I am a boss in the world of nine uncles

half an hour.

Qin Yao spurred his horse and whipped it, while his three disciples chased after him, gradually arriving at the giant mountain where the gibbon lived.

But when they continued to climb the mountain path and rushed all the way to Xiaoleiyin Temple, they did not see the Long-Armed Ape or the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor. In fact, the entire temple was empty, and there was not even a place to sit.

"They must have seen us rescue our senior brother through the Xuan Guang Mirror and ran away beforehand."

After silently withdrawing his gaze from his surroundings, Pigsy said with absolute certainty.

Sha Wujing blinked and asked in confusion, "Why did they run away? Even if they lost the bet, it wouldn't harm them, would it? At most, they wouldn't hold us responsible for breaking the golden bell."

Qin Yao said, "He is unwilling to accept defeat, unwilling to accept losing the bet, and even more unwilling to accept failure. So his current retreat is only so that he can make a comeback in the future."

Sha Wujing seemed to be deep in thought, but new questions kept popping into his mind: "If this is also considered a tribulation, can we start the next tribulation if we don't overcome this one? If we can't start the next one, will we fail to obtain the true scriptures because we haven't overcome enough tribulations to enter the Great Thunder Temple without any disasters or tribulations?"

Qin Yao smiled and said, "It's good that you can think things through, but that's not something we need to consider. After all, the calamity is a test given to us by the Western Paradise. If it doesn't happen, it's not our responsibility."

Sun Wukong's eyes lit up, and he said with a grin, "Can we walk faster?"

"Sure, as long as we take it one step at a time," Qin Yao nodded.

Amidst laughter and conversation, the master and his disciples set off again, crossing high mountains and heading west.

at the same time.

Bohai Dragon Palace.

Dressed in a royal robe, with dragon horns on his head, silver eyebrows, a flat face, and a bull's nose, the Bohai Dragon King greeted the emperor with a smile and cupped his hands, saying, "This old dragon pays respects to General Divine Monkey."

Outside the palace gate, a gibbon with long hair slicked back, clad in golden armor, chuckled: "Dragon King, there's no need for formalities. Please forgive my intrusion."

The Dragon King of the Bohai Sea waved his hands repeatedly, flattering, "It is an honor for my Bohai Dragon Palace that General Divine Monkey has come to my humble place. However... if this humble dragon dares to ask, what brings you here today?"

The long-armed ape's smile vanished, and he said solemnly, "The other day I fought with Sun Wukong, and he shattered my weapon with his golden cudgel..."

The Dragon King of the Bohai Sea felt a chill run down his spine, a vague sense of foreboding creeping over him, and thus dared not utter a word.

Seeing the silence, the Long-Armed Ape spoke frankly: "I have heard that the Bohai Sky Pillar is a treasure almost as good as the Ruyi Jingu Bang, so I have come here specifically to borrow it. I ask the Dragon King to grant me this favor!"

The Dragon King of Bohai immediately looked terrified and hurriedly said, "General, you mustn't! This pillar is a divine artifact that stabilizes the waters of Bohai. Once it is taken away, the waters of Bohai will surge towards Beizhou Mountain, and the consequences will be unimaginable."

"What's so unimaginable about it? It's just a few people dying, right?"

A wisp of black energy suddenly appeared between the brows of the gibbon, and it said with a smile, "To die because of me is their good fortune."

Bohai Dragon King: "..."

This Monkey King General has gone mad!
After half a stick of incense.

With a deafening roar, the waters of the Bohai Sea surged violently, rushing out of the sea and flowing towards the land in an instant.

A moment later, the Long-Armed Ape stepped onto a giant silver-white pillar and flew out from the raging sea, roaring through the clouds. Its demonic energy grew increasingly intense and terrifying during the process...

time flies.

The sun and moon alternate.

That night, the master and his disciples arrived at a desolate mountain. Sun Wukong used his golden cudgel to forcefully knock out a cave in the mountain so that his master could sleep peacefully at night.

Unexpectedly, just as the master and his disciples were sitting around the fire, reminiscing about the time they stewed the Great King of Inspiration in another cave, a beam of mysterious light suddenly flew into the cave and manifested as a Mystic Mirror.

The cheerful conversation abruptly stopped. The master and his disciples all turned to look and saw the figure of the Long-Armed Ape flashing in the center of the mirror, with wisps of black energy surging around it.

Sun Wukong's eyelids twitched: "Long-Armed Ape, you've fallen into demonic possession!"

"Becoming a demon? No, I'm just replicating your path to success."

The Long-Armed Ape waved his hand, slammed a silver-white iron rod in front of him with a thud, and asked, "Sun Wukong, do you know the origin of this treasure?"

Sun Wukong stared at the silver iron rod for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I've never seen it before."

“If you haven’t seen it, you must have heard of it. This treasure is called the Sky Pillar, and it is the treasure guarding the Bohai Dragon Palace,” said the Long-Armed Ape.

Sun Wukong: "..."

Qin Yao said, "You've taken the treasure that guards the Bohai Dragon Palace, so Bohai..."

“That’s right,” the gibbon interrupted, “The waters of the Bohai Sea overflowed their banks and flooded Beizhou Mountain, all thanks to you!”

"It's clearly your evil deeds, what does it have to do with us? Don't make false accusations!" Pigsy shouted.

"Master Xuanzang, you were the one who proposed a duel to me last time, and I agreed, and I was willing to accept the loss. Now, I propose a duel to you; do you dare to accept?"

The gibbon didn't take Pigsy seriously at all, let alone respond to him. Instead, it asked Qin Yao a question.

A flash of anger crossed Pigsy's face, but there was nothing he could do.

In terms of background, everyone has a background. In this situation, the strong can naturally look down on the weak, but unfortunately, he and Lao Sha are the weak in the team and find it difficult to gain respect.

At this moment, facing the challenge from the Long-Armed Ape, Qin Yao clasped his hands together and said softly, "Amitabha, Divine Monkey General, the reason I proposed the duel last time was only to save Wukong, and it was not because I enjoy dueling. Therefore, please forgive me for not being able to accept your proposal now."

The gibbon's face darkened: "Xuanzang, it is impolite not to reciprocate. I agreed to your request once, but you refuse to agree to my bet. Is that proper?"

Qin Yao said, "The bet itself has nothing to do with etiquette... General Monkey, you are now full of demonic energy, and one foot is already in the abyss. This humble monk advises you to think carefully and turn back before it's too late."

"Save your breath. If I could be persuaded by you in just a few words, how easily would I be swayed?"

The gibbon chuckled and then said, “Listen, I’ll be waiting for you on a desolate mountain fifteen miles to the southwest. If you don’t come, I’ll kill Little Lark and her niece first, then go to the Rakshasa Kingdom to cause trouble. All the creatures that helped you in the last duel will suffer my mad revenge.”

"Are you a mad dog?!" Pigsy cursed instinctively.

“You’re just a filler, you’re not qualified to talk to me,” the gibbon said. “You don’t even have this much self-awareness, you deserve to be called a pig.”

Pigsy's face turned red with anger: "So what if I'm just there to make up the numbers? I'm still in the Journey to the West team even though I'm just there to make up the numbers, while you've gone to all this trouble to join the team, only to end up with nothing!"

"I'm too lazy to waste words with you." The gibbon said, "Xuanzang, I'll emphasize again, if you don't come, all the creatures that have been kind to you will suffer."

After he finished speaking, the Xuan Guang Mirror shattered suddenly, and the gazes of the three disciples converged on Qin Yao.

Qin Yao paused slightly, then looked at the golden headband on Sun Wukong's head and transmitted his voice, "Wukong, I have an idea..."

Half an hour later, the master and his disciples arrived at the desolate mountain that the Long-Armed Ape had mentioned. They saw the ape standing on a giant rock, leaning on a pillar, but the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor, who was always by his side, was nowhere to be seen.

"I knew you would come." A smug look suddenly appeared on the face of the gibbon as it looked down at Qin Yao.

Qin Yao responded, "Let me make this clear beforehand: this is a one-time thing, and there will be no next time. Otherwise, if you try to blackmail me with this kind of thing again, I will go directly to Donglai Buddha and ask him how he teaches his disciples!"

The Long-Armed Ape paused slightly, then said, "Enough with the nonsense. The bet I'm proposing is that you can choose any disciple to fight me. Whoever I defeat will take their place in the Journey to the West team."

Qin Yao let out a soft breath and looked up at Sun Wukong: "Wukong, it's all up to you now."

Sun Wukong summoned his Ruyi Jingu Bang (Golden Cudgel) and said seriously, "He can't take anything from me!"

"You give it a try," the gibbon beckoned.

Sun Wukong suddenly transformed into a golden ray of light and rushed straight towards the opponent.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

In the blink of an eye, the two demons transformed into two golden beams of light, colliding and clashing in the air.

Given Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing's strength, they could only see two beams of light, and they couldn't even make out the figures within them.

After hundreds of rounds, Sun Wukong's phoenix-winged purple-gold crown suddenly fell off during the fierce battle, so he hurriedly left the battlefield to retrieve it.

However, the Long-Armed Ape suddenly opened its mouth and inhaled, and the rapidly falling purple-gold crown was pulled up by a force, passing by Sun Wukong and soaring into the void, landing in its palm.

"Give it back to me!" Sun Wukong shouted, brandishing his golden cudgel as he charged toward the opponent.

The long-armed ape laughed heartily, no longer engaging in direct combat. Instead, it used its speed to constantly shift and maneuver, deliberately tossing its purple-gold crown into the air as it said:
"Didn't you just say I couldn't take anything from you? What is this?"

Sun Wukong, his face grim, gave chase with all his might, trying to snatch back the Purple Gold Crown.

Seeing his anxious look, the Long-Armed Ape felt a surge of secret pleasure. With a flick of his wrist, he placed the Phoenix-Winged Purple-Gold Crown on his own head: "Sun Wukong, this is just the beginning..."

"No, it's over." Sun Wukong suddenly stopped and said with a smile.

The long-armed ape's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "What do you mean?"

"Touch your head again, what's that on your head?" Sun Wukong laughed.

The gibbon raised its hand to touch it, only to find that the phoenix-winged purple-gold crown it had just put on its head had turned into a hoop, and no matter how hard it tried, it could not remove it.

At this moment, the headband on Sun Wukong's head suddenly turned into a monkey hair, and what happened was self-evident.

"Despicable!" the gibbon said angrily.

Pigsy sneered, "You think it's noble to threaten us with other people's lives to make us gamble? There's no such thing as nobility when dealing with a despicable person like you."

The gibbon had no intention of arguing any further and immediately prepared to escape on a cloud.

Qin Yao remained calm, clasped his hands together, and silently recited the Tightening-Headband Mantra.

Through the original drama's plot, he knew that Xuanzang not only knew how to tighten the headband, but also how to remove it, and even used similar methods to put the headband on the head of the gibbon.

Therefore, when he decided to adopt a similar approach, he used soul-searching magic to find these two spells in the original body's memories, and now he has successfully replicated the original body's success in the story.

However, because of his initiation of cultivation, reality deviated greatly from the original drama, and he certainly wouldn't subdue the gibbon and return it to the Buddha of the East as he did in the original drama.

Therefore, he had no idea what direction or outcome the future would take!
"what."

"what!!!"

Under the influence of the tight headband, the gibbon clutched its head and cried out in pain, rolling on the ground in agony.

Suddenly, the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor rode a golden light, sweeping across the ground at an extremely fast speed, and took away the roaring gibbon on the ground.

No matter how far he took it, the tight band continued to tighten, and the screams of the gibbon never stopped.

Left with no other choice, he took it back to the Pure Land, where he found the Buddha in a white robe in a melon field and cried out, "Master, save me!"

Donglai Buddha turned around and glanced at it, instantly understanding what had happened. He took out a gourd with a flick of his wrist, uncorked the red cloth stopper, and put the agonizing gibbon into it.

Upon entering the gourd, it was as if a barrier had severed the connection between the headband and the magic spell. The long-armed ape was no longer in pain, but it still couldn't remove the headband.

"Thank you, Master."

After failing to achieve its goal, the gibbon knelt down and kowtowed heavily.

Donglai Buddha sighed and said, "I told you long ago that you should experience some minor hardships and setbacks first. Who told you to provoke Tang Xuanzang and his group?"

Upon hearing this, Old Ancestor Yellow Eyebrows shrank back, a look of fear flashing across his face.

Fortunately, the gibbon did not shift the blame onto him, but looked up and said:
"I just feel it's unfair. Why is it that Sun Wukong, after doing so many wrong things, was still able to become a Buddha through the journey to the West, while I, despite doing so many meritorious things, am only at the level of an Arhat?"

The Buddha from the East said, "There is no such thing as absolute fairness in the world; otherwise, it would be the greatest injustice. Although you are not as good as Sun Wukong, you are still better than countless others."

"I can not be reconciled!"

The gibbon said, "We are both among the Four Chaotic Monkeys, so why should I be inferior to him? Master, you must have thought the same thing when you faced Buddha, right?"

Donglai Buddha: "..."

In the silence, the Yellow-Eyebrowed Patriarch quickly changed the subject: "Master, why don't you first remove the headband from Junior Brother and let him out to talk?"

Donglai Buddha was unwilling to discuss the differences between himself and Tathagata in front of his two disciples, so he said, "If I could remove this tight band, I wouldn't have put him into these two extreme gourds."

Old Ancestor Huangmei was startled: "What about Junior Brother?"

Donglai Buddha then handed the two-pronged gourd to him and said earnestly:

"The one who tied the knot must untie it. Only Guanyin and Tang Xuanzang can untie this knot. I can't bring myself to ask them for help. Whether you can save your junior brother depends entirely on you."

Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor: "..."

Thinking about their current terrible relationship with Tang Xuanzang, he felt a chill run down his spine and a sense of dread.

More importantly, is the Tang Xuanzang of today still the compassionate monk who forgave others whenever possible?! (End of Chapter)