Chapter 63: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
One of the seven immortal mountains, the mountain beyond the mountain, the Xuantian Cave, where the Emperor Shenwu sat and discussed Taoism.
Soon, the boy under the seat of Emperor Shenwu came to report in a panic: "Emperor Wu, something big happened in the mortal world!"
"What happened again?" Emperor Shenwu asked casually.
He blurted out these words subconsciously. The moment he said them, he frowned and said to himself in some strange way: "Huh? Why did I say that again?"
At this moment, the Emperor Shenwu realized that this matter was not simple. He asked quickly, "Do you know why I said again? Did you say before that something big happened in the mortal world?"
This question confused the Taoist boy. He said stupidly, "No... I didn't say that before."
"No, you said that before." Emperor Shenwu said seriously.
"Ah?" The Taoist boy stayed where he was, doubting himself for a moment. When Emperor Wu spoke, one was one and two was two. He would never be wrong. The only one who could be wrong could be someone else. But the problem was that he really didn't say that.
Seeing the Taoist boy hesitating, the Emperor Shenwu did not continue to ask questions, but took out a few specially made chess pieces from his sleeve and then threw them into the air.
The chess pieces were scattered on the ground. The Emperor Shenwu looked down at the positions of the chess pieces and could not help but frown again: "Yin is at its extreme and Yang is alone, Gen Mountain is in the northeast. This is the Jingwei hexagram, a sign of minor danger..."
"Eh... one of my clones was killed? But it has never been killed before, and it is still intact. Why did this happen?"
"What does this mean?"
Just as the Emperor Shenwu was about to raise his hand to take back the chess piece and make another prediction, the chess piece on the ground suddenly cracked silently. Seeing this, the Emperor Shenwu's face suddenly changed: "I can't predict anymore. Why?"
"My impulse is so sudden, it can't be false, there must be a reason. Heaven won't let me continue to explore it?"
The Emperor Shenwu was silent for a long time, his expression changing constantly. After a long while, he turned his head to look at the Taoist boy standing beside him and asked:
"You came here in such a hurry, what happened?"
The Taoist boy had been thinking about the words of the Emperor, but he still couldn't remember them. After hearing these words, he felt as if he had been pardoned, and hurriedly said, "In Dongwan Township, Donghai County, Xuzhou, there is a mountain by the sea, the mountain is called Cangwu Mountain, there is a fairy stone on the mountain, the stone laid an egg, and the stone monkey was seen bowing in all directions, with golden light in his eyes, shooting into the sky."
When Emperor Shenwu heard this, he was shocked: "That stone monkey was born ahead of time? How is this possible!?"
"It is absolutely true!" The Taoist boy said hurriedly, "The outside of the fairy mountain was hit by the golden light. The guardian used the Taoist magic to check, and it is absolutely true."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Shenwu thought to himself: Logically speaking, this stone monkey is an important chess piece, and it must have absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon for at least several thousand years before it could come into the world. It is really inappropriate for it to be born ahead of schedule. A major change must have occurred, and since divination was impossible before, is it possible that the world is going to change?
Thinking of this, the Emperor Shenwu frowned and asked, "What happened in the mortal world these days that caused this stone monkey to appear?"
The Taoist boy listened to the question, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Reporting to the Emperor Wu, there is a new vernacular novel in the mortal world recently, called "Journey to the West", and the protagonist of the story is a stone monkey. Maybe it's because of this."
Emperor Shenwu: “?”
Because of a novel?
He couldn't believe it and asked quickly, "Do you have this novel?"
The Taoist boy suddenly felt embarrassed. If he said yes, wouldn't it expose the fact that he had been lazy recently?
But if I say no, that would be deceiving Emperor Wu and breaking a taboo!
After weighing the pros and cons, he took out a novel from his sleeve and handed it over respectfully: "This is it."
The Great Emperor Shenwu took a photo of it and read it carefully . His expression suddenly became quite interesting. He couldn't believe it for a moment: "How is this possible? Shouldn't the stone monkey come first, and then the story?"
“Why did it become that the story came first and then the stone monkey?”
According to the plan, the stone monkey should have become famous and had many legends about him, and then the emperor of the mortal world would order him to write books and stories, giving him a golden body of faith. But how come the opposite happened now? This is too strange!
"Go and check who wrote this book." The Emperor Shenwu glanced at the Taoist boy and gave the order.
"Yes." The Taoist boy responded quickly.
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Su Che has just finished writing the latest chapter, which is the 63rd chapter: Two monks fight monsters in the Dragon Palace, and a group of saints eliminate evil and obtain treasures.
As soon as he put down his pen, he suddenly sensed something. He stood up in surprise and looked into the distance. The mysterious sensation made Su Che see a strange scene. A stone monkey walked out of the stone, bowed to the four directions, and saw the heaven and earth.
"This... this is not my illusion, this is what is really happening at this moment. There really is Monkey King in this world!" Su Che was stunned.
He had never thought of such a thing before, and he wrote Journey to the West without thinking that there really was a stone monkey in this world.
If you think about it carefully, it is normal. After all, there are real gods in this world, and it is not just ordinary history of the previous life.
There are demons, ghosts, gods and Buddhas, so how can there not be a Monkey King?
Perhaps this stone monkey is not the Sun Wukong in Journey to the West, but there must be a very close connection between the two, otherwise he would not have come into the world at this moment.
The stone monkey seemed to sense Su Che's gaze and looked over here.
But the monkey was seen putting his hands together in front of his chest, with his left hand outside and his right hand inside, and bowing.
Then the stone monkey said: "Because of your writings, I have won the wishes of thousands of people, and I have been gilded. Fortunately, I was born early and escaped from the cage. Thank you, sir!"
Su Che was stunned. He did not expect the stone monkey to be so polite. He quickly said, "I did it unintentionally. I do not deserve such thanks."
In fact, in the original book, Monkey King was so polite at the beginning. Before he gained great powers, he was polite even when meeting a woodcutter.
Especially when he met Patriarch Bodhi, he was humble and polite.
The original book states: The Monkey King said: "I have no sex. If someone scolds me, I will not be angry; if someone hits me, I will not be angry, I will just respond with courtesy. I have no sex in my life."
Su Che didn't know whether the monkey's expression would change after he finished writing "Journey to the West", but at least he could still see this polite monkey now.
The stone monkey seemed to be able to guess Su Che's thoughts. He smiled and said, "What you wrote in the book is all fiction and not worth taking seriously. Although I am Sun Wukong, I am not Sun Wukong. I was born to fulfill the wishes of the people. I have a thousand connections with the stone monkey in the book, but they are not completely identical."
Su Che nodded slightly and asked curiously: "Do you have a name?"
"Of course, you have given me a name, haven't you?" The monkey said with a smile, "I am Sun Wukong, and Sun Wukong is me."
The stone monkey continued, "Guess what is the most popular wish among all the people?"
"What is it?" Su Che asked subconsciously.
The stone monkey smiled and said, "Everyone is saying that you write too slowly. They are not good enough to read. Please update faster and finish "Journey to the West" as soon as possible. It will be of great benefit to both you and me. "
Oh, you’re here to urge me to update more!
Su Che also realized something at this moment, that there is more than one kind of power in this world. It is said that Confucianism and Taoism can make one a saint, and literature can also reach the divine!
Maybe he could give up medicine and pursue literature?
