The Buddha looked up at the sky and said, "I don’t know either."
The three: "@#￥@#..."
The Buddha continued, "I just glanced at him from a distance. Guess what I saw?"
The three asked anxiously, "What did you see?"
The Buddha said seriously, "I saw nothing."
The faces of the three turned dark: "@#￥..."
The Buddha said, "But do you know what that ans?"
Unable to hold back, Lingji Bodhisattva asked, "What does it an?"
The Buddha said, "I don’t know."
Unable to bear it any longer, Lingji Bodhisattva roared, "Buddha, what exactly are you trying to say? Can’t you just speak plainly? This is no way to treat people!"
The Buddha just looked at Lingji Bodhisattva with a chuckle and said nothing.
Guanyin Bodhisattva, however, trembled and said, "I know!"
Lingji Bodhisattva quickly looked towards Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "In the universe, there are people the Buddha can’t calculate, people he can’t see through. But with the Buddha’s wisdom, those he sees and can’t even comprehend are few! Do you still not understand what this ans?"
"Incalculable, unobservable, unthinkable... could it be..." Lingji Bodhisattva’s complexion changed dramatically.
Samantha Bodhisattva said, "He cos from Chaos..."
The Buddha nodded with a smile and said, "Alright, no need to speculate. Where he cos from isn’t important. What’s important is... where he should go."
Lingji Bodhisattva said with a crying tone, "He seems to be coming to Mount Ling."
The Buddha said with a lancholy face, "That’s exactly what worries ... The Jade Emperor surely knows about him, and his lack of intervention suggests that he wants no involvent with that fellow. This karma, it’s too great... just Mount Ling alone shouldering it... I am unwilling."
"Buddha, then what do you propose?" Lingji Bodhisattva asked.
The Buddha said, "A few thods.
The first, regardless of whether he is real or fake, we stage a great play. If he cos seeking the scriptures, just give him the True Scriptures. Once he has the scriptures, his business is done, and he will naturally leave.
The second thod, do not give him the scriptures. We move."
"Buddha, this universe is vast but not boundless. If he insists on coming... where can we hide?" Guanyin Bodhisattva asked.
Looking towards the sky, the Buddha said, "We go to the Heaven Realm. If the Jade Emperor wants to trap us, we’ll just make the pit bigger. If everyone is in the pit, it’s only fair."
Suddenly, everyone was at a loss for words...
Samantha Bodhisattva said, "Buddha, if we really do this, the Jade Emperor won’t be pleased, and our days will also be difficult, won’t they?"
The Buddha said, "That’s why we’re left with only the first thod."
The three Bodhisattvas fell into deep thought...
Unable to resist, Lingji Bodhisattva asked, "Buddha, are you truly unable to suppress him?"
The Buddha sighed and said, "The Ancestor of the Earth Immortals has already fought him and was completely defeated."
"But, Your Holiness..." Manjushri Bodhisattva started to say sothing.
The Buddha shook his head and said, "Do you know where Zhen Yuanzi originally ca from?"
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva said, "It is said that he was born from Chaos, and attained enlightennt with the help of the Ginseng Fruit Tree."
The Buddha shook his head and said, "It is true that Zhen Yuanzi was born from Chaos, but he didn’t attain enlightennt through the Ginseng Fruit Tree because he and the Ginseng Fruit Tree are a conjoined entity. You can think of it as, he is the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and the Ginseng Fruit Tree is him. Over countless eons, he has refined the Ginseng Fruit Tree into his own Primordial Dao Fruit."
Manjushri Bodhisattva said, "That’s not right, then what about that one in his Wuzhuang Temple?"
The Buddha smiled and said, "That is nothing but a shell of a Ginseng Fruit Tree, the real Ginseng Fruit Tree was born in Chaos, grew in Chaos, it is an existence at the level of an Innate Spiritual Treasure. That monkey, although sowhat capable, how could he break it or overturn it? Such an important Innate Spiritual Herb, not to ntion Zhen Yuanzi, even you and I, how could we dare to plant it in a Taoist temple and then jaunt off for three to five years? Aren’t we afraid that soone might dig it up and break its roots?"
Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly realized the truth!
The Buddha exclaid, "That is exactly why, when you first established this trial and found him, he readily agreed. Otherwise, if you were digging up his ancestral root, he wouldn’t fight you all the way to Ling Mountain for nothing."
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva bitterly smiled and said, "Amitabha, so that’s how it is. In that case, what’s the strength of Zhen Yuanzi?"
The Buddha said, "Semi-Saint!"
"What?" The three Bodhisattvas exclaid in unison, they had always thought Zhen Yuanzi was just a super expert of the Primordial Realm, they never expected he was on par with the Buddha himself, ranked as a Semi-Saint!
The Buddha said, "The Zhen Yuanzi you see is not his true form, but rely an avatar ford from a fruit of that Ginseng Fruit Tree. His true form has never left the Purple Cloud Palace, constantly contemplating the Great Dao, waiting for the opportunity to attain sainthood."
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva said, "He and Sun Wukong took oath as brothers...could it be?"
The Buddha slightly nodded and said, "He might consider it an opportunity...but I do not think so. Alright, don’t just stand there, with this fuss Tang Sanzang has caused, I’m afraid the whole world now knows there’s a fake Tang Sanzang going to the West to fetch the True Scriptures. It looks like it’s going to attract a crowd not from our kin, you all handle it."
"Buddha, what about you?" Samantabhadra Bodhisattva asked.
The Buddha said, "I...I...am entering seclusion!"
With that, the Buddha disappeared, clearly not wishing to see those wanting to make a mockery of him.
The three Bodhisattvas bitterly smiled and turned to leave.
Sure enough, it wasn’t long before various deities and demons ca rushing in, asking, "Bodhisattva, did I hear right that your Golden Cicada was impersonated?"
"Bodhisattva, on my way here, I saw a bare-chested, lonely strong Monk who looked just like Golden Cicada. What? That really was him? Ah, my apologies... I thought it was a fake and struck him with thunder... Don’t worry, he didn’t die!"
"Bodhisattva, I saw a Monk impersonating Golden Cicada. Who doesn’t know that Golden Cicada is always accompanied by Sun Wukong, Zhu Ganglie, and Sha Wujing... He alone tried to impersonate Golden Cicada, truly reckless. Don’t worry, I helped you by digging a pit for him; he probably hasn’t climbed out yet!"
"Bodhisattva, I saw a fake Golden Cicada fall into a pit, so I moved a mountain to cover it. If he hasn’t starved to death in a few years, he probably can’t climb out."
"Bodhisattva, I saw that too, and I even added two more mountains on top."
"You guys are too an, I was kind enough to deepen the hole and even greased the walls."
"Er... I think I may have lit a fire underneath him..."
"Bodhisattva..."
...
Listening to these remarks, the three Bodhisattvas were dumbfounded, then Samantabhadra Bodhisattva cried out, "Ah! Poor Golden Cicada!"
Monts later, he had already run out to rescue him.
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