Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 566 Tang Sanzang's Distorted Worldview
The next morning, before the mountain mist had dissipated, Fang Yu dragged the sleepy-eyed Tang Seng onto the road.

Sun Wukong transformed into the appearance of a wealthy merchant, wearing a gold-embroidered brocade robe, a melon-shaped hat on his head, and a fake jade pendant hanging from his waist, looking exactly like a nouveau riche.

Fang Yu looked at Tang Sanzang and said, "Old Tang, your cassock is too eye-catching."

As if performing a magic trick, Sun Wukong produced a plain white scholar's robe. "Here you go."

Tang Sanzang clutched the clothes, his face paler than fog: "This...this is utterly disgraceful!"

"Disgraceful?" Sun Wukong ripped off Tang Sanzang's hat. "It's better than being bald, isn't it? This is too conspicuous!"

As the three argued, the distant city walls became faintly visible.

The three large, gilded characters "Shuangchacheng" on the city gate plaque gleamed in the morning light.

"We've arrived." Fang Yu squinted at the tallest vermilion building in the city. Red lanterns hanging from the eaves swayed gently in the wind, and the three characters "Feng Lou" on the lanterns were particularly eye-catching.

Tang Sanzang suddenly stopped in his tracks: "Wait! That's...that's..."

"A brothel or a theater." Sun Wukong grinned, his sharp teeth gleaming coldly. "Little monk, you've never seen one before, have you?"

Tang Sanzang's ears instantly turned bright red: "Nonsense! I am a monk!"

"Aren't monks human too?" Fang Yu grabbed Tang Seng's shoulder. "Holy Monk, you keep talking about saving all sentient beings, but you don't even know how they live. What kind of salvation are you talking about?"

Sun Wukong had already leaped to the front of the Hao Feng Lou, his hairy hand emerging from the sleeve of his brocade robe, and tossed a silver ingot to the pimp: "The best room! The most beautiful girl!"

The pimp took the silver, weighed it in his hand, and his wrinkled face blossomed into a wide smile: "Please come in, gentlemen!"

Tang Seng was half-pushed and half-dragged into the building by Fang Yu. The overwhelming scent of perfume made him sneeze three times.

The sounds of laughter from women inside the building, the seductive music of string and wind instruments, and the shouts of drinkers playing drinking games mingled together, making his temples throb.

"You hypocrite!" Sun Wukong jumped onto the armchair and squatted down, winking at Tang Sanzang. "Don't you monks all love looking at female bodhisattvas? Why are you afraid to look at real people?"

The door to the side room opened, and three young women walked in gracefully.

The woman in red, who was at the head of the group, had her eyes sparkling. Just as her slender fingers were about to touch Tang Sanzang's shoulder, he cried out in surprise, jumped up from his chair, and slammed the back of his head against the screen with a thud.

"Don't panic." Fang Yu slowly sipped his drink. "They're not going to eat you."

Tang Sanzang huddled in the corner, fine beads of sweat beading on his forehead: "This humble monk...this humble monk..."

The woman in red chuckled and poked Tang Sanzang's chest with her slender, white fingers: "This gentleman is quite interesting, could it be..."

"Him~" Fang Yu crossed his legs, "He says he's detached from worldly desires, but he's probably already thinking about what to name his child."

Upon hearing this, Tang Sanzang was struck dumb, his face turning bright red: "Nonsense! I have been a monk since childhood and have long since severed all worldly ties!"

"Sever all worldly ties?" Fang Yu suddenly became serious. "Then why don't you dare look at these girls? If you are truly without desires, then you will see mountains as mountains, water as water, and beauties as nothing more than painted skeletons. The Holy Monk's reaction clearly shows that he has attachments in his heart."

"Speaking of which," Fang Yu suddenly slammed his hand on the table and burst into laughter, "Back then, when the Monkey King used his immobilization spell to freeze the seven fairies in the Peach Garden, he ended up stealing a few peaches to eat. You didn't have any desire for them? Of course he didn't!"

Sun Wukong nodded as he ate a peach, "That's right! I'm not interested in women at all. I'd rather eat peaches, I'd rather eat peaches~ hehe."

Tang Sanzang remained silent.

He had to admit that when this woman got close to him, his heart did race and his face turned red.

In this respect, he's not even as good as a monkey.

Tang Sanzang chose to sit cross-legged with his eyes closed, and no matter how the woman in red beside him tried to provoke him, he remained as still as an old monk in meditation, and began to play dead.

Upon seeing this, Fang Yu suddenly slammed his hand on the table and burst into laughter: "Old Tang, why do you think people are born into this world?"

Tang Sanzang slowly opened his eyes, put his hands together and said, "Amitabha, all sentient beings fall into the sea of ​​suffering of reincarnation because of ignorance and afflictions. The Buddha said, 'Ignorance causes action, and action causes consciousness.' This is the principle of the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination. Our practice is precisely to cut off this chain of reincarnation and attain Nirvana and peace."

Fang Yu chuckled and tilted his head back to gulp down a mouthful of wine: "Wrong! Utterly wrong!"

He pulled the girl in green beside him into his arms. "Those are all values ​​that religions force on believers! The reason humanity came into existence..." He suddenly pointed to the children playing on the street outside the window, "is precisely for this!"

Sun Wukong, who was munching on a peach, spat out the fruit upon hearing this: "Having babies?" "That's right!" Fang Yu dipped his finger in wine and drew a twisted DNA chain on the table. "From ancient times to the present, all life has been doing one thing: perpetuating its genes!"

"If your parents hadn't given birth to you, how would you have come to see this vast world?"

"Don't even mention you."

"Wasn't your Buddha Shakyamuni also born of a mother and raised by a father?"

"If everyone followed the monks' example and abstained from sex, humanity would have been extinct long ago!"

The woman in red covered her mouth and chuckled, while the girl in green chimed in, "Yes, yes, that's what people are born to do..."

"Old Tang, you are unfilial in three ways: first, your family is poor and your parents are old, yet you do not seek official positions; second, you are unfilial in three ways: you do not marry and have no children, thus cutting off the ancestral line; and third, of these three, having no descendants is the greatest. You Buddhist monks are quite something."

"It will make them unable to have any offspring!"

"Pfft!" The girls finally couldn't hold back their laughter.

Tang Sanzang's ears turned so red they almost bled.

He suddenly realized that there was a fatal flaw in his logic: if all living beings became monks or nuns, wouldn't humanity become extinct within a century? How could we then talk about universal salvation?
Fang Yu then said, "You always say you have the world and all its people in your heart, but do you know who in the world has the most miserable life?"

Tang Sanzang thought for a moment, and considering his own situation, said, "An orphan."

"Do you know what kind of work most orphans do?"

Tang Sanzang was stunned, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"Hehe, it's them."

Tang Seng was struck dumb when he saw Fang Yu pointing at the group of girls!
He slowly raised his head and looked at the smiling girls, his eyes gradually filled with an unprecedented shock.

"This...this..." His voice trembled, "They are all..."

"Most likely." Fang Yu swirled his wine glass, the amber liquid reflecting his cold, handsome profile. "They were either sold by their parents or kidnapped. If they were lucky, they started working as prostitutes at twelve or thirteen; if they were unlucky..."

He glanced at the old scar on the girl in green's wrist. "She was already wearing a badge when she was ten."

The laughter in the side room suddenly froze.

The girl in green subconsciously pulled her sleeves down a little.

"Old Tang," Fang Yu's voice suddenly became very soft, "you say you want to save all living beings, but have you actually managed to save them?"

"I," Tang Sanzang, felt as if something was blocking my throat.

He suddenly staggered to his feet and bowed deeply to the girls, saying, "This humble monk is ashamed."

The women hurriedly stepped aside, crying out, "Master, you mustn't!"

The woman in green smiled bitterly, "People like us don't deserve it."

"You're not good enough! You're not good enough!" Fang Yu suddenly raised his voice. "Not everyone can afford to get married and have children!"

"You don't need a fortune in silver to marry a wife; just a few days' wages are enough to temporarily have one."

Isn't this a form of great love?

"In ancient times, there was a story of Buddha cutting off his own flesh to feed an eagle."

"Today, the older sisters offer their orifices to relieve sexual repression."

"What bodhisattva? In my opinion, you are the bodhisattvas, the female bodhisattvas!"

"woo woo woo woo!"

The room was immediately filled with sobbing.
(End of this chapter)