Chapter 317: "Wukong" A Different Monkey King

The golden hoop rolled on the ground for several times, but the Monkey King had no intention of picking it up.

The sound of rapid music sounded, and when the music slowed down a little, the Monkey King on the stage spoke.

"The moon splashes on the starry sky, the long road is long,

the wind and smoke are gone, and the lone shadow is fading."

The voice was a little vicissitudes, with a hint of lowness and unwillingness.

The guests were stunned for a moment.

The image of the Monkey King has always been a positive image of being unrestrained, free, and strong.

He should have a will as strong as steel and iron, and a powerful strength that can do everything. How could he be so low?

"It may not necessarily be the Monkey King, after all, each contestant sings a song that matches his image, it's just our own guess." Li Zhengyi said.

"That's right, it may not be Sun Wukong." Zhao Lei agreed.

Wu Gaofeng frowned slightly, "Wait a minute, I don't seem to have heard this song before?"

"Is it a new song?"

As guests, they don't say that they can recite old songs by heart, but basically they know what the song is after listening to two sentences.

This song, they are very sure they have never heard of it.

Although the program does not stipulate that new songs cannot be sung, new songs can easily suffer on this stage.

After all, it is difficult for new songs to resonate as easily as old songs, and impression points have a great impact on the number of votes.

As soon as everyone finished speaking.

The song information "Wukong" was displayed on the screen.

"It is indeed a new song!"

"The theme is also Sun Wukong, but the tone seems very special."

"Not sure, listen again."

At this time, the Monkey King continued to sing on the stage.

"Who told me that I am extraordinary, who made me love and hate in a dilemma,

In the end, my heart was broken."

The true and false voices can be switched freely, and the singing skills can be seen.

But everyone's attention is on the artistic conception of the song.

These few sentences give people a feeling that is more depressed than the beginning.

"Is this Sun Wukong? Why is Sun Wukong so entangled?"

Everyone heard the entanglement and pain in the song.

This does not sound like singing Sun Wukong, but rather like singing ordinary people.

Someone immediately raised questions.

How could the unruly Sun Wukong be so depressed?

China has "Journey to the West", but the mainstream interpretation still believes that Sun Wukong is a great hero who stands tall and proud. He is the Monkey King, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, the Fighting Buddha, and a god.

Not a human.

Some people are excited, some people applaud the singing skills of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, but some people do not understand.

Innovation first faces not cheers, but doubts.

This is the first problem that innovation needs to solve.

At this time, many people are not optimistic about the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. New songs and innovations need to face greater pressure.

The song continues.

"The illusory world is in the sky, and grudges are no longer cherished.

Abandon enlightenment and leave confusion, the six dusts do not change,

and anger, sadness and madness, whether it is a human, a ghost or a monster,

it's just that the heart has a debt of the devil."

The expressions of the guests and the guessing group have changed a little, and the emotions of the song seem to have a little explosion.

From loneliness and confusion to sudden enlightenment, there is no difference whether it is a human, a ghost or a monster.

Gods eat people, and monsters eat people too. The only difference is that gods eat people and then go back, while monsters are either recruited or killed.

Ghosts harm people, and humans harm people too. In fact, humans harm more people than ghosts.

So what is the difference between humans, ghosts, and monsters?

The lyrics are very profound, and are completely different from previous interpretations of "Journey to the West".

The guests and the guessing panel were a little impatient, "Who is this?"

"It's so wonderful, his singing skills are great."

On the stage, the Monkey King continued to sing.

"Call the Buddha once, and there is no shore to turn back.

Kneel down to one person as a teacher, and life and death have nothing to do with it.

The world of good and evil, the world of truth and falsehood, the world of fate is not clear,

it's hard to break~"

The sudden increase in pitch also refreshed everyone on the scene.

The role of the flute increased, and the arrangement became the style of Peking Opera music. The phrase "call the Buddha once" made people's scalps explode.

The lyrics continue to follow up, with the confusion of "no shore to turn back, life and death have nothing to do" and "difficult to distinguish, difficult to break" intertwined.

At the same time, the music speeds up the rhythm to push the emotions, the cymbals sound, the restlessness is more gripping, and the emotions are approaching the highest point.

The lyrics make people think deeply.

The Buddhists say: The sea of ​​suffering is boundless, turn back is the shore.

However, the lyrics sing that there is no shore to turn back.

The difference of one word not only makes the meaning different, but also makes a big turn in the thought of the whole song.

Sun Wukong's conversion to Buddhism was originally a happy event and was regarded as a symbol of success. What does this "no shore to turn back" mean?

The guests whispered to each other, and the camera was given to the master of lyrics and music Li Zhengyi.

Li Zhengyi was thoughtful, and then suddenly realized: "This song is to deprive Sun Wukong of his divinity and restore his humanity."

The song continued, Li Zhengyi mentioned it and then kept silent, and everyone was so anxious.

"It will whet people's appetite!"

"Listen to the song, listen to the song."

On the stage, the Monkey King continued to sing with the microphone.

"I want it, what's the use of this iron rod,

I have it, so what if it changes,

I am still uneasy,

I am still sad,

The golden hoop is on my head,

I want to say something but I can't..."

In the fierce music, the Monkey King's voice became more and more confused, but full of questions.

Copper skin and iron bones, fiery eyes and golden pupils, 72 transformations, jumping out of the three realms and not in the five elements, so what?

The golden hoop weighs 13,500 kilograms, but it can't break the shackles on his body.

Confused, questioning, and finally full of helplessness.

"The golden hoop is on my head, I want to say something but I can't."

Thousands of words turned into sighs under the golden hoop.

The audience felt aggrieved, as if this song "Wukong" was not about the Monkey King Sun Wukong, but themselves.

The Monkey King, who stood tall and wanted to compete with the gods, still couldn't get rid of the shackles of the golden hoop.

Under the tight hoop curse, the Monkey King became Sun Xingzhe.

This song seemed to let them hear the sigh of the Monkey King: "I struggled, but I lost."

He learned skills in the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon, broke into the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea, explored the Netherworld, and made a big fuss in the Lingxiao Palace, and was finally suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain for five hundred years.

Sun Wukong was ultimately unable to escape from the Five Fingers Mountain of Tathagata Buddha.

The shackles are on the body, and the fate is not in one's own hands. If you can't break the shackles, you can only turn into ashes and be annihilated.

"Wonderful, I suddenly understand this song a little bit."

"So the Monkey King wants freedom."

"Who is this person? This time I really have no clue."

"I only know the Monkey King, not the Fighting Buddha."

The audience talked a lot.

Several contestants backstage were also guessing.

The wolf man couldn't sit still and stood up, "This person is very strong. This song has opera elements and mythological stories. The lyrics and composition are very powerful. It reminds me of a familiar person."

The vampire spread his hands, "I said every weak person who can come here."

The white swan sat elegantly, "This person is very strong, but I really can't hear the voice."

Among the guests, Liang Feifan had an exaggerated expression and his eyes were wide open, "Which king is this?"

Zhao Lei touched his hair, "The voice is a little mature, but it may be deliberately adjusted, it's hard to guess."

The scene suddenly became lively, and the invisible pressure brought by the wolf man disappeared under the wonderful performance of the Monkey King.

In the short music solo, the Monkey King on the stage finally picked up the golden hoop stick that fell to the ground at the beginning.

The audience was all excited.

"Did he finally remember that he still had the golden hoop stick?"

"I have a hunch that he is going to use a big move!"

"Quiet!"

The Monkey King picked up the golden hoop stick and sang into the microphone.

"I want this iron rod to make the dancing devil drunk,

I have this change to make the chaos~"

The voice was high, the background music was intense, and the emotions seemed to have accumulated to the peak.

The Monkey King was shouting wantonly, but he still couldn't see through it.

As if he was very irritable, the Monkey King took the golden hoop and smashed it randomly, as if he was venting his dissatisfaction by destroying everything.

"Great Sage!" Someone sighed.

The Monkey King on the stage put away the golden hoop stick, held the microphone and sang loudly.

"Trampling the Lingxiao,

wanton and unruly~"

The high pitch made everyone's scalp numb, and these few sentences gave people goose bumps all over their bodies.

Emotions burst out all at once.

A golden hoop on my head? I won't admit defeat.

There's no way back? Then don't look back.

When I crush Lingshan and smash Lingxiao Palace,

Reluctance, anger, despair, frustration, converged together and turned into a raging anger.

I'd rather die than live without freedom!

Let's give it a try!

Crush Lingxiao!

Zhao Lei stood up suddenly, his face flushed, "Okay!"

The scene was boiling. After a long time of frustration, they finally waited for the Monkey King to give it a try.

It seemed that it was not the Monkey King who was going to fight, but themselves. The audience wanted to stand up and cheer for the Monkey King.

In real life, they could only swallow their anger in the face of oppression, so they hoped that the Monkey King could fight back instead of being like them.

"Good job, Monkey King, fuck him!"

The Monkey King on the stage continued to sing.

"The world is evil and dangerous,

and it's hard to escape~"

At the highest point of the emotional outburst, the phrase "it's hard to escape" made everyone feel like they were hit on the head.

"Damn!"

"Can't the Monkey King defy the will of Heaven?"

"Fuck!"

The audience was angry at first, angry that the Monkey King would also face failure, and then they were silent, they also knew that seeking the scriptures and becoming a Buddha did not seem to be a good ending.

Moreover, the Monkey King's journey to becoming the Fighting Buddha was not smooth sailing.

After five hundred years of suppression under the Five Finger Mountain, Tang Sanzang's doubts and distrust, and the golden hoop on his head, he finally obtained the Buddhahood, and this process has been talking about a theme.

Compromise.

If you want to become a Buddha, you must compromise.

If you don't compromise, you will die.

Whether it is the unparalleled Erlang Shen Yang Jian, or the worldly demon Nezha who can go up to the sky and the sea, or the omnipotent Monkey King, they cannot escape the control of order.

How could the gods and Buddhas tolerate a monkey out of control to go unpunished? Either destroy him or assimilate him.

Is the Monkey King who became the Fighting Buddha, who believes in small tolerance and death, and great tolerance to become a Buddha, still the Monkey King?

The smoothed-out Monkey King is just one of the gods and Buddhas in the sky.

The journey to the West is more like a kind of training, which gradually smooths out the unruly monkey's edges and corners, making him give up his freedom and the real world and choose to convert to Buddhism.

It's funny and sad.

The song hasn't ended yet.