Journey to the West: Stone Heart and Stone Edge

Sun Wukong was so excited that he didn't know how to express it. He jumped from Ruyi's desk to the bed, stretched out his arms and hugged Ruyi's waist, "Senior Sister, Master taught me the way of longevity!"

In fact, this matter cannot be revealed casually to others, but in Monkey King's heart, Ruyi is not someone else.Such a big good thing, even if he doesn't tell the world, he will tell Ruyi first.

Ruyi was originally meditating, and before she could change her posture, she was hugged and pulled by him, her body couldn't sit still, and she almost fell into Monkey King's arms.

Ruyi, who was so embarrassed for the first time, glared at him angrily, "I don't want to fall to the ground with you, let me sit down."

Sun Wukong let go of his hand with a smile, but tilted his body, resting his hands behind his head on Ruyi's lap, with one leg crossed complacently, "Senior Sister, you still said that Master is never biased. If you want me to say, Master is partial to me, otherwise , why no one passed it on, but taught me the art of longevity."

"In the middle of the night, you secretly went to learn from Master?"

"Hey~~ It's not secretly, it's the master who taught me secret riddles during the day, and asked me to seek the Tao through the back door in the middle of the night." Sun Wukong couldn't let Ruyi look down on him, and hurriedly sat up and explained, "It's me who broke the truth. Zhong Xuanji, Master taught me the Dao."

Ruyi never doubted Sun Wukong's intelligence, so she nodded with a smile, "Alright, your wish is finally fulfilled."

"The art of longevity is not learned in a day or two. By the way, senior sister, do you know the way to avoid the three disasters?"

Ruyi nodded, "Although there are not many ways to avoid the three disasters, there are more than one or two. Which one do you learn?"

"What master taught me is the art of transforming heaven and earth."

Ruyi nodded secretly.

Sun Wukong smiled cunningly, his eyes fluttered a few times, staring at Ruyi and said, "Senior sister, Master said that after ascension to immortality, people who practice Taoism have to experience three disasters and nine calamities, why don't you learn 36 transformations, okay?"

Ruyi just looked at his sly amber eyes, and knew what was going on in his mind, "I'm going to change 36."

"Oh? That's really great!" Sun Wukong's eyes sparkled, and he hurriedly asked, "Then senior sister can change 72?"

"I have heard of it, but I have never learned it." The master taught her 36 transformations, not to avoid the three disasters, and Ruyi naturally did not insist on learning one more thing.

"Oh~~The 36 changes or the 72 changes, which one is better?"

Ruyi couldn't help laughing, and stretched out her hand to tidy up his messy skirt, "You must have chosen a lot, didn't you?"

"Exactly. The master said that it is usually the number of the sky and the number of the earth. I thought about it. It is better to have more than less." 36 changes, which can make Monkey King's mind a lot more active.

"Whether you are powerful or not depends entirely on your own good fortune." Ruyi shook her head amusedly, "Do you think Taoism is a magic weapon? Anyone who cultivates is equally powerful."

Even if it is a magic weapon, those that destroy the world at every turn have extremely strict requirements on the users, otherwise the sky and the earth will be messed up sooner.

When Sun Wukong thought about it, it was the same reason, so he stopped thinking about it.He originally learned Taoism in order to live a long life, and now that his wish is fulfilled, he is naturally full of energy, and he doesn't have the heart to think about other things.

Even if Sun Wukong is naturally intelligent, this Taoism cannot be accomplished overnight. It took three years to learn it in the blink of an eye.

Ruyi took the time to come to the West Sea today. The life of Jiaolong is now very leisurely. He always takes the form of Jiao, escorts and protects the people, and has never slacked off for a day in the past three years.Ordinary people vaguely saw a red dragon shuttling between the sea of ​​clouds and turbulent waves, so they even erected a stone plaque for him, and wrote "Red Lotus Dragon God's Honor".

If these people knew that what they enshrined was the chief culprit who caused the disaster on the West Sea three years ago, I don't know if they would offer incense and gratitude so devoutly.

Ruyi stepped on the cloud head, watching those fishermen going out to sea, they all put incense sticks on the stone plaques first, placed some tributes, and some even bowed a few times, begging themselves or their families to go to sea safely.I couldn't help feeling in my heart.

"Why are you free to visit me today?"

Ruyi turned her head, Jiaolong was stepping on her cloud head with a twitching smile.

Ruyi turned back and looked at the people in front of the stone tablet, "I'm ordered by Master to see if you are sincere and kind."

"Then what do you see now?" Jiaolong moved half a step to the side, standing side by side with Ruyi.

"So far, it looks pretty good." Ruyi looked at the gold letters on the stone tablet, "Red Lotus is your name?"

"You still pay attention to this?" Jiaolong tilted his head to look at her.

"Don't forget, there is more than one dragon clan in Xihai, and you have to limit your publicity, otherwise, if someone calls at your door one day, you should ask for it yourself."

"What are you afraid of? I just gave those mortals Tuomeng a name. If this also troubles me, I'd better go back to the mountain. That stone tablet, like smashing and falling, it's up to them."

Jiaolong doesn't care about spreading his hands.

Ruyi didn't want to respond at all to his answer.

"It's rare to see you coming alone. Where's the monkey?"

"A few days ago, Master taught Wukong how to soar through the clouds, and passed on a somersault cloud. He is busy now, how can he travel all over the three mountains and five mountains in one day?" Speaking of Monkey King, the corners of Ruyi's mouth couldn't stop showing smile.

"That monkey is really competitive. I really don't understand. With such an aloof personality, why do you care so much about a monkey who is flamboyant and strong?"

Ruyi glanced at him unhappy, "He is my junior brother."

"I'm also half of your junior brother, you don't even have a good look at me." Jiaolong's words are not bad. Patriarch Bodhi just taught him a Taoism seven months ago because of his sincere begging. , can be regarded as half of the disciples of the patriarch.

Now the scales on his face and body have receded, and his true form is more and more similar to a human body.

"I remember, don't you hate your half-human appearance, why do you want to completely transform into a human?"

"Transformation has always been his long-cherished wish."

Ruyi was taken aback.Although Jiaolong didn't mention his name, Ruyi knew who he was referring to.

There was a soft gaze in Jiaolong's eyes, as if he was recalling something, "He is different from me. I want to be a dragon, but he wants to be a man. However, he can't hold me back."

"If I hadn't insisted on transforming the dragon, perhaps, there would be no future encounters."

Ruyi looked at him with a remorseful look in his loneliness, and couldn't help calling softly, "Honglian..."

Honglian raised her head and showed a smiling face at Ruyi, "The past can't be changed. Instead of being obsessed with it, it's better to let go of your heart and do what you can."

"If he wants to be a man, I'll be a man for him, isn't it great?"

His voice was slightly choked with sobs, but the hostility was no longer hidden.

Ruyi raised her eyebrows and smiled at him, "You're right."

The author has something to say: Regarding Houge’s learning of art, the original book says that the patriarch first passed on the art of longevity to Houge, and then passed on the 72 changes three years later to avoid the three disasters, and finally passed on a cloud of somersaults.

However, the plot requires it, so the setting here is that the patriarch passed on the technique of longevity and 72 transformations together.