Yang Jian felt that he had already done his best to treat the monkey like this.
In the future, they would walk their own paths. Yang Jian did not want to continue participating in the Journey to the West Tribulation.
At most, he would let his incarnation watch from the side during the monkey's few calamities. He did not want the monkey to really be schemed against by the Buddhists and be forcefully killed …
Yang Jian was not a conspiracy theorist, but it was hard to say if Sun Wukong had been replaced by the Six-Eared Macaque. After all, ever since the Little Tribulation of the real and fake Monkey King, Sun Wukong had become much more docile. He was like a different person.
However …
With Sun Wukong's current strength, it was impossible for the Buddhists to plot against him after cultivating for 500 years under the Five-finger Mountain.
Moreover, the Buddhists did not have the final say in the Primordial World. For example, Daoist Heavenly Flame, the Three Pure Ones, and his master, Yuding Zhenren, were all wholeheartedly protecting the Primordial World. They would not tolerate the Buddhists messing around.
At the very least, the Buddhists had schemed so that they could take advantage of the calamity to prosper. They did not dare to touch the stone monkey who was facing the calamity.
However …
Yang Jian vaguely felt that something was amiss. It was just like when he landed on the Five-finger Mountain. His Xuan Body had a momentary vigilance.
When he carefully sensed the vigilance, he did not gain anything. It was as if he had not come. His mind tensed up.
Can the Buddhists be trusted?
Did those supreme experts really send people to infiltrate the Buddhists? Is the incarnation of Saint Jie Yin, who has transformed into a Tathagata, no longer controlled by the Saints?
If Yang Jian wanted to obtain the answers to those questions, he would need a lot of energy to verify them one by one. He did not have the time. He had to invest his limited experience into unlimited cultivation.
All schemes were ultimately in vain. Only his Dao realm was what he could truly rely on.
No matter what, Yuding Zhenren's becoming a Saint had greatly reduced the pressure on him.
His incarnation returned to Perfected Lord Erlang's residence in the Celestial Court. There was a wooden sign outside that said, "Do not disturb me when I am in seclusion". Yang Jian "hid" in the Celestial Court.
The immortals also knew that Yang Jian was just an incarnation. His true body was still busy fighting in the Chaos Sea. However, people would send gifts from time to time, which were accepted by the Six Friends of Meishan.
The Perfected Lord's residence was like the residence of the other righteous gods. It was constantly operating in the Heavenly Palace and seemed to be in accordance with a certain heaven.
However, the one thousand and two hundred grass gods still returned to the mouth of the Guan River to set up camp. After all, shamans needed to absorb the Qi of the Earth to cultivate. The sky was filled with clear spirit Qi of Immortal, and they were really not used to it.
Outside the Primordial World, the Black Spirit Kingdom's army was stationed in dozens of places. They had already established a few pieces of land in the Chaotic Sea, forming a fortress unique to the Chaotic Spirit Race. It attracted many Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals to go sightsee.
Under the orders of Yang Jian and Ao Xinke, the Chaos Spirits expressed their goodwill to the Untainted Land cultivators. However, if the Untainted Land cultivators did anything that threatened the safety of the Spirits Spirits, they could kill them without any scruples.
The only difference between the Primordial World cultivators and the Chaos Spirits was that their True Spirits were born in different places. What was the difference in essence?
What they wanted to protect was the same tangible world. It was not just the Primordial World.
North Ocean, outside the Nether Stream.
It seemed to be a habit. Every three years, Great Daoist Master Xuan Du would wake up and take a look at the situation in the Nether Stream.
However, the Nether Stream had always been enveloped by the invisible barrier. It was the work of a supreme expert. Yang Jian had tried a few times but could not break it. A few Saints had also tried, but they had all failed.
In recent years, more and more black gas had been emitted from the Nether Stream. It had gradually pushed the miasma of the North Continent that the Saints had brought over 50 kilometers away.
The black gas was actually the aura of death and resentment. It was also wrapped in complicated Dao runes. If it circulated, all living beings below the Immortal realm would turn into bones and blood. It was extremely terrifying.
Fortunately, the miasma "protected" the Primordial North Continent. Otherwise, the North Continent would have definitely turned into a dead land.
"Why aren't you coming out? What are you waiting for?"
Read Nannan stood with his hands behind his back. He stood in the black clouds that filled the sky and quietly stared blankly for a while.
Then, he retreated and yawned. He instructed the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals to report to the Celestial Court that the place was safe for the time being. He then found a place to continue sleeping.
If sleeping was considered cultivation, the eldest disciple of the Dao Sect was really diligent …
The most speechless thing was that the aura of the Great Daoist Master Xuan Du was indeed rising. It seemed that he was not far from becoming a Saint.
If the Great Daoist Master Xuan Du became a Saint, he would probably be an unprecedented "Sleeping Saint". Many of the Primordial World cultivators guarding the North thought so. They could not be envious.
The Dao was natural, and its nature was pure.
The memories of mortals were probably only a few years or more than ten years. It was the same for cultivators. If it was not something important to them, most of them would not mention it after a period of time.
In the next hundred years, the Three Realms would be talking about the battle at Huaguo Mountain, the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal causing trouble in the Celestial Court, and Yuding Zhenren becoming a Saint. There was another Saint of the Great Path in the Primordial World.
After another hundred years, the cultivators of the Three Realms would still mention the matter of Yuding Zhenren becoming a Saint from time to time. However, not many people would mention the story of the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal.
However, in the five continents, Sun Wukong's reputation was still relatively resounding.
After all, he was the first demon who dared to stand up against the Celestial Court and was able to force the Celestial Court into a sorry state. In the end, he was defeated by the incarnation of a Saint.
In the eyes of the demons, Sun Wukong was already considered a hero. Moreover, they did not know that in another three hundred years, this hero would jump out from under the mountain and sharpen his knife to attack the demons.
In the eyes of the human cultivators, a spirit embryo like Sun Wukong was just blessed by nature.
If they had such a fortuitous encounter, they would definitely not be so ostentatious. Instead, they would follow the prescribed order and seek opportunities steadily. In the end, they would ascend to the heavens in one step and soar to success. From then on, they would become the number one figure in the Primordial World.
Therefore, Sun Wukong was still Sun Wukong. Ordinary cultivators could only daydream.
On Huaguo Mountain, the monkeys were withered, and the demons avoided them. It was no longer the magnificent scene of the past, but it gradually returned to the scenery of the God-Conferment period.
Under the Five Fingers Mountain, Sun Wukong had been suppressed for more than 200 years. He had changed from the originally cold monkey to a "chatterbox" who would smile and greet anyone he met.
From time to time, immortals would run down from the Celestial Court to take care of Sun Wukong. The few mountain spirits that Yang Jian had arranged had also become the land of the Five Fingers Mountain. They took good care of Sun Wukong. Every year, when the peach lost, they would let Sun Wukong eat his fill for half a month.
However, was the Stone Monkey's heart really willing to be suppressed like that?
Perhaps only Sun Wukong himself knew.
In the 206th year when Sun Wukong was suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain, a "small matter" happened in the Heavenly Palace.
The unlucky Curtain Lifting General was directly sent to the mortal world because he broke a glass lamp. He became a demon in the Quicksand River.
This was actually arranged by the Jade Emperor. The Curtain Lifting General was also the trusted subordinate of the Jade Emperor. He was also an extremely important part of the calamity of the Journey to the West.
Why was it important?
One would know by looking at what the demons in the Quicksand River had done.
In the second year after the Curtain Lifting General went to the Quicksand River, an old monk who was over 50 years old came from the east. When he tried to cross the Quicksand River by force, he was swallowed by the demons in the river, leaving only his skull.
After another ten years, another monk rushed over from the east. When he tried to cross the Quicksand River by force, he was swallowed by the future Monk Sha, leaving behind a second skull.
These monks had voluntarily gone to the Western Paradise to obtain scriptures. They wanted to bring back the true scriptures to save the people.
Unfortunately, although they understood the trend of Buddhism moving eastward and saw the opportunity, or perhaps they wholeheartedly wanted to relieve the suffering of the mortal world, they were not the 'official people who traveled to the west'. Because of this, they lost their lives in vain in Quicksand River.
The monkey had been suppressed for 300 years. The Primordial World seemed to have ushered in another prosperous era. Just as the calamity of the Journey to the West was slowly unfolding, the five continents looked prosperous.
Because there was no poisonous miasma in the North Continent, living beings gradually spread. The Wu people also welcomed the sun, moon, and stars that they had not seen for a long time. The number of Wu people born in the past hundreds of years was slightly more than in the past tens of thousands of years.
With the gradual rise of Buddhism in the Aparagodānīya Continent, there were humans everywhere, forming a culture that was obviously different from the South Continent.
The population of the East Continent was also increasing rapidly. It constantly sent talents to the Middle Continent. The Middle Continent would also quickly nurture these cultivators into immortals and send them to the Celestial Court as Heavenly Soldiers to expand the Primordial World's military strength.
Buddhism gradually spread to the East. Temples were built all over the South Continent. Everywhere, Taoist temples and temples could be seen fighting for incense.
Most of the cultivators of Taoism valued 'peace and inaction'. Therefore, they were often discouraged and let the temples next to them develop wantonly.
For a time, Buddhism occupied many mountains in the South Continent. The living space of Taoism was squeezed a lot.
However, most of the cultivators of Taoism did not care about incense. Most of the people in the South Continent were still the Jade Emperor and the Heaven Queen. This was something that Buddhism could not shake.
What was worth mentioning was that Zixia Fairy took the initiative to resign. She left the Mansion of Lady Mother of the Chariot and went to the Mansion of Immortal Erlang to cultivate. Yang Jian would guide her every few years, and her cultivation realm also improved by leaps and bounds.
In the Celestial Court, after Sun Wukong's last Saturn Peach Feast, the Heaven Queen seemed to have reconciled with the Jade Emperor. During the court affairs, the two often appeared at the same time and got along well.
Another hundred years later, the Celestial Court began to plan for the Journey to the West. After all, there were still a hundred years left.
Under the arrangement of the Grand Supreme Elder, Marshal Tian Peng fell into the trap. After drinking, he flirted with Fairy Chang 'e, who came to the Lingxiao Hall to dance. He was beaten down to the mortal world by the furious Jade Emperor and was wrongly reincarnated as a pig.
The Dragon Clan, which always intervened in every disaster, had also arranged for a 'useless' West Ocean Dragon Son to enter the Path of Heavenly Path. With his story behind him, he quietly lurked under the Worried Eagle Stream.
As for Sun Wukong, he was more talkative.
From time to time, Yang Jian's mind returned to the Primordial World. When his cultivation was dull and he fell into a dilemma, his incarnation also walked around freely.
How could these mountains and rivers be destroyed by those powerful people?
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