Me and countless me.

Chapter 251 Monkey's Good Fortune

In response to Sun Wukong's question, Guanyin Bodhisattva did not say any profound truths or anything else, but just smiled and looked at Sun Wukong.

"What do you say?"

Buddhism has finally been able to intervene in Central Plains, and it is an opportunity given by the higher-ups. There are so many things involved that it is unbelievable. How can Sun Wukong just say he doesn't want to go and not go?

"Could it be that……"

Sun Wukong understood everything instantly. He knew that the water was deep and that he, as a monkey, could not control it. However, he looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva and could not help but speak.

"...You actually wanted to let the monk go?"

This was all he could think of, and then he saw Guanyin Bodhisattva's expression stiffen for a moment.

"This is a little unexpected, but don't worry, what Jin Chanzi did is actually not out of line with the right path."

Speaking of this, Guanyin Bodhisattva also sighed.

She also saw the shortcomings of Buddhism. After all, there were many people with great supernatural powers in the Western Paradise. Although the Buddha had great supernatural powers, he did not have the final say. There were many times when the Buddha had no choice but to do things.

After all, not every force can be like Heaven and Middle-earth, with enough manpower to send out to slay demons and monsters at all times.

In addition, the gods and monsters that existed in India before the Buddha attained enlightenment were not all dead. Strictly speaking, they were all the Buddha's predecessors. As long as they did not do anything too excessive, even the Buddha would not have a good way to deal with them.

It was this guy named Jin Chanzi who completely disregarded the principles of seniority and hierarchy and only cared about his own will.

"I understand."

The monkey sighed inwardly, then bowed and prepared to leave.

But before leaving, he looked at the three golden hoops in his hands and couldn't help but ask.

"Buddha, this golden hoop...how long can it trap him?"

After Guanyin Bodhisattva pondered for a while.

"I do not know either."

Sun Wukong looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva and was silent for a while, as if he wanted to say something, but he did not say it in the end. However, Guanyin Bodhisattva clearly heard Sun Wukong's respectful call.

"Bodhisattva, can you please save me?"

Although he said that, Sun Wukong still returned to Li Ke with the golden hoop in his arms. Li Ke couldn't help laughing as he looked at Sun Wukong who was hesitating and didn't want to come to him.

"If you don't want to be my disciple, I can just suppress you under the Five Elements Mountain again. I also know the Tathagata Palm."

He smiled and said some terrifying words to Sun Wukong. After hearing these words, Sun Wukong sat down in front of Li Ke helplessly and looked at Li Ke with a serious face.

"Monk... or Master, what exactly are you planning?"

He didn't understand why someone like Li Ke, who came from a good family and could even get a position in the Heavenly Palace, would want to go on a journey to obtain the scriptures. Moreover, Guanyin Bodhisattva was unwilling to tell him in detail about this guy's background and origin, only saying that he was following the right path.

Why is this?

Even when he made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, Guanyin Bodhisattva did not treat him like this. And he had never heard of this Jin Chanzi before. Why would Guanyin Bodhisattva be so afraid of him?
And if they were so wary, why did they let Jin Chanzi go on the important journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures?

Sun Wukong really couldn't figure it out.

During the five hundred years under the Five Elements Mountain, he thought about many things, from his initial resistance to fear, sadness, loneliness, repentance, anger after repentance, to true repentance in the end. He experienced too much.

Five hundred years of solitude, five hundred years of vicissitudes, he has seen so much, and he can no longer summarize his past life.

He began to understand why he had ended up like this, what he had missed, how many stupid things he had done when he was young, why he was angry, why he felt humiliated, and why -

Being pressed underneath.

"I was ignorant back then and was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain. I hated the heavens and the earth. At first, I thought it was because I didn't practice enough that I ended up like this. In the end, I was scared and gave in, but I felt it was too shameful to give in. Then I realized that you can't do everything in this world by doing it your own way. But you, monk, you can be said to be a Buddha, why are you still like this?"

Sun Wukong really didn’t understand. He had truly possessed and lost things, and the same was true for the person in front of him.

He had never experienced the feeling of losing all his cultivation, but he knew it must be extremely painful. And the Jin Chanzi in front of him definitely had more than a simple purpose in going to the West to obtain the scriptures. Whether it was what he said when he blew up the Five Elements Mountain and the Buddhist scroll that suppressed him, or the attitude of Guanyin Bodhisattva and others, Sun Wukong knew very well that Jin Chanzi's purpose in going to the West to obtain the scriptures was definitely not as simple as delivering the scriptures to the Tang Dynasty!

"There is no place in life without cultivation. The donor has reached the state of knowing what he wants. This is actually not easy. This is a good thing."

Li Ke placed his hand in the huge lake formed by his bombardment of the Five Elements Mountain. The clear lake water swayed in his hand. What was clearly a thousand-foot-high mountain before had now turned into a thousand-mile-long lake. Such a miracle came from his hands.

The feeling of having power is really hard to let go.

"But benefactor, what I want is a man who can humble himself and do good deeds, and fight against evil when he sees it. That's why I took action. If you hadn't gone to other places to ask about me, I'm afraid I would have left."

He pulled his hand out of the pool of water, and drops of water dripped from his white jade hand, creating ripples on the water.

"But you must have gone to Guanyin Bodhisattva to ask about me, wanting to know who I am, right? And now, you must have a lot of doubts in your heart. You don't know what I want, what I want to do, and what I will do. You don't even know whether following me is good or bad, whether it will bring joy or sorrow, whether it can help you get the life you want, or whether it will drag you down and make you fall into a situation more miserable than the Five Finger Mountain, right?"

Sun Wukong looked at Li Ke silently. He was indeed worried about these things.

Five hundred years later, if he hadn't practiced, his life would almost be over. He didn't want to waste another five hundred years, nor did he want to be comfortable and free for another five hundred years.

There are many things he wants to do, many things he wants to accomplish, but now he knows the rules, what he can do and what he cannot do, what is human relations, and what is concession.

Sun Wukong is no longer the fearless monkey. He now knows how difficult it is to be a mortal, how many people dream of his experience, how good his background is, how excessive his previous actions were, and that there are many people in this world who are more powerful than him, and his abilities are nothing compared to them.

He knew everything, so he wanted to settle down, obey the rules, do good deeds, get good results, and get true happiness.

Perhaps in the future, he will meet a guy like himself and watch him do the same thing he did before. But he will probably smile at that person like the Jade Emperor and Buddha did before, and recall his former high-spirited self.

So, he looked at Li Ke and spoke firmly.

"Yes, you are right. I, Old Sun, have attained enlightenment and want to achieve enlightenment!"

Li Ke laughed, and his hearty laughter shook the surrounding water surface, and countless ripples appeared again. He looked at the monkey and asked: "Then, Great Sage Equaling Heaven, what is the righteous fruit in your heart?"

What is the positive result?
There is no correct answer, so Sun Wukong smiled at Li Ke, without any airs of the Monkey King: "Righteousness is Righteousness, everyone has different opinions, but if you and I have different opinions, please use the Tathagata Palm to push me back under the Five Elements Mountain, so that I can practice on my own and avoid being harmed."

After saying that, Sun Wukong scratched his hand, looking like a harmless monster.

Li Ke sighed slightly in his heart.

Although the monkey in the original novel is kind, powerful, and able to save the world, he has nothing to do with resistance and anti-feudalism. He has simply never been beaten. When he came out from under the Five Elements Mountain, he only wanted to achieve enlightenment. It can be said that he became smooth, or that he recognized the reality and knew how to compromise.

Therefore, those who truly have the spirit of resistance and anti-feudalism are ordinary people who sing stories such as "The Monkey King 3: The Three Strikebacks on the White Bone Demon" and so on.

Refusing to accept fate, not believing in fate, and daring to dethrone the emperor are things that everyone desires. These things are hidden in Journey to the West and construct the character of Wukong.

But the people who really gave Wukong the spirit were, after all, ordinary people who sang his myths, and myths themselves were also sung and modified by ordinary people. Ancient people had their own myths, so why can't modern people have their own myths?

It can't be that the ancients could do it but modern people can't, right?
The modern Sun Wukong, his Sun Wukong, why can't he be a great sage who hates evil, punishes evil and promotes good, and has a rebellious spirit?
Putting his hands together, Li Ke couldn't help laughing. He found that if it were any other Li Ke, he would probably be very excited to see the former monkey when the monkey just returned from his studies.

As for myself...

Even if it takes a thousand or ten thousand years, I will find a way to completely kill the former monkey.

Because whether it was robbing weapons or causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace, the monkey was actually just relying on his cultivation to do whatever he wanted. Although he didn't eat people, it was impossible to say that there were no innocent souls under the monkey's stick.

The monkey in the past is now a monster!
In the Celestial Empire, demons have never been a race, but an identity!
The identity of the evildoer!

"The path you seek has nothing in conflict with the positive result I seek. But I know that you are also arrogant. Let's put it this way. You and I will fight for three moves. If you win, I will give up my desire to pursue the path. If you win, I will also give up your positive result. But you don't have to ask me what I want to do from now on. Just watch and follow me."

Li Ke clasped his hands together and gave his conditions.

What he was going to do was shocking. If he said it directly, Sun Wukong, who just wanted to be a regular employee, would definitely find a mountain to press himself down and continue serving his sentence, and would never go with him.

Sun Wukong thought about it for a while, touched the three golden hoops in his arms, and thought about the monk's unprovoked attack on him. He gritted his teeth and agreed: "Okay! A gentleman's word is his bond!"

He raised his hand, and Li Ke also raised his hand.

"It's hard to chase a horse!"

Their hands touched each other, and the next moment, the two figures immediately stepped back and stood on the thousand-meter-wide lake.

Standing at the place where the Five Elements Mountain used to be, Sun Wukong took a deep breath. His boundless rage, the anger and resentment that had been suppressed for five hundred years, made his eyes almost spit fire. He knew that the monk in front of him was no simple man, so he had no intention of holding back.

So he raised his sword and pointed it at Li Ke who had his eyes closed.

"Monk! Be careful! Your grandpa Sun has a very bad temper! Don't let me beat you to death with a stick!"

As he spoke, Sun Wukong pointed his golden cudgel towards the sky. The next moment, the air roared and lightning flashed. The clouds in the sky seemed to be hit by something, and a big hole appeared directly. The azure blue sky seemed to be shattered, and a huge black hole suddenly appeared, allowing the starlight that was enough to cause death and mutation to countless mortal lives to fall down!

Yes, just as an unintentional act to vent his anger, Sun Wukong poked a hole in the sky!

And this is just the aftermath of his attack.

Li Ke did not speak, nor did he draw his sword. Instead, he slowly moved his feet and made a classic gesture of asking for a move above the water!
Sun Wukong could naturally see that Li Ke was provoking him, and suddenly colorful light burst out from his body, revealing a violent attitude that he would never show on the journey to obtain the scriptures!

"Alright! Bald... monk, let's get beaten!"

The golden cudgel appeared in front of Li Ke in an instant. This cudgel was plain and simple. It was just that Wukong used the golden cudgel to display his strength that allowed him to lift Mount Sumeru.

If this blow hits the earth, it can instantly shatter a large number of earth veins. If it happens in the real world, this stick will be enough to blow up Jupiter.

This world is not an ordinary Earth, and the Mount Sumeru in this world is about 1.1 million kilometers high.

And the monkey was able to carry this thing and walk briskly! He didn't rely on magic power to resist, but relied on the strength of his body!

With just this stick, Li Ke was certain that no monster on the journey to the west would be able to catch it! It was no exaggeration to say that if it was touched, it would kill you, and if it was touched, it would injure you!

In fact, if he relied solely on his physical fitness, he wouldn't be able to withstand it.

But, this is just brute force!

The figure supporting the mountain in the darkness flashed through his mind, and the mysterious power of heaven and earth gathered in his hands!

The insights from Li Ke in the ancient times gave him the power that he called art, rather than the power of Tao!
This move——

Open the sky!
Li Ke's punch hit the monkey's golden hoop, and the monkey immediately felt a force equal to the force he had punched out being transmitted to his own stick!

The hole in the sky that was originally pierced by Sun Wukong's stick suddenly expanded hundreds of times at this moment! The thousand-mile lake where the two people were located was also blown away and evaporated at this moment, forming a fireball, turning this place into a wasteland of thousands of miles!
And at the moment when the monkey was shocked, Li Ke's other fist hit him in the face with double the force!
Open up the land!

(End of this chapter)