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Chapter 157 The Reason for the Love Between Human and Demon, Bai Suzhen's Puzzle (8/9, Please Subscribe)

Zhang Taixuan: "No, those who can enter the Lishan Old Mother's Taoist temple have some connection with the temple, which is incomparable to wild monsters."

Zhang Sanfeng: "Even a lowly official has connections with a great supernatural being. Miss Bai is truly blessed."

Su Xiaoxiao: "Indeed, in the original story, Xiaoqing also became an immortal, which shows that this fate is more significant than you imagined, Sister Bai."

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "There's something I don't understand. Why does Fahai gain such great merit by suppressing Sister Bai, and thus become an immortal? If suppressing demons is such a great merit, then there wouldn't be a single demon left on Sister Bai's side. They would have been suppressed by the senior experts long ago."

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "After all, the chance to become an immortal is something you have to take for yourself. Who would leave it to someone else?"

Han Paopao: "The logic is like this. Could it be that Miss Bai did something heinous in her past life, that she was a monstrous demon, so that there would be such great benefits in suppressing her?"

Chitanda Eru: "That reason shouldn't hold water. I think Sister Haku is so kind, how could she possibly do something like that?"

Han Paopao: "So I'm guessing it's from a past life!"

Ye Hei: "No, if she had done such a terrible thing, Miss Bai probably wouldn't even have had the chance to be reincarnated as a snake."

Zhang Sanfeng: "That's true. If it were truly a peerless demon, it would have been slain long ago. After reincarnation, suppressing it for eighteen years would have been enough to make someone an immortal. Wouldn't it have been a greater achievement to slay it before reincarnation?"

Bai Suzhen: "I wasn't some kind of demon in my past life, was I?!"

Xiaomai: "@Zhang Taixuan, Taixuan-gege, do you know why?"

Zhang Taixuan: "After some calculations, I roughly know the answer."

Su Xiaoxiao: "You can even calculate this? As far as I know, Sister Bai has immortals on her side! You can calculate this with your current strength?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Even immortals are ranked. Miss Bai's world is a middle-thousand world, where the strongest are only Golden Immortals. And they're not good at concealing heavenly secrets; the secrets of the world are quite obvious to me."

Su Xiaoxiao: "So this is just a Golden Immortal? Good heavens, they don't take Golden Immortals seriously at all."

Ye Hei: "A mere Golden Immortal? I want to be a Golden Immortal too!"

Zhang Sanfeng: "This humble Taoist doesn't mind at all!"

Ying Zheng: +1

Bai Suzhen: "Immortal Zhang, may I ask what happened? Suzhen will never forget your great kindness."

Su Xiaoxiao: "Wow, the White Snake is repaying her debt of gratitude! Zhang Taixuan, hurry up, the opportunity has come!"

Miyamizu Mitsuha: "Xiaoxiao, you seem more anxious than Taixuan-gege. What's wrong with you?"

Hina Amano: "Huh...you're not trying to take a roundabout approach again, are you?!"

Su Xiaoxiao: "I just don't want Sister Bai to follow the same path. Xu Xian is nothing compared to Brother Taixuan. @Zhang Taixuan, Brother Taixuan, hurry up, I also want to know the reason."

Lei Movie: "[Curiosity]"

Chitanda Eru: "+1"

Kikyo: "+1, I really want to know why Sister Bai's story is like this. Why is such a kind demon targeted like this?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Is this targeting me? You must be joking!"

Bai Suzhen: "Isn't that right? I went down the mountain to repay a debt of gratitude, and then I encountered so many things, and in the end I was suppressed for eighteen years. Is this still considered fate?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Miss Bai guessed correctly, this is fate."

Su Xiaoxiao: "I can't understand! Brother Taixuan, did you suffer internal injuries from killing the Great Sage yesterday and your mind is not clear?"

Huang Rong: "Husband, are you alright? Should I come and take care of you?"

Lei Movie: "Should I call that fox over to take a look?"

Zhang Taixuan: [Speechless]

Zhang Taixuan: "Of course I'm fine. Do you guys remember what we were discussing earlier?"

Han Paopao: "Spiritual roots? In Miss Bai's world, does the Heavenly Dao also use spiritual roots to restrict cultivators?"

Su Xiaoxiao: "That's impossible. I remember that Sister Bai's world is a classical fantasy world, without the concept of spiritual roots."

Zhang Taixuan: "You remember correctly. But you've forgotten—spiritual roots are merely a means; what is the goal?"

Ye Hei: "Control the world's spiritual energy to maintain it at a certain level."

Zhang Taixuan: "That's right. The White Snake World does indeed lack spiritual roots, but the Middle Thousand Worlds have developed to a flourishing stage, with numerous immortals, and the heavens and earth have begun to restrict spiritual energy!"

Zhang Taixuan: "Under these circumstances, your idea of ​​cultivating to become an immortal by absorbing spiritual energy is simply a pipe dream. The Heavenly Tribulation will show you why the flowers are so red. @Bai Suzhen, it must have been many years since anyone cultivated to ascend to immortality on your side, right?"

Bai Suzhen: "As far as I know, most of those who have ascended to immortality in the last thousand years have been great masters of Taoism and Buddhism; there have been none of them who are independent cultivators."

Bai Suzhen: "What does this have to do with anything? They also cultivated to become immortals, which doesn't quite match what you said about immortals."

Zhang Taixuan: "No, quite the opposite!"

Zhang Taixuan: "Aren't the stories of these Buddhist and Taoist masters widely circulated and quite legendary?"

Bai Suzhen: "[Shocked] The immortals even foresaw this? Most of the powerful immortals and Buddhas who ascended to immortality left behind stories of slaying demons and monsters, or of love between humans and demons. Could this be related to becoming an immortal?"

Ye Hei: "Human and demon in love? Isn't that what Sister Bai and Xu Xian did?"

Zhang Taixuan: "That's the main reason!"

Su Xiaoxiao: "I don't understand. Can spreading stories make people immortal?"

Lin Fengjiao: "This is the path to godhood through incense offerings!!!"

Zhang Taixuan: "That's right, this is the way of incense offerings. People have a misunderstanding about incense offerings, thinking that only offering incense in Taoist temples and Buddhist temples counts as offering incense. In fact, as stories spread, the characters in those stories can also receive the blessings of incense offerings."

Zhang Taixuan: "As for Miss Bai, the Heavenly Dao keeps a close watch on spiritual energy. Anyone who dares to use spiritual energy to cultivate and ascend will face a nine-out-of-ten chance of death from the Heavenly Tribulation. However, if she only absorbs a portion of the spiritual energy and then uses incense to supplement the remaining cultivation needs, then—the Heavenly Dao will turn a blind eye and let her ascend. After all, the Heavenly Dao is only restricting, not trying to sever the cultivation civilization."

Zhang Taixuan: "As for why Guanyin guided you to repay a debt of gratitude, and why your love star is shining brightly, it's because stories of love between humans and demons are more widely circulated and attract more worshippers faster. Otherwise, how could four people become immortals in eighteen years so easily!"

Bai Suzhen: "So that's how it is!! No wonder I felt my heart pounding as soon as I reached the Transformation stage. I thought it was because I hadn't repaid my debt of gratitude, but I didn't expect it to be a warning from heaven and earth, forbidding me from absorbing spiritual energy anymore."

Bai Suzhen: "However, there is still something I don't understand. I am just an ordinary white snake. What merit do I have to be valued by both the immortals and the Buddhas, to perform such a legendary story and gather incense offerings for me?"

Chapter 158 Bai Suzhen: My Identity Is Not Ordinary?! (9/9, Please Subscribe)

Zhang Taixuan: "Miss Bai, do you have some misunderstanding about what 'ordinary' means?"

Bai Suzhen: "I really am just an ordinary snake."

Su Xiaoxiao: "I remember some fanfictions say that you, Sister Bai, are a descendant of the Teng Snake. Didn't you inherit the bloodline of the Teng Snake?"

Bai Suzhen: "Who wrote this?! How is this possible? After cultivating for 1,700 years, do you think I wouldn't know whether I have any bloodline or not?!"

Su Xiaoxiao: "Really? That's strange. Looking at you like this, Sister Bai, you seem quite ordinary. Brother Taixuan, are you really not injured?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Good heavens, you're the one who hasn't figured things out yet! How dare you suspect I'm confused because I'm injured? Didn't I say before that Miss Bai went to the Lishan Old Mother's Taoist Temple to listen to the Dao?"

Xiaomai: "Didn't Miss Bai say that this is very ordinary, with quite a few people and demons listening to the teachings?"

Zhang Taixuan: "When Sun Wukong was cultivating in the Three Star Cave, he had quite a few fellow disciples and elder brothers. Can you say that Sun Wukong was ordinary?"

Su Xiaoxiao: "It's different. Sun Wukong was born a stone monkey and was also a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi. His status is very different. Miss Bai only went to listen to the teachings a few times. Her status is very different from that of the monkey."

Zhang Taixuan: "@Hu Yifei, come here and tell her 377s how many identities the Old Mother of Lishan has."

Hu Yifei: "Let me do a search. Myths and legends are my weak point. I really don't know anything about them if I don't look them up."

Hu Yifei: "Found it - Lishan Laomu has multiple identities. One is a feudal lord in the Qin region during the Shang and Zhou dynasties; in later generations, her identity is mixed with Doumu Yuanjun and Nuwa."

Hu Yifei: "Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang once flirted with the Old Mother of Lishan and was punished. Therefore, the Old Mother of Lishan is often seen as an old woman afterward."

Umaru: "Wow, big news! @Yingzheng @Yingzheng2, did you really flirt with the Old Mother of Lishan?"

Ying Zheng: "Nonsense."

Ying Zheng No. 2: "That's impossible. We're in an ordinary world, there are no mythical figures here! What's with this search? It makes me sound like a pervert."

Xiong Ba: "Isn't that right? I remember that emperors always had three palaces and six courtyards."

Ying Zheng: "Slander! The concept of three palaces and six courtyards only existed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. How could my Qin Dynasty have such a thing? Don't think I haven't read the history books."

Ying Zheng No. 2: "Exactly. Although there are quite a few people in our palace, there aren't that many."

Su Xiaoxiao: "Weren't we talking about Sister Bai's identity? How did you suddenly bring up the harem?!"

Hu Yifei: "If what I searched for is true, then the myth of the Old Mother of Lishan really has a very long history."

Zhang Taixuan: "The Old Mother of Lishan is undoubtedly an ancient deity. In Journey to the West, when the four sages tested the Zen mind, the Old Mother of Lishan transformed into a mother. If her status and strength were too weak, how could she be qualified to be a mother?"

Ye Hei: "Indeed, even in our myths and legends, we value seniority and morality, unlike Brother Han's place where strength is paramount. If you're weak, who would really dare to become someone else's elder?"

Lin Fengjiao: "No, the difference in strength is too great. We might not even be able to play together. The Old Mother of Lishan is at least on par with Bodhisattvas like Guanyin, but her upper limit is unknown."

Bai Suzhen: "My mother has a high status, and she has nothing to do with me, a mere disciple."

Zhang Taixuan: "The Old Mother of Lishan is sometimes confused with Nuwa. What mythological figure is Nuwa?"

Su Xiaoxiao: "Human head and snake body! Hmm, could this be the reason?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Pretty much! Nuwa has a human head and a snake body, so she naturally takes better care of snakes. Miss Bai listened to her teachings at her temple and was greatly favored by her, which is the origin of the story."

Zhang Taixuan: "The Old Mother of Lishan holds a high position and possesses great supernatural powers. Those she values ​​are respected by both the Buddhist and Taoist sects. Miss Bai, you don't think just anyone can steal the Lingzhi herb from the Antarctic Immortal and leave alive, do you?"

Bai Suzhen: "So that's how it is. I originally thought becoming an immortal was a scheme, but I never expected it to be my mother's favor!"

Over eighteen years, four people became immortals, three of whom were Bai Suzhen's relatives!

What an impressive display!

Moreover, how could a reincarnation of the God of Literature possibly end up inside a wild snake demon?