Stunned.
Utterly stunned.
Nuwa stood outside Gu Changqing's cave abode, her limpid, autumn-water eyes fixed on the three monkeys before her. The expression on her peerlessly beautiful face shifted several times.
At first, she had merely been surprised-the sight of three monkeys gathered outside Gu Changqing's cave abode was certainly novel, but that was all.
After all, Gu Changqing's actions had always defied expectations. Never mind keeping three monkeys at his doorstep; even if he captured every monkey in the Primordial World, Nuwa would not have found it particularly strange.
But once she saw the origins of those three monkeys clearly...
She lost all composure.
"This..."
Nuwa opened her mouth, wanting to say something, only to find that her throat seemed blocked by something. She could not get a single word out.
Just moments earlier, her divine sense had instinctively probed deep into the origins of those three monkeys.
And then, she had seen it.
She had seen those three ancient, primordial, pure auras of chaos.
They were exactly like the aura deep within Sun Wukong's origin.
The same lineage, the same source.
Nuwa's mind went utterly blank.
She had come to Golden Ao Island to discuss the Buddhist School's Sun Wukong with Gu Changqing.
She had thought she had discerned the Buddhist School's schemes, seen through that Stone Monkey's innate origins, and brought important news.
Yet now, looking at these three monkeys, she suddenly felt... her worries seemed entirely unnecessary.
The Buddhist School had exhausted every scheme to bring back a Sky-Mending Stone from the Eastern World, nurture it with a Sage's power for centuries, and have disciples chant sutras and expound the Dao day after day, all to cultivate a single Stone Monkey of Numinous Wisdom.
He had emerged into the world as a Daluo Golden Immortal, with