From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Now, seeing a thatched hut not far away, I couldn't help but feel my mouth go dry.

But Jiang Liu thought it was very good.

To attain true freedom, one must experience the human world, develop two minds, and then control these two minds until they return to one. Otherwise, why would the restless mind need to be conceived and born into this world?

When a mindless stone, blending in with the world, stands atop a mountain, watching the clouds drift and the world change, wouldn't that be wonderful?

So he said, “Alright, let’s go and see if they are kind people. If they are, we can ask them for a bowl of water.”

As soon as they arrived at the hut, they heard cries and the sounds of smashing and breaking things, which made them afraid to knock on the door.

Bajie said, "I'm afraid it's because father and son don't get along."

Ba Jing said, "It's probably a sign of discord between the husband and wife."

Pingping said, "Or it might be a dispute between siblings."

Hu Yuan, Hu Jue, and Liang Luzhen both lost their parents at a young age, were unmarried, and had no younger sisters, so they dared not make any wild guesses.

"Don't gossip about others here."

Jiang Liu gave the three men a lesson, and then six men emerged from the thatched hut. They had ferocious faces, laughed loudly, carried bundles on their shoulders, had money bags tied around their waists, and each carried a knife and a stick. They were not his sons, but bandits from the mountains.

Upon seeing Jiang Liu and his group outside the door, the six bandits were startled by their appearance. However, as expected of people who engage in murder and arson, they quickly regained their composure. Seeing that Pingping was beautiful and pretty, they shouted in unison, "Where did you ugly people come from, daring to cause trouble here?"

Put down your luggage and money!

Leave the scholar and maid behind!

We'll spare your lives!

"You ungrateful wretch, how dare you come looking for trouble with us? Meeting us means your good days are over!"

Bajie, carrying his rake, didn't take the six bandits seriously at all. He sneered, "But I don't fight nameless people. Tell me your names, or you can hang yourself from a crooked tree to avoid dirtying my hands."

The six bandits were furious and cursed, "You ungrateful idiots, you don't even recognize us! We are the kings of this mountain, highway robbers!"

One is called seeing joy, one is called hearing anger, one is called smelling love, one is called tasting thought, one is called thinking desire, and one is called the body's inherent sorrow!

Today, I was just trying to get some travel money from home, but unexpectedly, I met you two-legged sheep by the grace of heaven!

Brothers, let's charge! Kill them and turn them into mincemeat!

Without a word, the six strongmen attacked with knives and clubs, each one brave and fierce, but how could ordinary men be a match for Pigsy? He swept them away one by one, killing five of them, leaving only one alive and in distress.

Just as the rake was about to pierce nine holes in the robber's head, an old couple ran out of the outhouse and begged, "Good sir, spare our son's life! We still need him to carry on our family line!"

Only then did Pigsy stop.

The bandit, Shen Benyou, having escaped with his life, hurriedly got up, abandoned his parents and brothers, and fled into the mountains, fearing for his life.

"Old man, did your family start out as bandits?"

Bajie ignored the fleeing bandits and mocked them.

"What are you saying, sir? If my family were bandits for generations, why would we still be living in this thatched hut?"

Seeing that his son had run away and was alive, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, but he was too weak to chase after him. He simply invited Jiang Liu and his group into the house and ordered the old woman to make tea before revealing the reason. His face was full of bitterness. "I had a son late in life and spoiled him rotten. Even though we were poor, I still provided him with food and clothing and didn't let him do any work, for fear that his lineage would be cut off."

However, he grew up to be unfilial. He neither farmed nor married. Instead, he taught a group of bad friends who caused trouble in the village all day long, harassed women, and made the village a living hell.

The villagers and the village chief told me that, unfortunately, my family had no choice but to move outside the village and cultivate a piece of farmland to grow our own food, hoping that my son could settle down.

who ever thought.

This son, however, harbored resentment towards the villagers. He ran up the mountain and swore brotherhood with five bandits, abandoning his old surname and adopting a new name, Shen Benyou. He frequently raided the village, robbing and plundering, and then came to my place to freeload, never leaving me a single penny. It's truly a miserable situation..."

Chapter 1506 The Old Ape with the Long Arm was Deeply Obsessed

"In that case, old man, how about we cut that one off for you?"

Hu Yuan and Hu Jue recalled their ancestral teachings to devour the wicked and depraved, and believed that the old man's son was an unfilial son and a villain, and that keeping him around would only bring trouble.

Although they have embarked on the righteous path and no longer eat people, since they are not doing honest work and are robbing and looting, it would be better to kill them.

"We can't let it end! We can't let it end! If we do, my family will truly be wiped out! Five of the six robbers are already dead, let them go!"

Fearing they might actually go after his son and eliminate him completely, the old man was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed, begging Jiang Liu and his group not to interfere any further. "Without their help, he's just a spineless loner. He'll learn from this experience; once he runs off to another city, he probably won't do any more evil."

Hu Yuan and Hu Jue both felt that the old man was confused.

Jiang Liu then said, "Very well, he is still a human being after all, and we are not the government, so we can't just kill people at will. We'll just make sure we don't encounter him again in the future."

The elderly couple were extremely grateful and poured them tea...

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But he was unwilling to give up. He went up the mountain, entered the village, rummaged through his belongings, and found two round balls, each about the size of a sandbag, one gray and the other shiny.

If the river were here, it would recognize that these two beads are precisely the aggregates of thought and action.

"found it!"

Shen Ben was overjoyed and hurriedly tidied up, but as soon as he turned around, the smile on his face disappeared and turned into fear, because a monkey wearing a blue-gray robe, with a long face, blue nose, Buddhist beads around its neck, and flowing white hair was looking at him with a sinister smile. Then it snatched the bundle containing Xiang Yun and Xing Yun from his hands.

"This is mine!"

Enraged, Shen Benyou swung his sword straight at the monkey's head, but she dodged it and kicked him instead.

boom!

How can ordinary people withstand the power of spirits and monsters?

One kick, and he lost his life.

This is the end.

All six senses are severed.

The ape ignored the bandit, tore open the bundle, grabbed Xiangyun and Xingyun, and after confirming that they were indeed Xiangyun and Xingyun, it ran out of the mountain stronghold. It walked and stopped, looking around, and when it saw no one following it, it crawled into a cave and placed Xiangyun and Xingyun in front of a corpse sitting cross-legged on the ground.

The corpse was dressed in a black robe and a tiger-skin skirt, with a pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks, and wore a golden headband on its head, but it was completely lifeless.

“How lamentable! How lamentable! Great Sage, you have such a loving mother, it is truly enviable, but two energies are not enough.”

A Buddha emerged from the shadows, his appearance identical to that of a child, yet he was bald, his chest bare, and a smile always playing on his lips. "The five aggregates are empty, thus one can transcend all suffering."

"If we want him to be resurrected, we still need the Three Aggregates, which are in the hands of that chosen one. We must retrieve them."

"Otherwise, this heart that died on the journey to the Western Paradise..."

"But it's hard to jump anymore."

Upon hearing this, the monkey didn't reply, but merely glanced at the little monk before heading out to find the chosen one.

"Sigh, such a deep-seated obsession!"

Watching the monkey disappear into the distance, the young monk sighed and asked Yuan Shoucheng, who had appeared out of nowhere, "What brings you here, sir? And what have you divined?"

"Do you even need to calculate? If you keep messing around, you might get beaten to death by Gu Yueyuanjue," Yuan Shoucheng advised.

Life is full of disappointments; one should only strive for half-satisfaction in all things.

The little monk was speechless, but he sighed, "That monkey entered the cycle of reincarnation, comprehended the Great Dao, and stirred up unrest in the Three Realms, making even immortals and Buddhas uneasy."

"Buddha commanded me to cause trouble, how could I dare to secretly obey and openly disobey?"

Yuan Shoucheng remained silent, only covering his ears and saying quietly, "I'll pretend I didn't hear those words."

Upon hearing this, the young monk smiled and said, "Sir, do not worry, this humble monk does not lie..." He then pointed to the corpse and said, "You are known for your fortune-telling skills, so you must know the true form of this monkey?"

"Does Heaven truly have a heart?"

Yuan Shoucheng asked tremblingly.

"Who knows?"

The young monk smiled faintly, left the cave, and looked down at the village below. Seeing the people suffering, he sighed and said, "Sir, you have calculated everything under heaven, but do you know why Pangu created the world and caused all living beings to suffer like this?"

Yuan Shoucheng did not answer.

The young monk answered himself: "I guess it's because Pangu wanted to ask for something undetermined."

"Humph!"

Yuan Shoucheng scoffed, “Destiny is cause and effect. If the cause is fixed, who can escape the effect? ​​The fact that it is not fixed simply means that I do not know enough about the previous causes.”

"How about we make a bet?"

The little monk laughed.

"What are you gambling?"

"Let's bet on whether this monkey can overcome its own inner demons once again."

"I bet I can."

Having already witnessed Jiang Liu's methods, Yuan Shoucheng was the first to place his bet.

The young monk was speechless, but could only choose not to place a bet.

"Aren't you destined to lose?"

Yuan Shoucheng was puzzled.

"Why should monks care so much about winning and losing?"

The young monk, however, didn't care and simply smiled, saying, "It's you, sir, who has calculated everything under heaven, yet seems to lack some wisdom."

"I'm not a monk, what use is wisdom to me?"

Yuan Shoucheng wasn't interested in this, but he also felt that betting with this little monk was pointless, and betting with others was even more pointless.

Let's leave that aside for now.

After drinking the tea, Jiang Liu and the others bid farewell and continued their journey westward.

On the road.

Na Pingping asked, "Brother Yuanjue, why did you promise that couple not to kill their son? Was it really because you needed the government's help?"

"If we insist on following dogma, we'll all be dead. But how innocent were those old couple?"

Jiang Liu sighed, "If I were to say to their faces that I wanted to beat their son to death, I'm afraid it would be inhumane and cause trouble even if there was no right or wrong."

Pingping suddenly realized.