A Tale of Encounters with Immortals: A Peach Blossom Temple in the Martial World

Qingcheng Mountain, Fuqing Palace.

The sun was shining brightly; the autumn sunlight felt warm on my skin.

Zhang Zhengdao has completely given up.

Anyway, there was nothing for him to do at the Taoist temple; even the outhouse was kept spotless for him by demons. In reality, he didn't need to use the outhouse. It was used by the previous abbot, Zhang Lingxian.

Even things like eating, drinking, and relieving themselves are taken care of comfortably by the fairies.

Thinking back to when I first arrived at Peach Blossom Temple, I had to go to the town to hold Taoist ceremonies and pray for blessings in order to make ends meet. Now, life is so comfortable.

Ao Yu would occasionally come back from the wild outside.

"Master, I'm back!"

Ao Yu stood on the head of a large white snake, arrived at the Taoist temple, and leaped down, landing perfectly in the courtyard outside a side hall. He then called out to Zhang Zhengdao, who was drinking tea and reading.

Zhang Zhengdao glanced at her and sighed, "Didn't I tell you to stop showing off? Today you've turned into a dragon again. The little rivers and streams here can't contain you. If you want to stir up trouble, go stir up trouble in the sea."

Ao Yu pouted: "I dare not go!"

Zhang Zhengdao angrily retorted, "So you know you dare not? Even if I shield myself from the secrets of heaven, it's not necessarily foolproof. Those powerful beings might still find a way to detect it..."

Great Power: ? ? ?

Are you talking about us? What kind of detection is that? Everyone knows that the secrets of heaven in Yizhou of Jambudvipa are blocked, but nobody knows how they were suddenly blocked, and nobody can figure it out.

Great Power: Probe your mother? Bah!

Ao Yu quickly said, "It's because I encountered a dragon that wanted to eat me whole. Otherwise, if I hadn't transformed quickly, I might have been digested and excreted by the dragon by now."

Zhang Zhengdao: ...

What you said makes sense.

"roll!"

"Alright!" Ao Yu quickly ran to one of his side halls and whistled.

Then the giant white snake outside the temple quietly slipped in.

Zhang Zhengdao was speechless.

These two are really good at playing the ostrich game. They made such a loud noise, enough to collapse the wall, and yet they still managed to sneak in from the back mountain. Couldn't they at least transform into human form and show themselves?

The white snake can transform into human form.

He had been able to transform long ago, but one time when he was bathing in the Minjiang River with Ao Yu, he suddenly turned into human form. Ao Yu looked at him and then at his own human form, and felt somewhat inferior.

So Ao Yu warned it.

"When you transform into human form, whatever you do, don't let the abbot see you, or he'll eat you!"

The large white snake was so frightened that even its skin turned white.

Qingcheng Mountain is teeming with wildlife, and people come and go in an endless stream. These transformed demons would occasionally go to the market town to trade for some items, and no one could recognize them.

The people in the town only knew that the Taoist temple on Mount Qingcheng was starting to flourish.

That's actually a good thing.

With increased trade, the people in the market town profited, and the town prospered more than before. The number of people in the market town also increased, and the variety of goods sold also expanded.

In particular, the Black Tiger Spirit, the chief of the Taoist temple, personally chased after a fierce tiger with piercing eyes and a white forehead that had killed a woodcutter on the neighboring mountain in order to please the temple master.

He even skinned the animal himself and sold it to the governor of Yizhou, earning two hundred strings of cash.

It works very hard to generate revenue for the Taoist temple.

The spider demon washed the Taoist priest's clothes in the lake in front of the Taoist temple and then walked up the stone path.

The strong wolf spirit beside it whistled at it.

The spider demon rolled its eyes and ignored it.

The wolf spirit teased again, "Oh ho, you're getting more and more aloof!"

"Aloof and cold" is a word that comes from the Taoist priest's mouth.

The fairies loved the new words that the Taoist priest would occasionally utter, and used these words to express that they shared the same aesthetic sense as the Taoist priest.

And they are proud of it.

"Pah, I'm not talking to you anymore." The spider demon rolled her eyes and continued walking forward.

"Don't go, talk to me, I'll treat you to something good to eat. The day before yesterday I hunted a wild boar, and the Taoist priest rewarded me with a foreleg. I couldn't bear to eat it, so I cured it and smoked it into ham. How about... we have a couple of drinks tonight?"

The wolf spirit moved closer and could smell the oily odor emanating from the spider spirit.

The spider demon now runs the kitchen. With all her skills activated, she can chop vegetables, stir-fry vegetables, steam rice, pick vegetables, scoop water, and build a fire in the stove all at the same time.

With one foot supporting his body, he could also use the other foot to pull out some spider silk to wipe his sweat.

It was precisely because of this skill that Zhang Zhengdao was astonished when he saw it.

He then entrusted it with the important task of cooking.

The spider demon was overjoyed; she had deeply penetrated the Taoist priest's life.

He volunteered to wash the Taoist priest's clothes, fetch bathwater, and sew clothes from spider silk. As a result, he was beaten by Zhang Zhengdao.

Spider silk stuck to my body and tore my underwear.

A wolf spirit offering unsolicited hospitality is either a treacherous or thieving person.

The spider demon sneered, "I'm currently working in the Taoist priest's inner quarters, and the Taoist priest often teaches us not to have romantic relationships within the temple. If you want to seduce me, you'll have to ask the Taoist priest for permission first."

The wolf spirit was stunned!

Resentfully, they watched as the spider demon wiggled her hips and walked into the Taoist temple.

He turned around and saw a monkey standing behind him.

He was startled and jumped back two steps, shouting, "Are you one of the king's men?"

The monkey chuckled and said, "Great King Wolf, I am the Handsome Monkey King who came from Huaguo Mountain in Aolai Country of Dongsheng Shenzhou. I saw from afar that this place is rich in spiritual energy and surrounded by immortal aura, so I thought there must be immortals cultivating here. Therefore, I came to ask to become your disciple."

Upon hearing this, the wolf spirit looked at the monkey suspiciously.

"Don't try to fool me. The distance between Dongsheng Shenzhou and Nanzhanbuzhou is countless miles. You, a mere monkey, do you think you can cross the ocean?"

The Monkey King quickly bowed and said, "I'm not lying, I'm not lying. I came here sincerely. I hope you can introduce me to someone."

After saying this, the Monkey King reached into his clothes, then stretched out his hairy hand and handed it to the wolf spirit.

The wolf spirit looked and saw that there were dozens of copper coins on it.

The Monkey King said, "I'll make an exception!"

The wolf spirit weighed the copper coins in his hand. There were still several dozen copper coins, so he said, "Wait here, I'll go and talk to the Taoist priest."

With that, the wolf spirit headed towards the Taoist temple.

Zhang Zhengdao was reading a book in the Taoist temple.

Most of the books here are on bamboo slips and silk scrolls; to read a book, you need a pile of bamboo slips next to you. Last time, when those demons were robbing books from the library, most of them were on bamboo slips, but some were written on paper.

A wolf spirit hurriedly came over to pay its respects.

"Master, a monkey has come from the Eastern Continent, having traveled tens of thousands of miles across the ocean, enduring untold hardships, and wishes to become an immortal's disciple. What do you think—"

Zhang Zhengdao's heart skipped a beat.

This is the special number—

This is exactly what I feared!

No... You're a perfectly normal monkey, why didn't you go to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain in Xiniu Hezhou, but instead ran off to Nanzhanbuzhou and stopped moving? I didn't do anything, so why did you turn around and stop here?

This monkey... how can it be so good at causing trouble!

"No, no, make it leave!"

Zhang Zhengdao dared not accept it. Let alone accepting it, even delaying it slightly would be a sin, and might disrupt the original plot of Journey to the West.

That was the Great Tribulation of Journey to the West, something all the great gods were watching closely.

The wolf spirit understood and dashed out, watching the Monkey King still peering expectantly into the temple. Seeing the wolf spirit emerge, the Monkey King limped over and asked, "Your Majesty, has the Taoist priest granted your request?"

The wolf spirit looked displeased and waved his hand, saying, "The Taoist priest said you can leave."

After saying this, he took out the dozens of copper coins from his pocket, reluctantly stuffed them into the Monkey King's hand, waved his hand, and began to shoo the monkey away.

"Let's go, let's go, don't stay here. The Taoist priest doesn't easily accept outsiders."

The Monkey King pushed the copper coin over again.

"Your Majesty, please say a few kind words for me!"

The wolf spirit hadn't done his job well and was too embarrassed to take the money, so he reluctantly returned it to the monkey. Now the monkey was pushing it back, clearly unwilling to part with it.

He took a breath and said, "Alright, I'll put in a good word for you, but if that doesn't work, I'll only refund half the copper coins."

The Monkey King cupped his hands in thanks: "That's feasible, please!"

The Monkey King watched as the wolf spirit went inside again, his heart filled with anticipation once more.

After looking around for a while, he saw the wolf spirit come out again.

As soon as the wolf spirit appeared, he counted out half of the copper coins and gave them to the Monkey King, saying, "The Taoist priest told you to leave quickly. He also said that instead of going to Xiniu Hezhou to find the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and Xieyue Sanxing Cave, you're causing trouble here."

The Monkey King was dumbfounded.

Xiniu Hezhou?

Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Xieyue Sanxing Cave?

What am I going there for?

He thought to himself, "I have gone through so much hardship, and I have finally found a sacred mountain and met a celestial being. How could I leave so easily?"

Seeing that the Monkey King was not moving, the wolf spirit began to chase him away.

"Get out of here! Get out of here!"

The Monkey King handed the half of the copper coins he had just collected back to the wolf spirit and said, "Your Majesty, please do me a favor. I won't go in, nor will I become a disciple. I'll just stay here. Please don't send me away."

The wolf spirit weighed the heavy copper coin in his hand, pondered for a long time, and finally could not resist the temptation of the coin, so he nodded.

"You mustn't harm me. You can only stay by the mountain near the entrance. Don't wander around and run into the Taoist priest, or you'll bring trouble upon me."

The Monkey King was delighted and nodded, "Thank you, thank you."