Chapter 154 Acting
Unfortunately, just when Xuanzang had a sudden realization, the goose-selling lady discovered that Tathagata was eating her goose legs. She put her hands on her waist and angrily yelled, “Why are you eating my goose legs? Did you pay me?”

Her words also interrupted Chen Xuanzang’s epiphany. Tathagata couldn’t help but sigh and put down the goose leg: “No money!”

“No money?” The aunt suddenly slapped Tathagata on the back of his head, almost knocking off his wig.

Tathagata and Chen Xuanzang ran as fast as they could, and they ran for several blocks before they shook off the aunt who was chasing them.

When he returned to the place where Tathagata usually stayed, Chen Xuanzang, who was panting, discovered the content about the pig demon carved on the wall.

“Master, you knew about the pig demon all along?”

There was surprise in his voice.

However, Tathagata avoided talking about this and started to tell the story of Zhu Bajie who turned from love to hatred and eventually fell into the path of evil.

After listening to this, Chen Xuanzang sighed thoughtfully: “It turns out that he is also a pitiful person. Master, I can’t face such a powerful monster. How about you take action?”

“Okay.” Tathagata responded, but then he swung his sleeves and said, “But I’m very busy recently.”

Without waiting for Xuanzang to speak, he continued, “To deal with such a bewitching monster, you must have the courage to find a king among kings who is more powerful than the monster. He may teach you how to subdue the monster.”

“Who is he?”

“That is Sun Wukong who was suppressed by the Buddha under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years.”

“Sun Wukong?” Chen Xuanzang shook his head. “Master, he is just a legend. No one has ever found him.”

“It’s actually very simple.” Tathagata pointed out: “Go to the foot of the Five Finger Mountain and find an old temple. In front of the temple there is a Buddha statue, 1,300 feet high and 256 feet wide. Sun Wukong is there.”

“Is it really that easy?”

“Yes, it’s right there. Even a blind person can see such a big Buddha statue.” Tathagata pushed Chen Xuanzang impatiently, “There is no time to lose, let’s get going.”

He thought about it and reminded, “And that Sun Wukong is vicious, cunning, sinister, and full of hatred. You have to be careful.”

“Why should I ask him to help me?” Chen Xuanzang asked helplessly.

“With your wisdom, you also have this.” Tathagata took out a book of 300 children’s songs.

Seeing Tathagata take out the “Three Hundred Children’s Songs” again, Xuanzang could not help but hold his head helplessly: “Master, is this thing really useful?”

In the end, he still set off with “Three Hundred Children’s Songs”.

……

Along the way, Xuanzang had a fight with the exorcist team of Miss Duan, who was incarnated as Guanyin, and had a battle with Zhu Ganglie. Finally, three masters, Aqiang of the Five Forms Fist, Tiancanjiao, and Kongxu Gongzi, appeared and drove away the pig demon.

The relationship between Miss Duan and Xuanzang also underwent extremely subtle changes.

The seeds have been planted and are quietly taking root and sprouting. We just have to wait for the final results.

In the end, Xuanzang set out alone to the Flower-Fruit Mountain to ask the demon king Sun Wukong for help in subduing the pig demon.

Seeing Miss Duan playing with Chen Xuanzang like a dog, Lin En was speechless: “Master, why do you tease Xuanzang like this?”

Guanyin, who had regained her dignified demeanor, shook her head slightly: “Since Xuanzang is going to obtain the scriptures, the mystery of his pregnancy cannot be solved now, so as not to attract the interference of the Taoist sect. But along the way, there are demons and ghosts, material desires are rampant, and there is also the test of the demon’s imaginary beauty. If I don’t let him give up on love, something bad will inevitably happen. I have no choice but to resort to this last resort!”

“Okay!” Lin En looked at Chen Xuanzang’s receding back and said nothing more. He turned to ask the other three people: “What about Mr. Kongxu, Tiancanjiao and Wuxingquan?”

Guanyin nodded and confirmed Lin En’s guess: “In fact, the three of them are the incarnations of Xuanzang’s inner demons before he was reincarnated. Mr. Kongxu is vanity, Tiancanjiao is jealousy, and Wuxingquan is impulsiveness! When the three of them are finally killed by Sun Wukong, I will also die in front of Xuanzang. Then Xuanzang’s state of mind will be perfect and without any flaws. He can take on the important task of obtaining the scriptures!”

Lin En nodded and continued to watch the grand show created by Tathagata and Guanyin.

……

A few days later, Chen Xuanzang climbed over mountains and crossed rivers, and after much hardship, he finally arrived at the foot of the Five Finger Mountain.

Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking around, all the peaks are covered with bare rocks and there is almost no green at all.

Soon, recalling his master’s instructions, he found the old temple.

This temple is actually an earthen house that has been abandoned for a long time. The doors and windows are broken and covered with dust, and it seems that no one has lived there for a long time.

After he found it, he searched around it but found nothing. Not only in front of the temple, but he also didn’t see any Buddha statues behind or inside the temple.

“One thousand three hundred feet high, two hundred and fifty-six feet wide…”

Chen Xuanzang looked at the rolling mountains in front of the temple and didn’t even see the shadow of the Buddha statue.

Logically speaking, such a huge Buddha statue should be visible at a glance, even from dozens of miles away. But he didn’t see anything, which was very strange.

Chen Xuanzang couldn’t help feeling a little annoyed. He walked around the mud house several times and finally returned to the roofless house in disappointment.

There is a large square stone table in the middle of the room, and on the table there is a stone basin with half of water in it. However, the water has been there for a long time and looks a little yellow.

In this place where there is no village or shop nearby, and surrounded by barren mountains, the water, no matter whether it is clean or not, is extremely precious.

Chen Xuanzang walked over, scooped up a handful of water and washed his face.

At this moment, he discovered a problem. There were four words reflected on the water in the basin: Mirror Flowers and Water Moon. The original versions of these four words were engraved on the inner wall of the basin, and they were engraved upside down.

Chen Xuanzang exclaimed in surprise, and intuitively felt that these four words carved upside down should be some kind of hint.

After thinking about it, he returned to the temple gate, sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his physical eyes, opened his spiritual eyes, and looked at the undulating Five Finger Mountain in front of him again.

In an instant, the world in his eyes changed. The sky looked like a calm lake, and the continuous mountains were the inverted characters.

If it’s the other way around
Chen Xuanzang’s heart moved, and the world suddenly turned upside down. The sky spread to the ground, forming a lake, and the mountains above the lake, combined with the other half of the mountains created by the reflection, actually formed a reclining statue of Buddha.

“So that’s how it is!” After finding the Buddha statue, it would be much easier to follow the location of the statue to find the place where Sun Wukong was sealed.

Soon, he saw a cave with the entrance sealed by a white lotus. Holding a simple oil lamp, Chen Xuanzang climbed into the cave along the vines. Before he could carefully search the cave, a dirty weirdo suddenly rushed out, hugged him excitedly, and refused to let go.

Chen Xuanzang was shocked. He pushed the man away with all his strength and said, “I’m here to find Sun Wukong.”

“I, I am it.” The strange man let go of him, his face full of excitement, pointing at himself: “I am Sun Wukong.” In fact, before Chen Xuanzang came, Guanyin and Lin En had already come to see Sun Wukong in advance and revealed a little bit of the meaning to him.

Sun Wukong was so smart that he realized that obtaining the scriptures was a good job, so he naturally agreed and prepared to cooperate with Guanyin in a show!

While Sun Wukong and Chen Xuanzang were discussing how to deal with the pig monster, Guanyin and Lin En were standing on the clouds, watching the farce below.

“Can the Bodhisattva teach me why these three people have to accompany Chen Xuanzang to obtain the scriptures?” Lin En suddenly asked, “And me?”

Guanyin glanced at him and said directly without hiding anything: “The quest for scriptures is a great thing that will benefit the people of the world. Heaven will bestow great merit upon us. Our Buddhist sect will benefit the most, but we must also share some of the benefits with other factions!”

“Otherwise, other factions will cause trouble, and this good thing will turn into a bad thing!”

“Xuanzang is the person chosen by the Buddha to go on a quest for Buddhist scriptures, Sun Wukong is a disciple of Amitabha Buddha, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing are from the Heavenly Palace! As for you…” Guanyin smiled and glanced at the Xuanyuan Sword behind him and smiled slightly.

“Once you have completed your quest for scriptures and God has bestowed upon you merits, I’m sure the five of you will all become the best among the True Immortals!”

Lin En suddenly realized that the journey to the West was a gold-plated project. This project was initiated by the Buddhist sect, so the greatest benefits naturally went to Jin Chan, a disciple of Tathagata, and Sun Wukong, a disciple of Amitabha.

In order to win over the Heavenly Court, Buddhism arranged two places for people from the Heavenly Court.

However, he was regarded by the Buddhist sect as an arrangement by the Human Emperor. In order to win over the Human Emperor’s lineage, he was given a share of the cake of obtaining the scriptures.

Among the four major factions, the Taoist sect didn’t get any benefit. Could it be that the two heavenly masters said that this was a battle for fortune between Buddhism and Taoism?

“I…” Lin En thought to himself that he had nothing to do with the Human Emperor’s lineage, but when he thought about how Xuan-Yuan Sword abandoned Yan Chixia and stayed with him, he seemed unable to say the words “it didn’t matter”.

“Thank you, great master, for clearing up my doubts!” ​​Lin En smiled and bowed.

……

Soon, under the performance of the acting spirit Sun Wukong, Chen Xuanzang was fooled by him and agreed to the plan proposed by Sun Wukong to subdue Zhu Ganglie.

As Sun Wukong peeled a banana, he said, “If you want to subdue the pig demon, you must first lure him over. Although the pig demon was harmed by his wife and her lover, he still loves his wife deeply. He likes to watch his wife dance under the moonlight. He even wrote a poem and gave it to his wife as a token of love. So this is easy. Find a beautiful woman, and on a full moon night, sing and dance this poem, and the pig demon will naturally come.”

Chen Xuanzang was puzzled: “Then what?”

Sun Wukong was peeling a banana and said, “Then leave it to me.”

He turned his head and saw that Chen Xuanzang had taken off half of his clothes, revealing half of his shoulder bone.

“What are you doing?”

“Mr. Sun, what do you think of me dressing as a woman?”

“Mr. Chen, please respect yourself!”

……

At this moment, Miss Duan, the incarnation of Guanyin on the cloud, leaped into the cave and volunteered to dance and sing to attract the pig demon.

After another round of banter, Chen Xuanzang felt uncomfortable when he saw that Miss Duan and Sun Wukong seemed to be chatting quite happily. He quickly interrupted the two of them and said, “Okay, okay, let’s go catch the pig demon!”

Seeing his behavior, Lin En knew that he was really in love with Miss Duan.

……

The moon was at the center, the bright moonlight spread over the top of the mountain, Miss Duan had her hair down, she was wearing a white long dress, bathing in the moonlight, dancing gracefully.

And on the peak.

Chen Xuanzang was holding a simple hand-cranked musical instrument in his hand, shaking it rhythmically, staring blankly at Miss Duan’s graceful dance high up.

At this moment, all the things that the two of them had experienced before flashed through his mind.

Although he didn’t want to admit it, he knew very well in his heart that he had feelings for Miss Duan. However, as a Buddhist disciple with the ideal of saving the suffering of the people, he did not dare to love her.

Looking at Miss Duan under the moonlight, Chen Xuanzang felt moved but also heartbroken. His eyes became dull and he gradually fell into confusion.

Pa~!

The instrument in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously, making a crisp sound.

After being startled, he came to his senses and quickly bent down to pick it up.

“Roar!” At this moment, Zhu Ganglie also cooperated and came to the mountain.

As soon as Zhu Ganglie rushed to the top of the mountain, he immediately locked onto Chen Xuanzang, who was closest to him and standing at the entrance of the White Lotus Cave, and rushed towards him with a roar.

Of course, he had been told by Lin En and Guanyin that this collision was only to scare Chen Xuanzang, and it was impossible to really kill him. So in the blink of an eye, Miss Duan flew down, embraced Chen Xuanzang, and took him to fly to avoid his collision.

Just when Chen Xuanzang was still in shock, Sun Wukong’s lazy voice came from the White Lotus Cave: “Zhu Ganglie, Zhu Ganglie!”

After the sound was heard, it made a huge echo in the air, filling the sky and the earth.

Zhu Ganglie shook his head and looked around, then his eyes focused on Bai Lian.

“Long time no see, Zhu Bajie.” Sun Wukong’s voice sounded again, as if someone very familiar was greeting him.

According to the predetermined script, Zhu Ganglie cooperated to push open the lotus at the entrance of the cave, and put his whole head into the cave. Then, Sun Wukong directly dragged Zhu Ganglie into the cave and turned it into a pet pig with his magical power.

Before the three disciples fell into the mortal world, Sun Wukong, Tianpeng and Juanlian were all about the same strength, all at the peak level of celestial beings. Although Sun Wukong was suppressed for 500 years, his strength was not affected, while Tianpeng and Juanlian were beaten down to the mortal world, and their immortal muscles and jade bones were gone.

Now, Zhu Ganglie’s cultivation level is just at the initial stage of Hedao, and Juanlian is even worse, his strength is just at the returning to void level.

Even if they didn’t act, if a real fight broke out, Zhu Ganglie would not be a match for Sun Wukong.

“Mr. Sun, thank you very much. You are really getting rid of a harm to the people.” After entering the cave, Chen Xuanzang saw the piglet in Sun Wukong’s arms at a glance. He couldn’t help but be overjoyed and hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

Miss Duan took out the exorcism bag and turned Zhu Ganglie into a palm-sized rag doll pig. She said to Chen Xuanzang, “After 49 days, this pig demon will be reduced to ashes. I know you have your own exorcism philosophy, so I’ll leave these two monsters to you.”

As she spoke, she took out another puppet, which was the fish monster that was first subdued in the fishing village, and handed them to Chen Xuanzang.

(End of this chapter)