Me and countless me.

Chapter 260 Nezha Joins the Team
In the end, Sun Wukong gave Zhu Bajie a quick death, and Zhu Bajie died very peacefully, without any struggle or unwillingness.

But while walking on the road, Sun Wukong looked at the dilapidated Gao Village and the people in the ruins who looked at his master with hatred. Sun Wukong still did not quite understand Li Ke's actions.

So when resting that night, Sun Wukong couldn't help but ask Li Ke.

"Master, no one cares what Zhu Bajie thinks, right?"

Li Ke sat by the fire, looking at Sun Wukong who was full of doubts, and knew what he was thinking.

That is, no one asked him to avenge Zhu Bajie and seek justice for him, and no one cared about Zhu Bajie's thoughts. Zhu Bajie had already degenerated into a demon.

"Wukong, what do you think is the definition of a demon?"

Li Ke looked at Sun Wukong and asked about the biggest disagreement between him and Sun Wukong.

"Is it from your origin?"

Sun Wukong subconsciously expressed his thoughts, and Li Ke shook his head.

“No, it’s cognition.”

"Humans have a sense of shame, but in my eyes, those without a sense of shame are demons. If something eats even intelligent creatures, then it is a demon, not a living person. So in my heart, you have always been a human, not a monkey or a demon. After all, this world has reincarnation, and the race of a certain life cannot determine your eternal origin."

Li Ke's words shocked Sun Wukong, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt it was normal. However, looking at Li Ke, Sun Wukong still couldn't imagine what kind of experience would give birth to such a monk.

But it seems that other people have deliberately forgotten that reincarnation can change a person's race and origin at will, so the origin of a certain life is really just like what Li Ke said, it really doesn't matter...

"So you forgot, or you don't want to think about it?"

Sun Wukong wanted to laugh.

The two continued walking forward without saying a word. When they passed an 800-li long quicksand river, Li Ke looked at the river that reached the sky, waiting for Sha Seng's arrival.

Not for anything else, but to kill Sha Seng.

Sha Seng was once the Curtain-Pulling General, a celestial official in heaven, but he still ate people after coming down to earth. So if Zhu Bajie died, there was absolutely no reason for Sha Seng to survive, right?

However, Li Ke waited in the Liusha River for three whole days and did not see a single ghost, as if Sha Seng had never appeared here.

So Li Ke couldn't help but sigh when looking at the Liusha River.

"As expected, the three realms and six paths all depend on relationships. Wukong, go to heaven and ask for a way to cross the river."

Sitting cross-legged on the beach, Li Ke felt very unhappy.

It was obvious that someone saw what happened to Zhu Bajie and decisively took Sha Seng away. Even in the Eastern system of gods, there were such people. Li Ke was really a little melancholy.

Sun Wukong had never read Journey to the West, so he naturally didn't know why Li Ke was so unhappy, but he knew one thing -

"Master, one day in heaven is one year on earth. It will take me at least ten days to get there. Are you impatient to wait and open a path through the Quicksand River?"

Sun Wukong looked at Li Ke and felt that his master might find a way to fill up the river or build a bridge over it because he couldn't wait. This was unlikely, but if it was his own master...

"What nonsense are you talking about, Wukong? How could your master be so irrational?"

Li Ke couldn't help but frown, looked at Sun Wukong, and spoke word by word.

"Doing so will affect the ecology near the Liusha River. It would be bad if people live downstream, so I won't blow the Liusha River apart with one punch. The best I can do is move a stone mountain, flatten it, and build a stone bridge."

Sun Wukong: "…………"

I knew it!

Rubbing his temple, Sun Wukong was about to say something, when the next moment, a familiar voice sounded.

"Great Sage! Long time no see!"

Sun Wukong was stunned for a moment, and then he saw a little boy in armor but dressed as a boy stepping on two balls of fire falling from the sky and landing right next to the two of them.

"Nezha the Third Prince?! Why are you here?"

Looking at Nezha who fell beside him, Sun Wukong's mind was full of question marks.

Nezha chuckled, saluted the monkey, glanced at Li Ke who also stood up and saluted, and pointed at the Quicksand River.

"The god of the Quicksand River said that there was a man-eating monster in the river, so the Jade Emperor ordered me and others to clean it up. I came here because I had nothing else to do, and then I learned that the man-eating monster was the general who was demoted to the mortal world. Now he has been sent back to reincarnation to continue practicing. I originally planned to report to the heaven, but I never thought I would meet the Great Sage here! Seeing that you are in trouble with the Quicksand River, I want to come and lend a helping hand to you!"

He spoke seriously, as if his appearance was an accident, but only Li Ke knew that Nezha's appearance was definitely not an accident, but the result of a deal between himself and Guanyin.

And the fact that Nezha can appear here is also the result of the tacit approval of the Great Heavenly Venerable.

This god of killing can be used by him.

However, whether Nezha is willing to go with him in the end depends on what he says.

"Long time no see, Great God of the Three Altars and Sea Assembly."

Li Ke stood up and came in front of Nezha. He looked at the man who had chased his father all the way to the West and bowed slightly.

At that time, he still called himself Jin Chanzi, and rarely said that he was Li Ke. But now, he was looking at the Three Altars and Sea Assembly God as Li Ke, instead of meeting Nezha as Jin Chanzi.

"Long time no see, Jin Chanzi."

Nezha also saluted. He still remembered how Jin Chanzi supported him when others accused him of killing his father, but he was more curious about why Li Ke wanted to return to the West.

He had specifically investigated Li Ke's situation these days and knew that Li Ke would definitely not be in a good mood when he returned to the West this time.

India is not a place that is easy to conquer, and the Buddha is so active in order to allow India to be completely under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court. Therefore, countless people either agree or obstruct Li Ke, but even the most stubborn Indian elements are very clear about one thing.

It is only a matter of time before the Indian system is crushed by the Heavenly Court system.

The native gods and demons of India could naturally live their own carefree lives when the Great Celestial Lord was establishing the Heavenly Court, but things would naturally be different after the Great Celestial Lord had freed up his hands.

Therefore, even those people in India who resisted did not dare to resist openly.

But the Golden Cicada in front of him chose to settle accounts at this time!
It was not like what the Buddha chose, to be gently incorporated into the heavenly system, but to carry out a vigorous cleansing, killing all the scum in the Buddhist sect and eradicating all the bad habits of Tianzhu! It was precisely because of this that Jin Chanzi was driven out and became a mortal.

He really wanted to know why Jin Chanzi insisted on doing this. Why did this once very gentle monk choose this path?

So, looking at Li Ke, Nezha asked.

"Master, you can easily cross the Quicksand River as long as you wait for us to arrive. Why do you want to build a bridge while you are waiting? If something unexpected happens, wouldn't it delay the important matter?"

He asked his own question, and Li Ke looked at the turbid and undercurrent Quicksand River and laughed softly.

"If other people cannot walk the path I have walked, what is the meaning of such a path? If the path I have walked is still as difficult as before, and still requires the help of gods to pass, then has my experience really left any traces, and how much meaning can it have?"

"But you did pass away, didn't you?"

"It's over, but the problem of the Flowing Sand River is still there, and the hidden dangers here are still there. I traveled west to save all living beings, and if the problem of the Flowing Sand River is to be ignored, then where are the living beings I want to save? What's the point of getting the scriptures?"

After a pause, Li Ke looked at Nezha and asked.

"It is meaningless to see the problem but not solve it, and to let it exist forever. Even if the surface is peaceful, the cracks are still there, and they will still make people feel anxious and uneasy, and they will never have peace."

Nezha laughed, and couldn't help laughing out loud. Sun Wukong saw the two people making witty remarks, and couldn't help yawning. This was what he hated the most.

It's so literary, as if living a free and easy life in this world is so difficult.

But it seems that it is not that easy.

However, Monkey also knew that Li Jing was the one who would never have peace in his life.

Because Nezha stayed beside Li Jing not to kill Li Jing, but to remind Li Jing that he could kill him at any time without the tower!
Li Ke was very clear about this. He knew very well that Nezha would not really kill Li Jing. After all, Li Jing was a famous person on the List of Gods and was the King of Heaven.

But does Li Jing in this world dare to gamble? Does he dare to gamble that Nezha will be relieved? Does he dare to believe that he has really made his son forgive him?
He had done something ruthless, making it irreversible, and making everything irreversible. Moreover, he had to watch Nezha by his side, while he had to drag a pagoda with him at all times to preserve his life, and be remembered all the time. After Nezha had his flesh and bones cut off, he would still put him to death.

He would drag that pagoda along for eternity, and in doing so, this pagoda...

Who are they suppressing?
Who is being tortured forever?

After laughing, Nezha felt a little melancholy.

He finally understood why Jin Chanzi had begged the Buddha to give him and his son a chance to explain themselves.

And why did the Buddha ignore him and adopt himself as his adopted son?

Because if it was the person in front of me—

Li Jing might not be able to survive, but the complicated entanglement between him and Li Jing would be resolved from now on and would no longer torment both of them.

In this matter, it was actually the Buddha's punishment that was more severe. But perhaps it could also be said that the Buddha wanted Li Jing to realize this himself, so that the two of them could truly feel relieved.

Or maybe there is no need to feel relieved.

But what is going on?
Nezha closed his eyes and asked his last question.

"Does the holy monk think that what Nezha did back then was wrong?"

Li Ke shook his head. He didn't know what happened in other worlds, but at least in this world, Nezha's Conquest of the Dragon King happened because the patrolling yaksha wanted to eat young boys and girls.

So he shook his head decisively.

"What's wrong with killing demons? The only ones who are wrong are those who have discovered their own weaknesses but are unwilling to admit it."

Li Ke's words made Nezha open his eyes and speak to Li Ke.

"I heard that the holy monk has a skill for building pagodas?"

Li Ke smiled and nodded.

"Of course."

So Nezha knelt down immediately and bowed to Li Ke under the gloomy gaze of Li Jing in the sky.

"Please sir, teach me!"

Finished!

Li Jing's heart skipped a beat on the cloud, and he wanted to find the Jade Emperor. After all, he remembered very clearly that the pagoda in his hand was built by Jin Chanzi, and now Nezha went to Jin Chanzi to learn the technology of building the pagoda. It went without saying what he wanted to do.

Li Jing was very clear about what he had done to his son, and he was also very clear that this god of death would never do anything meaningless.

And talking about this matter in such a high-profile manner at this moment, it is hard to tell whether it is not a tactic of playing hard to get in order to scare me, or whether it is a real attempt to kill me!

however……

Li Jing didn't dare to bet that Nezha wanted to scare him, not to kill him.

He really didn't dare to gamble, even if it was for the sake of his own reputation, he didn't dare to gamble!
Therefore, this matter must be told to the Great Heavenly Venerable, and it must be made public so that everyone knows about it and Nezha dares not act rashly!
Li Jing in this world flew towards the heaven anxiously, eager to find a solution.

Even though he knew that Li Ke and Nezha might be trying to scare him on purpose, he still didn't have the money to take the gamble!

But just as he left, Erlang Shen, who was far away, sighed.

He actually didn't really want to come, but someone he hated asked him to come here to see what Li Ke's feelings were.

Does he really want to change, or is it the same as those things in Tianzhu that are not presentable? He just wants to show the Heavenly Court that he still exists and not to forget them when dividing the fiefdoms.

If it is the former, then he will also join the team, but if it is the latter...

As long as Jin Chanzi does his job well and stops messing around, the Heavenly Court will not be unable to tolerate him.

It's just another clay sculpture that is unwilling to face its own true heart!

(End of this chapter)