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Chapter 258 Monkey King

As in most versions, the monkeys looked at the waterfall and shouted, "Good water, good water!"

Their vocabulary of simple calls is indeed not very rich, but they still have simple binary descriptions such as good and bad.

But after a while, a hairy monkey suddenly suggested: "Whoever has the ability to go in and find the source without getting hurt, we will worship him as our king!"

Du Mu smiled and shook his head. Because of the abundant resources in Huaguo Mountain and the increased intelligence of the monkeys, their desires were also revealed as they were full of appetite and security. The original cruel natural law that only one monkey king in a tribe could have children and the other monkeys lost the right to mate was abandoned by them for hundreds of years.

But even so, the identity of "Monkey King" was passed down as a term. The other monkeys did not think that this identity was so precious or special, and they also agreed to it jokingly.

The stone monkey, who was among them, had been living among the monkeys for a long time and had gotten used to the primitive harmonious society. He finally began to have some self-awareness of wanting to be different.

After hearing this, he stood up decisively and shouted, "I'll go in! I'll go in!"

Then he closed his eyes, squatted down, and jumped straight into the waterfall.

The huge impact of the spring water was like a soft giant palm, slapping the stone monkey down hard.

The stone monkey thought to himself that this was not good. He was afraid that he would fall down into the mountain stream where he had come from before. He didn't know if he would be smashed to pieces.

However, he only moved his body a little bit lower before landing on the solid ground.

The stone monkey opened his eyes, looked up, and found that there was a stalactite-like stone bridge under him.

He calmed himself and looked carefully again, and found that the water under the bridge rushed through the stone holes, flowed out upside down, covering the bridge gate and forming a water curtain waterfall.

This is why there is such a large amount of water on the top of the mountain even though there is no snow or rain. It is actually due to self-circulation, with the water climbing the rocks and flowing upstream.

The stone monkey had lived in the Flower-Fruit Mountain for a long time, and he had finally understood many self-evident truths. Now, seeing that water flows upwards, it really impacted his newly formed cognition and was truly novel and interesting.

Looking at the other side of the water curtain, it is even deeper, and I can see emerald green mosses piled together. The light shining through the water curtain emits a bright blue color.

The cave is filled with water vapor, like white clouds floating on jade. The sunlight shines through the water curtain, creating light changes that look like a rainbow or a sunset, which is beautiful beyond words.

The stone monkey was attracted by the beautiful scenery. He walked across the stalactite bridge, came to the shore and walked into the cave.

As soon as he turned the corner, he was shocked to find that the beautiful cave, which he thought was a work of nature and formed by itself after being baptized by the sun and the moon, actually looked like a house, with furniture such as tables, chairs, and benches, and there was a person living in it.

Needless to say, the person the stone monkey saw was Du Mu.

The stone monkey felt lost at first, for he thought he was the first to discover the cave, but he didn't know it already had an owner.

However, when he saw the man's appearance, the stone monkey was stunned for a moment, and suddenly, he made a monkey sound: "Woo woo ah ah!"

But Du Mu understood what he said, he was saying: It's you!
Du Mu put down his brush. In addition to dealing with worldly affairs, he has been practicing calligraphy and writing after blocking out his spiritual energy.

Lingyun could no longer find Du Mu's handwriting and no longer attracted the power between heaven and earth. Du Mu was able to write well for a while. Du Mu finally found a lot of fun in this kind of thing that had no unified standards and purely pursued "beauty".

He looked at the stone monkey and smiled, "Little monkey, it seems you still remember me."

Although the stone monkey clearly could not understand human language, the meaning of Du Mu's words was directly imprinted in his mind, allowing him to fully understand it.

Now that the stone monkey has grown up and gotten rid of his ignorance, he can naturally understand that the person in front of him must be a divine master.

Although the experience was not profound, it did not stop the stone monkey from respectfully saying, "You were the one who saw me born. How could I forget it?"

The stone monkey was born with intelligence no less than that of an adult, so he naturally remembered his origins.

And because of his intelligence, he could think when he looked at the sky, clouds, and trees. Even though he just lived in the wild with the monkeys, he could see clearly and learn thoroughly the changes of heaven and earth and the natural cycle, which were placed before the eyes of the people of the world.

The more Du Mu looked at it, the happier he became. At first, it was indeed just because of his feelings for the monkey in his past life, but this was also the first time he saw such an intelligent individual.

However, despite this, Du Mu did not intend to accept anyone as a disciple.

The truth is not easily passed on. In Journey to the West, Sun Wukong first saw the monkeys around him grow old and die, and then realized that one cannot live forever and that happiness cannot last forever. Only then did he set out to learn from a master.

He wandered around all the way, witnessed all kinds of things in the world, and strengthened his determination to seek the truth, so he went to the Xieyue Sanxing Cave.

After entering the monastery, one cannot learn everything right away. It goes without saying that one can learn meditation and listening to sutras. It was only after Patriarch Bodhi observed Sun Wukong's character for several years that he decided to teach him.

All of this is not a test for Sun Wukong out of subjective purpose, but only when it is difficult to ask for help, people will especially cherish the teaching and help of others. Knowing your own shortcomings will make you more proactive in learning.

Now he wants to take the stone monkey as his disciple, but what is the difference between this and locking up a 6-year-old child in the world to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics?
Although the Four Books and Five Classics are valuable, forcing children to learn them will only make them feel disgusted with the knowledge they are learning rather than thirsty for knowledge.

So Du Mu just picked up the post he had just written and asked, "Can you read?"

The stone monkey looked at the two sentences written by Du Mu and was about to say that he could not read, but he was stunned.

Because he understood the meaning of these two sentences just by looking at them, and even couldn't help but recite them in human language unconsciously: "The blessed land of Huaguo Mountain... Water Curtain Cave?"

Du Mu smiled and said, "Yes, this is the name of this cave."

As he spoke, the stone monkey opened his eyes wide and watched the ink attached to the copybook slowly float up and fall on the cave walls on both sides of the stalactite bridge.

The next moment, two lines of handwriting identical to Du Mu's appeared on it, three-quarters deep into the stone! With exceptional clarity.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth instantly sensed the appearance of the handwriting and immediately gathered together madly.

Countless spiritual auras poured into these two lines of words. The aura was so powerful that it was like lifting a curtain of water, breaking up the surging waterfall.

The stone monkey was shocked and was about to turn around to ask the master what had happened, but he found that the master had disappeared.

At last, only two words lingered: "This Water Curtain Cave in the Flower-Fruit Mountain is given to you as a gift for becoming the Monkey King of the Flower-Fruit Mountain."

"Practicing here, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy is ten times faster than in the outside world."

congratulations?

The stone monkey was still digesting these words when he heard a bustling noise coming from behind him.

After the water curtain was lifted by Lingyun, countless monkeys jumped in and looked at the beautiful scenery in the cave in amazement.

It was not until they saw the stone monkey's back and heard the voice that they looked at each other in surprise and finally calmed down. The stone monkey slowly turned around and looked at the other monkeys.

When the stone monkey was still thinking about how to explain to the other monkeys what he had just seen, the hairy monkey who had first said "jump into the water and you will be king" suddenly emerged from the monkey group.

He ran to the front of the monkey group and shouted, "Monkey King! According to the agreement, as the master said, you will be our Monkey King from now on!"

“Ohhhhhh!”

The monkeys also shouted excitedly, chanting the words "Monkey King!" "Monkey King!"

These three words are used in human language, and I learned them from the words left by Du Mu.

Simple monkeys respect agreements more than humans. Since it has been agreed upon before, no monkey would object and they naturally accepted the identity of the stone monkey.

The stone monkey was also very happy. He had originally thought that the Water Curtain Cave had an owner, but he didn't expect that the master would give the cave to him just after they met.

This cave is very spacious and can accommodate thousands of people, young and old, and is more than enough for the entire monkey group to live in.

The stone monkey said loudly to the monkeys: "The master has given me the Water Curtain Cave. From now on, we have a place to hide when the wind blows and a place to stay when it rains. We are not afraid of frost or snow, and we will never hear thunder again."

He pointed to the inside of the Water Curtain Cave, where the sunlight was shining like white clouds at sunset, and said happily: "This place is always illuminated by mist and clouds, and auspicious signs are always blowing. It is a place of great beauty. This is not only the Flower-Fruit Mountain, but it is probably the best place in the world!"

When the monkeys heard this, they were all delighted and cheered one after another.

From then on, the stone monkey became the Monkey King of the Water Curtain Cave in the Flower-Fruit Mountain. He even learned to behave like humans, and was surrounded by ministers. He would travel to the Flower-Fruit Mountain every morning and stay in the Water Curtain Cave.

When the other monkeys in Huaguo Mountain heard about this, such as the apes, macaques, and horse monkeys, they all came to join him. The Monkey King accepted all monkeys and soon he became the leader of the entire Huaguo Mountain monkey group.

The Monkey King changed from an "ordinary" monkey to the Monkey King respected by all monkeys. He also had the Water Curtain Cave left by a master as his residence. With the title of Monkey King, he lived an extremely happy life and forgot about the "cultivation" left by Du Mu.

Du Mu saw this, but didn't take it seriously.

How long has the stone monkey been born? Now that you have the right to "rule over monkeys", enjoy it as much as possible.

Otherwise, when he becomes powerful and suddenly wants to be the king, will the world be big enough for him to rule?
In fact, even Du Mu is not immune to this.

In his previous life, when he was weak, he always forced himself not to read the cruel news.

Because every time he saw it, he would clench his fists, wishing that he had enough power to stop all the immoral evil in the world.

This is not to say that Du Mu wanted to be respected as a messenger of justice, because his desire was revealed by watching the news, not by watching animation.

What one does not get when young will haunt one for the rest of his life.

Ever since Du Mu gained power, even though there was no gift from the martial arts school at the beginning, he still used all means to deal with the Beggars' Gang, adopted disabled children, and took on everything he could within his ability.

In essence, this is Du Mu submitting an answer to his angry self in his previous life and satisfying his younger self who felt powerless about everything.

So after Du Mu gained the power of the Kryptonians, the first thing he did almost every time he arrived in a world was to start searching the world for crimes that he disliked and stop them.

Now that I already have this ability, it would be a waste not to use it.

Of course, from this point of view, Du Mu was extremely grateful to the older children who took care of him in the welfare home in his previous life, as well as to the society that sheltered him along the way.

When he was in the welfare home, he was bullied by the children of some criminals. Apart from that, his congenital disease continued to worsen after he grew up and started working.

That's why Du Mu never resented anyone, because life did not send a villain in the news to hurt him.

On the contrary, there is only endless help and shelter.

This is why Batman is worried that Du Mu will lose interest in humans, but Du Mu thinks that is unlikely.

Batman doesn't know Du Mu's growing up experience, so he doesn't understand Du Mu's love and care for humanity.

This has nothing to do with any interests, it's just that Du Mu simply enjoys human kindness.

This is why even though Du Mu has traveled to different worlds and witnessed billions of vicious events, his original intention has never changed.

Although this world is full of sins...but precisely because the underlying color of the world is kindness, those evil deeds are so conspicuous, as if to cover up all the goodness.

This is not some chicken soup, but a very natural thing.

Because the essence of "goodness" is "altruism", which is the basis for people to establish trust and cooperation with each other.

Only when there are enough people linked together can the group be strong enough to win in the competition between groups.

From this perspective, the advantage of evil is that in a society where kindness is the underlying principle, it is the first to break a promise and be completely selfish, thereby gaining benefits that are several times greater than if it abided by the agreement.

But if evil is not curbed, everyone will gradually become "evil" driven by interests, then they will no longer be united, become atomized, and eventually lose the most powerful force called "unity".

Therefore, no matter how evil a person is among the crowd, he will disguise himself as good.

Evil is nothing but a parasite of good.

Of course, this is actually a layer upon layer.

Individuals within a group are connected by kindness, but there is often violent competition between groups.

Kindness is nothing more than maintaining the group's advantage in violent competition.

Therefore, in the competition between different groups, kindness becomes a means of intensifying violence.

But for Du Mu, it is enough to rise to the group of "human beings".

He does not love all life, so he only limits himself to the scope of "human beings" and only calculates the competition between humans. Then, as long as society keeps moving forward, or in other words, if it wants to avoid being eliminated, it has to move forward, and kindness will eventually be the underlying color of society.

Otherwise, the outcome will be even more miserable.

For example, a nation that has been displaced for thousands of years, repeating the cycle of "killing others and being killed by others, going into exile and being pitiful, being tolerated, then killing others again, being killed by others again, and then going into exile and being pitiful again." This outrageous process.

(End of this chapter)