Chapter 1031: The Universe, the Sun, and the Moon (Two in One)

In the 19th year of Zhenguan,
Tang Seng and his disciples left Tongtian River and continued their journey westward.

at this time,

They were traveling through the mountains.

This mountain is jagged and towering, with steep peaks and steep mountains. The jagged peaks and steep mountains reach up to the sky, and the steep peaks and steep mountains are as blue as the sky. The strange rocks are piled up like sitting tigers, and the pine trees are hanging diagonally like flying dragons.

The leaves on the branches of the big trees in the mountains looked withered and had lost their former vitality. A cool breeze blew by, and the leaves fell like snowflakes.

The wild grass on the ground that withers and grows again every year is also experiencing its cycle.

It is the middle of winter now, and the weather is cold and bleak.

The mountains and plains were covered with bare branches and dead grass hanging on the ground. Even the wild animals in this primeval forest had become fewer in number because of hibernation.

Tang Seng and his three disciples braved the wind and snow to hurry on their journey. After they passed the most dangerous peak, they saw in the distance some tall towers and quiet houses in the valley.

"My disciple, I am hungry and cold today. Fortunately, there are buildings and houses in the valley. They must be farmers' homes, nunneries, temples, etc. Let's go and get some vegetarian food and eat before we go."

Sun Wukong heard this, looked at the house in the mountain that Tang Seng pointed out, and then said, "Master, I'm afraid that house is not a good place."

Then after Sun Wukong's explanation, Tang Seng reluctantly agreed with what Sun Wukong said.

Sun Wukong drew a circle for Tang Seng and repeatedly reminded him not to leave the circle, otherwise there would be danger.

After that, Sun Wukong went to a distant place to beg for alms.

But often the more you tell people not to do something, the more they want to do it.

Just so willful!!!
Just play!

Under the instigation of Zhu Bajie, Tang Seng agreed to let Zhu Bajie walk out of the circle drawn by Sun Wukong, and then Zhu Bajie entered the house in the valley.

When he entered, he didn't see anyone. Zhu Bajie didn't find anyone in the house, but he brought back a few warm coats.

It was the coldest time of winter, when snow was falling from the sky.

How could I possibly refuse a little cotton jacket?

Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing put on the clothes, and then they found that these were not warm and cozy little cotton-padded jackets.

It's not warm at all, not even as good as black cotton.

It was a very fashionable and very exciting fishnet vest.

How could they not realize for a moment that they had been fooled?

next moment,
They were blown into a monster cave by a gust of evil wind.

Tang Monk——-
He was caught again and was about to start his sauna bath again.

It turns out that the mountain here is called Jinshandou Mountain. On the Jinshandou Mountain there is a Jinshandou Cave, and in the Jinshandou Cave there lives a One-horned Rhinoceros King.

This house was transformed by him using magic.

People may be unfamiliar with the name One-horned Rhinoceros King, but if you call him Green Bull Demon, you will know more about him.

It is exactly the mount of Taishang Laojun.

The Green Bull Demon is a rare monster with high intelligence on the journey to the West.

He didn’t capture Tang Seng as directly as other monsters.

He was just trying to make it clear.

Although Tang Seng was in his cave, it was not him who captured Tang Seng.

Instead, Tang Seng tried to steal something but failed and was caught red-handed by the owner.

After that, even if the Buddha came, he could still righteously curse the bald monks in Buddhism as thieves.

The name of this mountain is Jinshandou Mountain, and the cave is called Jinshandou Cave. There is a reason for choosing these names.

He was blatantly asking Tathagata Buddha for tolls. Jin{Shandou} refers to Jinshan.

Naturally, the Bull Demon did not have the courage to blackmail the Buddha directly. He was very clear-headed and did not want to die.

but,

He didn't have the ability to blackmail the Buddha, but the people behind him.

The Taishang Laojun behind it is wealthy and capable of blackmailing people.

When Sun Wukong came back, he didn't find Tang Sanzang. Finally, he learned where Tang Sanzang was from the land god and immediately went to rescue him.

The Bull Demon's martial arts and magical powers are no weaker than Sun Wukong's, they are basically on par with each other.

Unable to win the fight after a long time, the Green Bull Demon took out a bright white circle from his sleeve, threw it into the air, shouted "Zhe!", and with a whoosh, he retracted his golden hoop into a strip and put it on the opponent.

Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon fought for several rounds with bare hands, and then the Bull Demon King escaped by somersaulting on the Cloud.

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The capital of the Kingdom of Chechi.

Wang Ming sat in his tent, watching the fight between Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon.

The greatest skill that Sun Wukong learned on his journey to the West is to summon helpers.

He went to the Heavenly Palace to look for various helpers he thought were useful. Although there were many people, everything was in vain under the [Vajra Cutter] of Taishang Laojun.

All the weapons and magic tools of the gods and immortals were taken away by the demons.

"Confiscating weapons at every turn doesn't mean we can have a good time!"

The difference in combat power between having weapons and not having weapons is completely different. Wang Ming never agrees with the concept that being without a sword is better than having one.

Just like Dugu Qiubai, no matter how powerful he is, he will have to kneel when he encounters a magic sword.

If you really think it's better to have no weapons, then it must be that the weapons are too bad.

The Green Bull Demon's behavior of taking away the enemy's weapons is like two gunmen dueling and one of them suddenly takes away his pistol, and the result is self-evident.

Sun Wukong's so-called indestructible body and invulnerable to swords and spears were nothing more than low-level weapons and magical instruments. If he were really that powerful, he would not have been knocked out directly by the [Vajra Cutter].

When he made trouble in Heaven, they acted like they couldn't kill him, but they were just playing tricks on him.

There are many weapons of gods in heaven that can break Sun Wukong's defense, such as Yang Jian's three-pointed double-edged sword, Nezha's fire spear, and the Qingyun sword of the Four Heavenly Kings...

As for Goku's so-called recovery ability, it is even more of a joke.

Haven’t you seen what happened to Chiyou and Xingtian?

Chi You's body was cut into five parts and sealed and buried under the Five Mountains.

When facing an opponent with recovery ability, just seal him directly.

It is also because of this that all the immortals and gods would instantly panic whenever their weapons were taken away by the Green Bull Demon.

but……

These are not what Wang Ming is concerned about. What Wang Ming cares about is...

There is something wrong with the Green Bull Demon.

According to the original plot, after the Green Bull Demon took the eighteen golden mountains from Buddha, he asked Sun Wukong to find him and he would take the Green Bull Demon away himself.

In this way, Taishang Laojun regained the face he lost in the Lotus Cave in Pingdingshan.

After the Bull Demon defeated the monks from Heaven and Buddhism, the Buddha gave eighteen golden mountains to Laojun as a bribe, and then guided Sun Wukong to go to Heaven to find Taishang Laojun.

Sun Wukong arrived at the Tushita Palace in the Lihentian of the Thirty-Three Heavens, found Laojun, and accused Laojun of the crime of Niu'er.

As a result, something happened that dumbfounded Sun Wukong, Wang Ming, and even Buddha Tathagata.

The most unlucky thing about Laojun is that the Vajra Cutter is a treasure that was conferred upon me when I transformed a barbarian into a Buddha. It has extraordinary power. I must have the Palm-leaf Fan in my hand to be able to control the Vajra Cutter. As a result, the Palm-leaf Fan was also taken away by the Bull. He cannot defeat it now, so he lets Sun Wukong figure out a way himself.

So,,,,,
A month later, Lingshan Buddhism took action.

On the Jindou Mountain, the three statues of Buddha of the past, future and present, as well as five hundred Arhats and three thousand Jiedi gods, were spread out on both sides, surrounding the green bull demon, leaving it with no way to go up to heaven or down to the earth.

When Sun Wukong and Wang Ming thought that was the end,
The Green Bull Demon took out the Vajra Cutter and took away the weapons and magic weapons of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, instantly weakening their combat power by half.

Then he took out his palm-leaf fan and fanned them a few times, sending them all back to the Western world.

The three great Buddhas of the past, future and present reappeared in Jindou Mountain with great magical powers.

Just when the three Buddhas were about to attack, the Bull Demon attacked in advance. He threw the Vajra for the first time and knocked the three Buddhas back on the spot. If the three Buddhas had not advanced and retreated together, they would have been seriously injured on the spot.

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Thirty-three days of separation and hatred,
In the Tushita Palace,

The Buddha, who had just been defeated in the battle, came here. His attitude was very kind and polite, without any sign of being angry or frustrated.

After a friendly exchange with Taishang Laojun, he slowly withdrew from the Tushita Palace and left Heaven.

After returning to the Great Leiyin Temple in the West.

The three Buddhas of the past, future and present are gathered together.

In the past, the Buddha Rāhula asked, "What does the Taoist Patriarch mean? Does he want to go against the will of Heaven and stop the prosperity of Buddhism?" Now the Buddha Tathagata shook his head and said, "No, the Taoist Patriarch has no intention of stopping us. He is not stopping us."

The future Buddha Maitreya asked in confusion: "If this isn't to stop us, what else can it do?"

Now the Buddha Tathagata said in a deep voice: “Prevent the birth of a new human king.”

Past Buddha: "Human King?"

Future Buddha: "Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty?"

Now Buddha: "Yes, Li Shimin has the tendency to become the human king."

The Future Buddha was puzzled: "He is the leader of the Human Religion and a saint. Why would he care about a little human king? The three emperors of the human race are all his prisoners. This is probably not an excuse!"

Now Buddha Tathagata is silent.

Half an hour later,

In the past, Buddha Randeng seemed to have realized something and said, "The sage is Laojun, but Laojun is not a sage. So that's it."

As soon as these words were spoken, even the Future Buddha understood.

The Future Buddha nodded and said, "That Human King really shouldn't show up."

After the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods, the Heavenly Dao drove all the saints out of the thirty-three heavens and asked them to build new temples in the chaotic void.

In other words, the saints are completely unable to interfere in the affairs of the Three Realms.

Although Taishang Laojun is the incarnation of a saint, he is not a saint after all, but just a relatively strong quasi-saint.

According to the calculations of Taishang Laojun, Emperor Tang really conquered the territories of the ten western countries, and then went through several years of governance and digestion, and then at the end of his life.

The humanitarian merits bestowed upon him could directly instill Tang Emperor Li Shimin into a top-level Daluo Jinxian.

There are also the merits of the Journey to the West.

If Li Shimin had not cultivated himself, his merits would naturally be intercepted by the powerful beings of heaven and earth and then divided up.

But if Li Shimin had practiced cultivation, the pain would not have come.

The humanitarian merits of governing the human race, plus the merits of heaven and earth during the Journey to the West.

Combining the two, Laojun speculated that if things went wrong, Li Shimin would become a quasi-saint.

If Laojun's real body is there, the Human King will appear and just close the Fire Cloud Cave.

But the original body is no longer there, and it is impossible to enter the Three Realms again.

Then who will let Emperor Tang enter the Fire Cloud Cave and imprison himself?

We are all quasi-saints, and Laojun's clone can't catch him. What if he gets caught? Fighting at the same level is not a game.

Therefore,
Laojun took action.

In the past, Buddha said: "But what about our great cause of spreading Buddhism to the East?"

Now the Buddha said: "It's okay. In fact, the longer the catastrophe lasts, the more monks will die, and the more merits the heaven and earth will have in the end."

Then the three Buddhas reached a consensus.

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In the 20th year of Zhenguan, Sun Wukong was in a bad mood and rescued Tang Sanzang as a routine matter.

Inside the royal tent in the capital of Chechi State.

Wang Ming used the power of merit to see what was happening in the distance.

This time, Tang Sanzang really went to the sauna to take a bath. The Green Bull Demon would not let Tang Sanzang go, but would not eat him either. They just kept wasting time like this.

"Should I march?"

"Forget it, the Green Bull Demon is Laojun's mount, we can't afford to offend him, just wait and see."

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In the 21st year of Zhenguan,
Sun Wukong was even more desperate. While saving his "master", he was visiting other people in the mountains and rivers.

Wang Ming led his troops to Jindou Mountain and immediately bombarded the mountain with artillery shells, trying to flatten the mountain.

Wang Ming didn’t care about Tang Seng’s life and death at all. He could not die, and even if he died, Buddhism would bring him back.

Wang Ming's advance was also a last resort.

The 100,000-strong army has been stagnant in Chechi Kingdom for more than a year. If they do not advance further, the morale and fighting spirit of the entire army will be lost, and the entire Tang Empire will be turned into a war machine by Wang Ming.

But the war suddenly came to a halt.

This is a terrible thing for the War Kingdom.

A typical example is the Qin Empire.

After Shang Yang's reforms, he turned the Qin State into a war machine, with everything serving the purpose of war.

But when it stops expanding, that's when its internal conflicts erupt and it collapses.

Under Wang Ming's artillery fire, Jindou Mountain disappeared.

but……

The Green Bull Demon was still jumping around, and he instantly burst out with his Taiyi Golden Immortal-level magic power, and easily defeated Wang Ming's 100,000 Black Armor Army in a few seconds.

The guns and cannons couldn't even break his defense.

The Green Bull Demon is from the authentic Taoist sect. He did not kill people arbitrarily because he knew that killing too many people would bring him karma.
He just ignored Wang Ming and used his magic power to move a mountain here, and named it Jindou Mountain.

He was determined to stop the master, Wang Ming.

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In the 22nd year of Zhenguan,

Li Shimin's eldest son Li Chengqian and Prince of Wei Li Tai rebelled successively, trying to force Wang Ming to abdicate and thus inherit the throne.

The reason they rebelled was that they were worried that Wang Ming would pass the throne to them, and they were also afraid that they would not live longer than Wang Ming.

With no more resignation and anger, Wang Ming demoted them to commoners.

It would be too unkind to deprive Li Shimin of his identity and then kill his son.

Anyway, they didn't pose any threat to me.

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The twenty-third year of Zhenguan.

The Green Bull Demon was like half of an impassable mountain, blocking the way ahead.

It blocked the prospect of the Journey to the West and also blocked Wang Ming's journey.

Wang Ming really wanted to avoid the Green Bull Demon.

But without Tang Monk and his disciples paving the way, the merits of the Journey to the West would be nothing but empty talk.

Wang Ming is here now.

In the same year, there were local ambitious people who instigated ignorant people to rebel, and nomadic peoples in various places also rebelled.

Wang Ming put down the civil strife within half a year and then took over all the troops in the world.

In the 24th year of Zhenguan,

The Japanese pirates robbed the coastal residents, and local officials organized people to suppress them.

As a result, the number of Japanese pirates was too large and the suppression failed.

In fact, there were not many real Japanese pirates. Most of them were common people from the Tang Dynasty who pretended to be Japanese pirates and committed robbery.

Later, it escalated into friction between the Tang Dynasty and Japan. Wang Ming sent Li Zhi to exterminate the entire Japanese clan, shocking the surrounding countries that were ready to make moves.

In the 25th year of Zhenguan,

In the dark king's tent,

Wang Ming looked at the faint candlelight with a gloomy expression.

There was a map in front of him.

"What a good plan!"

"It's really high! Awesome! Really awesome!"

"Kill without spilling blood!"

Tang Monk's journey to the West and Wang Ming's expedition to the West had been stalled for five years by the Green Bull Demon.

After five years, Wang Ming finally understood what Taishang Laojun was planning.

After Wang Ming understood Laojun's plan, he felt cold all over and there was no hope for the future.

"It seems like we have no choice but to fight!!!"

"I have fought my way out of this deadly situation~"

(End of this chapter)