Niu Dali and Wang Mopeng

"Yes, Great King!"

Hou Jiji gazed at Monkey in reverence.

Monkey sat before a stone table, a brush in his left hand, his expression focused...

Writing books!

The stone walls to the left and right inside the cave dwelling, as well as behind the throne, had been chiseled into the shape of bookshelves, and they were packed full of books.

Whenever Monkey finished writing one, he tossed it casually behind him, and the book glowed as it flew by itself into a secret chamber inside Water Curtain Cave, behind the throne.

Hou Jiji looked toward that stone door, a fervent look of longing and envy flashing through his eyes.

That was because the bookshelves on the two sides of the cave dwelling held books of the Human Race on literacy and the Hundred Schools of Thought.

But the secret chamber behind Monkey was different. What was placed inside were cultivation methods, spells, divine abilities, and some books he had silently rewritten after reading them in Three-Star Cave.

They reached up to astronomy and down to geography!

There were also many spells; it could be said they encompassed everything, their contents incomparably broad and abundant.

At the entrance to the secret chamber sat an old ape with white brows, cross-legged. His long white beard was a full three feet long, his expression calm, his eyes closed. Across Old Ape's knees lay a walking staff with a large gourd hanging from it.

This Old Ape was the guardian of the books in that secret chamber.

After Monkey returned, he began teaching the monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain some methods for cultivating immortality and refining qi. Among them, this old monkey, along with two Red-Buttocked Horse Monkeys and two Long-Armed Apes, had the best talent.

In just a few short years, they had