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Chapter 6: The Path to Transcendence, Daluo? Daluo!

"Which deity are you going to invite?"

The monkey blinked his golden eyes and said with a smile, "For this lecture, let's follow the old tradition of the Peach Festival. Yuanshi Tianzun is giving a lecture on the Hunyuan Dao Fruit. It would be a good thing if more fellow Taoists could listen to it."

"This matter is about enlightenment. If handled properly, you and I will have a bright future."

"You naughty monkey, you actually know how to make plans for the Heavenly Lord. I'm afraid that you will be arranged by the Heavenly Lord in the future."

"Don't worry, I have a great gift for the Celestial Lords. I guarantee you'll be delighted and reward me with a few baskets of golden elixirs and jade talismans."

Sun Wukong laughed and broke off his fingers, counting carefully:
"The Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Arhat of the Western Heaven, the Guanyin of the South Pole, the Holy Emperor Chong'en of the East, the Immortal Elders of the Ten Continents and Three Islands, the Mysterious Spirit of the North Pole, and the Great Immortal Huangjiao of the Yellow Pole in the Center—these are the Five Elders of the Five Directions.

There are also the Five Star Gods, the Three Pure Ones of the Upper Eight Caves, the Four Emperors, the Taiyi Celestial Immortals, and others; the Jade Emperor, the Nine Fortresses, and the Sea and Mountain Immortals of the Middle Eight Caves; the Lords of the Netherworld and the Earthly Immortals of the Lower Eight Caves. All the great and small deities of every palace and hall have come together for the Hunyuan Assembly."

Yang Erlang smiled when he heard this and said, "Can you treat me?"

"This must be done, and we have to rely on Erlang's divine eye."

Sun Wukong smiled, pulled Erlang and pointed into the air. Erlang's Dharma Eyes opened, and he saw the myriad colors of the world, the prosperity and decline. A ray of starlight shone on his golden body. Yang Jian laughed and said, "So that's how it is. This is how the ape comes!"

"You really are a monkey that brings plague. It must have been unlucky for eight generations to find you."

Yang Erlang sighed, "Who would have thought that you would invite the Three Pure Ones, the Four Imperial Gods, the Five Elders, the Six Officials, the Seven Elements, the Eight Extremes, the Nine Stars, and the Ten Cities? Is it really that stable?"

Sun Wukong made a gesture and chuckled, "Yang Erlang must come to the lecture later. I will show you a big surprise then."

His mysterious demeanor aroused Yang Erlang's curiosity: "Surprise? What can a monkey like you come up with?"

Sun Wukong looked at Widow Yang in the chat group, then looked at Yang Erlang in front of him, and laughed.

There are so many fun things in this world.

"Something's wrong!"

Yang Erlang was horrified and reached out to pull the monkey, but the monkey dodged forward and turned into golden light, leaving Yang Erlang looking at its back in anger.

A flash of white light appeared, and Yang Erlang was wearing white armor. A small dog approached, and a yellow eagle spread its wings from outside the sky and landed on Erlang's shoulder. As it walked, it transformed into a young man. The young man frowned and was very annoyed:

"That monkey is dishonest and stole my Taia sword!"

This young man is the incarnation of Qingyuan Zhenjun, Erlang Shen. In the past, he picked the sun and the moon and put them in his purse, and there was no distinction between day and night in the world.

The Jade Emperor had no idea what disaster had befallen the mortal world. He learned it was Qingyuan's trick and ordered him to bring out the sun and moon. Qingyuan rolled on the ground, refusing to give them up. The Jade Emperor tried to coax him, saying that keeping the sun and moon on one's body would hasten aging. Qingyuan, fearing aging, cried anxiously. The Jade Emperor said, "Bring them out, and I will grant you the right to be eighteen years old every year and have two birthdays each year."

For this reason, the young Dharmakāya was born.

The young man was full of heroic spirit, gazing at the heaven, hoping to find the trace of the Great Sage. When he thought that they would meet again on the road of becoming a god in the future, he knew that this monkey could not escape from him, and there would always be a winner in the battle.

Yang Jian chuckled: "Well, I'll lend it to you for a bit, and I'll settle it with you later, you naughty monkey!"

"Everyone knows that immortality is good, but fame and fortune are unforgettable. Where are the generals and ministers of the past and present? Their graves are covered with grass."

On the fairy island of Penglai, a fisherman in green clothes sits on the shore, singing poetry, spreading his fishing net, and catching black carp.

He scooped up the fish and placed it in a container. He slapped the gourd he carried with him, and a stream of cold air blew out of the gourd. In the blink of an eye, the black carp became a delicacy.

He prepared a pot of warm wine and two pairs of jade chopsticks, straightened his clothes, faced east, and continued singing, waiting for guests. Soon, a golden light emerged from the clouds and mist, inward-looking, coming from the entrance of the island.

"Brother, what are you singing? I can hear it from so far away. What's good? It's good?"

Luxing chuckled and bowed, "Where are you from, Great Sage?"

Sun Wukong replied, "I just asked an old master to give me a lecture, so I stopped by to visit."

"I've heard that the Great Sage wrote a heavenly book, annotated the magic of the three realms, and moved the power of creation. Now that he has been blessed with the great position of fruition, he has not gone to complete his karma. Why would he have the time to learn other methods?"

Luxing was wearing green clothes and an iron crown. He did not look like a scholar, but more like a black-faced general. He pulled Wukong to sit down and they shared a piece of green fish. After a few rounds of clinking glasses, the atmosphere between them became lively.

The Great Sage smiled and said, "I have a good fortune just now, and I was just about to share it with a few of my brothers."

Luxing was overjoyed and offered a toast: "Great Sage is such a down-to-earth man. He always thinks of us brothers. I wonder what it is?"

"The Heavenly Lord invited me to listen to His teachings, and it just so happens that a great opportunity has occurred right here, which would be a perfect anecdote to share after the lecture. It's better to share the joy with others than to enjoy it alone. Why don't we all pay homage to Yuxu together and listen to the anecdote?"

Luxing replied, "That's right, if the Great Sage invites us, we will definitely come."

Later, the Great Sage played around with the Three Stars for a while, eating and taking things. The Three Stars gave the Great Sage many local specialties from the Penglai fairyland, and he also took some jujubes and pears to taste. After staying for many days, the Three Stars reluctantly sent the Great Sage away.

The purpose of Sun Wukong's trip was to invite all the immortals to listen to his teachings, and also to visit friends and reconnect with his old connections. It seemed that there would be some fun to see soon.

Gazing at the Great Sage's back, Fuxing sighed, "As expected of the old Big Brother, so kind and righteous!"

Luxing: "What a pity! We all support him to be the next leader of the Heavenly Court, but Big Brother himself is unwilling to make progress."

The birthday star said: "No rush. In the next era, while he is still in a state of confusion, we can directly put a yellow robe on him. By the time he wakes up, the matter will have been settled."

"What does the Jade Emperor say?"

"The Great Celestial Venerable said he wants to retire," the Birthday Star whispered to a few others. "I heard that Laojun thinks us immortals are too lazy, so when the next era opens up the world, it seems he's going to do something drastic, like punching the Heavenly Palace and causing chaos in the Underworld, kicking Lingshan and overturning the Dragon Palace. The Great Celestial Venerable doesn't want to be beaten, so he wants to retire quickly and meditate on the fruit of transcendence."

Luxing sighed, "Achieving enlightenment and transcendence, transcending enlightenment, it's said that only two or three people achieve enlightenment in a lifetime, but this is too difficult!"

"But it's been so many generations, and not a single person has achieved enlightenment. Is this so-called transcendence just a lie?"

Luxing's words caused everyone to roll their eyes. Shouxing touched his head and couldn't help sighing:

"The first person to propose the concept of transcendence was the Great Sage Fuxi, at the pinnacle of humanity. We can still vividly remember the splendor of Fuxi creating the world with a single stroke of his brush."

"At that time, the secrets of heaven still existed. The Great Sage Fuxi used his life as a foundation, borrowed the power of the sacred beings, and placed his heart in the hands of hope. He integrated the wisdom of heaven and gathered the thoughts of all sentient beings. Ultimately, he calculated his fate and, through a crack in the future, glimpsed a ray of light, a way out."

Luxing was curious: "I started practicing late and never knew this secret. I don't know what the way out is?"

"Transcend all time and space and be eternally free!"

Fuxing: "Daluo?"

"Da Luo!"

(End of this chapter)