Journey to the West: Blind for 500 years, all disciples are big monsters

Chapter 22 Let me tell you about an old friend

The moonlight was in the sky, and not a single cloud in the sky could be seen. The moonlight was as hazy as a light gauze, shining on the ground like a dense mist.

Zhou Xuan stood in front with his hands behind his back.

In fact, he had already planned how to teach these two monsters.

First of all, teach the principles of being a human being. Nothing is more useful than the Bible.

That is the way of a gentleman and the Tao Te Ching.

Principles such as 'Heaven and earth are not benevolent and treat all things as straw dogs', 'The highest kindness is like water, water is good for all things without fighting', 'Gentlemen are magnanimous, villains are always in distress' and so on.

If nothing else, it's enough.

In addition, these truths Zhou Xuan has been obsessed with since he was a child, and his memory is still fresh, which is more firmly remembered than those written on the Internet, so he can completely learn them at his fingertips.

The lecture was only given once a month before, and that was because Zhou Xuan had read too few web articles. He had only read a few basic web articles known as fantasy sewers. Talk about it.

But these sages' ways, one is that there is true meaning in it, and the other is that there is a lot of control, and the content can fully support him to give a few more lectures.

As for the most important point, monsters are wild, like wolves. Even if the werewolf breeders in the grassland are familiar with wolves, they must be very vigilant against the animal nature of wolves to prevent being injured by wolves.

Zhou Xuan has self-knowledge, even though he is a teacher, he is highly respected in front of monsters and respected by monsters.

But he is at best a weak scholar.

Unlike the sage who talked about the way of a gentleman, the old man is a great Confucian with both civil and military skills. He is powerful and powerful. How dare the students refuse to accept it?
It doesn't make sense to reason, and there is force as a backup.

And if the monster students under him rebelled and wanted to deceive their masters and destroy their ancestors, there was nothing he could do.

So Zhou Xuan thought very clearly, the most urgent thing is to pass on the sage's law to the monsters, teach the way of a gentleman, respect etiquette, justice, integrity and shame, restrain oneself and return to propriety!

Weaken the animal nature of the monster and strengthen the human side, so as to avoid the tragedy.

Thinking this way, he heard two voices from behind, and knew that it was two monsters coming.

Zhou Xuan sank his mind, and as he had imagined before, put on a good posture, and sighed softly:

"Heaven rewards hard work, the avenue is ruthless!"

God rewards those who work hard, and the avenue is ruthless!
The short eight words contain infinite philosophy.

The brown bear monster and the monkey stopped immediately, thoughts flooding their minds.

Heaven rewards hard work, the more diligent one is, the more he can accomplish the great cause of heaven.

However, Dao is ruthless, no matter how hard you try, it is futile.

You know, even though monkeys are raised by nature and don’t know the rules, they have crossed the southern part of the state and come to Taixutian. During this period, they have dealt with many people and know some principles of life. Some simple and easy-to-understand truths.

At this moment, Hou Zi was thinking about Zhou Xuan's intentions, he felt that what Master said was not that simple.

Combining with what Master told him to learn to be a human being before practicing Taoism, Monkey thought a lot.

"Be a man first, and then practice the Tao.

God rewards those who work hard, and the avenue is ruthless!
The master must be implying something, there must be some necessary connection between cultivating the Tao and being a human being.

There are very few monsters in the world who become immortals, but countless people become immortals.Even if the monster becomes a fairy, he still looks like a human being, abandoning the bad habits of the monster.

In other words, if you want to become a fairy, learning the principles of life is the key! "

The monkey's eyes lit up, and he felt that his train of thought was correct.

What's more, he is now in the late stage of Conjoint Dao, when he is asking about becoming an immortal, the master suddenly does not ask about supernatural powers, but talks about the way of being a human being.

This way of being a man is actually the way of becoming a fairy!
Thinking of this, the monkey couldn't help jumping up for joy.

Compared with the monkey's thoughts, the brown bear monster's thoughts are much simpler.

Dao is ruthless, Master is saying that my aptitude is too poor, no matter how hard I practice, I can't cultivate Dao?So he needs to be mentally prepared in advance...

"Master, can it be said that the aptitude of the disciple is really too bad, so..."

The brown bear monster was thinking wildly, but still couldn't help expressing the doubts in his heart.

From the very beginning, he knew that his heels were far inferior to that of Brother Monkey, and he was also practicing, so the speed difference was too great.

Hearing this, Zhou Xuan was silent for a while.

He didn't answer directly, but asked with a gentle smile: "Since you came to apprentice, let me tell you where you are from?"

"Return to Master, the disciple's body is a brown bear."

The brown bear monster replied.

"Brown bear?"

Zhou Xuan was stunned.

Logically speaking, the brown bear monster is much stronger than humans, but this monster did not trigger the system's alarm, which means that even he, a human being, cannot beat him, and he is simply weak.

Could it be that this brown bear is weaker?

"The main body of the brown bear..." Zhou Xuan nodded slightly, "In that case, let me give you a name first."

When talking about the brown bear monster, many names flashed through Zhou Xuan's mind, such as Bear Big Bear Two, Immortal Retibus, and so on.

In the end, Zhou Xuan made a final decision: "I will give you a dharma name and call it 'Xiong Ba'. I hope you can dominate the world in the future."

The brown bear monster was not picky, so Natou bowed: "Thank you, Master, for giving me the name!"

After giving the name, Zhou Xuancai said: "It is true that you are not talented, but don't feel bad, after all, no one is perfect in this world, and there is no perfect monster. Maybe you are mediocre in cultivating the Tao, but you are quite good in other aspects. It is not impossible to have attainments.”

This bear is indeed relatively weak, but it fulfilled Zhou Xuan's wish, and he would not dare to accept a monster that was too powerful.

So he comforted me aloud.

"Disciple understands." As soon as these words came out, the brown bear monster regained his confidence.

He decided that no matter how poor his talent was, he had to study hard, and he could not let down the good intentions of his master.

Then, in the darkness of night, Zhou Xuan began to give lectures.

"Do you know why the teacher would blame you two?"

The two monsters looked at each other, thinking about the deep meaning of the teacher's words.

Monkey tentatively said, "It's because we were too wrong, and we shouldn't be so public."

"It's just a little bit."

Zhou Xuan opened his mouth, and his thoughts seemed to drift into extremely distant and ancient memories, "I think back in the past, I had an old friend as my teacher, who was also a monkey who became a fairy. The Taoism is so powerful that even immortals and Buddhas are afraid of it, and they respectfully call him the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.

However, in order to be quick, he overthrew the underworld, crushed Ling Xiao, indulged in rebelliousness, and could be described as lawless. In the end, he was suppressed by the Buddhist sect under the sacred mountain and could not stand up. "

Even if you are a micro-business, you have to make up a touching story to sell the tea, not to mention the way of a gentleman with some thresholds.

So Zhou Xuan made friends out of thin air, and before giving lectures, he first told stories.

But in the original novel of Journey to the West, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven was tricked by the Heavenly Court and the Buddhist sects, and entered the calamity of Journey to the West. To put it bluntly, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven is a man of temperament, with great pride in his heart, who wants to break all the rules and restrictions of the world. The Lingxiao Palace has belonged to him for a long time, and the kings of successive dynasties have passed on their inheritance, wanting to seize the Jade Emperor's throne.

But to put it bluntly, it was too reckless, regardless of the consequences.

Various forces in the heavenly court are intertwined, maintaining a relatively stable order, which is the result of mutual compromise between various forces.

The sages all intervened, and arranged many eyeliners and incarnations. Even the Jade Emperor couldn't help himself, let alone a newcomer monkey head?

Wanting to break the balance of the major forces in the Heavenly Court can almost be said to offend any party, and it is a certainty that Wuzhishan will be suppressed afterwards.

Of course, the authorities are confused but the bystanders are clear.

Zhou Xuan also made such a judgment from the perspective of a bystander. If he entered the game himself, whether he could do better is another matter.

The easier the story is to understand, the easier it is to impress others.

In particular, the protagonist in the story is also a monkey, which is deeply rooted in the monkey's heart.

Zhou Xuan immediately asked, "...From this incident, what have you learned?"

Following Zhou Xuan's question, the two people in the seat began to think hard.

"It hurts, it hurts too much."

"Master, if that monkey brother is stronger than the Buddhist master, wouldn't he already be firmly seated on the throne of the gods?"

The two answered separately.

"???"

Zhou Xuan had black lines all over his head. These two monsters seemed to have completely failed to comprehend the seriousness of the problem.

"You two, it seems that you don't know the true meaning of cultivation!"

Uh……

Monkey scratched his head, he couldn't comprehend the true meaning of practice from this story at all.

What he thought was that if he had defeated the great power of the Buddhist sect instead of being inferior in skills, wouldn't the great sage have already become a god king and an immortal emperor, let alone be suppressed under the sacred mountain?
Zhou Xuan took a deep breath and sighed: "You guys, sooner or later you will be suppressed like this monkey head, do you know what the most powerful people in this world have in common?

That's Gou!

Or rather, wretched!
This is the true meaning of cultivation between heaven and earth! "

"Wretched?" The monkey looked puzzled. After all, this word is not a good word in the mouth of humans.

And the brown bear monster's eyes lit up, thinking of something.

Wretched, he knows what is wretched best.

Almost every person or monster who sees him for the first time will exclaim, this bear monster looks so wretched!
But what does this have to do with practice?

"Gou?"

"Ugly?"

What is the true meaning of practice?

Sun Wukong scratched his head in confusion, unable to comprehend the meaning of these three words at all. After all, such a master as the teacher cannot associate with the three words "gou" and "obscene".

After thinking about it, the monkey had no choice but to ask, "Please ask Master to clarify."

Zhou Xuan waited for the monkey's words, followed his question and answered: "You may not understand the word wretched, but as a teacher, I will change it to the word 'stable'.

As the saying goes, the world is not benevolent and treats all things as straw dogs, and the sages are not benevolent and treat all living beings as straw dogs.

In the eyes of heaven and sages, all things are one, and they are all ants.

Therefore, no matter how hard the ants are, as long as they don’t have the means to fight against the Dao of Heaven, even if all the Buddhas and Immortals are wiped out, you will not be able to become an Immortal Emperor.
Therefore, as all living beings under the way of heaven, it is not advisable to go against the sky, but to follow the sky and walk steadily, this is the way!
The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, if he is more stable, and if he is able to become a saint, let alone the throne of the emperor of heaven, even the way of heaven can be smashed together, this is the true meaning of cultivation, it is the pattern! "

(End of this chapter)