I'm Dreaming of a Journey to the West

After destroying the nine monks, Li Chen came to the side of the guardian Min Lao and lifted up his wounded body with his hands, letting him sit upright in front of him so that he could better transmit his magic power to heal him.

"Old Guardian Min, please stop talking. I will heal you right now!"

Li Chen began to transfer his mana into Min Lao's body, but Min Lao was too badly injured, and the mana Li Chen sent was completely inadequate and useless. After a while, Min Lao slowly opened his eyes and interrupted Li Chen's mana transmission.

"My dear friend Li Chen, don't waste your magic power! You have more important tasks to complete next. Don't waste your time and energy on me, a dying person!" The old guardian Min, who was in his last moments, said weakly to Li Chen.

"But, it's all because of me. I'm not strong enough and failed to protect you!" Li Chen was already in tears. He felt very guilty towards the old protector Min. If he hadn't been so eager to attack and hadn't learned more about the situation in Jiuhua Mountain, how could the old protector Min have sacrificed his life to protect him?

"The Bodhisattva asked me to give this to you at any cost."

With trembling hands, the guardian elder Min handed Li Chen a string of what looked like Buddhist beads. Li Chen looked at the nine purple beads strung together, painted with strange Buddhist patterns, giving them a majestic appearance. The pendant was adorned with the beard of an accomplished monk. The magical artifact that the guardian elder had so desperately gifted him was the Devil Wish Beads from Dream Journey to the West IV.

"My young friend Li Chen, promise me that you will rescue my son and the entire Jiuhua Mountain! If, if you can't rescue my son, you must kill him! Promise me!" The voice of the old protector Min began to become weaker and weaker.

Li Chen held the hands of the old guardian Min tightly with both hands, and then answered the old guardian Min affirmatively: "I promise you that I will definitely rescue your son and the entire Jiuhua Mountain! If I can't rescue your son, kill him!" After getting Li Chen's answer, the old guardian Min closed his eyes and his hands drooped weakly.

"Min Elder Guardian!!!"

Just as Li Chen was immersed in the sorrow of the death of the old protector Min and unable to extricate himself, a sudden and creepy grin came from behind him without warning.

"Hahahahahaha..." This laughter, like the devil's hideous laugh, echoed endlessly in the silent air, sending shivers down one's spine. This laugh revealed an unspeakable evil and cruelty, as if it came from the depths of hell.

"The host has triggered the quest 'Slay the Daoming Demon Monk'. The quest rewards the poison-avoidance pill. After taking this pill, the host can isolate themselves from all poisons and become immune to all poisons. This can help the host defeat the Wood Ancestral Witch."

Hearing the system's prompt, Li Chen realized that the person grinning behind him was none other than the son of the Dharma Protector Min, the disciple of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and the monk Daoming, who had been bewitched by the Wood Ancestor Witch.

Li Chen turned and looked at Monk Daoming, only to see him radiating a murderous aura, completely devoid of any Buddhist demeanor. The soul-devouring, blood-stained Buddhist robes of Shuangxi Temple were truly a demonic monk!

"Daoming Demon Monk! Do you know that the person who just died was your father?!" Li Chen roared at Daoming Demon Monk. As he spoke, Li Chen tightened the Jiutian Stick in his hand because he smelled a strong smell of blood emanating from Daoming Demon Monk.

After being bewitched by the Wood Ancestor Witch, Monk Daoming began to crazily plunder and kill nearby people. He absorbed their souls and flesh to help himself practice the magic taught by the Wood Ancestor Witch, and eventually he became a demon monk who killed people without blinking an eye.

"That old man? Hahahahahaha, he should have died long ago for disobeying the orders of the Grand Ancestral Wood Witch!" Daoming Demon Monk said nonchalantly. He had no father-son relationship with the old guardian Min at all, and seemed to be completely controlled by the Grand Ancestral Wood Witch! At this moment, a ball of dark purple ghost fire suddenly appeared in his hand, formed by the souls of countless dead people.

"Boy, you still have the mind to worry about the ancients. You will soon be unable to protect yourself and become my food!" The Taoist monk grinned arrogantly, and as he said that, he threw a ghost fire skull surrounded by evil spirits to Li Chen.

Wherever this ghost fire skeleton goes, all the grass and trees wither and die, without any life, which shows how powerful this move is.

The ghost fire skeleton attacked Li Chen at an extremely fast speed. Li Chen dodged the attack by Daoming Demon Monk by moving his body to the side. The ghost fire skeleton bombarded the gate of Shuangxi Temple, burning a large hole in the gate.

Just as Li Chen was sighing inwardly, the demon monk Daoming summoned another possessed demon spirit to rush towards Li Chen, wanting to control Li Chen's body through the possessed demon spirit and make Li Chen his food. However, to his surprise, Li Chen actually swung the Jiutian Stick and smashed the possessed demon spirit into pieces.

"Very good, very good. You have both a strong physique and magical powers. Once I eat you, my skills will definitely increase greatly! Hahahaha!" The Daoming demon monk laughed ferociously, and then attached a strange evil power to his hands. Those hands immediately turned into a pair of sharp claws. The Daoming demon monk waved his claws and rushed towards Li Chen's chest.

He wanted to use his claws to dig out Li Chen's heart, but Li Chen would never let him succeed so easily. Li Chen used a raging firestorm to repel the Daoming demon monk who was about to rush over, and the fierce flames burned the Daoming demon monk's claws.

The evil monk Daoming looked at his hands that were burned by Li Chen's flames, and his anger grew even stronger. His scarlet eyes were filled with murderous intent. He waved his hands frantically, releasing more ghost fire skeletons to attack Li Chen.

Li Chen dodged the attack of Daoming Demon Monk with his flexible movement. Seeing that his attack did not hit Li Chen, Daoming Demon Monk began to use more violent and wild attacks in an attempt to hit Li Chen.

Under the more fierce and wild attacks of the Daoming Demon Monk, the beautiful environment around him began to be destroyed beyond recognition because of the more fierce attacks of the Daoming Demon Monk.

The grounds of Shuangxi Temple are a wasteland of desolate, ramshackle land, dotted with vast craters burned by ghostly fire and skulls. Several majestic Buddha statues stand within the temple, their faces cracked to varying degrees, and their eyes seem to shed faint tears of blood. It's as if they're mourning for this former disciple, or for the innocent people of Jiuhua Mountain who suffered.

The two fought from morning to noon, but the winner was still undecided.

"go to hell!"

When the demon monk Daoming saw that he could not defeat Li Chen for a long time, the terrifying evil thoughts deep in his heart began to expand outward uncontrollably. The power bestowed by the Wood Ancestral Witch in his body was also completely activated under the nourishment of this terrifying evil thought. The demon monk Daoming began to emit a creepy purple-black mist, his claws began to become sharper, his eyes became more scarlet, and the murderous intent on his body became stronger.

At this moment, Li Chen had only one thought in his mind: that is, he used the power bestowed upon him by the Ancestral Witch of Wood, and his strength was greatly improved!

The Daoming demon monk roared angrily, then leaped high into the air with his legs. He began to continuously release more powerful ghost fire skeletons from the air towards Li Chen's direction. These more powerful ghost fire skeletons bombarded Li Chen's position madly.

Although Li Chen dodged all these ghost fire skeletons, the more powerful ones kept exploding around Li Chen. Every explosion of these ghost fire skeletons would raise a huge cloud of dust, which obscured Li Chen's vision and made Li Chen unable to see the current situation of the Daoming demon monk.

Suddenly, Li Chen felt an unbearable pain in his chest. He looked at his chest and saw a pair of purple-black claws flashing with cold light piercing through Li Chen's chest!