I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 85: Everyone guesses the secret, the golden monkey makes trouble in the heavenly palace

However, not long after Zhuang Yan returned to Danchi Ridge in Lingtai Mountain, the imperial edict of reward from the Heavenly Court arrived.

Zhuang Yan led the people out to listen to the imperial edict. After the angel who delivered the edict read out the order, he sent all the rewards over.

The True Immortal Fire Spirit led Tiger Vanguard and Chi Ling to accept all the rewards, and then under the leadership of Zhuang Yan, they thanked God for the grace. Afterwards, the angel who announced the decree returned to heaven to report.

Huo Ling Zhenxian and others came up to congratulate him immediately. Zhuang Yan smiled slightly and pointed at the imperial wine and golden flowers in their hands and said, "Huo Ling, give each of these ten pots of imperial wine and ten golden flowers to everyone, and keep the rest in the mansion for future enjoyment."

The Fire Spirit Immortal bowed and said, "Yes, Lord God."

Afterwards, Zhuang Yan gave some instructions and headed directly to the Three Stars Cave at the Slanting Moon on Fangcun Mountain.

When Zhuang Yan arrived at the mountain gate, Xianyun Tongzi had been waiting there for a long time. Upon seeing Zhuang Yan coming, he immediately stepped forward to greet him and then led Zhuang Yan in.

Zhuang Yan arrived at the hall and saw Patriarch Bodhi sitting there. Patriarch Bodhi had already prepared tea. When he saw Zhuang Yan coming, he smiled and said, "Come quickly, my friend."

Zhuang Yan stepped forward, bowed, and then sat down directly opposite Patriarch Bodhi.

When Patriarch Bodhi saw Zhuang Yan sitting down, he bowed to him and said with a smile, "Congratulations, my friend, you have been promoted to a fifth-rank immortal official and become a heavenly deity. This is cause for celebration."

Zhuang Yan said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist, please don't congratulate me. I got this promotion by exchanging that monkey head."

Patriarch Bodhi laughed and said, "The monkey's head is still on the monkey's body, but you can use him to get promoted. You really owe me a big favor."

Zhuang Yan said, "It is indeed a great favor, so I will repay it. I believe he is already in the Eight Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laojun. This time he doesn't have to hide from the wind anymore."

"Oh?" Patriarch Bodhi asked in surprise, "Why is that?"

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "The fire in the Eight Diagrams Furnace can't burn him, but it can help him refine and fuse the golden elixir in his body, and it can also refine a real 'Fire Eyes and Golden Pupils'."

Hearing this, Patriarch Bodhi was startled at first, then he asked in surprise: "Could it be that you gave him the ability to avoid Laojun's diamond cutter and Bodhisattva's jade bottle?"

Zhuang Yan was also a little surprised and asked, "Shouldn't you have known this a long time ago?"

Patriarch Bodhi shook his head and smiled, "My friend, no one can see through the secrets in you."

Hearing this, Zhuang Yan nodded slightly. Indeed, as an external incarnation, he was not born in this world. In addition, he absorbed the power of the Heavenly Dao for his own use, and even the Heavenly Dao did not sense it. It would be difficult for others to see through his secrets.

At this point, Patriarch Bodhi laughed and said, "At that time, I thought it was the man from Lingshan who was trying to protect the monkey."

Zhuang Yan was stunned when he heard this. It seemed that someone was taking the blame for him.

At the same time, in Heaven, Lingxiao Palace.

At this time, Sun Wukong had been captured and sent to the Eight Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laojun to be burned. All the gods and immortals had returned to their palaces, leaving only the Jade Emperor and the emperors in the Lingxiao Palace.

At this time, Emperor Gou Chen said, "Great Celestial Venerable, when we were trying to capture Sun Wukong before, Laojun dropped the Diamond Cutter and Sun Wukong dodged it. I think back carefully and that dodging was unusual."

Emperor Ziwei also nodded and said, "What Emperor Gou Chen said is very true. I also think that dodging was very strange, as if there was some great magical power secretly supporting it."

Hou Tu Dadi said: "And later when I hid from Guanyin Bodhisattva, I still had the same feeling as before."

The Jade Emperor listened to everyone's analysis and nodded slightly, saying, "I am also a little confused."

Although the Jade Emperor's words can break Zhuang Yan's "instant seal" power, being able to "break the law" and being able to "see through the secrets of heaven" are not the same concept.

At this time, the Southern Emperor Changsheng said: "There are only a handful of people in the Three Realms who can have such great power and interfere with the Supreme Lord Lao without making a sound."

Hearing this, Jiu Tian Ying Yuan Lei Sheng Pu Hua Tian Zun's expression changed and he said, "Could it be the Tathagata Buddha from the Western Paradise?"

"That shouldn't happen. What's the point of Buddha doing this?" The Four Emperors denied this speculation.

Emperor Zhenwu said, "Perhaps, because of the great calamity between Buddha and Demon, the Buddhist sect wanted to accept Sun Wukong into Buddhism to help the Buddhist sect overcome the calamity? So they tried to stop the Heavenly Court from capturing Sun Wukong and wanted to protect him?"

After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent. This reason seemed to make sense.

At this time, the Jade Emperor closed his eyes slightly. When everyone saw this, they all knew that the Jade Emperor was calculating the secrets of heaven.

After an unknown amount of time, the Jade Emperor opened his eyes, smiled and said, "Just now I checked the divine secrets, and they show that the person who helped Sun Wukong avoid the Diamond Cutter and the Jade Purifying Bottle is indeed in the West."

Xi Niu Hezhou is the West. When everyone heard this, they were all surprised and asked, "Could it really be Buddha? Does he want to save Sun Wukong?"

The Jade Emperor said: "It doesn't have to be the Buddha. There are many Buddhas with such great power in Buddhism."

At this point, the Jade Emperor said: "When Mara descends upon the world, a hundred years from now there will be a great calamity between Buddha and demon. Buddhism needs someone other than the Buddhas to deal with the calamity. Sun Wukong has great magical powers, and he fits the bill."

However, Queen Mother Xi was a little puzzled and asked, "Then why was Sun Wukong easily subdued by Lingtai Shenjun later?"

Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun said: "That's because Lingtai Shenjun's magical power of retraction is impossible to avoid."

The Four Great Emperors also nodded. When Zhuang Yan just appeared, Sun Wukong used his somersault cloud, but it was completely useless. He was put into the pottery jar in the blink of an eye.

Naturally, the method of dodging could not be avoided, and perhaps it was activated but ineffective.

After the Jade Emperor and the other emperors sorted out the matter, a clear result appeared in front of everyone, that is, the Buddhist sect had the intention to subdue Sun Wukong. At this moment, the Jade Emperor said: "Before, when all the gods were present, I had discussed this matter with the Supreme Taoist Ancestor through voice transmission, so I ordered Erlang Shen and Zhuang Yan to return to the divine palace. In this case, the next thing is to help the Buddhist sect accomplish this matter."

At this point, the Jade Emperor said with emotion: "The stability of Buddhism is also a blessing for all beings in the three realms. Buddha is always better than demons. Since this matter is beneficial to all beings in the three realms, what's wrong with giving him a Great Sage Equaling Heaven from Buddhism?"

Hearing this, the King of the East, the Queen Mother of the West, Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, Jiutian Yingyuan Leisheng Puhua Tianzun, Zhenwu Emperor and other emperors were a little confused.

What they were wondering was, hadn't Sun Wukong been captured and sent to the Eight Trigrams Furnace to be refined? What did this "send the Great Sage Equaling Heaven" mean?
Only the Four Imperial Emperors understood what the Jade Emperor meant. They all nodded and said, "Great Celestial Lord, please be merciful."

On the other side, since Sun Wukong was pushed into the Bagua furnace for smelting, the "dodge" state on his body automatically took effect, and he began to dodge continuously in the Bagua furnace.

When he was taken to the demon-slaying platform before, this 'dodge' state had no effect, because the tortures on the demon-slaying platform could not hurt his body.

But now that he had entered the Bagua Furnace, it posed a real threat to him, so his dodge state began to take effect crazily.

Sun Wukong's body turned into afterimages that traveled through the eight directions of the Bagua furnace. The real fire and smoke in the furnace could not hurt him. On the contrary, because of the 'dodge' state, Sun Wukong's body was not only trained by the real fire, but also blessed by the power of Bagua.

Sun Wukong's body kept dodging in the eight trigrams directions, being tempered by the true fire in the furnace while absorbing the innate eight trigrams qi in the furnace.

Sun Wukong's unrefined golden elixir in his body was first refined by the true fire, and then perfectly integrated with his physical body, creating a completely "indestructible" body.

Afterwards, it absorbed the Qi of the innate Bagua, and was tempered by the real fire in the furnace, allowing Sun Wukong and the Qi of the innate Bagua to be tempered into one, and the 'Vajra indestructible' body was forged into an 'innate indestructible body'.

The 'innate indestructible body' still belongs to the realm of Vajra indestructibility, but it is the return to the innate from the acquired. Compared with the simple 'Vajra indestructibility', it is a qualitative leap.

As his indestructible body was forged, Sun Wukong's 'dodge' status was no longer effective, and the real fire in the furnace no longer posed any threat to him.

Sun Wukong was seen sitting peacefully in the Bagua furnace, with his hands in seals, sitting in meditation and practicing.

In the blink of an eye, 49 days had passed. On this day, Taishang Laojun looked at the red flames in the furnace and said with a smile, "The demon monkey has been refined, and the furnace can be opened now."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Sun Wukong, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the Bagua furnace, suddenly opened his eyes.

It was extraordinary when he opened his eyes. His eyes were a fiery golden color, shining with golden light and a majestic aura. It was after he had "returned from the acquired to the innate" that he had developed true Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils.

The golden light emitted from these fiery eyes was just like the two golden lights that shook the heaven and earth when he was born from the stone that day.

There was a loud bang, and the top of the Eight Trigrams Furnace was immediately blown apart by the golden light. The next moment, Sun Wukong, covered in purple and gold, jumped out of the furnace, holding out his golden cudgel and laughing, "Hey, old man, I'm here to open the furnace myself."

"Ah?!" Taishang Laojun's tone was seven parts natural and three parts surprised. The seven parts natural were things that had been expected, and the three parts of surprise were things that had not been expected before.

Sun Wukong leaped down, his pair of flaming eyes emitting two golden rays of light. The golden rays of light swept across, and the Tushita Palace collapsed with a loud bang, and a huge cloud of smoke rose.

Then Sun Wukong kicked over the Bagua Furnace, turned around and punched it out. None of the immortal officials and heavenly generals in the Tushita Palace could stop him.

Taishang Laojun flew out from the collapsed Tushita Palace and saw that Sun Wukong had already rushed out of the Tushita Palace and was attacking the Lingxiao Palace with his golden hoop. He was quite surprised for a moment and said, "Oh, I was wrong again. This monkey really has a master behind him."

Having said that, Taishang Laojun quickly rode on a cloud and hurried towards the Lingxiao Palace. At this time, there was a golden light in the sky ahead and the sound of killing was deafening. It turned out that Sun Wukong had already started fighting with the heavenly soldiers and generals.

When Taishang Laojun arrived outside the Lingxiao Palace, he saw that all the celestial generals in heaven, including the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, Nezha the Third Prince, and the Four Vajra Kings, had all arrived there.

Even all the gods of thunder had arrived, led by Lord Shenwei Dangmo Pili himself, Lord Tianpeng, Lord Tianyou, Lord Yishen and others had personally stepped forward to fight.

But this time Sun Wukong is different from the past. He not only cultivated an "indestructible body", but also cultivated real "fire eyes and golden pupils".

Ordinary heavenly generals are no match for Sun Wukong in one round. The Four True Lords, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, Nezha the Third Prince and others are also unable to last more than thirty rounds against Sun Wukong.

All the gods and heavenly soldiers came, but they were unable to stop Sun Wukong from moving forward. Sun Wukong's eyes were shining with golden light, and he held the golden cudgel in his hand. He fought his way through numerous palaces and golden halls until he reached the outside of the Tongming Hall.

As long as you pass the Tongming Palace, the Lingxiao Palace is behind it. Sun Wukong swings the golden cudgel and beats all the gods and stars in the sky above, as well as the heavenly soldiers and generals, and thousands of immortals and saints below. He travels all the way, invincible, and has no rivals.

When the battle reached the Tongming Palace, Wang Lingguan led five hundred Lingguans out of the palace to fight, and together with the gods and heavenly generals, they went forward to besiege Sun Wukong.

Taishang Laojun hurriedly took a detour to enter the Lingxiao Palace and bowed to the Jade Emperor, saying, "Your Majesty, I have not been able to refine Sun Wukong, but he escaped from the furnace, and my Tushita Palace was also destroyed by him. Your Majesty, I beg you to punish me."

At this time, in the Lingxiao Palace, the Four Imperial Emperors and the Two Emperors Zhenwu and Leizu were not present. Only Taiyi Savior of Sufferings, Wenchang Emperor, Doumu Yuanjun and other deities and civil officials were in the palace.

Because all the military officers and heavenly generals had gone out to fight Sun Wukong, the atmosphere in the Lingxiao Palace was extremely tense at this moment. Except for the Jade Emperor, everyone was extremely nervous.

Hearing the request from Taishang Laojun, the Jade Emperor waved his hand and said, "Daozu, don't blame yourself. This demon monkey is born sacred, and ordinary means are no longer enough to control him."

The sound of fighting could be heard clearly outside the Lingxiao Palace. Emperor Wenchang hurriedly walked out of the immortal group and said, "Your Majesty, please do not hesitate. Quickly summon Emperor Zhenwu and Jiutian Yingyuan Leisheng Puhua Tianzun to subdue the demon monkey."

But Taibai Jinxing said, "Your Majesty, after the demon monkey was refined by the Eight Trigrams Furnace, its strength has increased dramatically. It is no longer the same as before. I am afraid that even if we send the two emperors, it will be difficult to subdue it. In my opinion, the power of the Tathagata Buddha in the West is boundless. We should quickly go to the West to invite the Tathagata Buddha to the upper world to subdue the demon."

The Jade Emperor immediately ordered people to summon Tianyou Zhenjun and Yishen Zhenjun outside to the palace, and then issued a jade decree, ordering the two to quickly go to the Western Paradise to announce the call of Tathagata Buddha to subdue the monkey demon.

The two saints nodded in response to the order and, not daring to delay, left the palace immediately and headed straight for the sacred mountain and the Western Paradise.

　There's more in the evening, don't worry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)