Chapter 164 Six-eared Macaque
[Prisoner: The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong]
【Sin: Two Stars】
[Cultivation: Taiyi Golden Immortal Ninth Level]
[Status: Escorted]
[Capture participation: 100%]
[Benefit: 38 million experience points/day]
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[Prisoner: Ventilation Great Sage Monkey King]
【Sin: Four Stars】
[Cultivation: Taiyi Golden Immortal Seventh Level]
[Status: Escorted]
[Capture participation: 100%]
[Benefit: 68 million experience points/day]
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The moment the two monkeys were escorted into the Heavenly Prison, two new pages appeared on the Book of Punishment.
The former was within Li Anran's expectations , but the latter surprised Li Anran!
The Ventilation Great Sage Monkey King? !
This fake monkey turned out to be the Monkey King? !
Li Anran's pupils suddenly shrank and he almost couldn't control his emotions.
At that time, the Monkey King, under the instigation of the Dragon Demon King, transformed into the appearance of Nezha, and wanted to rescue the Changhe Dragon King who had rebelled with the Dragon Demon King. However, he was discovered by Li Anran and trapped in the mechanism formation of the Heavenly Prison.
Later, the Goddess Qiongxiao, who was invited by the God of Wude, used the Hunyuan Golden Bowl to disperse all her cultivation and imprisoned her in the Heavenly Prison.
It was not until 143 years ago that Lingshan petitioned the Jade Emperor to bring the Monkey King back to Lingshan for teaching, on the grounds that the Monkey King had a connection with Buddhism.
He never thought that after more than a hundred years, he would see the Monkey King again. Moreover, it had transformed from a mortal monkey whose cultivation was reduced by the Hunyuan Golden Bowl into a Taiyi Golden Immortal, and could fight with the monkeys to a standstill.
Li Anran immediately began to look into the life of the Monkey King.
——This is also the reason why he took the initiative to participate in this matter and brought both monkeys back to the Heavenly Prison!
As the scenes on the Book of Punishment flashed, Li Anran quickly understood what had happened after the Monkey King was brought back to Lingshan.
That day, Venerable Kashyapa took the Jade Emperor's imperial edict, took the Monkey King away from the Heavenly Prison, brought him back to Lingshan, and handed him over to Tathagata to report.
Tathagata first enlightened the Monkey King with his great magical powers, restoring his spirituality and memory that he had lost when he became a mortal monkey.
The Eight Meritorious Waters in the Eight Treasures Meritorious Pond were used to improve the Monkey King's qualifications, transforming the Monkey King from a man with a trace of Six-Eared Macaque bloodline into a true Six-Eared Macaque!
Then, he taught the Monkey King the same Great Heavenly Immortal Art, Eight-Nine Profound Art, Somersault Cloud, as well as a Sui Xin Iron Stick that was extremely similar to the Golden Cudgel!
The Monkey King was able to cultivate all the way from being a pet raised by a mortal king to becoming a Golden Immortal and becoming the Great Sage of Ventilation who was famous throughout the three realms. This was due to both chance and his understanding!
Now that his two hardwares, his footwork and qualifications, have been greatly improved, he has no problem practicing the Great Heavenly Immortal Technique, Eight-Nine Profound Art, and Somersault Cloud!
The Monkey King had known the monkeys for many years, and he soon realized that the Kung Fu and magical powers he practiced were very similar to those of the monkeys, even exactly the same!
However, he did not dare to ask more questions and just practiced hard.
In just sixty years, the Monkey King's cultivation not only recovered to its original state, but he even broke through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm!
This is one of the reasons why he rebuilt it.
But what was more important was the large amount of elixirs and fruits provided by Lingshan, even including a lotus seed from the Golden Lotus of Merit.
And, Tathagata personally teaches, preaches and answers questions.
The Monkey King was originally a Buddhist believer who was devoted to achieving enlightenment. After this incident, he was even more grateful to Lingshan and Tathagata and worshipped him prostrating himself.
On the day when his cultivation level broke through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal, the Monkey King plucked up the courage and asked to become Tathagata's disciple.
However, Tathagata rejected it without hesitation.
He settled for the next best option and proposed to convert to Buddhism and start as a novice monk.
However, he was still rejected by Tathagata.
The reason is just four words: "The time is not right."
The Monkey King did not dare to confront Tathagata, so he could only suppress his anxiety and stay in the back mountain of Lingshan to practice hard.
Until one day, he heard that "Tathagata created the scriptures to spread the paradise, and Guanyin was ordered to go to Chang'an", and he learned that among the people chosen by Guanyin to obtain the scriptures was his sworn brother, the Monkey King Sun Wukong who was suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain!
The six-eared macaque is good at listening, able to observe principles, know the past and the future, and understand everything!
That day, the Monkey King began to recite Buddhist scriptures and chant Buddha's name, and he did so for three months. However, the jealousy, resentment, anger, and unwillingness in his heart did not diminish in the slightest, but instead became even stronger!
He wanted to go to the Five Elements Mountain immediately and cut the damn monkey into pieces, but when he reached the foot of the sacred mountain, he turned back in hatred.
"This is my Buddhist will, I cannot disobey!"
He was extremely upset that he had not caused a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace and had not been suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain.
"Five hundred years is enough to get a chance to achieve the right result. This evil creature is really lucky!"
He began to work hard to practice the art of transformation, and used his innate magical powers to observe the monkey's every move.
"As long as I can achieve the right result, I am willing to do it no matter what!"
"Master, I have obtained some vegetarian food. Please try it quickly."
"Idiot, get up here! Let's get going!"
"Junior Brother Sha, where is Master?"
"Monster, take this stick from me!"
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One year, two years, three years...
The Monkey King listened to the monkeys' journey to the west and imitated them over and over again, from their facial expressions to their words and actions, and even their psychological activities and ways of thinking.
He was extremely unwilling, yet full of expectation, and prayed that the monkey would make more mistakes and get into more trouble so that that day would come sooner.
Finally, this day has come.
Venerable Kashyapa led the Buddha's great disciple Ainava to find him, and asked him to follow Ainava to the Asura realm and obey Ainava's instructions in everything.
Then, he was thrown by Ainafa into a magic weapon that looked like a millstone.
When he came out again, he had turned into Sun Wukong!
Even he himself can't tell the real thing from the fake!
"Ayinafa, the Asura Realm, and this mechanical device that is hard to tell true from false! This is the rhythm of the sequel to Journey to the West!"
Li Anran's eyes fixed.
There are thousands of myths and legends in previous lives, and many of them are conflicting and contradictory.
After so many years and experiencing so many things, Li Anran knows that the memories of his past life can be used as a reference, but if he takes everything seriously, he is seeking death!
When he saw the dark abyss surrounded by weak water and the snake eggs left by the snake demon in Zhu Bajie's life, he thought of Wuji and the black robe, but he was not very sure.
At this time, seeing the appearance of Ainafa and the mechanical technique, this was confirmed.
"Is this another man-made catastrophe like the Journey to the West?"
Even though Wujitani has the World-Destroying Black Lotus in his hand, it is impossible for him to suppress the entire Three Realms by himself!
The most likely possibility is that the catastrophe that swept across the Three Realms for thirty-three years was the same as the Journey to the West. It was a joint plan by the gods and Buddhas of the Three Realms, giving Tathagata and Wujitian a chance to decide the ownership of the Buddhist world through gambling!
This also explains why Lingshan and Heaven, especially Tathagata, did not resist much after meeting Wujitia and directly chose to reincarnate.
After capturing all the gods and Buddhas, Wu Tian did not kill any of them, but simply locked them up in the underworld.
Thirty-three years later, after Tathagata successfully reincarnated into another spirit boy and won the bet, Wujitia did not put in much resistance and chose to admit defeat and pass away.
If we work backwards from this point, the gods and Buddhas of the three realms should have been very successful in joining forces to deal with the catastrophe and eliminate karma.
It was so successful that they were willing to put aside some of their pride and cooperate with Lingshan to complete this gambling fight.
"This Monkey King is so miserable!" Li Anran sighed in his heart.
In Journey to the West, Tathagata used him as a substitute for the monkey, or even just a tool to stimulate the monkey.
At the last moment, Tathagata still chose the monkey, used the golden bowl to beat the Monkey King back to his original form, and allowed the monkey to beat him to death with a stick.
This is why in the sequel to Journey to the West, a wisp of the remaining soul of the Six-Eared Macaque floated to the abyss of darkness, and was resurrected by Wu Tian with the World-Destroying Black Lotus, and became Wu Tian's Black Lotus Messenger.
From this point of view, it is very likely that Wu Tian deliberately chose the Six-Eared Macaque because Tathagata gave up the Six-Eared Macaque and chose the monkey, so that he could fight with the monkey again, to prove that Tathagata has poor vision and the Six-Eared Macaque is no worse than the monkey.
As a result, the Monkey King failed again, and failed miserably!
Wu Tian Tathagata admires Monkey King even more and appears many times to recruit him personally. Even when Monkey King insists on being his enemy, he is still full of regret and sympathy for him.
As for the Monkey King, he would rather take the trouble to resurrect the Black Robe who died tragically in the Mongolian Realm than to save him.
Considering the past, the Monkey King was born as an ordinary monkey who was treated as a pet. He went through untold hardships to cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm. The reason he was able to receive the true Dharma was because Tathagata wanted to treat him as a substitute for the monkey.
The monkey was born as a clever stone monkey and easily became the Monkey King. When he wanted to practice cultivation, he became a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi and learned the most advanced skills and magic in the world.
It can be said that the Monkey King was crushed by monkeys from head to toe, from birth to future, until nothing was left.
"Prison God, I am in a hurry to go back and escort my master to the West to obtain the scriptures. How long will it take you to distinguish the real from the fake?"
The Monkey King is a six-eared macaque who can observe and know the past and the future.
Even though Li Anran did not reveal any abnormalities, he still instinctively felt a little uneasy and regretted following him in.
Before Li Anran could say anything, the monkey was already angry and cursed, "What a shameless beast! You injured Master and robbed him of his pass, and you still dare to say you will escort him to the West to obtain the scriptures!"
The monkey became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and regardless of the demon-binding ropes around his body, he started to wrestle with the six-eared macaque.
The Monkey King's eyes lit up, and he was just about to take the opportunity to make a big deal out of it and get out of the prison, but he saw Li Anran pulling the monkey back with one hand and grabbing him with the other.
"Brother Li, let me go! I must give this monster a good beating!" the monkey shouted unwillingly.
The Monkey King sneered, "Monster, don't pretend to be wronged. It was you who injured Master, and you want to put the blame on me? You dare to do it but not take responsibility. You are just a useless coward!"
The monkey was furious and jumped up to fight with the six-eared macaque: "I will beat you to death, you evil monster!"
The Monkey King said, "Monster, you think you can kill your grandpa Sun? Come on, let's see which is harder, your head or your grandpa Sun's fist!"
The Monkey King screamed and tried hard to break free from Li Anran's hand.
But he found that Li Anran's hands seemed to have infinite power, holding him tightly, and no matter how he struggled, they did not loosen at all.
What surprised him even more was that the Sun Wukong on the opposite side was actually in the same situation as him. He jumped hard several times, but was pinned down by Li Anran.
The monkey soon noticed this, struggled hard for a few times, and finally calmed down, with a surprised look on his face: "Brother Li, you are so strong!"
Li Anran herself was not surprised.
The Eight-Nine Mysterious Art emphasizes skill rather than strength, while the Nine-Transformation Original Art emphasizes strength rather than skill.
In terms of power, the Eight-Nine Profound Art is not as good as the Nine-Transformation Original Art.
In addition, he also practiced the "Shangqing Fuqi Jue", a technique specifically designed to improve his feet and condense his body, as well as the extra rewards he received from the Book of Punishment.
In terms of strength alone, two monkeys put together are not as good as him!
It was completely impossible for the Monkey King to break free from his grasp without completely turning hostile.
Li Anran said, "Both of you should be quiet. I will give you an answer in three days at most."
"Okay! Thank you very much, Brother Li!" The monkey smiled happily.
Although the Monkey King was full of gratitude, it was obviously a bit reluctant, and there was a hint of panic in his eyes.
Li Anran saw this and suddenly felt that the monkey was quite pitiful.
It is obvious that the monkey still has feelings for Tang Seng and has no objection to going to the West to obtain the scriptures.
However, Lingshan was suspicious and distrustful of him from the beginning to the end, and had already prepared Liu'er Mihou as a substitute.
"I think it was because of this that Tathagata chose the monkey in the end!"
Li Anran seemed to be thinking about something and continued to look up the life story of the Monkey King.
After being cloned into a monkey appearance by Ainafa using mechanical technology, the Monkey King temporarily lived in the Asura Realm.
More than half a month later, Ainafa found him, gave him a black robe that could conceal his breath and block the detection of spiritual consciousness and magic, and took him back to Lingshan.
Then, he met Tathagata and Guanyin beside the Eight Treasures Merit Pond.
The Monkey King knew that the time had come, but his mood was very complicated, so complicated that he even forgot to pay his respects to the most revered Buddha in front of him.
It was not until Ainavar took off the black robe from him that he came to his senses.
He knew that from this moment on, he was Sun Wukong!
Realizing this, the Monkey King suddenly felt an extremely strong resentment in his heart.
He did not dare to resent Tathagata, but only resented Guanyin for not letting him be the one to obtain the scriptures directly, but had to choose Sun Wukong?
The Buddha seemed to see through his heart , which made him attack Guanyin, and when he could no longer control his anger, he froze him in mid-air.
Afterwards, the Monkey King followed Guanyin back to Luojia Mountain in the South China Sea, where Guanyin placed him in a quiet room and sealed the surroundings with a formation.
He said that he couldn't let others see the Monkey King, but in fact he was afraid of the innate magical powers of the Six-Eared Macaque clan and was afraid that his secret would be exposed.
The Monkey King didn't care, or rather, he didn't have time to care.
Realizing that he would soon replace Sun Wukong, he began to practice Sun Wukong's words and deeds day and night, and to deduce the possible reactions that Sun Wukong would make when encountering various situations.
Just like that, a few months passed, and then the door of the quiet room suddenly opened.
Then he heard the voice he had heard countless times over the years.
It turned out that Sun Wukong was also on Luojia Mountain, and he was complaining to Guanyin, saying that he had killed a group of robbers, which angered Tang Seng, and he was driven away by Tang Seng again.
The Monkey King knew that his chance had come, so he immediately left Luojia Mountain and found Tang Seng, ready to replace Sun Wukong.
but……
"I have already admitted my mistake to you, why won't you let me come back?"
"This was done by Sun Wukong. Why should I bear the brunt of his anger?"
"If I can be fake, then others can be too! Why should I put up with this old monk's anger?"
The above are the psychological activities that Li Anran imagined based on the Monkey King’s emotional fluctuations, expressions and behaviors.
In reality, the Monkey King begged Tang Seng several times, but after being rejected by Tang Seng, he cursed, "You cruel bald man, you are so mean to me!"
The Monkey King was originally resentful of being a substitute for the monkeys, and he had been holding grudges for so many years. Moreover, he did not have the ferocious and wild nature that the monkeys had been trained to possess for five hundred years.
On impulse, he picked up a stick and knocked Tang Seng unconscious, then returned to Huaguo Mountain with the package and documents. He asked the monkeys to transform into the appearance of Tang Seng, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, and prepared to go to the West to obtain the scriptures himself.
He didn't know that among the four people who went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, anyone could be missing except Tang Monk, who was the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi and therefore he was absolutely indispensable!
This is also bad luck for the Monkey King!
The innate magical power of the Six-Eared Macaque clan is to be able to listen to all the movements in the Three Realms, but it does not mean that they can hear all the movements in the Three Realms at any time and anywhere!
Many times, in order to practice meditation or to avoid getting into trouble, they would even take the initiative to close their overly sensitive ears.
The Monkey King only learned about the journey to the West when Guanyin returned from the Tang Dynasty in the East, and he began to eavesdrop on the monkeys' movements.
The identity of Tang Monk Jin Chanzi was only revealed by Qingfeng Mingyue at the Wuzhuang Temple on Wanshou Mountain. With the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth, he could not hear anything going on inside.
The Monkey King only thought that Tang Seng, like Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, was a person chosen by Guanyin to obtain Buddhist scriptures, and he did not know what was special about Tang Seng.
That's why he did such a stupid thing.
"He appears respectful on the outside but is actually arrogant on the inside, he is distant in feelings but appears respectful in appearance, he is clever but has no real ability. No wonder Tathagata and Wujitan look down on this six-eared macaque!" Li Anran understood.
Guanyin and Tathagata were giving the Monkey King a chance to compete for the job, but the Monkey King felt that he already had the job!
He also regarded himself, the most powerful monkey, as the core of the journey to the West, instead of Tang Monk!
If there is a problem with this understanding, then the attitude towards work will naturally be problematic as well!
After that, what happened was the same as in the original time and space.
Sha Seng went to the Flower-Fruit Mountain, saw three impostors, and had a fight with the Monkey King.
After being defeated, he went to Luojia Mountain to file a complaint, but ended up running into a real monkey.
Then there was a fruitless standoff, and the monkey and the Monkey King fought all the way to the sky to find Li Anran to sort out the truth.
In the end, they were all tricked by Li Anran into the Heavenly Prison.
