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

As Tang Sanzang and his disciples traveled, they saw some demons hurrying towards a certain place in the distance, with the demons barely paying any attention to them.

"Hey, why are you walking so fast? Can't you see us?"

Pigsy stopped a bald-headed demon king, whose origins were unknown.

The bald-headed demon king rolled his eyes at him: "You saw it!"

Pigsy: "I saw it, why don't you capture my master and cook him?"

The bald-headed demon king cursed, "Are you fucking crazy? I'm on my way to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven for a drink, get out of the way!"

Pigsy: "You demons used to always try to capture my master and cook him for food, but now you ignore us completely. What's the reason for that?"

The bald-headed demon king: "Get lost!"

After saying that, he pushed Pigsy aside, and with his little demons, he mustered his courage, pushed the cart, and hurried quickly toward the edge of the mountain valley.

Pigsy looked in the direction the demon had left, feeling quite melancholy.

"Master, why don't you even smell good anymore?"

Sha Wujing: "It's because Tang Sanzang's flesh doesn't taste good anymore!"

Tang Sanzang: "Shut up. Whether I smell good or not doesn't mean my meat smells good or not. Bajie, you want the demon to cook me and eat me. Although it's just a concept in your mind, not a fact, if the demon listens to you and cooks me and eats me, then wouldn't that concept become a fact? So, did the demon eat me and kill me, or did you let the demon cook me and kill me? This question needs to be looked at from two perspectives..."

Pigsy: "Master, let me ask again!"

It dashed ahead in a flash.

Sha Wujing watched as Zhu Bajie ran ahead and began to mutter to himself.

“Master, he ran ahead because he wanted to get alms as soon as possible, so he could eat his fill first and then give us the leftovers. If only our eldest brother were here.”

Tang Sanzang: "Your eldest brother has been gone for five hundred years. If I haven't been eaten by demons, and I've obtained the scriptures and attained enlightenment, I'll still be able to see him five hundred years later. We can ask him to beg for alms for us then. But will I still be a monk five hundred years later?"

Sha Wujing: "Master, you cannot waver on this point. There are only thousand-year-old tortoises and ten-thousand-year-old monks. As the saying goes, if you are a monk for a day, you will be a monk for ten thousand years."

Tang Sanzang said, "You're wrong about that. It's a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise and a thousand-year-old monk. A tortoise can live for ten thousand years, and a monk can live for a thousand years."

Sha Wujing: "What about a thousand years from now? Will you still be a monk?"

Tang Sanzang put his hands together and said, "Amitabha, who can say for sure what will happen a thousand years from now?"

Before long, Pigsy returned.

"Master, what a grand spectacle! That Bull Demon King truly deserves to be called the model for all demons in the world."

Tang Sanzang: "Then hurry up and go! Are you going to starve your master to death?!"

Sha Wujing worried, "The Bull Demon King is so powerful. If he were to capture Master as well, and add an extra dish to each table, we still wouldn't be able to defeat him."

Pigsy scolded, "What are you saying? I've already found out. The Bull Demon King has said that if there's any fighting or killing during the wedding banquet, it will be treated as disrespect."

Sha Wujing: "What should we do if they don't give us face?"

Pigsy made a throat-slitting gesture with his hand.

"One of the snake spirits has already been nailed to the wall."

Tang Sanzang stopped and urged, "Hurry up and go!"

Sha Wujing: "They might not necessarily eat vegetarian food."

Tang Sanzang laughed and said, "You are still too young. You only know that demons eat meat, but do you know what those rabbit demons, deer demons, and sheep demons eat?"

Pigsy answered quickly: "Eat meat."

Sha Wujing nodded: "Back in Chechi Kingdom, King Luli and King Yangli both ate meat."

Pigsy asked Tang Sanzang, "Master, does this count as us voluntarily turning ourselves in to the demon?"

Tang Sanzang remained silent with a stern face.

The conversation between the master and his three disciples suddenly ended.

As they approached the Bull Demon King's cave, Sha Wujing still said hesitantly, "If only my senior brother were here!"

If only my senior brother were here!

When they arrived at the Bull Demon King's cave, Sha Wujing recited this sentence again.

Then they were stopped by the little demon guarding the gate.

"You three monks, come here and register first." The old accountant gestured for them to write their names down next to him.

Tang Sanzang: "This humble monk comes from the Great Tang Dynasty in the East, on his way to the Western Paradise to seek the true scriptures. I am passing by your esteemed cave and wish to beg for alms, not to drink wine."

The little demon who was registering cursed, "Get lost!"

Pigsy quickly pulled out a tael of silver from his pocket.

"I have money, I have money!"

"You...go inside!"

The little demon waved to Pigsy, then looked warily at Sandy and Tang Sanzang.

Sha Wujing also calmed down and rummaged through his clothes for a long time before pulling out a scripture. He said, "This is a scripture that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty gave to my master. It is very valuable."

The little demon registered the item, and the old accountant demon even sang, "A monk from the Tang Dynasty presents a precious book."

Sha Wujing was about to go in when he was stopped by a little demon.

"You just said it was given to your master by the Tang Emperor, so consider this a favor from your master. Let that Tang Dynasty monk go in." As she spoke, she gestured towards Tang Sanzang with her lip.

Tang Sanzang quickly thanked him and hurried inside.

Sha Wujing was dumbfounded!

Tang Sanzang turned around and said, "Disciple, keep a close eye on the load. Don't lose anything inside!" After saying that, he followed Zhu Bajie's back into the cave.

Sha Wujing looked at the carrying pole and his eyes lit up.

……

The sandstorm has dissipated.

But there were no stars in the sky.

The desert night was quite cold, and Fairy Zixia hugged her shoulders, looking rather chilly. But Zhang Zhengdao knew she wasn't cold; she just felt cold because he was there and wanted a warm embrace.

Zhang Zhengdao naturally wouldn't fall for that trick.

There probably aren't any stars today!

Seeing that Zhang Zhengdao wouldn't come over to hug her, Zixia could only look at the sky and try to make conversation.

Zhang Zhengdao: "You really want to see the stars?"

Zixia nodded: "Of course I want to. If there really are stars, it will be the first time in my life that I have seen stars. I only know from books that stars are beautiful."

Zhang Zhengdao nodded: "It's not impossible."

Zixia exclaimed in surprise, "Really?"

Zhang Zhengdao nodded: "However, I need to inform all the gods and stars in the heavens. If they give me face, there shouldn't be any problem."

Zixia rested her chin on her hand and looked at him, saying, "It's not necessarily necessary to see."

Ever since she saw Zhang Zhengdao draw his sword so easily, she had been watching him constantly, as if afraid he would suddenly disappear.

"Then I want to see the stars."

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Alright then, I'll burn some yellow paper and see if all the gods and stars are asleep."

Fairy Zixia: "They will definitely give you face."

Zhang Zhengdao: "How do you know they'll give me face?"

Zixia: "Because you are Zhang Zhengdao, you are the peerless hero who can pull out my sword."

Zhang Zhengdao: "A peerless hero? Heh... A peerless hero has no love."

Zixia: "Actually, he doesn't necessarily have to be a peerless hero. As long as he has me in his eyes, that's enough."

Zhang Zhengdao looked at Zixia and said seriously, "How do you know I have feelings for you?"

Fairy Zixia winked and smiled, with a hint of mischief and cunning: "Because you are looking at me, you must see me in your eyes, right?"

Is not it?

Zhang Zhengdao was speechless. He silently took out the yellow paper and threw it into the air.

Suddenly, the yellow paper rose with the wind and spontaneously combusted in the air. After it caught fire, it was blown away by the wind and dissipated into the air, turning into countless tiny stars.

The previously gloomy sky seemed to be suddenly lifted by a gentle breeze. All the gloom dissipated.

The deep blue base color was revealed.

In the deep blue sky, a golden full moon is painted, and behind the moon, countless bright stars, like sparks from scattered yellow paper, adorn the deep blue sky.

Fairy Zixia looked up at the sky.

Zhang Zhengdao also looked up at the sky, but after a long while he didn't hear Zixia Fairy's voice, he turned his head to look.

Zixia Fairy was already in tears.

Zhang Zhengdao frowned: "What are you crying for? Am I dead?"

Suddenly, Fairy Zixia couldn't hold back and burst out laughing, snot bubbles coming out of her nose. She immediately covered her face and turned around.

"You can look, but you can't look, it's hideous!"

Zhang Zhengdao looked up at the sky. There seemed to be many figures behind the clouds, but the starry sky remained unchanged.

The gods and stars in the sky were sweating with anxiety.

The movements of the stars and the changes in the weather, which they governed, suddenly seemed to have received some kind of command, and all of them came out at once. Originally, today in this desert region of Xiniuhezhou, it should have been shrouded in dark clouds.

"It's not good, it's not good!"

A group of constellations and celestial officials rushed towards the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Palace, tumbling and scrambling inside, unable to stop the guarding celestial generals.

"It's terrible, Your Majesty! Chaos! Utter chaos!"

"It's out of control!"

The stars and the moon are being controlled by someone, which is tantamount to taking away their control. How can they not panic?