Chapter Thirty-Five: The Valley of Half Life, the River of Lifelessness
A fork in the road from the east of Beiju Luzhou to the Ten Thousand Demon City appeared, and many monsters stopped at the fork in the road, and so did Sun Wukong.
There is a dryad guiding passers-by at the intersection.
All the demons went to the left road, but the road on the right was uninhabited, and Sun Wukong chose the road without demons without thinking about it.
But the dryad stopped him at this moment.
"Little brother, wait!"
Sun Wukong glanced at the tree spirit and asked, "If there is something, why do you want to stop me?"
The tree spirit smiled kindly, "The little brother must have just come to Beiju Luzhou, and I don't know the sinister nature of these two roads!"
"What's sinister?"
The tree spirit pointed to the road on the right and said, "Little brother, the road you are going to take just now leads to the Wusheng River, as the name suggests, the one who crosses the river is Wusheng!"
"What about the other one?" asked Sun Wukong.
"The other is to the Valley of Half Life, and you can pass by handing over half your life to the demons in the valley!"
"This road is all to Ten Thousand Demon City?"
The tree spirit nodded, "All the way to the road!"
"Oh!" said Sun Wukong, continuing to walk forward.
"Little brother, there is no river ahead!"
Sun Wukong waved his hand with his back to the tree spirit, and the golden hoop stick was on the back of his neck, still swaying forward.
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"This is the Lifeless River?"
Sun Wukong looked at the red river and frowned.
The Wusheng River is more appropriate than the sea, the river is so endless that the other bank cannot be seen at all.
A thick blood-colored mist filled the surface of the river, and the white bones of the forest were faintly visible at the bottom of the river.
Sun Wukong threw a branch into the river and sank in a blink of an eye.
Sun Wukong tried to set up a somersault cloud again, but he never thought that a heel bucket would go directly into the water, and the whole person was sinking.
"What is the broken river, eat Lao Sun and I will have a stick!" Sun Wukong raised the golden hoop stick and smashed it in the river, and the waves that rushed to the sky kept flying.
Sun Wukong was not yet satisfied, and the golden hoop stick became the thickness of more than a zhang to stir the river, forming a huge whirlpool on the surface of the river.
The golden hoop rod was shining, and the golden inscription appeared around the golden hoop rod.
"Eat Lao Sun's Dingshan River!"
Wukong threw the golden hoop stick in his hand into the Wusheng River, and a huge roar sounded in the Wusheng River, and the river was suddenly covered with dense golden inscriptions, and the blood-red mist began to dissipate.
"Ah~ahh
"What is this, take it!
Sun Wukong shouted, "Where did the monster come from, dare to be my old grandson's way!"
"Don't dare, don't dare! I'll let you go!" the river demon begged for mercy.
"I can't spare you!"
Sun Wukong raised the golden hoop stick and smashed it against the river dozens of times, and when he saw that there was finally no movement, he waved his hand.
"What is the river, Lao Sun, I will fight you so that you can't move!"
After a long time, Sun Wukong saw that there was still no movement on the river, so he turned around and walked away.
When the tree spirit saw Sun Wukong who was back here, he stopped him with a smile, "What, little brother, you can't get by, now you have changed your mind!"
Sun Wukong ignored him, walked to the road on the left to the Valley of Half Life, and muttered, "Old Sun, I want to see what moths are on this road!"
The tree spirit looked at Sun Wukong's distant back, shook his head helplessly, and sighed, "Alas, the young man now!"
Soon another monkey came up to the dryad.
The monkey grabbed a branch in his hand and straddled his shoulder, carrying his bag behind him, which was the six ears who had left Huaguo Mountain and had not returned.
"Uncle, which way to Ten Thousand Demon City?" asked Liu'er politely.
"All through, all through!"
"Uncle, which way is closer?"
"This ......," the dryad was a little embarrassed, glanced at Liu'er, and then said, "The road on the right is closer, but you can't go!"
"Why can't you go?"
"That road leads to the Lifeless River, and the people who go there are all dead and lifeless, little brother, I advise you to take another road, it is better to take a long detour than to lose your life!" the tree spirit suggested sincerely.
Liu'er shook his head, "Uncle, it doesn't matter, it's close!"
After saying that, Liuer walked to the road to the Wusheng River, which is also the road that Sun Wukong walked, the difference is that Sun Wukong will turn back, while Liuer will not.
There is no monkey in the world that is exactly the same.
The tree spirit looked at the back of Liu'er gradually moving away, and couldn't help but sigh, "Alas, the young man now!"
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Six ears walked to the side of this lifeless river, so that the river was angry, and when he listened to it, the terrible cries of ghosts and ghosts in the river continued, and he knew that the passers-by were killed by the water demons in this river.
"Relying on the growth and cultivation of things like resentful spirits, it's really not a good monster!" Liu'er shook his head, and said with a puzzled face, "It's just that this river demon is so weak, as if it was just injured!"
"Monkey, monkey again!" The surface of the river suddenly swelled, and a killing intent locked the six ears.
"River demon, how about we discuss, how about you let it go?"
"Impossible, stinky monkey, I'm going to kill you!"
Liu'er shook his head and retorted, "What the river demon said is so unreasonable, although I am a monkey, but this body stinks!"
A huge wave that covered the sky rushed towards the six ears, and the six ears dodged, which could be dodged, and where the huge wave hit, all were corroded cleanly.
"Monkeys are damned!"
The river set off huge waves and rushed to Liu'er in all directions, and Liu'er said while hiding, "Since you don't want me to pass, then I have no choice but to do it, you forced me! I have overtaken the souls in this river, see how you still fight me!"
"Nam no Master Shakyamuni Buddha, Nan no Master Shakyamuni Buddha......!
The six-eared tongue is full of lotus flowers, and the scriptures in the mouth seem to have a substance, hitting the huge waves, and the huge waves dissipate violently, turning into red mist, steaming and drifting.
The waters of the river gradually returned to a clear state.
"Don't read it, don't read it! I'll let you go!" the river demon compromised to Six-Ear.
Liu'er stopped chanting and said with a slight smile, "It would have been good if I had done this earlier, you have to force me to do it!"
I saw that the surface of the Wusheng River was divided into two halves, forming a path in the middle, which connected to the opposite bank.
Liu'er tidied up his clothes, and then stepped on it leisurely, and after a while, he walked to the opposite bank, and the river closed again.
Liu'er arrived at the opposite bank, but he was not busy walking, and slowly sat down against the calm river.
"Monkey, why don't you leave!"
"Don't be in a hurry, monkey, I'll tell you a piece of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra!"
"Dead monkey, you don't be trustworthy!" said the river demon angrily.
"Little brother, you and I are both demons, and there are a few demons who talk about credit, I will teach you a lesson today, and don't forget it in the future. ”
The six ears sat cross-legged and chanted, "When you contemplate the Bodhisattva of Freedom and walk in the deep Prajnaparamita, you will see that the five aggregates are empty, and you will overcome all suffering." The relics are not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, and the same is true when you want to know it. The relics are the empty phase of all the laws, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, neither increased nor decreased......"
The water of the Wusheng River slowly faded and finally returned to its clearness.
Six Ears calmly looked at the bottom of the river, which was full of white bones.
Countless souls in the river flew to Liu'er, passing by his ear, whispering and speaking of gratitude.
"Don't thank me, monkey, I do a good deed every day!"
Six Ears nodded in acknowledgement, stood up and turned to leave the Wusheng River.
Oh, there's no need to call it the River of Life anymore......