Although the cave is large, after countless years of meticulous care, it is now full of scenery, which is dizzying.
The stone slabs under your feet are carved with various patterns, and the dragons and phoenixes are only for stepping on.
There is not a single weed in the grass on the roadside, or it can be said that the weeds have been cultivated into spiritual grass in leisure time. Picking a piece at random and selling it can cover the expenses of a family for several years.
Those flowers of different colors are all in bloom. If someone who loves flowers sees them, they will never want to leave. Even if they starve to death, they will leave with great satisfaction just looking at the flowers.
Halfway up the mountain, there is an exquisite pavilion with unique craftsmanship. The waterfall flows past it, but not a drop of water splashes into the pavilion.
If it wasn't getting late, you could sip tea in the pavilion and listen to the waves, watch the water flowing down, the water spray flying, the rainbow across the sky, the undulating forest and sea, the birds and animals walking, and the reflection of the mirror lake.
Even if you watch it all day long, you won't feel bored.
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All the way up, at the high wall, is Wuzhuang Temple.
A house of immortal immortals, a Taoist house with the same longevity as heaven.
"Monk Xuanyan invites you, Sun Dasheng invites you."
"Marshal Tianpeng please, General Shulian please, Xiao Bailong please."
"please."
Under the greetings of Qingfeng and Mingyue, the five people entered the door in the middle of the Taoist temple. At a glance, they saw the two characters "Heaven and Earth" in the main hall.
Qingfeng saluted from afar, "This place should be dedicated to the ancestor, but I was afraid that the ancestor would not like it, so I replaced it with the words heaven and earth."
Xuan Yan was puzzled, "Who is the Patriarch?"
Zhu Bajie said quickly: "Master, don't ask, just kneel down and worship. Being able to find a place where that person is enshrined, and allowing us to worship him, is the blessing I have gained over the past few lifetimes."
"It is true." Xiao Bailong said solemnly, "There are not many places in the world where I dare to worship."
Sha Seng saw that Monkey Sun was about to speak and waved to him quickly.
Sun Houhou saw that Sha Seng was like this, so he swallowed his words.
Xuan Yan still asked, "But how can we, the Buddhists, kneel down and worship the Taoist?"
Mingyue said softly: "When the two Buddhas of Buddhism come here, if they go through the middle gate, they must go to the main hall to bow and burn incense as disciples. Monk Xuanyan, it would be rude for you not to kneel down."
Xuan Yan was startled, "Ah, could it be the one mentioned in the storybook?"
"Exactly, Master, go and worship." Zhu Bajie said.
"Okay." Xuan Yan wiped his sweat and walked into the main hall head-on.
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After kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times in the main hall, everyone exited the main hall, walked quickly through the east door, and all breathed a sigh of relief.
In the breeze, Mingyue Yinxuan and the five of them sat down in the east hall, made a pot of spiritual tea, and brought out many spiritual fruits to entertain them, which was really a table.
"It's not that we don't have better fruits here, it's just that you can't bear them. Eating them is harmful and useless."
"When you become Buddhas in the future, it won't be too late to enjoy the immortal fruit."
Sun Houhou was very unhappy when he heard this. He had never eaten any fairy fruits in the sky, so he didn't care about these spiritual fruits.
However, seeing that Xuan Yan and others were eating happily, they didn't say anything.
Thinking about it, I was in a trance for who knows how long. I saw Xuan Yan and others lying on the table and fell asleep, while the breeze and the bright moon were gone.
Sun Houhou only said this in front of him, and was shocked. However, after checking, he found that he was indeed asleep.
It probably has intoxicating fruit, just like drunkenness, and you can't wake up even if you wake up.
Sun Houhou rolled his eyes and thought that this was a good idea, as he would not have to worry about them finding out that he was gone.
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Sun Houhou walked out of the east hall quietly and looked around, only to feel that there was precious light everywhere.
Looking carefully, it is the backyard that seems to be the most eye-catching.
Monkey Sun turned into a moth and flew straight to the backyard. Looking left and right, there were courtyards full of fairy grass and spiritual fruits.
Just as I was watching, I flew into a large courtyard, filled with shining golden light, which really dazzled my eyes.
It was a big tree that was hugged by several people. The tree was not high, about three feet tall, but its crown was very broad, occupying the entire yard.
There are doll-like fruits under the canopy of the tree. Each of them is full of fairy spirit, shining with golden light, and the whole body is crystal clear, just like beautiful jade.
"This must be the ginseng fruit. It's such a good treasure."
Sun Houhou drooled, thinking about what they had said before when they were chatting, that ginseng fruit falls when it encounters gold, dries up when it encounters wood, melts when it encounters water, burns when it encounters fire, and enters when it encounters soil.
So he took out the Ruyi Golden Cudgel from his ear, turned it into a thin stick one foot long, and knocked it against a ginseng fruit.
It fell as soon as it hit. Sun Monkey caught it quickly and stuffed it into his mouth before he could take a closer look. His eyes were watching six directions and his ears were listening.
It melts in your mouth and doesn't taste like anything.
Monkey Sun is not polite either. He just happened to make up for the lack of food he had eaten before.
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Twenty-eight fruits were eaten and no more could be found.
He burped, quickly covered his mouth, and slipped back to the east hall.
Seeing that Xuan Yan and others were still sleeping on their stomachs, they found a chair and pretended to sleep, not wanting to really fall asleep.
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The east hall door was pushed open by the breeze and the bright moon, and a handsome middle-aged Taoist walked in slowly, stroking his beard that reached his belly.
It was Zhen Yuanzi. He looked at it with a smile, and with a wave of his hand, there were five more bunks on the ground. Then he pointed at them, and Xuan Yan, Sun Houhou, Xiao Bailong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng all moved to the bunks together.
"Qingfeng, Mingyue, send their horse to Xingchen Courtyard tomorrow. It will not live long. If you enjoy the spiritual grass here in Pindao, you will get too many benefits in this life, and your luck will be reduced in the next life. It's not that Pindao is stingy, it's true It is this fate that is harmful rather than beneficial to it.”
"Master, you are still stingy. You gave all the ginseng fruits to the smelly monkey."
"That is to say, there are twenty-eight in total, but Ming Yue is so heartbroken."
Zhen Yuanzi laughed, "Oh, I'm afraid I'm thinking, each of you has one, and this monkey has twenty-eight for himself."
"Master has a sharp eye, we have indeed thought so."
"Mingyue, please don't drag me into the water."
Zhen Yuanzi waved his hand, "It doesn't matter whether it is or not. This is the cause and effect of poverty. Only by giving up can one be pure."
"Master, even if this monkey was born from a colorful stone, God wants him to collect the debt, but why did he go to Buddhism?"
"Yes, from Nuwa's side, you should also go to the Demon Clan. It happens that the Demon Clan has no commander, so he is suitable. That is not better than being a monk."
Zhen Yuanzi Fu Xu said with a smile: "The cause and effect here is very complicated. To understand the root cause, you must first understand that anything in the earthly immortal world may become a monster."
"In this way, the colorful stone becomes a living being."
"The Empress Nuwa repaired the heaven with colorful stones, and her reputation was lost to her. The colorful stones obviously exerted great power, but they were unable to transform. It took countless years to give birth to the stone monkey, which is today's grandson monkey. .”
"Empress Nuwa has accomplished the merits of the colorful stones. Without Empress Nuwa, there would be no merits of the colorful stones."
"But the reputation that should be given to the colorful stones has been taken up by Nuwa, so that Nuwa's reputation is too great."
"Nuwa empress mends the sky, no matter how much fame is given to her, she deserves it."
"But the heaven and the earth can be recreated. After all, the power of mending the sky has its limit. I just don't want to count the countless merits, so this reputation is also worthy of being counted."
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