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Chapter 113 When one attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven; the true test is just one! (Please subscribe)

"What are you thinking about, my husband?"

Just as Niu Jun was pondering whether it was feasible for Red Boy to replace Sha Wujing, he suddenly heard Princess Iron Fan's question.

"It's nothing. I was just thinking about how Madam and Yan'er can obtain the merit and fortune to overcome these two difficulties."

After a brief moment of contemplation, Niu Jun ultimately abandoned the idea of ​​having his son join the Journey to the West team.

It wasn't that there was no chance at all, but he suddenly realized that this journey to the West was led by Buddhism, and his son's close association with Buddhism might not be a good thing.

There's no need to sacrifice your own son for the sake of Sha Wujing's merits and good fortune.

Furthermore, it was already too late to interfere in the Journey to the West at this point and have Red Boy replace Sandy.

After all, the Journey to the West has already begun, and neither Buddhism, Taoism, nor the Heavenly Court will allow any major changes to it. Forcibly altering the core personnel of the Journey to the West would be no simple task.

So after thinking about it, he finally gave up the idea of ​​having Red Boy join the Journey to the West team.

"By the way, what did Madam say earlier?"

Niu Jun asked.

He had just vaguely heard Princess Iron Fan say something.

I was just distracted and didn't hear it very clearly.

“My husband, what I mean is to give all the merits and fortune from these two tribulations to Yan’er. If possible, I would even leave the merits and fortune from the Flaming Mountain tribulation to Yan’er as well.”

“Since my husband attained enlightenment, I have benefited from his good fortune and merits, and my cultivation has progressed by leaps and bounds.”

"The merits and fortune from the Journey to the West are nothing more than icing on the cake for me. I'd rather leave them all to Yan'er to enhance her foundation."

Princess Iron Fan smiled and repeated what she had said earlier.

However, he wanted to leave all the merit and fortune of the two difficulties in Niu Jun's hands, as well as the merit and fortune of the first difficulty of the Flaming Mountain in his own hands, to his son Red Boy, so as to increase Red Boy's cultivation foundation.

In the world of Journey to the West, husband and wife are one, their fates intertwined.

When Niu Jun attained enlightenment as the Primordial Supreme One through his mysterious Dharma Body, he received great merit and fortune from Heaven because of his contributions to Heaven and Earth.

These merits and good fortunes had little effect on Niu Jun, but their help to Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy was unimaginable, allowing them to turn misfortune into good fortune in the Journey to the West world and making their cultivation seem as if aided by heaven.

Like Princess Iron Fan.

In the original story, when Tang Sanzang and his disciples passed through the Flaming Mountains, Princess Iron Fan was only at the Xuanxian realm. If Sun Wukong were to take it seriously, Princess Iron Fan would definitely not last a single round against him.

The same applies to Red Boy.

Don't be fooled by the fact that in the original Journey to the West, Red Boy's Samadhi True Fire burned Sun Wukong so badly that he was in a terrible state.

In reality, it was because Sun Wukong was sentimental that he didn't use his true abilities. Otherwise, with Red Boy's limited skills, he definitely wouldn't have lasted more than two rounds against Sun Wukong.

But it's different now.

As the saying goes: "When one person attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."

Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy as they are now.

Niu Jun showered him with all sorts of rare and precious treasures, along with boundless resources.

With the starry sky and the universe, one can freely adjust the flow of time, making a day feel like ten thousand years.

There is also the Great Dream Reincarnation Technique, which allows one to cultivate within dreams, increasing experience and combat skills.

Finally, one can enjoy the protection and blessing of Niu Jun's great merits and fortune, making one's cultivation seem as if aided by heaven.

……

Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy had already broken through to the Golden Immortal realm a hundred years ago. And they weren't ordinary Golden Immortals, but rather the most powerful Golden Immortals, possessing various great supernatural abilities.

Even if the two of them were no match for Sun Wukong, they could probably fight him for two days and two nights, their strength far surpassing that of ordinary Golden Immortals at their peak.

This doesn't even include the complete set of magical treasures that Niu Jun prepared for the mother and son.

What does it mean when someone attains enlightenment and even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven?
This is.

pity.

The ultimate realm of Golden Immortal seems to be one realm lower than the Primordial Chaos Taiyi realm.

In reality, they are worlds apart.

After all, if you fuse ten Great Laws, you are a Golden Immortal at the pinnacle of power. If you fuse three thousand Great Laws, or even one hundred thousand Great Laws, you are still a Golden Immortal at the pinnacle of power.

As long as the Primordial Dao Seed cannot be condensed, one cannot attain the Primordial Taiyi Dao.

Therefore, even between the ultimate Golden Immortals, there is a huge gap that cannot be measured by one or two realms.

Princess Iron Fan wanted to leave all the merits and fortune of the Journey to the West, including Niu Jun's and her own, to Red Boy, hoping to increase her son's chances of attaining enlightenment and placing her hopes for achieving the Primordial Chaos Taiyi realm on him.

no way.

Unlike Niu Jun, they didn't have the Enlightenment Mirror to assist them.

To comprehend the laws and principles of the universe, one can only do so little by little.

In this process, having the assistance of Heavenly Virtue and Fortune, and not having the assistance of Heavenly Virtue and Fortune, are two completely different concepts.

Under normal circumstances.

Even a celestial being with good natural talent and comprehension would need at least several thousand, or even tens of thousands of years, to fully master a law or great Dao before they could become a Xuanxian (mysterious immortal).

However, to merge two different laws and transcend from a single law and become a Golden Immortal would probably take tens of thousands of years.

This is only the early stage of Golden Immortal.

The fusion of two or three laws of the Great Dao is the early stage of the Golden Immortal realm.

The fusion of four to six laws and great Daos leads to the mid-stage of the Golden Immortal realm.

The fusion of seven to nine laws and great principles leads to the late stage of the Golden Immortal realm.

The ultimate goal of becoming a Golden Immortal is to integrate ten or more of the Great Laws.

A normal immortal or god would take several hundred years to break through to the True Immortal realm, several thousand years to break through from True Immortal to Profound Immortal, and tens of thousands of years or more to break through from Profound Immortal to Golden Immortal.

Finally, the time required to break through from the early stage of Golden Immortal to the middle stage of Golden Immortal increases exponentially, because the more laws and Daos one merges with, the more difficult the fusion becomes.

Normally, it takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years to cultivate a Golden Immortal to the limit.

Of course, most immortals and gods have no chance of breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm.

Even among a billion True Immortals, there might not be one Golden Immortal born.

However, if one has the assistance of Heavenly Merit and Fortune, then it's a different story.

Characters like Yang Jian, Nezha, and Sun Wukong represent those with great destiny. What ordinary immortals and gods take millions of years to cultivate can be completed in a few decades, or even surpassed by a considerable margin.

The efficiency of cultivation has increased by thousands or even tens of thousands of times.

Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy were able to cultivate to the pinnacle of Golden Immortals in just one or two hundred years because Niu Jun had bestowed upon them unparalleled fortune in the starry universe, making them the children of the universe.

But the world of Journey to the West is different.

Niu Jun has no way to manipulate the merits and fortunes of the Journey to the West world.

Therefore, when Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy were comprehending the laws of the universe in Journey to the West, although they had a little bit of luck to help them, it was completely different from when they were cultivating in the starry universe.

We want to solve this problem.

One can only try to obtain as much fortune and merit as possible from the Journey to the West world.

This is also why Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, despite having already broken through to the Golden Immortal realm, still need the luck and merit of the Journey to the West. Of course.

Niu Jun was also able to integrate all his insights into the laws of the Journey to the West world into the starry universe, allowing Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy to continue their cultivation in the starry universe, integrate more laws and great principles, and even use this to prove the Primordial Chaos Taiyi.

However, this kind of forced cultivation method is not a good thing for Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy.

Because the Great Dao of the Starry Sky and the Universe is only a part of Niu Jun's own Great Dao, Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy cannot grow up under the protection of his Great Dao forever.

He hoped that his wife and children could forge their own paths, rather than becoming his appendages.

“I understand what you mean, madam.”

Niu Jun waved his hand and refused directly, saying, "But this matter is too much. If we were to give all the merits and fortunes of the Three Tribulations in our hands to Yan'er, it would not be a good thing for Yan'er."

"You should know how many great supernatural beings there are in the Three Realms. Not to mention others, just the three major powers of Heaven, Buddhism, and Taoism alone have no fewer than thirty great supernatural beings at the Hunyuan Taiyi Realm."

"Even if not all great supernatural beings are interested in the Journey to the West, the number of great supernatural beings who do participate will not be small. If this is divided equally, it would be good if each great supernatural being could gain one or two merits."

“If I hadn’t set up the temple on Cuiyun Mountain, which happened to be right on the route that the Journey to the West must take, I’m afraid the Buddhist sect wouldn’t have offered me this dilemma of merit and fortune.”

"Even someone like me, at the Hunyuan Taiyi realm, only receives one or two tribulations of merit. What merit or ability does Yan'er have to enjoy the participation merit of three tribulations?"

"Therefore, the distribution of merits for this Journey to the West will proceed as I just mentioned."

Niu Jun could understand Princess Iron Fan's deep love for her son and her desire to pass on her own Journey to the West merits and fortune to him.

But this was not a good thing for Red Boy.

think about it.

Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Buddhism, was busy with the Journey to the West, which is why she was able to participate in the Journey to the West and accumulate merit and good fortune.
There are also those with great supernatural powers in the Hunyuan Taiyi realm, such as Laozi, Zhenyuanzi, Taiyin Xingjun, Taibai Jinxing, and Maitreya Buddha, who have obtained several kinds of merit and fortune.

Although these powerful beings are not lacking in good fortune and merit.

However, Red Boy, a junior, directly obtained the merit and fortune from participating in three of the eighty-one tribulations of Journey to the West.

Where does this leave other immortals, gods, and powerful beings like Buddha, Taoism, and the Heavenly Court?

On the contrary, it was Princess Iron Fan.

As his legal wife and the Daoist companion of a powerful cultivator at the Hunyuan Taiyi Realm, it was somewhat forced for her to obtain the merits and fortune of the Journey to the West, but it was still somewhat justifiable and wouldn't be ridiculed.

Not to mention that behind Princess Iron Fan stands Asura King Mara, who is also an ancient being.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly plausible that Princess Iron Fan used the dilemmas of Journey to the West to contribute to merit.

If they were to give all the merits and fortune they possessed from the three tribulations to Red Boy, he might as well have fought against Emperor Donghua and taken over Sha Wujing's place on the pilgrimage.

"Fortunately, my husband reminded me; it was my oversight that led me to this conclusion."

After hearing Niu Jun's account, Princess Iron Fan was filled with lingering fear.

Previously, I was only thinking about accumulating merit and good fortune for my son, but I neglected the fact that my son's status and position were not enough to support him in obtaining so much merit and good fortune.

If you insist on doing it, who knows how many people will want to target you?

"This is not Madam's fault. Madam was only thinking of Yan'er."

Niu Jun smiled and shook his head, comforting Princess Iron Fan, "Don't worry, Madam. I've already made arrangements for Yan'er, and I won't shortchange him on this merit and fortune."

What time is it now?
There are still more than 60,000 years before the end of the Journey to the West era, and the cycle of eras has only just passed halfway.

In such a long time, even if he cannot attain the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, he will surely reach the peak of the Taiyi level. At that time, it will be easy for him to plan some fortune and merit for his wife and children.
Even if that time really comes, the fortune and merit of the Journey to the West world might become dispensable, and he would have already sent his wife and children to other universes to cultivate.

Therefore, Niu Jun did not value the merits and fortune of the Journey to the West as much as one might imagine.

He arranged for his wife and children to participate in the Journey to the West.

Firstly, the good fortune and merit in the Journey to the West world would be beneficial to his wife and children. With good fortune and merit, he could at least receive some protection from the Heavenly Dao and wouldn't be easily plotted against.

The second point is that participation is key.

Merit and fortune don't matter; participation is what matters.

It's rare to travel to the world of Journey to the West and have the ability and qualifications to watch the show and participate. I definitely have to participate a little to increase my sense of involvement. Otherwise, how can I do justice to my childhood?
"The Journey to the West has eighty-one tribulations."

“We have three difficulties at our disposal. Madam can set up two of them, and Yan’er can set up one.”

"Now that the journey to the West is about to begin, there are less than ten years left. You can start preparing now."

At this point, Niu Jun showed a rare interest and asked with a smile, "I wonder if Madam has decided how to test the pilgrimage team?"

Say something.

Niu Jun wasn't one for fun, but he still wanted to put the four pilgrims to a good test.

For example, in the original Journey to the West, during the ordeal in Fengxian County, the Jade Emperor set three challenges for the four pilgrims: the chickens finished eating the rice, the dogs finished licking the noodles, and the fire broke the lock.

pity.

The Jade Emperor was ultimately merciful.

Even though Sun Wukong and the others didn't find the correct solution, they were allowed to pass.

If it were Niu Jun, he certainly wouldn't have let the four pilgrims pass the test so easily.

This is a rare opportunity now.

He naturally wanted to put the four pilgrims to a good test.

In particular, it was a test for Tang Sanzang to see if he could truly give up everything to obtain the scriptures, whether he could cut off his own flesh to feed the eagle like the Buddha, and whether he had the compassionate heart of "If I don't go to hell, who will?"

If Tang Sanzang can pass the test, then everything will be fine.

If Tang Sanzang fails the test...

That would be really funny.

Princess Iron Fan, seeing that Niu Jun was interested in the Journey to the West trials, smiled and said, "My husband is interested in those who travel to the West?"

"nature!"

Niu Jun didn't hold back and said frankly, "I'd like to know what abilities the pilgrims chosen by the major powers like Buddhism, Taoism, and the Heavenly Court have, and whether they truly have the potential to attain the Primordial Dao."

Although the pilgrimage team was formed by major forces such as Buddhism, Taoism, and the Heavenly Court.

However, the Heavenly Merit and Fortune consumed came from the entire Journey to the West world.

Niu Jun wanted to see if the pilgrims chosen by these powerful forces truly had the potential to attain the Primordial Chaos Taiyi realm.

Or rather, deep down, he didn't approve of the pilgrims chosen by these forces, feeling that these powerful forces were wasting the merits and fortune of all beings in the Three Realms.

Especially Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing, plus the White Dragon.

He didn't find any of them satisfactory.

Princess Iron Fan smiled upon hearing this and said, "Since my husband is interested in the pilgrims, then I will set up these three trials for him. Once he has set them up, Yan'er and I will carry them out."

Niu Jun was moved by what he heard.

However, after thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "Let's skip the three difficulties. I'll set one of them, and the remaining two can be set by Madam and Yan'er themselves."

The real test doesn't need to be many; just one will suffice.

True scriptures are not afraid of being tested by fire.

He wanted to see if the four members of the pilgrimage team truly lived up to their name.

(End of this chapter)