I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 16: The Bodhisattva Sees the Secret of Heaven

However, after Zhuang Yan captured Garuda, he put the pottery jar into his sleeve, and then flew down with Lan Caihe.

At this time, the monsters in the Dark Gold Cave had already fled in all directions when Garuda was sealed in the pottery jar by Zhuang Yan. Now there are no monsters in the cave.

Zhuang Yan and Lan Caihe flew into the cave, rescued the imprisoned creatures from the Dark Gold Cave, then summoned out the Heavenly King's Golden Halberd and smashed it towards the Dark Gold Cave below.

There was a loud bang, and the Heavenly King's Golden Halberd fell on top of the Dark Gold Cave. The mountains collapsed, the rocks cracked, the cave walls collapsed, and the huge Dark Gold Cave was immediately destroyed by the Heavenly King's Golden Halberd.

Then Lan Caihe used magic to summon a fairy cloud, which carried thousands of mortals back to Xiaotian Village at the foot of Lingtai Mountain.

After those thousands of mortals landed in Xiaotian Village, those mortals who were originally frightened by the scene in the Dark Gold Cave finally realized that it was the two immortals in front of them who saved them.

Then, thousands of mortals knelt on the ground, and kowtowed madly to Zhuang Yan and Lan Caihe above the clouds with tears in their eyes, expressing their gratitude.

The mortals bowed and raised their heads and said, "Thank you two immortals for saving our lives. Please leave your names so that we can build a temple to worship you in the future."

Lan Caihe stood on the cloud and said, "You must remember that it is the Lingtai Mountain God who saved you."

After saying this, Lan Caihe activated the cloud talisman and turned into a cloud of light and flew into Lingtai Mountain.

After flying all the way back to the Mountain God Temple, Lan Caihe returned the Thousand Lights Cloud Talisman to Zhuang Yan, and then said, "Mountain God, can you return the flower basket to me?"

Zhuang Yan looked at Lan Caihe in confusion and said, "I didn't take your flower basket."

Lan Caihe quickly grabbed Zhuang Yan's arm and said, "Mountain God, don't joke. Last time, I fought with Garuda and was seriously injured by him. He knocked down my flower basket, and the flower basket was taken away by Garuda. It must still be on him now."

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "Well, it's not impossible to return the flower basket to you, but when you responded to those mortals just now, you only mentioned my name and didn't mention yourself at all. Why is that?"

"Need I say more? It was you who saved them. Although I wanted to save them, I didn't have the ability to do so. This credit belongs to you alone, and no one else can compete for it." Lan Caihe said.

Zhuang Yan said, "I'm afraid it's more than that, right?"

Lan Caihe glanced at Zhuang Yan, then laughed and said, "This Garuda is related to the Buddha Bodhisattva, I can't get too involved."

Zhuang Yan nodded, then took out the pottery jar from his sleeve and looked inside. The Garuda had collapsed at the bottom of the jar, apparently exhausted.

Then Zhuang Yan said, "Garuda, hand over the colorful flower basket of Master Lan Caihe."

Hearing Zhuang Yan's voice, Garuda immediately perked up. He quickly stood up and said, "Lingtai Mountain God, please let me out. I am the mount of the Bodhisattva Akasagarbha. Can you handle this huge cause and effect?"

Zhuang Yan said calmly: "Hand over the colorful flower basket, or I will break your golden wings."

Garuda said: "Lingtai Mountain God, I advise you to let me go now, otherwise the Bodhisattva Akasagarbha has boundless magical powers, he will definitely know where I am, and then you will be in trouble!"

Zhuang Yan took out the Heavenly King's Golden Halberd and put it into the pottery jar. Then Zhuang Yan shouted, and the Heavenly King's Golden Halberd fell down with a "swoosh".

There was a slight "puff" sound, and the Heavenly King's golden halberd pierced through Garuda's left golden wing. Blood splattered immediately, and Garuda screamed and rolled around at the bottom of the pottery jar.

"Say one more word and hand over the colorful flower basket, otherwise I will break your golden wings." Zhuang Yan said.

After Garuda screamed for a while, he lay there with a hideous face and said, "Okay, okay, Lingtai Mountain God, you are so cruel. Our feud is over."

After he finished speaking, a beam of colorful fairy light rose up, and the colorful flower basket immediately flew out of the pottery jar.

Lan Caihe raised his hand and took the flower basket into his hands. After carefully examining it, he immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, Mountain God."

Zhuang Yan immediately retracted the Heavenly King's Golden Halberd into the space, and then placed the pottery jar directly under the statue of his mountain god.

Seeing this, Lan Caihe couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Aren't you afraid that it will be stolen if you put it here? Release Garuda?"

Zhuang Yan smiled faintly and said, "You can try." Upon hearing that, Lan Caihe immediately stepped forward with a curious look on his face and stretched out his hand to grab the pottery jar, but unexpectedly he grabbed nothing, and his hand went straight through the pottery jar.

"Huh?" Lan Caihe's face was full of surprise. He tried several times and even used magic power. The result was that without exception, he passed through the pottery jar.

Zhuang Yan said: "This pottery jar has my seal on it. If I don't remove the seal, no one can see it but cannot touch it."

"Awesome! Awesome!" Lan Caihe praised repeatedly: "It's really a waste of your talent to let you be a mountain god."

But then he changed the subject and looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "You have captured this Garuda. Akasagarbha Bodhisattva will definitely not sit idly by. What are you going to do with it next?"

Zhuang Yan said: "Report it to the Heavenly Court for disposal according to Heavenly Law."

Lan Caihe glanced at Zhuang Yan, then nodded and said, "Well, this is good, at least it makes sense."

After that, Lan Caihe said, "I will submit the memorial with you. I will go back to Taixuan Zhenfu first and wait for your memorial to arrive. Then I will submit it together with yours."

Zhuang Yan asked, "Don't you want to avoid getting too involved?"

Lan Caihe smiled and said, "I know what I am doing, don't worry, Mountain God." Then, Lan Caihe bowed and said, "Then I will go back to heaven first."

Zhuang Yan glanced at Lan Caihe's chest and saw that the wound had healed a lot. He nodded and said, "Okay."

Afterwards, Lan Caihe turned into a ray of fairy light and flew straight into the sky. Afterwards, Zhuang Yan wrote a memorial about Garuda's evil deeds and blood-eating of living beings and placed it in the shrine, submitting it directly to the human world.

The Western Paradise scatters billions of precious lights, illuminating countless Buddha lands as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.

Thousands of supreme Buddhas shine their light upon the heavens and the world; thousands of precious Bodhisattvas show their compassion to billions of living beings.

The beautiful Lingshan Mountain, the Buddhist paradise, and the Lumen Mountain temple.

The Bodhisattva Akasagarbha sits high on a lotus, wearing a golden-purple Five-Buddha Crown on his head, with his right arm bent, holding a precious wisdom sword with various colored flames on it. His left hand is placed on his waist, holding a precious lotus with a wish-fulfilling jewel on it.

There is a circle of Buddha's light behind the head, and a great wheel of merit is manifested.

After a moment, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva suddenly opened his eyes, called a follower and asked, "Is Garuda in the mountain?"

Upon hearing this, the traveler bowed and said, "Bodhisattva, since you went into seclusion to preach the sutra three years ago, Garuda has asked for leave and left the mountain."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva frowned and said, "Garuda's energy has disappeared. His energy cannot be found in the world of Jambu."

Upon hearing this, the disciples below immediately looked at each other, and then the eldest disciple Miao Jie said, "Master, did that beast secretly escape into the small world below?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva shook his head and said, "It is difficult for a small thousand world to accommodate a person with great magical power. Moreover, I have looked through all the small thousand worlds in the heavens and found no trace of Garuda."

Miao Jie asked, "Could it be that he was caught in a fight with someone?"

Upon hearing this, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva frowned and immediately closed his eyes to check the secrets of heaven.

The Buddha light on the body of Akasagarbha Bodhisattva was seen surging and the precious light was spreading. After about thirty breaths, Akasagarbha Bodhisattva sighed and said, "This evil creature went down the mountain to become a demon and did evil things. It has been captured by the Lingtai Mountain God."

The disciples immediately started discussing the matter. The eldest disciple Miao Jie was even more puzzled and asked, "The God of Lingtai Mountain? How could he catch Garuda from the Heavenly Immortal Realm? Master, where does this person come from? How come I have never heard of him before?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva shook his head and said, "I don't know where this person came from, but the fact that he was able to catch Garuda shows how powerful he is."

After saying this, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva seemed to have sensed something, looked up at the heavens, and said, "An order will be issued from the Heavenly Court."

(End of this chapter)