My Journey to the West on the Heavenly Road

Chapter 221 Delicate Heart

I searched for another peach tree, but still found nothing.

The young man straightened up, patted his sore back, and felt regretful when he saw that the peach groves seemed to be endless at a glance.

"Oh, why did you agree to the woodcutter in a muddleheaded way?"

"Xintao? How can there be such a peach? The woodcutter must have been fooled by some charlatan!"

Looking back for the woodcutter, he saw the peach grove was empty and there was no one there. Suddenly, he remembered that the woodcutter had accompanied him to search for a while, and then said that he would go home to see his mother first, and then come back later.

"I haven't come back for so long, and I haven't heard from you. If your old lady is well, please come and let me know earlier, so that I won't mess around here."

"I just met you by chance. I help you out of good intentions, but you don't treat yourself as an outsider too much. Do you really treat me as free labor?"

"Hmph, that's your old lady, what has nothing to do with me, you don't worry, I don't care."

The futility of such a long time had already made the young man irritated, and now the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, so he simply sat down under the tree, put his hands in his arms, leaned against the tree, and closed his eyes.

"Go to sleep first and rest."

However, the young man closed his eyes for a long time, unable to rest at ease, and the anxious face of the woodcutter and his sincere pleas always appeared in his mind.

At the same time, an old woman clutching her heart, her face full of pain, appeared and disappeared in his heart, making him unable to sleep.

"Alas—annoying!"

After a while, the young man suddenly opened his eyes and jumped up from the ground, kicking the peach tree twice hard, venting his depression.

Boom, a few big peaches fell from the swaying branches, rolled a few times on the ground, and hit the young man's feet.

The young man looked at the big peach under his feet, and after a while, he sighed: "Forget it, don't you just look for peaches, it's not a dangerous thing to go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, so it will take some time, don't be verbose, just work."

The young man patted his cheek hard, let out a long sigh of relief, let go of his irritability, and walked to the next peach tree.

"Xintao, Xintao, where are you, show up quickly"

The young man hummed an out-of-key tune, rummaged through one peach tree after another, and gradually, he forgot about his restlessness.

At some point, the night rose, and the young man didn't realize it, but unconsciously moved closer to the peach tree, making his face covered with fluff.

The sun rises and the moon sets, day and night go by, and the young man has rummaged through many peach trees.

"Pa", with a soft sound, the big peach held by the young man burst open, the pungent juice dripped down the gap between the fingers, and bursts of rotten smell penetrated into the nose.

The young man woke up suddenly, and immediately found that the big peach in his hand had already rotted, and it was full of pus.

"This is, the peach ripening period is over?"

The young man raised his head, and sure enough, rotten peaches can be seen everywhere, and many peach trees are filled with a rotten smell.

"Oops, time is running out, if you can't find that 'heart peach', all the peaches will go bad."

Suddenly, a miserable howl came from the depths of the peach forest——

"Mother, the child is unfilial, so I can't save you!"

It was the woodcutter's voice.

The young man was startled, and hurried to the depths. Just after turning around a few peach trees, he saw the figure of the woodcutter. The woodcutter was naked to the waist, and he was raising his ax to strike at his chest.

"stop!"

The young man turned pale with fright, rushed over and knocked the woodcutter away.

The ax whirled up, and with a click, it embedded into the peach tree, and the ax blade went deep.

"Don't stop me!"

The woodcutter got up from the ground, pushed the young man away and was about to pull out the axe, but was hugged tightly by the young man.

"Uncle, what are you doing?" the young man asked eagerly.

The woodcutter couldn't break free, and burst into tears: "The peach is going to rot, and I haven't found the heart peach! I lost my father when I was young, and I was raised by my mother. If I can't save my mother, what face do I have to survive?"

The young man was moved by the woodcutter's filial piety. He sighed and persuaded him, "I'm also helping uncle find it. Let's keep working hard. It's not time to give up yet."

"Peaches are about to go bad, how can there be heart peaches?"

The woodcutter lost his composure and yelled, struggling violently, but the young man missed the hug. The woodcutter escaped smoothly, grabbed the axe, aimed it at his heart, and hissed loudly:
"A heart is a heart, and a peach is a peach. I don't think there is a 'heart peach' in the world! If so, use my heart to save my mother!"

The young man was startled suddenly: "Heart is heart, peach is peach"

The young man stood there blankly, muttering in his mouth: "Consider within the heart, the heart has no heart, the appearance is the form, the form has no form. Viewing the emptiness is also empty, and the emptiness has nothing to be empty; there is neither nothing, nothing and nothing. The reason why the Dao can be obtained lies in the heart!"

Phew, blood splashes!
The ax sliced ​​open the woodcutter's chest, a scarlet heart was beating in the chest cavity, and hot blood was bubbling out.

The young man raised his head abruptly, his pupils filled with an inexplicable divine light.

"Wait a minute, uncle, I have 'Xintao'."

The woodcutter was about to take out his heart, but he saw the young man looking left and right, striding towards a peach tree, picked a good big peach from the tree, turned around, walked over, and handed it to the woodcutter.

"This this"

The woodcutter's eyes widened. He clearly saw that what the young man picked was just an ordinary peach, but at this moment, there was a red heart in front of him.

"Uncle, don't delay, and quickly take it back to save your mother."

The young man handed the heart peach to the woodcutter, and wiped the other hand on the woodcutter's chest. The blood-splattered wound healed instantly, without leaving a single scar.

"Fairy? Brother, are you also a fairy?" The woodcutter seemed stunned.

The young man showed a smile and shook his head lightly: "Three yangs are authentic, refining one's nature without hypocrisy, only then can one become a god, and my way is far from it."

The woodcutter said in a daze, "I don't understand what you are talking about, little brother."

"No, uncle, you understand."

The young man smiled loudly, then put his hands together, bowed deeply to the woodcutter, and made a big salute: "I am very grateful for the kindness of leading the way."

"Little brother, what are you doing?" The woodcutter was at a loss and quickly dodged.

The young man straightened up, looked at the woodcutter and sighed, "I'm afraid we won't see each other again today. Uncle, you still don't know my name?"

The woodcutter nodded dully: "It is true that I have never heard of the name of my brother."

"Haha, I'm Xia Jiangyuan, with the word Benchu, from the Eastern County of the Great Han Kingdom in Nanzhan Buzhou."

The young man laughed loudly, and amidst the laughter, his appearance changed rapidly.

His face became younger, his body became stalwart, the coarse cloth jacket on his body turned into a ochre-yellow robe, and his black hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin.

As soon as the words fell, the young man had turned into a handsome young man with a clear temperament and a flawless face.

At the same time, the world changed drastically, just like an ink and color painting suddenly immersed in water, the colors in the painting blurred and faded, and the mountains and forests in the painting disintegrated little by little.

The young man, or Jiang Yuan, stood with his hands tied, watching the woodcutter disappearing with the wind, the upside-down world, and the dissolving peach forest, and let out a deep sigh.

"Goodbye."

Jiang Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

In that pupil, there is a small world that is rapidly disappearing.

Soon, the last peach leaf completely dissipated, the sky and the earth darkened and returned to chaos. Immediately, bits of light reappeared, as if the sky and the earth had reopened.

Jiang Yuan's eyes regained aura.

"Ugh--"

In the dim cave, a sigh suddenly sounded, and it took a long time for the sigh to dissipate.

The "heart peach" that Jiang Yuan got in his dream is an exquisite heart, which can also be called "other heart", "wisdom heart", which can distinguish falsehood and see things to know the heart.

Knowing emptiness, the dream cannot blind his gnosis, and naturally it can no longer guide him.

To put it simply, Jiang Yuan cultivated his Linglong heart, and even in his dreams, he knew that he was dreaming, and illusions could not confuse him, his mind was always pure, and his spiritual platform was clear.

And how can a clean Lingtai provoke foreign objects and stir up ripples?
Therefore, guiding dreams will no longer exist!
To be honest, Jiang Yuan is not willing to obtain this supernatural power at this time.

So, why did he comprehend this supernatural power at this time?
Without it, in order to answer Jiang Yuan's doubts - where did the evil monkey come from?
Jiang Yuan already knew the answer.

After hearing the sigh, there was another hateful curse from the cave: "Damn monkey, I will definitely settle this account with you properly."

This monkey is not Sun Wukong, but a six-eared macaque!
As the woodcutter said in the dream - "There is an evil spirit eating my mother's heart".

The "heart" of the woodcutter's mother refers to Jiang Yuan's dream, which is also Sun Wukong's "Bodhi Road", and the "evil spirit" is the six-eared macaque.

In other words, at this time, the six-eared macaque is using the talent of "good at listening, being able to understand, knowing before and after, and everything is clear" in the dark to discover the way of Monkey King.

At this time, Jiang Yuan was also seeking this way.

One "Bodhi Road", two seek the same, naturally have to fight.

The evil monkeys are vying for the Rotten Peach Mountain, and the evil spirits devour their hearts, all for this purpose.

Da, da, footsteps sounded, Jiang Yuan pushed open the wooden door and walked out of the cave.

The night wind blowing head-on was a little chilly, and it seemed to have the fragrance of flowers. Obviously, it was the beginning of spring.

Tonight, the moon and stars are sparse, and the moonlight is bright and clear. The cliff in the distance seems to be covered with a layer of silver gauze, shining brightly, like a dream.

"Slanted Moon Samsung Cave"

The blue light in Jiang Yuan's eyes flickered, and he had silently activated his Linglong supernatural power, but the cliff he thought was the location of the Three Star Cave of the Oblique Moon remained unchanged.

"Still can't see through."

After a while, Jiang Yuan shook his head, turned over and jumped up the hill.

The rotten smell rushed towards the face, and the peach forest under the moonlight was still bleak, but there was already a faint pink color in it, which was the peach blossom that was about to bloom.

Jiang Yuan used his magical powers to look around, and in a trance, he seemed to see a thin layer of mist lingering in the peach forest, erratic and elusive.

As if aware of Jiang Yuan's prying eyes, the mist trembled suddenly, whether it penetrated into the peach tree, or penetrated into the rotten mud, or submerged in the moonlight, in short, it dissipated silently, no matter how difficult it is to perceive.

"Is that the spirituality of Lantaoshan itself, or the Daoyun left by the Great Sage?"

Jiang Yuan thought for a while, but couldn't be sure.

"Master, you are awake."

A cloud of air descended from the sky, and when it landed, it turned into Wuqian's majestic body.

Jiang Yuan turned around, the light in his eyes flickered, Wuqian suddenly felt a chill all over his body, the porch opened wide, and the soul in the deepest part of his body was exposed, he shuddered involuntarily, and exclaimed: "Master, you, you What kind of supernatural power?"

In Jiang Yuan's eyes, the donkey lost the dragon scales on its back, its body shrunk, and its dragon claws turned back into hooves. It was no longer a majestic beast, but a gray donkey with a high neck, just like its original appearance.

The only difference was that the gray donkey had an extra scale lingering in the wind and rain on its forehead.

"I haven't lost my heart, it's just this practice"

Jiang Yuan shook his head, dissipated his supernatural powers, then glared, angrily said: "These days when I entered meditation, have you been lazy?"

Wuqian shrank his head and whispered: "No, I don't."

"Huh?" Jiang Yuan snorted coldly.

The donkey hurriedly said: "I don't know why, I've been distracted lately, every time I practice, I always feel that someone is spying on me from the dark, making me unable to concentrate."

Jiang Yuan frowned, raised his eyes and looked at the surrounding night, as if he saw a monkey with violent eyes.

　There is only one chapter left today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)