Journey to the West: Start by giving Taishang Laojun a whole life

Chapter 11 Asking the gods to help, asking people to cast yarrow stalks

As the saying goes, the naked eye cannot recognize a true god.

Naturally, they cannot recognize the treasures of immortals.

The green ox took out something extremely wonderful. It looked like mud rubbed out from its body, but in fact it was a ray of immortal energy. For mortals, it could be said to be a rare thing in the world that could transform one's body into a new one, bring the dead back to life, and turn bones into flesh.

I can’t recognize Xu Xian from Longhu Mountain.

He felt that this was a humiliating act, so he picked up his sword and left angrily with many of his fellow apprentices. When they were halfway up the mountain, the fellow apprentices around them were all indignant and kept muttering bad things about Qingniu.

What great uncle master?

Nine times out of ten, it's just some trick!

Xu Xian hesitated for a moment, but he still chose to shake his head. "Before we left the mountain, our master and his friends repeatedly told us to be extremely respectful to our great-grandmaster. I guess they think we are not sincere, so they are teasing us like this."

I didn’t burn incense in the past.

When you encounter a ghost, call Buddha.

Do you want gods to take care of you when things go wrong?

No one paid any attention even if I shouted at the top of my lungs.

Xu Xian then told his fellow apprentices, "Let's first find a place to stay in Shenniu Village at the foot of the mountain and stay there for a while. First, we want to find out if the man on the mountain is my uncle from Mount Longhu."

"Secondly, I would like to ask all my fellow apprentices to work together and find out the location of the golden toad from the villagers so that we can save my sister. Xu Xian would like to thank you!"

It turned out that when they were going down the mountain, a master from Longhu Mountain had made a divination. In order to save Xu Qing who was cursed by the Toad, they needed to find a golden toad and take the golden toad's inner elixir that had been nurtured in the toad's body for many years, so as to break the evil curse.

The reason why I came to look for this green ox.

It was because they had walked all the way, searched all the mountains, and asked around, but had not found any trace of the legendary golden toad, so they took a detour to the Shenniu Village, hoping to get help from the Green Ox. This was a backup plan decided by the elders of Longhu Mountain.

Now that Qingniu had done such an "evil deed" and teased them, Xu Xian could only shift his target to the golden toad again and keep Qingniu as a backup option.

After all, the villagers of Shenniu Village seem to be very capable, and it is close to the mountains, with a population of tens of thousands. Maybe there is a lucky person who has encountered the golden toad.

With Xu Xian giving the orders, many fellow disciples nodded in agreement, each chose a direction, split up into small groups, and inquired about the news of the golden toad in Shenniu Village.

And Xu Xian was not idle either.

He found the home of the village chief of Shenniu Village and chatted with him, intentionally or unintentionally asking about the news of Qingniu and Zhang Tian. However, as a rookie, he was no match for the other party. After a conversation, not only did he fail to get any useful information, but he almost told a lot of his own affairs.

Xu Xian looked at the village chief in front of him, who had thick black hair and looked very young, like a young man in his twenties. His eyes were full of disbelief and he felt terrified. The way he spoke...

How come he looks like an old man who is well versed in the ways of the world and is in his seventies or eighties?
He knew that he was an outsider and did not have the other party's trust, so he resorted to another trick. He borrowed paper and pen from the village chief, dipped the brush in ink and wrote in a flamboyant manner, then borrowed a bench and started his business.

"If you want to ask for divination, it's ten cents per divination. You can't ask for nothing!"

As expected of a top disciple of Mount Longhu, his fortune-telling skills were very high, and in just three to five days, those arrogant villagers treated him like a lord. It could be said that everything he said was accurate, even where to go to chop wood and how far to walk to catch prey, were all predicted with incredible accuracy, which convinced everyone.

For a while.

Shenniu Village was shaken again!
When Niu Da got the news, he squeezed into the crowd to join in the fun. He stared with wide eyes, watching Xu Xian shaking a bamboo stick and pinching his fingers, as if he could predict what would happen 500 years in the past and 500 years in the future. He felt as if he had met a real immortal.

He hurriedly ran towards the mountain and found Zhang Tian squatting under a tree, studying the orange tree. He was out of breath and shouted, "Brother...Brother Zhang, a living god has come to the village!" Then he was very excited and told Zhang Tian the shocking things he had seen with his own eyes. It was obvious that he had never seen such a thing before.

He said excitedly, "That's a real skill, that's a real skill. Brother Zhang, you are a smart scholar. I think if you learn this skill, you will definitely be more powerful than him."

Zhang Tian smiled and shook his head.

He understood Niu Da's excitement. After all, someone like Xu Xian was a destined nobleman. There were so many choices in life, and I don't know how many people regretted it. Having someone who could predict the future was like taking a regret pill. Everyone would worship Xu Xian like a master! Even calling him daddy would do!

"Tomorrow's winning lottery numbers are..."

"The phone number of a rich woman who is lonely and cold is..."

"This eighty-year-old man is destined to be an emperor!"

But these are only for mortals.

"You don't understand. This is the skill of the Shuzi Sect. It's called asking the gods to help you with your fortune and asking people to cast yarrow stalks. It just looks powerful. Everything is learned from the gods. It's a side door!"

When Patriarch Bodhi was teaching the monkey, he told him directly that this was a side technique and not the right way to cultivate the golden elixir and preserve the positive fruit. Even if he knew more, he could not achieve immortality and enlightenment, which was like trying to catch the moon in the water.

And there are also quite a few disadvantages.

Zhang Tian laughed and said, "I dare not learn more. For someone as smart as me, I am afraid that the secrets of heaven will be peeped in. In the future, I will be unlucky in my later years and become a red-haired old monster."

Ask for divination?

It’s better to make the decision yourself!

Niu Da seemed to understand what was said, and Zhang Tian, who was laughing, patted him on the shoulder and pulled him aside for some detailed instructions. He felt that Niu Da had good talent, and if he practiced for a few more days, he might be able to create new life in the sea of suffering like the village chief, gain vitality and extend his life.

Another three or five days passed like this.

The name of Xu Xian had spread throughout the entire Shenniu Village, and his tone became even more arrogant. He claimed that he was well versed in the Liu Yao and the Bagua, and that he knew the future and the past. His vision was like a moon mirror, and he could predict good and bad luck, and tell life and death.

Through the villagers' mouths, he gradually found out some things. The green bull in the mountain was indeed a divine bull. It came to the Divine Bull Village three hundred years ago. It was most likely the great-uncle master mentioned by the master and the elders.

Xu Xian also asked about Zhang Tian, and only knew that he was a genius, a martial arts genius.

Suddenly, he couldn't stop laughing in his heart, "Genius, genius is just the threshold to see me..."

He also received good news from his fellow apprentices. It was a hunter from the Shenniu Village who said that he had seen a golden toad worshiping the moon beside a pond deep in the mountains, and he was willing to take them there.

Xu Xian was overjoyed.

He immediately called on other fellow apprentices, prepared some supplies, and prepared to go directly into the deep mountains to look for the golden toad. However, one of the apprentices hesitated, "Since the divine bull is my great-grandmaster from Mount Longhu, should we ask him before we go into the mountains this time?"

"No need!" Xu Xian stood proudly with the sword in his hand. "You don't need my uncle to follow me. I am the only one holding the sword. Even if there are thousands of demons, they still can't hurt you. What's more, I have calculated the strength of my uncle, and he is only a little bit stronger than me."

"Give me another three to five years."

"I will definitely surpass him!"

(End of this chapter)