You, a monster, still want to travel to the West?

"Now that we have captured these three evil demons, the matter is settled."

"What if someone asks?"

“No one will ask about it.”

"?"

Qingxin looked puzzled, but Xia Zhiming just rubbed the girl's cheek and said nothing more.

Kutuo Mountain is their open cave residence, and the Three Pure Ones also preached here in person and left behind their Taoist tradition.

And these three demons——

The blue lion is the mount of Manjushri Bodhisattva.

The white elephant is the mount of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

Dapeng is the uncle who was forced upon the Buddha.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and Manjushri Bodhisattva do not have the ability to see the past and the future. As for the Buddha, he let Dapeng die, and it seems that he did not want to protect him at all.

If one of these three monsters ran back to complain today, and then the Buddha was forced by justice to come and demand the person back, he would also apologize to them.

As for now, these three monsters were all captured without revealing their origins, so the Buddha Tathagata would definitely not ask about it.

Just as he was thinking about it, an eagle came in from outside the cave, holding a white-haired dog demon in its grasp, and said happily, "Your Majesty! I have found a treasure!"

Qing Xin was stunned for a moment, looking at the trembling little demon on the ground, and asked in confusion: "What treasure?"

Yingluan said nothing. He slapped the dog demon's head with his wings, making him stagger. Then he shouted, "Tell my king about the treasure quickly, and I will spare your life!"

The dog demon kowtowed repeatedly before speaking, "Your Majesty, I am a close guard under the Golden Winged Demon, and I know that the Demon King has a treasure in his home called the Yin-Yang Qi Bottle."

Qing Xin nodded without caring and said to Ying Luan, "Take this monster and get the treasure."

Ying Luan nodded, grabbed the dog demon and was about to fly away, but heard the dog demon exclaim: "Eagle King, I can't lift that treasure, I can't lift it!"

"Idiot! You should call me General Yingluan! How come you can't even lift that bottle?"

"Your Majesty, that bottle is only two feet and four inches high, but it contains the Seven Treasures and Eight Diagrams, and the Twenty-Four Qi. It requires thirty-six people, according to the number of Tian Gang, to move it."

"How dare you, stupid dog, fool your Grandpa Eagle!"

"Grandpa! Grandpa! I really didn't lie to you. Ouch."

Seeing this, Xia Zhiming shook his head and said, "Yingluan, take thirty-six fast-footed people with you and bring the treasure back for us to see."

Ying Luan quickly accepted the order and went out with the dog demon.

Seeing this, Qing Xin shook his head and said, "It would take thirty-six people to lift it."

"It's really tasteless to eat, but a pity to throw it away."

"Then why are you here?"

"It's rare to see wild treasures. I'll take them back to Daozu to see if they can be refined."

"Could it be the treasure refined in Daozu's alchemy furnace?"

"If Daozu refined this kind of garbage, the first thing he would do is smash it to avoid ruining his reputation."

"Cuckoo~"

Chapter 105 I'll Come to Save You

Lingshan, Great Leiyin Temple——

The Tathagata Buddha sat high on a lotus platform and preached, with three thousand Buddhas, five hundred Arhats, the Eight Vajras, countless Bodhisattvas, and the Great Immortal Zhenyuan and his disciples sitting below.

But you see - surrounded by dragons and colorful rain of flowers.

Just as he was speaking at a wonderful point, Tathagata Buddha suddenly smiled and said, "The Supreme Being has come to visit, and the Ullambana Festival will soon be approaching. I have a precious basin filled with hundreds of exotic flowers and thousands of fruits. How about sharing them with you today?"

Below the stage, all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas put their hands together, and Zhenyuan Daxian stroked his beard and nodded with a smile when he received such courtesy.

After everyone finished their ceremony, the Buddha's disciples, Sariputra and Jin Chanzi, walked to the front of the platform, picked up the treasure bowl and scattered it one by one.

When it was Zhenyuan Daxian's turn, Jin Chanzi was even more polite because he was a foreign guest. He presented him with exotic fruits and served him a cup of tea.

At this point, everyone was talking and laughing, and the whole place was filled with joy.

The Tathagata Buddha was also filled with joy, sharing the happiness with everyone.

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the other side--

Xia Zhiming and Qingxin chatted for a while, and then they saw the demon kings working together to lift a wooden frame, on which was tied a green porcelain bottle with a hemp rope.

When the demon kings put down the treasure, they saw Ying Luan grabbing the dog demon and cursing, "Bah! You treat this thing as a treasure? It's really tiring your grandfather, Eagle."

The dog demon shrank back, stuck out its tongue, and said to Ying Luan with a flattering smile, "Grandpa Ying, it's amazing that the treasure is so heavy."

"Bullshit! It's useless if it's this heavy!"

The dog demon said, "This treasure can be put into the bottle. Once inside, it will turn into pus and blood in a short time."

"How to collect it?"

The dog demon said angrily: "Capture the person and stuff him in..."

Yingluan was stunned for a moment, then cursed angrily: "Idiot, you took off your pants just to fart, right?"

In the cave, all the demon kings laughed out loud when they heard this.

Qingxin also walked down from the throne with the white snake at this time and opened the bottle cap, but only saw the clear black and white inside, evolving into the sky, earth, mountains and lakes, water, fire, wind and thunder. The twenty-four qi rotated in it, but soon turned into bubbles and disappeared.

Xia Zhiming saw the scene in the bottle and laughed, "I don't know who made this magic weapon. It really can ruin things."

"Zhiming, have you figured out the trick?"

"The yin and yang energies could have transformed into a paradise within this bottle, but this treasure refiner messed things up and turned it into a hodgepodge."

"If it becomes a cave, it will be even more impossible to move."

"This is easy. I can do it with just one move."

When Qingxin heard this, she directly covered the bottle and cast a magic spell, but found that the bottle did not move at all. She looked at Xia Zhiming angrily.

Xia Zhiming couldn't help laughing, then he flicked his tail and put away the Yin-Yang Qi bottle.

"Zhiming, you are bullying me."

"You didn't practice well enough, it's not my fault."

"Humph!"

Qingxin snorted, but said nothing more.

Xia Zhiming then asked the monsters in the cave, "Has the Shituo Kingdom been destroyed?"

Bao Weifeng stood up and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, those little demons have scattered or fled, and now the Lion Country has become a ghost town."

Xia Zhiming said, "Choose some subordinates with high cultivation to guard the mountain. While the human world is in chaos, you can go to the human world and accumulate some merit."

The demon kings nodded and did not refuse. They were practicing the true Dharma now, so naturally they also needed to accumulate merits, just in case they could achieve a positive result in the future.

From then on, all the demon kings in the cave left, and soon only one man and one snake were left.

Qing Xin said with some interest: "Zhi Ming, why don't we let them build a demon country?"

"Those who are not of my kind must have different hearts. I am afraid of harming their lives."

"Can humans defeat monsters?"

"But monsters cannot defeat immortals and gods."

"..."

Qingxin was speechless for a moment. After thinking about it, she decided not to stay in Kutuo Mountain for long. She counted with her fingers, determined the direction, and then took Xia Zhiming away on a cloud.

……

At dusk——

Outside an unknown county town, Qing Xin and Xia Zhiming stood in front of a new temple. They saw blue bricks and black tiles, incense smoke, and a plaque on the temple door that read: "Temple of the Monkey King"

Upon seeing this, the man and the snake looked at each other and walked straight in. What they saw was a white stone statue of a monkey holding a stick, stepping on a giant python, and with bared teeth and angry eyes.

On the incense table in the temple, there is an incense burner with fruits and vegetables, and the incense in the burner is burning continuously. There is a white-haired old woman cleaning next to it.

Seeing Qingxin enter the temple, the old woman's weathered face froze for a moment, then she said softly: "It's getting late, go home quickly, don't let the monster catch you."

Qing Xin asked: "There are a lot of monsters."

The old woman said with tears in her eyes: "A lot, a lot."

"How many people were captured?"

“A lot… a lot…”

Qing Xin couldn't help but pinch the tail of the white snake on his shoulder, and asked again: "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven is not well-known, how did you know about him?"

The old woman trembled as she picked up an apple from the incense table and handed it to Qingxin. Then she said softly, "That was handed down from the older generation in the county."

"How did it spread?"

"They say that over two hundred years ago, a great white snake demon arose thousands of miles away. It fed on humans and animals, drank their blood, and skinned them. Eventually, a divine monkey descended from the sky, slayed the demon, and saved human lives."

"The White Snake is a rumor."

The old woman was stunned for a moment, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said, "It has been passed down for a long time, so there will naturally be errors, but the divine monkey should be real."

"It's no use worshiping him."

"The demons are ferocious. If we can't defeat them, we can only pray to the gods and Buddhas."

At this point, the old woman turned her head and looked at the statue in the temple and sighed: "It seems it's all in vain."

Qing Xin shook her head: "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven told me that someone cries in his ear every day."

The old woman was stunned for a moment, then finally knelt on the ground and wept sadly, "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven often scolded me... and told me to stop... stop crying, because it kept him awake..."

At this point, the old woman paused, raised her head and looked at Qingxin, and asked hopefully: "Great Sage, will you come?"

"He can't come."

The old woman looked sad, but she saw Qingxin turned around and walked out of the temple. She was about to chase her, but she heard the girl's last words -

"The Lion Camel Kingdom has been destroyed. Don't cry anymore."

The old woman was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the stone statue in the temple. After a long time, she knocked her head to the ground and cried continuously.

"Old man, child, grandson, the Great Sage... the Great Sage has appeared..."

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Beneath the Five Elements Mountain——

Sun Wukong took a sip of wine, then suddenly dug his ears and angrily cursed: "You old woman, why are you crying again? You cried when I didn't go, and you still cried when I sent someone to go. How can you be so unreasonable!"

"..."

"Stop crying!"

Chapter 106 Spread

In the county town——

At dusk, there should be curling smoke from cooking fires, but in the county town, the roofs are dilapidated, nine out of ten houses are empty, and there is no one living there.

Qing Xin took Xia Zhiming for a walk on the street. After a while, there was no noise, no shouting, and no complicated human world. Only——

From the broken door and the ruins, there were occasional glances towards the man and the snake, but most of them were fleeting. Then, there were extremely subtle footsteps, mixed with whispers:

"It's a Taoist priest, and he brought a white snake."

"It must be a monster, hiding in the cave..."

"Let the doll hide..."

"I'll stay outside."

"Sir, hide quickly."