Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

Xuanzang and his entourage walked for two full days before they finally shook off the King of the Wuji Kingdom who insisted on seeing them off.

Bajie muttered, "We helped him regain the throne. For such a great achievement, we should at least reward him with a high official rank, or a few thousand taels of silver. What's the point of just sending him off with such generosity? It's not practical at all."

Sha Seng laughed: "Second Brother, His Majesty is going to give up the throne, how can you say that he is not generous enough?"

Bajie rolled his eyes and said, "He gave it to Master and Monkey King. What does it have to do with me? I carried him out of the well, and it took me half the night! In the end, I got nothing. How can you be so stingy? Your Majesty!"

"Who made our Bajie angry? Tell me about it." A female voice floated from the sky.

Before Bajie could react, Xuanzang looked up in surprise: "Mother!"

Wen Jiao landed steadily and nodded to Xuanzang with a smile: "I didn't expect that after only three days of not seeing you, you would come back again, right?"

Xuanzang couldn't help but smile: "After my mother left that day, she never contacted me again. I was very worried."

Wen Jiao said: "I had something on my mind that I hadn't thought through."

Wukong glanced at her expression and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Master, for breaking the purple gold rope. You will be going to Baiyujing to pay homage to the Jade Emperor soon!"

Xuanzang was surprised and said, "My mother is about to become an immortal!"

Upon hearing this, Bajie and Sha Seng hurriedly came forward to take a closer look, then nodded and said, "The aura is bright and round, and the spirit is absorbed into the void. This is a sign of the ascension. Congratulations, Master, congratulations, Master!"

Wen Jiao smiled: "Good disciples, you are so sweet, and the master will reward you."

As he waved his sleeves, a large number of boxes and crates appeared on the ground. "I am not as familiar with this place as you are. This is my first time ascending to the sky. I am completely in the dark and don't know if it is convenient to come down. These boxes and crates are prepared by me for you four masters and apprentices."

She handed a list to Xuanzang, "This is the luggage list. The clothes, hats, shoes and socks for all four seasons in it are probably enough for you to wear all the way to the Great Leiyin Temple in the West Heaven. The lamps, candles, pens and ink are for you to copy the scriptures. It's enough. Don't save the candles at night, or you will hurt your eyes. The bedding is brand new and warm. I know you often sleep in the open air, so don't catch a cold. The pots, pans, and various utensils are for you to boil water and eat on the road. I know that you monks beg for food every day, but you still have a purple gold bowl. Sun Wukong and others can only drink water and eat with their hands, which is really not decent. There are also whisks for driving away flies, realgar for repelling insects, and various powdered medicines for daily use - don't think that mother doesn't know, you have had a headache and fever in the beginning of winter, and you have been gritting your teeth to bear it every time. You are not like these three disciples who are immortals, so don't try to be brave - there are many other miscellaneous things written on the list, you can take your time to read it."

Wen Jiao swore that she had never seen Xuanzang's eyes open so wide. He looked at the long luggage list and stuttered: "This, this, this, monks do not care about worldly enjoyment. Mother prepared so much, I am afraid..."

"Sun Dasheng, keep it." Wen Jiao ignored him and said directly to Wukong.

Wukong responded, took out the black jade pot given by Wen Jiao, and brushed it. The mountain of boxes and cages disappeared instantly.

Although Xuanzang felt that it was inappropriate, he was moved to tears when he saw how thoughtful his mother was about everything. He did not notice that his mother's lips were moving slightly, but she was communicating with Wukong: "Sun Dasheng, there are two baskets of fresh peaches in there. They are the high mountain peaches produced in the Kingdom of Holland. They were provided to me. I did not write them on the list, so you can keep them and eat them."

Wukong turned his back, scratched his cheek, and smiled silently with his eyes.

When Bajie saw all these things, he fanned his ears with joy: "Madam is so generous, Madam is so kind, Madam is much more generous than the stingy King of the Black Chicken Country." He also said eagerly, "It would be even better if Madam could bring me some food and drink when she comes back to the human world."

This really hit the nail on the head for Wen Jiao. She frowned and said, "I'm worried about this. After ascending to heaven, is it easy to come back to earth?"

Bajie said, "For ordinary strong men and fairies, it would be extremely difficult to come down to the mortal world. For people like me and Junior Brother Sha, if we want to come down to the mortal world, we need permission from our superiors. As for people like Monkey King who have established a palace as the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, we can go wherever we want. Who dares to interfere?"

Wukong chuckled and patted his chest, "That's right. Back when I didn't have to look after the Peach Garden, I would visit Fusang in the morning to see the celestial rooster, Kunlun in the afternoon to admire the peach blossoms, and Taibai Jinxing for a cup of tea at night. I would walk to the Nantian Gate to the lower world more than ten times a day, and the heavenly soldiers and generals would not dare to stop me."

These words made Wen Jiao even more worried.

Ascending to become an immortal seems to be what countless cultivators in the world dream of. However, if after flying up, one can only be a small immortal who serves tea and water to the great immortals, takes care of the garden, raises birds and feeds cows, it is better to live a comfortable and meaningful life in the human world.

Wukong saw that her face was not looking good. After a little thought, he understood the reason and said with a smile: "Are you worried that your rank will be too low after you go up? Don't worry, someone like Second Junior Brother can get the title of Marshal of Heavenly Peng, so naturally your rank will be higher."

Bajie was unhappy when he heard this, and muttered: "You are so capable, why did you only become a Bi..."

Wukong covered his pig mouth with his hand and said, "Besides, Master is a disciple of the Heavenly Venerable Dangmo, so she will never suffer any loss. Even if she didn't have this master-disciple relationship, Master has saved the emperor, helped the Golden Branch, eliminated demons, calmed resentful souls, suppressed the Demon King, pacified demon corpses, and promoted Taoism over the years, and she has made great contributions. The Heavenly Eyes are like a mirror, so naturally rewards and punishes fairly."

Save the emperor, help the golden branch, eliminate the demons, appease the resentful souls, suppress the demon king, pacify the demon corpses, and promote the Taoism...

It turns out that I have already done so much.

Wen Jiao smiled as she flew over the newly built Demon Subduing Goddess Palace in Baoxiang, Hole, and Jiadi. Auspicious clouds in the shape of golden cores and green petals lingered over the sky above the several palaces for a long time. The magnificent spectacle attracted believers to kowtow repeatedly, and countless passers-by stopped to watch.

The abbots of the three temples all found a jade book and a magic weapon at the foot of the statue. The words on the jade book were as red as cinnabar, and they were all about Taoist methods such as taking in the air, eating the clouds, refining the qi, and cultivating the body, and inviting the immortals to help the spirits.

The magic weapon was made by Wen Jiao using a piece of green agate with abundant spiritual energy that she got from the treasury of the Hall Kingdom in her spare time, and supplemented with the Yaksha bone flute that she used to burn incense, illuminated it with the golden light of the tight hoop, suppressed it with the mysterious sound of the conch, and tempered it with the thunder and lightning of the dragon and snake sword. The giant green agate that was more than ten feet long was refined by her into three tripods one foot high, with clouds and thunder surging on the tripods, dragons and snakes entwined, and extremely fierce.

Although it is far inferior to the magic weapon series produced by Taishang Laojun, it can still kill ordinary demons, drive away ghosts, and harmonize wind, frost, rain and snow in a small area.

After all, she is protecting me, how can I not upgrade my skills and equipment?