Chapter 63: The Crowd Pleads
The sound was as loud as a bell, resounding around the Heavenly Court. When Lao Jun heard this voice, he made a movement in his hand, three thousand silver filaments were brought back, and the dust became a normal size, Lao Jun said, "Since the Buddha has spoken, then the poor Dao will naturally give you this face." ”
The lotus Buddha platform flew in, and Rulai sat on it, and behind him stood the two Venerable Ananda Leaves. Li Tianwang waved his hand, and all the heavenly soldiers and generals retreated a few steps back to make a way.
The Jade Emperor's figure fell in mid-air, staring at Rulai and said, "Rulai, my Lingxiao Hall was destroyed by this monkey, you have to give me an explanation after all!
Rulai got up on the lotus Buddha platform, and then said, "Amitabha, this Buddha is not strict in discipline, and I hope that the Jade Emperor will forgive his sins!"
"Forgiveness?" the Jade Emperor chuckled, "This monkey first smashed my Heavenly Court South Heavenly Gate today, and now he has destroyed my Lingxiao Palace, how do you let me forgive him!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Bajie hurriedly ran over, knelt on the ground with a plop, and begged for mercy for the Great Sage, "I hope Your Majesty can forgive my senior brother, and I hope Your Majesty will be gracious!" Bajie kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged the Jade Emperor to be gracious.
"Idiot!" the Great Sage with his back against the ruins of the Golden Dome shouted, "Don't plead for my grandson, I don't plan to be good at this matter today!
"Brother Monkey!" Bajie exclaimed bitterly, he never thought that things would come to this point. Listening to what the Jade Emperor just said, I'm afraid this matter has not been revealed so simply, and now that Rulai has been invited by the Jade Emperor, I am afraid that the matter of the Great Sage will be more auspicious.
"Tianpeng, as a person of my heavenly court, but you plead for a monkey who has committed the following crimes, I really can't bear to cut off the three flowers on your top again, and degrade you to the lower realm!"
Bajie smiled bitterly and said, "If Your Majesty can forgive my senior brother, I will be willing to be punished in the end!"
"You!" The Jade Emperor never expected the canopy to be like this, waved his sleeve robe, and said coldly, "Come on, take down the canopy, and after this matter is settled, cut off the top three flowers, and degrade the human world!"
The two golden-armored martial gods received the order, and they were going to go forward and escort the eight rings down. But he was stopped by Rulai.
"Amitabha, Your Majesty, the Eight Precepts are now the messenger of my Buddha's Pure Altar, is Your Majesty's punishment too heavy?"
"Hmph, if you come, don't forget, he is also a person from my Heavenly Court, my Heavenly Court asks the guilty people, is it possible to see your Buddhist face?"
"Amitabha," Rulai recited the Buddha's name lightly, and asked rhetorically, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what is his sin in the eight precepts?"
"Tianpeng he disobeyed the discipline, contradicted me, and even interceded for the demon monkey who made trouble in the heavenly palace, is this reason enough!" the Jade Emperor waved his robe and said angrily.
"Hahahaha!" A burst of laughter rang out behind the Jade Emperor. The Great Sage sneered, "It turns out that the Jade Emperor, the co-master of the Three Realms, is such a person with a small amount of energy, and he will demote meritorious ministers to the human world and suffer as demons at every turn. Buddha, was it really wrong for me to make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace back then and want to pull this Jade Emperor from his horse?
"Amitabha, Wukong, don't be so rude!" reprimanded. didn't directly defend the Jade Emperor, at this time, being able to disgrace the Jade Emperor was not a bad thing for Xitian.
"Hahaha!" The Great Sage Pan sat on the ground and looked up to the sky and laughed, "My old grandson is rude?
"Presumptuous!" the Jade Emperor said angrily, "Sun Wukong, you have to understand what your identity is now, if it weren't for your meritorious work in protecting the Tang Dynasty monk Xitian in learning scriptures, I would have killed you a long time ago!
"Hahahaha, Jade Emperor Lao'er, if you really have a kind, you will kill my grandson, I want to see how the people of the Three Realms will think of you after I die!" the Great Sage sneered.
The Jade Emperor clenched his fists, his heart was full of anger, he never thought that today's situation would become like this, he had been out of his control, he was originally taking this monkey against the army, but he didn't expect that this monkey was so arrogant and made such a fuss.
At this time, two figures hurriedly came in the direction of Nantianmen, it was Sha Wujing and Xiaobailong Ao Lie, who got the news. Wujing was originally a guest in Ao Lie Xihai, but after hearing the news of the Great Sage's havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he immediately hurried over with Ao Lie.
After the two arrived, they just heard the angry voice of the Jade Emperor, and the two didn't have time to salute Rulai, knelt on the ground, and prayed, "I hope Your Majesty will be gracious!"
The Jade Emperor stared at the two people who came to intercede, stretched out his hand and pointed at the three of Bajie, and said with a smile, "Okay! You really deserve to be senior brothers! For the sake of a monkey, you three come to intercede, you are really good brothers! Do you really think that I dare not ask you to sin!"
"Good, good," Rulai was at this time to stir up the situation, "the three of Wujing are also members of my Buddhism, if Your Majesty asks them, this Buddha still has to discuss with Your Majesty." ”
When the Jade Emperor heard this, he almost turned his back on his back in anger. Yes, today's matter is completely beyond his control, and the original plan was to force this monkey to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and then ask Rulai to come forward and subdue. But this monkey was too angry, and forced Lao Jun to make a move, Rulai had the right time to appear, and the three of Bajie were so disturbed, the bureau that was originally aimed at Rulai made Heavenly Court fall into injustice.
The Jade Emperor is really difficult to ride a tiger now, if he really asks a few people about the Eight Precepts, he will really become a faint king. There is no basis, just because Bajie and a few people contradict themselves and belittle their lower realm, isn't this a faint king's move? But his words have already been released, and it is difficult to take them back.
If you don't ask about the crime, where is the face of the Heavenly Court? Where is his face? Five hundred years ago, for the matter of Tang Seng learning scriptures, the monkey had already made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, and at that time, the Heavenly Court put down its face to support Rulai's plan to learn scriptures. But now the times are different after all, the monkey made trouble in the Heavenly Palace today and directly destroyed the Lingxiao Palace, if this matter is so simply revealed, the face of the Heavenly Court will really be gone.
On the Hongmeng Origin Realm, Nuwa Niangniang stared at the light curtain and said with a smile, "The Jade Emperor's hand can be said to be moving a stone to shoot himself in the foot. If the deity's guess is right, the Jade Emperor already knows the identity of the monkey, and now his relationship between Heaven and Buddhism is opposite, he wants to borrow the monkey to oppose the Rulai army, but he never thought that Tianpeng and a few people would disrupt the situation. ”
Patriarch Bodhi stroked his beard lightly and said, "Rulai is also a smart guy, and he appeared at the right time." This disrupted the calculations of the heavenly court, and they all said that my Buddhism was deep, and now it seems that this is indeed the case!"
"The patriarch self-destructed the blessed land of Fangcun Mountain, and he also wanted to break away from Buddhism, right?" asked Nuwa Niangniang.
"There's nothing to say about detachment, this patriarch is just tired of this earthly deceit. I thought that my Buddhism was pure and inactive, and I would not participate in the struggle for secular power, but I never thought that after my senior brother and I abdicated, we would become what we are now. Patriarch Bodhi sighed.
"Everyone in the world has selfish intentions, and immortals and Buddhas are no exception, mortals pursue power, money, and status. Is my immortal Buddha an exception? Power, status, which one does not fight? Which one does not fight? Even the deity is not excepted, and there is also a selfish existence. Nuwa Niangniang said lightly.
"Niangniang's selflessness is far greater than her own selfishness, Niangniang was refining stones to make up for the sky and save the world. Niangniang is holy and good, so that she can master the 84,000 paths. This is the approval of the Heavenly Dao, why does Niangniang have such words? This ancestor has recently seen the mixed color of the Dao fruit of Niangniang, is it disturbed by Wukong and the Demon Court?"
Nuwa Niangniang sighed faintly, raised her fingers, and the bone relics under the Chaos Lake flew away, suspended in mid-air. Nuwa Niangniang said lightly, "The deity is above the heavens and all worlds, and sits and watches the heavens wither. For the deity, the demon clan and the demon court are just a game on the road to endless immortality, and if you don't like it, you can push down the game and reshuffle it. ”
"This monkey was conceived by the deity of the multicolored stone, and the deity reluctantly regarded it as his own. On the way to learn the scriptures, he was plotted by Rulai. The deity was meant to be a game, and if it died, it would die. But who is the deity? Can you let a mere junior put it together? Those two laid out the plot again on the Journey to the West, and in ancient times, the deity lost a game, and now, only the deity is in the present world, and it is time for the deity to win a game!"
"It stands to reason that this ancestor should not help Niangniang, after all, this game of chess is a game between my senior brother and Niangniang. It is reasonable to say that this patriarch should help my senior brother. But Niangniang treated the ancestor with courtesy and did not reserve. And the patriarch and Wukong cause and effect are not broken, Niangniang even took out the law of motherhood to give this patriarch, if this patriarch goes to help my senior brother again, Niangniang is afraid that the patriarch should be swept out of the house!" said the Bodhi patriarch humorously.
Nuwa Niangniang smiled, "The person who came is a guest, and the deity is too lonely to sit in the Hongmeng Origin Realm, and now that the ancestor is here, the deity has one more person to speak." If the patriarch refuses to help the deity, the deity will not give it to the deity by the law of motherhood. The motherhood law deity will be reserved for the patriarch, and if the patriarch needs it, he will open his mouth. ”
"Niangniang is polite, this patriarch no longer wants to go further, if it weren't for the obsession in his heart, this patriarch would have communicated with the laws of heaven and earth and turned into the Tao, living in such a world of intrigue, it makes this patriarch uncomfortable!" said Bodhi Patriarch.
"The patriarch has a great understanding, and the spiritual platform is not spotted, so he is the real person who has attained the Tao!" Nuwa Niangniang praised.
Patriarch Bodhi shook his head gently, "The person who has attained great enlightenment already exists in the Three Realms, not this patriarch, and this patriarch has an obsession in his heart, so how can he talk about great enlightenment." ”
"Patriarch is talking about Xuanzang," Nuwa Niangniang said, and then nodded lightly, "To be able to speak the way of heaven in front of a group of enlightened people in the Da Lei Yin Temple, all living beings are equal, and the words of saints and mortals are no different, but they can also be called people who have achieved great enlightenment." ”
"The golden cicada who was reincarnated in the tenth life, his experience is no lower than the danger we experienced when we first survived the immeasurable eon. But after all, he is the one who makes wedding clothes for the Buddhas of Buddhism, and Xuanzang is also a poor person!" Patriarch Bodhi sighed helplessly.
"If the patriarch wants to protect him, the deity can make a move!" Nuwa Niangniang said, if he makes a move, even if he has a high means, he will still be a little tender in the face of a great sage.
Patriarch Bodhi shook his head, "Niangniang doesn't need to be contaminated with cause and effect, this patriarch also wants to see what Rulai and Emperor Shakti have in mind through Xuanzang's wedding dress!"
Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor's face was pale, and now that the matter has reached this situation, it is really difficult for him to step down. At the right time, Lao Jun transmitted the voice.
"Your Majesty, since Rulai wants to save these people and make my heavenly court lose face, then I might as well wait for him to do it, and see how he deals with it!"
The Jade Emperor's heart suddenly understood, and then he spoke, "Since the Buddha wants to come forward to protect this monkey, and Tianpeng and several people also intercede for him, then I will sell you a face." ”
The Jade Emperor paused, and then said, "However, Sun Wukong's capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped! Since he is making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, then please ask the Buddha to follow the example of the past, suppress him on the Five Elements Mountain, and think about it for five hundred years!"