The three quickly became friends, chatting together to their hearts' content.
"Hahaha! I really wish I'd met you two sooner. Staying in Spirit Mountain all day has bored me half to death!"
Great Roc was especially happy today. At last, he had found people he could chat with freely. Whenever he saw those monks preaching scriptures now, he felt like throwing up.
Great Roc looked at the two of them again, and his eyes suddenly lit up. "I feel like old friends with you both at first sight, and our interests align so well. Why don't the three of us become sworn brothers? I often hear about the mortal world from Dipankara Buddha. When friends are close, naturally they become sworn brothers."
Uchiha Shin: "..."
Wasn't Great Roc being a little too hasty?
The monkey was naturally delighted. Though he had had a minor conflict with Great Roc before, they got along remarkably well, and he was about to agree when Uchiha Shin stopped him.
"What? You two aren't willing? Are you looking down on me, Great Roc?" Great Roc said with some displeasure.
Uchiha Shin said, "Not at all. The two of us are Buddha's juniors, while you are Buddha's maternal uncle. We wouldn't dare become sworn brothers with you. It would throw the generations into disorder."
Uchiha Shin simply did not want to have such deep ties with the Buddhist sect. After all, the Buddhist sect would inevitably become their enemy in the future, especially the monkey's.
If the monkey became sworn brothers with someone from the Buddhist sect now, he would surely suffer over it in the future.
When the monkey heard that, he realized it made sense. If they became sworn brothers with Great Roc, they would be a generation above Buddha. And Buddha was of