Journey to the West: Begins with Tiger Vanguard

Chapter 1 Tiger Drill Wind

Xiniu Hezhou.

Jindou Mountain Range.

The mountains are vast and boundless.

A turbulent river flows around the mountain like a jade belt.

At the foot of the mountain by the river.

On the riverside animal path, which is uninhabited and overgrown with weeds and thorns.

Three figures were walking towards them from afar.

There were three figures, each carrying a colorful flag on their backs, with magic badges tied around their waists, and with elephant trunks, deer horns, tiger heads and human bodies, they did not look like humans at first glance.

"Last night, Big Eyes came to me and said he would treat me to a drink tomorrow night."

The elephant demon who was walking in front of the team, who was two meters and five meters tall and holding a large axe, with an elephant head and a human body, said, "Although he only asked me to go, I am going to take both of you with me."

"Big eyes?"

Following behind the elephant demon, the deer demon with a body of a deer and a human body, whose body was over two meters tall, had sharp horns all over his head and carried a wolf-tooth iron rod in his hand. When the deer demon heard what the elephant demon said, he couldn't help but hesitate and said, "Brother, are you talking about the fox demon Big Eyes under the command of the bear leader?"

The elephant demon nodded: "That's right."

The deer demon asked again, "Why did he think of inviting you to a drink? Do you know him?"

The elephant demon nodded again: "Yes, I knew him before, but we didn't interact much."

Deer Demon: "Since we have an ordinary relationship, he suddenly invites you to drink for no reason. Maybe he wants your help with something. You should be careful."

The elephant demon grinned and said, "Hehe, that's great. It's not that easy for us brothers to help. Let's have a drink with him first. If he's easy to help, then it's fine. If he's not easy to help, then screw him."

The deer demon also smiled and said, "That's how it should be."

The elephant monster smiled smugly, and suddenly remembered something. He turned his head and looked at the figure walking at the end, who was staring at the river not far away. He was obviously absent-minded and immediately asked, "Third brother, what's wrong with you these days?"

The deer demon also turned around at this time, looked at the figure behind him and said, "Third brother, are you worried about something? Can you tell me and my eldest brother?"

Hear what the two monsters said.

The tiger demon with a tiger head and a human body finally came to his senses, turned his head and looked at the two demons in front of him, and smiled casually: "Nothing, I was thinking that there must be a lot of fish in such a big river. Such resources are very good for fishing."

"fishing."

Hearing the tiger demon's words, the elephant demon was stunned, then frowned and said, "This is the Nu River. I don't know how many fish there are in the river, but I heard in the mountains before that there was a patrolman named Zuanfeng who was attacked by a fish demon while bathing in the Nu River and lost his life. You and I are not good at water battles, so it's better to stay away from it."

The deer demon laughed and said, "Third brother, if you want to eat fish, there are fish in the small river below our mountain. There is no need to come to this raging river to catch them."

Hearing what the two demons said, the tiger demon nodded immediately: "I see, I was wrong."

The elephant monster continued, "Come to the Nu River to fish, what do you think? Why haven't I heard you mention it before?"

The tiger demon laughed and said, "It's a sudden idea, a sudden idea, big brother is more knowledgeable."

"Hmm."

Hearing his third brother flattering him, the elephant demon snorted complacently, and then said, "You should stop having those useless thoughts and concentrate on your cultivation. Look, your second brother and I are already in the middle stage of the Spiritual Awakening Realm, and you are still in the early stage. The three of us brothers cannot fall behind the three brothers of the Barbarian Bull in terms of cultivation."

As the youngest of the three sworn brothers and the one with the lowest cultivation level, the tiger demon listened to the lecture honestly and laughed, "Big brother is teaching me that I will work hard to catch up with my two brothers and not embarrass us brothers."

"Um"

Seeing that the third brother admitted his mistake with a good attitude, the elephant demon nodded with satisfaction, turned around and continued on his way.

The deer demon and the tiger demon followed immediately.

Not long after.

The tiger demon suddenly said, "The water of this Nu River is so turbulent, do you two brothers know where the end of this Nu River leads to?"

"The end of the raging river?"

The elephant demon heard the voice and replied, "I heard that the sea is vast and boundless. This raging river must lead to the sea."

“I heard that.”

The deer demon also spoke up at this time: "Going down along the Nu River, there seems to be a wider and larger river, called the Tongtian River."

"Tongtian River."

The elephant demon was a little surprised and asked, "Where did you hear that, second brother?"

Deer demon: "I can't remember, but past our Jindou Mountain territory is the Snake Neck Ridge. Maybe the other side of the Snake Neck Ridge is the Tongtian River."

"Tongtian River."

Hearing the name from the deer demon, the tiger demon at the end of the team narrowed his eyes and thought to himself, "Golden Gourd Mountain, Chechi Kingdom, and now there is a Tongtian River. So the Golden Gourd Mountain where I am now is most likely the Golden Gourd Mountain that Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong and his master passed by when they went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures."

Yes.

The tiger demon is a time traveler.

His original name was Qi Hu.

three days ago.

It was a wonderful Saturday. On the way to a new fishing spot with friends, they were having a meal at a strange roadside shop. Qi Hu mistakenly believed the shop owner who said that there were fresh mushrooms just picked from the mountains, so he ordered one. Qi Hu tasted a few chopsticks and found that the mushrooms were indeed very fresh and tender, but not long after, he saw that his friends around him had turned into monsters with animal heads and human bodies, and he himself had turned into a tiger monster with a tiger head and a human body.

This change lasted for three days.

Come three days.

Qi Hu initially thought that he was poisoned by eating poisonous mushrooms, which led to hallucinations;
But it wasn't long before he, who was always cautious by nature, realized something was wrong.

Then, he confirmed that he had traveled through time like the novels, cartoons, and movies he had seen on the Internet, and that he had traveled through time to the body of a monster that was transformed from a tiger.

Then, he heard the name of the Monkey King Sun Wukong, who "made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace" from the group of monsters on the mountain. He also heard the names of Heaven, the Jade Emperor, and the Western Buddha.

Later, after he deliberately inquired, he confirmed that he had really traveled to the world of Journey to the West that he had grown up with.

Now, he could even more accurately determine his location, which was the Jindou Mountain in Xiniuhezhou, one of the four continents in the world of Journey to the West. It was also the Jindou Mountain where the Green Bull Demon was located during the eighty-one difficulties that the team of pilgrims went through in the future.

As for why the green bull demon called "One-horned Rhinoceros King" did not appear in the current Jindou Mountain.

Qi Hu estimated that the journey to the West to obtain the scriptures had not yet begun, and it was even possible that the monkey Sun Wukong was still trapped under the Five Finger Mountain in the southern continent.

After all, in his memory, the Green Bull Demon, who was under the command of the Jade Emperor in Heaven, had only been on earth for seven years.

Of course, this is just his guess.

After all, he would not and did not dare to completely apply the Journey to the West in his memory to the extremely cruel world under his feet.

Otherwise, I don’t know how he died.

At most, he could only use the things in his memory for reference.

Moreover, he could fully guess that in his memory, during the disaster at Mount Jindou, after the Bull Demon was taken away by Taishang Laojun, the monsters on Mount Jindou had to face a large group of humiliated Sun Wukong and a group of immortals and gods. One can imagine what happened in the end.

They are either killed directly, or their meat is eaten after being killed, or they are captured as mounts and driven for the rest of their lives.

There is no other ending.

As a member of the Jindou Mountain today, if he does not prepare early, his fate will probably be no different from that of other monsters on the Jindou Mountain.

Of course, no matter how bad the situation in Jindou Mountain will be in the future.

He can't rush now.

After all, he has only been a spiritual demon for two and a half years, and his cultivation is only at the initial stage of the spiritual awakening realm. He is just a truly low-level entry-level demon on Jindou Mountain.

Fortunately, it was still quite some time since the day when the Jindou Mountain was wiped out in his memory. He still had time to make long-term plans.

"I get angry when I talk about that snake den"

Hearing his second brother mention Snake Neck Ridge, the elephant demon quickly remembered something and immediately said, "Damn it, I had just come up to the mountain not long ago. When I was patrolling the mountain for the first time, when I patrolled to the edge of our territory, I happened to meet the patrol of the snake nest. After we cursed at each other for a few words, we started fighting, and I was bitten by the shameless snake demon hiding aside."

Hearing his eldest brother talking about this again, the second oldest Deer Demon couldn't help but laugh and said, "Brother, you've told me this many times. Let's change it."

Qi Hu, who had come to his senses, also laughed and said, "That's right, my ears are calloused from listening to it."

"What do you know, kid!"

Seeing that he was laughed at by the third brother, the elephant demon immediately turned around and glared at Qi Hu, then said: "I want you to not forget the snake demon who has a grudge against big brother. Our relationship with Snake Neck Ridge is tense. According to the previous rules, in another year... No, in two years, we in Jindou Mountain will have a battle with Snake Neck Ridge to determine the ownership of the bamboo forest in the next ten years."

"When that happens, it will be my time for revenge. All snake demons look the same. You two should help me keep an eye on them and make sure you don't mistake the snake for the wrong one."

Hearing his elder brother's repeated instructions, the deer demon nodded and smiled, "It's a female snake demon with yellow and black scales and a big mouth, right? Don't worry, elder brother, I won't make a mistake."

"I do not know either."

Qi Hu also smiled and nodded.

The three brothers chatted and laughed for a while.

Then continue patrolling the mountain.

As for the fact that he was dressed as a tiger monster, he had two more sworn monster brothers.

Qi Hu, who inherited the tiger demon's memory, accepted it quickly.

As far as he knew, most monsters were able to develop intelligence and awaken their instincts to become monsters only after eating magical plants and medicines from heaven and earth.

In addition, the demon body can communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and can absorb spiritual energy for cultivation.

Therefore, the monster body is basically a walking elixir.

Spiritual medicine represents cultivation, and is basically the most popular currency among the monsters.

Therefore, in the demon group where the law of the jungle prevails and the hierarchy is strict, it is difficult for the lower-level demons to survive.

This is also the reason why monsters like to form sworn brothers, so that they can stick together for warmth as much as possible.

Moreover, this kind of group-holding cannot be done casually.

Just like the elephant demon and deer demon in front of Qi Hu, they went up the mountain earlier and had higher cultivation levels. Why didn't they find rat demons, sheep demons, pig demons or other demons of the same level to become sworn brothers with, but instead looked for the original owner who had a lower cultivation level and had just gone up the mountain?
Of course it was because the original owner was a tiger demon, the king of beasts in the mortal beast period.

Not only was the original owner not much smaller than them in size, but his instincts in fighting were also among the most powerful of the little monsters.

Even if a carnivorous beast becomes a monster, it still has more advantages than ordinary monsters.

After all, when their cultivation is not high, the little demons fight each other, relying more on their true size and fighting instincts.

Of course, the reason why the original owner was willing to become sworn brothers with the elephant monster and the deer monster was naturally because they were big enough, had high cultivation levels, and were strong enough.

Although Qi Hu was an orphan in his previous life, he grew up in a children's welfare home.

But he has a cheerful and outgoing personality, and now that he has become a monster, he has no worries and accepts the situation quickly.

In addition to the experience of having experienced a complex society in his previous life, it was easy for him to get along with the two simple-minded monsters.

Now I have determined where I am and the approximate time period of the Three Realms.

Qi Hu was in a good mood. Thinking about the job he was doing now, he couldn't help but think of the patrolling little Drilling Wind in Lion Camel Ridge in his memory, and hummed: "The king asked me to patrol the mountains."

"One, two, one, two, one, two"

Hearing Qi Hu humming behind him, the leader Xiang Yao turned around and asked, "Third brother, where did you learn this?"

Qi Hu: “What?”

Elephant demon: "Is that what you sang?"

Qi Hu: "I just sang this casually."

Elephant demon: "Then teach me"

Qi Hu: "It's easy, just sing along, big brother."

"The king asked me to patrol the mountains."

"One, two, one, two, one, two"

"Brother, come with us..."

The three demons sang together, and their voices echoed across the valley. Although the tune was unpleasant and the singing was even more unpleasant, it was fun in its own way and made the three demons, who usually had a hard life, enjoy it.

Time passed slowly.

At noon.

A large rain cloud floated over the sky.

The rain always comes quickly on a hot summer day. In a blink of an eye, heavy rain poured down, soaking the three Qi Hu monsters patrolling the mountain so much that they couldn't open their eyes.

"Damn it, it's raining so hard"

The eldest brother, the elephant demon, immediately covered his eyes and shouted, "Let's go hide in the woods for a while!"

soon.

The three demons quickly ran towards the forest nearby.

Standing in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, Qi Hu patted the rain off his fur and said casually, "This rain is so heavy, how long will it last?"

Elephant Demon: "Whenever it stops, we will leave."

The deer demon shook the big horns on his head and said, "I saw a mortal beast over there. I'll go kill one."

As he said this, he walked straight towards the forest.

Soon.

The deer demon came back carrying the corpse of a spotted deer on his shoulder.

Qi Hu looked at the spotted deer corpse on the deer monster's shoulder and was stunned for a moment, but then he reacted.

Uncivilized wild deer are not considered as fellow deer demons.

What’s more, even if they are of the same kind, the monsters will eat them without any mercy, let alone ordinary animals.

Collect firewood and make a fire.
As it rained heavily outside, the three monsters ate the entire deer.

Filled my stomach.

The heavy rain in the valley also stopped.

After the rain, the sky clears up.

A rainbow spanned the valley.

Qi Hu had a piece of fresh deerskin around his waist, a small colorful flag on his back, and a rusty iron knife in his hand. He followed the elephant monster and the deer monster and continued his previous mountain patrol mission.

Not long after.

The singing could be heard again in the valley.

"The king asked me to patrol the mountains."

(End of this chapter)