Started from practicing sword in the countryside of the second dimension

"Master Xixing is really dead?"

"This is what I heard, so stop blocking the road and move these rocks away. My boat can't get through!"

Near the entrance to the underground cave, a ghost standing on the bow shouted loudly, signaling all the gods and generals to move the blocks nearby.

This ghost should be a ship ghost, similar to an earthbound spirit, but not restricted to an area, but to a ship.

However, the ship the other party was driving was not an ordinary ghost ship, but a treasure ship that did not require water currents and could fly in the air, with huge treasure characters written on its sails.

As for why the flying ship couldn't pass through, it was purely because the gods and generals had built a Tetris block on this section of the road, stacking up several layers of shapes that could only be eliminated with two long strips.

Although there were entrances and exits underneath for normal-sized monsters to pass through, for such a giant ship, most of it had to be removed in order to pass through.

This made the ship ghost, who was about to drive her ship in another direction, irritated, and she kept urging the generals to take away the bloody cubes.

"I didn't mean to block your way, but I didn't expect that someone would actually sail through this road..."

If it was a normal passage, no general or minister would build such a thing, but the underground river on the side here is actually not wide.

The upstream area is wide but not deep, while this area is deep but narrow.

Besides, normally he had never expected that someone would pass through this route in a boat, and he had originally planned to build a cube maze or something like that.

"I'm in a hurry, please hurry up..."

"What happened?"

Normal monsters live a slow life, and there are not many that are as impetuous as the ship ghost, which makes the gods feel a little strange.

"A monk who helped me has been sealed away. I have to find a way to help her."

"Huh? Can monks be sealed?"

"Because she helped a monster like me, the people on the ground thought that the person who helped the monster was not a good person either, so they sealed him up and threw me down with him."

"Can this be linked?"

Monks who help youkai are viewed with hostility by ordinary people, so sealing is rare but not surprising.

It would be really strange to throw this ship ghost into the underworld as well.

"Because my ship was built by that monk, and those people thought it was unlucky so they threw it down together... But only the monk was sealed, and my ship was just thrown down directly, so I have to help them."

"Tsk...why are there so many such crap in this era?"

All the generals rubbed their brows, feeling a little irritated.

He always felt that human beings of this era were very ignorant, believing in things they shouldn't believe in and driving away people they shouldn't drive away.

He probably knew it by listening to what the other party said.

The monk was most likely saving both humans and monsters, so he was not understood by ordinary people, and in the end he ended up being sealed away by others.

"No, the future won't be much better..."

But after thinking about it, the generals and ministers felt that this was not a problem of the times.

Even in the future, in the era he lives in, this kind of bullshit is something you occasionally hear about.

This made him feel inexplicably unhappy, and he felt that he must do something to improve the situation in the future.

"be quick!"

"Okay, okay, got it."

At the urging of the ship ghost, all the gods took away the blood-colored cubes and piled them aside.

These things are still a bit far away for him at the moment and he needs to consider them slowly.

There are actually only two things he can do right now.

One is to follow this ship ghost now to see if the sealed monk can be rescued.

Or go to the Westward Journey Demon to see if there is any chance to eliminate the other party.

Considering that the monk had just been sealed, and perhaps she still had some illusions about the person who sealed her, General Jieshen thought it would be better to go there after some time.

So he returned to the entrance of the underground passage, opened the bloody door that was soaked with his blood, and prepared to go to the west side of the surface to see the situation.

【Shua】

Just as the general was thinking this, a gap suddenly appeared next to the door he opened.

A pair of strange eyes peered at him from the gap.

The owner of the gap, a blonde woman wearing an oriental purple Taoist robe, half of her body was exposed and she was also observing him through the gap.

This made the generals and ministers of the gods stop in their tracks and stare at the person who appeared in the gap from the side.

"You are... No, that's impossible. There should be a time difference of a thousand years!"

However, the man who saw the general of all gods acted as if he had seen a ghost. He looked at the general of all gods' face and muttered to himself, with a look of disbelief.

"Merry?"

In response to this, all the gods and generals simply mentioned the name with the highest probability for this situation.

"?!"

This name seemed to scare the people in the gap, and the gap closed in an instant and disappeared in front of all the gods and ministers.

"What a big reaction! Is it true that Yakumo Yukari is Mei Li who traveled through time to the past? If so, how old was she when she came here......"

If nothing unexpected happens, the blonde woman in the gap should be Yakumo Yukari.

It's just that the other party not only has an impression of him, but also has such a huge stress response to the name Mary. There is a 90% probability that it is the Mary he knows.

But the other person looked much more mature than the Mary he knew.

In this case, it would be difficult to judge when the other party came to this era.

"Did he run away completely? It looks like he won't be coming near me anytime soon."

After staying there for a while, there was no trace of any aura around, so the God General judged that Yakumo Yukari had completely left.

After hesitating for a while, he continued with his original plan and went up along the underground cave, preparing to go to the west to see what happened to the Westward Journey Monster.

Since Master Xixing is dead, it will be about time for his daughter, Saigyouji Youyouko, to go find the Xixing demon.

Chapter 108: The Journey to the West

"The further west you go, the drier the ground becomes. It's almost like a desert here."

All the gods and generals were standing on a piece of land with some dry and ugly weeds under their feet.

The land where the weeds originally grew has now dried up and is in a completely unrecognizable state.

The strange thing is that this area is not actually dry. It is raining normally and you can even feel a sense of moisture in the air.

However, the land beneath the feet of all the gods and generals is already "dead".

It cannot retain rainwater, cannot nurture life, and any breath of life can only last for a short time.

Over time, it became what it is today.

As for the reason, there is no need to say more.

The huge westward-bound monster at the end of the sight of all the gods and generals is the answer to everything.

The so-called Journey to the West is a rather large cherry tree covered with gorgeous cherry blossoms and lush branches. It is the kind of stunning sight that anyone who sees it will praise.

But on the other hand, in this vast land, there is no living thing around except this huge cherry tree.

Countless corpses can be seen at the base of the cherry trees.

There are humans, animals, and monsters.

The earliest batch has turned into fertile soil and is buried under this cherry tree.

Only some vaguely exposed bones and some clothes that have not yet decayed can prove that they once existed.

Then there were some skeletons without flesh and blood, only bones and clothes. They surrounded this Westward Journey Monster like pilgrims, using their bodies to worship this tree demon who made them embrace death.

In the future, it is the recent arrival, and there is still flesh and blood.

Their previous appearances were preserved very completely, as if they had just taken a nap in front of the Journey to the West and would wake up soon.

Among them, all the gods and generals saw the monk who traveled to the West that they had met before.

Just as he had heard the rumors, Master Xixing was already dead.

But the other party was different from the other dead. He did not die around the Journey to the West.

He died on a huge branch of the Journey to the West.

He sat quietly on the branch, maintaining the posture of chanting.

"Since he can sit on the body of the Journey to the West Monster and chant sutras, it should be very easy for him to leave... Tsk."

Looking at the corpse of Master Journey to the West from afar, all the gods, generals and ministers were stunned.

Other demons and monsters couldn't even get close to the Westward Journey Demon's body and could only die in its vicinity.

The fact that this Journey to the West wizard could sit quietly on the trunk of the Journey to the West monster tree speaks volumes about his abilities.

Although all the generals understood that Master Journey to the West wanted to do something in the end, he always felt that it was no different from committing suicide.

With the ability of Master Journey to the West, even if his physical body is not in good condition, it will definitely not be a problem for him to continue living for a few decades by relying on magic power to support his body.

If one is willing, one can also transform oneself into a long-lived race, such as a magician, a ghost, a Tengu, etc.

But now, if you die at the hands of the Westward Journey Demon, even your soul won’t be able to be reincarnated after death.

All the gods and generals knew that the Westward Journey Demon had the characteristic of luring lives to death.

It is most famous for trapping the souls of the dead.

Any living being who is seduced by the Westward Journey Demon and voluntarily chooses to embrace death in front of it, the soul will not go to heaven or hell after death, and will not even dissipate.

They will only be captured by the Journey to the West Demon, be trapped inside the Journey to the West Demon for life after life, and become a part of the Journey to the West Demon.

"As expected, it has no consciousness of its own. Rather than being a monster, it is more like some kind of ever-expanding death mechanism."

Because they were going to cause trouble for the Journey to the West Demon, all the gods and generals not only referred to their past memories, but also consulted many people who knew about the Journey to the West Demon.

Then he realized that the cherry tree named Westward Journey was actually just an ordinary, inconspicuous normal cherry tree at first.

It just grows here, growing silently, and growing itself tall and big.

Until one day, a monk with great magical powers was about to pass away, and he found this cherry tree when he was dying.

Then he thought that it would be a blessing to die under such a beautiful cherry tree, so he sat in meditation under the tree.

Because he was a very famous monk, many monks who were about to die followed suit. They came here specifically when they were dying and sat in meditation under the Western Journey Demon.

Gradually, not only the monks, but even many ordinary people living here will gradually end up dying at the hands of the Journey to the West monster.

This happened repeatedly, and no one knew when it started, but even those who didn't want to die would suddenly think that they might die when they passed by the Journey to the West monster, so they walked towards the Journey to the West monster and died under the tree.

This is quite unusual.

The problem is that no one living near Journey to the West thinks there is anything wrong.

One after another, they flocked to the Westward Journey Demon until all the people in the area were dead.

By the time the last resident in this area died at the hands of the Journey to the West Demon, his influence became even stronger.

It was not limited to humans, even the trees, weeds, and soil around it began to die.

There is clearly no problem with the growing environment, with plenty of rain and sunshine.

But no life can survive around the Journey to the West.

Any living creature that comes near the area where the Westward Journey Demon is will be involuntarily attracted there.

As more and more people were attracted and died, the story of the Journey to the West monster spread.

Fortunately, this is a tree demon and cannot move freely, so as long as you stay away from it, you will not be attracted to death.

By now, it has become a famous place of death passed down by word of mouth. When normal people pass by here, they will take a big detour and pass through the road away from the Westward Journey Monster.