The little monkey didn't expect that it would take him eighteen years to come to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain.
He may not be called a little monkey now. Although he is still very thin, his eyes have got rid of the youthfulness and childishness of the past, leaving only tenacity and indifference. His body is strong and strong.
Now he can deal with all kinds of tigers and leopards calmly, instead of being chased by tigers and leopards and running away like he did when he was a child.
In the past eighteen years, Monkey has seen a lot and experienced a lot. Along the way, he has seen humans and monsters outside Huaguo Mountain. Just like what the old white ape said back then, the world of monsters is very bitter.
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In the past eighteen years, he didn’t know how many great monsters and monsters he had seen die in front of him, and he didn’t know how many times he had seen the heavenly soldiers coming down to slay the monsters. Every time the heavenly soldiers appeared on the horizon, all the monkeys saw were monsters.
They were exhausted and running for their lives... With panicked expressions and tattered clothes, they were like mortals on the run, scrambling for the opportunity to live in embarrassment.
Demons are not as scary as anyone thought. They had just transformed and were as weak as babies in front of the heavenly soldiers. In order to survive, they were dressed in rags like beggars and struggled to survive in the darkness of this world.
The big demon with advanced cultivation occupies the mountain top, and there are thousands or even tens of thousands of little demons under his command. They slaughter humans and commit all kinds of evil. It seems that they should be eliminated by the heaven, but in the past eighteen years, the ones the monkeys have seen the most are those at the bottom.
Little monsters.
The little demons didn't do anything wrong, they were just practicing in the mountains, but the heavenly soldiers passing by would kill them one by one without mercy.
The monkey saw with his own eyes a rabbit spirit that had just transformed into a human form. She knelt down in front of the heavenly soldiers and begged for mercy. He said that she had only been in human form for ten years and had not done anything harmful to nature. He asked the heavenly soldiers to let her live.
But unfortunately, all she got in exchange for her begging for mercy was the ruthless butcher's knife of the heavenly soldiers.
Finally, the monkey hiding in the grass came forward and buried her headless body. She was a very good person. She took him in last night and gave him a meal, but he couldn't save her, just like he did back then.
He could only watch his mother die in front of him.
Over the years, the monkey has seen too many beggar-like little monsters running away, and too many headless corpses of little monsters lying dead on the roadside. In order to survive, the little monsters gathered together, invisible to humans.
The place was alive like weeds, but their power was still too weak in front of the heaven. They had raised a banner of rebellion and disappeared in an instant.
Yes, even those demon kings live a life of precarity or bowing their heads to heaven, so what can they do? Just like Huaguo Mountain, their heads are just fairy spirits of heavenly soldiers.
But why? Do monsters deserve to die? Why can they slaughter others at will from above, why can we only be slaughtered by them?
After seeing more, the monkey was not numb, but he didn't do anything either. He just walked forward firmly.
I heard that there is a Lingtai Fangcun Mountain far away, and there is a three-star cave with a slanting moon on the mountain. There is an old god in the cave, and the monkey wants to find him.
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The monkey did not expect that even if he went through all the troubles to find Lingshan Fangcun Mountain and arrived in front of Xianyue Sanxing Cave, he would not become an immortal.
Kneeling outside the cave, the boy asked him coldly, "The ancestor asked you why you came."
"Seeking immortality, seeking immortality."
"The Patriarch said that your six roots are impure and what you seek is not immortality. He cannot teach you. Please come back."
The monkey said nothing and continued to kneel outside the cave, refusing to leave.
The boy ignored him and turned back to the cave.
The peach trees on the mountain bloomed three times and fell three times, but the monkey still did not leave.
He was born a stone monkey, and he would not starve to death if he did not eat for the rest of his life, so he knelt outside the cave and refused to leave for three years. Because he had no way out, this was the only place he could find to find immortals.
Therefore, Patriarch Subhuti is the only one who has hope of teaching him, so he must not leave!
He was very tired, and his knees had long lost feeling, because this was the Immortal Cave, and unless the owner of the cave was willing, he would never be able to go in, so he could only kneel outside.
In the past three years, Monkey has never thought of leaving, because if he leaves, he is afraid that he will die under the butcher's knife of the heavenly soldiers soon. In this case, he would rather die here, at least here, he has not heard the evil spirits.
The two characters monkey.
Finally, that day, the dusty cave door slowly opened, and the white-haired old man walked out of the cave door, looked at the monkey who had been kneeling outside the cave for three years, and asked softly, "You still don't want to leave?"
"Leaving is death. In that case, it is better to stay here."
"Why do you have to ask for immortality?"
"Because I want to live forever."
"I can only teach you immortality, but that's not what you want to learn. In the end, it will only harm you, so I don't want to be your master."
"The only person who will be harmed will be myself. I will bear all the consequences alone. I just want to seek immortality!"
The old man looked intently at the pale and extremely weak monkey in front of him. If he hadn't been using magic power to protect his meridians, and if his will was strong enough, he would have died long ago.
"If you think carefully, you will truly become an immortal, but what you ask for will only bring you to an eternal fate. Everything you cherish will also leave you, or even be destroyed by your own hands.
Destroy it, you might regret your choice today."
"It may be the best choice to disappear as an ordinary monkey and die peacefully in the mountains and forests."
Monkey said nothing, just looked at him stubbornly, gritted his teeth and uttered four words, "I don't regret it!"
The old man didn't speak. After a while, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, "That's all, God's will is inevitable. Today I finally lost to you, the evil obstacle. Follow me into the cave."
Subhuti waved his right hand, and the monkey stood up involuntarily. Heart-wrenching pain hit him instantly, because his knees and legs had been completely disabled in the past three years! But soon, with Subhuti's second move
When he swung it out, the monkey suddenly felt as if he had been reborn, his whole body was refreshed, and his whole body had been cleaned of bones and marrow, and he exhaled a large mouthful of turbid air.
At this time, the monkey seemed to feel something. He turned around and saw another version of himself kneeling on the ground behind him, but that person had his head lowered and remained motionless.
Subhuti said loudly, "That is your body, but it is not completely condensed yet, but it still has a form. If there is a chance in the future, you can completely cut it out. Well, this is the same path.
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Looking at the monkey, the old man asked, "Does it have a name?"
The monkey shook his head.
The old man smiled and said, "You look like a hozen, so let's take your surname as Sun. There are twelve characters in our sect, and you are the tenth generation. It happens to be the character Wu, so how about you call me Wukong?"
"Wukong...Sun Wukong..." Monkey recited it many times in his mind, and the more he recited it, the more he couldn't hide the smile on his face.
He has a name... He is no longer a nameless little monster. His name is Sun Wukong. Patriarch Subhuti gave him a name... He has a name.
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The peach trees on the mountain bloomed and withered for seven years, and the monkeys were full for seven years.
Perhaps these seven years have also been the most comfortable seven years of my life.
When a monkey sits in a tree and meditates, he can't help but think like this.
Life in the cave was very good. The senior brothers never discriminated against him because of his status as a monster. Even during the three years when he knelt outside the cave, the senior brothers never called him "monkey" like other Celestial Soldiers. The Patriarch was not in the cave.
, when he went out to travel, he was also taught by his senior brothers. Monkey got a very warm title here, "little junior brother."
Monkey practices every day. In his spare time, he is more likely to laugh and have fun in the mountains and forests like he did in Huaguo Mountain. He originally thought that the Patriarch would have a grudge against him because of his status as a monster, but unexpectedly, he turned against himself and other senior brothers.
, there is no difference at all between the Patriarch, and he has not even been reprimanded by the Patriarch.
Because he has always done well, no matter what method it is, he can always understand the essence in the simplest time. Even if there is something that doesn't make sense, he can quickly understand it with a little guidance from the ancestor.
The Patriarch always looked satisfied when he saw him, and often smiled and touched his head. But for some reason, behind that satisfaction, there was also deep worry.
As time went by, Monkey discovered that the Patriarch looked at him more and more seriously, and when he truly learned how to avoid the three disasters, the Patriarch's face no longer showed any expression.
The monkey knows that fate is over.
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That night, the monkey came to the Patriarch's room without being summoned, sat on a futon and meditated. The Patriarch, who had his back turned to him, sensed his arrival, closed his eyes tightly, and said softly, "You have learned what you want to learn.
Let everything go back to where it came from.”
Even though he had already guessed it, the monkey still lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly. After a long time, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, "I would like to thank my ancestor for his kindness in preaching and teaching. I will never forget it.
I will repay the great kindness of my ancestor one day."
"You are naughty by nature and have great aspirations. If you die, the world will be turned upside down. No matter who asks you in the future, you are not allowed to say that you are my disciple. Otherwise, I will peel off the skin and bones of you, a hozen, and banish your soul to the Nine Netherworld."
, teach you that you will never be able to stand up again."
"Disciple knows."
"Then...just go."
"yes."
Before the monkey turned around and left, Patriarch Subhuti called out "Wukong" softly. The monkey turned around and saw that the Patriarch just turned his back to him and had no intention of speaking. The monkey was stunned for a moment, and tears shed from his eyes.
He knelt down on the ground again and kowtowed nine times.
"Wukong will never forget his teacher's kindness!"
As soon as the words fell, the monkey turned into a golden light and rushed out of the room, quickly disappearing into the sky.
After a long time, Patriarch Subhuti opened his eyes, and counted gently with his right hand. At the end, he just shook his head slightly, and then with a big wave of his hand, he sealed the entire Lingtai Fangcun Mountain.
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Looking at the scenes in front of him, Tang Seng had a bitter smile on his face.
"Compared to you, I am not a competent master... I have never taught Wukong anything, and I am not worthy to be his master like you."
"Master Bodhi...will you still remember this monkey? Maybe you have forgotten him, but he will always remember you...because in the first five years of his journey to the west, that monkey