"What is the mission?" Guanyin asked.
She was very curious about the value game that even Buddha and the Jade Emperor avoided.
Li Changzhou directly teleported the mission details—he was increasingly fond of teleportation, as speaking was too slow.
[Eighty-one tribulations...] Guanyin muttered to herself.
"Bodhisattva, please teach me!" Li Changzhou said with a smile. "With you here, this task will be a piece of cake."
"Simple? All the gods and Buddhas, the Four Duty Officers, the Five Directions Protectors, the Six Ding and Six Jia, and the Eighteen Guardians of the Faith are watching. The advice I give you might actually harm you." Guanyin laughed and scolded, then muttered to herself, "The 21st year of Zhenguan, late summer..."
After waiting a while, Li Changzhou tentatively asked, "[Without the Bodhisattva path fruit, your memory is failing? You can't remember what time it is now?]"
[You can go to Luojia Mountain, and I'll tell you how to get "me" at this time to help you.]
"I was wrong, I'm sorry." Li Changzhou knew without a doubt that Guanyin was criticizing him.
Without her supernatural powers, Guanyin's memory is indeed not very good. Of course, this is relative to her vast and long-standing memories, not to mention that she has to recall a certain late summer of a certain year.
[Tang Sanzang should have just passed Chechi Kingdom and was on his way to the Tongtian River... So you go to the Tongtian River!]
"Is everything alright?" Li Changzhou asked.
【The Tongtian River, good!】 Guanyin seemed very satisfied with this choice.
She regained her composure, like a bodhisattva, and explained:
[That monkey can't fight in water. As for the other three—Wuneng is the reincarnation of Marshal Tianpeng, commanding 80,000 naval soldiers in the Heavenly River; Wujing is from the Flowing Sand River; and the white horse is the grandson of the Dragon King of the Western Sea. These three know how to swim, but they're all useless, just extras to carry loads and lead horses. And that carp in the river is mine... what was that word again?]
【prepared by? 】
Yes, it's another one of my assigned positions. Let's just replace it with this difficult one!
Li Changzhou still had many questions in his mind, but he knew that the opportunity was fleeting, so he immediately asked Guanyin which way the Tongtian River led, and without even looking at the beautiful scenery of the prehistoric world, he rode the clouds there.
Although it was August, the area around Tongtian River was already in late summer and early autumn, and it would be normal for it to snow soon.
The setting sun turned the sky crimson, and crimson clouds, as large as mountains, pressed down on the horizon, dyeing the entire world red. Countless mountains, each tens of thousands of meters high, seemed to be burning fiercely, as if the world's light was emitted from these mountains.
A gentle breeze was blowing. Li Changzhou was multitasking, using his abundant energy to cultivate, sending telepathic messages to Li Qianxia, Yang Qinglan, and Yaochi, and also gathering information from Guanyin.
What are the levels of cultivation of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing? What methods do they possess? This is the most important question.
"Pigsy and Sandy are no match for you. Even in the water, they won't last long," Guanyin said.
[So weak?]
In Li Changzhou's memory, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing were not strong in "Journey to the West", but that was relative to Sun Wukong. They were, after all, generals of the Heavenly Court, or at least earth immortals. No matter how they joined forces, they could not defeat him.
[Pig Wuneng was once Marshal Tianpeng, but after only a few decades of reincarnation, and being extremely lazy, he immediately became lustful again upon becoming a human immortal. He left the Moyun Cave to marry a wife in Gao Village. Only after arriving in the Western Paradise and eating the vegetarian fruit offered by Buddha did he attain immortality.]
Human immortals cannot achieve immortality; only earth immortals can.
[Is Sha Wujing similar?]
Guanyin nodded: "Only that monkey is troublesome. He's eaten countless elixirs, fine wines, jade dews, and peaches of immortality. Although he has fewer supernatural powers and less time to cultivate, his magical strength is no weaker than mine. But in the water, you don't need to fear him."
Li Changzhou had a question when he was a child: why was Sun Wukong so afraid of water?
Seemingly guessing his thoughts, Guanyin smiled and explained:
The "Great Celestial Immortal Technique" is excellent. It can enable cultivators to quickly catch up with their cultivation level. In order to achieve immortality, the monkey traveled from Dongsheng Shenzhou across the sea and over mountains to Xiniu Hezhou in more than ten years. He traveled a longer distance than the journey to the West to obtain the scriptures, and suffered countless hardships and karmic obstacles in the mortal world.
[His learning of the "Great Celestial Immortal Technique" is like you experiencing dozens of valuable games and suddenly receiving a reward, causing your cultivation level to advance by leaps and bounds. Although it's a case of accumulating knowledge and experience before unleashing it, it's still a quick way to achieve mastery. The "Great Celestial Immortal Technique" has no other drawbacks, only one weakness: it might prevent one from smelling fragrances, getting wet in the rain, or hearing thunder. That monkey is afraid of water.]
Li Changzhou smiled, listening with great interest to these ancient anecdotes.
As for why the Heavenly Court didn't use water to attack Flower Fruit Mountain, it's simple: at that time, the Heavenly Court was looking for trouble with the Monkey King, and they were going to his home turf.
Besides, who knew back then that the monkeys living in the Water Curtain Cave wouldn't know how to fight in water?
[Actually, it's fine if the monkey isn't afraid of water. Bodhisattva, if you give me the mantra for the Tightening-Headband Mantra, are you still worried about not being able to deal with him?]
[Shall I give you the Tripitaka scriptures that Tang Sanzang wanted to retrieve?]
That's for the best! With the true scriptures, we'll have more methods at our disposal.
[You think the underworld isn't deep enough, so you're digging yourself deeper! I'm fairly confident I won't interfere with replacing the carp, yet you're still chanting the mantra and reciting scriptures?]
I was just kidding.
"Don't joke with me! I came from the Song Dynasty to the modern era. If you die here, I'll have lost hundreds of years!" the Bodhisattva scolded.
Li Changzhou felt as if he had gained an older sister or a mother.
Although the primordial world is vast, he was also a person who traveled from the moon to Jupiter. With the story of "Kuafu Chasing the Sun," one step could cover a mountain, and one stride could cover a city.
Even so, it took until it was completely dark, the moon was high in the sky, and then dawn, and then noon, before they finally arrived at Xiniu Hezhou from Penglai Immortal Island.
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