When the image became clear.

He saw flames engulfing the whole mountain, with scarlet flames reaching the sky. Among the once bountiful mountains, the ground was littered with monkey corpses, uncannily similar to the scene observed in the Fire Eye Mystical Awe Spirit Monkey Strange Temple!

Li Che was stunned.

Soon after, he saw a figure with tattered clothing, a crooked golden crown, and a broken phoenix feather, transforming into a golden light, crashing into the sea of wind and fire on the mountain.

Thick black smoke billowed, darkening everything, while those golden eyes let fall with tears.

“Ah… Ah…”

The once majestic monkey now appeared extremely desolate.

He gripped the Golden Iron Divine Pole, thrusting it into the scorched black soil.

Desolately, he wandered through the entire mountain.

Gazing at one charred monkey corpse after another, he reached the foot of the mountain and saw that once vibrant, vine-covered stone tablet.

The stone tablet, scorched and cracked, bore the words “Huaguo Mountain” that had become blurred and indistinct.

The desolate monkey moved closer to the stone tablet, where an old wise monkey, who had previously guided Li Che, knelt in front of it. There were blood trails from its claw marks on the stone, strikingly visible.

Li Che observed this scene from afar, his heart trembled involuntarily.

So the one who guided him was that old ape?

Was it indeed that Fire Eye Mystical Awe Spirit Monkey?

The broken monkey embraced the old ape, tears cascading down, his head turning restlessly, the former arrogance had long since vanished.

“My kingly monkeys…”

“Ah—-!!!”

A long howl.

The desolate monkey erupted in a ring of surging flames, burning and distorting the air, rapidly engulfing the entire lonely, desolate mountain.

All the fallen monkey corpses turned into ashes and vanished without a trace.

At the same time.

The monkey’s fur exploded, spreading densely across the entire mountain.

The monkey staggered, flashing back to the place of the golden pole.

In the next moment, grabbing the golden pole, toes touched the ground, instantly causing a ring of airwaves to burst, the body vanished into nothingness.

Li Che’s painting immortal avatar stood silently among the mountains.

The scene rotated again, and the flow of time seemed to accelerate.

The barren mountains, after being burnt, endured many springs and autumns.

Then, lush greenery and vitality reemerged.

The once dried-up waterfall flowed down again, releasing countless splashes of water!

And among the woods, sounds of “oo oo” echoed.

One spirit monkey after another leaped and bounded across the mountains, agile and lively.

Full of spirit, ambition, carefree and unrestrained!

Li Che watched this scene somewhat dazedly…

The next moment, Li Che’s painting immortal’s black robe fluttered, his dark hair swirling, gazing up.

He saw a black lotus blooming in mid-air.

On the lotus, a monkey clad in a big red kasaya sat with a kind and gentle visage, wearing a cloud-patterned golden hoop, its eyes devoid of emotion or desire.

The black flame lotus disappeared.

The monkey, draped in a kasaya, stepped off the lotus platform, strolling among the lushly verdant, blooming mountain scenery.

The furry hands pressed together, devout and compassionate.

As he walked among the mountains, the nimble monkeys quickly gathered around him, chirping and “oo” calling incessantly.

“Old monkey, who are you? Where did you come from?”

“How could you appear in our Huaguo Mountain?”

“Huaguo Mountain welcomes foreign monkeys, have some fruits.”

A little monkey handed over a juicy peach.

The monkey, with eyes emotionless and desires unfulfilled, accepted the peach, his eyes flickering for a moment.

“You little monkeys, do you not recognize me?”

“Old monkey, which mountain do you come from?!”

The chirping voices echoed incessantly.

The old monkey draped in the kasaya sighed.

“What’s false cannot become true, everything has become illusionary…”

“Buddha, having walked the path to enlightenment, is what I sought to let go?”

The old monkey removed the kasaya.

“The mountain no longer exists, the water no longer exists, the fruit no longer exists, the monkeys no longer exist…”

The old monkey sat cross-legged.

His palms pressed together.

At that moment, all the spirit monkeys on the mountain, in their calls of “oo oo,” transformed into floating monkey hairs, drifting toward the old monkey, merging into his own fur.

Once the old monkey brought his clasped palms down slowly.

His eyes opened.

What met his gaze…

Was but a lone barren mountain.

Li Che’s painting immortal avatar stood quietly among the suddenly silent mountains.

Watching that cold and seated on the black lotus, collecting all the spirit monkeys, the ethereal departing old monkey, he slowly exhaled.

At this point, the image completely disappeared.

Inside the mysterious temple.

Li Che’s painting immortal avatar still sat quietly on the ground.

Gazing at the tears that fell from the eyes of the monkey draped in a kasaya on the altar.

The seated painting immortal Li Che slowly stood up, his black robe fluttering.

He looked at the monkey draped in a kasaya, sitting on the black lotus platform.

The next moment, he raised his hand, touching his forehead.

Buzzing—-

The heaven and earth chessboard rotated!

It suddenly enveloped!

Accompanied by a gentle sound.

“Divine Skills…”

“Tong You!”

Slowly opening his eyes, everything inside the mysterious temple was as before, without any change.

Li Che’s painting immortal raised his eyes towards the Temple God on the altar.

With one look, he was stunned…

He saw.

Every strand of monkey hair on the Two Heart Great Saint Temple God on the altar seemed to transform into a little monkey, as if countless little monkeys were clinging to his body.

In the gentle breeze, lightly swaying and fluttering.