Yang Jian and Sun Wukong

Lingshan, in front of Game Peak, the Tathagata Buddha sat cross-legged where Yang Jian had stood in the past, closed his eyes and meditated, holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, with a solemn appearance.

Avalokitesvara floated over, knelt down and saluted: "Master."

Tathagata still closed his eyes and said, "What time is it?"

"At three quarters in the afternoon."

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, when the death row criminals in the world ask to be beheaded at this time...it really is a good time to kill people." A slight smile appeared on the face of the Tathagata, "Where are Tang Monk and his disciples?"

"The news from Drifting Monk said that he has arrived at Baihu Ridge."

Tathagata opened his eyes, glanced at Guanyin lightly, "Have you found out the origin of the corpse demon?"

"The corpse demon is Xiao Jun, the executioner of the Heavenly Court."

Tathagata nodded and twirled the Buddhist beads, "So Erlang Zhenjun began to refine corpse demons hundreds of years ago, but only released them today? It's really tolerable."

Tathagata stood up, stretched out his hand, and a huge golden seal of Buddha's light appeared on the Boyi Peak. After the flickering disappeared, a line of gold characters appeared on the smooth mirror-like cliff: Sun Wukong traveled to Baihuling, met a corpse demon...

Avalokitesvara looked intently at the gold lettering on Bo Yifeng, and said: "It seems that Zhenjun Erlang is trying to force Tang Sanzang to drive away Sun Wukong with the corpse demon. He thought that as long as Sun Wukong leaves the team of Journey to the West, Master will not be his fate. Master, now Tang Sanzang and others have encountered corpse demons, how should we deal with them?"

Tathagata calmed down and said: "In your opinion, will Sun Wukong be driven away?"

Guanyin said: "With Sun Wukong's temperament, he will never leave."

Tathagata laughed, "Zhenjun Erlang has planned this move for the corpse demon for hundreds of years. If he is not sure, how can he make it so easily?" Tathagata waved his hand again, and several more appeared behind the "meet the corpse demon" on Game Peak Word: Sun Wukong broke away from the Westward Journey team and gave up learning scriptures.

Avalokitesvara was stunned and said anxiously: "Master, if Sun Wukong gives up learning scriptures, wouldn't the Journey to the West be over?"

Tathagata smiled even deeper, stroked the sleeves of his robe, looked up at the misty clouds in the sky, and said lightly: "No, on the contrary, the bloody storm has only just begun."

As soon as the words fell, the clear sky was covered with dark clouds, and the strong wind rolled up the fallen leaves on the ground to form a vortex, flying sand and rocks in an instant, and the sky was dark.Tathagata stretched out his index finger and pointed to the sky, and dark clouds quickly gathered above his fingertips. With a "click", the thunderbolt flashed away, and it was impossible to tell whether the lightning came from the sky or from the Tathagata's hand.

Avalokitesvara stared blankly at the changing situation in the sky. Amidst the deafening roar of thunder and lightning, Tathagata's voice was extremely clear.

"For tens of thousands of years, I have rarely been so happy. The more I play the game of Journey to the West, the more I like it. I really don't want Yang Jian and Monkey King to die so soon. If they die, I will be lonely." Tathagata's tone It's so sincere.Yes, without his opponents, he will not only be lonely, but also miss them.Everyone has a kind of nature in their bones, such as the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother, the three of them are playful and gamblers by nature, and those who lose a bet with them will pay them their lives.As for what will happen to them if they lose, no one knows, because they have never lost for tens of thousands of years.They are gods, masters of the three realms, mastering the creatures of the world, controlling the fate of all things, and they will never lose.

The Tathagata flew up, came to the distance of less than one foot in front of the Game Peak, waved his hand from right to left, all the characters on the Game Peak disappeared, and then fourteen golden characters reappeared: Tang Sanzang The holy monk hated chasing the Monkey King. ① There was a loud bang, and the dark sky seemed to be split from the middle by a sword, and Tathagata's body stood proudly under the electric light.

Avalokitesvara bowed to the Tathagata on the ground.

At both ends of the story, it is said that Sun Wukong met the old woman transformed from the corpse demon, and he hesitated for a moment when he raised the golden cudgel.Taking advantage of this opportunity, the corpse demon used a method of dissolving the corpse, and fled away.When Sun Wukong's stick fell, only one body was beaten to the ground.Tang Seng didn't know it, and was so frightened that he almost fell off the white dragon's horse, and kept yelling: "Sin! Sin!"

Monkey King's head hurt violently again, he threw the stick to hug his head, knelt down on his knees, and shouted: "Stop reading! Say what you want!"

Tang Seng said: "What else can I say? I advised you to be kind, but you did evil and killed another person for no reason!"

As soon as he spoke, Sun Wukong's head didn't hurt anymore, he gasped and gasped, leaning on the golden cudgel and trying to stand up straight, "She is a monster."

Tang Seng said angrily: "How come there are so many monsters for no reason! I didn't see a single one in the past! Forget it, you go, my small temple can't keep your big Buddha."

Seeing Tang Seng's determined expression, Monkey King knew that he had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything else, just said: "Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go, but take off the straps on your head." Monkey King went to Tang Seng, pointed On his head, "I was afraid that I would be disobedient, Guanyin put a tight band on me, now I want to drive me away, I have to lose the tight band, I trouble you to recite the 'Loose Hoop Mantra', the two of us will be together from then on. Freed."

Tang Seng said: "I don't even know how to recite the tight mantra, how can I recite the 'loose hoop mantra'."

Sun Wukong said: "Since this is the case, I have to learn from you."

Tang Seng said helplessly: "Okay, but it's only for the last time. Next time, don't take life lightly."

Monkey King said: "Of course not."

Yang Jian walked over and patted Sun Wukong's shoulders with both hands, and Sun Wukong gave him a relieved smile.Yang Jian looked complicated, and walked forward with Monkey King in his arms.

This time, Zhu Bajie and Drifting not only did not walk with Monkey King, but they were as far away as possible.

They walked for half a day, turned around a mountainside, and saw an old man leaning on a dragon head crutch, wearing a crane cloak, holding a rosary, chanting scriptures while walking, and walking towards him.

Zhu Bajie said: "Hey, here comes the root of the trouble! This must be the old lady's husband, the girl's father."

Sun Wukong said: "Stop talking nonsense, I'll go and see." When he came to the old man, he said, "Old official, where are you going?"

Seeing that Sun Wukong was a boy of sixteen or seventeen, the old man said: "Little brother, my old man's ancestors lived here. All his life, he was good at fasting monks, reading scriptures and chanting Buddha. He gave birth to a little daughter and recruited a son-in-law. This morning, my little girl sent food to the fields. Encountered in the mouth of a tiger. The old wife came to look for it first, but she didn’t come back, so the old man came to look for it.” ① Sun Wukong said: “Are you looking for your daughter and wife? Come, come, I will lead you.” Sun Wukong grabbed the old man’s robe , trying to drag the two corpses, but was stopped by Tang Seng: "Wukong, you are rude!" When the corpse came back, it threw it in front of the old man and shouted, "Do you think this is the person you are looking for?"

The old man turned pale with fright, rushed forward and cried loudly.

Tang Seng let out a long sigh, sat down cross-legged, and recited the Mantra of Rebirth.Zhu Bajie and Drifting couldn't bear to look at it, so they turned their heads away.

Monkey King stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Hey, are you only crying without tears? Oh, that's not right, you should rub your eyes with your hands, or it will be too easy for people to see through." Monkey King even had the time to demonstrate, "Rub it like this."

Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, the monster howled dryly, but there was a mocking smile in his eyes, "You see through me? What, you want to kill me?"

Sun Wukong put his arms around his shoulders, looking as if he was comforting him, but in fact he said: "How dare I, I just promised Baldhead will not kill people again, I don't want to have any more headaches, and I don't have to rush to kill you at this moment , wait until the bald man can't see, then we can start."

The old man threw himself on the corpse and yelled miserably: "Sinner, old woman, why did you go before me..." He secretly used the sound transmission technique to speak to Monkey King, "Since you won't kill me, you can kill me." Don't blame me for being rude." As he spoke, he glanced intentionally or unintentionally at Yang Jian who was standing in the distance, it was an indescribably lewd gaze, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Sun Wukong naturally noticed his gaze, and also used sound transmission to say: "Oh, who are you looking at?" Kneeling on the ground with one leg, he stretched out his hand and patted the back of his neck, looking very affectionate. "So your target is not only Tang Sanzang?"

The old man continued to cry. "There is also Zhenjun Erlang."

"You are a corpse demon, why, that thing is still there, can it still be used?" Sun Wukong continued to pat the back of his neck, their heads were almost touching, and it seemed to others that Sun Wukong was definitely comforting the sad old man. "I understand. What you are saying now is actually manipulating people behind the scenes. Did he fall in love with that person? Is he a man? But let me tell you, that person is not easy to provoke. It didn't end well, and the death was terrible."

The old man said with sound transmission: "Don't worry, he can't see that I'm a monster, and he won't guard against it. I have my own methods."

I'm relieved to kill you!

Sun Wukong's hand on the back of the old man's neck suddenly tightened.

The old man didn't expect that Sun Wukong would kill him while he was speaking well, he was negligent, and he hit the road, and it was too late to avoid it, so he stretched out his hand to Sun Wukong's chest with the idea of ​​perishing together.Sun Wukong didn't hide at all, he used all his right hand, and with a soft "click", he pinched the old man's neck.

The old man's neck tilted, bleeding from his seven orifices, and he fell to the ground and died.

Everyone was shocked.

Sun Wukong let go of his right hand, and finally said with sound transmission: "I told you earlier, anyone who tries to trick him will die, because he is mine." No one heard this sentence, and the dead could not hear it. any words.

Tang Seng was stunned, pointing at Sun Wukong who couldn't speak a complete sentence: "You, you..."

Sun Wukong patted the ashes on his clothes, stood up as if nothing had happened, and looked down at the five finger holes on his chest. The flesh and blood were dissolving at a very fast speed, and green juice came out.Sun Wukong took out a dagger from his boots and gouged out the corroding flesh.Yang Jian came over to help him prescribe the medicine.Fortunately, this corpse demon didn't know whether it was lack of mana or his subordinates were merciful, Monkey King's injury was not a serious problem.

Sun Wukong said to Tang Seng: "Don't recite the magic spell, you first see what he is?"

Tang Seng looked intently, there was no old man, it was just a pile of bones.Can't help being surprised: "Why did you become a skeleton in just this moment?"

Sun Wukong said: "He was originally a corpse demon. He was controlled by others to harm you. Now I have completely killed him. Of course he has shown his original shape."

Tang Seng seemed to believe it, but he couldn't hold Zhu Bajie aside and said in a strange way: "Who doesn't know that Sun Wukong has great powers, so why is it so strange to use a blindfold? Master, he is afraid that you will change after you recite the magic spell and kill someone." look!"

Tang Seng's ears were soft, and he believed in Zhu Bajie again, and said angrily: "Huzen, go away! I killed three people in one day, and I don't want to stay with you anymore."

Sun Wukong said: "But Guanyin Bodhisattva..."

"When I see the Bodhisattva, I have my own interpretation, so you don't need to worry about it."

Sun Wukong said again: "Tighten the hoop..."

"I don't know how to 'loose the curse', but from now on, I promise not to recite the tight curse. Whether you murder and set fire, rape or plunder, it has nothing to do with me."

Sun Wukong said: "If you don't read it, who will believe you? If you are captured by monsters in the future, and you think of your grandson at a critical moment, as long as you recite the mantra, no matter where I am, I will always have a headache."

"I don't need you to save me, and I will never recite the magic spell. If you don't believe it, you and I will write it as proof." Tang Seng took out a pen and paper from his luggage bag, fetched water from the stream, rubbed ink on a stone, and wrote a derogatory letter , Handed it to Sun Wukong and said, "Hold this as a photo, and you don't need you to protect me from the west to learn scriptures. If I go back on my word, teach me to fall into the hell of Avici, and I will never be able to turn over again!"

Sun Wukong took it without even looking at it. With a wave of his hand, the paper scattered like snowflakes.Monkey King knew that this time Tang Seng said that he would not change his mind, so he no longer distinguished, bowed his head and said sadly: "People say that the birds are exhausted, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooking. Now the birds are not exhausted, the cunning rabbit is not dead, and Monkey King is here In Tang Sanzang's eyes, it's useless." Taking out the merit book from his pocket, he said with a smile, "I wanted to be a god, but unexpectedly I gave up halfway." Tore up the merit book without hesitating.

Sun Wukong walked towards Tang Seng in the sky full of papers, and said solemnly: "How disrespectful I am to you on weekdays, I hope that after I leave, you will only remember my good things and forget my bad things, so that you will be happier yourself. I have been with you for several years, and you are a good person, no matter what, you and I are also considered as mentors and apprentices, and today, my apprentices sincerely pay respects."

Tang Seng turned around and refused to worship him.

Monkey King pulled out three monkey hairs, called "Change", and turned into three Monkey Kings, including his own real body, a total of four, occupying four directions, east, west, south, east, north, south, east, south, north, and kneeling down to the Tang monk in the middle with a "plop", and shouted: "Master!" He knocked his head three times in a row.

This is the first time Monkey King called Tang Seng Master, but under such circumstances.

Sun Wukong paid homage to Tang Seng, stood up in Fuyi, strode away, and never looked back.

Tang Seng and Zhu Bajie looked at Sun Wukong's disappearing figure, their eyes were full of unspeakable sadness, but they couldn't call him.If Sun Wukong turned his head at this moment, he would see the red eyes of the two of them. If Sun Wukong turned his head back, maybe he would not be able to leave.But there is a kind of person who only goes forward all his life, never looks back, and never shrinks back. Sun Wukong is such a person.

Seeing that Monkey King was gone, Yang Jian bowed deeply to Tang Seng: "Thank you, Saint Monk, for helping to perform this scene." Then he bowed to Zhu Bajie, "Thank you, Marshal Tianpeng, too."

Tang Seng calmed down and saluted Yang Jian, "The true king's goal has been achieved, should the two of us continue westward?"

Zhu Bajie was already impatient to divide the luggage, and said: "Of course there is no need to travel to the west, the protagonists are gone, and the supporting roles are also withdrawn. This farce has finally come to an end."

Yang Jian said: "Marshal Tianpeng, don't worry, do you remember what I said at the beginning?" Turning to Tang Seng, he said, "The sky is still covering the eyes, the earth is still hiding the heart, all living beings are still suffering, and the Buddhas are still at ease. So it's not The curtain is over, but a new show is about to begin." Yang Jian looked up at the western sky, his expression complicated and difficult to understand, "The Tathagata Buddha must have been able to calculate that Sun Wukong was driven out of the Journey to the West team, so everything is still under his control now, we have no win."

Tang Seng looked at Yang Jian in surprise, and Zhu Bajie also stopped packing.

Yang Jian looked at Drifting Monk who had been silent.Under Yang Jian's gaze, Drifting took a step back involuntarily, with a look of panic on his face.Just now Sun Wukong beat the corpse demon three times, in order to drive Sun Wukong away, Zhu Bajie spared no effort to speak, but Drifting Monk remained silent. In fact, it was not just just now, since Journey to the West, no matter what happened, Drifting Monk was always silent.In many cases, he is so quiet that people forget his existence.So his role was ignored.

Yang Jian said: "For the candidates for Journey to the West, I and Tathagata jointly decided on Jin Chanzi and Monkey King. I added Marshal Tianpeng and Xiao Bailong, and Tathagata added General Shulin. I have to say that Drifting has done a good job these years." , Well fulfilled the duty of reporting the situation to the Tathagata." Yang Jian looked at the Drifting Monk, "I think it must have been written about Sun Wukong's withdrawal from Journey to the West on the Game Peak. "

Drifting took another step back under Yang Jian's gaze.

"What I want to do is to let Tathagata know what happened to Monkey King, and it doesn't matter what he will do next." Yang Jian said to Drifting, "You can report to Tathagata as much as you want, because your report is also in my plan middle."

Yang Jian looked around at the three of them, his bright eyes were full of ambition and arrogance, he smiled slightly.

"The show has begun, are you ready?"

The author has something to say: ①It is selected from "Journey to the West" with slight changes.