Chapter 44: The Monkey King Protects Tang Seng

"Jiurou, this? ——”

Hearing Fang Cai's shout, Tang Seng and Li Zhi sat down and "stepped on the horse" and spun in place, not daring to move forward or backward, Tang Seng was so frightened that he hurriedly grabbed the reins.

Li Zhi knew in his heart that this was the one who was going to appear, and the excitement in his heart was indescribable.

As for the performance of the two crotch-down horses, it couldn't be more normal in Li Zhi's opinion.

Who is that?

used to be in charge of hundreds of thousands of heavenly horses in the heavenly court, that is a veritable "Bi Ma Wen", even the heavenly horses are under his control, and he has his own rules, not to mention just two mortal horses?

"Uncle Clan, didn't you just talk about that divine monkey? Look, isn't that at the foot of the mountain? ”

It turned out that they had just run a smooth road, but it was not flat but halfway up the mountain.

To be precise, about thirty zhang down with his head down, it is the real foot of the "Two Realms Mountain", and the monkey is pressing at the foot of the mountain.

He ...... How does he call me Master? ”

Fang Cai's shout was so loud, Tang Seng naturally heard it clearly.

"Haha, how obsessed is Uncle Clan? If you have any questions, you can go up and ask the monkey, where can I know about my nephew? ”

After getting along for more than a month, Tang Seng seemed to have become accustomed to Li Zhi's questions being answered, but when he arrived at this place, Li Zhi became cautious.

A Liu Boqin can see through him completely, and a random move can make him break through the great realm, what kind of place is this?

I'm afraid that in the Three Realms, there are many great powers who will pay attention to this, how can they not keep a low profile?

"Well, let's go up and ask."

Tang Seng was also interested, perhaps because he had encountered monsters and beasts one after another a few days ago, but he didn't have too much fear of the expected monkeys.

The two of them walked down the mountain path, and after a short time, they came to the foot of the mountain where the monkey was pressed.

"Master, Master, why did you come? Guanyin Bodhisattva came more than ten days ago, saying that you will come in three or five days, why did you delay it for more than ten days? ”

As soon as he saw Tang Seng dressed as a mage, the monkey knew that the great monk in front of him must be Tang Sanzang in the mouth of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Tang Seng and Li Zhi came to a place less than a zhang away from the monkey, and the two horses were reluctant to move forward, so they had to dismount and come on foot.

Li Zhi carefully looked at the monkey head that was constantly shaking at the foot of the mountain, to be honest, he felt a little lost in his heart, is this the famous Monkey King, the Monkey King who is respected by thousands of people even in later generations?

I saw that he only showed one head, one arm and half of his body outside, with a sharp mouth and shrunken cheeks, and golden eyes.

The head was full of moss, but he did not know how to erase it, and the ears were full of dill, and he did not remove it.

There is less hair on the sideburns and more grass, and there is no beard under the chin but there is a layer of green sha.

There is soil between the eyebrows, the nose is concave with mud, the fingers are thick and short, the palms are clumsy, and there is a lot of dirt......

How embarrassed is it?

"Amitabha, are you the monkey? Why did you call me a master? ”

It was close, Tang Seng didn't dare to get too close when he saw the appearance of the monkey, if it wasn't for Li Zhi on the side, he might not dare to ask.

"Dare to ask the Master, are you a monk sent by the Tang Emperor of the Eastern Soil to worship the Buddha in the West Heaven and seek scriptures?"

The Divine Monkey rarely controlled his mind for a moment, looked at Tang Seng and asked.

"Yes, the poor monk Tang Sanzang was sent by the Tang Emperor to go to the West Heaven Da Lei Yin Temple to learn scriptures, I don't know how the monkey knew?"

"Haha, that's right, you are my master, and I am your apprentice."

"I am the Monkey King who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years ago, and it has been five hundred years since I was trapped and pressed by the Buddha because of the sin I committed on the throne."

"The former has a Guanyin Bodhisattva, received the Buddha's will, went to the east to find the people who learned the scriptures, more than ten days ago, she came here to inform me that the people who learned the scriptures have been on the way."

"Therefore, I was vigilant day and night, and I was afraid in the morning and dusk, just waiting for Master to come and rescue me. I would like to ensure that you travel west to learn scriptures and be an apprentice with you. ”

Li Zhi listened to the monkey's self-description on the side, although he already knew most of these contents, but when he heard it with his own ears, he still heard the eagerness, bitterness and caution in it.

"Amitabha, since you have a good heart and are sent by Guanyin Bodhisattva, I will accept you. But how can I save you from traveling without an axe and chisel along the way? ”

When Tang Seng heard this, he was full of joy.

One more person means more power, not to mention that there is still such a divine monkey, with him joining, wouldn't it be more certain to reach the Western Heavens?

"Master, don't worry, there is a golden sticker of the Buddha on the top of this mountain, you go up and remove it, and I can come out."

"Uncle Clan, just now I did see something shining on the top of the mountain, can I help you up?"

Looking at the slightly steep mountain top in front of you, why doesn't it take an hour to climb up from here?

With Tang Seng's mortal body, Li Zhi couldn't understand how he could go up?

"It's okay, the monkey will stay here for a while, and the poor monk will go back when he goes-"

Li Zhi drove the two horses away first, he knew what was going to happen next, and he didn't want the two mounts to die here.

Tang Seng's white horse has its own fate, he doesn't believe that there can be a god to protect his big black horse.

The "Two Realms Mountain" didn't know its height, Li Zhi didn't dare to use mana, purely relying on the strength of his body, supporting Tang Seng with one hand, and climbing the handsome rocks and vines with the other hand to go up.

There were a few steep places, and Li Zhi was even crawling with Tang Seng half-way, and when he reached the top of the mountain, a slightly flat open land appeared.

There is a prominent ashlar in front of you, and there is a gold sticker pasted on it, and sure enough, there are thousands of golden lights and thousands of rui qi.

Tang Seng didn't seem to feel anything, Li Zhi glanced at the gold sticker, as if his whole body was imprisoned, and he couldn't move at all.

How strong this coercion is!

Even the black-and-white boy who was practicing in the sea of knowledge was forced to stop the spear in his hand, and hurriedly held his breath and sat cross-legged on the ground, trying his best to adjust his internal breath.

"Om, ma, what, horn, mi, yin" six golden words.

Tang Seng hurriedly took two steps forward and knelt down on his knees.

"Disciple Tang Sanzang, specially according to the Tang Emperor's will to seek scriptures in the west, if there are apprentices, he will reveal the golden words, rescue the monkey, and prove the Lingshan. If there is no distinction between apprentices, this generation is a fierce monster, coaxing disciples, and if it is not auspicious, it will not be revealed. ”

Tang Seng recited words in his mouth, and then respectfully bowed to the gold sticker and bowed three times.

A fragrant breeze wafted by, and the gold stickers on the ashlar rose in the wind and headed straight to the west.

"Master, you go down the mountain quickly, go farther, my grandson is already impatient to come out-"

As soon as Jin Tie left, the monkey pressing at the foot of the mountain felt it, held back the excitement in his heart, and shouted loudly again.

As soon as the gold paste was gone, Li Zhi also recovered as before, but his whole body was like washing, and even the bone joints were a little sore.

This...... What a power this is?

Li Zhi's heart was full of shock, and he strengthened his determination to become stronger, but he hid this emotion very well.

Just the moment when Tang Seng paid his respects, Li Zhi could feel that dozens of divine senses had scanned him, and he was so frightened that he even restrained all his mana and displayed his "Heavenly Leaky Body" as perfectly as possible.

It's easy to go up the mountain, but hard to get down.

When Tang Seng and Li Zhi returned to the foot of the mountain again, Tang Seng's monk's robe was torn in several places, and blood was faintly oozing out of his right palm.

"Master, you go farther away, my grandson is about to come out-"

Tang Seng was helpless, not caring about the fatigue of going up and down the mountain, and with the support of Li Zhi, he ran to the place where the horse was hidden.

When they had gone far enough, they heard a loud and earth-shaking noise in their ear chakras.

"Boom-"

It was as if the sky had fallen, and suddenly within a radius of dozens of miles, birds and beasts fled, flying sand and rocks.

Li Zhi didn't care about revealing his strength, so he hurriedly hurried beside him and Tang Seng, secretly creating a protective qi wall.

"Master, hahaha, my grandson has finally come out again-"

A shout that resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the divine monkey had already arrived in front of Tang Seng and the others.

At this time, I found that the height of the monkey standing upright was not as high as that of ordinary people, and it was similar to Li Zhi, who was now thirteen or fourteen years old.

Maybe it's been too long, and the clothes on his body have long been worn out, and he is still covered with mud.

"Amitabha, just now you call yourself 'Lao Sun' but your surname is Sun? I wonder if you still have a name? If not, I will send you one for the teacher. ”

Looking at the "pitiful" appearance of the monkey, Tang Seng couldn't help but stretch out his hand and pluck the weeds on his head for him.

"If you don't work for Master's kindness, I originally had a Dharma name, called Sun Wukong."

"Wukong? It's also in line with the Zen of my sect, so why don't you give you another name as a teacher, that is, 'Walker'? You live like a head. ”

"Thank you, Master, for your kindness, then my old grandson will also be called Sun Xingzhi in the futureβ€”β€”"

The divine monkey seemed to be a little unaccustomed to Tang Seng's care, and saw Li Zhi beside him at a glance.

"Master, who is this little brother? Curious about the special appearance! ”

Sun Wukong's eyes flickered, and under the "fiery eyes", he could naturally see the root of Li Zhi.

"Wukong, this is a nephew of the teacher, I heard that I learned scriptures for the teacher Xitian, so I came out and walked together, which can be regarded as increasing some knowledge, Jiulang, I haven't come to see ......."

Tang Seng hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to call between Li Zhi and Sun Wukong.

"Jiulang has seen the senior brother, at the place of the eldest brother Liu Boqin, the younger brother has heard of the prestige of the senior brother, I didn't expect to be a senior brother with you, the younger brother is very honored!"

Before Li Zhi waited for Tang Seng to be embarrassed, he hurriedly walked over and respectfully saluted Sun Wukong.

"Oh, you also know Brother Liu Boqin? That's not an outsider, but how does the name of 'big brother' come about? ”

When Sun Wukong heard Li Zhi talk about knowing Liu Boqin, he immediately regarded him as his own, but he didn't understand why he called him "senior brother" as soon as he opened his mouth.

"This ...... You are the first apprentice of the clan uncle, and you are older than the younger brother, so it is natural to call you a senior brother, as for the senior brother, it is just to show respect. ”

Li Zhi secretly pinched a handful of cold sweat, he was too careless, and he blurted out habitually.

The two present now, whether it is Tang Seng or Sun Wukong, don't know if they will accept any more apprentices in the future.

"Senior brother, do you think you cast a spell to clean up the dust on your body? You and I are of similar shape, if you don't mind, you can change into the clothes of the younger brother later. ”

The three big men stood here, and Sun Wukong was even more almost naked, and Li Zhi was a little dizzy when he saw it.

"Hehe, let the master and the little junior brother laugh."

Sun Wukong no longer pursued the loopholes in Li Zhi's words, and hurriedly threw himself a "cleansing spell".

After a while, Sun Wukong's whole body became refreshed and refreshing, and the whole person was much more energetic.

Under the sunshine, the monkey hair all over the body is shining golden, but it has a bit of the taste of "Monkey King".

"Senior brother has good skills, such a good little spell, can senior brother pass it on to junior brother?"

Li Zhi hurriedly took out a samurai suit from his package, and even brought a pair of boots.

said that it was Li Zhi's own clothes, but they were a few sets that he had recently purchased, and he hadn't put them on once.

"Thank you, junior brother, if you want to learn, it's not easy? Like what 'water avoidance trick', 'fire avoidance spell', 'stealth technique' and other small methods, my grandson has it here. With your current strength, it won't take much effort to cultivate. ”

Sun Wukong took Li Zhi's clothes and dressed neatly, he has lived for so many years, and he has experienced all kinds of big scenes, seen all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, and his eyelashes are empty.

Who is hypocrisy and who is hypocrisy, that can be seen at a glance, in his opinion, the little junior brother who suddenly appeared in front of him seems to be extremely close to him?

This kind of feeling can't be pretended to be, not only close, but more adoring, and really wanting to make friends with him.

In fact, there is no need to pretend to be Monkey King Li Zhi at all, that is his absolute idol in childhood!

"Amitabha, Jiulang's suit fits, but unfortunately it's not a Buddhist robe......"

"Hehe, Master, what's so difficult about this?"

Sun Wukong turned around slightly, and when he looked at it again, the previous samurai uniform was gone, and the style on his body was the same as that worn by Tang Seng, but the color was golden.

"Senior brother, you are already considered a monk, I wonder if the wine that Brother Liu Boqin asked me to bring over should be given to you again?"

At this time, Li Zhi took two more things from the horse, one was the huge cooked beef leg, and the other was the wine bag brought by Liu Boqin.

"Hehe, the eldest brother is very good, even such a treasure can be shot, but I don't know if it's for my grandson or for the younger brother?"

Sun Wukong stepped forward and snatched the wine bag, and drank "tons and tons" for a while.

"Good wine, good wine, since the last time my eldest brother came, my grandson hasn't drunk it so happily!"

"Amitabha, good, goodβ€”"

Looking at the two people in front of him, one was holding a wine bag and drinking wildly, and the other was even grabbing a cow leg and devouring it, Tang Seng had no choice but to turn around.

Today is the day of Sun Wukong's escape, and he has been suppressed here for 500 years, although Tang Seng is not very clear about the real reason, but he can also experience his depression and desolation.

Therefore, seeing Sun Wukong's binge drinking, Tang Seng did not take out the master's shelf to scold or stop it.

I'm afraid that Tang Seng himself didn't find out that he would actually think about the problem from Sun Wukong's point of view, or rather, he actually had an extra "tenderness" invisibly?

"Senior brother, what did you just say 'baby', where is it?"

In addition to a cooked beef leg, it is a big wine bag, watching Sun Wukong drink so much, Li Zhi will not think that this wine is a treasure, how can a baby be so wild?

"Little junior brother, I found that you have also cultivated eye supernatural powers, but unfortunately the realm is too low, and you can't see the transformation of the treasure, you come and see-"

As he spoke, he saw Sun Wukong holding the wine bag in his hand forward, and suddenly the huge wine bag turned into a white jade wrench?

"This is? ……”

Li Zhi was a little puzzled.

"This thing is called a 'storage ring', and the eldest brother is not stingy, and it is an intermediate-level 'storage ring', and it doesn't seem to be given to me with such a delicate appearance."

"After drinking the wine, my grandson has finished drinking, you can accept the ring, junior brother-"

Sun Wukong shook his hand, and the white jade wrench was worn on Li Zhi's left thumb impartially.

"The prohibition in this 'storage ring' has been dissolved, and the little junior brother forced himself to take out a drop of essence blood into it, and it will become yours. Even if you are robbed, unless you are dead or the other party's realm is much higher than you, you can't easily open it. ”

With such a big guy as Sun Wukong here, Li Zhi, a cultivator of immortals, can really avoid a lot of detours.

……

The team going west changed from a group of two to a group of three.

When Li Zhi saw Sun Wukong walking on foot, he simply jumped off the black horse and walked with Sun Wukong, only letting the black horse carry the luggage.

To say that Li Zhi brought far more luggage than Tang Seng, in order to avoid sleeping in the wilderness, he really brought a small tent for the march.

If you are willing to squeeze it, you can barely sleep two people.

Now, with this "storage ring" in his hand, Li Zhi is already fantasizing that when he arrives in the next city, he can purchase some grain, fruits and vegetables at will.

After dripping blood and recognizing the master, Li Zhi could put his divine sense into the "storage ring", which was a large space, the size of three rooms.

The only drawback is that it is impossible to store living creatures here, and when Li Zhi said this, he was immediately looked at by Sun Wukong.

"Little junior brother, do you still want to store living things? Isn't that a small world, or a blessed land cave that you carry with you? How dare you think about it! ”

After listening to this, Li Zhi also felt that his request was a bit too small, but it would be nice if there really was such an object.

Tang Seng needs to do penance when he travels west, but he is not, he just travels with him.

Tang Seng was still sitting on the white horse, looking at the two people walking in front of the horse, bowing their heads and saying nothing, thoughtfully.

"Uncle Clan, you won't be angry, will you? If you want me to say that the senior brother doesn't have to abide by those rules and precepts at all, he can't drink alcohol or eat meat. ”

"There's a saying you haven't heard?" Wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart', and it is the heart that cultivates the Buddha, not a simple form, and it is completely possible to 'replace vegetables with meat and tea with wine'......"

Sun Wukong has many names, two of which are the most famous, one is the previous "Monkey King", and the other is the later "Fighting to Defeat the Buddha".

In Li Zhi's opinion, he prefers the carefree, free, and even somewhat lawless "Monkey King".

As for "fighting to defeat the Buddha", is that still the real Monkey King?

"Amitabha, Jiulang, where did you get these crooked theories? How can you misinterpret the practice of Buddha in such a way? ”

Hearing Li Zhi's "crooked theory", Sun Wukong was amazed, and even turned his head on the spot excitedly.

Tang Seng couldn't cry or laugh.

He knew very well that his "clan nephew" was not an unlearned person, on the contrary, "Wendao" had already transcended the realm of Confucianism, and every time he said something amazing, he must have a deep meaning.

Could it be that his "crooked reasoning" this time was not said casually?

"Amitabha, sin, sinβ€”"