Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 541 Target—Wuzhuang Temple!

The moment Fang Yu's consciousness entered the communication space of the other Fang Yus, it was drowned out by a chorus of exclamations.

Stephen Fang: "Holy crap! This art style... Dude, are you making a horror movie?"

Pirate Fang Yu: "Babies soaking in swill buckets? Human bone artifacts? Your place is more hellish than Level 6!"

Uchiha Yu: "The three great demon kings... any one of them is stronger than Kaguya, this difficulty is off the charts."

Fengshen Fang Yu: "So this is a Journey to the West in the future? Will we be able to meet? Oh wait, this seems to be an anime world, while yours is more like Black Myth or something."

"Ding!"

A crisp notification sound suddenly rang out, and an image of Fang Yu from Dragon Ball appeared before everyone's eyes. He was sitting on the roof of King Kai's planet, with the blue King Kai covering his mouth and chuckling behind him.

"Everyone! I'll be able to learn the Kaioken soon! As long as... as long as I complete King Kai's mission!" Fang Yu from Dragon Ball panted as he brandished his fist, "Ten times the Kaioken, physical immortality achieved!"

Fang Yu from Journey to the West: "I shouldn't just sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor. Dragon Ball is also adapted from Journey to the West, so as someone in Journey to the West, I should make some contributions. Or, how about I find a way to become an apprentice?"

Everyone's eyes lit up at the same time!

Stephen Fang: "That's right! You should just become an apprentice of Patriarch Bodhi! The Seventy-Two Transformations and the Somersault Cloud, aren't they all powerful weapons?"

"It's not that simple." Pirate Fang Yu stroked his chin and analyzed, "The Bodhi Patriarch has many requirements for accepting disciples, and given our situation, it's hard to say."

"Then let's go to Wuzhuang Temple!" Bruce Yu suddenly slapped his thigh. "Zhenyuan Daxian's ginseng fruit can live for 47,000 years! Let's steal—no, borrow two—and we'll take off!"

Pirate Fang Yu: "As expected of someone who grew up in Gotham, you're really bold. You even dared to steal Zhenyuan Daxian's things, okay? I want to steal them too."

Fang Yu, a traveler from the West, sat cross-legged atop the mountain, gazing at the Lion Camel Kingdom shrouded in demonic clouds in the distance, his thoughts churning.

“Becoming an apprentice is indeed a way out,” he muttered to himself. “Zhenyuan Daxian is a good choice, but it’s hard to say whether he will accept me.”

“Lion Camel Kingdom is not far from Mount Ling, while Wuzhuang Temple is on Longevity Mountain. I don’t know how far apart the two places are.” He frowned slightly. “Asking mortals about Wuzhuang Temple is pointless. I have to ask the local deities along the way. Maybe I can find the whereabouts of Wuzhuang Temple.”

"Also, we're too out of touch with the news. We need to find someone to ask what year it is now."

He stood up and glanced at the village in the distance.

There's smoke rising from the chimneys there; perhaps we can gather some intelligence there.

"Let's take one step at a time."

Fang Yu took a deep breath and started walking down the mountain.

As we descended the rugged mountain path, the outlines of the distant villages gradually became clear.

Upon seeing the houses, Fang Yu first looked around. After all, they were so close to the Lion Camel Kingdom, who knew what might live inside?

After looking around for a while and not finding anything strange, he went over and knocked on the door.
"Squeak-"

The door opened! What was in front of him made Fang Yu's eyelids twitch!
This is actually a cat demon with a cat's head and a human body!

The cat demon was hunched over, with dry fur and sunken eyes, looking just like a skeleton draped in cat skin.

It leaned on a crooked wooden cane, and when it coughed, its throat emitted a wheezing sound like a broken bellows, clearly indicating that it was already in its twilight years.

Upon seeing Fang Yu's face, the cat demon showed no unusual reaction. It coughed twice and said, "Lost, young man? You really are heading down a dead end. Ahead lies the Lion Camel Kingdom, a hellish place. How could you possibly come here?"

"Lion Camel Kingdom?" Fang Yu narrowed his eyes, feigning ignorance. "What kind of place is that?"

The cat demon sighed and shakily stepped aside to make way for her: "Come in, stranger. You smell like swill. You must have escaped from there. Don't try to fake it in front of me. I can smell it."

The room was dark and damp, with dried herbs piled in the corner and strings of dried rat meat hanging on the wall.

In the territory of monsters, this is already a rare "clean" food.

The cat demon slowly moved to the fire pit and stirred the thin porridge in the earthenware pot with a wooden spoon: "Three years ago, the demon soldiers of the Green Lion King swept through the villages within a hundred miles. The living were either captured and used as food or fled into the deep mountains to wait for death." It scooped up half a bowl of porridge and pushed it to Fang Yu, "A useless old monster like me can survive."

Fang Yu stared at the bowl of porridge without moving: "You're helping humans?"

"Cough cough cough!" The cat demon suddenly coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of thick phlegm streaked with blood. "I just don't want to be devoured by my own kind after I die. Even among demons, there are different kinds. The Golden-Winged Roc hates cat demons the most, so a cat like me will either die a miserable death at the hands of a bird monster or have to do the hardest and most tiring jobs."

It gave a wry smile. "That so-called boss, the blue-haired lion monster, is somewhat related to me, but this guy doesn't stand up for cats at all; instead, dogs run rampant."

"Alas! The people of Lion Camel Kingdom have been terribly harmed by those three great demons! When I was still a kitten, I was fed by many people in Lion Camel Kingdom, but things have changed so much. Now it's a world ruled by demons. Those people who are kept in captivity are nothing more than temporary food for those three great demons and the lesser demons. Who knows when they'll bite them?"

Hearing this, Fang Yu lowered his guard. He stirred the porridge in his bowl and patted his chest as if he were still scared: "I was originally traveling with a caravan, supposed to make a fortune in a rich country full of gold. But the more we traveled, the more desolate it became. When we were almost at the gate of Lion Camel Kingdom, I smelled something was wrong with the smell of blood. I took advantage of the chaos and crawled into the stinking ditch by the roadside. I was the only one in the whole caravan who escaped. It seems I really escaped a disaster."

The cat demon's eyes flashed with a cold light. "What a clever fellow. Hurry up and leave. We can't stay here any longer. The birds and beasts of the Lion Camel Kingdom can travel tens of thousands of miles a day. If they know someone has escaped, they will definitely come to catch you."

Fang Yu nodded, feigning alarm: "Thank you for the reminder, sir. I'll be leaving now."

He deliberately staggered as he stood up, secretly observing the cat demon's reaction.

The cat demon pointed tremblingly to the back door: "Go out from here, walk twenty miles east along the stream, there's an abandoned cave. Cough cough, you can hide there for three days."

A glint of light suddenly flashed in its cloudy cat eyes. "Remember, don't light a fire."

Fang Yu's heart stirred slightly; the old cat demon's description was far too detailed!

And when this guy said those words, it sounded like he was gritting his teeth.
He pretended to walk to the door as if he was about to leave, then suddenly turned back and asked, "Do you think human hands or thighs taste better? I think even dog demons like to gnaw on thighs."

Without hesitation, the cat demon said, "What do you know, dog demon! There's a lot of fat on your thighs. Let me tell you, the most delicious part of a human body is actually the eyes, because when you bite into an eye, it bursts with juice in your mouth, and that tastes amazing!"

"Oh? Eyes bulging? Looks like you've had your share of experiences, sir?"

(End of this chapter)