Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

After settling everything, when Wen Jiao rushed back to the foot of the mountains and beside the lake, it was exactly the night of the third day.

The sky was full of stars, flickering and fading. In the middle of the sky, a bright moon hung high, clear and proud, as if it had seen all the ups and downs of the world.

Yuan Tiangang had his back to her, holding a compass and looking at the starry sky, wondering what he was thinking. His purple Taoist robe fluttered in the high wind on the plateau, like raging waves on the sea, with the potential to overturn the world, but was firmly fixed in place by his thin spine like a pillar that stabilizes the sea.

Wen Jiao looked at him for a while, a smile appeared on her lips, and she said, "Please stay, half-immortal over there. When do you think I can ascend to become an immortal?"

Yuan Tiangang turned around: "Wen Jiao, you're back."

Wen Jiao nodded and walked closer: "Back in Chang'an, you promised me a fortune. I didn't want to do it then, but now I do. But I don't know my fate. Do you still want to break it off?"

That hexagram, which started when Yuan Tiangang was emotionally moved, was originally an unspoken confession. However, Wen Jiao had been avoiding answering, but now she accepted it naturally, and the hidden meaning was obvious.

Yuan Tiangang smiled and said, "I didn't expect you still remember it."

Wen Jiao used her true Qi to block out the strong wind around her, and said in a relaxed and teasing tone: "I still remember when we first met, you wanted to tell my fortune very much. Why don't we tell my fortune together, but I don't want to pay for it."

At that time, she was extremely afraid that her identity as a time traveler would be discovered and she would be killed as a monster with supernatural powers. Now, it was good enough that the monster was not killed by her.

Yuan Tiangang trembled.

If Wen Jiao hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten that he was tricked by Li Chunfeng to go to Hua'e Zhenghui Tower because he heard that the Lady of Guichuan County, whom he had never met, had an extremely rare face. When he really saw her, it was indeed extremely rare. With his expertise in physiognomy, he couldn't see through it at first glance. But at that time, she was afraid of something and always dodged and couldn't see him.

It turns out that she still remembers it. Is she finally willing to let go of her guard now?

Yuan Tiangang looked at her intently.

She still had the same beauty as pure and gentle rain, the same demeanor as lofty and distant as cold clouds, her willow-leaf eyes as clear as a bright lake, and a warm smile as she waited quietly for his answer.

Time passed quickly, never taking away a bit of her beauty, but it unknowingly turned his black hair white. Even though he had the technique of keeping his youth, after going through the painstaking effort of calculating thirteen dragon veins, he was no longer young.

His eyes were a little hazy, he smiled happily, and naturally took Wen Jiao's hand: "I have read your face, let me take a look at your palm again."

With the faint and light of the stars and the moon, he looked for a few times, his eyes fixed slightly, and after a long time he sighed softly: "So, you are one person in two lives. No wonder, no wonder..."

No wonder most women from aristocratic families love the secular world, but she chose to give up her life's glory and seek immortality. After achieving enlightenment, she chose to return to the secular world to build a career. Her ambition is even higher than that of countless men in the world.

This is because what is contained in this body is a soul from another life.

Wen Jiao raised her head slightly and stared at his face. His gaunt features gradually overlapped with the vague face of the academic genius in her memory.

Two lives, one body, in harmony. This was the fortune that the man drew at Tiangongyuan, Yuan Tiangang's former residence, during his graduation trip.

"So it's you." She said faintly, with a myriad of emotions that were hard to express in words. She calmed herself down and held Yuan Tiangang's hand. "I was born more than 1,300 years later. My last name is Wen and my name is Jiao..."

She talked a lot.

After coming to this world, this was the first time she told about her experiences in the afterlife without hiding anything. Yuan Tiangang listened with great interest, asking a few questions from time to time, and finally sighed: "Such a huge change in a thousand years, the changes in destiny are really unfathomable. I only regret that life is too short to explore it thoroughly."

"That may not be the case." Wen Jiao said, "In the future, you and Li Chunfeng will work together to deduce the secrets of heaven, and all the results will be written in a book called "Tui Bei Tu". The book is full of the wonders of heaven and predicts things for thousands of years. In my original era, it was the most divine book in the art of calligraphy."

If not for this, she wouldn't have looked at the two of them so differently when she first came through.

"'Tui Bei Tu', what a strange name." Yuan Tiangang recited it.

Wen Jiao smiled and said, "It is said that Li Chunfeng was obsessed with calculations and was immersed in it for a while and couldn't extricate himself. He was pushed awake by you on the back, so he got this name."

Yuan Tiangang's heart was shaken, and it seemed as if there was endless thunder roaring. He subconsciously calculated a few times, and his heart was even more moved.

Wen Jiao noticed that his expression was different: "What's wrong?"

Yuan Tiangang shook his head silently and pointed to the sky: "The time has come - look."

Wen Jiao looked in the direction of the situation and saw the sky was like a curtain, the Jade Rabbit was sinking in the west, and in the dim sky, a few tiny stars were hanging at the junction of the sky and the mountains, shining brightly, like the sparkling gems on a beautiful woman's jade neck.

"'Preparing for the good times, the three stars are in the window. What a night it is to see such a beautiful woman.'" Yuan Tiangang recited the ancient love poem from the pre-Qin period, with a strange pain in his eyes, "These stars have seen the joy of the past and the present, but now those people have long turned into dry bones in the tomb, and the Milky Way is still shining in the sky. To mortals, it is really constant like the Tao. But to the Tao, it is also short like a white horse passing by, and is also trapped in the reincarnation of birth, aging, illness and death."

Wen Jiao couldn't help but stare at him, and sighed, "The Lord of Dao and Virtue once said, 'Even the heaven and earth cannot last forever.'"

The wind at dawn still carries the chill of the night. Yuan Tiangang's breath is carried by the wind, as ethereal as bamboo mist: "Where there is life, there is death. Where there is death, there must be life."

His finger pointed precisely at a pale blue star beside Changgeng Star: "These past few days, I have been observing the stars every night and calculated that a new star will be born at this moment. I am the first person in the world to see this star, so I can name it. Wen Jiao, I will name it, Wen Jiao."

Wen Jiao's face turned pale, and she slapped his raised arm down with force: "Change it now! All the stars in the sky have their own names, how can they be given the names of mortals? Do you want to make me a star god? Do you want to die? I am not Feng Ji, the fox demon who asked for a title, and you are not the Jade Emperor who can be deified!"

Yuan Tiangang's face was bleak, but his smile was clearly proud: "So what? I, Yuan Tiangang, have mastered the mystical transformation of the hexagrams. Since I can seal the fox fairy, I can also create the star god."

He waved his sleeves, and a star map unfolded in the air. He cut his index finger, and a drop of blood from his heart landed at the location of the newborn star. Another thin line of blood spread out, outlining the word "Wen Jiao" next to the star.

“Didn’t you ask me when you can become an immortal? My answer is ‘tonight’. This title of Star Lord is my gift to you for your ascension.” Yuan Tiangang spoke each word clearly, and blood gradually burst out of his seven orifices.

"You are kidding!" Wen Jiao gritted her teeth, transformed it into the Dragon Snake Sword, and was about to burn the star map clean. However, as soon as she raised her wrist, she felt a sudden burst of light in her spiritual space.

Endless brilliant light burst out from above her head. At the same time, endless auspicious clouds and mist flowed in the starry sky. There was a deep vortex in the middle, which was in the shape of a door.

The conch shell in the sleeve emitted a high-pitched sound.

Four green rainbows came across the sky from Chang'an, Hole Kingdom, Baoxiang Kingdom, and Jiadi Kingdom, condensing into an endless sea of ​​precious flowers. In the mysterious sound of heaven and earth from the end of the catastrophe, they carried Wen Jiao's body up and flew towards the Heavenly Gate.

Ride on the blue clouds, enter the Heavenly Gate, worship the Golden Mother, and meet the Jade Emperor.

In the Lingxiao Palace, the Jade Emperor spoke like a bell ringing for eternity: "There is a woman named Yin from the Tang Dynasty of the Southern Continent, whose virtue and generosity are so great that she is feared by foreign nations. I now grant her the title of Qingmiao Yuanjun and Fumo Tiannu, and she also holds the position of Dongfang Guangmingxingjun. You must not forget my instructions, liberate the people, and spread the Xuanjiao. I admire you!"