chsdbacks Chapter 166 Like a Dream?
Chapter 166 Like a Dream?
Seeing and understanding clearly caused Tianhu to feel a sudden, inexplicable unease.
For a moment, he even forgot to continue his attack.
In that moment of distraction, a Zen temple rose from the mountain valley on Mount Sumeru.
The strange man with a full head of fleshy protuberances pulled out his staff, threw it into the air, and it transformed into a celestial dragon. He then flew and landed on the dragon's back.
Then he rode the dragon towards the Zen temple.
On the other side, the weasel disappeared underground, leaving behind only a cloud of yellow smoke.
This Heavenly Fox Realm possesses the divine powers of the Heavenly Fox, and she has her own way of tracking down that weasel.
But just as her divine sense caught up, she saw a mountain range hidden in the yellow wind.
Faintly visible above the dark cave entrance are three large characters engraved: Huangfeng Cave.
In the blink of an eye, the Buddha and the demon established their foundation in this dream world.
No matter how the Heavenly Fox tried to shake it, it couldn't stop it.
"What the hell? What are these two things, a human and a rat?! Why can't I deal with them?"
The Heavenly Fox sounded somewhat flustered. Although the Heavenly Fox Realm was a supernatural power, it was based on the Heavenly Fox's own dream world.
If two things you can't handle suddenly appear in your dream world, any normal person would panic.
Who knows if these two things will be harmful to me?
Looking at the two strange mountain ranges, the Heavenly Fox steeled its heart and, disregarding its unhealed injuries, forcibly transformed into a creator god, intending to completely eliminate the two alien beings from its Heavenly Fox Realm.
Otherwise, I'll have to sleep with one eye open from now on.
The celestial fox transformed into a deity of unparalleled size, reaching as high as the heavens.
She clasped her hands together, ready to uproot Mount Sumeru.
At this moment, Xin Yuan, who was still discussing the Dao with Huo Yunzi, suddenly changed his expression.
In the blink of an eye, his true form was pulled into the dream space by that celestial fox.
But for some unknown reason, the original being transformed into the Dao, intending to reenact the Yellow Wind Ridge ordeal in that dream.
Since the ritual is to be performed again, how can my restless mind be absent?
He immediately stood up and said to Huo Yunzi, "Old man, I, Old Sun, have some urgent matters to attend to. I will come to bother you again another time."
Before Huo Yunzi could ask any questions, Xin Yuan suddenly vanished into the void.
This action left Huo Yunzi both bewildered and alarmed.
Qinghua Cave Heaven was built by our sect's founding ancestor before his ascension, and even Mahayana cultivators cannot enter or leave at will.
I hadn't noticed it when I was taking him back and forth before, but now I see it again.
This demon named Sun Wukong possesses such terrifying spatial abilities!
Even with his Tribulation Transcending stage cultivation, he couldn't enter and exit the space so casually.
Not to mention Huo Yunzi's shock.
The Mind Monkey escaped the spatial dimension and directly entered the Heavenly Fox Realm.
He had just entered the Heavenly Fox Realm when he saw that the Heavenly Fox, the master of this dream, was using her authority in this realm to eliminate the small Mount Sumeru and the Bodhisattva Lingji, which were formed from the thoughts of the original body.
The Bodhisattva Lingji and Mount Sumeru were merely manifestations of the Bodhisattva's thoughts. Although they possessed power, they were still somewhat powerless against the fully empowered Heavenly Fox.
The restless mind did not delay any longer and immediately merged with the Bodhisattva Lingji.
After the two are combined, they transform into a bright, round Mani bead.
The moment this bead appeared, it froze the celestial fox in place.
Then a beam of light shot out, and the Heavenly Fox instantly fell into a deep sleep on the spot.
The Monkey King then transformed into the Bodhisattva Lingji, but then found that he could no longer return to his original form as the Monkey King.
"Huh? Why can't I turn back?"
The monkey was initially flustered, but then realized, "That's it! This Lingji Bodhisattva resides in the south. The south is the land of Li (the trigram representing light), which is where the true spirit dwells."
Is this not asking me to take his place, to replace worldly desires with the heart of Tao, and to quell the unsettled mind?
But without my restless mind, how can I possibly navigate this ordeal?
Just as Xin Yuan was confused, Chen Chunan woke up in a daze.
When he woke up, he found that he had changed drastically.
The robe that the Ten Suns Burning Heaven Diagram had transformed into was gone, replaced by a yellowish-brown Taoist robe.
What terrified Chen Chunan even more was that the Pure Yang Elixir, which he had painstakingly cultivated for years, had vanished without a trace.
All three dantian (upper, middle, and lower dantian) were completely empty, and the two flying swords were nowhere to be seen.
Years of gains were lost in a single day.
Chen Chunan was instantly drenched in cold sweat.
"What's going on? Where's my cultivation?! What kind of place is this? Wasn't I in the Chaotian Palace?"
Then Chen Chunan recalled, "After calming Tianhu down, I returned to my room to study the Heart Sutra. There was no one else there at the time, and no one in Chaotian Palace should have dared to act recklessly! Who could have unknowingly tricked me? It couldn't have been Tianhu, could it? She shouldn't have dared to."
Chen Chunan frowned.
"Monkey? Dead monkey? Where have you been?"
"Sun Wukong? The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong? Come out quickly! Something terrible has happened!"
After calling out repeatedly without success, Chen Chunan cursed with a dark face, "Damn you, you stable boy! You're nowhere to be seen when I need you."
Hundreds of miles away, the ape spirit in the form of Lingji on Mount Sumeru shook its head repeatedly as it saw its true form's panicked appearance.
"You've really wasted your time studying the Heart Sutra. In a place like this, didn't you even question its authenticity? Such attachment to magical powers and supernatural abilities is clinging to appearances! No wonder your mind is so unsettled."
Unable to calm his racing mind, Chen Chunan took a few deep breaths, pulling himself out of his panic.
He then composed his description, standing on tiptoe to gaze at the world.
Only a mountain ridge stretched across the road to the west, its slopes shrouded in yellow sand, making it difficult to see clearly.
To the due south, a majestic mountain rises abruptly from the ground.
Above, auspicious five-colored clouds surround, and cranes and white deer fly and run about.
Chen Chunan, observing their air of otherworldly Taoist practice, immediately became suspicious:
"You brought me here, and then created two mountains. One doesn't look like a good place, and the other looks like a demon's cave. I bet you're deliberately misleading me. What kind of sacred mountain is this? I'm not going there. I'm going to see what's going on in that demon's cave!"
Chen Chunan glanced at the immortal mountain, then headed west towards Huangfeng Ridge without looking back.
Seeing this, the Monkey King laughed so hard he almost fell over: "Good, good, good! I was worried about what would happen if you came here first, wouldn't that mess up the whole thing? I didn't expect you to be so clever and head towards that fake earth-formed Yellow Wind Ridge yourself. I, Old Sun, can just watch a good show!"
Chen Chunan lost all his magical powers in the dream and could only rely on his legs to get there.
As the saying goes, "Looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," and Huangfeng Ridge was hundreds of miles away from Chen Chunan.
He truly experienced firsthand the hardships that Tang Sanzang endured on his journey to the West.
No, he's not even as good as Tang Sanzang. At least Tang Sanzang had a horse to ride, but he could only ride on his own two legs.
As the saying goes, Wangshan runs to death.
Chen Chunan walked for several days but still couldn't reach Huangfeng Ridge.
The monkey in his heart felt that this was really not going to work, and his eyes twitched.
A beam of light shot towards Chen Chunan, striking him squarely between the eyebrows before he could react.
Countless demons suddenly emerged from Chen Chunan's body.
By the time Chen Chunan reacted, a striped tiger, its skin dripping with blood, had been peeled off its body.
With just one roll, Chen Chunan was completely engulfed.
Chen Chunan was caught off guard and was swept away before he could even shout.
The tiger demon captured Chen Chunan and carried him on its back, flying all the way towards Huangfeng Ridge.
The Monkey King nodded in satisfaction: "That's more like it! With countless distracting thoughts, how can one only have the Yellow Wind Monster? Only by clearing away all distracting thoughts and guarding only one's Daoist heart can one be called enlightened and pure."