Ah sneeze! …
"It's strange, who is behind my back?"
At this time, Tang Sanzang, who was traveling, sneezed inexplicably.
After leaving Baihu Ridge and farewell to Second Sister Mao, the master and apprentice walked along the mountain road for hundreds of miles, and the journey was uneventful.
"Master, since the matter between my siblings has been resolved, can I, the old grandson, leave for a few days and go to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain?"
On the way, Sun Wukong implored Tang Sanzang.
Lingtai Fangcun Mountain is the place of practice for Sun Wukong’s mentor, Patriarch Bodhi.
The last time he uprooted a ginseng fruit tree made Zhen Yuanzi furious. Sun Wukong had no choice but to go to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain to find Patriarch Bodhi and ask for a way to save the tree.
As a result, when they arrived in the mountains, they found that Patriarch Bodhi was missing, and the cave was renamed Ziyun Pavilion, becoming the cave where Fairy Zixia has been resident for thousands of years.
But Zixia Fairy told him that there is no Bodhi Patriarch in the world, and the reason why Sun Wukong has his current Taoism is because he awakened to his origin without a teacher...
There are too many incredible things in this incident, which has made Sun Wukong very distressed these days, and he is eager to return to his former place of practice to find out what happened.
And as Tang Sanzang was Sun Wukong's Buddhist mentor, how could he not allow him to find his own mentor?
"Go ahead and be careful on the way."
Tang Sanzang didn't think much about this, and immediately nodded and agreed to his request.
"Thank you, Master! That disciple is leaving now. If anything changes, remember to recite the tightening curse as soon as possible. I, the old Sun, will definitely return immediately!"
After getting Tang Sanzang's promise, Sun Wukong was overjoyed.
After some explanation, he immediately jumped onto the somersault cloud and disappeared in the blink of an eye, running towards the direction of Lingtai Fangcun Mountain.
"Disciples, let's continue on our way!"
As Sun Wukong left, Tang Sanzang also greeted everyone and then continued the journey ahead.
After continuing forward for a hundred miles, a strange-shaped crater appeared in front of everyone.
At a glance, I can see that this crater is nearly a thousand feet high. The continuous mountains are connected in a ring across the earth, connecting end to end, forming another flat circle.
In the center surrounded by mountains, there is a basin hundreds of miles in diameter.
At a glance, the entire crater looks like a giant bowl that fell on the ground.
Inside the crater, you can see stone houses carved from natural boulders scattered at random, and roads paved with gravel crisscrossing them.
In the center of the basin, there stands a stone tower thousands of feet high.
With this stone tower as the center, splendid and majestic palaces fell one after another, surrounded by towering palace walls, which looked like a palace in a mortal empire.
"We have traveled for so long and finally walked out of the deep mountains and forests and arrived in a mortal city-state!"
Looking at this mortal city-state located inside the crater basin, Sha Wujing couldn't help but sigh.
If I remember correctly, this should be Sha Wujing's first real visit to the mortal realm from the time he left Liusha River and accompanied his master to study in the West.
Previously, I had been traveling through deep mountains and dense forests, and the people I encountered were either immortals practicing in seclusion or scattered border mountain villages.
Now that we have found this place, we have to stop and rest for a while.
"It's strange, how come a mortal country suddenly appeared here?"
However, Tang Sanzang frowned deeply.
In his impression, after passing by Baihu Ridge and experiencing the disaster of Lady White Bones, the next place to greet them should be Baoxiang Kingdom.
But why was there a small mortal country located in this crater before Baoxiang Kingdom?
Although it is only a few hundred miles in radius, it can still be considered a country.
But in his impression, or in the annotations on the customs clearance documents, there was no indication of the existence of such a country.
At the same time, Tang Sanzang probed into this mountain country with a trace of spiritual will, only to find that there were waves of evil spirits inside and outside the country, which made him frown deeply.
"Could it be said that this country in the mountains is the territory of a demon clan?"
After noticing this abnormality, Tang Sanzang thought in his heart.
Then he looked up and saw a stone monument standing in a canyon outside the crater.
This canyon is the only way to this country in the mountains. A road paved with gravel runs through the canyon and extends deep into the country.
And on that stone tablet, there were a few powerful characters engraved on it: Wanzi Mountain, Bo Yue Kingdom.
Wanzi Mountain, this mountain name is quite appropriate for the current crater.
As for this wave of Moon Kingdom...
"Disciples, there is another tough challenge ahead!"
Tang Sanzang immediately realized something and said this to everyone.
Since leaving the Uzang Kingdom, Tang Sanzang has not entered the mortal realm for a long time, and has never gone on a killing spree in the true sense.
Now that this wave of Moon Kingdom has arrived, we have to do something big!
"Master, what do you mean? Are there monsters in this Haoyue Kingdom?"
Hearing what Tang Sanzang said, with even a hint of excitement in his tone, Zhu Bajie couldn't help but wonder.
"Bajie, have we ever experienced peace on this journey? It's not too late to go to the Bo Moon Kingdom with my master to find out what's going on!"
Tang Sanzang responded like this, and then without any hesitation, he signaled the little white dragon to fall from the sky, transformed into a white horse, and appeared in a canyon mountain road leading to Bo Yue Kingdom.
Seeing this, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing did not hesitate and followed Tang Sanzang back to the ground.
Soon, the master and disciples passed through the canyon and entered the territory of this small mountain country called Haoyue Kingdom.
Along the way, I saw that the humanities and customs of this wave of moon country were completely different from the outside world.
I saw stone houses scattered one after another. These stone houses were hollowed out of natural boulders and had not been decorated in any way. They did not look like places where strangers lived, but more like dens where monsters lived. .
And everywhere in these stone houses, there are acres of cattle and sheep, continuous fields, and farmers working in the fields.
These stone houses are located near mountains and rivers, forming villages and towns.
On the main road of the country, ox carts and horse carriages drove past from time to time.
All this seems to be not much different from the ordinary mortal world.
But the faint evil spirit emanating from it lingers here for a long time.
With the arrival of Tang Sanzang and others, many people around them stopped what they were doing and looked at them with a hint of vigilance and hostility.
The unfriendliness in his eyes was undisguised.
"Master, what's wrong with these people? They don't seem to welcome outsiders?"
Zhu Bajie also noticed something was wrong around him and said this to Tang Sanzang.
Now that the senior brother has gone to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, the responsibility of guarding naturally falls on him.
Out of vigilance, the nine-tooth rake also fell into his hands to prevent any eventuality.
"Humph, interesting!"
Tang Sanzang glanced around and suddenly let out a cold snort.
Just because with the blessing of Buddhism, he discovered that these so-called people who live and work in peace and contentment are not actually mortals in the true sense, but wolf monsters disguised as humans!
Looking around, there is not a single mortal in the entire Bo Yue Kingdom. Those working in the fields, those riding horses galloping on the road, and the people in various villages and towns are all transformed by wolf monsters!
The current Bo Yue Kingdom is not a mortal country, but a country of wolf monsters!
"Who is this person? Why are you intruding into our country?"
At this moment, a team of twelve cavalrymen galloped past, but Tang Sanzang and others stopped in front of them.
The leading cavalry commander glanced at these uninvited guests and immediately asked them coldly.
With the arrival of this cavalry team, a cold evil spirit also emanated from them, without any cover up.
At this moment, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing also noticed the harshness of this evil spirit, and became extremely vigilant.
However, Tang Sanzang shook his head and signaled the two of them to step back.
He took a step forward and said respectfully to the visitor, "Amitabha, the poor monk is a monk who came from the Tang Dynasty in the east to go to the west to obtain scriptures. He passed by the treasure land today and just wanted to take a rest for a few days to recuperate. Will continue on the journey."
"A monk from the Eastern Tang Dynasty?"
After hearing this, the cavalry commander thought for a moment and seemed to have remembered something, "May I ask the holy monk, are you Tang Sanzang, the tenth Buddhist scripture collector?"
Tang Sanzang was quite surprised by this.
I never thought that this little cavalry captain would be so knowledgeable, and he could recognize his identity at a glance.
"The poor monk is Tang Sanzang. I wonder what the benefactor has to teach him?"
Tang Sanzang did not deny it, but immediately nodded in agreement.
In response, the cavalry commander glanced at the other colleagues. The cavalry immediately understood and immediately dispersed their horses, intentionally or unintentionally launching a semi-surrounding force on Tang Sanzang and others.
Like the peasants and common people around them, this cavalry team was also transformed into wolves.
And judging from their posture, it seemed that they were coming with bad intentions.
"Elder Tang came to Boyue Kingdom. We were so presumptuous just now. Please forgive me!"
While looking unkindly, the cavalry captain still jumped off his horse and said to Tang Sanzang respectfully, "It's like this. My monarch has long expected that you, the holy monk, will pass by our country of Bo Yue, so he asked him to We are searching the surrounding area just to invite you into the palace."
"Now that the holy monk has arrived, would you like to be rewarded and enter the palace with us to meet the king?"
"The king has admired you for a long time. As long as you are willing to show your respect and go forward, you will be treated as a distinguished guest!"
In a few words, the cavalry commander immediately extended an invitation to Tang Sanzang.
"Master, I'm afraid there's something fishy about this matter. In my opinion, it's better to be careful!"
After the cavalry had finished talking, Zhu Bajie on the side immediately came up and gave Tang Sanzang such advice.
Like Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie also felt something was wrong with this small mountain country at this time.
Those mortals wandering around are actually wolf monsters. This Haoyue Kingdom is essentially a kingdom of monsters!
As a monk, rashly breaking into such a demon kingdom does not seem like a good thing.
"Bajie, you are worrying too much!"
However, regarding Bajie's worries, Tang Sanzang shook his head indifferently, "Since he has taken the initiative to invite us, how can we have the nerve to refuse? Let's just follow him into the palace. I am also very curious now. This What a heroic demeanor the king of Haoyue Kingdom is like!”
As he said that, Tang Sanzang looked at the cavalrymen and said, "In that case, I'd like to trouble you all to lead the way!"
"Holy Monk, please!"
In response, a hint of joy appeared on the face of the cavalry commander. He immediately got on his horse and made an inviting gesture to Tang Sanzang towards the road ahead.
