Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

Let us go back to three hours ago. Wen Jiao was listening to the sage Gandhara telling the story of Shakuntala's biological parents' erotic and unfortunate past with standard fan-shaped expressions of perfunctory, curiosity, astonishment and sighing, and then she received Shakuntala's prayer.

Following this inspiration, she traced back to the source and saw Shakun, who was imprisoned in a luxurious house, with disheveled hair and a miserable look, kneeling on the ground and praying non-stop. In the dungeon further away, Bharata's red face was sprayed with a strong smell of medicine, his body was limp like mud, and he was tied up tightly.

Shakuntala's wish was simple, which was to pray that the mother and son could escape from danger.

This shouldn't be difficult. For a deity, rescuing two people from the hands of a small country's prime minister shouldn't be a big deal. But for Wen Jiao, who had made a pact with Gesar and tried her best not to use her magical powers to directly deal with mortals...

In fact, it is not difficult.

While listening to the sage Gandhara expressing his contempt for Indra and his sympathy for the sages, she calmly sent a dream to the merchants from the Kingdom of Women, asking them to try to rescue Bharata.

After the women's kingdom merchant group sold all the specialties of Xiliang women's kingdom, they were busy purchasing ivory, spices and other specialties of Xiangcheng, so they had not left Xiangcheng yet. When the war broke out, they stayed in Xiangcheng even longer. The leader of the merchant group, Yin Ruohua, was highly skilled in martial arts and a very sophisticated and shrewd person. She had a lot of people at hand, and she also had the token she had obtained by threatening Alonashun before. It was not easy to snatch Bharata away, but it was not difficult to simply save his life.

Sure enough, after waking up from the dream, Yin Ruohua did only one thing - she bribed the steward of the Prime Minister's Office with a large sum of money and arranged for several of her subordinates to dress up as men and serve as servants holding utensils behind Alonashun - one of them was Yunzhu, the girl who had previously suggested that Shakuntala torture Dusyanta. She volunteered to participate in this rescue operation. Yin Ruohua knew that although she was young, she was very skilled, very smart, bold and careful, and was indeed a suitable candidate, so she immediately agreed.

Alona was busy plotting his independence, so how could he notice that the low-ranking servants serving him had changed faces? As a result, the women of the Kingdom of Women actually had the opportunity to secretly contact Bharata.

Although this opportunity seems to be too risky.

Bharata was slapped hard, and before he could feel the pain clearly, he felt the knots on his wrists and arms loosen. The little black-faced man used his body to block the ropes on his body and quickly cut the ropes on his body, and then put a knife into his hand.

Without any discussion, Bharata looked around and quickly realized what he should do. The gifted little giant took a deep breath, and his blood boiled, his muscles bulged, and all the ropes on his body were broken in an instant.

Then, like an angry bull, he rushed towards the complacent Alonashun not far away.

Hand up, knife down.

A head with a smile on its face was thrown high into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

"I killed someone." Bharata thought with some fear and excitement, "But I killed someone who wanted to kill me."

He clenched the knife tightly and looked ahead at the foreigners around him. They looked at him with surprise, admiration, indifference, and mostly hostility.

His biological father, who had done him almost no favors, had robbed and killed someone, and then died when the victim came to seek revenge, leaving him with a broken jar to take the blame. Now the victim's army was powerful, and he only had a small knife.

Still can't escape death...I wonder where my mother is?

Bharata accurately identified the candidate for the chief commander among the crowd, and widened his beautiful and innocent black grape eyes that resembled his mother's. He straightened his chest and tried to act like he was losing the battle. He held the head and said loudly, "This man wanted to usurp the throne. As the successor to the throne, I will kill him."

Pointing at himself with his finger, he said, "This man is the son of King Dusyanta. Of course, I have to pay off the debt he owes you. Kill me. If I hide, I will not be the descendant of a sage or a Kshatriya king!"

Wang Xuance looked at him. The little giant's face looked young and still had childish hair. Then he looked at the long and winding surrender team and the boxes of treasures that merged into a long snake. As a small country, Xiangcheng was not very rich. This time, half of Xiangcheng's wealth might have been piled up.

After this battle, the Tang Dynasty had avenged its previous defeat and gained many spoils of war. The current results were satisfactory enough. Continuing to attack Xiangcheng and completely destroying it would be more trouble than gain.

Send troops to garrison Xiangcheng, reform this kingdom from top to bottom, and make it an enclave of the Tang Dynasty?

They were thousands of miles apart, with high mountains and long rivers. No matter how long the Tang Dynasty's sword was, it really couldn't reach the official of Hezhou in Xiniu. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to the nearby Ling State to borrow troops. Even this close distance was at least a thousand miles away.

Then, why not treat the new king well and make Xiangcheng the future vassal of the Tang Dynasty? This was Wang Xuance's plan when he made a secret agreement with Alona Shun, but he was quite uncomfortable with the idea of ​​Alona Shun, such a disloyal and unjust man, being the candidate for the new king.

Now... I have to say, although Dou Shantuo is not a human being, the son he gave birth to is really strong and cute.

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Xuance said, "There are tigers and leopards hidden in the mountains, and unicorns hidden in the wilderness. I didn't expect that such a young hero could emerge from this dangerous place in the south."

He looked around and tapped his sword on his horse. "I heard that according to the Indian custom, when a new king ascends the throne, he must invite the kings of the surrounding countries to come and watch the ceremony. Now there are several kings from various places in Xiangcheng. I wonder when the new king's accession ceremony will be held? Although we are just a group of warriors, we would like to ask for a cup of wine from the new king at the banquet."

"New king, where does the new king come from?" Bharata asked stupidly.

If I remember correctly, my useless father Doushantuo didn't have any other sons at all?

A thin, black-faced servant jumped out. It was Yunzhu, who had painted her face black with soot. She pinched Bharata secretly and whispered, "Don't talk nonsense." Then she looked around and shouted, "Long live King Bharata!"

After a brief silence, some people in the surrender group began to shout, "Long live King Bharata!"

Some even more astute people added another sentence after this: "The Tang Dynasty will be immortal!"

So in the end, all the surrendered groups in Xiangcheng were shouting: "Long live King Bharata, and immortal Tang Dynasty!" Some of the actors with particularly superb acting skills even shed two lines of tears of emotion as if they were reborn.

In the distance, Huo Ling'er's red hair was trembling, and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I have lived for so many years, and I have never seen such exaggerated acting!"

Wen Jiao combed her hair soothingly and glanced at Ganpo Sage: "I will never fail the reasonable prayers of believers. Look, Bharata has been rescued, right?"