But Nie Changchuan was tied to a wooden board and floated down the river until he reached the foot of Jinshan Temple, where he was stopped by a reef.

There was an elder in the Jinshan Temple, known as Monk Fa Ming, who had achieved enlightenment through practicing Taoism and had obtained the secret of non-rebirth.

While he was meditating, he suddenly dreamed of a child abandoned in the river. He was so frightened that he woke up quickly and went to the riverside to watch.

I saw a piece of wood stuck on the edge of a rock in the river, with a baby tied to it. The baby was not crying or making a fuss, but just staring blankly at the sky.

Monk Fa Ming was surprised and immediately jumped up and rescued him lightly.

The baby was held in the arms of Monk Fa Ming and finally came back to his senses from the exciting experience of the past two days.

He stared with his big black eyes, and when he saw the bald head of Monk Fa Ming, his face was suddenly filled with horror. He struggled hard, but failed to resist.

Monk Fa Ming thought he had frightened the baby, so he immediately chanted the Buddha's name and began to recite sutras for the baby.

Soon, the baby boy's eyelids drooped and he fell into a deep sleep.

Monk Fa Ming breathed a sigh of relief and took out the blood letter. After reading the words, he knew the boy's origins.

"I see. He is a pitiful man..."

Monk Fa Ming sighed softly, then looked at the sleeping baby boy and said, "It is inconvenient for monks to interfere in the secular world, let alone the court. Since you were saved by this poor monk, you have a connection with Buddha."

"Before you grow up, you can be a novice monk in my Jinshan Temple!"

After saying this, Monk Fa Ming gave the baby boy a nickname, Jiang Liuer.

From then on, Jiang Liuer lived in Jinshan Temple and was raised by many monks.

At first, Jiang Liuer, or Nie Changchuan who only had the memory of a time traveler, refused.

He has already discovered his identity, so naturally he doesn't want to follow the old path and become Tang Monk who went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

However, as time passed, he was gradually dragged down by the grace of Jinshan Temple for raising him, and because he was young and weak, he was unable to take revenge, so he could only stay in Jinshan Temple for the time being, waiting for the opportunity to leave.

The peaceful days continued until Nie Changchuan was five years old.

At that time, he was sitting next to Monk Fa Ming, listening to the morning prayers at Jinshan Temple.

At this moment, the Buddha statue in the temple suddenly burst into golden light. The monks were shocked and thought it was the Buddha appearing, so they knelt down and worshiped him immediately.

Little Nie Changchuan sat next to Monk Faming, looking at the Buddha statue shining with golden light with a look of shock.

Although he had been mentally prepared and knew that this might be a world of gods and demons, when he saw such a strange sight with his own eyes, little Nie Changchuan couldn't help but be shocked.

Suddenly, golden light condensed on the Buddha statue and transformed into a golden dragon, wandering on the beams of the temple.

The next moment, in front of the shocked gazes of all the monks, the golden dragon let out a long roar, then leaped down and flew straight into little Nie Changchuan's body.

Little Nie Changchuan opened his eyes wide, then suddenly rolled them over and fainted.

Many monks from Jinshan Temple were horrified and came forward.

The abbot of Jinshan Temple was very excited and immediately asked Monk Faming to check Nie Changchuan's body.

When he took off his monk's robes, one could see a golden dragon with bared fangs and claws tattooed on his fair and young back!

“Amitabha, Amitabha!”

The abbot chanted Buddhist mantras, paced back and forth, his face full of excitement.

Then, he stopped and looked at the monks solemnly and said, "This matter cannot be told to outsiders. Jiang Liuer is born with wisdom and is valued by the Buddha. He will definitely become a great monk and a pillar of our Buddhist sect in the future!"

Monk Faming was shocked when he heard this and said quickly, "But the abbot..."

The abbot turned his eyes and stared at Monk Faming, as if he didn't want him to say the next words.

Monk Fa Ming's expression changed, but he finally sighed and agreed.

From then on, in order to prevent Nie Changchuan from knowing his life experience, the abbot even went against his own will and asked Monk Fa Ming for a blood letter.

However, he is an enlightened monk after all. Although he is devoted to Buddhism, he also has his own sense of right and wrong.

He simply hid the blood letter somewhere in Jinshan Temple and did not completely destroy it.

He originally thought that everything would be fine like this, but unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Jiang Liu'er was born with knowledge and was born with supernatural powers. He didn't even need a blood letter to know his own life experience.

The next day, Nie Changchuan woke up in Monk Fa Ming's room.

He sat up suddenly and looked at the wall in front of him with a look of doubt.

After falling into a coma, he did not fall into a deep sleep, but entered a silver space that looked like a dream, in which he saw a golden figure practicing a set of exercises.

Nie Changchuan was mature in mind and understood immediately that this was most likely the golden dragon teaching him some magic.

Although he knew that this technique was most likely a magical skill from Buddhism, he had no choice since he was in such a world.

It's better to have some skills than not to have any, right?

Therefore, Nie Changchuan made a decisive decision and began to study seriously.

It was not until he mastered the technique in this dream world that he finally woke up.

"Eight Dragons..."

“Is this my golden finger?”

Nie Changchuan clenched his fists, and there was a faint golden dragon swimming in his eyes.

At this time, he didn't know how shocking it was that he had mastered this martial art in just one day.

Afterwards, Nie Changchuan began to secretly practice the Eight Parts Heavenly Dragon Skill in Jinshan Temple.

The monks in the temple respected the five-year-old Nie Changchuan very much because of the "apparition of Buddha". The abbot of Jinshan Temple even made an exception and shaved his head for him when he was five years old, giving him the Buddhist name - Xuanzang.

...or finally became Chen Xuanzang!

Nie Changchuan sighed inwardly, but did not refuse.

After all, the skills he practiced were indeed magical skills of Buddhism, so what if he just gave it a Buddhist name?

Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, another eight years have passed.

Nie Changchuan has become a thirteen-year-old boy, and because of the Eight Parts of Heavenly Dragon Kung Fu, he has grown tall and strong, nearly nine feet tall.

His muscles are so strong that it seems like horses can run on his arms and people can stand on his fists.

When the people from all over the country saw him, they all praised him as a good man. If he had been born a few years earlier, he might have followed the Tang Emperor in his campaigns and established some achievements through military merit.

It’s a pity that the child became a monk at such a young age.

I don't know how those bland people in Jinshan Temple raised him to be like this.

In fact, the people at Jinshan Temple didn't know how Nie Changchuan grew up to look like this by eating only wild vegetables and rice.

Only the abbot of Jinshan Temple and monk Fa Ming knew that this kid often sneaked into the back mountain and, relying on his iron fists, hunted wild game to fill his stomach.

Another day, Monk Fa Ming smelled the aroma of barbecue in the back mountain, and went there angrily. Sure enough, he saw a sturdy young man sitting on the shore, eating a roasted pork leg with relish.

Seeing this, Monk Fa Ming was furious and shouted, "Evil disciple, why don't you follow me back to the temple and face the wall!"

Nie Changchuan paused, glanced at Monk Faming, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Master. You scared me. I thought it was the abbot's thief bald guy. Don't worry, don't worry. After I finish eating, I will go back with you to face the wall!"

Monk Fa Ming was so angry that he laughed: "I'm still waiting for you to finish eating... Have you forgotten all the rules and regulations of Jinshan Temple?"

Nie Changchuan put down the pork leg and said frivolously, "I don't care about meat, so it's okay to eat it. But you, Master, you keep saying some rules and regulations, but you don't really mean it in your heart!"

Monk Fa Ming was slightly startled, then he sighed and said, "Xuanzang, you have wisdom and Buddha nature, why can't you use them in the right way?"

"What is the right path?" Nie Changchuan asked, "Eating vegetarian food, chanting Buddhist scriptures, and meditating, is this the right path?"

"I don't think so. I think that walking out of the mountain gate, observing the sufferings of the world, doing good deeds and accumulating virtues is the right path!"

Monk Fa Ming felt very relieved when he heard Nie Changchuan's words.

But he still shook his head and said, "You have been eloquent since you were young. I can't argue with you."

"I know you've always wanted to go down the mountain, but you're still young after all. You don't know the intrigues and sufferings of the world down there. When you grow up and make great progress in Buddhism, your master and the abbot will let you go down the mountain..."

Nie Changchuan looked at him deeply and suddenly asked, "Is it really because of this reason?"

Monk Fa Ming's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately fell silent.

Seeing his master's reaction, Nie Changchuan sighed and said, "Monks don't tell lies, so whenever I ask about my life experience, you remain silent. This is why you can't be the abbot!"

Monk Faming's pupils shrank, and he blurted out, "Have you asked the abbot?"

Nie Changchuan laughed and said, "The abbot is much better than you, Master. When he answered me, his face didn't turn red, and his heart didn't beat fast!"

Monk Fa Ming fell silent, not knowing what to say.

Nie Changchuan picked up the pig leg and ate it up in a few bites. Then he washed his hands in the river and stood up.

"Master." Nie Changchuan looked at Monk Faming and said seriously, "I stayed here just to wait for you to come. After I finish eating this pork leg, I will leave and go down the mountain to seek revenge in Jiangzhou!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Monk Fa Ming's pupils shrank. After being shocked for a moment, he looked at Nie Changchuan with a complicated expression.

"You know everything?"

"Um."

"…How is the abbot?"

"He's fine." Nie Changchuan said softly, "I didn't learn the truth from the abbot, but after I became a master in cultivation, I remembered my memories as a baby on my own."

"The scene of my mother giving birth to me in her bedroom, the scene of my master rescuing me from the river, all these past events are still vivid in my mind..."

Hearing this, Monk Fa Ming was obviously relieved, but he still looked at Nie Changchuan with complicated eyes.

"When you were five years old, the Buddha appeared and bestowed upon you divine power. I know that you have now mastered your divine power and your master cannot stop you. However, my Jinshan Temple has always had strict disciplines. As an elder of the Jinshan Temple, your master will not tolerate your presumptuous behavior!"

As he spoke, he took out a stick that reached his eyebrows, assumed the stance of a demon-subduing stick, and shouted, "If you want to go down the mountain, you must first pass this test of your master!"

Seeing this scene, Nie Changchuan sighed, clasped his hands together, and chanted the Buddha's name.

The next moment, his eyes widened with anger, he thrust out a palm and said, "Great and Mighty Heavenly Dragon!"

In an instant, an incomparably huge golden dragon flew out from his palm, let out a shocking dragon roar in the air, and then flew towards Monk Fa Ming with its fangs and claws bared, with great momentum.

"boom!!"

With a loud bang, the earth shook.

The golden dragon flew past Monk Fa Ming and flattened the forest within a radius of 100 meters, as well as the hills hundreds of meters high.

Nie Changchuan looked solemn and dignified. He stood there with one hand raised, looking at the dazed monk Fa Ming and said seriously, "Amitabha, when I have avenged my parents, I will return to the mountain and let Master deal with me."

After saying that, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Monk Fa Ming without hesitation. Then he stood up, picked up the Zen stick with the roasted pig on it, strode past Monk Fa Ming and headed towards the county town at the foot of the mountain.