I am guarding the sky prison in Journey to the West

Chapter 121
Li Anran stared at the image of the horned green ox on the punishment book, and the life of the green ox spirit appeared in his mind.

Southern Zhanbuzhou.

Chen Guoku County.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the world was in chaos. Lao Tzu, the mortal incarnation of the Supreme Sage, wanted to resign from his official position and go back to seclusion. Because of his old age and frailty, he was not suitable for riding a horse, so he chose a black bull with black horns as a means of transportation.

Lao Tzu traveled all the way west and traveled to various countries. Every time he went to a place, he would open an altar and preach.

Banjiao Qingniu has been by Lao Tzu's side for a long time, and after listening to it a lot, she gradually developed wisdom.

When Lao Tzu left Hangu in the west, he was invited by Guan Ling Yin Xizhi to write the "Tao Te Ching", which caused flowers to fall from the sky, golden lotuses to spring from the ground, and purple air to travel thirty thousand miles east.

Banjiao Qingniu witnessed all this with his own eyes, and he has the merits of carrying the Supreme Saint.

In just one night, it changed from a green bull spirit that had just been born with intelligence to a demon fairy in the realm of a true fairy, and its feet were reborn from an ordinary mortal beast to a strange beast that is not inferior to innate creatures. Unicorn.

When Lao Tzu's merits and virtues were completed and returned to his true self, Qingniu Jing also ascended to heaven with chickens and dogs, and came to the Bajing Palace of Daluo Palace of the Supreme Saint together.

"Is this the Bajing Palace of Daluo Palace?" Li Anran opened his eyes wide.

Qingniu Jing is the first and only one among all the prisoners in the Punishment Book who has been to the Saint Dojo and seen the true face of the Saint!
Li Anran was extremely curious, and carefully looked at the scenic spots in the Palace of Eight Views.

There are many pavilions and palaces, and there are strange flowers of immortals and grasses everywhere, and the purple air is lingering, and the clouds are rising, and the sound of the avenue can be vaguely heard.

In this kind of place, even if you don't practice, your cultivation will be improved unconsciously.

And when the life of Qingniu Jing moved forward, Li Anran's eyes left the Bajing Palace.

He can no longer recall the specific appearance of the Bajing Palace, only a vague impression that the Bajing Palace is worthy of being a saint dojo.

As for the Supreme Saint...

did not see!

When the life of Qingniu Jing came to him to meet the Supreme Saint, it seemed that a large distorted mosaic appeared in the picture, not to mention the appearance of the saint, even the outline of the saint's figure could not be seen!
And even if it is Lao Tzu, the incarnation of the Supreme Sage in the mortal world, he can only remember the appearance of the other party, but he cannot describe it, or even recall it.

The only good thing is that he can still hear the voice of the saint preaching!

Qingniujing has only stayed in the Bajing Palace for less than 100 years.

However, he was lucky.

The Supreme Sage preaches once every 81 years, but he has listened to it exactly twice in the past 100 years!

That is to say, these two lectures allowed Qingniu Jing to comprehend the cultivation method that suits him, and his cultivation base has also broken through from a true immortal to a Taiyi golden immortal!
"A sage is the greatest opportunity!" Li Anran couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He has the golden finger of the system, and it took him more than 200 years to break through from a mortal to the golden fairy realm.

The Qingniu Jing only listened to the saint's sermon three times in a daze, and broke through from a green ox in the mortal world to the realm of Taiyi Jinxian.

It can only be said that the power of a saint is so terrifying!
But from now on, this opportunity belongs to him!

"Qingniu Jing will be imprisoned in the sky prison for a hundred years. I can listen to it as many times as I want in the future. I don't rush for a while!"

Li Anran suppressed his urge to listen to the sermon, and continued to read the life of Qingniujing.

After the saints left the Three Realms with the Taoist ancestor, the Qingniu Jing followed the Taishang Laojun to the Tiandoushi Palace of Lihen.

Since then, Qingniujing has been staying in Tushita Palace, eating fairy grass and spiritual fruits, drinking jade liquid and fine wine, and being served by cowherd boys, living a carefree life, but his cultivation level is no longer Big breakthrough.

In nearly ten thousand years, he has only been promoted from the beginning of Taiyi to the sixth level of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

The time soon came before and after the monkeys made trouble in the Heavenly Palace.

Mu Niu Boy, the predecessor of Han Zhongli, likes to bet, is lively and likes to inquire about gossip, and he will naturally not let go of the monkey.

After inquiring, he also likes to tell the gold and silver boy.

When Qingniu Jing dozed off at the side, he also listened to it.

However, he didn't take it to heart.

From Qingniujing's point of view, Tushita Palace is in the 33-day Lihentian, no matter how much the monkeys make trouble, they will not be able to make trouble in this place.

His only interest in monkeys comes from monkeys beating Nezha.

Qingniu Jing likes to be quiet and not to move, but after practicing for so long, it is inevitable that she will be curious about her own strength and how it compares to other gods in the Three Realms.

Nezha is the well-deserved No. [-] God of War in the Heavenly Court after the Conferred God Catastrophe.

Qingniu Jing heard too many stories about Nezha's demons and exorcising demons from the cowherd boy to the gold and silver boy, and he was very impressed with Nezha——

This is also the reason why he will name him to fight Nezha!

At this time, when he heard that a mortal fairy had won against Nezha and became famous in the Three Realms, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, and he had some thoughts about becoming famous all over the world.

After that, the monkeys made a big fuss at the Peach Blossom Party, and came to the Tushita Palace drunk to steal the golden elixir.

At that time, Qingniu Jing was sleeping in the cowshed in the apse, and heard some movements in the alchemy room, but didn't pay attention.

Taishang Laojun's alchemy success rate is extremely high, but not every time is so smooth, and it is normal to make some unexpected movements occasionally.

It wasn't until the Taishang Laojun came back and gave Jinyinboy a lesson, that he knew that the monkey had eaten all the pills in the alchemy room like fried beans!

Qingniu Jing was stunned.

There are many types of elixir refined by the Taishang Laojun, with different functions and different five elements. It is incredible that the monkeys just ate it whole and did not get killed by the colliding medicinal power!
At the same time, I was also a little annoyed why I didn't go up to have a look at that time, maybe I could compete with the monkey in martial arts.

Li Anran's attention was on Taishang Laojun.

He didn't know if it was the scheme of the Jade Emperor and Tathagata that the monkeys were guarding the peach garden and causing disturbances in the Heavenly Palace, but there was absolutely no Taishang Laojun involved in it!

He clearly felt the extreme distress, anger and outrage of Taishang Laojun when he learned that all the pills were being rushed by monkeys!
I also saw that the Taishang Laojun's face was livid and murderous, which was completely different from his usual appearance of pure heart, asceticism and demeanor.

After that, the Taishang Laojun smashed the monkey over with a diamond, and after the monkey could not be killed with a sword, gun, sword, halberd, thunder, ax and axe, he asked for an order to put the monkey into an alchemy furnace and turn it into ashes.

Qingniu Jing didn't come forward in the back hall, but he also saw that the monkey's lute bone was pierced by the Taishang Laojun's magic weapon, and its magic power and spirit were sealed, and it was put into the Eight Diagrams furnace specially used for refining weapons.

Taishang Laojun is determined to crush the monkey to ashes!
Qingniujing saw it and felt that the monkey was doomed this time.

However, what he didn't expect was that after 49 days, the monkey didn't die, and even overturned the Bagua furnace, and the blazing Liuding fire directly burned the hall into a sea of ​​flames.

"Big Luo Jinxian?!" Li Anran looked at the monkey covered in golden flames, a little surprised.

After the monkey jumped out of the gossip furnace, his monstrous magic power was released without any restraint.

Obviously, that has surpassed the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal and reached the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal!

However, when he was in the Five Elements Mountain a hundred years ago, he saw monkeys struggling hard. At that time, the monkey's cultivation level was only Taiyi Jinxian!

Li Anran thought about it for a while, and suddenly understood the reason, showing a sudden expression.

"No wonder the Tathagata didn't do it directly, but tricked the monkey into his palm and pressed him under the Five Elements Mountain!"

The monkey jumped out of the gossip furnace, which is equivalent to passing through a death calamity. It is just that "the world and the earth are all in the same force", and the luck is like a rainbow.

Although Tathagata's strength was higher than that of the monkey, he had to avoid his edge. He chose to fight the monkey with him, forcibly cutting off the monkey's rising momentum, and even slapped the monkey to the ground with his backhand.

Not only did the monkey lose his freedom and was suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain, his luck plummeted, and his cultivation also fell from the Daluo Jinxian back to the Taiyi Jinxian.

After that, Tathagata asked Land Jiedi to use copper pellets and iron juice to kill the monkey's wildness.

The monkey's heart energy gradually lost, and the luck also continued to decline.

Just in line with the phrase "shipping heroes is not free"!
Qingniu Jing also saw the strength of the monkey Da Luo Jinxian, and retreated decisively into the back hall, just as if he didn't hear the movement outside.

Afterwards, Daotong Shaohuo was angered by the Taishang Laojun, and he was brought down to the mortal world, and went to the Huoyan Mountain as land.

Qingniujing is safe and sound, and continues to live a happy life.

Until more than 200 years ago.

Taishang Laojun rode a green bull to Lingshan to participate in the Yulan Basin Festival. Passing through the southern part of Hezhou in Xiniu, he discovered that there is a Brahmanism here, whose reputation in some mortal countries is no worse than that of Buddhism.

The Taishang Laojun was thinking about it at that time, and wanted to use this Brahmanism to create some troubles for Lingshan and restrain the development of Buddhism.

After some consideration, Taishang Laojun decided to leave this matter to Qingniujing.

Qingniu Jing likes to be quiet and not to move, but it is related to Taoism, and it was ordered by the Supreme Lord, so it naturally complied.

Only then did the later Qingniu Jing be "frightened" by Tieguai Li's ugly face, break free from the rein and escape to the mortal world.

In the 200 years since Qingniujing disappeared, she was in the southern part of Hezhou, Xiniu, mixed with Brahmanism, helped Brahmanism to spread beliefs, and competed with Buddhism for believers.

Brahmanism itself is a sect created by three innate beings. It was born in the southern part of Hezhou, Xiniu, and has been passed down for tens of thousands of years. It can be said to be deeply rooted.

It also has a long history of disputes with Buddhist doctrine believers.

Wutian degenerated from Kinnaruo, the great protector of Buddhism, to Mara, which is the reason why he went to the southern part of Xiniu Hezhou to preach at the order of Buddha Upharata 3 years ago.

Xuanmen used to be the dominant family, and they could barely put down a Western religion in their eyes, so they didn't pay attention to this Brahmanism.

At this time, in order to cause some trouble for Lingshan, Qingniu Jing took the initiative to join the Brahmanism, and tried his best to help the Brahmanism spread its teachings and develop believers.

Because Vishnu among the three gods of Brahmanism is the innate bull god, the green bull spirit was easily reused, and by virtue of its own ability, it rose all the way.

By the time it feigned death and left Brahmanism, it was already one of the few gods under Vishnu's command.

And its operation, the effect is also very significant.

Originally, Brahmanism had been eroded step by step by Lingshan, and its sphere of influence had shrunk from covering the entire southern part of Xiniu Hezhou to only a few small countries in the southernmost part.

With the support of the Green Ox Essence and the Taoist sect behind it, the Brahmanism had the effect of being revived, and its power expanded again, causing a lot of trouble for Lingshan.

However, Qingniu Jing was also targeted by Lingshan.

After sensing the danger, Qingniujing decisively chose to feign death to escape, which intensified the contradiction between Buddhism and Brahmanism by the way.

Afterwards, he found a small country in the northern part of Hezhou, Xiniu, and became the king, and deliberately exposed his identity, attracting Tieguai Li's attention.

Qingniujing originally planned to go back directly with Tieguai Li, but because of Tieguai Li's rude words, he changed his mind and took the initiative to teach him a lesson.

This is how Li Jing went down to earth to capture the monster under the order.

"So that's what happened."

Li Anran finally figured out all the ins and outs of the matter.

Looking at the Brahmanism in Qingniujing's life, he couldn't help but think of Ah Sanguo in his previous life.

However, this world is very different from Blue Star's previous life. Brahmanism is very similar to the Brahmanism of the previous life, but it cannot be treated as the same.

The three congenital beings regarded as the main god by Brahmanism, in the evaluation of Taishang Laojun, are all side monks in the realm of Daluo Jinxian. Although their strength is not comparable to that of the Taoist sect, they are also quite strange.

In addition, they also have several Taiyi Golden Immortals, more than a dozen Golden Immortals, and dozens of Xuanxians under their command.

Although this strength is not as good as that of Xuanmen and Lingshan, it is definitely the overlord of one side.

Lingshan was also worried that the Brahman Church would die, so he didn't use force. Instead, he chose a carrot and a stick, and wanted to integrate Brahmanism into Buddhism from top to bottom.

But apparently it hasn't been done yet.

After sorting out everything, Li Anran reopened the life of Qingniujing.

In the life of Qingniujing, the most valuable thing is the three sage preachings. To be more precise, it is the "Tao Te Ching" written by the sage incarnation of Lao Tzu once and the Taishang sage twice.

"Tao Te Ching" is not a method of cultivation, and it can even be said to have nothing to do with cultivation.

However, it expounds the Supreme Sage's cognition of the way of heaven, the great way, and the way of humanity. It can be said to point directly to the source, which is far more precious than all exercises.

However, it is not an easy task to comprehend it.

Li Anran knew the truth that sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood, so he was not in a hurry to read "Tao Te Ching".

Lao Tzu has traveled all the way west, and wherever he goes, he will preach to people. The content is the same, but there are new changes.

This is actually the process of Lao Tzu thinking and perfecting the Tao he has comprehended.

It is also the process of the "Tao Te Ching" from its initial shape to its perfection step by step and then to its written form.

And the life of Qingniujing happened to include these contents!
Li Anran took a deep breath, sat cross-legged, and cleared away all distracting thoughts.

Following Lao Tzu's thoughts and steps, he gradually comprehended the fundamentals and differences of the way of heaven, the great way, and the way of humanity.

Time flies so fast at this time.

In a blink of an eye, half a year passed.

During the past six months, Li Anran did nothing, but checked Qingniujing's life over and over again.

He was not greedy too much, he only finished writing the Tao Te Ching at Hangu Pass every time, and he was not in a hurry to listen to the two sermons of the Supreme Sage.

Finally, he felt that his comprehension of Tao had reached a certain level.

It's time to read the Tao Te Ching!

(End of this chapter)