The Journey to the West is over, and the Perfect Life System is here

Chapter 14 Showing Mercy

"Raise your head and look into my eyes." Sun Wukong's eyes were as sharp as arrows.

The devil looked up and was so frightened by the terrifying gaze that he shrank his neck, but he didn't dare to lower his head again.

Back then, he didn't know the details of the Monkey King of Flower-Fruit Mountain, so he dared to challenge him face to face and even drew his sword to fight.

But now the name of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven has spread throughout the three realms, and coupled with the newly-conferred title of Fighting and Victory Buddha, the Monkey King in front of him is like a sacred being sitting high above the clouds, looking down on him as if he were an ant on the ground.

Therefore, he didn't dare to resist.

"Do you still remember how you lived?" Sun Wukong asked again.

"Great Sage, spare my life! I really don't remember that." The Demon King was terrified and confused. "I only remember that after being killed by the Great Sage with a single blow, I fell into a state of confusion and lost track of time.

Suddenly one day, he woke up and found himself alive again, and back in the Shuizang Cave."

"Oh?" Sun Wukong's smart eyes turned around, and he subconsciously raised his hand to scratch his face, but when he thought about the fact that he was being pretentious, he resisted the urge to scratch.

When the Devil King saw him raise his hand, he fell to the ground in fear, kowtowing and begging for mercy: "Great Sage, Great Sage, every word I say is true, I dare not lie! I only beg Great Sage to spare my life!"

Sun Wukong said, "Give me a reason to spare you."

The Devil King replied cautiously, "Buddhism advocates compassion. The Great Sage is now the Fighting Buddha. You can't... you can't break the precepts of killing for a nobody like me."

Sun Wukong sneered: "You are a demon who bullies the weak and you dare to talk about mercy with me?"

The Devil King panicked and said hurriedly, "But the Great Sage has already killed me once for this! As the saying goes, there's no double punishment for the same offense..."

Sun Wukong nodded: "Well, that's a good reason. If that's the case, I'll show you some mercy."

The Demon King breathed a sigh of relief, but was stunned the next moment.

Then Sun Wukong said again: "Come, chop me, chop me to death, and you will live."

The Demon King became even more frightened: "Great Sage, I... I..."

Sun Wukong descended from the sky, patted his head, and sneered again: "Since you don't have the courage, then go ahead. If you slow down, I'll kill you!"

The Devil King was stunned for a moment, unable to react, and then he said as if he had been pardoned: "Thank you, Great Sage, for not killing me!"

After saying that, he ran away, rushed out of the Shuizang Cave without daring to stop for a moment, then rode a dark cloud and headed straight for the North Sea.

Only after flying three thousand miles did he finally feel relieved and looked back with a sneer on his face.

"Do you really think I'm stupid? You want me to kill you? I'm afraid you'll snatch the knife away from me as soon as I raise it!"

"In the end, he let me go. I guess he had bad intentions. He thought I would go and report to the Dragon King of the North Sea?"

"Humph, what's this Fighting Buddha? Turns out he's just a brainless guy who can be coaxed into submission with a few sweet words."

He made some sarcastic remarks to himself and then continued to head further north to Uttarakuru.

At this moment, a sneer sounded out of nowhere: "Oh, really?"

"What!" The devil was horrified and turned around to run away.

But the next moment...

call out!
An arrow flew through the air and pierced his head directly.

"One arrow flies three thousand miles..." There was only disbelief in the eyes of the Demon King, and then there was a bang, and his huge head exploded instantly.

Then a strand of hair that drifted in the wind suddenly took shape and became the Monkey King.

"I just said, if you slow down a step, I will kill you, fixed!" Sun Wukong raised his hand and pointed, and the body of the Demon King of Mixed Worlds was fixed in mid-air.

At the same time, his fiery eyes and golden pupils were used to quickly see around him.

After a moment, the Monkey King scratched his hand in confusion.

"No?"

Although this is just a strand of his hair incarnation, its strength is definitely not weak.

After some investigation just now, he found that after the death of the Demon King, no soul appeared, not even a trace of residual soul!
This was something he hadn't noticed back then. "Hmm?" Sun Wukong's mind stirred. He realized that it was his own mood that had changed, and he seemed to be less irritable.

Before he could comprehend it carefully, the system's voice sounded again.

[Congratulations on completing the mission: Destroy the Demon and Return to the Original. Do you want to proceed with the mission settlement?]

"Destroy the demons and return to the origin..." Sun Wukong's smart eyes turned, as if he thought of something, and then he silently said yes.

[Task Summary: After you learned the way to immortality in Fangcun Mountain, you inevitably became proud, complacent, and arrogant, which led to evil thoughts.

However, you are kind by nature, and the devil created by your evil thoughts may seem brave and invincible, but in fact, your abilities are not that great.

In addition, you killed the Demon King in time, which was equivalent to cutting off the evil thoughts in time, allowing the soul to return to its clear and bright body. Your state of mind was also improved, leaving no opportunity for the inner demon to cause trouble.

This is what is meant by severing the devil and returning to one's original nature and merging with the primordial

"My own evil thoughts?" Sun Wukong was very surprised.

He just realized that the Demon King might be related to him, but he didn't expect it to be this kind of relationship.

But if you think about it carefully, there is some truth to it, and many problems can be explained.

First of all, this can explain why the Demon King of Chaos did not come earlier or later, but chose to invade Huaguo Mountain when he returned to the mountain.

Because he had just made great progress in his cultivation at that time, and had also learned the Earthly Evil Numbers and Somersault Cloud, he could be said to be able to go to heaven and earth and do anything.

Given his temperament back then, it was inevitable that he would be proud and complacent.

Secondly, it can explain why the Demon King stole a batch of worthless household items from the Water Curtain Cave.

With the reminder of the task summary and the essence of the techniques and methods previously rewarded by the system, Sun Wukong was already able to understand the mystery.

Since the Demon King of Chaos has this kind of relationship with me, we can discuss it from the perspective of the Book of Changes.

The Water Curtain Cave in the Flower-Fruit Mountain is located in the south, and it represents the heart monkey that was nurtured there. The heart is fire and belongs to the Li hexagram. Furthermore, since he is a congenital being born and nurtured by nature, the Water Curtain Cave represents the innate spirit.

The Kanyuan Mountain Water Zang Cave is located in the north, corresponding to the kidneys. The kidneys are water and belong to the Kan hexagram. Zang also means turbid. Once lust arises in adulthood, the essence of the kidney water changes from clear to turbid. Therefore, the Zang Water Cave represents acquired desire.

But the upper and lower parts of the innate Bagua are Qian and Kun.

When the Demon King of Chaos robbed a batch of household items from the Water Curtain Cave, it was equivalent to drawing out a yang line, causing the Qian and Kun of the innate Bagua to be opposite (,) to the Kan and Li of the acquired Bagua to be opposite (,).

When he takes back his fire, he will draw Kan and fill Li, so that the acquired will return to the innate.

This is a practice of returning to the original state, which also confirms the saying of eliminating demons, returning to the original state and merging with the primordial spirit.

Finally, there is the issue of the resurrection of the Demon King.

This is easy to explain.

Because he had demons in his heart again, but this time it was not caused by pride, complacency or arrogance. It was the various discoveries after returning to Fangcun Mountain that caused his state of mind to change.

"Well, if we compare, the evil thoughts that I have generated this time are definitely stronger." Sun Wukong thought to himself.

After all, after the resurrection, the Demon King of Chaos has become stronger than a celestial being.

In addition, as the master said when talking to the woodcutter, what he hated most was being bullied and plotted against by others.

But now he discovered that so many of his past experiences might have been full of calculations!
If he had not been pressed under the Five Elements Mountain and went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, which tempered his character, he would have probably long ago developed evil thoughts and attacked the Heaven and Lingshan!

But this is obviously not a wise move.

The consequence of doing this is that nothing will be found, and he himself will probably not end up well.

"Fortunately, although this evil thought has become stronger, it still cannot affect my mind." Sun Wukong thought to himself.

Furthermore, he had just killed the Chaos Demon King in time, and once again achieved the state of severing the demons and returning to his original form, thus making it even less likely that the evil thoughts in his heart would affect him in the future...

"Hmm? That's not right!" Sun Wukong's eyes suddenly fixed, his expression very serious.

(End of this chapter)