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Chapter 139 The Holy Monk has arrived, and our Fire Cloud Kingdom now has a just ruler! (Please subscribe)

"Wukong, you'd better not make things difficult for the king."

Seeing that Sun Wukong was about to say something, Tang Sanzang suddenly spoke up.

Say it.

He looked at Niu Yan with a kind expression and smiled, "I wonder what three problems Your Majesty is facing? My three disciples are all highly skilled and powerful, and they will surely be able to solve Your Majesty's problems."

The words fell.

Not to mention Sun Wukong and the other two looked as if they had swallowed flies.

Even Red Boy was speechless.

Good guy.

His three disciples were highly skilled in magic and could solve his problems.

You're not mentioning yourself at all, are you?
No wonder his father thought that this Tang Sanzang was somewhat hypocritical and didn't live up to his reputation.

Now it seems that this is indeed the case.

However, the three difficult problems I came up with with great difficulty are not aimed at your three disciples, but at you, Tang Sanzang. So it is undoubtedly impossible for you to sit back and reap the benefits.

Niu Yan sneered inwardly, but his face was all smiles as he said, "Holy Monk, you are mistaken. My problem is not about subduing demons and monsters, but about solving it with wisdom."

“The holy monk is a great master of Buddhism, and must possess great knowledge and wisdom, so this matter should be decided by the holy monk.”

"This……"

Upon hearing this, Tang Sanzang looked troubled and was about to decline.

Sun Wukong, who had long been somewhat dissatisfied with Tang Sanzang, hurriedly said, "Of course this is no problem for my master. Let alone three difficult problems, even three hundred difficult problems would be a piece of cake for my master with his knowledge and wisdom."

"Not bad!"

Pigsy chimed in, "My master is a great monk from the Tang Dynasty in the East. He is naturally not lacking in knowledge and wisdom. Otherwise, he would not have been valued by the Tang Emperor and Guanyin Bodhisattva and entrusted to seek the true scriptures in the Western Paradise. Therefore, he will definitely not have any problem with the three difficult questions posed by the emperor."

"The eldest and second senior brothers are right."

The words of his three disciples left Tang Sanzang in a bind, making him sweat profusely with anxiety.

Niu Yan ignored this and went straight to explaining the problems he was facing.

"I suppose the Holy Monk and my three uncles also know that I am the son of the Heavenly Venerable of All Laws of the Heavenly Court. In order not to tarnish my father's reputation, I have been practicing diligently in my daily life."

"Later, my father told me that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, and cultivation cannot be achieved by staying behind closed doors. So he asked me to establish a Fire Cloud Kingdom in this Fire Cloud Mountain and personally serve as its ruler, so that I could enter the world to cultivate."

"Finally, he also told me that I could only return to the Heavenly Court after I had governed the Fire Cloud Kingdom well."

"In order not to disappoint my father's expectations, after I established the Fire Cloud Kingdom, I worked diligently for decades, leading soldiers to drive out demons and build cities and villages, leading the people to build canals and attach importance to agriculture and sericulture."

"After forty-nine years, the Fire Cloud Kingdom has become prosperous and its people live in peace and contentment."

"I thought I had governed the Fire Cloud Kingdom well, but I never expected that someone from below would submit a memorial pointing out three problems that I find difficult to solve."

"Now that I have the good fortune to have met the holy monk, I hope that he can solve these three problems for me. I will be extremely grateful."

Before recounting his three challenges.

Niu Yan first explained the cause and effect, which could be considered as laying the groundwork for the difficult problems that followed.

This is also a unique process.

After all, the eighty-one tribulations on the journey to the West are not just simple calamities; they need to have a cause and effect, otherwise they would just become pure difficulties.

"What are the three problems that the king is facing?"

Tang Sanzang glanced at his three unmoved disciples and, somewhat unsure of himself, forced a question.

Niu Yan smiled and said, "Holy Monk, please don't be anxious. I have already written down all three difficult questions and handed them over to Prime Minister Wang Lun."

"Holy Monk and your three uncles have traveled a long way and finally arrived in my Fire Cloud Kingdom. Why don't you have a meal first and rest well for a day? Tomorrow, I will have Prime Minister Wang lead the Holy Monk and his disciples to solve these three problems. What do you say?"

The emperor has plenty of hungry soldiers.

Tang Sanzang and his disciples were, after all, acquaintances of his own, and had a close relationship with his family.

Therefore, even if Niu Yan wanted to test Tang Sanzang and his disciples, he had to put on a good show and not give anyone any leverage over him.

Hear this.

Tang Sanzang had not yet said anything.

Pigsy, standing to the side, happily thanked him, saying, "Your Majesty is wise. We, the four of us, have traveled a long way and are starving. Eating is the most important thing. We can deal with the problems tomorrow."

"Easy to say, easy to say!"

Niu Yan waved his hand with a smile and instructed the eunuch beside him, "Go and have someone prepare a vegetarian meal. The Holy Monk and my three uncles have traveled a long way to my Fire Cloud Kingdom. As the ruler of Fire Cloud Kingdom, I must do my best to be a good host."

"Your humble servant obeys the decree!"

Upon hearing this, the eunuch accepted the order and hurriedly went to have food prepared.

The vegetarian meal must be a good vegetarian meal.

Although the vegetarian meals in the Fire Cloud Kingdom's palace cannot compare to the celestial banquets of the Heavenly Court, they are still top-tier even in the Earthly Immortal Realm. The selected ingredients, even if they are not divine treasures, are still top-grade spiritual items, which are of great benefit to mortals.

It's not that Niu Yan was reluctant to part with the immortal treasures, but rather that the Journey to the West also placed great demands on Tang Sanzang, the protagonist, requiring him to maintain his mortal body.

If you were to prepare a high-class feast for him, he could probably ascend to immortality and condense a law-based immortal body after eating it, and then there would be no objection to the so-called Journey to the West.

so.

The best way to truly stop Tang Sanzang's journey to the West is definitely not to kill him under the protection of Sun Wukong and his companions, but to send him directly to immortality with a magic fruit.

Once Tang Sanzang becomes an immortal, his life in this world will be ruined, and this Journey to the West will fall apart on its own.

Of course, as the beneficiaries of this journey to the West, Niu Jun's family had the merit of participating in the three tribulations, and would certainly not do something that harms others and benefits themselves.

Therefore, Niu Yan would definitely not do anything underhanded in his hospitality towards Tang Sanzang.

……

After a hearty vegetarian meal.

Everyone was full after the meal.

Niu Yan then had someone arrange lodgings for Tang Sanzang and his disciples so they could rest.

After Tang Sanzang's figure disappeared into the distance.

Niu Yan looked towards a corner of the palace hall and said with a smile, "Since Seventh Uncle is here, why not show yourself instead of hiding in the shadows and watching his nephew make a fool of himself?"

However, after Sun Wukong left the main hall with Tang Sanzang, he quickly sent a clone back.

"You little devil, you really know how to turn the tables."

Before Niu Yan could finish speaking, Sun Wukong appeared in the hall, looking at Niu Yan with a smile and saying, "This time you were the one who wanted to see me make a fool of myself, but you turned around and blamed me instead."

At this time, there were no outsiders in the main hall.

Niu Yan no longer held back and said frankly, "Seventh Uncle has misunderstood me. How could I dare to laugh at Seventh Uncle?"

"These three difficult questions are specifically designed to test Tang Sanzang. Uncle Qi only needs to go through the motions. Even if Tang Sanzang can't solve the questions, I won't make things difficult for him." After all, it's all just acting.

The test is both real and fake.

If Tang Sanzang can pass the test himself, then the test is real.

If Tang Sanzang couldn't solve the problem, the examiner would personally step in to cheat for him, allowing him to pass this ordeal smoothly.

Therefore, Niu Yan's statement that he would not make things difficult for Tang Sanzang is absolutely the truth.

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong couldn't help but shake his head and warned, "Holy Infant, don't underestimate this Tang Sanzang. According to our guess, this old monk's wisdom is definitely not to be underestimated, and he is not as simple as he seems on the surface."

"Therefore, it's best not to go too far with these three difficult questions for the Holy Infant, otherwise, given the old monk's cunning, it's definitely not a good thing."

At this point, Sun Wukong's expression became extremely solemn.

He followed Tang Sanzang for several years.

Sun Wukong naturally noticed many things that were not right.

If it were anyone else, he certainly wouldn't have said these things. After all, everyone knew about the journey to the West, and even if they discovered something amiss in the other members of the four-person team, they would pretend not to know and not press the matter.

But it's different for Niu Yan.

Niu Yan was, after all, the son of his elder brother Niu Jun. In terms of closeness, he was definitely closer to Niu Yan than to Tang Seng and the others. He certainly couldn't watch Niu Yan suffer a loss and leave himself with future troubles.

Why do you say that, Uncle Qi?

Seeing Sun Wukong's serious expression, Niu Yan immediately put away his playful mood and asked curiously.

I still remember that my father, Niu Jun, once said that Tang Sanzang was not as simple as he seemed. Now that my seventh uncle, Sun Wukong, said the same thing, Niu Yan was extremely curious and wanted to know just how complicated Tang Sanzang was.

After all, he really couldn't see anything special about Tang Sanzang.

Even if he was the second disciple of the Buddha in his previous life, after many reincarnations, he is still just a mortal body and has not yet embarked on cultivation again.

In Niu Yan's opinion, even if Tang Sanzang was not simple, his background was not the only factor that made him so.

Sun Wukong shook his head and said, "There's no reason why. It's just that my intuition tells me that there's something wrong with this old monk. He's not as simple as he seems on the surface."

Compared to observation with the naked eye.

Those who cultivate themselves place greater emphasis on their inner spiritual awareness.

Especially when one cultivates to the level of Sun Wukong, one's spiritual perception reaches an inconceivable level, enabling one to sense cause and effect, destiny, past and future. Compared to the whims of martial arts, one's precognitive abilities are hundreds or thousands of times more acute.

Sun Wukong's intuition told him that Tang Sanzang, despite his mortal body, was not as simple as he appeared, and that his true nature was not as kind and weak as he seemed.

Then, thinking back to Tang Sanzang's previous life, he was Jin Chanzi, the second disciple personally taught by the Buddha.

There are even rumors that this Golden Cicada was transformed from an ancient ferocious insect, the six-winged Heavenly Silkworm, which had slaughtered countless living beings. Later, it was subdued by the Buddha, renamed Golden Cicada, and converted to Buddhism.

Therefore, Sun Wukong strongly suspected that Tang Sanzang at this time was no longer the mortal Tang Sanzang, but Jin Chanzi who had returned after undergoing tribulation.

The so-called journey to the West is also the path that Jin Chanzi takes to return after undergoing tribulations. Once the journey to the West is completed, Jin Chanzi will return after completely overcoming his tribulations and will reach an even higher level.

However, these are all just Sun Wukong's personal speculations, and their truth is still unknown. He certainly cannot tell Niu Yan, but can only subtly remind him that Tang Sanzang is not an ordinary person. Even if it is a test, he should not go too far, lest he create unnecessary karma.

"Don't worry, Seventh Uncle, Father had already warned me about this."

"According to my father, Tang Sanzang was the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, a Buddhist monk. Although Jin Chanzi followed the Buddha for many years and practiced Buddhism, he could not eliminate the evil in his heart."

"Now that he has been reincarnated as Tang Sanzang, even after going through ten lifetimes of trials, he still cannot erase the resentment in his heart. He only hides it with his innate supernatural powers."

"Father suspects that Tang Sanzang is the core of a grand scheme by the Buddhist sect of Mount Ling. That's why he used the Journey to the West to push him to the Hunyuan realm. Otherwise, the matter of the Journey to the West would never have been the turn of Jin Chanzi."

Niu Yan spoke calmly, his words filled with disdain for the Lingshan Buddhist sect and Jin Chanzi.

As the saying goes: "One who lives in a room full of orchids will not smell their fragrance, and one who lives in a room full of abalone will not smell their stench."

Niu Jun himself looked down on the Lingshan Buddhist sect and Jin Chanzi. Influenced by him, Niu Yan naturally had a bad impression of the Lingshan Buddhist sect and Jin Chanzi, and was extremely disdainful of them.

Especially after dreaming of ancient times and learning many secrets of the Buddhist sect of Mount Ling.

He was even less fond of the Buddhist community at Lingshan.

"Since my elder brother has given me prior instructions, I, Old Sun, am at ease."

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong grinned and said, "With my elder brother here, I think that old monk is nothing to fear. Even if he has some secret methods, he wouldn't dare to use them on the Holy Infant."

Don't be fooled by Sun Wukong's usual respectful attitude towards Tang Sanzang, calling him "Master" this and "Master" that.

In fact.

These are all superficial appearances.

He didn't even care much about the monkeys on Flower Fruit Mountain, so why would he care about an old monk who was trying to control him with a headband?

The so-called utmost respect and deep affection between teacher and student.

It's nothing more than a disguise after shedding naivety and arrogance and understanding the ways of self-interest and cunning.

The Monkey King of yesteryear died long ago under the Five Elements Mountain. The Sun Wukong who is alive today is not much different from the gods and Buddhas of the world.

The youthful arrogance of the past has given way to the vicissitudes of time. Looking back, the rights and wrongs, the joys and sorrows of life are endless.

Even the most naive monkey will grow up.

……

The next day!

Just after Tang Sanzang and his disciples finished their breakfast, Wang Lun, the prime minister of the Fire Cloud Kingdom, came to visit them.

After the two sides exchanged greetings...

Wang Lun didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point: "To be honest, Holy Monk, my Fire Cloud Kingdom is an enlightened country and does not restrict the people's beliefs."

"Within an area of ​​eight hundred miles and a million subjects, some worship the Jade Emperor and the gods of Heaven, some worship the Buddha and Bodhisattvas of Mount Ling, some worship the Three Pure Ones and the Dharma Protectors of Taoism, and some even worship the Mountain God and the Earth God."

"However, with this freedom of religion, there are many more questions about worshipping God."

"The first problem the king is facing now is related to a Shinto belief."

Prime Minister Wang Lun paused slightly at this point, then sighed and said, "A few days ago, a citizen of Yanhuo City filed a lawsuit against the temple priest and the city god."

"The people said that they were lured by the temple priest of the City God Temple and believed in the City God. They have been sincerely worshipping and praying to the god every day for thirty years."

"Unexpectedly, when my family encountered danger, the City God did not appear to help. So I hardened my heart and directly sued the City God Temple Keeper and the City God to the government."

"After understanding the cause and effect, the officials felt that the case was complicated and involved the gods, so they reported the matter to the king."

"After learning about the case, the king also felt that it was quite complicated, with both sides having their own reasons, and he didn't know how to make a judgment. He was so worried that he couldn't come up with a good solution for several days."

"Now that the Holy Monk has arrived, the sky over my Fire Cloud Kingdom is clear. We hope that the Holy Monk can help the King solve this problem and restore peace and prosperity to my Fire Cloud Kingdom."

Say it.

Prime Minister Wang Lun bowed deeply to Tang Sanzang, then looked at him expectantly, as if he were looking at a great savior.

(End of this chapter)