NOVPUBFirst of all, although this little monkey looks very ordinary, since it has been able to live here for a million years, there must be something extraordinary about it. According to what Sun Wukong knew before, the Fallen Tomb is actually the battlefield and burial ground of an ancient war, which was formed a million years ago, meaning this little monkey has been around since its creation. A million years, he must be highly familiar with this place. If I could get this little monkey’s help, that would definitely make things much easier. And he just said that he stumbled in here by accident, which naturally leads to the question of what this place really is, otherwise it would be hard to explain if suspected. 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
The little monkey glanced at Sun Wukong and said, "This place is called the Fallen Tomb by people from the outside, but it’s actually the grave of those two big villains. Moreover, there are countless corpses and treasure weapons here, so people from the outside try to find ways to come here searching for treasures. Since you stumbled in here by accident, that just means you’re rather lucky, and meeting me means you’re even luckier. I am the boss here, everything is up to me!" Sun Wukong was somewhat surprised; the little monkey’s words were basically no different from what he had heard before. However, the mention of the graves of those two big villains by the little monkey made Sun Wukong quite curious. Two big villains? Who could they be?
"You’re so small, and not powerful, who would make you the boss? Don’t try to deceive me. Let me tell you, I am the king of monkeys. Outside, I have a Flower Fruit Mountain, filled with monkeys everywhere, all of them calling me their king!" Sun Wukong was clearly just cajoling the little monkey. While the monkey might have lived here for a million years, it must not have experienced much. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have settled for just three bottles of Elixir. The little monkey didn’t get angry, and said somewhat indifferently, "If you don’t know, then don’t talk nonsense, I am the boss here. Also, what is a monkey?"
Sun Wukong, a bit surprised, said, "You are a monkey, don’t you even know what species you belong to?" At this, the little monkey looked startled, then laughed unnaturally and said, "I’m a monkey, right, I’m a monkey," while looking down at his own hands and feet. "You’re quite an odd little fellow. You like this kind of Elixir a lot, don’t you?" Sun Wukong didn’t really pay much attention to the expression of the little monkey, instead, he asked temptingly.
The little monkey’s eyes lit up and he said, "Yes, yes, these Elixirs are very useful to me. Why, do you have more?" Sun Wukong nodded meaningfully and said, "Of course, and I have many even better than this one. As long as you do me a favor, I’ll give them all to you!" The little monkey nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay, just tell me what you need. There’s no place here I’m not familiar with." As soon as he heard that there were better Elixirs, the little monkey immediately became excited. The Elixirs were very useful for nourishing his soul, much better than the painstaking Cultivation he had been doing bit by bit here. Those who had come in here before occasionally had such Elixirs, but he could only control the skeletons to defeat those people and take a few bottles. But that was way too few and not nearly enough.
What the little monkey didn’t know was that this type of soul-nourishing Elixir was only available in the Netherworld World, and the ones Sun Wukong had were taken when he was in the Netherworld World. The ones the little monkey had gotten before were also brought by people from the Netherworld World when they entered the Fallen Tomb and then taken by him. Seeing the little monkey’s eager face, Sun Wukong suddenly felt a little guilty; it was like deceiving a child with sweets. However, Sun Wukong couldn’t care much about that anymore. "I want to see if there are any strange places here; I’m just interested in those odd places. Anyway, I don’t know how to get out, so I might as well see what’s interesting here." After saying that, Sun Wukong suddenly realized he had made a critical mistake in his words.
If this little monkey were to say he knew a way to send him out, that would really be a case of shooting himself in the foot. Luckily, the little monkey didn’t say that, otherwise, Sun Wukong would have no choice but to turn into a villain and force the little monkey to show him the way. The little monkey looked at Sun Wukong eagerly and said, "Sure, there are many strange places here, where do you want to go?" Sun Wukong breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a moment, and said, "Is there any place that is the most special?" The little monkey thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If you’d stayed in a place for a million years, would you still find anything about it strange or special?"
Sun Wukong was speechless; the little monkey’s point was quite valid. He laughed and said, "Well then, for each special place you take me to, I’ll give you twenty bottles of Elixir better than this one, how’s that?" After finishing speaking, Sun Wukong pointed at the Jade Vase in the little monkey’s hand. The little monkey didn’t hesitate to nod in agreement.
"Are we going now or waiting?" The little monkey wrapped the three Jade Vases in an old cloth and carried them on his back, looking like a scavenging beggar no matter how you looked at him. Sun Wukong, barely holding back laughter, looked around and saw there was nothing worth staying for, and said, "Let’s go, let’s go. Oh, what was the deal with those skeletons just now? Did you do that?" The little monkey, carrying the old cloth, walked ahead without turning his head and said, "Yes, every time someone comes in, I control those bones to give them a beating, letting them know this isn’t a place where they can mess around." Sun Wukong watched the little monkey, with its back straight as an arrow, and asked with a chuckle, "But why was that big skeleton so easy to defeat? Have you always used that to teach those people a lesson?"
