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Chapter 119 Turning Swords into Plowshares: The Queen Mother of the West's Peach Plot! (Please Subscribe)
"I'm sorry for making a fool of myself, Great Celestial Venerable!"

“My seventh brother is from the countryside and has never seen anything truly good, so we’ll pass on these peaches.”

"If the Great Celestial Venerable finds the monkey somewhat agreeable, he might as well give him a token to the library, so that he can read more books and learn some life lessons, so that he won't offend the Holy One again in the future."

Faced with the Jade Emperor's teasing gaze, Niu Jun said somewhat awkwardly.

What's with these hundred or so peaches?

This monkey must really love eating peaches.

Even if he asked for a few more innate spiritual treasures, Niu Jun wouldn't say a word.

The problem is that the peaches of immortality were of no help to Sun Wukong. At most, he could just enjoy them for the first time.

Therefore, Niu Jun directly rejected Sun Wukong's request for peaches and instead asked the Jade Emperor for a token from the Heavenly Library.

In Niu Jun's eyes, the most precious treasure of the Heavenly Court was those history books that carried the weight of civilization's history.

If Sun Wukong could diligently study and learn in the library for a period of time, it would undoubtedly be of great help to his attainment of the Primordial Taiyi Immortal realm.

Sun Wukong, who was standing to the side, looked slightly surprised when he heard this.

However, he wasn't a fool; he knew that his elder brother Niu Jun's actions wouldn't harm him.

So after a brief moment of astonishment, he hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes, I, Old Sun, love learning the most. I don't need these peaches. Just give me a Heavenly Library token, Great Heavenly Venerable. I, Old Sun, will definitely study the principles of life diligently in the future."

The Jade Emperor was speechless after hearing Sun Wukong's words.

He glanced at Niu Jun and said, "The Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Laws seems to have a high opinion of this monkey."

Niu Jun laughed and said, "Although this monkey is impulsive, he is still my sworn brother. As the elder brother, I must consider his needs more."

"I see."

The Jade Emperor glanced at Niu Jun for a moment and smiled, "Since the Heavenly Venerable of Myriad Laws has spoken, I will naturally give him face."

"I will give this monkey one of the tokens from the Heavenly Library. I just hope he will not disappoint the Heavenly Venerable's expectations."

"As for the peaches of immortality and the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir?"

The Jade Emperor paused slightly, giving Sun Wukong a meaningful look. Then he smiled and said, "A few peaches are nothing to me. Let the Great Sage Equal to Heaven have a taste."

"However, I dare not keep this Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. After all, it was entrusted to me by Laozi to be given to the Great Sage today. I suppose Laozi thinks very highly of the Great Sage."

Sun Wukong frowned, puzzled, wondering why Laozi had asked the Jade Emperor to give him a Nine-Turn Golden Pill.

After all, when he caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he had ruined Laozi's golden pills quite a bit. Laozi was not angry at all, but instead gave him another Nine-Turn Golden Pill.

If it were 500 years ago, or even 300 years ago, he wouldn't have given Laozi's actions much thought.

However, after experiencing countless reincarnations in his dreams, Sun Wukong is no longer the same Sun Wukong who wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

He knew very well that there was no love or hate without a reason in this world, and that every move of Laozi, this great supernatural being, had a certain profound meaning behind it.

He even recalled that five hundred years ago, he was able to steal the elixir of immortality from the Tushita Palace and refine a Primordial Taiyi Immortal Body in the Eight Trigrams Furnace. There must have been the secret help of Laozi behind this.

Sun Wukong didn't know why Laozi was doing this, but he instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

Therefore, he truly dared not accept the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir that Laozi, through the Jade Emperor, had given him.

"Eldest brother!"

Sun Wukong looked at Niu Jun with a hint of hesitation, as if he wanted to hear his advice and thoughts.

“Since it’s Laozi’s will, Seventh Brother, you should accept it,” Niu Jun said nonchalantly.

In fact, as early as the moment the Jade Emperor took out the Nine-Turn Golden Pill, Niu Jun guessed that the Nine-Turn Golden Pill was very likely made by Laozi.

The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir is far more valuable than any ordinary golden elixir; only Laozi, the Supreme Lord of the Three Realms, can refine it.

The value of a single Nine-Turn Golden Pill is greater than that of dozens or even hundreds of Nine-Thousand-Year Peaches of Immortality, and is no less than that of a true innate spiritual treasure.

When he attained the Dao of Hunyuan Taiyi, the Heavenly Court only offered a few as a congratulatory gift.

Now that the Jade Emperor has taken the initiative to give Sun Wukong a Nine-Turn Golden Pill as compensation, Niu Jun would never believe that it wasn't for Laozi's sake.

However, considering Sun Wukong's origins, Niu Jun said nothing more.

Because the karmic connection between Sun Wukong and Laozi is too deep.

All the great supernatural beings in the Three Realms know that Sun Wukong is the Supreme Being's shrewd pawn, and that Sun Wukong is now not even qualified to be a pawn in this grand game of the Three Realms.

With the Buddhist journey to the West imminent, it is only natural that Laozi would give Sun Wukong a Nine-Turn Golden Pill to make up for his lack of magical power as a righteous immortal.

"Homage to the Jade Emperor, the Great Heavenly Venerable".

"Homage to the Jade Emperor, the Great Heavenly Venerable"

"..."

Just as Niu Jun and the other two finished discussing compensation, Yang Jian, the Lion Camel King, and others arrived at the Lingxiao Palace and paid their respects to the Jade Emperor.

"Homage to the Heavenly Venerable of All Laws!"

After everyone paid their respects to the Jade Emperor, they also paid their respects to Niu Jun.

"You came just in time."

"I have already given the Great Sage Qitian some compensation, and the Great Sage will no longer pursue the matter of Erlang burning down Flower Fruit Mountain."

"Let's just leave it at that."

"I hope that you two can turn hostility into friendship, is that alright?"

The Jade Emperor spoke calmly, making a conclusion on the matter.

"Your humble servant obeys the decree."

"I, Old Sun, have no objection either."

Yang Jian and Sun Wukong bowed in response.

Thus, the two temporarily reached a reconciliation, and the matter of Yang Jian burning down Flower Fruit Mountain years ago came to a conclusion.

Although Sun Wukong still disliked Yang Jian very much, he no longer shouted and threatened to kill him whenever they met as before.

……

"Elder brother, I don't understand. I, Old Sun, have no relation to Laozi. Why would he treat me like this?"

Once outside the Lingxiao Palace, Sun Wukong could no longer contain himself and asked in a muffled voice.

Upon hearing this, Niu Jun smiled slightly and said, "If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it anymore."

"Knowing many things is not necessarily a good thing."

"If you really want to know the reason behind this, you can go to the Tushita Palace and ask Laozi yourself after you have attained the Primordial Taiyi Immortal status."

Niu Jun didn't say much about the cause and effect between Sun Wukong and Laozi.

After all, he still doesn't know what the Supreme Lord is planning against Sun Wukong.

If we were to tell Sun Wukong about the various causes and effects between Laozi and Sun Wukong, it would only add to his troubles.

This is not a good thing for Sun Wukong himself.

Therefore, regarding the matter of Laozi, Niu Jun felt it was better to let Sun Wukong explore it himself once he was strong enough.

As an outsider, he wouldn't get involved. After speaking, Niu Jun thought for a moment and asked, "I previously asked you to give up the peaches of immortality, and the Great Celestial Venerable obtained a token to enter the Heavenly Library. Do you have any complaints?"

"Brother, what are you saying?"

Sun Wukong shook his head and said truthfully, "I am not an ungrateful person. How could I not know that my elder brother is helping me?"

"But I, Old Sun, am a little puzzled. I don't know what's so special about the Heavenly Library that it's worth a hundred peaches."

Niu Jun shook his head and asked in return, "Are a hundred or so peaches really that precious?"

“Especially you monkey, you don’t even dare to ask for benefits. If you asked the Jade Emperor for a hundred or so nine-thousand-year peaches, I wouldn’t say anything.”

"But what about peaches that are three thousand years old and peaches that are six thousand years old?"

Niu Jun glanced at Sun Wukong speechlessly, then said, "Why bother the Great Heavenly Venerable? Your elder brother has cultivated a few in his temple, which should be enough for you to have a taste."

The last time the Peach Banquet was held.

Niu Jun obtained two peaches that were nine thousand years old.

He planted the peach pit of a nine-thousand-year-old peach in his own dojo, nurturing it with the primordial power of the starry universe, and eventually cultivated several peach trees.

Although those few peach trees were not as good as the Queen Mother's Peach Mother Tree or the nine-thousand-year-old Peach Tree, they were still enough to reach the level of a six-thousand-year-old Peach Tree, further enhanced by the Time-Traveling Technique.

As long as you are willing to give up the power of the Great Dao's origin, you can have as many peaches as you want.
Most importantly, Niu Jun couldn't believe that he was the only one in the entire Journey to the West world interested in the Queen Mother's peach tree. There were probably many powerful beings secretly researching and successfully cultivating the peach tree.

Even the Queen Mother of the West, who controls the Peach Tree, would likely approve of this.

Because there are many peach trees in the Journey to the West world.

However, there is only one mother peach tree.

Unless someone cultivates a peach tree that surpasses the quality of the Queen Mother's Peach Tree, their fates will be intertwined, and they will only be serving as stepping stones for the Queen Mother's Peach Tree, needlessly increasing its fortune.

After understanding this.

Niu Jun then understood why the Queen Mother of the West held the Peach Banquet so often.

Love is like using peaches as bait to lure others into planting and cultivating peach trees for her.

Niu Jun wasn't stupid; he wouldn't use his own cosmic origin power to benefit others. So after cultivating a few peach trees, he abandoned them and couldn't be bothered to tend to them anymore.

"Does your elder brother's temple also have peach trees?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong was immediately startled.

He thought that only the Queen Mother of the West's Peach Garden had peach trees, and he never expected that Niu Jun's Daoist temple would have them too. It turns out that these peach trees are not worth anything at all!
"There's nothing strange about this."

Niu Jun said nonchalantly, "The name of the Immortal Peach is renowned throughout the Three Realms, attracting countless powerful beings to become interested in the Immortal Peach Tree."

"The Queen Mother of the West is merciful. Every year in the Heavenly Realm, she holds a Peach Banquet to distribute peaches to all the immortals and gods. What happens to the peach pits after everyone has eaten the peaches?"

"Do you think those immortals and gods who are interested in the peach tree might try to cultivate it?"

It can only be said that there are no free lunches in the world, only traps.

The Queen Mother's actions were a blatant and overt scheme.

If you are interested in peaches and peach trees, you will invest in cultivating your own peach tree. However, in the Journey to the West world, the Peach Mother Tree is controlled by the Queen Mother of the West. The more peach trees there are in the Three Realms, the more fortune and destiny the Peach Mother Tree can gather.

Even if it's related to fate, as long as the mother peach tree is willing, it can plunder the fate, and even the life force, of those peach trees at any time.

You might as well say that all the peach trees you painstakingly cultivated were just used to benefit someone else!
That's why they say she's the Queen Mother of the West.

Such a cunning and open scheme is something that ordinary immortals and gods could not withstand.

Even Niu Jun had a sly suspicion that the Queen Mother was able to create such a large peach orchard by taking peaches from countless immortals and gods.

"Can this be the same?"

Sun Wukong was genuinely surprised upon hearing this and stammered a question.

Niu Jun glanced at him and said indifferently, "Even the peach pits come from the Queen Mother of the West's peach tree. What difference could there be? If there is any difference, it can only mean that you are unwilling to invest in cultivating them."

"in addition!"

Niu Jun paused slightly at this point, then tested Sun Wukong by asking, "You once served as a guard of the Peach Garden, so you should know how many fruits a single peach tree can bear."

"In the Queen Mother of the West's Peach Garden, there are 1,200 trees of each type of peach. How many fruits can be produced each time they ripen?"

"After considering all this, do you still think the peaches are very precious?"

Are peaches of immortality precious?
It is certainly precious to mortals and ordinary immortals.

But for a deity of Sun Wukong's caliber, it's really nothing special.

It's not that the peaches of immortality are ineffective, but rather that scarcity drives up their value. There are so many peach trees of immortality, and each time they bear so many fruits, that they completely outclass the ginseng fruit trees, which are also innate spiritual roots.

"As for the Heavenly Library?"

Niu Jun glanced at the monkey and said indifferently, "In my opinion, the most precious thing in the entire Heavenly Court is the collection of books in the Heavenly Court Library."

"The library contains hundreds of millions of books. If you can understand one book, you can know the rise and fall of dynasties; if you understand ten books, you can see through the illusions of the world; if you understand a hundred books, you can understand the vastness of the universe."

"If you can persevere in reading, you will learn countless methods and understand all the ways of the world."

"This will be of great benefit to your attainment of the Primordial Taiyi Dao."

Say it.

Niu Jun gave Sun Wukong a meaningful look and said, "The Heavenly Court rules over the Three Realms and suppresses the Ten Directions. Its profound foundation is beyond what you, a monkey, can imagine."

"So don't just focus on the peaches of immortality. There are many good things in the Heavenly Court, and some are even directly displayed in front of the mortals. If you can discover and understand them, you will definitely benefit greatly."

This is not something Niu Jun made up; it's based on his own personal experience.

Putting aside everything else, just look at the Milky Way hanging in the sky. Even a powerful expert at the Hunyuan Taiyi Realm would find it beneficial to observe, let alone Sun Wukong and his companions.

Apart from that.

There is also the Lingxiao Palace, the arrangement of stars, the layout of celestial palaces and temples, the four heavenly gates, and so on.

Each of them possesses its own profound mystery and contains various principles.

If Sun Wukong could gain even a little insight into this, it would be of great help in his attainment of the Hunyuan Taiyi realm.

Compared to this.

Peaches and the like.

It's all just fleeting.

"Elder brother, as you know, I, Old Sun, am not very perceptive and cannot understand profound and mysterious principles. So could you just tell me what good things are in the Heavenly Court?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong's eyes gleamed, and he scratched his head and ears, asking a question.

Niu Jun shook his head and said quietly, "Seventh Brother, many things cannot be said outright. You need to discover them yourself. If you cannot discover them, it only means that the fate is not right, and you cannot force it."

"It's getting late. You should hurry back to Flower Fruit Mountain to revive the monkeys and then continue to protect Tang Sanzang on his journey to the West to retrieve the scriptures."

"If we delay any longer, I'm afraid Guanyin Bodhisattva will come and take people away."

After Niu Jun finished speaking, without waiting for Sun Wukong to speak, he directly led the Lion Camel King and the other two back to the Palace of Ten Thousand Laws Celestial Venerable.

(End of this chapter)