I can't be a demon.

Chapter 180: Special Occupations of Immortals and Gods

Northwest of Tang Dynasty.

Disasters occurred frequently in the Ohara area. Although the demons that caused the trouble were generally not very powerful, there were hardly any signs beforehand.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

The imperial court suspected that a cave dwelling might soon be revealed in Ohara, so two months ago they dispatched the Jinwu Guards from Yanshan to investigate the truth.

Zuo Yanhu looked left and right while riding a horse on the official road.

Li Shun maintained the Multi-Eye Sutra, opened the ghost eye between his eyebrows, and looked around in detail with more than a dozen pairs of pupils, with a solemn expression.

Wang Xin and Zhu Yihong followed behind, along with a dozen Jinwu Guards from all over the country.

"I have been running around for more than two months. I just dealt with the monkey demon in the Ohara area. As a result, the demonic energy in the mountains has not dissipated, but has become more intense."

Zuo Yan cursed inwardly. He never thought that a case involving a lowly demon would waste nearly three months of his time.

Li Shun reminded him, "Master Zuo, we are almost at Dayuan Town. Do you think the source of the Monkey Case could be Dayuan Town?"

"Maybe. Let's go over there and talk about it."

The team continued on their journey and followed the official road to a mountain town.

Although Ohara Town is the most prosperous town in the Ohara area, its population is only over 10,000, and it is said that it rarely does business with the outside world.

When they entered the town, they discovered the strangeness of Ohara Town.

Looking up, I found that the Ohara people were obviously different from ordinary people. They had thicker hair, were tall and strong, and had arms that hung down to their knees, which was somewhat similar to monkeys.

"Born special!"

Zuo Yan took a breath of cold air. He had only seen such a situation in Haimin.

“Maybe there will be a cave in Dayuan Town.”

The people of Dayuan looked at the Jinwu Guards with a little caution.

Zuo Yan stopped at the gate of the yamen. The county magistrate, who had received the news in advance, came out quickly and bowed politely to welcome the arrival of the Jinwu Guards.

The county magistrate was not from the local area, so there was no obvious difference.

"Master Zuo, has the disaster in Ohara ended?"

Zuo Yan waved his hands repeatedly and said with a fake smile: "I'm investigating! County Magistrate Zhang, do you know the origins of the people in Dayuan Town?"

"Origin? Could the monkey disaster case be related to them?"

"That's not what you should be concerned about."

Magistrate Zhang explained in a deep voice: "I have been transferred to Dayuan for many years by the imperial court, but I have never understood the local customs. They call themselves mountain people and are said to have migrated from other places."

"Mountain people, where did you migrate from?"

"It seems to be a place called... Hua. Yes, it is called Huaguo Mountain, but it was five or six hundred years ago."

Magistrate Zhang murmured, "You see, their customs are different too. Even their accents are quite different from those in the Suomen area, which is only a hundred miles away."

Zuo Yan's eyebrows twitched wildly. The moment he heard the words "Huaguo Mountain", he realized that Dayuan Town was the source of the immortal cave that was about to be born.

As for when he would be born, he had no idea.

"Zhang, Magistrate, we have been stationed in Dayuan Town recently. If there are any demons causing trouble, we will suppress them immediately."

"call."

Magistrate Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Master Zuo, it would be great if the captain of the Jinwu Guard were here to take charge. I'll show you the rooms in the government office, and then have the servants clean them up..."

"Wang Xin?"

Zuo Yan noticed from the corner of his eye that Wang Xin walked to the side of the street in a trance, and there was something obviously wrong with his body and soul, with an abnormally high body temperature.

"Master Zuo, I'm... fine, but..."

Wang Xin covered his chest with his hands. The inexplicable impulse was somewhat similar to the discussion of the Eight Immortals. He couldn't help but scan the busy street with his spiritual sense.

Sudden.

He came to a stall belatedly.

"Sir, this is a small business."

The clay figurines sold by the mountain people looked lifelike, and they were all monkeys wearing different clothes. When they noticed the Jinwu Guards coming to their door, they couldn't help but show fear on their faces.

Wang Xin's pupils shrank slightly as he picked up a clay figurine that had just been made. It was a statue of an immortal god sitting cross-legged on a fourth-grade lotus platform.

"Father, who are you pinching?"

Zuo Yan and others gathered together and stared at the clay figure with complicated eyes.

The clay figure has its eyes closed and is smiling, with some monkey-like features.

What Wang Xin found incredible was that the statue had a gourd and a bone-bladed sword on its waist, and his expression looked a bit like... Shen Lian.

"My dear, this is the Great Ape Subduing Demon Heavenly Venerable that we mountain people have worshipped for generations. Some say that he is one of the incarnations of Zhong Kui."

"Great Ape Demon Subduing Heavenly Lord..."

Wang Xin could not help but repeat it several times, recalling the experience of the Eight Immortals discussing Taoism in his mind.

Zuo Yan hesitated and said to himself: "Maybe the Great Ape Demon Subduing Heavenly Venerable is his past life? But why is Shen Lian involved in the monkey disaster case?"

Only Wang Xin noticed the clues, and there was a high probability that Shen Lian was in Huaguo Mountain.

Moreover, the incident that happened in Cangshan Town may happen again in Huaguo Mountain. Shen Lian’s every move in the cave will affect the present world.

There even appeared out of nowhere a great ape-subduing demon-conquering deity.

.........

In the Flower-Fruit Mountain, the sun hangs high in the sky.

The wild mountains and ridges are covered with lush vegetation, and you can hear the sound of waterfalls rushing down. Apart from that, Huaguo Mountain is eerily quiet.

Everything seemed ordinary and did not look like a cave filled with demons at all.

When Shen Lian opened his eyes, he had arrived at the deserted Flower-Fruit Mountain, and the only sound he could hear was the endless sound of the waterfall.

"Ah~"

As usual, the starling spread its wings and disappeared alone into the depths of the cave.

Shen Lian was used to the starling's recklessness, and the latter was not easily detected by demons. Besides, Huaguo Mountain should be mostly populated by ghosts.

He opened his eyes and felt that the area of ​​Huaguo Mountain was very large, comparable to the Salt Mountain, but there was no trace of insects, scales, birds or beasts.

However, you can see traces of monkey life.

However, the monkeys were hiding deep in the forest, and the footprints outside the Flower-Fruit Mountain were all left several months ago, so the cave seemed completely silent.

"The resentment in Huaguo Mountain is almost as great as that in Baigu Cave."

"Uh."

Shen Lian groaned.

As soon as they set foot on the Flower-Fruit Mountain, the thousand-year-old Guanyin ghost in the middle dantian began to behave strangely, obviously because of the special taboos in the cave.

He quickly looked at the ghost, only to see that the Guanyin ghost was actively absorbing the resentment from the outside world.

Then, something unexpected happened.

The resentment of the Guanyin ghost gradually gathered and collapsed towards the center, and unexpectedly... unexpectedly turned into a human-faced tree seed the size of a fingernail.

"What the hell?"

Shen Lian couldn't help but look stunned, because the ghost was related to Guanyin's magical method of summoning gods, and he couldn't use his wisdom eyes to determine the truth.

But one thing is certain, the Millennium Guanyin Ghost is still under the control of Yunling Taoist Infant.

Click click click.

The seeds of the Guanyin ghost tree sprouted, and a faint resentment suddenly emanated from Shen Lian's back.

Although there was no damage to his skin or flesh, a vine grew out from his back and in the blink of an eye it became two or three meters long.

The real body of the Guanyin ghost is still in the middle dantian, a group of half-real and half-virtual tree roots.

Shen Lian grabbed the plant vines and was about to use his wisdom eye, but he found that an endless stream of resentment was flowing along the vines into his dantian.

The Guanyin ghost's spiritual power continues to grow.

"Haha, Qinghe said that all the immortality alchemists who have been to the Evil Moon Three Heart Cave have a spiritual root plant with a fragrant medicinal aroma on their backs."

"Could it be because there are some ghosts in their bodies?"

"It seems that the weapon ghost refined by the White Bone Cave is indeed very special. It should have borrowed from the Taoism of the Evil Moon Three Heart Cave, which led to the fact that the method created by the fishing magic is very evil."

Shen Lian restrained his breath and then carefully searched the mountain for a long time.

As a result, not to mention any monsters, not even a human figure was seen.

There are some remains of the White Bone Alchemist.

It can be seen that the situation is indeed as Qinghe said.

They must be extremely careful when they are in Huaguo Mountain. Before the arrangements for the White Bone Cave are completed, outsiders like them cannot show up easily.

"Master Zi's drama has not yet begun, leaving me with plenty of time. I must find a place to complete the four transformations of the pile method."

Shen Lian touched the vines on his back.

The sky gradually became dark.

The Flower-Fruit Mountain was resounding with indescribable sounds.

"kindness……"

Shen Lian held the Corpse Demon's scabbard in his hand, planning to dig a deep pit to hide in. However, while he was distracted, he saw a temple not far away.

The temple seemed to have been found intentionally.

The gaps between the doors and windows were stuffed with hay to completely isolate the cold wind from the outside.

The faint candlelight flickered, and a plaque was engraved with the three words "Guankou Temple".

Shen Lian was certain that the temple appeared out of thin air.

Sweeping the top of the mountain vertically, it is found that there are not only one or two temples in Huaguo Mountain, but at least twenty or thirty temples scattered all over the mountain range.

The temples are not all alike, but all are in a state of disrepair.

"You are not allowed to enter the temple at midnight. The demons enshrined in the temple are probably some kind of demons..."

Shen Lian stared at the temple, and a prompt appeared on the career panel.

[The "Guankou Evil Spirit" occupation has been triggered, and the necessary conditions are missing and the job cannot be taken.]

"Gulp?"

A flash of surprise flashed across Shen Lian's eyes.

As far as I can remember, Erlang Zhenjun has a nickname called "Guankou Shen", but when I think about it, it seems unrealistic. How could there be a temple dedicated to Erlang Zhenjun in Huaguo Mountain? If you want to believe, you should believe in the Seven Great Sages.

"Wouldn't the other temples also worship numerous gods and immortals? In this case, each temple would have a special profession."

At the same time, he had a terrifying feeling.

You know, the conditions for triggering special professions are very harsh. Simply placing statues of immortals, gods, demons and monsters in temples will not help at all.

Generally speaking, if the evil spirit in Guankou is related to Erlang Zhenjun, there must be objects in the temple that contain the aura of Erlang Zhenjun!

Even bloody remains!!

"In the original novel, the Heavenly Court did besiege the Flower-Fruit Mountain, but it's unlikely that all the immortals died in the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Could it be that the world of Journey to the West had already collapsed at that time? Did Monkey King take over?"

"Damn it, what on earth happened in Huaguo Mountain?!"

Shen Lian suppressed his distracting thoughts and looked at the career panel, and the compatibility of each career came into view.

However, only the Lotus Blood Species has a compatibility rate of over 50%.

[Lotus Blood Species—Guankou Evil Compatibility 76.98%]

"The compatibility of the Lotus Blood Species is not low. If the other temples have a special profession with a rate of more than 85%, they can be promoted to the fourth level."

"Hey, let's finish the transformation of the pile method first."

Shen Lian could feel that the Guanyin ghost had an inexplicable connection with Huaguo Mountain.

Once the drama begins, I will most likely be involved in the layout of the White Bone Cave. God knows what is inside those immortal temples.

Shen Lian turned around and disappeared into the dense forest.

He had just passed a hill when his pace slowed down.

Guankou Temple appeared again not far away, with its gate half open.

(End of this chapter)