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Chapter 1450 The Thirty-first Difficulty

[After Chen Xuanzang arrived at the border of Yanqi, Yanqi asked Chen Xuanzang to leave as soon as possible because Yanqi and Gaochang had a feud. When Chen Xuanzang was about to leave the country, he met a caravan.

This was a large caravan. As it was getting late, Chen Xuanzang persuaded the caravan to wait until the next morning and both teams set out together. However, the caravan was in a hurry to do business in Qiuci and ignored Chen Xuanzang. When Chen Xuanzang set out again the next day, he saw the bodies of the caravan on the road.

Dozens of people in the caravan were killed by the bandits, and their property was looted. Nothing was left except a pile of corpses.

Chen Xuanzang and his party finally arrived at the next country, Kucha, carefully. Unlike Yanqi, which had a bad relationship with Gaochang, Kucha was also a country that highly respected Buddhism. There were temples opened by Gaochang people, and Chen Xuanzang lived here.

Chen Xuanzang was warmly received in Qiuci and was personally received by the king. He was surprised to find that most people in Qiuci had flat heads, as if they had been ironed. It turned out that people here considered flatness beautiful, and when a baby was born, they would clamp his head with a wooden board to keep it as flat as possible.

Because if you continue westward through Qiuci, you will have to cross the snow-capped mountains, and it is already close to winter. Crossing the snow-capped mountains at this time is undoubtedly seeking death. You can only wait until the spring of the second year when the flowers bloom.

So Chen Xuanzang stayed in Qiuci until the spring of the second year before setting off. The time was long and he had many opportunities to interact with local monks. The leader of the monks in Qiuci was a monk named Juduo, who claimed that he had also been to India and was very familiar with all the Indian scriptures. He told Chen Xuanzang that he did not need to go to India to learn any true scriptures, but just worship him as his teacher.

Then Chen Xuanzang asked Ju Duo three questions about the Buddhist scriptures. Ju Duo answered all of them incorrectly and was defeated by Chen Xuanzang. The entire Kingdom of Kucha was completely convinced by Chen Xuanzang's Buddhism.

Because no merchants passed through all winter, the bandits were also hungry and thirsty for half a year and were very crazy.

Chen Xuanzang encountered four or five small-scale bandits along the way, and they were all sent away by paying tolls. But he eventually encountered a group of hundreds of bandits at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. Xuanzang's team was unable to resist and had to surrender.

Just when they were about to be killed, a magical scene happened. They found that Xuanzang and his group had too much treasure, and this group of robbers was put together temporarily, with different ideas. As a result, they all wanted to take the treasure for themselves at night, so they chose to attack their companions at night. As a result, this group of robbers directly engaged in a very fierce fight at night, and Chen Xuanzang's team escaped because they were all tied up and locked in the tent.

When Chen Xuanzang and his team broke free the next day, they found that the hundreds of robbers had been killed. The few remaining winners could not take away all the wealth, so they could only pick out some valuables. So although Chen Xuanzang's team lost some valuable property, miraculously no one was killed or injured. Instead, they had more horses and supplies, which allowed them to cross the snowy mountains more easily.

However, casualties were inevitable when crossing the snowy mountains. Although there were people in the team who had crossed the snowy mountains before, they could not be perfect in every aspect. The climate during the entire crossing process was extremely bad. Even if they were wrapped in clothes, many people froze to death. In addition, they encountered terrible avalanches on the way, and lost a large number of horses and personnel.

When Chen Xuanzang finally crossed the snowy mountain, he found that only 30 people were left of the original 16-person team, including two of Xuanzang's disciples. Almost all the cattle, sheep and horses in the team were lost, and in the end there were not enough horses for each person.

After that, Chen Xuanzang's team rested in Rehai for several months. In addition to restoring the team's energy and physical strength, the most important thing was to think about how to survive in the grassland. This was an area completely controlled by the Turks. If they could not get permission from the Turks, everything would be very dangerous.

Moreover, normal Turkic herdsmen could turn into Turkic bandits at any time, and he could be killed at any time when crossing the grassland. In the end, Chen Xuanzang decided to walk openly. If he met a Turkic person, he would say that he was going to visit the Turkic Khan. Sure enough, when the herdsmen on the road heard that they were going to pay a visit to the Turkic Khan, they did not have the courage to rob them. As a result, no one expected that the Turkic Khan was hunting nearby at this time, and the news that Chen Xuanzang planned to visit him actually reached the ears of the Turkic Khan, so the Turkic Khan sent someone to find Chen Xuanzang's team and lead them to Suiye City, where the Khan would meet them.

Chen Xuanzang was worried about how he would be treated, but he did not expect that after talking with Chen Xuanzang, the Turkic Yehu Khan also admired Chen Xuanzang very much, but he persuaded Chen Xuanzang not to go to India because there were only a bunch of cowards and cowards there, and there was nothing worth learning at all.

Chen Xuanzang refused, and the Turkic Khan did not force him. Instead, he sent people to replenish Chen Xuanzang's team with supplies and horses, dispatched new translators, and delivered a letter from the Turkic government, sending them to continue their journey westward.

Chen Xuanzang continued to travel westward and arrived at Samarkand in Kangguo. At that time, the people of Kangguo collectively believed in Zoroastrianism and were very rude to monks. Chen Xuanzang's two disciples wanted to worship in the abandoned temple, but were driven away by the local Zoroastrians holding torches. At the same time, the officials of Kangguo also wanted to expel Chen Xuanzang.

So Chen Xuanzang decided to talk to the king of Kangguo. At first, the king was unwilling to see Chen Xuanzang and was very arrogant. It was only after seeing the letter from Yehu Khan that he had to meet with Chen Xuanzang and listen to what Chen Xuanzang had to say.

As a result, Chen Xuanzang only taught for one night, and the king of Kangguo suddenly realized the truth. He announced that he would expel the Zoroastrians who were causing trouble and resume the spread of Buddhism in Kangguo. He even took the lead in changing his faith and became a Buddhist. From then on, Buddhism flourished in Kangguo, and Chen Xuanzang played a great role.

"The 23rd difficulty is that I was attacked by robbers at night; the 24th difficulty is that I debated the sutras in Qiuci; the 25th difficulty is that the mountain is covered with snow; the 26th difficulty is that the bandits rebelled; the 27th difficulty is that I can't cross the snowy mountain; the 28th difficulty is that I am crushed by an avalanche; the 29th difficulty is that I was attacked by Turkic robbers; the 30th difficulty is that I was attacked by the Turkic Khan; the 31st difficulty is that Kangguo was driven out."

"This time, the debate machine recorded very quickly!"

"But this difficulty is quite obvious. Are you still worried that the rubbish author is not good enough to meet the eighty-one difficulties?"

"Big Brother... Second Brother, you both died miserably!"

"It doesn't matter whether it's water or not, but this time there are a few more disasters that can rival Journey to the West, such as the sutra debate in Kucha, which is a bit like the Guanyin Temple. And the one about Zoroastrianism, does it look like the magic battle in Chechi Kingdom?"

"You don't think so until you say it, but now that you say it, it really looks like it."

"Alas, new adaptations cannot be made up, and adaptations cannot be made up... Please stop making up nonsense, this shit is too damn interesting to read in the context of Journey to the West."

"I declare that Journey to the West was only a 7 in my heart, but with the story of Xuanzang, Journey to the West can already be an 8. It's so damn good."

(End of this chapter)