Chapter 557 Tianpeng, We Are Saving You by Killing You! [Ask for Monthly Votes]

"Is Fuling Mountain ahead?"

After walking forward for another two hours, Xuanzang saw a towering mountain appearing in front of him, shrouded in dark clouds. It looked like it was not a place for good people to live.

Wukong put up the awning with his hands and looked forward:

"It's Fuling Mountain. We just passed by the side road, and just along the way is Gao Laozhuang. But since this old pig didn't occupy Gao Cuilan, we don't need to bother him by staying overnight."

Unlike in the original work where he was always begging for alms and staying overnight, Xuanzang now has a lightweight and practical outdoor tent, a warm and comfortable sleeping bag, and a cassette stove for food, so he does not need to disturb the people too much.

Of course, if there is any injustice happening nearby, then we, the eminent monks of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, should take care of it.

The black bear spirit carrying the luggage asked:

"Master, the Buddha said that he would immediately become a Buddha by laying down his butcher's knife. Although the pig-gang hyena cannibalizes people, in the original work, he became a vegetarian after meeting Guanyin. Shouldn't he be given a chance?"

Before Xuanzang could answer, Erlang Shen said:

"That's wrong. According to the files I checked in the underworld, that pig spirit ate at least more than 20,000 people. Such a huge killing cannot be ended by putting down the butcher knife. And although he no longer eats people, he still He violated the sexual precept again and imprisoned Gao Cuilan without letting his family see him. He deserves to die."

Wukong nodded in agreement and said:

"It's true that he deserves to die. Now that we kill the pig demon and free Tianpeng's spirit, he will have to thank us in the future."

Xuanzang took a sip of mineral water and explained to his two disciples the true meaning of letting go:

"Putting down the butcher's knife does not mean no longer killing people or setting fires, but letting go of everything, fame, wealth, weapons, martial arts, magic, emotions, desires... Only when you let go of all these things can you be called to put down the butcher's knife and gain forgiveness. , If you are the same, you are not putting down the butcher knife, but you are obsessed with it. "

Since there is an obsession, it is natural to fight to death.

Xiao Tian raised his head and asked:

"If you let go of everything, then there's no difference between living and dying, right?"

"People who can let go of everything don't care about life or death at all... The butcher's knife is not a knife, but all kinds of obsessions and desires. If you can really let go of everything, you will naturally achieve the status of a true Buddha."

Wukong thought about it and immediately became happy:

"Isn't this just a false and empty slogan? When it comes to letting go of all obsessions and desires, even the Buddha himself couldn't do it, let alone other Buddhas."

Xuanzang nodded and did not deny:

"The Confucian Four Sentences of Hengqu have a similar effect. It is just a theoretical goal and no one has been able to achieve it yet."

The black bear spirit looked like he had been taught a lesson, put down his burden and clasped his hands together and said:

"Thank you Master for teaching me the true meaning of Buddhist scriptures, and thank you Senior Brother and Master Erlang for enlightening me... Now that I can meet a real eminent monk, I understand the true meaning of Buddhism."

Previously, I always hung out with Elder Jinchi, and the Buddhist principles he expounded were not correct at all, or even completely wrong.

Now that he meets Xuanzang, Black Bear Spirit feels enlightened.

The group continued to walk forward, and the closer they got to Fuling Mountain, the more eerie they felt. Xiao Tian repeatedly said that the smell of death was too strong, making it uncomfortable to smell.

Xuanzang wanted to eat something before going into the mountain, but now he had no appetite. He only felt that the ghosts of the dead were lingering on the mountain, and the yin was strong. He pondered for a moment and said:

"After killing the pig demon, Wukong and Erlang Zhenjun went to the Doumu Palace in Taishan to deliver Marshal Tianpeng's soul and weapons. Wu Ming stayed and worked with me to transform the wronged souls here."

If such a gloomy and terrifying place is left alone, within a hundred years, evil creatures such as ghosts and demons will appear and harm the people. Therefore, the best way is to use Buddhism to transcend it and make this place a peaceful place.

Entering the mountain, Xiao Bailong made a special noise in order to attract Zhu Gang Hyena. Xiao Tian also barked several times, with uneasiness and fear in his voice. Obviously, this guy followed Erlang Shen and acted as a lure. role.

Not long after the sound came out, a fishy wind blew from the valley in the distance.

The black bear spirit put down his luggage and stood in front of Tang Monk with his bare hands, protecting his master personally.

Wukong secretly shouted that it was a good time, took out the golden cudgel from his ear, silently held it in his hand, and planned to give the opponent a blow on the head.

However, this fishy wind neither came towards Xuanzang nor attacked Wukong. Instead, it flew straight towards Erlangshen, a handsome man in white.

Hey, are you trying to pick a soft persimmon? Erlangshen took two steps forward calmly, so as not to make too much noise and affect Xuanzang.

As they were walking, a small mountain-like pig-headed monster suddenly appeared in its true form, suddenly opened its mouth more than a foot long, and bit Erlang Shen's head.

Wukong: "..."

Xiaoerlang is the most powerful person in the whole audience, but you actually pick him out, and no one else has such eyes.

When the pig demon was about to feast, Erlang Shen's figure flashed and changed from the appearance of a young master in white to a three-eyed god with golden helmet and golden armor. Even Xiao Tian, ​​who was following next to him, also showed his mythical form.

When the pig demon saw that it was Erlang Xian Sheng Zhenjun, he shouted something bad and turned around to run away, but the three-pointed two-edged knife was already slashing at him quickly. Zhu Ganghe panicked and quickly took out a nine-tooth nail rake and smashed it with all his strength. The sharp two-edged knife is attached to it, and then it takes the opportunity to fly away.

Wukong, Xiaotian, and Erlangshen quickly flew up and chased towards the valley.

The black bear spirit glanced at it with greedy eyes. Bai Huahua's merits are great, but it's a pity that the black tassel gun is still being upgraded at the Bajing Palace and cannot participate in the battle group.

Feeling that the old bear was a little anxious, Xuanzang got off his horse and calmly took out his cassock from his bag and put it on.

After the colorful cassock appeared, the surrounding Yin Qi melted away visibly, and some gray grass and trees also turned green and rejuvenated.

"Wuming, protect me!"

Xuan Zang sat down on the spot, then struck the wooden fish and began to chant.

The black bear demon stood by holding the nine-ring tin staff, feeling that the surrounding world gradually became clear, and the previous irritability also dissipated a lot.

In the valley, Zhu Ganglie grabbed the nine-toothed rake and blocked the aggressive Ruyi Jingu Bang:

"You, Bi Ma Wen, why don't you stay in Huaguo Mountain? Why do you come to offend me?"

Ever since he read the list of people eaten by Zhu Ganglie, Erlang Shen was full of anger in his heart. Tens of thousands of people, at least the population of a town together.

Eating so many people, he dared to pretend to be innocent.

Erlang Shen shouted:

"You evil beast, you eat the people and drink human blood, you are unforgivable, if you are not taken down, the heaven and earth will not tolerate you!"

Zhu Ganglie fought and retreated:

"Since the True Lord wants to take me, do you have the Jade Emperor's order?"

"I am a god in the human world, I should clear the evil obstacles for the human world, what does it have to do with the heaven?"

Wukong responded:

"That's right, your True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao and True Lord Erlang Xiansheng were both conferred by the people in the human world, and have nothing to do with the heaven... You pig demon, don't confuse people anymore, die quickly, we are in a hurry!"

When Wukong was capturing the black bear demon, he wanted to use Zhu Ganglie as a target to hone the fighting tacit understanding between the brothers, but unfortunately Xiong Er's black tassel spear was upgraded, so the fight became a cooperation with Erlang Shen.

The two of them had competed in both fighting and magical powers in Huaguo Mountain, and their tacit understanding was very high.

Now that they were working together again, there was no need to say anything more. With just one look, Erlang Shen understood instantly. He and Wukong started to attack the pig demon from the front and back. Xiaotian suddenly rushed up and took a bite. After a few rounds, the pig demon could not resist and was ready to find a chance to escape back to Yunzhan Cave.

Wukong would naturally not let him get his wish. He directly blocked the way with his external incarnation and blocked the way with his golden hoop.

Erlang Shen used the Qihua Sanqing to transform into three Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun. The five of them worked together to beat Zhu Ganglie so hard that he begged for mercy and repeatedly said that he knew he was wrong.

Wukong said:

"You idiot, do you know that Dou Mu Yuan Jun asked us to save you?"

Zhu Ganglie was stunned for a moment:

"Save me? How?"

"Killing you is saving you!"

Erlang Shen said disdainfully:

"You are addicted to wearing this pig skin, right?"

While Zhu Ganglie was stunned, Wukong hit him on the top of his head with a stick, and Erlang Shen swung the three-pointed double-edged sword, adding supreme divine power, and swung it hard on Zhu Ganglie, directly knocking out Tianpeng's soul.

The corpse of the pig demon fell heavily into the valley, creating countless smoke and dust, while Tianpeng's spirit stood there stupidly, somewhat bewildered and annoyed:

"I... actually ate so many people?"

Erlang Shen took out a red bead from his arms and said loudly:

"Your karma is gone. Wait until you see Dou Mu Yuanjun and explain to her about eating people... Collect!"

Tianpeng's spirit was collected into the bead, while Wukong took the nine-toothed rake in his hand:

"It's half as light as my golden hoop, so it's not very useful."

Xiaotian looked at the corpse of the pig demon in the valley and asked:

"How should this be dealt with?"

Erlang Shen thought for a while and said:

"The pig demon has committed a great sin. Eating his meat can strengthen the body and gain a little merit. Let's give it to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to improve their lives, which can also be regarded as a contribution to the expansion of territory."

After speaking, he raised his hand, and the huge corpse in the valley floated up, getting smaller and smaller, and was finally picked up by Erlang Shen.

Wukong changed the nail rake into the size of a scratcher and scratched his back, then went to Yunzhan Cave to take a look. There were countless corpses and blood everywhere, which was completely different from the cave of the black bear demon.

He brought some firewood and burned the whole cave, then flew out and returned to the white dragon horse with Erlang Shen.

Seeing that the master was busy chanting sutras for the wronged souls here, the two did not disturb him and went straight east.

When they arrived near Hezhouwei, they saw the army assembled by Qin Qiong and Liu Bochin, who was absorbed into the scout team and was leading people to build roads near Shuangchaling.

"Marshal Qin, how are you?"

The appearance of Wukong made old Qin Qiong stunned for a moment, and then he bowed:

"Greetings to the Great Sage, and greetings to Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun!"

Erlang Shen smiled and threw the corpse of the pig demon outside the camp. The huge corpse was even larger than the area of ​​the camp:

"I strangled a pig demon and sent it to the marshal to improve his life!"

"Thank you, both of you. The food and grass are still on the way. We are worried about this. With this pig demon, the army does not have to worry about meat for the time being, and we can attack in advance."

These meats must be quickly cut by the whole army and pickled into easy-to-carry dried meat to reduce the food and grass pressure of the army.

After passing Liangjie Mountain and reaching the Tatar territory, we can fight to feed the enemy.

After saying goodbye to Qin Qiong, Wukong and Erlang Shen flew away again.

When passing Chang'an, the two saw that Li Shimin had returned from the salt pond and was inspecting the construction site of Nuwa Temple, so they landed and chatted with Li Shimin for a while.

During the days when Li Shimin was away from Chang'an, top second-generation officials such as Qin Huaidao, son of Qin Qiong, Cheng Chumo, son of Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Baolin, son of Yuchi Gong, and Li Zhen, son of Li Ji, had an argument with the Tibetan delegation while having dinner in a restaurant, and then beat three Tibetan officials to death.

King Shu Li Ke happened to pass by and quickly led people to rescue the wounded, but because he was not familiar with the rescue process, he killed two more.

After returning to Chang'an, Li Shimin was furious and severely reprimanded this group of second-generation officials. He punished them to copy Sun Tzu's Art of War 100 times each and ordered Li Ke to quickly return to his fiefdom and stop hanging around in the capital.

Wukong laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist:

"Such a blatant acting, are there any ministers in the court who object?"

Li Shimin patted his general belly and said happily:

"Fang Xuanling wrote a letter saying that Qin Xian's wrist seemed swollen, and hoped that Tubo would pay for some soup and medicine. Cheng Zhijie took a look and said that his family Chu Mo had broken bones and broken tendons, and Tubo had to pay for ten soups and medicines."

Good guy, not only did he beat someone's official to death, but he also asked them to pay for soup and medicine. Isn't the intention of actively provoking a war too obvious?

Erlang Shen was well versed in military tactics, and frowned and said:

"With such a commotion, all the envoys from all over Chang'an are in danger. Will it alert the enemy and give them a chance to unite?"

Li Shimin waved his hand:

"Don't worry about that. The Tang Dynasty has nothing but strong soldiers and horses... But after this matter spread, everyone is now staring at the foreign envoys, so that they have to go to the toilet together, for fear of being beaten."

It is worthy of being the dynasty with the most abundant martial virtues in China... Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen did not stay for long. After saying goodbye to Li Shimin, they flew east again.

When passing by the Hedong Salt Lake, the two saw that the salt factory was working overtime to produce salt. Bags of snow-white salt became the top stream in the Tang Dynasty. Whether it was the common people or the princes and nobles, they were proud to eat official salt.

"Your Highness the Holy Son always changes the human race inadvertently. Once this salt is released, other salts will no longer be appreciated by the people."

Wukong sighed again and again. The more he understood His Highness the Holy Son, the more he felt that his vision was high.

Erlang Shen echoed:

"I heard from Master Zhang that in the future there will be mineral salts specifically used for pickling food, livestock salts for livestock feed, large-grain sea salts more suitable for barbecue, and bath salts for bathing... There are so many categories of salt alone, which is really amazing!"

The two chatted while flying and soon arrived at Mount Tai.

The Doumu Palace on Mount Tai is the Taoist temple of Doumu Yuanjun. All emperors who came to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to Doumu Yuanjun, because according to the description of Taoist classics, Ziwei Emperor Star is the son of Doumu Yuanjun.

When they arrived at Mount Tai, before landing, a team of female fairies came to greet them. After greeting each other, the two followed the group of female fairies and slowly descended from the clouds.

When they entered the Doumu Palace, the Golden Spirit Mother was already waiting.

In the original novel of "The Investiture of the Gods", she became Dou Mu Yuan Jun after her death, in charge of the Big Dipper and all the stars, and held a high position of power.

After the Investiture of the Gods world was opened, her identity as Daluo automatically overlapped with her identity here, becoming the same person.

Duobao in the Investiture of the Gods world and Tathagata in the Journey to the West world were also combined into the same person.

"Meet Master Jin Ling!"

Erlang Shen bowed and took out the red bead from his arms.

Wukong presented the rake and bowed as well.

Jin Ling took the red ball and the nine-toothed rake and said with a smile:

"The soul-nourishing beads given by Hou Tu Niangniang are really useful. Thank you for helping Tian Peng get rid of karma. When I nourish his soul, I will explain to him the ideas of the Wahuang Palace. When he regains his body in the future, he will return to the human world to do good deeds and make up for his mistakes."

As he was talking, several female fairies came over, each holding a tray with fruits like longan. They were small and round, but unlike longan, these fruits were all shining and were not ordinary.

"This is the fruit grown in my Star Palace. If you eat one, you can recognize the stars and the direction, and you will no longer worry about getting lost. You can exchange it for some merits."

Is there such a fruit?

Wukong was so happy when he saw the fruit that he picked one up and tasted it:

"The taste is different from the longan sent by His Royal Highness the Son of God. Xiao Erlang, you also eat one, and give the rest to the generals of the Tang Dynasty, so that they won't get lost in the grassland and desert."

"Okay!"

After thanking the Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit, the two took the fruits and left.

Wukong gave one to Xuanzang and the black bear spirit Xiaobailong, while Erlang Shen gave some to Xiaotian and his six sworn brothers, and then gave another fifty to Li Shimin to give to the commander-in-chief who was going to the expedition.

There were still hundreds of fruits left, and Erlang Shen planned to ask Xuanzang to send them to the real world so that His Royal Highness the Son of God could also taste them.

The two went all the way west and returned to Chang'an again. They gave Li Shimin fifty fruits, and then went to the camp near Hezhouwei and gave Qin Qiong, Li Jing, Su Dingfang and others one each, so that they didn't have to come all the way from Chang'an to deliver them.

When the two returned to Fuling Mountain, it was already late, and the dark clouds covering the mountain had completely disappeared. There was even a gorgeous sunset on the western mountaintop, which looked very beautiful.

Xuanzang took off his cassock, took out the gas stove, and prepared to cook a pot of mushroom noodles.

He only ate one bowl, and the rest was all for the black bear spirit.

As for Erlang Shen, this guy has recently become obsessed with self-heating hot pot, and plans to eat three or five buckets of it to whet his appetite later, while Wukong continued to eat fruit and be a healthy monkey.

"After Gao Laozhuang, it will take another month to meet Master Wuchao. We have to find a way to speed up our pace and try to move forward."

Xuanzang read the original book while eating noodles and planned the arrangements for the future.

His body was in great shape no matter what he ate. Not to mention Wukong and Black Bear, they didn't know what tiredness was. As for Little White Dragon... he could go back and forth to Lingshan in one breath.

Since everyone was fine, they naturally couldn't stop and go anymore. They had to speed up.

After the meal, Xuanzang ate a star fruit, then carried the remaining fruit, passed through the space-time gate built by Wukong, and came to the real world.

As soon as he arrived here, he saw everyone eating Korean cold noodles with big bones in their hands. When Lu Bu saw Xuanzang holding a bag of fruits in his hand, he immediately came over:

"Xuanzang, what are you carrying? It can't be the fairy fruit in the world of Journey to the West?"

He was joking, but Xuanzang really nodded:

"The star fruit sent by Dou Mu Yuanjun, eating it can help you recognize stars and directions... Don't grab it, just eat one of this thing, it's useless to eat more!"

Lu Bu laughed:

"I have to bring two more, and then go back to the tomb of Li Guang, the Marquis of Lost, to show them... If there was this kind of fruit back then, Li Guang would not have to commit suicide out of shame!"

Xuanzang: "..."

Aren't you afraid that Li Guang will show up and fight you?