Chapter 9: The Great Tribulation
"In life, you have to be happy and comfortable. Therefore, I am not a wicked man, but I am not a saint. Do not be wicked, but you will be condemned by your conscience. To not be a saint is to give too much. I am unwilling to be the evil and righteous demon sage. ”
"What a golden hoop stick! What somersault clouds! What a demon saint! What a demon mission! What's so bad about being a mortal! ”
Zixia couldn't believe that these words came out of the monkey's mouth.
Is this gray-faced and combative monkey in front of him really the Monkey King who once led the entire demon clan to attack the heavenly court?
"How long are they going to hold you down?" Zixia asked.
"I don't know, maybe it's until the day I die." The monkey patted the congealed ice on his head, and he seemed to lose the feeling of pain as he dragged the ice off with many hairs sticking to it.
"Do you like me?" The monkey asked.
"I think I like it, otherwise I wouldn't have run out of the three-star oblique moon cave to find you." Zixia's face was expressionless.
"Then you should like me, then since you like me, go to the Buddha to ask my grandson for intercession. Let's just say that I know that I am wrong, as long as he lets me out, I will definitely be an ordinary monkey in my duty, and if you are willing to follow me at that time, I will become a female monkey! The monkey grinned, as if he had seen the future.
Zixia only said one word.
"Okay."
"What? Have you figured out that a fairy in your heavenly court wants to be my female monkey? The monkey did it in an incredible way, and he began to habitually scratch his ears and cheeks.
Zixia also learned from the monkey and began to laugh, it was a slight smile, which contained various emotions such as resentment, ridicule, ridicule, relief, and depression, but she still vividly modeled this smile.
"What are you laughing at?"
"It's not laughing, it's crying."
"Hahaha, you tease my grandson, how can you cry and grin? Hahaha. The monkey laughed maniacally until he coughed up a few leaves from his stomach, and he stopped laughing and began to cough heavily.
"That apprentice of yours is quite loyal to you, is his name Qingran? How do you come up with the idea of teaching people to practice? ”
"He's not my apprentice. In human terms, between us, there is an equal exchange of interests. "The monkey stopped coughing, he was a stone monkey.
"If my memory is correct, thirty years ago, this Qingran Daoist was still a child of seven or eight years old, what can he give you?" Zixia wondered.
"A peach."
"What?"
Zixia suspects that something is wrong with her ears.
"A peach."
"What peaches?"
Zixia felt that she should not have heard it.
"An ordinary peach." The monkey replied impatiently.
"But your practice is worth a thousand gold......
"At that time, a peach weighed more than a thousand gold for me." The monkey preemptively interrupted Zixia's words.
A long silence followed.
"Why are you here?" The monkey asked.
"I don't know."
A long silence followed.
This time, no one spoke again, and they were all silent, only occasionally looking at each other.
When it gets dark and snow begins to fall on the Marble Mountains, Zixia transforms into a tent made of wool felt, inside the tent, the fire illuminates the space inside the tent, and also makes the shed warm and comfortable.
The monkey was quiet in the tent for only a moment, but soon he burst the roof of his shed, and a large hole was exposed, and the moonlight and snowflakes fell down the big hole on the monkey's face, so that it was not long before a thick layer of snow was covered on his head.
The snow fell all night, and the monkey's head remained motionless, allowing the snowflakes attached to it to be a foot thick.
Immediately afterwards, the sun carried a meager amount of heat to cut off the foot-thick snowflakes and melt them.
……
Zixia stayed there with him for two days and two nights, and when the new sun rose again over the eastern horizon, she decided to leave.
Before leaving, she asked the monkey, "Why do you puncture it when it snows?" ”
He said: "If you stay in a warm environment for a long time, you will forget who you are. ”
……
The thirty-third heaven, Tushi Palace,
This is the abode of one of the three Qing Moral Heavenly Venerables, during which the medicinal fragrance is abundant, and the children of the Dao come and go between the various Dan rooms, within the Three Realms, almost no one dares to disturb easily.
In the palace, the Tai Bai Xing is not on rotation in the Nakshatra Palace, but it appears here.
"Venus, please take a seat, I'm here in Tushi Palace, but I'm here to ask for the elixir?"
Lao Jun's appearance today is different from the old man with kind eyebrows and good eyes in the past, but he is a young man full of books.
"Who are you who dare to trespass into the Tushi Palace?" Tai Bai Xing didn't recognize Lao Jun, and just scolded.
The young man had handsome eyebrows and eyes, and when he heard Jin Xing's reprimand, his brows were furrowed, but he did not lose the luxurious air of his body.
"You have been with me for several years, but you don't know me because of a change in the law. It seems that immortals can't surpass mortals too much. ”
Tai Bai Xing saw that the young man suddenly changed into the image of a white-bearded old man, and the charm of the whole body was so strong, who is it not the moral Tianzun himself?
Tai Bai Xing hurriedly bowed and bowed.
"The student is reckless, and the teacher is asked to punish him."
"I don't blame you, you are now the star official of the Eastern Garden, and you are no longer my subordinate, so why is this so. Your Majesty sent you? ”
"Dao Zu is like a god, and the students are full of admiration. His Majesty ordered me to go to the Tushi Palace to ask for medicine, and the name of the elixir needed had been handed over to the Dao Tong of the Dan Fang, and I specially told the Dao Ancestor. ”
Taishang Laojun nodded slowly, but his eyes were slightly closed, and he sat quietly on the futon.
"The student still has something to understand, I wonder if I can ask the teacher to solve the doubt?"
Seeing that Lao Jun still didn't answer, Taibai had no choice but to speak up again: "The teacher asked me to reveal the news of the Eastern Emperor Dading and the Great Tribulation to the Zizhulin Before, but why?" You must know that you and the Buddha of the West Heaven have always been ......."
Taibai didn't dare to say any more.
"Everything is done, do your best, obey the destiny of heaven, and wait for the catastrophe to fall. Next, I'm going to retreat again, this is the last time you'll see me, step down. ”
Lao Jun's body did not move, but the sound in the hall was like a bell.
"Students follow the word."
Tai Bai Xing bowed down.