The monkey king frolicked around Huaguo Mountain with a group of monkeys every day, and before he knew it, three to five hundred years had passed. One day, the Monkey King and the group of monkeys were at a happy banquet, thinking of the banquets that had been held many times before, but he was the only one left alive until now. When the monkeys saw the Monkey King like this, they panicked and asked, "Why is the King so troubled?" The Monkey King said, "Although I am in this moment of joy and festivity, I have some long-term considerations, so I have this trouble." The monkeys laughed and said, "O king, you are so dissatisfied! We are here to hold a banquet every day with singing and dancing, and live in this blessed land of the fairy mountain, which is not under the control of the emperor of the world, nor by the management of the unicorn and phoenix, and we are free and easy, how comfortable." What is there to think about far-sightedly?" the Monkey King said: "Although we are not under the control of the Emperor of the Mortals and the King of Beasts, we still have the King of Hades in charge, and when we are old, if we die and go to hell, then will we not live in vain in this life? When the monkeys heard this, they all wept bitterly, fearing that the day of death would come.

I saw that a topped-backed ape suddenly jumped out of the group of monkeys, and shouted loudly: "The king is so far-sighted, it is really the development of the Dao heart, and the heavenly posture is also full of beauty." There are only three kinds of people in the world who are not under the control of Hades. The monkey king asked, "Do you know what are the three kinds of people?" and the ape replied, "Buddha, immortal, and sacred." In the Buddha, in the Tao is immortal, in Confucianism is sacred. These three kinds of people are not among the five elements, beyond reincarnation, immortal, and immortal, and are in harmony with the heavens and the earth. The Monkey King scratched his ears and cheeks when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Do you know where these three kinds of people can be found?" The ape immediately replied, "They are in the human world, in all kinds of immortal blessed lands. The Monkey King was full of joy when he heard this, and he jumped up and down with joy, and he turned back to the monkeys and said, "I will say goodbye to you tomorrow and go down the mountain, and travel all over the world, and I must find these three kinds of people, learn some immortal spell and come back, and escape the life and death sentence of the king of Hades with you." When the monkeys heard this, they all clapped their hands and applauded: "We will go to the mountains and forests tomorrow to find some fruit and come back, and set up a feast to see off the king." ”

The next day, the monkeys came back from the mountains to decorate the cave, and each plate was filled with melons and fruits, as well as fruit wine made by themselves. At this banquet, the Monkey King sat on the throne, and all the Monkey Kings took turns to come forward to toast the Monkey King. Everyone drank bitterly for a day. After the feast, the Monkey King asked the little ones to make a raft for him so that he could go to sea.

On the day of going to sea, the Monkey King said goodbye to the monkeys and went to sea alone to find Nanshanbuzhou. The Monkey King has been adrift at sea for a long time, and after experiencing many ups and downs, he finally came to Nanshanbu Island by chance. After trying the depths of the sea near the coast, he abandoned the raft and landed.

On the seashore he saw people fishing, geese, clams, and salt, and he sneaked up to frighten them, and when they saw that they were ghosts, they ran away in fear. One of them was very unlucky, and he caught him and stripped him of his clothes. The Monkey King is indeed quite smart, he looks like a man, and wears clothes on his body, but he dresses indecently and staggers to go shopping.

On the street, the Monkey King saw people saluting each other, and he did the same, and went up to salute people, but his hairy face and thunderous mouth scared others half to death. He listened to human speech, and he was very curious, and he also learned human speech, but he said it upside down and muttered, and others thought he was crazy, and they all blasted him away. Everyone was very frightened when they saw that he looked like a ghost, and they did not want to go near him, and they did not want to let him come close. When he was hungry, he could only eat the overlord meal and be beaten by others, and when he was thirsty, he could only go to the river to quench his thirst.

In order to find those cultivators in the deep mountains and old forests, the monkey king went deep into the forest with many wolves, insects, tigers and leopards alone, and was chased by tigers, leopards and wolves all over the mountain, fortunately he was agile and clever and escaped from it, and after being stung by those poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, fortunately he could find those detoxification mud ponds, otherwise he would become a corpse; When he jumped out of the Heaven Mending Stone, he was no longer a stone physique, and the aura and essence of the stone were condensed into a physical body for him, which is why he was so easily injured.

On a few occasions, he was lucky enough to find those cultivators. Those cultivators saw that he had such a wise root, and wanted to take him under the door as a pet or a gatekeeper beast. But when the Monkey King told the cultivators that he wanted to learn the art of immortality and transcendence, the cultivators all laughed, laughing that the Monkey King didn't know the height of the sky, and he didn't know what he was. The Monkey King hurriedly reported his family, where he was born, where he came from, and what he wanted to do. But it made those cultivators laugh even more happily, it turned out to be a wild seed that jumped out of the stone, and he still thought he was a human being, and he still wanted to learn the art of immortality, and he wanted to transcend the Three Realms, and he wanted to apprentice to his teacher...... After those cultivators had laughed enough, they either beat him or wanted to catch him as a pet...... But fortunately, they were all escaped by the Monkey King.

There are not only cultivators in Nanshanbuzhou, but also demons and monsters, but when they saw that the Monkey King was skinny and ugly, they didn't even have the appetite to eat him, so they left without looking at him, otherwise the Monkey King's dream of immortality would be over.

After he wandered around Nanshanbu Continent for eight or nine years, he found cultivators all over the place, but no one was willing to accept him as an apprentice, he was already disheartened here, but he was not desperate, he couldn't despair, otherwise he would die, he wouldn't be able to eat those delicacies of the mountains and seas, he couldn't be thirsty for those fruit wine juices, and he couldn't appreciate those spiritual mountains and rivers, so he boarded the raft and set sail for the sea again, he thought that there would definitely be kind-hearted immortals overseas.

After wandering on the sea for a long time, he came to Xiniu Hezhou. After he searched for a long time in Xiniu Hezhou, he came to a spiritual mountain blessed land by chance. The trees under the mountain are dense, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, there are hundreds of beasts infested from time to time; the mountain is majestic and majestic, and the birds of prey cry on the wall; the grass can be seen everywhere to cure diseases, and the breeze can be intoxicating at four o'clock. The dense forests here and the abundance of fierce beasts may be a natural barrier to keep those ordinary people from disturbing, and if you don't have a pious heart and organic fate, you can't pass this pass.

The Monkey King was carefully observing the surrounding terrain, and suddenly heard the sound of singing from the depths of the forest, and he hurried into the forest, only to see a woodcutter chopping wood while singing: "Watching the chess is rotten, cutting wood Dingding, and the valley mouth of the cloud side is Xu Xing." Selling salaries and drinking, laughing wildly and cultivating himself. The path is high in autumn, and the pine roots of the moon pillow are bright in the sky. Recognize the old forest, climb the cliff and cross the ridge, and break the withered vine with an axe. Harvest into a load, in the song market, easy rice three liters. There is no competition, and the price is mediocre. will not be cunning, no honor and disgrace, and will prolong life calmly. Everywhere they meet, they are not immortals, they are Taoists, and they sit quietly and talk about "Yellow Court". When the Monkey King heard this, he felt that the woodcutter was singing a little interestingly, and he thought that the woodcutter was a monk. The Monkey King jumped out and saluted the woodcutter, "Old fairy, the disciple is polite here. The woodcutter hurriedly threw away his axe, turned back and replied, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, sin, sin...... I, a clumsy man, have not enough food and clothing, how dare I be the word 'immortal'?" The Monkey King said: "I just came to the edge of the forest and heard you singing 'Where you meet, if you are not an immortal, you will be the way, sit quietly and talk about the Yellow Court'." "Huang Ting" is a moral mantra, you are not an immortal, so who is?" The woodcutter smiled: "I can't hide it, this word is called "Man Tingfang", which was taught to me by an immortal. The fairy is not far from my dwelling. When he saw that I was working hard at home and worrying about my daily troubles, he taught me to recite this word when I encountered troubles, one to distract my heart, and the other to relieve my difficulties. I have some inadequate thoughts, so I think about it. I didn't expect you to hear it. The Monkey King said, "Since your family is adjacent to the immortals, why don't you follow him to practice?" Wouldn't it be better to learn the recipe of immortal immortals?" The woodcutter said: "I have a hard life: I was raised by my parents until I was eight or nine years old before I knew what to do, and unfortunately my father died suddenly, leaving my mother behind. Besides, I have no brothers and sisters, and my mother only has one son, so I have no choice but to serve her old man sooner or later. Now that my mother is older, she is more and more afraid to leave her. Now that luck has made the countryside barren, I have to wait for food and clothing to be insufficient, so I have to go up to the mountains to chop a few loads of firewood, so that I can go to the street to exchange a few pennies, buy a few liters of rice, go home to steam, and arrange some tea and rice to serve my old mother, so I can't go to practice with the gods. When the monkey king heard this, he scratched his ears and cheeks and said, "According to you, you are a good gentleman who practices filial piety, and a good day will be rewarded." But I hope you will give me the immortal's dwelling, so that I can pay a visit to him, shall you?" said the woodcutter. This mountain is called Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, there is a three-star cave of the oblique moon in the mountain, there is an old immortal living in the cave, everyone calls him Bodhi Patriarch. There are countless disciples taught by that patriarch, and there are still thirty or forty people practicing with him. You follow the path all the way south for seven or eight miles, and there is his cave house. The Monkey King took the woodcutter by the hand and said, "Brother, will you come with me, and if you have gained any good, I will not forget your guidance." The woodcutter said, "You don't know how to change things. I have said so much to you just now, and you still don't understand? If I go with you, won't I miss my business? Then who will take care of my old mother? I'm going to chop wood, you go by yourself, go ......quickly," the monkey king could only say goodbye to the woodcutter, and walked along the road alone. When the woodcutter saw the monkey king go away, he turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared in the same place......

The Monkey King followed the path pointed out by the woodcutter, crossed a hillside, and when he walked about seven or eight miles away, he saw a cave. I saw that there were lush forests and bamboos, flowers and herbs, birds singing, and beasts dancing......

When the Monkey King came to the cave, he saw that the cave was closed, quiet, and there was no trace. The Monkey King suddenly turned around and saw a stone tablet on the head of the cliff that was more than three feet high and more than eight feet wide, with ten big characters on it, which was "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain Leaning Moon Three-Star Cave". After reading it, the Monkey King was very happy, and said to himself: "The people here are really simple, they didn't lie to me, and there is really this cave." After watching for a long time, the monkey king still didn't dare to come forward and knock on the door, but only dared to watch at the top of the pine branches, pick pine nuts to satisfy his hunger, and play alone in front of the door.

But after a while, the door "creaked" open, and out of the door came a fairy child, only to see that he was handsome, like a strange appearance, very different from ordinary ordinary people. The boy came out and shouted, "Who is harassing here?" The monkey king hurriedly jumped down from the tree, stepped forward and saluted, "This fairy boy is polite here." I'm the only one here, but I'm a disciple of a Taoist scholar, and I don't dare to harass here, so don't get me wrong. When the fairy boy saw the Monkey King's face, he smiled and asked, "Are you a Taoist?" The Monkey King hurriedly scratched his ears and replied, "Yes." The boy said, "My master was just staying at the altar to preach, and before he could say why, he asked me to come out and open the door, saying that there was a cultivator from outside and asked me to receive him." It must be you?" the Monkey King scratched the back of his hand and laughed, "It's me, it's me." The boy beckoned to him and said, "Then come in with me." The Monkey King hurriedly tidied up his clothes, twisted and swayed, and followed the fairy child into the cave. Along the way, the Monkey King saw layers of deep pavilion Qionglou, a pearl palace Beique as soon as he entered, and countless quiet rooms......

Soon, the two of them arrived at the Dharma platform of the Bodhi Patriarch. I saw the Bodhi Patriarch sitting upright on the Dharma platform, and there were thirty little immortals standing under the stage on both sides. The Monkey King didn't know the etiquette, and he had the courage to look up, only to see that the patriarch was dignified, surrounded by fairy energy, and his gestures all affected the weather of heaven and earth, and his anger made the world change color. The wild monkey was dumbfounded......

When the fairy boy next to the Monkey King secretly pushed him, the Monkey King came to his senses. He hurriedly turned around and bowed, kept kowtowing to countless people, and shouted in his mouth, "Master, Master, I ...... Disciple Zhixin Pilgrimage Ceremony! Ambition Pilgrimage Ceremony!"

When the Monkey King knelt, Patriarch Bodhi was also looking at him, thinking, "It's finally here, he didn't die, it's really rare." "Bodhi Patriarch, that is, Jin Chanzi, knows that the group of people in Dongtu Taoism must only be able to cultivate immortals and attain the Tao, and only normal people can cultivate immortals and attain the Tao, so in addition to normal people, at most they are designated as gods, far lower than immortals. Moreover, when those cultivators encounter a spiritual animal like the Monkey King, they will definitely identify him as a monster first, and the monster is at most named a demon fairy or a fairy beast, and has no status in the heavenly court and the cultivation realm, just like the roaring dog of the Erlang God and the Dragon King of the Four Seas, and the Four Seas are at most the gods of the clouds and rain, not immortals. Then those cultivators saw that the Monkey King was so clever, so they accepted them as pets or gatekeepers and mountain beasts at most, but the monkey must be unwilling, because then he can't cultivate immortals, he can't learn anything, and he will be easily beaten to death, so the Monkey King will definitely escape, so Jin Cicada is not afraid of the failure of the plan at all, but he is asked to wait so long......

The Bodhi Patriarch straightened his clothes and asked the Monkey King, "Who are you?" and explain your identity and origin before bowing." The Monkey King arched his hand and said: "The disciple is the Dongsheng Shenzhou Aolai National Flower and Fruit Mountain Water Curtain Cave Clan. The Bodhi Patriarch pretended to be furious and wanted to give the Monkey King a dismount, shouting, "Get out!" He is a deceitful and misleading man, where do you want to cultivate any Dao fruits!" After hearing this, the Monkey King hurriedly kowtowed and said, "What the disciple says is honest, and there is no deception." Patriarch Bodhi said, "Since you are an honest man, how can you say that you came from Dongsheng Shenzhou? There are two major seas separated from me, a Nanshanbu Continent, why did you come here so quickly?" Patriarch Bodhi brushed it and said, "Since you came here gradually, you won't mention this matter anymore." And what's your last name?" the Monkey King scratched his head and said, "I don't have a temperament. If someone scolds me, I will not be annoyed, and if someone beats me, I will not be angry, but just accompany me, and I will have no sex in my life. Patriarch Bodhi said, "I'm not talking about this nature. What did I mean by your parents' original surname?" said the Monkey King, "I have no father or mother. The Bodhi Patriarch said, "Since you don't have parents, you must have grown from a tree?" and the Monkey King said, "I didn't grow from a tree, but I jumped out of a stone." I only remember that there was a fairy stone on that Huaguo Mountain, and that year the stone exploded and I was born. After hearing this, Patriarch Bodhi secretly rejoiced and said, "In this way, you are born and raised in heaven and earth. Stand up, take a walk, and let me see. The Monkey King jumped up, crutched, and staggered twice. Patriarch Bodhi smiled: "Your body is ugly, like a pine-cone eater. I'll take a surname with you and teach you the surname 'Qian'. The word "Qiang" went to a beast, but it was an ancient moon. The ancients, the old, the moon, the yin. Lao Yin can't be cultivated, and it's good to teach your surname 'Tan'. The word Tanuki went to the beast, but it is a subline. The son is also a son, and the child is a child, and the child is also a baby. It is in line with the essence of the baby. Teach you the surname 'Sun'. When the Monkey King heard this, he was full of joy, dancing up and down, and bowed to the Bodhi Patriarch and thanked him: "Good! Since you have a surname, you can ask for a name, so you can call it. Patriarch Bodhi said, "I have twelve characters under my disciple, and I assign you a name, and you are a junior disciple of the tenth generation. The Monkey King asked, "What are the twelve characters?" and the Bodhi Patriarch said, "It is the twelve characters of Guang, Da, Zhi, Hui, Truth, Ru, Sex, Hai, Ying, Enlightenment, Yuan, and Jue." When it comes to you, it is just the word 'enlightenment'. Give you another 'emptiness', you have no father and no mother, heaven and earth are born and raised, come out of thin air, and have no worries. I'll call you 'Monkey King', okay?" the Monkey King scratched his ears and cheeks with joy, and said with a smile: "Okay! Okay! From now on, I will be called Monkey King!"

Since then, the Monkey King has been learning art under the Bodhi Patriarch......