Petal in a vase

The storm of despair

Macaque teleported them to the next location and this time it was on a strange platform and they saw a strange person standing near a rock holding a sign that says "danger don't go to the next ingredient this is all a trap" and they were smiling at them and waving they started fading away so mk opened the door and ran over but then his foot went through the platform but luckily mei grabbed his hand just in time before he could turn into a human pancake mei casually dragged him back inside and started to yell at him like his older sister from another mother while mk tried to apologize macaque and wukong just stared at each other went forward to the door and wukong lifted one foot and placed on the ground while his hand were on the edges of wall luckily it didn't go through at all so released his hands and looked at macaque and nodding indicating it's safe to get down so they both jumped off the jet and landed on ground and went over to the direction the person was standing on and there was a paper wukong picked it up and it said "don't go for it this is your final to last warning but if your willing to im surprised the ingredient your looking for is at your left be sure you think positive or else your asking for death"

"Okay this is terrifying who's gonna kill us is the most important question"

"I know and at this point I rather stay in the jet alive"

"Okay Jesus"

"Also if I die I'll drag you to hell with me"

"Okay okay Jesus Christ"

They started walking to the direction the paper mention and 3 hours later they came across a shrine that seems to look pretty abandoned it was in bad shape and look like it could fall down any minute by now and wukong stared at macaque and gave him an "I don't really wanna go in but I guess we really really really don't have a choice here" face so he just went brave mode and walked in while macaque stayed just for a few seconds and gave wukong the "I'm starting to think I should redempt my life choices cause this is gonna be a disaster and I'll know because of the last time" face and walked after wukong they reached the door and saw a note saying "macaque is going to see what happens to him in the first fight of the lady bone demon" it was strange but wukong looked at a scared macaque but he brushed it off and opened the door inside there were at at least 3 stones one looked nice and pretty the other looked pretty crushed and the other looked visibly creepy and had visible scratch marks they both went near the stones and macaque found a note (again) on a table it was pretty old it said "you must take one stone here's a riddle don't be visibly sad but be happy about things in life even tho your dead inside you need to wait long enough to finally break in the outside"

"Okay okay so uhh whats with the note and why do can't we take all 3 of them?"

"Oh I don't know maybe because whenever people seem to try it always end up getting either dead or killed"

"Dang Jesus chill"

"Shut up"

"Fine fine whatever"

"So which one do we take?"

"We need the stone of death remember it's in the note that we read in the shop earlier does it ring a bell or do you not get it?"

"Jeez chill already just shut up"

"I said it to you first dimwit"

"Fine I'll shut up ugh"

"Finally but the note seems to tell us we have to wait for some reason"

Then it clicked him all they gotta do was wait for the happy stone to break so the inside can reveal it true self damn macaque was a genius

"I got it all we gotta do is wait for the happy stone to break and reveal its true self then it'll be in despair I don't know how I solved it but I'm a genius"