Westward Journey into Dragon

Chapter 172 The time is wrong, the Monkey King is three hundred years old

The clouds gather and the rain passes, the mountains are high and the water is cold.The warm wind blows through the forest, and the smoke dissipates.When the rain stopped in the desolate evening, the golden crow had just fallen, and Chen Xian also turned back to Yong'an City.

"Alas..." Standing under the eaves of the palace, looking at the gradually darkening sky, Chen Xian couldn't help letting out a long sigh. The Bull Demon King, the Lion Camel King, and the Macaque King were invited to act, but they just had a fake fight with Taoist Qingshan, and they attracted such a strong man as Taoist Jingguang, what a pity!

"It seems that I can't sleep and shed my skin in the short term!" Chen Xian was a little annoyed. He originally wanted to wait until the end of this time to sleep and shed his skin, and then go to Luoyue Lake to take the Sanli Daxian under his command, but he didn't want to appear again. When Taoist Jin Guang came, no matter how he broke things, he came one by one.

"Your Majesty, it's so late today, why haven't you slept yet?" Hu Yue'e, who had just walked out of a palace, saw Chen Xian standing at the gate of Longmian Hall and hurriedly saluted and greeted him, but she felt very strange in her heart, and said that the king would go out for a while. , Why did the work and rest time change after coming back?
"I'm stuffy, I don't want to sleep!" Chen Xian replied, he was afraid that once he fell asleep, he would never be able to wake up again.

"Since Your Majesty doesn't want to sleep, let this servant play chess with you!" Hu Yue'e suggested.

"You don't need to accompany me anymore, go down and practice!" Chen Xian waved his hands and said, for this fairy with the blood of the nine-tailed fox and great potential, he still hoped that he could grow up quickly.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Hu Yue'e bowed and then retreated.

After a long night of slow sleep, Chen Xian wanted to go to Lianxiang's mansion to find his double cultivator, but he was afraid that Taoist Jin Guang would suddenly kill him during the cultivation process, so he had to give up.

"It's really 'Fu Wushuang comes, misfortunes never come singly'!" Chen Xian sighed inwardly, it was already annoying enough to offend Taoist Jin Guang, but now that he can't even love, it can be regarded as the second disaster!
After staying in place for a while, Chen Xian turned back into the Longmian Hall, sat cross-legged on the bed, meditated, and tempered his body.

Nothing happened all night, when the daylight came out, Chen Xian reaped the rewards.The higher the cultivation base, the smaller the progress in one day's practice, and he hardly felt any progress.

He pondered on the bed for a long time, until the sun was three and after Hu Yue'e brought clean water to wash, Chen Xian got up from the bed.

"Report to Your Majesty, a monkey monster came outside the palace gate, claiming to be the messenger of the Monkey King, and sent an invitation card!" After washing up, Chen Xian was about to go to the imperial garden to see how the flowers and trees he had planted were growing. When the master of Qi refinement can teach the method of foundation building, a guard comes to report with a sheet.

Chen Xian thought to himself, what the hell is the monkey doing to send out invitations like a human?With a gesture of his hand, the invitation card held by the guard fell into his hand. After opening it and glanced at it, he waved his hand to let the guard back.

After the guards retreated, Chen Xian frowned tightly, feeling that he had been tricked by time again.

It turned out that according to Chen Xian's calculations, the melee among the feudal princes in Nanfangbuzhou should be around 300 BC, and there are at least seven or eighty years before the monkey went to heaven to become Bi Mawen. He died at the age of two, and then he went to heaven to become Bi Mawen, that was in 80), he didn't want the Monkey King's previous invitation to let him know that he was wrong, and it was very wrong.

Seven days later, Sun Wukong was about to celebrate his 340th birthday. Looking back at the time when he made a fuss in the underworld, the book of life and death stated that he was "a stone monkey born in nature, and he should live to be 42 years old and die well." That is to say, there will be another [-] years. In the year, the monkey will go to heaven.

"Oh, it seems that the time of Journey to the West is different from that of the earth, which is bad news!" Chen Xian felt very painful, this is simply a deadly fight, it hurts so much.

However, "misfortunes depend on blessings, and blessings depend on misfortunes." Although it is bad news that Sun Wukong will celebrate his 42th birthday in seven days, but after thinking about it, it is not good news. At least let Chen Xian grasp the plot of Journey to the West It is more clear, knowing that in another 15 years, the monkey will go to heaven and serve as Bi Mawen for [-] years, then go to the lower realm, and then go to the heavenly palace for the second time.Hey, it's much clearer to see the time this way.

"Maybe the monkey has only lived under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years!" There was such a big bug in time, Chen Xian had to suspect that Wang Mang's New Deal and Zhenguan's 13 years were really only 500 years, but where did the middle 132 years go? up?

"It seems that Tathagata, like monkeys, can't know numbers!" Chen Xian, who couldn't figure it out, could only explain it this way. He thought that when Tathagata asked Guanyin to go to the east to find the man who retrieved the essence, he said, "Since the obedient ape Antian, I don’t know the year and month, but I guess it’s half a thousand years in the mortal world.” This is the same as when the monkey answered Bodhi’s question about how many years he went up the mountain and said, “I don’t know how many seasons it is. I just remember that there is no fire under the stove, and I often go to the back of the mountain to collect firewood. There is a mountain of good peach trees, and I have eaten peaches there seven times.” How similar?
"Is it true that the monkey is the lost son of the Tathagata and Guanyin, as the idiots guessed in later generations? A loving mother and strict father, so Guanyin often helps the monkey overcome catastrophes, and the Tathagata directly makes the monkey suffer?" Chen Xian thought viciously, but also Knowing that this is impossible, the opening chapter of Journey to the West says that monkeys have existed since the beginning of heaven and earth, and they are raised by nature, without father or mother.

Sun Wukong's [-]th birthday, as a brother, Chen Xian had no reason not to go, and after ordering Hu Qiuyue to go to the treasure house to find a suitable gift, he went to the imperial garden alone.

"Presumably Taoist Jin Guang will do it on my way to the monkey's birthday banquet!" Walking in the imperial garden, Chen Xian frowned and thought: Yong'an City has [-] mercenaries, and there are various formations to restrict them, as long as the golden light If he wasn't stupid, he wouldn't forcefully attack him. If he wanted to deal with himself, he could only volley halfway.

"Hey, it doesn't matter who will do it!" Chen Xian smiled darkly, and walked slowly into the imperial garden, but he thought of a countermeasure. Presumably, he would not refuse to eliminate the Buddhist bald donkey, the bull demon king and other monsters in Hezhou, West Niu Yes, it doesn't matter if you can't beat Jin Guang, as long as there are monsters who can beat him.

After entering the imperial garden, I investigated the cultivation status of the wood spirit flower demons, and found that with the support of my massive spiritual stones, these demons have reached the perfection of the nine major stages of Qi refining, and can start building foundations at any time.

"What a lucky fate!" After seeing the cultivation speed of these wood spirits and flower demons, Chen Xian sighed for a while, thinking that when he was a snake, the resources were scarce, and he practiced by absorbing the thin heaven and earth spiritual energy, and his daily progress was so weak It can be ignored, how can it be compared with these grasses and trees that I have carefully cared for.

"Building a foundation is a realm of laying the foundation. The focus is not on speed. I hope that you will be serious and spend ten years building the foundation, so that the Dao foundation will be extremely solid, and you will be able to go further on the road of cultivation in the future... "After passing on the foundation-building exercises of the ten demons' "Qingdi Jue", Chen Xian explained the essentials of foundation-building to them, hoping that they would avoid detours.

Rusting, rustling, the branches and leaves of the ten trees and trees in the garden move without wind, seeming to respond to Chen Xian.

(End of this chapter)