I'm already a Great Luo Golden Immortal, how come you're only Martial Saints?

"Senior brother, please come with me!"

Ning Chen, pulling his senior brother who had just been woken from his sleep and whose eyes were still dazed, led him to the rotten peach grove behind the mountain...

Looking at his lively senior brother, who knew nothing about the future, the tragic scene of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven five hundred years later was vividly clear in his mind.

Under the Buddha's light and the myriad swords of heavenly thunder, the defiant figure struggling to hold on overlapped and separated from the carefree Monkey King before him, causing Ning Chen's eyes to feel slightly hot.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his turbulent emotions, and with a flick of his wrist, took out an item from the divine realm space.

A huge peach, brimming with spiritual energy but with a somewhat dry and wrinkled skin, appeared in his palm!

"what?"

Monkey King abruptly stopped, his golden eyes widening instantly as he stared intently at the enormous peach in Ning Chen's hand, his mouth practically watering.

"Junior brother! This...this peach! What a huge peach! I, Old Sun, have eaten all kinds of fruit on Flower Fruit Mountain, but I've never seen such a treasure! Where did you pick it?"

Ning Chen couldn't help but chuckle at the longing in the monkey's eyes.

"Senior brother, it doesn't matter where you come from. Obtaining this spiritual item today is our destiny as fellow disciples. Come, let's share it!"

After saying that, he released a slight force from his palm.

With a crisp crack, the nine-thousand-year-old peach instantly split in two.

A dense spiritual energy, like mist, surged from the peach, instantly spreading out and even giving the surrounding rotten peach trees a vibrant new life.

Monkey King couldn't wait any longer. He cheered, took the half-pie of peach that Ning Chen handed him, which was bigger than his monkey paw, and started to bite into it.

Ning Chen also held the other half and took a bite.

The moment I took the first bite of peach, a warm current swept through my entire body, like a spring flowing into a dry riverbed, and every inch of my skin seemed to rejoice.

At the same time, a divine realm notification popped up in front of Ning Chen's eyes.

Lifespan +10000 years! Constitution +100 points!

Ning Chen was shocked. As expected of a peach that ripens only once every nine thousand years, its efficacy was indeed heaven-defying!

Although it didn't quite reach the point where one bite would grant immortality, it was still quite remarkable.

After all, five hundred years passed after the peach was picked, and it was then divided and eaten, so it's normal that its effects were somewhat diminished...

"Eat up, junior brother, what are you standing there for?"

The monkey, its mouth full of peach flesh, called out to Ning Chen indistinctly.

Ning Chen dared not be negligent and took several bites in succession. With each bite, a divine realm prompt appeared!

Lifespan +10000 years! Constitution +100 points!

Lifespan +10000 years! Constitution +100 points!

……

After six bites, the half-eaten peach was completely gone.

By eating just half a peach, Ning Chen gained a total of 60,000 years of lifespan and 600 points of increased root bone!

His physique broke through the 2000-point mark, and a notification popped up in front of him.

[Her physical constitution has been greatly improved, and she has obtained an innate Dao body!]

An unprecedented sense of clarity filled his entire body, and Ning Chen felt as if he had been reborn, his perception of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth becoming several times more acute.

Monkey King, meanwhile, was thoroughly enjoying his meal, licking the peach juice off his fingers and smacking his lips with lingering satisfaction.

"Delicious! Delicious! Junior brother, these peaches are simply the best I've ever eaten in my life! It's just... the skin is a bit dry, and they're not very juicy. Which sacred mountain did you pick this treasure from? Tell me quickly, I want to go and find it too!"

His eyes gleamed, and his gaze towards Ning Chen was filled with longing for the delicious food.

Monkeys have absolutely no resistance to peaches. Five hundred years later, when the Seven Fairies were frozen in place, the monkey was still only concerned with picking peaches.

They're impossible to teach!

Ning Chen smiled and shook his head.

If you really want to know where these peaches came from...

That was five hundred years later, when you, senior brother, were imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain and treasured it for five hundred years, just to leave it to me, your junior brother!

But he couldn't say it outright, because the lessons of history were still fresh in his mind. Last time, when he was drunk and spoke carelessly, the monkey angrily raised an army to rebel against the Heavenly Court and was eventually suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain.

Now that he has prematurely revealed his destiny to Monkey King, it will inevitably cause trouble again.

Fortunately, this is only his third year of learning martial arts at Fangcun Mountain. There are still seven years until Monkey King completes his apprenticeship in ten years, so he can take his time and doesn't need to rush.

Ning Chen said seriously.

"Senior brother, let's set aside the origin of this peach for now. Our priority is to seize the moment!"

"What do you mean by that, junior brother?"

Seeing his senior brother's puzzled look, Ning Chen continued.

"No matter how good these peaches are, they are just external forces. True freedom and ease must be earned through one's own abilities! Today, my junior brother has accidentally comprehended a technique that is extremely suitable for both of us. Senior brother, why don't you give it a try?"

After saying that, Ning Chen then recounted how he had mastered the Nine Yang Manual, which was extremely yang and strong, and the Nine Yin Manual, which was extremely yin and gentle, thanks to his unparalleled comprehension.

This is a brand new cultivation technique developed by Ning Chen, who extracted the essence of the Nine Yin and Nine Yang True Scriptures, and integrated them with the essence of Yin-Yang circulation, the balance of strength and gentleness, and the creation of life.

This technique harmonizes Yin and Yang, achieving a unified whole, and secretly aligns with the mechanism of the Great Dao's creation. Ning Chen added some of his own insights and finally named it: "The Primordial Yin-Yang Creation Scripture"!

This cultivation method, after being modified by Ning Chen, has transcended the mundane and advanced to the level of a fundamental cultivation method, pointing directly to the path of immortality!

Monkey King is naturally mischievous and loves martial arts like fists, feet, and sticks.

He is quite impatient with tedious scriptures like the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi, and has long since developed the habit of treating them like hypnotic texts.

He listened for a moment, then scratched his head and said...

"Junior brother, I was born of nature, carefree and at ease. Our patriarch passed down to me the direct path to cultivation. What's the point of practicing this nonsense? Instead of wasting time, why don't we go find some of those peaches we just ate!"

Ning Chen grabbed Monkey King, who was trying to run away, and his tone became more serious than ever before.

"Senior brother! As the saying goes, 'If a monkey doesn't work hard when it's young, it will regret it when it's old!' The world may be vast, but it's not a paradise! Do you think that just because you were born a clever monkey, you can rest easy?"

"If you don't diligently cultivate your supernatural powers today, when powerful enemies confront you in the future, your powers will be suppressed, leaving you helpless and unable to call for help. You'll be ridden around and have your head emptied. The monkeys of Flower Fruit Mountain will suffer because of you, unable to live or die! At that time, will you still be able to live freely?"

Ning Chen's words were extremely serious, and Monkey King immediately stopped smiling and muttered to himself.

"With supernatural powers restricted, you can't just sit on someone's head and defecate and urinate there?"

Sun Wukong suddenly stood up, a flash of fury in his golden eyes.

"Who dares?"

Seeing that his persuasion was effective, Ning Chen continued.

"Do you think that just because you've gained some spiritual power, you can go anywhere in the world? Little do you know, you are just like that monkey slave in the mortal realm, performing acrobatics in the marketplace every day. Although you have embarked on the path of cultivation, in the eyes of all the gods and Buddhas, aren't you just that monkey slave being played?"

Sun Wukong suddenly realized something. He remembered that when he was searching for immortality in the mortal realm, he had seen some ordinary monkeys, their necks chained, naked, performing monkey shows in public...

There were bad guys who used slingshots to shoot monkeys. The poor monkeys screamed in pain as they were hit, but they dared not fight back!

He then recalled that when he was searching for immortality in the mortal realm, there were also villains who wanted to capture him and make him their monkey slave.

Fortunately, he was blessed with good fortune and escaped many times by sheer luck. After experiencing many hardships and dangers in the mortal world, he finally arrived at this blessed land of immortals on Fangcun Mountain.

A fierce rage instantly ignited in Wukong's eyes!

He was born proud and carefree by nature; how could he be humiliated like this?

"I will never be a monkey slave, not even to anyone! Junior brother, don't worry, once I've achieved mastery in my cultivation, I will naturally attain great freedom and ease. The Patriarch said I have a chance to become a Golden Immortal! In this world, a Golden Immortal is already the pinnacle of immortals!"

Ning Chen's words were like a sharp knife, piercing through his innocent and naive mind.

This made the monkey feel for the first time the fate that might bind it in the future.

Golden Immortal?

Ning Chen chuckled and shook his head.

"So what if they're from the Dragon and Phoenix clans? They're descendants of ancient divine beasts, born as immortals, yet the Heavenly Court's grand banquet includes a dish of dragon liver and phoenix marrow!"

The monkey guiltily touched the back of its head. To be honest, monkey brains are also a delicacy!

The mischievous demon king has a particular fondness for monkey brains; who knows, other immortals and Buddhas might share this craving...

"Junior brother, if what you say is true, what should we do?"

The monkey was finally moved, cupped its hands in greeting, and asked for guidance.

He knew that his junior brother was always farsighted, so if he said that, he must have a plan.