Chapter 321

But a closer look revealed that the woodcutter was dressed unusually.

The bamboo hat he wore was made of the shell of newly grown bamboo shoots.

The cloth he wore was sewn from yarn twisted from cotton.

The belt tied around his waist was woven from silk threads spit out by old silkworms.

The straw sandals he wore were woven from dry grass.

He held a steel axe in his hand and carried a hemp rope.

It was very different from the dress of an ordinary woodcutter.

When the monkey saw him, he immediately ran up to him and shouted at him: "Old immortal, can I worship you as my master?"

"I don't dare to be, I don't dare to be. How can I, a poor and stupid man, be called an immortal?"

Hearing the monkey's words, the woodcutter was so scared that he quickly dropped the axe in his hand to prove to the monkey that he was just an ordinary woodcutter.

"You are not an immortal, how can you sing that only immortals know things."

The monkey didn't believe it and asked again and again.

"What immortals know."

The woodcutter did not understand what the monkey meant.

"I just ran to the stone monkey next to me and heard you say that where we meet is either immortals or Taoists, and sitting in meditation to talk about Huangting, Huangting is the moral truth. If this is not what the immortals say, then what is it?"

The monkey continued to ask.

"To be honest, this was taught to me by an old immortal. The old immortal lives very close to my home. He saw that I was often very troubled because of the hard work of family affairs, so he gave it to me and asked me to recite it to the troubled stone monkey, one is to relax, and the other is to solve the problem. I just couldn't figure out something, so I recited it, but I didn't expect that you just heard it."

The woodcutter saw that the stone monkey asked so closely, and there was no way, so he had to tell him the whole story.

"Why don't you follow the teacher to practice when your home is so close to him? You can also learn the immortal art of immortality."

The monkey asked with some curiosity.

"I have an eighty-year-old mother at home, and I don't have any brothers or sisters. If I leave like this and follow the immortal to practice, it will definitely violate filial piety. Moreover, we have only depended on each other until now. How can I abandon her when I should take care of her?"

The woodcutter told the reason why he didn't practice.

"Okay, I still have to chop wood, and don't ask me anything. If you go a few miles further, there is a Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. There is a cave on the mountain called the Xieyue Sanxing Cave. In the cave lives the immortal I told you about. His name is Bodhi Patriarch."

"There are countless people who have learned from the old immortal, and now there are 20 to 30 people following him."

Afraid that the monkey would delay him from chopping wood, he told him the old immortal's residence and urged him to leave quickly.

"Thank you for telling me, I'm leaving now."

The monkey thanked the woodcutter and left with the red bird.

"Redbird, did you hear that?"

"We are very close to the old immortal's home."

The monkey said to the redbird excitedly.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go quickly."

The redbird hurriedly urged him to hurry up.

However, not long after they left here, the woodcutter who was chopping wood changed. His clothes and his appearance were very different from before.

Now he is noble, but he does not eat fireworks. This is obviously an immortal.

"Is this guy the one that the master is waiting for? The master actually sent me to show him the way."

Looking at the monkey's back as he went away, he said to himself.

The monkey followed the path that the woodcutter said. After about seven or eight miles, he climbed over a hillside and saw a cave.

This cave was full of colorful mist and clouds, the sun and the moon were shining, and there were thousands of old cypresses and thousands of bamboos.

But the cave door was closed and quiet, with no trace of people around. The monkey looked around and found another stone tablet.

The stone tablet was about three feet high and eight feet wide, with ten big characters written on it: Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Xieyue Sanxing Cave.

"Red Bird, we have finally found the residence of the immortal after going through so much hardship."

The monkey shouted excitedly while wearing Red Bird.

"Don't worry about it, go knock on the door and ask the immortal to become your disciple."

Red Bird urged him, saying that becoming a disciple was important.

But after hearing what Red Bird said, the monkey shrank back and dared not step forward, as if he was hesitating whether to knock on the door.

At this moment, the immortal's door creaked open, and a fairy boy walked out of it, with a handsome and strange appearance, different from ordinary people.

"Who are you? Why are you disturbing the immortal's peace at the door of the immortal's cave?"

The fairy boy began to question the monkey.

"I am a disciple of the immortals. I am in a good mood and disturbed the peace here. Please forgive me."

The monkey said quickly.

"It seems that the person my master asked me to come out to meet is you."

"Just now he was talking in the lighthouse and toldThere is a man outside my door who is looking for immortals and seeking the truth, so I came out to meet him. "

The fairy boy looked at the monkey and said uncertainly.

"It's me, it's me!"

The monkey said happily.

Then the fairy boy took him into the immortal's cave.

Inside the cave, there were deep pavilions, jade towers, pearl palaces, and countless quiet rooms, all the way to the bottom of the Yaotai.

At this time, Bodhi Patriarch was sitting on the platform preaching. After seeing Bodhi Patriarch, the monkey knelt down and kowtowed to become his disciple.

"Where are you from and what is your name?"

Bodhi Patriarch raised his eyes and asked.

"I come from Dongsheng Shenzhou, Aolai Country Flower and Fruit Mountain. I have no parents, so my name, they all call me Stone Monkey."

The monkey told his origin.

"You are not born by your parents, so what gave you birth?"

Bodhi Patriarch asked curiously.

"There is a fairy stone on the Flower and Fruit Mountain. After the fairy stone was broken, I jumped out of it. ”

The monkey answered truthfully.

“According to what you said, you were born of heaven and earth. Come forward and let me see you.”

Bodhi Patriarch had a rough idea in his mind.

After the monkey did what he said, Bodhi Patriarch waved his hand and asked him to sit down.

“Looking at this appearance, it is indeed the Lingming Stone Monkey, one of the four monkeys who made trouble in the world.”

“He is the guy I am waiting for.”

The Stone Monkey Bodhi Patriarch was a little happy after confirming his guess.

“Since you don’t have a surname and a name, I will give you one.”

“You look like a monkey, so I will give you one from these. The character “猢” has a beast next to it, which is Gu Yue. Gu means old, and Yue means yin. Old yin cannot be nurtured. It would be better to give you the surname ‘狲’, but since you have become my disciple and want to ask for the Tao and ask for immortality, you must get rid of this beast nature, so I will give you the surname Sun. "

Bodhi Patriarch thought for a while and decided on a surname for him.

"You are my disciple for the tenth generation, and the tenth generation is the Wu generation. I will give you a Dharma name, Sun Wukong."

Bodhi Patriarch then decided on a Dharma name for the monkey.

"Thank you, Master, for the name."

After hearing that Bodhi Patriarch had given him a name, Sun Wukong immediately knelt on the ground and thanked Bodhi Patriarch.

"I must learn the art of longevity and pass it on to the monkeys in the tribe and the red sparrow."

Sun Wukong secretly made up his mind.

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