Unify all heavens

By the time Li Qing followed Bai Suzhen to Lishan Mountain, the three Buddhist Bodhisattvas had already left and had already made arrangements.

Old Mother Lishan happened to have just said goodbye to the three Bodhisattvas and had not yet returned to the temple.

Therefore, she happened to meet Li Qing who had returned with her disciple.

"Senior sister, you're welcome!"

When Li Qing saw Old Mother Lishan's figure, he had already bowed in mid-air before he even landed on the ground.

Mother Lishan, who was standing under the main hall, nodded with a smile, waved to Li Qing and said, "Junior brother, come down quickly. I have something important to discuss with you in detail!"

When Li Qing heard this, he was curious and fell straight into the clouds, riding the wind and landing in front of Old Mother Lishan.

When Old Mother Lishan saw him landing, she immediately smiled and said: "Good junior brother, I have asked for a good job for you, so you and I will intercept the master and the disciples who want to learn the scriptures. When the Buddhist scriptures are over in the future, great merit will come to you." !”

Li Qing was surprised when he heard this. He originally thought that Mrs. Lishan was anxious to find him because of some other trivial matters. But he never expected that Mother Lishan would let him participate in this disaster.

Among the ninety-nine and eighty-one tribulations, there was only one catastrophe in which Old Mother Lishan was personally involved, and that was the seventeenth tribulation, the tribulation in which the Four Saints manifested themselves to test the Zen mind!

This calamity tells the story of Lishan Old Mother and four powerful incarnations of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. They tested the four monks and disciples of the Tang Dynasty to see if their determination to learn scriptures was firm, and pretended to recruit them as husbands and successors. Wan Guan family wealth.

Tang Monk was unmoved. When Sun Wukong looked at it with his fiery eyes, he only felt that the Buddha's light was dazzling, so he decided to tease Zhu Bajie. Sha Monk, on the other hand, acted honestly and decided to follow his master to learn Buddhist scriptures. Only Zhu Bajie was moved by his mortal heart. He refused on the surface, but secretly contacted Mother Lishan. When the Four Saints saw this, they teased him with the idea of ​​a 'celestial marriage'. They even turned a fishing net into a 'pearl-embedded undershirt', tied him up and hung him in the old forest all night, enduring all the wind and rain!

After going through this catastrophe in his mind, Li Qing handed over his hand and thanked Old Mother Lishan, saying, "Thank you, senior sister, for taking the trouble!"

When Mother Lishan nodded with a smile, Li Qing asked again: "It's just that I still have something unclear in my heart. I hope my senior sister can give me some advice!"

Mother Lishan nodded slowly and said, "Just tell me!"

Li Qing immediately thought about it and asked, pretending not to know the details of this calamity: "Sister, please tell me the details of this calamity and where I can use my little brother!"

When Old Mother Lishan heard this, she looked at the sky and guessed that the master and apprentice would be arriving soon, so she said, "How about this? You go with me to the place where the disaster was planned, and I will explain to you slowly on the way!"

Li Qing nodded lightly, and then rode the wind with Old Mother Lishan, flying towards the lower realm where the seventeenth difficulty was set for masters and disciples to learn scriptures.

Along the way, Mother Lishan told him the details of the matter.

It's just because of his presence that this calamity has changed.

According to what Mother Lishan said, Li Qing needs to transform into a Chai Weng. He will pretend to be injured on the way to test the compassion of the Buddhist scripture collectors and apprentices. If the Buddhist scripture collectors and apprentices ignore him, he can transform into a demon. , randomly grab one of the four people, and then give him a slight punishment. However, if the Buddhist master and disciples came to his aid, he would have to ride on a white dragon horse and guide them to the place where the old mother of Mount Li and other bodhisattvas incarnated as mothers and daughters. After that, the four old ladies of Lishan tested the Zen mind of the pilgrims, and he only had to persuade the four of them to agree to the marriage when they were alone.

Lishan was not too far away from the place where the disaster was set up, so when Old Mother Lishan finished telling him all this, she happened to be at the place.

But I saw that the mountain below was lush and green, with maple leaves all over the ground. It was a beautiful sight.

There is a poem that says:

The maple leaves are red all over the mountain, and the yellow flowers are wind-resistant and late. The old cicada sings and becomes lazy, and the sorrowful cricket thinks endlessly.

The lotus is broken and the green is holding the fan, and the orange fragrance and gold bullets are clustered. A few rows of pitiful geese, scattered far and wide.

Beside the road up the mountain, in the maple forest, there is an ancient house compound.

In mid-air, Mother Lishan raised her finger with a smile and pointed at the ancient house, saying: "This is the place. You can go ahead. The master and disciple will be here later!"

Li Qing's eyes moved when he heard this, and he said with a smile: "Senior sister, I suddenly felt blessed and remembered something!"

Old Mother Lishan, who was about to fall into the clouds, asked curiously after hearing this: "Tell me more!"

Li Qing immediately said: "I have had several contacts with the Monkey King, Monkey King, and I know that he has many thoughts. If I can use my fiery eyes to see through the true form of senior sister and several Bodhisattvas, and secretly explain to Tang Monk, what should I do?" ?”

Old Mother Lishan was startled when she heard this, then nodded and said: "That's true!" Then she thought for a moment and said: "You go ahead, I will discuss this matter with several Bodhisattvas in detail, and teach the monkey head to see Don’t show your identity like me!”

Li Qing nodded immediately, said goodbye to Old Mother Lishan, and took the wind to land in a forest a few miles away from the ancient house.

The moment he landed on the ground, he chanted the transformation formula and transformed into an old man in his seventies. Then he twisted his beard and smiled, and transformed into a long axe. Then he sat down on the spot and raised his hand to touch his left foot. The left ankle became visibly red and swollen. Then he pointed to his side, and a basket of branches that had been chopped by an ax appeared on the ground covered with maple leaves.

After doing all this, he looked into the distance and saw the pilgrims walking slowly and unhurriedly towards this place from two miles away. He smiled strangely, covered his ankles and began to cry weakly.

"Ouch~Ouch~"

Two miles apart, except for Sun Wukong, Tang Monk and others could not hear the mournful cry of the old man transformed by Li Qing.

After hearing the cry from far away, Sun Wukong's eyes moved. He thought secretly: "This place is in the barren mountains and it is getting late. How can there be the cry of the old man? Could it be that we have encountered a demon again?"

At this time, Tang Sanzang, who was riding on the white dragon horse, looked at the sky in the west with a worried expression, then looked at the front, back, left and right, and said with a sad face: "Disciple, it's late now. But where will you rest?"

When Sun Wukong heard the words, he put aside the doubts in his mind and said with a smile: "Master, what I said is wrong. A monk eats in the wind and sleeps in the water, lies in the moon and sleeps in the frost. Where can I not rest?"

After he finished saying this, Zhu Bajie, who was holding the horse rope in one hand and dragging the rake on the other hand, looked lazy and said: "Brother, you only know that you walk briskly, how can you think about others being tired? You have to live with yourself." After arriving at Liusha River, I have been climbing mountains and ridges all these days, eating only some chewy steamed buns. Old pig, I can no longer endure it! I need to find a good family, where I can make some fast food and tea, and secondly, recuperate my spirit and have a good rest. Last night made sense!”

As soon as Sun Wukong heard this, he immediately turned around and said sarcastically: "Idiot, you seem to be complaining when you speak like this. Do you think you are the son-in-law of Gao Laozhuang? Now that you have entered the Samana, you should forget about the lazy man. On the days of praying for blessings, you must endure hardships honestly, otherwise, how can you talk about learning from the scriptures?”

After Zhu Bajie heard this, he immediately cried with a pig face and said: "Brother, do you think the weight of this salute is heavy?"

Sun Wukong immediately turned back and looked forward, and said with a smile without looking back: "Brother, since I had you and Sand Monk, I have never carried you, how can I know how heavy it is?" When he said this, he slowly turned back and raised his furry hair. He patted Zhu Bajie's big belly with his palm and said: "What's more, you should lose weight, otherwise you will be the first one to be caught when you encounter a demon!"

In the midst of teasing and fighting, Tang Seng and his disciples got closer and closer to where Li Qing was.

Finally, half an hour later, Tang Monk, who was riding on a white dragon horse, heard the mournful cry of the old man Li Qing transformed into not far away.

"Ouch~Ouch~"

After hearing these cries, Tang Monk immediately pulled up his horse and asked, "Disciples, have you ever heard the old man's cries of pain coming from the front?"

Along the way, Sun Wukong wondered whether the sounds in front of him were the sounds made by demons deliberately to confuse them, but when he got here, he didn't feel the slightest aura of demons.

But with the principle that more is worse than less, he said with a playful smile: "I haven't heard it, I haven't heard it. I think it was the master who was starved and had a compassionate heart, and that's why he had auditory hallucinations!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the reins from Zhu Bajie and tried to change his route.

But as soon as he grabbed the reins, Sha Monk, who was behind him and was carrying the salute, hurriedly took a few steps to the white horse and said, "Master, my disciple also heard these sounds!"

When Tang Monk heard this, he subconsciously touched his stomach and said, "In that case, it wasn't caused by Master's hunger and fainting!"

When he finished speaking, his eyes fell on Sun Wukong and said: "Apprentice, you are fast, go ahead and see if any old man is in trouble!"

After hearing this, Sun Wukong glared at Sha Seng, looking at him with a confused look on his face. He didn't know why his senior brother was glaring at him with fierce eyes.

After glaring at Sha Seng, Sun Wukong handed the reins to Zhu Bajie again, and walked alone with the stick in the direction of the sound.

After walking thirty or fifty feet and entering the forest, he immediately saw the old man leaning under a maple tree, covering his feet and crying.

Almost subconsciously, he stared at the old man Li Qing transformed into with piercing eyes.

It's just that the transformation technique used by Li Qing is an authentic technique taught by the Sage of the Shangqing Dynasty. The corpse energy in his body has long been hidden. In addition, his cultivation level is much higher than that of Sun Wukong, and he is originally a human corpse turned into spirit. Therefore, in Sun Wukong's fiery eyes, the old man Li Qing transformed into was just an ordinary old man.

Although he couldn't see anything strange, Sun Wukong still didn't let go of his guard. He immediately tightened his grip on the golden cudgel and walked to Li Qing's side in two or two steps, asking, "My father-in-law, are you in trouble?"

The old man transformed by Li Qing was still wearing a bamboo hat, so when he heard Sun Wukong's voice, he subconsciously lamented: "The old man came to pick up some branches, but unexpectedly sprained his foot."

As he spoke, he slowly raised his head and said: "Young man"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Sun Wukong's hairy face and thunderous mouth.

At that moment, I saw his expression suddenly change, and he hid back with a face full of horror. His lips were so frightened that he turned blue, and he even pretended to be panicked. His eyes were wide open and his whole body was trembling. He covered his face with his sleeves and said, "Don't eat me, don't eat me."

Sun Wukong narrowed his eyes when he saw this, and raised his hand to grab the old man Li Qing transformed into.

When Li Qing saw this, his old eyes immediately rolled up and he fainted from fright.

At this moment, Sun Wukong only heard Tang Seng's voice coming from behind him.

"Wukong~Wukong~"