The King of Bones

The first time I met that monkey, he was still the Monkey King. At that time, he was high-spirited and unruly, and rescued my two sisters who had been robbed, and on the clouds that sent us home, he danced and talked endlessly, talking about how happy he was when he was about to go to Heaven to be crowned a heavenly official, how beautiful the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave in his hometown was, and how an old monkey loved to drink. When he finally sent the two of us home, he raised his head and smiled, and said, don't be afraid in the future. Remember that I, the Monkey King, will come to save you.

I said okay.

My sister said that a fairy figure like Monkey King, surrounded by fairies, is a thousand years in the blink of an eye, and it is definitely not something that ordinary people like us can approach. I was noncommittal, only embroidered the appearance of the monkey on the cloud every day, day and night recalling the day of the robbery in the mountains, there was a monkey with a purple and gold crown and golden armor, jumping down from the clouds, but the anger rushed up to the clouds.

Decades have passed in the blink of an eye, and I have never heard a trace of the Great Sage.

Is it worth it?

My sister has been asking me this question all along.

Worth. I stood in front of my sister's grave and whispered into the broken tombstone.

I am a bone spirit, and two hundred years after my death, I regained consciousness for the first time. The land that came and went told me that it was my obsession that was too deep, the bones rotted into the soil, and the obsession was carved into the bones, and finally left this miserable white rib that would not rot for a hundred years, and it was created in me. I nodded, silently looking at the only rib in my body, and felt sad.

Ever since I was stabbed by the robber's sword, I was left with a broken rib forever.

So you see, I still can't forget you.

I heard from the land, a few days ago, the Monkey King made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace with a golden hoop stick, and deterred the immortals of the eight directions with force, and finally came out of the horse as if he came out, and then pressed it under the Five Finger Mountain.

I couldn't help but imagine the rebellious appearance of the monkey when he made trouble in the heavenly palace, and my heart rejoiced. After so many years, mortals have been reincarnated several times, but he is still as energetic as he was back then. So I thanked the land, left the town where I had lived all my life, and rode away.

The place I went to was naturally Wuzhi Mountain.

Once my mortal body, it was difficult for me to cross mountains and seas, let alone go to heaven and earth. And now that I have shallow mana, I naturally want to go to the hero who has been thinking about my life. So along the way, the sun and the moon changed, the cloak brought rain, the mountains and rivers swept past me like clouds, and finally I stood a hundred miles away from Wuzhi Mountain, and it was difficult to get closer.

I summoned the land to ask the reason, and the kind old man shook his head and said to me, this place is like a ban, and for five hundred years, mortals, immortals, lonely souls and wild ghosts are not allowed to enter.

I nodded, from this mountain is king, that mountain is barren and barren, I call it the empty mountain, this place has shackled the great sage for five hundred years, and I have shackled myself for five hundred years.

Since then, I have been cultivating mana in the cave day and night, only looking forward to the day when the rebellious monkey will break through the mountain and come back to heaven, I will be by my side. When I was free, I picked up the embroidery needle before I was alive, and I dreamed for a hundred years, starting from that white cloud.

Time is like an arrow, and I deeply feel that the true meaning of time flies is still when I was alive. At that time, I was sitting in the old courtyard with white walls and black tiles, the passers-by outside the courtyard were in a hurry, there was a drizzle under the blue sky, I embroidered stitch by stitch, the green grass and red flowers around me bloomed and withered, the color of the bricks and tiles gradually became deeper, heavy rain and light snow continued to alternate, and finally I was tired of embroidering, and when I looked at it, my hands were already full of wrinkles.

And now it's the same, the words of the White Bone Cave Mansion are a little blurred by the rain, and a lot of big trees have been uprooted on the Sky Mountain, and the surrounding demons gradually call me the White Bone King. It was a sunny day, the spring breeze was just right, I stroked the rabbit in my arms, and before I could speak, the snow-white rabbit moved its four-petaled little red mouth, and said: Five hundred years, king.

I whispered, "Okay, let's go pick up the Great Sage."

As soon as the words fell, the mana phantom rabbit disappeared.

I didn't receive the Great Sage.

I once thought that the day he broke the mountain was the time for revenge, and he would once again wear a purple and gold crown, wear a golden armor, and carry the golden hoop under a bright red cloak, and ride away from the clouds, and I have cultivated five hundred cold and summer, and I can finally stand quietly beside him and say softly to him: The White Bone King of the Hollow Mountain is willing to fight with the Great Sage.

However, when I walked out of the cave, what I saw was Guanyin driving the clouds. She sealed her jade hand and said to me: Sun Wukong has a heavy responsibility, if you recognize each other, not only will it be difficult to achieve the right result, but it will also make him doom again, if you insist on this, I will have to make you die.

Guanyin paused, and said, However, now I say that you have a more subtle and changing method, you only need to listen to the orders of the heavenly court along the way, and on the day of success, you can also worship the heavenly court, do you want to or not.

I hesitated for a moment and asked, what is his mission?

Guanyin is the head, the west is the scriptures, and the Tao becomes a Buddha.

I thought about it for a moment, bowed my head and answered the word.

So today, five hundred years later, I brushed away the four big characters of the White Bone Cave Mansion on the mountain, scattered the little demons gathered around, and headed west. I don't know what kind of story I will have with the monkey in the future, and I don't know whether my choice today is right or wrong, good or bad for him. All I know is that after Guanyin left, my mana became stronger, and when I returned to the cave, my dead sister stood in front of me, and she told me that she had become a spirit.

How my sister became a fine woman and how she came to me, I have never delved into it, let alone wanted to delve into it. She just touched my head lovingly and said, Sister, don't worry, those things that will make the Great Sage unhappy, my sister will do it.

I have seen the unruly appearance of the Monkey King in the clouds, and I have also imagined the heroic spirit of the Monkey King when he made trouble in the heavens, and I also know in my heart that he had forgotten that he had saved two women.

But I never imagined that one day, he would wear a crude tiger skin and a round of golden hoops, and honestly go to the West to learn from the experience.

When my sister went for the first time, she turned into a young woman. There is food made of snake and scorpion poison hidden in the basket, and he was ordered to harm Tang Seng, and there is also a brocade yarn embroidered with the appearance of the great sage. The result is not close, just like the great sage thousands of years ago with a fierce spirit that rushed to the sky with a stick, and hit his sister hard. The contents of the basket vanished, leaving only the corpse of a beautiful girl.

When my sister came back from a serious injury, she told me that the great sage no longer recognized the identity of the monkey demon, and only killed all the goblins.

I asked, but what?

My sister paused and said, his master Tang Seng is extremely kind-hearted, and it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood with the naked eye, seeing that the Great Sage was angry after killing the woman I incarnated, he only recited a mantra in his mouth, and the tight hoop on the Great Sage's head tortured him to death.

I was silent for a long time, it turned out that five hundred years later, on the day Sun Wukong escaped from Wuzhi Mountain, Guanyin not only put shackles on my body, but also put a hoop on Sun Wukong's head.

When my sister went for the second time, she turned into a deer demon, and I used my magic power to transform into two other big demons, and waited for the group to come over in Chechi. When he saw the Great Sage this time, he restrained his anger, looked back and asked the Tang monk how to act, and finally set three fights.

At the beginning of the fight, Sun Wukong was already weak, and he finally let go of his arrogance and went to seek help from his old friends who had made friends in the heavenly court. That day, the wind and rain, lightning and thunder, the little jade dragon rolled between the oil pots, and the great sage was very comfortable in it. But I understand that although he has won these three battles, he has already lost more than 500 years of cultivation. (More story Q: 21641)

When my sister went for the third time, she directly turned into a great sage, just like the unruly back then, holding my rib that had been cultivated for a long time. I conjured up the Little White Dragon, a sand monk with the Eight Precepts, intending to replace these poor people.

After my cultivation and blessing, that rib was comparable to a golden hoop stick. In this way, the two of them were indistinguishable from each other, and finally the great sage finally figured it out, and led my sister to the underworld, to Guanyin, to visit the famous families in the fairy world, and whispered, begging him to distinguish the true from the false.

In the end, the Great Sage and his sister stood in front of the Buddha of the Great Leiyin Temple, as if they came to see the pleading Great Sage, and then looked at the calm sister, a smile hung on the corner of their mouths, and pointed to the Great Sage and said, You are real.

The Monkey King was very happy that day.

From that day on, I understood that my mission was accomplished. I don't have to let my sister obstruct the Great Sage anymore, and I don't have to distort things that are hard to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Is it worth it? My sister asked me again.

I thought back to the Monkey King who obediently listened to Rulai's words, thought for a long time, and shook my head.

When they found us, I saw a mature team, the lustful and greedy Bajie became abstained from alcohol and sex, and the fierce and rude Sha Wujing became honest and careful, protecting the kind master with the loyal Sun Xingzhi, and they were on the right path.

It was still a beautiful day, and the spring breeze was just right. I saw a new great sage, who was completely washed of lead and dust, not arrogant, no desire, and one with heaven and earth.

I stood behind my sister, she pointed to the quiet Monkey King, turned around and asked me: Is it worth it? Is it worth it? Is it worth it?

I stood there and watched the monkey raise the golden hoop stick, which weighed more than 10,000 catties, and directly skipped my sister in front of me and hit me hard. I looked in disbelief at the most familiar and unfamiliar Monkey King in my life, his eyes full of calm and indifference.

I smiled bitterly, and I was still trying my best to explain: Great Sage, everything that happened before was done by my sister.

Sun Wukong's face did not change, and said calmly: This way, every time you have made trouble from it, where did you come from.

I was stunned for a moment, and looked at my sister in front of me, who turned her head and smiled sadly, and her figure gradually dissipated. After that, I saw my sad smile in the eyes of the monkeys.

I've changed a lot of things, and it's hard to tell the difference between the fake and the real, and I've already reached the pinnacle.

The most failed I ever was my sister, I didn't use any mana, I only imagined the sister who had done all the evil things, and in the end no one lied.

The most successful time I've ever become, and it's also my sister, and I blindly believe that everything is not my own, and I even fooled myself in the end.

Sun Wukong, is your current appearance also what you imagined, in your heart, will you still be the unruly monkey you used to be.

I don't know, I can't even say a word again. Sun Wukong accepted the golden hoop stick, looked at me calmly, and left with the three people behind him.

When they were far away, Guanyin appeared in front of me again. She is still the same as back then, with a jade hand pinching the seal, and said to me, your task has been accomplished, if you don't go to the past in advance in the future, you can preach, do you want to or not.

I was silent for a moment and asked: Why can't I bring up the past?

Guanyin shook his head and said: A trace of cause and effect can also cause a catastrophe.