Me and countless me.

Chapter 258 Li Ke's Way of Cultivation and His Attitude towards Zhu Bajie
After leaving Guanyin Temple, Li Ke did not see a little white dragon or anything. After all, Li Ke knew, and Guanyin knew, that the little white dragon's abilities were just average. It was a compliment for it to be a tattoo on Li Ke's body. That little ability was really not enough when combined with what Li Ke was going to do.

and so--

Li Ke went all the way to Gao Village.

Just like in the original novel, when Li Ke and Sun Wukong passed by an intersection, they saw a servant in trouble. But when they saw Li Ke holding a whisk and carrying a sword, and Sun Wukong wearing golden armor and holding a stick, their eyes suddenly lit up and they couldn't help but shout out.

"You two... um, forget it."

But he was halfway through his words when he thought of the abilities of the monster in his home. He felt that although the two Taoist priests passing by looked strong and powerful, and were wearing white clothes and did not look dirty, they were still no match for those famous Taoist priests and monks.

So the servant hesitated for a moment and decided not to harm anyone.

But before he could say anything, Li Ke looked at Gao Laozhuang in the distance and thought of Zhu Bajie in the original novel.

In fact, Li Ke still likes the film and television version of Zhu Bajie. He is silly and cute, but this world is more like the world of the original novel, so many things are different.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just the fact that Zhu Bajie bit his mother and brothers in this life to death, and kept eating people before Guanyin enlightened him, was something unacceptable to Li Ke.

Of course, Mr. Gao from Gao Village is not a good person either.

He married Zhu Bajie as his son-in-law, used his power to get rich, and then wanted to kick him away, and even invited various wizards to kill Zhu Bajie.

Zhu Bajie tolerated such behavior, which shows that Zhu Bajie still listens to advice.

So Li Ke directly used his telepathy to read the memories in the servant's mind. After finding that it was similar to his own memories, he couldn't help but shook his head.

Mr. Gao didn't dislike Zhu Bajie just because he was a monster, but for other reasons.

After he had the family business, he wanted power, but there were no male heirs in the family and no outstanding talents in the clan, so if he wanted power, he needed to use his daughter.

Although Zhu Bajie earned him a lot of wealth, he was still a monster after all. So as long as he killed him and promised him a large sum of money, he would not be afraid that his daughter would not be unable to get married.

Although she is no longer a pure girl, she still has no trouble finding a husband because of her reputation of being attractive to even monsters.

Li Ke couldn't help but shake his head and began to tell Wukong about the situation here.

After hearing this, Sun Wukong couldn't help but laugh.

"This person called Zhu Wuneng is really aggrieved. If it were me, Old Sun, why would I want Gao Cuilan and the family business of Gao Laozhuang? Since you treat me like this, I will overturn the farmland of Gao Laozhuang and smash his ancestral hall. Gao Cuilan is also a womanizer. She just became unfaithful because the husband she married was not handsome enough. It is better not to have such a wife. It is also because Zhu Wuneng is lustful that he is trapped by this and makes the whole family restless."

But having said this, Sun Wukong looked at Li Ke with a smile.

"If it were Master, what would you do?"

After these few days, Sun Wukong realized more and more that his master was not a serious monk.

How can a serious monk eat meat openly?

Then Li Ke told him something.

"I, Jin Chanzi, follow the Zen lineage. Although we practice Buddhism, we don't live in temples. We have to pay taxes, marry, have children, follow the right path, and save the world. Many other Buddhist rules are anti-human, brainwashing and oppressing ordinary people. Your master disdains them. And not eating meat and other unhealthy things is not for better practice or saving the world, but for some messy reasons. One is that we can't afford it, and the other is that the rulers don't want monks to eat too well, which affects tax revenue and people's livelihood. Meat and other unhealthy things are because they smell bad."

After a pause, Li Ke continued.

"But don't monks with a little money try every possible way to taste meat? You don't know how delicious the vegetarian food in the Tang Dynasty is. I ate it once and it tasted even better than meat. But if you want to make tofu and vegetarian chicken taste like meat, how much meat do you need to cook it? Moreover, since you don't eat meat, why bother thinking about the taste of meat? It's just deceiving yourself, and it will even magnify your desire for gluttony. So after eating this so-called vegetarian food once, I started to eat meat openly."

Sun Wukong was speechless after hearing this, but Li Ke did not stop teaching.

"So we don't do formalism. As long as it's not a cruel act for the sake of appetite, but an act that is necessary for one's livelihood, then no matter what kind of hunting and slaughtering behavior it is, there is no problem in our lineage."

"Then Master, how do you practice this?"

"Is there any place in the world that is not suitable for cultivation? Seclusion is just to better grasp the mind, guard the will, and know what you want, so why not learn how to attain the Tao? Therefore, the entry requirements of our school are relatively high. After all, this set of cultivation is people-oriented, so it is very difficult. But to put it bluntly, cultivation is people-oriented, so how can you turn yourself into stone... Well, I'm not talking about you, I mean a creature without any emotions and desires. You are alive, not stone."

Even so, eating meat in this world will still cause foul air and resentment, and eating humans and other intelligent creatures will cause more. Li Ke is naturally not afraid of blood and the five foul airs. He eats meat and drinks wine with the money he gets from doing good deeds and a portion of the money from the demons and monsters that were killed.

After giving enough money to the victim's family, he would keep the rest of the money, and after eating it, he would have the ability to liberate the souls of the dead, so even if he ate meat and drank wine, he could still breathe a clear breath like Sun Wukong.

Of course, eating plants will also remove some of these resentful and foul air, but not much, and will dissipate naturally.

After all, the life of plants is also life! Plants also have nine orifices, can cultivate immortality, and can open up spiritual wisdom in this world!

However, if people who do not have the ability to transcend and the inner state of mind try to do this and forcibly imitate his state of mind and what he does, it is actually almost the same as stepping into the path of evil.

But Li Ke was not worried that Sun Wukong would be like this, because Sun Wukong was a real vegetarian. He just liked to eat vegetarian food. He was born with this in his mother's womb and had no real interest in eating meat. Even if he ate meat, it would not pollute the pure energy that had already been formed in his body.

As long as he doesn't eat people, Sun Wukong will never be able to stop breathing.

Therefore, Sun Wukong was very curious about how Li Ke would handle things here and what he would do.

Li Ke was silent for a while and pointed at his face.

"If I want to make Gao Cuilan loyal to me, is it necessary to go through so much trouble? I won't have such a problem!"

His words left Sun Wukong silent. After all, even the knowledgeable Sun Wukong had to admit one thing. Although his master dressed unorthodoxly, his clothes were more like layman's clothes than monk's clothes, and he was not affected by scars. Apart from some lotus patterns and the seven treasures on the sword behind him to amplify the power of the sword, there was no decoration on his body.

But this face...

It can't be said that she is so beautiful that the moon can be ashamed of the flowers, but she can also be said to be so beautiful that the fish can be submerged and the geese can fall. In all his years of life, he has never found anyone more handsome than his master. But the most valuable thing is that his master has a masculine aura and a good body. He is the most authentic masculine man. He is usually inconspicuous because his master uses magic to cover his appearance, but once he gets angry and starts to use magic, the magic will disappear, showing his master's peerless appearance.

So even though he didn't know what kind of personality Miss Gao Cuilan had, just based on his master's face, Sun Wukong knew that it was impossible for her to fall in love with someone else just because she didn't like him!
However, Li Ke was very clear about what Sun Wukong wanted to know.

"But if you talk about what happened here, there is only one way for me to handle it."

Li Ke waved his whisk and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"kill!"

"Mr. Gao is not kind and intends to kill his son-in-law. Miss Gao Cuilan is not a good wife and intends to kill her husband. Although her own wishes are not very important, she did not object to her father's behavior. Such a woman can be killed by any government."

Although Zhu Bajie later exposed the fact that he was a monster, he had not done so before that. So in the matter of Gao Laozhuang, Zhu Bajie did nothing wrong to Gao Cuilan's family. It was all because of Mr. Gao and Miss Gao Cuilan's reputation.

Being ugly is not a sin, and heroes who save the world and the people do not have to be handsome. It would be fine if he had not met or heard of it, but since he had met and heard of it, he had to act chivalrously.

But Zhu Bajie still has to die.

It’s not because of what he did to Miss Gao Cuilan. Each era has its own social concepts. Li Ke would not stand on the moral high ground of later generations and point fingers at others. So in this matter, Li Ke’s view is that Zhu Bajie is a pure victim.

But he has other criminal records.

"As for Zhu Bajie... he is going to die too."

Sun Wukong was stunned.

"No, Master, you..."

"Although he has no problem in this matter, and even behaves very magnanimously, the problem is that before he became the son-in-law of Gao Cuilan's family, he killed his mother and brother, and degenerated into cannibalism to survive. Even if he was enlightened by Guanyin later, how can he write off the people he ate and hurt, and the things he did that were against heaven and morality?"

Li Ke expressed his opinion very seriously.

He really likes the core of Zhu Bajie in later generations, but now he is Tang Monk, Jin Chanzi. He can tolerate the ignorant Sun Wukong, but he certainly cannot tolerate Zhu Bajie who knows everything but knowingly commits crimes.

This is not the Zhu Bajie from Black Myth.

"But at least he has a repentant heart, and he didn't commit any murder in Gao Village."

Sun Wukong didn't know what to say. After all, he really felt that what Zhu Bajie did was not a big deal...

But he urgently needed someone who could help him stop Li Ke. Zhu Wuneng was once the Marshal of the Tianhe Navy, so his abilities were naturally extraordinary. He felt that the other party could help him.

"Master, if you say so, I have killed many people. Why don't you care about my affairs?"

Sun Wukong recalled the time when he returned to the mountains and hunted hunters, as well as the time when he was with the other great saints. Although he did not eat, he did not stop his other brothers from eating humans.

So he was quite curious why Li Ke could tolerate him.

He didn't think that someone who dared to rebel against the Buddha and was able to control the yin and yang energies would not be able to kill him.

"Because you are doing these things as a king, not degrading yourself. To bear the disgrace of the country is to be the master of the country; to bear the misfortune of the country is to be the king of the world. You are the Monkey King, so you naturally have to consider your monkeys and grandchildren. The hunters captured your people, and you killed them in return to protect yourself. The hunters knew there were risks, and it was common sense to die for money."

Li Ke saw this very clearly.

But Zhu Bajie is really different. If everyone plays this trick of laying down the butcher knife and turning over a new leaf, then what is the difference between gods and monsters?
The people who were killed saw that the people who killed them had become gods, and the families of the victims had to worship the perpetrators and offer tributes to them.

How can such a thing be possible in this world!

"So, Wukong, when we get into the village, I'll mark out the people who need to be killed, and then you and I will split up. If you don't like killing people, I'll do it. Go and capture that guy called Zhu Wuneng. Since he has corrected his mistakes, I can't just kill him without any reason. I have to make him realize his mistakes before I kill him. By the way, I can help him to be reborn together, so I don't have to recite the sutra twice."

After a pause, Li Ke continued.

"I will go and see if anyone in Mr. Gao's family has done anything evil. If there is, I will kill them all. If that doesn't work, I will try to kill all nine generations of their clan. Also, remember to tell Wang Xuance and the others tonight that there are thousands of acres of fertile land here, and there are many people living there, and there are no soldiers to protect them. Don't forget to take over. I think this is another small country that can be destroyed in one day."

At this point, Sun Wukong was already dumbfounded, and the golden cudgel in his hand couldn't help but fall to the ground, making a tinkling sound.

Sun Wukong: “………………”

He thought for a moment, then spoke.

"Let me think about it. Since it was the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara who asked us to seek the scriptures..."

Li Ke interrupted Sun Wukong's nonsense.

"It's just to give face to Guanyin, so I let you catch him and talk nonsense with him. Do you want to go? It's okay if you don't want to go. Don't have any psychological pressure. The master knows that you have a kind heart, so just wait here."

So he went on, Li Ke turned his back, drew out the sword in his hand, then took off his upper body clothes, revealing his good skin, and prepared to rush in and kill.

After all, with telepathy that can read minds, there is no need to worry about killing the wrong person!
"Master, wait a minute!"

Sun Wukong pounced and hugged Li Ke's thigh!

"Buddha, have mercy on me! Buddha, have mercy on me!"

(End of this chapter)