txolops Chapter 40 The Chosen Working Monkey
Chapter 40 The Chosen Working Monkey
As expected of the clever stone monkey, he was naturally intelligent and learned the magic in a short time. He was overjoyed and laughed, "Good, good, good! Watch my skills!"
Li Fa said, "Wait a minute!"
Wukong turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Fa said, "Elder Sun, have you perhaps forgotten our agreement?"
Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong scratched his head and said, "Oh, I remember now. This credit should belong to the old Taoist priest. What do you think?"
Li Fa said, "You dig a tunnel through, fight him, and force him out of the tunnel. I'll prepare ropes and chains, and when he's exhausted, we'll capture him in one fell swoop. What do you say?"
Wukong nodded and said, "Alright, alright!" He then made a hand seal, chanted an incantation, and leaped into the ground with a "whoosh."
In no time at all, Sun Wukong quietly emerged from the ground deep within the Cloud Stack Cave.
The cave was quite spacious, with tables, chairs, and benches all provided.
Pigsy was sprawled on the bed, patting his chest and panting heavily, muttering, "That scared me to death... That stable boy was really something, and that Taoist priest with the ox-nose was also incredibly strange... I'd never heard of such a person before!"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly sensed someone behind him and turned around abruptly.
Just then, Sun Wukong emerged from the ground and stood in the center of the cave!
"My goodness!" Pigsy was so frightened that he rolled off the bed and frantically grabbed the nine-toothed rake standing against the wall.
But Sun Wukong wouldn't let him catch his breath.
He shouted, "You scoundrel, take this!"
He swung his golden cudgel and smashed it down on her head.
Pigsy hurriedly raised his rake to meet the attack, and with a loud clang, the rocks on the cave ceiling shattered and fell down.
His hands went numb, and he was horrified: "This monkey is incredibly strong!"
Knowing he was no match for the opponent, Pigsy feinted with his rake and turned to flee out of the cave.
Although he was fat, he was surprisingly fast at escaping for his life.
He revealed half of his true form, and crawled and rolled using both hands and feet.
The two of them ran and chased each other until they left the cave.
Sun Wukong then somersaulted in front of him and laughed, "Where do you think you're going!"
Pigsy also became very determined. He chanted a spell and grew to be ten zhang long and five zhang tall.
He rushed straight towards Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong also put away his staff, shook it, and transformed into a size of more than ten zhang. He grabbed the pig's snout, used his strength, and flipped it over.
Pigsy then reverted to his human form, wielding his rake and shouting, "I'll fight you to the death!"
Sun Wukong remained calm, simply raising his staff to block the rake with a clang, and laughed, "This rake of yours, was it the one you used to build plots for planting vegetables when you were a gardener in Gao Village? You dare to show off such a thing!"
Upon hearing this, Pigsy was so angry that his long snout trembled. He shouted, "You've mistaken me! This rake of mine is forged from divine iron and cast by Laozi. It has been with me for many years, never leaving my side, whether I'm in heaven or on earth."
Later, I caused trouble while drunk and was banished to the mortal realm, thus ending up here in this world. No matter how strong your head or how tough your body, one strike will be enough to extinguish your soul and drain your spirit!
After hearing this, Sun Wukong laughed loudly, slammed his golden cudgel into the ground, and said, "Fool, don't talk nonsense! I'll stick this end out here, you can try hitting it and see if it can make your soul disappear and your energy dissipate."
As he spoke, he actually bent down and showed the back of his head to Pigsy.
Pigsy was taken aback, then angrily retorted, "You said it yourself!"
He mustered all his strength, raised his rake high, and brought it down hard on Sun Wukong's head!
"clang--!"
A loud bang was heard, and sparks flew everywhere.
When the rake struck Sun Wukong's head, it was as if it had struck divine iron, causing Zhu Bajie's arms to go numb and the rake to almost slip from his grasp.
Looking at Sun Wukong again, he scratched his head and laughed, "Put in more force, I'm itching for a punch."
Pigsy was so frightened that he took three steps back, staring at Monkey King's monkey head, and said in a trembling voice, "What a good head! What a good head!"
Sun Wukong then said, "You don't know. Back then, I made a great disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, stealing elixirs, peaches of immortality, and imperial wine. I was captured by Erlang Shen and imprisoned in front of the Dou Niu Palace."
The gods chopped and hammered it with axes and hammers, slashed it with knives and swords, burned it with fire and struck it with lightning, yet it remained unharmed in the slightest. Later, it was taken by Laozi and placed in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, where it was refined by the Samadhi True Fire for forty-nine days, thus forging its fiery eyes and golden pupils, its copper head and iron arms.
After saying that, he looked at Pigsy and laughed, "If you don't believe me, try hitting it a few more times?"
That fool was unwilling to give up. Just as he was about to escape, Li Fa suddenly appeared from the side. Before he could react, a rope was thrown from mid-air and tied him up tightly.
At the same moment, the Record of Li Fa's Merits was updated:
[Target for rescue: Gao Cuilan]
[Unemployment Assessment]
Rewards received:
[Optional Reward 1: Five Jiazi of Mana from the "Creating Heaven and Earth Technique"]
[Optional Reward Two: Soaring Through the Clouds (Supernatural Power)]
[Optional Reward 3: Arhat Fist (Martial Arts)]
"Choose one, magic power!" Li Fa silently recited in his heart, and instantly his magic power increased to over six hundred years.
Sun Wukong, who was standing nearby, seemed to sense something and said, "Old Taoist, why do I feel that your magical power has become so profound?"
Li Fa stroked his beard and solemnly fabricated a story: "Subduing this demon is a good deed, and Heaven will naturally bestow merit upon you. I just received merit, and my magical power has increased slightly."
"Such a good thing?" Sun Wukong's eyes lit up as he stared at the bound Pigsy on the ground. He chuckled, "Excellent! You've subdued this pig demon and reaped the merit. The merit of killing him will go to me!"
Having said that, he swung his golden cudgel, as if to smash it down on Pigsy's head.
Although Pigsy's hands and feet were bound, his mouth could still move, so he hurriedly shouted at the top of his lungs, "Wait! Wait a minute!"
The golden cudgel stopped in mid-air. Sun Wukong said, "What else do you have to say?"
Pigsy, panting heavily, pleaded in his eyes: "My two heroes, please forgive me, this old pig was also persuaded to do good by Guanyin Bodhisattva!"
When the Bodhisattva passed by Fuling Mountain, he saw me committing evil deeds here and took pity on me, so he gave me the Three Refuges and the Five Precepts, and taught me to observe a vegetarian diet here and wait for the scripture seekers…”
"The pilgrim?" Sun Wukong sheathed his staff, squatted down, and asked, "What pilgrim?"
"It is that holy monk sent by the Emperor of the Great Tang Dynasty of the East to the Western Paradise to worship Buddha and seek scriptures!" Pigsy hurriedly said, "The Bodhisattva said that I should follow the scripture seeker to the Western Paradise, subdue demons and monsters along the way, make amends for my sins, and then I can attain enlightenment in the future."
I waited here in vain for three years, but there was still no news... I suppose the pilgrim refused to come, so I... I was tempted by worldly desires and went to Gao Village to become a son-in-law..."
He became more and more aggrieved as he spoke, and a few tears even fell: "Although I took Miss Gao as my wife, I have worked diligently in the fields for the past three years and have never harmed a single person."
I've run into you two villains today. You can fight or kill me all you want, but at least let me, Old Pig, die knowing why.
Will the pilgrim come or not?
Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong chuckled and said, "Do you know what I'm doing right now?"