Mrs. Ye also deliberately inquired and got a general understanding of the situation in Hezhou, Xiniu.
Although today's Xiniu Hezhou is not as prosperous and magnificent as it was during the Journey to the West, there are still dozens of demon saints, each occupying one area. Compared with other states, it is still more chaotic and more dangerous.
Among them, the three Demon Saints are the most fearful and concerning to Lord Long Zhenjun.
One, Nine Spirits Yuansheng!
Second, the Great Sage Pingtian!
Third, the nine-headed demon saint!
In Long Zhenjun's opinion, these three demon saints should not still be active and dominant in Xiniu Hezhou in this "post-Journey to the West" period.
But the fact is that although they are not as active as during the Journey to the West, they are still entrenched and respected by all monsters!
The first one is Jiuling Yuan Sheng. This is the strongest demon saint in the original Journey to the West. His body is a nine-headed lion. He can take down the three Journey to the West brothers including Sun Wukong in an instant with just one breath!
But in the end, Sun Houhou invited his master, Taiyi, to save Ku Tianzun, and he was subdued and returned to the fairy world.
Now that a thousand years have passed, he is still proclaiming himself king and saint in Hezhou, Xiniu. This has to make Long Zhenjun think too much.
There are two theories in myths and legends about the identity of Taiyi Tianzun Yuanshi Tianzun. One is that he is one of the twelve golden immortals who sat down with Yuanshi Tianzun, and the other is that he is the clone of Yuanshi Tianzun!
Of these two theories, Long Zhenjun actually prefers the second one.
That is, the nine-headed lion, originally the mount of Yuanshi Tianzun!
Because according to the original description of Journey to the West, if Kankan was just a golden immortal, it would be impossible for the nine-headed lion to be so convinced.
So much so that as soon as his master came, he was so powerful that he took down Sun Wukong's demon saint with one move from the air. Without any resistance at all, he knelt down, transformed into his original form, and surrendered directly!
But if it is said that Taiyi saved the suffering Tianzun and was the mount of Yuanshi Tianzun, one of the Three Pure dynasties, then it would make sense!
But why is it that the Nine-Headed Yuansheng, who is clearly conquered, is still active in Xiniu Hezhou?
Based on Long Zhenjun's repeated evidence and speculations, a very bold argument was drawn.
That is, in the early days, Monkey King claimed to be the Monkey King, and the seven brothers who were sworn brothers with him either flattened the sky, overthrew the sea, or exorcised the gods. Later, they even directly rebelled against the heaven, hoping to become the Jade Emperor and reenact the ancient Eastern Emperor.
During the Taiyi period, the demon tribe established itself in heaven and ruled the earth.
That's why the Heavenly Court sent down so many demon immortals to divide the demon clan's strength in Hezhou, Xiniu!
The most famous representatives among them are Kui Mulang, Golden Horn and Silver Horn, Nine Spirits Yuansheng, Green Ox Spirit, Jade Rabbit Spirit... and so on!
The Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng, the Green Bull Spirit, etc. are originally powerful mounts, so let’s not talk about it. Maybe they really just don’t want to have magical powers and still be mounts, so they escaped to the fairy world and became the king of Luocao.
But Kuimu Lang, also known as the yellow-robed monster in Journey to the West, is one of the twenty-eight constellations in heaven, possessing the status of Immortal Class!
Jin Jiao Yin Jiao, as Taishang Laojun, the fire-burning boy of Taiqing Daode Tianzun, how could he have been in the lower world for so long, and even stole several spiritual treasures including Taishang Laojun's belt, and was also raped by Taishang Laojun?
Laojun turned a blind eye?
It is very possible that as Lord Long had guessed, all of this was Heavenly Court's way of dividing the demon clan!
Didn’t you see that after that, Xiniu Hezhou, which was originally so powerful that it could almost compete with the heavens, gradually fell apart and was not as powerful as before?
Now that the Five Journey to the West group has obtained the true scripture, thousands of years have passed, and the limelight has gradually slowed down. So, with the acquiescence of Yuanshi Tianzun, the nine-headed lion came down to earth to perform certain things for him?
After all, after the Battle of the Saints of the Conferred Gods List, Taishang Laojun was also under the constraints of heaven and was nominally under the jurisdiction of the Haotian Jade Emperor!
It can be said that today's era is a world where saints do not come out!
Even if Yuanshi Tianzun wants to do something in the human world, he may need to use the hands of others, right?
Only in this way does it make sense why Lord Kuimuxing, who is an immortal, wanted to descend to earth, and why after Jiuling Yuan Sheng was subdued, he came down to proclaim himself king and saint as soon as the limelight passed.
The second one is the Great Holy Ox Demon King of Pingtian!
This person was also targeted by heaven and the Buddhist world during his journey to the west. In the end, he was alone and fought fiercely with Nezha and his son, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, the four levels of merit, the four great Vajras of Buddhism, the five directions of enlightenment, and the rest.
The god was barely taken down and was forcibly named as the sacred beast protecting the mountain by Buddhism!
Being able to become the eldest brother of the seven demon saints, and being respected by the demon saints as the Lord of Xiniu Hezhou, this Great Sage of Pingtian is very capable!
Even Buddhism covets his abilities and uses strategies and tactics, even using his own son Honghaier as a hostage to conquer the mount of the leader of Tongtian!
After the Battle of the Gods, the saints did not come out, and the Buddhas in the Western Heaven were the greatest force!
It is precisely because there are no saints that Buddhism can subdue such a demon saint with a background and powerful magic.
But after all, he is also the mount of the leader of Tongtian, and his magical powers are not weaker than those of ordinary Buddhas in the West. He can even crush those Arhats and Bodhisattvas. It is impossible to imprison him in the Lingshan of the West, right?
In that case, it can only be called "suppression", not what Buddhism wants, so the Bull Demon King is willing to become the Buddhist mountain-protecting beast.
Therefore, although the Bull Demon King is nominally subdued by Buddhism and subject to the trend of the Buddha, he still spends a lot of time living in his hometown, Moyun Cave, Hezhou, Xiniu!
Buddhism is not afraid that he will have rebellious intentions again, because they will hold Hong Boyer as a hostage!
Therefore, it makes sense that the Bull Demon King is not in Lingshan, but still in Hezhou, Xiniu.
And you have already gone to the West, yet you are willing to surrender for the sake of your wife and children, and you keep saying that you are willing to take refuge in my Buddha.
Even if Buddhism is not secretly giving you any instructions now, after this battle, the trust of the demon saints in Xiniu Hezhou will probably no longer be what it used to be.
It can be said that Buddhism allows the Bull Demon King to continue to be a saint in Xiniu Hezhou, which is the biggest division in the demon world here!
Without great supernatural powers, the demon clan would still completely trust this Buddhist mountain-protecting beast!
But the majesty of the great sage Pingtian is still there, and it is impossible to ridicule him!
And the last one is the nine-headed demon saint.
Originally, Long Zhenjun initially thought that the so-called Nine-Headed Demon Saint was another honorific title given to the Nine Spirit Yuan Saint by the demons.
But later it was discovered that the Nine-Headed Demon Saint and the Nine-Ling Yuan Saint were actually two great monsters!
I heard that it was during his journey to the West that he began to become famous in Hezhou, Xiniu, showing magical powers and calling himself the Demon Saint.
And he also got the support of the Bull Demon King!
After thinking about it for a while, it was not difficult for Lord Long to guess the identity of this demon saint.
That is the Nine-Headed Insect who was already on good terms with the Bull Demon King and was the Prince Consort of Stone Mountain and Blue Wave Pond in Journey to the West. He dared to steal the Buddha's relics and stole the Queen Mother's nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum grass and got away with it!
He is also the only big monster in the original Journey to the West who stood up to Monkey and his rescuers without being killed or subdued!
Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Erlang Shen, and the six Meishan brothers worked together to fight against the Nine-Headed Insect, but they only fought him back and forth, and finally beat him away, but could not subdue him!
One can imagine his fighting power!
And the Qianzu Great Immortal, the commander of the demon realm six thousand miles south of the Dongyan Mountains, heard that it was this great demon who sent the demon general to gild the Dongyan Mountains.
In other words, if Long Zhenjun really wants to control the Dongyan Mountains six thousand miles to the south, which already has an owner, he is destined to offend the nine-headed demon saint.