Journey to the West: Sun Wukong's Advice System-Chapter 32: The Emperor and His Ministers Deliberate; The Three Corpses Discourse
Chapter 32: Chapter 32: The Emperor and His Ministers Deliberate; The Three Corpses Discourse
Miro Palace, Tongming Hall.
After the morning court at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall had dispersed, the Jade Emperor returned to his usual place of rest.
He changed into a moon-white robe and reclined casually on a couch, carefully perusing a scroll in his hand.
King Luo stood solemnly beside him, waiting for the Jade Emperor to finish reading the scroll before respectfully bowing and saying, "Your servant thanks Your Majesty!"
"No need to thank me, it was your position rightfully due," the Jade Emperor said. "It is my failure that allowed you to be suppressed for so many years."
"Your Majesty, your servant deserves death!" King Luo quickly prostrated on the ground. "It is my inadequacy as a servant that has led to this, how can I blame Your Majesty? Moreover, this has also been a form of tempering for me."
"Rise, a dignified Lord of the Netherworld need not kneel like this," the Jade Emperor said with a light laugh, before pointing to the scroll in his hand, "Is this everything?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, after much investigation, I have found ten years unaccounted for," King Luo said as he got up. "Sun Wukong spent over three hundred years wandering carefree at Fruit Mountain, then crossed the sea in search of immortality, traveling about Southern Continent for eight or nine years, and then over the Western Sea to Western Bull Demon Continent—there are traces of his movements during all these times.
However, not long after he reached the Western Bull Demon Continent, he disappeared without a trace, and ten years later, he suddenly returned to Fruit Mountain,
By this time he had not only acquired the title of Sun Wukong, but he had also become a Daluo Golden Immortal, and his strength was so formidable that even if the six top Demon Kings—Ox Demon King, Jiao Demon King, Peng Demon King, Lion Camel King, Macaque King, Yuantu King—joined forces, they could not rival him."
By the end, King Luo could not help but marvel.
"To gain such power in merely ten years, his talent is indeed extraordinary," praised the Jade Emperor.
Upon hearing this, King Luo tactfully chose not to continue.
Originally, he was quite curious about who Sun Wukong’s master was, but the Jade Emperor did not seem interested in discussing this matter.
"Who do you think destroyed the Dragon Palace and then caused a commotion in the Underworld?" the Jade Emperor asked. "Was it Sun Wukong?"
King Luo pondered for a moment before replying earnestly, "Your servant cannot be certain. I am not sure what the situation was when the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace was destroyed. I only heard that the one who took action was Sun Wukong,
During the Underworld disturbance, I actually witnessed it myself. The one who acted really did resemble Sun Wukong to an uncanny extent,
but with my power, I couldn’t discern whether he was someone else in disguise. I only felt that he was more ferocious than the Sun Wukong I had seen face to face."
"More ferocious?" The Jade Emperor frowned slightly and, after pondering, said, "You may go back now. Continue to work with them to investigate this matter."
"Your servant obeys," King Luo said respectfully, bowing and then leaving Tongming Hall to return to the Underworld.
...
Sun Wukong and the Grand Duke Jupiter left Heaven together and headed first for the Eastern Sea.
The Sea Dragon King Ao Guang accompanied them, his mood very depressed and somewhat fearful of Sun Wukong.
Therefore, they had little to say to each other on this journey.
Sun Wukong was content with the silence and activated his advising system, linking his consciousness to the intelligent online forum, where he posted a new question.
"I am Sun Wukong, about to go to the lower realms to investigate a case. May I ask if any of you seniors have any advice?"
He then added his recent experience in Heaven and some of his doubts in his heart below the question.
For instance, moving quickly to kill the Chaos Demon King might be explained as cultivation for returning to one’s original nature and expelling demons. But now, what’s the purpose behind destroying the Dragon Palace and creating havoc in the Underworld? Is it just to frame him?
Sun Wukong couldn’t understand. It was a good opportunity to ask the widely experienced forum seniors for their thoughts before starting the investigation.
The seniors’ replies were always timely.
Speeding to Paradise: "You’ll be Detective Monkey from now on."
A Big Deed Bag: "Based on the current judgments, the Six-Eared Macaque and Sun Wukong are of the same body but two minds, an incarnation of malevolent thoughts. This reminds me of the Three Corpses theory, Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Self Corpse.
The Six-Eared Macaque is like Sun Wukong’s Evil Corpse, while the current state of Sun Wukong is actually dominated by the Self Corpse with the Good Corpse as a secondary aspect, which means he still freely gives in to anger and joy, prone to impulsive and excessive behavior, and is not purely good.
In this situation, although the Evil Corpse has left the body, I believe that everything the Evil Corpse did is actually what the deep part of Sun Wukong’s heart desires, but he himself is not aware of it.
Therefore, I suggest that Sun Wukong should promptly eliminate the Six-Eared Macaque because it is moving towards evil incarnations and devilry. If it keeps causing trouble, it will definitely affect the main body in the end."
[You have received a new suggestion: Eliminate the Six-Eared Macaque as soon as possible to receive a Seventh Rank Treasure Chest]
"Was it all what I truly wanted to do?" Sun Wukong wasn’t drawn by the seventh-rank treasure chest, but pondered over the reply from Elder Da Bi sincerely.
Thinking about it, it did make some sense.
Lacking evil thoughts doesn’t mean he can’t get angry.
When Ao Guang made excuses, he indeed felt that this old Dragon King was particularly disagreeable. If he had still been influenced by evil thoughts, he might have swung his staff right there and then.
When his soul was being reaped, he also truly felt angry, especially when King Qin Guang tried to squirm out of it right in front of him, and even when he left the Netherworld, he still felt discontent.
"Hmm, just three times and it has already caused a lot of trouble for me, I indeed need to get rid of it as soon as possible," Sun Wukong thought to himself.
That’s when another new reply arrived.
Stinky Tofu Delight: "The analysis above isn’t bad, but I think changing ’eliminate the Six-Eared Macaque’ to ’subjugate the Six-Eared Macaque’ would be more appropriate,
Whether it’s good intentions or evil thoughts, they’re all parts of an individual. Lacking either one would make one incomplete.
If one were to truly cultivate, an incomplete individual would probably find it very hard to advance to higher realms. It’s like severing the Three Corpses, in the end, isn’t it about unifying the Three Corpses?"
[You have received a new suggestion: Subjugate the Six-Eared Macaque to receive a Ninth Rank Treasure Chest]
"Eh, a ninth-rank treasure chest?" Sun Wukong was taken aback.
Clearly, the suggestion from Senior Stinky Tofu Delight was more challenging, which also seemed to imply that subjugating the Six-Eared Macaque was the better suggestion.
Furthermore, up to this point, the highest treasure chest he had attained was a sixth rank, and one of those contained the Nine Transformations Mysterious Primordial Technique.
And the higher the rank of the treasure chest, the greater the chance of obtaining a supreme award.
This made him very excited about what supreme reward could come from a ninth-rank treasure chest.
Last time, a netizen senior suggested he take down Buddha, take down the Jade Emperor, take down the Three Realms; the reward was also a ninth-rank treasure chest, but the difficulty of that suggestion was obviously too high.
However, this time, the suggestion to subjugate Six-Ears sounded more promising.
Looking at other replies.
9527: "Diarrhea pill, I don’t understand cultivation, let’s chat about case investigation.
The steps of criminal investigation are: report and file the case, examine the scene, interview witnesses, gather evidence, arrest suspects, interrogate suspects, identification and examination, case evaluation, and initiate prosecution.
The details are as follows—
The first step, report and file the case, has already been completed by the Heavenly Court.
The second step, examining the scene, has the Heavenly Court assigning Sun Wukong as the detective in charge of the case, with full authority over the matter, and Taibai Jinxing as the supervisor, together examining the scene for clues and evidence.
...
The ninth step, initiating prosecution, involves submitting the evidence and related materials to the prosecutor’s office for public prosecution.
Speaking of which, what exactly is the prosecutor’s office in the Heavenly Court?"
Mole: "You should ask Yang Jian, the Judicial Deity about that. But seriously, bro, you’re Awesome with a capital A. If Sun Wukong were to handle cases in the way you described, it’s hard to even imagine how beautiful the scene would be (*/ω＼*)"
9527: "The mythological world probably isn’t so rigorous, since there are all sorts of Divine Skills at play, like using time reversal, which would make case investigation too simple.
In contrast, our steps in criminal investigation are necessary to follow one by one in most cases, and many cases still get stuck at the evidence gathering or suspect arrest stage, turning into difficult cold cases that are hard to solve." freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
After carefully reading through these replies, Sun Wukong was both surprised and impressed. Was there really so much to case investigation?
At the same time, a notification sounded in his mind.
[You have received a new suggestion: Conduct a case investigation (examine the scene, interview witnesses, gather evidence) to receive a Fifth Rank Treasure Chest]
