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Text: Xiao Hei
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introduction
Havoc in the sky is the first climax in "Journey to the West", but many people had a question at that time, that is, why the strength of Heavenly Court was so weak, so that Sun Wukong almost smashed the entire Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and in the end, he had to ask Rulai to take action to subdue Sun Wukong.
If the Jade Emperor can't beat Sun Wukong, it's understandable, but why didn't Daozu dare to kill Sun Wukong after being insulted by Sun Wukong? This actually has a big root, Daozu just didn't want to make a move on Sun Wukong, and look at what happened to Sun Wukong after Rulai shot at Sun Wukong.
(Jade Emperor and Taishang Laojun)
First, the attitude of the Taishang Daozu
In the eyes of many people, Taishang Laojun's status in Heavenly Court is not high, and he usually only shows his alchemy skills, just like the logistics minister of Heavenly Court. But in fact, Taishang Laojun is definitely a transcendent existence in the Heavenly Court, and no one in the entire Heavenly Court dares to offend Taishang Laojun.
If you want to understand the identity of Taishang Laojun, you need to change his name first: Taishang Daozu, he is one of the Taoist "Three Qings" Daode Tianzun, although there is a saying that Taishang Laojun is a corpse left behind in the three corpses of Taishang Daozu.
But it can still directly represent the Taishang Dao Ancestor, and it can be seen from here that the Taishang Laojun is a supreme existence in terms of identity, status or strength, looking at the entire Three Realms.
(Monkey King)
But such a character was insulted by Sun Wukong, in the seventh chapter of the original book, Taishang Laojun's encounter was: "Lao Jun caught up and grabbed a handful, was beaten by him, pinched an upside-down onion, and got out of it", dare to treat Taishang Laojun like this, it is estimated that Sun Wukong is the only one.
According to the status of Taishang Laojun, he was insulted like this, even if he killed Sun Wukong, it would not be an exaggeration, but why did he not dare to kill Sun Wukong? In fact, it is not "dare not", but "unwilling", on the one hand, the identity of the two is very different, Taishang Laojun is too lazy to worry about Sun Wukong, on the other hand, Taishang Laojun is very estimated that the consequences of hurting Sun Wukong, in this regard, the Buddha has set a good example.
(Monkey King)
You must know that Taishang Laojun is one of the incarnations of the Three Qings, the gods and Buddhas are his juniors, and Sun Wukong is the younger generation of the younger generations.
From the journey to the west, the green bull spirit can easily defeat Sun Wukong, it can be seen that Taishang Laojun wants to take care of him in minutes, the so-called adults don't care about villains, so Taishang Laojun will not be too embarrassed Sun Wukong.
So did Taishang Laojun dare to kill Sun Wukong? Of course he "didn't dare", because the "price" of hurting Sun Wukong was too great.
(Monkey King)
Second, the price of such a come
The first turning point in Sun Wukong's life was to be suppressed by Rulai after making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, in fact, judging from the paper strength of Heavenly Court at that time, Heavenly Court did not need to invite Rulai to come over at all.
Aside from the top players who did not appear in "Journey to the West", such as the Arctic Ziwei Emperor, the Antarctic Immortal Emperor, etc., just one Yang Jian can suppress Sun Wukong in a one-on-one situation, but why does Heavenly Court invite Rulai to appear?
The answer is very simple, Heavenly Court wants to bear the price of suppressing Sun Wukong.
(As it comes)
As a representative of Lingshan, Rulai can directly suppress Sun Wukong without saying a word. But the reality is that Rulai must make Sun Wukong "self-inflicted" by making a bet, but even if he wins the bet, he can only "suppress" Sun Wukong, not kill him directly.
But even with the double BUFF blessing of winning the bet and just suppression, the result of Rulai is also terrifying, in the ninth chapter of the original book, Rulai returned to Lingshan and was immediately counterattacked: "Let's say, let go of the light of relics.... In a few moments, gather the clouds and fog, climb the lotus platform, and sit down."
(Taishang Laojun)
It can be seen from this paragraph that after returning to Lingshan to explain, Rulai immediately passed away on the lotus platform. Although Rulai did not die in the real sense, after this death, his origin must have suffered great damage, just like Wang Jianlin sold a large number of real estate in his hands in order to repay the arrears, and the price was not small.
Just suppressing Sun Wukong has been hurt so much, you can imagine what kind of consequences Rulai will suffer if he kills Sun Wukong, maybe Rulai needs to take a life for a life.
Why did he suffer such a big backlash for hurting Sun Wukong? It depends on Sun Wukong's background.
3. Sun Wukong's luck
In works such as "Journey to the West" and "Fengshen Bang", there is a price for indiscriminate killing, because everyone is silently bound to the luck of heaven and earth, and the more important the person killed, the greater the final backlash. It's like "Fengshen Bang", even if the king of Xuan molested Nuwa, Nuwa didn't dare to kill him directly, but sent the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb to the cholera court.
In the end, all the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb died, which can be regarded as the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb who undertook the backlash of killing the King of Xuanyuan;
(Taishang Laojun and Sun Wukong)
The luck of Sun Wukong involves two aspects, first of all, he is the colorful divine stone left by Nuwa to mend the sky, representing the atmospheric luck between Nuwa and heaven and earth, which means that harming Sun Wukong is fighting against the luck of the whole heaven and earth, and the backlash behind it can be imagined.
Secondly, when Sun Wukong was conceived from Huaguo Mountain, Huaguo Mountain "is the ancestral vein of the ten continents and the dragon of the three islands", which is one of the most important sources of spiritual energy between heaven and earth. If you kill Sun Wukong, it means damaging the aura between heaven and earth and hurting the entire Three Realms, so it is not an exaggeration to die once after suppressing Sun Wukong.
As the top power between heaven and earth, whether it is Taishang Laojun, Jade Emperor or Rulai, in fact, they all know the consequences of hurting Sun Wukong, but everyone is weighing and is unwilling to pay the price, but in order to lay out the follow-up journey to the west, Rulai has to "sacrifice himself" and "take the initiative" to accept this task, in exchange for the heavenly court's consent to learn from the scriptures five hundred years later.
(Monkey King)
epilogue
It's not so much that Taishang Laojun doesn't dare to kill Sun Wukong, it's better to say that he doesn't want to kill Sun Wukong, even if it takes a price to kill Sun Wukong, Heavenly Laojun also has many ways, Qingniu Jing, Golden Horn and Silver Horn, etc., can take on this mission, with the magic weapon given by Taishang Laojun, it is still very easy to take Sun Wukong.
However, the heavenly Laojun still chose to form a good relationship with Sun Wukong, not only before "refining" Sun Wukong, he took down the torture instrument that locked Sun Wukong's pipa bone, and "sent" him with a pair of fiery eyes, and on the follow-up journey to the west, he also helped Sun Wukong solve problems many times.
Here we might as well make a bold guess, Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the sky, which was a game set up by Taishang Laojun and the Jade Emperor, so as to consume the mana of Rulai without blood and maintain the advantage of heaven.
(Taishang Laojun)
Resources
Journey to the West_Journey to the West_Journey to the West. [OL].
The full text and appreciation of the classical novel "Havoc in Heaven (Excerpt from the Seventh Chapter)". [OL].