Chapter 11: The Birth of the Monkey King
It is said that this stone is something that Nuwa refined to mend the sky, that is, it can make up the sky, that is, it has the same origin as the sky, and it can be with the sky, and it naturally has its magic. Because of the relationship between the Gathering Spirit Array, this Heaven and Earth Relic Stone kept absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and it actually grew. As it grows up, the Gathering Spirit Array laid by the golden cicadas around it is actually swallowed up by it and melts on the surface, making this stone three zhang six feet five inches high, which is three hundred and sixty-five degrees in Zhoutian, and has two zhang and four feet around the circle, and the number of twenty-four qi in the political calendar......
With the passage of time again, the breath in the stone that was entered by the golden cicada gave birth to a spirit fetus, which is indeed strange. The spirit fetus in the stone grew day by day, until one day, the spirit fetus was born with divine consciousness, broke through the stone, and turned into a monkey. It is necessary that this stone monkey is produced from stones, and it is flesh and blood, which is not much different from ordinary monkeys, but it is much more intelligent than these wild monkeys. As soon as it hits the ground, it crawls away, kneeling and prostrating. However, the remaining sun and moon essence and immortal qi in its body accidentally turned into two golden rays of light from his eyes, shooting at the Dou Mansion, alarming the Jade Emperor, and scaring the Jade Emperor to order clairvoyance and Shunfeng Ear to investigate.
Clairvoyant and Shunfeng Ear went to the South Heavenly Gate to transport the spell outside the gate to investigate, returned to the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and returned to the Jade Emperor: "Back to the Jade Emperor, those two golden lights are the vision of the Heavenly Stone Monkey on the Huaguo Mountain in the Aolai Country of the Nether Dongsheng Divine Continent when it was just born, and it is now latent now. Dare to ask Your Majesty what to do with it?" After hearing this, the Jade Emperor waved his hand and said: "There are countless rare treasures and spiritual objects born from the essence of heaven and earth, sun and moon in the lower realm, and there are so many strange numbers in heaven and earth, and we have already obtained a lot of treasure spirit beasts in the heavenly court, so there is no need to pay attention to this matter." The most important thing for us now is to find a way to deal with the invasion of the Holy Divine Race of the Western Divine Heaven, according to the report of the land gods below, the Western Divine Heaven has invaded the eastern land, and the mountain sect has been established in the Nether. What do you propose?" As soon as the Jade Emperor's words fell, a large number of immortals rushed forward to make suggestions, as if they were afraid that the credit would be robbed by others......
The movement of the birth of the stone monkey was too big, alarming a large number of cultivators and scattered immortals and gods in the lower realm, they thought that there was some rare treasure born, Tengyun drove the fog to check, but found that it was a monkey with a hairy face and a thunder mouth, turned his head and left, even if it is a pet, it is not rare to look so ugly monkeys, and the monkeys are restless all day long, scurrying around, it is not as cost-effective as subduing a dog demon, eagle demon, rabbit demon, etc. The golden cicada was also mixed in with this group of people, and after seeing that a monkey had really been produced, she couldn't help laughing. The Taoist priest on the side asked him: "Dare to ask why Brother Dao is laughing? Can you tell Poor Dao, how is Poor Dao and Brother Dao having fun?" In fact, he just wanted to see what rare treasures were discovered by the golden cicada. Jin Chanzi recited the sentence "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" and said, "Poor Dao is just laughing at the stone that can burst out of a monkey." The world is so big, it's really amazing. Man conceives human babies, beasts give birth to cubs, and birds lay eggs...... But for the first time, the poor Dao can also produce monkeys in stone, and I don't know what the taste of the meat of the stone-born monkey is......" The Taoist priest waved his hand and said, "Brother Dao must not have this idea. We are cultivating the art of immortality on the righteous path, and we must not have such evil thoughts. We can only eat vegetarian scriptures, and we can't spoil the Tao because of this evil thought......" Jin Chanzi hurriedly said: "The poor Tao has been taught, and I will not forget to have such evil thoughts until I die...... After that, the two sides exchanged a few words of greeting and dispersed, and Jin Chanzi inexplicably recited a few words of mantra and then left......
The stone monkey has just come to this world, and he is very curious about everything here, touching it here, touching it there, being with the beasts, learning to walk with the beasts, learning to chirp from the beasts, being accompanied by flowers and trees, eating fruits when he is hungry, drinking water when he is thirsty, and frolicking freely in the middle mountains, and he is so happy that he can't do it......
As the weather gets hotter, the stone monkeys play with a group of apes in the shade of the pines, climb trees and pick fruits, you chase after me, grooming each other, and squeezing each other...... It's hilarious. They played for a while, and the heat was unbearable, so they ran to the mountain stream to bathe and cool off. One of the adult monkeys looked at the mountain stream and said, "This water is so cool, I don't know where it comes from." We have nothing to do today, why don't we go up this stream, find a source to come out, and go there to play?" The group of monkeys shouted, all dragged men and women, called brothers and brothers, ran together, went up the stream, found the source, and found that it was a waterfall and flying spring. I saw that the waterfall is like a white rainbow in the sky, the sound of falling water is like thunder and drums, wide like a curtain, it is a good waterfall. When the monkeys saw such a weather, they all clapped their hands and praised: "Good water! It turns out that this place is far away from the foot of the mountain, directly connected to the sea." Then the adult monkey said, "Listen to me, since ancient times there were kings, there were emperors in the sky, and tigers in the mountains were kings, and why can't we have a leader of our own? The monkeys asked, "You are the one who wants to be king?" and the adult monkey said, "How can I take this position? I don't want us to abandon our wives and children when we meet those jackals, tigers and leopards, and run away in a panic. If we can choose a good king, we will naturally be able to deal with them freely, do you think it is good?" When all the monkeys heard this, they all remembered the elder brothers who died tragically under the mouths of jackals, tigers and leopards, and their faces were full of tears, and they all responded: "I will listen to you, we must make those jackals, tigers and leopards look good!" But none of them dared to jump into the waterfall to try it, and if they fell from the tree, they might break their hands and feet and fall to their deaths, this waterfall was so high and so fierce, jumping into it was really dead, and no one was willing to try.
At this time, the stone monkey jumped out from the side and shouted, "I'll go in! I'll go in!" The monkeys saw that it was it, and they were immediately frightened by it. The stone monkey squatted, jumped into the waterfall, and jumped straight into the waterfall. The other monkeys closed their eyes and turned their heads when they saw this, afraid to see the stone monkey die tragically.
In the waterfall, the stone suddenly opened his eyes and looked around, but there was no water and no waves, and a clear bridge was connected in the air. It stood still, looked at it carefully, and it turned out to be an iron bridge, and the water under the bridge was running out of the stones, hanging upside down, and covering the bridge. Then it bowed slightly and walked to the bridge, and found that it seemed to be inhabited here. It is indeed a good place, I saw that the stone bed, bowls and pans are all available, there are bamboos and trees, and it can also shelter from the wind and rain. When it came to the middle of the bridge, there was only one stone pillar, and there was a line of regular script on it, engraved with "Huaguo Mountain Blessed Land, Water Channeling Cave Cave Sky".
After reading this, the stone monkey was so happy that he hurriedly pulled out and jumped out with his eyes closed and jumped out as he had come in before. As soon as it landed, it was so excited that it shouted frantically: "Great creation, great creation!" After hearing this, the monkeys hurriedly surrounded it, and they were very curious about why it was intact, and asked, "What is the situation inside?" The stone monkey said very excitedly: "No water! No water! It turned out that in the middle of the waterfall was an iron bridge, and on the other side of the bridge was a belongings made in heaven. The monkeys hurriedly asked, "How can you see that it is a household belonging?" The stone monkey smiled and said, "This waterfall is rushed out of the stone hole under the bridge and hung upside down to cover the portal." On the other side of the bridge, there are flowers and trees, but it is a stone house, with stoves, beds, benches, nests, bowls and pans. There is also a stone pillar in the middle, which is engraved with 'Huaguo Mountain Blessed Land, Water Curtain Cave Cave Sky'. It is indeed a good place, not only is the place large, but it can also shelter from the wind and rain, and save the anger of this thief. ”
When the monkeys heard this, they were all very happy, and cried out, "You lead the way in front, and we will follow you in." The stone monkey didn't say much, but closed his eyes and squatted down and jumped into the waterfall, shouting, "Come in with me!" The monkeys, who were a little bold, jumped in after the stone monkeys, and the cowardly ones stretched out their heads and necks, scratched their ears and cheeks, sat and lay down, and shouted and screamed, and after a while, they all jumped in.
After crossing the bridge, those monkeys grabbed pots and bowls, occupied the stove and fought for the bed, and moved over and over, it was the monkeys who were stubborn, and there was no moment to stop until they were exhausted.
At this time, the stone monkey sat on it, and another group of monkeys said: "Everyone, as the saying goes, 'If a person has no faith, he does not know what he can do.'" As you have just said, those who have the ability to come in and go without harming their bodies will worship him as king. And now I have come in and out, gone out and come in, and I have found such a cave to sleep peacefully with you, and enjoy the blessings of a family, why don't you worship me as king. Then the adult monkey jumped out again and said, "Yes, we will all worship you as king." "After speaking, I will bow to myself. When the monkeys heard this, they bowed down to worship the stone monkey as the king. After that, the monkeys arranged their shifts according to their age, bowed and bowed upwards, and all called the stone monkeys "the king of Chitose". After that, the stone monkey ascended to the throne, took charge of the group of monkeys, and hid the word "stone", called the "Monkey King". This Monkey King led apes, macaques, horse monkeys and other monkeys, and assigned the monarch and ministers to travel to Huaguo Mountain, stay in the water curtain cave at dusk, fit and sympathize, do not enter the place of flying birds, do not follow the beasts and the like, be the king alone, free, unrestrained, and happy.
In fact, everything was secretly arranged by the golden cicada. This water curtain cave is the temporary residence of the golden cicada to come to Huaguo Mountain to observe the mending stone, otherwise the barren mountains and remote places, who will live there, where does the natural formation of the belongings, and the adult monkey was spelled by the golden cicada, in order to lure the stone here, so as to find a place for the stone monkey, otherwise wandering outside, I don't know which day it will be swallowed by jackals, tigers and leopards......