Black Myth: Journey to the West: Simulate becoming an immortal!

Chapter 121: Quicksand is hard to cross, three thousand weak waters

Let’s look for beautiful scenery in mountains and rivers; there is no place on earth to enjoy the peace and tranquility.

The staff is lighter than a horse, and I can walk freely in the vast world.

In just one day, summer turned into autumn, cicadas were chirping in the withered willows, and fire was flowing to the west.

Shi Gan Dang climbed over mountains and crossed ridges, and each step he took covered a distance of more than ten feet.

Chen Xi sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, but his ears could not be quiet.

As he got closer and closer to the Quicksand River, all kinds of noises came into his ears.

In just one day, Chen Xi heard thousands of obsessions.

The noise was getting louder and louder, making him feel upset.

If Chen Xi had not practiced the Heart Sutra, he would probably have developed demonic obstacles by now.

"Quack! Lord Buddha, there's a flood ahead!"

The toad demon stood on Shi Gan Dang's shoulder, using his hands to shade himself, looking forward and shouting loudly.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xi opened his eyes and saw the scene in front of him at a glance.

The turbid and dark yellow quicksand river is surging.

"Rumble--"

"Crash-"

Huge waves thousands of feet high washed away everything around them.

One after another, the shorter peaks were submerged by the Quicksand River, and the rising speed was so terrifying that it changed almost every breath.

Just at this moment, Chen Xi raised his head and saw a few wild geese flying overhead.

The wild geese fly high, trying to cross the quicksand river!

However, unexpectedly, as soon as it flew into the sky, it fell headfirst!
The wild geese sank into the quicksand river, and were instantly submerged by the rushing water, leaving not even their feathers floating.

"What a fierce river..."

Chen Xi's eyes fixed, and when he looked carefully, he saw a stone tablet that had not been submerged yet.

There were only three seal characters on it, which read "Liusha River".

There are four small lines of real words on the abdomen:
Eight hundred quicksand realms, three thousand weak water depths.

Goose feathers cannot float, and reed flowers sink to the bottom.

"I'm afraid this river is difficult to cross..."

Shi GanDang spoke in a muffled voice, let alone the Three Thousand Weak Waters, with a body like that, any ordinary river would sink to the bottom.

Fortunately, although it cannot fly, it is not afraid of water. I think this quicksand river should not be a problem for it, it can just step across it.

Chen Xi, relying on his brocade cassock, is also not afraid of water. Not to mention the Toad Demon, who is also trying to make trouble in the well water.

If this Quicksand River only had this capability, then it would be fine.

But it is obvious that the Quicksand River is not that simple...

The surging waves brought with them bursts of mutterings, which made people feel uneasy.

When Chen Xi was thinking about how to cross the Quicksand River, he suddenly saw some movement on the river bank.

His eyes were filled with a glazed light as he looked away.

On the bank of the rapidly spreading quicksand river, there were several red-skinned ghosts with long arms and hunched backs fleeing in panic.

They looked terrified, using their hands and feet, and looked extremely embarrassed.

With his clairvoyance, Chen Xi instantly understood the red-skinned ghost's whereabouts... the sand-panning ghost!

Flowing water does not stop washing the sand, and the wave emerges after the previous wave is not extinguished.

After death, he became a ghost wandering around in the sand, scaring passers-by so much that they screamed out.

"Ok?"

Chen Xi let out a light exclamation and saw that there seemed to be something behind these sand-digging ghosts, chasing them with the waves.

When he took a quick look, he saw a few monsters that looked bloated and had water oozing from their mouths and noses.

With the clairvoyance, one can see through all disguises.

Chen Xi easily saw that these demons, although seemingly still alive, were actually so dead that only their skins were left.

And beneath their skins are masses of flowing river water, which look extremely evil and creepy.

Chen Xi just needed a guide to help him understand the situation here.

Seeing that those sand-digging ghosts were about to be caught up by the monsters, he moved and immediately disappeared above Shi Gandang's head.

"Quack! Lord Buddha..."

It was not until this time that the Toad Spirit saw the Sand-Taking Ghost.

It was about to tell the Buddha the news, but when it turned around, it saw nothing.

"what--"

A sand-panning ghost unfortunately fell to the ground, and was immediately caught by the demon and dragged into the quicksand river.

The whole process went smoothly, without even a single big wave.

This scene frightened the few remaining sand-digging ghosts so much that they almost died.

In a panic, their hands and feet became uncontrollable and their speed became slower and slower.

At this critical moment!
The nine-ring staff fell from the sky!

"Boom!"

A loud noise followed.

The nine rings rang together, with bursts of Sanskrit sounds.

The nearest demons were all smashed to pieces by the Nine-Ring Staff.

The demons' skins were torn, causing them to collapse to the ground like deflated balls, lifeless.

The seeping river water seemed to have life, constantly surging and looking extremely sticky.

Chen Xi stepped forward, stretched out his hand, and the nine-ring staff fell back into his hand.

"What a great monk!"

"Wow, it's the savior, our savior is here!"

“Hehehe, my life shouldn’t end, my life shouldn’t end!”

"He was able to kill the water corpse ghost so easily, how amazing!"

The sand-digging ghosts saw this and knew that their savior had arrived, so they all ran to his side. The quicksand river was full of waves, and soon several more so-called water corpse ghosts were pushed onto the shore.

They are totally clueless and will just grab any monster they see and drag it into the river.

Chen Xi frowned, took the initiative to step forward, raised the nine-ring tin staff, and was about to smash it down.

"Be careful……"

When the sand-digging ghosts saw this, they quickly and kindly gave a reminder.

But it's too late!

Chen Xi's nine-ring staff fell down, making a thumping sound.

Those water zombies that had just been pushed ashore were all beaten to death.

In an instant, water splashed!

In this situation, Chen Xi had no choice but to be splashed with a few drops of water.

These water stains are like living things. If you get a little bit of them on you, you will be irritated and they will keep drilling into your body.

"What the hell..."

Chen Xi frowned slightly, and suddenly felt as if a stone was pressing down on his body and mind, making it quite heavy.

At the same time, several voices rang in his mind.

"I must not die here. My beautiful wife is still waiting for my money to redeem her..."

"Pan more sand, earn more gold, and go home to marry a wife!"

Voices filled with obsession kept echoing in his mind.

Chen Xi knew how serious this was and quickly recited the Heart Sutra silently.

Fortunately, he was only stained with a few drops of water, and the Heart Sutra suppressed these obsessions in a short moment.

However, these obsessions did not disappear, but instead weighed on Chen Xi, as if he was carrying several living people on his back.

"What a Liusha River, it's so evil..."

Chen Xi had just cultivated two consciousnesses and originally wanted to show off his skills, but unexpectedly, the Quicksand River gave him a warning.

If the water in this Quicksand River is the same as what he just saw, this river might be impossible to cross...

At this time, the sand-digging ghosts saw that the river bank was safer and hurried over.

They looked Chen Xi up and down, and found that he was actually fine, and they all looked shocked.

"He can actually bear the water of the Flowing Sand River. He is indeed a great monk!"

Just at this moment, Shi Gandang and the Toad Spirit rushed over.

When they saw Chen Xi being surrounded by these sand-digging ghosts, they mistakenly thought that they were these little ghosts who wanted to harm the Buddha.

Shi Gandang, out of his loyalty to the demon, wanted to slap him to rescue Chen Xi.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xi raised his hand first to stop them.

"I'm fine, don't do anything."

"I just happen to have something to ask these little devils..."

After these words were spoken, Shi Gandang reluctantly withdrew his hand.

Chen Xi looked at these sand-digging ghosts who obviously knew something, and then spoke in a deep voice.

"Do you little devils know what this Quicksand River is like?"

"What is the water corpse ghost you are talking about?"

When several sand-digging ghosts heard their savior speak, they all started talking and complaining.

"Master, you don't know that this Liusha River was fine before!"

"Yes, I don't know why, twenty-five days ago, the flood started and we couldn't even dredge the sand..."

"How can we live like this?"

Twenty-five days ago?
Chen Xi raised his eyebrows. At that time, he seemed to be having a ridiculous dream because of holding the nine-ring staff.

"Master Monk, those monsters you just killed were water corpse ghosts."

"Some demons that sink into the Quicksand River and drown will turn into this appearance, with only a skin that is filled with water inside."

"Water corpse ghosts have no intelligence, they only think about dragging other demons into the water."

When a few sand-digging ghosts mentioned the water corpse ghosts, they were obviously still a little scared.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xi and the Toad Spirit looked at each other in surprise.

These water corpses were somewhat similar to the group of water monkeys they encountered in the sewage river in Gao Laozhuang before.

It’s just that the water corpse ghosts here are more evil and more dangerous.

After all, if the water monkey dragged them into the water, at most they would get some dirt on their bodies, but it would not kill them.

But if you are dragged into the water by the water corpse ghosts here, your body will be destroyed and you will be submerged in the quicksand and weak water, and be haunted by obsession.

Chen Xi's face was solemn, as if he had thought of something, and he turned to ask these sand-digging ghosts.

"Why is this Quicksand River so dangerous?"

"Since you often pan for sand here, how did you survive until now?"

Upon hearing this, the sand-digging ghosts did not hide anything and immediately told the whole cause and effect clearly, like spilling beans.

The quicksand river mentioned by the sand-tao ghost is somewhat related to the story that Chen Xi knows.

It turns out that a long, long time ago, the Liusha River was just an ordinary river.

Because there is a grain of yellow sand in every piece of river water, it is named Liusha River.

Later it was heard that it was a god in heaven, the Jade Emperor's curtain-pulling general, who accidentally broke the colorful glass lamp.

The colorful glass lamp shattered into the mortal world and fell into the quicksand river, which gave rise to many miracles!

"Oh? A colorful glass lamp?"

Chen Xi couldn't help but interrupt, obviously he didn't expect that the danger here was actually because of a so-called glass lamp.

"That's right, that colorful glass lamp is a treasure of the immortals!"

"It is said that the seven-colored glass lamp was originally used to carry the obsessions of all living beings."

"And the seven-colored glazed fire inside it can burn away obsessions."

"As a result, after being shattered, the obsessions of all living beings fell into the Quicksand River, which is why birds cannot fly over here and goose feathers cannot float."

"But later on, hehe, this treasure was almost repaired!"

(End of this chapter)