Chapter 112: Diti Takes a Disciple! The Strange Bloodline Restriction!

Having learned that His Majesty the Star Emperor offered a heavy bounty, I came specifically to seek the reward.

Saying that, An Yao turned and looked toward the creature cloaked in a gray‑white mantle.

His Majesty the Star Emperor is present.

Don't you reveal your true form at once!

The creature in the gray‑white mantle, hearing An Yao's loud shout, hurriedly removed its cloak and respectfully bowed to Diti.

The youngster says his name is: Six‑Ear Macaque.

Having been raised in the wild from birth, upon first seeing the Imperial Majesty's true form, I was overwhelmed by his majesty, momentarily stunned, and thus failed to reveal my true self in time.

I hope the Imperial Majesty will forgive me!

Diti looked at the golden‑threaded macaque's appearance: a six‑ear, slender, small‑statured macaque whose eyes showed a hint of liveliness.

A trace of satisfaction instantly rose in his eyes.

Such obedient and clever looks.

No wonder the Patriarch Bodhi took Sun Wukong as a disciple.

Perhaps it was because of the Journey‑to‑the‑West scheme.

When Sun Wukong crouched before the Slant‑Moon Three‑Star Cave gate, pitifully begging for a master.

Patriarch Bodhi must have been somewhat soft‑hearted.

He could not bear to treat him as a pawn and subject him to countless tribulations…

Why do you wish to take me as your master?

Those I accept as disciples are numerous within the Hall of the Stars.

They also often descend to the mortal realm to seek materials for forging weapons and ingredients for alchemy.

With your abilities, you should know how they are treated inside the Star Court, right?

Reporting to the Imperial Majesty, the youngster says he knows their treatment in the Star Court and also knows the consequences of taking you as a master.

In response to Diti's question, the six‑ear macaque respectfully bowed and explained his reasons for seeking apprenticeship.

However, in the youngster's view, these are the most normal things.

You, as the Lord of the Star‑Shining Divine Court, have countless matters to attend to each day.

If one wishes to receive your instruction.

Yet lacks solid skill and talent.

That would simply waste your time.

Coincidentally, the youngster considers himself to have some talent.

Thus he seeks the chance to become your disciple.

If you think the youngster's talent is insufficient.

The news of fallen treasure and money can still be handed to His Majesty the Emperor.

As for the bounty's reward, His Majesty the Emperor need only grant the youngster a million Star‑Radiance Treasure Pills.

Consider it a bit of hard‑earned money for the youngster.

Interesting.

Not only confident, but neither arrogant nor impatient.

He can also be flexible and know when to advance or retreat.

With such a temperament, as long as he seizes the opportunity, there will essentially be no inferior achievements.

I've always heard that when the primal essences of the Four Chaotic Monkeys fuse, one of the monkeys can reverse and become the Chaos Demon Ape who commands the Battle‑Way Dao.

Now that a ready body already exists.

It's a good chance to test whether this hypothesis is correct.

If it truly can reverse into the Chaos Demon Ape who commands the Battle‑Way Dao.

The Star‑Shining Divine Court would then possess a supreme war god of Mixed‑Origin Great Luo rank!

Even if it cannot reverse into a Chaos Demon Ape as hypothesized.

With the Four Chaotic Monkeys' talent, having no match beneath the Mixed‑Origin Great Luo, it would be an easy matter to grasp!

Your talent indeed qualifies you to become my disciple.

Hearing this, the six‑ear macaque instantly felt excitement.

However, before he could bow and thank Diti,

he heard the other party speak again with a question.

I only have one more question that requires your answer.

Master, what matter do you need to inquire about?

The disciple will speak all he knows, leave nothing unsaid, and dare not conceal anything.

As for the six‑ear macaque, the behavior of striking the snake and following the staff.

Diti felt no objection.

To survive within Honghuang Tian Di, a thick skin is the most useless thing.

The strong care about face because they have strength and merit.

The weak care about face, which is simply courting death!

How many years have passed since your birth?

Why, up to now, have you only reached the Golden Immortal complete cultivation?

Reporting to the Master, the youngster has been born for over thirty thousand years.

The six‑ear macaque responded to Diti's question.

A hint of loneliness and helplessness involuntarily rose in his eyes.

"Since birth, my cultivation has already been a perfect Golden Immortal."

"These years I have also tried many ways."

"Although my strength continues to grow steadily."

"But my own cultivation feels as if it is bound by some restriction, never able to break through the realm of the Taiyi Golden Immortal."

Hearing this, Diti's brows twitched slightly.

He used the Great Dao divine seal tattooed on his twin pupils to probe the other's condition.

"Now that's something you don't see every day."

"I never imagined there could be such a Heaven‑and‑Earth restriction."

Accompanied by the Great Dao divine seal on his twin pupils.

Diti quickly uncovered why the Six‑Eared Macaque could not break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal.

All of this stems from a restriction imposed by Heaven and Earth within its bloodline.

This restriction normally shows no apparent problem.

It belongs neither to the flesh nor is it controlled by the divine soul.

Much like that Heaven‑envied one who has cultivated Qi for billions of layers.

It only compresses the Six‑Eared Macaque's cultivation and strength at the moment of breakthrough.

That is why, although the Six‑Eared Macaque's cultivation cannot breakthrough, its strength can still grow to rival the mid‑stage of the Taiyi Golden Immortal.

And breaking this restriction is countless times easier than Heaven‑envy.

The method is simply to find a strong master and become a disciple.

Using the master's destiny as a shock can shatter the internal restriction!

"No wonder the Six‑Eared Macaque, even up to the Western Journey era, only possessed cultivation comparable to Sun Wukong."

"So the root cause lies here…"

As for the Red‑butt Monkey Wuzhi Qi and the Long‑armed Ape Yuan Hong.

The former is the prime example of one without a master.

Captured by Da Yu, the Ying Long was seized.

He then bound its neck with a great iron chain, placed a golden bell on its nose, and suppressed it at the foot of Huaiyin Turtle Mountain.

If it chooses to take a strong master.

Using the master's water‑controlling art, not inferior to Gong Gong's.

A innate divine power capable of battling nine dragons without defeat.

Even if Da Yu has human‑destiny luck assisting.

Wuzhi Qi would certainly not meet such a tragic end!

Yuan Hong's story has a background that is indeed overly complex.

Later generations have produced countless divergent accounts.

Although he himself comes from the same lineage as Yang Jian, both practice the Eight‑Nine Profound Skill.

But the origin of the Eight‑Nine Profound Skill in Yuan Hong's hands

is indeed somewhat off.

At the foot of the young Long Mei Mountain, within the Chenggong ancient cave.

He once received the Yin‑Yang Secret and also obtained the spirit of Heaven and Earth.

Skilled in many transformations, mysterious as a human form.

Mei Mountain is called number one, safeguarding Zhou and annihilating Zhou's troops.

This is a praising poem from the Investiture of the Gods era for Yuan Hong.

It explicitly mentions that his skill originates from an ancient cave within Mei Mountain.

The Eight‑Nine Profound Skill is a derivative of the Nine‑Turn Profound Skill cultivated by the descendants of Pangu.

Known Pangu descendants of the Investiture of the Gods period are the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa.

Moreover, the Eight‑Nine Profound Skill is indeed a secret transmission.

But this does not mean other forces lack a backup of the Eight‑Nine Profound Skill.

Under such a complicated circumstance.

Who arranged the Mei Mountain ancient cave, and whose side Yuan Hong truly belongs to, naturally remain unknown…

(End of chapter)