Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 61 62 The Three Versions of Havoc in Heaven

The greenhouse was originally in the suburbs, and in addition to the late spring in March, the snow had already melted, and the ground was full of dead branches and leaves.

So with the help of a group of helpers, several big fires appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

After lighting the bonfire, Zuo Ming instructed several imperial guards to put some sweet potatoes into the fire.

"My lord, won't it burn them if you burn them directly like this?"

Seeing that Zuo Ming was so reckless, he threw those sweet potatoes into the fire, and one of them was the Imperial Forest Army.

His question was on point, Zuo Ming immediately smiled and said, "It's impossible to burn it completely. In fact, it's best to bury it in a charcoal fire and roast it, but we have limited time, so it won't work if we do it like this." What a big problem. The most is that the surface layer will be burnt! I made these only enough for an extremely grown-up, and you should go to the rest of the fire to roast some, and share them with the brothers later!"

After hearing this, everyone naturally dispersed and became busy.

At this time, Li Shimin and the ministers who were still waiting for the remaining sweet potatoes and potatoes to be unearthed also surrounded them.

Li Shimin was fine, the stool that rich father-in-law brought for him could sit on, while the rest of the ministers could only sit on the ground just like Zuo Ming.

"Zuo Ming, aren't you full of weird anecdotes? Why don't you tell me one while you're at it?"

After sitting down in front of the fire, Li Shimin spoke.

As soon as Li Shimin spoke, all the ministers looked over expectantly. They have also read "Zuo's Fairy Tales", so they naturally know how wonderful the anecdotes in Zuo Ming's mind will be.

"It's all said that it's strange to say nothing, so today Zuo will tell a story about monkeys."

Seeing that everyone was interested in this, Zuo Ming nodded slowly, and said.

He drew the Havoc in Heaven when he first drafted it, but in order to complete the entire Journey to the West, he didn't make a separate photocopy.

Let me tell them about it right now, and it will sell better by making a big fuss about Tiangong.

"Monkey? But it's related to my divine monkey?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he thought of his red-eyed glazed monkey.

"It can be said to be its prototype!"

Nodding his head, Zuo Ming finally slowly told the story of the Monkey King.

Zuo Ming's eloquence in his previous life was excellent, so after this adaptation, the story is naturally told with ups and downs and soul-stirring.

It's just that when the Monkey King went to Fangcun Mountain in Lingtai to learn art in Xieyue Sanxing Cave, Li Shimin, who was listening happily, couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Zuo Ming spoke too truthfully, as if there was something real, it really made him wonder and wonder.

However, when Zuo Ming mentioned that there are two great skills in the Sanxing Cave, one is the Tiangang 36 Transformation and the other is the Disha 72 Transformation, his inner suspicion was completely dispelled.

Obviously, Zuo Ming just imposed some things of his own school into the story because he missed the teacher's school too much.

The story continues, and in a blink of an eye, it comes to the section where the Dragon Palace borrows treasures.Hearing that the Ruyi Golden Cudgel actually weighed more than 3000 jin, everyone couldn't help being amazed.

However, when it was said that Monkey King was seduced by the underworld and was about to be sentenced to life and death by Yama of the Ten Palaces, all the ministers spoke with great interest.

"Lord Zuo, is there really reincarnation in this world?"

"Yes! Lord Zuo, what ghost gate, Wangchuan River, Niejingtai, and city of death are you talking about, as if they are real. Does such a place really exist in this world?"

"My officer once heard that Yama was originally a figure in Buddhism in the Western Regions, but after hearing this story from Mr. Zuo, Yama of the Ten Palaces seems to be us Han people!"

"That's right! Thinking about King Qin Guang and King Chu Jiang, why do they sound like people from the pre-Qin and Warring States periods?"

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, although there were also legends about Yama, they were not as detailed as Zuo Ming said, and the so-called Yama was actually just a demon in Indian mythology, which was completely different from the almost perfect reincarnation system of later generations. .

So after listening to the Yama world described by Zuo Ming, everyone only felt that it was extremely real.As superstitious as they are, they actually have some meaning of believing.

At this time, even Li Shimin looked over curiously, wanting to hear what Zuo Ming had to say.

Seeing that everyone was so interested, Zuo Ming sighed deeply, "Your Majesty, my lords! Originally, I don't talk about strange powers and gods! Zuo should not encourage or even promote such ghosts and gods. But sometimes, people need it most. is actually a hope.

What does it matter if the world of Yama is real or not?Life is only a few dozen years, so instead of fearing the great terror of having nothing, it is better to give yourself a chance to start over.At least, before dying, I won't be in too much pain.Because there is still hope in my heart.”

All of you here are extremely smart people, how could they not understand the meaning of Zuo Ming's words?They all nodded slightly at the moment.

Seeing everyone nodding, Zuo Ming smiled gratifiedly, and immediately organized his thoughts again, and continued to talk.

This time, no one interrupted him again. Li Shimin was silent for a while when he talked about Sun Wukong being crushed under Wuzhi Mountain, and then slowly uttered such a sentence, "The Jade Emperor is too small, and his views are too serious. If you change If you are me, as long as you are a person with ability, whether it is a god, a ghost, or a demon, you must take them all under your command! Think about the ability of Monkey King, who is almost indestructible, and in the end he was completely aggrieved. It's a pity, it's a shame!"

"That's right! Although the Jade Emperor is an immortal emperor, he is indeed a little foolish. However, there is actually a second interpretation of this story. Your Majesty, do you know who this Bodhi Patriarch is? He is completely capable, but he is not allowed to report his name?" Nodding his head, Zuo Ming said without restraint, and said with a sly look.

"Bodhi was originally from the Western Regions. Could it be that this Bodhi is a member of Western Buddhism?" The first person to respond was Changsun Wuji, who had the highest political sense.

Appreciatively, he gave Changsun Wuji a thumbs up, Zuo Ming smiled and nodded, "Uncle Guo is worthy of being an uncle, this heart is really exquisite! Yes, this Bodhi ancestor's real name is Subhuti. In Western Buddhism there is The name of the second leader, also known as the quasi-said Taoist.

It's just that this person has traveled between the East and the West all year round, so he has gathered the power of the three teachings of Buddhism, Chan, and Ren in one body!And the so-called 72 changes are actually the 'Eight Nine Mysterious Skills' born out of the interpretation of teachings! "

"I understand! No wonder that black and white impermanence went to seduce Sun Wukong's soul for no reason. I think many of the ten halls of Yama are disciples of Western Buddhism! They want to use Sun Wukong as a pawn to disrupt the order of heaven! Buddhism The middleman has determined that the monkey was transformed by Nuwa Empress's sky-filling spirit stone, and the immortals in heaven must have nothing to do with it. However, Laojun couldn't do it himself because of his fellowship with Nuwa Empress, so he had to invite the West Buddha! Of course, there must be a price for the Buddha’s action, so the west of the Liangjie Mountains will all return to the Buddha’s land!"

Li Shimin deserves to be a person who thinks too much. Zuo Ming was just talking for fun, so he analyzed a lot of conspiracies and tricks by himself, and he said it so clearly.

Having nothing to say, Zuo Ming could only give a big thumbs up, "Your Majesty is indeed wise! You can guess all of this! But what if I say there is a third solution to this matter?"

"The third solution? Let me hear it?" Wang Gui also became interested at this time. He thought it was just a fairy tale at first, but now it seems that this story is not that simple.

"Actually, where are there any gods in this world, and where are there any Buddhas? It's just some self-proclaimed powerful people!

However, although these people are powerful, they need endless auras if they want to live forever, but the auras in the world are really limited, so those so-called gods began to show their power everywhere, fooling the world. It's just gathering the power of faith and transforming the aura.

But these gods are used to being superior, and they have received benefits, but never do anything, and even some gods do the evil deeds of some fish and meat mortals.

Just like a person named Zhenyuan Daxian, who is the ancestor of the Earth Immortal, he planted a ginseng fruit tree in his family, which blooms once in 3000 years, bears fruit in 3000 years, and matures in another 3000 years.But it can only bear thirty fruits.If you smell these fruits, you can live for 360 years, and if you eat one, you can live for 7000 years!

But in order to grow this tree, Zhen Yuanzi has to keep burying newborn babies in the root of this ginseng fruit tree!For this reason, there is a magical daughter country in this world.

There are no men in the daughter's country, and they are all beautiful and immortal, but they have to drink a river called Zimu River every year. After drinking, they will give birth to babies, and all these babies will be given away. Go to Zhenyuanzi's mansion - Wuzhuang Temple!Use it as fertilizer!
If it is true, the women of these daughter countries are actually just a group of hens raised in captivity.

Immortals have no virtue, and the world will naturally no longer respect gods.Therefore, in order for mortals to regain their faith, the gods released their captive spirit beasts to the lower realms to cause chaos!

The mortals were harassed by the spirit beasts of the gods, and had no choice but to pray to the gods again, asking them to help get rid of those monsters!

Naturally, it was impossible for those gods to kill their own pets, so they found some mountain spirits and wild monsters as dead ghosts.

And those monster races in the mountains, how could they kill them without a fight?So they all united and wanted to fight against Heaven!

Since it is a union, the person in charge must be selected. Therefore, Monkey King with boundless magic power stood out as the head of the seven great demon kings in the world.

However, although Yaozu is powerful, they are not the opponents of Heavenly Court after all!In addition, some monster clans who were not firm in their stance betrayed the alliance one after another, and took refuge in Heaven as lackeys!
Even if Sun Wukong has boundless magic power, it is difficult to have the power to return to heaven!So, after fighting against one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers with one man's strength, Monkey King was finally exhausted and captured!

However, although he was captured, how powerful is Monkey King?The sky-filling spirit stone is transformed into such a thing, even if Empress Nuwa makes a move, it may not be able to completely destroy it!Unless it was the resurrection of Pan Gu who created the world, or the resurrection of the twelve ancestor witches transformed into his flesh, otherwise, even the reincarnation of Pan Gu's will would never be able to completely refine it.

Since you can't kill it, you can only find a way to turn it into your own!It's a pity that Sun Wukong has a heroic spirit, and he would rather bend than bend, and it seems that he is not good at confusing the mind whether it is human education or interpretation.The Jade Emperor had no choice but to invite Western Buddhism, which is very good at deceiving people's hearts.To discuss how to eliminate the threat of this monkey.

The Lord Buddha is worthy of being the Lord Buddha, and he soon thought of a way, that is to seal Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain first, let the gods and Buddhas of the heavens absorb his power continuously, and after 500 years, he will be enchanted and let him go. The road of seeking Buddha again!
With this double hint of magic and reality, no matter how determined Sun Wukong is, he will definitely regard the story they made up as his original life.The threat is naturally lifted.

This method is naturally a good method, but the Lord Buddha has too much appetite, needless to say if he wants to share the aura in Monkey King's body, even Monkey King himself wants to get it to the Western world.The Jade Emperor naturally did not agree, so he slapped the Buddha Lord Tathagata!
It's a pity that the Lord Buddha is the venerable saint, and his strength is no small matter. The Jade Emperor was defeated and lost a hand.

Originally, he could go to Taishang Laojun for help, but Laojun turned into a beard back then, and his relationship with the Western leader was unclear and unclear, so he had to compromise and handed Monkey King over to the Buddhist sect, and he was born in the west of our world. , Give up a palm of land to Lord Buddha!

Later, in order to cover up the truth of the matter, the Jade Emperor fabricated the story of 'Havoc in Heaven'! "

(End of this chapter)