The monkey had a full set of features and all four limbs, but shifting phantoms covered its body, each one a Myriad Manifestation Thought from Chen Cuo's Previous Life. As soon as it took shape, it scratched its ears and cheeks, radiating restlessness, impatience, and a wild urge to leap about.
The sight instantly brought a certain figure from mythology to Chen Cuo's mind.
"Mind Monkey?"
But doubt followed at once.
"Why did this thing come into being?"
A moment ago, Chen Cuo had stuffed all his insights, great and small, into the Human Dao Golden Book. He had intended to use the advantage this place offered to separate the Myriad Manifestation Thought from the Frenzied Thought of his Previous Life. Only after refining them completely would he release those insights and sort through them.
"But I haven't finished refining this side, and all those insights have already broken through the Human Thought Golden Book's seal? Just because they touched some Myriad Manifestation Thought I hadn't refined or gathered in, they took the shape of an Ape on their own?"
Still, Apes had their famous figures in both history and myth. Some subconscious impression might have remained within him across his Previous Life and present lives, then been seized by those tangled insights and thoughts to form this Ape. That made sense, too.
"Once I've refined the Myriad Manifestation Thought completely, I'll examine this monkey. But first things first..."
With that thought, Chen Cuo sent a Dao Thought to make the Ape in his heart quiet down and sleep in a corner of his mind.
Instead, the Ape bared its teeth. It neither quieted down nor slept. It even looked up at the Mind Daoist, then lunged at him with claws outstretched!
"I can't control it!"
Chen Cuo could clearly