"Brothers, could you find a chance to take me away from Spirit Mountain? I really want to go out and wander around!" Great Roc said, leaning by the lake with his head tilted back.
The monkey said, "With your temperament, the Buddha would never allow you to leave whenever you pleased. Just stay here obediently. Isn't this place wonderful? No conflict, no danger—how happy."
"You have no idea how boring it is here. I feel like I'm about to turn into an idiot. Hey! You say my temperament is bad? Is yours any better? I think yours is far worse than mine. Why do you get to come out and play?"
Uchiha Shin smiled. "Because we have a good master."
Great Roc felt stabbed in the heart. He was trapped here all day long by his own nephew.
"Why don't you go back and ask Patriarch Subhuti whether he's still taking disciples?" Great Roc suddenly said with a smile.
The monkey said, "Stop dreaming. My master would never accept someone from the Buddhist sect as his disciple."
Uchiha Shin said, "If you want to leave Spirit Mountain, then learn from Tathagata's disciples. As long as you can be like them, you'll be free to leave Spirit Mountain whenever you want."
Great Roc thought for a moment, then shuddered as though he had recalled something terrifying. "I'm not doing that."
"Ah! How I wish someone would come provoke Spirit Mountain right now. Then I could have a good fight!"
Dong! Dong! Dong!...
The moment Great Roc finished speaking, bells began to ring. They rang far more rapidly than usual, as though something urgent had happened.
"Haha! There's a fight!" Great Roc leaped up. Without even drying the water from his body, he threw on his clothes and prepared to leave.
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