The Monkey King

Six hundred and fifty years later...

At the foot of Five Elements Mountain, in an inaccessible corner, a monkey and a monk looked at each other quietly.

Slowly, Xuanzang let go of the hand on the monkey's forehead, clasped his hands together, his face was calm, but he suddenly felt a sense of physical and mental exhaustion.

The sky is dotted with stars twinkling, and looking around, everything in front of us is so desolate.

Not five hundred years at first like he knew, but six hundred and fifty years. After spending one hundred and fifty years in a coma, he was suppressed for another five hundred years after waking up.

Who could have imagined that the Monkey King and the King of Demons, who dominates the three realms, would spend a long time alone in this deserted place, worrying about not being able to pick a single fruit?

"Have you seen enough? What do you think?"

The monkey sneered, his eyes red.

Eight hundred years, this is his eight hundred years. From the moment he stepped out of Huaguo Mountain, it was a past that was unbearable to look back on.

Desperately trying to seize everything and hold on to everything, in the end, I just keep losing and feel alone...

Xuanzang sighed lightly and said softly: "The donor's experience is beyond the poor monk's expectation. It turns out that what you hate is not the heaven at all, but the Buddha Tathagata."

The monkey glanced at Xuanzang lightly: "Do you hate him?"

"Don't hate?"

The monkey was slightly stunned for a long time, then he said with a sneer: "I don't know. I'm trapped here. I have thought about what I should think about, what I shouldn't think about, what I want to think about, and what I don't want to think about. I'm tired of thinking about it. I don't know if I still hate him. But if you let me out, I will probably go to Lingshan to fight with him. "

Xuanzang half-squinted his eyes and laughed: "But that's not what the donor told the poor monk just now. What the donor said just now is that the purpose of cultivating immortality is to live forever, and when he comes out, he will burn down the heaven."

The monkey turned his head away from him. He murmured to himself: "I'm getting older, can't I remember my enemies by mistake?"

"Oh?" Raising his head, Xuanzang sat on the edge of the cliff and looked up at the stars in the sky, sighing: "Then, let's forget about it for now. Now that the matter is over, the poor monk will ask the donor again. Is the donor willing to come out?"

"You still think I will go with you to get scriptures?"

"Donor, please hear me clearly. What the poor monk is asking is, is the benefactor willing to leave the Five Elements Mountain?"

The monkey took a deep breath, lazily raised his eyelids and glanced at Xuanzang, and said: "What do you mean by this? I don't want to go to get Buddhist scriptures, but you are willing to let me go?"

A beetle climbed slowly, bending the grass.

Xuanzang lowered his head and stroked his sleeves. After a long time, he sighed softly: "When I came, the poor monk still had doubts about whether he could convince the donor to follow the poor monk to the west. But now, those doubts have been dispelled."

"What do you mean? Aren't you afraid that I'll go out and beat you to death with a stick?"

Xuanzang burst out laughing: "Life and death, life and death, life and death, what does it matter? If he was afraid of death, how could the poor monk go all the way to the west? Could it be that the donor really thought that the poor monk went through all the hardships in the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures just for the sake of it? Become a Buddha?"

As he spoke, Xuanzang looked at the monkey with a smile, his eyes bent into the shape of the Xuanzang moon.

The monkey was confused for a moment, and his eyes suddenly became more wary when looking at Xuanzang.

From the moment he woke up and found himself pressed under the Five Elements Mountain, he had already guessed the cause of the matter.

Tathagata. Nature is not trustworthy. Correspondingly, what he said about the lack of Buddhist scriptures in the path of heaven, and what he said about the dissemination of Buddhist teachings to him, all need to be considered.

But the monkey really didn't understand the practical significance of studying scriptures to Buddhism.

Taking up space? Develop power?

Not to mention Buddhism, Taoism is not interested in this. In essence, people in Taoism and Buddhism are the same. They all just want to improve their cultivation, but Buddhism cuts off the seven emotions and six desires. Be more thorough. Among the three realms, the only ones who are keen on growing their power are the Huaguo Mountain and the generals from Heaven under his command. Among them, the generals of the heaven are still restricted by the laws of heaven and cannot develop at will.

"What do you want to trick me into?"

"Lie to you?"

"Isn't it? I won't believe a word you bald donkeys say, so I won't fall into your trap." The monkey snorted, lazily shrank his head and said, "Besides, I'm here It’s quite a comfortable life here, I really don’t want to go out, it’s useless what you say.”

"You really don't want to come out?"

"I really don't want to."

"sincere?"

"Sincerely! How many times do you want to ask me this question? Do you know that this monk of yours is really annoying? You came here early in the morning and disturbed me when I went back to sleep. I have been bothering you until now and still refuse to leave. I really want to smash your head with a stick! "

Facing the glaring monkey, Xuanzang spread his hands and said: "If the donor wants to kill the poor monk, you have to come out first before killing him. In your current situation, with your cultivation level fully closed, even if the poor monk stands still, you can't do anything." I can’t kill him either.”

"You——!" Monkey punched the ground hard, took two deep breaths to calm down, and said coldly: "I'm not interested in arguing with you anymore. In short, I don't want to hear anything you say, and I don't want to go out, let alone I don’t want to go west to seek Buddhist scriptures, so I just ask you not to bother me here. That’s all.”

As he spoke, the monkey held his head with his remaining hand and stopped paying attention to him.

Xuanzang sighed helplessly, reached for the staff leaning against the cliff, and walked towards the white horse step by step.

"Are you really leaving?" Monkey glanced at him secretly.

Xuanzang walked to the white horse and tied his staff to the horse. He reached out to untie his luggage, took out a bamboo tube filled with water and a few pancakes, took it in his hand, and walked towards the monkey again. .

"Why the hell are you back again?"

"Did the poor monk say he was leaving?" Xuanzang raised his hand to show the bamboo tube and pancakes in his hands to the monkey, and said with a smile: "The poor monk is no better than you. He has a golden body of heaven. The poor monk is just a mortal body. Of course, we can't escape eating, drinking, sleeping, and sleeping. After a day of watching, the poor monk is also hungry and needs to eat some solid food. By the way, do you want some?"

"Eat solid food...then what? Will you continue to argue with me?"

"Of course, the poor monk will not look back unless he persuades the donor to come out of the mountain." Xuanzang nodded seriously, pointed to his luggage and said: "There is a quilt in the luggage. If the donor still cannot be persuaded tonight, the poor monk will temporarily We will live here. By the way, the poor monk has already seen it before coming here. There is a village five miles away from here. If the poor monk has eaten up all the dry food he brought and still cannot convince the donor, then the poor monk has no choice but to go there. It’s alms, and it’s only an hour’s journey at most, so it’s not in the way. If that doesn’t work, the poor monk can still build a temple here, recruit disciples, establish a sect, reclaim the wasteland next to it into farmland, and cultivate and feed himself. To be self-sufficient, you can set off again when you convince the donor. There are seeds for cultivation in the bag, but it just takes some effort. The donor does not need to worry about the poor monk."

The monkey was suddenly dumbfounded.

What's going on with this posture? Is this bald donkey really planning to fight him to the end?

Throwing aside his cassock, Xuanzang sat down next to the monkey, handed a piece of pancake to the monkey and said, "How about some, come and try one? Although it's not a delicacy, I haven't eaten it in hundreds of years. You should also like it.”

The monkey slapped Xuanzang's hand away without hesitation.

Seeing this, Xuanzang stopped pushing. He looked up at the starry sky, gnawing on the pancake, and said cheerfully: "The poor monk is joking, we should set off before dawn tomorrow, there is no need to stay here for too long."

The monkey didn't answer and just covered his head with his hands, completely pretending that Xuanzang didn't exist.

After a while, until Xuanzang had finished eating and drinking, he patted the crumbs of cake in his hand and sighed: "I kept the donor waiting for a long time. Let's continue what we were doing. The poor monk just looked at the memory of the donor. , now let the donor see the memory of the poor monk, how about it? After reading it, the poor monk will let you out. As for whether you want to go east, west, south or north, or even kill the poor monk on the spot, it is up to you. .”

"What?"

Regardless of whether the monkey wanted it or not, Xuanzang had already grabbed his hand and pointed it directly on his forehead before the monkey could react.

Looking at Xuanzang's smiling eyes, the corners of the monkey's eyes twitched slightly.

Slowly, the surrounding scenery continued to evolve like sparkling water, and a temple appeared in front of the monkey... (To be continued ~^~)

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