Chapter 355: Cultivation, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea

[You finally met the monkey and easily gained its trust.]

[Although the process is complicated, and even requires the monkey to restart once, causing all your previous efforts to be wasted, but... it doesn't matter! ]

[As long as the monkey, the protagonist of the dream, is still in your hands, everything will go well. ]

[With its help, even if you still can't complete the level perfectly, you can at least maintain the stability of the dream world...]

【…】

[Starting from Dongsheng Shenzhou and passing through Nanshanbuzhou, you once again witnessed the process of the disintegration of the heaven: the gods in the heavens were completely unaware that they had been reset again, and they made their own choices as before. ]

[Thousands of true gods left the heavens and started a massive "War of Restoration of the Nation" on earth, causing chaos in the world! ]

[Faced with this desperate situation, Shun Dynasty had no choice but to bite the bullet and start suppressing the rebellion after negotiations failed.]

[There is no other way. Dashun cannot surrender directly. We have finally gained the world, so we must do our best to protect it.]

[But everyone knows that such a war is absolutely impossible to win. All of Dashun’s efforts are only to delay the time of its demise. The outcome of the war has been determined since the moment the other side has the support of the true god...]

【You see it with your eyes, and I am anxious in my heart. 】

[Of course you are not anxious about the rise and fall of Dashun, but about the people who are about to be caught up in the war. Once the war starts, casualties are inevitable! ]

[Faced with such a situation, you can only silently quicken your pace and take the monkey, the "man of destiny", straight to Xiniu Hezhou. Everything can only be left to it...]

[Crossing the Southern Continent, you continue to move forward and sail across the vast ocean. ]

[Finally, guided by your memory, you and the monkey arrived at Xiniu Hezhou and found the "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain" hidden on a cliff somewhere...]

"go in."

Lin Liu pointed with emotion at the "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain" that only monkeys could see.

After spending many days together, the monkey had already learned the whole story from him, so without any hesitation, he nodded and walked towards the cliff.

Lin Liu just watched it disappear between heaven and earth...

Next, it’s time to wait.

When the monkey comes out, the world will be able to return to peace. Whether it is to continue the Dashun or to establish a prosperous new era like the previous life, it will always be better than the current war.

But...what about the future?

The lonely old cripple sat on the ground, silently thinking about the future...

Others don’t need to think too much, just live their own lives well, that’s enough.

But I am different. As the protagonist, I cannot just be satisfied with the stability of the dream world. I also have to consider the tranquility outside the dream world.

No matter what he thinks, a contradiction is always a contradiction, and a bug is always a bug. He, the protagonist who accidentally came here, was really stuck at the critical point and single-handedly caused the crisis of destruction of the eternal chaos.

He caused the problem, so he naturally has the responsibility to solve it.

[“But how do we solve the problem?”]

[You racked your brains, but still couldn't come up with a suitable trick...]

[You originally wanted to give up the dream world and lead all living beings to eternal salvation, but you can save others but you can't save yourself.]

[So you can only settle for the next best thing, and plan to go into the prehistoric world alone after saving the souls of others. If it works, it would be useful! ]

[But Jin Bing's reminder shattered your beautiful idea. You can't expect the assistance others lend you to last a lifetime. Pangu's wealth will be taken back sooner or later. You can only support yourself...]

[In this way, an almost impossible requirement emerges: you need to transcend the dream with your own power! ]

[And you have no idea how to complete this request...]

【"benefactor……"】

[Just when you were lost in thought, a hesitant voice suddenly sounded. You froze for a moment, looked up, and saw that the monkey who had just gone in came out again for some reason.]

【"What's wrong?"】

[Seeing this, your heart skips a beat: Did I fail in my apprenticeship? ]

[The monkey shook his head: "The master is willing to accept me as his disciple... but he is unwilling to teach me how to become stronger..."]

【what? 】

[You didn’t understand the logic for a moment, so you were stunned for a long time: What does it mean? ]

[“If He won’t teach you how to become stronger, then what should He teach you?”]

[“The Grandmaster said that he would teach me the immortal method of cultivation…”]

【Immortal cultivation method?】

[For a moment, you seem to remember something...]

[You thought of your first encounter with it in the first life. At that time, the monkey had no idea what "incense and fire" was. What it finally learned from Bodhi Patriarch was a "Bodhi longevity and cultivation method"! ]

[Then the question is, why didn't Bodhi Patriarch teach it the "Way of Incense and Fire" but instead taught it the "Wonderful Way of Cultivation"? ]

[In other words, based on the fact that everything about the dream world and the monkey is a product of Bodhi Patriarch, what is the logic behind the monkey's apprenticeship? Why did Bodhi Patriarch let it become his apprentice? What does becoming his apprentice represent? ] [These questions and details that you have never thought about before are suddenly filled with key mysteries...]

【Thinking of this, a gleam of light flashed in your eyes, and you immediately asked the monkey to ask another question! 】

[The monkey scratched his head. Although he didn't quite understand what you said, he still obediently acted as a mouthpiece for you.]

[“The ancestor said that the essence of the wonderful method of cultivating the truth is to use the false to cultivate the true, to refine one’s own essence from false to true, in order to become an anchor point…”]

[After many rounds of back and forth, and after Monkey's running errands and relaying, another key piece of the mystery of the dream was finally gradually completed...]

[Let's start with the meaning of the existence of the dream world. What is the purpose of the nine saints working together to create this dream world? ]

[This question was clear in your previous life: the purpose of saints dreaming is to create an "anchor point"! ]

[As saints, they do not want to be forever controlled by the mysterious game system, nor do they want to wait for a "protagonist from heaven" to save the world every time, so they choose to artificially create an "anchor point." 】

[If the "anchor point" can be artificially created, then in the future, the prehistoric world can get rid of the control of the game and control its own destiny from now on...]

[And the monkey is the "protagonist of the experiment" they created! ]

[In the script, the monkey will realize the horror of "birth, aging, sickness and death" after birth, and then roam the four continents, looking for the method of immortality, and finally obtain the "magic method of cultivation" on the "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain", and cultivate it to become the anchor of the protagonist...]

[Of course, this seemingly perfect script actually had no chance of success from the beginning, because "using the unreal to cultivate the real" is roughly equivalent to "creating something out of nothing". Since the saints cannot really "create something out of nothing", how can they talk about "using the unreal to cultivate the real"? ]

[Therefore, saints cannot produce "existence" and cannot cultivate "truth". All their efforts will be in vain...]

[“Then why does He want you to practice Taoism?”]

[You frowned: Things have reached such a critical juncture, and all efforts have been in vain. Logically speaking, shouldn't Patriarch Bodhi face reality? ]

[Why are you working so hard? Just give the monkey the "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow" cheat and solve the chaos in the dream world first. That's the truth! ]

[“Because He said, since things are already irreversible, it is better to go all the way…”]

[The monkey relayed the story truthfully.]

【this……】

[You paused: Is it really necessary? ]

[It is clear that the gods in the dream are stirring up war and causing unrest in the world. Countless people are about to suffer the hardships of war... Is it necessary to persist on a road that is doomed to fail? ]

【It’s not necessary.】

[But you can guess what Bodhi Patriarch is thinking: Anyway, things have come to this point, and the dream has been bugged by you. Instead of quietly waiting for the impossible turn of events, it is better to take a radical risk! ]

[The saints originally launched the "artificial anchor point strategy" because they were unwilling to accept their fate. Now that fate is once again in front of them, they will of course choose to give it another try.]

[Anyway, things can’t get any worse than they are now…]

【"benefactor……"】

[The monkey said cautiously: "Why don't we just leave... This Bodhi Patriarch doesn't care about the lives of sentient beings at all..."]

[What it said was correct. Judging from Bodhi Patriarch's current choice, He did not take the sentient beings in the dreamland seriously at all. Knowing that sentient beings were about to suffer a disaster, He actually pinned his hopes on a plan that had already failed. This in itself was a kind of contempt and disregard for the sentient beings in the dreamland! ]

[But... then again, the dream world was originally just a dream of His. What does the existence of things in the dream have to do with Him? Dreams themselves are fake. Do you want a dreamer to consider the life and death of the people in the dream? ]

[As the truth flows through your mind, you gradually clench your fists...]

【“Listen to Him and learn!”】

[Finally, you made the choice for the monkey in a deep voice.]

[After all, Bodhi Patriarch is the master of dreams. Since He wants to try his own method, let Him try it.]

【As for the common people in this world...】

[“If you don’t care, I will!”]

[Because you are not a high and mighty dreamer, you are just an ordinary person in the dream. ]

【He may not care, but you do. 】

[And you care, that's enough...]

【…】

[In the 135th year of Dashun, the heavenly realm underwent a dramatic change and the Heavenly Palace disintegrated! ]

[That year, the gods descended to the mortal world to restore their kingdom, setting off an endless war! ]

[In the 150th year of Dashun, an old cripple started from Xiniu Hezhou, and with the help of the Blood God Son, he gathered the incense and divine power and ascended to the position of the true god.]

[That year, the old cripple subdued seven wild gods, collectively known as the "Eight Immortals", and established a regime to unify the long-divided Xiniu Hezhou! ]

[That year, the Eight Immortals traveled across the sea to the east and conquered the war-torn Southern Continent! ]

[You no longer think about "eternal chaos", you just want to bring peace and prosperity to all beings in the dream, even if it's not perfect, it doesn't matter! ]

……

(End of this chapter)