Chapter 155 The Beginning of the Journey to the West
Chen Xuanzang showed a delighted expression, took it and said, “Thank you for your help…”

Before he finished speaking, Miss Duan tilted her head back and closed her eyes.

Chen Xuanzang knew what it meant, but pretended not to know: “You are tired, go back and rest.”

“Didn’t I tell you that when a girl closes her eyes, it means she wants you to kiss her.” Miss Duan opened her eyes and said aggrievedly.

Chen Xuanzang’s face suddenly became silent and he said nothing. Then he glanced at Sun Wukong who was sitting next to him watching the fun.

Sun Wukong laughed and walked up to Miss Duan and said, “Miss, I can actually help you.”

Miss Duan smiled and looked at Sun Wukong deeply: “Mr. Sun.”

Then he waved his hand. When Sun Wukong saw Guanyin like this, he felt uneasy and smiled slightly awkwardly. Then he turned around and walked to the corner.

Chen Xuanzang kept rubbing his fingers on the two puppet toys, with a complicated expression. After so many scenes, he was not a stone man, and he had actually fallen in love with Miss Duan.

But he kept in mind Tathagata’s teachings that love between men and women is a small love. He wanted to devote himself to the great love of the world, so how could he indulge in love between men and women?

“I’m sorry. I know I haven’t been very nice to you before.”

“I have changed too. I have decided to become a gentle, virtuous wife and loving mother.”

“Will you accept it?”

Putting the two dolls in his arms, facing Miss Duan’s soft words, Chen Xuanzang turned his head away, not daring to look directly into Miss Duan’s eyes.

Faced with Miss Duan’s bold words, Chen Xuanzang was at a loss. His eyes darted around and happened to meet the gaze of Sun Wukong who was watching the fun.

Sun Wukong turned his head and walked aside pretending not to know.

Miss Duan ignored Sun Wukong. She took off the Wuding Flying Ring on her wrist. With a thought, the flying ring shrank to the size of a finger ring. Then she grabbed Chen Xuanzang’s left hand without saying a word and put it on his ring finger.

“what are you doing?”

Chen Xuanzang raised his hand, looked at the ring on it, and asked in confusion.

Miss Duan smiled and said, “I have decided to marry you. This ring represents my love for you.”

Chen Xuanzang looked uncomfortable and looked at Sun Wukong again.

Sun Wukong suddenly said angrily: “Why are you looking at me? Where the hell can I go?”

“Ignore him.” Miss Duan stared at Chen Xuanzang, “Are you willing?”

Chen Xuanzang didn’t say anything, but tried to take off the ring, expressing his thoughts directly with actions.

Miss Duan said proudly: “The Wuding Flying Ring has taken root in my flesh and can never be taken off.”

Her words also made Chen Xuanzang make up his mind. If it was an empty cave, he might really not be able to control himself and would marry Miss Duan. As the saying goes, a gentleman should be cautious when alone.

But Sun Wukong acted as a light bulb, reminding him all the time what is great love and what is small love, so that he finally overcame the love in his heart for Miss Duan.

He gritted his teeth, grabbed a stone, then pressed his ring finger on the stone table, raised the stone and was about to smash it down.

“What are you doing?” Miss Duan hurriedly stopped him.

“I don’t love you.” Chen Xuanzang felt a dull pain in his heart, but he forced himself to say, “I don’t want to be married to you. I can’t take off this ring, so I don’t want this finger.”

He said this and smashed it down without hesitation. Fortunately, Miss Duan was quick-witted and grabbed his wrist.

With a sad face, she silently took off the Wuding Flying Ring, and said in silence for a few seconds: “I understand. I won’t bother you anymore.”

She took a few steps and seemed to have just remembered something. She took out a tattered book from her body and handed it to Chen Xuanzang, saying, “I have been working on your three hundred nursery rhymes for three days. I don’t know many words, so my writing is messy.”

On the cover of the tattered book, there were six crooked words “The True Scripture of the Great Sun Tathagata” written in black and white.

But Chen Xuanzang didn’t even dare to turn his head. He was afraid that if he turned his head, he would be unable to resist accepting Miss Duan’s love. He said as if his heart was dead: “No.”

Miss Duan left quietly. After being reminded by Sun Wukong, Chen Xuanzang finally came to his senses and said goodbye to Sun Wukong with a forced smile.

Climbing up to the ground, he looked towards the place where Miss Duan danced before, and seemed to see Miss Duan still there, smiling and waiting for him. But when he blinked, there was no Miss Duan, only bare mountains.

He stepped back a few steps dejectedly, sat on the big rock where the white lotus was blooming, and slowly closed his eyes, as if he had lost all the strength in his body.

At this time, a voice came from the cave: “Mr. Chen, is the moon full tonight?”

Chen Xuanzang perked up and replied, “It’s quite round.”

“That’s good. The entrance of my cave is blocked by the lotus. I don’t know how long I haven’t seen the moon. Haha…” Sun Wukong’s laughter was filled with a hint of emotion, loss, and helplessness.

Hearing these words, Chen Xuanzang, who had just broken up with his love, couldn’t help but feel a bit of sympathy for Sun Wukong. Plus, Sun Wukong also helped him subdue the pig demon, so he simply grabbed the stem of the lotus, bent it hard, and broke the white lotus off.

But the next moment, something he didn’t expect happened. The white lotus in his hand suddenly burst into flames.

He was so scared that he quickly threw the lotus aside, but then the surrounding lotus flowers and their roots all caught fire and turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Chen Xuanzang stood in the middle of the sea of ​​fire, his whole body was stunned, his mind was completely blank. If he guessed correctly, he might have been tricked by Sun Wukong.

“Hehehaha…” At this moment, Sun Wukong’s wild laughter could be heard from the cave below.

“Boom~~”

A huge fireball shot out from the cave entrance, rushed straight into the sky, and then hit Chen Xuanzang in front of him like a meteor. The flames dissipated, revealing Sun Wukong, who was wearing chain mail and four large flags on his back.

Sun Wukong grabbed Chen Xuanzang by the collar and threw him off the mountain.

“what!”

Chen Xuanzang screamed in panic. He thought he was going to die, but just a second before his head hit the ground, Sun Wukong grabbed his feet, shook his hands, and flipped him to the ground.

“It’s you!” Chen Xuanzang recognized the identity of Sun Wukong and his heart sank to the bottom.

Sun Wukong was extremely arrogant at this moment. He proudly smashed the banana on Chen Xuanzang’s face and roared to the sky: “Do you really think that a banana can deal with me? The lotus is the seal, and this is my true body. You helped me to unlock it. I finally walked out of the control of the Buddha.” Chen Xuanzang calmed down a little at this time, and he said: “You just walked out of the cave, the Buddha… is still there.”

“Still there?” A violent aura gradually brewed in Sun Wukong’s eyes.

Chen Xuanzang looked up at the sky. In just a moment, the sky was covered with dark clouds, even the bright moon was blocked.

When Sun Wukong looked up and saw it, his expression suddenly changed, a hint of ferocity flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly roared to the sky: “Kill!”

In an instant, a mighty shock wave spread out from him, accompanied by angry roars, and directly broke through the gathered dark clouds, allowing the moon to reappear.

Chen Xuanzang was nearby and was blown backwards by the shock wave. He stumbled to his feet, but then fell to the ground weakly. He felt a sharp pain in his internal organs, as if they were being crushed, and mouthfuls of blood spurted out uncontrollably.

He subconsciously put his hands together and prayed to the Buddha: “I am afraid that I am going to die!”

Then, Sun Wukong jumped in front of Chen Xuanzang, pulled out all his hair, and manually shaved his head.

But Chen Xuanzang was the reincarnation of a great monk after all. His Buddha nature was present at this moment, so even after suffering such a severe blow, he still endured the pain, clasped his hands together and chanted the Buddha’s name.

Then, Sun Wukong killed three people, namely Kongxu Gongzi, Tiancanjiao and Aqiang, who came following the sound and were the result of Chen Xuanzang’s vanity, greed and impulsiveness.

By the way, Miss Duan, the incarnation of Guanyin, was beaten all over and unable to move!
Before Miss Duan died, Chen Xuanzang finally expressed his feelings. He looked at the dying Miss Duan with tears in his eyes and choked up: “I love you. I fell in love with you the first time I saw you!”

“I love you for a thousand years, ten thousand years, and forever!”

But the next moment after he expressed his feelings, Sun Wukong beat Miss Duan into fireworks.

At this point, Chen Xuanzang completely understood the love between men and women and became an enlightened monk without any emotions.

……

Seeing this scene in the sky, Lin En shook his head slightly. Guanyin was really willing to throw away an incarnation like this.

“Then it’s my turn to perform!”

“Om~~”

A giant sword whizzed through the void and stabbed in front of Chen Xuanzang, stopping Sun Wukong from pretending to kill Chen Xuanzang.

Lin En landed in front of the giant sword, and the giant sword fell into his hand. He looked at Sun Wukong, smiled and signaled, and then began to act: “Monkey, I am here, you can’t hurt Master Xuanzang!”

Sun Wukong also smiled to show that he understood, then he pretended to be furious and said, “Who are you to meddle in my business?”

Soon, the two started fighting.

What Sun Wukong comprehended was the great way of acquired fire. His strength had reached the pinnacle of a celestial being, and he also had an indestructible body cultivated through the Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts. Even if Lin En had the Human Emperor Sword in his hand, he could not hurt him at all.

After fighting for a long time, Chen Xuanzang finally noticed the “Mahavairocana Sutra” that Miss Duan had thrown in front of him before she died.

Finally, as he chanted the scriptures, infinite energy in the void gathered together, and the shadow of a giant Buddha appeared faintly between heaven and earth. The Buddha rose from the earth, getting higher and higher, and finally passed through the clouds and entered the outside of the universe.

Compared to this giant Buddha, the entire earth seems extremely small.

The big Buddha sat up, raised one palm, and slapped the earth from outside the universe.

A palm technique that falls from the sky!
The palm looked illusory at first, but soon it rolled up countless energies and condensed into a solid entity, and began to burn, emitting terrible power.

“Boom~!”

A huge hole suddenly appeared in the sky, which grew bigger and bigger, and was then filled by a giant palm that quickly covered it.

Sun Wukong looked at him unkindly. “Are you acting? What tricks are you playing? Do you really think I’m easy to mess with?”
He stamped his feet on the ground, and his body began to grow larger, transforming into a giant ape. At the same time, flames burned in his eyes, and the air around him also burned.

He let out an angry roar, stomped his feet on the ground, and slammed his palms hard at the giant flaming palm that fell from the sky.

“Kacha, kacha~~”

The first moment the two sides came into contact, the ground beneath Sun Wukong’s feet began to crack. Although he had also comprehended the most the law of fire, it was still a world of difference compared to the complete law contained in the giant palm of Tathagata.

Every line on the giant palm is made up of pure laws, and even every molecule of its composition represents a world.

This is a giant palm of law, and to fight against it, one must have an understanding of the law at the same level.

Although Sun Wukong tried his best, his body began to bend little by little. The countless laws turned into seals, spreading from his palms to his entire body.

boom!
The giant palm disappeared, and Sun Wukong also disappeared, leaving a huge deep pit on the ground.

The giant Buddha in the void of the universe gradually dissipated, and the golden light on Chen Xuanzang’s body also dissipated.

Lin En smiled at him and said, “Congratulations, Xuan Zang, you have finally realized it!”

……

In the dilapidated temple on Wuzhi Mountain, Tathagata smiled and looked at the five people in front of him. His eyes swept over the five people and finally shifted to Chen Xuanzang. He said, “Xuanzang, what do you think about great love, small love, and love between men and women now?”

Chen Xuanzang raised his head, met the fat monk’s gaze, and replied calmly: “Love between men and women is also included in the so-called great love. The love of all living beings is love, without distinction of size.”

He was silent for a few seconds, a trace of grief flashed in his eyes, and then he continued: “Only after experiencing pain can you understand the true pain of sentient beings. Only after experiencing attachment can you let go of attachment. Only after having concerns can you have no more concerns.”

It seems that he has understood and seen through the world. In fact, Xuanzang’s heart is completely dead. His state can be best described in one sentence, that is, “there is no greater sorrow than a dead heart”!
Of course, the big guys don’t care what condition he is in, as long as he can rely on his mortal body to withstand all the tests on the journey to obtain the scriptures and complete the mission.

The fat monk smiled and nodded: “It seems that you have understood that little bit. Do you know your mission?”

Hearing this, Chen Xuanzang’s expression remained calm, and he replied calmly: “The world is full of suffering. It is not me who can save the suffering of the world and save all living beings, but the twenty-two sutras in India.”

Tathagata showed praise on his face and said, “On your journey to the West to obtain the scriptures, there will be countless difficulties, dangers, demons and monsters on the way. You will be the envoy to obtain the scriptures, Lin En will be the deputy envoy, and the three of them will be your disciples. The four of them have their own strengths and are capable of using land, sea and air. They can protect you around the clock.”

He picked up the things that had been prepared long ago, held them in his hands and continued, “Now I grant you the robes and instruments. From today on, you are a disciple of Mahayana Buddhism, with the Dharma name of Tripitaka. Now, set off.”

In this way, the team for obtaining the scriptures was formed. After Chen Xuanzang, Lin En and four others packed up, they set off on the same day.

(End of this chapter)