Old Round cast an invisibility spell, concealing his form. In the blink of an eye, he arrived near the third teleportation array. With a slight sweep of his divine sense, he discovered that white ape.
Though he knew he had no illegitimate children—he had never even gone looking for a mother monkey—he could not help feeling dazed when he saw that white ape.
They were not exactly identical, but they looked seventy or eighty percent alike. Of course, that was from a human perspective. After all, to humans, monkeys all looked more or less the same.
But in the eyes of apes, the monkey before him was quite different from him. It was only because they retained many ape-like traits after taking human form that their appearances seemed so highly similar.
Of course, Old Round had come mainly to have a look, to see whether he might find himself a disciple to serve him.
He had no interest in finding himself a wife like A Qiu and producing a whole litter of brats.
But finding a disciple was no problem at all.
With his ape-like appearance, taking a human disciple would be somewhat unsuitable. Mainly, he feared it would put the other party in an awkward position, so it was best to find an ape or monkey.
He had encountered quite a few monkeys before, but none had satisfied him.
This one, however, pleased him quite well. But when he saw Duer beside Yuan Hong, he began to worry. Was this monkey the Daoist's disciple, or perhaps his gatekeeping boy?
Seeing them comprehending the Dao, Old Round cast a spell and directly transferred them to his residence at First Academy. Then he unhurriedly returned to the reclining chair in the gatehouse.
Before long, the former Wu ancestors, now the