Chapter 16: The Netherworld
One day, the Monkey King held a banquet in the cave and instructed the four generals to invite his six sworn brothers to come over. On this day, on Huaguo Mountain, cattle and horses were slaughtered, sacrificed to heaven and earth, and all monsters danced and sang, and they all ate drunk. After the feast, the Monkey King sent his six sworn brothers back, and then continued to treat the big and small leaders. After eating and drinking, the Monkey King became sleepy, so he staggered and leaned against the pine shade by the iron plate bridge, and fell asleep in an instant. Seeing this, the four strong generals immediately personally led everyone to surround them, not daring to leave, not daring to raise their voices, for fear of waking up the Monkey King.
In his sleep, he saw two people holding an approval document with the words "Monkey King" on it, approaching him, not to be able to say anything, putting on a rope, and taking away the soul of the Monkey King. Stumbling to the ground, the Monkey King is taken to the edge of a city. At this time, the Monkey King gradually woke up, and suddenly looked up to see that there was an iron plaque on the city, and there were three big characters on the card, which was "Netherworld". The Monkey King suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly asked, "The Netherworld is where the King of Hades lives, why is it here?" The two people replied, "You should end your life today, and I will receive two approvals and hook you up." After hearing this, the Monkey King was shocked, and hurriedly said: "My old grandson has long been beyond the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, and is no longer under his jurisdiction, why are you so confused, and dare to hook me?"
For a moment, the Monkey King became annoyed, and took out the treasure from his ear, and turned it into a bowl with a disguise, and raised his hand slightly, and beat the two hooked people into meat sauce. Untie yourself, throw away your hand, pick up the stick, and go into the city. The bull head and horse were hiding in Tibet and scurrying around. Those ghost guards hurriedly ran to the Senluo Hall and reported to the Hades King of the Ten Palaces: "Report! Great King! Woe is here! There is a hairy-faced thunderbolt outside!"
When the ten Hades heard this, they hurriedly stood up. The official said: "Send someone to invite the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth...... King Taishan waved his hand and said: "It's too late, that guy has already come in." Let's go out and meet him. If he knows that we are looking for the Jizo King Bodhisattva to deal with him, he may be cruel to us. With that, he waved his hand to let the ghosts retreat. Ten of them, dressed in their clothes, went out of the temple to look. When they saw that Sun Wukong was so vicious and powerful, they hurriedly lined up their shifts, and shouted in response: "Leave a name for the immortals!" The Monkey King stopped, played a stick with the Ruyi golden hoop stick in his hand, pestleed, pointed at the Ten Halls of Hades and asked, "Since you can't recognize me, why did you send someone to hook me?" The Ten Halls of Hades saw the power of the Monkey King, how dare he say more, and hurriedly shook his head and waved his hand and said: "Don't dare! I don't dare! When the Monkey King saw this, he was afraid that they were mistaken, so he withdrew his hand, reported to his home, and said: "I am a natural saint of Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, Sun Wukong. What official position are you waiting for?" The Hades King of the Ten Halls hurriedly bowed down and replied, "We are the Ten Generations Hades King of the Son of Heaven in the Hades. The Monkey King was so anxious that he scratched his cheeks with his hand, waved the stick in his hand, and said, "Hurry up and report your name, don't fight!" The ten Hades were so frightened that they hurriedly reported their names and said: "We are King Qin Guang, Chu Jianggong, Emperor Song, King Qiguan, King Yama, King Equality, King Taishan, King of the City, King Bian Cheng, and King of the Wheel." The Monkey King slammed the ground with Ruyi Gold and said, "Since you have ascended the throne, it is a spiritual manifestation and the like, why don't you know what to do? There are many people with the same name and surname in the world, dare the one who hooked the dead to go wrong?" The Monkey King waved his hand and said, "Nonsense, nonsense! As the saying goes: 'The officials are bad, but the people are not bad.'" Go and get the book of life and death and show it to me!" When the Hades King of the Ten Halls heard this, he immediately asked the Monkey King to go up to the temple to check it.
The Monkey King held on to the Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick, went straight from the Dengsenluo Palace, and sat down in the south of the center. The Hades King of the Ten Palaces immediately ordered the judge in charge of the case to take out the document book and check it. The judge did not dare to slack off, so he went to the judge's room, carefully took out five or six books and ten kinds of books, and examined them one by one. Among the naked insects, caterpillars, feather insects, insects, and scales, there is no other name. And when he saw the monkey genus and the like, it was like a human being, and it was not a human name, it was like a naked worm, and it did not live in a national border, and it looked like a beast, and it was not in the hands of a unicorn, and it was like a bird, and it was not subject to the jurisdiction of a phoenix, and there was another book. The Monkey King personally inspected it until the soul word No. 1350, with the name of Sun Wukong, who was born in a stone monkey and should live 340 years old and die well. The Monkey King patted the table and said, "I don't remember the number of lifespans, and I just have to take my name!" The judge glanced at the Hades kings, but saw that they either bowed their heads or looked around, their eyes wandered, and they did not look at him. The judge's heart sank a little, so he hurriedly picked up the pen, licked the thick ink, and handed it to the Monkey King. The Monkey King took the book, ticked off all the monkeys and the like, but the famous, and then pulled down the book, jumped up and down excitedly and said: "It's over! It's over! The ten halls of Hades did not dare to get close, so they all went to Cuiyun Palace to meet the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth.
The ten halls of Hades bowed down to the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth, who was chanting with his hands folded and his eyes closed, and said, "The disciple begs the Bodhisattva to help us get rid of the demon monkey and protect the reputation of my underworld. However, the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth was still reciting the sutras with his eyes closed, indifferent. The Ten Hall Hades King glanced at each other and said again. This time, the Jizo King Bodhisattva finally stopped chanting, opened his eyes and asked, "You are making a lot of noise here, what are you doing?" King Qin Guang saw that the Jizo King Bodhisattva had a reaction, and hurriedly said: "Ask the Bodhisattva to be the master for us." The demon monkey in the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave was sent by us to hook the soul because of the end of his life, but he wanted to live forever, took out an iron rod, injured countless soldiers in the underworld, canceled the book of life and death, and returned to the yang world. Please ask the Bodhisattva to be the master for us. The other Hades kings also shouted, "Please Bodhisattva be the master of us." King Jizo Bodhisattva flicked the rosary in his hand, thought for a while, and said for a long time: "Amitabha! The current underworld is under the control of the heavenly court, and it is inconvenient for me to make a move. As soon as he heard this, King Chujiang was anxious and shouted: "Bodhisattva, that demon monkey is so presumptuous on the throne, you ......" Before King Chujiang finished speaking, King Jizo Bodhisattva had already closed his eyes and chanted, and King Yama hurriedly stopped King Chujiang from talking. The ten Hades King bowed to the Jizo King Bodhisattva and said, "The disciples retreat first. Then the ten of them often withdrew, and the Jizo King Bodhisattva did not react at all. These ten people can only write a memo according to what the King of the Earth Bodhisattva said, and report what Sun Wukong did in the underworld to the heavenly court.
When the ten Hades had withdrawn, the Jizo King Bodhisattva suddenly stopped chanting and opened his eyes. He didn't take action against the Monkey King, not because he cared about the heavenly court, but because he felt that there was a faint breath of Buddhism on the monkey's body. He suddenly said to himself: "Jin Chanzi, after so many years of 'Golden Cicada Husking Dafa', did you only make such a thing? And just taught him the half-finished product of the fusion of the two religions, he can only live forever, and it is impossible for him to live forever at all." What the hell do you want to do? Do you just want this monkey to expand to the east for us?......" After thinking for a long time, the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth did not think of an answer, so he continued to close his eyes and recite the sutra......