plumnovel Chapter 119 The Mind Monkey's Enlightenment
Chapter 119 The Mind Monkey's Enlightenment
Tianmu Mountain
Chen Family Residence
A large flag fluttered in the wind, bearing four large characters: The Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
Chen Hongxian stared at the large banner with surprise: "Brother, there's the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, here!"
Chen Chunan's vision went black. This Mind Monkey had actually taken over Tianmu Mountain and even hung up the banner of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.
Because of her cultivation of internal alchemy, Chen Yunling had long suspected the origin of the Mind Monkey, and now she was filled with deep doubts.
She listened to her master's teachings and learned about the mind being like a monkey, and also knew that the mind being cultivated to become a monkey was the key to enlightenment.
This Sun Wukong is probably his master's mind monkey, but can the mind monkey leave the body?
Will I also give birth to a little monkey and call himself the Little Sage Equal to Heaven?
Chen Chunan was unaware of Chen Yunling's thoughts; all he wanted to do was quickly remove that conspicuous banner.
Just as he was about to make his move, two robust, golden apes, each leading a group of monkey demons, surrounded him, brandishing knives and clubs.
"Hey~ I am General Beng, under the command of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. What was that again?"
"Who goes there! You think you can steal the first line from me, Old Man Ba? Can you even pronounce it correctly? Honestly!"
"What's it to you? The King said I'm the Right General, and you're just the Left General. Of course, I have to speak first!" General Beng glared angrily at the old man.
He then asked, "The three of you, state your names and the purpose of your visit to Tianmu Mountain?"
Upon hearing the two monkeys refer to themselves, Chen Chunan couldn't help but feel a chill at the ape's perverse sense of humor.
The two generals, Bengba and Ba? Are there also Marshals Ma and Liu?
Is this Monkey King actor really getting hooked on playing the role?
Chen Chunan didn't want to get entangled with these minor demons, so he immediately channeled his magic and shouted, "You damned monkey! Come out and explain yourself!"
"Hehehe~ What brings you here, Old Sun, to sit for a while?"
Xin Yuan already knew Chen Chunan had arrived, but he just wanted to see his reaction.
Seeing his embarrassed expression now is quite amusing.
Upon seeing Xin Yuan appear, Chen Chunan couldn't help but step forward and lower his voice, saying, "Don't you think this banner is too conspicuous?"
"Tch~ What's so special about that? Once you achieve the Path to Immortality, who would dare utter a single word of dissent?"
"You seem even more confident than I am!"
"That's because your cultivation is inferior to mine! Just watch what changes occur in my Tianmu Mountain and even the Fallen Dragon Ridge!"
Seeing Xin Yuan's smug expression, Chen Chunan became suspicious: "Hmm? Let me see!"
As he spoke, he unleashed his divine sense, and in an instant, the entire Tianmu Mountain was under Chen Chunan's divine sense.
The entire Tianmu Mountain is home not only to various kinds of demons, but also to many families.
It turned out to be a place where humans and demons lived together.
In the fields, the bull demon pulled the plow, with a person standing on it. They ran very fast and soon turned over a large area of land.
A group of monkey demons followed behind, driving seed drills and sowing seeds.
Near the spirit field, a wild boar demon, several meters in size, arched its long snout along the route planned by the humans, creating a deep ditch that smoothly diverted the water from the spirit lake into the spirit field.
Chen Chunan was deeply surprised: "What's this?"
The Monkey King chuckled: "Look again, look at the entire Falling Dragon Ridge!"
The former ruins of the Liu family home in Chen Chunan have been completely transformed, with a city dozens of times larger than before rising from the ground.
Countless transvestites reside within, while two large monkeys, along with numerous armored and knife-wielding monkey demons, act as maintainers of order.
A strange emotion welled up in Chen Chunan's heart. He wanted to say something, but couldn't think of anything to say for a moment.
Sensing his emotions, Xin Yuan began to explain, "Many of these humans are mortals."
Almost all the mortals in and around Zhuilong Ridge have come to live in my Aolai Kingdom.
The great virtue of Heaven and Earth is this: to give life. This is the greatest benevolence.
Since you came into this world, you have never truly set foot in the lowest level.
You only know that internal alchemy requires cultivating the five virtues, but you don't really know how to cultivate them.
The internal alchemy path emphasizes humility and substance, but reading ten thousand books is not as valuable as traveling ten thousand miles.
If you have never truly witnessed human suffering, how can you understand what the great virtues of heaven and earth are?
Lü Zu was enlightened by Zhong Zu through a dream of yellow millet, and in one day he attained enlightenment.
But you don't have the chance to have a dream of enlightenment like Chung-tung.
You must experience the suffering, love, hate, and grudges of all beings for yourself. Only by understanding greed, anger, and ignorance can you ascend to the Great Path.
You've already subdued dragons and tigers, and forcibly erased your name from the Book of Death. There's no need to rush. You need to calm down!
Xin Yuan's words gave Chen Chunan a sudden shock.
Sink down?
I haven't been able to sink?
Yes, I'm actually not familiar with the lower-level disciples of the family, let alone the clansmen who are still mortals.
Especially after becoming the clan leader, he didn't want to deal with those trivial matters and simply handed them over to the two clan elders.
Because he was eager to become an immortal and to refine his inner elixir.
He claimed to be cultivating the Five Virtues in Jiangzhou, but that only meant eliminating the threat of water monsters in Jiangzhou.
Because cultivating the Five Virtues is a very troublesome thing to do, I feel that it is faster to first refine the inner elixir through three cycles, and the growth of pure yang elixir qi is visible and tangible.
Sink down?
Sink down?
"When Tang Sanzang traveled west to obtain Buddhist scriptures, he had to have his travel permit checked and stamped at each country before he could proceed. Whether you cultivate the elixir of immortality or nurture the five virtues, how can you know if you are on the right track if you don't check and verify your journey?"
"Perhaps I should emulate Lü Dongbin, promoting education and enlightening the people? Or perhaps I should follow the example of Master Sa, practicing medicine to help the world?"
"Educating the people does not necessarily require your personal involvement. Look at me, I only need to hire some teachers to pass on knowledge. Teachers pass it on to their students, and students to their grandchildren, and so on, endlessly. Education is also a virtue."
As for practicing medicine, you are not skilled in medicine. How many people could you possibly cure by relying solely on your magic to treat them one by one? It would be much better to do what my Aolai Kingdom does: establish clinics and widely train apprentices. Wouldn't that benefit many people?
Listening to what Xin Yuan said, Chen Chunan nodded secretly, then suddenly asked, "Won't your cultivation of the Five Virtues benefit me in return?"
"Of course I will. Uh, haven't you heard the saying, 'What you learn from books is never enough; you must put it into practice to truly understand?' If you're only thinking about expecting me to help you achieve enlightenment, then you'll always be a step away from becoming the real Wukong."
The monkey seemed slightly hesitant.
Upon hearing this, Chen Chunan felt reassured. He had previously experienced the wonder of the gathering of the five elements of innate and acquired nature when he entered the realm of wondrous existence with the help of the Mind Monkey.
He had already guessed what the monkey was doing, and now that his guess had been confirmed, he felt a sudden sense of relief.
"I understand what you mean! Treat people with kindness, act with righteousness, maintain balance and impartiality, and this requires the unity of knowledge and action."
You possess innate knowledge, while I possess acquired skills.
Although your actions have given me sudden enlightenment, if I cannot align my knowledge with my actions, my acquired human nature will ultimately be obscured by my innate Daoist heart.
Seeing that Chen Chunan understood what to do, Xin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
The unity of knowledge and action is easy to say but difficult to do. It showed Chen Chunan the changes in Falling Dragon Ridge, and also reminded the original body that it should calm down and unite knowledge and action.
Cultivating the five virtues cannot remain merely in one's mind.
With the guidance of the Mind Monkey, Chen Chunan suddenly realized the truth, and his entire aura changed again. The sharpness that he couldn't hide before due to nourishing Yang was now completely gone.
Only a gentle and refined Taoist priest in green robes remained.
Chen Chunan looked at Chen Yunling: "It seems that after this matter is over, you and I, master and disciple, will have to become wanderers."
Chen Yunling had just heard what Xin Yuan said. Although she did not yet understand the Five Virtues, she knew that her master was taking this opportunity to impart his teachings.
He nodded hastily in agreement.