Chapter 9: Dionysus
As soon as the spirit monkey left, it was a day, and he didn't come back until it was dark, Xiao Wensheng couldn't help but wonder a little, didn't they have any need for this spirit elixir?
With doubts, Xiao Wensheng came to the woods early the next day, waiting for the arrival of the spirit monkey.
This time, the spirit monkey didn't let Xiao Wensheng wait long, and in the time of a pillar of incense, the squeak of the spirit monkey came into Xiao Wensheng's ears, and then, the golden figure of the spirit monkey had already arrived in front of Xiao Wensheng.
"Brother Monkey, yesterday and the future were discussing this matter with the clan, I don't know what the result will be?"
Xiao Wensheng looked at the spirit monkey in front of him with a little expectation.
"Squeak, squeak. The spirit monkey barked twice, waved his hand to Xiao Wensheng, and motioned for Xiao Wensheng to go with it.
"You want to take me to your clan?" Xiao Wensheng vaguely guessed that this should be the meaning.
Hearing Xiao Wensheng's words, the spirit monkey nodded vigorously, took a few steps forward, and then stopped to look at Xiao Wensheng, waiting for him to follow.
Xiao Wensheng thought about it for a while, it is not impossible to go to the monkey clan, I heard the master say that some spirit monkeys can live for hundreds of years, maybe they can already speak human words, and it is convenient to communicate.
Thinking of this, Xiao Wensheng followed.
Seeing Xiao Wensheng start to follow him, the spirit monkey was extremely excited, squeaking to lead the way in front, and from time to time he would look back to see if Xiao Wensheng had followed, just like that, one person and one monkey shuttled through the mountains.
This spirit monkey is extremely agile, one will climb the tree, and the other will swing from this tree to a tree next to it, playing happily, and there is also a figure behind him, also jumping and leaping on the ground and strange stones, the speed is not slower than that spirit monkey, this body, of course, is Xiao Wensheng.
Xiao Wensheng's own spiritual root has wind, the wind is formless and imageless, the most elegant, Xiao Wensheng carries a little true yuan, and the whole body is like a light wind, passing through the forest.
"Brother Monkey, how far is it?" Xiao Wensheng looked at the spirit monkey on the tree and asked.
Hearing Xiao Wensheng's words, the spirit monkey raised his hand and pointed to the halfway point of the opposite Yuheng Peak, signaling that they would live there.
"Brother Monkey, why don't we have a competition and see who gets there first?" Xiao Wensheng liked the feeling of going fast just now, since this is the case, why not come here happily?
The spirit monkey's eyes lit up when he heard Xiao Wensheng's words, and he squeaked twice, and with a whoosh, his body turned into a golden shadow and swung towards a tree in the distance, and in a flash, it appeared on another tree again.
"Brother Monkey, you are cheating. Seeing that the spirit monkey ran away first, Xiao Wensheng didn't let it go at all, and the wind was under his feet, and he flew away.
A person and a monkey flew over the mountains, the fierce spirit birds flew up all over the mountain, and the beasts avoided it, Xiao Wensheng didn't know until this moment that there were so many kinds of creatures in this mountain, and they were all very spiritual, knowing that the monk was the master here, so even the fierce spirit beasts would not attack Xiao Wensheng.
When the time has reached the afternoon, Xiao Wensheng and the spirit monkey have been entering Yuheng Peak for a while, and this is really the land card of the spirit monkey, from time to time you will find groups of monkeys squatting there on the fork tickling each other, and look at Xiao Wensheng and the golden spirit monkey who walked over with a curious face, and Xiao Wensheng also found that most of these spirit monkey hair are dark gray hair, and they are not extremely beautiful with the hair of the golden spirit monkey, and it can be seen from their eyes that they do not have the spirit of the golden spirit monkey.
Could it be that this golden spirit monkey is a different species? Xiao Wensheng couldn't help but think.
The more you walked inside, the number of monkeys began to increase, on the trees, groups on the ground were playing and playing, and Xiao Wensheng also noticed that after arriving here, the tree species began to turn into spirit fruit trees, red, orange, fiery red, all kinds of spirit fruits hung on the trees, most of which Xiao Wensheng couldn't name.
didn't go far, the golden spirit monkey took Xiao Wensheng to a huge spirit fruit tree, this is a very huge fruit tree, the trunk is estimated to be hugged by more than ten people to hug it, the branches are grasshoppers, the branches are covered with huge palm-shaped leaves, and the golden fruits are hidden between the leaves.
What surprised Xiao Wensheng even more was that a simple small house was built between the thick branches of this huge fruit tree.
"Squeak, squeak. The golden monkey barked at the hut above the trunk.
"Xiao Jin, have you brought a distinguished guest?" From the hut, an old voice came, and then, an old monkey walked out of the door, only to see that the old monkey's hair was already white, and he was still wearing a loose gray robe, bent over, holding a crutch in his hand, looking old, but then the old monkey stepped on the void from the top of the tree house to Xiao Wensheng's scene, but Xiao Wensheng did not dare to underestimate this old monkey at all.
"Dear guests, welcome to our Spirit Monkey Clan. The old monkey bent down and saluted Xiao Wensheng as he spoke.
"Dear Spirit Monkey Elder, you don't need to be so polite. Xiao Wensheng hurriedly returned the salute, not for anything else, just the old monkey's dress and stepping on the void just now, he could already win his respect.
"Distinguished guest, let's go to the house and talk. The old monkey said, raised and grabbed, Xiao Wensheng only felt that his body was slowly floating up with the old monkey's body, and then gently landed in front of the door of the small house on the tree, and the golden spirit monkey had already climbed up, politely opened the door, and invited the two of them in.
The old monkey touched the head of the golden spirit monkey, and entered the hut with Xiao Wensheng, there was no heat in it, and a table and a few seats were carved out of the branches of the big tree.
"Distinguished guest, please take a seat, old monkey grandson, for my little grandson has been bothering you. The old monkey said, glancing at the golden spirit monkey sitting next to him, his eyes were full of doting looks, which were completely indistinguishable from human beings.
"You're polite, you may know us monks very well by living in this mountain all year round, the mountains are boring, and having Brother Monkey to accompany me to practice swords makes me feel less depressed. Xiao Wensheng said.
"It's good that you don't bother your guests, I don't know what to call them?" asked the old monkey.
"The contemptible surname is Xiao, and the name is Wensheng. ”
"Xiao Zhenren, the Spirit Pill that Xiao Jin brought back yesterday is indeed of great help to our monkey group, are you really willing to exchange this spirit pill for our monkey wine? After all, the value of monkey wine is far less than this spirit pill. The old monkey said.
"As you said, this elixir is far less useful to us than monkey wine, so we will think of exchanging with you, so that we can benefit each other and get the greatest benefit, what do you say? Xiao Wensheng said.
"Of course we monkeys don't have any opinions, this is a very beneficial thing for our monkeys, but I don't know how many of these pills you can provide us?" At this time, the old monkey asked the question it was most concerned about.
"My second senior brother is proficient in the way of alchemy, as long as there are materials needed for the elixir, you can practice it into a pill, but after all, my senior brother is only one person, and he can't pick so many spirit grass and spirit fruits, but you have lived here for so long, you must know everything about this place, and you can easily find the materials for alchemy, my idea is for you to find the materials, and then my senior brother will refine the pill into the elixir, which will be used in exchange for your monkey wine. ”
"There is another question, I don't know how many years your monkey wine is?" Xiao Wensheng added another question after speaking.
"You don't have to worry about monkey wine at all, the fifty years that Xiao Jin gave you are relatively low, we have stored a lot of monkey wine for a hundred years, and there are a lot of hundreds of years, even if it is a thousand years of monkey wine, we can take it out, I'm afraid you can't take out the equivalent of the pill." The old man of the Spirit Monkey Clan said with a smile.
"We don't dare to ask for a thousand years of monkey wine, and being able to get a hundred years of monkey wine has been of great help to our cultivation. Xiao Wensheng said.
"Distinguished guest, I can see that you are a trustworthy person, there is no trace of greed when you hear the thousand-year-old monkey wine, to tell you the truth, we do have the thousand-year-old monkey wine, but you can only use it with the consent of the ancestors, not I can have the final say. ”
"As for the materials you said about alchemy, we do have some here, and it won't be of much use to put them here, so I'll bring them back to you, and after refining the pill, you can let Xiaojin bring it back, and, in order to express our sincerity, we will first give you five gourds of fifty-year-old monkey wine, four gourds of hundred-year-old monkey wine, and one gourd for two-hundred-year-old ones, and we will give you another gourd after the elixir is refined. As he spoke, gourds kept appearing in the old monkey's hands, and they were placed on the table one by one in a row.
Xiao Wensheng didn't go to check the monkey wine, a blue and white porcelain vase appeared in his hand, handed it to the old monkey and said: "This is the Qiling Pill that my second senior brother refined last time, more than ten grains, I will bring it to you first, and I will let Brother Monkey bring it over when I refine the pill in the future, when I need any alchemy materials, I will also write it out and bring it to you, respected elder, what do you think?" After handing over the pill, Xiao Wensheng put the monkey wine on the table into the storage ring.
After talking about business, Xiao Wensheng chatted with the elder of the spirit monkey clan for a while, and learned that the old monkey who called himself Sun Hou has lived for more than 150 years, and he is a veritable old monkey, and the golden spirit monkey, the little gold in the mouth of the old monkey, actually appeared on this tree with a golden lightning, and was found and raised by the old monkey, and this big tree, which was originally just an ordinary fruit tree, began to transform after the baptism of the golden thunder and lightning, and the golden fruit produced was also the ration of the golden spirit monkey, except for this golden fruit, Xiao Jin did not eat anything。
Sometimes living for a long time is a kind of capital, and you can know a lot of things, such as the Protector Spirit Beast that Xiao Wen said when he was born, according to this old monkey, it is a huge white jade dragon, with horns on the top of its head, and a dragon lin, and it is already moving towards the last step of turning into a dragon.
During the period, the golden spirit monkey also picked a golden fruit for Xiao Wensheng to taste, this is a treatment that even the old monkey has never enjoyed, this golden spirit fruit is tender and juicy, the entrance is sweet, and the aroma is tangy, extremely delicious, no wonder the golden spirit monkey only eats this, after eating this, it is strange that he is still interested in other spirit fruits.
What Xiao Wensheng didn't know was that after this golden spirit fruit was eaten by him, it turned into a little bit of golden energy, entered his dantian, and gave him a great benefit, this benefit Xiao Wensheng couldn't experience for the time being, and when his cultivation slowly improved, he would understand.
In the early morning of the second day, Xiao Wensheng returned to Ziyang Peak with various spirit grass and spirit fruits of the spirit monkey clan, and in the surprised expression of the second senior brother, he poured those elixir spirit fruits on the second senior brother in one go, and gave the second senior brother a gourd for a hundred years of monkey wine, and then found the senior brother, and also gave the senior brother a gourd for a hundred years of monkey wine, the third senior brother, and the fourth senior sister also had a gourd for a hundred years of monkey wine, and the fifth senior brother's cultivation was not high, and he couldn't withstand the impact of the aura of the monkey wine for a hundred years, Xiao Wensheng gave him two gourds of fifty-year-old monkey wine, and he was happy to pat Xiao Wensheng on the shoulder and said that he was righteous enough。
Up to now, only the gourd's two-hundred-year-old monkey wine has not been given away, and this gourd, of course, has been given to the master.
When he came to the master's distance, Xiao Wensheng heard the voice of the drunken Taoist before he began to call the door: "Come in." ”
Xiao Wensheng pushed the door in, and the drunken Taoist was still on the stone chair, drinking the wine in the gourd, looking at Xiao Wensheng and saying with a smile: "The aroma of the wine in your gourd, I can smell it from afar, such a strong aroma should be a hundred years of monkey wine this time." After speaking, the drunken Taoist shook his nose vigorously and sniffed it well.
"The master is right, this is two hundred years of monkey wine, and I have reached an agreement with the spirit monkey. This gourd monkey wine is their filial piety to your old man. ”
As he spoke, Xiao Wensheng handed the gourd to the drunken Taoist.
The drunken Taoist opened the stopper of the gourd, and the aura came to his face, and because the storage age was too long, the original liquid had become very viscous, showing a golden yellow.
"It's really extraordinary, no wonder this wine is the source wine in the Dionysian Records. The drunken Taoist said to himself.
After speaking, there was an extra jade slip in the hand of the drunken Taoist, and he threw it to Xiao Wensheng and said: "This jade slip was obtained by accident many years ago, you can get such a year of monkey wine It seems that it is related to you, if you like it, you can take it to study, the way of the god of wine in this is not worse than the alchemy of your second senior brother." ”
Xiao Wensheng took the jade slip curiously, and looked inside, and found that it was recorded in the recipes and brewing methods of various spirit wines.
After a cursory look, Xiao Wensheng said, "Thank you, master." ”
"Okay, you don't have to thank me, with your gourd for a hundred years of monkey wine, it's enough for me to show off, I have to find an old friend to show off, you go back." The drunken Taoist said with an excited look on his face.
"That, master, I see that you have been drinking your gourd but it seems that you can't drink it all, how much wine can it hold?"
"This, this gourd is born to be a storage container, it has its own space, of course it can hold a lot of wine, there is a gourd vine in the valley west of our Tianji Peak, every few years will give birth to a gourd like this, it is not a treasure, you can go and see if there is one. After the drunken Taoist finished speaking, the person had already disappeared in place.
Xiao Wensheng returned to his courtyard, thinking about one day to pick one, it was too troublesome to use these ordinary gourds one by one.