Chapter 65: Understanding the Situation
After Sun Wukong returned to the Great Sage Equalling Heaven’s house, Ne Zha came to visit, and only then did Wukong realize that the former manager of the annual Martial Arts Tournament had always been Li Tianwang.
Clearly, he had usurped someone else’s position.
Could it be that the Jade Emperor was planning to target Li Tianwang this time?
"Great Sage, don’t worry about it," Ne Zha said with a laugh, "I have been displeased with my father for a long time. He organizes the Martial Arts Tournament every year, always favoring Chan Buddhism and the monks, completely unjust. It serves him right to be dismissed by His Majesty."
"Heh, you can really be ruthless against your own kin," Sun Wukong laughed.
"I’ve tried before," Ne Zha jumped onto the table next to him, legs dangling, "Unfortunately, an old geezer gave my dad a Gold Pagoda, making him guard against me every day."
"That old geezer is no good man," Sun Wukong said, "Not only does he not promote reconciliation, but he also gets a father to guard against his son every day."
"Exactly," Ne Zha nodded, "That old geezer is called Ran Deng, originally the Vice Sect Hierarch of Chan, then he became a Buddha, but he didn’t last long before someone replaced him and he became the Past Buddha."
"Serves him right," Sun Wukong clapped and praised, but then he thought, wasn’t Ran Deng replaced by the Buddha himself?
Indeed, there’s nothing good in Buddhism!