Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

Ao Peng already had a plan in mind for being held accountable.

He has connections and powerful backers, but he has to find those connections and backers himself.

Unfortunately, Chi Bofu was only a Yin spirit. Although he had regained some of his supernatural powers, he couldn't pass through the gale and enter the Heavenly Court's gate. He needed to find someone who could lead him into the Heavenly Court's gate first.

Thinking of this, Ao Peng said, "Go pick two baskets of peaches, and we'll go find someone who can help us."

Chi Bofu had long known that Ao Peng had powerful backers, and upon hearing this, he was excited and quickly went to the mountains to pick two baskets of black peaches.

In the past six months, although Ao Peng has not fully recovered his magical power, he has gained a deeper understanding of the application of his supernatural abilities.

For example, when the "Return of All Things to Their True Nature" painting first entered the Journey to the West world, it lured the ghosts into the painting and used incense and peaches as bait to trap them in their own bodies.

Now he has established this Peach Capital Mountain to collect incense offerings from the surrounding area. However, he does not use these incense offerings directly. Instead, he imitates the method and uses them as incense peaches to trap the ghosts.

Based on this, Ao Peng came to understand the art of refining the illusory to the real in painting.

The 【All Things Return to Formation】can gather all kinds of scenes into one's own painting heart, thereby gaining the ability to be impervious to all laws.

Conversely, even when you have no magical power, you can still imprint the myriad scenes into everyone's hearts.

Although the peach orchard on Taodu Mountain exists only in a painting, the ghosts and people here believe in it, allowing the peach orchard in the painting to grow in the real world. Throughout this process, Ao Peng merely plays a role in coordinating the rules of cause and effect in heaven and earth; he himself has no power to participate. Besides that...

Ao Peng strolled into the main hall. The young Taoist boy who was tending the lamps inside saw Ao Peng arrive and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, saying, "Greetings, Master."

Ao Peng nodded slightly, then looked around. The hall was no longer as dilapidated as it once was. Portraits of the gods hung high, with the True God Zhenwu Emperor, Taishan Fujun, Bixia Yuanjun, Doumu Yuanjun on the left, and Bodhisattvas Manjushri Bodhisattva, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva on the right. The center was dedicated to the Moral Heavenly Venerable, with a total of twelve Taoist lamps.

In the past six months, he has taught without discrimination, and he has also passed on the various classics he learned from the real world to the people around him. In addition, he has also performed meritorious deeds in protecting the area. Naturally, the [Ten Thousand People's Blessing and Auspicious Cloud Palace Lamp] has been burning brighter and brighter.

Ao Peng bowed to those around him, saying, "Please protect me."

One by one, the bright lights shone brightly, like the sun and moon, shining three inches above Ao Peng's head. Ordinary people could not see them, but those who had achieved cultivation could see twelve gods and Buddhas standing on either side of Ao Peng's head, their light as bright as the sun and moon, illuminating eternity.

Just then, Chi Bofu came to find Ao Peng with two baskets of peaches picked from outside. When he saw the twelve bright lamps on Ao Peng's head shining like the sun and moon, he was so frightened that he almost dropped the carrying pole in his hand.

"This, this..."

Chi Bofu stammered for a moment, knowing what this meant.

Ao Peng turned to Chi Bofu and smiled, "Brother, weren't you guessing what my background was? Now that you've seen it, why are you surprised?" Chi Bofu's expression was one of utter shock. He thought to himself, "I knew you had connections with the Three Star Gods of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity, but you didn't say you had so many backers!"

When Ao Peng was rebuilding this hall, Chi Bofu didn't think much of it when he made offerings to these gods and Buddhas, but now he understands that every god and Buddha enshrined in this hall is a powerful backer for Ao Peng.

The people of the Empire never worship useless gods.

Chi Bofu said with a wry smile, "Brother, with such a background, I couldn't have figured it out even if I racked my brains!"

Ao Peng didn't waste any more words and said to Chi Bofu, "Please use your magic, brother, to go to Liangjie Mountain under the cover of night, so as not to miss the appointed time." Chi Bofu nodded hurriedly. He picked up two baskets of peaches, rode the yin wind, carried Ao Peng, and headed west under the moonlight.

Over the past six months, Ao Peng had Chi Bofu inquire about the location of Liangjie Mountain.

These two mountains are the Five Elements Mountains, which distinguish the Eastern Land from the outer regions.

The world of Journey to the West is divided into four continents, but the geographical divisions here are different from those in the real world, and many physical principles are not applicable. For example, the Five Elements Mountain directly separates the Eastern Land from the outer regions in the west, and it also serves as a bridge. If you don't cross the Five Elements Mountain, you can't travel from the Southern Continent to the Western Continent. Only by finding this special "bridge" like the Five Elements Mountain can you connect the two places.

At the same time, cultivators cannot enter the Five Elements Mountain without permission. Previously, Chi Bofu found the Five Elements Mountain, but when he looked at it from afar, it seemed as if a great Buddha was standing between the two realms, and he dared not approach it at all.

It wasn't far to fly from Jiangzhou County to Wuxing Mountain. Chi Bofu rode the clouds all the way, and in about an hour, he arrived outside Wuxing Mountain. Even at night, Wuxing Mountain was filled with boundless Buddhist light, and the power of the five elements of metal, wood, water, earth, and fire was inexhaustible. Auspicious clouds surrounded the area, and the Eight Heavenly Dragons, the Five Directions Protectors, and the Four Duty Officers were guarding the area.

Yin spirits like Chi Bofu would flee at the mere sight of him, never daring to approach.

Ao Peng asked Chi Bofu to put down the dark clouds, and then followed him into the mountains.

Chi Bofu carefully carried the shoulder pole and followed behind Ao Peng. Ao Peng walked in front, and when he touched the barrier of the Two Realms Mountain, a three-inch auspicious cloud appeared above his head like a sea, and palace lanterns shone in all directions like flowing water under the eaves, blending with the surrounding Buddhist light, and even protecting Chi Bofu beside him.

When Ao Peng approached Liangjie Mountain, he naturally attracted the attention of many guardian deities who were stationed there.

The two realms of mountains suppress the demon monkey, which is related to the important matter of the eastward transmission of Buddhism, so both the Heavenly Court and Buddhism attach great importance to it.

Sensing the intruder, divine light appeared in a small temple on the mountaintop, and a wisp of divine power from the Four Duty Officers and the Five Directions Protectors descended. Among the Five Directions Protectors, the Golden-Headed Protector complained, "Which ignorant cultivator dares to trespass on this mountain again!"

These two mountains stand here, their Buddhist light reaching the heavens, and they contain the ultimate principles of the Five Elements. Many low-level cultivators want to find opportunities here, but those celestial beings and wandering immortals who have survived one or two tribulations know the dangers of this place and dare not enter casually.

After complaining, the Golden-Headed Jiedi said to a Dharma Protector, "Go and drive the intruders out, and teach them a lesson they won't forget."

The Dharma Protector Garan nodded in agreement, then rode auspicious clouds toward the entrance. He had just arrived at the entrance and had not yet descended from the clouds when he saw a person and a ghost descending on dark clouds. The ghost appeared to be a Yin spirit who had achieved some success in cultivation, but the Yin wind was turbid and its cultivation was not high.

He wondered why a mortal was chosen to lead the way. He looked at the mortal more closely, and the next moment a sea of ​​light blinded him. Within this sea of ​​light, twelve eternally unchanging lamps shone, their light and shadow shifting, encompassing the great compassion, wisdom, and vows of the Four Great Bodhisattvas, as well as various emperors, stars, mountains, and all things. He covered his tear-filled eyes, only one thought in his mind: "Could it be that Heaven is going to exonerate that demon monkey?"