Chapter 131: Every sip and every bite is a destiny
The monkey threw the empty gourd in his hand to the ground, and used his magic power to draw all the gourds in the alchemy room to his side. He opened the lids and gulped down the liquid.
Concentrated Mind Pill, Five Elements Pill, Body Tempering Pill, Resurrection Pill, Tianyi Pill, Nine Revolutions Resurrection Pill...
The monkey didn't care what the pill was for or whether it was precious or not. He just stuffed the pill into his mouth as if he was eating fried beans.
Because he ate too fast, a lot of it leaked out from the corners of his mouth and rolled onto the floor.
"Hiss! This monkey has no sympathy at all when he destroys other people's things!"
Li Anran took a deep breath and felt a sharp pain in his flesh.
He watched with his own eyes how Taishang Laojun refined these pills one by one, and he had no idea how much time and effort it took as well as all kinds of extremely precious natural treasures.
Now we are suffering from the trouble caused by monkeys.
No wonder after knowing this, Taishang Laojun ignored his kind image in the past and wanted to refine the monkey in the Bagua furnace!
The golden boy had forgotten to cry. He stared at the monkey in amazement, his mind going blank.
He had never imagined this scene in his dreams!
"Great Sage, you absolutely cannot do that!"
The Golden Boy came to his senses and hurriedly stepped forward to stop the monkey, shouting, "These pills are the treasures of the Supreme Daoist Ancestor. If you do this, you will bring about a great disaster!"
"Go! Go! Go!"
The monkey was extremely agile. With a slight sway, he dodged the golden boy. He continued to pour the elixir into his mouth while muttering, "If you want to eat it, take it yourself! Don't disturb my Dan Yuan Conference!"
"Great Sage! I beg you! Stop it now!"
Looking at the empty gourds scattered all over the ground, Jin Tongzi felt his hands and feet go weak and his scalp go numb.
"No! I, Sun, want to eat to my heart's content!" The monkey didn't care about all that. He was thinking that since the Jade Emperor didn't invite him to the Dan Yuan Conference, he would hold his own Dan Yuan Conference and eat to his heart's content.
In just a short while, most of the pills in the alchemy room of Tushita Palace were eaten by the monkeys.
"Little kid, I, Old Sun, tell you...hiccup!"
The monkey burped, and an extremely strong elixir fragrance came out of his mouth.
Li Anran: “…” This monkey is full after eating the elixir!
It was not until this moment that Li Anran deeply realized that the monkey was able to briefly break through to the Golden Immortal level when he later rushed out of the alchemy furnace. It was not only due to the improvement brought by the tribulation, but also the huge amount of elixirs and the huge amount of peaches before.
This kind of opportunity is unique in the entire Three Realms!
It will be difficult to have it again in the future!
After taking so many pills, the monkey's drunkenness dissipated a lot. Thinking about what he had done, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"No! This disaster is bigger than the sky. If we alarm the Jade Emperor, our lives will be in danger. Go! Go! Go! I, Sun Wukong, would rather go down to the mortal world and be a king!"
The monkey didn't bother to care about the golden boy anymore. He jumped up, turned into a golden light, left the Tushita Palace and went towards the South Gate of Heaven.
Jin Tongzi looked at the mess in the room, feeling like crying but unable to shed tears, and had absolutely no idea what to do.
At this moment, Taishang Laojun hurried back with a group of Taoist children and immortal officials.
However, when he was preaching with Buddha Dipankara, he suddenly felt uneasy. After some deduction, he found that there was a problem in the Tushita Palace, so he immediately rushed back.
"Master!" The golden boy was trembling all over as he looked at Taishang Laojun who suddenly appeared.
Taishang Laojun was similar to him, except that one was frightened and the other was angry, and they both spoke incoherently: "What the hell is going on!"
The golden boy was so frightened that he fell to his knees and replied almost subconsciously: "Yes, it was the Monkey King! He got drunk, broke into the Tushita Palace, and ate all the elixirs here."
By the time Jin Tongzi realized what was happening, it was too late for him to change his words, and he didn't have the courage to speak again.
"Sun! Wu! Kong!" Taishang Laojun gnashed his teeth in hatred.
On the way, he had already heard about the monkey causing trouble at the Peach Banquet, but he didn't expect that the monkey demon not only caused trouble at the Peach Banquet, but also stole his elixir.
With the incident at the Peach Banquet in the past, Taishang Laojun did not blame Jin Tongzi. Seeing that Jin Tongzi looked pale and dazed, he told him not to worry about it and to go back and rest first.
Afterwards, Taishang Laojun flew hurriedly to Yaochi to complain to the Jade Emperor.
"Brother, don't be afraid, everything is fine." The Silver Boy stepped forward to support the Golden Boy and comforted him softly.
He also thought that Jin Tongzi was frightened by the monkey, and he didn't know that Jin Tongzi was more guilty and remorseful.
Among all the elixirs that the monkey stole, the most precious one was the Nine-Transformation Golden Elixir.
However, this Nine Revolutions Golden Pill was not the real Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, but a defective product that he made by mistake.
The monkey took the blame for him.
"I was saying that this boy could do such a complicated task as alchemy, he doesn't seem to be stupid! So this is the root of his problem!"
Li Anran practiced the Hehuan technique and was able to clearly perceive the Golden Boy's emotional changes.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Anran showed a look of realization.
However, what he didn't expect was that the Golden Boy's repayment came earlier than he thought!
After the Silver Boy helped the Golden Boy back to the room, the Golden Boy found an excuse to send him away.
He paced back and forth in the room, unable to calm down. He kept looking up in the direction of Yaochi, worried about the monkey.
However, he also knew that this matter was of great importance, and he did not tell anyone what had happened in the alchemy room.
Until five days later...
A piece of news spread throughout the heaven.
During the fight between the monkey and Yang Jian, the monkey was ambushed by the Lord of Heaven using a diamond cutter, was defeated and captured, and was taken back to heaven.
Also, because the monkey had an indestructible body, neither knives, axes, fire, nor lightning could kill him.
The Jade Emperor volunteered to lock the monkey into the Bagua furnace and burn it with civil and martial fire for 49 days in order to refine the monkey into an elixir.
Because the Golden Boy was frightened, Taishang Laojun ordered the Bronze Boy who was guarding the copper furnace to watch the furnace, and the Silver Boy to light the fire, and use the theory of the Five Elements and Yin and Yang and the method of alchemy to refine the monkey.
"Um?!"
Li Anran was originally leisurely looking at the 3D version of the Bagua Furnace Alchemy Monkey, but when he saw this, he suddenly sat up and opened his eyes wide.
because--
The method Taishang Laojun used to refine the monkey is extremely similar to the method of refining the demon into elixir!
It’s just that the former is more advanced and complicated, and more difficult to operate!
To put it simply, the method Taishang Laojun used to refine the monkey into elixir is the initial version of refining the demon into elixir!
" This evil method of refining demons into elixirs actually came from the hands of Taishang Laojun! Did he spread it out accidentally or on purpose? What was his purpose?"
Li Anran's eyes fixed.
At the beginning, Yang Jian was ordered by the Jade Emperor to investigate the matter of refining demon pills, but halfway through the investigation, he found that all the clues had been cut off.
In the end, he only caught some small fish and shrimps.
After that, the practice of refining demons into elixirs was dormant for a long time, but in recent decades, it has revived again and is getting more and more serious.
The Jade Emperor also adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards this matter.
As long as these filthy and dirty things don’t flow into heaven!
Li Anran never expected that he would see the source of all this in Jin Tongzi's life.
"The monkey really deserves to be the one who is destined to suffer disaster. He can be implicated in everything!"
Li Anran was sighing when he suddenly realized a problem——
He learned so many things through the Book of Punishment for Evil, so does that mean that all these causes and effects are also entangled with him?
By this calculation, doesn't it mean that he has been contaminated by more karma than Monkey King, Yang Jian and other people who are destined to suffer calamity?
"Am I also the one who should be robbed?"
Li Anran's heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.
Li Anran's mind was in a state of confusion, but Jin Tongzi's life story continued.
When Golden Boy learned that the monkey was going to be refined into an elixir, he could no longer sit still.
Taking advantage of the time when Taishang Laojun was out, he came to the foundry and wanted to release the monkey.
But before he could take any action, he was bumped into by the Silver Boy.
After some questioning.
The Golden Boy had no choice but to destroy the Nine-Transformation Golden Pill himself. In order to help him, the Monkey told the Silver Boy that he had eaten the Nine-Transformation Golden Pill.
He was determined to rescue the monkey even at the cost of his life, but he didn't want Silver Boy to get involved.
Silver Boy was angry: "Brother, you and I are brothers connected by blood. If the Great Sage Equal to Heaven has done you a favor, then he has done me a favor. If you want to repay the favor, how can I just sit there and watch ?"
He added, "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven has an indestructible body. The master can only burn him to ashes by repeatedly burning him with civil and military fires. I just need to leave a vent for him so that the flames can't burn him, right?"
"Go back quickly and don't let anyone get suspicious. Leave this matter to me."
The Golden Boy returned to his residence, and the Silver Boy used his convenience in building a fire and fanning the air to leave a place for the monkey to live in the wind position of the Xun Palace where it would not be burned by the flames.
After forty-nine days.
When Laozi opened the furnace to take out the elixir, the monkey jumped out, overturned the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace again.
Taishang Laojun did not suspect that it was the Silver Boy who had done something, but put the blame on the Bronze Boy for not guarding the Eight Trigrams Furnace properly. He demoted the Bronze Boy to the mortal world and sent him to be a landowner in the Flaming Mountain. Only when the Flaming Mountain was extinguished could he fill it up again.
The gold and silver boys successfully rescued the monkey, but their companions who lived with them day and night were severely punished.
The two boys were unhappy all day long, so the cowherd boy let them ride on the green cows to cheer them up.
Then, the Green Bull Demon took the opportunity to escape to the mortal world.
The cowherd boy was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison for dereliction of duty. Later he was sent down to the mortal world to undergo trials and tribulations and rebuild himself, and became Han Zhongli, one of the Eight Immortals of the Upper Cave.
"So that's what happened!"
Li Anran was stunned, but also had some realization. He muttered to himself, "Every sip and every bite is a destiny. The law of cause and effect is truly mysterious!"
There is no need to say more about what happened next.
In order to avenge the monkey for stealing the elixir and to win the bet between Buddhism and Taoism, Taishang Laojun sent the Golden and Silver Boys to the mortal world to become the Golden Horn King and the Silver Horn King in the Lotus Cave on Pingdingshan Mountain.
Fearing that they could not deal with the monkeys, he taught them the mountain-sending spell and gave them five magic weapons.
This spell to summon the mountains is similar to the magic used by the great immortal Huli of Chechi State to call the wind and rain. Both are extremely formal spells that can command the gods of the three mountains and five peaks.
At first, the Golden and Silver Boys did not know how powerful these things were, and they were worried that their performance was too fake and they would be blamed by the Jade Emperor.
Unexpectedly, just moving a Mount Sumeru and a Mount Emei would crush the monkey so much that his three spirits exploded and his seven orifices spewed blood.
If it weren’t for the Five-Directions Jie Di who heard the monkey crying and crying, and ordered the mountain gods and land gods to move the mountain away, the monkey would have been doomed!
The Gold and Silver Boys were also frightened, and after that they dared not use the magic weapon at will. They just pretended to be crazy and stupid and started to release water like crazy.
This is how the farce of Sun Wukong, Monkey King, Monkey King’s Grandson came about!
"Could it be that Taishang Laojun saw that the gold and silver boys were rebellious, so he allowed Yang Jian to throw them into the Heavenly Prison to be tortured?"
The more Li Anran thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
Before the Golden and Silver Boys, there were already two monsters with extraordinary backgrounds on the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
One is the White Fang Ridge Termite Monster that replaced the Yellow Wind Monster of Huangfeng Ridge. After its defeat, it was taken back to Lingshan.
The other is the Shancai Dragon Girl from the Boyue Cave on Wanzi Mountain outside Baoxiang Country.
That’s right, it’s Shancai Dragon Girl, not Kuimu Lang in the original time and space!
Because Nezha had known about the affair between Kuimu Lang and Shixiang Yu Nu for a long time, he had been keeping an eye on Kuimu Lang's every move.
Almost on the first day that Kuimulang came to the earth, Nezha rushed to Xiniu Hezhou, beat Kuimulang severely, and brought him back to heaven, without giving him any chance to harm Princess Baihuaxiu of Baoxiang Kingdom.
Nezha clearly showed an attitude of "I don't know the inside story of Journey to the West, I will do my job impartially."
And Taiyi Zhenren did not tell Nezha the inside story of Journey to the West.
Taishang Laojun had no way to deal with him, so he could only give up the plan of using Kuimulang to torture Tang Seng and dispel his belief in obtaining the scriptures in the West, and temporarily replaced him with Jiaomujiao.
The content of this difficulty was also changed to: Princess Baihuaxiu often dreamed that she was the reincarnation of a fairy from heaven. She had fallen in love with a golden-armored immortal, and as a result, she suffered from lovesickness and lost her appetite.
It was not until she met Tang Seng that she mistakenly thought he was the reincarnation of Kuimu Wolf and wanted to marry him.
The king of Baoxiang Kingdom had no sons, only this one daughter, whom he regarded as the apple of his eye.
As long as Tang Seng is willing to marry Princess Baihuaxiu, he can inherit the throne after the death of the King of Baoxiang Kingdom.
The temptation is great.
However, what Tang Seng lacked the least was concentration, and he easily resolved the disaster.
When Taishang Laojun saw that Tang Seng passed the test so easily, he was angry for a long time.
He didn't know that his forced change would have a greater impact on the team than the original time and space.
In the original time and space, the Monkey King was driven back to the Flower-Fruit Mountain by Tang Monk because of his three fights with the White Bone Demon. But because of the incident with the Yellow Robe Monster, he was invited back from the Flower-Fruit Mountain by Zhu Bajie.
However, since the Yellow Robe Monster was gone, there was no such thing as Zhu Bajie going to the Flower-Fruit Mountain to ask for the monkey’s help.
This forced Guanyin Bodhisattva to temporarily dispatch her concubines, Shancai and Longnu, to the mortal world. They bestowed upon them many magical weapons and blocked the way of the three people who were seeking the scriptures.
Through the mouths of Shancai and the Dragon Girl, they kept saying, explicitly or implicitly, that the monkey had great magical powers and that the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures would not be possible without the monkey.
Zhu Bajie knew the inside story of the journey to the West, and seeing that there was no evil spirit on Shancai and the Dragon Girl, he guessed that she might have been sent by Lingshan.
Only then did he go to Huaguo Mountain and invite the monkey back to the team to obtain the scriptures.
However, the torture from the yellow-robed monster in the original time and space was missing.
Tang Seng's gratitude and trust towards the monkey is far less than that in the original time and space.
The monkey was more out of repaying the favor of saving him from trouble, and had less of a master-disciple relationship with Tang Seng.
