Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 137 The Divine Doctor Daojun
When Niu Yi opened his eyes again, he found himself in a bare earthen house. A man in plain clothes was kneeling down to him sincerely.

Niu Yi looked around and found that he was floating on a wooden statue. On the statue was a kind-looking Taoist priest with a long beard and a smile on his face, carrying a medicine box on his back.

"Godly Doctor Daojun, please save my mother. I really have no other options. Please, please."

The man had a haggard face and held a yellowed prescription in his hand. He kept kneeling towards the statue, each time knocking harder than the last.

Is this the prescription I gave out when I was practicing medicine and saving lives after I came down the mountain?
Divine Doctor Taoist, are you talking about me?
Niu Yi's eyes swept around the room and finally fixed on an old lady who was lying on a wooden bed not far away, covered with a quilt. She had gray hair, her eyes closed, and was barely breathing.

Niu Yi couldn't help but frown slightly when he saw this scene.

In this man's house, apart from an earthen stove, there was only the wooden bed under the old woman and the mattress covering her body. This was the statue, which the man placed on the stove without even a pot, lit a stick of incense, and knelt down to worship it.

Obviously, this man has sold all his belongings in order to save his old mother.

Niu Yi slowly floated in front of the old lady and looked at her pale face. He could tell at a glance that the old lady was frail and sickly, and had caught a cold. She had already fainted and was unconscious. If she continued like this, she might not survive the night.

If he were here, he could have saved her, but in his current state, I don't know if he could do it...

Niu Yi was just about to give it a try, but at this moment, a hollow wooden stick suddenly appeared above the doors and windows of the earthen house. An invisible fragrance gushed out of the stick. The man who was kneeling there fell asleep as soon as he smelled the fragrance.

Niu Yi looked at the scene in surprise, but saw that as the man fell asleep, a fish-headed fish demon and a shrimp-headed shrimp demon pushed the door open and entered.

But the fish demon walked quickly towards the bed, took out a water-blue drop of water from the long water grass wrapped around his waist, held it in his palm, and fed it into the old lady's mouth.

As the old woman drank the water, her breathing gradually became steady, and her body began to ooze out some smelly sweat.

The fish demon looked at the old lady on the bed with some envy and said:

"Oh, really, the Sixth Young Master actually asked us to give such a precious treasure to these mortals."

"Stop talking nonsense and leave quickly. The Sixth Young Master said that no one should be aware of this!"

"Let's go!"

As the shrimp demon and the fish demon were talking, they quickly left the room and carefully closed the door.

Niu Yi looked at this scene and was silent for a while. At this moment, the incense in front of the statue was completely burned out, and his gaze quickly retreated back to his spiritual state of mind.

What Niu Yi didn't know was that above the clouds above the earthen house, an old man wearing a white robe with stars, holding a whisk in his hand, wearing a star crown on his head, with white hair and a youthful face, was brushing his long beard and watching this scene with a smile.

"Xingjun."

Hearing the voice behind him, the old man slowly turned around, looked at the veiled woman in white behind him, and said with a smile:

"Haha~ The fairy is here too~"

Niu Yi slowly opened his eyes, looked at the bright moonlight outside the window, and began to calculate with his hands. After a moment, a strange look appeared on Niu Yi's face.

"Sixth Young Master, Turtle Six? It turns out that this little turtle was traveling eastward, curing illnesses and saving lives along the way. Who would have thought that, by coincidence, he would leave a legacy of faith on both sides of the Tongtian River?"

"But I don't practice Shintoism, so what's the point of this incense?"

After some calculations, Niu Yi immediately knew the whole story.

Back then, he resolved the feud between the Zhu family and the old turtle family in Tongtian River. He only accepted the two pieces of jade from the Zhu family and did not take the box of gold.

But Mr. Zhu exchanged all the gold in the box for medicinal herbs, and gave them away in his name, which further expanded his influence in the local area and made everyone grateful to him. It was from that time that people began to make statues of him and worship him.

More than ten years later, a Taoist priest came one day. He had no special skills, but he had a sharp tongue. He saw that the local people were worshiping his statue. After learning the whole story, he came up with a plan.

This person said that this Taoist was the Taoist God of Divine Medicine from heaven, who had come down to earth to relieve suffering and help people in distress, and that he was sent by the Taoist God of Divine Medicine to inspect the human world.

After hearing the Taoist's sweet talk, everyone immediately believed him. After all, in the eyes of these mortals, how much medical skill could a young man possess? He must be a god from heaven who had transformed into a human being to save people from suffering.

From then on, his statue image became that of a middle-aged Taoist priest, and he was revered by the locals as the Taoist Divine Doctor.

As for the Taoist priest, before he could enjoy the blessing of being a god, he was found by a group of enemies and secretly eliminated two days after he had been cheating.

But this is not the end. Just a while ago, when Yuanliu was playing in the river, he heard the fishermen on the shore talking about this matter, and immediately knew that the immortal these people were talking about was him.

However, the people on the fishing boat were quite disrespectful to the belief in the Taoist Master of Divine Medicine. After all, twenty years had passed, and the Taoist Master of Divine Medicine had never appeared again. Every family still worshipped him, but they still got sick.

When Niu Yi repaired Yuan Liu's tortoise shell, it was a great favor in the eyes of the little turtle. After hearing what these people said, he was immediately furious. After returning to the Water Palace, he began to think of ways. In the end, he even stole the spiritual liquid from his own Water Palace just to make those people sincerely grateful to him.

After that, Niu Yi saw the scene where the fish demon and shrimp demon delivered spiritual water to save people.

And looking at the skilled performance of the fish monster and shrimp monster, it is obvious that they have done it many times.
Niu Yi rubbed his brows with a headache, but he didn't expect that so many things had happened in just twenty years.

These coincidences one after another have resulted in him now having a group of believers on both sides of the Tongtian River. It is obvious that many people are now worshipping him, and he has accumulated a lot of incense.

"And, is this really all a coincidence?"

Niu Yi put down his hand, raised his head, and looked at the bright moon in the sky with deep eyes.

His magical power of cause and effect hexagram theory could predict future events based on the cause and effect lines. However, such a big commotion occurred on both sides of the Tongtian River. Even though he had incense and believers, he himself was unaware of it. It was twenty years later that he found out.

The fact that he was unaware of it for twenty years must be that there was someone covering it up.

"However, Master and Senior Brother didn't mention this matter either. I guess this might not be a bad thing for me."

(End of this chapter)