From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

It was good in the past, because I no longer had to worry about being eaten by other monsters.

But as heaven and earth evolve, the primordial energy returns to all things and spirits. The ginseng fruit, lacking nourishment, naturally needs replenishment… After the Great Sage wreaked havoc at Wuzhuang Temple, only thirteen ginseng fruits remained. Zhen Yuanzi then sealed me here, and used magic to make the tree roots penetrate my body, absorbing my spiritual essence…

I'm not reconciled!

I'm so unwilling to accept this!

As if confiding his pent-up resentment to someone else, the old ginseng's resentment dissipated, and it fell completely silent. Its face also disappeared completely, and its body turned to ashes, which fell to the ground.

As a fellow landowner, Old Fude felt sadness in his eyes, sighed, and suddenly thought it was quite good that his senior brother had killed Zhen Yuanzi...

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"Second Master, please!"

Inside the guest room, Jiang Liu was practicing his Qi cultivation when two young Taoist disciples pushed open the door and entered, carrying a jade-polished alchemy tray. On it were two ginseng fruits, about the size of pears, shaped like infants, with movable hands and feet, nodding and swaying their heads. When a breeze blew, they seemed to breathe.

If you look closer, you can even see the internal organs, the primordial spirit, and the brain inside the fruit—

Just like a baby!

The two young Taoist disciples and their fellow disciples had already eaten eleven ginseng fruits. With two left, they thought it over and decided not to go too far, so they brought them to Jiang Liu.

Old Fude had already returned Zhen Yuanzi to the river. He had his own cultivated herb pills within him and looked down on this "Nascent Soul" nurtured by the Primordial Qi of Ten Thousand Spirits. He shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Master, but cultivation requires cultivating the mind. I have already realized my true nature, so I should take it back."

Although their words were different, the two young Taoists saw in Jiang Liu the shadow of that rambling mortal monk from back then, and they were both speechless.

They had a conscience and saved two for the monkey, but the monkey wouldn't eat them!

Exactly!

They ate it themselves!

Chapter 1427 The Path of Cultivation Cannot Be Changed

"What bad luck!"

“This ‘Second Master’ reincarnated once, forgetting his past life, and instead became like his master.”

"If you ask me, this is the method of the Buddha of Mount Ling. Wasn't Jin Chanzi the same way back then?"

"Poor Jin Chanzi, poor monkey."

"..."

The two boys, Qingfeng and Mingyue, carried the ginseng fruits back to their rooms. While making wild guesses, they each picked up a ginseng fruit and ate their fill of the greasy fruit.

However, Liang Luzhen, who had just come out of the kitchen, heard the voice and complained inwardly, "These two young disciples are so rude, how dare they insult my senior brother?"

So, he quietly crept to the window, moistened his finger with saliva, and poked a hole in the paper window. Looking inside, he smelled a delicate fragrance and immediately felt his internal energy surge. He couldn't help but think to himself, "What kind of treasure are they eating? Could it be that ginseng fruit?"

Squatting down, Liang Luzhen muttered to himself, a thought forming in his mind. He knew these two young disciples had just come from their senior brother's place, and that the senior brother had refused to eat the two fruits...

Asking the senior brother won't work.

Hu Yuan and Hu Jue are like me, they are mountain spirits and monsters, there's nothing I can do about it.

We'll have to ask that pig!

Mind this.

Liang Luzhen then found Bajie leading the horse into the front yard and feeding it fruits and vegetables, and asked with a fawning smile, "Brother, you said you came to this Taoist temple last time. Was the abbot and you, my eldest brother, brothers brothers in a past life?"

"Why are you asking this instead of staying in the kitchen and tending the fire properly?" Pigsy was puzzled, but felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.

"Senior brother, let me tell you, those two young disciples are lazy!"

Afterwards, Liang Luzhen recounted what she had seen the two boys eating ginseng fruit: "They offered it to our eldest brother, but he refused to eat it. He should have given it to us."

"..."

Pigsy's doubts were immediately resolved; it turned out that the good shoes were indeed "himself" from five hundred years ago!

"You little wolf, you don't know what's good for you. We have already obtained the Great Dao method. If we focus on cultivation, we can achieve immortality. Why should we care about that ginseng fruit?"

Bajie lectured Liang Luzhen with great conviction.

Liang Luzhen muttered, "You said you wanted to try the ginseng fruit in front of the mountain gate earlier."

"Ok?"

Bajie glared at Liang Luzhen, scaring him so much that he dared not utter another word. He knew he shouldn't do such petty things, having once pretended to be a god or ghost in a dream to trick others into drinking wine. So he slunk back to the kitchen and continued tending the fire.

That night.

After everyone had eaten, they went to sleep.

Just as Jiang Liu was practicing his Qi cultivation, his ears twitched and he heard an unnatural movement of the air outside. He opened his eyes and saw two figures.

A hole was poked in the paper window of the door, and a bamboo tube was inserted. A cloud of black smoke billowed out and burrowed towards Bajie, Hu Yuan, Hu Jue, Liang Luzhen, and himself.

"A trivial skill."

Jiang Liu reached out, and the black smoke stopped in mid-air and landed in his palm, obediently following his instructions.

"So you were just a sleepyhead."

"go with!"

With a flick of the wrist, the drowsy insects retraced their steps along the small hole and crawled into the ears of the gentle breeze and bright moon, causing the two to yawn repeatedly.

"Qingfeng, this sleepiness is really powerful, I'm actually sleepy too."

Mingyue rubbed her eyes.

"I'm sleepy too... Come on, let's go back to our room and sleep." Qingfeng rubbed his eyes and helped Mingyue back to their room. He couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground.

pat.

The gu jar fell, scattering the drowsy insects within, causing the forty-eight Taoists to yawn repeatedly and fall into a deep sleep in their respective rooms.

"Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. It's not that they won't be punished, but that the time hasn't come yet."

"Now--"

"I, the 'Stone Monkey,' have arrived."

Jiang Liu opened his wisdom eyes and Dharma eyes, understood what had happened, chuckled, then calmed down and continued to practice Qi cultivation and spirit preservation, and cultivate his character.

Until dawn.

The rooster crowed three times in the temple, and everyone got up. When the two boys didn't come to report, Pigsy muttered to himself, "Those two Taoist boys are still as lazy as they were five hundred years ago!"

"Yes."

Liang Luzhen chimed in, "They don't even prepare breakfast for me, that's really rude."

"Don't talk nonsense. Their laziness is their problem, what does it have to do with us?" Jiang Liu said, leaving behind a letter.

Kui Lang left behind a few taels of silver.

In this way, it wouldn't be considered leaving without saying goodbye.

down the mountain.

The group headed west and suddenly came upon a mountain forest.

Dark and gloomy, smog shrouds the great pine forest. The howls of tigers, leopards, and wolves are heard from time to time, and wandering spirits are often heard roaming the sky.

Kui Lang was terrified, and Bai Hua Ai trembled with fear, for this place was truly treacherous.

Even the eight-hundred-mile-long Yellow Wind Ridge was nothing but a barren expanse, desolate as it was, but its desolation was immediately apparent.

Unlike this dense forest.

"Hehe, Monkey King, do you still remember Lady White Bone here?"

Pigsy rolled his eyes and grinned lewdly.

"I view beautiful women as if they were skeletons, and I view them in such a way."

Jiang Liu glanced at him and said leisurely, "Besides, what does Lady White Bone have to do with my Gu Yue Yuan Jue?"

Pigsy remained silent, but simply raised one of his pig trotters upside down, his face revealing undisguised contempt.

But Lady White Bone was indeed unrelated to Jiang Liu.

This White Bone Demon is different from the White Bone Lady in Journey to the West. She is not a pure corpse demon. She was originally Fairy Zixia. She was attacked by the other fairies in Heaven. Later, she was helped by her ape, which made her yearn for it. Even if she became a demon, she still descended to the mortal world on her own. Then she suffered more severe punishment from Heaven and was left with only a skeleton.

Furthermore.

The Monkey King had no affection for the White Bone Demon, and she genuinely wanted to eat Tang Sanzang's flesh to regain her physical body.

Since it has become a demon and still harms people, it should be killed and sent to reincarnation.

Especially in this primordial world where the concept of "reincarnation" truly exists, it is even more necessary to punish evil and promote good, harmonize yin and yang, and together achieve the boundless.

"Two monks, please don't speak such idle words. I find this mountain forest truly treacherous. How should we get through?"

Kyu-long interrupted their banter, looking anxious.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! With us here, which monster would dare to come looking for trouble? We'd be lucky if we didn't bother them."

Bajie patted his belly, but still held tightly to the reins, and said to the two brothers, Hu Yuan and Hu Jue, "You two are mountain spirits who have become demons. With a roar, you can gather the wind and howl through the forest, scaring away the tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves in the forest, so that we can cross White Tiger Ridge safely."

"As the saying goes, a wild boar can outnumber a tiger, so why aren't you yelling?"

Hu Yuan was unconvinced, and Hu Jue was furious; they retorted in unison.

"Hey, you two good-for-nothing beasts! My senior brother and I spared your lives back then out of kindness, and now I, your grandpa Pig, won't even order you around?"

Pigsy, holding the horse in one hand and brandishing his rake in the other, headed towards a large tree as thick as a man, shouting, "You old pig, do it yourself!"

With a loud "crack," the tree fell, startling all the birds and causing the beasts in the forest to flee in terror.

In no time, the entire mountain forest became as quiet as a ghost town. Apart from their breathing, no other sound could be heard, making it even more terrifying than before.

"Master, perhaps we should take a detour?"

Quillang swallowed hard and offered his suggestion.

“Brother, business is about following the right path. If you take a detour, you’ve gone astray and entered a side door. You should go through these mountains.”

Jiang Liu reassured them, "Don't be afraid, we're here, we'll make sure you're safe!"