Time passes, and the monkey grows up day by day. He watches the sunrise and sets with the little flower spirit every day. Listen to the wind and the moon pass by, and the two of them are accompanying each other, happily traveling through the sun and moon mountains. But he doesn't know that the little flower spirit is slowly getting older, and his haggard face is like a flower withering, and the spiritual power on her body is gradually dissipating...

At this time, the Tathagata on Lingshan smiled, as if everything was under his control. He wanted to experience the sufferings of the world through the arms of a monkey, because life and death are unchangeable cycles.

Under the bright moonlight, the monkey looked at the little flower spirit in his arms affectionately and asked, "Axue, what's wrong with you?"

Axue replied in a weak voice: "I am just a flower spirit born from a white lotus. Now that my life is over, I may be leaving you."

"Axue, why did you leave the monkey?"

"Because I'm going to die."

The monkey doesn’t understand what death is, and why did he come to this world? He is not afraid of the sky or the earth. Why does the little flower spirit leave the monkey when it dies?

He asked in confusion: "What is death? A Xue, can you not die?"

The little flower spirit raised his gentle hands, gently stroked the face of the monkey monkey, and said with a smile: "Do you still remember the flower of immortality?"

The moonlight reflected on the monkey's face, like a vast starlight falling into her heart. The monkey replied sadly: "Of course I remember that the flowers of immortality have not yet faded for thousands of years, and the flowers have not yet faded for thousands of years. When they bloom, they are as beautiful as the sunset, and when they fade like white lotus and snow, that is your favorite flower, how can I forget it?"

"Can you pick one for me?"

"Where is that flower?"

"The intersection of heaven, earth, man and the three realms."

"How to go?"

"In that place, you don't accept God, you won't return to the devil, and you will be full of evil spirits. You must have the cultivation level of heaven to get there."

The monkey scratched his head, where did he learn such magical powers? The little flower spirit told him: "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, the slanting moon Three Star Cave."

The monkey asked again: "Did you pick the flower of immortality and you won't leave the monkey?"

A Xue smiled again, she nodded silently because she lied to the monkey. Among the three realms, the only ones that can transcend life and death were the gods and Buddhas, and the demon who refused to admit defeat. The little flower spirit was just a light ink on the book of life and death. She looked at the monkey's back as she walked away and slowly closed her eyes. She said, "General of the Divine Monkey, go and find your world and find the person you are pursuing, because the Tathagata cannot trap him. He would rather die than choose to lose."

When the monkey went down the mountain, he looked back and looked around again and again, shouting in his heart: "Axue, you must wait for me to come back."

In the Cave of the Three Stars of the Silent Moon, the Bodhi Patriarch raised his eyebrows and watched everything happening on the Sun and Moon Mountain. He sighed lowly: "Tathagata, all sentient beings need your jurisdiction. All living beings who help the monkeys must die. Do you dare to come out and make a bet with me?"

He heard the message from the Tathagata thousands of miles away and asked, "How to bet?"

Bodhi Patriarch frowned and said, "My disciple Sun Wukong was pressed by you at the foot of the Five Fingers Mountain and was forced to wear a golden hoop to become a Fighting and War Buddha. He lowered his head to you who surrendered to the Three Realms, but you don't know the word "love" and "a hundred refinings" and it's just betting whether the Tongbang monkey will submit to your so-called destiny?"

"If I can make the Tongbang Ape the next Fighting and Victorious Buddha, your Bodhi Patriarch will disappear from the three realms in the future and will no longer accept disciples."

"What if you, Tathagata, can't do it?"

Tathagata laughed and said, "Then it will be destroyed."

The reborn monkey lost his magical power and could not fly, so he could only run to Fangcun Mountain. Along the way, he crossed mountains and ridges, waded across rivers, and inquired about the whereabouts of Fangcun Mountain along the way. He walked through a rural path, which was isolated from the world. The mountains were green and beautiful, and the wheat fields were wide. The monkey was not afraid of the stranger. When he saw a farmer carrying firewood, he hurried up and asked: "How can the one who carries firewood, Lingtai Fangcun Mountain?"

When the farmer heard this, he said, "You are so rude, and you don't have any rules to ask for directions."

The monkey was confused. What is the rule? The little flower spirit never told him. The farmer glanced at the monkey again, threw down the firewood, and knelt down and bowed: "The great general of the divine monkey came to the world, and the grass people were in a farewell welcome!"

The monkey looked confused, why did he say something he couldn't understand? He asked impatiently: "Tell me how to get to Fangcunshan?"

The farmer lay on the ground and said to himself, "I knew that Tathagata could not trap you because you are the great general of the monkey. You will not be willing to surrender to the Tathagata's seat like Sun Wukong."

"Is there something wrong!" Seeing that the monkey couldn't tell, he slid up to the branch and left, thinking why this person was so strange? He didn't run a few steps, and found a tattered pavilion ahead. There was no golden stone statue on it, nor did it have any incense oil tribute fruit. He lowered his head and saw a broken plaque under his feet. He reached out to wipe away the dust on it. The five big words "The Monkey General Pavilion" came into his eyes. It seemed like a flash of starlight flashed in his mind, but he couldn't remember anything. Where is Fangcun Mountain? He wanted to pick the flower of immortality back quickly, because Axue was still waiting for him.

After meeting the monkey, the farmer hurried back home and said excitedly to his wife: "My wife, General Divine Monkey is back, he is not dead, he is not dead."

His wife replied, "Don't be stupid. The Great General of the Divine Monkey is unforgivable to kill the Jade Emperor. He has long died under the palm of Tathagata. You must be dazzled. Even the Divine Monkey General Ting Tathagata has never let him go. How could he still be alive?"

The farmer shook his head and said, "He is back. He wants to tear the false sky. He will let the world see the ugliness of gods and Buddhas."

His wife retorted: "You're crazy."
Chapter completed!