It had to be said, spirit communication was quite useful in a world of immortal cultivation. After Wang Yue performed the spell on the little monkey, it stood motionless inside the formation, cooperating as its intelligence was awakened.
Wang Yue was fairly skilled at formations. Once set up, they could run automatically, so he didn't have to worry about running out of magical energy and could keep cultivating in the meantime.
While he was cultivating, he suddenly heard the monkey chattering. What was remarkable was that he could actually understand what it was saying.
So he tested it, wanting to see whether the monkey could understand him. The result was astonishing: not only could the little monkey understand his words, it immediately responded.
Wang Yue found it fascinating and decided to see whether the monkey could cultivate. He used a secret technique to directly transfer the spells of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao into the monkey's Sea of Consciousness.
Then Wang Yue guided the true qi of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao through the monkey's body once, showing it how to absorb the essence of heaven and earth and turn it into its own true qi.
If someone else had attempted this, it might have caused a lot of trouble. The monkey could easily have been killed by the experiment.
But Wang Yue didn't have to worry about that. He had tried to alter the monkey's meridians, and failed who knew how many times. Whenever he failed, he simply used Time Reversal to start again. After a few days of this, the little monkey really could cultivate on its own.
As it turned out, some things came down to talent. Wang Yue's monkey, whom he'd named Erlang Shen, had only cultivated for three months, yet had already mastered the first