The Monkey King

   In the 33rd layer of heaven, a huge land is suspended, walking through the clouds.

   There are high mountains, flowing water, dense forests, planting various precious plants, and stocking rare spirit beasts, but there are only palaces that can be seen everywhere in heaven. Some of them are just a few houses that are extremely incommensurate with this land. They look like some deserted suburbs in the mortal world, and there is no luxury that heaven should have.

  In the small house, the two old people were attentively playing games, and the boy beside them made them a cup of hot tea from time to time.

   After a long time, Taishang Laojun grabbed a black stone and placed it on the chessboard.

  Subhuti's brows furrowed immediately.

Seeing this, Lao Jun heaved a long sigh of relief and said, "It's really dangerous, it's true that one mistake is all over the place. Fortunately, the old man is superior in skills, and after all, he is able to turn the tide. Otherwise, this ten thousand The reputation that has not been defeated in years is not guaranteed."

   As he spoke, he happily stretched out his hand to close the chessboard, but he heard Subhuti shout out, "Slow!"

   Before Lao Jun could recover, Subhuti had already picked up a white stone and placed it on the chessboard, stroked his long beard and said with a leisurely smile: "It's too early to say who wins and who loses."

   Hearing the words, Lao Jun was stunned for a moment, and stared at the chessboard for a while with his long beard, frowning more tightly as he watched.

   The opposite Subhuti was full of joy.

   For a long time, the old gentleman sighed and said: "It seems that the old man has retreated. Even with eighty-five hands, we still can't tell the winner."

  Subhuti laughed immediately, crossed his hands and laughed: "It's not a step backward. It's a progress."

   Laojun slowly raised his eyes and asked casually, "How?"

   tapped the chessboard with his fingers, and Subhuti said meaningfully: "In the past, you had the Heavenly Dao Stone, and you knew the outcome before you played it. Who can beat you? Now. It's a real game."

   "Are you still mentioning the Heavenly Dao Stone?" Lao Jun shook his head helplessly and said, "How many years have I been in seclusion, you still mention the Heavenly Dao Stone?"

   "Hey, let's just talk about it, it doesn't mean anything else."

   "I can't go down, I can't go down." Lao Jun patted his thigh, stood up slowly and stretched before walking away.

"Wait wait, why are you leaving again?" Subhuti also stood up and said angrily, "This game of chess has been played for more than two hundred years. It's not over yet. When are you going to play it? what?"

The old gentleman turned his head and glanced at Subhuti lightly and said, "You don't mean anything else, but that is the way of the heavens of the old man, and now it is all broken into powder. You mentioned it casually, can the old man feel better? I am not in any mood now. Now, what chess are you playing?"

   "Come on, let me see you. I'm just afraid of losing, so every time I find excuses to shirk."

   "Hey! Do you really think the old man is afraid of you?"

  Subhuti expressionlessly pointed to the chessboard and said, "If you don't, then move on."

Lao Jun stared at the chessboard for a long time, swallowed dryly, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, today is a big thing to finish this chess game, then you should not run away halfway. it is good."

   said, he raised his trouser legs and sat down on his knees again.

"I ran away?" Subhuti also staggered and sat down, sighing leisurely, "When did I run away? Come on, I'm already a loser, what's there to run? It's just the Three Realms. Everyone knows that Laojun is a superb chess player. But I don't know that Laojun's chess skills really need to be considered."

   Squinting at Subhuti for a while, the old gentleman said slowly, "Don't talk nonsense, the old man will ask you to be benevolent today, and I will kill you!"

   "Okay, I'll wait." Subhuti said cheerfully.

   "Okay, you wait, this old man will use ten successes!"

   says so. But when he picked up Heizi, Lao Jun was unsure of where to put it. His eyes were looking at the chessboard, and from time to time he quietly observed Subhuti's expression, but it was a pity that Subhuti had the attitude of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water. Laughing, in the end I didn't see anything.

   As a result, Lao Jun's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, as if he was riding a tiger. Indistinctly, the scalp is already a little numb.

   At this moment, a boy came in from the door, knelt down silently and saluted, and said in a low voice, "Master, Your Majesty has sent someone again."

   "Got it." The old gentleman said without turning his head, "Tell them that you are in retreat as a teacher."

   "But...they said they wouldn't leave if they couldn't see the master."

"If you don't go, then don't go." Raising his head slightly, Lao Jun added: "Let me explain to them first that this Tusita Palace is not the old Tusita Palace, there are not so many rooms for them, and they are not prepared. So much food. I don’t care if I want to rely on it or not, but as soon as it is applied, bring your own.”

  The boy was silent for a while, then he could only bend down and kowtow: "Disciple obeys."

   After saying that, he got up and exited the door.

  Subhuti caressed his long beard and said leisurely, "You say you are a very old gentleman, how can you be stingy and become such a virtuous person? After all, you are an imperial envoy on an order, and you even have to pay for it yourself?"

"Hey, you are standing and talking without back pain." The old gentleman rolled his eyes at Subhuti and said, "Do you think this is still the deep and shallow three-layered palace wall of the former Tusita Palace? To put it nasty, this is a slightly bigger one. It's just a farmhouse, they are here, and it's troublesome for the old man to take care of those flowers and plants. He shouldn't have listened to you in the first place. What kind of hermit is playing, and now it's really hidden, and he can't even get out of the door. Hmph. "

   "That's not true." Subhuti laughed and said, "Look, why don't they rely on me?"

   "The old man told them that the old man was in retreat, and you told them that you went out for a long trip, can it be the same?"

   "You can also travel far away." Subhuti spread his hands and said, "If you want to go out of Nantianmen, it is possible that Li Jing can still find it."

   After saying this, Lao Jun immediately rolled his eyes.

   After being silent for a while, Lao Jun held the black man tightly and said, "By the way, you really don't care about the monkey thing? After all, he is still your apprentice."

   "How?" Subhuti asked rhetorically.

"What's the matter?" Lao Jun raised his eyes and glanced at Subhuti: "You're too embarrassed to say that? After all. Didn't you intend to lead him astray? Now that it's like this, you're going to quit? "

   "Master brings in the door, and cultivation depends on the individual. How to cultivate, and what fruit it will achieve, this is his own fate." He said. Subhuti winked in the direction of the courtyard and said, "Besides, what he cares most about is that I, the master, have already helped him get it back? Just for this, I have been a cow and a horse for the Heavenly Court for hundreds of years. what."

   Laojun immediately laughed, looked at Subhuti and said with a half-smile, "That's it, you don't have a share in the troubles of the Three Realms? You are atonement, and you deserve it."

  Subhuti snorted and said, "Anyway, I've done what I'm supposed to do as a master. The rest. Just let it take its course."

Rubbing the sunspot in his hand, Lao Jun sighed leisurely: "You're too good, you have done so much to break the old man's 'inaction' and weaken the intervention of the heavenly court, just to open a gap for Jin Chanzi. I just hope , it's good for him not to live up to your good intentions."

   heard the words. Subhuti laughed and said softly, "It doesn't matter if you fail or not, the important thing is to do what you need to do with your heart. It's like playing chess and winning every game, so what's the point of being a prophet? Right?"

   Lao Jun was stunned for a moment, straightened up and looked out the window silently. After a long time, he sighed leisurely, "That's true."

  …

at this time. In the courtyard of the Tusita Palace, two women were sitting quietly, enjoying the gentle wind in the 33rd layer of heaven.

  The Queer, who has grown into a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, is wearing an apricot-yellow dress, her long black hair is coiled in a simple fancy style on her head, and her shawl is down. It's just that there is still a confused look in the eyes looking at the clouds and mists in the sky.

   Another woman beside her was wearing a long beige dress. With a delicate face, waist-length hair was simply tied behind his head, and those eyes that were supposed to be charming, but at this moment, there seemed to be an indescribable helplessness.

   Slowly turned his head and glanced at the house where Laojun and Subhuti were. The woman in a long beige dress held her cheeks and sighed helplessly: "They are playing chess again, and I don't know how long it will take."

   "What's the matter?" Queer asked softly.

"I told Master Subhuti that I wanted to go out for a wander, but he refused to agree. It was for this reason that I came up from the Thirty-Three Heavens, thinking that Master Laojun would be easier to talk to, but he came over again... Said to avoid it. The Jade Emperor's special envoy. Isn't there one here? Why are you hiding here? This old fox." The woman dressed in beige said angrily.

   "This..." Queer covered her mouth and smiled and said, "Where does Sister Qingxin want to travel?"

   looked up at the sky, and said with a bewildered face, "Since you are wandering, you must go everywhere. Sister Queer, haven't you thought about going out for a walk? How boring is this Tusita Palace?"

   "Go out for a walk?" Queer tilted her head and thought for a while, then said softly, "Where are you going? Never thought about it."

   "Would you like to have a company when we go together?"

  Queer thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, I think it's pretty good here."

   Hearing the words, Qingxin's brows were so wrinkled that water could come out.

   Lying on the stone table for a while, she asked softly, "By the way, has Sister Queer seen my senior brothers?"

   "Your brother? No."

"You haven't seen my ten senior brothers?" Qingxin gave Que'er a suspicious look and said, "I heard people say that he was in the 33rd Heaven at that time, and sister Queer should have been in the third stage at that time. Thirteenth Layer, right? Isn't it because he has appeared again recently that people in the Heavenly Court are so nervous?"

   "Really?" Queer blinked a few times and laughed softly: "I don't really ask about these things, and no one told me, so it's not surprising that I don't know."

   "Really?" Qing Xin became more and more curious, her eyes were still fixed on Que'er, and she saw that Que'er's face was a little red.

   After sitting for a while, Queer got up and said, "Suddenly I remembered something. Sister Qingxin sits here for a while, and I'll be back in a while."

   said, turned around and left.

   Looking at Queer's back, Qingxin became more and more puzzled. He held his cheek and said to himself, "Are they hiding something from me?"

  Thinking about it, she looked back at the house where Subhuti and Taishang Laojun were, and said leisurely: "Forget it, let's think about how to travel."

  …

  In the room, Lao Jun asked softly, "Have you talked to Qingxin about those things?"

  Subhuti picked up a son. "Clap" fell on the chessboard and replied, "No."

   "Aren't you going to talk?"

  Subhuti shook his head and said, "I'm not going to talk about it. Because... this kind of thing doesn't need to be said."

Lao Jun nodded silently and sighed: "Well, if there is a fate, even if you don't say it, it will have a good ending. If you don't, even if you say it, it's useless. Let's just go with the flow. We two old men, just do it. Just do what a teacher should do.”

  …

   Mortal world.

   A bright moon passed through the clouds, and the north wind whistled in the mountains, the sound was unusually shrill.

  In the desolate mountain forest, all kinds of birds and beasts seem to have sensed that there is an extremely dangerous person here, and all of them have disappeared, so that in this forest, except for the whirring of the wind. All that was left was the crackling sound of the bonfire burning.

   By the campfire. Xuanzang sat cross-legged, reading the scriptures he received with him by the firelight, closing his eyes from time to time to think. The monkeys sat on the other side of the bonfire with their golden hoops, and from time to time they stirred the fire with wooden sticks. The little white dragon came and went to pick up firewood and looked extremely attentive.

   The little white dragon walked towards the monkey until he had prepared enough firewood to burn till dawn.

   "That, Great Sage. Do you have any other orders?"

  Monkey looked up at him, reached out and patted the rock beside him: "Sit down and talk, don't be so restrained."

   "Thank you, Great Sage." Xiao Bailong nodded with a smirk and sat down cautiously, but he still didn't dare to straighten his back.

   After a while, Xiao Bailong asked in a low voice, "Master, many people have been looking for you all these years, but they haven't been able to find you. Where are you?"

   picked up the firewood with the stick in his hand and sparked a burst of sparks. The monkey sighed leisurely: "All these years, I have been staying in a place where birds don't shit. Or, sleepy."

   "Then... Great Sage, did you just come out?"

   "Yes, what's the matter?"

   "But why did you follow him..." Xiaobailong winked at Xuanzang, who was facing him, and swallowed dryly and said in a low voice, "Why did you come with him?"

   Looking at the bonfire, the monkey took a deep breath and said, "Do I need to explain to you?"

   Xiao Bailong was startled, and he shook his head and waved his hands quickly and said, "Don't dare! How dare Ao Lie take care of the Great Sage's affairs... But, isn't this Buddhist school not in harmony with you... the Great Sage?"

   "Since you said you don't dare to control it. Just don't ask." After saying that, the monkey gave Ao Lie a light glance.

  Xiao Bailong hurriedly lowered his head and said with a dry smile: "Yes, yes, since you don't care, don't ask, the Great Sage is right."

   This time, Ao Lie didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he just sat quietly beside the monkey. After a long time, the eyelids started to fight, but they still held on.

   Xuanzang was quite simple. After reading Buddhist scriptures and seeing it late at night, he spread out the quilt and fell asleep. The monkey remained motionless.

   It was the third watch in the blink of an eye, and the monkey suddenly asked, "Have your third sister and brother-in-law got back together?"

   Xiaobailong was startled suddenly, woke up, blinked his eyes and hesitated for a while before shrinking his body and hesitatingly said: "Yeah, I haven't gotten back together yet."

   "Then, how is your brother-in-law now?"

"Brother-in-law is very good. Although he didn't participate in that battle, after the war, his Guanjiangkou Corps was the only well-preserved army in the Heavenly Army sequence. At that time, although Huaguoshan... Although it was nothing, all the demon kings were still there. With a lot of strength, Heavenly Court naturally has to rely on my brother-in-law. In addition, the Jade Emperor has changed people, and the old grudges have been written off. Now life is much better than before. It is because of my brother-in-law that Heavenly Court did not send anyone to take me. Although old The Heavenly Court is completely destroyed, but the new Heavenly Court is still the one who will not fall." Xiao Bailong yawned and continued, "However, brother-in-law, he doesn't want military exploits or anything now, unless the Jade Emperor decrees. Otherwise, the Guanjiangkou Corps basically only guards the Guanjiangkou and Huashan worlds, and will not go anywhere. In fact, he may not necessarily go after the decree, the same way. Hahahaha."

   Having said this, Xiao Bailong also seemed to realize something, turned his face slightly and glanced at the monkey.

   "Then... over Mount Hua..."

   "Sister Yang Chan is alright, but the third sister went to see her a few times. She has been pinned under Mount Hua for more than 600 years and has never come out, but other than that, everything is fine."

   "It's fine." Watching the fire, the monkey nodded silently.

Reaching out and rubbing his eyes, Xiao Bailong pursed his lips and said softly, "It's my brother, it's impossible to wrong her. Besides, Heavenly Court wants to find her, so do the demon kings... She's not like us. Little scoundrel, the dignified lady of the Great Sage Monkey King, the mother of Huaguo Mountain's rightful name, it is still safe to stay in Huashan."

   "If you go to Huashan now, can you see her?" the monkey asked suddenly.

   "Me?" Xiao Bailong was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said, "It shouldn't. If you want to see her, just go there yourself."

   "I can't go to see her yet." Monkey sighed longly: "There are still some unfinished business, and I will go to her when things are done. I hope she will be willing to see me at that time."

   "The tail of the hand?" Xiao Bailong quietly glanced at Xuanzang who was sleeping in the distance, as if he had understood something, and nodded silently.

  The two stayed like this in silence until the sky was gray and bright, when two or two golden lights suddenly flew over the bonfire from the north and fell into the woods not far away on the other side.

  Monkey stood up slowly on his knees. Xuanzang was also awakened.

   After a while, Li Jing slowly walked out of the woods and said, "Nantianmen Li Jing, see Great Sage. Great Sage, stay safe."

  Monkey's gaze slowly fell not far behind Li Jing.

  There, Erlang God is walking slowly with a three-pointed two-edged sword.

   Ignoring Li Jing, Monkey hurriedly bowed his hands and said, "Wukong sees second brother."

   Xuanzang also put his hands together and said, "The poor monk Xuanzang, I have seen two heavenly generals."

   Looking at the monkey coldly, Yang Jian took a long three-pointed two-edged sword and said leisurely: "Don't be so close, who is your second brother?" (To be continued~^~)

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