From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Anger and afflictions: 21,000!

21,000 instances of ignorance and afflictions!

The equal distribution of afflictions, that is, the thoughts arising from the simultaneous arising of greed, anger, and ignorance, amount to 21,000!

There are a total of 84,000 troubles!

It was precisely because of these many troubles that he constantly manifested them outwardly, chatting with Dapeng about everything under the sun, from trivial matters like cleaning up the excrement and urine of the Lion Camel Kingdom to grander discussions about how to overthrow the Buddha and seize the Thunderclap Temple...

That's why Dapeng stayed in the Lion Camel Kingdom for the past five hundred years!

Although the Buddha instructed him to cultivate here in order to plan for the future, he did not set any restrictions!

The Buddha Mother Peacock King Bodhisattva was not a guardian; she simply missed her brother and came to visit him.

The reason why Dapeng was able to fly out of Lion Camel Kingdom so decisively was because Jiang Liu's primordial spirit temporarily acted as Dapeng's "inner demon," teaching him to be temporarily unaffected by the eighty-four thousand troubles.

at the moment.

The three ten-thousand-foot-long fire dragons contain sixty-three thousand afflictions of greed, anger, and ignorance. The remaining twenty-one thousand equal afflictions, which are the true nature of greed, anger, and ignorance, are contained in the Garuda, the original deity.

Obvious.

It wouldn't be enough for Bajie, Bajing, Huyuan, Hujue, and Luzhenping to directly confront these three fiery dragons representing the poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance... but it would be sufficient to deal with the Roc, who had only developed greed, anger, and ignorance.

Furthermore, defeating Dapeng was precisely a cultivation exercise arranged by Jiang Liu for them to completely enter the Bodhisattva state of mind!

Dapeng was unaware of Jiang Liu's thoughts. He only thought that although the fire dragon could not do anything to this monkey, it could not make him escape. However, those six people were indeed a variable that had to be guarded against. So he said, "Monkey, don't be delusional. I'm going to devour your six junior brothers and sisters right now!"

I haven't had fresh meat and blood for a long time, so I'll just have them as appetizers with my drinks.

You——

The delicious monkey brains should be saved for last...

Meanwhile, abroad, Lion Camel...

Protected by Jiang Liu's cassock, Bajie and the other five escaped danger and arrived at the charnel ground.

"That Roc is truly troublesome. Using those obsessions as materials, he actually refined the Lion Camel Kingdom into the 'Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle'!"

Looking out over the Lion Camel Kingdom city, dozens of miles away, it was completely empty, devoid of people and demons, and without a single spark of fire. Pigsy was certain that the Roc had used the special energy of the Lion Camel Kingdom to create a Yin-Yang Two-Qi Bottle that formed its own world, connected to heaven and earth. The only solution was to destroy the entire city.

But Jiang Liu is still inside. If the city is destroyed, causing spatial turbulence, and he gets injured...

Ok!

Pigsy can't fool himself.

That monkey is very powerful, how could it be injured?

It's definitely a test!

They were to deal with that Golden-Winged Roc!

"You pig-headed idiot, come out here!"

Just then.

High in the sky, the roc revealed its true form, its wings like clouds hanging from the heavens, flapping towards the mountains, causing the wind to swirl, and there it was—

A chilly wind swept through the world, and dust swirled without a trace.

It sweeps through forests and over mountains, scattering fallen leaves; it sows soil and raises dust, causing hills and mounds to collapse.

Bajie and his companions hurriedly wrapped themselves in their cassocks to ward off the fierce wind.

When the wind died down, all the surrounding trees were broken, and all the fallen leaves on the ground were gone, revealing a stark white skeleton. There were animal bones and human bones mixed together, truly like a mountain range built of bones.

"You scruffy bird! If you want to fight, then fight. Why are you blowing in the wind?"

Pigsy tore open his cassock, grabbed his rake, and shouted at the Roc in the sky, "If you have the guts, come down and compete with your grandpa Pig, and I'll show you how powerful Marshal Tianpeng is!"

"You stupid pig, that rake must have been stolen from some peasant's house, right? Fine, I haven't fought anyone in five hundred years, today I'll fight you!"

The Roc reverted to its original form, transforming into a human, and descended from the sky wielding a painted halberd, its tip pointed directly at Pigsy…

Chapter 1549 Severing the Three Corpses and Destroying the Great Roc

"You scruffy bird, how dare you look down on Old Pig like this!"

When Bajie saw that Dapeng had truly transformed into human form and was wielding a long halberd to fight, he cursed loudly and used his rake to block the halberd, which shook the earth three times.

"Don't panic, senior brother, I'm here to help you!"

Seeing this, Bajing swept his sword horizontally, unleashing a beam of sword light that struck directly at the head of the Roc.

What a great killing!

The Golden-Winged Roc takes human form, its three corpses and afflictions forming its avatars. Encountering the river's flow, it encounters its inner demons, its venomous schemes devouring destiny. The Cleansing Altar Messenger resumes his cultivation, assisting righteousness and eliminating evil amidst perilous trials. The Eight Heavenly Dragons offer assistance, their combined efforts nourishing the wood and supporting its growth.

The Demon King, rousing himself to unleash his might, saw divine weapons clash, each displaying its power. One halberd moved like a python slicing through the forest, another rake soared like a phoenix dancing. Adding to this was a dragon emerging from the sea, amidst billowing clouds and rising mist. All this was for the sake of eliminating inner demons, yet their bitter stalemate was utterly merciless.

Bajie and Dapeng fought for fifty rounds without a clear winner.

When Dapeng saw Hu Yuan, Hu Jue, Lü Zhen, and Ping Ping charging towards him, he was filled with fear and thought to himself, "This is bad! These six are really capable. They have been fighting me for so long without showing any signs of fatigue. If this continues, I'm afraid I'll die!"

In an instant, he sheathed his halberd, spread his wings, and soared into the sky. With a shake of his body, countless feathers fell, transforming into countless streams of black light, each a separate thought.

Tigers, leopards, jackals, water buffalo, wild boars, cunning rabbits, and foxes—it has everything!

They are all his incarnations!

Seeing Dapeng use such a clone technique, Bajie and Bajing were greatly surprised, Huyuan and Hujue were shocked and angry, and Luzhen and Pingping were horrified. They leaned on each other and glanced at the demons who surrounded them. They all gripped their weapons tightly.

"Second Brother, what should we do?"

Liang Luzhen swallowed hard, his heart filled with dread.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a clone of the roc made from its feathers, it can't compare to our true feelings!"

Bajie shouted and charged at the group of demons. With one swipe of his rake, he killed three lesser demons. He felt disdain: So this is nothing!

Seeing how weak the lesser demons were, the other five were less afraid and followed Pigsy eastward, killing tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves along the way, clearing a path.

They fought their way out of the encirclement and turned to look at the demons who had been killed. They saw that the demons had stood up straight again, their wounds slowly healing. They looked energetic and seemed to have not suffered any damage.

Involuntarily—

A sense of dread arose in the hearts of Pigsy and his companions.

"What a wicked demon! To actually cultivate such evil magic, how utterly deceitful!"

Even though his mind had reached the level of a Bodhisattva, Pigsy had also discerned some of the secrets.

This isn't a clone.

Clearly, these are the roots of eighty-four thousand afflictions!

As long as troubles persist, my multifaceted self will never perish.

Killing the roc is easy.

Now that we are in the charnel ground, not in the Lion Camel Kingdom, let him use his hundred-foot-tall Dharma Elephant Body again, without holding back, and he can kill this scraggly bird with one rake!

But it's difficult to get rid of the root of troubles.

Bajie knew that the Roc was a troublesome situation deliberately arranged for them by his eldest brother, and that it could not be resolved by force, or at least not purely by force.

"Second Senior Brother, what should we do now?" Ba Jing also saw through some of the tricks of Da Peng's 21,000 clones and felt troubled.

"Retreat for now!"

After saying this, Pigsy recited a spell and transformed into a piece of dry bone, becoming one with the thousands of dry bones in the charnel ground.

Ba Jing, Hu Yuan, Hu Jue, Lü Zhen, and Ping Ping also used magic, each transforming into a skeleton.

The twenty-one thousand transformed into beings and searched the mountains, but could not find the person. The roc cursed, "You escaped quickly, but that monkey is in my hands, and he will surely come back!"

Then, the Great Roc spread its wings and returned to the Lion Camel Kingdom, leaving its incarnations behind and instructing them to search in the charnel ground.

"How does Dapeng control so many clones?"

Pingping, who had turned into white bones, was puzzled.

"He doesn't have that ability."

Bajie snorted, “Although these little demons are all his incarnations, he took a trick and used the obsessions of 84,000 little demons from Lion Camel Ridge and Lion Camel Kingdom to create them.”

These clones exist because of their attachments, and they combine with the three corpses of the Great Roc himself to form the eighty-four thousand roots of afflictions.

Those three fire dragons must have been transformed from the 21,000 each of the three afflictions of greed, anger, and ignorance. They've already been held back by the eldest brother, and what we need to deal with is the Garuda, which holds the last 21,000 equal portions of the afflictions.

"But how should we deal with it?"

Liang Lu couldn't think of a good solution.

"Perhaps we can start by severing the three corpses."

Ba Jing did come up with an idea.

"Dapeng's external incarnation technique is created by relying on his own three corpses of greed, anger, and ignorance as the source, and merged with him... Perhaps he himself is a demon after the three corpses are combined into one."

"Therefore, the same methods used to deal with the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance can also be used to deal with the Roc."

Upon hearing this, Pigsy seemed to be deep in thought and asked, "Then how exactly should we do it?"

Ba Jing said, "My senior brother once said that to eliminate the three corpses, one must treat the symptoms and not blindly resort to force. Otherwise, not only will one fail to eliminate them, but one will also become physically and mentally exhausted."

We need to understand the specifics of the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance in the Great Roc.

"As for the Roc's greed, I, Pigsy, do know. He loves blood food and once devoured the entire population of an entire country five hundred years ago." Pigsy stated without hesitation the Roc's greed—blood food.

As for anger—

“That’s easy to say. Last time we challenged him, he actually descended from the sky, transformed into human form, and fought us. It seems that he has been in this Lion Camel Kingdom for five hundred years, and there are no other humans or demons to talk to. He has a fiery temper and is easily provoked,” Ba Jing said.

The brothers Hu Yuan and Hu Jue then spoke of the roc's obsession, saying, "That roc is no match for us, yet it still sends out these incarnations to patrol the mountain, determined to find us. It must be that obsessive and infatuated heart that is causing this."

"If that's the case, then I have an idea!"

Pingping said, "Use infatuation as a guide, fight with anger, and then use greed as a lure to complete the capture!"

"How to say?"

Liang Luzhen inquired.