Chapter 2: Practicing the Dharma
Knowing his bizarre experience, Shi Hou was really overjoyed.
In his time, myths and legends were just a pastime, and ghosts would really believe that even if it was the mythology department where Shihou was located, it was actually just a new category opened by the School of Archaeology.
But now, Shihou came back from the dead, but he was reborn as Sun Wukong, and he didn't play too much heartbeat.
It took an unknown amount of time for Shi Hou to wake up from his excitement.
Sun Wukong is dead, dead under the rod of the six-eared macaque.
Now he is at most re-conceived in the origin of the Lingming Stone Monkey that originally belonged to Sun Wukong, and then added part of the origin of the six-eared macaque, as well as the three willow leaves that do not know the origin of the companion.
Even at this time, he didn't even have his own body, only the self-consciousness that came with the thunder light.
"Although I don't know what this is all about, but if you come, you will be safe, and the most important thing now is cultivation, although I worship Sun Wukong, I really don't want to turn myself into a monkey."
As long as Shi Hou thought of the appearance of the sharp-beaked monkey's cheek Lei Gong's face, he couldn't help but shudder, and decisively abandoned other thoughts.
In the state of the soul, he was bathed in the origin of Lingming Shihou, among which there was also a small group of six-eared macaques of the origin, Shihou had just arrived, and the first priority was naturally to choose the exercises that he could cultivate.
Fortunately, because of the guessed Sanguang Shenshui, he completely inherited the memories of Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque, Sun Wukong studied under the Bodhi Patriarch, and the six-eared macaque was a disciple secretly taught by the Buddha, although the two of them did not practice much, but they were very exquisite.
What makes Shi Hou even more interesting is that the exercises that Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque major in are the same exercises, called "Eight or Nine Xuangong".
Shihou has heard of this exercise, which is said to be the apologetic exercise of Buddhism, which was born from the apologetic exercise "Nine Turns Xuangong" of Taoism, that is, the exercise practiced by Yang Jian, the god of Erlang.
It's just that Buddhism's "Eighty-Nine Xuangong" seems to be inferior to "Nine Turns Xuangong", and the last layer is missing, so the ninety-nine eighty-one of the nine-turn is changed and named "Eighty-Nine Xuangong" of eighty-nine seventy-two.
The two masters are different, but the main exercises are the same, which reminds Shi Hou of the speculation of the melon-eating people that the Bodhi Ancestor was originally a member of the Buddhism when he was irrigated in the mixed community in his previous life.
From beginning to end, Journey to the West is really just a big drama written by Western Buddhism.
What makes Shihou even more disdainful is that it seems that everyone who is a master has the habit of hiding one hand, and the Bodhi Patriarch had long expected that Sun Wukong would break into a catastrophe, so when he taught Sun Wukong "Eight or Nine Xuangong", he deliberately hid some keys.
And the Buddha taught the six-eared macaque, which was originally prepared to replace Sun Wukong, and it is not surprising that he also taught "Eight or Nine Xuangong", but the Buddha also left a hand, and the same flawed exercises were passed down.
But they would never have imagined that there would be such an accident as Shi Hou, and at the same time they got the memory of Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque, the flaws of the two people's cultivation are different, and compared with each other, the real Buddhist apologetic exercise "Eight or Nine Xuangong" easily appeared in Shi Hou's mind.
"Let you be treacherous and calculate, but in the end you have cheapened me."
Shi Hou decomposed the complete version of "Eight or Nine Xuangong", which was simply overjoyed.
It is said that in the battle of the gods, Yuan Hong, the head of the Seven Monsters of Meishan, who fought Jiang Ziya's army and could not form an army, cultivated the stolen "Eight Nine Xuangong", and Yuan Hong is said to be the gibbon monkey among the four monkeys in the mixed world.
Now that Shi Hou has obtained the full version of "Eight or Nine Xuangong", it seems that he is destined in the dark.
With the exercises, Shi Hou did not practice immediately.
As far as he, a newcomer in the mythical world, doesn't know anything about the common sense of cultivation, rashly cultivating is tantamount to looking for death.
Fortunately, whether it is Sun Wukong's cultivation experience or the six-eared macaque's cultivation memory, they are the best reference for him.
It took more than a month for Shi Hou to finally sort out all the memories of Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque, not to mention anything else, at least he already knew what the so-called cultivation was all about.
"Cultivation, there is a distinction between the path of the enlightened and the way of the doer, the ancestor of Bodhi taught Sun Wukong's "Eight or Nine Xuangong" such a top practitioner Tao exercises, but he also passed on the top "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil" in the path of the enlightened, what does he want to do?"
Yes, Sun Wukong's seventy-two changes in the Three Realms should actually be called the seventy-two techniques of the earth evil, and the change technique is only one of the seventy-two techniques of the earth evil, but because the battle between Sun Wukong and Yang Jian was varied, people mistakenly thought that the seventy-two techniques of the earth were seventy-two changes, which could be transformed into seventy-two things, and it was at this time that Shi Hou understood the true meaning.
The real seventy-two techniques of earth evil, in addition to the change technique, there are seventy-two kinds of spells such as ghost, exorcism, doppelganger, invisibility, continuation, fixation, demon slashing, inviting immortals, chasing souls, soul dementoring, etc., among which Sun Wukong drives the mountain god land with exorcism, Pan Taoyuan fixes the seven fairies is the fixation technique, and the commonly used ones are doppelgangers, invisibility, etc., which are all things that are properly enlightened.
If it weren't for this, how could Sun Wukong become supernatural.
But it is impossible for the Bodhi Ancestor not to know that although the path of the practitioner and the path of the enlightened are the same path, both can be immortal for a long time, but they can cultivate the path of the enlightened and the path of the practitioner at the same time, and the two will inevitably form a constraint.
Sun Wukong is a natural stone monkey, his qualifications are top-notch, but his temperament is undecided, rational and rational things are like a mirror for him, and the monkey can come down quietly to enlightenment, that is a big joke.
But the Bodhi Patriarch also passed on the "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil", the biggest possibility is that he has never regarded Sun Wukong as a real disciple, but is ready to cultivate into a suitable-stirring stick, understand "Eight or Nine Xuangong", cultivation and combat power are naturally excellent, and proficient in "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil", and a monkey who screams when he is stimulated, it is strange if he does not cause trouble.
"It's no wonder that the Bodhi Patriarch's teaching to Sun Wukong in the early stage was completely free-range, and when the time came, he taught the "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil" and "Somersault Cloud", and when he drove Sun Wukong out of the mountain, he also made it clear that he was not allowed to report his name, otherwise it would be the end of cramping and peeling, which master who really treats his disciples will behave like Bodhi Ancestor?
But if Sun Wukong is a-stirring stick in the mind of the Bodhi Patriarch in the early stage, disrupting the existence of the order of the Three Realms, and being a qualified thug in the later stage, it doesn't matter.
And Sun Wukong, in addition to the somersault clouds, is really proficient in "The Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil", but that may not be.
Sun Wukong is active, and the things of the enlightened Tao that need to be practiced in order to achieve something can be brought at hand, that is a strange thing, the only possibility is that the Bodhi Patriarch did his hands and feet, and the simplified version passed on to Sun Wukong.
Similarly, if the Buddha wants to let the six-eared macaque replace Sun Wukong, "The Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil" and "Somersault Cloud" are necessary, but they are also flawed, and the result is in the hands of Shihou, and they are all completed, which is simply a free gift.
In addition to these three exercises that both of them have, Sun Wukong's stick method and the six-eared macaque's stick method are also tied to the same door, but they have their own understandings, in addition, the six-eared macaque is good at listening, and it has a set of its own that is useless for fighting, and can be used to listen to the corner of the wall but can be called the first "Listening to the Sound Sacred Law" in the Three Realms.
In this way, the top exercises that Shi Hou sorted out from his memory at this time include the Practitioner Dao "Eight Nine Xuangong", the Enlightened Dao "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil", the escape method "somersault cloud" and the six-eared macaque's eavesdropping exercise "Listening to the Sound Holy Method".
Of the four exercises, Shi Hou has the origin of Lingming Stone Monkey, and the major must be "Eight or Nine Xuangong", but the other three are also suitable for Shi Hou's minor.
If you don't practice the "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil", the fate of Sun Wukong, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth with a stick, is a lesson from the past, and it has been proved that relying on violence without using your brains will not work in the Three Realms where your fist is big.
Shi Hou is not the Monkey King, the monkey's heart is difficult to be quiet, but Shi Hou is not a monkey, he is a person, a person who can break through the difficulties of crossing the single-plank bridge from the college entrance examination, and cultivate the Tao of the Enlightened, is it not as good as a monkey?
Therefore, Shi Hou will not miss the "Seventy-two Techniques of Earth Evil", it will take more time at most, and "Somersault Cloud" is the top flight escape method, if he does not practice, Shi Hou is stupid.
As for the "Listening to the Sacred Law", he has part of the origin of the six-eared macaque, and it is even more wasteful if he does not cultivate.
He is a newcomer to the Three Realms, although he has some miscellaneous knowledge, but if he really wants to rely on this little knowledge and foresight, he will try in vain to avoid the calculations of the great powers of the Three Realms like the Buddha, which is called naivety.
Anyway, the six-eared macaque still has the name of 'good at listening to sounds, being able to perceive, knowing before and after, and everything is clear', and it is still okay to listen to supplement the foresight.
Even Shi Hou had to wonder if the origin and memory of this six-eared macaque could be regarded as a newbie gift package for him as a traverser, of course, this was a joke.
After sorting out the cultivation clues, Shi Hou finally began to cultivate.
With the exercises, step by step, the power of Lingming Shihou is the root of his cultivation, and with the experience of Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque in cultivating "Eight or Nine Xuangong", it is not difficult for Shihou to get started.
In just a few days, Shi Hou had already touched the Lingming Shihou Origin that wrapped his consciousness, a trace of the rich Earth Origin, and with the operation of the exercises, it was integrated into his thoughts.
Suddenly, an incomparably comfortable feeling ran through Shi Hou's whole body, a hundred times more refreshing than drinking iced sour plum soup on dog days, and in this comfort, Shi Hou felt that there seemed to be a trace of endless and endless artistic conception in the origin of the earth, but at this time he had just entered the state of cultivation, and it was just ordinary.
"It's early enough for others to start cultivating when they beat their mother's womb, can I count this as starting to cultivate in the embryo?" In the comfort of his whole body, Shi Hou had such a nonsensical thought.