Chapter 77: True Buddha Relic
Bai Hua Xiu asked, “Where did you come from, Elder? How did you end up in this wild and remote area?”
Tang Sanzang said, “This poor monk is a monk from the Great Tang Dynasty in the East, on a pilgrimage to the Western Heaven to worship Buddha and seek scriptures. I was passing through this place when my disciples were not by my side, and I was captured by that demon.”
Upon hearing that he was a high-ranking monk from the Eastern Land, Bai Hua Xiu immediately developed admiration. The Eastern Land was very far from here, and there were many mountain spirits and wild monsters along the way.
To come seeking the true scriptures without fear of hardship, one must have perseverance and willpower.
Bai Hua Xiu said, “How about I release you now, Elder? I only ask that you help me deliver a letter to my father.”
“This…” Tang Sanzang was very surprised and couldn’t help but worry about this woman, “If you release me privately, Benefactress, how will you explain it to that demon?”
Bai Hua Xiu said, “Elder, please rest assured. I’ll just say that your rope came loose and you ran away. Although that demon is ferocious, he is still quite good to me, and he shouldn’t make things difficult for me.”
“That would be good!” Tang Sanzang said.
Bai Hua Xiu untied the rope, prepared some dry food for Tang Sanzang, pointed out the direction of the capital of the Baoxiang Kingdom, and then let him go through the back door.
And this scene was all seen by a skull head that emerged from the ground.
“My Lady!”
Bai Hua Xiu had just released Tang Sanzang and was about to return to her bedroom to rest when she ran into the Yellow Robe Monster.
Bai Hua Xiu was truly afraid of this old wolf monster, and she said somewhat timidly, “Great King, why did you suddenly appear here?”
The Yellow Robe Monster said, “Wasn’t I missing my Lady? Our two children are still clamoring for milk.”
The Yellow Robe Monster’s mention of the children made Bai Hua Xiu’s heart skip a beat. She thought of the two children she had with the Yellow Robe Monster, and she couldn’t help but feel a chill in her heart.
She really wanted to throw those two children to their deaths, but every time she couldn’t bring herself to be so cruel, after all, they were her flesh and blood.
Bai Hua Xiu was tormented by this every day, and she was already on the verge of developing a heart demon.
“I’ll go feed the children in a bit,” Bai Hua Xiu said.
At this time, Bai Hua Xiu thought of trying to persuade him, “Great King, I see that the monk is pitiful, why don’t you not eat him and just let him go?”
The Yellow Robe Monster said, “Since my Lady says to let him go, then let him go.”
“Huh?”
Bai Hua Xiu never expected that the Yellow Robe Monster would agree so readily, making her feel like she had secretly released him for nothing.
The Yellow Robe Monster took Bai Hua Xiu’s hand, “Although this monk is a good ingredient, as long as my Lady is happy, letting him go is no big deal, so what?”
“Thank… thank you, Great King.”
Bai Hua Xiu was momentarily moved, but when she met the old monster’s ghostly blue eyes and looked at his jackal face, Bai Hua Xiu’s heart fell into an icy abyss again.
“Rumble…”
At this moment, the entire mountain where the Wave Moon Cave was located shook, as if something had hit it from the outside.
“Demon, come out! Quickly return my master!”
A loud shout came from outside the cave.
A little wolf monster ran in panic to report, “Great King, something bad has happened, something bad has happened! There’s a monk with a Thunder God face who smashed the mountain of our cave dwelling with a staff, and the whole mountain is shaking!”
“Preposterous!”
The Yellow Robe Monster was furious, and with a wave of his hand, he said, “Bring my Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Blade! I want to see who dares to cause trouble in my Wave Moon Cave!”
Time rewinds one hour.
Bai Ze received a report from the skeleton soldier he had sent out, and learned that Tang Sanzang had been released by Bai Hua Xiu. The stone in his heart finally fell. The key to this tribulation was this step, and it was also the easiest to mess up.
He didn’t want to go back and be reprimanded by his Master.
And next, it depended on whether Tang Sanzang would repay the kindness and return to rescue Princess Bai Hua Xiu. As long as Bai Hua Xiu was rescued, Tang Sanzang and his disciples would pass this tribulation.
Bai Ze had traveled with Tang Sanzang for many days and had a preliminary understanding of him. Tang Sanzang would definitely return to save Bai Hua Xiu.
“Let’s go, Old Ox, let’s finish the rest of the script, and then we’ll kill that Yellow Robe Monster.”
Bai Ze jumped onto the back of the Yellow Ox.
The Yellow Ox mooed and went to meet up with Wukong and the others, and then head to the demon’s cave dwelling.
Soon, Bai Ze gathered Wukong, Wujing, and Bajie together. They were all extremely anxious.
Bai Ze said, “I’ve found the demon’s cave dwelling. It’s about a hundred miles away from here, there is a Wave Moon Cave.
There is a Yellow Robe Monster there, and he is the one who captured Elder Tang.”
Sun Wukong said, “If that’s the case, what are we waiting for? Let’s go rescue him now.”
Pigsy said, “That’s right, that’s right, if we’re late, the master might be cooked by the demon.”
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Sha Wujing said, “Eldest Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, you two go ahead, I’ll bring the White Dragon Horse and the luggage along later.”
“Okay!”
Sun Wukong didn’t waste any time, and soared into the sky on his Somersault Cloud. He said to Bai Ze on the ground, “Little Brother, please lead the way.”
“No problem!”
Bai Ze patted the Yellow Ox’s belly, and white clouds rose from under the Yellow Ox’s four hooves. It galloped into the sky with a ‘clip-clop’ sound, with Bai Ze leading the way for Wukong and Bajie.
In a little over a hundred miles, they arrived in no time. From afar, they could only see the mountain peaks ahead shrouded in golden light.
Looking at the plants and trees in the valley, under the shroud of the golden light, they were crystal clear, as if they had been washed by water. It seemed that these plants had become more spiritual.
Looking around, Bai Ze discovered many immortal herbs among them.
Naturally born heavenly materials and earthly treasures were not easy to come by, and yet so many appeared here together. It seemed that they were all affected by the golden light.
At this time, a gentle breeze blew, and an unusual fragrance wafted over.
Bai Ze had read the brocade pouch that Muzha had sent, and knew that it was the Yellow Robe Monster’s magic item, but he pretended not to know.
Bai Ze pointed at the golden light in front in surprise and said, “Monkey, what’s going on? This doesn’t look like a demon’s light!”
Wukong stopped, frowning as he looked at the golden light in front of him. “Strange, if Old Sun isn’t mistaken, this should be Buddha light.”
At this time, Bajie also caught up, panting, “It really seems to be Buddha light, Monkey Bro, you’ve seen Guanyin Bodhisattva more than once, isn’t this light a bit similar to hers? Look at this valley again, how many heavenly materials and earthly treasures have grown because of this light?
I’m afraid it’s only a matter of time before these immortal herbs are of high quality. If this goes on for a long time, wouldn’t the whole valley be full of treasures?”
Sun Wukong pondered for a moment and said, “It seems that this demon has a Buddhist treasure, and it’s not an ordinary treasure. Let Old Sun go and meet that demon for a while!”
With that, Sun Wukong, holding his Golden Hoop Rod, swooped down and went straight to the demon’s cave dwelling. With a ‘boom’, he smashed the mountain, and the demon’s cave dwelling shook.
Sun Wukong said, “Demon, come out! Quickly release my master!”
In a short while, a standing wolf with a purplish-blue face, red hair and beard, and covered in hair, came out.
He held a large blade, wore armor, and was quite imposing.
Sun Wukong and Pigsy frowned slightly. They already had a plan in mind. This time, they had encountered no ordinary demon because this demon was carrying a trace of immortal qi.
However, the immortal qi was not as frightening as the Imperial Purple Qi of Bai Hu Ling before.
After all, there were many immortals in this world. When Bajie was Marshal Tianpeng, he had 80,000 divine race under his command.
And Wukong had killed many immortals, so the two were not afraid.
But this demon should also have some background, so the two also prepared to test him.
When the Yellow Robe Monster saw Sun Wukong, he immediately gasped and subconsciously wanted to run away.
However, he gritted his teeth and stopped, and said fiercely, “Monkey, why aren’t you accompanying that Tang Sanzang to seek scriptures, and instead come to my cave dwelling?”
Wukong laughed when he heard his words. This demon knew him. “Wasn’t Tang Sanzang captured by you? He’s inside your cave dwelling right now! Quickly release my master!”
“This…”
The Yellow Robe Monster was shocked. Thinking about the monk he had captured before, was he actually Tang Sanzang, who was on a pilgrimage to the Western Heaven?
How dangerous!
Although the Yellow Robe Monster was a man-eater by nature, he had no intention of provoking Tang Sanzang. He didn’t want to anger that monkey, but how could he have known that he had captured Tang Sanzang?
Fortunately, he had released Tang Sanzang at his wife’s persuasion, otherwise the trouble would have been great.
The Yellow Robe Monster said, “It was a misunderstanding before. Your master has already been released by me. He should have gone in the direction of the capital of the Baoxiang Kingdom. If you want to find your master, go to the capital of the Baoxiang Kingdom.”
Sun Wukong was stunned!
Was this demon lying?
At this time, Bai Ze rode his ox to Wukong’s side and nodded to him.
Wukong immediately understood. He knew that Bai Ze and his corpse puppets had the ability to escape through the earth. It seemed that Bai Ze had sent out a little skeleton to check the demon’s cave dwelling, and Tang Sanzang should not be inside.
“It’s good that you didn’t hurt my master!”
Sun Wukong snorted coldly and flew into the sky again on his Somersault Cloud. Before leaving, he turned his head and took a look at the demon with his Fiery Eyes, and immediately understood.
There was actually a True Buddha Relic in the demon’s belly.
No wonder this cave dwelling valley was shrouded in golden light. It turned out that this demon had a magic treasure relic.
