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

"The master is biased!"

When Shu Baimei entered, she saw Zhang Zhengdao feeding Zixia Fairy the golden pill, and she immediately flew into a rage.

Zhang Zhengdao casually tossed a golden pill into Shu Baimei's hand, and Shu Baimei smiled and swallowed it in one gulp.

If a woman cannot treat all her subjects equally, there will be no peace in the household.

After Zixia Fairy consumed the golden elixir, her complexion visibly improved.

Sun Wukong glanced at it and felt that the golden pill looked somewhat familiar.

"Stop looking at Laozi's Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. You ate too much of it when you were causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace. Eating more will only cause indigestion, understand?"

Zhang Zhengdao had no intention of feeding the monkey.

Sun Wukong was not annoyed, and looked down to examine the red-clad female ghost.

The karmic fire within the red-clad female ghost had been purged, and her body had visibly returned to the fair complexion of a normal person. However, she hadn't yet awakened, so the monkey looked at Zhang Zhengdao.

"What's the rush? The fusion of the soul and body will take some time. He will wake up in three days."

The monkey immediately kowtowed to Zhang Zhengdao and Fairy Zixia.

"No need to thank me. This female ghost is someone I raised in my yard. Now that she has this opportunity, I will naturally not be stingy with my help and will take care of her."

Zhang Zhengdao was actually quite nice to this female ghost.

Shu Baimei, who was standing to the side, seemed to be thinking about something, perhaps her past self.

then……

She's also a very cute female ghost...

After placing the woman in red in a side room, Sun Wukong came out again to thank Zhang Zhengdao.

Zhang Zhengdao thought for a moment and said, "Are you really sure she is the Bai Jingjing you are looking for? She just happened to become a White Bone Demon, and she may not be the White Bone Demon you are waiting for."

Sun Wukong said, "I'm sure she is the White Bone Demon. She looks exactly like the White Bone Demon five hundred years later. I thought she looked very similar when she was still a ghost."

"Please, Taoist priest, have mercy and allow Bai Jingjing to become a disciple of Fairy Zixia."

Zhang Zhengdao laughed and said, "You still want to meet her five hundred years later? But you already met her five hundred years ago. Now, once she becomes Zixia's disciple, are you going to go five hundred years later?"

Sun Wukong nodded firmly.

"Yes, that's what I think."

Zhang Zhengdao laughed loudly: "That's bullshit! Isn't this just like taking off your pants to fart, all unnecessary and redundant? You want to meet her and love her five hundred years later, but now you're risking your life to turn her into the White Bone Demon and make her become Zixia's disciple. Why don't you just tell her that you want to marry her?"

Sun Wukong:? ? ?

The monkey demon has started burning monkey brains.

Zhang Zhengdao wasn't in a hurry for Sun Wukong to give an answer. The two women at home were causing some unrest, much like the ghost Shu Baimei and Hu Yunying back in Peach Blossom Temple.

If there's only one woman, life might be a bit noisy, but at least it's manageable. However, if there are two, life can become quite chaotic; and if there are three…

Zhang Zhengdao then went out and went to the temple to find the monks.

They didn't find any monks at the temple; they were told the monks had gone to the market.

Zhang Zhengdao didn't go looking for him, but wandered around the temple. When he encountered people burning incense and worshipping Buddha, they all looked at the Taoist priest with surprise, thinking that he had come to the Buddhist temple to cause trouble.

The abbot rushed over and bowed to Zhang Zhengdao with his hands clasped together, asking, "Daoist Master, have you come today to seek Venerable Puzhao?"

The Venerable Puzhao was that fat monk.

"If you encounter him, you are here to seek him out. If you don't encounter him, you are here to seek out people in the world."

Zhang Zhengdao smiled and waved his hand: "I'll go my own way, don't worry about me."

The host didn't dare ask any questions and took his leave.

As Zhang Zhengdao went out, he happened to run into the Chen family of three, who were at the temple to fulfill a vow. The son was now lucid and didn't seem so obese anymore; his eyes were clear, and he bowed to Zhang Zhengdao.

"Thank you, Taoist Priest!"

Chen the blacksmith also said with a smile, "Today I'm hosting a banquet at home and have invited Master Puzhao. I hope you will do me the honor of attending!"

The monk who was guiding the monks heard this and his mouth twisted in disbelief.

This Master Puzhao is truly an eye-opener. Not only does the abbot ignore him, but he also turns a blind eye to such a serious matter as breaking the precepts, and still keeps him in the temple.

Zhang Zhengdao nodded: "Definitely, definitely!"

After leaving the temple, I walked towards the street not far down the mountain behind it.

This street is next to a temple, so business is very good.

The temple was very popular with worshippers, which boosted the business of the surrounding shops. Most of the pilgrims made their purchases here.

These shops and temples all have fixed profit-sharing ratios.

Because most of the real estate here belongs to temples, and the sales of incense and paper money are shared with the temples, the prosperity of the temples means that these shops also have very good income.

The fat monk Puzhao sat by the roadside, set up a stall, and put up a sign that read: "Wine and meat pass through the intestines, but there are ways to do good deeds."

Zhang Zhengdao walked over and said, "Monk, tell my fortune."

The fat monk glanced at Zhang Zhengdao and said lazily, "I am a monk, not a Taoist priest. Taoist priests tell fortunes, monks guide people; the business cannot be confused."

Zhang Zhengdao said, "You're not sitting in the West, but instead coming to this mortal world to experience the hardships of ordinary people?"

The monk glanced at Zhang Zhengdao and said, "If you, a Taoist priest, can roam the martial world, why can't I mingle in the human world? Cultivating oneself is about helping others, not about suffering for oneself."

Zhang Zhengdao laughed heartily: "You seem to see things clearly, but it's all just talk. Your mouth is full of Buddhist principles, but your heart is full of business."

The monk rolled his eyes at him: "Tell me, what business am I doing this for?"

"Monkey!"

Zhang Zhengdao laughed and said, "If it weren't for waiting for the monkey to return to its place, what else could you be doing? Everyone says you know the past, present, and future. Did you know long ago that the White Bone Demon was here and the monkey would definitely come here?"

The fat monk pointed at Zhang Zhengdao and said angrily, "He who suspects the evil in people's hearts will also have an evil heart."

"Tsk tsk tsk, you've been exposed and are now angry?" Zhang Zhengdao laughed heartily. "Greed, anger, and ignorance, you monk have broken the precept against anger again. You are not fit to be a teacher."

The fat monk, instead of being angry, laughed and said, "Daoist, you, a person from outside the world, like to meddle in matters within the realm. Every world has its own laws of operation. If you break them, aren't you afraid that the sky will collapse and the earth will fall?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Even if the sky collapses and the earth crumbles, there are tall people to hold it up."

The fat monk was speechless and pointed to his own signboard.

"Move aside, don't interrupt my business."

Zhang Zhengdao said, "You've set up this facade of 'drinking and eating meat while doing good deeds,' but have you seen anyone approach you for business? No, right? So they all know you're just a drunkard and a disgrace to Buddhism."

The fat monk was no longer annoyed. He looked at Zhang Zhengdao and smiled, "People are ignorant, so what I need to do is make them see the truth clearly."

Just then, a young man rushed over and said to the monk, "Master, Master, please help me!"

The monk nodded slightly and said in a wise manner, "No rush, no rush, tell me what it is."

The young man said, "My Xiao Cui... that is, my wife. This morning... when I woke up, I found my wife..."

After saying that, he leaned close to the monk's ear and whispered, "It's a fox."

The monk quickly calculated and understood the situation. He sighed and said, "What a tragedy! You killed a perfectly good fox spirit. I'm afraid you'll only be able to seek revenge."

The young man was taken aback, then looked at the monk with surprise: "Master, you figured it out at a glance?"

The fat monk nodded: "Of course I saw it. What you did was not honorable, but that fox spirit also had ulterior motives. Regardless of who was rude to whom, just the fact that you killed her means that from now on, foxes will keep coming to harass your house."

The young man's face fell, and he said dejectedly, "Isn't that right? I killed a fox this morning, and at noon a whole bunch of foxes came down from the mountain and took over my house. My family went to the authorities, and they drove them away for a while, but as soon as they left, they came back, even more aggressively, smashing, looting, and trying to set fires. Luckily, the neighbors stopped them again. Someone suggested that there was a master in this temple, so I went to ask, and the master is you!"

The fat monk was taken aback: "I'm that famous? I'm a famous wine-and-meat monk, not a Dharma master!"

The young man was also taken aback and said, "It was an elder in charge of the temple who told me to come here to find you."

At this point, Zhang Zhengdao burst into laughter.

"Monk, you're just staying at the temple for a short while, and yet you've managed to stir up such a power struggle. It must be because the abbot has been too lenient with you that the elders in charge have become suspicious, feeling... that you're plotting to seize the abbot's succession, hahaha..."

The fat monk's face turned black.

The young man looked at the fat monk suspiciously and muttered, "No...you...you're not a master, are you?"

Zhang Zhengdao said, "Young man, he is indeed a master. You won't regret seeking his help."

The young man said, "I'm not going to look for him anymore. Daoist, how is your cultivation? Can you help me get rid of the fox spirit? I'm willing to pay twenty taels of silver."

The fat monk suddenly stood up and said to Zhang Zhengdao, "Stop making fun of me."

He then said to the young man, "I'll take this job."

Zhang Zhengdao said, "I only need fifteen taels of silver."

The fat monk angrily said, "I misjudged you. I considered you a friend, and you dared to steal my business right to my face. Young man, you've stirred up a hornet's den. If you don't resolve this, you'll probably have to move. Even moving won't work; fox spirits have a special ability: they can track you from a thousand miles away... You can't escape."

The young man turned pale upon hearing this.

"Then... monk, you can do it! Fifteen taels of silver..."

The fat monk gritted his teeth: "Fifteen taels it is!"

At this moment, Zhang Zhengdao slowly said, "I only need ten taels!"

The fat monk glared at Zhang Zhengdao and said, "I considered you a friend, someone with similar interests... Fine, fine, just give me ten taels of silver and I'll help you."