When the stone monkey stood on the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, he was already covered with dust and a heart full of holes.

Compared with him ten years ago, he has grown much taller, a full 1.6 meters. If he is short by human standards, but as a monkey, he is already a behemoth.

There are no superfluous words, high mountains, long stone steps, stone monkeys bow three times and nine knocks, step by step.

Go to the top of the mountain and see the Taoist temple built in the cave.

"Dongsheng Shenzhou Huaguo Mountain Stone Monkey, ask to see Patriarch Su Bodhi!I would like to worship the door and seek immortal arts!" he shouted loudly, kowtowing three times.

After a long time, the stone monkey quietly raised his head.

Birds and birds were singing, insects and cicadas were crying, but there was no movement, and the tall vermilion gate was still tightly closed.

"Dongsheng Shenzhou Huaguo Mountain Stone Monkey, ask to see Patriarch Su Bodhi!I wish to worship the disciple and seek immortal arts!" he shouted again, kowtowing heavily, the blood on his forehead deeply imprinted on the rough stone surface, like a plum blossom in the snow.

Still no movement.

"Didn't you hear that?" thought the stone monkey, vaguely worried.

In the Taoist temple, a Taoist boy held a dust whisk in his hand, walked quickly along the long mountain road into the cave, and then turned into the inner room.

"Master, there is a monkey ......"

"The teacher already knows, you step down. The white-haired old man sat on the futon and practiced with his eyes closed, and after only one sentence, he didn't say anything.

Dao Tong stupidly withdrew outside.

In the scorching sun, a sparrow stopped on the ground, pecked at the grass growing in the crevice, looked up at the stone monkey, and quickly flew away.

"What's going on?" the stone monkey wiped the sweat from his face with his hand, "Am I really early?"

The blood on his forehead had coagulated, but the tall red door still didn't move.

"Isn't the test already underway?" thought the stone monkey.

A cloth-robed man climbed up from the bottom of the mountain and knelt beside him: "Contemptible Li Qing, a person from Luoqiong in Xiniu Hezhou, came here for the sake of the avenue, hoping to worship under the Patriarch Su Bodhi, willing to be a slave, and pass the scriptures every day!"

He didn't even knock his head.

Not long after, a gray-clothed girl with a round face and a delicate face pushed open the red door and came out of the Taoist temple, and said to the man: "Master, please." ”

"There's a chief of the road to lead the way. The man got up and saluted.

The stone monkey also wanted to stand up, but heard the girl say coldly: "The master didn't invite you." ”

"Huh?" the stone monkey paused for a moment, and had to watch the two enter, the door slammed shut, and no man came out.

For three days, the stone monkey only felt that his eyes were hazy, and he was about to faint from hunger, and the red door slowly opened a crack.

The round-faced girl again, and she crept out of it: "I am the Patriarch Subodhi sitting down the boy. ”

"Hello senior sister!" the stone monkey remembered to salute, but fell to the ground.

In three days, he had already lost sensation in his feet.

Along the way, ten years, he has never slept a day, thinking that he can rest for a few days when he goes up the mountain, but he didn't expect that the nightmare is not over......

The girl came to the stone monkey, leaned down and whispered in the stone monkey's ear, "Shizun asked, are you hungry?"

"Hungry. The stone monkey said.

"Go back when you're hungry. ”

"Back to ...... Go back?" the stone monkey opened its mouth wide.

"Where you came from, where you are going. ”

"I ...... I'm from Huaguo Mountain, Dongsheng Shenzhou......"

"Then go back to Huaguo Mountain in Dongsheng Shenzhou. The girl turned and walked away, showing no mercy.

The stone monkey's mouth twitched violently.

"This Su Bodhi Patriarch...... Is there any mistake! Do you have any sympathy for this old immortal thing? I got here 108,000 miles from Huaguo Mountain! Damn! You didn't even see me, let me go back? Do you know how I got through these 108,000 miles?" he cursed in his heart.

The girl, who was about to slip in through the crack in the door, straightened her waist sharply and nodded her head in succession.

This scene made the stone monkey stunned.

"Could it be that there is still someone standing behind the door?"

The girl turned around and squatted down in front of the stone monkey, with a hint of mockery in her eyes: "The master said that if a saint has no way and has cultivated to become an immortal, he will not have compassion, so you better go back." ”

"What? He can read my mind?"

"Just mind reading, how rare is it to live in the master's respect. The girl's face was proud, and she turned around as she spoke.

The stone monkey hurriedly stretched out a hand and grabbed the girl's ankle.

"Senior sister, senior sister, don't go. ”

"What are you doing? When did the master say that he was going to accept you, how could you call it?" The girl raised the dust and hit the stone monkey's head, raised her foot and stepped on the palm of the stone monkey, and crushed mercilessly.

In the end, it is a cultivator, and when he steps down, he is more powerful than an adult.

But no matter how hard she tried, the stone monkey just didn't let go, just gritted her teeth and didn't say a word.

When she saw blood oozing from the palm of the stone monkey's hand, the girl was startled and quickly shrank her feet.

"You...... What do you want to do?" the girl was about to burst into tears, after all, she was a teenager, and she hadn't seen much blood yet.

"Master, why don't you accept me?" the stone monkey asked in severe pain.

"If the master doesn't accept it, how do I know why? You better go, it will save me a lot of trouble!"

"Where are you going?" the stone monkey looked blank and let go of his hand slightly.

The girl hurriedly took the opportunity to retract her feet, trotted a few steps before turning back and shouting, "Where to go back and forth!"

"Where are you going back and forth, where are you going back and forth?" the stone monkey whispered with a wry smile, wiped his face with his hand, and laughed wildly.

The blood stained her face all over her face, and her hideous appearance frightened the girl for a while: "Isn't this monkey crazy?"

With that, he turned around and ran, and the giant red gate slammed shut again.

"I can't go back, I can't go back. "The stone monkey never dreamed that it would inexplicably stop at a place one step away from becoming an immortal.

"Go back? How do I go back? Just go back, what will I take to pick up the birds......"

You can't give up, you can't give up anyway, because there's no way back.

If he doesn't become an immortal, he will always be a monkey, a monkey in the ordinary mountains.

Shifting with difficulty, to his knees, he bowed his head and remained silent.

The sun rose, the sun set, and in the blink of an eye, another three days passed.

I heard that people can go without food for more than ten days, but they can only go without drinking water for seven days. The stone monkey had not drunk a sip of water for seven days and seven nights under the scorching sun, and he didn't know how long he could hold on.

After ten years of training, he is no longer the stone monkey who just went to sea, and he must be able to last longer. Is this time still as lucky as before?

"Why don't you take it? Isn't it supposed to put me to the test? Is this also a test? Then why can others go in directly, but I can't? Because I'm too early? Or do the gods dislike me as a monkey?"

"Maybe, maybe as soon as I'm fainting, he'll go out and save me. When I wake up, it's inside the door. Suddenly remembering the golden carp he had seen in the haze of the sea ten years ago, the stone monkey raised his eyelids and looked at the huge door with already somewhat red eyes.

One door apart, but a world of difference.

Thinking about it, the stone monkey couldn't help but smile bitterly, he was so lowly that he wanted to kneel at the door and exchange his life for a way out.

But hasn't he been like this for the past ten years?

"Nothing can stop me!