Chapter 351: Angry Questioning Sun Wukong
When Bodhi Patriarch heard that the voice was from Sun Wukong, he immediately put on his clothes, sat cross-legged, and shouted, “You monkey, why are you here instead of going to sleep in your room?”

Sun Wukong said quickly, “Master promised in public in front of the altar yesterday that he would teach his disciple to come in through the back door at three o’clock in the morning and teach me the truth. That’s why I came here boldly and bowed down at the foot of the master’s bed, hoping that the master would give me some wonderful Dharma.”

Wukong then continued, “I also understand that the Dharma is not passed on to six ears, so there is no third person here, only me. I only hope that Master will be merciful and teach me the way to immortality. I will never forget your kindness!”

Only then did Bodhi Patriarch smile and nod: “Not bad, not bad. I am also happy that you have the predestined relationship to come to me in this life. Since you understand the mystery on my plate, please come forward and listen to me carefully. I will teach you the secret of longevity.”

Sun Wukong kowtowed in thanks, listened attentively, and knelt on his knees to listen to the words of the master.

Patriarch Bodhi opened his mouth and said:

There is no other way of expressing the secret and tactful tactics.

Everyone is always full of energy, and keeps the leak tight.

Stop leaking, hide in the body, you will prosper by preaching by me.

It is very helpful to remember the formula, it can eliminate evil desires and bring coolness.

Be cool, bright and clean, so that you can admire the bright moon from Dantai.

When the moon hides the jade rabbit and the black crow, it has its own tortoise and snake entanglement.

They are intertwined with each other, their lives are strong, and they can grow golden lotus in the fire.

The five elements can be used upside down, and the work will be completed as Buddha and immortal.

Patriarch Bodhi revealed the root cause and the secret, and turned the truth of heaven and earth into wonderful words, which entered into Sun Wukong’s heart.

Sun Wukong was suddenly enlightened and memorized the mantra carefully. He thanked Patriarch Bodhi profusely and then hurriedly left.

From then on, Sun Wukong would come to Patriarch Bodhi’s bedside at midnight every day. Patriarch Bodhi would quickly teach him his magical powers, wishing to give him all he knew.

Three years passed, and Bodhi Patriarch continued to preach. One day, he said leisurely, “Wukong, I have been teaching you the way to immortality for three years. Do you have any insights?”

At this time, Sun Wukong was sitting upright on a cushion with a dignified and solemn face. After three years of practicing Taoism and seven years of etiquette education, a full ten years had passed, which was enough for him to be reborn, get rid of his monster habits, and become a real human being.

At this time, he heard the question from Bodhi Patriarch, and immediately sat down solemnly. After careful consideration, he said: “Reporting to the Patriarch, I feel that I have been able to understand the Dharma nature quite well recently, and my roots have become more solid. This is really the credit of the Patriarch.”

Patriarch Bodhi nodded slightly and said, “It is good that you can continue to practice, but I have something to remind you. This matter is very important. If you don’t listen carefully, you will definitely die in the future.”

Sun Wukong immediately responded seriously and said respectfully, “Please explain clearly, Master.”

Patriarch Bodhi said: “Cultivation is to go against the will of heaven. There are natural disasters, earthly tribulations and human calamities along the way. Now that you have mastered the Dharma nature and obtained the root, and already have a divine body, you must be prepared for the three disasters and nine tribulations.”

After hearing this, Sun Wukong pondered for a long time and retorted, “Master, this is absurd. I have often heard that people who practice cultivation are highly respected, live as long as the heavens, are immune to water and fire, and are free from all diseases. If cultivation is difficult and goes against the will of heaven, then what about the way of heaven? Allowing us to practice cultivation, isn’t this a contradiction?

Patriarch Bodhi shook his head and sighed, “As far as the heaven and earth are concerned, everything is natural, just like the changes in the world, the seas drying up and the rocks crumbling, the stars falling, the earth crumbling and the mountains shaking, everything is as it should be.

If you are willing to be controlled by the heaven and earth, just like the mountains and rivers, flowing and falling at will, standing and rising at will, you can naturally live as long as the heavens, without the three disasters and nine difficulties. But are you willing to do so?”

Upon hearing that it would mean living as long as the sky, Sun Wukong was speechless. After all, he still wanted to live freely and happily with his monkeys and grandchildren forever. How could he be willing to enter into such a state of immortality?

Seeing that Sun Wukong had nothing to say, Patriarch Bodhi said, “The so-called way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency, while the way of man is to reduce the deficiency and serve the surplus. There is a difference between the way of heaven and the way of man.

The Way of Heaven is to reduce what is abundant and provide for what is insufficient in order to maintain world stability, while the Way of Man is to make what is insufficient even more insufficient in order to provide for what is already in excess.

The way of cultivation is to seize the fortune of heaven and earth, and to penetrate the mysteries of the sun and the moon. Once you cultivate a golden elixir, ghosts and gods will not tolerate you, and demons will not allow you to enter. Although you can maintain your youth and prolong your life, after five hundred years, heaven and earth will come to harm you. “

Sun Wukong asked again: “If Heaven and Earth want to harm us, it’s impossible for them to just send down a disaster, right?”

Patriarch Bodhi smiled and said, “You are right. The way the heaven and earth harm us is to send disasters. Otherwise, why would there be three disasters and nine tribulations?

The heaven and earth want to harm us, but we do not want to harm ourselves, so we have to avoid the means of heaven and earth, which means we need secret techniques to avoid disasters.

What I am going to teach you now is the secret technique of avoiding disasters, just to avoid disasters, and perhaps know what disaster is coming. “

After saying this, Patriarch Bodhi stretched out his hand and an inexplicable rumbling thunder was heard.

Hearing the thunder, Sun Wukong began to tremble all over, as if a huge disaster was staring at him. Once it came, he would be killed instantly. It was simply the most terrifying thing in the world.

Squeak!
Sun Wukong immediately sat down and transformed into a human form. The monkey hair that he had put away with great difficulty sprouted out again, and he looked like a giant monkey wearing clothes.
“Master, good Master, please quickly collect your magical powers, please collect your magical powers, I surrender!” Sun Wukong screamed and squeaked, obviously very scared.

Patriarch Bodhi smiled and put his hand away again. The inexplicable thunder disappeared and Sun Wukong felt much more comfortable all over. He breathed a sigh of relief.

“This is the first disaster of the three disasters and nine calamities, the thunder disaster. I just made a sound.” Bodhi Patriarch said: “Any cultivator who is about to become an immortal will be envied by the heavens, and this thunder disaster is a kind of heaven’s envy.

This thunder does not destroy the body, hurt the soul, capture the mind, or move the spirit, but it can send out a thunderous tremor, causing harm to the five elements, shaking your foundation, and blocking your way to heaven.

If you don’t dodge in time, all your efforts will be wasted. You will never be able to become an immortal again in this life. You can only go through reincarnation and try again. But if you still fail to avoid the lightning disaster, you will still die!”

Upon hearing that the thunder disaster was so horrible, Sun Wukong was so frightened that his hair stood on end. The whole monkey was shaking, looking extremely frightened.

Patriarch Bodhi said, “Five hundred years from now, the sky will send down fire to burn you. This fire is not heavenly fire, nor is it ordinary fire. It is called Yin fire. It will not burn from the top of your head, nor from the inside out, but from your Yongquan acupoint.

It will move from your feet to the Niwan Palace, burning your internal organs to ashes and your limbs to rotten wood, making your thousand years of hard training an illusion, and even burning your soul alive. Finally, after another five hundred years, this is the last disaster, but also the most terrifying one. At this time, the sky will send wind to blow you. This wind is not the southeast, northwest wind, nor the Xunjinshuo wind, nor the flower, willow, pine, and bamboo wind, but is called the Bi wind.

The Bifeng starts from the fontanel, blows through the six internal organs, passes through the Dantian, and penetrates the nine orifices, until all your bones and flesh are dissolved and your body dissolves. Only then will it give up. This is also the most difficult to resist. “

Seeing that these three disasters were more severe than the last, Sun Wukong also realized the horror. He was horrified, his soul was flying, and he was almost frightened to death.

He only knew that it was difficult to become an immortal, but he didn’t know that it was so difficult that one could even die if things went wrong.

When Bodhi Patriarch saw Sun Wukong’s appearance, he probably understood that he knew how powerful he was, so he hesitated for a moment before saying, “But you don’t have to be afraid. After all, although the three disasters and nine tribulations are strong, they can’t defeat a cultivator.

Among them, many strange and wonderful people came up with various formulas to avoid disasters, such as drilling into the ground to prevent the thunder from rolling in the sky, entering the four seas, using the eyes of the sea to suppress the fire, and using rare treasures to calm the strong winds in the body.

With so many magic spells and treasures, there are still many people who can become immortals and ascend to heaven in broad daylight. What I am going to teach you now is one of them.”

Sun Wukong came back to his senses at this time. Upon hearing this, he bowed and said, “Sun Wukong, I beg Master to grant me magical powers. Please don’t let my life’s hard work go to waste. I haven’t even paid my respects to you yet!”

Patriarch Bodhi laughed and said, “Your sister, listen carefully. If you practice it in a weird way, don’t say it was me who taught you. I can’t afford to lose face like this.

My method of avoiding disasters can only be learned by humans. Although you look like a human, you have fewer cheeks than humans. The only thing you have is an extra pouch, so it’s okay for you.

Well, I have thirty-six ways to avoid disasters with the Heavenly Gang, and seventy-two ways to avoid disasters with the Earthly Evils. Which one do you want to choose?”

Sun Wukong had learned his lesson by now, and asked cautiously, “Master, may I ask which of these two calamity-avoiding techniques is more powerful?”

After hearing this, Bodhi Patriarch scolded him, “You monkey, why are you talking so much? They are all equally powerful. If you don’t want to learn, go find it yourself. Maybe you can find a way to avoid disasters with the Zhoutian number.”

Seeing that Bodhi Patriarch was angry, Sun Wukong did not dare to play around, and immediately said with a smile: “Disciple is willing to learn more and see more, so I just need to learn one Earthly Demon Transformation.”

Patriarch Bodhi nodded, and then whispered some wonderful methods to Sun Wukong, but in fact they were just the seventy-two earthly evil powers. After all, he did not lie to Sun Wukong, there was indeed a way to avoid disasters in it.

But those three disasters and nine tribulations might not even be able to destroy Sun Wukong’s hair.

Patriarch Bodhi did not lie to Sun Wukong. Before he became an immortal, there were indeed three disasters and nine tribulations, which were all natural disasters, earth disasters and man-made disasters. The natural disasters also included lightning disasters, fire disasters and wind disasters, but he deliberately ignored their power.

It makes sense. With Sun Wukong’s physical strength, even an ordinary Taiyi Golden Immortal would not be able to hurt him. If such a person can’t even withstand the disaster before becoming an immortal, then there would be few people in the prehistoric world who could become immortals.

If the lamp showed three disasters and nine difficulties, I am afraid that Sun Wukong could get through them by lying on the ground and sleeping. With his qualifications, it would be no surprise for him to achieve Daluo. He would only encounter difficulties in the Daluo stage which does not take qualifications into consideration.

But it was not good to only know the 72 transformations of the Earthly Evils, so Patriarch Bodhi found an excuse and let Sun Wukong learn a Taoist technique called Somersault Cloud, which allowed Sun Wukong to learn how to escape into the sky and into the earth while doing somersaults.

After Sun Wukong had learned everything he needed to learn, Patriarch Bodhi originally wanted to keep him for a while longer. However, after counting with his fingers, he realized that his time was up, so he sighed and asked other Buddhas to help him.

After the Buddhas learned about this, they immediately found an excuse to invite Sun Wukong to a gathering under a pine tree.

During the gathering, Medicine King Buddha said, “Wukong, in which life did you cultivate the karmic dharma? I have seen it with my own eyes before. The master personally passed on the wonderful dharma to you.

You know, Master has always been particular about fate. Now you have the fate to learn the way to longevity. We are really envious of you. I just wonder if you are willing to tell us about it?”

Sun Wukong said with a smile: “This is a bit inconvenient. Master once said that the Dharma should not be passed on to six ears. If Master had not made it clear, I would not dare to speak out.”

The Sumeru Buddha laughed and scolded, “You monkey, you didn’t say anything when my senior brother asked you. Well, after all, it’s the master who said it, so we can’t ask again. Then, can you show us a few moves?”

Sun Wukong thought about it and felt that it was nothing. Besides, he had already rejected his senior brother’s face before, and it would be a bit unkind to continue to refuse now.

So Sun Wukong said, “Then please give me a topic for my composition.”

Seeing that Sun Wukong had taken the bait, Sunlight King Buddha immediately said, “The so-called mind changes and the spirit changes. If that’s the case, you can change into an unchanging pine tree and see what the difference is between you and this pine tree.”

After hearing this, Wukong perked up, immediately stretched out his hands, made some hand gestures, chanted a spell, and instantly transformed himself into a pine tree, which was no different from the one here.

It is true that the thick cold smoke permeates the four seasons, and the branches soar up to the sky in a beautiful and chaste manner; there is no trace of a demon monkey at all, and they are all branches that can withstand frost and snow.

When the Buddhas saw this, they all applauded and laughed, saying, “Good monkey! Good monkey!”

Everyone started shouting unconsciously, which immediately alarmed Bodhi Patriarch. Bodhi Patriarch went out to see what was happening and immediately asked, “Who is making such a noise?”

When the Buddhas saw Patriarch Bodhi coming, they hurriedly checked their clothes and tidied their hair, then hurried forward to greet him.

Sun Wukong also immediately revealed his true form and said loudly: “Master, we are just gathering here and are not making any loud noise.”

Patriarch Bodhi shouted angrily, “You are all shouting and yelling here. How can you be like a cultivator? The so-called cultivation is that when you open your mouth, your spirit is scattered and when you move your tongue, troubles arise. Tell me, why are you shouting and laughing here?”

Being pointed at by Bodhi Patriarch, Sunlight King Buddha did not hesitate and immediately said, “I dare not deceive Master. Just now Sun Wukong was playing around and we asked him to transform into a pine tree. It turned out to be a pine tree, so we called out and cheered. I offended Master by making such a loud noise. Please forgive me!”

When Bodhi Patriarch heard this, he became even angrier and immediately shouted, “All of you get up, Sun Wukong, come here!”

Seeing that Patriarch Bodhi had never started a rage before, Sun Wukong was frightened and walked over trembling.

Patriarch Bodhi scolded him, “Let me ask you, what are you doing here? Why are you trying to turn into a pine tree? You have this skill, but you don’t practice it. Instead, you show off in front of others.

If you see someone else has it, will you ask for it? If someone sees that you have it and they don’t, they will certainly ask you for it. If you are afraid of disaster, you will definitely tell them. If you don’t tell them, they will definitely harm you in the future. How can you save your life? “

(End of this chapter)