Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

For a moment, all eyes were focused on this unruly white parrot.

The bird, which was no bigger than a palm, said, "I know the way to the Demon Kingdom in the north. I have sent two letters there on behalf of Queen Zhumu. Mushroom is 3,500 miles away from here. Gesar now lives in the castle of Adanam on the border of the Demon Kingdom, living happily with his two queens."

"Two princesses?" Wen Jiao was stunned.

Princess Wencheng frowned: "Didn't the ruler of Ling go to look for a princess? How come there is another one?"

How unreliable is this future husband? Not only did he marry another wife while saving people, but he also abandoned his family and country and never thought of leaving?

The white parrot said, "He defeated the black demon Luzan and took back Princess Mesa. The black demon's sister Adanam fell in love with him and became his other princess. The three of them lived together in Adanam's territory."

Wen Cheng was silent, but his brows seemed to be furrowed even more. Wen Jiao also fixed her eyes, but her focus was on another side: "Your king has some ability to subdue demons and monsters."

The white parrot raised its head higher: "King Gesar is the reincarnation of the Son of God. It was Guru Padmasambhava who granted him the title of Holy King of Lingdi after all the people of the territory prayed for hundreds of years."

"Then, when did the people of Ling begin to believe in Guru Padmasambhava?" Wen Jiao asked casually.

In the ancient Manzagang Kingdom in the Ghost Mist, each country on the Wuliang Plain had its own beliefs, and they were all called Dharma protectors, and few people believed in Buddhism. But now the Ling Kingdom obviously respects Guru Padmasambhava very much, and the son of God bestowed by the other party has the ability to subdue demons and monsters, which makes it hard not to think of Xuanzang's origin.

Guru Padmasambhava is one of the incarnations of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

The white parrot tilted its head and thought for a while: "It seems to be three hundred years ago? At that time, there were man-eating monsters everywhere. The master came down on a lotus and cleared the Wuliang Plateau. Only then did the countries have a place to breathe. But the master got tired of cleaning up later and missed a lot of monsters. The Demon Kingdom was one of them. Hum, Lu Zan escaped Guru Padmasambhava, but he didn't escape King Gesar."

Wen Jiao had a plan in mind, so she tilted her head and said to it, "Then I'll have to trouble Brother Parrot to lead the way."

Yuan Tiangang pinched the tortoise shell in his sleeve and asked Wencheng again: "I want to tell a fortune for Master Jingrong. If the fortune is not auspicious, I will still accompany you."

Wen Jiao couldn't help but glance at him, but before he looked back at her with feeling, she looked away.

Wen Cheng had already seen the undercurrent between the two of them and smiled slightly: "Yes."

Yuan Tiangang immediately said to Wen Jiao: "Please ask Master Jingrong to think about the purpose of this trip and tell me three words."

Wen Jiao closed her eyes slightly. For a moment, Zhu Mu's sad silhouette passed before her eyes. The silhouette faded away, and was replaced by Wen Cheng's determination when he smashed the mirror. A vague voice came from the rushing waves of the Daotang River: "My mother is also Han Chinese."

"We saw that the king had no intention of rescuing the princess for three years, so we thought he had lost interest and was tired of the princess."

"Princess Baihuaxiu is really pitiful. She can neither run away nor fight against the demon. She has no choice but to submit to the demon for the sake of her life."

……

"Star, destroy, evil." She uttered three words unconsciously, and each word seemed to have the echo of quiet water running deep.

The tortoise shell on Yuan Tiangang's fingertips rotated and spit out several coins. The coins, the size of thumb joints, vibrated slowly in the air, as if they contained some mysterious principles of heaven and earth. Suddenly, they all gathered together and shone brightly. The light instantly merged into a curtain of light like a huge rosy glow, with several lines of words beating in the center:

One person goes,

One person enters,

The breeze and the bright moon are guessing each other.

Obtain the Golden Scale Fishing Platform.

Yuan Tiangang was delighted when he saw it: "One person left, indicating that Jia Cha Xie Ka died in battle, and one person came in, and the person the master is looking for will come. The golden scales are the things that transform wind and clouds into dragons. Catching a golden scale is the beginning of a great career. This is a very auspicious hexagram. You... the real person will surely achieve your wish and succeed this time."

Wen Jiao smiled at him, opened her green sleeves, and Huo Ling'er, who was dozing on the ground behind her, suddenly turned into a beam of fire and went into her sleeves. She nodded slightly to Wen Cheng, and immediately flew away.

Yuan Tiangang followed her out of the tent, looking up at her disappearing shadow like a swaying green leaf. It took him a long time to come back to his senses, but his eyes flickered again, and he repeated the three words "Xing urges evil" over and over again, thinking: "She has always been like this, destroying evil and promoting good. But why does she start with 'Xing'? Could it be..."

A flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he seemed to have grasped something mysterious.

The Northern Demonic Kingdom was once a land with only black and white subjects. The black demon Luzan hated all colorful beauty, and turned everything into black and white, and everything into strange and ugly things. Only his sister Adanam, who was also highly powerful and immune to the pollution of her brother's magic, retained her beautiful appearance. The black demon Luzan forced her to marry his trusted general. Adanam hated the general's disgusting frog head, and ran away in anger back to her own territory.

But this territory also only has black and white.

It was not until Gesar killed the black demon Luzan and all his minions that the land gradually lost its lifeless color and turned into a colorful and vibrant world.

Adanam loved this land deeply. She wore a flower crown, galloped with Gesar during the day, and rehearsed grand dramas at night, enjoying boundless happiness. The only flaw in such a life was the existence of a third person, that is, the beautiful Meisa, Gesar's former concubine and her sister-in-law for several years.

But this is not a big problem, because if she stays in her territory, she only needs to share her husband with Mesa. But if she returns to Lingguo, she will have many more sisters.

Adanam was a woman who had studied arithmetic, so she naturally knew which kind of life was more comfortable.

That night, she arranged a banquet as usual and toasted Gesar with an agate wine pot. Seeing that Mesa looked exhausted, she couldn't help asking, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Mesa looked a little uneasy: "I had a dream last night. The eagle chick grew lion's fangs, smashed the castle wall with its wings, and took away my amulet."

It's not a good sign.

Adanamu's eyelids twitched, and when he saw Gesar drinking silently beside him, his eyes turned tender: "Even if it is a bad omen, with the king here, who can touch us? Besides, my sword is not for decoration!"

Gesar raised his glass to her. For some reason, this handsome and dashing son of God always had a hint of melancholy lingering between his brows even when he was smiling.

Adanamu smiled back: "Whoever dares to disturb the peace of my territory, I will let him know how powerful I am!"

In the air, the white parrot pointed at the three people below with one of its wings: "The man in the middle is the king, the one on the left is Princess Mesa, and the one on the right..." It shook unconsciously, "is the black devil's sister Adanamu."

Wen Jiao touched its bristly little body and asked, "Are you afraid of that witch?"

The parrot said stubbornly, "I'm not afraid of her. Last time, I sent a message to the king on behalf of Queen Zhumu, asking him to return to Lingguo as soon as possible. Before I could fly to her, she saw me."

The little bird's voice trembled with fear at the memory, "She said something to the king, and the king will draw his bow and shoot me to death."