Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Meeting of Master and Apprentice

Xuanzang's lonely road to learn scriptures was still very smooth at the beginning, along the official road built by the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang traveled all the way west, and soon came to the border area of the Tang Dynasty. When you get here, it is no longer a flat river, but the mountains are undulating and dense forests, but it is not so easy to walk.

Xuanzang has fine skin and tender meat, and his body is weak, although he has suffered a lot in Jinshan Temple, but that kind of suffering is easy compared with this trekking through mountains and rivers and being precarious. It is also Xuanzang's firm heart to the Buddha, otherwise I am afraid that he would have retreated.

This mountain range is not something that Xuanzang, a weak monk like Xuanzang, can conquer, and this kind of sleeping in the open has made Xuanzang suffer enough.

On the border line of the Tang Dynasty to the west, there is a towering mountain called Liangjie Mountain. Because this mountain is located on the border between the Tang Dynasty and a small country, it is named Liangjie Mountain. The Two Realms Mountain had another name before, and that was the Five Elements Mountain.

The one under this Five Elements Mountain is the Monkey King.

Just before Xuanzang was about to set foot on the area of the Five Elements Mountain, the South China Sea Guanyin floated in the clouds, his body flickered, and he disappeared into the mountain.

"Wukong!" Guanyin called softly as he came to the stone chamber in the mountain. This stone chamber is not pitch black, and there is a ray of sunlight on one side of the stone chamber all year round, which makes the stone chamber bright and dark.

"Greetings, Bodhisattva!" Sun Wukong's hidden figure slowly revealed, bowing to Guanyin.

"It's been all these years that have made your monkey's head suffocated!" Guanyin quipped.

"Five hundred years of meditation have made the old Sun Ming realize a lot!" Sun Wukong replied indifferently.

"Hey!" Guanyin sighed softly. "You already know your mission, right?"

"This is natural!" Sun Wukong replied affirmatively.

"So I won't say more, the westward traveler has come to the foot of the mountain, it's time for you to go out of the mountain to assist him in going to Leiyin Temple to obtain the Sanzang Sutra!" Guanyin said softly.

"Lao Sun takes orders!" Sun Wukong replied calmly.

These 500 years of meditation have made Sun Wukong's mind more calm, his mood has naturally been improved, and he has realized many things. I know my mission.

Soon after Sun Wukong was suppressed, Bodhi Daoist drove the clouds to the Five Elements Mountain and had a long talk with Sun Wukong. As his only disciple, the Bodhi Taoist naturally did not let him resent the Buddhism, and gave out a qiē and a coil.

The facts that Bodhi said made Sun Wukong unable to calm down for a long time. However, in the end, Sun Wukong still accepted his identity, and his attitude towards Buddhism was neither close nor cold. Bodhi Daoist people do not force it, as long as Sun Wukong is willing to undertake his own mission, then it is the best result.

Sun Wukong, as a disciple of Bodhi Taoist, is naturally a disciple of Zhun Ti, and his identity is compared with Guanyin, he is a peer, but he has heard the Tao in order. Sun Wukong still respects Guanyin a lot.

Guanyin is naturally overjoyed by Sun Wukong's changes, but she can only hide this qiē in her heart, if the table xiàn comes out, wouldn't it be a loss of her identity.

After Guanyin came out of the stone room in the mountain, his body flickered, turned into the appearance of a woodcutter, and walked towards Xuanzang, who was going up the mountain.

Xuanzang is holding the white horse at the moment. Step by step, I stepped on a trail and slowly climbed towards the Marble Mountains. Xuanzang had a woodcutter chopping wood coming from a distance. I was overjoyed and hurriedly greeted him.

"This big brother, excuse me!" Xuanzang shouted at the woodcutter Guanyin had turned into.

"Hey, this is a monk from there, I don't know what the monk has to say!" the woodcutter was surprised.

"Poor monk Xuanzang, may I ask the eldest brother what is the name of this mountain? It is so majestic and precipitous!" asked Xuanzang.

"The name of this mountain is Liangjie Mountain, and it is named because it is located on the border between the two countries. In the past, this mountain had another name. It's called Marble Mountain!" the woodcutter replied with a slight frown. "I heard that this Five Elements Mountain suddenly fell here from a high altitude five hundred years ago, and it was the Buddha who pressed the monkey here in order to punish a monkey for his mistakes. ”

"Nan Wu Amitabha!" Xuanzang heard that it was the Buddha who did it, and immediately became excited, and bowed to the west with his hands folded.

"Monk, where are you going?" asked the woodcutter.

"I am at the behest of Emperor Tang. I want to worship the Three Tibetan Sutras in the West!" Xuanzang replied truthfully.

"Oh! This westward journey is tens of thousands of miles away, and it is extremely difficult, monk, and you are alone, I am afraid it is difficult to reach. I have heard that this mountain monkey has been devoted to the Buddha since he was suppressed by the Buddha, and if you can take him as your subordinate, he may be able to keep you all the way west!" said the woodcutter with a hint of joke.

As the saying goes, there is a heart when you say it, and you have a heart when you listen to it, Xuanzang secretly remembered the woodcutter's words in his heart. It has been less than a month since he left Chang'an, and Xuanzang is a little unbearable, if he hadn't been firm in his heart to the Buddha, he would have given up halfway.

"Thank you, big brother for teaching!" Xuanzang hurriedly thanked.

"Haha, if you want to release the monkey, you can climb to the top of the mountain, tear off the Buddha sticker on the top of the mountain, and the monkey will come out!" said the woodcutter again.

"Ah!" Xuanzang was shocked, he didn't expect that the woodcutter brother in front of him knew everything, which made him slightly stunned. When he came back to ask again, the woodcutter had disappeared without a trace.

"Xuanzang, the road to the west is extremely difficult. Although Sun Wukong is a stone monkey, he has a relationship with the Buddha, you can accept him as a disciple and let him protect you as you travel west to learn scriptures!" Guanyin's voice appeared in Xuanzang's mind.

"Nan Wu Amitabha!" Xuanzang was shocked and hurriedly bowed.

After a while, Xuanzang's fluctuating mood calmed down, and then he led the white horse and continued to walk towards the top of the Five Elements Mountain.

This Marble Mountain is really rugged and steep, and it is impossible for people to climb it. But it was such a dangerous place that made Xuanzang come to the top of the mountain alone. After coming to the top of the mountain, Xuanzang saw a golden Buddha sticker shining with a faint Buddha light, which was sticking to a boulder. Xuanzang was determined, and after tidying up his clothes, he walked quickly towards the Buddha.

I saw that on this Buddha sticker, there are six golden characters written, which are 'Om, Ma, Why, Horn, Mi, Ao'.

"Nan Wu Amitabha!" Xuanzang came to take the Buddha before and after, folded his hands, knelt on the ground, and bowed down.

"Boom!" As soon as Xuanzang's words fell, the Buddha sticker attached to the boulder suddenly shook, bursting out with a thousand golden lights, and the auspicious aura overflowed. Then, I saw the Buddha Sticker slowly fly up and head towards the west.

"Nan Wu Amitabha!" Xuanzang was shocked as a celestial, shouting that the Buddha had appeared, and he even knelt down and bowed.

Just as Xuanzang was kneeling, a figure appeared in front of Xuanzang. Xuanzang immediately noticed something, and hurriedly looked up.

"Ah!" Xuanzang was frightened by Sun Wukong's appearance, but although Sun Wukong looked like a monster, it gave people a sense of calmness, which made Xuanzang not very frightened.

"Disciple Sun Wukong, meet the master!" Sun Wukong bowed to Xuanzang, who was slowly getting up.

"Are you the stone monkey pressed under this mountain?" asked Xuanzang, still a little frightened.

"Disciple, five hundred years ago, he violated the rules of heaven and was pressed by the Buddha to introspect here. Sun Wukong replied softly.

"I see! In the future, I hope you will accumulate virtue and do good, devote yourself to the Buddha, and don't make mistakes again!" Xuanzang said pretending to be calm.

"It's not too early, let's ask the master to go on the road!" Sun Wukong didn't want to be too involved with Xuanzang on this issue, so he changed the topic.

"Okay!" Xuanzang looked at the sky, it was indeed not early.

Sun Wukong helped Xuanzang, and then separated a monkey body to lead the white horse, and then slowly descended the mountain together.

PS: The front was written as Wuzhi Mountain, and now it is uniformly modified to Wuxing Mountain. (To be continued......)