Chapter 22 The Great Sage Punishing the Heavens
The magic power of the monkey was completely lost, and he knew that he had no chance of winning. He held up with difficulty, and only if he survived, he could have hope. He had not yet avenged Ah Xue's revenge and could not die.
He dragged his sleepy body away from the city gate, but the punch just now seemed to break his sternum. He covered his chest and even gasped, but the red-faced macaque behind him laughed like a joke on prey: "Tongbang monkey, what's your virtue? How dare you discuss magical powers with me? Today is your own fault, don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless."
The Tongbang Ape was forced to the cliff, and the red-faced macaque raised his sword and showed a ferocious smile. But he stopped just as he wanted to start, because he thought that the Tongbang Ape was the reincarnation of the Divine Monkey after all, and that was the love of the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons throughout his life. If he killed the Tongbang Ape with his own hands, the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons might hate him for the rest of his life, so he said: "Tongbang Ape, now you have lost all your magic power, and I will achieve nothing in my killing you. But I can give you a way out. As long as you jump off this cliff, life and death will be in your destiny."
The monkey looked at the sky, and now he lost his magic power. Not to mention going to the sky and into the earth, it was difficult to fly in the air. If you jumped down, you would definitely die. There were jackals in front and tigers and leopards behind. The monkey was in a dilemma. He looked at the red-faced macaque and resolutely jumped off the cliff.
The red-faced macaque spread his hands and laughed to the sky, "From now on, there will be no more monkey general in the world."
The monkey felt the strong sleepiness hit his heart. He fell into a glacier river. The biting cold water was like a swamp of death. His body seemed to be torn apart. But he didn't want to die yet. He was stubbornly supported by his will, but he had no power to survive. He slowly closed his eyes and drifted with the river...
The Wanshe Cave is located three thousand feet underground, with thousands of poisonous snakes scattered like stars. The red-faced macaque knelt down in front of the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons, presented a purple golden spear, and said, "Queen, today a monkey shouted at the East City Gate. He killed the Gui Qinglong Protector. When he fought with me, he accidentally fell into a glacier and cliff. Life and death were uncertain."
The Queen of Ten Thousand Demons reached out to take the purple golden spear, her eyes were filled with tears, and cursed: "Red-faced macaque, you are so brave. You know my relationship with the Great Monkey General, but you are ungrateful!"
"The red-faced macaque's duty is to defend the kingdom of all demons, and those who commit crimes are killed. What's wrong with it?"
The wise thousand-year-old tree demon said, "Queen, it's right to kill the Great Sage of Heaven. As the commander of a country, you must put the overall situation first and you cannot sacrifice the country of Ten Thousand Demons for the sake of the love of your children."
The Queen of Ten Thousand Demons gave an order, and the Golden-winged Black Hawk, one of the two saints, aimed at the head of the red-faced macaque with a broken sky bow.
"Queen, are you going to kill me?"
"As my subordinate, you dare to knock the general off the cliff."
"Just for that stinky monkey, do you want to kill me? If he remembers you, he wouldn't come to the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom to start a massacre. I've been protecting you all the time."
The red-faced macaque stood up angrily and walked out of the cave. No matter how the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons shouted, he refused to stop. He understood that only if the monkey died could he get the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons.
The Queen of Ten Thousand Demons slowly hugged the purple golden spear, as if she saw the Great General of the Divine Monkey. It was the monkey she had been looking forward to her. She quickly instructed her subordinates: "Send someone to find the General of the Divine Monkey!"
The Golden-winged Black Hawk replied, "Yes, Queen."
I saw him waving his golden wings and jumping up, and in a blink of an eye, he flew without a trace...
After death and death, coming and going, Tathagata asked Guanyin Bodhisattva, "Do you know the origin of this red-faced macaque? The connecting monkey was defeated by his hands."
Guanyin smiled and said, "Why should the Buddha ask clearly? The red-faced macaque is one of the four monkeys in the world. He is cruel by nature, eats human flesh and drinks human blood. He calls himself the Great Saint of the Heavens in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, and has great magical powers. But he is loyal to the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons. Because of his jealousy, he dares to hate and kill the monkeys."
At this time, Tathagata turned his head and turned to Wukong and asked, "Fighting the Buddha, it is rumored that the red-faced macaque is incomparable to your magic power. Do you think you can beat him?"
Wukong brushed the dust on his robes, closed his hands and replied, "So what to win? So what to lose? If only one can win can one become a Buddha by fighting, then wouldn't he become a demon? The river goes east, Buddhism comes west, it is spotless, and the four elements are empty. Wukong's heart is no longer troubled by fame and fortune, so why bother with the vulgar light of the world?"
Guanyin exclaimed: "Wukong, I didn't expect that your Buddhist teachings have progressed so quickly over the past few hundred years."
Wukong closed his eyes and said, "Actually, the life and death of the monkeys is just a blink of an eye in the blink of an eye, but you would rather spend a hundred years controlling him. Wukong was unclear, what does the monkeys surrender or not have to do with this Mahayana Buddhism?"
Tathagata looked at Sun Wukong, and his eyes were exactly the same as those pressed on Wuzhishan at that time.
...
In the Lingxiao Palace of Heaven, the God Lord summoned Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and King Yama and asked, "How is the demon monkey now?"
King Yama checked the life and death book and replied: "Report to the God Lord, the life of the monkey is over. He broke into the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom alone and was defeated by the red-faced macaque. He jumped off the cliff and died. Now his body is still wandering in the ice flow of the cold river."
The corners of the God Lord's mouth raised slightly and said sinisterly: "It's too cheap to die like this. I want him to kill the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons with his own hands and live in pain. King of Hell, you should quickly remove him from the book of life and death and help him return to his health."
"This...is not in line with the rules."
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva asked, "God Lord, why bother with this?"
When the God saw the King of Hell and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva pushing the three obstacles, he angrily raised his eyebrows and shouted, "You are in charge of the underworld, my God controls the three realms, do you want to disobey?"
"We don't dare to do it now."
The King of Hell and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva shook their bodies and came to the river where the monkeys were wandering. Ksitigarbha gently spread the golden light in his hand on the monkeys and said helplessly: "Sometimes, life cannot be controlled by people, and human cannot be controlled by heaven. Don't be controlled by monkeys, you must do it yourself."
The monkey had a long dream. He first dreamed of Axue, and said softly in his ear, "Monkey, don't avenge me, you can't fight them."
He also dreamed of the Bodhi Patriarch, "There are people outside of the human body, and there are heavens outside of the human body. You are not invincible in the world."
Just as he was reflecting on his reckless actions, a picture of the Queen of Ten Thousand Demons appeared in front of him. She laughed and said, "Tongbang Ape, do you want to take revenge? But you can't even beat my subordinates, how can you take revenge? Hahaha..."
The alternating sound lingered in his ears, awakening him from his dream. He opened his eyes but saw a pair of warm eyes and pale face...
He wandered in the water for three days and three nights, and now he is in a country house, and there is only one family in this ten miles. The plaster is covered with plaster, and a simple-dressed woman is feeding the plaster to the plaster.
"Who are you? Where is this?"
"My name is Xiangsi, this is the foot of Mount Buzhou."
At the junction of the northern glaciers and the western desert, the corner of the great wilderness, the land of Guanghan, there are mountains but not in harmony, and it is called Buzhou. I saw a scar-covered one-armed woodcutter chopping wood and returning home, saying to the monkey, "If my daughter Xiangsi had saved you while washing clothes by the river, you would have died if you float downstream."
"Why?"
"There is a man-eating monster in the water downstream. If it is hit by it, you will definitely be eaten without any bones."
"I look so strange, why aren't you afraid of me? You still want to save me?"
I saw Xiangsi covering her mouth and laughing, "Aren't you just a monkey spirit? This Buzhou Mountain is a mountain of disaster. There are countless monsters and demons and strange beasts in the mountains, and they are no longer accustomed to it."
The monkey asked, "Since this place is so dangerous, why don't you move away?"
The woodcutter put down the firewood and replied helplessly: "In recent years, China has either flooded or droughts or been drought for years. We really can't afford the harsh government taxes of the imperial court. Hiding in this wilderness countryside can at least be self-sufficient."
At this time, a mess of horse hooves came from outside the door, and a group of bandits quickly broke into the door. The bearded leader stared at Xiangsi with a squint and said, "I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree. If you want to cut this tree and leave it to buy wealth."
The woodcutter hurriedly protected his daughter Xiangsi behind him, knelt in front of the bandit leader, begged for mercy, "I'm sorry, I don't know Mount Tai, I'm so sorry for all the guilty uncles. I promise not to go up the mountain to chop wood in the future, please forgive me."
The bandit kicked the firewood on the ground and said viciously: "All cuts are cut, how can you calculate this account?"
The monkey couldn't see it and asked, "The trees on this mountain are natural. Why do you say that they were planted by you? Is there any evidence?"
The bandit leader raised his axe and kept wandering in front of the monkey and said, "I said yes, this axe is evidence."
The woodcutter was afraid of causing trouble and continued to ask for trouble: "I will compensate you for how much this firewood is."
"Can you afford to pay? Why don't you betroth your daughter to me as a village lady, and you can cut down the trees in the mountains."
"No."
But the bandits were robbed clearly. They pushed the woodcutter away and tried to force Xiangsi away. She struggled and shouted, "Dad, save me!"
This was simply too much. The monkey jumped regardless of his injuries and pressed the bandit leader to the ground. He grabbed the axe and put it on the neck of the bandit leader and threatened: "Let that woman be released soon! Otherwise, I will kill you."
Chapter completed!