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Journey to the West.

The Immortal Realm, Mount Cuiyun.

"Greetings to the Heavenly Lord!"

His immortal robes fluttered in the wind as Niu Jun stepped out of the Starry Sky Dojo and looked up at the sky.

Count with your fingers.

One hundred and three years have passed in the Earthly Immortal Realm of the Journey to the West world. Jin Chanzi has already overcome three of the eighty-one tribulations. There are less than ten years left before the journey to the West begins.

"Where did the lady and the Holy Infant go?"

Niu Jun's gaze swept over the several fairy maidens who were greeting him, and he asked.

"Reporting to the Heavenly Venerable, today is the day of the Flaming Mountain sacrificial ceremony. The Lady has taken the Holy Infant to the Flaming Mountain to collect offerings and suppress the fire in the mountain."

The leading fairy maiden spoke respectfully.

The Flaming Mountains stretch for eight hundred miles, their raging flames burning for five hundred years without ceasing, even turning the Monkey King's golden cudgel red-hot.

If Princess Iron Fan hadn't been kind-hearted and made a trip to the Flaming Mountain every thirty years to summon divine winds with her banana leaf fan to suppress the fire in the mountain, the area surrounding the Flaming Mountain, spanning thousands of miles, would probably have long since turned into scorched earth.

In fact.

Whether it's Niu Jun taking action or Princess Iron Fan wielding her banana leaf fan, both can extinguish the flames of Flaming Mountain.

however.

The fire in the Flaming Mountains is not only the divine fire from Laozi's alchemy furnace, but also the "evil consequence" of Sun Wukong kicking over Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace when he wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

The cause of yesterday is the effect of today.

A brick from the furnace fell to the mortal realm and became the Flaming Mountain.

What appears to be a random disaster is actually a "karmic punishment" for Wukong's rebellion.

The Buddha incorporated this calamity into the script of the eighty-one tribulations, testing the resolve of Tang Sanzang's team and also subtly implying the profound meaning of "using demons to refine Buddhahood."

Only by making Sun Wukong confront the disasters he created can he complete his transformation from a demon to a Buddha.

Of course, the Heavenly Court and the Buddhist sect did not go too far, so the Banana Cave and the Banana Fan came into being, and Princess Iron Fan, an earth immortal, came into being, suppressing the fire of the Flaming Mountain every thirty years.

Then consider that Princess Iron Fan is the daughter of Mara, who has deep ties to Buddhism.

Therefore, the Flaming Mountain tribulation in the eighty-one tribulations of Journey to the West was actually preordained and was specifically reserved for Princess Iron Fan to gain human fortune and merit.

This way.

Niu Jun had no reason to make a move.

Then he thought of the difficult-to-accumulate merits that the Buddhist sect had allocated to him.

Niu Jun immediately made a decision.

"Husband!"

"Daddy!"

Just then, two beams of divine light descended from the sky, transforming into Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy.

"Madam, Yan'er!"

Niu Jun said with a smile, "You've come at the right time; I was just about to look for you."

Now, with less than ten years remaining before Tang Sanzang embarks on his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, he needs to make preparations in advance if he wants those around him to gain merit from the journey.

There's no need to worry about his wife, Princess Iron Fan.

Because of Princess Iron Fan's good fortune and merits in her journey to the West, her father-in-law, Moro, had already made arrangements, so there was no risk whatsoever.

As for his son Niu Yan, also known as the Holy Infant Red Boy?

We need to think about it carefully.

Of course, there is no danger. Not to mention that he has already attained the Primordial Chaos Taiyi realm, as long as the Buddhist sect and Sun Wukong and others are not stupid, they would not dare to do anything to Red Boy.

Let's just talk about his friendship with Sun Wukong.

Red Boy will not be in any danger.

At most, they'll just suffer a bit.

Niu Jun is now thinking about how to create a good script for his son so that while he gains the luck and merit of the Journey to the West, he can also be properly tempered.

In addition, he possessed a dilemma of fortune and merit. Besides leaving one tribulation for Red Boy, he was also considering who should receive the remaining tribulation.

Is it left to the younger brother of the previous incarnation, the True Immortal Ruyi?

It should still be left to the three sworn brothers of the predecessor, the Lion Camel King, the Macaque King, and the Yu Rong King, the three demons.

Or perhaps he left this ordeal to his wife, Princess Iron Fan?

All of a sudden.

Niu Jun really couldn't decide.

"What business does my husband have with us, mother and daughter?" Princess Iron Fan asked with a smile, her eyes filled with tenderness.

Niu Jun didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "How much does Madam know about the Journey to the West?"

The story of Journey to the West is not a secret; many immortals and gods in the Three Realms have heard of it.

Princess Iron Fan came to the Banana Cave of Cuiyun Mountain five hundred years ago, and obtained two innate spiritual treasures from the Banana Cave. She also enjoyed the offerings and merits of the people of the Flaming Mountain. Naturally, she knew some secrets of the Journey to the West.

So when Niu Jun asked her, she didn't hide anything and said directly, "To be honest, my husband, I do know a little about the Journey to the West."

"It is said that the Journey to the West is the great trend of the Heavenly Way. In the Three Realms, whether it is immortals, demons, gods, Buddhas, ghosts, monsters and spirits, as long as they can participate, they can obtain the Heavenly Way's fortune and merits."

"Of course, that's how it's presented to outsiders."

"The truth is that the Journey to the West was already decided five hundred years ago, and even the participants were determined. Without the approval of the major powers, anyone who rashly participates in the Journey to the West will only face death."

Princess Iron Fan paused slightly at this point, then said with a playful smile, "When I came to Cuiyun Mountain and took over the Banana Cave, it was on my father's orders."

"I thought I had been banished here to suffer, but later I learned that it was a blessing from my father."

"However, it's fortunate that I came to this Immortal Realm, otherwise I would not have met my husband."

Think back to the beginning.

Princess Iron Fan was also filled with emotion.

At first, she thought she was expelled from the Asura Realm because she had made a mistake.

It wasn't until later that she realized what a stroke of luck it was that she was able to come to the Immortal Realm and take over the Banana Cave on Cuiyun Mountain.

Of course, her greatest fortune came when she met Niu Jun and married him.

After Princess Iron Fan finished speaking, she looked at Niu Jun and asked, "Husband, you asked about the Journey to the West today. Do you have any thoughts on this matter?"

Niu Jun nodded and said, "A hundred years ago, Guanyin of the Buddhist sect invited me to the Purple Bamboo Grove in the South China Sea to discuss the Dao, and granted me the merit and fortune of the eighty-one tribulations of my journey to the West."

"Now that the journey to the West is imminent, I intend to entrust the merits and fortune of these two trials to my wife and Xiao Yan."

"With the good fortune and merit from these two difficulties, and with my plans for you and your son, you two may have a chance to attain the Primordial Unity Dao before the end of this cycle."

In the current world of Journey to the West, there are still more than 60,000 years before the end of the cycle of reincarnation.

Niu Jun thought so.

With his own plans for Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, the two of them might not be without the opportunity to attain the Primordial Chaos Taiyi.

Of course, Niu Jun could also condense two Taiyi Dao Seeds suitable for Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, allowing them to refine them directly and break through to the Taiyi realm.

However, this method of breakthrough is ultimately a last resort and a desperate measure.

Even after breaking through, one cannot be considered a true Taiyi Golden Immortal; one can only be considered a pseudo-Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Furthermore, once one uses this method to break through, it is tantamount to cutting off one's own path, and there will be no possibility of breaking through to the Taiyi realm again.

Therefore, most immortals and gods would rather choose reincarnation than use this method to break through.

Niu Jun naturally hoped that Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy could break through to the Taiyi realm on their own.

But in the end, one must rely on oneself to cultivate the Tao; it is difficult for outsiders to help.

All Niu Jun could do was to devise more plans for Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, so that the mother and son could obtain as much support as possible from the Heavenly Dao and the Qi, thereby increasing their chances of attaining the Primordial Chaos Taiyi Dao.

Just like the Journey to the West, which was jointly promoted by major forces such as Buddhism and Heaven.

What is the ultimate meaning of Journey to the West?
It is neither a Buddhist Mahayana scripture nor the story of Tang Sanzang and his disciples.

Rather, it's the path of the Journey to the West.

Or rather, it is the convergence of the great forces of heaven and earth, the fortune and merits of the celestial order, along the journey to the West.

With the assistance of the great power of heaven and earth and the endless fortune and merit of the heavenly way, the possibility of Tang Sanzang and his companions attaining the Hunyuan Taiyi realm would naturally increase a thousandfold, and might even directly give birth to one or two Hunyuan Taiyi Golden Immortals.

This can be seen from the Buddhist chants recited by Tang Sanzang after he attained Buddhahood.

Sandalwood Merit Buddha!
A Buddha statue forcibly constructed from the grand scheme of heaven and earth, the fortune and merit of the heavens.

Since Tang Sanzang was able to borrow the power of heaven and earth and the merits of heaven and earth to attain the Primordial Chaos Taiyi.

Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy are also a possibility.

However, achieving this is not a simple or easy task.

After all, not everyone can organize such a grand scheme as Journey to the West, let alone gather the merits and fortunes of the Three Realms.

As Niu Jun thought about this, an idea suddenly came to mind.

"Since Tang Sanzang and his companions are not essential to the Journey to the West."

"Could it be that my son, Red Boy, could replace one of the four members of Tang Sanzang's group?"

"In the Journey to the West quartet, Tang Sanzang is backed by the Buddha, Sun Wukong by the Taoist Laozi, Zhu Bajie by the Heavenly Emperor Ziwei, and Sha Wujing by the Eastern Emperor of the Three Immortal Islands in the East Sea."

"I certainly can't afford to offend the first three, but the last one..."

Thinking of this, Niu Jun's gaze turned deep as he looked up toward the Three Immortal Islands in the East China Sea.

(End of this chapter)