Within the Zhengyao Realm, the Stone Monkey Great Sage, pacing anxiously like an ant on a hot pan, suddenly felt an inexplicable wrenching pain rise from his heart.
That inexplicable pain made the Stone Monkey Great Sage's face turn deathly pale. It seemed he had thought of something.
In a frantic rush, he took an exquisitely crafted little jade carving from the Mustard Seed Space within his body.
The little jade carving, once gleaming with Spiritual Light, had now become dull and lusterless, covered in countless tiny cracks.
His knees gave way, and the Stone Monkey Great Sage collapsed heavily to the ground, crying out in grief, "Blue-Eyed!"
Although their Demon Race's cultivation before the Dao Realm was, thanks to their Talent Bloodlines, as natural as water flowing into a channel, the period before and after awakening their intelligence was exceptionally difficult.
Stone Monkey and Blue-Eyed had both been wild mountain monkeys back then. From the days when they had been ignorant beasts without awakened intelligence, they had depended on each other for company. Later, when their intelligence awakened and they became Demon Cultivators, their friendship only grew deeper.
They had cultivated side by side all the way until now. Though each had encountered their own opportunities, the depth of the bond between them was beyond description.
The little jade carving in his hand was an ornamental trinket personally carved and refined by the Blue-Eyed Great Sage several thousand years ago, before the two of them agreed to enter closed-door cultivation to break through to the Dao Realm.
Yet it contained the Blue-Eyed Great Sage's primordial spirit imprint. Should he fail in his closed-door cultivation and die, the primordial spirit imprint would shatter, and this object would naturally crack apart.
When they emerged from their closed-door cultivation several thousand years