Traveling Through Journey to the West: I Am the Dragon King

Hearing the White Crane Fairy's urging voice, Yun Chonghua, who was having a deep dream, slowly woke up.

He slowly opened his eyes, looked at the white crane fairy holding the jade bottle before him, and asked, "Are you done?"

The White Crane Fairy said, "The inscriptions are all engraved, but there's still one last step."

As she spoke, Fairy White Crane took Yun Chonghua's hand and then gently tapped his finger with her fingertip.

Yun Chonghua felt a sharp pain in his fingertip, followed by a drop of blood.

With a flick of her finger, the White Crane Fairy sent a drop of blood flying into the jade bottle, which then glowed with a red light.

Looking down, Yun Chonghua saw that the small wound on his finger had already healed.

The White Crane Fairy said, "You ate the peaches of immortality, swallowed the golden elixir, drank the imperial wine, and even ate the golden lotus seeds from the Jade Pool. Your body has long since become a body of pure gold. Only I could do this. If it were anyone else, it would be truly difficult for any external force to harm you in the slightest."

At this moment, the White Crane Fairy conjured a ball of flame in her palm and picked up another jade bottle.

The vase in her hands was like a lump of clay, which she could mold and change shape at will.

Finally, the White Crane Fairy attached it to the refined jade bottle. With a few squeezes of her hands, she conjured a pair of "earrings" out of thin air from the jade bottle. She then used her fingernails to carve many patterns, making it not only more beautiful but also more ancient, resembling a bronze ritual vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The White Crane Fairy withdrew the true fire from her palm and handed the jade bottle to Yun Chonghua, saying, "Alright! Take a look, not bad, right?"

Yun Chonghua gave a thumbs-up and exclaimed, "Sister Baihe's cooking skills are truly excellent."

The White Crane Fairy smiled sweetly upon hearing this.

The White Crane Fairy said, "Don't just look outside, go and see inside first." Then, she pointed the mouth of her jade bottle at Yun Chonghua and called out, "Collect!"

The bottle suddenly emitted a strong suction force, and before Yun Chonghua could react, he was directly sucked into the bottle.

Yun Chonghua screamed and fell into the bottle.

The feeling was just like when Nezha threw me down from outside the Western Heavenly Gate last time.

Out of fear, he attempted to use magic to fly on the clouds.

But when he chanted the incantation to gather clouds to catch him, golden light immediately appeared around the bottle, and countless golden runes connected in a line, like chains, wrapping around his body and directly imprisoning his magic power.

The feeling was similar to when I was bound by the Dragon-Binding Rope; I had strength but couldn't use it.

Just as he felt he was about to fall and get hurt, a white figure flew towards him at high speed and caught him in one go.

The person who came was none other than the White Crane Fairy.

The White Crane Fairy pulled Yun Chonghua into her arms and said with a grin, "How was it? How did it feel to be captured by a magic weapon for the first time? Not scared, were you?"

The feeling of falling from such a height reminded Yun Chonghua of the last time he fell from the sky. He hugged the White Crane Fairy tightly and said, "Of course I was scared. I don't want to experience that feeling of falling from the sky again."

Seeing this, the White Crane Fairy smiled but remained silent. She simply carried him slowly to the space at the bottom of the bottle.

After landing, Yun Chonghua released the White Crane Fairy.

The world inside the bottle isn't dark; in fact, it's quite bright when the light from the outside shines through.

After looking around, Yun Chonghua looked up but couldn't see the top; all around him was an endless expanse.

Yun Chonghua murmured, "Is this the world inside the bottle?"

The White Crane Fairy nodded and said, "Yes. How is it? Are you satisfied with this place?"

Yun Chonghua replied happily, "Satisfied! Absolutely satisfied! By the way, Sister Baihe, how big is this world inside the bottle you created?"

The White Crane Fairy replied, "This bottle is narrow at the top and bottom, and wide at the bottom. The bottom of the bottle is eight hundred li in circumference, the middle part is one thousand two hundred li in circumference, and the mouth of the bottle is narrower, three hundred li in circumference. And from top to bottom, it is also eight hundred li in height."

Upon hearing this, Yun Chonghua exclaimed in surprise, "Ah? Is this place really that big?"

The White Crane Fairy laughed and said, "Hehe, is it very big? Compared to the great supernatural power 'Universe in the Sleeve' of Zhenyuan Daxian, the 'Ancestor of Earthly Immortals,' this place is much smaller. However, my cultivation is only tens of thousands of years old, which is not comparable to those great beings who have become Buddhas and Ancestors. With my abilities, this is the most I can do for you."

Yun Chonghua replied, "That's enough! That's enough! Sister Baihe, you're too modest."

At this moment, Yun Chonghua remembered that when he tried to cast a spell earlier, his magical power was suddenly imprisoned by the inscription.

Yun Chonghua asked, "By the way, Sister Baihe, when I fell just now, I tried to use a cloud to stabilize myself, but at that moment, a golden light shone all around, and then countless golden runes flew towards me, imprisoning all my magical power. What happened?"

The White Crane Fairy said, "As I just mentioned, this magical artifact I made for you can not only hold things, but also trap enemies. Naturally, I need to add some restrictions against enemies to this bottle. Although I don't know the harmful spell that turns people into pus and blood, I can still add an inscription to restrict magical power. As long as the enemy is trapped inside, he will immediately become weak and paralyzed, and all his magical power will be restricted."

"However, those with too high a cultivation level won't be able to use it. For example, even though I'm a Celestial Immortal with tens of thousands of years of cultivation, I can't say I'm completely unaffected, but the effect of this inscription on me is still negligible. If it were those 'Great Emperors' or 'Celestial Venerables,' my level of cultivation would just be a trivial trick. As for you, you just didn't struggle hard enough. If you had struggled hard enough, you could have used about six or seven tenths of your true power here."

"In addition to the inscription that imprisons magic power, I also engraved a Vajra inscription on the bottle. Ordinary little demons and monsters with a thousand years of cultivation, after being put into this bottle, will first have their magic power imprisoned. Even if they still have some power left, without a special divine weapon in hand, they simply cannot break it from the inside."

After speaking, the White Crane Fairy picked up Yun Chonghua again and flew with him towards one side of the bottle.

But after flying for several hundred miles, a sudden, fierce hurricane struck, and Yun Chonghua was so blown that he couldn't even open his eyes.

"Where is this? Why is the wind so strong?" Yun Chonghua asked.

The White Crane Fairy chuckled and said, "Big? You haven't seen the bigger ones yet!"

After saying this, the White Crane Fairy transformed the arm that was holding Yun Chonghua into wings, using her own wings to protect him.

The two then flew towards the depths where the strong wind was coming from.

Even though Yun Chonghua hid under the wings of the White Crane Fairy, he still felt the wind getting even stronger.

Finally, the White Crane Fairy flew another twenty or thirty miles and completely passed through the wind formation.

After the two landed, Yun Chonghua looked back and saw a powerful tornado swirling and howling behind them.

Behind them was the emerald green bottle, with faint golden inscriptions constantly floating on its surface.

Looking at the dragon whirlwind formation, the White Crane Fairy said, "This is the fourth inscription I set up. My most proficient spell is summoning wind, but the fierce wind of Buzhou is the innate spiritual energy attached to my magic weapon, which I cannot give to you. So I settled for second best and set up this Samadhi Divine Wind formation in this bottle. The seal on the bottle's mouth is the same. Unless the opponent has a magic weapon that can control the wind, it will be extremely difficult for them to escape."

"From now on, you can use the prison within this wind array to imprison any enemies you bring in. And the empty spaces outside this wind array can be used to store your own belongings."