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

I'm married!

Zhang Zhengdao looked at Fairy Zixia and said seriously.

"I have a wife!"

Fairy Zixia: "Does your wife love you?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Of course my wife loves me!"

Fairy Zixia asked, "Is your wife as beautiful as I am?"

Zhang Zhengdao: "Of course my wife is beautiful!"

Fairy Zixia: "Would your wife be willing to do anything for you?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Of course I'd like to!"

Fairy Zixia: "Where is your wife? Have you found her?"

Zhang Zhengdao was taken aback: "I don't know where my wife is. She's in the entire chaotic universe. We'll find her eventually. We can just keep looking. The process isn't important; the result is what matters."

Fairy Zixia laughed: "That's right. Your wife loves you, and I love you too. Your wife is beautiful, and I am beautiful too; your wife is willing to do anything for you, and I am willing to do anything for you as well. But your wife isn't here, there's no trace of her in this world, so in this world you are a widower..."

Zhang Zhengdao coughed dryly: "That's a harsh way of putting it, widower... what widower..."

Fairy Zixia said, "What's the difference between you and your dead wife? I'm right here in front of you, alive and well. What your wife can do, I can do too. What your wife can't do now, I can do as well. So... you're not at a loss."

Zhang Zhengdao said, "You really are something else... I'm leaving now. I'm going to the Southern Continent. There aren't as many demons there."

Zixia Fairy also dusted off her bottom and followed Zhang Zhengdao.

"I don't care where you go, I'll go wherever you go."

"You don't mind that I have a wife?"

"In the chaotic universe, your wife might have been married off to someone else."

"Damn it... If you can't speak properly, shut up."

"So you agreed to let me follow you?"

"I agree, I'm scared of you!"

"Haha, I knew you loved me and couldn't bear to part with me, right..."

……

On the sand dunes, two figures stood back to back. The one in front exuded an air of otherworldly elegance, his robes and hair swaying in the desert breeze. The other, however, was mischievous and playful, hopping and skipping around. Sometimes she would jump in front of him, talking backwards, sometimes she would spin around in front of him, her skirt billowing, and sometimes she would excitedly catch a snake from the desert and present it to him as a treasure…

"Would you like to take on an apprentice?"

Zhang Zhengdao asked Zixia.

Zixia laughed and said, "What apprentice? I won't take one. I did have that idea before. If I couldn't find the person who could pull out my Purple and Green Sword, I would take one as an apprentice and teach her martial arts and cultivation. But there's no need for that now."

Zhang Zhengdao was taken aback, then scratched his head.

"You...you really have absolutely no intention of taking on any apprentices?"

The plot of A Chinese Odyssey is very short, so short that from the moment Zixia Fairy appears until she is killed by the Bull Demon King with a single fork, there is no scene of her taking on disciples.

"If you don't take on a disciple, that monkey will go five hundred years later and rescue your disciple Bai Jingjing..."

Fairy Zixia gently took Zhang Zhengdao's arm: "Then... shall I take on a disciple?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "It's up to you. You can accept it if you want, or not if you don't."

Zixia smiled slyly: "If I don't take on any disciples, won't Sun Wukong be unable to find Bai Jingjing?"

As they talked, they walked further and further away, their voices faintly audible.

"I'm not his father, what business is it of mine if he can't find a wife?"

"You like children? Then let's have one, two, or even three... Three begets all things, isn't that what you Taoists all say?"

"But I have a terminal illness..."

"Huh? Why didn't you say so sooner? You should have said so earlier! What terminal illness?"

Infertility!

"Hehe... You're so mean... How could you be so mean, bringing up the topic of having children."

"Didn't you say that first?"

……

The sun in the sky gradually rose higher. The scorching weather made the already heated atmosphere at Niu Mansion even more intense.

Tang Sanzang and Zhu Bajie sat at a table, and Zhu Bajie had already started gnawing on a meat bone.

Tang Sanzang waited for a long time but no vegetarian dishes came, so he complained, "If there are no vegetarian dishes, can't you at least have white rice? I'll eat three big bowls of white rice!"

Before Pigsy could speak, Sandy entered.

He plopped down next to Pigsy, with Pigsy now between him and Tang Sanzang.

Tang Sanzang asked in surprise, "I asked you to watch the luggage, where is it?"

Sha Wujing said, "I left it with that old accountant demon."

Pigsy: "You're giving it away as a favor, aren't you?"

Sha Wujing: "Shut up, second brother. Don't talk when you're eating meat bones, or you might choke. I won't come to your rescue then."

Tang Sanzang angrily said, "You pawned all my luggage?"

Sha Wujing said, "No, I've kept this. We'll need it later." As he spoke, he nervously looked around, then lifted a corner of his robe to reveal a purple-gold alms bowl.

This is what they eat.

Tang Sanzang was still angry: "Where is my cassock? That was the cassock that Guanyin Bodhisattva gave me."

"Here it is! I've put it all away."

Sha Wujing then pulled out a piece of cassock material from his robes. Upon closer inspection, it was the very same cassock that Guanyin Bodhisattva had given to Tang Sanzang. It seemed that Sha Wujing wasn't as simple-minded as he thought.

Tang Sanzang's expression softened somewhat.

Sha Wujing said, "Master, don't be angry. I'm helping you improve your cultivation level. Those are all external things. We Buddhists shouldn't care about them..."

That makes a lot of sense!

Even Pigsy couldn't help but clap and cheer for Sandy, but unfortunately he was holding a meat bone in his hand.

When Tang Sanzang saw Sha Wujing arrive, he instructed him, "Go to the kitchen and see if there are any vegetarian dishes. You should eat some vegetarian food too, don't be like Zhu Bajie, who can't give up any of them."

Sha Wujing, true to his word, actually went to the kitchen to check.

Before long, they brought out a large bowl of steamed buns. There were also some pickled vegetables, which were placed on the table.

The other monsters at the table were somewhat dissatisfied, but after being glared at by Pigsy, they swallowed their anger and threatened, "If it weren't for the Great Sage Equaling Heaven's instructions, we would have taught you a lesson."

Tang Sanzang said, "Gentlemen, it's good to eat some vegetarian food. Eating vegetarian food can cultivate your character and make others feel your compassion. Why don't you all try some?"

One of the demon kings sneered, "I'm not going to be a monk. I'm just a demon. You're trying to talk to me about compassion? Are you trying to starve me to death? I can tell you're up to no good just by looking at you, you bald monk."

"Brother, ignore these monks, they're all lewd!"

A group of fairies weren't so polite when they spoke.

Tang Sanzang was not annoyed and said, "It's not that you can't eat meat, but have you ever thought that one day you will also eat the flesh of your own kind? Just like my second disciple, which of the bones on this table today is a wild boar bone? Which one is a domestic pig bone?"

Pigsy: ...

The hand that was stuffing meat into his mouth stopped, and then he looked at Tang Sanzang, threw the bone in his hand on the table, which immediately made all the demons at the table burst into laughter.

Just then, a demon burst in, looked around, and demanded, "Who is the monk from the Tang Dynasty? My Great Sage invites you!"

Pigsy was taken aback. Great Sage?

"Master, has my senior brother become a demon?"

"What are you saying? This is the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, the Bull Demon King, and also your disciple Sun Wukong's sworn brother." At this moment, a demon king said, "You've come, but you don't even pay your respects to the mountain first, all you know is to eat."

Tang Sanzang quickly stuffed several steamed buns into his clothes and said to Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, "You two stay here and behave yourselves. If anything goes wrong, immediately..."

"Run for your life!"

Sha Wujing answered successfully.

Tang Sanzang angrily said, "Go and rescue me immediately."

Sha Wujing then fell silent.

Tang Sanzang then looked at Zhu Bajie.

Pigsy pretended to gnaw on the bone on the table, as if he didn't see Tang Sanzang's gaze.

At this moment, the little demon urged again, "That's a Tang Dynasty monk! Come with me quickly. If you don't come, I'll report to the King and say that everyone at this table has disobeyed him..."

Before the words were even finished, everyone at the table left.

A handsome Tang Dynasty monk sat alone in the seat.

"It's you! Come here right now!" the little fairy said, and went to pull Tang Sanzang.

Tang Sanzang glanced at Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, who were hiding even faster than the demons, and said, "You two must remember, when you go in to save me, smash the cup as the signal..."

The little demon dragged Tang Sanzang away.

"Let's use the smashing of the cup as a signal—"

The voice of Tang Sanzang could be heard from afar, a slightly trembling one.

Tang Sanzang went inside, and Zhu Bajie turned to look at Sha Wujing: "What do we do now?"

Sha Wujing said, "Why don't we break up? Anyway, our eldest brother broke up first, so if Buddha gets angry, he'll be the first one to blame!"

Pigsy angrily said, "How could you be so mean? You didn't even mention dividing the luggage. The golden alms bowl is mine, the cassock is mine, and the little white dragon horse... what about the horse? Was it also pawned?"

Sha Wujing said, "I put it at the entrance of the cave, go and check it quickly."

The two of them took several steamed buns, and Pigsy even tore off a large piece of meat before heading out of the cave.

Tang Sanzang was invited to the backyard.

The Bull Demon King was dressed in a bright red robe, and two little demons were helping him adjust his clothes and the red veil on his head. His head was too big, so they had a huge veil custom-made for him.

"Tang Dynasty monk, where are my brothers? It's my joyous day today, why aren't they here? Do they look down on me?" the Bull Demon King said to Tang Sanzang.

Tang Sanzang put his palms together and said, "My eldest disciple went five hundred years later to find his lover."

Upon hearing this, the Bull Demon King burst into laughter: "You monk, you can't even recognize your own disciple! Besides, my brother's six senses are impure, so he's unfit to be a monk. It just so happens that my brother has been gone for five hundred years, so now that I see you, you taste quite good. Haha..."