From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

as predicted!

Under the watchful eyes of Bajie and Bajing, Jiangliu grew another tongue, capable of making sounds and speaking. He said to the king, "Although my tongue can taste a hundred flavors, it does not crave them. It is not like the tongue tastes and thinks."

The king's already pale face turned even paler, and he was filled with regret.

Jiang Liu picked up the knife again and slashed it from top to bottom. Like a cicada shedding its shell, another body jumped out from the gap, leaving only the old body.

Seeing this scene!

All the civil and military officials praised him as a deity!

The king even got up and knelt down!

"Immortal, please withdraw your supernatural powers!"

But how could Jiang Liu grant their wish? With a slight smile, he picked up all five roots and handed them to the Guanyin maid, saying with a smile, "These are my five roots: sight of joy, hearing of anger, smell of love, taste of thought, and body of sorrow. If Your Highness wants them, then take them."

Guanyinbi took the five pieces and felt that the five corpses were still warm. They were indeed flesh and blood, not some kind of illusion!

In a short time.

Terrified, she dared not flaunt her power in front of Jiang Liu any longer. She hurriedly rode a gust of wind, turned into smoke, and fled out of the palace.

"Demon, where do you think you're going?"

Jiang Liu abandoned his flesh and blood body, drew his Ruyi Jingu Bang (a magical staff), and leaped into the sky to chase after Guanyin.

"Truly a deity!"

Inside the imperial court.

All the civil and military officials knelt down in unison.

The king kowtowed repeatedly.

Seeing their behavior, Pigsy laughed loudly: "Your emperor is useless, but you really should kneel! Your concubine is a demon in human form, stealing your true yang energy to cultivate, causing your body to become weak, and she even wants to eat children's brains. If we hadn't passed by, your country would have perished!"

Having witnessed Jiang Liu gouge out eyes, cut off ears, sever noses, pull out tongues, and kill people, even if the king didn't want to wake up, he was still terrified and broke out in a cold sweat.

He was the king of the Little Kingdom, and his word was law; no one dared to disobey him.

But if he were to kill the novice monk and take his brain, it would surely cause widespread resentment among the people. Who knows, if he lost the support of the people, someone might start a rebellion, seize his kingdom, and take his life!

Let's leave that aside for now.

Now, Guanyinbi was none other than the golden-nosed white-haired rat spirit who had sought marriage with Tang Sanzang and stolen his virginity. As she flew through the air, she saw Jiang Liu following her closely and she couldn't shake him off. Knowing that he was toying with her, she became angry and turned around to scold, "Keeper of the Heavenly Horses! Now that you've returned, why come looking for trouble? You've obtained the Five Roots, why are you still heading west?"

“You’ve mistaken me for someone else. Sun Wukong is Sun Wukong, and Gu Yue Yuanjue is Gu Yue Yuanjue.”

Jiang Liu corrected him, then gave a cold laugh, "I'm best at dealing with injustices in the world, and I'm too lazy to bother with what karmic connection you have with that king."

I will not allow you to eat the brains of hundreds of children!

"But since you haven't yet tasted it, I'll show you mercy. If you surrender to me, I'll spare your life and impart to you the true essence of primordial principles, helping you onto the righteous path. Otherwise, don't blame me for showing no mercy."

How could this golden-nosed, white-haired rat spirit believe it? She assumed Jiang Liu was just coaxing her, and increased her speed by another third.

But how can such a swift and agile technique separate the river current?

There was nothing we could do.

She could only use a spell to leap downwards, turning into a wisp of green smoke and disappearing into the ground.

Jiang Liu also descended from the clouds and saw a black pine forest. He chuckled and said, "I wondered where this rat spirit had gone. It turns out it has returned to its home, the Bottomless Cave."

In the context of "Journey to the West," this place was already not far from the point of destroying the Kingdom of France.

The nine orifices of the human body do not refer to any single orifice, but rather to a single organ within the body.

Yumen.

The closer one gets to the crucial moment in spiritual practice, the more important it is to control one's essence and not let it leak out.

otherwise.

Immersing oneself in romantic love is like entering a bottomless pit, from which there is no escape.

The book also includes a reminder about the temple located in the Black Pine Forest: Zhenhai Chanlin Temple.

The phrase "镇海" (zhenhai) itself clearly indicates the main theme.

Taoism has the concept of the "essence gate".

Buddhism has the concept of the ocean floor.

When a cultivator encounters a bottomless pit, as long as they keep their mind steady, they can allow the essence of the seabed to naturally expand and contract, without indulging in desires or passions.

However, once one's mind is disturbed, the seabed will no longer naturally unfold and ripple, but instead stir up raging waves, causing harm to both body and mind.

A small alligator dragon that came to the Blackwater River from the Western Ocean with the high tide!

The Inspiration King, who was brought to the Tongtian River by the rising tide!

All of this is because the practitioner's mind is not calm and it is difficult to suppress the lower abdomen, which leads to the opening of the seminal gate, the generation of inner demons, or the attraction of external evils.

The Zhenhai Chanlin Temple in the black pine forest refers to the place where Tang Sanzang in the book truly began to suppress the root chakra and lock the essence gate after arriving at this place.

But it was precisely because of this step that the Zhenhai Chanlin Temple described in the book was divided into two layers: the outer layer was occupied by bandits, and the inner layer was the real temple.

In terms of the plot, although Tang Sanzang was already able to calm the sea, he had only just understood this principle, so he was captured by the Golden-Nosed White-Haired Rat Demon.

And in this primordial wilderness.

The Journey to the West was nothing more than a test of obedience jointly planned by the Heavenly Court and Mount Ling... But this primordial world was created by Jiang Liu's primordial spirit, which corresponds to the way of the human body of heaven and earth.

This black pine forest is sparse, and most of the mountain forest has been turned into farmland.

However, Jiang Liu knew the way and easily found Zhenhai Chanlin Temple.

But we see:

Blue bricks form a wall adorned with colorful clouds, green tiles cover a glazed palace. Golden statues adorn the deities, white jade steps sculpt the steps. Azure light dances above the main hall, a sharp spirit rises below the Piluo Pavilion.

The Great Sage Hall is adorned with colorful flying clouds; the Victorious Buddha Hall is decorated with painted flowers and piled with emeralds.

Atop the three-tiered roof, a vase-shaped spire rises; within the Five Blessings Pavilion, a flat, embroidered canopy. A thousand emerald bamboos sway over the meditation couch; ten thousand green pines reflect the Zen gate. Golden light shines from the Azure Cloud Palace; auspicious clouds drift amidst the purple mist. At dawn, the fragrant breeze carries the scent of flowers across the fields; at dusk, the painted drums resound high in the mountains. Surely, the morning sun mends tattered robes; surely, there are those who, under the moon, finish their unfinished scriptures?

Then I saw only half a lamp lit up the backyard, and a line of fragrant mist illuminating the central courtyard.

Compared to five hundred years ago, the outer bandits are gone, leaving only a magnificent temple. Moreover, the main hall enshrines not the Buddha or Bodhisattva familiar to ordinary people, but the image of the Monkey King and the Victorious Fighting Buddha.

The young novice monk who was chanting sutras in the main hall saw Jiang Liu enter, and after looking at the Buddha statue in the hall, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Grandpa Buddha has descended to earth!"

"What's all the noise about?"

An old monk emerged from the back hall, scolding the young novice, "I told you to calm down, why are you so disorderly..."

Before he could finish speaking, the old monk saw Jiang Liu, compared him to the statue in the hall, and knelt down, shouting, "Greetings, Grandfather Victorious Buddha!"

Jiang Liu: "..."

Chapter 1554 A White Rat Descends from a Bottomless Pit

"Stand up and speak."

Jiang Liu helped the old man and the young man up. "I am neither the Great Sage Equal to Heaven nor the Victorious Fighting Buddha. My name is Gu Yue Yuan Jue. I come from Huaguo Mountain and wish to follow the will of my ancestors to become a pilgrim on a pilgrimage."

Upon arriving in the Kingdom of Little Ones, the king, being muddle-headed, listened to the sorceress and decided to use the brain marrow of 1,500 novice monks as a medicinal ingredient in order to achieve immortality.

I couldn't bear it, so I first took away the novice monk and had my disciples guard him. Then I confronted the demon queen in the court, forcing her to reveal her true form. I chased her here, but suddenly she burrowed into the ground.

I saw a temple here and came to check it out, and also to ask for a bowl of water.

Upon hearing this, the old monk dared not be negligent and hurriedly poured Jiang Liu a bowl of tea, saying, "Since you are from Flower Fruit Mountain, you must be a descendant of my Buddha grandfather."

Since there are evil spirits, we will certainly do our utmost to help them.

That's all.

The old monk then summoned the monks in the monastery, totaling 3,600 people.

How do you manage to support so many monks?

Jiang Liu had not yet used his divine eye, but he was slightly surprised to see so many monks, and his heart was filled with curiosity.

"Thanks to Grandpa Monkey King!"

The old monk laughed and said, "Back then, when the Great Sage passed through Zhenhai Chanlin Temple, he subdued the demons in the bottomless cave and also eliminated the bandits in the forest."

We monks felt at ease, so we grew our own food.

Over the past five hundred years, most of the black pine forest has been cleared and transformed into fertile farmland. Many traveling monks from Qinluo, seeing the virtue of our monks, also stayed to practice here, growing their own food and consuming it alongside us, with surplus every year. They also frequently visited Qinluo to give alms to the poor, spreading their fame far and wide. Wealthy families and powerful officials from that country also often donated incense money to our Zhenhai Chanlin Temple; it was truly an inexhaustible source of income!

Jiang Liu had no doubts about this, after all, he had indeed seen large tracts of farmland when he came, and the people working in the fields were all monks with ordination scars and wearing monk's robes, not tenant farmers.

Then the old monk said, "Since you saw the demon burrowing into the ground, it must have dug a bottomless pit and occupied the cave of the golden-nosed white-haired rat spirit from five hundred years ago."

"I think that monster is a golden-nosed, white-haired rat spirit."

River Flow Channel.

"If it is her, the Great Sage Buddha spared her life back then, but instead of cultivating properly, she still caused trouble and even wanted to eat 1,500 novice monks from the Little Kingdom. She really deserves to die today."

The old monk feigned anger and said to Jiang Liu, "The monks of our temple are different from those of other places. They were taught by the Great Sage Buddha in the past, practicing martial arts to cultivate their bodies and chanting scriptures to nourish their minds. Although they have left home, they have not left the country, much less this world. If demons cause trouble, they will naturally show their thunderous methods!"

Jiang Liu was well aware of what his own Monkey King had done back then, and he only came here to see the virtues of the monks in this temple.

He was overjoyed to find that the temple had grown so large in five hundred years, and that the monks were all virtuous and self-reliant. He said, “Please lead the way, Abbot.”

Although the old monk was old, he was still full of energy and shouted to the three thousand six hundred monks inside and outside the temple: "Our Buddha is merciful and should subdue the demon and save all living beings!"

In an instant.

The three thousand six hundred monks shouted in unison, their voices shaking the heavens.

thereafter.

With the abbot as the leader, the head monk as the assistant, and the head monk as the leader, the senior monks led the monks, and the monks led the novices. Three thousand six hundred monks followed Jiang Liu to the bottomless cave in Xiankong Mountain, which was a thousand miles away from Zhenhai Temple.

The old monk knew the way and led the group to a steep cliff. There they saw a gate tower, exquisitely decorated with intricate patterns, adorned with five colors, and featuring three eaves and four clusters.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a large rock, about ten miles in circumference, with a hole in the middle the size of a vat opening, which is completely smooth, and several pebbles around it.

"That fairy has indeed returned to its cave!"

The old monk sighed, "Ever since the Great Sage Buddha left, the monks of Zhenhai Temple have refused to travel thousands of miles to this place. They moved a large blue stone to block the cave entrance. Now that the blue stone at the cave entrance has broken, it must be that the monster has returned."