FWF Chapter 202: The First Battle with the Long-Armed Ape
Chapter 202: The First Battle with the Long-Armed Ape
Chapter 202 The First Battle with the Long-Armed Ape
In the town's courtroom, Pigsy watched as a group of villagers fought over a little lark, and he was immediately enraged, saying:
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you fighting about? We're gods! We're on a pilgrimage to the West, and you'll definitely get plenty of benefits afterward!"
He pointed at Ye Ming and announced loudly, "The man standing before you is none other than Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven from the Water Curtain Cave of Flower Fruit Mountain, specially appointed by the Buddha and the Jade Emperor to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures from the West!"
"Do you think we'd lie to you?"
"As the saying goes, the more you worship the gods, the more they will protect you. They will definitely look after you."
Ye Ming watched Bajie from the side without saying a word to stop him.
If, as he suspected, the inner demon in this world is indeed related to the Long-Armed Ape, then he must fight it first, no matter what.
Only in this way can we further confirm what the mission in this cycle of reincarnation is.
At this moment, thanks to Pigsy's persuasion, the four of them successfully rescued the little lark from the villagers without spending a single penny.
After the four of them rescued Little Lark, Ye Ming casually healed her injuries and then let her leave.
The rest of them continued their journey westward.
After everyone left, the villagers who had been fooled by Pigsy spontaneously gathered together and came to the Monkey General's Pavilion outside the town.
"The Great Sage is the real deity! I think if we replace the sculpture of the Monkey King in the pavilion with one of the Great Sage, he will definitely protect us!"
"That's right!"
Those who come here are all hoping to erect a statue of the Great Sage before the master and his disciples leave, in order to curry favor with him.
These words were merely a way to comfort himself.
After everyone finished speaking, they grabbed their weapons and rushed towards the statue of the Monkey King, intending to pry it off.
The statue of the Monkey King was knocked to the ground, and the crowd erected the prepared statue of the Great Sage in the original location of the Monkey King Pavilion.
These villagers even started fighting below over a single stick of incense.
Just then, the statue of the Monkey General suddenly revealed its true form as the Long-Armed Ape.
He suddenly turned his head, glared fiercely at the villagers below, and shouted, "Look carefully at who I am!"
"General Monkey King!!"
Upon seeing the appearance of the gibbon, the villagers' faces flashed with fear, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed in worship.
"You ungrateful wretches! I and the Bird Fairy protected you so much back then, and now you've smashed my statue and replaced it with Sun Wukong!"
The gibbon stood atop the incense tower, looking down at the ignorant villagers, and rebuked them.
"No, it's the Great Monkey King!"
"It was all the Great Sage who told us to do it this way!"
"He is a deity; how can we, the common people, disobey his will!"
"Please don't blame us!"
The common people immediately shifted the blame to Sun Wukong, placing all the blame on him.
"So this is Sun Wukong! How dare he provoke me!" The Long-Armed Ape exuded domineering arrogance, his eyes darting around. "I'll settle this score with you later!"
He somersaulted down from the incense tower and jumped into the crowd of villagers, pointing at them and saying, "You ignorant villagers, you destroyed my statue, today I will punish you properly!"
Just then, he suddenly looked up at the sky and heard the voice of Maitreya Buddha.
"Master called me?" The long-armed ape glared at the villagers. "I'll teach you a lesson later!"
He somersaulted and flew straight into the sky.
In an instant, he arrived at the Maitreya Buddha Hall and saw Maitreya Buddha patting a watermelon.
The gibbon bowed respectfully to Maitreya Buddha and asked, "Master, what are your instructions for summoning me here?"
"You're too hot-tempered." Maitreya Buddha patted the watermelon in his hand. "I called you here so you could eat some watermelon and cool down."
A look of helplessness flashed across the long-armed ape's face. "Master, those villagers are simply too outrageous! I saved them so well back then, and this is how they treat me!"
"They actually smashed my statue and the bird fairy's statue, destroying the source of our power!"
As he thought about it, he became increasingly angry and turned around, preparing to go down and teach those villagers a lesson.
Maitreya Buddha immediately called out to him and explained to him the principle of not expecting anything in return for a favor.
This fueled the gibbon's resentment. "Master, is it wrong to seek justice for myself?"
He stared intently at Maitreya Buddha, his eyes filled with unwavering determination.
"My perfectly good General's Pavilion has now become the Great Sage's Pavilion."
"What did Sun Wukong do to steal the incense offerings I risked my life for?"
"What's so great about Sun Wukong? He can still achieve great merit on the journey to the West by acting recklessly!"
"I've performed so many good deeds, yet my fame doesn't match his!"
"Master, do you think this is fair?"
The gibbon grew angrier as it spoke, its eyes filled with malevolence.
Maitreya Buddha, holding a watermelon, glanced at the gibbon with some emotion, a hint of heartache flashing in his eyes.
But in an instant, that gaze vanished.
He put down the watermelon in his hand and slowly said, "There are four divine monkeys in the world, who transcend the Three Realms and are not within the Five Elements."
"Stone monkey, six-eared macaque, red-bottomed macaque, long-armed ape."
"You four monkeys are of the same kind, and each of you possesses unique talents and supernatural abilities."
"Those red-bottomed macaques, whose combined cultivation levels were almost equal, had already attained Nirvana and become Buddhas."
"The Six-Eared Macaque has also entered the Buddhist order and is diligently practicing under the guidance of Guanyin."
"The journey of the Spiritual Stone Monkey to obtain the scriptures was his path."
Maitreya Buddha looked at the gibbon and sighed, "The reason you haven't become a Buddha is because you haven't overcome the barrier of names and forms."
"I don't care about any of that!" The long-armed ape suddenly flung its arm away, its face full of resentment. "I just feel it's unfair and want justice!"
Seeing that the gibbon was still so restless, Maitreya Buddha felt a surge of anger.
"I see that your heart is not yet pure. Go and copy the Pure Heart Sutra 30,000 times. I hope you can achieve peace of mind."
The gibbon sighed and silently walked towards the library.
He found the thick Pure Heart Sutra and began copying it from the table.
Just as he was copying the scriptures, he saw Sun Wukong's head appear on the scripture in his hand, spinning and mocking, "Long-Armed Ape, it's me. You're really useless, being punished by copying scriptures here."
"I'm different. I'm ordered to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures and fight demons. You can't possibly envy that, hehehe..."
Seeing the monkey head in the scripture sticking out its tongue in a mocking manner, the gibbon was instantly filled with rage and angrily threw the scripture to the ground.
"Who dares to be so insolent in the Maitreya Buddha Hall!"
As soon as the gibbon finished speaking, the Yellow Plum Ancestor, with his yellow hair and eyebrows, jumped out of the scripture and said cheerfully, "Junior brother, it's me."
"Senior brother, what brings you here?" The Long-Armed Ape's face lit up with joy when he saw the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor.
Since he came to the Maitreya Buddha Hall, he had been cultivating with Huangmei Patriarch for a long time, and the relationship between the two of them as fellow disciples was extremely deep.
"Sigh!" Old Ancestor Yellow Eyebrows sighed, "I feel it's a waste for you!"
"Even though Sun Wukong wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, insulted the Buddha, and caused a great calamity under the window, he still went to retrieve the scriptures from the West."
"This is absolutely absurd!"
"In terms of cultivation and merit, if it were to be the one to retrieve the scriptures from the West, it should be you, junior brother, who goes!"
The gibbon looked down at the lower realm, already somewhat tempted.
He already had this idea in his mind, and now that he heard what the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor said, he suddenly felt a little restless.
"In my opinion, you should challenge him to a duel and see who's better!"
At this moment, the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor was still speaking earnestly to the side.
"good!!"
The long-armed ape roared, lifted its armor, spun around, and a determined look flashed in its eyes.
"I'll go down and meet Sun Wukong, and see just how powerful he really is!"
……
Several days later, Ye Ming and his group had left the town and traveled quite a distance westward.
They did not encounter any other fairies along the way, and everything seemed peaceful and calm.
But the more this happened, the more Ye Ming knew that the storm was brewing.
In the original story, if the Long-Armed Ape hadn't been killed off by the plot, eaten the Ten Thousand Demon Golden Pill, swallowed the Listening Immortal, and refined the Qilin's foot with its Dao injury, the story would never have ended so hastily.
The gibbon in the storyline completely outclasses Chen Haoming's version of Sun Wukong!
It almost shattered his Dao heart!
It was precisely because of this that a fighting spirit rose in Ye Ming's heart.
He has grown so much in strength over time, yet he hasn't had a proper battle to test his abilities.
In the Journey to the West world, his combat power was definitely among the top in the Samsara Secret Realm he had previously experienced.
The emergence of the power of laws pointed directly to the origin of the Great Dao, from which he benefited greatly.
Just as Ye Ming was pondering this, Zhu Bajie suddenly pointed to a towering mountain peak in the distance, reaching into the clouds, and excitedly said to Tang Sanzang, "Master, Master! Look, isn't that Mount Ling?"
"Have we reached the finish line?"
When Tang Sanzang looked up and saw that mountain peak, a sense of familiarity arose in his heart.
He smiled and said to his disciples, "Now that we're here, let's go and pay our respects!"
Ye Ming thought for a moment, then turned to remind him, "Master, we haven't yet experienced the Tribulation of the Three-Three and the Tribulation of the Nine-Nine."
"This is probably a trap."
He didn't expect Tang Sanzang to heed his advice.
Sure enough, even after he said that, Tang Sanzang still insisted on going up to find out.
Seeing the excitement in Pigsy and Sandy's eyes, Ye Ming didn't stop them and continued walking towards the mountain peak that resembled Mount Ling.
He also secretly hoped for a proper battle with the Long-Armed Ape!
So even though he knew this was the Little Western Paradise set up by the Long-Armed Ape and the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor, he still had to go there.
As Ye Ming climbed to the top of the straight mountain, he looked up and saw the words "Little Thunder Temple," which confirmed his guess.
With the scriptures on his mind, Tang Sanzang disregarded the fact that Xiaoleiyin Temple was quite large and insisted on going in to take a look.
Seeing this, Ye Ming did not stop him. He kicked open the door of Xiaoleiyin Temple and walked in first, amidst Tang Sanzang's helpless gaze.
As soon as the four entered Xiaoleiyin Temple, they saw the Buddha sitting on a lotus platform with a face full of Buddhist features.
Upon seeing this, Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing immediately knelt down and paid their respects to the Buddha statue above.
"Wukong, now that you have seen the true form, why don't you bow?"
The voice of the fake Buddha echoed in the main hall of Xiaoleiyin Temple. Tang Sanzang and his companions quickly gave Ye Ming a look, urging him to pay homage.
But then Ye Ming looked up disdainfully, staring at the gibbon dressed as Buddha above, and said, "Gibbon, what do you think Maitreya Buddha would do if he knew that you descended to the mortal realm and were impersonating Buddha in front of us?"
"Would you like me to copy scriptures tens of thousands of times to calm your mind and spirit?"
"What did you say?!"
On the lotus platform, the Buddha, who had been solemn and dignified, suddenly stood up and transformed back into the appearance of the gibbon.
He stared intently at Ye Ming below, his eyes filled with ferocity.
Ye Ming's words really struck a nerve with him, making him even more irritable.
The surrounding scenery turned into a dilapidated temple. When Tang Sanzang and his companions saw this scene, they quickly stood up and looked at the Long-Armed Ape and the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor standing on the high platform with wary expressions.
"Are you hard of hearing?" Ye Ming picked at his ear. "Do you want me to say it again?"
"Sun Wukong, you're too arrogant!" The Long-Armed Ape's eyes were filled with rage. "Do you know why I descended to the mortal realm?"
"It's all because of you!"
"I have three major complaints about you!"
"Huh? What are the three major complaints?" Sha Wujing asked instinctively from the side.
The gibbon looked at Sha Wujing with admiration, then glared at Ye Ming before stepping onto the high platform.
Pigsy and Ye Ming both looked at Sandy, causing Sandy to show an embarrassed expression and subconsciously take two steps back.
At this moment, the gibbon spoke up, saying, "First, you ordered the villagers to demolish my Monkey General Pavilion and build your Great Sage Temple instead!"
"Secondly, in terms of doing good deeds and committing evil, you are inferior to me; you can't even match my merits! You are not qualified at all to go on the journey to the West to obtain the scriptures!"
He pulled out his thin golden whip and paced across the high platform, speaking with an air of dominance, "Thirdly, in terms of supernatural powers, you are no match for me. You can be a stable boy, and so can I!"
Upon hearing this third point, Pigsy across from him showed a hint of surprise and astonishment in his eyes.
He looked at Tang Sanzang and Sha Wujing beside him with a helpless expression and said, "This monkey is so jealous of our senior brother that he's gone mad. Look, he's even vying to be the Keeper of the Heavenly Horses!"
After listening to the Long-Armed Ape's three points, Ye Ming picked at his ear with a disdainful look, and casually took out his Ruyi Jingu Bang (Golden Cudgel).
He took two steps forward, gripped the golden cudgel tightly, and a defiant look appeared on his face.
"First, you can't beat me!"
"Secondly, you still can't beat me!"
Third, you still can't beat me!
"Today I will seize you and hand you over to Maitreya Buddha!"
"If you want to fight, just say so. What's the point of all this rambling?"
The moment their eyes met, a surge of fighting spirit erupted, and powerful spiritual energy circulated around them.
boom! !
The entire temple was instantly shattered by the spiritual energy emanating from the two people!
Upon seeing this, Pigsy quickly created a protective barrier to shield his master.
In that instant, Ye Ming and the Long-Armed Ape seemed to have agreed beforehand, and simultaneously rushed into the sky.
The weapons in their hands were all fired at the opponent!
(End of this chapter)