I steal from the heavens

Chapter 17

But Zhizunbao was still in good shape, he climbed up resolutely, leaned close to the stone wall timidly, not daring to look at Zixia again, lest he be beaten again.

Zixia also noticed his strange behavior.Didn't it go well yesterday? The two of them went to the border town together, which was pretty good.How come you are so strange after one night?
"What's the matter with you? What happened?" Zixia came over with concern, causing Supreme Treasure to avoid it again and again.

"What's wrong? Your eyes..." Just as he was about to touch it, Supreme Treasure dodged again.This time, he directly dodged past Zixia, trying to escape from the stone room.

"Stop! Where are you going? Come back!"

Supreme Treasure froze, looking at Li Gu at the door for help.

For the sake of last night, Li Gu planned to speak for him, "Fairy, look..."

"Shut up." Zixia interrupted him without hesitation, pointing to the stone bench in front of her, and ordered, "Both of you, sit here."

Supreme Treasure sat down obediently, and Li Gu also sat beside Supreme Treasure under Zixia's stern gaze.

"You!" Zixia pointed at Li Gu and shouted, "Did you bully Supreme Treasure? Did you hit his eyes! The monk really doesn't have a good thing."

Li Gu quickly waved his hand, "I didn't hit it."

Zhizunbao also looked at Zixia in fear, with sincerity and trepidation.

Noticing the look in his eyes, Zixia was surprised, "What's wrong with you? Why are you looking at me like this? I'm doing justice to you."

"It's really not me." Li Gu reiterated again.

"Who is that?" Zixia just asked, and found that the eyes of the two people looked at her at the same time.She can beat Supreme Treasure?How is it possible, she obviously fell asleep last night...

She seemed to think of something and became a little panicked, "Could it be her? My sister has been here before? She caught up so soon?"

At the same time, she asked curiously, "What did she tell you?" Seeing Zhizunbao's dull face, she explained, "Don't believe her, she is crazy."

Seeing that the two people still looked blank with no expression on their faces, there was even a trace of fear in Zhizunbao's eyes.Zixia could only continue to explain, "Maybe she fought too hard with me in her previous life. So later, the Buddha rolled me and her together and turned them into a wick. If you want us to practice hard, Let go of this grievance."

She was helpless, "Unfortunately, things backfired, and now the fight is even stronger than before."

After explaining, Zixia was really anxious, "Let's not talk so much, let's leave quickly."

Seeing that Supreme Treasure was still unmoved, Zixia asked patiently, "What? You don't believe me?"

Supreme Treasure was about to nod, but was pinched by Li Gu under the table.Li Gu quickly answered, "We believe in the fairies, we do. Oh, it's getting late, in case your sister comes back, the fairies should go and pack your luggage? Remember to bring all the swords, treasures and treasure boxes with you."

"Yes, yes." Zixia nodded, "Let's clean up and leave quickly." After saying that, she walked out of the stone room first.

When she walked away, Zhizunbao said, "Brother Li, this woman is too dangerous. You saw it last night, she looks like a different person, she is schizophrenic."

"It's hard for you." Li Gu patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "However, the Moonlight Box is in her hands, so we can only make allowances."

"I know too." Zhizunbao's mood was depressed, "I still have to save Jingjing."

Li Gu, pretending to be sympathetic, "So, we have to bear with it first. Wait for a good time and cheat the Moonlight Treasure Box from her."

Just as she was talking, Fairy Zixia had already packed her things, carrying a small bundle and Ziqing sword, and appeared at the door of the stone room.

"Have you packed up yet? Let's go."

Li Gu and the two of them were stunned by the speed of the movement.

Li Gu and Supreme Treasure, two elders who have just crossed over, don't have any luggage and clothes to pack.Under Zixia Fairy's order, the two of them, one fairy, and a mule left Pansi Ridge in a mighty way.

………………

Stop and go, it took most of the day.

It was not until the afternoon that they arrived at the border town.

Only when Li Gu arrived did he realize that this is not a small frontier town, but this is the famous Yumen Pass in history!

It is different from the tidy image of blue bricks in film and television dramas.Yumenguan, located in the Gobi desert, is the color of dried soil.

The four walls looked like they were made of mud, and it was not known whether they were firm or not.

Although there was a well-built moat outside the city wall, the overall image still surprised Li Gu and made him extremely disappointed.

You are the famous Yumen Pass, why is it like this.

As he approached the city wall, Li Gucai regained his affection.Looking closer, you can still see traces of bricks, and the city wall is extraordinarily thick, with a thickness of nearly five to six meters.

But at the gate of the city, Li Gu was stopped by the guards, "This master, do you have a degree?"

What degree?What butterfly?

How could Li Gu have such a thing? Just when he was distressed, Fairy Zixia made a move.She walked up to the guard and snapped her fingers.

The guard was stunned, "Unexpectedly, the master is already the abbot at such a young age. Please come in quickly, the outside of the pass is dangerous, let's go back to the temple quickly."

"It's done, let's go." Zixia waved her hand, Zhizunbao led the mule and went in.Li Gu shook his hand in front of the guard, making sure that he was stunned, and then followed.

After they left, the guard came back to his senses and yawned. "It's strange, it's really busy today, and there is no one who has entered the customs."

Yumen Pass.

This is the westernmost gateway of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also an important place for trade between countries in the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty.There are many traders coming and going, which also drives the economy here.

Although it still can't be compared with the Central Plains, but if you compare it in the frontier pass, it is one of the most powerful and rich passes.

The pass is very lively, with many people coming and going.There are many shops and small vendors, and there are various commodities.

Some new gadgets that I hadn't seen last time aroused Zixia's desire to shop again, "Quick, quick, follow up."

"Fairy, fairy." Li Gu ran from the back to the front, "Fairy, I'm a mortal, I'm going to be hungry. Why don't you go shopping first? Shall I find something to eat?"

Zixia nodded, "I forgot. That's all right, you go and eat. Zhizunbao follows me, and you remember to bring a copy with him. When you finish eating, wait at the gate of the city and gather there. "

In this way, Li Gu asked Zixia for some broken silver, and under the mournful gaze of Supreme Treasure, he left the team.

Li Gu was overjoyed and relieved at the same time.He doesn't want to go shopping with a woman, it's too troublesome.

Just hungry, he planned to walk around the city alone, looking for something to eat.

Passing by a small noodle stall, Li Gu saw that the business was still going well, so he found an empty table and sat down.

The owner of the noodle stall happened to serve a few bowls of noodles to another table's guests, and the owner walked up to Li Gu enthusiastically, "Guests, do you want a bowl of green onion noodles too?"

"You only have chopped green onion noodles here?"

"Only chopped scallion noodles." The boss also nodded sincerely, "I don't have any meat side dishes in this small stall."

Li Gu smelled the aroma, and saw other people eating "suosuo".I was also hungry, so I nodded, "Then let me have a bowl."

"Okay." The boss returned to his hot pot and started to work.

Before Li Gu had to wait long, the hot noodles came out, "Your green onion noodles, please use it slowly."

Smelling the aroma of noodle soup and green onion, he swallowed and picked up the wooden chopsticks.

After taking a few bites, the guests at the other table had already finished their meal, but they didn't leave, they were still sitting there, chatting.

"...The demon king, Sun Wukong, just left the Yumen Gate last month, and gave the holy monk to the Bull Demon King in Demon King Ridge. He also said that he wanted to marry the younger sister of the Bull Demon King."

"Huh? Where did you hear all this?"

"Hi. Speaking of it, it's really scary." The man said mysteriously, "Last night, the old scalper in my house spoke suddenly! Moreover, he was still talking to a toad. Two monsters are in my house It was said in the yard, and I overheard it too."

The other person didn't believe it. "Could someone scare you? To scare you away on purpose and then steal your cow?"

"It's true." The man blushed, "I heard it with my own ears, it was a cow talking!"

"Okay, okay." The other person was anxious when he saw his friend, and quickly stopped doubting it. "It's just that the holy monk, didn't he still have two apprentices? Both betrayed?"

"Hi. The other two are not as powerful as Monkey King, the Monkey King." The man smiled.

Another person hurriedly asked, "Why Monkey King?"

That person, "I was also a child, and I heard from people of my grandfather's generation. A long time ago, our place was a beautiful place with beautiful mountains and rivers."

He talked eloquently, "Not far from the customs, there is a treasure mountain called Huaguo Mountain. It is really a treasure mountain full of spiritual fruits and medicines! Unfortunately, there is a group of monkey monsters living in the mountain, and ordinary people can't get close to it." .”

"I don't know when, a world-shocking monkey king appeared in Huaguo Mountain. In just a hundred years, he became the strength of the demon king. He even made friends with all the demon kings, and sworn obeisance to the six strongest demon kings among them. , No. Seven Great Saints."

"This Sun Wukong is called the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. And the current Bull Demon King was called the Great Sage Pingtian at that time. The two demon kings met at that time."

The other person regained his energy, so Li Gu also put down his chopsticks and listened carefully. "The other five, what kind of great saints are they?"

The man was interrupted by his friend, a little annoyed, "Don't interrupt, just listen to me. I forgot the other five, how young I was at that time, can I remember so much?"

"Okay, okay, tell me." Another person shouted, "Boss, let me treat you with a pot of hot tea."

The man nodded, and when the boss served the tea, his companion had already poured him a cup.He took a sip, um, the water is not hot, it can quench his thirst directly.After drinking tea, he continued.

"Seven great sages, raise the banner high. Are the gods and Buddhas better off? The seven great sages raised their arms and shouted, tens of thousands of monsters gathered here, trying to attack the heavens!"

The other person said silently, "This passage is not about the storyteller Chen Sheng, Wu Guangda, and Zexiang..." Before he finished speaking, he was stared at and stopped talking.

The man continued, "It's a pity. Who is the Jade Emperor? Leading Gouchen Shanggong Emperor Tianhuang, North Pole Ziwei Emperor, Dongji Qinghua Emperor, Antarctic Changsheng Emperor, one emperor and one divine punishment. Five divine punishments, turned into five elements The power continued to increase. In the end, after killing several demon kings, it turned into the 'Five Elements Mountain' and suppressed the Monkey King in this place."

"Later, in order to strengthen the seal, the Jade Emperor specially invited Tathagata Buddha, and added another post on the Five Elements Mountain, so that the monster monkey has been sealed up to this day."

"That is, in the battle between the fairy and the demon, the Huaguo Mountain was collapsed, and our place was also implicated. Now, there is no green, only yellow sand left."

"And then?" Another person poured him another cup of tea.

"Later?" The man gulped down the tea, "Then the holy monk came out of the customs, and under the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, he accepted the Monkey King as his disciple. Who knew that the monkey was so stubborn that he colluded with the Bull Demon King again. Do things that deceive the master and destroy the ancestors."

The other person was also short-tempered, "Monster, damn it!"

After saying this, the two of them chatted about family affairs again.Those, Li Gu has no interest.But after listening to the story, his noodles became lumpy and he couldn't eat anymore.

Tired of the smell, he now plans to find something else to eat.After paying the money, Li Gu left the noodle stall.

As soon as he left, the expressions of the two philistine men who had just chatted suddenly changed.One has a serious expression and the other is calm.

"That's it, Fellow Daoist. I will go back to the Heavenly Court first, and return to my life with the Great Emperor."

"Alright. The poor monk should also return to the scenic spot of Lingshan and return to life with the Buddha."

The two bowed to each other, "Farewell."

The next moment, the two of them had disappeared.Only the owner of the noodle stall was left. He walked to their table in a daze, stood there and kept cursing, greeting other family members, saying that there were two shameless men who ate the overlord's meal...

With his mind on his mind, Li Gu bought a few meat buns on the street for cushioning, and bought a few more for Supreme Treasure.I bought some steamed buns as dry food in the future.

After finishing these, he came to the city gate where he left the pass, waiting for the appearance of Zixia and Supreme Treasure.Being bored alone, I couldn't help but think back to the story those two people just talked about.

"This world is indeed different from "Journey to the West". There is no 'Havoc in Heaven', but there is an extra 'War of Immortals and Monsters'. Moreover, it is not Tathagata Buddha who suppressed Monkey King, but the five great emperors of Taoism... ..."

"The Taoist gods in this world are much more competitive than those in "Journey to the West." He pondered, but then he figured it out.

"Whatever. It has nothing to do with me anyway. I'm just a thief who stole the Moonlight Treasure Box. Those gods... are too far away from me, so I don't want to."

(End of this chapter)