Dharma Not Transmitted to Six Ears, Four Monkeys of Chaos

"Refining the treasure prohibitions isn't urgent either. Since there's an opportunity to be gained, I naturally can't remain in secluded cultivation." Tongtian nodded.

And so, the two brothers reached a decision. After greeting the Twelve Ancestral Witches who were still cultivating, they passed through the Mysterious Gate of the Feminine and appeared at the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

"Dharma Not Transmitted to Six Ears."

At that moment, an indifferent, icy voice came from the depths of chaos hundreds of millions of miles away, resounding throughout the entire Primordial World.

The Primordial World Earth trembled violently, the Chaos Residual Qi atop Buzhou Mountain churned fiercely, and the Netherworld Blood Sea stirred up towering waves...

The voice seemed to carry the majesty of the Heavenly Dao, yet it was so cold it could freeze time, causing wind and clouds to surge across the Primordial World, with thunderclouds rolling across the sky!

"This... who angered Hongjun?" Tongtian said with a surprised expression.

A single sentence could trigger heavenly phenomena across the entire Primordial World—such means could only be accomplished by Hongjun, who had Proven Dao Hunyuan.

"One of the Four Monkeys of Chaos, the Six-Eared Macaque. Because his abilities defy heaven, he is destined to be envied by heaven..."

Xuanyuan's eyes shimmered with chaotic light, the Chaos Pearl within his Primordial Spirit trembling slightly, his gaze seeming able to penetrate time and space:

After the Great Divine Powers entered chaos, those with insufficient strength either died on the spot, their Dao annihilated, or abandoned their opportunities and returned to the Primordial World.

Among them, there was one exception.

The Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane rippled, and the Six-Eared Macaque transformed into a streak of light, clinging to the membrane and hiding for a full three thousand years. At this moment, he pricked up his four ears, capturing the faint, elusive Dao Sound in the void.

As one of the Four Monkeys of Chaos, the Six-Eared Macaque was Naturally Born with six ears, able to hear across the Three Realms and know past and future. If he were to Prove Dao Hunyuan in the future, he even had the potential to spy on the secrets of the Heavenly Dao.

Precisely because of this, he incurred heaven's envy. When he Formed and Born, his cultivation was only at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level.

During Hongjun's lecture, the Six-Eared Macaque pushed his divine powers and magic power to their limits, concentrating fully on listening to the indistinct Dao Sound from who knew how many hundreds of millions of miles away.

Yet he was completely unaware that in the depths of chaos, within the Purple Firmament Palace, an indifferent gaze was slowly turning toward him.

"My lecture tolerates no sly tricks. From this day forth, Dharma Not Transmitted to Six Ears."

The cold, icy voice suddenly tore through time and space, and the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane boomed with shock.

The Six-Eared Macaque let out a miserable scream. Black blood gushed from his ears, and the golden fur on his body withered inch by inch.

His divine ears, once able to hear all the world's secrets, twisted and deformed. The seventy-two innate divine powers flowing within his body melted away like boiling water on snow, vanishing without a trace in an instant.

With a single sentence, Hongjun not only crippled his divine powers but also severed his Dao Path, causing the other Great Divine Powers in the Primordial World to dare not take him as a disciple or pass down their Dao methods.

"Fourth Brother, what is the origin of these Four Monkeys of Chaos?" Tongtian asked curiously.

"Just as Father God Pangu's Primordial Spirit transformed into us Four Pangu Purities, and his essence blood transformed into the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Six-Eared Macaque also has an extraordinary background."

"The Six-Eared Macaque is one of the Four Monkeys of Chaos, and the Four Monkeys of Chaos are formed from the Primordial Spirit and origin of the War Demon God—the Chaos Demon Ape—who fell during the World-Opening Calamity, split into four parts." Xuanyuan said.

At the Primordial World's Beginning, the spiritual roots, treasures, and even the Great Divine Powers in heaven and earth were more or less connected to the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods of the World-Opening Calamity.

For example, the Five Needles Pine, the Five Elements Pagoda, and Old Ancestor Five Elements were related to the Five Elements Demon God.

The Four Monkeys of Chaos, born from the legacy of the Chaos Demon Ape, included, besides the Six-Eared Macaque, the Intelligent Stone Monkey, the Long-Armed Ape, and the Red-Bottomed Horse Monkey.

The Six-Eared Macaque was the first to emerge, followed by the Red-Bottomed Horse Monkey, Wuzhiqi, born in the Huai River, who possessed the power to overturn rivers and seas and was later subdued by Yu the Great Taming the Waters;

The third to emerge was the Long-Armed Ape, born at the convergence of spiritual veins. His arm bones were threaded through with innate primordial qi, granting him naturally born Divine Power. He could grasp the sun and moon, shrink a thousand mountains, discern good and ill fortune, and manipulate heaven and earth. With a single swing of his arms, he could tear through space and sense auspicious and calamitous events. He rose to prominence during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, named Yuan Hong, but ultimately died by the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife.

As for the last, that was the Intelligent Stone Monkey, Sun Wukong, who only emerged during the Journey to the West Calamity. His fate was even worse than the Six-Eared Macaque's.

Clearly a Heaven-Born Divine, yet in the beginning, he couldn't even deal with a minor World-Mixing Demon King, and in the end, he was shackled by the Buddhist sect...

"With such a background, how could he not even penetrate the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane? His cultivation is so shallow—what is the reason?" Tongtian raised an eyebrow, utterly perplexed.

Also originating from a Chaos Demon God, the Six-Eared Macaque's background, while not quite Comparable to the Four Pangu Purities and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, should still be extraordinary. He should have been a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal upon birth.

So why, by now, couldn't he even penetrate the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane?

"Brother, do you still remember the Twenty-Four Petaled Creation Green Lotus?" Xuanyuan said with a slight smile.

The reason the Six-Eared Macaque's cultivation was so low was likely because the Four Monkeys of Chaos were born bearing the will of the warring, heaven-defying Demon God. They were Heaven-Born, Not Subject to discipline, Not Subject to the Heavenly Dao's control, and were variables—hence, the Heavenly Dao could not tolerate them.

This situation was like the Twenty-Four Petaled Creation Green Lotus, which was shattered by the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder atop Buzhou Mountain Peak, incurring heaven's envy.

Of course, compared to the Creation Green Lotus, their circumstances were much better.

Not only did they successfully Formed and Born, but their potential and background suffered little loss—only their cultivation at birth was severely diminished.

"I see. So it was heaven's envy." Tongtian suddenly understood and asked no further.

The matter of the Six-Eared Macaque was just a minor episode. In the end, it had little to do with Xuanyuan and Tongtian.

Its greatest effect was to let Xuanyuan confirm that Hongjun's first lecture had officially begun.

Thus, within ten thousand years, there would be no Great Divine Powers on the Primordial World Earth capable of contending with him and his brother.

"Fourth Brother, where shall we go on this journey?" Tongtian surveyed Buzhou Mountain, but seeing no treasures emerging, he felt A Bit disappointed.

"Let's head east."

Xuanyuan calculated with his fingers, thought for a moment, and the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler appeared in his hand. Under the infusion of Grand Unity Magic Power, it burst forth with tens of thousands of profound patterns, transforming into a brilliant rainbow bridge that tore through the void.

With every tremor of the ruler, Merit Power surged and churned, and space shattered and reformed like broken glass...

Every swing of the ruler carried the two brothers millions of li away in an instant.

Hongjun's sermon lasted only ten thousand years—a mere blink compared to the boundless Primordial World Earth. Urging the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler forward was precisely the way to shorten the journey.

"When it comes to travel, my treasures are far inferior to this Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler!" Tongtian exclaimed in admiration, watching the space that was constantly being broken open.

Xuanyuan smiled faintly and said nothing.

Five hundred years passed like a white colt glimpsed through a crack.

One day, the Measure Heaven Ruler in Xuanyuan's hand suddenly trembled violently. From the direction its tip pointed, Nine-Colored Rosy Clouds surged upward, and faint sounds of dragon roars and phoenix cries drifted over.

"Such rich spiritual resonance!" Tongtian marveled.

"This place must be a top-level Blessed Land."

Within Xuanyuan's Nascent Soul, the Chaos Pearl spun gently. After a moment of quiet divination, a smile spread across Xuanyuan's face. The Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler then transformed into a colossal pillar ten thousand zhang tall, stabbing forward like a heavenly column.

The void before them rippled like water's surface. Dense spiritual resonance condensed into tangible green mist that rushed toward them, and faint traces of Chaos Residual Qi flickered in and out of sight.

Clearly, this Blessed Land had not yet been claimed by any other Great Divine Power. Even the Innate Restriction had only recently dissipated; shrouded in spiritual mist, it had yet to truly emerge into the world!

Parting the hazy spiritual mist, a towering mountain range slowly revealed itself.

Before their eyes, the peaks seemed splashed with ink by a master painter: the Seventy-Two Danxia Peaks pierced the clouds, while the Ninety-Nine Spirit Springs hung like silver ribbons;

Ancient trees scraped the sky among the mountains, their crowns entwined with five-colored cloud mists, every leaf flowing with faint traces of the Dao;

Spiritual veins coiled beneath their feet like dragons, earthly energy condensed into solid white mist, and spirit beasts formed from Innate Spiritual Qi could be glimpsed darting through it.

Yet Xuanyuan and Tongtian's gazes were drawn first to the Main Peak:

There, nine-colored auspicious clouds steamed and churned. Within the hazy mist, an ancient tea tree flickered in and out of view.

This tea tree was immensely thick, standing forty-nine thousand zhang tall. Its bark bore strange purple vein patterns, and it grew three thousand branches, coiling around one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred thick roots. Its entire body was a grayish-brown hue, Yet upon it grew only one hundred eight leaves, each shimmering with mysterious divine radiance, varying in size, color, and shape.

A Dao resonance carrying the tea tree's fragrance spread outward, making the laws of this place several times denser than elsewhere.

"A stroke of fortune! Another top-grade Innate Spiritual Root!"

Tongtian extended his Spiritual Sense, and before long, joy appeared on his face.

"The Enlightenment Tea Tree, also called the Big Red Robe Tea Tree—it is the very first tea tree in heaven and earth."

Xuanyuan clapped his hands and smiled.

Now that he had seen the Enlightenment Tea Tree, he knew exactly what this top-level Blessed Land he had discovered was.

And if so, another treasure might well be able to emerge ahead of its time.