My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 104 Marriage Ceremony
That night, Jiang Yuan did not practice, but relaxed and rested to recharge his batteries.

As soon as the cock crowed, Jiang Yuan and the others quietly walked out of the inn before dawn.

"Hiss, it's really cold." Cheng Er rubbed his arms and muttered something.

"Shut up!" Cheng Da reprimanded.

Amid the noise of the Cheng brothers, they left the town and came to the dim river bank.

"Let's go."

Jiang Yuan said something softly, then he jumped up and went upstream along the river bank, followed closely by the Cheng family brothers.

After running for about an hour, dawn gradually rose from the sky, and Jiang Yuan and the others began to encounter dilapidated houses and deserted fields.

The Cheng family brothers were very angry at first and kept cursing the demon, but then gradually fell silent, suppressing their anger in their hearts.

When the morning sun broke, Jiang Yuan and the others entered the mountains, and the great river stopped flowing in the mountains.

"It's demonic!"

The lazy golden mouse lying on Jiang Yuan's body suddenly jumped up, Jiang Yuan and others were startled, and immediately stopped leaping.

"Go behind that rock."

Jiang Yuan glanced and found a hiding place, and everyone quickly hid there.

Amidst the rustling sound, a group of elk slowly stepped out of the forest.

The gazes of Jiang Yuan and the others fell on the middle of the herd of deer. A majestic gray deer was far larger than the same kind. The horns on the top of the head were like coulters, and there was a cold light.

The gray deer walked among the deer, calmly and domineeringly like a king patrolling.

Suddenly, the gray deer seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly straightened its upper body, standing upright like a human, revealing its deformed hind legs that were half human and half deer.

Jiang Yuan and the others retreated behind the rocks, their gazes diverted.

The gray deer shook the horns on the top of its head, leaned down again, and then let out a low cry. The deer immediately accelerated and jumped lightly into the depths of the mountain forest.

When the deer demon was gone, Jiang Yuan and the others looked at each other, their expressions becoming solemn.

"We haven't even reached Daze yet, and monsters have appeared majestically. It seems that what Song Hongzhi said is right, the area around Daze has already become a monster land."

"I don't know if there are any scouts of the moon-swallowing toad among these monsters?"

"The scouts shouldn't be there, but if they find us, they may report to the police, so be careful."

"But fortunately we have big gold, so we can detect the evil spirit in advance."

"Call me King Jin!"

Next, within thirty or fifty miles, you will meet a monster, and the few people stop and go, and the speed can no longer get up.

Fortunately, they are basically little monsters, at most like that gray deer, who have just stepped into the real monster.

After crossing the mountains and passing through the wasteland, after noon, I finally saw three big rivers rushing into a vast mountain swamp from three directions on a mountain ridge.

"It's almost here!" Cheng Er took out the water bag and handed it to Jiang Yuan and his brother, "Brother, brother, drink some water and rest."

"Where's mine?" The golden retriever stared.

Cheng Er giggled and said: "How could you forget the great hero, come, let me feed you."

When Jiang Yuan drank the water, his eyes were always looking at the big lake, and suddenly his expression froze, he raised his finger to the distance, and exclaimed: "Look quickly!"

Cheng Dagang drank his saliva, put down the water bag quickly, almost choked, and at the same time he did not forget to reprimand his younger brother who was fighting with the golden retriever, "Ahem, stop it!"

When the brothers of the Cheng family followed Jiang Yuan's point of view, they turned pale with shock.

I saw a mass of raging demon energy gushing out from the big lake, under the cloud-like evil energy, wolves, insects, tigers, leopards, roe, fox, badger, mink, snakes, cattle, bears and deer, and other herds of animals were endless, rumbling across the mud and grass.

The demonic aura is so strong, it is not only wild animals, but there are strange monsters scattered among the herd, beating gongs and drums, carrying a memorial archway with happy characters, and carrying a big red sedan chair.

Cheng Er suddenly hesitated and said, "That's a wedding ceremony, isn't it?"

Cheng Da opened his mouth wide in shock, "Monster married?"

It is indeed a wedding.

There appeared more than a dozen big golden-haired lions in the middle of the herd. The king of the beasts in the past has no prestige today. They are all dressed in red and colorful, and they are very festively dressed.

In the middle of the group of lions is a 狻猊, on the 狻猊's back is a sedan chair as tall as half a person, and on top of it sits a small figure in a wedding dress.

Seeing the figure, Jiang Yuan immediately dragged the Cheng brothers back to the back of the mountain.

"What's wrong, brother?" The Cheng brothers didn't know why.

Jiang Yuan lay on the ground, and said anxiously in a low voice: "The one who gets married is probably the Moon Swallowing Toad!"

"What?!" The brothers couldn't believe it.

"Looking at the strong demonic aura, I also think it must be that moon-swallowing clam." The golden mouse huddled on Jiang Yuan's shoulder and agreed in a low voice.

Cheng Er opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a while, then suddenly seemed to remember something, and said in surprise:

"The demon was still abducting the girl yesterday, why did he get married today? Could it be that he married that girl?"

Cheng Da immediately shook his head, "How could a demon marry a woman!"

Cheng Er blurted out: "Then who is it going to marry?"

"How do I know!" Cheng said anxiously.

Cheng Er turned his head to look at Jiang Yuan, and Cheng Da's eyes followed closely on Jiang Yuan, "What do you think, brother?"

Jiang Yuan recalled the Jishui Hebo wedding that he saw when he was in Zhanbuzhou, and pondered: "With the ferocious nature of that monster, it is at least the right match for such a battle."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yuan woke up suddenly, and asked urgently in a low voice: "Are there other demon mansions here?"

"impossible?"

The Cheng family brothers shook their heads and said, "If you want to be right with that monster, you must not be an ordinary monster, but there have only been rumors of that monster near the Great Marsh."

This is strange.

"Could it be the Shenfu?" Jiang Yuan frowned and thought, "Is there a Hebo water god in those three big rivers? Is there a mountain god nearby?"

The Cheng family brothers denied again, "The Shinto system in Haizhongzhou basically took shape with the establishment of Guangze Kingdom. A hundred years ago, this place was still a witch festival, and there was a demon in the past hundred years. It is impossible for there to be a deity."

Several people fell silent.

After a while, the Golden Retriever suddenly said: "There are monsters and beasts in that team, it's a mess, why don't I sneak in to find out?"

Jiang Yuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "I'll go with you."

"Brother, don't do it!" The Cheng family brothers hurriedly dissuaded, "You are a human being, or a Qi refiner, it's too obvious to mix with the demon group."

Jiang Yuan smiled slightly, summoned Fang Ding, and recited the mantra silently, a round, golden red pill with tiger pattern and golden thread flew out from the tripod.

"Brother, is this?" The Cheng family brothers showed surprise.

"This is Tiger Pill, after taking it, you can turn into a big tiger." Jiang Yuan laughed.

"It's such a strange thing?" Cheng Er leaned in front of Hu Dan and looked at it with bright eyes.

Cheng Da also looked at Hu Dan in amazement, then turned his head suddenly, and said to Jiang Yuan, "Since you have this thing, why do you need to take risks, brother, let me go."

Jiang Yuan was stunned, can Hu Dan be taken by others?Then he shook his head secretly, and tried again later, it was time to get down to business.

"Let me go!"

When Cheng's big words fell, Cheng Er also reacted, and directly reached out to grab Hu Dan.

Jiang Yuan embraced Hu Dan, avoiding Cheng Er's hand, and said with a light smile, "I'll go, you wait here for news from me."

The Cheng brothers wanted to talk, but Jiang Yuan raised his hand to stop him, and tapped the golden mouse, "We have a tacit understanding, and I have a way to escape, which is safer."

The two brothers had no choice but to tell them: "Then brother must be careful, don't take risks."

"I see, you turn around."

When the brothers of the Cheng family turned around, Jiang Yuan put away his clothes and only wore the ochre-yellow cassock, and swallowed the tiger pill with his head up.

Dazzling golden light came out through his body, and bursts of muffled roars resounded in Jiang Yuan's body. When the golden light disintegrated, Jiang Yuan turned into a colorful tiger.

The two brothers turned around, immediately clicked their tongues in amazement, and praised: "Brother, this strange thing is comparable to that art of transformation."

Jiang Yuan, who had turned into a big tiger, could not speak, so he let out a low growl to bid farewell. When the golden mouse jumped on the back of the tiger, he jumped down the mountain and chased after the group of monsters who had gone far away.

As soon as he got off the mountain, there was muddy grass under his feet, soft and wet, and puddles everywhere. When Jiang Yuan ran to the end of the team, he was already covered in mud, but his dirty body was more helpful to cover up.

Those hanging at the end of the line are all slow-moving or timid beasts, such as elephants, beavers, wild monkeys and the like.

The golden mouse jumped up from Jiang Yuan's back, squeaked at the beasts, and signaled Jiang Yuan to avoid the beasts, then said in a low voice:

"The one who got married was the Moon Swallowing Clam. They called him the Daze Demon King, but they were only called to make a splash. They didn't know who they were going to marry. They only knew they were going to Baiyuntan."

"Baiyuntan?" Jiang Yuan muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)