Journey to the West: The Rise of Martial Arts

Chapter 109 Nine Pheasants
Ren Qinglian heard him mentioning ghosts, she couldn't help thinking of Chun Shisanniang she met before, and asked, "Do you know where those ghosts come from?"

The man concentrated his attention, and then said with a sigh of relief: "Then you are asking the right person. My wife is from the next village. I went back to visit my relatives not long ago. It's just a bird that keeps chirping 'cluck cluck'..."

Just as she was talking, the woman had already brought over the packaged vegetarian food, she couldn't help laughing and said: "Don't listen to his nonsense, that's the second sister of the mountain god's egg on Fuling Mountain in our area!"

"Second Sister Egg?" Ren Qinglian looked suspicious. Didn't this guy die after marrying Zhu Bajie?

"Yes, although Second Sister Egg is a hen that becomes a spirit, she is a good monster. Many people here have enshrined her statues for generations." The woman explained.

"Also, a monster can be enshrined as a mountain god by your ancestors..." Ren Qinglian pretended to be surprised.

The man was exposed by his own mother-in-law, and his face was slightly shaken. At this moment, he finally couldn't help showing the prestige of the head of the family, and ordered: "Hurry up and show the statue to the young master."

The woman was not angry either, and walked towards the back hall twisting her fat waist, and fetched a wooden sculpture in a short while.

Although the wood carving is crude, one can vaguely see that it is a strange chicken with eight heads.

Ren Qinglian frowned even tighter, and said, "Why do you have eight heads?"

"Young Master, I don't know. When my grandfather was in my grandfather's generation, Second Sister Egg only had seven heads..." the woman relished.

Ren Qinglian thought to herself: "Nine is the extreme number. Could it be that she has to grow a ninth head..."

Thinking of this, his eyes suddenly brightened, but he thought of a character in the Romance of the Gods, could it be the nine-headed pheasant spirit of Xuanyuanqiu?

Unexpectedly, his guess is really close to ten.

In the ancient time of conferring the gods, the nine pheasant spirits were captured and beheaded by Yang Jian, but the spirit was reincarnated and reborn as an ordinary hen raised in Fuling Mountain.

From this point of view, there are some similarities with Zhu Bajie.

However, the two became husband and wife, not all because of the sympathy for each other, but because the second sister of the egg was instructed by Zen Master Wuchao, and pointed her to a shortcut to restore her strength, which is probably a simple yin and yang of the Tantric Huanxi Zen. The way of double cultivation.

Marshal Naipeng was reincarnated as a pig, which belongs to Hai, and there is Jiamu in Hai.The nine-headed pheasant is a reborn domestic chicken, but there is a yin tree in the base, and the yin and yang of the two are in harmony. After practicing the Esoteric Buddhism, in less than a year, their cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds.

However, this Pheasant Essence has offended many people in the past. Although his cultivation level has broken through, it will still take some years before his realm is completely stabilized, so he told Zhu Bajie not to reveal his whereabouts.

Therefore, when Guanyin Bodhisattva passed by here to enlighten Zhu Bajie, that guy just made up the news that the second sister Egg was dead to cover up people's eyes and ears.

It's just that what Zhu Bajie didn't know was that the nine pheasant spirits were able to survive back then, but they were saved by Dao Er.

Like Lu Ya, this real person Du'er was once a Sanxian from West Kunlun. He is not only an ancient Penglai immortal who survived from the ancient prehistoric era, but also has the status of master and apprentice with the Taiqing saint. His Taoism is unpredictable. He is a quasi-sage master who beheaded two corpses.

Cutting corpses to prove the way is the most widely spread method in the ancient prehistoric era to break through the realm of Daluo Immortal. The realm of quasi-sage was what the monks called at that time when the strength was between Daluoxian and Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian.

The existence of such strength rarely haunts the Earth Immortal Realm at this time, but if it is mentioned that the identity of the Duer Daoist and Good Corpse is not a mystery, it is the Buddhist Lingji Bodhisattva.

In the Battle of the Conferred Gods back then, for the Daomen, what they lost was not only the harmony among the three religions, but also the dominance of the Taoist family.

Countless monks who had practiced painstakingly for tens of thousands of years and failed to break through, began to turn to Buddhism one after another. Among the twelve golden immortals, there were Manjusri, Puxian, Cihang, and Fearful Sun who abandoned the way and entered Buddhism. .

Among the casual cultivators, there are countless people who practice Buddhism, and Daoist Duer can be regarded as one of the best.

The reason why Immortal Er rescued the nine-headed pheasant spirit back then was entrusted by a good friend in the past. This person is Empress Shiji from the White Bone Cave on Skull Mountain, who is also the current Yueyou Xingshen.

Don't look at this Empress Shiji who lost to Daoist Taiyi and was tempered into her original form by the Nine Dragons Divine Fire, but in the prosperous period of Taoism in ancient times, this Empress Shiji was an existence that competed with Xuanmen Zhenwu Emperor for a long time. In the title, the demon of swing originally refers to this Empress Shiji.

It's a pity that the supernatural powers were lost to the number of days, and it was the result of his death and dao disappearance at the beginning of conferring the gods.But even so, she can still be named the Moon Touring Star God, which shows that she has a wide network and an extraordinary status.

Empress Shiji has a relationship with the jade pipa spirit among the three demons of Xuanyuanqiu, so the real person Tuo Duer saved the life of the pheasant spirit, and now counting, the two sides also have some incense.

The Chun Shisan Niang that Ren Qinglian met before was a registered disciple of Empress Shiji later, because she was about the same age as this pheasant spirit, and got along well, and she was often referred to as a sister.

However, it usually takes decades, even hundreds of years for the gods and monsters to cultivate and practice.When Chun Shisanniang went to Yunzhan Cave in Fuling Mountain to look for Second Sister Egg, she found that the nest had been occupied by Zhu Bajie.

This Chun Shisan Niang is also impatient, and her attacks are ruthless, she has fought against Zhu Bajie several times, but she was beaten and fled.

Although he later found out the truth that the pheasant spirit was not dead, he and Zhu Bajie also became enemies. He became the king of Dulong Ridge on the opposite side of Fuling Mountain, and became the leader of a bandit who robbed houses. Every now and then, he went to sweep the territory covered by the second senior brother.

Previously, the ghosts in the villages around Gao Laozhuang were haunted by this Spring Thirteen Niang.

However, with the naked eyes of the villagers, they couldn't recognize that it was a spider monster, and with the protection of the pheasant spirit, although the movements that Chun Shisanniang made every time were not small, they were all thunder and rain, and finally nothing happened.

Naturally, Ren Qinglian couldn't get the answers she wanted from the villagers, so she went to look for Xuanzang and the others with a vegetarian meal.

Seeing him gone for so long, the monkey couldn't help complaining: "If my grandson goes, it will only take a round trip. Layman, if you delay for a while, it will be dark!"

Ren Qinglian said with a smile: "That's, that's, the Great Sage can do somersaults for thousands of miles, I can't compare it!"

In fact, it is not as exaggerated as what the monkey said. Although he chatted with the villagers for a while, it was only about an hour, but he knew the monkey's temper well, so he exaggerated a few words, so as not to hear him continue to complain non-stop.

Xuanzang didn't say anything, but praised that the vegetarian meal was much more delicious than what the monkeys begged for in the past.

Ren Qinglian laughed secretly when she heard this, the one she bought with a lot of money is the same as the one that the monkey begged for with shameless face!

The woman is also an honest person, seeing that Ren Qinglian gave a lot of money, she mixed her own dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms and so on, and the food was naturally much more delicious.

Thinking about it, Ren Qinglian couldn't help wondering, if she didn't talk about Zhu Bajie, would Xuanzang miss a good apprentice with a fat stomach.

At this moment, there was a sound of oops in the distant woods.

The next moment, I saw a young man with his head wrapped in cotton cloth, wearing a blue coat, carrying an umbrella, a backpack, his trousers, and a pair of three-eared straw sandals running out in panic.

When Ren Qinglian saw it, the corner of her mouth twitched.

The monkey had already reached out and grabbed the boy, "Why are you running! Is there a monster behind you..." As he said that, he was already gearing up.

The young man was not afraid when he saw the appearance of the monkey: "Where did you come from, a monster, you dare to come to Gao Laozhuang to play wild!"

It was the first time for the monkey to see a mortal who was not afraid of his own appearance, so he narrowed his eyes and said, "You are not afraid that my grandson will eat you!" He said, grinning.

Xuanzang had already stepped forward and glared at the monkey: "Don't be afraid, little brother, he is the apprentice of the poor monk, he doesn't eat meat..."

That young man was Gaocai, the servant who was ordered to go outside to find the magician. When he saw Xuanzang's appearance, he couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Unlucky, unlucky, cross a bridge, and the bridge collapsed halfway, walk, walk to It turned into a swamp halfway, and even the bamboo forest that I walked through countless times, I can meet wolves, tigers and leopards casually, it seems that I forgot to read the almanac before going out today...

But if you go back empty-handed, you will be scolded by the master. Although the monk in front of you doesn't look like a good person, he is still a monk. He is a dead horse and a living horse doctor, so let's take him back to make up the numbers..."

Thinking about it, he told the news that his young lady was occupied by a monster, and said that he went out to trek this time, and he came back specifically to find the magician.

After listening to the monkey, he volunteered and shouted: "Your good fortune, my business, this is a combination of four and six. You don't need to travel far, don't waste money, we are not those poor monks , Taoist priests with pustules actually have some tricks, and they are used to taking demons..."

After boasting for a while, Gao Cai was disdainful in his heart, and thought to himself: "You don't look as powerful as my uncle, why pretend to be a wolf with a big tail..." His face was a little helpless, he nodded, and led the three of them to Gao Taigong's house go.

(End of this chapter)