From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Pingping also felt thirsty, so she cupped her hands in her mouth and drank it down in one gulp.

"and many more!"

Jiang Liu arrived at the west bank and used his divine eye to observe the entire Kingdom of Women. Just as he came to his senses, he saw Liang Luzhen and Pingping drinking water. He called out, but it was already too late.

"Senior brother, do you want a drink too?"

Liang Luzhen handed the gourd over.

Jiang Liu remained silent.

Pigsy slapped his forehead and laughed, "I forgot to tell you, the water in the Women's Kingdom is undrinkable."

"Why can't I eat it? I think this water is quite sweet..."

As soon as Pingping spoke, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. Clutching her belly, she squatted down on the ground, groaning, "It hurts! It hurts so much! What's wrong with me?"

"Women are generally frail, unlike me..."

When Liang Luzhen said this, his expression suddenly changed, his features almost squeezing together, and he gasped, "This fruit is really not drinkable! There must be worms in this water that are gnawing at my stomach! Senior Brother, please buy me some deworming medicine!"

"I also want!"

Pingping pleaded.

Where can I use deworming medication?

Pigsy said, "This river is called the Mother-Child River. If you accidentally drink this water, both men and women will become pregnant!"

Why didn't Pigsy say this before?

The reason is that during the last journey to the West, the only people who drank this water were Tang Sanzang and Zhu Bajie.

Now he is~

An old pig knows the way after many years.

How could I dare to tell them about my past shameful deeds?

"Ugh--"

Jiang Liu sighed. Even if one cultivates the Dharma Eye, which allows one to see the past and future and to settle the mind on the concept of form and emptiness, it is still difficult to foresee the "subjective initiative" of every intelligent being with 100% certainty.

Therefore—

After sighing, Jiang Liu smiled again and said to the two women, "Luzhen, Pingping, why don't you two have the baby?"

"Senior Brother, don't joke around!"

Upon hearing that she was going to have a baby, Lianglu was utterly incredulous. "How could drinking water cause me to have a baby? I must have worms! Please buy me some deworming medicine!"

Pingping could only cry out in pain; her belly had swelled three times its normal size, making her look about three months pregnant, and she couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"Old Pig isn't joking, drinking water really will make you have a baby," Pigsy said.

"That's terrible!"

Liang Luzhen's face turned pale. "Pingping is alright, she's a woman, but how am I supposed to have a child? From the root? Or from the gate?"

It's alright from the back door, but I'll have to lie in bed for a while. I'll have to trouble you all to take care of me, to wait on me hand and foot, and to deal with my bodily waste.

We need to go through the front door—

I need to change my name to 'Rootless'!

Upon hearing the name "Wugensheng," Jiang Liu couldn't help but chuckle, thinking to himself: [If Wugensheng knew about this "Wugensheng," wouldn't he be so angry he'd spit blood from all seven orifices?]

Then the boatwoman came out with several other old women, who greeted them with smiles. She said, "Boatwoman, my junior brother and sister drank some river water and are pregnant. May we borrow your house to rest for a while?"

"Of course!"

When the old women saw that Liang Luzhen, the man, was also heavily pregnant, they all laughed and exclaimed, "The man is pregnant!" But they were quick to help, carrying him and Pingping into the house, boiling water and getting towels, as if preparing to deliver the baby.

This completely convinced Liang Luzhen of Bajie's words, and he lost all interest in joking. He said to Jiang Liu, "Elder Brother, I don't want the insecticide anymore. Give me an abortion pill instead!"

"Practitioners should have compassion."

Bajie put his hands together, suddenly chanted "Amitabha," and said in a serious tone, "What sins has the fetus in your womb committed?"

Shooting it down would mean killing a living being!

"Exactly!"

Hu Yuan laughed heartily, "Luzhen, you've given birth to a wolf cub, so we can be his uncles!"

Hu Jue chimed in, "Junior brother, just bear with the pain. Your elder brother and I will be there for you! No need to thank us, just teach us how a man gives birth!"

Upon hearing this, Liang Luzhen was furious, but the cramping pain in his abdomen instantly extinguished his anger. He pleaded, "Good senior brother, don't laugh at me, please help me!"

"Ugh~ Brother Yuanjue, please help me, I don't want to have a baby!" Pingping lay down for a while, and perhaps she could bear some of the pain and speak, pleading.

"Fine—"

Hu Yuan and Hu Jue didn't really want to see Liang Lu die of pain, so they asked the old women, "May I ask, madam, is there a pharmacy nearby? We'd like to go and get two doses of abortion pills."

"Ordinary abortion pills won't work."

The boatwoman from before said, "If you want an abortion, you need to go to Jieyang Mountain, thirty miles south of this street, find the Broken Child Cave, and see the Abortion Spring. Take the spring water, and just drink a mouthful, and the unborn child will be dissolved. But... alas~"

"But how?"

Jiang Liu inquired.

"You don't know, that Abortion Spring was originally ownerless. Five hundred years ago, it was occupied by that Ruyi Zhenxian (True Immortal Ruyi), who built the Juxian Temple there. You have to offer flowers, wine, and fruit platters as a token of sincere devotion to get even a bowl of water from it..."

Fortunately, a group of pilgrims came to retrieve the scriptures back then. Two of them drank the water and needed to have an abortion. The eldest disciple of the pilgrim was a monkey, just like you. He went to Juxian Temple, defeated Ruyi Zhenxian, retrieved the water, saved his master, and taught Ruyi Zhenxian to never again force the people of the Western Liang Women's Kingdom to offer gifts...

The boatwoman recounted a story from the past.

"If that's the case, then why are you sighing?"

Bajie was puzzled, "Could it be that the True Immortal Ruyi has started charging money again?"

That's really not fair!

Besides, that Abortion Spring was formed by heaven and earth, originally ownerless, existing in the mountains. Anyone who could reach it could take it; how could he be so shameless as to claim it for himself?

"But it wasn't him."

The boatwoman shook her head and said, "It was his disciple."

"A disciple of the True Immortal Ruyi? Where did the True Immortal Ruyi go?" Bajie asked.

“How do we know where he went? Few of us from Xiliang go to Jieyang Mountain to fetch water. We don’t know how long he has occupied that place. We only know that ten years ago, someone went to fetch water and was turned away at the door. He had to offer gold and silver, cattle and sheep, and cloth. He also had to kowtow every step of the way up the mountain before he would give him a teacup-sized amount of water.”

The boatwoman sighed.

"Can Jieyang Mountain be considered part of the territory of the Western Liang Women's Kingdom?" Ba Jing asked.

"Of course."

The boatwoman replied.

"If that's the case, why didn't she send troops to attack when her own land was occupied by outsiders?" Ba Jing asked again.

"Of course we sent troops to attack, but how can a woman fight against a man? And the Taoist priest in Juxian Temple has magical powers; how can mortals defeat him?"

The boatwoman sighed and said, "But this generation's queen is skilled in swords and spears and wants to conquer Jieyang Mountain and reclaim the Abortion Spring."

I heard she obtained a divine connection on Poisonous Enemy Mountain and is currently cultivating there…”

“Cultivation? How long will that take?” Liang Luzhen was unwilling to wait for the queen to attack Jieyang Mountain, so he pleaded with Jiang Liu, “Senior Brother, please help me!”

"Very well, I just hope you won't drink unboiled water again in the future."

Jiang Liu laughed and looked towards Jieyang Mountain. After seeing it clearly, he said to Ba Jing, Hu Yuan, and Hu Jue, "The three of you go to Jieyang Mountain and, apart from that rebellious Taoist priest, fetch a bucket of abortion spring water."

Hearing the words "outrageous", Ba Jing was puzzled, but did not ask any questions. He simply borrowed a wooden bucket from the boatwoman's family and then rode the wind and clouds with Hu Yuan and Hu Jue, heading south.

"So you were a deity!"

This frightened the boatwoman and her family so much that they immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"Don't kneel down yet. Please go and boil more hot water and prepare some rice porridge so that they can nourish themselves later. Then you will be blessed with good fortune."

Jiang Liu helped them up.

Ba Jing and Hu Yuan Hu Jue traveled thirty miles in a short time and indeed saw a mountain!

Take a closer look!

Beautiful mountains!

Wildflowers bloom in profusion, wild grasses carpet the landscape. Streams cascade down in a continuous stream, and clouds drift lazily along the water. Layer upon layer of valleys are thick with vines and creepers, and distant peaks are lush with trees.

Hu Yuan exclaimed, "The scenery is truly beautiful! Even before Huangfeng Ridge was eroded by wind and sand, it was never this vibrant!"

Hu Jue then asked Ba Jing, "Brother Bajie, you and Brother Bajie have both traveled the Journey to the West. Do you know where Juxian Temple is?"

"I had never been to this place before."

When this matter was mentioned, Ba Jing felt a little ashamed, because when they traveled west, he was even less ambitious than Ba ​​Jie. He really treated himself as a mount. Apart from the time when he disguised himself as a maid to get close to Kui Mulang in Baoxiang Kingdom in order to assassinate his master, he did not contribute anything else. As a result, although he had traveled the journey to the west, he did not know the specific locations of most of the caves where the monsters lived along the way. How would he know where the Juxian Temple was?

There was nothing we could do.

The three of them had no choice but to ride the clouds around the mountain and look carefully. They found that there was not a single house, let alone a Juxian Temple!

"How strange! Is that old boatwoman trying to trick us?"

Hu Yuan suspected that the boatwoman was lying.

Hu Jue shook his head and said, "That boatwoman doesn't look like a bad person. Even if she were, seeing us riding the wind and clouds, she would think we were immortals and wouldn't dare to play tricks on us. I'm afraid she's too old and can't remember the directions."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Ba Jing rebuked, "Although I have never been to Jieyang Mountain, I have seen my senior brother bring back the abortion spring water from the due south direction."

Back then, the eldest disciple subdued the True Immortal Ruyi, forbidding him from accepting money from the people anymore. However, that same family still demanded the remaining abortion spring water, claiming it was for their coffin money…

It is evident that this Broken Child Cave is probably a blessed land, and without the extraordinary ability to observe qi like the eldest brother, one could not possibly see it directly.

Or we'll have to walk on the ground.

Having said that, the dragon and the two tigers descended from the clouds, set foot on solid ground, and entered the mountains and forests, where they saw a small path.

"Strange! Why couldn't I see this road when I was in the air?"

Hu Yuan was astonished.