What Are You Trying to Do, Refusing to Learn This or That? Climbing the Mountain in the Dead of Night

"Old Ancestor, I have never cultivated the Dao, nor do I know what techniques would be best for me to learn."

Wukong scratched his head sheepishly. "I beg you, Patriarch, please teach me!"

"You little monkey, you are rather clever." Randeng chuckled. "Within the Dao Path are three hundred and sixty side paths. Side paths can also yield proper fruition. Do you wish to learn?"

"I'll listen to Teacher, I'll listen to Teacher." Wukong replied with delight.

Randeng smiled. "How about I teach you the ways of the Technique Path?"

The moment Sun Wukong heard that, his interest was piqued. He asked curiously, "Patriarch, what kind of technique is that? Is it powerful?"

"The Technique Path includes inviting immortals, spirit-writing, divination, and casting yarrow stalks, allowing one to know how to seek fortune and avoid disaster." Daoist Randeng smiled. "This technique is not bad. It would be enough to make you a Divination Immortal in the Human Realm."

"A Divination Immortal?" Upon hearing the word "immortal," Wukong immediately scratched his ears and cheeks in wild delight.

He hurriedly asked, "Would it grant immortality?"

Daoist Randeng shook his head. "No."

The moment Wukong heard that, he shook his head in great disappointment. "Forget it, forget it. If even a Divination Immortal cannot live forever, why would I learn this stuff? I won't learn it!"

"Then how about I teach you the ways of the Stillness Path?"

Wukong asked, "What fruition does the Stillness Path bring?"

The Patriarch said, "It involves abstaining from grain and guarding the valley, purity and inaction, meditating upon Zen and sitting in meditation, refraining from speech and maintaining a vegetarian diet, sleeping exercises, standing exercises, and entering samadhi or sitting in seclusion."

"Can this also grant immortality?" Sun Wukong immediately looked at Randeng curiously.

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