"Senior Brother, why is it that after yelling and scolding for a long time today, the river demon still refuses to come out and fight?"
Tang Monk and his party were blocked by the "Liusha River", and five days passed.
Every day, Zhu Bajie would take the initiative to challenge. The two of them were either on the shore, in the air, or in the water. I don’t remember how many times they fought.
At the beginning, Xiao Bailong was holding a "male and female double-pronged sword" to fight for him. From the third day on, Zhu Bajie was fighting alone.
In Lao Zhu's own words, this was "fighting as training". He finally met a truly equally matched opponent, and Zhu Bajie was unwilling to give up such a good opportunity easily.
Li Zhi originally thought of identifying the person who wanted to learn the scriptures so that he could discuss the matter of crossing the river. But when he saw that the second senior brother was so complacent, he swallowed the words that came to his mouth.
Zhu Bajie is lazy at heart. Whether it is his daily behavior or his cultivation and practice, he has been stimulated by the entire Buddhist scripture-seeking team for so long in the past six months. It is rare for him to be so serious.
Even Tang Monk, who was determined to go west to obtain Buddhist scriptures, no longer urged everyone to go on the road. From time to time, he would go out of the tent to watch the fight between the two, and then return to the tent again, chanting scriptures and meditating, no matter day or night.
"Senior Brother, there is no way to continue like this. Second Senior Brother's combat power has improved now, but his level depends on the continuous cultivation and accumulation of mana, or encountering some genius or treasure."
"I think we should calm down and talk to the river demon opposite, or we can find a solution. Next time, please ask senior brother to take action——"
For five days in a row, it was mainly Zhu Bajie who challenged him, and sometimes little white dragon Ao Lie was added at most.
Because there was a big gap between Li Zhi and this was not a competition between his own people, he had no end. Sun Wukong, who had always been bellicose, was firmly persuaded by Li Zhi.
First, this is more conducive to Zhu Bajie's own "fighting instead of training". More importantly, Li Zhi wants to surprise the river monster.
After five consecutive days of fierce fighting, in the eyes of the river demon, among the people on the shore, this pig demon should be the most powerful.
Although that dragon was good at water skills, his realm and combat power were still far behind. The others who didn't take action were probably even worse.
This preconceived notion is exactly what Li Zhi wants.
"Hey, junior brother, just look at it -"
After several days of continuous observation, Sun Wukong has discovered that the most notable feature of this river demon in the Liusha River is its physical toughness, which can withstand beatings and is extremely powerful.
In this case, Sun Wukong decided to start from the enemy's most advantageous place. Aren't you stronger? Then let's go head-to-head to see who is stronger and who is more resistant to beating.
This is Sun Wukong, a proud monkey who is too lazy to take advantage of others.
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However, Zhu Bajie has been yelling and cursing for a long time today, and everything is as usual in Liusha River. The river demon has become a turtle for no reason. Everyone is confused, and Li Zhi is also confused.
The sun slowly rose above the head, and it was almost a quarter past noon.
Suddenly, everyone felt their eyes darken, and thirteen flying swords landed from the sky, distributed in a honeycomb shape, with one in the middle standing as the center, four in the inner circle to divide the four dimensions, and eight in the outer circle to define the eight directions. p>
As soon as the thirteen flying swords fell, they stayed in the sky above the Liusha River and immediately locked onto a large area of the river. It seemed that even the current of the Liusha River here had temporarily stopped.
Sword Qi was emitted one after another, either blue or white, red or purple, and thirteen sharp sword Qi pierced towards the bottom of the river.
Immediately afterwards, I heard muffled sounds coming from the bottom of the river. It seemed like who was enduring the inhuman pain?
"Ah, not good——"
Li Zhi finally remembered that since the river demon was demoted here, he would suffer the pain of flying swords piercing his chest a hundred times every seven days. Is this the kind of punishment he is seeing?
"Elder brother, do you dare to stop these flying swords, or intercept these flying swords secretly? I see that they are in good condition, hehe..."
Li Zhi lowered his voice and said to Sun Wukong beside him.
"Junior brother, do you want to help that river monster? However, these flying swords look familiar to me, and the aura on them looks like they were made by that person. Maybe they were actually made by that old man.
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There are many people who refine weapons in the Three Realms, but not many can really make good things. Just like these thirteen flying swords in the sky, individually they are high-grade magic weapons, and together they are comparable to low-grade acquired weapons.
Lingbao.
There are even fewer people who can refine a magic weapon of this level and are willing to use it as a punishment.
Sun Wukong recognized at a glance that these flying swords were from the hands of the Supreme Lord. Even so, it did not prevent him from listening to Li Zhi's advice and taking action to acquire this treasure.
Look at Sun Wukong again, after a soul out-of-body move, a fake body is still left beside Li Zhi. From the outside, it seems that he and Li Zhi are whispering something there.
But the real body has already disappeared in mid-air. It is truly invisible. Even Li Zhi's "Orange-level Golden Eyes" can't see any trace.
Immediately afterwards, the thirteen flying swords in the air disappeared one after another out of thin air.
"Senior Brother, Junior Brother, why are those flying swords missing? This trick is a bit anticlimactic."
Zhu Bajie on the other side was still muttering quietly.
Before and after it took less than a cup of tea, Feijian simply activated less than ten rounds of sword energy and disappeared out of thin air.
Anyone can tell that these flying swords are aimed at the river demon of Liusha River. Zhu Bajie was a little excited at first, thinking that he must have help here.
"Second senior brother, maybe the person who released the flying sword took it back on his own. This matter has nothing to do with us. You should continue to call the formation. Be sure to call the river monster out. Senior brother will personally take action today."
At this time, Sun Wukong's soul had returned to his position, and he secretly handed over the thirteen flying swords he had put away to Li Zhi. As for the whereabouts of these flying swords, Li Zhi had already thought about it when he encouraged his elder brother to take action.
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The sea of consciousness. At this time, Li Zhi's sea of consciousness has become even wider, with a radius of half a mile in length.
There are two objects hanging high in the sky, one is the powerful black gun, and the other is the gray broken piece.
Under the sea of consciousness, Mo Wen and Chun Wu sat opposite each other. They were still immersed in seclusion, and they didn't know what they had experienced.
Li Zhi planned to collect these thirteen flying swords from Sun Wukong in the sea of consciousness from the beginning.
Li Zhi himself couldn't explain why, but he believed in the big black gun inexplicably, thinking that as long as it was there, he could defend the thirteen flying swords.
Feijian entered Li Zhi's sea of consciousness, and he was still a little "frightened". It seemed that he had been "abducted" strangely just now, and he had already arrived in a strange space before he could recover.
These thirteen flying swords are still arranged in a honeycomb pattern. It seems that this formation can bring out their greatest capabilities.
"Humph——"
Li Zhi clearly heard someone snorting coldly in his consciousness?
When he looked inside again, he found that each of those flying swords had reduced their sharpness. They seemed to be listless, or maybe they seemed to have lost their souls?
"What's wrong, junior brother?"
Sensing something strange about Li Zhi, Sun Wukong asked with concern.
In fact, he himself was a little curious, where did Li Zhi hide the thirteen flying swords?
"Nothing, everything is normal."
It was not convenient for Li Zhi to say anything at the moment, so he gave Sun Wukong a look that both of them could understand, and they continued to watch Zhu Bajie's scream formation.
Before the river demon in the Liusha River appeared, there was another movement in the sky.
I saw a white cloud floating towards me. As I got closer, I saw a person above the white cloud. This person looked so...
He has a disheveled head and curly beard, huge eyes and a broad belly. He carries a huge gourd behind his back, wears an iron hoop on his head, and holds an iron crutch in his hand.
Left foot? Lame.
Sun Wukong had vaguely seen this person, and Li Zhi felt that this person's image was very familiar, but Zhu Bajie opened his mouth and called out this person's name.
"Li Xuan? Why are you here to help me, Old Zhu, take down the monster Liushahe?"
Zhu Bajie greeted him enthusiastically.
Who did you call? It is Tieguai Li who will be the future leader of the eight immortals in the Eight Holes.
Unfortunately, it is still the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and now only Taishang Laojun has enlightened Tieguai Li, and Emperor Donghua has preached Han Zhongli. As for the others, they have not been born or reincarnated yet.
"Senior Brother Tianpeng is polite. I am here for the people in Liusha River, but I am not here to help senior brother."
Tieguai Li is a disciple of Taishang Laojun. Although he is not a direct disciple, he is still highly regarded by Taishang Laojun, and Zhu Bajie's origin is inextricably related to Taishang Laojun.
No matter his background, qualifications or prestige, it’s not too much to call Tieguai Li “senior brother”.
"Brother, I don't know. The river demon in the Liusha River was originally the general who rolled up the curtains in front of the Jade Emperor. He accidentally broke the glass cup, so he was demoted to the mortal world and was punished here."
"In addition to not being allowed to leave the Liusha River without permission, he will be punished by having his chest pierced by flying swords a hundred times every seven days. Today, just after ten punishments were carried out, the flying swords actually lost contact."
"Those flying swords were originally made by Master himself and were borrowed by the Jade Emperor for use. Therefore, Master specially ordered his younger brother to come and check them out. Unexpectedly, he met Senior Brother Tianpeng here."
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Despite Tieguai Li's rough appearance, when he was still called "Li Xuan", he was not only a real and well-educated man, but also a suave and handsome young man.
Li Xuan studied Taoism with Taishang Laojun and lived in seclusion in a cave.
One day, he followed Taishang Laojun to travel to Mount Huashan. He needed his soul to leave his body, so he left his physical body in the cave and asked a disciple who was new to Taoism to take care of it.
"If I go out this time and my soul doesn't come back after seven days and seven nights, you can incinerate my body."
After giving instructions, Li Xuan followed Taishang Laojun to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
That disciple was very obedient, guarding the master's body in the cave and not daring to leave even half a step.
Coincidentally, this disciple stayed on guard for five days and five nights, fully clothed, but at noon on the sixth day, his brother hurriedly came to deliver the message.
Tell the old mother that she is very ill at home, and he must go back anyway, otherwise he may not be able to see the old mother for the last time.
When the disciple heard this, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He wished he could grow wings and fly to his old mother's bed.
But then he thought about it. Before leaving, his master repeatedly told him that he must hold on until the seventh day.
Calculating with his fingers, there was only one day left, and he had to fulfill his master's instructions no matter what.
In the early morning of the seventh day, the disciple saw that his master Li Xuan still hadn't come back. He couldn't help but stay up until noon.
Finally, he couldn't wait any longer, so he burned Li Xuan's body and hurried home to fulfill his filial piety.
It is said that Li Xuan played outside for seven days and six nights. In the evening, he rushed back to the cave in the dust. When he entered the cave, he found that his body had been incinerated.
At this time, Li Xuan's cultivation level is still shallow, and his soul cannot stay outside for too long. If he can't find a recently deceased body to attach to him after tonight, he will have no choice but to be reincarnated, or he will become a lonely ghost from now on.<
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Just when he was extremely anxious, he happened to find a still body temperature next to the woods. Li Xuan didn't have time to take a closer look and got in without hesitation.
However, when he stood up, he realized something was wrong. It turned out that this person was a lame man with a limp in his left foot.
I hurriedly came to a small river to see what I looked like now. I really didn’t know what to look at, and I was shocked when I saw it!
All I saw was that I was unkempt, my eyes were sunken, and I looked like a skeleton. It was extremely difficult to see.
"People should not be judged by their appearance. The true way should be the great road beyond the body. Haven't you realized it yet, idiot?"
It turned out that Taishang Laojun was standing behind him at some point.
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Li Xuan was originally upset, but after listening to his master's teachings, he calmed down. Life is like a stinky skin, so what if it looks good or ugly?
Seeing that he finally thought about it, Taishang Laojun gave him a golden hoop to tie up his messy hair, and gave him an iron crutch to walk with.
From then on, there was one more "Tieguai Li" in the Three Realms, and there was no more Li Xuan. Taishang Laojun also officially accepted "Tieguai Li" as a disciple.
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"Hey, I didn't expect that the river demon here would have a similar experience to my old pig, but he was much more pitiful than the old pig. Every seven days, he would be pierced through the chest by flying swords a hundred times? Isn't this punishment too cruel?
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I just saw the momentum of those thirteen flying swords, and the flying swords pierced the chest hundreds of times. I shuddered just thinking about it. I really don’t know how the river demon has survived all these years?
"Senior Brother Tianpeng, I heard that you have followed the holy monks of the Tang Dynasty to the West to obtain scriptures. Why do you appear here?"
Seeing that Zhu Bajie actually criticized the Jade Emperor's decision, Tieguai Li hurriedly changed the topic. After all, the punishment used was the magic weapon refined by their master.
"So that Junior Brother Li will know that there is the Holy Monk of the Tang Dynasty in the tent behind, and he is also the master that I, Old Zhu, are protecting now. Unfortunately, we can't cross the Liusha River when we reach it."
Although Zhu Bajie and the river demon have fought fiercely in the past five days, and they also feel sympathy for each other, the important event of learning scriptures from the West still has to go on.
"I see, I'm afraid I can't help with this matter. Senior Brother Tianpeng is here, have you ever seen the whereabouts of the thirteen flying swords?"
As Tieguai Li said, he checked in the direction of Liusha River and found no clues. Then he looked back at Sun Wukong, Xiao Bailong and Li Zhi who were standing not far away.
Naturally, he knows Sun Wukong. When the monkeys were making trouble in the sky, Tieguai Li also saw it with his own eyes. However, his skills were still shallow and it was not his turn to step forward to defend against the enemy.
The other two people are both tall and slender, one is wearing white and the other is wearing black.
Standing there compared with Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie next to him, and of course Tieguai Li himself, in terms of appearance, they are really two in the sky and three on the earth.
Tieguai Li checked every place or person he could, and even silently recited the spell to control the flying sword twice in secret, but still found nothing.
Sweat started to fall from Tieguai Li's face. He had lost his master's treasure!
He actually had some doubts about Sun Wukong next to him. He was the master who stole elixirs and flat peaches. There was nothing in the Three Realms that he wouldn't dare to do.
Unfortunately, Tieguai Li didn't have any evidence, and couldn't find even the slightest clue.
"Junior Brother Li, I, the old pig, was standing here just now. Those flying swords came and fired sword energy more than ten times in a row, and then disappeared out of thin air. The old pig didn't know where they had gone."
Zhu Bajie just told the truth. Facing his junior brother, who was Taishang Laojun's treasure, of course he could not and would not lie.
Tieguai Li looked at Zhu Bajie and subconsciously told himself that Senior Brother Tianpeng was telling the truth, but where could those thirteen flying swords go?
"Amitabha, where is Sha Wujing?——"
At this moment, someone chanted the Buddha's name, and a white cloud floated in the sky again, and two people walked one behind the other from the cloud.
Li Zhi was delighted to see that the people who came this time were all old acquaintances.
Mountains and rivers meet each other, and after a year and a half, we finally meet again.