My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 56

The old monkey got special care from Sun Wukong, drank more than four cups of fairy wine, and went to a private room for retreat yesterday.

When Jiang Yuan came close, he saw the old monkey squatting on the table, slowly poking its paws, poking at the peach, ginkgo, lychee and other melons and fruits in front of it.

He doesn't even eat it, he just pokes this and that, picks and chooses, like a naughty child playing.

After 200 years, the dead body can finally move. Although it is still very slow, this kind of joy is enough to drive the old monkey crazy.

Seeing Jiang Yuan, the old monkey turned his head slowly, and spoke slowly like a late old man, with uncontrollable joy in his tone:
"Fellow Daoist Jiang Yuan, my physical body can move now, look."

As he said that, the old monkey bent his hind legs a little bit, then made a strong somersault, staggered to the ground, and bumped into a few big peaches.

Gululu, the ruddy peach rolled down the table.

Jiang Yuan quickly reached out, caught them one by one, picked out the plump ones, brought them to his mouth and took a bite, splashing the juice, chewing and laughing:
"Congratulations, your physical body is finally."

What Jiang Yuan wanted to say was "rejuvenation", but he suddenly realized that the old monkey's physical body was still lifeless, like a dead thing.

After breaking through to eat qi and attracting the aura of heaven and earth into his body, his perception of breath became more acute.

"You found out, um, it turns out that you have been promoted to Qi."

The old monkey grinned and spoke like ADHD, constantly swinging his paws:
"My physical body has long since died, and my vitality has been cut off for 200 years. How can a few cups of Tiangong Royal Wine bring the dead back to life, unless it is the flat peach, or the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir of the Taishang Laojun."

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but looked at Sun Wukong, who smelled of alcohol all over his body, and thought to himself, "Fantao, Laojun Jindan, your great sage has eaten a lot.

"Then you are?" Jiang Yuan wondered.

"By using the immortal wine, I got a mouthful of immortal spirit from the great sage, and I refined my physical body."

The old monkey laughed and replied:
"Although it's not a normal monkey body, it allows me to indulge in Huaguo Mountain."

The smile on Jiang Yuan's face faded, he gnawed off the big peach in his hand, and asked in a deep voice, "Are you determined to stay in Huaguo Mountain?"

The old monkey nodded without hesitation: "I am a monkey, so of course I want to stay in Huaguo Mountain."

After the words fell, the old monkey came to his senses, put down his waving paw, and looked at Jiang Yuan: "Fellow Daoist is leaving?"

At this moment, a few little monkeys with squinted and drunken eyes jumped into the arena, dancing with the light of King Qinglin's sword, laughing and laughing.

Jiang Yuan glanced at the carefree monkey, and said in a low tone:

"Old monkey, we have been together for many days, and you still have the grace of preaching to me, so I won't lie."

"Huaguo Mountain is sure to face a catastrophe in the near future!"

The old monkey suddenly smiled and said, "That's what you said to the Great Sage these few days, that the heavenly court will send heavenly soldiers and heavenly future to conquer Huaguo Mountain?"

Seeing Jiang Yuan frown, the old monkey said: "You reminded the Great Sage, I heard about it from the monkeys as soon as I left the customs."

Jiang Yuan sighed, "You don't believe it?"

"Of course I believe that all the monkey spirits and monsters in the Water Curtain Cave believe that the heavenly soldiers will definitely come."

The old monkey laughed and said:

"But so what, it's not that the Great Sage never fought back the heavenly soldiers and generals."

"We believe in the Great Sage even more!"

Jiang Yuan suddenly understood that the old monkey had become like all the monsters in Huaguo Mountain, blindly trusting Monkey King.

I also blame Tianting for being too weak.

Sun Wukong was making troubles in the Dragon Palace and the Underworld, but the first reaction of the Heavenly Court was to call for peace.

The first Huaguoshan battle was defeated so simply, and then Monkey King called himself "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven", and he still endured it.

With such a poor performance, how could Sun Wukong and the monsters in Huaguo Mountain put Heaven in their eyes.

However, Jiang Yuan can probably guess the starting point of Tianting's behavior.

First of all, Buddhism and Taoism have their own systems, but both respect the Jade Emperor as the Lord of the Three Realms, and only teach the Dharma, not seek to rule the Three Realms, so they also recognize Shinto as the management system of the Three Realms.

In this way, the position of the Jade Emperor is unshakable, and the Shinto system is naturally unshakable.

And what a stable system pursues is also a word of stability.

In the face of aliens outside the system, the first choice, of course, is to pull into the system.

Besides, Sun Wukong is not an outlier.

The fairy stone that conceived him existed when the world was opened up, and after tens of thousands of years of the essence of the sun and the moon, the spiritual energy of the world, it was transformed into a stone monkey.

The phrase in Journey to the West, "By incubating a monkey to complete the road", expresses the true meaning in one sentence.

Monkey King is the incarnation of that fairy stone, used to achieve the Dao.

When he was born, he stared at the golden light into Doufu. After the Jade Emperor was alarmed, he only said that "the things below are born from the essence of heaven and earth, nothing is different", and he didn't pursue it.

When Sun Wukong went to the Dragon Palace to borrow treasures, he once called himself a "born sage". To a certain extent, he was right.

Therefore, Monkey King's roots are by no means comparable to ordinary monsters.

For such a person with an extraordinary background, who has also cultivated the immortal way, and more importantly, a person with high abilities, it seems that Tianting chooses to take the initiative to recruit security, which does not seem to be considered weak.

It's just that he sealed Bi Mawen when he came up, and he was indeed a little arrogant towards the demons.

But afterward, when the Huaguo Mountain War was defeated for the first time, the Heavenly Court did not get angry, but put down its posture and accepted the title of "Great Sage Equaling Heaven".

It can be said that it is inappropriate to arrange Monkey King to guard the flat peach garden. After all, there is no way to let monkeys watch peaches.

But Sun Wukong is like this, conceived from a fairy fetus, becoming a fairy and attaining the Tao, is it considered an ordinary monkey?

In the eyes of Heavenly Court, can a true immortal with great supernatural powers still be unable to control his stubborn nature?
However, causal encounters are so strange.

Heavenly Court believes that Sun Wukong has practiced for hundreds of years, and his mind must be tempered enough.

But Sun Wukong is full of calculations, but after 20 years of practice, he has only achieved supernatural powers and has not lost his monkey nature.

It is 500 years under the Five Elements Mountain, and after the experience of traveling westward to learn scriptures, it is only now that we have truly "completed the avenue by embracing monkeys".

All in all, Tianting responded to Sun Wukong's series of behaviors, one is out of stability, and the other is that Sun Wukong is indeed extraordinary and powerful.

The reason why things backfired, to where it is now, is also too much pursuit of maintaining stability, and neglecting Monkey King's monkey nature.

And monkey nature?

Think about the monkey tamer's method of taming monkeys, the most important thing is to give both grace and power.

Not only small favors and food inducements are required, but also punitive measures to punish its deviant and bad behavior.

Of course, the premise of this approach is that the monkey trainer is better than the monkey.

The strength of the single-wheel heaven cannot become Monkey King's monkey trainer.

Whoever can tame the inferiority of this monkey is his "Tao"!
Shinto does not have this strength, while Taoism and Xuanmen seem to have no interest or willingness to do so.

Otherwise, the Ten Continents and Three Islands are close at hand, so why let Monkey King go all the way to the border of Xiniu Hezhou.

As for demons, demons, ghosts and the like, it is not worth mentioning.

After all the calculations, only Buddhism has the will to "deliver sentient beings" and has the corresponding strength.

It is not surprising that Sun Wukong finally achieved Buddhahood.

However, the road is hard to come by!

There is still a long way to go on Monkey King's road to "complete the Tao", and he still needs to go through many ups and downs and twists and turns.

As for Jiang Yuan, his journey has just begun.

Getting along with Monkey King these few days also gave him an idea.

"Sun Wukong, who was born with a fairy fetus, practiced for 20 years, ate flat peaches, took golden pills, tempered in a gossip furnace, and was suppressed for 500 years. After 14 years of traveling west to learn Buddhist scriptures, he finally obtained Buddhahood Golden Immortal."

"From now on, it will be nearly 600 years until Sun Wukong became a Buddha."

"I, Jiang Yuan, am not a fairy fetus, but after 600 years, can't I still become a fairy?"

"No!"

"I, Jiang Yuan, will become a celestial being in 600 years. Don't let Sun Wukong be more beautiful than before!"

　I have caught a cold for the past two days, and my condition is not good, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)