America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

"The movie is a classic, but everyone fell asleep towards the end."

“I’ve finished my research on Journey to the West, and now I consider myself an expert on it,” Dr. Banner said to Li Qun.

"Um, I don't think I have the ability to defeat the Great Sage Huangfeng yet. I'm not ready," Liqun said.

"You're always waiting for an opportunity, but it will never come."

“Liqun, your initial goal was to cast spells without the need for a suspension ring, right?” Bruce Banner asked.

Liqun raised his right hand, his index and middle fingers bearing no dreadnoughts, yet he opened the gates to the New York Sanctum behind Bruce Banner.

"You've done it."

“I’m very familiar with going to the Sanctuary, but when I go to other places, my mind goes blank for a moment, and the opening and closing of the portals isn’t as smooth,” Li Qun said.

The more you think, the more obstacles you will have in your mind.

“I believe in you,” Banner encouraged Liqun.

“Then… I’ll challenge the Yellow Wind Great Sage during my next holiday,” Li Qun said.

"Spring break? We've made plans for the end of March."

Bruce Banner is putting pressure on Liqun.

Facing the Great Sage Huangfeng, Liqun experienced repeated defeats that instilled a strong sense of frustration. Although he claimed that the teleportation portal had a high chance of helping him defeat the Great Sage Huangfeng, he himself was uncertain about it.

The Great Sage Huang Feng didn't reveal many of his tricks to him, only using the Samadhi Divine Wind to make him fail repeatedly, which was what Li Qun was worried about.

The portal might be able to kill someone on the first encounter, but it might not be as effective on the second.

"To be a giant in action..."

Dr. Banner spoke encouraging words to Li Qun, which made Li Qun feel strange.

What Li Qun heard in his heart was: Be a Hulk in action.

Li Qun clenched his fist, imagining himself as the Hulk, shattering the image of the Yellow Wind Monkey King in his mind with a single blow, breaking free from his shackles.

"I'm ready now."

"There's no need to hesitate until the spring break."

Dr. Banner looked at his father with a puzzled expression.

The old man smiled at Banner: "Young man, you've got quite the temper."

"Don't be too impulsive."

Li Qun took a deep breath to adjust her breathing rhythm and mental state.

"I'll be right back."

"If you fail, just take it as a chance to calm down and clear your head."

Li Qun pulled out his golden cudgel and smashed it against his own forehead. Li Qun's spirit flew out...

……

……

A cold wind howled as Liqun arrived in the Huangfengling Valley.

“It’s been a while since you’ve come. I thought you’d given up.” The monk said from behind Li Qun.

Li Qun glanced back at the white-robed monk and gripped the golden cudgel tightly.

“Master Monk, I have been practicing my skills all this time. It’s not that I’ve given up, but that I’m consolidating my abilities.”

"I've already found a way to defeat this yellow-haired weasel, so don't rush off." The monk reached out to stop Li Qun, but he realized he was a little too late; Li Qun had already reached the Yellow Wind Great Sage.

"Ok?"

"drink!!"

"Samadhi Divine Wind Arises!!"

The Great Sage Huangfeng rose up, brandishing his three-pronged steel fork with one hand, his Samadhi Divine Wind stirring up heaven and earth.

In the cold wind, there was not only sand and gravel, but also ice and snow, which swept towards Liqun like knives.

"go!"

A portal appeared in front of Li Qun, and he rushed into it, leaping out from behind Huang Feng Da Sheng.

The portal closed instantly, and the Samadhi Divine Wind blew nothing.

Li Qun struck Huang Feng Dasheng on the back with his staff, and Huang Feng Dasheng was surprised to find that Li Qun had appeared behind him.

"open!!"

Huang Feng Dasheng swung his steel fork back, and Li Qun fell into the teleportation portal beneath his feet, avoiding Huang Feng Dasheng's attack.

Li Qun appeared in the sky, and his golden cudgel chopped down at the head of the Yellow Wind Great Sage.

"Who taught you this trick?"

"Is it that person?" Huang Feng asked Li Qun in a panic, holding his steel fork horizontally to block Li Qun's blow.

"Who else knows this trick?" Li Qun asked rhetorically.

The Great Sage Huang Feng's eyes changed, thinking that Li Qun had given in.

The Great Sage Huangfeng brandished the steel fork around his body, creating an invisible wind wall around him with the Samadhi Divine Wind.

The portal appeared beneath the feet of the Yellow Wind Great Sage. He had no idea that he would suddenly slip and fall, and the Samadhi Divine Wind could not protect the soles of his feet.

Just as it was about to ride the wind, a portal shot up from its feet to its head, swallowing the entire monster into it.

The Yellow Wind Great Sage crashed headfirst into the ground.

Gravity allows people to perceive the up, down, left, and right of the world, but Liqun used a portal to turn the bottom into the top. Only by coming out of the portal can one feel that they are upside down from the world.

With the Great Sage Huang Feng lying on the ground, things became much easier for Li Qun!

This is the right time to press down and prevent the Yellow Wind Great Sage from standing up.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff) slipped from Li Qun's hands and transformed into a colossal pillar, crashing down upon Huang Feng Da Sheng.

"You want to kill me, don't you?" shouted the Great Sage Yellow Wind.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff) immediately subdued the Great Sage Huang Feng, and the events that had happened to the Black Bear Spirit were also repeated in the life of the Great Sage Huang Feng.

"Why is this golden cudgel so heavy?"

"Isn't it only a little over 10,000 jin?"

The Yellow Wind Great Sage lost his steel fork and used both hands to firmly hold onto the Ruyi Jingu Bang, forcefully blowing the Ruyi Jingu Bang with his Samadhi Divine Wind.

"Hold on! Ruyi Jingu Bang!!"

Six portals suddenly appeared next to the Golden Cudgel, and the portals became pressure relief vents, dissipating the Samadhi Divine Wind elsewhere.

Li Qun and Huang Feng Dasheng were locked in a stalemate, but both could clearly feel that the Ruyi Jingu Bang was more powerful than Huang Feng Dasheng.

"Golden Cudgel, keep growing! Grow bigger than I can imagine!!"

What exceeded Li Qun's expectations was letting the Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff) do its own thing.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magical staff) instantly increased in size, power, and strength!

In the past, under the hands of Sun Wukong, the Victorious Fighting Buddha, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, it could transform itself to reach the thirty-three heavens above and the eighteen levels of hell below.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff) replicates this transformation!

In this day and age, there are no gods in the thirty-three heavens above, no ghosts in the eighteen levels of hell below, and no one will interfere with the changes in the size of the Golden Cudgel itself.

The Great Sage Yellow Wind sank into the depths of the earth...

"Alright! You're amazing, I admit it!!"

The golden cudgel kept pushing the Great Sage Huang Feng towards the ground, and the Great Sage Huang Feng felt that he was about to be pushed into the underworld.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang (the magic staff) contracted, slowly returning to its suitable size. A deep, dark hole appeared where it had originally suppressed the Yellow Wind Great Sage, and a yellow-haired weasel flew out of the hole.

A chilling wind surged wildly from the deep cave onto the earth.

Is this reasonable?

Li Qun glanced at the deep hole and took a step back.

"You know this is unreasonable."

The yellow-haired weasel, now back to its original size, was less than Li Qun's knee height.

"This is proof of the decay and decay of our world," said the Great Sage Huang Feng.

"It was already a rotting corpse. If the Golden Cudgel were enlarged and poked it, it would create a hole in the body."

Li Qun didn't know what to say; an unspeakable fear enveloped him.

"The essence of color is yours."

The Great Sage Huang Feng waved his hand at Li Qun, and one of the five aggregates of the Great Sage, the color aggregate, flew from the Buddha's head to Li Qun and entered Li Qun's body.

The consciousness and form within the group resonated, and a radiant glow radiated from the group's body.

The deep hole pierced by the Ruyi Jingu Bang slowly closed under the power of the Great Sage's power.

With a complex expression, Huang Feng watched Li Qun unleash his full power and let out a sigh.

"Great Sage Huangfeng, could you explain the meaning of color to me?" Liqun asked.

"Color essence..."

"It refers to all existence that has materiality and can be perceived. It is visible, tangible, and measurable."

“The inner color is yourself, the entity; the outer color is the external entity that you touch.”

Chapter 116 Humanity Has Limits

The concept of form seems to be the same as the modern scientific concept of matter, but Li Qun believes it is still necessary to distinguish between the two.

When Li Qun thought of "form," the phrase "form is emptiness, emptiness is form" from the Heart Sutra came to mind, which embodies the impermanence of form.

The Buddhist concept of "impermanence" in the form aggregate (rupa) is that all material phenomena are products of the aggregation of causes and conditions, and will go through the process of birth, death, and extinction, just as the human body grows and ages, and objects will be damaged.