I Have a Trillion Merits

Here, monsters hurt people everywhere.

Moreover, there was also the demon clan massacring the village. When they saw the appearance of the Monkey King, they naturally thought that the demon clan had broken into the village and fled one after another.

The Monkey King was a little puzzled when he saw the villagers running around, so he wanted to follow them to see what was going on.

But after he saw the panic on the face of a villager, he suddenly understood a lot and felt a little more contempt in his heart.

Later, he picked up some clothes at a farmer's house, put them on properly, put on a hat, and headed to a place where the crowds were denser.

He searched the world for a long time, pretending to be a human and eating and drinking in the tavern every day. When it was time to pay the bill, he relied on his speed to escape.

When Patriarch Bodhi saw this scene, he couldn't help but smile and shake his head.

This monkey is playing quite freely in the human world, but the speed of searching for immortality is really a bit slow, and based on time, it must be faster.

At this thought, Patriarch Bodhi tapped his fingers, and a ray of divine light shot out and disappeared into the human world.

Suddenly, a guiding force led the Monkey King forward. He didn't know why he was like this, but there was a force guiding him.

On this day, he came to a high mountain. He had heard in the world before that there were immortals in famous mountains, so he followed the example of the sages who closed the mountain and worshiped it, and then entered it to find the immortals.

However, after several years of searching, the whereabouts of the Immortal God could not be found.

He stood at the foot of the mountain and had just paid his respects when he heard a strange Taoist sound coming from the woods halfway up the mountain. Hearing this sound, the Monkey King felt as if he was suddenly enlightened.

The legends of immortals and gods in the Taoist music fascinated him.

The Monkey King secretly thought: "This person can sing such a sound, he must be a first-rate immortal."

He immediately entered the mountain and followed the singing.

When he found the source of the sound, he discovered that the person singing was a young woodcutter. He was chopping wood and singing at the same time.

The Monkey King took a step forward and said, "May I ask this Immortal Chief if you can take me as your disciple?"

After saying that, he bowed respectfully.

Hearing this, the young man smiled and said: "You monkey, I am not a god, I am just an ordinary woodcutter."

The Monkey King waved his hand and said: "Impossible. If you were a woodcutter, how could you sing such a tune?"

The young man smiled and said: "I am indeed not a god, but in the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, about seven or eight miles away from here, there is a cave with three stars in the setting moon. In the cave lives an immortal called Patriarch Bodhi."

Ancestor Bodhi?

When the Monkey King heard this, he suddenly felt a throbbing feeling in his heart. His intuition told him that this was the immortal he wanted to find. He said goodbye to the young man collecting firewood and followed the direction he pointed.

He walked over the woods and hillsides for about half a day, and finally saw a cave in the distance.

The Monkey King was overjoyed and ran away quickly. When he came closer, he saw that the cave door was tightly closed, and there was a stone tablet standing at the door, which was about three feet high and eight feet wide.

Letter: Lingtai Fangcun Mountain Xianyue Sanxing Cave.

Just when the Monkey King came to the door, Patriarch Bodhi, who was giving a sermon in the cave, had already noticed it and sent a message to the fairy boy to go to the door to greet him.

Just as the Monkey King was about to knock on the door, the door suddenly opened and a fairy boy walked out.

Fairy boy said: "Master lets you go in."

Hearing this, the Monkey King said, "But the Immortal Bodhi Patriarch?"

The fairy boy smiled and said: "You have come to learn from me, why don't you ask who the master of this place is? Come in with me!"

With that said, he took the lead and walked into the cave.

The Monkey King also quickly adjusted his clothes, followed the fairy boy respectfully into the cave, and came to the Dharma platform where Patriarch Bodhi preached.

The moment the Monkey King saw Patriarch Bodhi, he knelt down on the ground and said respectfully: "Greetings, Teacher!"

When Patriarch Bodhi heard this, he laughed and scolded: "You monkey head, I haven't agreed to accept you as my disciple yet!"

As soon as these words came out, more than thirty fairy children standing on both sides of the stage also laughed out loud. They looked at the Monkey King kneeling on the ground and pointed with a smile.

The Monkey King said respectfully: "If you don't want to accept me, then you won't let me in."

Patriarch Bodhi smiled and said, "What is your name?"

The Monkey King thought about it carefully and said, "The disciple doesn't have a name yet."

Patriarch Bodhi thought for a moment and then said: "In that case, let's call you Sun Wukong!"

When Sun Wukong heard this, he immediately laughed and said: "I have a name, I have a name, thank you teacher, thank you teacher."

Patriarch Bodhi said: "In that case, then you have met your senior brothers!"

Sun Wukong bowed around and said, "Junior brother Sun Wukong, I have met all of you."

Everyone responded: "We have met Junior Brother Sun."

Patriarch Bodhi waved his hand and said: "Qingfengmingyue, you and others will find a place for Wukong to live, and then teach him some common things and how to read and write."

Qingfeng Mingyue responded: "I sincerely follow the instructions of our ancestors."

From then on, Sun Wukong settled down in Xie Yue Sanxing Cave. On weekdays, he followed his senior brother to learn reading, writing and common sense of life, and he also did some sweeping and fetching water in his spare time.

In this way, seven years have passed, and Sun Wukong has completely controlled his reading and literacy. On this day, after the sermon of Patriarch Bodhi, he looked at Sun Wukong below and said: "Wukong, you have been in the mountain for seven years. Have you decided what you want to learn?"

Sun Wukong thought carefully and said, "We have never!"

Patriarch Bodhi smiled and said, "I have the golden elixir path, are you willing to learn it?"

Sun Wukong asked: "Can I live forever?"

Patriarch Bodhi shook his head and said: "No."

Sun Wukong waved his hands repeatedly and said: "If you don't want to learn, don't learn!"

Patriarch Bodhi was surprised and said: "I have a wonderful method, are you willing to learn it?"

Sun Wukong asked: "Can I live forever?"

Patriarch Bodhi shook his head again and said: "No."

Sun Wukong said again: "If you don't learn, you won't learn."

After that, Patriarch Bodhi proposed some things like praying to gods, worshiping Buddha, meditating and practicing, but Sun Wukong was not willing to learn them once he heard that they could not lead to immortality.

Patriarch Bodhi's face turned ugly for a moment. He walked down from the high platform and came to Sun Wukong. He said angrily: "You monkey, you don't learn this or that. What on earth do you want to learn?"

After he finished speaking, he raised his ruler and struck Sun Wukong three times on the head. Then he walked back to the room with his hands behind his back and closed the door.

Many senior brothers on the side suddenly became silent when they saw the master was angry. After the master left, they all criticized Sun Wukong.

But Sun Wukong was not afraid or angry, but was very happy.

After begging for mercy to the senior brothers around him, he returned to the room.

That night, Sun Wukong pretended to be asleep, waited until midnight, and then quietly got up. Waiting until the third watch, he went around to the back door of Patriarch Bodhi's room.