine mountain and it turns out to be the famous Mount Wuyi."

This time, he obtained a High-grade Innate Spiritual Root—the Great Red Robe Tea Tree—and a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin. Such luck, such fortune, would surely make many Innate Divine Beings envious.

"After the Investiture, Senior Brother Gongming seems to have considerable talent on the Path of Commerce. The Path of Commerce is suspected to be his path to enlightenment. I can discuss it with Senior Brother Gongming later."

Cangyuan was still looking forward to the appearance of a Martial God of Wealth who could both take a hit and dish out damage.

If he could enlighten through the Path of Commerce to Primordial Origin...

Cangyuan shook his head, casting aside this absurd thought.

What was he thinking?

Enlightening to Primordial Origin was incredibly difficult.

He didn't even have a clue himself.

Cangyuan immediately began to refine the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin.

Refining its Innate Restrictions.

Making it his own.

A thousand years later.

Cangyuan had refined twelve Innate Restrictions, enough for him to wield this peculiar spiritual treasure.

He stored the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin into his Primordial Spirit, then turned his gaze to one corner of the small world.

As if seeing through endless space, he spotted two clusters of yet-unborn beings.

In the unseen, it felt as if great terror had locked onto them, and the two clusters of primordial qi began to tremble.

"These two clusters of primordial qi should be the future Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao."

Cangyuan murmured.

He did nothing.

He simply left this small world.

Xiao Sheng Cao Bao asked the Innate Restrictions at the cave entrance: "Did he come in?"

The Innate Restrictions: "I don't know, didn't feel a thing."

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Xiao Sheng Cao Bao: "He clearly came in."

The Innate Restrictions: "Well, he came out in the end, didn't he? Why make such a fuss over nothing."

Leaving Mount Wuyi, Cangyuan continued on toward Mount Buzhou.

The Ancestral Land of Humanity.

In truth, Mount Wuyi could be considered a fine immortal mountain and blessed land.

It ranked on the same level as Zhao Gongming's dojo, Mount Emei's Luofu Cave.

But having obtained two immortal islands, Cangyuan had no interest whatsoever in a dojo site of this caliber.

He was still waiting for that Heavenly Emperor Dijun to kick the bucket, so he could go claim Yingzhou Immortal Island for himself—then he'd have his very own Three Immortal Islands.

Cangyuan hadn't flown far when he heard an urgent shout.

"Senior, senior, please wait! Wait for me!"

Cangyuan halted, extending his Primordial Spirit along the direction the voice came from.

He saw a small monkey with fur gleaming gold and six ears darting through the forest.

With a leap, the monkey executed a sliding kneel midair, skidding to a stop right before Cangyuan.

Seeing the monkey's appearance, Cangyuan grew intrigued.

Golden fur gleaming, six ears, lively eyes, exuding spiritual intelligence from head to toe.

This was none other than the well-known Six-Eared Macaque.

In Journey to the West, he was the hated counterfeit who replaced Monkey Brother, but in the Prehistoric World, he was nothing but a pitiful little monkey.

Back when the Dao Ancestor attained sainthood, he preached three times at the Zixiao Palace beyond the heavens, giving back to the Prehistoric World.

Those who could journey to the chaos beyond the heavens were either Grand Unity Immortals or bearers of supreme treasures.

Yet the Six-Eared Macaque, this little monkey with mere True Immortal cultivation, was utterly incapable of reaching Zixiao Palace on his own power. But... he was born with keen hearing, able to discern principles, know past and future, and understand all things.

The Six-Eared Macaque indeed lacked the ability to cross the Chaos Sea in person, but he used his innate divine ability to cheat, listening to the Dao Ancestor's sermons from the Prehistoric World with his heaven-hearing, earth-penetrating skill.

And then... the Dao Ancestor caught him.

So he spoke the words: "The Dao shall not be transmitted to the six-eared."

As a result, everyone in the Prehistoric World who cultivated the Dao Ancestor's Immortal Dao regarded the Six-Eared Macaque as a heretic, refusing to teach him the Immortal Dao.

Thus, though the Six-Eared Macaque was the first of the Four Mischievous Monkeys to emerge, he ended up the worst off.

By the time of Journey to the West, he could only fight Monkey Brother to a draw.

And Monkey Brother had only cultivated for a short time by then.

From this, it was clear just how useless the Six-Eared Macaque became later.

"Little monkey, what business do you have calling out to This Poor Daoist?"

Cangyuan smiled calmly, his expression as warm as a spring breeze, gentle as sunlight, radiating approachability.

Seeing Cangyuan so kind, the Six-Eared Macaque's anxiety and fear eased somewhat. Gathering his courage, he kowtowed and said, "Senior, please take me as your disciple. I'll do anything, endure any hardship."

"Judging by your appearance, you must be a born spirit monkey, the Six-Eared Macaque."

Cangyuan chuckled.

The Six-Eared Macaque tensed up the moment Cangyuan saw through his identity.

He had been caught eavesdropping on the Dao Ancestor's sermon, and the words "The Dao shall not be transmitted to the six-eared" had left him languishing ever since.

Those Innate Divine Beings and powerful Innate Beings, upon seeing he was the Dao Ancestor's named Six-Eared Macaque, drove him away like bad luck, let alone take him as a disciple.

The Six-Eared Macaque trembled, afraid this kind senior would also drive him away like all the seniors before.

"It... it is this little monkey, senior."

The Six-Eared Macaque dared not lift his head.

Cangyuan smiled and asked, "Do you resent the Dao Ancestor? Because of his words, 'The Dao shall not be transmitted to the six-eared,' you've languished until now, your cultivation advancing at a crawl."

The Six-Eared Macaque quickly shook his head. "Six-Ears dares not. It was Six-Ears' fault first, using my innate divine ability to eavesdrop on the Dao Ancestor's sermon."

Cangyuan shook his head with a faint smile. "Little monkey, the Dao Ancestor did it for your own good back then. Those who listened to the Dao Ancestor's sermons at Zixiao Palace were all Grand Unity Immortals. With your True Immortal cultivation at the time, hearing such profound teachings would have been like forcing a seedling to grow—no benefit to your own Dao path whatsoever."

Among the Three Thousand Guests of Zixiao Palace back then, some misunderstood the Dao Ancestor's intent, some understood clearly but had no desire to take you as a disciple, and some guessed the truth but dared not test a Saint's mind—what if it wasn't what they thought, and the Dao Ancestor punished them?

Thus, not one of those three thousand guests was willing to probe the Dao Ancestor's thoughts for the sake of an irrelevant monkey.