In the end, Du'e Adept still took the Long-Armed Gibbon, Yuan Hong, along with him.
Du'e Adept had ultimately gone soft-hearted and did not abandon this monkey, whose innate foundation was actually not bad. He even teased him, saying, "Your innate foundation is actually quite good. Unfortunately, your luck is poor. By the time you came here, Jiejiao had already moved away from Kunlun Mountain..."
Yuan Hong spoke in human language. "I have cultivated for less than a thousand years and have only just attained Transformation Form..."
Du'e glanced at him, somewhat speechless. "And you call that Transformation Form?"
His face was still covered in monkey fur, and he still had a thunder-god mouth. He was not much different from an actual monkey at all, yet he called this Transformation Form?
Yuan Hong stretched himself, bounced a few times, then shrank back down and laughed. "Doesn't Adept think I actually look quite handsome? The female monkeys in the mountains are all smitten with me. It is only because my ambitions lie elsewhere that I have not long since become a monkey king!"
Du'e burst into laughter. "Truly, when there are no tigers in the mountains, a monkey claims himself king. Do you know what the beast king of Kunlun Mountain used to be?"
"A tiger?" Yuan Hong asked curiously.
"Yes! But those Two Tigers followed Queen Mother of the West into the Heavenly Court long ago. I heard those two tigers once studied at First Academy as well..."
Hearing this, Yuan Hong scratched his ears and cheeks. "How much does Adept know about First Academy? Could you tell me about it?"
Just as the Chanjiao disciples descended the mountain to establish Daoist Temples and take on disciples, and Du'e Adept headed east with Yuan Hong to seek learning, a