Chapter 828: Mount Huaguo Water Curtain Cave... Handsome Monkey King!

“Hiss—! You guys, come quick and look! The official League of Legends website has also updated with a Mysterious Hero Bundle! It’s set for release in a week!”

“What!? That Mysterious Hero Bundle is finally available for purchase!?”

“I’ve been saving up for so long, alright! Just waiting for this new hero to drop!”

“Why does it look like… another monkey?” A group of elves located the official website, then looked at each other before casting a glance at the silhouette revealed by the site.

Immediately, they sent a message of complaint to the boss: “Aiya—! Boss, let’s not release a monkey, okay?”

“(Cute cute) ヾ(*▽‘*) Let’s release something else, shall we?”

At this moment, Xiaoyue also sent an objecting message: “Boss—! This monkey doesn't look majestic at all. Why don’t we release another dragon instead—!”

“Isn’t there already a Dragon King?” Boss Fang replied.

Even though the Aurelion Sol was already there (a dragon based on the Eastern dragon archetype), the young girl still seemed insatiably greedy.

“That one is exceptionally majestic! Hehe!”

“I think,” the senior sister of the Haotian Sect, Yu Yin, commented from beside her, “we ought to have the shop introduce a particularly formidable immortal. Look at how powerful everyone in League of Legends is, yet there isn't a single powerful immortal.”

“Exactly!” Beside her, the head disciple of the Haotian Sect, Zhuge Qinlong, also spoke up. “Though the Shushan Sect in the Legend of Sword and Fairy is powerful, and even has ancestors who ascended to immortality, it still tells a story of the mortal realm. Why not talk about their ancestral masters? How majestic would that be?”

“The story of Sword and Fairy is trying to express something different.” Yu Yin gave him a white look from the side, clearly having played the game with more careful attention to detail.

…

The Jiuhua City Shop.

“Qingqing, tomorrow the shop is releasing that Journey to the West. Are you going to watch it?” Xu Zixin asked while playing the new version of Dungeon & Fighter.

“Not in the mood…” Halfway through her sentence, she became a bit curious to know what trick Boss Fang had up his sleeve this time.

“Hmm…” Thus, Shen Qingqing pondered for a very long time beside her. “If the price is reasonable, I guess I’ll reluctantly give it a try. Anyway, it’s not time yet for the other television dramas to update these couple of days.”

“True enough.”

…

On the other side, Su Tianji and her two precious disciples, Fenghua and Yuexin, gathered together.

“Master, Master! Are you going to watch that Journey to the West tomorrow?” Fenghua asked hastily, seeing that the broadcast was tomorrow.

After all, with so many games and television dramas nowadays, the 10 hours of daily time had to be meticulously calculated. Where would one find the time to watch some subpar dramas?

Furthermore, there was one most important and pressing point at present:

Catastrophe was imminent for the mortal realm. Although they did not know how terrifying it would be when the gods descended, looking at Raizen, looking at Carloso…

Those scenes had frightened people out of their wits. If they didn't seize the time to enhance their strength now, how could they have the leisure to watch irrelevant television dramas?

And even if that group of elf sightseers ran off to Dungeon & Fighter to enjoy the scenery, it wasn’t without the intention of studying and learning the powerful Second Awakenings.

Therefore…

“How could this celestial maiden watch some kind of monk—” Su Tianji paused mid-sentence and thought it over again. “Uh… hehe… Master thinks we should give it a try first! Just a try!”

Even if the drama didn't seem very reliable, Boss Fang was still rather reliable, and this shop was rather reliable too.

As a customer of her extremely veteran status, even if it were poison, supporting the shop and this boss made testing the poison worthwhile. What if it actually turned out to be halfway decent?

Though they could wrack their brains and still fail to fathom how a drama with a monkey as the protagonist could possibly be good, still… there was no harm in watching!

Even if expectations for this drama weren't high, there was still the score of friendship…

After all, everyone had been through so many years together; how could they not show their support?

…

Thus, the next day.

Although a portion of people claimed with their mouths that they wouldn't watch, like Xiaoyue, Su Tianji, Nalan Mingxue, Gu Tingyun, and so on…

As well as the Canglan City Shop, the first thing these elves, knight orders, and the Assassin Brotherhood did upon stepping into the shop was: “Boss, where is today’s new drama?”

“Ah?” Boss Fang was still dozing off in front of the counter at this moment, suddenly snapping out of it. “Didn’t you all say you weren't going to watch?”

Regardless of whether it was good or not, a new drama was out in the shop, so they had to show some support to make the boss happy.

Particularly this group of elves; yesterday they had bought several Labor Day Sets, and it was said that the items included were things old players couldn't buy even if they wanted to in the past!

Then of course we should treat the boss a little better, shouldn't we?

So they also ran over to join in the fun.

Of course, they couldn't let the boss know this. Otherwise, if his own new drama came out and it was deserted, requiring their charity to draw a crowd, wouldn't that be terribly disheartening?

Hence, the crowd flatly denied it: “I thought about it yesterday and felt this seemed quite novel too, hehe… we’ll give it a try first!”

Then, as if terrified of being exposed by the boss, they blushed and ran off to their machines in a flash.

“Eh… this bunch of people…?” Boss Fang looked in the direction they had left, scratching his head in puzzlement.

Soon, some old customers from the old shop, along with a portion of customers from the new shop, some ordering a cup of cappuccino, others eating instant noodles, began their journey into Journey to the West.

“Chaos reigned before heaven and earth divided, vast and hazy, seen by no man.

Since Pangu broke the primordial egg, the clear and turbid have been distinguished from this beginning.

Overspreading and sustaining all living things, one looks up to the supreme benevolence; inventing all creation, all becomes good.

If you wish to know the achievements of creation and time, you must read the Chronicle of Deliverance in the Journey to the West.”

Moved by Pangu's creation, the Three Sovereigns’ governance of the world, and the Five Emperors’ establishing of order, the world was thus divided into four great continents: the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, the Western Cattle-Hiding Continent, the Southern Jambu Continent, and the Northern Kuru Continent.

To these people of a different world, they knew neither the Three Sovereigns nor the Five Emperors, yet right at the opening chapter, a mere few words had already introduced the entire world from antiquity to the far-stretching continents, with the respective achievements of Pangu and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors also mentioned.

Accompanied by the torrential seas, eerie crimson cliffs, and sheer wondrous peaks appearing before their eyes.

It was as if an extremely brilliant painter, with a few sparse brushstrokes, had presented the entire firmament and universe of this world, from ancient times to the present, and all its vital passes, right before the eyes of all the onlookers.

“How is it? Is it good?” Clearly, there were also onlookers watching from behind. Though they weren't optimistic, it didn't hinder their curiosity.

No one made a sound.

They seemed to be quietly admiring this poetic and picturesque chapter before them.

Next, it spoke of an immortal mountain upon which stood an immortal stone, possessing nine apertures and eight holes, arranged according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, receiving the essence of the sun and moon until it gradually became spiritual.

Unknowing of how many years of nurturing it had undergone, it actually weathered into a stone monkey…

“This…!?” A group of elves gasped, covering their mouths; they had never witnessed such mystical wonders of heaven and earth.

Not to mention… the cultivators and martial artists of Jiuhua City.

Watching the golden light blazing before them, shooting straight up to the Bull and Dipper constellations, even startling the Jade Emperor in the Heavenly Court, and then watching it leap into the Water Curtain Cave, receiving the homage of the monkey horde to be crowned the Handsome Monkey King, they couldn't help but speak out: “This is a monkey…!?”

Thinking back to the previous preview…

The Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, the Water Curtain Cave… all the information from the previous preview was now connected…

Looking at the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, the Water Curtain Cave, and the Handsome Monkey King before them now…

“Gulp!” They subconsciously swallowed their saliva.

Their hearts seemed to give a heavy thud along with it.

The feeling was completely different now!

.

.

PS: Some parts of the system version of "Journey to the West" will closely resemble the original novel, while other parts will lean closer to the 1986 television adaptation.

.