NCCnovel Chapter 241 I've Taken a Trip Through the World!
Chapter 241 I've Taken a Trip Through the World!
Flower and Fruit Mountain, spring comes and autumn goes.
Nine hundred and eighty-nine years have passed since Tongtian came here to teach this stone!
The peaches at the foot of the mountain ripened round and round.
The monkeys in the trees died one after another!
Tongtian stood before the Chaos Immortal Stone.
Several more tiny cracks were found on the surface of the stone.
The inside shimmered with a golden light that flowed like liquid.
You can even faintly hear the steady, powerful thumping of a heartbeat.
"Soon."
Tongtian gently stroked the stone surface, feeling the vibrant life force within it.
"In ten years at most, you will be born in perfect condition!"
"I can't wait!"
The stone shimmered with golden light, emanating joyful fluctuations of consciousness.
Tongtian understood his meaning and gently stroked the stone again.
After nearly a thousand years of living together day and night
A profound connection has been established between the consciousness within the stone and Tongtian.
Although the stone still cannot speak directly, it can now convey emotions through divine sense.
"I won't preach today; I've said enough for now!"
Let me tell you about the outside world this time.
Tongtian sat down in front of the stone, gathered his thoughts, and then spoke again.
Do you know how vast this primordial world was?
The golden light coalesced into a question mark.
"The vastness of the primordial world cannot be contained within the heart of a sage."
Looking out into the distance from the sky,
"Above are the Thirty-Three Heavens, below are the Nine Netherworlds, and in the middle are the Four Great Continents."
You are currently in Flower and Fruit Mountain.
It's just that, after countless cycles of earth vein changes,
A sacred mountain on the eastern coast of the Eastern Continent of Divine Victory.
Tongtian began with this.
They began to describe the general situation of the prehistoric world at this stage.
The human race and the underworld are described in such a righteous and honorable way.
The Heavenly Court, the Heavenly Sage, and the Western Buddha are described in a completely dark and inaccurate way!
Although that is the truth,
However, it's not hard to hear that Tongtian's words contained a lot of personal emotion.
At the most exciting part of the story, the stone shimmered with golden light.
He was clearly listening very attentively and genuinely empathized with the speaker!
"But you must remember,"
Tongtian changed the subject abruptly.
Wherever you go in the future, wherever you decide to go...
We must never forget our roots!
You were originally this stone, this mountain.
This is the land that gave you birth and nurtured you.
"If you approve, I am also your asset!"
The golden light flashed solemnly, indicating that it had remembered!
"And..." Tongtian paused.
If someone tells you in the future that your fate was already predetermined, and that you are just a pawn on someone else's chessboard...
Don't believe it!
If you can beat him, don't hesitate, just kill him!
This guy is definitely up to no good!
A confused fluctuation of consciousness emanated from the stone, clearly indicating that it did not quite understand what Tongtian meant!
"Fate is like a great river, with a main stream, tributaries, and countless branches."
"So-called destiny is nothing but an excuse for the lazy and a rhetoric of those in control."
If you wield a sword in the future, then your sword...
When you cut off all constraints, including what others tell you...
The so-called "fate."
Tongtian's words came from the bottom of his heart and were deeply engraved in the consciousness of the stone.
Years later, when Sun Wukong faced what he called his destiny,
These words struck him like a thunderbolt.
This led him to make a completely different choice.
Of course, that's a story for another time.
......
During the years that Tongtian taught the stone,
In the human realm, there lived a monkey transformed from Jin Chanzi.
Now it has its own name.
It is called "Ming Monkey".
This is after it helped put out a wildfire in a human village.
The name the villagers gave it when they officially started paying attention to it.
At this moment, he is helping villagers improve their farming techniques.
Minghou discovered that although humans were weak, they possessed boundless wisdom.
They could make tools, build irrigation systems, and cultivate crops.
Compared to what he overheard on the temple wall, and the descriptions of "the boundless sea of suffering" in Buddhist scriptures,
While not everyone in the human race experiences a good life,
But they were all full of hope.
"Minghou! Look at this!"
An old farmer waved excitedly.
"Following your crop rotation method, the yield on this land has indeed increased!"
Minghou jumped over and carefully examined the growth of the rice seedlings.
Then he nodded in satisfaction!
Since entering human territory, he has been constantly observing and learning.
This period of nearly two hundred years,
He has traveled almost all over the human world and learned many amazing things!
As for why an ordinary monkey could live so long, that was naturally the work of the underworld!
Since you're so eager to learn, the Underworld will certainly not let you down.
Learn as much as you can!
As for lifespan, you can just borrow it for your next life in advance!
It's alright!
When it came to this village three years ago after completing its travels...
Although this place is peaceful, it is far from the capital city and the standard of living is a bit low.
That means they're at a point where they're not hungry and have enough to eat.
It will bring the farming techniques learned elsewhere, and combine them with its own observations to offer suggestions for improvement.
Today, this small village has a completely new look.
If we were on Earth,
There's a monkey who genuinely does practical things for the villagers; I highly recommend him to be the village chief!
"Not enough."
Minghou said earnestly,
"The irrigation method needs improvement; the spiritual spring from the back mountain could be diverted down..."
It spoke eloquently, its eyes shining.
This feeling of changing reality through effort
It is more real and more beautiful than any description of "paradise" in Buddhist scriptures.
The villagers listened,
While I was still amazed at how intelligent a monkey could be, I felt even more grateful.
In their eyes, the Ming monkey was not considered an ordinary spirit.
They must be messengers sent by the underworld to help them.
After all, the idea of the underworld enlightening spirits to help humans is nothing new.
However, such incidents have become much less frequent in recent years.
So they didn't think that way when the monkeys first arrived.
Seeing the monkey working so hard now naturally makes people think of the underworld.
Night came,
Minghou returned to his dwelling in the peach grove outside the village.
Holding a peach given to him by a villager, he happily munched on it.
Years later, he recalled Tongtian's words once again:
True spiritual practice takes place in the human realm.
Yes, this is spiritual practice.
It's not about meditation and chanting scriptures, nor is it about asceticism and forbearance.
Instead, it's about genuinely helping others and improving their lives.
It recalled those dreams that occasionally surfaced:
Golden palace, lotus throne
And there was that old monk who always sighed and said, "All beings suffer, but Buddha saves all beings."
Is it bitter?
Minghou glanced behind him at the endless peach orchard.
He then looked at the village in front of his residence.
Lights were on in every house, and wisps of smoke rose from the chimneys.
Maybe.
But it is precisely because life is bitter that we must strive to make it sweet.
He happily finished the peach in his hand, then closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Deep in their souls, those instilled ideas of "pragmatism," "human will can conquer nature," and "development is the only way forward" remain.
This has been proven in his many years of life, deeply ingrained in his heart and marrow!
However, the monkey fell asleep this time and never woke up again.
Only the peach orchard behind him remained.
This proves that he truly lived and worked in this world!