The Buddhist Leiyin Temple is waiting for the end of the Buddhist scriptures.
For the Three Realms, it is in darkness.
Many major forces in the Three Realms, especially the Immortal Realm, are still worried about the arrival of the dark night and have no more thoughts to pay attention to the spiritual world.
This is also called Leiyin Temple Tathagata in the spiritual world and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems to be a predestined arrangement.
Under the scorching sun, the four masters and apprentices set foot on their destination: Leiyin Temple.
Under the arrangement of Tathagata, the two envoys Ananda and Kassapa completed their mission. After Tang Monk handed over the alms bowl, they received the true scripture of "Mahayana Buddha".
However, this is not consistent with the merit that comes after completing the task.
Sun Wukong, Bajie and Sha Seng found that it was not that simple.
But the ecstatic Tang Seng was extremely excited.
Sure enough, in the silence of Sun Wukong and the other three, the master and apprentice experienced the teasing of the old turtle. It turned out that Tang Monk had forgotten to mention him to Tathagata.
Finally, they discovered that it was a scripture without words, and the four depressed masters and disciples came to Leiyin Temple again.
Only then did the ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties be accomplished, and the four masters and disciples were welcomed to Daleiyin Temple to pay homage to the Buddha.
"Boom——"
The sound of Buddha lingered, and the auspicious golden light filled the ground. In Leiyin Temple, there were five hundred Arhats and Bodhisattvas, as well as the high seat of Buddha Tathagata.
"Amitabha!"
"Xuan Zang, Wukong, Bajie, Sha Monk, your four masters and disciples have gone through many hardships, survived ninety-nine and eighty-one catastrophes, and arrived at the Pure Land Leiyin Temple..."
The Tathagata narrates and describes the journey of the four people.
"Today, your merits and deeds have been completed. Heaven has sent you merits. Xuanzang, you are reincarnated as Golden Chanzi. This time, your merits and deeds have been completed. I canonize you as the Sandalwood Merit Buddha."
"Wow——"
I saw him finish with Tathagata's words.
The merits of heaven and earth descended from the sky, and the golden cicada was Tang Monk.
This is the cultivation level of Taiyi. He was reincarnated ten times, experienced ten times, rescued Sun Wukong on the tenth time, and spent fifteen years seeking the true scripture.
In an instant, due to the accumulation of merit, Jin Chanzi achieved the perfection of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal and achieved the fruition of Buddha.
"Wukong, you are the spiritual stone monkey of the four monkeys in this world. Due to various hardships and good luck, you have now achieved perfect merits and deeds. You have become my Buddha and conquered the Buddhahood!"
"Wow--"
This time Sun Wukong has many, many more merits than Tang Monk.
From the Taiyi level, Sun Wukong directly crossed over to the Daluo level and became a quasi-sage. If it weren't for the corpse-killing technique or the demon-killing technique, Sun Wukong would have already become a quasi-sage.
However, this is not what Sun Wukong wants, he is still waiting, still waiting!
The canonization process is still going on, and Zhu Bajie has achieved great success in the late Daluo period and canonized the Pure Altar Envoy.
Sha Monk was canonized as an Arhat, which was better than he expected and achieved the early level of Da Luo.
The white dragon horse returns to himself and becomes the Eight Heavenly Dragons.
In addition, Sun Wukong's binding curse automatically falls off.
But Tang Seng is like a dream, and one dream reincarnates ten times.
From being unwilling to fool a monkey and accepting the task of collecting scriptures, to spreading Buddhism to Buddhist disciples nine times, until the last moment.
"Amitabha!" Tang Monk called the Buddha after a moment of enlightenment.
Sun Wukong only felt that his cultivation level had increased countless times.
"Is this the quasi-sage? Is this the quasi-sage that senior Zhen Yuanzi said?" Sun Wukong trembled.
"But, this is not what I want, this is not." What Sun Wukong wants is the true image.
In Leiyin Temple.
The canonization has been completed, but everyone in Buddhism, including Tathagata, knows that this has just begun.
"You and the other four, what else do you want?" Tathagata really didn't want to ask this question, and really wanted to end it there, but it didn't work.
Not to mention Sun Wukong who has always been silent, Sha Seng, Zhu Bajie, and Tang Seng are all very silent, and they all fell silent after receiving the merits.
"Wukong!" Tang Monk stood up tremblingly.
He glanced at Sun Wukong with mixed emotions, he had already understood everything.
"Haha, Master, are you really also a Buddhist? Haha..." When Monkey Tang said his name, Sun Wukong couldn't hold it back any longer.
I thought that the master was the most pitiful and helpless.
It turns out that it was just wishful thinking on my part, and my master was also a Buddhist Jin Chanzi, so he was also planning it.
"Wukong, as a teacher and a member of the Buddhist sect, there is nothing much to say, but..."
Jin Chanzi's voice fell silent and he said: "However, there is a saying for me as a teacher. Believe it or not, you have to say it. Being a teacher is also helpless, including Buddhism. Amitabha."
After saying that, he ignored Wukong's anger and doubts and said resolutely: "To the Buddha, my disciple has a request?"
"Say it." Tathagata sighed, feeling bad.
"Reporting to the Buddha, I still have inner demons and fetters. I am not qualified to achieve the position of Buddha. I beg my teacher to forgive me. I can become a Buddha at this moment. I cannot do it."
"Buzz——"
I saw Jin Chanzi finish speaking.
He actually began to dissipate his magic power and destroy the Buddha's position on his own.
"Jin Chanzi can't do it, you!" The ancient Buddha lit the lamp and found that Jin Chanzi had actually defeated himself and dispersed his magic power?
He couldn't help but intervene, but!
"stop!"
"Wow -" Tathagata shouted coldly, and instantly dispersed the obstruction of the burning lamp with one hand.
This puzzled the entire Buddhist sect.
What did they see? Jin Chanzi was dispersing his skills and returning to mortals.
This scared the Buddhists quite a bit.
I can't stop thinking: Why is Jin Chanzi still so persistent? He was unwilling to reincarnate to fool the monkeys before, but now he is still trying to resolve himself after his merits are fulfilled. He...?
Buddhists don’t understand it very much.
What I don't understand even more is the Tathagata, why the Tathagata didn't stop it, but let Jin Chanzi attack him.
I saw that Tang Monk was majestic and solemn at this moment, as if he had gained the respect of an eminent monk. The magic power and fruit status on his body were turning into white streams of light that scattered in all directions.
"Master, you?" Sun Wukong was shocked.
Is the master really going to die of old age as he said?
"Amitabha! Wukong, whether you believe it or not, my master has never tried to fool you. In the battle between master and apprentice, my master has one last thing to say to you: This is all destiny."
"Amitabha!"
"Wow——"
Tang Monk freed himself of his magic power and fruition status. The moment he returned to his mortal form, he lost consciousness and fell into a coma.
"master!"
"Master, master!" Sun Wukong, including Sha Monk and Bajie were a little hard to accept, and the master dismissed himself.
"Tathagata——!" Sun Wukong was filled with anger.
He chose to believe Tang Seng. Even if Tang Seng arranged it, it was not important at this moment. Tang Seng used his own actions to explain that he did not lie to Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong felt that he could no longer suppress himself and wanted to break everything and destroy everything.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, all sins should be attributed to me." Tathagata lamented.
I had anticipated that the ending would not be so simple.
But I really didn't expect that the first person to feel uncomfortable for me would be Jin Chanzi, my own disciple.
"Wukong, I know you have a lot to ask, so please ask." Tathagata waved his hand to stop the Buddhist's confusion and anger, and planned to explain everything to Sun Wukong.
This had been planned long ago.
Just because the journey to the West went smoothly, Buddhists have an innate feeling that there is no need to go through this step, so they naturally think that everything is perfect.
but!
Jin Chanzi's behavior disappointed them. Not only did he not avoid it, he seemed to go beyond it.
And this time!
"Whoosh!"
I saw a figure appear, it was Taichu.
Ever since returning from the underworld, Taichu has been waiting for this moment.
When he appears, he will still tell Sun Wukong everything. It depends on whether Sun Wukong can survive or not?
"Meet the Taoist Master." When Taichu arrived, the Buddhists were startled, and then they all paid homage to the Taoist Master.
"Are you a silver-haired Taoist?" Sun Wukong was stunned. He finally saw this person. What was he doing here?
"Monkey, you have a lot of things you don't understand. It's difficult for Buddhism to explain them clearly to you. Some of them are the actions of this deity, so I'm here to explain them to you. The choice is up to you."
Taichu sat on the high seat as he was used to, while Tathagata waited respectfully.
Sun Wukong was shocked and confused by this scene, but he didn't think much about it. Since both Buddhism and this Taoist said they should be honest with him, he could just ask himself.
"I want to know how true or false my existence is?" Sun Wukong asked, suppressing his anger.
"Amitabha! Poor monk, let me tell you first. In front of Taoist Master, our Buddhist sect has not concealed anything. Your birth has been planned by our Buddhist sect."
"For example?" Sun Wukong asked quickly.
"For example, the old monkey who guides you forward, the Bodhi who apprentices as a disciple, the Dragon Palace, heaven, and hell are all arranged by my Buddhist sect."
After saying that, there was sudden silence.
Sun Wukong staggered, what did he hear?
The wise old monkey from the Huaguo Mountain where I was born, the Bodhi teacher I studied under, everything about me was arranged.
Then isn’t it true that I am completely false?
"Why?" Sun Wu's eyes were one white and one black. His faith collapsed. He couldn't suppress the dark side. Now he was suppressing it with his will. He wanted to know why?
At this scene, Taichu sighed in his heart: What a pity!
And Tathagata:
"Amitabha! Buddhism should prosper. It needs people with great luck to complete the layout of preaching in the east. From then on, Buddhism will flourish, just like this moment;
And you are the son of fate, born for the rise of my Buddhist sect. Your roots and feet are far from transforming into a real immortal. Due to the destiny, you are mentally ill and born as an immortal;
Wukong, may I ask? If you were me, a Buddhist, what would you do? Not to plot against you because of guilt, to give up the prosperity of Buddhism because of guilt, and therefore not to follow the general trend and suffer backlash?"
…
Sun Wukong was startled after hearing this.
At the quasi-sage level, he understood more clearly, understood what the general trend was, and understood what the destiny was.
"Is this the reason why you plotted against me?" Sun Wukong still couldn't accept it.
Even if it is a fixed number, you should not calculate yourself like this, why yourself.
My own beliefs! Huaguoshan and Teacher Bodhi are all fake.
I thought I had seen the true cruelty, but then I realized that it was far from true, far from it!
Tathagata shook his head and sighed, and said:
"Wukong, you need to know that your roots and feet are powerful and vast, and you have the foundation of heaven and earth, gods and demons. If I can teach you well, my Buddhist sect will not fool you or dominate you unwisely.
But no!
...You may understand that Buddhism is not as strong as you think, and is even very weak. If you want to prosper, you can only do so through compromise with other forces;
...To fool you like this, instead of using time to guide you, is the pressure of the big forces, and they will not allow us to have you;
...Therefore, Buddhism can only choose one of the two. For the rise of Buddhism, it can only create the falsehood you are in through compromise;
...Now that things have come to this, I, the Buddhist, have made mistakes, but I, the Buddhist, are also right. The prehistoric times are not as simple as you think. Our calculations and layout will cause you harm, and I, the Buddhist, will not escape.
...However, I, the Buddhist sect, will also explain clearly the pressure and persecution we have received..."
…
After finishing his conversation, Sun Wukong became frightened again. It turned out that not only Buddhism, but also countless people plotted against him.
"Who is the big power?" Sun Wukong asked.
"The demon clan, the human clan, the wizard clan, the dragon clan, the phoenix clan, the unicorn clan, all the major sects, all the great saints, there are many, many." Tathagata replied.
"Where are they?" Sun Wukong.
"Fairy World."
"What is fairyland?"
"There are four worlds in the ancient world. The one we are in is called the spiritual world. It is the smallest of the four worlds and the most mysterious one that connects the three thousand worlds. This is the extension of the great power of the fairy world..."
The Tathagata is here to talk!
Every time he asked a question, along with Tathagata's answer, Sun Wukong became colder and more frightened.
My life in this life is too narrow and insignificant, yet there are still so many existences that I only know about.
I finally understood what Saint Zhen Yuanzi meant. It turns out that the Jade Emperor is very powerful in heaven, the Dragon King is also very powerful, and hell is even more unfathomable.
But in order to achieve the prosperity of Buddhism, they are all acting to fool themselves, and it is all fake.
In this way, Yang Jian only has three eyes, and he is the best one.
Sun Wukong finally understood the pity in Yang Jian's eyes.
It turns out that he is a joke in Yang Jian's eyes.
Yang Jian is just a clone, and his true body is the God of War who defeated the five parties and five elders.
The master is the Golden Chanzi of Buddhism, Bajie is the Marshal of Tianting Tianpeng or a member of the Jie Cult, Junior Brother Sha is a member of the Chan Cult, and Bai Longma is from the Dragon Clan.
I suspect that there are monsters behind the scenes, and they only come to the lower world to increase their suffering because of their merits.
It’s all fake, it’s all fake!
The incomparable vastness of the prehistoric times.
I once thought that I had changed from a monkey, a monkey living in falsehood, to a practitioner who knows the truth.
But now, I am still that ignorant monkey, still a monkey!
"ah--"
"Roar--"
In Sun Wukong's eyes, one bursts out with white light, and the other bursts out with dark and cold light.
"They are all fake, Laohou is fake, the teacher is fake, they are all fake, ah——!"
Sun Wu's soul began to become unstable, his Taoist heart began to collapse, and his desire for destruction began to be unsuppressed.
He wants to destroy everything, everything.
This scene!
Taichu saw it and could only say nothing, the monkey was finished!
"Wait a minute!"
"Whoosh——"
Sun Wukong was on the verge of breaking out, and Taichu finally took action.
A ray of light flew into Sun Wukong's spirit. Sun Wukong's uncontrollable mind was instantly froze by this light.
The overwhelming pressure disappeared instantly.
"You monkey boy, your Taoist heart is still far behind. This little tribulation has overwhelmed your mind. It's really unbearable. Let me talk about it and you can make a decision."
"Huh!" Buddha breathed a sigh of relief, it would be easy for Taoist Master to take action.
If Sun Wukong goes crazy, they can suppress it, but what will they do after suppressing it?
Will the suppression continue until the big forces start to deal with Buddhism under the guise of saving Sun Wukong?
Not to mention, Sun Wukong has been defeated, his Taoist heart has cracks, and it is difficult for him to make progress in this life even if he is still alive.
Fortunately, Tao Zun took action.
"Monkey, Tathagata has only talked about your current life. Do you want to know about your last life?"
After Taichu finished speaking, Sun Wukong, who was suppressed, returned spiritually.
He worked hard to suppress his soul and Taoist heart.
He scoffed at the silver-haired Taoist's suggestion that he would collapse on his own after such little hardship.
I really want to ask: If you were to suffer like this, you would be worse off than I am.
"Haha, are you not convinced? I feel that I am not convinced by the small ordeal."
"Yes!" Sun Wukong said coldly.
Sun Wukong has one white eye and one black eye. Due to a brief loss of consciousness, Sun Wukong evolved an eye that is more powerful than Yang Jian's Thunder Punishment Eye: the Eye of Light and Darkness.
This shows how uniquely endowed a guy like this is, especially after he has reached the quasi-sage level through merit initiation.
"Do you remember the Zhen Yuanzi you met? Do you still remember the obstruction by the masters of Fire Cloud Cave?" Taichu answered the question and said to Sun Wukong.
"Of course I remember Senior Zhen Yuanzi, and also the group of masters who call themselves Wuliang Sect." Sun Wukong said.
"Well, that's good. I'm afraid that you, a hairy monkey, won't believe it, so I'm telling you that Zhen Yuanzi is my disciple. The masters of Wuliang Sect you met are all my disciples."
It’s been a long time since Taichu didn’t need to be so ‘pretentious’.
Because what I met this time was Sun Wukong who didn’t know anything.
He has so little experience that he won't believe you if you tell him. You can only believe it if you show your strength first.
It feels like I haven’t seen you in Taichu for a long time. I am a powerful Taoist master of Taichu, but I still need to rely on my disciples and disciples to show my strength. Alas!
"You?" Sure enough, Sun Wukong was shocked.
He turned out to be the master of Senior Zhen Yuanzi and the ‘boss’ of the masters of Wuliang Sect.
"Wukong, don't be rude, and don't make any guesses. Dao Zun is a being who came from the beginning of time and space. He is a senior of the same generation as the Great God Pangu. Our Buddhist sect, including the great forces just mentioned, are all Dao Zun's juniors and are all affected by it.
After receiving the guidance from the Taoist Master, the Taoist Master is the way of heaven in a certain sense, just listen to it." The Tathagata is not so upright that he will not flatter anyone.
"I, I believe you!" Sun Wukong said in shock.
"That's good." Taichu said:——
"I said that your Taoist heart is not firm. Don't think that I am exaggerating. I have seen countless juniors like you. The hardships they have experienced are much crueler than being fooled by your lies;
How many strong legs have been lost in the long river of time. How many proud men of heaven can only be called the proud sons of heaven? Because they are just the proud sons of heaven, they were brilliant at first and then disappeared.
Only the strong are successful. They have become strong from the pride of heaven.
None of them are as smooth sailing as you think. You are also a proud man, but it is difficult for you to become a strong person because you don't have the heart to be strong, just like you just now."
…
After some real comparison and criticism, Sun Wukong was speechless.
Taichu said again: "Only through hard work can there be gains; only through hardships can there be opportunities; your falsehood is just hardships.
However, your Taoist heart collapsed because of this! Yes, you failed!
Maybe it was because of Buddhist fooling, but you failed after all."
Taichu sighed.
Sun Wukong failed. The moment he was defeated by reality, his Taoist heart and persistence had already collapsed.
Taichu can stabilize his mental clarity at the moment, but after Taichu is removed, Sun Wukong's Taoist heart will never return.
Taichu was really a little disappointed.
"Tell me about your past life?"
Taichu said: "In your previous life, you were a chaotic creature like me. You were the existence of the laws of chaotic warfare. Your fighting spirit was inherited from it."
After saying these words and conducting a detailed dissection, Sun Wukong was shocked to discover that this was how his strong will to fight came about.
"In the previous life, the Chaos Demon Ape was killed by Pangu into four parts, forming the four monkeys in the mixed world. Remember Liu Er, he was the earliest born among your four monkeys in the mixed world..."
Another secret, Sun Wukong finally understood why Liu Er mysteriously said to himself when he was the real and fake Monkey King: Little brother, I will wait for you in the fairy world.
"However, a four-point Chaos Demon Ape is far from what you are now. You are a colorful divine stone that my disciple Nuwa refined to mend the sky during the previous Lich War;
...You were originally attached to the ridge of Zhoushan Mountain. I discovered the clue and cut you off, otherwise you would not exist;
...Later, you, who were nourished by the merits of mending the sky, were thrown into the fairy world by my disciple Nuwa, and then I brought you to the spiritual world..."
Taichu continued: "Even if you are like this, even after you are born, you are only a little stronger than the Red Horse Monkey and the Brachiosaurus Monkey, and are far from reaching your current level;
...Your roots and feet are the source of light and darkness left behind after I killed the Demon God of Light and Darkness. I reincarnated into the world. I brought it to the spiritual world, and the source of light and darkness merged with you who has not yet transformed;
...With your unruly nature, your strong roots, your persistence and Taoist heart, you have achieved great luck and become the son of luck in the rise of Buddhism. The light and darkness that you have just awakened is the light and darkness.
Because of his strong origin..."
Finally, he said: "Having said so much, Monkey, do you understand? Your achievements are the result of this deity. Because of your powerful origin, you are now the son of destiny to help the rise of Buddhism. Including your spiritual treasure.
The one-yuan stick was also refined by me in the ancient times. I thought you could succeed and become a strong man from the favored son of heaven, but you failed, alas!"
…
What is discouragement, what is despair?
After Taichu finished speaking, Sun Wukong realized it.
My life was false and I was living in a falsehood, so I collapsed after realizing it.
But this is not over yet.
This Taoist said that your previous lives were all arranged and created by me.
This is terrifying and goes deep into my bones.
The most important thing is what Taichu Taoist said: I failed.
"Yes, I failed." Sun Wukong looked at his Taoist heart, which was full of cracks.
If it weren't for Dao Zun's suppression, I would have vented for a while...
With a sound of "Bang——", his Taoist heart collapsed, and his body died and his Taoism disappeared.
Through Taichu's words, Sun Wukong understood his origin, and because of this he was able to accept his assigned destiny.
After all, it’s not just you who suffers, there are many such beings.
If you are not good enough, you will fail, but strong people will succeed.
There is no comparison and no harm. Why am I still hating heaven and earth and hating being fooled?
In the end, he was fooled just like himself, and experienced many cruel tests, but he succeeded without breaking down, and became a member of the conspiracy against him, and became a strong person.
What about yourself?
"I failed, failed!" Sun Wukong sighed.
——
"Monkey, now that you know this, that so many people are plotting against you, and that you know your past life, what do you want to do now?" Taichu asked.
"I?"
Sun Wukong was so excited.
"Dare to ask, will there be an afterlife?" Sun Wukong thought of something, and thought of his master Tang Seng.
"Yes, but it's even more difficult. If you don't succeed in your next life, you will never be able to awaken." Taichu said with a slight smile.
"Okay, okay, that's good, that's good! I know how to do it."
"Wow--"
Only a broken sound was heard, which was that Sun Wukong's Taoist heart was completely broken.
Sun Wukong looked determined: "I thought that I became a traveler from an ignorant monkey, but now I know that I am still a monkey. In this case, let's go like this. There will be a monkey born in the next life. At that time
Anyone who has plotted against me, as long as I wake up my memory in this life, I will definitely go and get them back one by one, haha..."
He added: "With such a strong foundation, I failed this time. But I will never fail again in the next life. With the pride of gods and demons, no one can try to change me, and no one can try to fool me again!"
"burst--"
"Ha ha--"
Accompanied by Sun Wukong's laughter.
With a "boom", Sun Wukong blew himself up.
Just like the devil of heaven and earth, he proudly ended everything.
I would rather start a new life than live with flaws and cracks in my heart.
Little do you know?
The mysterious air flow in his soul came into play once again.
It perfectly wrapped all his origins, and did not let any part of his origins dissipate due to this self-destruction.
But the mysterious taboo method also disappeared.
A breach appeared in the spiritual world, and the self-destructed Sun Wukong flew through the breach and flew to the fairy world.
The fairy world is in the mist, and a stream of light flies towards Mingming, waiting for the rebirth of Sun Wukong.
It comes and goes clean again!
The monkey who was proud all his life ended his life proudly!
…
ps: It’s less than 7,000 words, so it’s a very difficult chapter to write. I might get scolded, but I still want to write better, but the result is this level, emm.
The end is also a new life, and the return will only make him stronger. It has created pride in him, so let the monkey end his false life with pride.
The same goes for Tang Seng, who is still persistent and determined.