From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Tiger Power had died once five hundred years ago, and was therefore wary. But thinking that this time it was his disciple who was in charge, he relaxed a little, drew out his tone, and chuckled, "Summoning wind and rain is easy, and manifesting divine power through cloud ladders is not difficult either. It's just like guessing what's behind a screen!"

Tiger Power knew how powerful Sun Wukong was back then, and since the other party was now a "chosen one," he might have many ghosts and gods helping him.

They don't need to invite any gods to summon wind and rain or manifest their divine powers through cloud ladders, but what if this monkey calls those gods who control the wind and clouds to cause trouble again?

It would be better to have a guessing game using the partition!

Upon hearing that it was a guessing game involving a partition, Jiang Liu simply smiled and agreed, saying, "Then let's do as the Grand Preceptor says."

Seeing that both sides had agreed on guessing the object through the partition, the king and queen went to the back palace.

The king said, “We will give them three things and let them guess. I will give them two, and the queen will give them one.”

The Queen had no objection. After thinking for a moment, she took a gold hairpin from her head and put it into a pear wood square box. The Queen had always loved beauty. Even when she wrapped her hair in cloth, she would still insert a dozen or so gold and jade hairpins on her head!

The king pondered for a moment, then ordered someone to bring a dragon robe woven with gold thread and put it into the second square gold box; after thinking for a while, he took out the imperial seal and put it into the third jade box.

Afterwards, the two returned to the main hall and summoned three palace maids, who presented a wooden box, a gold box, and a jade box to the crowd for viewing.

The king said, "The queen and I have each placed three treasures inside. I invite the royal advisor's disciple and the sorcerer's apprentice to guess what each of us has placed inside."

"You wait and see."

Hu Li did not step forward, but simply gestured for Jiang Liu to go first.

Why didn't we let you go first?

Bajie had witnessed this "guessing game through a partition" once five hundred years ago, but he didn't know the reason at the time. Now he understood that it was his elder brother who had tampered with the game and replaced the item that the king had placed there.

But if you're going to do something underhanded, you need to guess the next step first, and leave some time for that.

“You have come from afar from the East, and we are the hosts, so how can we not be modest?” Hu Li said with great conviction.

"Exactly!"

The voices echoed in agreement.

You guys guess first!

The Pratyekabuddha also urges.

Although they were quite wary of the fact that all the people in the city had grown their hair overnight and did not think it was a trick, now that they were the national advisors and respected the tiger's strength, they naturally had to unite against the outside world and see what this monkey was really capable of.

"you···"

Just as Bajie was about to argue with them again, Jiang Liu raised his hand and stopped her, saying, "Bajie, it's alright, let's go first."

After saying that, he said to the princess, "Princess, please guess, with me here, any wish can be fulfilled in a single thought."

"That monkey is quite the braggart!"

Tiger Power mocked.

The princess nodded and asked the king, "Your Majesty, shall we guess one by one, or guess one and open it one at a time?"

"I'll guess one and then reveal one."

The king did not hesitate.

Without further hesitation, the princess looked at the pear wood box, then glanced at the queen and noticed that she was missing a gold hairpin. She then said with certainty, "I guess this box contains a phoenix hairpin made of real gold!"

The contents of the box were all placed by the king and queen. However, there is a difference in rank between men and women, and the queen is not as high-ranking as the king. The contents of the wooden box must be cheaper than those in the gold or jade box, so it must have been placed by the queen.

Furthermore, the queen was missing a gold hairpin from her hair, which is why the princess was so certain.

The king was startled, and seeing that the queen had not replaced the gold hairpin she had taken off, he was secretly annoyed. He knew that she was worried about her daughter, but he could not show it in front of the civil and military officials. So he asked the royal advisor, "What did the royal advisor's disciple guess?"

"Let's agree on this beforehand!"

Pigsy suddenly spoke up, "The monk's answer can't be the same as the princess's, otherwise what kind of skill is that?"

"Hmph! Why would we need to be the same?"

Hu Li snorted coldly, shoved the disciple beside him, and then transmitted his voice, "Lei Yin, don't speak immediately. Let the teachers go and see what's going on, and then they will tell you the answer."

Upon hearing this, Lei Yin was overjoyed, but remained expressionless. He simply stared at the wooden box and chanted incantations, as if he were using his divine eye technique. His chanting was as noisy as a fly flapping its wings.

Tiger Force then gave Shengwen a meaningful look…

Chapter 1493 There Can Be No Doubts About Being King

Having received Hu Li's signal, Sheng Wen dared not delay. He used his magic to cultivate a Yin spirit, which jumped out of his physical body. It was invisible to ordinary people. It only caused a gust of cold wind to make everyone shiver before he swaggered into the wooden box.

Upon seeing a gold hairpin adorned with phoenix wings, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Truly, she is the Queen's good daughter! She has a telepathic connection with me and guessed correctly!"

But I can't teach her to be content!

Look, I changed it for him!

As soon as he finished speaking, the spirit chanted a spell and cast a spatial magic, summoning a withered tree branch that was fourteen inches long. He then grabbed the hairpin and secretly inserted it back into the queen's hair bun.

Then, he returned to his physical body and transmitted his voice to Lei Yin, saying, "Good disciple, there is a withered tree branch that is one foot and four inches long inside."

Lei Yin was filled with doubt and suspicion, certain that there would be no dead tree branch inside. It was probably that the three masters had used magic to perform a teleportation technique in full view of everyone.

then.

He confidently said, "Your Majesty, this humble monk's cultivation is shallow, but I dare to guess that what is contained in this wooden box is a branch without flowers or leaves."

Upon hearing the novice monk's guess that it was a withered tree branch, the king sighed, while the queen laughed and said, "Wrong! Wrong! It's a phoenix hairpin made of real gold!"

"Your Majesty is mistaken. There is indeed a withered tree branch inside. My disciple is not wrong," Huli said confidently after learning what had happened from Shengwen.

"Why doesn't the Grand Preceptor believe it? I put the items in that wooden box myself, how could they be withered tree branches?" The Queen also began to doubt the abilities of Huli, Pratyekabuddha, and Arhat.

But Hu Li laughed and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, just touch the cloth hat on your head."

The queen did as she was told, touching the cloth hat on her head and finding an extra hairpin. She took it off and looked at it, and it turned out to be the very same gold hairpin that she had personally placed in the wooden box!

The king, seeing this, knew that the three national teachers were incredibly powerful, even possessing the ability to manipulate the universe. He then asked Jiang Liu, "Master from the east, are you willing to admit defeat? If you do, I can spare your lives, but you will have to serve as slaves to my Chechi Kingdom for generations."

Pigsy was shocked and asked Jiang Liu, "Brother Monkey, is there really a golden hairpin inside, but they secretly switched it?"

"It doesn't matter. As long as the princess says it's a gold hairpin, then it is a gold hairpin."

Jiang Liu reassured Bajie not to worry, and then said to the king, "Your Majesty, open the box and take a look before you talk about such things in your dream."

"Hmph! How arrogant!"

The king was displeased and ordered the box to be opened.

Under the princess's tense gaze, the palace maid carrying the wooden box opened it, revealing a dazzling golden light inside—

What is that leafless, flowerless, withered branch?

It is clearly a phoenix hairpin made of real gold!

"impossible!"

Sheng Wen was terrified. "I...I!"

He just didn't dare to say it out loud, otherwise wouldn't they be accused of cheating?

The queen was also astonished and ordered the gold hairpin to be presented. She then compared it to the gold hairpin on his head, and indeed it was:

The hairpin shaft is made of gold, and the phoenix tail pattern is carefully carved.

Flying side by side is truly lovely, but the years leave many marks on our bodies.

"Queen, are both of these hairpins yours?" The king was dumbfounded, and then, suspecting that one of them was a trick by Jiang Liu, he asked, "Which one is real? Which one is fake?"

Seeing that the two hairpins even had identical scratches from the passage of time, the Queen was terrified but could not tell the difference. She could only say, "Your Majesty, I cannot tell the difference. They both seem to be real!"

The king didn't believe it, so he took both hairpins and compared them carefully. They were indeed identical, and he was filled with fear: "Can that monkey create things out of thin air?!"

"Your Majesty, who wins the first round?"

Pigsy mocked.

"You win, of course!"

The king was startled awake and hurriedly announced that Jiang Liu had won the first round. He then said to Hu Li, "Three royal advisors, perhaps... we should stop the competition?"

Hu Li assumed that the monkey had also performed magic and obtained a hairpin of the same style as the queen's hairpin. His eyes were unfriendly as he said, "Your Majesty, we are just letting him have his way to avoid embarrassment."

There are still two rounds left. Why boost the enemy's morale and diminish our own?

Again! Again!

The princess guessed first as always.

Seeing that the second box was made of gold, the princess knew that the contents must have been placed there by the king and must be his most precious possession. However, she did not know whether it was the dragon robe woven with gold thread or the imperial seal.

After pondering for a while, she turned her attention to the third box, which was a jade box. Then she looked at the second gold box and no longer hesitated. Pointing to the second gold box, she said, "Inside here is a dragon and python robe woven with gold thread."

Upon hearing this, the king was startled, then enraged, thinking to himself, "Is this daughter some kind of mind reader? How does she know I've placed the imperial robe inside her?"

After that, Lei Yin came on stage, chanting scriptures and incantations, appearing as if he were using his divine eye technique.

“Shengwen, let me ask you, did you really replace that hairpin?”

Tiger Power transmitted his voice and inquired about the reason.

"They really changed it!"

He swore to Heaven that he would never dare to deceive.

"So it must have been after your return that the monkey secretly did something."

Tiger Power confirmed his previous guess and said to Yuanjue, "This time when you go, replace that real dragon robe with a tattered monk's robe, and use the Immovable Mountain Stance to suppress the monk's robe."

If that monkey dares to tamper with it, the golden box will catch fire.

At that time, I would have essentially caught him cheating and taught him a lesson he would never forget!

Yuanjue was overjoyed. He silently recited a mantra, and a yang spirit leaped out of his physical body, without a trace of yin energy. It quietly entered the golden box and found a real dragon robe. He thought to himself, "That princess is indeed the old senile man's biological daughter. He guessed right. Watch me use my magic to completely sever your father-daughter relationship!"

The deity chanted a spell, and the dragon robe in the box moved to the king's throne. He then made a hand seal and retrieved a tattered monk's robe from his own temple, neatly placing it in its original position. He then cast a protective spell, which would ignite whenever the robe moved, and would dissipate on its own only when the box was opened.

After the Pratyekabuddha returned to his place, he sent a message to Leiyin Temple. Only then did the latter listen to the incantation and say to the king in a very serious manner, "Your Majesty, what is placed here is a broken and discarded bell."

In this context, "a bell" does not refer to a small bell, but rather to clothing shaped like a bell.

Upon hearing this, the king sighed again: "You're wrong, it's the dragon robe. I personally arranged and placed it."

"Your Majesty, please don't rush. First, touch the seat."