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

Chapter 6: Seeking a Master at Midnight
At this time, night had not yet fallen and the system's voice had not stopped.

[You have been sweeping the floor in Fangcun Mountain for seven years. You have finally tempered your temper and made preparations for practicing.

Patriarch Bodhi decides to test you again to see if you can decipher the mystery on his plate.

On this day, he took the stage and began to lecture, asking you if you wanted to learn the four Taoist methods of Shuliu, Jing and Dong. You were unwilling to learn any of them because you could not achieve immortality.

Bodhi Patriarch hit you on the head three times with a ruler in public, then left with his hands behind his back and closed the middle door.

You are very happy, knowing that the opportunity to learn the method of longevity has finally come.

[Obtained Quest: The Mystery on the Plate, you need to learn the way to immortality from Bodhi Patriarch]

"This is easy." Sun Wukong smiled.

When the master taught him a lesson, everyone was frightened and blamed him for offending the master and ruining an opportunity.

He was the only one who remained calm in the face of praise or criticism, and did not argue with his fellow disciples.

Because he solved the mystery on the plate on the spot: It was the middle of the night, and if you go through the back door to find a teacher, you can get the secret of immortality!
That’s why I said this mission is simple.

"The mission summary just now said that Master will come to test my practice tomorrow, but I don't know what the situation will be..." Sun Wukong's smart eyes rolled around.

“Hey, got it!”

……

midnight.

At the back door of Sanxingdong Palace, Patriarch Bodhi was meditating in his residence.

He looked at the bright moon, the clear dew, and the flickering fireflies outside, and suddenly sighed in his heart: "Fate, fate, it has come to this. There is no turning back. Tomorrow..."

The thought came to an abrupt end before it even came to fruition.

Patriarch Bodhi looked in surprise at the thin figure coming towards the moonlight.

When the figure came closer, he asked, "Wukong, it's late at night. Why don't you sleep in the front instead of here?"

When Sun Wukong entered the house, he bowed down and said, "I have come to you in the middle of the night to ask you to teach me the way to immortality!"

A strange light flashed in Bodhi Patriarch's deep eyes, and he asked again, "How did you know that I wanted to teach you the true way to immortality?"

In fact, he planned to wait until tomorrow when he would test his cultivation to bring up this matter, so he said that he would find something for Sun Wukong to do.

But I didn't expect that this disciple would come to look for me on his own initiative.

However, at this moment, Sun Wukong was even more surprised.

The true way to immortality?
Was this a lucky coincidence, a coincidence?
However, his expression did not change. He suddenly spoke, "Master suggested that I seek a master in the middle of the night, and then he taught me the immortal method of longevity.

When I returned to the mountain this time, the master said that he wanted to test his disciple's practice, but there was no movement for a long time, let alone when.

"I thought about it and realized that Master must be testing me like last time, asking me to come and seek him out so that he could teach me even more powerful magical skills. That's why I'm here."

Patriarch Bodhi's face was dignified, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking. He simply scolded, "You monkey! You've become a Buddha, yet you're still so impatient."

Sun Wukong scratched his hands and chuckled.

He was truly anxious now, and hurriedly asked, "Master, are there true and false ways to immortality?"

"Let's not discuss truth or falsehood for now," Patriarch Bodhi said solemnly. "Today is different from the past. You are no longer the Monkey King who only seeks immortality. So, tell me, what is the purpose of practicing cultivation?"

Sun Wukong was about to speak his mind, but suddenly his mind flashed back to his experiences after practicing.

Before causing havoc in Heaven, he killed the devil, broke into the Dragon Palace, caused chaos in the underworld, defeated the heavenly soldiers and generals, became the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, and became increasingly rampant.

During his rampage in Heaven, he was unstoppable, even boasting, "The throne rotates, next year it's my turn!" He threatened to seize the Jade Emperor's throne, his outrageous behavior exceeding all else. However, he was ultimately subdued by Tathagata. After his rampage, he lived beneath the Five Elements Mountain, eating copper and iron pills and enduring natural disasters. But he also learned that there are always better people.

He has always hated evil, so when he went to the West to obtain the scriptures, he wanted to reform himself and make real achievements, that is, to follow his heart and become a Monkey King who punishes evil and promotes good.

But the old monk from the Tang Dynasty was very pedantic, always muttering things like sweeping the floor might kill ants and covering the lamp with gauze to protect moths, which restricted him in every way.

Later, with the restraint of the golden hoop, the relationship between the master and the disciple gradually eased. They thought they could finally show their skills and go all out to eliminate demons.

However, he did not expect that most of the demons on the journey to the West were released by the Heaven and Lingshan, and even Tathagata's uncle was doing evil in the lower world.

It can be said that that section of the journey made him truly realize what it means to be restricted everywhere and to have all the power but nowhere to use it.

The attempt to exorcise demons and monsters ended up being a joke.

"Oh, Fighting Buddha?" Golden light flashed in Sun Wukong's eyes, and he suddenly felt that this name was a bit ironic.

Although he achieved enlightenment in Buddhism, many of his experiences on the journey to the West became irreparable regrets in his heart.

That's why when he was chatting with his fellow brothers earlier, he jokingly said: There is always some restraint and discomfort.

And this is beyond one's control.

"Practicing to seek immortality is for oneself, but in the end one has no control over oneself. So what is the purpose of practicing?" Sun Wukong pondered.

The Monkey King, who had just embarked on the path of spiritual practice, did so in order to achieve immortality.

The Monkey King defeated 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals in order to be the only one in heaven and on earth.

Sun Wukong's journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures was to escape from the Three Realms and live a free and easy life.

The purpose of practice at each stage is different.

what about now?

After pondering for a long time, Sun Wukong said: "Master, I practice to become stronger!"

Patriarch Bodhi said in a deep voice: "Just to become stronger?"

Sun Wukong's heart moved, and he said seriously, "I believe that only by becoming strong enough can I have the opportunity to control my own destiny. Otherwise, I will never be able to control my own destiny and will never be able to achieve true freedom and ease!"

After saying this, he also understood the difference between the true and false ways of longevity.

The Great Heavenly Immortal Art can at most make him immortal, but he has to go through the three disasters of wind, thunder and fire, not immortality.

But the true longevity is immortality.

If you want to achieve this, there is only one way - become stronger!
So after all, there is actually no real way to immortality, because there is always someone better than you.

Only by becoming stronger can you live longer!
At the same time, these tentative words also made Bodhi Patriarch fall into silence.

Seeing this scene, Sun Wukong understood that what the woodcutter said was probably true, and his master was indeed helpless at the time.

However, Patriarch Bodhi quickly broke the silence. He did not continue to discuss the reason for practicing, but chuckled and said, "If you want to become stronger, you must first know what a stronger state is."

Sun Wukong said: "This disciple has long understood that those who are truly stronger than me in realm are all cultivating the Hunyuan Dao Fruit."

For example, the Great Immortal Zhenyuan of Wuzhuang Temple went to Miluo Palace to talk about the Hunyuan Daoguo.

When he passed by Wuzhuang Temple on his way west, he ridiculed the two boys about this.

But he didn't expect that the Great Immortal Zhenyuan really had this ability. With just a wave of his sleeve, he left him without any power to resist.

(End of this chapter)