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

The four of them packed a lot of food and drinks from the Bull Demon King. Pigsy even secretly took two gold ingots from the gifts and hid them in his sleeve.

The Bull Demon King saw all of this.

But he didn't say it.

I haven't had much luck these past few days. Although it's my wedding day, which is supposed to be a joyous occasion, I've been beaten up twice in a row. It's hard to feel happy about that.

Especially when facing that Taoist priest, he thought he was really going to die, his soul would be scattered, and he would be left with nothing. So he was terrified at that time.

As for fighting with Sun Wukong, it was just the two of them playing around. There was no blood feud between them. Although they almost killed each other, they didn't actually kill each other, did they?

The vast desert sands are bathed in the setting sun.

"I'll leave you here. I need to go find someone."

Sun Wukong addressed the three of them, master and disciples.

Tang Sanzang asked in surprise, "Wukong, what are you going to do now?"

Sun Wukong said, "I must find Fairy Zixia."

Pigsy asked in surprise, "You're going to marry Fairy Zixia?"

Sha Wujing: "Maybe I even want to have a litter of monkey offspring."

Tang Sanzang said, "The monkey is fine, but the monkey grandchildren are born from Wukong's monkeys, so they are called monkey grandchildren. Wujing, what you said is wrong. The monkey is Wukong's son, and only the children born to Wukong's son are called monkey grandchildren. But if Wukong didn't marry the monkey, but instead married a human, would the child be a monkey or a human?"

"Farewell!"

Sun Wukong somersaulted into the sky and disappeared without a trace. He wanted to find Fairy Zixia and have her take the White Bone Demon as her disciple, naming her Bai Jingjing.

Jambudvipa, Yizhou, Qingcheng Mountain.

Zhang Zhengdao is still nostalgic.

However, there are Taoist temples on Mount Qingcheng, and they do not accept Taoists who stay overnight.

Therefore, Zhang Zhengdao could only go to Jincheng, which is near Qingcheng Mountain.

She bought a courtyard on the southwest street of Jincheng City, and the courtyard was full of peach trees. The peach blossoms bloom in spring and bear fruit in summer. After the peaches were full, the Fairy Zixia would dry the peaches into dried peaches that she couldn't eat, and then coat them with frosting sugar. This would not only prevent insects but also preserve them for a long time, and the taste was quite good.

Behind the courtyard is a lotus pond with fish in it. In summer, when the lotus flowers bloom, their fragrance fills the entire courtyard and rooms.

If I can't go to Qingcheng Mountain, I'll just plant peach trees at home.

I've been here for two years.

Zixia Fairy would often touch her belly and complain to Zhang Zhengdao: "The Wang family next door got married last year and had a child this year, adding a new member to their family. And now she's pregnant again. Is it your problem or mine?"

Women love to complain about these things.

Zhang Zhengdao couldn't help but say, "I haven't even complained yet, and you're already complaining."

Zixia said, feeling wronged, "Why can't I complain?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "I told you not to come with me, but you insisted, saying how romantic it would be to watch the stars and the moon together. Fine... I let you come. After you came, you said you wanted to have a baby, and I did as you said. But what happened? You saw other people having babies, but you can't have one yourself. Is that my fault?"

Fairy Zixia: "Whose fault is it? Is it the Goddess of Mercy who grants children?"

In the Purple Bamboo Grove of the South China Sea, Guanyin Bodhisattva was meditating when she suddenly sneezed. She tried to calculate with her fingers, but the heavenly secrets were in chaos, and she could not figure anything out.

Most of the things in this world that she couldn't predict were the work of that Taoist priest.

Is she eyeing me now? Why do I feel a little scared?

Do I have some kind of psychological trauma?

Zhang Zhengdao said, "You've cultivated yourself into a spirit from a lamp wick, have you ever thought about how you're different from a real woman? Have you ever heard of a lamp wick getting pregnant?"

Fairy Zixia: ...

Zhang Zhengdao continued, "If a lamp wick can get pregnant, then can toilet paper get pregnant?"

Zixia Fairy hesitated for a moment, then finally mustered up the courage to ask, "Um... what kind of paper is toilet paper?"

Zhang Zhengdao sighed: "Girl!"

Another day of PUA has come to an end.

Zixia is a woman who can provide emotional support, but she can also plunge your mind into a strange kind of conflict. Perhaps this is the daily life of a woman with a romantic mindset after life has settled into a routine.

Many neighbors in the southwest street of Jincheng knew that a man and a woman came two years ago and bought a courtyard. It was quite large. It was said to have been the residence of the Vice Minister of Rites during the reign of Emperor Gaozu. Later, something happened and it became a haunted house. It was hastily sold and bought by Zhang Zhengdao.

For Zhang Zhengdao, haunted houses added an element of interest.

Just like tonight, when Fairy Zixia went to sleep out of boredom, and Zhang Zhengdao was lying alone in the courtyard, a female ghost in red appeared.

Her face was very pale; she must have had a lot of powder applied when she died.

The female ghost originally died wearing white clothes, but Zhang Zhengdao insisted that she change into red clothes, since there was also a female ghost wearing red clothes in Peach Blossom Mountain before.

I'm starting to miss Peach Blossom Mountain.

In the chaotic universe, perhaps one day when I return to chaos, I will be able to find the anchor point of the first world I came from, and then return to Peach Blossom Mountain.

But what is this anchor point?

Is it a person or an object?

The female ghost has made great progress, from being timid and even unable to pour tea properly with trembling hands at the beginning, to now being able to chat with Zhang Zhengdao casually.

The courtyard not only contains the female ghost, but also her younger brother, her older brother, her parents, and so on.

They were all reincarnated after Zhang Zhengdao's salvation, but the female ghost insisted on staying.

It wasn't that the female ghost insisted on staying, but Zhang Zhengdao said, "You should stay!"

So the female ghost stayed.

After two years of nurturing, the female ghost became increasingly delicate and was able to appear in public during the day. However, due to her ghostly nature, she still preferred to come out at night.

The female ghost and her family died a terrible death. More than a hundred members of the family were hacked to death overnight, making it a major case personally supervised by the emperor.

However, this matter involved too many things, including court intrigues. The number of people who died was not just a few; some families were even wiped out, and they all became victims.

So the female ghost's parents and her brothers and sisters didn't say anything about revenge.

First of all, they knew that Zhang Zhengdao was already being very kind by offering to perform rituals for those who had died unjustly. To make excessive demands would be ungrateful.

Furthermore, this matter involves the struggles between human dynasties. Even if Zhang Zhengdao is a cultivator, even if he becomes an immortal, he will still be bound by the Heavenly Dao and should not get too deeply involved.

Finally, this matter is neither right nor wrong, only success or failure, so failure and death were expected, which makes him even less willing to seek revenge.

This demonstrates the insight and breadth of vision that Vice Minister Wang, as a political figure, could possess.

The whole family, except for the female ghost, obediently went to be reincarnated.

When Zhang Zhengdao performed the ritual to help the deceased soul pass on, the King of Hell in the underworld personally received the departed soul.

As for how the Kings of Hell arrange things, that's their business.

However, the Kings of Hell had already made arrangements, and they personally appeared in Zhang Zhengdao's dream, telling him to bestow upon the vice minister a Yin spirit, and that the rest of his family members would be reborn into wealthy and noble families.

This was all arranged perfectly.

Zhang Zhengdao had come once, but they were still afraid he would come again; if he did, they would be finished.

Although Zhang Zhengdao lived a comfortable and easy life in Jincheng, he had a vague feeling that something or someone in the chaotic universe was pursuing him.

He didn't know who it was; it could be the person he was looking for, or it could be the person searching for him.

In his second life, he traveled to Mount Qingcheng, so it's very likely that Mount Qingcheng will become the anchor point of this world. This anchor point may also attract the people he is searching for.

Fairy Zixia got up, spent a long time washing and dressing, and went out with a basket in her arms.

"I'm going to buy groceries!"

Fairy Zixia no longer wears those elegant and high-class silk and gauze dresses. Instead, she wears the kind of coarse cloth skirts that women often wear, which are more down-to-earth.

Even in her simple, plain clothes, her ethereal气质 (qi zhi, a kind of refined elegance or aura) still made those around her feel inferior. However, after seeing her so often, people's emotions changed from jealousy to envy, and then from envy to complete indifference.

Even the most beautiful person becomes quite ordinary after you've seen them many times.

Along the way, they also met several aunties from the neighborhood, as well as Wang, the woman from the Wang family who was pregnant.

Wang used to be very jealous of Fairy Zixia, but now, even with her pregnant belly, she walks with the pride of a little hen, strutting around.

"Sister Zhu, is there still no sign of pregnancy?"

She concealed the smile that she couldn't hide by feigning regret, and deliberately spoke loudly in secret.

Zixia took a deep breath, clenched her fists, and didn't extend her sleeves. She just smiled and said, "There's no rush to have a baby. It's better to be born beautifully than early, and better to be born cleverly than beautiful; better to be born well than cleverly, so... it's better to wait a little longer."

Wang chuckled and was about to speak when her aunt spoke up.

"Why are you all bickering about such trivial matters? Have you heard? Recently, a young woman came to Feixian Temple on Qingyang Mountain. She's quite intelligent, and it's said that the abbot made an exception and built her a separate residence. He originally wanted to take her as a disciple, but she declined, so she became a temporary nun."

Another auntie added, "Her fortune telling is incredibly accurate. It's said that even the Taoist priest Huang Guan from the imperial palace went to pay her a visit and wanted to kowtow and become her disciple."

The aunt finally revealed her true colors.

“Well… Miss Zhu, I think you should go to Qingyang Mountain with your husband and see that female Taoist priest. Maybe she can still save it…”

Fairy Zixia was displeased and said, "Female Taoist priest? Heh, these days female Taoist priests and monks don't have a good reputation."

Alas, the untold story of the monk and the princess spread throughout the Tang Dynasty, and naturally, no one had a good reputation for those who practiced Buddhism.

Zixia continued, "However... it would be good to go and see who this person is."