86: Chapter 32 First Encounter with Tongbi 86: Chapter 32 First Encounter with Tongbi Outside Mount Sumeru, the Array set up by Li Qingming started to tremble intensely.
Xiong Da, who had been lying down nearby, shook his massive head, his eyes bursting forth with dazzling golden light.
Dressed in a dark blue robe, Li Qingming stepped out from inside the Array.
Looking at the vast and towering Mount Sumeru, whose peaks pierced the clouds and where the Great Leiyin Temple was shrouded in flowing mists.
Li Qingming slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and said,
“Whew, I’ve finally returned!” Li Qingming shook his hands and muttered, “I wonder how much time has passed!”
Xiong Da, upon seeing Li Qingming, was overjoyed and, fluttering his small wings, hurriedly flew over to rub his head against Li Qingming’s legs.
“Mount Sumeru!” Li Qingming patted Xiong Da’s fluffy head, chuckled coldly, and said, “I have sealed the Middle Ancient World in your West, hoping that billions of years later, it won’t disappoint me!
Now at Mount Sumeru, the Great Leiyin Temple.
The Bodhi Tree, with roots like dragons, deeply plunged into the earth, its full canopy of leaves ringing like the resounding Yellow Bell.
Jieyin Daoist and Zhunti, the Liang brothers, were staring at each other under the Bodhi Tree.
“Senior Brother, I must release this foul air no matter what!” Zhunti, his face full of Evil Qi, grunted as he clenched a few Bodhi Seeds, feeling a dull pain in his heart.
“Junior Brother, you are bewitched!” said the Jieyin Daoist, his face full of sorrow but looking quite calm at this moment.
“Senior Brother, it’s not that I am bewitched, it is that Qingmingzi has gone too far!” Zhunti clenched his teeth, threw a punch, and caused the water in the Lotus Pond to splash and ripples to form.
Seeing this, Jieyin sighed helplessly, “Alas!
Junior Brother, a troubled heart easily breeds Heart Demons!
Now that Luo Hou has transformed into an Outer Heaven Demon, we must be cautious!”
Zhunti’s expression was stern; even today, the devilish power of Luo Hou from the past was still terrifying.
“Senior Brother’s lesson is well-taken!
I will heed Senior Brother’s teachings!”
As the embodiment of Zhunti Daoist, the ancient and venerable Bodhi tree seemed like a piece of history and like a period of time, flowing from the past and slowly spreading towards the future.
The Bodhi Tree, like a scripture being flipped, emitted clear chanting sounds, as the sky transformed to reveal one bizarre scene after another, astonishing those who saw it.
Three thousand ascetics sitting in meditation within the significant points, the mysterious scriptures appearing tadpole-like, densely covering the entire Heavenly Vault.
Li Qingming manipulated complex hand gestures, and with each gesture, the blue-colored Yuqing True Essence layered up, firmly sealing this spatial coordinate at this location.
Xiong Da wagged his little tail, screaming delightfully as he circled around Li Qingming continuously, even occasionally lightly nipping at Li Qingming’s wide sleeves with his mouth.
His excitement was even more intense than when seeing a she-bear.
“You silly creature can actually speak human language, yet you insist on roaring in beast tongue.
To the unaware, they might think I’m mistreating an animal!” Li Qingming greatly favored this mount, both clever and crafty, even letting it ravage countless Spirit Fruits on Ten Thousand Bamboo Island to his heart’s content.
Our Flying Bear clan possesses an Innate Divine Ability capable of detecting all Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures within ten thousand miles.
There’s an object still maturing three thousand miles ahead, which will not emerge for a thousand years!
The crisp and thick voice weirdly combined together, creating Xiong Da’s unique sound.
I didn’t expect that after all these tens of thousands of years, you still had something hidden from me!” Li Qingming chuckled and patted Xiong Da’s sturdy fur, then leaped onto his back.
“Master, you wrong me!
My innate divine ability only awakened during the centuries you were gone!” Xiong Da squeezed out a few teardrops rather pitifully.
“Ha ha ha!” Li Qingming laughed and patted Xiong Da’s head, saying, “Xionger, aren’t you going to run fast?”
Upon receiving the command, Xiong Da moved as if endowed with divine help.
His huge body had already flashed tens of meters away before his form even disappeared.
After about half a day, Xiong Da stopped in front of a mountain range.
“Master, this is the place!”
Li Qingming, who had been dozing off on Xiong Da’s broad and sturdy back, slowly opened his eyes and looked out.
This place was dozens of miles away from the Western region.
The endless mountains stretched out like a Tian Long lying across the mountain range, with its dragon head raised, dragon claws spreading, and its dragon tail twisting and turning over thousands of miles!
The towering mountain peaks seemed to pierce through the clouds.
“What a marvelous mountain!” Li Qingming exclaimed softly as he looked up.
Before Li Qingming could fully enjoy the scene, a dozen huge rocks fell from the sky and pelted towards him and Xiong Da.
It really was like a leaking roof that meets continuous overnight rain, and a delayed boat encountering strong wind.
Li Qingming scowled and gathered his entire True Essence of mana, performing the Vertical Earth Golden Light Technique, transforming into a long cyan rainbow, shooting towards the mountain summit like lightning from the ground.
At the mountain summit, a seven-foot-tall monkey with a stubbly face and mouth like a thunder god, completely white, was waving its disproportionately large arms and screeching with bared teeth.
“Eh?” Li Qingming leapt to the mountain summit, staring at the monkey, which apart from its fur, looked almost exactly like Sun Ling, and thought to himself, “Could this monkey be one of them?”
Surprised, he began to calculate the origin of the monkey with his hand movements.
After a while, Li Qingming burst into laughter:
“Ha ha ha ha, finding it effortlessly after searching hard for it!
It turns out it’s the Long Armed Ape Monkey, one of the ‘Four Monkeys of Chaos’ who can ‘grab the sun and moon, shrink thousands of mountains, discern luck and fate, and manipulate Qiankun!’ Zhunti, oh Zhunti, no matter how much you plot, heaven does not assist you, ha ha ha ha!”
The monkey, seemingly with budding spiritual intelligence, didn’t realize that the person before it was a Great Power of Heaven and Earth.
It was copying the act, picking up a stone the size of a human head next to it and tossing it in Li Qingming’s direction as a show of force, making Qingming quite exasperated.
“Little monkey, I know you can understand human speech.
I mean no harm; I just came here to search for an item, and I will leave this place as soon as I find it,” Li Qingming said with a smile, seemingly with sincerity.
Although the monkey was excitable by nature, it was very simple.
Upon hearing this, it put down the stone and even pleasingly took out a peach, tossing it towards Li Qingming to test his reaction.
Li Qingming caught the peach with a chuckle, summoned a handful of clear water, carefully cleaned it, and then began to chew on it.
Using such a common spell openly in front of the monkey, wasn’t this showing off intentionally?
And indeed, the Long Armed Ape Monkey fell for it.
It was now staring with its mouth wide open, a clear and bright look in its eyes, pointing at Li Qingming and chattering non-stop.
Li Qingming continued to eat, pretending not to see the monkey’s peculiar behavior, driving the Long Armed Ape Monkey to a frenzy, scratching its ears and cheeks!