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

Chapter 2: The Cold Pond under the Cliff, a Simplified Version of the Tao Te Ching

Zhang Tian quickly became famous in Shenniu Village.

It can be said that word spread from one person to ten, from ten to a hundred, and from a hundred to a thousand. Just like Xiao Shenyang back then, overnight, tens of thousands of villagers in Shenniu Village were almost talking about him.

Regardless of that handsome appearance.

The qi and blood of a Martial Saint.

And that profound knowledge.

These are things that these villagers have never been able to touch before, but now they are concentrated in one person. How can they not be surprised?

"Only a genius like this is worthy of the fate of Master Shenniu!"

"I didn't lose unfairly."

"Village head, what is the legendary immortal fate? Is it immortality?"

The village chief looked strange, hesitant to speak, and sighed silently. He always felt that the God Bull was trying to trick this young man, but he didn't dare to say it directly. After all...

What can you achieve by planting trees?

Many villagers also found it incredible. Although the village chief did not say it, they could see it. They saw Zhang Tian looking for a hill nearby, and then reclaiming wasteland there. Like a farmer, he cultivated day and night, dug holes and carried water. He was actually planting trees!

Everyone was at a loss.

Three months passed.

They still couldn't figure out what was going on.

Niu Da, who first came into contact with Zhang Tian, was extremely puzzled. "Brother Zhang, you are a very talented and knowledgeable person. Why are you willing to work on this kind of tree?"

"Please give me a chance!"

After Zhang Tian arrived at the Shenniu Village, he saw the villagers' strong bodies and brute force that could move mountains, and he realized that this village was not simple. But when he saw the so-called Lord Shenniu, he knew that he had used up all his luck from buying lottery tickets in his past life and this life.

The so-called sacred cow.

It turned out to be the green bull from the family of Taishang Laojun in the Tushita Palace of Lihentian!

To be precise, it is a prehistoric alien species, namely the one-horned rhinoceros, with an ugly face, fur as green as indigo, tendons as hard as steel, and great magical powers and extraordinary martial arts.

On the future journey to the West, he secretly went down to the mortal world and fought with the monkey for dozens of rounds, evenly matched. He even defeated Nezha and used the Vajra Bracelet in his hand to take away all the magical weapons of the gods in the sky. If the Western Buddhist sect had not sent eighteen golden elixirs as a bribe, the pilgrim would probably not have been able to pass this level.

What's more, there is a master behind the other party, whose name is Taishang Laojun, who is actually the Taoist ancestor who created the world. Even the Jade Emperor has to come out to greet him and speak politely when he sees him, which shows the other party's ability.

Zhang Tian naturally wanted to hold on to this thigh tightly. After all, whether in his previous life or this life, the road would be difficult without someone behind him. However, he also knew himself well and was afraid that there was only a one in ten thousand chance of his entering the Tushita Palace.

Just ask for a way to live forever!
Not to mention planting trees for three months, even if it was three years or thirty years, there would be plenty of people coming to compete with Zhang Tian for this job.

"This is my fate, my luck..."

Zhang Tian looked at the young Niu Da who was helping him despite his confusion and smiled, "What are your plans for the future? Have you ever thought about your future?"

Niu Da was at a loss, and said honestly, "I want to marry a fat wife like my father, give birth to a fat son, inherit three houses, four cows and fifty acres of land, well... I... I am particularly unambitious..."

"That's great. A simple life is a blessing."

"Brother Zhang, what are your plans for the future?"

"Become an immortal cultivator, roam the world like an immortal, don't be a frog in a well, see all the beauties in the world, save those who are suffering, and intervene when you see injustice."

"I want it too!"

Niu Da felt that Zhang Tian was very powerful and followed him willingly with admiration in his eyes. He felt that the other party was a capable person and there was no doubt about it.

So he stayed on the mountain.

Although some people laughed at him for being stupid, his father really supported him. "A person can fail many times in his life, but there will always be a chance to turn things around. Just grab that one chance and it will be fine. He can get the recognition of Lord Shenniu, so he is incredible and better than us. You have to be sure of this! Don't give up!" "Okay!"

So Niu Da helped Zhang Tian to fetch water and open up wasteland. Although he was a teenager, he lived up to his name, with endless energy. He soon helped Zhang Tian to open up hundreds of acres of land and planted one grove after another.

Those trees grow very fast.

There are changes almost every day.

Zhang Tian thought it was the soil in the mountain. He held the soil in his hand but didn't notice any difference from other places. Just as he was thinking, Niu Da explained the reason, "Brother Tian, it's the water."

It turned out that the water he carried was not the water that Zhang Tian carried from a nearby stream, but the water he carried from a cold pond in the mountains after walking a long way.

Cold pond?

"I heard my grandfather tell me when he was enjoying the cool breeze that there was originally a mountain there. Suddenly one day something fell from the sky and smashed the mountain, and a cold pond appeared."

"Then Lord Shenniu came."

Zhang Tian knew very well that the thing that fell from the sky that day was most likely related to Laozi, otherwise his mount, the green bull, would not have appeared here and stayed there for three hundred years.

He followed Niu Da to find the cold pond, only to feel that the water was extremely cold and shrouded in fog. The water in the pond was extremely clear. Even though he had excellent eyesight, he could not see what was underneath and had no idea how deep it was.

"I'll fetch water by myself from now on. This place looks very unusual. There might be a dragon under this cold pond. If it gets extremely hungry one day, it will swoop out and eat you!"

Zhang Tian was joking.

But it’s also caring.

After all, this cold pond looks quite large, like a lake, and this world has gods, so who knows what kind of dragon is hiding in it. After all, the little white dragon is hiding in the mountain stream, and there is also a dragon king in the small well.

He picked up some water and tried it, and it really worked. When he poured it on the grass, the grass became taller than a person. When he poured it on the medicine, the years increased immediately.

Even if you drink it raw.

Except for the icy taste at the beginning, he immediately felt warm all over, full of vitality, and the blood in his body became stronger, comparable to the panacea he had taken before.

"Well, it's another blessing!"

With the help of this magical object, Zhang Tian used all the things he had learned in his previous life, such as comparison, cuttings, grafting, and he cultivated many strange varieties of citrus, mandarin oranges, tangerines, and ugly oranges.

Qingniu was very excited.

He ran over, looked, sniffed, tasted it, then frowned and left.

"It doesn't taste right, it's not this kind!"

Zhang Tian plans to continue trying and plant for another ten years.

Not a few days passed.

When he went to the village to buy food, he moved his ears slightly and heard the sound of children reading in the school three or five miles away. What they were reading was not the Confucian classics outside, but the Tao Te Ching.

He laughed, "Wrong reading."

Niu Da was bewildered. “That’s right. This is what Master Shenniu taught us. We all read it this way.”

"Master Shenniu taught you?"

Zhang Tian stopped and listened quietly, with countless strange words flashing through his mind.

[Ding! You have obtained the Supreme Secret Record Daodejing, which was created by the powerful Hunyuan who summarized the mysteries of heaven and earth. It is the foundation of all great ways and contains the secrets of all great ways. Do you want to simplify it? ]

"Yes!"

[Simplification successful, you get the Taoist scripture!]
Daojing: It is simplified from the supreme secret book Daodejing, which reduces the threshold and difficulty of practice ten thousand times. After successful practice, one can increase one's own understanding. 】

(End of this chapter)