Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 122: Grandpa God and Tiger Roar
After hearing what the old man said, the man hurriedly opened the wooden door halfway, and without even looking, pulled the figure in green outside the door into the house. Then he cautiously stretched his head out to look around, and tried his best to close the wooden door gently and silently.

"You two, this is..."

Hearing the voice behind him, the man quickly turned his head and was about to signal the Taoist to speak more quietly, but the moment he saw the Taoist he couldn't help but be stunned.

The Taoist was very young, with a handsome face, a free and easy temperament, and a pair of bright and clear eyes. Even the immortal they invited some time ago did not have such a temperament.

"This. Dao. Taoist priest."

The man hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and stepped forward, bowing and saying:

"Master, I don't know where you came from, but please rest here for a while. Go back to where you came from under the cover of night! There are monsters in our area!"

At this moment, the old man came over and said in a low voice:

"Chen Shi, don't be rude! Go get a bowl of water to quench the Taoist priest's thirst."

"Eh, eh!"

As the old man spoke, he saw Chen Shi going to fetch water. He then turned to look at the handsome Taoist in green clothes and said with a bow:

"Excuse me, Taoist priest. I am the village chief of Queqiao Village. I haven't asked for your full name yet."

"Immortal Guangyi."

"Master Guangyi, although Chen Shi's words just now were not pleasant to hear, there is indeed a demon disaster near our Queqiao Village. I hope you can leave this place as soon as possible and not be implicated."

Judging from his many years of experience, the Taoist priest in front of him was definitely not an ordinary person, but he was too young after all, looking only about twenty years old, and probably did not have any great abilities.

It would be such a pity if this young man were killed by those monsters.
Niu Yi looked at the old man in front of him and said with a bow:
"Since this place is plagued by demons, why don't you leave here with the rest of the village?"

At this moment, Chen Shi came to Niu Yi with a bowl of water, handed it to him, and said:
"Master, you don't know that we are being held captive by those monsters. Don't ask any more questions. Before those monsters discover your presence, it's better for you to leave quickly when it gets dark."

Niu Yi took the bowl of water with a smile and shook his head:

"You two, although I am not very old, I have learned many self-defense methods from my master over the years. Even ordinary demons cannot get close to me."

When the man heard this, he thought Niu Yi was just a fool. Just as he was about to say something impatiently, a sound suddenly came from the floor in the room.

Not long after, a stone slab suddenly rose from the ground, and a man, holding up the stone slab, revealed his head.

There was actually a disguised cellar entrance on the ground inside the house.

When the man saw Niu Yi, he was surprised for a moment, then looked at the two men anxiously.

"Village Chief, Shi Ge'er, Xi'er's condition is getting worse and worse. He's almost unconscious!"

Hearing this, the expressions of the old village chief and Chen Shi both turned a little ugly.

When Niu Yi heard the name Xier, he felt inexplicably touched and his eyes lit up.

He looked at the people in front of him and said:
"If someone is sick, could you please let me take a look? I have learned a lot of medical skills from my own master, and I have three or two pills on me that may be of use."

The three of them were startled when they heard this. The old man hesitated at first, but finally nodded and bowed to Niu Yi, saying:
"Then I'll trouble you, Taoist Priest."

Niu Yi nodded, leaving Chen Shi alone to watch outside, while he, the old man and another man followed the wooden ladder and came into the cellar together.

At this moment, three or four dim oil lamps attached to the wall barely illuminated the cellar.

Niu Yi looked at the small cellar, which was packed with people. However, these people were all disheveled and had dull eyes. There seemed to be children and women sobbing softly among them.

Even when a stranger named Niu Yi appeared, these people didn't pay much attention to him, as if they had lost all hope in life.

The man and the village chief brought Niu Yi straight to a straw mat, where they saw a little boy of only seven or eight years old, wrapped tightly in a quilt. His eyes were closed, his face was flushed, and beads of sweat covered his face. From time to time, he unconsciously muttered that he was very cold.

Yes, this is the child
Niu Yi looked at the child in front of him and felt inexplicably fluttering in his heart. The person who could make him feel this way must be the person that the ancestor asked him to find.

Niu Yi slowly lowered his body and placed his palm on the boy's head, only to feel a burning sensation in his palm.

Niu Yi nodded slowly.

"It can be cured."

But Niu Yi reached into the black leather bag at his waist and took out a small jade bottle. Then Niu Yi pulled out the stopper of the jade bottle, poured out a green pill from it, and stuffed it into the child's mouth.

"This"

The old village chief and the man beside him looked at this scene in surprise. Before they could ask anything, they saw Niu Yi stand up, look at them and say with a smile:

"Please keep an eye on this child. He should be able to recover soon."

After Niu Yi finished speaking, without waiting for the two men to reply, he walked past them and headed towards the wooden ladder.

"Master, what are you doing?"

"It seems there are guests outside again. I'll go and take a look."

The old village chief and the man's expressions changed when they heard this. Just as they were about to catch up, they heard the boy's voice suddenly coming from behind them.

"Um"

The two of them turned around quickly, only to see that the boy was slowly opening his eyes and looking at the cellar ceiling in confusion. The boy's red face was gradually fading away and returning to normal.

"This this."

The two of them couldn't help but look at each other, and then the old village chief slowly leaned over, looked at the little boy, and asked with a distressed look on his face:

"Xi'er, how do you feel?"

"Grandpa, the village chief."

The boy sat up and looked at the village chief with a weak smile.

"boom"

At that moment, everyone in the cellar suddenly felt a tremor around them. Even the roof of the cellar above them felt some broken sand and gravel falling, which made everyone a little panicked. "That monster is coming! It's those monsters again!!"

"What kind of sin is this?!"

"Woo~~"

The tremor subsided with just one sound, but the cellar was already in chaos.

The village chief's face was also a little solemn. He looked at the man and said:
"You stay here to comfort everyone and take good care of Xier. I'll go up and take a look."

"Village Chief! It's still me."

"listen to me!"

But the old village chief glared and then walked quickly towards the wooden ladder.

But just as he climbed up the wooden ladder and before he could lift the stone slab, he found that the stone slab had been lifted up from the outside. He immediately made eye contact with Chen Shi, who had lifted the stone slab.

The two of them were stunned for a moment, then Chen Shi looked at his village chief and said in a panic:

"Village Chief! That Taoist priest, he's taken a few monsters with him to go find some great king!"

"That's it?"

"Hey hey!!! This is it! Grandpa God! Please have mercy! Please let us go!!"

"Yes, Grandpa God!"

"Please have mercy, Grandpa God!"

At the foot of a towering mountain, several little demons were kneeling on the ground, kowtowing frantically to Niu Yi and begging for mercy loudly.

As soon as they arrived at the Queqiao Village, they met the man in front of them. Before they could say a few harsh words, he stomped his feet lightly and shocked them back.

Then, this person asked them where the king was. How could they not dare to refuse and quickly told him the king's location. As a result, this person stomped his feet again, and they returned to the cave where the king was.

Niu Yi looked at the huge cave at the foot of the mountain. It seemed that something inside was slowly waking up because of the noise from the outside world.

Niu Yi smelled the bloody and foul smell wafting from the cave, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and a brutal tiger-shaped demonic aura slowly took shape in his eyes.

"A tiger demon at the Demon General level, right? This is it."

Niu Yi no longer paid attention to the little demons, walked forward and headed into the cave.

The little demons couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that Niu Yi ignored them, but soon they heard bursts of roars coming from the cave, among which the loudest was the roar of a tiger.

"Roar!!!"

"The King is angry!!! That Taoist will surely die without a burial place!!"

"That's right, that Taoist actually dared to cause trouble for our king!"

Hearing the tiger's roar coming from the cave, several little demons couldn't help but show excitement and ran towards the cave, as if as long as their king showed his power, the Taoist would be killed without a burial place.

"boom!!!"

"Roar!!!"

Suddenly, several little demons who were walking towards the inside of the cave suddenly felt the ground shaking. Then, the tiger's roar in the cave suddenly turned into a howl, and the sound was filled with fear and panic.

Several little demons looked at each other and saw the fear in each other's eyes. At this moment, a golden light flashed quickly, and before these little demons could react, they lost their voices.

After a while, there was no sound in the cave at all.

At this time, Niu Yi was standing in the cave. The star-shaped chessboard with nineteen vertical and horizontal lines under his feet was slowly dispersing, and a huge tiger head with wide-open eyes was falling not far from Niu Yi.

Although the tiger head looked very powerful, it had completely lost its vitality.

Niu Yi stretched out his palm towards the tiger head, and unspeakable rays of light kept flashing on Niu Yi's palm, pulling something out of the huge tiger head.

As rays of light gathered in Niu Yi's hands, they formed a ball of purple light that was constantly emitting spiritual energy.

[Tiger Demon Talent Extracted: Tiger Roar (Purple)]

[Tiger Roar Talent: The tiger is the king of the mountains. Its roar brings all beasts to submission. It can emit a breathtaking tiger roar that will instantly rob people of their courage and power to resist.]

"This tiger's roar is useless to me. The roar of the tiger in the Dragon Roar and Tiger Roar diagram is no worse than this tiger's roar."

Niu Yi shook his head and crushed the purple ball of light in his hand. The ball of light instantly turned into a stream of air and merged with Niu Yi and into his soul.

[Tiger Roar talent has been consumed, Heart of Spirit talent has been improved]

[Heart Like a Spiritual Platform (Purple) — Heart Like a Spiritual Platform (Purple)]

[Mind Like a Spiritual Platform: Greatly improves understanding, becoming unburdened by external things. The mind is clear and bright. One can enter the Spiritual Platform state once every twelve hours, and can stay in the Spiritual Platform state for three days each time.]

Even after integrating the talent of the Mountain Tiger's Roar, the talent of the Heart's Spiritual Platform seemed to have not changed much. However, Niu Yi suddenly felt a stream of clear air rushing straight to his soul, making his mind clear.

Niu Yi knew in his heart that his Xin Ruo Ling Tai talent had indeed improved, but it was not enough to achieve a qualitative change.

The trip was smoother than he had imagined. When he arrived at Queqiao Village, he found the child that his master had asked him to find. The tiger demon was also easily dealt with. Next, he could take the child and return to his master as soon as possible.

Niu Yi was looking forward to it. He turned around and left the cave full of corpses and walked out of the cave.

Three days later, Queqiao Village.

"Master Guangyi, I'll leave this child in your care."

Niu Yi looked at the people in Queqiao Village who were bidding farewell to He Xi, turned around, and bowed to the respectful old man in front of him, saying:
"Please rest assured, Village Chief, I will take good care of He Xi."

(End of this chapter)