Journey to the West World.
Eastern Divine Continent.
Aolai Kingdom, Flower Fruit Mountain.
There was a Water Curtain Cave in the mountain. Within it lay a Cave-Dwelling World, vast beyond measure.
At the mountain peak sat a stone, utterly motionless.
It had once been a Heaven-Mending Stone, mending the heavens countless times until the Heavenly Dao was complete, whereupon it fell into slumber.
The calamities of the past had long since become unknown, and he now knew nothing at all.
One day.
The stone shattered with a crack.
A Stone Monkey, born of nature, bounced and leaped through the wilderness. He knew nothing of this world and was filled with curiosity.
Humans were born with seven apertures, but he had nine. He was a spirit born to seek immortality and pursue the Dao.
One day.
He was searching the forest for fruit when he suddenly saw many monkeys gathered before a waterfall.
A monkey dressed in black cried out, "Whoever can leap across it, we shall all honor as our king!"
King?
The Stone Monkey sprang forward and jumped into the waterfall.
The instant he passed through it, the waterfall opened up a small world of its own and became a new Water Curtain Cave.
When the Stone Monkey looked back, the old monkey in black had already vanished without a trace.
Then one day, several old monkeys died in the cave for no apparent reason.
The Handsome Monkey King grieved for them, unable to understand why this had happened.
Then another monkey dressed in black said, "Your Majesty, if you seek immortality, you must travel overseas to seek an immortal!"
Seek immortality?
"Old monkey!"
Just as the Handsome Monkey King wanted to ask a few more questions, the monkey in black disappeared.
Strange.
Why did he always feel as