In the Taichu Hall, there was a curl of green smoke rising. Lin Nuo was sitting cross-legged on a high platform. There was also a high platform on the opposite side. Emperor Houtu was sitting on it, looking at the lower part of the hall, Huanwan, who looked a little embarrassed.
"Houtu, thank you very much this time!"
After a moment of silence, Lin Nuo spoke, first expressing his gratitude to Emperor Houtu.
"We are allies, and this is the responsibility of allies!" Emperor Houtu chuckled and shook his head, "Besides, I can't help you much!"
"No, you have already helped a lot. If it weren't for you to protect Taichu Dojo, I wouldn't be able to fight Tathagata without any distractions!"
In response to this, Hou Tu just smiled sarcastically and waved his hands indifferently, "There is no need to say any kind words. Next, I wonder how you are going to deal with this mess in the Three Realms?"
"The Heavenly Court will naturally be rebuilt!" Lin Nuo looked calm, "But I won't come forward. It will be left to the surviving monks in the Heavenly Court to handle it themselves. As for the candidates for the Heavenly Emperor, they can elect themselves!"
Buddhism is gone, and there is no Taiyi Realm power to intervene. With the abilities of Emperor Donghua, Emperor Zhenwu and others, it is not difficult to rebuild the Heavenly Court.
Of course, it is naturally impossible to return to the state of Heaven in its heyday.
"What do fellow Taoists plan about the underworld?" Hou Tu continued to speak. She actually didn't care too much about who would control the three realms, but the underworld was her foundation and could not be compromised.
"Nature is still under your control!"
Hou Tu nodded with satisfaction, "That's very good. By the way, Taoist friend has been planning for so long. Are you really not planning to do something in the position of Emperor of Heaven?"
"Power and I are just a passing cloud. As long as the order of the three realms operates normally, it doesn't matter who takes this position. If you are interested, Hou Tu, you can also come up and have a seat!"
"I'll forget it!" Hou Tu looked serious, "Today's battle between Taoist friends and Tathagata, I can finally see clearly that power, status, etc. are indeed just heretics, and one's own strength is the real majestic way!"
"After today, I will return to the underworld and retreat into seclusion. If there is no major matter related to life and death, I will not leave the retreat again!"
After bidding farewell to Lin Nuo, Emperor Houtu stood up. Before walking out of the hall, he turned his head and looked at him deeply again.
"My fellow Taoist has planned for eternity, but he is not seeking the position of Emperor of Heaven. Do you want to plot something bigger?"
"You are overthinking. I just want to gather the luck of the three realms to make it possible for me to further my cultivation!"
Hou Tu was startled, then walked out of the hall thoughtfully, moved, and left Taichu Dojo directly.
Cultivation further?
Even the Tathagata at the peak of the Taiyi realm can be killed. If it goes one step further, what realm will it be?
What is the realm of Taishang Daozu?
No wonder he doesn't look down on the position of the Emperor of Heaven. He doesn't look up to him at all. What the other party wants to do is the Taichu Taoist who sits aloof and watches the birth and destruction of the universe!
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After Emperor Houtu left, peace returned to Taichu Hall again. The empty hall was silent and seemed a little intrusive.
"Sect Master, just ask whatever you want to ask!"
Feeling that the sect leader's eyes were always staring at her, Huanhua said with a smile.
"Before Wukong died, I stayed with you, did he leave any words behind?" Slowly closing his eyes and opening them again, Lin Nuo once again returned to his previous state of Gujing Bubo.
"This...it really does exist!" Hanhan smiled and took out a jade slip from his sleeve robe.
"Before he went to Tathagata to fight for his life, he gave me a jade slip and said it was left for you, the sect master!"
Lin Nuo's eyes narrowed and he waved his sleeves. The next moment, the crimson jade slip in Hanhan's hand flew into the sky above the hall, and then in bursts of flashing light, the image of Sun Wukong appeared from it.
He does not look like the Monkey King, who wears a purple and gold seven-star crown, walks on lotus root silk, wears chain-locked golden armor, and holds a wishful golden hoop in his hand. Instead, he wears a white robe like a Confucian scholar. This dress,
Astonishingly, they were the sect clothes he wore when he was practicing Taoism in Fangcun Mountain.
"Master, when you see this projection, your disciple must be dead!"
"Death is not scary. I was originally a stubborn rock in the mountains. I was nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and I was qualified to come to this world. Now that I have returned to heaven and earth again, I can be regarded as returning to my origins, and the fallen leaves return to their roots."
"Master, I don't know if I can become your disciple. Is there really a master-disciple relationship between you and me? Or is it because you have already calculated everything, but the truth is no longer important. When you knocked on the disciple's head
, when you returned to Taichu Hall with anger and refused to tell your disciples why Tathagata could not be killed, my disciples could clearly sense that you really treat me as a true disciple!"
"Without the master, the disciple might just be a little clever monkey in this life, living for thousands of years, and eventually dying of old age in the Flower and Fruit Mountain. It was the master who gave me a name and gave me a arrogant and brilliant life.
Wonderful."
"When the disciple left Fangcun Mountain, the master once said that next time we meet, I hope I won't resent you. But the disciple wants to say that from the beginning to the end, even if he knew that the master's recruitment of disciples was just a calculation, the disciple never had any resentment!
"
"For the kindness of preaching and the kindness of protecting, I owe the master a lot, but I have nothing to repay. Today, I can die to repay the kindness of the master. I am very happy in my heart!"
"Master..."
The figure of Sun Wukong in the projection gradually became blurred, and his face could no longer be seen clearly. Only murmurs could be heard coming from it.
"Master, the happiest time in my life was when I practiced Taoism with you in Fangcun Mountain. At that time, I was carefree and never knew what worries were."
"There are mountains, water, a master, a great road, senior brothers who brag and joke, and that little dragon girl who doesn't like me..."
"Disciple, I really want to go back to the past...but I can't go back...I can't go back..."
The murmuring sound like a dream ended, the red jade slip collapsed, and Wukong's projection completely dissipated, without any trace left.
Lin Nuo's eyes were closed tightly, but his cheeks were trembling slightly, as if he was trying his best to restrain something.
For a long, long time, he slowly opened his eyes, his eyes cold and unblinking, staring at Hanhan who was already kneeling on the ground in the audience, not even daring to raise his head.
"Wukong is the son of fate. He has known this for a long time. But by committing suicide, Tathagata suffered the backlash of fate and was knocked out of the state of the third Buddha. Is it you who taught him?"
"I taught you!"
Huanwan simply nodded and admitted.
"Although I didn't say it explicitly, I also mentioned that the mighty power of heaven can knock down the Tathagata's special state. With Sun Wukong's exquisite heart of seven orifices, he knows what I mean."
"The sect master said it was me who instigated it, and he was not wrong!"