My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 20 Team in the Fog
Immortal practice, after cultivating to the gods, there will be no distinction between human and demon.

The difference between human monks and monsters lies in the previous stage of practice.

As mentioned above, people build their foundations first, then ghosts and humans.

And the demon is to transform into a demon first, and then become a real demon and a demon fairy.

Transforming a demon is equivalent to building a foundation for monster cultivation.

However, the foundation building of human beings involves the three steps of storing thoughts, feeding qi, and refining qi. What is refined is god, qi, and essence.

The monster's process of transforming into a monster and building its foundation is actually devouring blood and food, refining essence and transforming energy.

Obviously, compared with human beings, the practice of monsters lacks a step of refining gods.

This is the saying that monsters are strong in their bodies and weak in their gods.

However, the celestial body is abandoned, and the yin and god are separated from the body to pretend to be a thing. The foundation of practice lies in the "god".

Since ancient times, I have never heard of many monsters who can cultivate into immortals.

After all, Jiang Yuan has not formally stepped into practice, so he doesn't know much about these practices.

The mouse monster is different, it is a monster, so it is even more shocking.

At the same time, he became more and more afraid.

Although he didn't know the relationship between Jiang Yuan and the old monkey, but the old monkey was staring at him, and the yellow-haired mouse didn't dare to act presumptuously.

Facing Jiang Yuan's questioning, he didn't make random sophistry, and replied honestly:

"I don't know if it is, but it should be."

Jiang Yuan frowned, and asked directly: "What exactly did you steal?"

The mouse demon blinked: "Just some gold."

"Some gold, is it worth the hot pursuit of the Beiyang Mountain tour officer?" Jiang Yuan almost laughed angrily.

"It's really gold."

Seeing Jiang Yuan's face turned cold, the mouse demon added weakly: "Maybe a little too much."

Seeing that Jiang Yuan still didn't believe it, the rat demon frantically flapped his paws, saying repeatedly:

"I stole gold to practice Precious Light Art, and it's useless for me to ask for other things."

"Practice with gold?" Jiang Yuan raised his eyebrows, "Show me."

"The stolen gold is all used up." The mouse demon smiled wryly.

"Otherwise, why would I leave Gucheng? If I were in the city, I wouldn't be afraid of anyone."

"I have gold."

Jiang Yuan threw the water bag that the gray donkey had drained back into the basket, and took out a handful of golden beans from the sandbag.

Unexpectedly, the rat demon looked at Jindou, then at Jiang Yuan, his small eyes suddenly rolled quickly, perfectly interpreting what is called "deer-headed mouse eyes".

"Don't play tricks!"

Jiang Yuan was uncomfortable with the eyes of the yellow-haired mouse, and opened his mouth to reprimand him.

"Uh"

The rat demon gritted his teeth, hesitated for a long time, pointed to the golden bean in Jiang Yuan's hand, and organized his words in a low voice:

"When I practice Precious Light Technique, I have to swallow gold, and after I finish training, I will expel the discarded gold beans from my body."

"Abandoned golden beans? They just can't be used anymore, you won't... lie to me"

As Jiang Yuan spoke, he reacted suddenly, his face turned blue and then white, white and then red, becoming extremely wonderful.

Wow, he stuffed the golden beans in his hand back into the sandbag, the movement was too big, a little half of it was spilled, but Jiang Yuan didn't care.

I quickly rubbed my palms on the grass, still feeling awkward.

Looking at the yellow-haired mouse, it even snickered, Jiang Yuan threw it to the ground forcefully, and cursed bitterly: "You disgusting monster, get out!"

The yellow-haired mouse rolled on the ground, and suddenly felt that it had regained its ability to move. It was overjoyed immediately, and fled into the distance with golden light.

Jiang Yuan let it escape.

He was disgusted by this little demon, and he no longer had the energy to settle accounts with it.

Anyway, it was Zheng Bowei who was chasing him, so let him distract the pursuers.

Wuqian regained some strength, Jiang Yuan stepped on the mount, identified the direction, "drive", and went deep into the dense forest.

Unexpectedly, after walking for a while, a golden light galloped from behind.

The yellow-haired mouse chased after it.

Jiang Yuan turned his head, Jin Guang hid in the woods, Jiang Yuan continued on his way, Jin Guang turned back.

"This monster wants to use me as a shield?"

Jiang Yuan was furious, stopped his mount immediately, turned around and shouted:

"Don't follow me anymore!"

After waiting for a while, the yellow-haired mouse flashed out from behind the tree, looked at the basket on the donkey's back, and replied, "I'm following Senior Monkey."

When he was in Gucheng, the old monkey knew about Jiang Yuan leaving the basket under Chenghuang's eyes, but he didn't say much.

Jiang Yuan didn't take the initiative to speak, and the two sides maintained a tacit understanding.

But through this incident, the old monkey also fully understood Jiang Yuan's taboo.

After leaving Gucheng, he took the initiative to hide his figure, and no longer appeared randomly like before.

Even when Jiang Yuan fought against the rat demon, he only made a move in an emergency, and then hid again.

"Senior Monkey, I want to worship you as my teacher, I am very talented."

The yellow-haired mouse shouted out his purpose, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the old monkey:

"I don't accept apprentices! If you don't leave, I will drive you away."

The mouse demon shrank back, looked at the basket unwillingly, and finally left dejectedly.

Seeing the golden light disappear completely, Jiang Yuan withdrew his gaze and sighed:

"This little demon has a heart of seeking Tao."

The old monkey replied leisurely: "The cultivation of monsters is too difficult."

Jiang Yuan was touched by this sentence, recalling his own experience, he let out a long sigh:
"Whose practice is not difficult?"

Shaking his head to drive away his melancholy, Jiang Yuan pulled the reins: "Let's go five thousand."

The ignorant gray donkey neighed and raised its hooves, not understanding its master's melancholy.

The dense forest is not big, and it crosses it in half an hour, followed by rolling hills.

As far as the eye can see, there are bushes as tall as a person, but there are also some wild fruit trees mixed in the bushes.

After several ups and downs, a flock of sheep appeared, a shepherd, and soon a village.

At the end of the hill to the west of the village is an official road, where cows and horses can be vaguely seen passing through, and the flow of people is flickering.

As the village goes north, the hills get higher and higher, gradually turning into forests.

After crossing the northern mountain range, you can enter Qingzhou, and then find Jishui, and downstream is the Eastern Sea.

Jiang Yuan didn't stop and went straight north.

The so-called Wangshan ran dead horse, Wuqian carried Jiang Yuan on his back and ran for two full hours before entering the mountain range that looked not far away.

The sun is already in the west, and it is about Shen time.

Before entering the mountain, Jiang Yuan patted his head violently and shouted:
"Oh, I forgot to agree to the ritual of the raccoon."

Because of the loneliness on the road, Jiang Yuan took the old monkey to chat with him from time to time.

By the way, after leaving Gucheng, the relationship between a man and a demon has become somewhat awkward.

Hearing Jiang Yuan's emotion, the old monkey asked casually: "The ritual of the raccoon?"

Jiang Yuan replied in a chatty tone: "Didn't I get the wind sandbag and the little dragon and tiger pill, and I just wanted to save the raccoon, get rid of its evils, and be reborn as a human being in the next life."

The old monkey said: "Then you have to find a mage with profound morality, otherwise you won't be able to save that mountain raccoon."

Jiang Yuan thought, yes, nodded and said: "Since this is the case, there is no need to worry, it is hard to find a mage with good skills."

"By the way, I heard that one day goes up in the sky and one year goes up on the ground, and one day goes up in the underworld for one month. Is it true?"

"Yes."

"Why are there different times?"

"This, if it wasn't for fellow daoists asking, I really wouldn't have thought about it, maybe it has something to do with the clear and turbid qi."

"How to say?"

"Hongmeng opens up, the heaven and the earth evolve, the clean air rises to become the sky, and the turbid air sinks to form the earth. The clean air in the heavenly palace is the lightest, so the time flow is the slowest, and the turbid air in the underworld is the heaviest, so the time flow is the fastest."

"Makes sense."

Talking about it, the mountain road gets deeper and deeper and more rugged.

Crash, the gray donkey slipped and nearly rolled down the steep mountain wall.

Jiang Yuan had no choice but to get off the donkey's back, lead the mount and continue to move forward. To be precise, he began to climb.

Just as he was crawling on his hands and feet, the old monkey suddenly exclaimed: "Don't move, hide well!"

For the first time, Jiang Yuan heard fear from the old monkey's voice.

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Jiang Yuan didn't say a word, but decisively fell into the grass.

"No, there are five thousand."

Suddenly remembering his mount, Jiang Yuan turned his head quickly, only to see that the sky and the earth were suddenly dark.

The sun in the sky has been blocked by thick dark clouds at some point, and there is not a ray of sunlight shining down.

Strong winds blew up, and the wind was carrying thick water vapor, passing over the mountains, turning into thick fog like waves, covering the sky and the sun.

Jiang Yuan just blinked, and was submerged by the billowing mist, leaving only a few feet away, and the gray donkey behind him was only a vague outline.

"what happened?"

Jiang Yuan's heart was pounding.

clang!
There was a strange and huge gong sound in the fog.

clang!
The gong sounded again, and it was getting closer.

The dense fog suddenly shook, and Jiang Yuan's pupils suddenly dilated.

I saw a long queue in the fog.

In the front, a three-foot-tall giant in blue armor held a hammer-like gong in one hand and a huge golden gong in the other.

Whenever the sledgehammer fell, there was a loud bang.

Behind the giant are two large wooden signs——

"Quiet" "Avoid"

After that, there are continuous dragon flags, hundred fish flags, gold melons, axes and other ceremonial guards, festive canopies, and glazed lanterns.
And the guard of honor holding canopies, axes and axes is actually water monsters with fish heads and fish brains and scales all over their bodies!

Huh, the fog surged, and the team disappeared.

The last thing Jiang Yuan saw was a high-flying flag with four large characters on it——

"Jishui Hebo"

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(End of this chapter)