Wasting Money to Become an Immortal-Chapter 243: Monkey in the stone

In the end, I just stopped thinking about it.

It was clear by the way that the other monkeys treated it that the little monkey was anything but ordinary.

This little monkey seemed like it was treasured by the rest of the monkeys on this monkey mountain, so there must be something special about it.

As such, it didn’t seem as strange that it didn’t break through after eating two peaches all by itself.

It must be a special breed or something.

The monkey elders drank the wine with us and kept talking as if they were telling me something, but that was where gestures failed.

If it was something simple, then I might be able to understand it.

However, the things that they were telling me seemed much more complicated than just a few simple words. It was as if they were telling me an entire story, so I just wasn’t able to get most of it from these gestures alone.

I was able to make out a few things about what they were saying.

It seemed like they were talking about the little monkey.

At the same time, it seemed like they were pointing at something on the mountain that we couldn’t see from here.

With the way that they pointed at the mountain, it seemed that this was something important to them even if we couldn’t see it.

Of course, it wasn’t as if we could leave just to see it.

At the same time, it didn’t seem like Mu Bao Bao was going to tell us what it was since she was just busy eating.

The way that she was acting was almost as if she was pouting because I seemed to care more about the monkeys than her. It was like a dog that was angry because their owner wasn’t showing them affection.

Though if she were to learn that I had likened her to a dog, there was no doubt that she would have beaten me.

After talking for a bit, the elder monkeys finally stood up.

As they stood up, they also grabbed me by the arms and lifted me up as well even though I was in the middle of a drink. As a result, I couldn’t help spilling the wine that I had been drinking on my shirt.

Even then, they didn’t stop pulling me towards the mountain.

With the way that they were pulling me, it was almost as if they were excited to show me something.

Up the mountain we went until we reached the peak of the mountain.

It was a small mountain, but it certainly was a trek coming all the way to the peak.

Especially after drinking like that... 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

It was no easy hike coming all this way, but the view was definitely worth it.

It was just that this wasn’t what the monkeys were interested in showing us, though if it was just this view alone...it definitely would have been interesting drinking from up here.

No, it was this stone that was at the peak that they were interested in showing me.

It didn’t seem like that special of a stone, it was just a normal round stone that was at the peak of this mountain.

But when I looked closely, I could see the outline of something that was carved in the stone.

A monkey?

Well, it made sense that there would be a monkey on this carving since this was a monkey mountain.

But was that really just it?

Wait...a monkey in a stone...

That seemed to remind me of something from my past life.

There was a famous monkey that was born of stone in my past life, so could it be that...

There was another monkey born of stone in this world?

Well since it was a cultivation world, it wasn’t that strange if there really was a monkey born of stone. It was just that it was too sudden that I wasn’t able to react to it in time.

But before I could think any further, Mu Bao Bao suddenly said, "They’re talking about their ancestor. This monkey that is carved on the stone is their ancestor who was said to be born of stone."

So there was a monkey that was born of stone that had once been here.

It was just that it was their ancestor and not what I thought, which was that the little monkey was the monkey born from stone.

Still...

"Does that mean that their ancestor is no longer here?"

Hearing this, the elder monkeys started saying things and gesturing as if they were trying to tell me something, but I still wasn’t able to understand what they were saying.

The only thing that I could do was turn to Mu Bao Bao for a translation.

This time, it seemed that she was willing to translate.

"They said that they have no idea what happened to their ancestor, but he just disappeared one day and they haven’t seen him since. It’s possible that he might have ascended to an upper realm, but they have no idea."

Then she looked at the little monkey to say, "This little monkey is a direct descendant of that ancestor, which means that he has inherited most of the techniques of that ancestor."

A direct descendant of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!

As expected, this little monkey really wasn’t a normal monkey.

Well, there was no guarantee that the ancestor that was born from stone was the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, but it shouldn’t be that far off...

Mu Bao Bao moved closer as I looked at the little monkey with an emotional look to say in a low voice, "They also said that the inheritance of their ancestor is carved in the stone. That includes the strange techniques that the little monkey used earlier."

My eyes lit up when I heard this.

I wasn’t lacking techniques, but these were the techniques of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!

This was something that I couldn’t resist!