Chapter 144: Did it violate the Heavenly Law?
...I shouldn't have told him about the laws of nature in the first place!
Li Anran was speechless, feeling that the world was unpredictable and the butterfly effect was too huge.
He had only casually said a few high-sounding official remarks related to the laws and regulations of heaven, but he did not expect that the monkey would remember them firmly in his mind.
This person who was the most unruly five hundred years ago is now full of heavenly rules and regulations, but he is more serious and professional than the gods in the sky!
However, Li Anran did not want to get involved in the affairs of Chechi State.
Among the monsters on the way to the West, the three brothers of Huli Daxian were not ranked high and their abilities were mediocre.
The fight between the monkeys and them was more like the monkeys showing off their magical powers and bullying the children.
But behind this incident is the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, and the issue of which side Tang Seng and his four disciples, especially the three monkey brothers, should take.
Are you on the side of Taoism or Buddhism?
What is your attitude towards the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism?
Li Anran was not sure whether the monkey had figured out the trick behind this, but Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng were definitely aware of it!
In the original time and space, the answers given by the three brothers were all Buddhism, and their attitudes were very firm!
Not only did the three brothers eat the offerings in the Sanqing Temple, they also threw the statues of the Sanqing into a cesspool, and then pretended to be the Sanqing and used urine as holy water, playing tricks on the three brothers Huli, Yangli, and Luli.
Later, he killed all three Huli brothers through a fight of magic.
It can be said that Xuanmen’s face was rubbed on the ground!
Li Anran estimated that Tathagata, Guanyin and the others had not expected that the three brothers Monkey would go so far, otherwise they would definitely have tried to stop them.
The result of this incident was that Taishang Laojun became furious and ordered the Bull Demon to bring the Vajra Cutter down to the mortal world.
The Vajra Cutter is the magic weapon that Taishang Laojun used to knock down the monkey. Its fame is known to all the three realms.
This move by Taishang Laojun has almost torn his relationship with him.
Therefore, during the incident with the Green Bull Demon.
The monkey invited all the gods in heaven, but not one of them dared to reveal the origins of the Green Bull Demon and the Vajra Cutter, and they just played along with the monkey.
The monkey had no choice but to go to Lingshan to ask Tathagata for help.
Tathagata knew the reason behind all these things and understood that Taishang Laojun was venting his anger.
He was afraid that the Buddhist and Taoist sects would completely tear each other apart because of this incident, and the fake would become real, escalating the Buddhist-Taoist gambling fight into a fight to the death, so he did not dare to point it out directly.
Instead, he asked the Eighteen Arhats to open the treasury and take out eighteen grains of "golden elixir sand".
On the surface, the golden elixir sand was used to help the monkey deal with the Green Bull Demon, but in reality it was used to apologize to Taishang Laojun.
——Tathagata knew how powerful the Vajra Cutter was, so there was no reason to use a meat bun to hit a dog.
It was not until the Bull Demon used the Vajra to take the elixir sand that it showed that the Lord of Heaven had calmed down and was willing to reconcile with Buddhism.
Only then did the Arhat tell the monkey the origin of the Green Bull Demon and asked the monkey to go to the Tushita Palace to ask the Jade Emperor to come down to earth and take the Green Bull Demon away, thus defusing the anger between the two sides.
However, in this world, because of his existence.
Everything has become different from the original time and space.
After the monkey found out that the three brothers Huli, Luli and Yangli were all true Taoists and not monsters, he did not choose to take action himself. Instead, he chose to believe in the rules of heaven and went straight to him!
"The one who is in charge of the Heavenly Laws and Regulations is the God of Justice. You should go to the Temple of the God of Justice."
Li Anran was born as a casual cultivator, not worthy of being called a disciple of Xuanmen, nor a Buddhist, and he did not want to get involved in the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism.
"Brother Li, don't try to fool me! Before I ascended to heaven, I made inquiries and learned that you, the prison god, also have the duty to descend to the mortal world to subdue demons and capture criminals!"
The monkey was unwilling to go to the Temple of Justice.
The fact that he was defeated by Yang Jian was somewhat embarrassing, but the key point was that he still owed Yang Jian a huge favor.
He once stole the peaches from the heavenly palace, caused havoc in the heavenly palace, and led the monsters from the Flower-Fruit Mountain to rebel.
For such a crime, logically speaking, all the monsters and even all living beings on the Flower-Fruit Mountain should be killed, either thrown into the Eighteen Levels of Hell or thrown into the Reincarnation Tunnel.
However, after capturing him and bringing him back to heaven, Yang Jian simply burned down the Flower-Fruit Mountain and spared the monkey demon who was hiding under the iron bridge in the well.
This is also the reason why the monkey called Yang Jian "brother" when he met him in Bibotan later.
The monkey had the audacity to ask Li Anran for help, but he was too embarrassed to trouble Yang Jian again.
"I, Old Sun, don't care about the God of Justice. I have chosen you! If you don't follow me down to the mortal world and arrest the three imperial masters who violated the heavenly law, I, Old Sun... I, Old Sun, will not leave! I will not leave!"
The monkey didn't care that he was in public and started shouting loudly, fearing that others couldn't hear him.
After being pressed under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years, he and Li Anran learned to occupy the pinnacle of morality and talk about the rules and regulations of heaven all the time.
I also learned the eight-character rule that "If you have no shame, you will be invincible" that I realized in the original time and space!
This doesn't work in some places or in front of some people.
But in the world of Journey to the West, where people generally have high moral values and are thin-skinned, combined with the former, it is definitely a nuclear weapon!
Even Li Anran felt a bit troubled when facing this move of his.
He doesn't care about face, but his external personality does not allow him to sit idly by!
"Sun Wukong, stop throwing tantrums here! This is not a place for you to act so recklessly!"
Li Anran's face turned stern, and he said in a cold voice: "You said that the three national masters of Chechi State violated the Heavenly Law. Do you have any evidence? Slandering others is also a serious crime that violates the Heavenly Law!"
The monkey said anxiously: "It is the Dragon King's duty to make clouds and rain. They cast spells to make rain and disturb the sky..."
"How do you know it's not the Dragon King who makes the clouds and rain?"
Li Anran interrupted the monkey and said, "Since you have seen that they are the true masters of the Tao, can't they use the Five Thunders Method to send a letter to ask for your majesty's grace to send rain to resolve the disasters in the mortal world?"
Li Anran was not speaking casually. In the original time and space, the Great Immortal Huli did the same thing!
In Chechi Kingdom, the first battle between Monkey and Tiger Power Immortal.
What Huli Daxian said about the monkey taking advantage of him and stealing his credit is actually true.
He followed the formal procedures, used the Five Thunder Method, issued documents, burned talismans, and struck tokens to pray to the Jade Emperor for rain.
The monkey relied entirely on his own face to forcibly stop the wind, rain, thunder and lightning dragon king and others, and postponed the rainfall until he went on stage to perform the ritual.
Delaying the rainfall time violates the laws of heaven, and the five dragon kings of wind, cloud, thunder and rain dare not do it.
However, because the rain in Chechi Kingdom was a temporary grace from the Jade Emperor and there was no specific time and number of raindrops, they were also afraid that the monkey would make trouble for them, so they listened to the monkey.
"This..." The monkey was a little unwilling and argued: "If this is true, then why can't the monks of Chechi country pray for rain?"
Li Anran said: "You have to ask the monks of Chechi Kingdom and the Jade Emperor. I am only the prison god, and rainmaking is not within my job scope."
Seeing Li Anran evading the question, the monkey could only say, "Okay! Then I will go to the Lingxiao Palace and ask the Jade Emperor what is going on!"
Then, he leaped and flew towards the Lingxiao Palace.
Li Anran watched the monkey fly away, thinking in his heart: "It seems that he didn't see the mystery behind Che Chiguo. He just instinctively realized that something was wrong, so he came to the Heavenly Palace."
Li Anran waited for a while, and seeing that the monkey did not come back, he returned to the quiet room and continued to practice.
On the other side, the monkey flew all the way to the Lingxiao Palace, just in time for the Heavenly Court to hold a court meeting.
As soon as he approached, Ge Tianshi, who was guarding the Xuande Hall, rushed over to him, blocked his way, and said, "Great Sage, wait a minute. Today is the court meeting in the Heavenly Court, and His Majesty is summoning all the ministers in the Lingxiao Palace. If you don't want to protect your master and go to the West to obtain the scriptures, why are you here?"
"That's perfect!" The monkey's eyes lit up and he said, "Old Heavenly Master, I have something to ask the Jade Emperor. Please report it to him for me!"
Master Ge hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed: "Great Sage, please wait here for a moment. I will report this to His Majesty."
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" The monkey bowed randomly to express his gratitude.
After a while, Ge Tianshi came out again and said, "Great Sage, His Majesty ordered me to take you in."
He wanted to remind the monkey to be polite, but after thinking it over, he gave up.
It would be better to persuade the Jade Emperor to relax than to ask the monkey to observe etiquette.
Sure enough, after entering the Lingxiao Palace, the monkey bowed, which was considered a greeting.
The Jade Emperor didn't care about that and asked, "Sun Wukong, what do you want to see me for?"
"It's like this..." Monkey told the story of Chechi Kingdom.
Inside the Lingxiao Palace, the expressions of all the civil and military officials changed drastically, with faces filled with shock and disbelief.
Among the Three Realms, there are many who don't know that Xuanmen and Lingshan were competing for luck in the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, but there are very few who don't know about the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism!
In fact, it can be said that there is none!
Even a mortal can see the tit-for-tat relationship between Buddhism and Taoism and the undercurrent of the situation!
But, even though everyone knows it, this kind of thing cannot be made public!
Not to mention, it was in the Lingxiao Palace and at the court meeting in heaven!
But now, the monkey directly broke the window paper in front of all the civil and military officials and the Jade Emperor.
What he said was only what happened in a small country in the mortal world, but the hidden vortex behind it was enough to stir up the entire Three Realms!
For a moment, all the civil and military officials looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
The Jade Emperor sat high on the throne, taking it all in. A playful smile appeared on his face, and he looked towards Laozi.
Taishang Laojun lowered his eyebrows and eyes, with his eyes half open and half closed, as if he was asleep, and showed no reaction to anything in the outside world.
However, the Jade Emperor was very sure that he cared more about the reactions of the civil and military officials in the Lingxiao Palace than anyone else at this moment!
The monkey noticed that something was wrong in the atmosphere, but he didn't realize what the problem was. He asked, "Jade Emperor, I just want to ask, did the national teacher of Chechi Kingdom violate the heavenly law by making it rain?"
