Chapter 154 - Bewildering gods (1/2)

“So, it turned out that, I have inadvertently become a container for soul protection?” Hao Ning suddenly realized. After carefully recalling, he clapped his thigh, “Right, I remembered. On that urgent situation, Xiao Hong, your true spirit didn’t have time to enter my body when I came out from the world of Gods. It should be at that time that your memory inside the world was eliminated. No wonder you don’t remember the Monkey King in the Creation of the Gods.”

Hao Ning obviously hadn’t thought that because of a mistake in his own thoughts, there would have been so many misunderstandings. Now, after unraveling, he smiled out of relief.

“You mean, you really met Uncle Sun in the world of Gods?” Xiao Hong sensed Hao Ning’s determination that he didn’t seem to joke at all. Although Xiao Hong believed a little bit, he still asked with suspicion. “Are you sure it was him? Not somebody else? You know that for so many years, there have always been some monsters and mystic creatures trying to turn into his appearance to confuse the world, and only some people including me who are close to him could recognize. It is easy to make mistakes for the others.”

“Not exactly,” Zhou Yuan said with an untimely smile. “Not only monsters and mystic creatures wish to imitate his appearance, but even mortals are claiming to be relatives of this Avalokitesvara of our own! It is either the brother-in-law of Guanyin in reincarnation or the sister-in-law of the Jade Emperor coming down to the earth. When I went to learn from Mr. Zhang two days before and he taught me how to distinguish the truth from the fake, we went to a lecture that claimed its master to be the mother-in-law of Heavenly Queen Mother.”

“…” Liu Shuai stared at Zhou Yuan, speechlessly. Of course, he knew that Zhou Yuan was mentioning about how mortal people pretended to be gods and mystified others which had hurt many people. He couldn’t help but say, ” Does Mr. Zhang have such a hobby?”

“Of course…” Xiao Hong took it for granted. “He is particularly unaccustomed to this kind of organization that uses the name of the immortal to carry out their own desires.” While saying, Xiao Hong looked at Hao Ning. “Brother Hao Ning, would the Monkey King you saw be a similar act of fraud?”

“Of course not. Could the Golden Cudgel be faked? Or could his skill of chewing the monkey hair to turn into countless avatars be faked?” Hao Ning shook his head for sure and looked into Xiao Hong’s eyes. “But you were calling him Uncle Sun. Even if I were wrong, would you have mistaken his identity?”

“I…” Xiao Hong was stunned. He had not thought that Hao Ning would use his own words as the weapon to turn against him. He had just said that he could recognize Monkey King. It would be a punch in his face if he denied it, so he coughed slightly and said. “Well, I don’t think I would mistake someone else like him ‒ Em, how did he appear, and what did he say after he appeared? Had he said anything important to me?”

Undoubtedly, Hao Ning knew that Xiao Hong changed the topic because of awkwardness, but Hao Ning did not bother to reveal. When he looked at other people, he found that except Nezha had been nodding all the time because he had experienced that incident personally, Liu Shuai and others were like listening to a story and waited for him to continue, “He suddenly appeared after you. It was an urgent time and he didn’t tell you anything. But later he said something to me, which was not about you, but about Zhou Yuan. He said that when he was becoming a Buddha in the Western Heaven Mountain and was crossing a river, he fell into the river and one part of him under the boat became a Monkey Inside turning to the mortal world. He tried many times and asked about it everywhere. He asked Avalokitesvara for a few times. But Avalokitesvara hated him because Monkey King used to say that “It serves her right to live without a husband for a lifetime”– ”

“Brother Zhang would not harbor a grudge,” Xiao Hong suddenly blushed, for he once had said similar things, and Hao Ning knew it clearly, “He just wanted to eliminate this cause and effect.”

“Hehe, you can interpret it in whatever way you like,” Hao Ning was aware of Xiao Hong’s conditioned reflex of protecting Zhang Chi Hang. “In short, because Monkey King had said that sentence, Avalokitesvara never told him the truth. Until some time ago, when Zhou Yuan lost his soul, the Monkey King finally learned that Zhou Yuan was his Monkey Inside, and then those things of the world of gods creation happened.”

“Monkey Inside…” Xiao Hong pondered long and deeply over the question. “I didn’t hear my parents and Uncle Sun mentioning this.”

“It might be the hiding of Monkey King,” Hao Ning nodded. “But he did say this to me at that time.”

“Exactly!” Nezha also nodded and said, “Though I was far away at that time, I still heard the two words of Monkey Inside.”

“But I still feel a little bit strange about what he said.” Without waiting for Xiao Hong to ask questions, Hao Ning himself had some doubts. “If Zhou Yuan is a Monkey Inside, why did Monkey King feel it only after the loss of soul in Zhou Yuan?”

“Hey! It is easy ‒ if Zhou Yuan’s body is the Monkey Inside,” Liu Shuai clearly reflected faster in this aspect than Hao Ning, and he continued what Hao Ning said, “When the soul is in Zhou Yuan’s body and the confluence of the spirit and body is achieved, it should be difficult to find the problems of Zhou Yuan’s body. Once your soul is out of the flesh, you may have these inspirations. So, the Monkey King said that he had found that Zhou Yuan was his own Monkey Inside at that time, and it was not a wrong answer.”

“It seems correct, but too unbelievable,” Xiao Hong nodded unwillingly and asked. “What about later?”

“Well, the later,” Hao Ning didn’t care about Xiao Hong’s expression, but also thought about it carefully. “he told me that Zhou Yuan’s losing his soul was a difficulty that he must pass through ‒ although it sounds a bit strange. It seems like Zhou Yuan was born to lose his soul.”

“So, I was blessed by misfortune? I am really the Monkey King’s ‒ what is that? His Monkey Inside?” Zhou Yuan laughed and danced out of happiness and picked up a signature pen as a short and fine Gold Cudgel, “I am the Monkey King! I have the fast-moving riding clouds. The Golden Cudgel can turn to big and small, and the eyes have the ability to distinguish between true and false!”

“And also the Incantation of the Golden Hoop.” Hao Ning couldn’t help sneering at Zhou Yuan for his being complacent, “It’s best to read it hundreds of times and hurt you to death.”

“Get out.” Zhou Yuan was in his mood when ridiculed by Hao Ning. He glared at him and continued to ask, “What about the Monkey King? Why didn’t he come out with you?”

“Because he was dead.” Hao Ning said without thinking. After seeing Zhou Yuan’s change in facial expression, he quickly changed. “Oh, that should be called Nirvana. It should be a diminishing spirit, and only you, the Monkey Inside, the flesh remained…”