Chapter 832 - Elder Asked Me Why I’m Watching on My Knees; I Don’t Know!
After ‘borrowing’ this weapon from the old Dragon King, Sun Wukong also ‘borrowed’ some outfits, including a gold cap adorned with phoenix plumes, a gold set of chain mail, and a pair of cloud-treading shoes that were the color of lotus root. Wearing this set of clothes, he looked magnificent and miraculous, appearing totally different from the previous image of a wild monkey.
“How come I’m beginning to find the Monkey King to be good-looking!” The elves felt like their sense of beauty began to change due to this monkey.
They had never imagined that they would find a monkey dashing!
Gradually, Flower-Fruit Mountain was restored to order. With the Monkey King as their leader, the well-equipped monkeys formed troops with generals and leaders. Naturally, no demons dared to bully them again.
After settling this, the Monkey King felt completely at ease to soar on the clouds and ride the mist, to tour the four seas and disport himself in a thousand mountains. He made extensive visits to various heroes and warriors and even entered into a fraternal alliance with six other monarchs, including the Bull Monster King, the Garuda Monster King, and the Dragon Monster King, enjoying life as much as he could.
The viewers were thrilled while they watched, surprised that the Monkey King had grown into such a top existence in a short time.
“How come the Monkey King is so powerful now…?” Su Tianji said in surprise while she watched.
“Hehe… is the rest of the story about how the Monkey King tours the rivers and mountains each day with his little monkeys…” In the Canglan City Shop, the elves talked among themselves while they watched it together.
“Hehe. That would be great! We love checking out the scenery around the world!” Sala said in pleasant surprise.
“The scenery at the Mountain of Mind and Heart is excellent!”
“Yeah! Flower-Fruit Mountain is very beautiful too!”
“The Dragon Palace has great scenery as well!”
“Right! Right! Right!” The elves had never seen the beautiful scenery at the bottom of the ocean. “The Dragon Palace has the most beautiful scenery! That old Dragon King lives in such a pretty place and has so many treasures!”
They had an animated discussion.
One day, the Monkey King had a big banquet in Flower-Fruit Mountain and got drunk. Then, he fell asleep under the shade of the pine tree in front of the sheet-iron bridge before the cave.
He had a few monkey generals guarding him.
In his sleep, he saw two men approach with a summons with the three characters ‘Sun Wukong’ written on it. They walked up to him and, without a word, tied him up with a rope and dragged him off until they reached the edge of a city.
“This…?!” The viewers were alarmed when they saw such an easy capture.
“They look like the Black and White Impermanence, who capture people’s souls!” Obviously, there were many Legend of Sword and Fairy players among the viewers. In the Legend of Sword and Fairy 3 and 4, there were events in Hell, and that was why they recognized these two men.
[TL Note: Black and White Impermanence are two deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the Underworld.]
Sure enough, when they looked up, they saw above the city an iron sign bearing the three words [Region of Darkness].
“The soul summoners said that his age in the World of Life had come to an end?!” The cultivators watched in bafflement. “Hasn’t Sun Wukong finished walking the path to immortality?!”
Even the old Dragon King was frightened by Sun Wukong’s holy presence, which showed that he wasn’t an average immortal.
He had cultivated for hundreds of years; how could he die like this?
“What can he do now?!” In various shops, like the Jiuhua City Shop and Canglan City Shop, the viewers looked at each other in confusion.
From their experience in the Legend of Sword and Fairy, they remembered the horrors in Hell which governed all the livings. They had made narrow escapes from Hell in both the Legend of Sword and Fairy 3 and 4.
During those adventures, they only snuck in and hid their presences, not attracting the attention of the truly powerful existences.
But now, Sun Wukong had reached the end of his age in the World of Life and was summoned by the Black and White Impermanence. They were now standing before the Palace of Darkness, and demon soldiers would meet them at any moment.
As the saying goes, “If the Yama King wants someone to die at midnight, he wouldn’t delay it until the next morning!”.
Sun Wukong couldn’t escape it!
“Finished! Finished! This time, he’s in big trouble!” In the Canglan City Shop, a dragon didn’t turn off the External Communication Option and yelled, and all the people in the shop could hear it.
“Hey! Cowardly Dragon, can you stop shouting?!”
“Yeah. You’re disturbing us from watching the TV Series!”
While they talked, they saw the Monkey King taking out the Golden-Hooped Rod from his ear and shattering the two soul summoners with one strike!
“Oh-!? The Golden-Hooped Rod is hidden in the soul?!” In the Canglan City Shop, the saint-level masters such as St. Willy and St. Leidon widened their eyes and yelled hoarsely, “There’s such a wondrous use of this treasure!?”
“I, the old Monkey himself, have transcended the three Regions and the Five Phases; hence I am no longer under Yama’s jurisdiction. Why is he so confused that he wants to arrest me?!”
With a shout, he fought his way into the city!
The bull-headed demons scrambled to hide, and horse-faced demons fled in every direction. Anyone touched or scratched by the rod would be injured or killed. No demons dared to get close to him!
In the Palace of Darkness, the kings of the underground had just straightened out their attire and sat down in the palace when they heard horrified shouts, “Great Kings! Disaster! Disaster! Outside, there’s a hairy-faced thunder god fighting his way in!”
At this moment, not only demon soldiers but the ten kings of the underground held their breaths in fear. They yelled, “High Immortal! High Immortal! Please have mercy on us!”
When they played the Legend of Sword and Fairy, the players almost died every time when they ventured into Hell and the Palace of Darkness. They had never seen such a scene before!
They couldn’t even manage to defeat the Black and White Impermanence. The ten kings of the underground were only legends to them! They had never seen them!
What were they watching now?!
The Monkey King said, “I’m the Heaven-born sage Sun Wukong from the Water-Curtain Cave in Flower-Fruit Mountain. What kind of officials are you?” The ten kings bowed and said, “We’re the Emperors of Darkness, the ten kings of the underground.”
Wukong said, “Tell me each of your names at once, or I’ll give you a drubbing.”
The ten kings said, “We’re King Qinguang, King of the Beginning River, King of the Song Empire…”
“My Goodness!?” The elves, who had played the all the games in the Legend of Sword and Fairy series, held their heads in their arms, feeling like their brains would explode.
They couldn’t believe their eyes!
Then, they saw Wukong picking up the register of births and deaths. Then, he found the ledger on monkeys and crossed out all the names that he could find. After tossing down the book, he said, “That ends the account! That ends the account! Now, I’m truly not your subject!”
Brandishing his rod, he fought his way out of the Region of Darkness.
“Come and watch the immortal-!” The cultivators and warriors were more than frightened; they were stupefied!
“Why are you watching on your knees…?!” with tears on their face, one elf looked at another elf and asked.
“The elder asked me why I’m watching on my knees; I don’t know…” the other elf said shakily.
The scene awed them so much that they fell on their knees!
…
However, it wasn’t the time for celebration yet.
Then, they saw in the Treasure Hall of Divine Mists, the Cloud Palace of Golden Arches, the divine ministers, civil and military, were just gathering for the morning session when suddenly the Daoist immortal Qiu Hongzhi announced, “Your Majesty, outside the Translucent Palace, Auguang, the Dragon King of the Eastern Ocean is awaiting your command to present a memorial to the Throne.”
From below, the Immortal Elder Ge, the Celestial Master, also brought forth a report, “Your Majesty, the Minister of Darkness, King Qinguang, supported by the Bodhisattva King Kitigarbha and other people of the Underground, has arrived to present his memorial.”
“From the lowly water region of the Eastern Ocean at the East Purvavideha Continent, this small dragon subject, Aoguang, humbly informs the Wise Lord of Heaven, the Most Eminent High God and Ruler, that a bogus immortal, Sun Wukong, born of Flower-Fruit Mountain and resident of the Water-Curtain Cave, has recently abused your small dragon and gained a seat in his watery residence by force…”
“We earnestly beseech you to dispatch the Heavenly troops and capture this monster, so that tranquility may be restored to the oceans and prosperity to the lower region. Thus, we present this memorial.”
The other memorial said, “The Region of Darkness is the nether region proper to Earth. But now appears Sun Wukong, a Heaven-born baneful monkey from the Water-Curtain Cave in Flower-Fruit Mountain, who practices evil and violence, and resists our proper summons. Exercising magic powers, he utterly defeated the ghostly messengers of Ninefold Darkness; exploiting brutal force, he terrorized the Ten Merciful Kings…”
“We humbly beg you to send forth your divine army and subdue this monster, to the end that life and death may once more be regulated, and the Underworld rendered perpetually secure. Respectfully, we present this memorial.”
After the Jade Emperor finished reading, he gave a command, “We shall send our generals to arrest this culprit!”
Watching this, the viewers were alarmed and shouted anxiously, “Finished! Finished! This time, he’s really in big trouble!”