Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 7 Grass Team
"how's it going?"

In the Jindou Cave, Niu Yi stood in front of a group of bull spirits and asked the Earth God who was treating the injury of the little bull spirit.

The God of Land slowly opened his eyes, took his hand, which was emitting a fluorescent green light, away from the arm of the little bull spirit, sat up from the stone bed with his crutches, looked at Niu Yi and said:

"Don't worry, he's fine. But that eagle demon was really ruthless. His arm bones were broken into several pieces. I've already reattached them. Now he just needs to rest and recuperate."

"Also, I'll tell you some medicinal herbs later. They can be found on Jindou Mountain. With external application and internal consumption, you'll be cured within a month."

After hearing the words of the Earth God, many bull monsters looked at the little bull monster lying on the stone bed and breathed a sigh of relief. The atmosphere relaxed.

Niu Yi bowed to the God of Land and said:
"Thank you, God of Land. I'm sorry to bother you again."

In the Jindou Cave, Niu Yi sent a group of bull spirits out to collect herbs, and then left Niu Feng alone, asking him what happened when he just received the eagle demon.

After a while.

"So, the eagle demon didn't get enough benefits, so he attacked out of anger? Is this eagle demon trying to take advantage of me?"

Looking at Niu Feng who nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice, Niu Yi and the Earth God looked at each other and were speechless for a moment. Obviously, neither of them had expected the situation to be like this.

In Niu Feng's words, the eagle demon introduced itself when it first saw Niu Li. Although it was a little arrogant, it had no intention of attacking. But after Niu Li left, the eagle demon repeatedly hinted that it had come a long way and was extremely thirsty, etc. In the end, it simply asked them for benefits impatiently.

But there are no good things in their Jindou Mountain except some ordinary spiritual fruits. Compared with other monsters, their Jindou Mountain has always been peaceful.

Looking at the four or five scattered spiritual fruits that were brought up, the Eagle Demon's face flushed with anger. Jindou Mountain was a well-known power after all! Yet they were trying to fool him with these few broken fruits! This was simply outrageous!
The eagle demon was so angry that he grabbed Niu An who came to deliver the fruit and threw him away!

After that, Niu Yi, who sensed the eagle demon's aura, appeared.

Perhaps in the eyes of this eagle demon, he represented the Tiger Roar King. Even if he openly stole things, who would dare to do anything to him? But he happened to meet Niu Yi.
Niu Li was also very upset when he heard this. He pounded his legs angrily and said:

"It's all my fault! I thought he was arrogant but reasonable, so I left first. Now I think I shouldn't have trusted that eagle monster! I should have let Niu Feng report the news!"

Niu Yi patted Niu Li on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Fortunately, Niu An is fine. I'll just have to be more careful next time. But to be honest, I never thought it would be such a reason. This world is really a huge makeshift group. Even monsters know how to take advantage of others like that bandit."

Niu Li and Tudigong didn't quite understand what this meant, but they were used to Niu Yi saying some strange things from time to time, so they just regarded it as the dialect of Niu Yi's hometown.

As for Niu An, he was naturally the little bull spirit who suffered an unexpected disaster.

Niu Li was worried about something else at this time. He looked at Niu Yi and said:

"Chief, are you really going to that Tiger Roaring Mountain to attend that immortal meeting? We have offended that eagle demon this time. I think he will definitely take revenge. You..."

Before Niu Li finished speaking, he saw Niu Yi laughing and shaking his head, saying:
"Don't worry, that's just a delaying tactic. I'm not planning on going to that immortal conference."

He tore off one of the eagle demon's wings to give his own little bull demon an explanation. He let it go because, firstly, he wanted it to bring back the news of his participation in the Immortal Conference and to calm Tiger Roar King. Secondly, even if he didn't kill them, they wouldn't live long.
Niu Yi thought about it, and he and the God of Land looked at each other. They both saw the weirdness in each other's eyes, and laughed together, which made Niu Li confused for a while.

But seeing that Niu Yi and the Earth God didn't take it seriously, Niu Li felt relieved.

Since when, he has been willing to wholeheartedly trust this leader who obviously has great strength but has no ambition and only loves to grow trees and farm.

In the past eight years, although Jindou Mountain has not developed any territory, with Niu Yi in charge, no demons or evil spirits dare to invade Jindou Mountain within a hundred miles. It seems that because of this leader, the bull spirits in Jindou Mountain have become more and more united, and their lives are getting better and better.
Niu Li looked at the little bull spirits playing and fighting in the Jindou Cave with a gentle expression, and laughed together with Niu Yi and the Earth God.

Niu Feng didn't understand why, but seeing that his leader, Boss Niu Li, and that annoying old man with some ability were all laughing, he couldn't help but start to smile foolishly.

"Hey~hehe~" At night, the God of Land crushed the herbs found by the bull spirits into a paste according to a certain proportion, boiled them into soup, applied it to the cows, explained some precautions, and then said goodbye and left.

Niu Li was guarding the Jindou Cave, while Niu Yi returned to the thatched cottage on the top of the mountain alone with full of anticipation.

Calculating the time, he can already enter the spiritual state again.
"crunch~"

Niu Yi closed the wooden door, sat cross-legged on the bed, collected his thoughts, and actively triggered his spiritual talent.

Soon, Niu Yi once again felt the feeling of turning into a wisp of ethereal air, floating freely between heaven and earth. When he came to his senses, he appeared in the Taoist temple again, standing next to the pillar of the central hall when he left.

"After re-entering, will I appear in the same place where I left?"

Niu Yi kept this in mind, reached out to pick up the feather duster that had fallen to the ground, and looked around in the moonlight coming through the hole. Fortunately, the place he had cleaned last night was still clean, which made Niu Yi feel relieved.

Soon, in the central hall, which seemed to be silent for eternity, the rustling sound of feather dusters sweeping away dust could be heard again.

For some reason, Niu Yi seemed to be able to immerse himself easily in the Taoist temple. He cleaned each item slowly and leisurely, as if he was also sweeping away the dust in his heart.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, seven days had passed.

Niu Yi grows vegetables and practices cultivation during the day, and enters the spiritual state of mind to clean the central hall of the Taoist temple at night. His life is extremely fulfilling.

The only pity was that the Pure and Tranquil Scripture seemed to be a flash in the pan, and he did not obtain any more scriptures in these seven days.

And after Niu Yi's experiments over this period of time, the bamboo slip should have some special features.

Because only that piece of bamboo slip could bring him out of the Lingtai state of mind, and other things in the Taoist temple, whether it was the lotus candlestick, tiles or something else, could not bring him out of the Lingtai state of mind even if he put them in his arms.

But for a moment, Niu Yi didn't know what the bamboo slips were used for, so he had to give up.

The biggest gain for Niu Yi during these seven days was that the central hall was finally cleaned.
Lingtai state of mind, in the central hall of the dilapidated Taoist temple.

At this time, the central hall has been completely renovated and is much cleaner, as if it has regained some of its original appearance.

At this time, Niu Yi was cleaning the last corner. As long as he finished cleaning the corner of the hall, the central hall would be completely cleaned.

Niu Yi used a broom he found to sweep all the dust into the dustpan, but at this moment, Niu Yi found that there seemed to be something in the thick dust that was revealed by the sweeping of the broom.

"Huh? This is..."

Niu Yi swept the area lightly with a broom, looked at the three copper coins with square holes that were revealed in surprise, reached out to pick up the three copper coins with square holes, blew off the dust on them, and wiped them with his clothes.

It was unknown how long these three copper coins, covered in rust, had been buried in the dust in the corner before their true appearance was revealed again.

Niu Yi picked up a copper coin covered with rust and turned it over and over. He could vaguely see a word engraved on each side of the coin.

"The words on this copper coin are cause and effect?"

Just when Niu Yi said the word cause and effect, he suddenly felt dazed. The ethereal old man's voice containing the rhyme of Tao came into his ears again from the distant past, becoming clearer and clearer.

"The rewards of good and evil follow you like a shadow, and the cycle of cause and effect continues throughout three lives."

(End of this chapter)