First Arrival in Journey to the West, Patriarch Bodhi

Su Yiyi froze the moment she heard Su Yu’s words, then said aggrievedly, "Daddy, I don’t want to be separated from you."

Su Yu stroked Su Yiyi’s little head and said, "It’s okay, it’s okay. Daddy just has something to do. I promise I won’t be separated from you again after this, all right?"

Su Yiyi threw herself into Su Yu’s arms without saying a word, clearly unwilling. Su Yu looked at Void Dominator with a bitter smile. "Old man, do you have any way around this? Once I go to Journey to the West, who knows how many years I’ll be there."

"Don’t worry. I’ll take this little girl into my Dominator Space. Time can be accelerated there. Even if you stay in Journey to the West for thousands or tens of thousands of years, she’ll only feel that a few days have passed," Void Dominator said with a smile.

Su Yu let out a sigh of relief and stroked Su Yiyi’s hair. "Yi Yi, did you hear that? Daddy will be back in a few days."

"Really?" Su Yiyi raised her head and looked at Su Yu.

"Of course it’s true. Why would I lie to my little darling?" As he spoke, Su Yu smiled and lightly scraped Su Yiyi’s tiny nose.

Su Yiyi’s unhappiness vanished at once, and she smiled. "Then, Daddy, you have to come back early."

Su Yu smiled and nodded.

Void Dominator held out his hand. "Come on, little girl. Let’s go to my Dominator Space."

Su Yiyi nodded, then took Void Dominator’s hand. Void Dominator formed a talisman seal in his hand and struck it into Su Yu’s forehead. The talisman instantly entered Su Yu’s body.

Void Dominator explained, "This is the coordinate of my Dominator Space. With it, you can find the void world of my Dominator Space and enter or leave freely."

Su Yu nodded. "Thanks, old man."

Void Dominator said, "Then I’ll be leaving first." As soon as he finished speaking, a spatial rift appeared before him, and he entered it with Su Yiyi.

Su Yu looked at the images floating in the air around him. "Let me see where Journey to the West is."

As he spoke, Su Yu began searching for the image of Journey to the West. He soon found it, walked over to it, activated the Myriad Realms Divinity, and placed his palm against the image of the Journey to the West world.

Su Yu did not make any large-scale changes to the workings of the Heavenly Dao. He only made a slight alteration, integrating himself into the Journey to the West world, while leaving everything else untouched.

Once he was done, Su Yu tapped the image of the Journey to the West world. Just as with Douluo Continent before, the image shot into the ground, and a massive door rose from the earth. After sealing his cultivation at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, Su Yu pushed open the door and stepped inside.

Su Yu’s vision went black. When he opened his eyes again, he sighed helplessly. "Ya Er, when will I be able to control my body’s age? Why did I turn into a baby again?"

Ya Er replied with a smile, "Master, this is actually quite good. It will help you integrate into this world better."

"Good my ass… If I bring Yi Yi here in the future, am I supposed to let her take care of me? I don’t even dare imagine that scene…" Su Yu said speechlessly.

Ya Er thought for a moment. "That’s true. But Master, you can actually choose your body’s age now. The oldest you can choose is ten, but you came in without making a choice."

Su Yu stared blankly for a moment, then shouted, "Damn it, you never taught me how to do that!"

"Uh… that does seem to be the case. Master, from now on, you only need to convey your thoughts to the Myriad Realms Divinity. The next time you travel through worlds, you can choose an age between infancy and twenty before entering. But I still have to remind you, Master, that starting as an infant is the best choice," Ya Er said.

Su Yu nodded. "Got it. By the way, where am I now?"

As he spoke, Su Yu released his divine sense to inspect his surroundings. After taking a look, he said doubtfully, "This seems to be a Taoist temple. Did I land at the entrance of one?"

The moment Su Yu’s divine sense spread out, he immediately felt something watching him. Startled, he quickly withdrew it. In the next moment, the Taoist temple’s gates opened, and a white-haired Taoist walked out.

The old Taoist picked Su Yu up and calculated with his fingers. He was unable to determine Su Yu’s origins, but he could tell that Su Yu was not some powerful expert reborn. He had simply been born a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

The old Taoist looked at Su Yu in shock. "A Great Luo Golden Immortal from birth… remarkable indeed. This old Taoist has never seen such a case before. That divine sense just now must have been released by you unintentionally."

Su Yu’s eyes rolled as he stared at the old Taoist. He felt that the man looked somewhat familiar, and Su Yu could sense that the old Taoist’s cultivation was at least within the Taiyi Third Realm.

The old Taoist continued, "My Taoist temple has only just been established, and you have already arrived. It seems this is a fated bond decreed by heaven. From now on, you will be the eldest disciple of my Spirit Platform Mountain."

The moment Su Yu heard the old Taoist’s words, he understood why the man looked familiar. This was Patriarch Bodhi.

"There are twelve characters in my sect, used to name disciples by generation: Guang, Da, Zhi, Hui, Zhen, Ru, Xing, Hai, Ying, Wu, Yuan, Jue. Yet the heavenly secrets reveal that the first ten will all have people in the future, but I cannot wrong you by assigning you the eleventh. Then you shall be special. You will not take a Dharma name. Your master will only give you a personal name… from now on, you shall be called Su Yu." With that, Patriarch Bodhi carried Su Yu back into the Taoist temple.

As Patriarch Bodhi carried him in his arms, Su Yu asked Ya Er in his mind, "Ya Er, what is Patriarch Bodhi’s cultivation?"

"Master, Patriarch Bodhi is the strongest expert in the Journey to the West world. His cultivation has already surpassed the Taiyi Third Realm and entered the Half-Saint realm. However, Half-Saints should not have appeared in Journey to the West. I think Patriarch Bodhi must be someone from the Prehistoric Times. In the Prehistoric Times, Golden Immortals were as common as dogs, and Half-Saints walked everywhere. It would not be impossible for one or two to have survived," Ya Er replied.

Su Yu froze for a moment. "Didn’t that old man Void say that the strongest was Buddha, that Great Luo Golden Immortal?"

Ya Er smiled. "Master, Lord Void was referring to the strongest expert of the Immortal Realm. Journey to the West is divided into three major realms: the Human Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Immortal Realm. The Heavenly Court, Spirit Mountain, and the Netherworld all belong to the Immortal Realm, while Square Inch Mountain belongs to the Human Realm, not the Immortal Realm."

"Oh, I get it. So there are powerful experts in the Demon Realm and Human Realm that I don’t know about yet, right? Why is that dead old man so unreliable?" Su Yu said helplessly.

Eighteen years later

Su Yu sat lifelessly before a table piled high with books. Over the past eighteen years, Square Inch Mountain had not gained a second disciple. That meant only Su Yu and Patriarch Bodhi had stayed here, and they had done so for eighteen whole years.

That alone would have been fine, but Patriarch Bodhi said that since Su Yu had been born a Great Luo Golden Immortal, he did not need to learn any spells or divine abilities at first. Then Patriarch Bodhi had brought over an enormous pile of books for Su Yu to read every day.

The Dao De Jing, Buddhist scriptures, Confucian classics, and so on… In short, books from Buddhism, Taoism, and the Hundred Schools of Thought were all piled here. It truly felt like he was preparing for the college entrance exams…

P.S. Those who know not Spirit Mountain’s Fighting Buddha only know Great Sage Sun.

The Journey to the West world officially begins.

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