Chapter 237

Chapter 231

The young person's words thoroughly ignited this monkey's emotions. Next, Li Yuan True Monarch hopped and jumped inside the temple, performing a truly authentic monkey show.

Li Zhuyuan was deliberately provoking it, hoping to gauge the true state of its real body and the other True Monarchs present now by observing its consciousness phantom's behavior.

This type of consciousness phantom, like a peeled egg, most easily displays the body's true feelings and sensations.

The monkey's irritability, on the verge of exploding, indicated that its real body was constantly enduring some kind of extreme pain.

Judging from this, the True Monarchs who were not in their respective temples were most likely still alive.

After a long time, the monkey finally quieted down.

It panted heavily, looking at the young person: "This monarch can give you one more chance."

Li Zhuyuan: "I don't like keeping pets."

The monkey's just calmed emotions became excited again.

"You might know that He Tong is just a small junior to this monarch! If he hadn't pretended to be a Bodhisattva and deceived us, there would fundamentally have been no possibility of the so-called Official General Leader appearing!"

Li Zhuyuan: "Is that really so?"

"Otherwise, what? Do you think this monarch has a reason to deceive you?"

Li Zhuyuan shook his head.

The monkey: "So you're saying..."

Li Zhuyuan interrupted its words: "On the contrary, I think it's precisely because you all existed before that the inheritance of the Official General Leader appeared later."

The monkey tilted its head, as if trying hard to understand the young person's words, but very clearly, it did not grasp the meaning.

Li Zhuyuan: "Right, who told you about my existence?"

The monkey acted as if it had heard an extremely ridiculous question, and counter-asked: "You're walking the rivers and lakes, who doesn't know about you in the Jianghu?"

Li Zhuyuan nodded: "Indeed."

The monkey: "With my assistance, your journey on the rivers and lakes will become smoother. In the past, it was precisely because I fought and paved the way that he was able to sit in that position."

Li Zhuyuan: "Your meaning is, if I take you in, I will also end up being betrayed by you like him?"

The monkey: "..."

Li Zhuyuan looked around, evaluating: "The environment here is really not bad, ancient and fragrant, a pity that it's actually being used as a zoo."

The monkey was so angry that its eyes turned completely red, and black gas diffused around its body: "You're... courting death!"

Suddenly, the monkey was stunned.

Immediately after, it slowly lifted its head, put its hands together, and the baleful aura around its entire body gradually retreated.

After a while, a smile appeared on the monkey's face: "Hehe, you are really very similar to him."

Li Zhuyuan felt a bit regretful in his heart. In a place like this, encountering someone whose emotions are easily out of control is very rare.

The young person had originally wanted to extract more information clues from this monkey, but now, the other side had calmed down.

Currently known is that an internal conflict once erupted here.

From "his" perspective, this was a rebellion; from the True Monarchs' perspective, they were subjugating a deceiver who had disguised himself as a Bodhisattva and usurped a high position.

Besides, there was still one point, which was that there was someone behind this monkey.

It had previously said that here, only it had partial freedom; this was obviously not the truth.

Moreover, that person had a great influence on the monkey. Just now, that person must have made a move to dispel the negative emotions in the monkey's body. This also meant that person was also here now.

And, that person should also be the one who suggested the monkey try to join his team and walk the Jianghu together.

That person... was very familiar with his situation.

There weren't many people who knew he was walking the Jianghu, but there weren't none either.

But the problem was, among the minority of people who knew about this matter, what way could they use to contact this place?

Developing outside people to collect karma was the monkey's doing, which also meant the monkey could contact outside information, but the monkey clearly was not familiar with him.

This was very easy to understand. Disciples abandoned by family sects like Xin Jiyue Wu Qinhai also didn't have the qualifications to understand the true secrets of the Jianghu.

However, the funny thing was precisely here.

A monkey that could contact the outside world didn't know his real situation, while a person trapped here could know him, and even guide this monkey to join.

Through what channel did that person know his situation?

Li Zhuyuan tilted his head slightly, and with his peripheral vision, swept a glance at Lin Shuyou.

The young person thought of a possibility.

At this time, the monkey turned around, walked towards the altar, clapped its hands, and the cloud wall opened.

"The next journey, this monarch will lead you all. This way, it can reduce a lot of trouble for you all."

The monkey's attitude had taken a big turn.

Li Zhuyuan waved his hand and said to his companions: "Let's go."

There was nothing to be afraid of or worried about. This monkey was originally classified as a 'threat' by Li Zhuyuan. Whether it appeared in front of him or not, and whether it led the way or not, actually made no difference.

Outside, there was bird song and flower fragrance.

No birds could be seen, no flowers could be found, but the bird calls were endless to the ear, and the flower fragrance assailed the nose.

The monkey walked in front, with Li Zhuyuan and others following behind.

This continued until another temple appeared in front.

The monkey introduced: "This is the Main Registrar True Monarch's temple, let's go in."

Tan Wenbin whispered: "This monkey, how does it feel like a guide now?"

The Main Registrar True Monarch's temple had also suffered destruction, but the degree was not high, and it was truly as its title suggested. The temple was full of various stone slabs and many stone basins.

When you looked at the stone slabs, the words on them would change, like numerous earthworms imprisoned inside, constantly forming new words.

As for the water inside the stone basins, when you leaned your head close to look, it would not reflect your image, but would show various pictures of the past.

Tan Wenbin was a half-photography enthusiast. Seeing this type of basin, he excitedly asked: "Little Yuan bro, can you move a basin back for me when we leave?"

Li Zhuyuan: "Isn't a photo album more convenient than this?"

Tan Wenbin: "But this style is high-class."

Li Zhuyuan: "After you move this stone basin out of here, it will just become an ordinary basin, only usable as a water bowl for Little Black."

"Oh, like that, what a pity." Tan Wenbin shrugged his shoulders, "Here, it really is like a museum."

The monkey: "Main Registrar True Monarch has three major duties, recording merits, recording faults, and recording events. Here, it records the past here."

Li Zhuyuan asked: "Why are all these rows of stone steles broken?"

The monkey: "Most of the temples here were destroyed because of that matter that year, what's strange about that?"

Li Zhuyuan: "Very strange, a total of thirteen stone slabs were destroyed. According to the recording logic displayed here, twelve of these stone slabs should have recorded the stories of you twelve True Monarchs meeting and knowing 'him'. There is still one that should have recorded 'his' personal experiences before creating this Dizang Nunnery."

The monkey just looked at the young person, silent.

Li Zhuyuan then continued: "Look, the fragments of these stone slabs on the ground, the degree of breakage is not the same, the method of destruction is different. Each person must have destroyed one, found their own stone slab, and deliberately destroyed it."

The monkey pointed at four blackened stone slabs among them and said: "Aren't these four destroyed in the same way? What you just said fundamentally doesn't hold water."

Li Zhuyuan: "Your refutation of me is just agreement."

The monkey: "Heh, it's good as long as you're happy."

Li Zhuyuan: "That's right, these four black stone slabs were burned off by one person. One of them should be his own, and one should record 'that him'. The remaining two, I guess one of them should be the Gatekeeper True Monarch's."

The Gatekeeper True Monarch, due to the specialness of their status, did not participate in that internal conflict.

It only guarded the gate outside, not inside.

Furthermore, one point the monkey said was not wrong. The Gatekeeper True Monarch was among the various True Monarchs, with the lowest status and also the lowest strength. Being excluded outside did not affect the overall situation, and afterwards... the Gatekeeper True Monarch was also bewitched and controlled.

The monkey: "What about the other one?"

Li Zhuyuan: "I think your master, that is 'him', shouldn't have failed so completely. Besides the Gatekeeper True Monarch, if all the True Monarchs under him rebelled, there should still be one loyal subordinate who still supported him at that time?"

The monkey: "You are indeed very smart."

Li Zhuyuan: "I thought on the island, after you lost your wife and soldiers, you should have realized this point long ago."

The monkey: "Now, no matter what you say, I won't get angry."

Li Zhuyuan: "Why intentionally eliminate the past and matters related to 'him'?"

The monkey: "Because everything in the past was 'his' deception of all of us. Thinking about it makes me feel disgusted. You know, after I followed him, how many times did I call him Bodhisattva?"

Li Zhuyuan: "He pointed you out, adopted you, let you leave the animal path. No matter how many times you called him Bodhisattva, it wasn't excessive. I don't know what you have to be disgusted about."

The monkey: "When I was a monkey, calling him Bodhisattva was nothing; but later, I became Li Yuan True Monarch, and was still deceived by him into shouting Bodhisattva, that's unacceptable."

Rong Sheng: "Ungrateful monkey."

The monkey wasn't angry, just asked: "Honored ones, have you finished looking?"

Lin Shuyou raised his hand: "Not yet!"

The records here, for others, didn't hold much meaning, but Lin Shuyou was looking with relish.

The Official General Leader's history was not long. Here, he saw another segment of a longer and more complete 'Official General Leader' development.

For him, who took revitalizing the Official General Leader in the future as his life goal, he wished he could record all of this down, so that in future development and construction, he could avoid many detours.

Tan Wenbin reached out and poked Lin Shuyou: "Okay, let's go. You won't remember everything just by looking."

Lin Shuyou scratched his head: "Bin bro, if I had this kind of photographic memory, I wouldn't have only tested into Haihe University."

Tan Wenbin: "It doesn't matter, Little Yuan bro has photographic memory, isn't he also your alumnus?"

Lin Shuyou understood after hearing this. Bin bro's meaning was that he didn't need to work hard to remember and look here, Little Yuan bro must have already memorized it.

The monkey opened the cloud wall here, looking as if it was about to leave.

Li Zhuyuan looked at the monkey's back. Inside the Main Registrar True Monarch's temple, there was a lost formation that even Li Zhuyuan had to exclaim at.

Previously, the young person had been constantly on guard, worried that the monkey might suddenly launch something to trap himself and others here, but the monkey not only didn't do so, but moreover, when it first came in, it even actively withdrew the automatic activation of the formation.

The monkey: "Let's go, if I don't lead you all here, it will be very difficult for you to pass."

After going out, the bird song and flower fragrance disappeared, revealing a desolate and bleak area.

And soon, everyone realized why the monkey would say that.

They hadn't even entered the next temple, yet outside, they saw a headless corpse kneeling there.

Its death alone affected the entire environment of this area. From this, one could see how powerful it was in its lifetime.

This kind of feeling was not present on the Gatekeeper True Monarch.

There were many terrifying wounds on the corpse. Judging from the appearance of the wounds, it should have died in a siege.

Rong Sheng looked at the broken head of the other party and said: "It wasn't cut off, it was smashed rotten."

Rong Sheng, who was used to smashing other people's heads with the Yellow River shovel, had a lot of authority on this matter.

The monkey: "Its head was exploded by me with one strike."

Li Zhuyuan: "Its title isn't Punish Evil True Monarch?"

The monkey turned its head to look at the young person in surprise. Obviously, the young person had guessed the answer correctly again.

Li Zhuyuan: "In the records inside the Main Registrar True Monarch's temple earlier, it can be seen that Punish Evil True Monarch had the worst relationship with 'him', repeatedly rebutting 'his' decrees."

This appeared incomparably abrupt in front of the attitude of other True Monarchs who worshipped and kowtowed to 'him' as Bodhisattva.

Most of the records were in this style:

Some True Monarch and some True Monarch had conflicts, after 'he' came out to mediate, the two True Monarchs were convinced.

Some True Monarch committed some wrong, or had doubts about some matter, after 'he' came out to enlighten them, the True Monarch was enlightened.

Only Punish Evil True Monarch dared to repeatedly collide with 'him' and propose different opinions.

The monkey: "According to you, Punish Evil True Monarch shouldn't have been the first to oppose and subjugate 'him', right? How could it instead support 'him'?"

Li Zhuyuan: "This is also a problem you don't understand, right?"

The monkey's gaze fell on Punish Evil True Monarch's headless corpse:

"That's right, it was one of the strongest among all the True Monarchs, and also the True Monarch with the worst relationship with 'him'. When it carried an axe and came out to block us, all of us were very surprised."

Li Zhuyuan: "Because Punish Evil True Monarch was the only one who treated 'him' as Bodhisattva."

The monkey: "But 'he' wasn't a Bodhisattva, this is a fact, all of us were deceived by 'him'. According to you, after Punish Evil True Monarch knew the truth, it should have been the most angry, right!"

Li Zhuyuan: "It was different from all of you."

The monkey: "How different?"

Li Zhuyuan: "All of you, towards 'him', were just admiring strength."

The monkey clenched its fist, loosened it, clenched it again, and loosened it again.

Li Zhuyuan didn't intend to deliberately provoke its emotions at this time, but the knife of fact made it easier for the monkey to break down.

It had just experienced 'appeasement', the effect quickly ended.

Li Zhuyuan also noticed that when the monkey retracted its fist, Punish Evil True Monarch's headless corpse's fists were also slightly trembling, seemingly doing the same action.

Obviously, the monkey had the ability to control this headless corpse.

Just like it had previously bewitched the Gatekeeper True Monarch to attack himself and others, it could have originally let Punish Evil True Monarch launch an attack on himself and others here.

Even if it was dead and headless, Li Zhuyuan still thought it could cause greater trouble for himself and others than the Gatekeeper True Monarch.

Why did the monkey suddenly change its attitude?

It could be confirmed that before he passed through the Gatekeeper True Monarch temple, the monkey had a different attitude towards him. It wanted to kill himself and others here, otherwise it wouldn't have bewitched the Gatekeeper True Monarch.

So, the monkey's change in attitude, or rather, the attitude change of the person behind the monkey, happened when he and others were fighting the Gatekeeper True Monarch.

Li Zhuyuan quickly went over his companions' abilities in his mind. Finally, the young person felt that if there was anything that could cause that person's attitude to change... it should be when he controlled those eight Yao family corpses and let them collectively possess.

His own possession and controlling puppets to possess were two different things. This meant that he had mastered a more profound and comprehensive original formula, like - The Earth Store Bodhisattva Sutra.

Because of this, the person behind the monkey's plan towards him changed, from stopping and strangling him to actively leading him in.

This monkey was really very obedient to that person's words.

The monkey ultimately still controlled itself and didn't let the Punish Evil True Monarch's corpse stand up.

Next, it led everyone through several more temples.

They didn't see any more True Monarchs, but there were two dangerous places, all of which were resolved by the monkey beforehand.

Tan Wenbin on the way lightly hooked the young person's right hand with his finger. Li Zhuyuan understood and released the red thread to connect with him.

"Little Yuan bro, do you know what this monkey is up to?"

"I know."

Tan Wenbin's face relaxed, and he silently waited in his heart.

But he waited for a long time, still no sign of Little Yuan bro's voice ringing in his mind.

"Little Yuan bro?"

"Bin Bin bro, now, I cannot tell you all."

"Oh, okay, I understand!"

The connection was interrupted. Tan Wenbin smiled at Li Zhuyuan. He wouldn't think Little Yuan bro was hiding something. He knew this was Little Yuan bro's plan to bear some things alone.

Everyone entered the last True Monarch temple.

The furnishings inside were as good as new, very well protected. Further inside was the main temple where the Bodhisattva was located.

Being able to live next to the Bodhisattva explained the status of this True Monarch, second only to the Bodhisattva here.

Li Zhuyuan: "Was it who launched the rebellion?"

The monkey: "It was a subjugation."

Li Zhuyuan: "Universal Salvation True Monarch?"

The monkey: "Heh, I'm even starting to suspect now that you are Punish Evil reincarnated and have regained past life wisdom."

Li Zhuyuan: "Because in the records inside the Main Registrar True Monarch's temple, there were the fewest records of Universal Salvation True Monarch."

The monkey: "So?"

Li Zhuyuan: "Your master criticized and educated it the least, which explains its high status; general rebellions are usually initiated by the second-in-command, aren't they?"

The monkey: "It was Universal Salvation True Monarch who exposed 'his' truth of not being a Bodhisattva and led us to overthrow 'him'."

Li Zhuyuan: "How did you determine..."

The monkey's tone suddenly rose high: "'He' finally admitted himself that he was fake, squeak squeak squeak!"

It seemed that being close to 'him', the monkey's emotions were out of control again.

It walked to the last cloud wall and said: "You know why I call this place 'No Heart Island'?"

Li Zhuyuan: "Because the heart is fake."

"Then you know why I call the inside here Qiu Zhuang?"

Without waiting for Li Zhuyuan's answer, the monkey forcefully pushed open the cloud wall and roared:

"Because after 'his' identity was exposed, he imprisoned all of us here. This is all of us True Monarchs'... prisoner village!"

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Sorting out this plot segment took some time. The fewer words will be supplemented tomorrow, don't panic!