Chapter 973 Midnight 3, 72 Changes
"Seventeen or eighteen years..."
Patriarch Bodhi seemed to be in a trance for a moment.
The life of an ordinary person is only a few decades long, but he had been teaching his disciples for more than ten years without them noticing.
Perhaps a generation has already passed down the mountain, but to the immortal gods, it really seems like a moment.
He collected his thoughts, looked at Sun Wukong who was restless on the mat, sighed and smiled, and asked:
"Goku, what kind of jutsu do you want to learn... hm?"
Sun Wukong's eyes lit up, and he quickly jumped over to the side of Patriarch Bodhi, with a perverse and smiling look on his face:
"As long as Master teaches me! Hehe...As long as you have some Taoism, I will learn!"
Bodhi Patriarch, played by Li Yuan, nodded slowly and looked far outside the Taoist hall.
"I'll teach you how to seek divination, exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters... okay?"
Sun Wukong scratched the back of his hand and asked curiously, "Master, can I achieve immortality like this?"
It is so far away to become an immortal through practicing Taoism. Even with Sun Wukong's talent, he has been practicing seriously for more than ten years, and he has been distracted by other Taoist techniques from time to time, so he is still far from reaching that realm.
It thought of the monkeys in Cangwu Mountain and was afraid that it would grow old and die before becoming an immortal, so it felt a little impatient.
Patriarch Bodhi shook his head and sighed: "Relying only on this technique... well, it's not possible, it's not possible..."
Suddenly, Sun Wukong shook his head and said bluntly: "It is better to make your own decision than to ask the gods for divination... I won't learn, I won't learn!"
It quickly gestured to express its attitude.
Patriarch Bodhi hesitated for a moment, with a smile in his eyes: "Then... I will teach you to chant the Buddha's name, recite the sutras, and worship the saints, okay?"
Sun Wukong asked hurriedly: "Can I achieve immortality?"
Li Yuan laughed secretly in his heart, this monkey, he really only thinks about the art of immortality, but he doesn't know that there are no shortcuts in cultivation, external cultivation is easy, but cultivating the mind is difficult.
These are all ways to cultivate the mind, but Sun Wukong abandoned them without hesitation.
But it is also true that this monkey is naturally sacred and spiritual. He does not need to cultivate his mind deliberately and is as pure as a newborn baby.
I just don't know...how much trouble this straightforward temper will cause in the future.
He thought for a moment, stroked his beard and smiled, responding to Sun Wukong's words: "It's like... catching the moon in the water."
Sun Wukong took a few steps back and thought to himself:
What does it mean to fish for the moon in the water? Is this some kind of state of mind?
Scratching his cheek, Sun Wukong smiled and waved his hands: "Master, you are not straightforward. I am an honest man and I don't know how to speak in code... Master, may I ask what it means to fish for the moon in the water?"
Li Yuan recited the lines very well, and immediately laughed out loud, flicked his whisk lightly, his acting skills were far better than Tian Yao's, and he looked like an immortal master.
"Hehehe... the moon is in the sky, and there is a shadow in the water. Although I can see it, I can't touch it. It's empty in the end..."
Sun Wukong scratched his head, chuckled a few times, and said boldly and frankly:
"So, chanting the Buddha's name and reciting the sutras is not as good as having the ability! I won't learn, I won't learn, I won't learn!"
Patriarch Bodhi, played by Li Yuan, could hardly hold back his laughter. He leaned forward slightly with his eyes shining brightly.
"How about I teach you to meditate, stop fishing and eat vegetarian food?"
Sun Wukong said the same thing again, and chuckled: "Can I achieve immortality?"
The Bodhi Patriarch played by Li Yuan shook his head calmly: "To practice this path alone is like looking at flowers in a mirror, you want to pick them but cannot."
Wukong took a deep breath and thought for a moment, thinking, what is the difference between this and trying to catch the moon in the water? It's just a waste of effort!
It waved its hands quickly: "No, no, no!"
"Instead of meditating, why not... practice boxing with a stick? Master, let's try something else!"
Li Yuan's face froze for a moment, as if he was unhappy, and he stood up.
In fact, I was laughing in my heart: Let me see if you have that kind of understanding...
He took the ruler from the boy beside him and said in a slightly more dignified tone:
"You monkey... you don't learn this, you don't learn that... I'll teach you a lesson about the power of the ruler!"
After saying that, he knocked on Sun Wukong's head three times, "Dong Dong Dong", and the stone monkey was knocked to the ground.
After scolding, he no longer looked at Sun Wukong. He turned around with a flick of his sleeves, snorted coldly, pinched his lotus finger, and left.
Sun Wukong touched his head, a little dazed by the beating. He looked at his master's back as he left. For some reason, his eyes only focused on the three fingers of Patriarch Bodhi behind his back.
"three......?"
Wukong glanced at his fellow disciples in the hall as if he understood, and made a three gesture himself.
As for the unhappiness of its fellow disciples, it was only thinking about this matter and ignored it completely.
The moon rises above the branches, and the clouds hide deep into the night.
In the silence.
Li Yuan was sitting cross-legged in the inner room, but saw a stealthy figure approaching the door, and pushed it open with a little hesitation.
He smiled with satisfaction. The stone embryo he cultivated also had that rare understanding. It was good to be like this...
Needless to say, what happened next was that Sun Wukong, who realized his master's hidden meaning, sneaked into Patriarch Bodhi's room and got the great opportunity to have special treatment.
When asked to choose between the Thirty-Six Transformations of Tiangang or the Seventy-Two Transformations of Disha, the monkey was greedy and learned the one with more transformations.
This also made Li Yuan sigh secretly. He had just fully deduced the Earthly Evil Method not long ago. It was a combination of many magical powers and could avoid disasters and resolve misfortunes, and was capable of undergoing the most extreme changes. When cultivated to a deep level, combined with the Great Heavenly Immortal Technique, it was enough to withstand countless disasters and remain immortal. It was indeed the same as described in the stories in his hometown.
The Tiangang method was only recently passed on to him by Lao Zhang. It seems that he will never have the chance to use it on this monkey.
There are slight differences between Tiangang and Disha, but in fact there is no difference between strong and weak. The Tao has no far or near, it only depends on people.
Just like Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, they are the root evolution of thousands of different ways of the great way.
In the days that followed, Sun Wukong worked hard to practice the seventy-two transformations. Hearing that with his own skills, he could hope to achieve immortality and reach the highest level in the world, he was very happy.
Seeing its happy look, which made the mountain full of vitality, Li Yuan also appreciated and cared for it very much. He often taught it carefully and never got tired of it.
He even gave Wukong the magical cloud that he brought out from the gap between the three realms.
This magical cloud followed him for many years, but later on it was no longer of any use, so he placed it in Anshan and let it roam free.
The scattered clouds and the scattered and lively monkey are a good match.
Of course, he told Sun Wukong with a sense of evil humor that this magical cloud was called the 'Somersault Cloud' and with the help of his body skills, he could travel over 180,000 miles with one somersault.
Sun Wukong was naturally very happy. He flew on the clouds every day and had a lot of fun.
Several more years passed, and by the time Sun Wukong had mastered the seventy-two transformations and had mastered the Great Heavenly Immortal Technique, the combination of the two produced unpredictable changes, which pushed Sun Wukong's realm to rise rapidly.
After several years in the cave, Sun Wukong had reached a state of great power, with a solid foundation and both physical and magical skills. This speed was not much slower than Wang Shuo's in those days.
On the day when Sun Wukong transcended the tribulation and arrived in the fairyland, he was confused and asked, did this mean he had become an immortal and had eternal life?
Patriarch Bodhi said with a smile: "You have the power that is not inferior to that of immortals and gods, but you have never seen the true meaning of the heart of Tao."