Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons

How to save a weak woman who is doomed to die? Especially when the verdict is signed by the King of Hell himself.

Judge Cui twirled his beard and pondered for a while. Suddenly, his eyes rolled up and he had an idea, but he didn't say it yet. Instead, he pretended to be embarrassed: "This is indeed a difficult matter. You know, the emperor of the living is the one who has the final say, and the King of Hell is the same."

Wen Jiao immediately expressed her sincere attitude: "Uncle Cui, this is my niece's request to you. If you can use me in the future, I will definitely do my best."

Judge Cui nodded and sighed meaningfully: "My dear niece, you should have heard the saying that the person who tied the bell can only untie it."

The solution to the problem is naturally to save Princess Yuying. And who is the one who tied the bell? Is it the Yama King who ordered Princess Yuying to die young, or is it Li Shimin who indirectly caused Princess Yuying to die young in order to gain his trust? Or is it both?

Wen Jiao seemed to understand something and murmured, "I should ask Emperor Tang to beg."

Judge Cui slapped his knee and said, "I didn't say that!"

Wen Jiao smiled: "My niece has never been to the underworld, so naturally she doesn't know anyone in the underworld, let alone hear anyone talking."

Judge Cui smiled and twirled his beard, then pulled out the two pages of the Book of Life and Death from his sleeve: "This torn page of the Book of Life and Death has the power to capture souls and spirits, and it also has many other miraculous effects. My dear niece, you can slowly explore it, but don't let anyone see it."

Wen Jiao took it respectfully, and was truly grateful to the old sly man. She smiled eagerly and said, "This is a rare treasure. If I wasn't afraid of Uncle Cui laughing at me, I would really like to open it and take a look right now."

Judge Cui made a "please" gesture and said, "We are our own flesh and blood, why should we be so distant? If you want to see it, go ahead."

Wen Jiao shrugged and gently unfolded the two pages of the Book of Life and Death. The paper was a light yellow, and the texture was extremely delicate and soft, as if it were some kind of extremely precious silk. But it was cold to the touch, and there was a dead silence that should not exist in the world of the living. Every word on it was cinnabar, a light yellow and vermilion, a strange color that made people's hearts palpitate.

Opening it, the top page was from Yin Wenjiao, and the content was exactly as Judge Cui had read. And the other page...

After reading the above content, Wen Jiao was struck by lightning.

It was written on it: "Wen Jiao, a native of New China, born in 2001."

Wen Jiao was completely confused about everything that happened next. Judge Cui said a lot of polite words to her, and she responded instinctively, not knowing what he said or what she said. Until she turned into a thumbnail again and was led out by Judge Cui in his sleeve, when she passed the Forgotten River, she looked out as if she had sensed something, and she saw her own shadow in the Three Lives Stone.

In this magical stone that can reflect a person's past, present and future lives, the silhouette of a beautiful lady in Tang Dynasty costume emerged clearly.

Yin Wenjiao was standing alone, and when she saw her looking at her, a sad smile appeared on her lips.

"I am you!" The words in her dream on the night she first came here lingered in her ears, like the beating of a heavy drum or swirling like a strong gale, causing chaos in her heart.

Was her previous life Yin Wenjiao, or did she travel through time and space to become Yin Wenjiao and establish a relationship similar to that of "past life and present life"?

Was her time traveling through time a coincidence, or was it the fault of the ghost in the underworld who mistakenly glued the fate of the two together, leading to her time traveling through time? So where did the real Yin Wenjiao go? Was it her modern body?

Like a Möbius strip, it has no beginning and no end. The Book of Life and Death has been destroyed, and the other party will also have no end. Will they meet? Did Yin Wenjiao meet Wen Jiao, or did Wen Jiao meet Yin Wenjiao?

Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed of Zhuang Zhou…

The Yang Soul returned to the body from the Heavenly Gate. Wen Jiao slowly opened her eyes, her expression still in a trance, so much so that it took her a long while to see clearly who the owner of the big face with thick eyebrows and big eyes swaying in front of her was.

"Sister Huo, you're too close," she said helplessly.

Huo Ling'er immediately stood three steps away, her face full of joy, and shouted outside: "Wake up, wake up, Wen Jiao is awake!"

With a "bang", the wooden door of the Deer Holding Lingzhi was pushed open vigorously. Yuan Tiangang walked in quickly and stepped in front of Wen Jiao in two or three steps. He grabbed her shoulders and looked at her for several times. Seeing that her face was rosy as usual, he breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're back."

He said "Glad you're back" three times before realizing that his actions were a little too intimate. He quickly retracted his hand as if he had been burned by a branding iron, stroked the edge of his sleeve in a pretentious manner, and said calmly, "Congratulations, you've gained a lot from your trip to hell."

Wen Jiao had already instinctively picked a fight with him. She stared at the huge dark circles under his eyes and the stubble above his slightly cracked lips: "You know I will gain a lot, are you still afraid that I won't come back?"

Yuan Tiangang turned his head and looked up at the sky. Since he couldn't see the sky from inside the house, he had to settle for the next best thing and looked at the beams with an unfathomable look on his face: "Sometimes, my divination will be inaccurate."

"Yes, Yuan Lingke is worried." Huo Linger interrupted, "Wen Jiao, next time before you go out of your yang spirit, can you say hello to everyone before you leave? I went to ask you to go get some snacks, but no one answered when I knocked on the door. I kicked the door open and saw you sitting quietly on the bed. Then I realized that your soul had left your body again and I didn't know where you had gone. Normally, even if you went out, you would come back in two or three hours at most, but this time, it took you three full days and three nights to come back."

"If I hadn't asked Feng Ji, and Feng Ji hadn't asked Yuan Ling to tell your fortune, and if they hadn't told you that you went to hell and had a lot of adventures, I would have been worried to death." Huo Linger paused, and added, "Well, although Yuan Ling himself was almost worried to death. Haha, he was so scared even though he had told you that you would be safe and sound and return with treasures. The number one fortune teller in the Tang Dynasty doesn't have as much confidence in his fortune telling as I do."

Yuan Tiangang was so shocked by her words that his tortoise shell was almost shattered, fearing that Wen Jiao would find out something. But Huo Ling'er quickly changed the subject and said, "By the way, Wen Jiao, what treasure did you get? Take it out and show it to me."

She said a lot of things, but Wen Jiao's attention was only drawn to one of them: "Sister Huo, how long do you think I slept?"

"Three days and three nights?" Huo Linger's mind was full of treasures. After being asked, she was stunned for three full seconds before answering.

"Oh no!" Wen Jiao's face changed drastically, and all the sadness and sorrow of her past and present life disappeared. She jumped up and was about to run out.

Huo Ling'er was quick to grab her and pull her back: "What are you busy for? You just woke up and you want to run out again? You haven't even had breakfast yet."

"If we don't go now, it may be too late." Wen Jiao said anxiously.

Princess Yuying couldn't remember exactly when the ghost would take her soul away. She only remembered that when Liu Quan, who was sent by Li Shimin to deliver melons to the underworld, came back to life, the ghost would swap the souls of his wife Li Cuilian and Princess Yuying. She had to finalize one thing before Liu Quan offered the melon, otherwise, when the Ten Kings of Hell made another "golden mouth and jade words", even Judge Cui's help would be powerless.

"Where are you going?" Huo Linger also caught up.

"Enter the palace!" Wen Jiao said loudly.