"Grandpa, why is there a stone monkey on the mountain?"

"He's a hero. ”

"Has Grandpa seen him?" asked a young monkey on the mountain innocently.

The old monkey said proudly, "Of course I have seen it." ”

"When did the stone statue stand?" asked the little monkey again.

"Many years ago, he came back once, and the next day he didn't know when he left, and there was a stone statue on the mountain. The old monkey shook his head and sighed.

The little monkey looked adoring and asked, "Then what did he do?"

The old monkey king said with a yearning face: "That's a big deal. He called himself the Monkey King, many years ago he made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and he went to the underworld to cross out the names of our Huaguo Mountain monkeys from the book of life and death, and also picked peaches for the monkeys from the peach orchard to eat. ”

"Grandpa, is the fairy peach sweeter, is it better than Huaguo Mountain?" the little monkey looked at the old monkey ignorantly.

The old monkey touched the little monkey's forehead with a doting face, and said with a smile: "Hehe, it's not delicious, it's not as sweet as the peaches in our Huaguo Mountain." ”

"Grandpa, where is the Great Sage now?" the little monkey suddenly asked.

"Thousands of years ago, he escorted a monk to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, and later became a Buddha. After speaking, there was a trace of tears in the old monkey's eyes. He looked into the distance.

The little monkey looked in the direction of the old monkey and asked, "Grandpa, is the Buddha an immortal?"

The old monkey king touched the little monkey's head and sighed: "Hehe, it's almost." ”

"Then he's in league with the immortals?"

"Uh...... No, they are all the same, but the Great Sage is different. ”

"Why did the fairy still bully us? Then why didn't he come back to see us? Grandpa, would he still make trouble in the Heavenly Palace?" the little monkey asked a lot of questions.

"Uh......" The old monkey didn't know how to answer.

The little monkey asked again: "Grandpa, is the Great Sage really a hero?"

"He must have been a big hero before!"

"And now?"

The old monkey king shook his head helplessly, "Child, I don't know. ”

Time is enough for a legend to rise, and time is enough for a legend to fall.

Five hundred years ago, five hundred years ago, he was wild and difficult, a person dared to speak out about all the injustices in the world with a stick, he was born and died, and he was crazy and rebellious.

Five hundred years ago, he abandoned his nature, went through so many hardships that he forgot that he had become a Buddha.

Five hundred years ago, five hundred years later, he sat motionless on Huaguo Mountain, like under Wuzhi Mountain, like in stone.

He watched the decline and decline of Huaguo Mountain, and he watched the monkey clan live, grow old, sick and die. He is silent, not alive or dead, not sad or happy.

Suddenly, one day, a monk came to Huaguo Mountain who said that he was not a monk.

The old monkey king was excited when he saw the visitor, "I seem to have seen you." ”

The monk smiled and did not answer, but went straight up the mountain and sat down by the stone statue.

Shaking his head and sighing, he suddenly laughed: "Wukong, I'm here." ”

"Goku, maybe you were right at the beginning. The journey to the west was just a game, a bet between me and Buddhism. There is no true scripture in this world at all, but we have taken back the shackles. We didn't moderate anyone, but we let everyone suffer, including ourselves. Wukong, it took me ten lifetimes of reincarnation to understand that now I have left the Buddha Gate, and there is no place for me in the Three Realms. ”

Seeing that the stone was still silent and unmoving, the monk continued: "Speaking of a few of us, Bajie is the best. Bajie broke away from Buddhism a hundred years ago and returned to Heaven, and is now a member of Heaven's general. And the sand monk stayed in a temple in Lingshan, and the white dragon horse has not been heard from since he returned to the dragon clan...... And this is what belongs to you, and the teacher will return it to you now. ”

After speaking, the monk took out a box from his arms, and a firefly flew out of it, only to see the firefly suddenly say: "Thank you"

A crisp and pleasant girl's voice came out, and then landed beside the stone, and cut into a small grass.

"I have returned your things to you, when will you return my things. ”

The monk and the stone talked to themselves for three days and three nights, but the stone was still a stone.

The monk looked to the west, got up, patted his pants and said, "Okay, I'm leaving." ”

Suddenly, an indifferent voice came from the stone: "Thank you"

Then seeing the monk's back, he continued: "You are no longer you, and I am not me. ”

The monk smiled slightly and sat down cross-legged: "It took me hundreds of years to make myself understand, but you used hundreds of years to confuse yourself." ”

"How did you find me? Now I sound like I'm just a rock. Stone asked suddenly.

The monk sighed, tears in his eyes: "Because I want to find you, but you don't want me to find you." ”

Shi listened to the wind in the distance: "Are those Arhats in the west coming to you?"

"If I leave the Buddha Gate, they won't let me, are you still willing to protect me?" the monk stood up, looked at the stone and asked firmly.

The originally clear sky above the stone slowly began to be gloomy and red, and when it was as red as blood, it suddenly exploded in all directions, and the word "roll" shook the heavens and the earth.

The two arhats clutched their chests and hurriedly stopped, and saluted to Huaguo Mountain: "But the Demon King of the Three Realms, the Monkey King of the Three Realms, the Great Sage Sun Wukong, the two of us are ordered by the Buddha to ask the Golden Cicada back, please allow the Great Sage." ”

"If it's somewhere else, yes. But in this Huaguo Mountain, no!" the stone said in an indifferent and domineering voice from Huaguo Mountain to the sky.

The two arhats looked at each other helplessly, nodded to each other, and arched their hands: "Great Sage, I'll retire!"

When the monk saw this, he asked, "Are you still willing to join me?"

"I'm a demon now. Stone said.

The monk asked, "Why did you protect me just now and provoke the Buddha?"

"You give me back what I have, it's just a personal favor. ”

"Wukong, you still haven't changed! As a teacher, you have never believed it wrong" After speaking, Jin Chanzi got up and laughed and went down the mountain.

"It's not good, there is an abnormality in Huaguo Mountain, and Sun Wukong is about to be born!"

"It's not good, there is a vision in Huaguo Mountain, and Sun Wukong will not change his violent nature!"

In an instant, Huaguo Mountain was boiling in the Three Realms.

On the purple bamboo forest in the South China Sea, Guanyin Bodhisattva sneered: "This monkey has disappeared for thousands of years since the last war between heaven and earth. After all, I still can't bear the loneliness! Now I even go to protect the golden cicadas and keep an eye on Huaguo Mountain!"

Heavenly Court, above the Thirty-Three Heavenly Heavenly Treasure Palace.

The Jade Emperor shouted: "It's too platinum star, the monkey has news again, send someone to keep an eye on it." There can be no mistakes in this cooperation with the Buddha world. ”

"Yes!"

Within the demon clan, they also heard about the changes in Huaguo Mountain.

"Big brother, the seventh brother has news!"

"Hmph, he actually betrayed the entire demon clan for a monk back then, regardless of me!"

For hundreds of years, it is like the loneliness under Wuzhi Mountain, just like the loneliness on Huaguo Mountain.

Goku thinks that he can change, become the self he doesn't like but everyone wants him to be.

But Jin Chanzi is right, he hasn't changed, and others don't believe that he will change, only he pretends to believe that he has changed.

He can coldly watch his monkeys, monkeys, grandchildren, grow old, sick and die, and be bullied by the little gods and fairies; he can indifferently watch the prosperity and decline of his Huaguo Mountain. He doesn't like to pretend to be himself, but sometimes he can give Huaguoshan more protection.

Still, he remembered what he had promised the man.

"Senior brother, what did you call me to?"

"Do you know anything about Master?"

The little white dragon turned into a white-clothed boy and sat on the edge of the stone statue, "I know!"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Xiao Bailong said helplessly: "Senior brother, the master didn't let me tell you." Among our masters and apprentices, Buddhism is most worried about you. Because of this, although Huaguo Mountain is occasionally bullied by little gods and fairies, it is also considered to be smooth. I'm afraid I'll tell you what stupid things you're doing again. ”

"Continue to take care of Master for me, and you must tell me anything else. Goku reminded.

"Senior brother, have you thought about it!" asked the little white dragon.

"Go ahead!"

"Good!"

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