From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Pigsy: "..."

For some reason, he suddenly felt that this senior brother was becoming more and more like his master.

correct!

My master is the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi.

Before his reincarnation, Jin Chanzi dared to make a bet with Huang Mei. What a wise person he was!

However, after ten reincarnations, he became a pedantic old monk.

Could it be that the longer the search for one's innate talent continues, the more the eldest brother's situation resembles that of Tang Sanzang?

With this thought in mind, Bajie said, "Brother, don't blame me. I'm doing this for your own good. Finding your root and restoring your true form is the most important thing right now. Cultivation can wait. Anyway, you have already comprehended the Great Dao. As long as you have enough time, you will be able to attain enlightenment."

"You think I can't tell those three are skeletons?"

Jiang Liu countered with a question.

"Since you've already figured it out, why stop me? I suppose it's because you're lacking in talent and too weak, afraid of being deceived by demons and getting into trouble with the authorities." Pigsy grumbled, dissatisfied.

"What lawsuit do I have to fear? Do you even know what those three skeletons are?"

Jiang Liu remained silent, pointed to the sky with one finger, and asked leisurely, "Didn't you notice that the sky suddenly darkened?"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, everyone came to their senses and saw that the bright sun had set, leaving everything dark and without light.

Looking up, not a single star could be seen.

Looking down, it's hard to see the path through the woods.

Kui Lang, Bai Hua Ai, and the eight laborers felt a chill inexplicably creep into their bodies, as did Hu Yuan, Hu Jue, and Liang Lu Zhen.

Even Bajie and Bajing felt a strange sense of terror.

"What's the big deal? It's just that things might not go as planned. That Cloud-Walking Boy blocked out the sun, and with Old Pig leading the horse and knowing the way, he'll surely be able to get you out of White Tiger Ridge."

Pigsy, brimming with heroic spirit, suppressed the inexplicable fear in his heart, led his horse, and cleared the way ahead.

"Master, what is this?"

Klein couldn't make up his mind.

"Go with him first."

Before the journey to the West, Pigsy was lazy and muddle-headed, lacking a backbone. As a result, on the journey to the West, he gradually regarded Jiang Liu's Monkey King as his backbone.

After the journey to the West, Pigsy wanted to revive Monkey King. Aside from the fact that his feelings for Monkey King on the journey were genuine, Pigsy was also empty inside and had lost his backbone, so he didn't know how to live.

otherwise.

Sha Wujing also has feelings and nature, so why is he so honest in the Liusha River, ferrying others and himself?

Because Sha Wujing's heart was truly enlightened, it was sufficient to transmit the Heart Sutra to him.

And this Pigsy—

It still needs to be repaired.

Moreover, this temperament is somewhat similar to that of Sun Wukong in the early stages of the journey to the West in "Journey to the West," with his thoughts and ideas all boiling down to one word:

fast.

He thought he was familiar with the journey to the West... But Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West" was also familiar with the journey to the West. Wasn't it because his own character was not perfect and he had many misunderstandings with Tang Sanzang that he dragged out the journey, which Guanyin Bodhisattva thought could be completed in just two or three years, into fourteen years?

And how many of these hardships were caused by Tang Sanzang and his disciples taking the wrong "path" because they had not yet overcome their demonic obstacles?

In the context of spiritual practice, this means that the path of circulating Qi through the body has been reversed, leading to qi deviation and demonic possession.

If it weren't for the Monkey King's great supernatural powers, which allowed him to correct the wrong path back to the right one, Tang Sanzang, no matter how many lifetimes he cultivated, would never have attained the true meaning of "truth," let alone being a good person who had cultivated for ten lifetimes.

Now, Pigsy has acquired some of the traits of the restless monkey Monkey King—

But it's not bad either.

And this departure lasted for quite some time.

Looking at the familiar fallen leaves around him, Na Kui Lang asked in confusion, "Master, are we going in circles?"

Why are you going in circles?

Bajie spoke first, also wondering if he had been here before, but not wanting to lose face, he pretended not to know.

Hu Yuan, however, had sharp eyes and spotted a skeleton in front of him. He exclaimed in a sarcastic tone, "Senior brother, look, isn't that the skeleton of the village girl you killed?"

The others looked and indeed it was the first skeleton.

Of these three skeletons, the village woman was attacked from behind by Pigsy, so she has teeth marks on her back; the old woman was hit in the front by Pigsy, so her sternum is broken; and finally, the old man was hit on the head by Pigsy, so his skull is fractured.

This skeleton with a broken vertebrae and shoulder bone must be the first skeleton!

Chapter 1430 Longevity Nourished by Bones in the Mountains

"There are plenty of skeletons in this forest, how could it be the village girl I killed?"

Bajie didn't recognize it, only thinking that he was leading the horse. After a while, he saw a second skeleton, with a broken sternum and ribs.

"Senior brother, this is the second old woman you've killed."

Hu Jue sneered.

"nonsense!"

Bajie denied it again, "They are clearly the bones from the forest, not the old woman I killed."

After walking a little further, the group saw a third skeleton with a broken skull, which was the transformed remains of the old man who had been killed by Pigsy.

Seeing this, Pigsy was greatly alarmed and hurriedly turned to Jiang Liu, saying, "Brother Pig, I was wrong. You must know the reason. Tell me quickly."

"You are still the same as before. It's good that you've made some progress after traveling west, but you've also picked up some of my stubbornness from back then. I don't know what to say to you."

Jiang Liu smiled, dismounted, walked to the skull-shattered skeleton, personally collected it, put it into a sack, and then said to Kui Lang, "Brother, would you be willing to temporarily place the skeleton and the goods together?"

"It's impossible."

Kui Lang was stunned for a moment, then quickly took the bag, tied it with a rope, and ordered his men to hang it between the camel humps, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

Afterwards, Jiang Liu mounted his horse again, instructed Bajie to lead it, and continued forward. Before long, they returned to the place where the first skeleton was.

Jiang Liu remained silent, dismounted again, and personally collected the remains.

After traveling a while longer, they encountered a second skeleton. They dismounted for the third time and collected the skeleton for the third time, hanging it on a camel along with the two body bags from before.

"What kind of treasure are those three skeletons?" Pigsy recalled the time when he carried the body of an old king out of a well in the Kingdom of Wuji, and his mind started to wander. He couldn't help but ask.

"It cannot be exchanged for gold or silver."

Jiang Liu rolled his eyes at Bajie and said calmly, "Last time you killed that village woman and turned her into bones, which made me understand a method called 'White Bone Contemplation' and complete the Dharma image of my heart. I have received their kindness and should repay it. I plan to collect their bones."

Once we leave this White Bone Ridge, we will find a beautiful place to be buried, returning to nature.

Bajie felt a chill just hearing the name "White Bone Temple" and didn't ask any questions. He just seized on the "mistake" in Jiang Liu's words and corrected him: "Brother, you are wrong. This is White Tiger Ridge, not White Bone Ridge."

"The tiger devours the flesh, leaving only bones; isn't that White Bone Ridge?"

Jiang Liu sighed, "The ravines and valleys in the mountains are crisscrossed, just like the nine intestines of a human body. The white tiger thirstily drinks the blood of all spirits, nourishing the ginseng to grow for ten thousand years."

Bajie was immediately jolted awake, incredulous: "Could it be that Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit was nourished by the spiritual essence of the dead people in White Tiger Ridge?"

"It's not just people."

After saying this, Jiang Liu recited the Rebirth Mantra over the body bag on the camel. With the power of his mind, he dispersed the resentment and obsession on the three corpses, allowing the three spirits to return to their true nature, escape this place, and not fall into the underworld, so that they could reincarnate on their own.

However, the people could not see the spirit, and only asked for the reason.

Jiang Liu stopped keeping him in suspense and stated directly that this place possessed a unique aura.

"Qi Ju?"

Upon first hearing this concept, not only Liang Luzhen and the others, but even Bajie, the Marshal Tianpeng and the Clean Altar Messenger, was completely baffled.

"What about blessed lands and grotto-heavens?"

Jiang Liu asked Pigsy.

"A blessed land? Old Pig knows about it. The earth veins are self-formed, and the winds rotate on their own. It seems to be one with heaven and earth, but in fact, it has its own universe and is a world of its own."

Bajie was aware of this, and as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately realized, "You mean, we've entered a blessed land now?"

You guessed right.

Upon receiving an affirmative answer, Pigsy was dumbfounded, looking at him with an expression that said, "Don't try to fool me." "Brother, is this a blessed land?"

"Just as we need to circulate qi throughout our bodies during cultivation, aren't blessed lands and grotto heavens also a part of the 'circulation of qi'?"

Faced with this question, Pigsy had no rebuttal and believed it.

"Before entering this Bone Ridge, I had a feeling that something was amiss... It wasn't until you killed that village woman and saw those bones that I understood—"

Jiang Liu spoke these words with a mix of truth and falsehood: "The White Bone Ridge and the Longevity Mountain are mutually reinforcing in terms of yin and yang, sharing the same energy. However, the Longevity Mountain is thousands of feet high and is a blessed land, while the White Bone Ridge is mostly ravines and streams, and is the Netherworld."

Countless skeletons lie scattered across the mountains, bearing witness to the deaths of countless people. Most of their souls were taken to the underworld, but their resentment, hatred, and other obsessions endure. Their most fundamental spirits, having been completely plundered from their primordial energy, are now bound by these obsessions and thus continue to exist in the world.

Fundamentally, the souls that enter the underworld are merely a collection of memories and information from a person's entire life.

Therefore, the soul can be copied, sold, and exploited.

At the same time, this is also the fundamental reason why there are so many stubborn and unrepentant ghosts in the underworld—those souls have lost their most fundamental spiritual essence and are merely information.

To use an analogy, it's like a pre-programmed program in a computer that only executes corresponding instructions—revenge, making money, being reborn into a better family, and so on.

Therefore, Jiang Liu had long seen through the true nature of this world's primordial chaos and subsequent reincarnation:

The underworld is merely an information collection factory.

The Meng Po soup is nothing more than a "virus" that temporarily crashes the program.

The cycle of reincarnation is merely a tool for crushing souls and collecting the wisdom and information of all beings.

Um--

Houtu of the ancient witch clan didn't have much love, but she did possess "great wisdom".

For this reason, souls that enter the underworld become excellent "products" that the Heavenly Court and Mount Ling can choose from at their own discretion.