I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 175 Zhuang Yan's Harsh Words to Zhu Bajie

In the side hall of the manor at the foot of the mountain, Zhuang Yan looked at the jade book that Guanyin Bodhisattva had brought to him, glanced at it, and then smiled and said, "Tiger Roaring in the Forest: The Sixth Difficulty. The Bodhisattva is really good at naming it."

After saying this, Zhuang Yan returned the jade book to Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Bodhisattva Guanyin waved her sleeves to take back the jade book, then smiled at Zhuang Yan and said, "We originally wanted to test the Zen mind of the pilgrims, but we didn't expect to run into the disaster you arranged."

Lishan Laomu said: "Even Samantabhadra suffered, and was trapped in the Tiger Cave with Tang Monk for more than two months."

Samantabhadra waved his hand and smiled, "This can also be considered my calamity."

Zhuang Yan said: "If that's the case, you can try your Zen mind again on the road ahead."

"Forget it." Guanyin Bodhisattva shook her head and said, "There is no need to do something that has already failed a second time."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Then this difficulty is over. Master Tang and his disciples are about to embark on the journey to the west again. Do Zi Yuanjun and the two Bodhisattvas have any other plans?"

Lishan Laomu, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva shook their heads at the same time. Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "We will also leave this place and return to the Taoist temple after Tang Monk and his companions set off."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Okay, I will go and deal with the monsters in Tiger Spirit Cave first, and then I will leave now."

Lishan Old Mother nodded and smiled, "Master Lingtai, please do as you please."

Zhuang Yan nodded, then stood up and said goodbye, turned and walked out of the side hall.

Nezha has returned to heaven with his heavenly soldiers and generals, and Sun Wukong has also gone with him, firstly to thank the Jade Emperor, and secondly to ask the Jade Emperor to "compensate" Nezha.

Nezha was really wronged this time. He originally came to help Sun Wukong, but was beaten by the drunken Sun Wukong. Naturally, he was very unhappy.

Xiao Bailong and Sha Seng were taking care of Tang Monk who was still asleep, while Zhu Bajie was sitting in the garden looking up at the bright moon in the sky.

At this moment, the moon is bright and the wind is clear. The earth is covered with silver. There is not even a dark cloud in the sky. The stars surround the moon and hang high in the sky.

Zhuang Yan looked at Zhu Bajie sitting under the pavilion in the garden and said with a smile, "The moon is bright and the wind is clear. Tomorrow will be a good day."

When Zhu Bajie heard the voice, he stood up immediately, turned around to look at Zhuang Yan, and then bowed and said, "Greetings to Master Lingtai."

Zhuang Yan bowed in return, then asked with a smile, "Fellow Daoist, you are sitting here alone, are you thinking about someone?"

Zhu Bajie laughed and said, "No, I didn't think about it."

"No way?" Zhuang Yan said with a smile, "Looking at the moon reminds me of you. The moon carries my longing for you. Daoist friend, are you really not thinking about me?"

Zhu Bajie sighed and said, "Master, your scars are making me feel uncomfortable."

After that, Zhu Bajie looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "Master, I want to go to the Moon Palace. Can you help me?"

"I can't help you." Zhuang Yan said with a smile: "Other things are easy to deal with, but I can't help you with this matter."

Zhu Bajie quickly said, "Master, please don't misunderstand me. I don't mean anything else. I just want to apologize to Fairy Nishang."

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "No matter what you do, you can't go to Taiyin Star again. Just follow Tang Seng to obtain the scriptures. Don't let your imagination waver and your determination to obtain the scriptures be shaken."

Zhu Bajie scratched his head and said, "What the Master said is true, but I just can't let it go."

Zhuang Yan asked, "Can't let go of the person? Or can't let go of the matter?"

Zhu Bajie said, "I can't let go of anyone."

Zhuang Yan shook his head and chuckled, then looked at Zhu Bajie and said, "Fairy Nishang doesn't love you? You just have unrequited love for her. There is no love between you two, but the Jade Emperor is truly kind and virtuous to you, don't you know that?"

Zhu Bajie was stunned and looked at Zhuang Yan fiercely. Zhuang Yan said again, "For a woman, you betrayed the trust and respect of the Jade Emperor. You wanted to rape her and force yourself on her, which made such a big joke and made the Jade Emperor lose face. Why don't you think about it carefully? Has the Jade Emperor ever treated you unfairly? Have you never thought about the official rank of Zhongyuan and the position of Marshal Tianpeng?"

Zhu Bajie broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, but Zhuang Yan continued, "Are you an ungrateful person? You can't remember who was kind to you, but you can't forget who ignored you?"

"After you were demoted to the lower world, Guanyin Bodhisattva gave you a chance to return to heaven and asked you to help Tang Monk go to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. However, you think about a woman who doesn't love you every day. Are you ashamed of Guanyin Bodhisattva?"

"Are you born lowly, doing things that only please others?"

"He was once the Marshal of the Heavenly Peng appointed by the Jade Emperor. He led 80,000 naval forces in the Milky Way and crossed the weak waters to quell rebellions. Jian was highly regarded by the Emperor and a god with a promising future. However, he was dominated by his lower body and finally abandoned everything without dignity."

"Fellow Daoist, forgive me for being blunt, but this is despicable."

Zhu Bajie was trembling all over, sweating profusely, and looking at Zhuang Yan with a pale face, his eyes filled with anger, shame and confusion.

He swallowed and wanted to refute, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he was unable to refute at all. What Zhuang Yan said was not fabricated at all, it was all true.

Zhuang Yan looked at Zhu Bajie with a smile on his face and said, "You don't have to look at me like that, my friend. People who are willing to be lowly are hopeless. If you don't love and respect yourself, how can others respect you?"

After finishing speaking, Zhuang Yan bowed and said, "That's all I have to say. Goodbye."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuang Yan turned around and left, leaving Zhu Bajie standing there, sweating profusely and trembling all over in the biting cold wind.

Not long after Zhuang Yan left, Monk Sha came here. When he saw Zhu Bajie, he immediately said, "Third Brother, you are here. Second Brother asked me to find you."

Before Sha Seng could finish his words, he saw Zhu Bajie suddenly fall to the ground, trembling all over, his face flushed, and sweat pouring down.

Sha Seng was greatly surprised, and hurriedly walked up to Zhu Bajie and asked, "Third brother, what's wrong with you?" After that, Sha Seng went to help Zhu Bajie up. This helped him up, and he was even more surprised, because Zhu Bajie's clothes were soaked with sweat, and the ground was also wet with sweat.

"Third Brother, are you sick?" Sha Seng was shocked, then squatted down, climbed on Zhu Bajie's hands and carried him on his back, then walked quickly towards the wing room not far away. Tiger Vanguard ordered the four generals, Jackal, Wolf, Leopard, and Badger, to count the number of people in the cave. The four generals came back to report that except for General Bear's family, all the others were here.

When Tiger Vanguard heard this, he immediately said to the four generals, "Take a few people and go round up General Xiong's family. The True Lord said that you all should follow me to Lingtai Mountain to settle down, and no one should be left out."

General Wolf was shocked when he heard this and said, "My king, we can't pull this out. Hibernating bears have the worst tempers. We can't beat General Bear."

The three generals, Jackal, Leopard and Badger, also said in succession: "Yes, yes, my king, we dare not go."

"A bunch of cowards." Tiger Vanguard cursed, "If you don't go, do you want me to go alone?"

"Good, good, good." Upon hearing this, the four generals said quickly, "It would be great if Your Majesty could go."

Looking at this group of arrogant subordinates, Tiger Vanguard felt helpless. In the end, he did not force them and led his men to General Xiong's cave.

Not long after, an angry bear roar was heard from a cave in Ziluo Mountain, but it was followed by an even more angry tiger roar.

General Bear, who was pulled out of his warm nest by Tiger Vanguard, was extremely angry. He roared and was about to lose his temper, but he was silenced by a tiger's roar, and then a thick slap hit General Bear's face again and again.

General Xiong was awakened by Tiger Vanguard's six palm strikes in one breath. He quickly calmed down his anger, looked at Tiger Vanguard calmly, and said blankly: "My king?"

After a moment, General Xiong was startled and said, "Is there something wrong in the cave? Please wait a moment, my king. I will go get the weapons."

"Come back." said Tiger Vanguard.

General Xiong stopped walking when he heard this, turned around and looked at Tiger Pioneer in confusion, only to hear Tiger Pioneer say, "Wake up your whole family, we are moving."

"Moving?" General Xiong asked in a daze, "Why would you want to move?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Just move when I tell you to. If you don't want to move, you can stay here. I won't force you, my king." Tiger Vanguard said.

Hearing this, General Xiong immediately said, "Wherever the king goes, I will go! I swear to follow the king until death."

After saying that, General Bear immediately rushed into the cave and woke up the whole family who were hibernating. For a while, bursts of strange bear roars were heard in the snow-covered Zi Luo Mountain.

Half an hour later, Tiger Vanguard gathered all the monsters in Tiger Spirit Cave outside the cave, and then he went down the mountain in person to report to Zhuang Yan.

"Master, all the monsters in the cave have gathered together." Tiger Vanguard reported to Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Then you can take them to Lingtai Mountain first. Everyone should take whatever they want to take, and also take everything that should be taken from the cave."

Tiger Vanguard bowed and accepted the order, "Yes, Master."

Afterwards, Tiger Vanguard bid farewell to Zhuang Yan, turned back to the outside of the Tiger Spirit Cave, and after packing up all the things that needed to be taken from the cave with the group of monsters, he set out in a mighty manner to leave Ziluo Mountain and head towards Lingtai Mountain.

The day after Tiger Vanguard led the demons away, Tang Seng woke up. When he found that he was not in a cave, he asked the little white dragon beside him: "Where am I?"

Little White Dragon said: "Master, this is the manor at the foot of the mountain. The Tiger Spirit King has been subdued by Lingtai Zhenjun. We rescued you."

Tang Seng nodded when he heard this, then sat up from the bed, and then glanced around and asked, "Where are Wukong, Wuneng, and Wujing?"

Xiao Bailong said: "The eldest brother went to heaven, the third brother is sick, and the fourth brother is taking care of him."

"Oh?" Hearing this, Tang Seng quickly stood up and asked, "Is Bajie sick?"

Xiao Bailong said, "Yes, Third Junior Brother came back with a high fever last night for some reason. He was unconscious and kept talking nonsense."

Tang Seng immediately asked with a worried look on his face: "Have you called a doctor?"

Xiao Bailong said, "The three 'old ladies' in this manor have seen it. They said that this is caused by the inner demon of Third Junior Brother. As long as Third Junior Brother can eliminate his obsession and get rid of the inner demon, he can pass this level."

"Three old ladies?" Tang Seng looked at Xiao Bailong in confusion.

Xiao Bailong said: "Master, these three old ladies are quite capable."

Tang Seng immediately understood and said, "Let's go and see Bajie."

"Yes." Xiao Bailong responded, and then went with Tang Seng to Zhu Bajie's room. Sha Seng, who was taking care of Zhu Bajie, saw Tang Seng coming and quickly stood up to greet him, "Master, you are awake."

Tang Seng nodded and asked, "Wujing, how is Bajie?"

Sha Seng shook his head and sighed, "It's still the same. The high fever won't go away, and he keeps talking nonsense."

Tang Seng walked quickly forward and looked towards Zhu Bajie who was lying on the bed. He saw Zhu Bajie lying there with his eyes closed, cracked lips, and unclear mind. He kept talking nonsense, but no one could hear clearly what he was saying.

Tang Seng went forward and touched Zhu Bajie's forehead, which was boiling hot. He was immediately shocked and said quickly, "It's so hot, have you found medicine?"

Sha Seng shook his head and said, "No, the three old ladies said that this disease is incurable and needs Third Brother to survive this disaster on his own."

When Tang Seng heard this, he frowned slightly and immediately asked Xiao Bailong to fetch paper and pen, then wrote a prescription, "I once learned the Dao of Qi Huang. This is a prescription for reducing fever. Wu Bai, go get some medicine according to this prescription."

Xiao Bailong took the prescription and left, and soon brought the medicine back.

Tang Seng immediately tested the medicine and decocted it himself, and then, with the help of Little White Dragon and Sha Seng, he personally fed Zhu Bajie the medicine. He took care of him for several days and nights, and never left his side. The master's sincere love for his disciple was clearly demonstrated here.

(End of this chapter)