Chapter 60: Can't Provoke
After Wude Star Lord left, Li Anran thought that the Jade Emperor would summon him soon.
But after waiting for a long time, he only received an oral order from the Jade Emperor.
The one who conveyed the order was Taibai Jinxing.
The oral instruction is divided into three parts.
First, he was verbally praised for his diligence and responsibility in fulfilling his duties and not letting down the emperor's grace.
Secondly, the Monkey King violated the Heavenly Law by trespassing into Heaven and was handed over to the Temple of Heaven for trial.
Finally, Zhang and Lu will be dispatched to rebuild and reinforce the Tianlao soon.
Although this verbal commendation is a bit disappointing, it is definitely great news that the Monkey King can stay in the Heavenly Prison!
Li Anran was pleasantly surprised, but also a little shocked.
Isn’t the Jade Emperor’s attitude towards the Monkey King too nonchalant?
Boss Kang said the key: "Your Majesty has never been worried about the Seven Great Sages, but about repeating the mistakes of Sun Wukong. After suppressing the Seven Great Sages, the Eight Great Sages and Nine Great Demons will appear, causing endless troubles."
"This monkey king does not build up power, does not occupy territory, and keeps to himself. His reputation is the weakest among the seven great saints. Now his magic power has been taken away by the Primordial Golden Bowl. Your Majesty has given me a verbal order to let me judge him. This shows that you think highly of him."
Li Anran suddenly understood.
The importance that the Heavenly Court attaches to demons is, to some extent, similar to the bounty in One Piece.
Originally, the navy's bounty on pirates was a deterrent, but it turned out to be a symbol for the pirates to show off their strength and status.
Similarly, if the Jade Emperor shows too much care and attention to the Seven Great Sages, it will make the Seven Great Sages more famous and attract more monsters to learn and imitate them.
It would be better to keep it loose on the outside and tight on the inside and do cold treatment.
The two chatted for a few more sentences, and when Boss Kang saw that nothing was happening in the prison, he said goodbye and left.
He now has endless official duties to deal with every day and is so busy that he really doesn't have much time to waste on chatting.
Li Anran personally locked the Monkey King into a cell. His participation in the arrest increased , and his daily experience points increased to 2.2 million points.
Adding to the previous 1.27 million, the experience points he can now gain every day has reached 3.47 million!
In the realm of True Immortality, each small realm requires 10 million experience points. Now he only needs three days to accumulate enough!
Li Anran looked at the fourth level of True Immortal's cultivation on the attribute panel.
All he had to do now was figure out how Yang Jian saw through his cultivation level and find a way to deal with it, so that he could quickly improve his cultivation level.
Li Anran was not in a hurry. He opened the Book of Punishments and looked up the life of the Monkey King .
The southern part of Xiniuhezhou.
A small country of yours.
The country is no more than a hundred miles in area and has less than ten thousand people.
However, the king believed in Buddhism and mobilized the whole country to build Buddhist temples, pagodas and cast Buddha statues. He burned incense and worshipped day and night for thirty-three years. Finally, he moved the Buddha and gave him a Bodhi seed.
Unexpectedly, the Bodhi seed was swallowed by the king's pet, a long-tailed macaque.
The king was furious and ordered his men to cut open the long-tailed macaque's stomach in order to take out the Bodhi seed.
However, after taking the Bodhi seeds, the long-tailed macaque not only gained intelligence, but also became extremely powerful and as swift as the wind.
In pain, it became extremely ferocious and killed all the soldiers. It then chased the king all the way to the pagoda, where it was frightened by the Buddha's light and regained consciousness.
This long-tailed macaque will naturally become the monkey king in the future.
Because he grew up in the palace and was greatly influenced by the king, the Monkey King became a devout Buddhist after he woke up.
Also, because of taking the Bodhi seeds, the Monkey King had a very high level of comprehension. It only took him half a month to thoroughly study the Buddhist scriptures carved inside and outside the pagoda, and he comprehended a set of cultivation methods.
The Monkey King was determined to achieve enlightenment, and he practiced asceticism in the pagoda for a hundred years, worshipping day and night, but he never received a response from the Buddha.
Until one day, the Monkey King's patience was completely exhausted.
It no longer prayed to Buddha, but threatened Buddha that if it could not achieve enlightenment within one day, it would eat the hearts and livers of ten devout Buddhists.
But the Buddha still did not respond.
From then on, the Monkey King fulfilled his vow to eat the hearts and livers of Buddhists while searching hard for a way to achieve enlightenment.
Hearing that building pagodas and temples and sculpting a golden body of Buddha was a great merit, it demolished the pagodas and temples originally built by the king and forced mortals to rebuild taller and more luxurious temples and statues.
After hearing that the Buddha cut his flesh to feed the eagle and gave up his body to feed the tiger, and achieved enlightenment through his great compassion, it also learned to cut its flesh to feed the eagle and gave up its body to feed the tiger.
Having heard that only through sincere and hard practice could one obtain the Buddha's blessing, it kowtowed three times with every step, then cut open its belly and exposed its heart in front of the Buddha statue to show its piety.
Hearing that applying cinnabar can be used to pray for blessings, he covered his entire body with cinnabar to pray for the Buddha and himself.
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No matter how absurd the rumors about achieving enlightenment were, the Monkey King would complete them seriously and would not dare to make the slightest mistake.
However, when it finds that these do not help it achieve its goal, it will vent its anger in a more brutal way and kill and eat all those who dared to deceive it.
Just like that, a hundred years passed in a flash.
The Monkey King first got acquainted with the Bull Demon King, and through the Bull Demon King he got acquainted with the Peng Demon King, the Jiao Demon King and a group of other demons. Finally, they became sworn brothers in the Flower-Fruit Mountain and became the Seven Great Sages.
The Monkey King does not occupy territory, does not develop power, and his whereabouts are erratic, simply because he spends most of his time looking for and practicing methods to achieve enlightenment.
It also thought about going directly to Lingshan, but finally gave up.
What it wants is to achieve enlightenment and become a Buddha or a patriarch, rather than becoming a guardian mountain god or a novice monk.
Three days ago, when the Monkey King was passing by the Emperor Sang Mountain and the Abyss of the Water Abyss where the Dragon Demon King was, he discovered that the Dragon Demon King was surrounded by the troops led by Li Jing and Nezha.
The Monkey King originally wanted to help the Dragon King escape from trouble, but the Dragon King said that he could escape and only asked it to help rescue the Dragon King of the Changhe River.
The Monkey King relied on the art of transformation to sneak into Li Jing's army, where he happened to run into Li Jing who was furious because Nezha had secretly escorted the Dragon King of the Changhe River and others to the Heavenly Prison.
That's why it disguised itself as Nezha and came to heaven.
Also, because it has always been focused on achieving enlightenment and is indifferent to the affairs of the three realms, it naturally assumes that Nezha, the Third Prince, only dared to secretly take the Dragon King of the Changhe to the Heavenly Palace because he was afraid of Li Jing, the Heavenly King.
He took advantage of Li Jing's rage and tried to trick the Changhe Dragon King out of Li Anran's hands.
As a result, Li Anran saw through his flaw and tricked him into the Sky Prison mechanism.
Qiong Xiao also used the Hunyuan Golden Bowl to destroy all his cultivation, and he became a prisoner.
Li Anran was stunned. He never expected that the Monkey King would have such a bizarre life story and experience.
What surprised him even more was that, apart from obtaining a Bodhi seed by chance, the Monkey King had never had any other adventures nor did he have any master.
All the skills and magic techniques it practices are what it has learned from Buddhist scriptures.
This is far better than the King of Ape, and is even not inferior to the monkeys.
Li Anran turned back to the cell and checked the Monkey King's body.
Soon, a Bodhi seed was found in its sea of consciousness!
However, this Bodhi seed has lost all its luster and charm, and has become just an ordinary object!
The Hunyuan Golden Bowl can make the immortal lose his spirit, extinguish his soul, trap his form, damage his aura, destroy his original nature, and donate his limbs.
Not only did the Monkey King's cultivation and spiritual achievements disappear, but even the Bodhi seed was destroyed!
“What a pity!”
Li Anran turned around and left the cell, having already listed the Three Xiaos as people who must not be provoked.
It’s not just because the Hunyuan Golden Bowl is powerful, more importantly, the Sanxiao really dare to take action!
This was the case with the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Orthodox School during the Conferred Gods Tribulation, and it is still the case now.
Cruel and decisive!
Don't leave any room for others when you strike!
This kind of woman is not to be messed with! Not to be messed with!
