Chapter Twenty-Six, Five Hundred Years, Dreaming Back to Antiquity

  Wu Xing Shan

  Wu Fang's face was tense as he stared at the small figure below the mountain, using all his might to suppress.

  But to their horror, they found that no matter how hard the five of them tried to suppress it, the small figure could burst out with infinite power, and several times almost overturned the Five Elements Mountain. This time, he even poked his head out from under the mountain.

  "Monkey King!"

  A voice suddenly came from the high sky, very majestic. With the sound, three figures descended from the sky and landed on the top of Wuxing Mountain. It was Sakyamuni Tathagata who had just come out of the Heavenly Court's An Tian Grand Assembly.

  "Arrival!" Seeing the person who came, that great saint was burning with anger, and countless resentful intentions were born in his eyes. He struggled with all his might, causing the Five Elements Mountain to shake violently for a time, as if he wanted to break out of the mountain.

  "Amitabha!" The Tathagata saw this, but it was a Buddha's name, and then sat down on the ground. A nine-grade golden lotus emerged from the void space, holding up the Tathagata. On one side, Ajita and Mahakasyapa also sat down beside him.

  As the three sat down, those five mountains seemed to have infinite power added to them.

  With a loud "boom", accompanied by a mournful cry, the Five Elements Mountain pressed down on Sun Wukong's body as if it had taken root, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't budge it in the slightest. It turned out that Tathagata had used the Golden Lotus Suffering Skill, which was the same divine power that Zhuangzhi Saint had used to subdue Kong Xuan during the Battle of the Gods. Later, when the Buddha of Many Treasures achieved his six-foot-tall golden body, the Peacock King still refused to submit because he occupied the position of the Spirit Mountain Buddha and came to provoke him.

  Who would have thought that the treasure also learned this kind of magical power from Zhun Ti, and Kong Xuan swallowed the treasure into his belly. The treasure was afraid of coming out of the anus and polluting its golden body, so it broke open Kong Xuan's abdomen and flew out. With this magical power, it sat upright on Kong Xuan's back, as if it had taken root, and even though Kong Xuan practiced the sacred Taoist way, he couldn't shake it off.

  Many Treasures Tathagata wanted to kill Kong Xuan, but was stopped by the Buddhas of Spirit Mountain, who said: "The Tathagata emerged from the belly of a peacock, so the peacock is like his mother. To kill Kong Xuan would be like killing one's own mother."

  Because Kong Xuan stood up for Zhunti after all, so Duobao sealed Kong Xuan as "Buddha Mother Peacock Great Brightness Bodhisattva" to quell the matter and calm people down.

  Although Sun Wukong had learned the secret transmission of the Quan Yin Saint, the筋斗云 and the seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiend, he had never seen such divine powers before. However, not knowing whether it was the Buddha's magic, his heart grew more anxious, and with a loud mouth, he cursed and scolded recklessly; the thief's head and mouse brain, the stinky short and long, all shouted together in anger.

  "Amitabha!" Hearing that the monkey was making a ruckus at the foot of the mountain, Wu Fangjie and A Nanjiao both furrowed their brows.

  Sakyamuni smiled lightly and said to Wukong: "Those who slander Buddha will inevitably suffer retribution."

  "You wait for me outside these five mountains, I will definitely give you an explanation." The monkey heard this and did not shout again, opening his mouth to speak.

  "At first, you caused chaos in the heavenly palace and even wanted to seize the Lingxiao Treasure Hall. Who knew that the cause of that day would be the result of today?" The Tathagata smiled and then said to Jin Tian's side: "You take this thing and stick it on the top of the Five Elements Mountain, and you can trap this monkey."

  He finished speaking, and took out a golden yellow note with the six glittering ancient seals "Om", "Ma", "Ni", "Bai", "Mi" and "Hum", which were exactly the six true words of Buddhism.

  "Receiving the decree!" Jin Tou's expression turned solemn, and even the Buddha's great law did not dare to be slow. With a respectful demeanor, he approached the front, bowed three times in front of the Buddha on the lotus platform, and then held the letter with both hands, tightly attaching it to a nearby square stone.

  In an instant, a burst of golden light radiated in all directions, and a wave of energy was emitted. The Five Elements Mountain seemed to have taken root, merging seamlessly with the earth. People below the mountain could only stick their heads and hands out, but couldn't move even slightly.

  It was the six-character mantra on the golden plaque that subdued demons with spiritual power, connecting the Honghuang earth vein to the Wuxing Mountain. Its weight was as heavy as the Honghuang giant mountain, and no matter how great your innate divine power was, you couldn't shake it. Unless it's a powerful physique of the Witch tribe's Great Witch realm, or maybe possible.

  "Descended!" The monkey, unable to move, let out a loud roar towards the sky, his eyes fixed on the figure sitting on the lotus platform in mid-air. With a voice full of hatred, he said: "Descended one, I've heard that when you became Buddha, you gave up your body to feed eagles and trapped me in this place. If I starve to death, wouldn't that be considered killing? You call yourself the ancestor of Buddhism, reciting compassion and kindness, but where is your golden body's true fruit? Where is your compassion?"

  "Amitabha!" The Tathagata heard this and smiled, saying: "My Buddha is merciful, but has a Vajra angry gaze, subduing demons with divine powers."

  "It turned out to be a monk with a mismatch between his words and heart." Sun Wukong heard this and coldly laughed.

  "Slander the Buddha, you will surely suffer retribution. You have done it once and again, if I don't give you a punishment, it would be unable to show my Buddha's divine power." But in Sakyamuni's eyes, there was only a sorrowful expression.

  "What will you do?" The Great Sage saw the Tathagata's expression and sneered even more.

  "Oppress you for five hundred years, make you atone for your past, and devote yourself to Buddhism."

  "Ah!" Wukong was shocked to hear this, having just escaped from the Eight Trigrams Furnace of Lao Jun after being trapped for 50 days, which is equivalent to 50 years on earth. Now, this Tathagata wants to imprison him for 500 years? He gritted his teeth in anger and roared: "I refuse!"

  Still waiting to be divided, again heard the Tathagata recite the true words, and invited a land god. To the land god and the five directions, he explained the truth: "You six people live in this mountain to supervise, but see that person below the mountain is hungry, then give him iron balls to eat; thirsty, and give him dissolved copper juice to drink. Wait for his disaster to be full, and there will be someone to save him."

  "Take the Buddha's orders!" The six men heard this and hastily knelt down.

  Then the Tathagata nodded slightly towards the six people and turned around with Ananda and Mahakasyapa, heading west.

  "You... you're back! Welcome!" Monkey King saw this and was greatly alarmed, repeatedly exclaiming in surprise. However, he could only watch as the three figures disappeared into the distance, unable to do anything about it.

  It is: With great power and prestige, he subdued the strong and tamed the fierce. He stole peaches and wine, touring the Heavenly Palace, and received a promotion, enjoying imperial favor in the Jade Capital.

  Evil deeds fill one's body with troubles, good roots never die and fortune rises again. Indeed, escaping from the Tathagata's hand, waiting for the Tang Dynasty to produce a holy monk.

  But not to mention that unlucky monkey, at this time in the dry pine valley, inside a room of the hanging wooden building, Hong Haier was drunk and sleeping soundly. Unexpectedly, he had a strange dream...

  In a dream, I came to an unknown realm, which was that chaotic expanse. All around was dark and mysterious, unable to distinguish east, south, west or north, nor know the heavens from the earth.

  I feel like a ghost wandering in this chaotic world, without knowing where I came from or where I am going.

  It seems like there's something guiding itself forward, or perhaps someone wants to present something to itself.

  In this manner, they continued on their way, not knowing how many tens of thousands of miles they had traveled, until finally, it seemed that there was a glimmer of light ahead. Hong Haier saw this and felt puzzled, quickening his pace as he moved forward.

  "Rumble!" A loud noise came, as if it were thunder, followed by a long period of dizziness and disorientation. The Red Boy felt the chaos around him split open, and then he seemed to be falling down continuously.

  But was shocked and cried out for help, but found that he seemed to be unable to make a sound, nor could he fly. Even more frightened, he danced with his hands and feet, waving his hands around him, but found nothing.

  At last, somehow or other, it stopped falling. At this time, Hong Haier was still in a state of shock, but he was panting on something and just realized that he had fallen onto a soft cushion.

  As the light around him gradually brightened, Hong Haier opened his eyes and looked around, but was immediately stunned.

  That is a gigantic figure standing between heaven and earth, with a height of billions of feet, muscles bulging, long hair scattered over the shoulders.

  "Pangu!" Hong Haier exclaimed in surprise.

  But then Pangu was standing upright, propping up the sky and earth. In front of him were four treasures shining brightly, which were the Three Treasures of Opening Heaven and the Ding of Qiankun. The Taiji diagram transformed into a golden bridge spanning the heavens and the earth, supporting the heavens together with Pangu. Pangu's flag released countless chaotic sword energies, continuing to cleave open the remaining chaos. The Ding of Qiankun absorbed the chaotic energy and refined it, transforming it into countless pre-heavenly vital energies. Meanwhile, the Chaotic Bell hung high in the void, constantly vibrating sound waves, maintaining the stability of this realm and preventing its collapse.

  "This!" Hong Haier saw this, but was stunned. How could he have dreamed of such a scene? He was puzzled and only then discovered that he too was suspended in mid-air, but Pangu was so high and majestic that he didn't even reach his knee. And where he stood was actually a red cloud.

  "Huh?" Hong Haier was shocked again at this sight.

  And then even more hair stood on end, because it was discovered that in those clouds, there was a pair of extremely venomous eyes staring at oneself.

  "Ah!" Hong Haier let out a cry of surprise, and suddenly felt himself falling through empty space...