Monkey King Seeks Immortal Fate, a Woodcutter Leads the Way to Fangcun Mountain-Why Can't I Get In?

After leaving the war-torn Central Plains.

The Monkey King asked many people about places where one might possibly cultivate into an Immortal.

Unfortunately, he had visited temples, Taoist shrines, the dojos of scattered cultivators, and many other places.

Yet he was either driven away or unable to learn anything about opportunities to become an Immortal.

Many people shook their heads and said that cultivating into an Immortal was difficult. If one wished to become an Immortal, one had to seek out powerful Immortals as masters. Only then would it be possible.

Ordinary people like them were, by all reason, unlikely to become Immortals.

Thus.

Driven by his obsession with cultivating into an Immortal and attaining eternal life, the Monkey King left the East Sea Coast and traveled far and wide in search of so-called immortal opportunities, crossing towering mountains and traversing countless dangerous places.

Yet he could never find those so-called immortal opportunities.

Through countless springs, summers, autumns, and winters, through countless hardships and bloody storms, the Monkey King pressed on with unwavering resolve.

Back in Water Curtain Cave, he had boasted grandly.

If he failed to find an opportunity to become an Immortal, he would never return to Flower Fruit Mountain to face his fellow monkeys and descendants!

Over fifty years.

Everything he had experienced in the outside world had left the Monkey King with an indescribable feeling.

There was also an unspeakable weatheredness in his heart.

Those eyes of his grew brighter and purer, as though washed clean by lead, like divine eyes capable of seeing through everything in the world.

Fortunately, effort did not fail those who persisted.

By chance, the Monkey King helped an injured villager return home from the wilderness and heard a legend about an Immortal from him.

"Elder, is there truly an Immortal