Chapter 6: Sun Yuan Returns to the Mountain, Summary of Experiences

  "No matter how clever Sun Yuan was, he couldn't have imagined that Long Mao would react this way to the news. 'Alright, I admit defeat,' he said simply. 'If those apes beat you up again in the future, you won't even be able to fight back. Which ape will still want to play with you then?'"

  "Hmm, what you said seems to make some sense, but with the king around, those apes wouldn't dare hit me. Besides, getting beaten and playing seem like two different concepts, right?" Long Mao asked doubtfully.

  "You...!" Sun Yuan was at a loss, not knowing how to deal with this simple-minded monkey. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said "Are you going to practice or not? I'm warning you now, if you don't practice, I, Sun Yuan, won't acknowledge you as my friend. When the time comes, don't blame me for turning against you and throwing you off the mountain."

  As soon as he heard this, Zhang Mao immediately became anxious and said with a worried face "I'll practice, you tell me."

  "Look, this is the first style of monkey picking peaches." Sun Yuan decided to cut through the chaos with a quick knife. It seems that although he had crossed over into a monkey, his soul was still human and on some profound issues, he was still fundamentally different from monkeys.

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  The whole afternoon passed, and Zhang Mao reluctantly practiced all the moves of Monkey Fist again and again. Every time he wanted to stop, Sun Yuan would cough on the side, indicating that he was still there, so Zhang Mao had to continue practicing. Finally, the sun finished its daily duty and fell from the sky, and the moon rose, revealing its head. Seeing that his old opponent was gone, it happily ran out.

  "Alright, that's it for today. From now on, set aside an hour each day to practice, and come up the mountain every seven days so I can check your progress. If I find out you're slacking off, our friendship is over." Sun Yuan said this, hoping from the bottom of his heart that his only good friend in Huaguo Mountain could live a longer, more vibrant life.

  "Ah, I'm exhausted." Upon hearing that practice was over, Zhang Wei plopped down on the ground with a thud.

  "What are you two doing here?" Suddenly, a voice came from the bamboo thicket behind them. Sun Yuan turned his head to look and saw Mei Houwang jumping out of the peach with a "whoosh".

  "Taught the yellow monkey some kung fu, Great King, I'm going back to the mountain now. Thanks for your hospitality these days." Sun Yuan didn't keep it a secret from Shi Hou, and besides, with Zhang Mao's personality, it was impossible to keep this matter confidential.

  "Oh, you're leaving so soon? Won't you stay for another two days? You and I, brothers, can have some more fun together. It's too lonely on the mountain top by oneself!" Monkey King's eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness, clearly sensitive to the word "kung fu".

  "No, you and I are brothers, destined to meet again. Farewell, Your Majesty, I'm leaving." Sun Yuan snapped his fingers, a gust of black wind suddenly rose from nowhere, enveloping his entire monkey body, and in just a few breaths, he vanished into the horizon.

  "This yellow monkey, what is he after? But I must say, his determination is quite admirable!" The beautiful Monkey King gazed at the disappearing figure of Sun Wukong, a hint of envy flashing in his eyes. However, thinking about his own carefree life as a deity, the beautiful Monkey King dismissed the idea of cultivating with Sun Wukong, and besides, he didn't have the patience to sit and cultivate anyway.

  "Huang Hou said he was pursuing freedom, I really don't know what he's thinking. We are free and easy in this world, aren't we already free?" At this moment, Zhang Mao had calmed down and stood up carelessly after finding out that Sun Yuan had left.

  "Freedom, freedom!" The Monkey King gazed at the vast and boundless sky, suddenly having a slight epiphany, but as the moon rose, this epiphany was instantly washed away by the endless beauty of the night under the moon.

  The Monkey King has not yet awakened his Taoist heart. Even if Sun Wukong stirred up his heart to cultivate the Tao, he quickly recovered.

  "Long-haired, Yellow Monkey has passed on to you what kung fu skills? Tell me all about it, I want to see if Yellow Monkey has made any progress in the past hundred years." The Monkey King regained his composure and spoke seriously to Long-haired.

  "Alright, great king. However, Huang Hou said that you would have mastered this road's fist method long ago. But if you want to see it, I can demonstrate it once more. These movements are quite difficult!"

  "I'll try? Okay, you practice and see." The sun sets in the west, and the silhouettes of two monkeys gradually blend together.

  Half an hour later, Mei Houwang, who had learned the complete Monkey Fist, lay contentedly on the grass, basking in the moonlight. The two monkeys immediately forgot the sadness of Sun Wukong's departure and began to summon the monkey group with drums and cymbals, starting their joyful life on Mount Huaguo at night.

  At the top of Huaguo Mountain, a black whirlwind floated by, and in front of the cave, the black wind dissipated. Sun Wukong's figure appeared, he looked at Huaguo Mountain under the night sky again, his eyes flashing with a hint of melancholy, then firmly stepped onto the fairy stone pedestal of Huaguo Mountain.

  To cope with future crises, his current cultivation is still far from enough!

  It's said that the cultivation of monsters is naturally different from humans. Human cultivation emphasizes refining essence and transforming it into energy, practicing energy to return to spirit, and refining spirit to revert to emptiness. However, due to their innate racial characteristics, monster cultivation does not go through these steps.

  Since cultivation, Sun Yuan realized that the cultivation of monsters might just be a few processes. At first, a monster opened its spiritual wisdom and started to cultivate its heart. This is the most basic thing, and it's also the biggest difference between monsters and humans, because many monsters can't even open their spiritual wisdom.

  Moreover, among the group of demons who have opened their spiritual wisdom, there are still many like Zhang Mao, who live a carefree life every day without any intention of cultivating and transcending. Of course, this first step is the easiest for Sun Yuan, a transmigrator, because he was originally a human soul, specifically the soul of an adult male human being, who had been nurtured by the internet in the information explosion era.

  This is the second step to Tongfa. As cultivation progresses, a kind of energy similar to true energy will be produced in the body of the demon, combined with the previous life's, Sun Yuan named it as Yao Li, which is considered to be at the same level as Xian Li, both belonging to a type of Fa Li.

  The demon that opens the spiritual wisdom, with its own heart, can absorb the power of the moon at night and accumulate demonic energy. This is a big difference from humans, which is also an advantage of demons, because they don't need any cultivation methods. Of course, having cultivation methods is better, as it not only absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth faster but also facilitates the mastery of the realm of law.

  As the demonic energy accumulates, under normal circumstances without any cultivation techniques, a relatively talented demon with decent innate abilities will, after cultivating for one or two hundred years, be able to roughly grasp some spellcasting due to the influence of the demonic energy. For example, Sun Yuan's Wind Sweeping Spell is one such technique. Of course, most of these spells are just tricks to intimidate people, and nine out of ten are illusionary techniques, specifically those low-level illusions that aren't even worth mentioning.