Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 57 Guardian

As the causal line continued to weave, Niu Yi's vision quickly came to a simple thatched hut.

The room was indeed a little dark, because in the hut, only the oil lamp on the altar was lit, emitting a dim light.

At this moment, in the thatched cottage, an old man and a man were kneeling down and praying sincerely towards the statue above.

"Greatly compassionate and merciful, great saint and merciful Heavenly Venerable, please appear again and show us a way out."

Niu Yi looked carefully and saw that the old man and the man were both wearing tattered patched cloth clothes, with dark skin and calloused hands. They were obviously from an ordinary farming family.

The clay statue that the two men were kneeling to worship was actually an old man with a smiling face sitting cross-legged on the back of a nine-headed divine lion.

This statue is so lifelike that I wonder who created it.

"Heavenly Lord, who seeks out and saves the suffering."

He knew clearly in his mind that the "Heavenly Lord who seeks out and saves the suffering" mentioned by the two people just now had already mentioned this person's identity.

The person in front of him is none other than one of the Four Great Emperors, the Eastern Qinghua Emperor, who is also known as Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, Xunsheng Jiuku Tianzun, and Qingxuan Jiuyang God.

These titles all refer to the person in front of us, and the nine-headed divine lion under his seat is probably the legendary Nine Spirits Saint who "connects with the Three Saints above and reaches the Nine Springs below".

He is one of the top gods in the Three Realms, a terrifying existence above the Golden Immortal. The mount of the Eastern Qinghua Emperor, Jiuling Yuansheng, alone easily crushed Sun Dasheng and his followers. One can imagine how terrifying this deity is.

It is said that this deity is extremely popular in the human world, and his incarnations are as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. Things respond to his calls, and the deity's original body resides in his own Taoist temple, the Qinghua Changle Realm, the Dongji Miaoyan Palace.

However, what aroused his impulse and had a karmic connection with him was not the statue of this person, nor the two people kneeling on the ground.

Niu Yi felt his vision shift, and his gaze passed through the wall beside him, and he saw a pale-faced woman holding a sleeping baby boy on the simple wooden bed in the side room next door. Her eyes were gentle and loving, but she coughed from time to time to the side.

And the thing that brought him here and brought him here was the baby boy in the woman's arms.

This baby boy looked to be only three months old, with a faint spiritual energy rising from his body. It was obvious that he was extraordinary and was definitely not an ordinary human baby boy.

At this moment, the baby boy seemed to sense something and woke up hazily. His big, clear eyes looked straight at somewhere, his mouth opened wide, and he let out a clear and sweet baby laugh. A pair of pink little hands stretched out of the swaddling clothes and reached towards him.

"Hey~~Hey~~"

Niu Yi was shocked. The baby seemed to have seen him. Its clear and clean eyes looked straight at him, as if it liked him very much.

Niu Yi also liked the child and felt a sense of inexplicable familiarity with him.

"Liu Dongchen, the protector."

Niu Yi was shocked. These six words suddenly appeared in his mind, and the meaning was very clear.

He, Niu Yi, is the protector of the baby boy named Liu Dongchen.

but
He had been staying on Jindou Mountain for years and hadn't been to human territory in over ten years. When did he have any connection with this newly born child?
Niu Yi was somewhat bewildered, he did not know where this had come from, nor how this guardian had come to be.
Could it be that this matter of the Heavenly Lord who seeks out and saves the suffering has something to do with this deity who is one of the Four Great Emperors?
Niu Yi was somewhat confused and doubtful, and began to think carefully. When he came to his senses, he found that he had returned to the library.

Niu Yi looked at the book in his hand, but he couldn't read any further. His mind was filled with the image of the baby, the protector of the way, and the Heavenly Lord who rescued the suffering.
"Ugh"

After a moment, Niu Yi slowly stood up, put the book in his hand back on the bookshelf, straightened his clothes, walked straight out of the library and headed towards the central hall.

He had a premonition that this matter was of great importance, and if he was unsure, he could only ask his own master for advice.

When Niu Yi walked into the central hall, he unexpectedly discovered that there were two pieces of paper quietly placed on the table in front of the ancestral tablet. Niu Yi hurried forward and picked up the one closer to the ancestral tablet, but saw only four ethereal characters written on it:
Do what feels right.

This. The ancestor is just letting himself follow his heart.
Niu Yi looked at the tablet of the ancestor, his heart at peace, and bowed down to the tablet with gratitude.

These four words actually have a deeper meaning, and the master is clearly telling him:
With my teacher here, there is no need to worry.

Niu Yi then picked up another piece of white paper, but was surprised to find that there were eight big words written on it.

This can be done and will bring great benefits.

Big benefits.
Niu Yi looked at these three words with some surprise.

The handwriting is extremely familiar, and I think it must have been written by the eldest brother.

Niu Yi carefully put away the two pieces of white paper and pondered over them, with all kinds of thoughts running through his mind.

First of all, he himself didn't want to be a protector. He hadn't yet acquired any magical powers or magic weapons, and his cultivation was still weak. When the thunder tribulation came in ninety years, he would be too immature to find a protector for himself. How could he be a protector for others?

After all, it is not easy to be a protector.

But Senior Brother Guanghui said that this could be done and would have great benefits.
If anyone else had made such a promise, even if it was from Heaven, Niu Yi would not have easily accepted it, but the one who said this was his own senior brother.

As the first disciple of Bodhi Patriarch, even Brother Guanghui thought this was feasible and that there were "great benefits." These great benefits were quite intriguing and worth looking forward to.
Furthermore, this matter should also have something to do with the Eastern Great Emperor Qinghua.
"Whoa whoa----"

Niu Yi kept weighing the pros and cons in his mind, until the loud crowing of a rooster sounded, and Niu Yi's complicated thoughts suddenly became clear and everything fell into place.

Niu Yi bowed to the ancestral tablet in front of him again and said:
"Thank you, Master, for clearing up my doubts."

"I will take over this matter."

After Niu Yi finished speaking, his figure quickly disappeared in the central hall.

Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, in the garden.

Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun and Bodhi Patriarch were sitting opposite each other in front of the stone table, chatting and laughing.

At this time, Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun was holding the teacup in his hand and looking at Bodhi Patriarch opposite him with envy.

"I see that Junior Brother Niu Yi has good talent and excellent character. He understands etiquette and has a stable character. He is also determined to pursue the Dao. Brother Dao, this disciple is truly enviable. I think that in a few hundred years, he will have great hope of achieving the Golden Elixir Dao."

"Haha~ I never thought that fellow Daoist would be willing to send his own disciples to the mortal world for training."

"My disciple is fine in other aspects, but his character is quite lacking. I only hope that this time of tempering his heart in the mortal world can fill this last gap."

"To be honest, Brother Dao, I arranged for him to descend to the mortal realm this time to keep him away from all those schemes. Hundreds of years from now, when he returns after overcoming the tribulation, he can avoid these troubles. Otherwise, given my disciple's temperament, he will definitely..."

Not far from the two of them, outside the moon-shaped cave door in the garden, the voices in the ears of a man and a lion who were eavesdropping suddenly disappeared. The two of them knew that what the Heavenly Venerable and the Patriarch were going to talk about next was not something they could know.

Taoist Guanghui did not feel any regret. He waved the whisk in his hand, looked at the nine-headed lion lying beside him, and said with a smile:

"I say, Lion, did Tianzun really prepare that treasure for my junior brother?"

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