"The surname is Sun, do you recognize me?"

"How I don't recognize you! You are the Nanhai Putuo Luojia Mountain, the Great Compassion, the Great Compassion, the Nanwu Guanyin Bodhisattva! If you come to coax me and press me on this mountain for more than 500 years, Wanwang Bodhisattva will be convenient for one or two, save my grandson! ”

"This sin is deep, save you out, I'm afraid you will cause disaster again, but it is not beautiful."

"I already know that I am wrong, but I hope that great compassion will show me the way, and I am willing to practice."

……

Guanyin Bodhisattva stood at the head of the clouds, looking at the monkeys under the Five Elements Mountain.

Compared with 500 years ago, the monkeys at this time have completely lost their ferocious and wild nature, full of flattery and flattery, just hoping to get out of the Five Elements Mountain.

"What's so special about this Monkey King? Can the Buddha indicate that the apprentice of the person who learns the scriptures must have him? ”

Guanyin was so puzzled in his heart, but he said: "Since you have this heart, when I go to the Eastern Tang Kingdom to find a person to learn the scriptures, teach him to save you." You can be a disciple with him, uphold the teachings, and enter my Buddhism. How? ”

The monkey was overjoyed and cried out, "I want to go!" Will go! Thank you Bodhisattva for your great compassion and relief of suffering! ”

Guanyin was very satisfied when he saw that the monkey was so knowledgeable: "In this case, I won't say anything more, and you can wait here for someone to learn the scriptures." I went. ”

After that, Guanyin took Muzha and flew to the direction of Nanzhan Buzhou Dongtu Datang.

However, when the monkey's field of vision was out of sight, Guanyin slowed down the speed of the clouds.

Not far away from the clouds, a group of heavenly soldiers and generals have been waiting for a long time.

Led by a tall and mighty man with a handsome face and wearing a silver armor, it was Li Anran!

The apprentices selected by Guanyin, except for Zhu Bajie, who was released from prison, the rest of the sand monks, little white dragons, and monkeys were all sin immortals imprisoned in the lower realm by the heavenly court.

If Lingshan wants to wash them ashore, not only does he need the Jade Emperor to nod and agree, but he also has to inform Li Anran, the god of prison.

Li Anran saw Guanyin flying over, and asked knowingly: "Bodhisattva, this Monkey King is the last one, right?" ”

Guanyin bowed his head slightly and thanked him: "There is a Laosi Prison God who has gone this way." ”

"The Bodhisattva's words are serious, and the duty is as it should be."

Li Anran said a few polite words, and then said goodbye and left.

After returning to the Heavenly Court, he went to the Heavenly Temple of Justice and reported the matter to Yang Jian.

Yang Jian's power as a judicial god did not have the slightest impact because of Yao Ji's incident.

On the contrary, after more than 100 years of precipitation, he can be said to be above ten thousand immortals under one immortal in the heavenly court, and he is a true and honest minister, who can manage almost all the affairs of the Three Realms.

"Monkey King, Zhu Ganglie, General Shutter, Ao Lie......"

Yang Jian frowned slightly, chewing on these four names repeatedly in his mouth, thinking about what was so special about them, and why Rulai chose them to be the protector of the Golden Cicada.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Yang Jian couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation.

Among these four people, only the monkey has deep feet and high mana, if there is a reason to choose, the other three, especially the roller shutter general, have nothing special at all.

Yang Jian looked up at Li Anran and asked, "Brother Li, why do you think the Buddha chose these four people to be the protectors of the scriptures?" ”

Li Anran didn't answer directly, but asked, "Second master, are there any restrictions on this gambling fight?" How is winning or losing calculated? ”

Yang Jian said: "There are four restrictions. First, the person who learns the scriptures must rely on himself to reach Lingshan, and cannot rush by means such as soaring clouds and driving fog. ”

"Second, the two sides can lay out the plot, but they must not tell the content of the gambling to the gods or monsters who are directly involved in the gambling fight. lest someone disregard their lives for the sake of the teacher and make things out of control. ”

"Third, the protector of the scriptures is four, and the number of the five elements is made up with the people who take the scriptures, and the upper limit of the calamities on the way to the scriptures is ninety-nine, that is, a maximum of eighty-one difficulties.

"Once the person who learns the scriptures has passed the ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties or reached the Lingshan, the Lingshan will win."

"If the reincarnation of the golden cicada moves the body of the pure yang or dies halfway, it will be regarded as a victory for the Xuanmen."

Li Anran heard this, and the guess in his heart was a little more affirmative, thought for a while, and decided to tell Yang Jian: "Second master, I have an idea, I don't know if it's right." ”

Yang Jian's eyes lit up, he just asked casually, but he didn't expect Li Anran to really have an answer, and urged: "Brother Li, don't be modest!" Say it! ”

Li Anran said: "Sun Wukong doesn't need to say much. It only took him less than a thousand years to cultivate from a spirit monkey to the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal, and he also cultivated eight or nine Xuangong, with unlimited potential and extraordinary strength. If you choose him to be the apprentice of the scripture learner, and by the way, you will be admitted to the Buddhist sect, which is very suitable and reasonable. ”

Yang Jian nodded in agreement, and only corrected Li Anran a little: "That Monkey King is not just as simple as Taiyi Golden Immortal, when he was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he should have broken through to the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal in a short time, but the realm was not yet stable, so he was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain by Rulai." If you choose him to be the apprentice of the scripture taker, you should have been planning for a long time. ”

Li Anran continued: "In addition to Sun Wukong, the remaining Zhu Ganglie, Ao Lie, and Rolling Shutter Generals, their cultivation can only be regarded as average, but they all have a common characteristic. ”

Yang Jian asked, "What?" ”

Li Anran said: "The background is deep! Well-connected! ”

As he spoke, Li Anran unfolded the three of them one by one.

"Zhu Ganglie is the apprentice of Emperor Donghua, and Emperor Donghua himself has a high prestige, and he is the head of the male immortals of the Three Realms.

"Ao Lie is the third prince of the Dragon Clan of the West Sea, although the Dragon Clan has declined now, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. From ancient times to the present, there should be a lot of good karma, with Ao Lie, this part of the people will also show mercy and sell people to save face. ”

"As for the Roller Blinds...... He is the person of the Jade Emperor! ”

When Yang Jian heard the content of Zhu Ganglie and Ao Lie, he was already nodding secretly, and was suddenly taken aback when he heard that the general of the rolling shutter turned out to be the person of the Jade Emperor.

This curtain general fell into the glass cup because of a mistake, and was demoted to the quicksand river by the Jade Emperor, and suffered from ten thousand swords piercing his heart every day, even if he didn't resent the Jade Emperor, how could he still be the Jade Emperor's person?

"Second master, this curtain general is not simple."

Li Anran immediately told the story that the sand monk had eaten all the bodies of the first nine generations of the golden cicada, and strung their heads into skull rosaries and carried them around his neck.

"The goose feathers of the eight-hundred-mile quicksand river do not float, and there are countless people passing by and detouring every day, but it is not a coincidence that this curtain general can eat the reincarnation of the golden cicada every few decades, and also leave the skull."

Yang Jian's face suddenly became solemn.

It is impossible for Li Anran to lie to him, which means that the Jade Emperor has reached some kind of agreement with Lingshan.

This means that Heavenly Court is on the side of Buddhism in this battle between Buddhism and Taoism.

It also means that many immortals in the heavenly court will also leave some affection for the people who learn the scriptures in order not to offend the Jade Emperor!

Emperor Donghua, Ancient Dragon Clan, Heavenly Jade Emperor!

The human affection of these three includes almost all the immortals of the Three Realms!

"Rulai's methods are really powerful!"

Yang Jian gasped, and his heart was horrified.

He and Taiyi Zhenren both thought that Rulai would choose a monster or a sin immortal with strong mana to act as the protector of the scriptures.

also guessed that there would be Monkey King in it.

However, they never imagined that Rulai would start from the aspect of calamity!

Among the four protectors, only Sun Wukong is the real protector!

The other three are all related households with average strength but deep backgrounds!

However, these three related households can minimize the power that obstructs the Western Heaven to learn scriptures.

In this way, the probability of success in learning from the West will naturally increase greatly!

Yang Jian quickly figured out the intention of the general to leave the skull: "The eight hundred miles of quicksand river is not long or short, they want the golden cicada to use the skull of his reincarnated body to cross the quicksand river?" ”

In this way, it can be regarded as the person who learned the scriptures to cross the quicksand river on his own, without violating the agreement between Lingshan and Xuanmen.

Li Anran nodded and said, "It should be like this." ”

"Brother Li, this matter is very important, I need to go and tell Uncle Taiyi immediately, you will wait here."

The more Yang Jian thought about it, the more he felt that what Li Anran said was the truth, and he couldn't sit still at the moment, so he wanted to drive the clouds to the Jinguang Cave of Qianyuan Mountain and tell Taiyi Zhenren these things.

However, as soon as he reached the door, he stopped again, and his face changed.

Li Anran was a little strange and shouted, "Second master? ”

Yang Jian came back to his senses and said, "Brother Li, don't tell anyone what you said to me just now. ”

Li Anran was stunned, not too understanding what Yang Jian meant.

Yang Jian explained: "The great revival of Buddhism is something set by the sage at the beginning, but the sage did not leave a specific time, so it will be delayed until now. Even if I tell Uncle Taiyi about this, it will only delay the time of Buddhism's prosperity by 500 years. ”

"Five hundred years from now, this kind of gambling will have to happen again. If I am destined to be unchangeable, why should I waste this effort? It's better to let this matter end as soon as possible, and save these gods and Buddhas from tossing the creatures of the lower realm. ”

But in Yang Jian's heart, the creatures of the Three Realms are more important than the Dao Unity.

Yang Jian said this, Li Anran naturally nodded in agreement, and then said goodbye and left, returned to the prison, and buried these things in his heart.

And in the mortal world, the matter of learning scriptures from the western heavens is still going on unhurriedly.

After Guanyin left the Five Elements Mountain, he went to the Tang Dynasty in the east of Nanzhan Buzhou and began to implement the plan of Lingshan to learn scriptures from the west heaven.

Everything is as recorded in Journey to the West.

Chen Guangrui went to work in the disaster, Tang Xuanzang took revenge, Wei Zheng killed the dragon king in his dream, the ghost dragon of Jinghe haunted the palace, Emperor Taizong returned to the palace, and was frightened to hold a water and land conference......

Li Anran saw all this in his eyes, but he was embarrassed and sighed in his heart.

Compared with the ancient times, although the human race is still the protagonist of the Heavenly Dao, the status of the human emperor is very different!

In ancient times, Heavenly Court could only rule the Three Realms in name, and it was difficult for the Jade Emperor to meddle in the affairs of the human world, especially the human race!

Especially in the Yin Shang period, the luck of the human race reached its peak.

A group of sectarian disciples would rather hold official positions in the Yin Shang Dynasty than go to heaven to be the courtiers of the Jade Emperor.

It can be seen.

But it was also at this time that the God Catastrophe began.

Since then, the emperor has become history, and only the Son of Heaven is left in the world.

Actually, it was okay at that time.

Zhou Tianzi is also the Son of Heaven, although his status is below Haotian, but he is also above the gods and Buddhas in the sky, and he only needs to sacrifice to heaven and earth when he sacrifices, and he also has the power to canonize the gods in the mortal world.

But now, there is only one title left for the Son of Heaven, and the human emperor is only a mortal emperor.

Tang Taizong, as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was haunted by the ghost of a Jinghe Dragon King and couldn't sleep at night.

And Wei Zheng, an important minister under his command, can kill the dragon king in his dream and send a letter to the judge of the underworld, but at this time, he is powerless against a mere dragon soul, forcing Emperor Taizong to let the two fierce generals Wei Chigong and Qin Qiong guard the door.

With the help of the killing aura on their bodies, they barely blocked the soul of the Jinghe Dragon King.

But because he was eroded by yin qi, he was terminally ill, and his soul left his body and entered the underworld.

Then, another good show began.

As the Son of Heaven, Tang Taizong's status is higher than that of the Ten Halls of the Netherworld.

The Ten Palaces Yama was also very polite at this point, bowing his back, descending to greet him, and doing everything in place.

But, that's all!

They themselves didn't want to leave a handle on people, so they threw everything to their subordinate Judge Cui and asked him to cooperate with Lingshan to put on a big show.

first gave Tang Taizong twenty years of life, and promised to let him return to the mortal world.

But on the way to return the soul, he deliberately put the resentful spirits of the seventy-two anti-kings to intimidate him, and forced Taizong to visit the eighteen hells, only to scare Tang Taizong trembling, and completely lost the bearing of the Son of Heaven.

After that, after semi-forcibly getting Tang Taizong to agree to return to his soul, he immediately held a water and land conference, and then let him go.

After this operation, Tang Taizong, the fierce warrior of the battlefield who had fought for many years, was frightened by the emperors of the world, and he was full of awe of the gods and Buddhas.

Lingshan's purpose was achieved, but the face of the human race was thrown on the ground and repeatedly stepped on countless feet!

After that, everything continued to move forward according to the script of Lingshan, or the gods and Buddhas of the heavens.

The tenth reincarnation of the golden cicada stood out at the land and water conference.

Guanyin Bodhisattva sent a robe and a Zen staff, and showed a miracle in public, and advertised Mahayana Buddhism, and the flickering Tang King and Tang Seng made up their minds to go to Lingshan to learn scriptures.

At the beginning, Li Anran had been paying attention to the matter of learning scriptures from the West, so he watched a live version of the live broadcast of Journey to the West.

But, when he realized all this-

Whether it was Tang Seng encountering danger in the Two Realms Mountain, being eaten by the tiger spirit and bison essence and his entourage, and then being rescued by Liu Boqin, the Taibao of Zhenshan, and then releasing the monkey in the Five Elements Mountain, and accepting the little white dragon as a mount......

After all the scripts arranged by Lingshan, I suddenly felt bored.

After that, Li Anran no longer cared about the matter of the foursome of the Western Heaven Scriptures.

Three years have passed in a flash.

this day.

Li Anran was cultivating in the heavenly prison, and suddenly a heavenly soldier came to report, saying that it was the judicial god Yang Jian who ordered his subordinate grass head god to send two sin immortals who had gone down to earth without permission.

Li Anran went out to take a look, and these two sin immortals were the two Taoist children of Taishang Laojun, the Golden Horn King and the Silver Horn King.

(End of chapter)