"I wonder what kind of person you want to be, Golden Cicada Master?”
Sun Wukong asked the Golden Cicada Master meaningfully.
"You monkey, why are you asking about me?”
The Golden Cicada Master smiled lightly. He didn't want to answer, but after thinking about it, he said,
"I want to become a Buddha, a true Buddha, a true Buddha who can save all living beings.”
"True Buddha?"
When Sun Wukong heard this, he immediately laughed.
"There are Buddhas all over the Spirit Mountain. Aren't they true Buddhas?”
"Could it be that your teacher, Rulai, isn't a true Buddha?”
"I didn't say that. Don't talk nonsense. The Buddha on this Spirit Mountain is naturally a true Buddha.”
The Golden Cicada Master immediately panicked. He couldn't say such things.
If others heard it, they would say that he was slandering Buddha. That would be a huge crime.
"Whether it is or not, you know for yourself.”
Sun Wukong smiled and didn't continue to argue about this.
"Alright, I'm leaving."
The Golden Cicada Master didn't want to talk anymore and turned to leave.
"This Old Sun is very lonely here. If you have time, you might as well come and talk to me often.”Sun Wukong shouted.
"We'll talk about it when the time comes."
The Golden Cicada Master didn't turn his head and only replied indifferently.
The Golden Cicada Master did not come again for several months.
Just when Sun Wukong thought that he would never come again, he came in the morning light.
"You haven't been here for a long time." Sun Wukong laughed.
"It's just that there are some things that I can't figure out. I've been in seclusion thinking about it.”The Golden Cicada Master said.
"Oh, are you sure now?" Sun Wukong asked.
"No, I still haven't thought it through.”The Golden Cicada Master sighed.
"Since you can't figure it out by yourself, why don't you tell me? It's hard to say if I, Old Sun, can help you solve your doubts.”Sun Wukong raised his head and smiled at him.
"What can a wild monkey like you help me with?”The Golden Cicada Master shook his head in disbelief.
"Didn't you say before that I, Old Sun, have a Buddhist nature? How could you forget so quickly?”Sun Wukong chuckled.
The Golden Cicada Master didn't say anything. He just stood there quietly, as if he was thinking about something.
After a long time, he sighed and said,
"Alright, I'll tell you then.”
"You speak, I listen." Sun Wukong said.
"As you know, I'm a disciple of Buddha Rulai.”The Golden Cicada Master slowly said,
"But I'm afraid you don't know that the Buddhist Sect wasn't called the Buddhist Sect in the past.”
"I know this. The predecessor of Buddhism is the Western Sect.”Sun Wukong laughed.
"Oh, I didn't expect a wild monkey like you to know so much.”The Golden Cicada Master said in surprise.
"I know more than you can imagine.”Sun Wukong said seriously.
"If you keep treating me like a monkey, then you are wrong.”
"I understand." The Golden Cicada Master looked at him for a moment before nodding.
"Actually, before the Buddhist Sect was established, I had already joined the Western Sect.”
"After that, Buddha Rulai changed the name of the Western Sect to Buddhism, and I became a disciple of Buddha Rulai.”
"But in fact, I've always been very puzzled.”
"Buddhism has always emphasized compassion and love to save all living beings so that they can escape from the sea of suffering and no longer have to suffer all kinds of hardships.”
"However, from the time of the Western Religious Sect to the present Buddhist Sect, I have never seen any compassion, nor have I seen any pity for all living beings.”
"All I can see is that you're only interested in profit.”
The Golden Cicada Master let out a bitter laugh.
"The current Buddhist Sect is filled with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats. They are all people who live in vain. They are all sanctimonious beasts.”
"In order to spread the teachings of Buddhism, they would not hesitate to set off a bloodbath in the human world. They would not care even if the entire human world was plunged into misery.”
"Do you think such a Buddha is a true Buddha?”
"Is such a Buddhist Sect truly merciful?”
Hearing this, Sun Wukong finally understood.
In his dream, why did the Golden Cicada Master doze off when Gautama Buddha was giving a speech?
This was because he did not agree with the Buddhist Dharma that Rulai taught at all.
This was because he believed that everything Rulai said was false.
From the bottom of his heart, he had already doubted the accuracy of the Buddhist Dharma and the accuracy of Buddhism.
He no longer regarded Buddhism as his belief.
According to the Buddhist Sect, the Golden Cicada Master had already become a demon.
Gautama Buddha was a powerful figure, so he naturally wouldn't fail to notice his disciple's perfunctory and nonchalant attitude.
Naturally, he could see the doubt in his heart, or perhaps it was the devil's will.
Therefore, Buddha Rulai chose the Golden Cicada Master to be the future person to retrieve the scriptures.
He wanted to eliminate this hidden danger of the Buddhist Sect in advance and convert him into a true Son of Buddha.
Therefore, dozing off at the Spiritual Conference was just an excuse.
It was just an excuse to banish the Golden Cicada Master, a disciple who had turned into a demon, to the mortal world to become a Buddhist monk.
"Do you want to hear my story?”
Sun Wukong didn't know how to persuade the Golden Cicada Master, so he could only follow his master's instructions.
"Your story?" The Golden Cicada Master laughed.
"You're just a demon monkey that was born a few years ago. What story do you have?”
"What I said was just a dream. Just treat it as a story.”Sun Wukong wasn't annoyed. Instead, he said with a smile.
"Alright, tell me." The Golden Cicada Master's interest was piqued.
"I had a dream in the divine stone at the top of the Flowerfruit Mountain before I was born.”
Sun Wukong began to explain.
"In that dream, after I was born, I went out to the sea to search for immortals. I became the disciple of a mighty figure and learned all my skills.”
"With this ability, I snatched the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Iron Needle of the Dragon Palace and caused a ruckus in the underworld to forcefully destroy the Book of Life and Death.”
"Later, he was even conferred the title of Great Sage, Heaven's Equal by the Heavenly Court. He was so carefree and high-spirited.”
"However, after I disrupted the Feast of Peaches, stole the Golden Core of Elder Lord, and caused a ruckus in the Heavenly Palace, I was suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain by Buddha Rulai.”
"Five Finger Mountain?"
The Golden Cicada Master was slightly shocked. He pointed at the Five Fingers Mountain that was pressing down on Sun Wukong.
"The Five Finger Mountain, just like the Five Finger Mountain pressing down on me right now.”
Sun Wukong said faintly.
"I was suppressed for five hundred years, a whole five hundred years.”
"Then did you come out later?"
The Golden Cicada Master was attracted by this story and asked hurriedly.
"I came out. Five hundred years later, a monk came to the Five Finger Mountain and saved me.”
Sun Wukong smiled at the Golden Cicada Master.
"A monk?"
The Golden Cicada Master also smiled.
"Why is it similar to our current situation?”
"They do look alike." Sun Wukong nodded.
"What happened after that monk saved you?”The Golden Cicada Master asked.
"After that monk rescued me, I acknowledged him as my master and accompanied him to the Western Paradise to obtain the scriptures.”Sun Wukong said.
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