Journey to the West: Beginning with the Apprenticeship of Bodhi Patriarch

Chapter 272: Mysterious Shadowless Clothes, Immortal Appearance
In the Xuanming Immortal Mansion, the Xuanming Mother was sitting on the bone lotus throne. When she heard Sun Wukong reveal his origins, she was shocked and thought to herself, "Is this Bi Ma Wen a ghost from the ground? How does he know my origins? I have eaten all the gods of the land and mountains. Even the gods in the sky don't know my origins. How can this Bi Ma Wen know? If the Heaven knows where I am, I am afraid they will send soldiers to subdue me. I am not afraid of this Bi Ma Wen, but if they are heavenly soldiers, I must be on guard. We must repel this Bi Ma Wen and move to another place."

Xuanming Old Mother stood up and said, "Sun Wukong! I have no grudge against you in the past or in the present. You come to disturb me now, but I am thinking that the Appreciation Meeting has not yet begun and you have not really disturbed me, so I will not bother with you. Please leave and I will forgive you."

Sun Wukong swung his golden cudgel and pointed at Xuanming Laomu, saying, "You have committed many evil deeds, causing the lives of people in Northern Juluzhou to be destroyed, and you have also committed crimes against the heavens. I have come here today to defeat you. How can you say that we have no grudges in the past or in the present?"

The Xuanming Old Mother said: "Even if I cause trouble in Northern Juluzhou, what will happen? This place is originally a place of demons, so it is reasonable for me to cause trouble here."

Sun Wukong asked: "Who told you that Northern Julu Continent would allow you to cause trouble?"

Zhu Bajie stood up holding a nine-toothed rake and said, "What you said is unreasonable. When did anyone say that Northern Juluzhou is a place where demons and monsters are rampant? When the Black Emperor was exterminating the demons in the past, did he ever tell you that Northern Juluzhou is a place where demons and monsters are rampant? But if you say so, I will go and invite the Black Emperor to confront you face to face."

Xuanming Old Mother said: "Do you two really want to fight with me here? Do you know how many swords and weapons there are in my house, but how many demons will obey my orders when I give them?"

Sun Wukong laughed and said, "Even if you have 100,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of demons at your command, what does that matter? Don't you know that when I made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace in the past, 100,000 Heavenly soldiers couldn't do anything to me? Now, can the weapons in your palace do anything to me?"

The Xuanming Mother said, "You ignorant Bimawen, you don't know my ability. Since you insist on going against me, I will not let you go! Children, quickly capture him!"

Say it.

But there was a roar like thunder, and soldiers with weapons in hand rushed in from all over the palace and surrounded the immortals.

Sun Wukong and Bull Demon King were about to step forward.

The immortal suddenly stood up and stopped the two men, saying, "Wukong, Niu'er, don't do anything yet. Let me see what kind of magic power he has. He does such evil things, eating unborn babies and eating all the land gods and mountain gods and the people of Uttarakuru."

There was no sign of anger in the Immortal's words, but when Sun Wukong and Bull Demon King heard it, they both knew that the Immortal had made up his mind and dared not disobey, so they split into two sides to protect the Immortal.

Zhu Bajie was about to retreat, but when he saw the Immortal approaching, he hesitated for a long time, holding up his rake, and said, "I can protect you. You don't have to do anything. I'm here."

Sun Wukong laughed and said, "You fool, when you followed Tang Monk on his journey to the west to seek Buddhist scriptures, you retreated when you encountered demons blocking the way, and just tried to disband the group. How come you dare to step forward and fight against this old demon today?"

Zhu Bajie said: "It is different, it is different."

The Immortal stepped forward and said, "Bajie, please step back. I know what you mean, but you don't need to fight against it."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Bajie had to step back.

The immortal looked towards the Xuanming Mother and saw bloodstains in front of her white bone lotus seat. The Xuanming Mother was sitting in the middle of it, which was intimidating.

There were more than a thousand soldiers and horses surrounding him, and when they saw the immortal coming forward, they attacked him with swords, spears, halberds, axes, and hooks.

The Immortal just shouted "Stop", and the more than a thousand soldiers and horses gritted their teeth, opened their eyes, spread their hands, stood still, unable to speak, unable to move, all trapped by the Immortal's immobilization technique.

The old mother Xuanming was muttering something, and suddenly she raised her hand and pointed at the thousand soldiers and horses, saying "break", and cast a spell to break the immobilization spell.

However, no matter how he cast spells, the thousands of soldiers and horses remained unmoved.

How could he break the true man's method?

The Xuanming Old Mother didn't understand what he meant. She looked at the Immortal and asked, "Who are you? How could you have such magical power? I can't even break your immobilization technique."

Jiang Yuan said: "Xiniu Hezhou Lingtai Fangcun Mountain Xieyue Sanxing Cave Guangxin is here."

Upon hearing this, the Xuanming Mother was horrified and replied, "Are you the Taoist master Guangxin who achieved enlightenment in the old days in Hezhou, Xiniu, who defeated Sun Wukong and challenged the Tathagata Buddha in a bet, and the Jade Emperor could not invite him twice?"

Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Since you know me, are you willing to surrender?"

Xuanming Old Mother asked, "I have heard of the Immortal's reputation a long time ago. What does this have to do with you? How did you come to Northern Julu Continent?"

Jiang Yuan said: "Since you have been causing trouble here, you should know that sooner or later you will be conquered by others. There is a saying that 'good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished'. You were able to escape when Emperor Xuan exterminated the demons in the past, but how can you escape today?"

When Mother Xuanming heard what the immortal said, she knew that the immortal had come in person and was determined to subdue him. She knew that there was no possibility of negotiation, so she took a piece of clothing and put it on, being extremely alert.

Jiang Yuan looked up and saw that the Xuanming Mother was wearing a glazed robe. When the Xuanming Mother was wearing it, she was surrounded by a mist.

Sun Wukong swung his golden cudgel and said, "I heard that you, the Jade Girl, once stole clothes from the Queen Mother. But is this one?" The Xuanming Mother said, "You, the Horse Keeper, are really a ghost! Even if you, the Master Guangxin, come, you can't do anything to me with my treasure."

Jiang Yuan asked: "What's so special about your treasure?"

Xuanming Laomu said: "Listen carefully, the treasure was originally the Queen Mother's clothes, which was deeply loved by the Queen Mother. This book was empty and had nothing. One day, the Big Dipper was showing its power. First, it took the cloudy mist of the Milky Way, and then took the shadow jade of Kunlun Mountain. Fortunately, Bodhi gave it to him, and the formless mantra became a magical power. Laojun heard about the Queen Mother's clothes and came in person to move the hammer. Mars rushed to add charcoal dust, the Five Emperors of the Five Directions used their minds, and the Six Dings and Six Jias took a lot of twists and turns. The clothes are based on the four seasons and eight festivals. The length of the sleeves determines the heaven and earth. It is a glazed light gauze dress. When it moves, smoke and haze protect the whole body. If there is magic power to use this dress, it can be transformed into a mysterious cover, which can attack, defend and hide. The Jade Emperor Tianzun said that this is the supreme true robe and named it the mysterious shadowless robe. There are words to describe this treasure. The smoke and haze are originally the chaos cut, without form and trace to avoid disasters. Even if the diamond sees through the eyes, the shadow in the mysterious cover is hard to guess."

Jiang Yuan heard this and said with a smile: "If what you said is true, your treasure is a supreme Dharma robe. No matter what kind of skills I have, I can't do anything to you."

The Xuanming Old Mother said, "In the past, the Xuan Emperor was exterminating demons, and all the demons in the Northern Continent were terrified. But I only wore this robe, and no matter how powerful the Xuan Emperor was, he could not find me. But you came now, and you cannot tear my robe. If you leave now, I will not care about what happened here."

When Sun Wukong heard Xuanming Mother's words, he became angry and said, "My elder brother has already told you this, but you still rely on this robe. How rude! Take this blow from me!"

Say it.

Sun Wukong leaped up, swung the iron rod and hit the Xuanming Mother.

The Xuanming Mother was not afraid. She just raised her misty robe to block the outside. However, the misty and auspicious air gathered into a ball and blocked the outside.

Sun Wukong knocked it down with his stick, but could not even disturb the mist. He was frightened and thought to himself, "It really is a treasure. I have the power to move mountains and overturn rivers, but I can't do anything to it. I can't do anything to it with my strong method, but I will try my best to do something with my soft method and see if I can do anything to it."

Sun Wukong suddenly changed his approach and swung his stick down again, intending to disperse the smoke and mist and reduce its force.

However, the mist and cloud were so powerful that no matter how Sun Wukong fought, he could not disperse it.

Sun Wukong had to step back and said, "Great, great!"

Jiang Yuan said with a smile: "Wukong, please step back and let me test his treasure."

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong simply stepped back and left the front area for the immortal.

The immortal stepped forward, opened his mouth and spurted out, and Samadhi True Fire came out of his mouth. It was exactly "a blazing fire that filled the sky, a majestic and powerful fire that spread red all over the ground, like a fire wheel flying up and down, and like charcoal chips dancing east and west."

The Samadhi True Fire gushed out and burned around the Xuanming Old Mother, but the Xuanming Old Mother had thousands of lotus flowers growing around her body and was protected by thousands of layers of auspicious mist, so no matter how the Samadhi True Fire gushed out, it could not get close to her.

Seeing that the Immortal was unable to do anything to him, the Xuanming Mother laughed uncontrollably and said, "I don't think you have much power! It's just this much!"

The Immortal laughed and said, "Old Mother Xuanming, you really won't surrender?"

The Xuanming Old Mother said, "Guangxin! Now that things have come to this, how dare you ask me to surrender? I thought you were a Taoist immortal, so I had some concerns, but now it seems that you are nothing. I heard that you are a disciple of the Bodhi mantle in the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon on the Fangcun Mountain of Lingtai. From this point of view, the Bodhi mantle that is famous in the three realms is not that great, and even his disciple is like this."

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong and Bull Demon King became very angry and were about to step forward.

The Immortal stopped the two men and said, "You two should retreat. Since he said that I don't have much magical power, I will teach him to see if my tiny magical power can defeat him."

Say it.

The Immortal handed the whisk in his hand to Zuo Liang, and suddenly a huge golden light rose from his body. The golden light was blazing, and there were thousands of rays of light. The room was full of red light, and the courtyard was full of colorful air. His purple robe was shining brightly, and the seven-star crown was shining with starlight. The three tripods on his waist showed their true forms, and three large tripods of 18 feet in size were seen floating behind him.

The golden light from his body illuminates the entire cave. Any demons illuminated by the golden light, those with good will prostrate themselves on the ground, wishing to be surrendered, while those with evil will be reduced to ashes and cease to exist.

The immortal form of the real person is here, and all the demons are hiding.

After a while, there were no more demons causing trouble in the mansion.

The immortal stepped forward and said, "I am here, Guangxin, the great disciple of Bodhi Patriarch, at the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon on the Lingtai Square Inch Mountain in Hezhou, Xiniu. Old Mother Xuanming, please use your magical powers and teach you to observe my tiny magical powers."

The old mother Xuanming was terrified. Seeing the immortal with a blazing golden light under his immortal appearance, she did not have the slightest intention of resisting him. She showed off her misty clothes, creating thousands of mists and clouds, intending to resist the immortal.

The Immortal laughed and said, "Old Mother Xuanming, if that's all you can do, then there's no need to show off. Heaven and earth have their destiny. No matter how powerful you are, you can't escape the destiny of heaven and earth. Do you really think that your mist can protect you?"

(End of this chapter)