Chapter 110 - 108: Great Sage King Bodhisattva
The Daoist Equal to Heaven learned that the Water Monkey Great Saint Wuzhiqi’s physical body had cultivated the Corpse Way and been captured by the King Bodhisattva, so he wanted his brothers to help him take back that body.
What is the Corpse Way? The so-called Corpse Way is when a corpse attains the Dao. Wuzhiqi’s Primordial Spirit had perished, but his physical body was strong. The body absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth day and night and became a Corpse King. It developed spiritual wisdom, transforming it into an immortal being of the Dao of Immortals. This is the Corpse Way. There’s a saying that rats have their own paths, and snakes have their own ways. With the Great Dao having three thousand pathways, which one can’t be cultivated? It is said that "a scholar is of no practical use," but Confucius with a single command, a single word, banished the Buddha of Immeasurable Life from Luoyang City.
Any Dao, once its profound realms are understood, is formidable and can touch upon the Heavenly Dao.
The Daoist Equal to Heaven could not show himself, fearing the Tathagata would learn of it. He had just managed, after that battle, to disassociate himself from his true form. Now if he got involved with the six Demon Kings, anyone with discerning eyes could spot some clues. His visits to Flower-Fruit Mountain were extremely cautious, for fear of being seen by outsiders.
Within the Daoist Equal to Heaven’s body lay another Primordial Spirit, which was the third one, formed from the remnant soul of Yuan Hong—a fortune bestowed upon Wukong. This Primordial Spirit, having grown stronger from consuming Peaches of Immortality every day, was now able to occupy a physical body to perform fetal transformation and easy shape-shifting. After seven days, it would become another Da Luo Golden Immortal.
"Do we know where that bird-like King Bodhisattva is?" asked the Jiao Demon King.
He is known as the Great Sage King Bodhisattva, and he had a residence in Xu Yi of the Southern Toad Continent," the Daoist Equal to Heaven said with a smile. "However, since he lost to me in Luoyang, he no longer dwells there but has gone to West Cow He State. He’s in that Great Saint Country in West Cow He State, acting as their little national teacher."
"Who knows which bird country this Great Saint Country is? It sounds rather domineering," the Lion Camel King muttered.
"In West Cow He State, there are countless small nations, and kings are as numerous as cow hair. Some places aren’t even as big as a single city in the Han Dynasty. If we were to move Ao Lai Kingdom there, it would probably be considered a massive entity," said the Macaques King, seemingly all-knowing, as he immediately responded to the Lion Camel King’s remark.
The Peng Demon King said, "I don’t understand why those small nations there can’t unite?"
"That’s due to fate," commented the Macaques King. "Each nation’s rise and fall is ordained by the Heavenly Dao. The fate in West Cow He State is too chaotic, leading to countless small nations. In the Southern Toad Continent, fate is concentrated. Whoever carries the great fate can contend for the world. Didn’t Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, a common rascal, defeat Xiang Yu, who had the bloodline of one of the Five Emperors, Emperor Ku?"