Chapter Seven: The Power to Easily Control Fate

The General Store was where Sun Wukong's hopes now lay.

At this point, Sun Wukong had no intention of staying in the underworld any longer and left directly.

"Sun Wukong." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's eyes flashed with light, but he did not pursue Sun Wukong.

What Ksitigarbha needed to focus on was why Sun Wukong knew about Journey to the West.

Could a Saint have interfered with the calamity?

"Perhaps..." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said quietly. "I should leave the underworld for a while."

Above the Heavenly Court, all the officials had gathered.

Sitting on the high throne was none other than the Jade Emperor, the Heavenly Court's ruler in name.

The topic of discussion this time was a monkey—a monkey called Sun Wukong.

Earlier, the Dragon King of the Dragon Palace had reported that Sun Wukong had seized the Dragon Palace's treasures. Now, King Yama of the underworld had come to the Heavenly Court to report as well.

So how to deal with Sun Wukong required careful discussion.

"Your Majesty, I, Li Jing, am willing to lead the heavenly soldiers to capture the Demon Monkey." Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li stepped forward and spoke respectfully.

"Your Majesty, I don't think capturing the Demon Monkey directly would be wise." Taibai Jinxing, whose beard and hair were completely white, also came forward and said, "Perhaps we can use the method of offering amnesty."

"Taibai, offering amnesty would be bad for our Heavenly Court. It would damage the Heavenly Court's dignity." Li Jing frowned.

To Li Jing, Sun Wukong was merely an insignificant Demon Monkey.

"Your Majesty, I leave the decision to you." Taibai Jinxing said.

"Hmm..." The Jade Emperor said indifferently, "We shall follow Minister Taibai's method and summon Sun Wukong to the Heavenly Court to take an official position. As it happens, the position of Bimawen is vacant."

"Bimawen?" Taibai Jinxing was stunned.

Originally, when Taibai Jinxing proposed bringing Sun Wukong to the Heavenly Court as an official, he had intended to give him a good position.

But now His Majesty had actually assigned him to be Bimawen.

That did not count as an official position. It was merely a minor clerk's post—raising horses.

"Your Majesty..." Taibai Jinxing still wanted to say something.

"Minister, I trust you. Go." The Jade Emperor waved his hand.

Li Jing said nothing at this point.

Assigning him as Bimawen was certainly not a good position.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Taibai Jinxing gave a wry smile and accepted the task.

He was to go to Flower-Fruit Mountain and offer Sun Wukong amnesty.

"Shopkeeper, Shopkeeper, I'm back again." After returning from the underworld, Sun Wukong immediately came to the General Store where Wu Feng was.

"You came back so quickly. What good stuff did you get this time?" Wu Feng opened the door to let Sun Wukong in and teased him.

"Shopkeeper, I did get some things. Take a look and see how many Exchange Points they're worth." Sun Wukong waved his hand.

With a series of clinking sounds,

item after item fell to the ground.

The Soul-Reaping Rope, the Wailing Stick, the Yin Soul Blade...

No matter how one looked at them, they were all things from the underworld.

Chapter Seven: The Power to Easily Control Fate

The General Store.

Looking at the spiritual treasures scattered at his feet, Wu Feng smiled faintly. "Sun Wukong, did you rob the underworld?"

"Shopkeeper, who can blame me when King Yama made a mistake and had me arrested and brought to the underworld? This is their compensation." Sun Wukong's face flushed slightly.

Facing Wu Feng, Sun Wukong still felt somewhat embarrassed.

After all, he really had robbed the underworld and stripped many Underworld Officers of everything they had.

There were still plenty of standard-issue uniforms lying on the ground.

"Let me calculate..." A radiance enveloped the spiritual treasures at his feet.

"There are a total of one thousand one hundred Exchange Points. You can look around the General Store for something meant for you, or, as before, find a book to read." Wu Feng suggested.

"Thank you, Shopkeeper." Sun Wukong's face lit up with joy.

One thousand one hundred Exchange Points was quite a sum. His thorough search of the underworld had not been in vain.

As for reading books, Sun Wukong did not underestimate that option either.

They would not be inferior to pure treasures.

Previously, he had obtained powerful cultivation techniques and a precious strand of bloodline power from Journey to the West.

"Shopkeeper, when I went to the underworld this time, I met a monk who said his name was Ksitigarbha." Sun Wukong said, "I told him about Journey to the West, and he seemed to know about it. Shopkeeper, is my fate really being controlled by those Immortals and Gods?"

"Ksitigarbha." Wu Feng's gaze shifted. "Sun Wukong, that monk you met was no ordinary person. He was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, one of Buddhism's bodhisattvas. His strength would not be inferior to Guanyin Bodhisattva's."

"Guanyin Bodhisattva." Sun Wukong's eyes narrowed.

When he had gone to Patriarch Bodhi to seek instruction, he had seen many statues of Guanyin in the mortal world.

This bodhisattva was quite extraordinary.

"As for whether your fate is being controlled, I think you already understand the answer in your heart." Wu Feng spoke slowly.

After experiencing the underworld and encountering Ksitigarbha, Wu Feng understood that Sun Wukong had already reached a conclusion in his heart. He simply did not dare believe it, which was why he had asked Wu Feng.

After all, in Sun Wukong's eyes, Wu Feng was a great power—an incredibly powerful one.

"Thank you, Shopkeeper. I understand." Flames burned fiercely in Sun Wukong's eyes. They were the flames of anger and determination.

He, Sun Wukong, would not let others manipulate him.

After taking a deep breath and steadying his emotions, Sun Wukong began looking through several cabinets nearby.

For Sun Wukong now, increasing his strength was the most important thing.

The cabinets in the General Store held many treasures, as well as Heavenly Treasures, all of which could directly or indirectly increase his strength.

Before he knew it, Sun Wukong once again arrived in front of a cabinet holding books.

Journey to the West was still tucked away in a corner of the cabinet, so Wukong looked at the other books.

A Record of a Mortal's Cultivation, Seeking Demon, Shrouding the Heavens, Perfect World, The Yang Spirit... and others.

Although Sun Wukong knew their names, he still had no idea what was inside them.

To pick one up and read it, he first had to spend ten points, so Sun Wukong decided he had to be more cautious.

"Huh, what's this..." Sun Wukong's gaze fell on a book, and he stared at it without blinking. Written on it were the words Journey to the West.

"Journey to the West." Sun Wukong muttered to himself, placed his hand on the book, and picked it up.

Naturally, at that moment, the Exchange Points he had accumulated were deducted directly.

Once he had Exchange Points, deducting them was quite convenient. He did not need to communicate with Wu Feng.

To a certain extent, the General Store was quite intelligent.

More importantly, this book was called Journey to the West. In Journey to the West, there had also been mention of a journey to the west.

That was the fate of him, Sun Wukong.

Perhaps in this Journey to the West, he could learn more.

"Oh..." Wu Feng watched Sun Wukong's actions from the side and smiled faintly.

Sun Wukong's choice this time had indeed surprised Wu Feng somewhat.

Among so many things, this was the only book that had caught his eye.

Journey to the West contained matters concerning Sun Wukong.

It would also be the beginning of Sun Wukong changing his fate.

"Sun Wukong, then let me see how far you can ultimately go." Wu Feng said softly.

Watching himself change this world, Wu Feng found it quite interesting.

"Rustle, rustle..."

Sun Wukong sat in a corner, picked up Journey to the West, and began reading.

As he read this Journey to the West, Sun Wukong quickly discovered something: it was the story of his own life.

From his birth from the Five-Colored Stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain, to his growth on Flower-Fruit Mountain, to his journey to Cave of Three Stars, where Patriarch Bodhi resided, to become his disciple.

After that, he caused a commotion in the Dragon Palace and then in the underworld...

"Huh? That's not right. The underworld is different now." Sun Wukong discovered this point. "Could it be that the me in this book is my original fate?"