Daban knew that he couldn't get involved in this matter. He even felt that it would be better if he could be late for a while. It would be best if he came back after the princess left.
But now that he's here, he can't turn around and go out, right?
The emperor glanced at him: "The customs clearance document has been delivered."
"Reply to Your Majesty, it has been delivered." Daban replied honestly: "Master Sanzang received the ultimatum and wrote a letter to be sent to Yuhua Prefecture." Daban sent the unsealed letter in his hand to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, please see. When Master Tripitaka finished writing and put it into the envelope, he did not seal it."
The emperor didn't look at it much and sent it directly to the big companion. He said with a smile: "Seal it yourself and send it to Yuhua Prefecture as soon as possible."
"yes."
The eldest companion hurriedly walked out of the palace. He breathed a long sigh of relief. His Majesty must have understood his hint. He exposed himself now because he obviously didn't want to be caught in the middle. He also didn't want the princess to know about Tripitaka. The mage is still in the capital.
The companion also understood the implication of His Majesty's words and asked him to persuade Master Tripitaka and his party to set off as soon as possible.
The companion who left and returned told Master Sanzang everything about the situation in the palace.
The masters and disciples were dumbfounded after hearing what the senior companion said. Who could have known that this princess would have such thoughts?
"Amitabha." Fahai recited the Buddha's name and said to his companion: "Please tell me, my companion, to tell the princess that I would like to thank the princess for your love, but I have made a vow to Buddhism for the rest of my life and will not do other things."
All the disciples were convinced by Master's words.
After all, there were quite a few women who had their master's ideas along the way, but none of them could make the master tempt to stay. Bajie also said to his companion, "Go back and let your princess calm down. There are so many men in the world, why bother?" Do you have an unrequited love for my master?"
The Great Sage also admonished: "It is best for the princess to truly understand whether it is my master that he likes, or whether he is just more grateful for saving his life?"
The eldest companion kept these words in mind. Of course, he could not say this directly to the princess, but he still told his majesty.
"Yes, I must pass on the words of the holy monk and the elders." After saying that, he rushed directly to Yuhua Prefecture.
The Great Sage stepped forward, put his hands on each other, and said with a smile: "Your feet are too slow. It will take you more than a month to go back and forth. Let me, my old grandson, give you a ride. I went to Yuhua Prefecture. I, my old grandson, were present. My master’s own testimony is not much different.”
"That's it. Thank you so much, Great Sage."
This came and went so quickly that even before Daban could react, the Great Sage took him to Yuhua Prefecture and invited a lion king, who was now in the palace.
The princess had been sent back to the palace by the emperor because she was too rude, but the emperor still made a show of it and gave the imperial army an order in front of the princess, asking them to chase Master Sanzang back and keep him in Tianzhu Imperial City.
The commander of the imperial army was the emperor's absolute confidant. He was not stupid, and he could probably guess some tricks.
Privately, he wanted to let go, but the emperor said: "Go with all your strength and don't worry about the rest."
It's a joke that your battalion of forbidden troops is not enough to fill the gap between people's teeth even if they use all their strength. Moreover, he believes that Master Sanzang, who has been talking to him all night long, will definitely help him practice. This battalion has been kept in the palace. , the seemingly elite Forbidden Army is actually only superficial.
The Imperial Army did not move. They only waited until the Great Sage invited the Snow Lion King, made a covenant with the emperor in the palace and left, and then a large crowd of people left the city.
outside the city.
When Fahai saw the pursuers coming, he ordered Bajie: "Bajie, go and stretch your muscles. Remember not to hurt anyone. If you are hurt, your food intake will be reduced by half tomorrow."
Bajie:.
Not long after, the emperor's chariot also arrived outside the city.
Looking at the Forbidden Army lying on the ground outside the city, even the commander's eyes were blank at the moment, as if he could not accept that they had lost so completely.
Master Sanzang didn't take any action at all. Even one of the five masters and disciples defeated a whole battalion of their soldiers with just one action. It was effortless.
It was also when he saw His Majesty coming in person that the commander of the imperial army came to his senses. He gave a military salute to His Majesty and said, "Your Majesty will punish the defeated general."
"Everyone, get up. It's not like you don't know Master Tripitaka's achievements along the way?" The emperor said solemnly: "Even those monsters fled when they saw Master Tripitaka, let alone you?"
The commander of the imperial army bowed his head. He felt shameful and ashamed for his previous words about showing mercy.
"Do you feel the gap between you and the gods and Buddhas now?" the emperor asked the commander of the imperial army.
"It is impossible to match the strength of ordinary people." The commander of the Forbidden Army said subconsciously, "Even if the general trains hard all his life, it may be difficult to reach such a state."
"But do you know?" The emperor looked at the commander of the imperial army and said, "Master Tripitaka is a mortal, or a mortal monk."
"Ah, how is this possible?"
"Yes." Emperor Tianzhu sighed: "How is this possible? But in fact, he is just a mortal, in Master Tripitaka's own words. He just understood some mysteries between heaven and earth when he read through Buddhism. , can use this to transform Buddha Dharma into magic power, but he himself is still an ordinary monk walking in the three realms."
Without the status of a god in heaven, he has not achieved the true enlightenment of Buddhism. Master Tripitaka is of pure human blood, and what else can he be if he is not an evil monk?
"So." Emperor Tianzhu said to the commander of the imperial army in front of him: "You might as well try to grasp the mystery between heaven and earth."
Your Majesty, this will inevitably put the general in trouble.
It's not that easy for mortals to cultivate magic power.
But in the eyes of the Emperor of Tianzhu, if there is anyone else in Tianzhu who can figure out a useful way, it is the commander of the Imperial Army.
Daban also received the order and went to Baijiao Mountain. Because there were many centipedes in Baijiao Mountain, the emperor asked him to bring a thousand roosters scattered in the mountain to control them.
In addition, because the princess was in trouble on this mountain for two years, His Majesty the Emperor renamed this mountain Baohua Mountain, and even Bujin Temple was given a title. It was "Edict to build Baohua Mountain for Gubu Jin Temple", which was praised by Tripitaka. The old monk who was the princess's true savior was also named a "monk officer serving the country" and was given a salary of thirty-six dan.
After Master and Disciple Fahai left the capital of Tianzhu Kingdom, they were still looking in the direction of Lingshan Mountain.
Beiju Luzhou.
An incarnation of the Jade Emperor descended to earth, and at this moment he was watching Puxian Bodhisattva riding a white elephant in virtual form, clearing away the poisonous energy of Luzhou in Beiju bit by bit.
However, he did not appear in front of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. He only looked at it for a moment and then stopped paying attention.
He went straight to the source of the poison barrier.
What caught the eye was the empty shell of a huge black turtle. Almost 10% of the entire Beiju Luzhou was occupied by this turtle shell.
The Jade Emperor naturally recognized the origin of the turtle shell in front of him.
At that time, Gonggong and Emperor Zhuanxu were competing for the throne of the human emperor. After their failure, they knocked down Mount Buzhou.
Then there was the move of Empress Nuwa to mend the sky. Before mending the sky, she first chopped off the four legs of the black turtle to serve as pillars to support the sky. The black turtle died because of this, and its flesh was eaten by all the creatures in Beizhou. Now it is said that it is eaten in the Three Realms. It is said that Tang Monk could live forever and become a Buddha by eating his flesh. In fact, this is the originator.
It is precisely because of this that the soul of the black turtle turned into a resentful spirit, and this resentful spirit turned into a poisonous barrier, which has filled Beiju Luzhou ever since.
All those who ate his flesh in the past, whether they were humans, demons or beasts, were eventually affected by this poisonous barrier and turned into ferocious beasts with only instincts and no intelligence.
When Nuwa was able to mend the sky, Emperor Zhuanxu was not idle either.
He destroyed all the passages connecting heaven and earth between the mortal world and heaven, except for the ladder to heaven in Kunlun Mountain.
In that era, if mortals wanted to ascend to heaven and gods wanted to descend to earth, they had to have permission from Emperor Zhuanxu. Even the Jade Emperor had to avoid his influence.
At this moment, the Jade Emperor's incarnation came here, not for other reasons, but because he knew one thing from Laojun. In the turtle shell, a crack in the demon world will be born, and the poisonous barrier gas in Beijuluzhou, From here, they will gradually invade into the demon world.
Even the demons in the demon world cannot avoid the unique barrier energy of Beiju Luzhou.
The Jade Emperor ducked and entered the turtle shell. Soon he found this almost undetectable crack. At this moment, he seemed to have several choices. First, expand the crack in the demon world, and at the same time use great magic power to seal it. Throw this turtle shell into the demon world, and then plug the cracks; second, plug the cracks directly.
But obviously, neither of these are in line with the Jade Emperor's will. His incarnation actually turned into a black cloud, and entered the demon world through this crack.
The great sage of the demon world can be said to be incapable of doing anything else.
Because cracks in the demon world appeared in two places at the same time, and there were two auras coming from these two places that made him feel very troublesome.
One is in the Asura Realm, and the other is in Beiju Luzhou.
One is Tathagata Buddha, and the other is probably the Jade Emperor.
Let the two of them come in anyway.
The Great Sage of the Demon Realm thought for a while, then separated the white-robed Kinnara and said: "I'm going to see the Buddha. I'd like to trouble you to deal with it on the other side."
The white-robed Jinnara clasped his hands together and said in a very unquestionable tone: "Change."
Heavenly Court, in Tushita Palace.
"It's not good." The Jade Emperor suddenly looked serious.
Laojun shook the whisk and asked him to speak directly.
"The incarnation that entered the demon world and lost contact."
"It's really not good." Laojun also frowned, but after a moment he smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it's not a big problem."
Jade Emperor: It’s not your old incarnation that’s lost in love.
Lao Jun: Don’t talk nonsense, Lao Dao is the incarnation of the lost one.
Color and color are originally colorless, and emptiness is not emptiness.
These three realms are still operating as usual.
For ordinary people, three meals a day are obviously the most important thing.
Everything else, fall back.
As for whether the end of the world will suddenly come and destroy the world, what can we do even if we know it in advance?
Let's say that the master and the disciples went all the way west, passed through spring, and arrived at the beginning of summer. It can be said that it is a place where the fragrant grass and flowers fall, and the old orioles and willow branches are light. The day of Dounan will last forever, and everything will be bright.
The master and his disciples dined together in the morning and slept in the evening, wandering around the stream in search of slopes, traveling during the day and practicing at night, just as before.
After all, Tianzhu is stable, and everything going forward is smooth and safe. After walking for half a month, I see another city wall in front of me.
Little Bailong stopped exploring the city and followed his master to the city gate, crossed the suspension bridge and walked into the gate.
On the long street, I saw two old men sitting on the porch chatting.
Everyone heard a few words and heard that they were talking about national affairs, the rise and fall of gains and losses, who was the saint and who was the sage. When they talked about the heroic career at that time, Anzai now sighed greatly.
Then he turned to talking about the shortcomings of his parents and their respective looks when they were young. Finally, he had to compare his children and grandchildren before he would give up.
Seeing that the two of them had almost finished talking, Xiao Bailong stepped forward.
When the two old men saw Xiao Bailong, they came towards them. Before Xiao Bailong could speak, one of the old men had already spoken: "Where did you come from, young man? What do you want to do with me?" "
It was also because he saw Xiao Bailong's face that he was angry, that's why he asked this question.
After all, with Xiao Bailong's appearance, it would be difficult to forget him after seeing him once.
It was only when he saw Xiao Bailong's face that he looked at all men, women, old and young, that his tone was so gentle and polite.
Little Bailong performed a Buddhist salute and asked the two old men: "Two donors, I come from the Tang Dynasty in the east. I followed Master Sanzang to the Daleiyin Temple in Lingshan to worship Buddha and learn scriptures."
"I just arrived at Baofang. I don't know the name of the place. I saw two donors here. So I came to ask for advice."
"It turns out that Master Sanzang is here!" Another old man tilted his body and looked past Xiao Bailong to look behind him, as if he wanted to find Master Sanzang.
Sure enough, I saw four people parked not far away. From a distance, their appearance was indeed as rumored, each with its own unique style.
When Fahai saw the two father-in-laws calling them to come together, he led his three disciples to walk closer and clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, the two benefactors, the poor monk Tang Sanzang, are polite."
"Be polite, be polite!"
After the two father-in-laws returned the gift, they said: "I am here in Tongtai Mansion under the rule of Tianzhu. There is a county behind the mansion called Diling County. If the elders want to eat fast, they do not need to ask for alms. If you pass this archway and go to the North and South Streets, sit west and face east. A tiger sitting on the gatehouse is a member of the Kou family, and there is a sign in front of his door that no monks can stop him. Let alone the Dharma Master, even a down-and-out monk can benefit from it if he goes to the Yuanwai."
"Thank you for your advice, husband."
"No thanks, no thanks." The two father-in-laws said with a smile: "I am in a truly good Buddhist place. I see it is almost noon, so I can catch up with Yongzhai."
"Yes, yes." Bajie on the side has already begun to urge, "Master, let's go quickly, don't delay fasting."
puff--
Bajie received a kick on the butt. This kick was naturally given by the Great Sage, "Look at your potential."
Wu Jing drew a picture of the two elders pointing out the country and scolding Fang Qiu. He also recorded their words about the past and the present, and then said to the master: "After all, the Buddhist land in the West, master might as well go and see it." Meet this bandit who is truly a monk."
Since this is a prefecture, there is no need to check the customs. People walked slowly along the long street all the way to the outer palace of the bandits. The road attracted everyone's attention. The road was also lively, with snake charmers, drummers, hawkers, and women dancing. , dazzling——
Not long after, another man on crutches came towards him, it was the bandit.
(End of chapter)
