Lin Yu had only asked casually, knowing that with the intelligence of this black and gold monkey, it was highly likely that it wouldn't understand what he was saying.
But to everyone's surprise, after hearing this, the black and gold monkey shook its head seriously, as if it completely understood Lin Yu's meaning, and directly denied that any other cultivators had been to the cave.
Lin Yu hadn't expected the black and gold monkey to be so certain about this, so he continued, "If no one has ever been to this place, how did the characters on the jujube tree form?"
"These characters are clearly intentionally placed. If you're so adamant, doesn't that just mean no one has been here since you arrived?"
"Then I'd like to ask you, were these characters already on the jujube tree before you arrived?"
Such a long string of words was clearly quite difficult for the black and gold monkey to understand. After listening, he pondered it carefully for a long time, first nodding, then shaking his head, looking confused.
But in the end, the black and gold monkey remained steadfast in its belief and shook its head righteously.
Looking at the expression on the black and gold monkey's face, it seemed to be saying, "The writing on this jujube tree could not possibly have been created by human hands!"
Lin Yu hadn't expected the black and gold monkey to be so determined about this matter, but since the monkey couldn't speak, he couldn't get any more information out of it for the time being. Helpless, Lin Yu had no choice but to follow the monkey to continue investigating the jujube trees.
The man and the monkey circled the jujube tree. Lin Yu suddenly noticed that the fragments of the sky-mending device in his storage space started to heat up again when he got close to the characters.
Moreover, this time, the fragments of the sky-mending device began to shimmer with light.
Lin Yu remembered this kind of light before; it was the light emitted when the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone came into contact with a power of similar attributes.
Lin Yu had naturally noticed this long ago.
Since leaving the Phoenix Ancestral Sea and arriving in the Netherworld Immortal Realm, Lin Yu has encountered power similar to the Heaven-Mending Fragment countless times, and has also felt the Heaven-Mending Fragment heating up and flickering countless times.
Lin Yu was already familiar with this pattern, but now he finally understood it.
The reason why the fragment of the sky-mending device in his hand was shining was because he had gotten close to the jujube tree.
It seems this jujube tree possesses power similar to the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone, indicating that the encounter with this black and gold monkey was a misunderstanding.
Lin Yu took out the Sky-Mending Fragment from his storage space, then approached the runes on the jujube tree. Sure enough, he found that the light on the Sky-Mending Fragment was flashing at a much faster frequency.
Moreover, as the flashing frequency increased, the temperature on the Sky-Mending Fragment also rose higher and higher.
The original moon-white fragments of the sky-mending device seemed to boil over in an instant, turning a deep red color.
The black and gold monkey watched all this unfold, chattering away as if it didn't understand what was happening before its eyes.
Lin Yu had no time to pay attention to the black and gold monkey; he was focused intently on the jujube tree in front of him.
Lin Yu had never thought about this question before, and simply assumed it was all a coincidence.
But now Lin Yu realized why there was a jujube tree here.
Moreover, judging from its appearance, it has lived for at least tens of millions of years.
Based on Lin Yu's previous speculation, this jujube tree might be an existence that spans an entire era.
This alone is enough to explain why this jujube tree is so unusual.
After all, even in the entire human world, there is only one Daoist Shouyang, a cultivator from the previous era who survived only by chance.
If this jujube tree didn't possess some special ability, how could it have so coincidentally appeared in this almost completely isolated mountain cave, spanning an entire era?
Thinking about this, Lin Yu suddenly felt enlightened.
He seemed to have overlooked this peculiar jujube tree at first glance; upon closer inspection, it was the most unusual creature in the entire cave.
However, having experienced so much in the Netherworld Immortal Realm, Lin Yu had become accustomed to some unbelievable things.
So much so that Lin Yu readily accepted the fact that a jujube tree had appeared in the cave.
And of course, there's the black and gold monkey in front of us.
However, it's clear that the black and gold monkey appeared after the jujube tree.
Only with jujube trees could this monkey survive; otherwise, this black and golden monkey would have starved to death long ago because it had no food to eat.
Lin Yu should have focused on the jujube tree first, then the monkey, but for various reasons, he initially focused his attention on the black and golden monkey.
But the black and gold monkey had just eaten dates, and Lin Yu himself had also just eaten dates.
Why didn't Lin Yu's body connect with the Heaven-Mending Fragment after he ate the dates?
Lin Yu glanced at the bewildered black-and-gold monkey, then at the tree laden with jujubes, and figured it must be related to the monkey spending years in the cave eating the fruit from the jujube tree.
All the jujubes on this tree, whether facing the stream or with their backs to it, have been eaten by this black and golden monkey. Over the years, the monkey must have eaten quite a lot.
Moreover, it was able to evolve even its original form by eating, so you can imagine just how much this little guy ate.
The change in the black and gold monkey's fur was probably caused by those dates; in comparison, Lin Yu ate far too few dates.
Therefore, he could not connect with the energy in the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone by absorbing the energy from the jujube tree, but the black-gold monkey could.
Having identified the problem, Lin Yu didn't hesitate and immediately took out the Heaven-Mending Fragment and placed it on the runes on the jujube tree.
"Buzz... buzz... buzz..."
As Lin Yu expected, the jujube tree indeed responded, and countless forces gathered on the characters.
The Heaven-Mending Fragment in Lin Yu's hand emitted rings of light, adhering tightly to the characters on it.
All of this can only prove one thing: this jujube tree is another fragment of the sky-mending piece.
Before this, Lin Yu never imagined that such a "small" Netherworld Immortal Realm would actually hide two fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone.
Lin Yu had done so much research before finding a piece in the Phoenix Ancestral Sea, but he never expected to encounter two pieces of the Sky-Mending Fragment directly upon arriving in this Netherworld Immortal Realm.
This is truly an unexpected delight!