Chapter 162: Never Decline
"I know you didn't eat anything when you attended the banquet in the Kingdom of Women. I have two plates of meat and vegetable noodles and rice here. You can eat some to calm your nerves."
"How about the meat? How about the vegetarian?"
"The meat ones are stuffed with human meat, and the vegetarian ones are stuffed with Dengsha."
“Then I’m a vegetarian.”
"Girl, make some hot tea and eat some vegetarian steamed buns with your grandfather."
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Tang Seng has always been a man who follows his heart!
He was certain that the Queen of the Kingdom of Women would not kill him, so he dared to resist softly when facing the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, closing his eyes and ignoring her.
However, when facing the Scorpion Demon, he did not dare to be so presumptuous. He suppressed the fear in his heart and spoke to the Scorpion Demon.
He didn't know that at this moment, there was an eye staring at them.
"Are you no longer going to fight Lingshan head-on, but are you focusing on making Jin Chanzi break his own rules and ruin Yuan Yangzhi? Is this what Uncle Taiyi said, giving up but not completely?"
In the clouds above the Poisonous Enemy Mountain, Yang Jian opened his third eye on his forehead, divine light flowed, and he took in everything that happened in the Pipa Cave.
That day, after he left the Golden Light Cave, he did not return to heaven, but went straight to Xiniu Hezhou, wanting to see with his own eyes the progress of the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, and how much of the causal karma that permeated Xiniu Hezhou had been eliminated.
As a result, before he could meet the four-member group, he saw the Tongtian River filled with death and no life!
Yang Jian was shocked and angry.
What is shocking is who could be so cruel as to kill billions of lives in a river!
What made him angry was that he, as the God of Justice in Heaven, was completely unaware of such a thing!
Not only did all the water gods in Tongtian River
If it weren't for this sudden impulse to make this trip to Xiniu Hezhou, this matter might have been kept secret!
Yang Jian no longer cared about the journey to the West to obtain the scriptures, and immediately began to secretly investigate what happened in Tongtian River.
As a result, I learned from the people of Chenjiazhuang about the King of Inspiration, the journey to the West, the Monkey King going to heaven to invite the prison god, the appearance of Guanyin, and the old turtle carrying the holy monk.
Yang Jian almost immediately determined that Tang Seng and his three disciples must have been guided by someone and accidentally entered the Tongtian River and happened to encounter the villagers offering sacrifices to the King of Inspiration.
Guanyin is killing people to silence them!
And it was definitely not because King Linggan forced the people to sacrifice and eat young boys and girls!
There must be a huge secret hidden behind this Tongtian River!
And that old turtle is also a big problem!
Guanyin cast a spell to kill all the living creatures in the Tongtian River. There was no reason to keep this water god of the Tongtian River who must know a lot of things!
Yang Jian immediately went to the Water Turtle House under the Tongtian River to look for the old turtle, but he came up empty-handed.
After helping Tang Seng and his disciples cross the river, the old turtle disappeared and no one knew where he went.
This also proves that there is something wrong with this old turtle, and it may be related to the one who secretly lured Tang Monk and his disciples to Chenjiazhuang!
"It can't be Laojun! If he had such a big handle on Guanyin, he wouldn't use it so easily! Who else could it be? What is Guanyin trying to hide?"
There are too few clues and the evidence has been cleaned up too cleanly.
Guanyin used a purple bamboo basket to filter the Tongtian River, destroying almost all possible clues.
Yang Jian couldn't figure out what had happened in Tongtian River.
But, he knew someone who definitely knew!
Prison God Li Anran!
Yang Jian had never heard of the word system, nor did he know the existence of the Book of Punishment, but after knowing Li Anran for so many years, he had some understanding of the effectiveness of the Book of Punishment.
After learning that Li Anran was determined to put the King of Inspiration in the Heavenly Prison at the risk of offending Guanyin, it became clear that Li Anran wanted to use the Heavenly Prison and the King of Inspiration to investigate what had happened behind the Tongtian River.
Yang Jian wanted to go to the Heavenly Palace immediately to find Li Anran and find out the truth, but he held back.
When he came to Xiniu Hezhou, he did not expect the existence of Tongtian River, so he did not deliberately hide his body.
Maybe someone noticed him!
If he went straight to the Heavenly Prison to find Li Anran to inquire about the situation, others would definitely guess that his information came from Li Anran, which would expose Li Anran's secret!
This is something Yang Jian doesn't want!
Yang Jian suppressed his anxiety and continued heading west.
As a result, Tang Seng and his two disciples accidentally drank the water from the Zi Mu River and became pregnant.
That’s right, it’s a ghost fetus!
The monkeys and their companions didn’t know the origin of the Kingdom of Women, but Yang Jian, as the God of Justice in Heaven, knew it very clearly!
In ancient times, although there was a distinction between men and women in the world, there was no such thing as the combination of yin and yang, and the continuation of bloodline was carried out through the energy of intercourse!
For example, the phoenix, the king of birds, got the energy of sexual intercourse and gave birth to the golden-winged Roc and the peacock.
Until Di Jun and Xihe, two extremely yang creatures born from the Sun and the Moon respectively, were attracted to each other under the influence of the Heavenly Dao, became husband and wife, and through the union of yin and yang, gave birth to ten golden crows.
This is the first marriage since the beginning of the world, and also the first combination of yin and yang since the beginning of the world!
As a result, Di Jun and Xihe received the gratitude and blessings of all living beings and a lot of merits, and took this opportunity to formally establish the Ancient Demon Court and became the Emperor and Queen of Heaven.
But at this moment, a spider jumped out and said that there was the energy of intercourse between heaven and earth, which was enough to complete the bloodline inheritance, and there was no need for the coordination of yin and yang at all!
These words directly angered Di Jun.
Due to the joy of getting married, Di Jun did not kill it directly, but he also cursed the spider clan to never be able to pass on their bloodline through the combination of yin and yang!
The spider regretted offending Di Jun by speaking too quickly, but he did not take the curse to heart.
The combined energy between heaven and earth is enough for their species to reproduce.
However, as time passed, the energy of communication between heaven and earth became less and less.
All races in the world began to pass on their bloodline through the combination of yin and yang.
Only the spider clan is cursed. Once the yin and yang combine, the female will eat the male. Not only are they unable to give birth to offspring to pass on their bloodline, but the number of their clan members will also be directly reduced, almost leading to extinction.
The spider regretted it deeply and tried all kinds of ways to remedy the situation, but to no avail.
In the end, they could only ask for help from the witch clan, the mortal enemy of the demon clan.
The witch clan was not good at magic and could not help her break the curse of Di Jun.
However, with the help of Hou Tu Niangniang, the spider found a way to continue his bloodline without the combination of yin and yang and the energy of intercourse -
Reverse life and death, turn yin into yang!
The normal gestation process of a living being is that the soul first goes through the six realms of reincarnation and is reborn into the mother's body, and then the physical body is conceived with the help of the father's sperm and the mother's blood.
In this way, the baby that comes out will be one with the soul.
The spider does the opposite. It first uses a special method to give birth to a soulless ghost fetus, and then attracts the residual soul wandering between heaven and earth into its body.
Because the ghost fetus only needs the mother's blood to grow, its gender will naturally be the same as that of the mother.
Because of this, the spider was contaminated with too much evil spirit and had a ghost face on its back, so it was called the ghost-faced spider.
It was not until the final battle between the wizard and the lich that Emperor Jun died and the power of the curse was greatly reduced.
The spider family can finally reproduce through the combination of yin and yang, but it still happens from time to time that females swallow males for nutrients.
The Kingdom of Women is the descendant of the Ghost-Faced Spider and the human race. Because they are all mortals and have never practiced cultivation, the curse has been weakened countless times and is still passed down from generation to generation on them.
Those men who came to the Land of Women would be treated as food by the people there, eating their flesh, sleeping on their skin, and using their bones as ornaments...
Therefore, people in Chenjiazhuang say that anyone who dares to do business in the Kingdom of Women is risking their lives, but once the business is done, the profits will be enormous.
After the Lich Catastrophe, the Ghost-Faced Spider stayed with the Queen Mother Hou Tu. The Zi Mu River was a tributary that she led from the underworld to the mortal world, and it was specifically used to breed ghost fetuses in the Kingdom of Women.
The reason why the Queen of the Kingdom of Women was willing to use all the wealth of her country to marry Tang Monk as her son-in-law at all costs was not because she fell in love with Tang Monk whom she had never met, but because Taishang Laojun disguised himself as a god and told her in her dream!
As long as she can cooperate with Tang Seng in yin and yang, she can help break the curse in the bloodline of the Kingdom of Women and make the Kingdom of Women a real mortal country, instead of being 70% human and 30% ghost like it is now!
The same is true for Scorpio.
As early as the beginning of the journey to the West, Laozi had people secretly spread the rumor in the three realms.
As long as someone can break Tang Monk's Yuanyang body, he or she can get a nine thousand year old peach or a nine-turn golden elixir!
The Scorpion Demon must have heard all this, which is why he abducted Tang Monk.
Suddenly, Yang Jian had an idea. He looked up in the direction of the Kingdom of Women, closed his eyes, and hid in the clouds.
A moment later, three figures came flying in the air on the mist and landed on the Poisonous Enemy Mountain.
They were none other than Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng.
"Biwa Cave in Dudi Mountain! This is it!"
The monkey quickly found the Scorpion Demon's cave.
He was worried that something might happen to Tang Seng, so he did not rush to take action. Instead, he asked Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng to guard the door, while he made a gesture of magic, turned into a bee and flew in to find out what was going on.
Yang Jian had wanted to return to heaven for a long time , but he stayed for two more days because he saw Taishang Laojun secretly sent a message to the Kingdom of Daughters in his dream.
At this time, seeing that the monkeys had found Tang Monk, they did not stay any longer and rode the cloud back to heaven.
What happened afterwards was exactly the same as in the original time and space.
The Monkey King and Zhu Bajie joined forces to fight the Scorpion Demon, but they were unable to gain much advantage. Instead, the Scorpion Demon used a poisonous stake to pierce their foreheads with several large lumps, causing them to suffer excruciating pain.
Then, Guanyin appeared and told them the origin of the Scorpion Demon and asked them to go to the Guangming Palace in Heaven to ask the Pleiades star official for help.
The star official of the Pleiades is a rooster that has attained enlightenment. He can control poisonous creatures in the world. He first helped Zhu Bajie and the monkey to detoxify the scorpion venom, and then transformed into his original form of a rooster with two crowns.
With just a cockcrow, the Scorpion Demon transformed into its original form, a scorpion the size of a pipa.
With one more scream, the Scorpion Demon went limp all over and died in front of the slope.
Without saying a word, Zhu Bajie rushed forward, stepped on the Scorpion Demon's chest, and cursed, "Evil beast, now you can't use your horse poison to turn it into meat paste!" He swung up the rake and directly mashed the Scorpion Demon into meat paste.
He was not only venting his anger, but also showing his loyalty to Tathagata.
Among the many monsters on the journey to the West, some had extraordinary powers but died, and the Scorpion Demon was unique!
The reason, of course, was that she had stabbed Tathagata and embarrassed him!
Afterwards, the three brothers went to the Pipa Cave to rescue Tang Monk, killed all the monsters inside, and continued their journey westward.
The monkey was very proud of his plan of getting Tang Seng to pretend to agree to marry the Queen of the Kingdom of Daughters and tricking him into giving him the customs documents.
Little did he know that Guanyin had already made a note of him in her heart!
The five major Buddhist precepts are: one, do not kill; two, do not steal; three, do not commit adultery; four, do not lie; five, do not drink alcohol!
He, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng became monks halfway through their lives and did not have to strictly abide by these rules.
As Tang Seng is a person who seeks Buddhist scriptures and is the reincarnation of Buddha's disciple, he cannot violate these five major precepts.
As a result, under his instigation, Tang Seng pretended to agree to marry the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, which directly violated the falsehood among the Five Precepts, almost committed adultery, and also created a cause and effect relationship with the Queen of the Kingdom of Women.
Guanyin wanted to beat the monkey up so that the two chances given to the monkey were reduced to only the last one!
On the other side, Yang Jian returned to heaven and found an excuse to summon Li Anran.
"Brother An Ran, from now on you and I will be brothers."
Yang Jian was very happy that Li Anran could become Taiyi Tianzun's disciple.
Li Anran was born as a casual cultivator, so even if he had a great opportunity, he still needed a master to guide him. It would be of great benefit to him to have Taiyi Tianzun as his master.
Moreover, Xuanmen is one of the strongest forces in the Three Realms. Taiyi Tianzun is the head of Xuanmen and is also protective of his people. With this master around, Li Anran will be much safer.
Of course, Li Anran himself is gifted with a calm mind and great luck. It is a blessing for both the Chan sect and the Xuan sect that he can become a disciple of Taiyi Tianzun.
"Senior Brother Yang Jian." Li Anran cooperated and bowed.
"Junior Brother An Ran." Yang Jian called out, then shook his head and said, "Brother An Ran is still more comfortable to listen to! This Junior Brother An Ran is always missing something!"
Li Anran smiled and said, "I also think that the second brother is more approachable. Second brother, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Yang Jian didn't have much pretense towards Li Anran. He nodded and got straight to the point: "I went to Xiniu Hezhou before. I wanted to see how the journey to the West was going. But before I saw Jin Chanzi and the others, I saw Tongtian River first."
Speaking of this, Yang Jian still found it difficult to suppress the anger in his heart.
He thought that after so many years of hard work, the laws and regulations of heaven had been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
But unexpectedly, in front of Guanyin, the laws and regulations of heaven seemed to be non-existent!
She committed such a murderous crime, but all the gods turned a blind eye.
All the gods here are not just the low-level mountain gods and land gods!
The Tongtian River incident was such a big deal that the Water God and the Ten Kings of Hell must have known about it, but none of them reported it to the authorities.
Li Anran was a little embarrassed.
He practiced the Hehuan technique and was particularly sensitive to emotions.
The moment Yang Jian's emotions were revealed, Li Anran understood the source of Yang Jian's anger, and then discovered that he was also one of the gods who did not report.
Li Anran did not report the matter to the emperor not because he was afraid of offending Guanyin, but because he himself did not take it too seriously!
Li Anran's three views were shaped in his previous life on Earth.
This is different from gods like Yang Jian who have the concept of the six realms of reincarnation and truly regard all beings as equal.
In his eyes, there is still a big difference between humans, aquatic creatures and other creatures!
Although he felt that Guanyin's method of killing all the aquatic creatures in Tongtian River was very cruel, that was all, and he did not take it too seriously.
Yang Jian said, "Brother An Ran, you once told me that 'all beings are equal, and if gods and Buddhas break the law, they are guilty just like mortals', and you also asked me if it was possible to lock up immortals like Laojun and Guanyin in the Heavenly Prison. Do you still have this idea now?"
Li Anran: “!!!” I’m interested when you say that!
Li Anran nodded quickly and said, "Of course! But... can this matter put Guanyin in prison?"
Yang Jian said seriously: "Yes. As long as we can prove that she is trying to silence someone, we can put her in the Heavenly Prison."
Li Anran asked: "Will Lingshan agree?"
Yang Jian said, "You really know what happened in Tongtian River! Brother Anran, I promise you, as long as you can prove that Guanyin is trying to silence her, I will risk my life to send her to the Heavenly Prison! Even if it's only for one day or one hour!"
After all these years, although Yang Jian still has the ambition to modify the Heavenly Law, he is more aware that compared to modifying the Heavenly Law, how to implement it is more important!
Otherwise, even if he modified the Heavenly Law, it would be meaningless!
"Brother, there's no need!"
Li Anran noticed that Yang Jian had a hint of death, and quickly advised: "Let's practice hard, sooner or later we will be able to send them to the Heavenly Prison. Don't rush! Don't rush! Take your time!"
Yang Jian didn't say anything.
Sending Guanyin to the Heavenly Prison by relying on one's strength and sending Guanyin to the Heavenly Prison by relying on Tian Tiao Jiang are two completely different things!
However, he didn't say much.
People are different. Li Anran's personality is like that, and he will not force Li Anran to accept his point of view!
Li Anran trusted Yang Jian very much and told him everything about how Guanyin secretly instructed the King of Inspiration to use blood, incense, and young boys and girls to imitate the ginseng fruit tree in Tongtian River to refine the human elixir.
“That’s actually what happened.”
Yang Jian was shocked but suddenly realized something.
Alchemy is different from other things, and it is inevitable that some traces such as the fragrance of the elixir and the glow of the clouds will be revealed.
This matter concerns the reputation of Guanyin and even Lingshan, so it is reasonable that Guanyin would kill all the aquatic creatures in Tongtian River at all costs!
However, even though we know about this matter, finding evidence is still as difficult as ascending to heaven!
Yang Jian immediately thought of the old turtle.
No matter what its origin and identity is, it is the only breakthrough.
"Brother An Ran, I know about this. Leave the rest to me."
Yang Jian was not going to let Li Anran get involved.
“Second brother…”
Li Anran hesitated for words, and finally sighed and said, "If you have anything you want me to do, just ask. I will never refuse."
