An SI-Monkey finds Enlighenment

The sound of screaming barely registered to six twitching ears of the universe's only true protagonist. The true MC and the real SI who rode atop magnificent clouds. Or at least he pretended he was.

In reality, Liu Er was jumping up and down as he traveled. Even now he was more or less gliding down from the sheer force of his jumps. The magical abilities displayed by his contemporaries were completely unneeded, absolute strength was the only thing he'd need.

Currently, Liu Er pounced across the East Continent with nothing but a cudgel in hand and armour he was still wearing since departing from the western front. The monkey innate god neither kept track of, or realized how much time had passed since he abandoned the primary site of the war.

All he knew was that he alone was doing something. He Liu Er was saving the world doing what a smart and strong person MC did. Descending from his earlier jump, his body was summersaulting towards various areas that appeared to be on fire.

"HAIYAH!"

The smack of his cudgel bashed through the distracted form of a ghost devil wrecking havoc. At the same time, the force of his strike smashed apart thousands of smaller ghost devils who acted under the larger one's command.

His attack was so fierce and strong, it had even shattered the environment around him killing not only the ghost devils but numerous living beings. Not that Liu Er noticed, they'd barely even registered as alive to him.

But his actions of slaying ghost devils were still witnessed. Even of he himself did not noticed them, groups of survivors saw him as either a saviour, while some others hard darker impressions of the monkey.

"Heh," Liu Er smirked after seeing his handiwork. Another devil killed, too bad they didn't drop loot for him. Taking further looks around, he saw a mountain in the vast distance that was also being assaulted.

Liu Er considered his next move. Truthfully he was bored of killing so many ghost devils. There was no benefit to defeating them as he got nothing out of it. He wanted to be the hero who ends this tribulation and get all the merits as reward, but killing an endless horde of ghost devils did not accomplish that.

'Not that the dumbasses realize it,' he concluded in his own mind. Liu Er was smart, he had proper education from twenty first century earth after all. The native innate gods can never compete with his level of scheming.

So in his mind, rescuing that mountain had no benefit to him. As someone who crossed over from twenty first century earth, he will not do something without it benefitting him and he alone first. He will never risk his life for some NPCs in a story.

'I'm smart, I'm strong, I'm not a slave…'

Liu Er was down to just hide away for a awhile. Even he knew it was pointless to fight devils for too long. The smart thing to do was to hunker down and wait until the very end. After Hongjun kills Luohu he'll go in and steel the devil's treasures.

'I need to be cautious of him because Luohu is a powerful…po…dev…ful…Luohu is a pathetic fool who failed at everything he tried to do. He is a weakling who made a sword formation when he doesn't even use swords proving how pathetic and weak he is. I will take his treasures and make proper use of them.'

He would've turned around were it not for a serpentine shape moving through the clouds. All six of his ears twitched as he had herd nothing until now. Just the sounds of the natural world, swaying trees, running water etc.

"Dragon? No, Nuwa."

The serpentine shape was indeed Nuwa who was also traveling across the East Continent helping out whenever she could. Around her gargantuan celestial body, small humanoids flew around acting as drones to help her in her efforts.

After leaving the East Sea and the dragon's hospitality, Nuwa had made quite a reputation for herself. The vast majority of ghost devils was dispatched by her whenever returning powerhouses from various clans were unavailable. She was one of the few aside from the white robbed swordsman Haotian who was willing to ignore geopolitics.

But Liu Er did not see a goddess helping the denizens of her world. He saw a selfish bitch who was probably scheming something fowl.

Liu Er could never recall a time when Nuwa wasn't one. In all the novels he'd read, she was a despicable lier who abandoned humanity at the drop of a hat for no reason at all. She was a vain and cruel mistress who was absolutely pathetic in his opinion. What's more, she'd always turned out to be an enemy of the MC.

Previous personal encounters with the goddess was completely ignored.

'Nuwa is a pathetic fool who failed at everything she tried to do. Creating humanity but never realizing their potential. I will make proper use of the protagonists of this world. I alone will teach the Three Sove…sov…sover…reign…sovie…Fa…fa…five…sov.'

To the outside world, it was as if Liu Er was spasming out of nowhere. A few cautious stragglers from his latest save was approaching him to see what was going on.

Liu Er had seemingly chosen to stand still while twitching all over. His lips quivered as if he was trying to say something, yet failing to. His eyes, finally healed from the bruise of Da Hai's slap was twitching their eyelids as well.

The creatures he'd saved was only a dozen metres away when the monkey yelled.

"THREE EMPEROR FIVE EMPEROR!"

The ground shook and tore apart. The earth rippled, throwing numerous mortals into the air. Liu Er blasted off towards the mountains and Nuwa in a single jump.

"When humanity is weak, when the demons betrayed and killed nearly all of them. I will save the holy land unlike that disgraceful virgin Mary. Our lady of Nuwa is a pathetic useless fool so I will educate the Three Emperor Five Emperor and leave the holy virgin. Until then she must live…"

From the start of his rant, Liu Er's eyes was in a frozen, almost robotic trance. After he finished, they transformed back to their regular furious orbs. He seemed to have forgotten what he was just saying as he readied his cudgel to attack.

Nuwa was already looking at him. Her fanged mouth blossomed into a smile, glad to see who she perceived as a friend. She leaned back for the monkey to smash into the earth, kicking up rolls of rock that tore through ghosts devils.

The mud humanoids around her tried to avoid becoming collateral on her command.

"I've stored away the monkeys living on this mountain into my painting. We can fight to our heart's contents," she informed him.

Liu Er sneered in his mind. This woman was so stupid, you need witnesses to see your power. Not to mention she was wasting precious power. It just reminded him how dumb Nuwa was. 'So weak, and so dumb.'

Liu Er didn't need reminders from her to get to action. More swings of his cudgels destroyed devils left and right.

Nuwa flew beside him, transforming back to her half human half snake form. Though she mostly utilized her hands, her magic was more then enough to overwhelm her opponents. Ever since leaving the East Sea, her understanding to her own strength had vastly increased.

That was why the current Nuwa was far more effective in utilizing her cultivation in battle.

'Hmph, this idiot didn't even bring a weapon.' Liu Er felt his already rock bottom opinion on Nuwa drop even further. Didn't she know that to fight, one needed a proper weapon artefact? She's so dumb.

"Fellow daoist, I'll distract them. Can you strike them?" Nuwa asked.

"Telling me what to do?"

Fire, wind, water, and soil danced through Nuwa's fingers into snakes. They all tore apart her opponents or flung them away for Liu Er to crush them with his strength. His excellent hearing made coordination much easier.

"We make a pretty good team fellow daoist. Though perhaps you can hold back your blows a little?"

"Hmph." 'Giving me commands? Does she think I'm some sort of slave?.'

It took the two of them a little while to clear out the whole mountain. Each bash by Liu Er shattered the earth and tore apart clouds. Each time he struck, the sound of glass shattering followed after thunderous explosions.

The monkey was so powerful, the Chaos Immortal ghost devil who's Dao real had reached a level comparable to Primal Origin was annihilated without a chance to fight back. The attack Liu Er used destroyed not just the creature, but also formed a deep canyon.

It was only after the short conflict, Nuwa waved her hand. "Sheesh, you don't do things by half do you?"

Under her magical abilities, scores of rocks, fallen trees, and various debris rose into the sky. Liu Er watched in silence as Nuwa reconstructed the mountain range into what he assumed was it's previous appearance.

'So dumb, can't this idiot see shes wasting energy for no benefit?'

While outwardly he showed no reaction, internally he scolded Nuwa. It just made no sense to him, as someone who crossed over. Characters her are not supposed to be like this. That was why, in his mind she could only ever be despicable.

The mud soldiers around her, Liu Er did not really know what they were. They were shaped in perfect proportions like a human. But there's no way they could be, Liu Er refuses to believe it. Humans were the protagonists of the world, no way these ugly mud dolls could possibly be them.

'I should know, I will be the human ancestor and teacher of the Three Emperor Five Emperor.'

The magical powers exhibited by Nuwa was nothing special in Liu Er's opinion, still far below his strength. He could barely hide his sneer watching her remake her collateral mistakes.

'Ah I see, she is creating a precaution in case this innate creatures clan betrays her. Probably installing a monitoring system. Or shes preparing to create a good environment to breed food.' Liu Er grimaced in disgust. His opinions on Nuwa dropped even lower. "How evil."

"Yes, the Great Wilderness is suffering," Nuwa replied. She was appreciative of Liu Er's aid. In the next breath, she released the monkeys she'd been keeping in her painting.

In flashes of light, hundreds of kneeling monkeys manifested on the mountain. They looked around in bewilderment, surprised their home had not been trampled.

"Monkeys?" Liu Er gasped. The clan of innate creatures he saw before him were a bunch of naked monkeys. They didn't appear strong at all. Even Liu Er who now only cared about strength registered the, as mortals.

"Yes fellow daoist, these poor things," Nuwa sighed pitifully. "I don't think any of them has…what was that realm called again? Something Divinity?"

These monkeys started crying among themselves having realized their salvation. Some of them were kissing the ground, others were dancing. The braver ones approached Liu Er and Nuwa in thanks.

Seeing this submissive behavior, Liu Er felt nothing but disgust. 'These monkeys, have they no pride? Are they even alive? Pathetic, so pathetic.' What's more, they shared similar shape as him. They only lacked the ears and his distinctive ash grey fur colour.

"Oh thank you great immortals!" The chief monkey said. "Thank you, oh thank you so much! We Flower Fruit Monkey clan owe lives to you!"

"Oh your welcome," Nuwa was happy to reciprocate. She found these creatures to be adorable/ Even in her shrunken form, barely any of them reached past her waist. Even Liu Er was slightly taller then them.

"Aren't you capable of human bodies?" Liu Er suddenly said. He found them to be quite ugly unlike all the cultivators he'd interacted with who were capable of transforming.

Unlike Nuwa, Liu Er found their macaque type bodies to be insulting. Though he'd never acknowledged it, he began detesting monkeys after wondering around the Great Wilderness as one. The reminder of this lesser form aggravated him to no end.

"Human(Ren)?" Nuwa raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah like you, only with legs." 'How slow is this idiot? Those novels fail to mention how dumb she is.'

"The Dao body most suited to cultivating the Dao?" The monkeys replied instead. One by one, the ones who were capable began taking said shapes. Their true forms disappeared for a savagely dressed men and women.

Since cultivation acted to purify the body, none of them appeared ugly. If Liu Er ignored their true forms, they'd all be pretty attractive.

Nuwa nodded as they took these forms. Previously within the East Sea Dragon Palace, whenever cultivators spoke to one another in relaxed environments. They wouldn't take their true forms unless forced to. Even if Liu Er was a bit blunt, she didn't find this strange.

"Please, we must offer proper thanks. Our mountains is bountiful in fruits."

"Hm, I did notice that. Though I can't stay in one place long, I wouldn't mind just a little break. You Liu Er?"

Liu Er only absentmindedly nodded. His attention had long left Nuwa and the chief monkey. Instead he was eyeing a pretty woman who'd emerged from the crowd.

…

That evening, Nuwa enjoyed her time tasting the various fruit platter these monkeys served. They certainly knew what fruits to present, the peaches they selected tasted very good despite lacking much magical effects.

"So, magical commet?"

"Yes honoured lady, these fruits became far tastier after it landed on our Flower Fruit mountain not long ago."

"I see, I see. Hm, why does this sound familiar?"

Nuwa glanced at a distant cliff, where a large boulder sat. A sense of familiarity hit her but she couldn't quite identify where it came from.

Looking around, she'd noticed Liu Er had wondered off somewhere too. She remembered him being oddly cheery unlike what she perceived to be his usual grumpy side.

Throughout her time here, the monkeys tried to cosy up with Liu Er even more then they did her. It wasn't shocking to her, Liu Er was a macaque just like them. Perhaps they felt great kinship with him.

…

A distance away from Nuwa, away the celebrating monkeys in fact. Liu Er was speaking with. Beautiful woman. They sat in a clearing, Liu Er being the one talking while the woman laughed nervously.

Liu Er was quite showboating in his speech, describing his great deeds in the past years.

"Is that really true? Ten million clans in the world venerate you as the Dao Venerate?" The woman gasped.

"That is correct. I've passed along the great wisdom of Dao De Jing to countless lifeforms. The Dao is fifty, heaven is forty nine. I alone possess the the position of venerate," Liu Er stated with clarity.

The woman felt power in his words. This stranger from beyond the Flower Fruit mountains, every action he took exuded what she could only identify as Dao. Unlike that half snake woman, this fellow primate's Dao was freely unrestrained.

In terms of raw cultivation, this woman had long formed a Nascent Soul. From inheritances passed down by her ancestors, she knew to sense and enlighten herself on the natural Dao laws of the Primitive World.

But this man, he appeared to be the essence of the Dao itself. The more he talked, the more she felt herself grasping deeper concepts. She was opening smiling hearing Liu Er talk.

As for the Six Eared Macaque? He mistook er excitement for horniness. Naturally, being someone who knew where stories like these go. He took action.

…

"This stone." Nuwa caressed the jagged surface of the boulder. Jagged edges threatened to cut her flesh, but she clearly felt familiar five attribute energy emanating from it.

The banquet had died down as she'd requested to be left alone. Liu Er was still nowhere in sight so she'd just left it be. The only people remaining weren't even people, but the few mud puppets she'd allow to remain active.

"I see, so this was where you'd gone. The piece broken off when I mended the sky."

This rock she felt a connection to. It's true identity was a piece of the the Five Element Stone she'd once. Few years ago, she used it to plug the hole that connected the Starry Skies and the Great Wilderness.

But for years before that, it was her precious companion. She'd distinctly remember playing with it alongside Fuxi upon the footsteps of Mt Buzhou numerous times.

Soft footsteps caused her to temporarily pause her reunion. Her gaze landed upon a topless sweaty Liu Er walking in long strides up to her. He raised his head after stopping four metres away from her. Under the moonlight, his sweat caused his fur to glisten.

"Fellow daoist, I was wondering where you'd gone," she greeted amicably.

Liu Er's lips curled into a slight frown. Suspicion began overtaking his previous attitude. "Huh? You have senses don't you?"

"I don't typically pay attention unless I'm in danger?" She had noticed Liu Er's mood souring in. But she chalked it up to him being overly cautious. "There is no need prying into other people's business."

Liu Er was silent. But in his mind, he relentless lambasted Nuwa's intelligence.

"So trusting," he couldn't help but say aloud. She was just like the other innate god's he'd had witnessed. Useless pathetic weaklings who'd failed at everything they'd ever tried to do.

The only thing she was good for was creating humanity, otherwise he'd have killed her out of shame. She really was undeserving of creating his species. 'Why was I here again?'

Liu Er scoffed and puffed up his bare chest. Once again, sweat from recent activities rolled off his body. But Nuwa was paying more attention to the rock.

"Grrgh!"

"Is something wrong?"

"You're so dumb!"

Liu Er quickly turned and walked away from a startled Nuwa. The mud puppets around her did not attempt to get in the macaque's way. But one of them, the one that still had burn marks turned its head.

"That was uncalled for!" Nuwa shouted back offended. But Liu Er was already jogging away. She would not see him again, nor when she decided to depart the next day.

…

Nuwa's departure was met with great fanfare. The monkeys of Flower Fruit mountain desperately wanted her to stay for their own protection. But she said she had other duties when she waved goodbye.

She'd considered taking the piece of her Five Element Stone as well but chose not to in the end. Ultimately, she concluded her fate with it had ended and she had no real use for it anymore.

To say Liu Er was furious was an understatement. He'd expected Nuwa to abandon the monkeys, it was what she was good at in his opinion. This was the same woman who consented to humanity being massacred for the sake of a sword.

But his anger was primarily due to another reason. He'd remembered a scene he quite liked from a Kun Peng SI novel where he charmed the Phoenix Sovereign in the exact same way. But for some reason it didn't work. Nuwa must truly be too stupid to realize then.

The monkey chief was all smily faced towards him. He seemed smart enough to cozy up to him, but he was a weakling still.

'All below saints are ants.'

Liu Er knew this sole truth in the world. He wasn't too aware of his current level, but he knew he must become the equivalent of a saint. Becoming a saint was a non-option, that meant slavery. Liu Er hated being slaves.

That was why this monkey chief's groveling also predisposed him to Liu Er's disdain. He was a cultivator as well, but want to be a mindless slave dogmatically following his will? Disgusting.

"Hey, gather all your monkeys. I have an announcement to make," he said.

"Oh? At once great immortal."

Soon after, the rest of the monkey clan of Flower Fruit Mountain gathered. In front of this crowd, Liu Er felt unsatisfied. 'These monkeys need to breed more.'

He took a deep breath and roared, catching all their attention. He stomped his foot and raised his arm. Within that limb was a thin book.

"Look here you all!" He called out.

"This here is the Dao De Jing!" He announced. "I shall impart the wisdom of the Dao to you all."

His words had an instant effect.

"Huh? Wisdom of the Dao?"

"He's uplifting our cultivation?"

"Haha, that's great. A fellow monkey is willing to help us!"

"Ah I thought True Immortals were only something our ancestors could attain."

Liu Er tossed the book into the monkey chief's hands and raised his hands high above his head. His eyes were closed along with a satisfied grin. He was expecting great things from heaven. After all, he'd copied down word for word what he assumed was the Dao De Jing.

Beside him, the monkey chief excitedly flipped through the book. But he quickly blinked in confusion.

He was descended from first generation innate creatures, he spoke the same language as them. But the Godfiend's language was magical in writing so the script couldn't be comprehended by mortals. Hence, numerous post natal lifeforms created their own script to accompany their shared language.

The issue was, the monkey chief did not recognized the language Liu Er wrote in.

"Um, great immortal? I can't read…"

"Oh it's just english idiot, you can read what you're speaking," Liu Er spat in annoyance. He was frustrated at the lack of merit descending. These monkeys were also strangely silent, they should be chanting his name as Dao Venerate just like the scene he was trying to recreate.

'Fucking hell, these apes are illiterate aren't they. Ah so dumb, why's everyone in this world so dumb?'

Liu Er pulled back his arms and opened his eyes. Distaste rolled off his face as he snarled.

"Mama, are you going to make a breakthrough soon?" A young monkey said to a woman near the front of the crowd.

"Huh? Ah…Well I did feel the barrier to the Worldly Saint ream loosening," the women began speaking awkwardly. But realizing it was her own child, she quickly turned reassuring. "Your mama's gotten a great opportunity."

"Hurray!"

'Isn't that?' Liu Er narrowed his gaze at the woman.

"Don't worry little Yu. Your daddy may've abandoned you, but your mama is strong without him. Your mama will become an Immortal for sure."

"Hurray!"

"I AIN'T NO CUCK!" Liu Er roared out of nowhere. His rage caused the sky to darken into crimson.

The sudden change could not even be registered by the monkeys in the crowd. Liu Er moved and acted too fast.

PAH!

The trees at the side of the gathering swayed. Blood and bits of flesh splattered across their branches. The little monkey named little Yu was still jumping in joy, his whole body was covered head to toe in remains.

Silence fell upon the clan of monkeys. They were given no time to act. They didn't even realize what had happened.

"I see."

"No one can be trusted."

"I above all else should've realized the true nature of a xianxia world."

"Dog eat dog, strong enslaving the weak. Cultivators should not be bogged down by useless things."

"Cultivators should be strong, else remain a slave."

"But I. Liu Er."

"Am Not A Slave!"

Liu Er's eyes moved uncontrollably. His body spasmed as transcendent truth coursed through his body. Deep within him, the fruit symbolizing his revitalized Dao quaked. Its outer crust broke off piece by piece.

"I am the MC."

"I am smart."

"I am strong."

"I will reach beyond the heavens."

"The Dao is fifty, heaven is forty nine."

"Yuanshi, Tongtian, Laoz…la…ao…daddy… Yuan yuan, Tongtian, daddy, welcome, Zhunti, Nuwa are the six slaves. I shall be the real Hunyuan Daluo Fairy Wonderland."

"I saw the teaching of Three Emperor Five Emperor."

"I bend to no one. I bow to no one. I obey no one."

"I alone shall rule. I alone shall dominate. I alone shall be almighty."

"Prehistoric Liu Er will never be a slave."

"Prehistoric Liu Er will never be a slave."

"Prehistoric Liu Er will never be a slave!"