My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 216 Evil Monkey (Two in One)

"Why can't I fall asleep?"

Jiang Yuan opened his eyes in confusion, and exited the trance state.

From late winter to early spring to midsummer, several months passed, and Jiang Yuan never had a dream again. According to his speculation, the dream was the appearance of his altar, and when he was thinking, he dreamed and guided him.

In his last dream, he pruned a mountain of peach branches in order to break through the supernatural power of metamorphosis. Afterwards, he wanted to further improve the supernatural power, but he still couldn't enter the dream.

The reason, Jiang Yuan figured it out, is that supernatural powers need a higher level of cultivation, and dreams can't make his cultivation level increase sharply, so there is no guidance.

However, Jiang Yuan is no longer attached to that supernatural power, but wants to pursue other practices, such as the true power of the Dao, such as comprehending other supernatural powers, but he has not been able to get guidance.

"Is it true that the true power of the Dao is only in the great sage? If so, it's okay, just wait for the big peach to mature every year, but why is there no other magical power to guide it?"

In fact, Jiang Yuan is more interested in great supernatural powers such as 72 changes, somersaulting clouds, and methods outside the body.

In the past few months, he has been consciously pondering on these supernatural powers, trying to get the guiding dream, but he naturally found nothing.

"Am I being too deliberate? Or is there another problem?"

Recalling the process of comprehending the natural supernatural powers of metamorphosis, at that time, he fell into a dream after eating a big peach, and then woke up to see the mountain of rotten peaches withered. He thought that he had to wait a year later and eat new ripe peaches before he could fall back into the dream, so he felt emotional .

Later, while practicing the meditation formula unconsciously, I fell into a dream and got supernatural powers.

"Could it be that you have to have a feeling first, and then you can get guidance?"

"I'm afraid so."

Jiang Yuan sighed and stood up from the futon.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid I can't just sit in the cave, but I have to walk in the mountains to see nature and the world."

The bright sunlight penetrated into the stone cave through the gap of the wooden door, leaving a few streaks of light in the air.

Jiang Yuan walked into Guangchen, felt the warmth of the sun, and a warm feeling surged up in his heart, dispelling the trace of gloom, raised his hand to fiddle with Guangchen a few times, and raised the corner of his mouth:
"However, let's eat this year's peach first."

Before the words were finished, a shadow appeared on the cave door, and the sunlight was blocked. Then, Wuqian's excited cry came——

"Master, the big peach is ripe, it's ripe!"

Jiang Yuan is living a life, and the big peach should mature in the near future.

After Wuqian learned about it, she was so excited that she stayed by the peach grove for the past few days, waiting eagerly for the moment when the peaches would ripen.

Finally let him wait.

Jiang Yuan smiled, and pushed open the cave door, he saw Wuqian jumping up and down in the air in front of the stone cave door with clouds wrapped around his limbs, the sun shone on his body, and the silver-gray dragon scales covering his back were shining brightly .

"Quick, master, let's go eat peaches."

Wuqian grinned and yelled, and as he spoke, he could see crystal saliva flowing from the corner of his mouth.

At the same time, the air of wind and cloud lingering in his mouth and nose became more and more intense, which showed that his practice in the past few months was not wasted.

"What's the hurry, Da Tao is not only ripe for this moment."

Jiang Yuan said this in his mouth, but with a touch of his feet, he flew up and leaped up to Peach Mountain, and immediately, a rotten fragrance wafted with the wind.

Big red, tender and plump peaches hang heavily on the branches, making people salivate.

"Remember, don't gobble it up this time, eat and digest at the same time."

The first two times, they were overeating, and then fell asleep. When they woke up, it was already past the peach ripening period. Jiang Yuan felt that this would be too wasteful, so he discussed with Wuqian in advance. This year, he should eat less and eat more. Maximize the use of big peaches to enhance mana.

After Jiang Yuan gave his instructions, he stood on the spot and waved his hand, "Go."

With a cheer, Wuqian turned into a cloud and swept into the peach forest. After a while, he returned with a full load, then sat down on the edge of the peach forest, picked up a big peach, and threw it into his mouth without wiping it off. After a few mouthfuls, the peach pit was spit out, and another big peach was thrown into the mouth.

After a while, the belly bulged, and sleepiness floated in his eyes.

Wuqian tried hard to open his eyes, looked at the plump and attractive peaches in front of him, shook his head vigorously, suppressed the greed, opened his mouth, and the wind came out, grinned, and the clouds surged.

The wind and cloud intertwined into a ball, turning into a raging dark cloud, floating above Wuqian's head.

"breathe--"

Wuqian's eyelids were slightly closed, his breathing became continuous, and the dragon scales on his body glowed with divine light. The dark cloud above his head followed his breathing, sometimes the wind howled, and sometimes the rain splashed.

Jiang Yuan nodded, rose against the wind, circled the peach grove, picked out the big and plump peaches, and returned to the col stone cave with a big peach in his arms after a while.

After two experiences, although my heart is still full of expectations, it is not as eager as before, eating peaches one by one slowly.

"Burp", after a full burp, the stomach is slightly distended, and drowsiness strikes.

Jiang Yuan calmly gathered the remaining Datao aside, leaned against the stone wall, and fell asleep quietly.

In a trance, suddenly felt his face was hot, the young man couldn't help stretching out his hand to cover his face, and woke up leisurely.

Just as he was about to open his eyes, his pupils stinged and his eyes turned white. After a while, he finally regained his senses.

The young man sat up and felt that the clothes on his body were going to catch fire. He didn't know that his face was hot, and every skin in his body was burning hot. He put his hand on the brow and looked up, and saw a big hot fireball, as if he could touch it.

"What a hot sun!"

The young man shook his sun-dizzled brain, and was about to get up to find a shady place to hide from the sun, when he suddenly found himself lying on a strange mountain.

The young man froze for a moment: "Huh? I seem to be in a peach forest, right?"

There are not even half a green tree on the mountain, only some sparse messy weeds, and the surrounding area is empty, only the whistling wind can be heard.

A bad premonition surged in the young man's heart, he quickly climbed to the edge of the cliff, his expression suddenly changed, and he saw that there was a vertical cliff hundreds of feet high below, the stone wall was even more bare than the mountains, and there were large expanses of exposed rock.

The left is a cliff, the right is a cliff, the front is a deep stream, and the back is a valley. The sun is burning above the head, and the whole body is hot from the sun, but the heart of the young man is like falling into an ice cave.

"Why am I lying here, what is going on?"

The young man was in a state of confusion, trying to turn his brain to think about why he was lying in such a place, but his mind was almost overwhelmed, but he had no clue, and the memory in his mind was as empty as the surrounding mountains.

Only thought, firm and clear, that is, he should be in a peach forest!
"Taolin?"

The young man suddenly raised his head, and his eyes couldn't help looking in one direction. There was a deep mountain forest there. The young man instinctively felt that the peach forest he was looking for was hidden in the depths of the mountain forest.

After estimating the distance, I'm afraid it's more than ten miles. If we go through the mountains, the distance will be doubled.

"So, how did I get to this mountain?"

The young man glanced at the Baizhang cliff below, frowning like this mountain.

"And how did you climb such a high mountain?"

The more the young man thought about it, the more irritable he became, coupled with the scorching sun above his head, soon, his body seemed to be on fire, burning his heart and liver, his spleen and lungs were dry, and the heat in his body further stimulated his impatience .

"Whoo, whoo, whoo"

The air exhaled by the young man was filled with anger.

Large swaths of sweat dripped down, and after a while, the young man felt parched, his eyes were dizzy, he staggered, staggered and fell, and when he fell, a few gravels picked up at his feet and rolled down the cliff.

Immediately, with a huff, a group of crane birds fluttered their wings and flew up from the cliff, swept up the mountain like dark clouds, and circled in mid-air.

The scorching sun was covered by flocks of birds, and the shadows hung down. The young man got a short cool-down and regained some sobriety in his mind.

"Don't be in a hurry! Huh—calm down! Find a way!"

The young man wiped the sweat off his face, took a long breath, and tried hard to suppress the anxiety in his body.

"Wow!"

The flock of birds hovered for a while, and after a burst of chirping, hula swooped down, clinging to the cliffs of the mountains, and submerging into the forest below.

The moment the flock of birds passed by, the young man suddenly had a strong impulse, wanting to jump on the back of the bird, but he knew it was courting death, so he restrained the impulse after all.

A few feathers fluttered down, and the young man reached out to catch them, shook his head and sighed: "It's only a few, too few, if there are more, it can be used as a lupine, fanning the wind."

Pursing his chapped lips, pinching his feathers, he moved to the edge of the cliff, and the young man leaned over to look down, looking for a way to go down the mountain.

However, looking at the bare, steep stone wall like a sword, the despair in my heart surged up uncontrollably.

"If you wait any longer, if you don't get dehydrated, you will starve to death!"

"But, how to get down?"

The strength in his body became weaker and weaker, his mind began to be in a trance, and the young man was completely desperate.

"Left and right is death, it is better to take a risk."

As soon as the young man got angry, he wanted to lie on the bare stone wall and go down the mang. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a figure at the bottom of the mountain. He shook his head vigorously, his dazed eyes became firm, and he leaned out of the cliff to search desperately.

A small figure leisurely drilled out of the forest, trying to bypass the mountain below.

"There really is someone! It seems to be a woodcutter!"

The young man was ecstatic, and hurriedly opened his mouth and shouted: "Help, help—"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that his throat was dry and cracked. The sound of desperately calling for help was only rustling, not to mention that the mountain was hundreds of feet high. Even if he shouted normally, he might not be able to alert the people below.

Seeing that the woodcutter had reached the foot of the mountain and was about to pass, the young man hurriedly glanced around, looking for a way.

"Have it!"

The young man suddenly saw the boots on his feet.

He quickly took off his boots, stripped off his coarse clothes, picked up the few feathers, looked down at the protruding blood vessels on his arms, gritted his teeth, and cut open his arm with the sharp end of the feathers, blood flowed out.

"hiss--"

The young man took a deep breath, dizzy for a while.

"Don't faint!"

The young man bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, and under the stimulation of severe pain, quickly stained his feathers with blood, and scratched on the coarse cloth clothes.

I wanted to write a complete "help", but I just scratched out the word "save", and I couldn't stick to it. The sky was spinning and the sky was full of stars.

Randomly stuffed the clothes with blood on them into the boots, and hurriedly looked for the woodcutter on the edge of the cliff, "Don't go! Don't go!"

"Great!"

The young man's face brightened. It turned out that the woodcutter seemed to be tired from walking, or maybe the sun was too hot, and he was resting in the shade at the foot of the mountain.

"Huh, calm down, you must aim well!"

The young man took a deep breath, endured the vertigo and raised his boots, then aimed at the woodcutter below, and threw them down forcefully.

The boots that flew out also took away the last trace of the youth's strength, snapped, the youth's body went limp, and he fell to the edge of the cliff, his eyes darkened, and his consciousness fell into confusion.

I don't know how long it took, a gust of coolness flowed into the mouth, like nectar after a long drought, the young man woke up from the chaos, instinctively hugged his mouth to "cool", gurgling, pouring it into his stomach desperately.

"cough cough"

He drank too fast and was choked, the young man coughed repeatedly.

"Slow down, don't worry."

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice sounded in my ears.

The young man desperately drank a few more sips of water, his mouth was empty, and he came back to his senses, only to find that there was a water bag in his hand, and it was empty, without a drop of water left.

"I'm going down the mountain, the dry food has been eaten, only these wild fruits are left, here."

A few juicy, verdant wild fruits like apricots were handed to him.

Smelling the fragrance of the wild fruit, the young man's belly was suddenly filled with gongs and drums, and he felt colic.

I grabbed the wild fruit and stuffed it into my mouth. The sour and sweet flesh quickly entered my stomach. The cramping pain in my stomach finally eased a little.

There was no peel left. After recovering some strength, the young man looked up to see the savior.

A woodcutter, a familiar woodcutter, he recognized it.

Likewise, the woodcutter recognized him.

The young man said weakly: "Uncle, thank you, you saved me again."

"Hands up."

The woodcutter waved his hand, picked up the empty water bag dropped by the young man and tied it around his waist, and asked curiously, "Didn't you go to Taolin, why did you come here?"

After saying that, the woodcutter clapped his hands and shouted, "Could it be that you were driven out by that evil monkey?"

"Evil monkey?"

The young man didn't know why, but he remembered that he had seen a monkey in Taolin, and he made an agreement with that monkey to learn about supernatural powers and spells.

"You do not know?"

The woodcutter showed a surprised expression, and then explained: "A monkey came from Lantao Mountain and occupied the entire peach forest. I wanted to pick some peaches for my old lady, but the monkey drove them out with a stick."

The young man wondered: "I met that monkey earlier. Although he was a bit irritable, he has no evil intentions. Why did he make an appointment with me to learn spells?"

Just as the woodcutter was about to speak, the sweat on his forehead dripped down from the corners of his brows, so he wiped it off with a sweat towel, cursed, "The sun is getting a bit poisonous recently," and then said, "Maybe you and I are not talking about a monkey, The one you mentioned may have been driven away by the evil monkey."

The young man became anxious immediately, and blurted out: "How can that be, I'm just looking for the monkey, no, my monkey's. Cough cough cough!"

In a hurry, he didn't catch his breath, covered his mouth and started coughing dryly.

When he raised his hand, he saw the cloth band wrapped around his arm. After he stopped coughing, the young man thanked him again: "Thank you, uncle."

The woodcutter smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, maybe the monkey you were waiting for hasn't appeared yet."

"However," the woodcutter said again, "since that evil monkey has occupied Lantao Mountain, with its ferocity, it will never tolerate other monkeys in the peach forest. Unexpected."

The young man couldn't sit down any longer, and struggled to get up, "I have to drive that evil monkey away!"

"Is your current body okay?" the woodcutter asked worriedly.

"No problem, I know spells." The young man said confidently.

The woodcutter was a little suspicious, "You know magic, why are you still stuck on this mountain?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he said in embarrassment: "My spell can only be cast with a peach pit."

The woodcutter reminded: "You have to be careful, that evil monkey has a very hard stick, and my axe can't stop chopping, and I know martial arts, otherwise I won't be driven out of the peach forest by that monkey."

The young man panicked when he was told that, although he knew a spell, his body was extremely weak and he had no weapons.

"Uncle, why don't you go with me and fight for me." The young man looked at the woodcutter expectantly.

"Not today," the woodcutter shook his head. "I should go down the mountain. My mother is still waiting for me. I can do it tomorrow, but I'm afraid that if I come tomorrow, the monkey you are waiting for will be chased away by the evil monkey, or even killed." .”

After hearing this, the young man stopped asking the woodcutter for help, and turned to look at the cliff, "Uncle, how did you get up there?"

The woodcutter pointed out, "There are some vines over there, and there are footholds on the stone wall."

The young man was full of surprise, and walked over quickly, and he saw a row of vines hanging from the mountain wall, reaching the foot of the mountain. On the mountain wall under the vines, there were raised rocks one by one, like steps.

The young man clearly remembered that the cliff was bare and the rocks were exposed.

But I didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. Maybe he was in a daze before and didn't see it clearly. At this time, he had to rush to Taolin as soon as possible to drive away the evil monkey that appeared out of nowhere.

"Be careful, I'll go down first so I can take care of you."

After the woodcutter finished speaking, he went down first.

The young man patted his cheeks, moved his hands and feet, and slowly climbed onto the vine, not daring to look down. He just lowered his head and fell slowly in fear.

Except that the cloth belt on the arm was soaked into bright red, and the hands and feet were weak, there was no accident, and he arrived at the foot of the mountain smoothly without any danger.

The young man rubbed his hands together, and thanked the woodcutter again: "Thank you uncle, if it wasn't for you, I would have died on it."

"You thanked me several times." The woodcutter smiled helplessly. After looking at the sky, he looked at the young man: "I should go down the mountain, can you do it yourself? No, just wait for me to help you tomorrow?"

The young man had no idea, but he didn't want to worry his benefactor, the woodcutter, so he put on a confident attitude: "Uncle, go back with peace of mind. You go up the mountain tomorrow, and you can visit Rotten Peach Mountain as you please."

The woodcutter smiled: "I think you can too. I saw you today, and you are younger and stronger than last time."

The young man touched his face, looked himself up and down, and said uncertainly, "Really?"

"It's true, it's like a different person."

The woodcutter nodded heavily, then picked up the dry firewood on the ground, put it on his back, waved at the young man, and did not forget to tell him before he left——

"Don't go to such a high place next time, if it weren't for me, you would be in danger."

The young man watched the woodcutter leave, looked up at the steep mountain wall, and murmured to himself, "Am I insane, why did I run up there?"

After resting for a while, the young man lifted his feet and walked deep into the forest. He picked some wild fruits on the way to satisfy his hunger, and soon arrived at a familiar cliff.

The cliff was very similar to the mountain where he was trapped before. It was also bare, with brown stone rocks exposed, and the top of the cliff was gray and not a little green.

The young man kept walking, bypassing the cliff, and a fruitful peach forest appeared in front of him, and the fragrance wafted over.

The young man twitched his index finger and was about to rush into the peach grove when a small figure rushed out, stopped the roadside, and cursed: "Hey, this mountain has its own owner, so no one else can enter!"

(End of this chapter)