Chapter 21: The Eccentric Taoist, The Demon Monkey Meets Its Doom

  "I know you, you are the younger brother of Mount Ji Lei's Ox Demon King, and the True Immortal of Lu Tai Spring's Broken Child Cave." The Taoist suddenly stood up and laughed loudly towards Ruyi Zhen Xian, whose face was not pleasant.

  "You!" Yuanyang Zhenxian was startled upon hearing this.

  "Uncle!" Hong Haier heard the words, but instead stopped his own uncle and then bowed again to the person in front of him, saying: "Please forgive me, Master. My uncle and I are from Qingyun Mountain's Banana Cave. We don't know how you knew that. Please enlighten us."

  "What instruction?" The Taoist priest sneered at the words, then looked at Hong Haier, his eyes seeming to pierce through Hong Haier's soul, making him startled.

  After a long time, the Taoist finally shook his head and sat back on the stall, saying: "You want to go up that Flame Mountain, but it's not possible."

  "Why?" Hong Haier was still feeling the two sharp gazes piercing his heart, but at this moment, he suddenly woke up and blurted out in a somewhat trembling voice.

  "It is impossible, precisely because it is impossible." The Taoist heard this and didn't explain further, but instead turned around and picked up the brush and paper from his own stall.

  "You!" The Taoist priest was so rude that the fire he had just suppressed suddenly burst out. With a "slap" sound, he kicked over the signboard standing next to the small stall.

  "Uncle!" Seeing this, Hong Haier knew that nothing could be done and hurriedly apologized, pulling his own uncle and Little Cow away to avoid any further trouble.

  "Bang!"

  A faint sound echoed out just after the three Red Boys had left.

  The Taoist fortune teller at the other end suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards a nearby stall selling pottery, just in time to see a clay pot split into two halves.

  Shaking his head and sighing, he turned around to face another direction, saying softly: "Little deer, stop hiding, what's the point of hiding from me?"

  "Hiss!"

  A wisp of blue smoke drifted away, and in front of the fortune teller's stall, a man dressed in white suddenly appeared. He looked like Pan An, with a handsome face and a puzzled expression as he stared at the fortune teller.

  "That fox, you'd better not chase after it either." The Taoist priest seemed to have expected the man's appearance and spoke with a calm expression.

  "Who are you?" The man called Xiao Lu'er was shocked and pale, having just heard the other party's voice transmission. He knew he should be familiar with him, but couldn't recall where they had met before. Now, hearing the other party's words again, he realized that this person must know his master, so he turned around to leave.

  "Since you've come, don't leave yet." The man saw the white-clad man turn around, but he just smiled slightly and swung his right hand. The sleeve of his Taoist robe suddenly expanded to a vast size, and the white-clad man was shocked as he was sucked into it. However, the surrounding villagers seemed oblivious to this, as if nothing had happened at all.

  If the three Red Boys were here at this moment, they would definitely exclaim in surprise. The Taoist priest was clearly using the ultimate technique of Wanshou Mountain's Five Elements Temple - "Sleeve Universe". It is worth noting that Hong Haier had been lingering on Wanshou Mountain for several days and had only managed to extract the incantation of this divine ability from Qingfeng Mingyue with great difficulty. The two Yuanyang True Immortals had even suffered losses from this divine ability before.

  "Divination, divination." After receiving the newcomer, the Taoist priest didn't make another move, only re-erecting his own signboard and shouting a couple of sentences.

  Immediately, a few people walked forward and asked the Taoist priest to read their palms...

  "Uncle was a bit reckless just now." In the inn, Hong Haier looked at his uncle with a serious face.

  "What's the Holy Infant saying? Isn't that Taoist a swindler?" The originally somewhat irritated Yuanyi True Immortal heard his own nephew's words and felt a bit stifled.

  "Uncle is worried." But Hong Haier saw this and smiled, saying: "Since that Taoist priest can know the whereabouts of the three of us, he must be a person with great divine powers. Moreover, he has no malicious intentions towards us, although he told me not to go to Huoyan Mountain, his tone was not absolute."

  "Oh?" Having heard Hong Haier's words, Yuanyang Zhenxian thought back carefully.

  "If I'm guessing correctly, that person should be the mountain god of this eight hundred miles Blazing Mountain." Red Boy said as he looked towards Ruyi Zhenxian.

  "Hey, I said he was putting on airs in front of me, but it turns out he's just a mountain god of the land." Yuanyi Zhenxian heard this and couldn't help but laugh.

  "Uncle doesn't know that this Flame Mountain was originally a fire brick from the Tushita Palace, where did the mountain god and land come from?" The Red Boy saw the disdainful expression of Yuanyi Zhenxian, but shook his head.

  "Ah, indeed." Ruyi Zhenxian found it quite strange upon hearing this and pondered for a long time, but couldn't make sense of it, so he turned his head to look at Hong Haier.

  "Hehe, Second Uncle is an idiot." The little cow beside him saw the pleased look on Zhenyuan True Immortal's face and couldn't help but laugh. During this time, following Honghai'er and his companion as they traveled all over the place, especially after getting used to seeing these two being so unbridled and unrestrained, the little guy's courage had also grown, and he actually spoke up with a smile.

  "Hmm." Yuanyang Zhenxian heard the words, but turned his head to glare fiercely at Little Bull, seeing that he had a pleased expression on his face, and then ignored him again, turning his head hopefully towards Hong Haier.

  "If I'm guessing correctly, that person should be an acquaintance." Feeling Yuanyang Zhenxian's gaze, Hong Haier lightly laughed instead.

  "Bang!" At this moment, a faint sound came from the small courtyard outside. The two Red Boys were startled and released their divine thoughts, only to see that in the flower garden of the small courtyard, there was a white furry ball trembling with fear, which turned out to be a fox.

  "Hiss! Hiss!" Two hissing sounds, and two figures appeared in the courtyard - a golden one and a silver one. They were the two eye-snakes bought that day in Bhikkhu country, which had been raised by Ruyi Zhenxian for some time and had become spiritual creatures. They were quite suitable for guarding the house.

  At this moment, the two silver and gold eyeglasses snakes are raising their heads, spitting out letters, and confronting the fox. The fox seems to have some skills, but unfortunately seems to be injured, with a hint of blood hidden between its white fur, facing the two snakes without much panic, only making a low "huh" sound.

  "Huh!" Feeling this scene, Yuanyi Zhenxian was shocked and suddenly flashed out of the house...

  But he said that the Great Sage of Heaven, with a single somersault cloud, transformed from the Buddha's palm into a golden glow, and in an instant, his trace was gone. The gods were shocked and uncertain, only the Buddha's expression remained calm.

  But he didn't know that the monkey had come to a place where the sky was filled with clouds, empty and desolate. The sky was dark and mysterious, as if it had reached the end of the heavens, and saw the infinite void. The monkey, seeing this, sped forward even faster, like a windmill spinning through the clouds and fog.

  Finally seeing the opposite side, there are five crimson pillars supporting a stock of green air. He said: "This place should be the end of the sky, with no road ahead, I must have reached the end. That Tathagata still underestimates me, this time when I return, I will surely sit firmly in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall."

  As soon as he finished speaking, he was about to turn around, but suddenly thought of seeing him again. It was then that he needed to leave some marks behind, so that he could discuss with the Buddha later. Thinking of this, he pulled out a single hair and said in a loud voice: "Change!"

  Only saw the hair turn into a thick ink brush, walking up to the front, on the middle pillar wrote: Qitian Dasheng, come here for a visit!

  The book was finished, and he saw that there was no one around, but he walked to the first pillar, facing the pillar and urinating a bubble of monkey urine. Then he turned his body again, made a somersault cloud, and returned to the Buddha's palm.

  "I'm back, Tathagata! Hurry up and have the Jade Emperor vacate that Lingxiao Hall for me." As soon as he stood still, Sun Wukong raised his head and shouted at the Buddha.

  "You're all talk, monkey head! You haven't even escaped my palm yet." The Tathagata heard this and laughed, scolding him.

  "What's wrong, do you want to shirk responsibility?" Sun Wukong heard this and was furious, roaring: "Do you know that I just went to the extreme end of the sky, where there is a godly pillar supporting the sky without roots, supporting a column of green gas. I even left my mark there, dare you go take a look?"

  "You'd better take a look down and see for yourself." The Tathagata's expression remained unchanged as he spoke.

  "Look..." Wukong heard this, but was somewhat perplexed. He lowered his head to take a look and with his fiery golden eyes, he saw the eight big characters "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven has come to visit!" which carried a hint of mischievous monkey flavor.

  "You're cheating!" Sun Wukong saw this, his scalp numb with rage, a chill running from head to toe. With a loud roar, he grasped the Golden Hoop Staff and rode the筋斗 Cloud into the sky.

  "Amitabha!" The Tathagata, seeing this, was not flustered. With a flip of his hand, he pushed the Monkey King out of the Western Heaven Gate. His five fingers transformed into the golden, wooden, water, fire, and earth mountains, which were exactly the "Five Elements Mountain" of the Western Religion's great divine power. With a light press, he pressed down the Monkey King, sending him falling to the mortal world.

  "Amitabha!" On the side, Ananda and Mahakasyapa also joined their palms together.

  The multitude of gods witnessed the divine powers of the Buddha and also chorused: "Well done! Well done!" They all ignored that unlucky gibbon, and accompanied the sacred Western figure into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to receive their orders.

  All the gods in heaven heard that the Buddha had subdued the magical monkey, and they all came to congratulate him. The Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Emperor also proposed to hold a "Peace Heaven Assembly", which was extraordinary and lively.

  Only the monkey who was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain was lonely and unattended, with no one to care for him. He had some grievances towards his many brothers, but he didn't think about how ruthless and unrighteous he himself had been in the past.

  But it is said: In those years, I was a mortal with chemical reactions, determined to cultivate the Tao and achieve true results. For ten thousand kalpas, I had no intention of leaving the victorious realm, but one morning, there was a change, and my spirit scattered.

  "Deceiving heaven and earth, thinking of high positions, bullying the sage and stealing elixirs to disrupt the great moral order. The evil deeds are full and now have their retribution, but I don't know what day I can turn my body over."