I am a fairy in Journey to the West

The land god of Xiaohe Village felt an extremely powerful divine power falling on Xiaohe Village. As a righteous god in heaven, the land god could naturally sense this righteous divine power.

With a slight "crash" sound, the earth, rocks and rubble on the broken land temple shook, and then a head popped out from the ground.

This is a slightly young and delicate face, but there is a sense of cowardice between his brows. He is the land god of Xiaohe Village.

"I thought you were dead." A clear voice came from above my head.

The land god of Xiaohe Village looked up and saw a young man wearing the robe of a fourth-rank immortal official in heaven standing in front of him, looking at him majestically with a pair of divine eyes.

The face of the God of Land of Xiaohe Village changed drastically. He quickly crawled out from underground, straightened his robe, brushed off the dust, stepped forward and bowed, saying, "I am the God of Land of Xiaohe Village. May I ask your name?"

Zhuang Yan used his magical power to send his Immortal Official Jade Certificate to the Land God of Xiaohe Village. The Land God of Xiaohe Village rubbed his eyes, then took a closer look and said, "Lingtai Yuji Xianmiao Zhenjun?"

"It turns out that it is Lingtai Zhenjun who has arrived!" Xiaohe Village's land god hurriedly bowed again and said, "I didn't know that Zhenjun was coming. I failed to welcome him. Please forgive me, Zhenjun."

Although his land temple also received a notice from the Heavenly Court to punish Tota-Bearing Heavenly King and Zhuang Yan, Zhuang Yan was only demoted to the position of wandering god on earth. His honorable position and rank were still there, but he was not allowed to act presumptuously.

Zhuang Yan glanced at him, then said calmly, "Get up."

"Thank you, Master Zhenjun." The landowner of Xiaohe Village stood up and thanked him. Then Zhuang Yan pointed to the ruins of Xiaohe Village in front of him and asked, "What happened to this village?"

Upon hearing this, the landowner of Xiaohe Village said, "Reply to the True Lord, this village was destroyed by bandits from the mountains, and even our temple was destroyed."

"Really?" Zhuang Yan's eyes fell on the landowner of Xiaohe Village again, "How could a bandit have evil spirits?"

The landowner of Xiaohe Village hesitated for a moment, then quickly changed his words and said, "Replying to the True Lord, that group of bandits are a group of monsters lurking in Muyun Mountain. They often disguise themselves as bandits and go down the mountain to kill people."

"Who is the leader?" Zhuang Yan asked again.

The landowner of Xiaohe Village replied, "The leader is called Huadie Niang. She looks like a thousand-needle flower butterfly and lives in the Red Leaf Cave in Muyun Mountain."

"What kind of Taoism?" Zhuang Yan continued to ask.

The land god of Xiaohe Village said: "It should be the practice of Lianxuhedao, with more than a thousand years of magic power."

Zhuang Yan nodded slightly, and finally asked the landowner of Xiaohe Village, "Why don't you report it to the Demon Subduing Hall?"

"Uh..." The land god of Xiaohe Village was stunned for a moment, then he clasped his hands and said, "Master, this matter is beyond my ability. That Huadie Niang is very powerful, and I can't do anything."

Zhuang Yan said: "What I'm asking is why you didn't report it!"

The village chief was hesitant and couldn't even speak clearly. Seeing him like this, Zhuang Yan asked directly, "Are you afraid?"

The land god of Xiaohe Village lowered his head. Zhuang Yan asked again, "Are you afraid that she will retaliate against you?"

"My Lord, my magical powers are limited and I can only protect myself sometimes," said the land god of Xiaohe Village cautiously.

When Zhuang Yan heard this, he turned around and looked at the ruins, broken tiles and scorched earth of Xiaohe Village. After a while, he asked, "How did you become the land god?"

The land god of Xiaohe Village looked confused when he heard this, but he quickly replied, "True Lord, I was a scholar in my previous life. I failed the imperial examinations many times and became discouraged. I no longer wanted to do this. On my way back home, I saw corpses everywhere in a place. After investigation, I learned that they were the soldiers of the enemy country who died in the war. No one had collected their bodies for many years. So I stayed here temporarily, collected and buried all the bodies, and then returned to my hometown. When collecting the bodies, I accidentally contracted an epidemic, so I died of illness a year after returning home. After my death, His Royal Highness Qin Guangwang of the underworld saw that I had accumulated a lot of merits, so he reported my merits to the human world. After an assessment, I was promoted to the land god of this place, and I have been here until now."

Zhuang Yan nodded after hearing this and said, "So you became a god through your merits in this world?"

"My Lord, it is indeed so." The land god of Xiaohe Village bowed and said.

"In that case." Zhuang Yan waved his sleeves, and a divine flag with the word "wine" written on it flew in front of the land god of Xiaohe Village.

The land god of Xiaohe Village looked at the divine flag in front of him, which was glowing with fairy light, and asked in amazement, "Master, what are you doing?"

Zhuang Yan pointed at the divine flag and said, "This is the immortal treasure 'Wine Flag', which has unfathomable power. Take it to Muyun Mountain and kill Hua Die Niang and all the evildoers who are harming lives, and bring her real body to Qingping Mountain to report."

When the land god of Xiaohe Village heard this, his face suddenly changed and he said, "Master, my power is too low."

"This is a fairy treasure." Zhuang Yan said in a clear voice.

The local god of Xiaohe Village said timidly, "True Lord, even if it is an immortal treasure, I have no experience in fighting. If I lose to that Flower Butterfly Lady, it will be a small matter. But if I lose the True Lord's immortal treasure, it will be a great sin."

Zhuang Yan shook his head slightly and asked again, "What is Hua Die Niang's ability?"

The land god of Xiaohe Village was stunned for a moment, then said, "True Lord, she is at the level of Lianxuhedao."

Zhuang Yan pointed at the wine flag and said, "This is a fairy treasure."

The landowner of Xiaohe Village showed a trace of hesitation and helplessness on his face, but looking at Zhuang Yan's majestic gaze, he dared not say anything else. He could only bite the bullet and take the wine flag, then bowed and said, "The little god accepts the order."

Zhuang Yan nodded slightly and said, "I'll wait for you in Qingping Mountain for one day."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuang Yan's figure turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared. The landowner of Xiaohe Village looked at the direction where Zhuang Yan disappeared and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

He looked at the wine flag in his hand, feeling completely unconfident. He could only grumble to himself, "If you can't beat me, then you can't beat me. Why force me?"

But even if he complained, Zhuang Yan's edict was as heavy as a mountain. Even if he didn't dare to go before, he had to go now.

Thinking of this, the land god of Xiaohe Village began to worry. He had never fought when he was a human, and he had never practiced magic or fought since he became the land god. Now that Zhuang Yan wanted him to get rid of the monster, how could he not be worried?

The land god of Xiaohe Village was worried as he used his magic to escape underground and hurriedly headed towards Muyun Mountain.

Xiaohe Village was only a hundred miles away from Muyun Mountain. The local people of Xiaohe Village used the method of escaping underground to make the journey quicker but it still took them a long time.

After finally entering Muyun Mountain, he looked at the gloomy fog and evil spirit in the mountain, and became timid, taking one step forward and two steps back, like a new bride who looked back every few steps after going out.

He then lingered at the foot of Muyun Mountain for another two hours. When it was almost dark, he turned back to look outside the mountain and muttered, "It's already dark, why don't we come back tomorrow?" He was about to turn back, but after taking only two steps, he stopped where he was with a long sigh, "Alas, but Master Lingtai only gave us one day."

Thinking of this, the land of Xiaohe Village hesitated and kept moving forward and backward.

At this moment, a shrill voice suddenly sounded in the mountains, "Guys, there is someone here."

The land god of Xiaohe Village was startled by the voice. He turned around suddenly and saw a group of patrolling monsters who had just arrived here and had discovered him.

Seeing the monster rushing towards him with weapons in hand, the local god of Xiaohe village was startled. Without saying a word, he made some magic gestures and escaped underground.

The monsters saw from afar that the land god of Xiaohe Village turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared into the ground. They chased after him and searched the place where the land god of Xiaohe Village had just been, but found nothing.

"Captain, it seems he escaped underground." A little monster said to the leader of the patrol team.

The little leader pinched his chin and said, "He knows how to burrow underground. He is not an ordinary cultivator. Maybe he is here to gather intelligence in the mountains."

Hearing this, the little demon beside him said quickly: "I saw him wandering around here just now, probably trying to find the direction. If we hadn't happened to come here and found him, he would have sneaked into the mountains."

The little leader nodded and said, "That's right. Fortunately, we found it in time. Deputy Captain, you lead everyone to continue patrolling the mountain. I will go back and report to the cave master."

The deputy captain clasped his fists in response, and then the little leader turned around and ran quickly into the forest, his agile figure disappearing into the mountains in a flash.

The escaped landowner of Xiaohe Village fled for eighty or ninety miles before he stopped. He quietly popped his head out of the ground and saw that it was pitch black and quiet all around. He then breathed a sigh of relief and crawled out from the ground.

"What should we do? We have to go to Qingping Mountain to report." The landowner of Xiaohe Village looked worried.

I don't know how long it took, but he seemed to have made up his mind. He walked aside and began to use his magic power to hurt himself.

It can't be considered self-mutilation, it's just using various methods to destroy the official robes on the body, and then making some wounds on the body.

Soon the local official of Xiaohe Village stopped and walked to the river to look in the moonlight. He saw the man inside was covered in blood, with disheveled hair, torn clothes, and a pale face. He looked like he was seriously injured.

He looked at his reflection on the water and said with satisfaction: "That's all right."

After saying that, the land of Xiaohe Village turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared into the ground, heading straight towards Qingping Mountain.

Qingping Mountain, the Temple of Diyou.

Zhuang Yan looked at the Fire Spirit Immortal in front of him and said, "I have been demoted to the lower world and cannot go to heaven without the Jade Emperor's order. From now on, the affairs of the Jade Emperor's Palace and heaven will be handed over to you."

Fire Spirit Immortal smiled and said, "Please rest assured, I am here with you, and everything will go smoothly."

"Of course I trust you." Zhuang Yan said with a smile: "Last time I gave you the 'life-saving method', but this method is too passive. It can only protect yourself, not defeat the enemy. Now, I will give you a few more methods that can defeat the enemy."

After saying that, Zhuang Yan raised his hand and pointed. In an instant, a ray of mysterious light flew out from his finger and sank into the center of Fire Spirit Immortal's eyebrows in a moment.

Fire Spirit Immortal only felt a tremendous force entering her forehead, causing her to close her eyes unconsciously.

The moment he closed his eyes, he suddenly felt a myriad of mysteries. There was a golden light shining in his mind and golden lotuses bloomed in all directions.

And from each of the golden lotuses, a magical power flew up. The Fire Spirit Immortal looked at them one by one and saw that these magical powers were: the sure-hit method, the evasion method, the self-healing method, the underground escape method, the evil-breaking method, the magic-breaking method, and the illusion-breaking method.

After these magical powers flew out of the golden lotus, they immediately merged with the Fire Spirit Immortal's own Taoism, becoming indistinguishable from each other.

After a while, the True Immortal Fire Spirit opened his eyes, with a strange light in his eyes, and he knelt on the ground and bowed to Zhuang Yan, saying: "True Lord, your kindness to me is as great as a mountain."

Zhuang Yan immediately helped her up, looked at her and said, "Since it is a favor, you should keep it in your heart and don't always talk about it."

Upon hearing this, the Fire Spirit Immortal said solemnly, "I understand, Master."

"Okay, you can go back first." Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Practice these magical skills I gave you well. Also, help me deliver this letter to fellow Taoist Xuandu."

Fire Spirit Immortal took the letter and nodded, "Yes, Master."

After saying this, Fire Spirit True Immortal took a step back, bowed to Zhuang Yan and said, "True Lord, I will take my leave first."

"Go ahead." Zhuang Yan nodded and smiled.

Afterwards, the Fire Spirit Immortal rode on a cloud of fire, transformed into a red rainbow, and flew straight up into the sky.

After the Fire Spirit Immortal left, Zhuang Yan walked out of the temple and came to the bluestone courtyard outside the temple.

Suddenly, a puff of white smoke rose from the ground outside the yard, and then the blood-stained and disheveled Xiaohe Village local came to Zhuang Yan, holding a wine flag, his face pale, and dragging his injured body.

"I, the little god, pay my respects to the True Lord." The land god of Xiaohe Village came in front of Zhuang Yan and bowed weakly.

Zhuang Yan looked at him like this, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes. He said calmly, "Have you gotten rid of all those evildoers?"

Upon hearing this, the land god of Xiaohe Village fell to his knees, crying and saying, "Please forgive me, Master. I am no match for that Butterfly Lady. I went into the mountain, called out to her, and just as I announced my intention, I was knocked to the ground by her before I could use Master's magic treasure."

"If I hadn't run fast, I would have been killed on the spot by that butterfly lady."

"Fortunately, your treasure has not been lost, otherwise I would be guilty of an unforgivable crime. Your Majesty, I will return the treasure to you now. Please send another general to exterminate the evil. I kowtow on behalf of the people who died unjustly."

Although the words of the landowner of Xiaohe Village were sincere and touching, Zhuang Yan remained calm. He just raised his hand to put the wine flag back into his sleeve, and then said to the landowner of Xiaohe Village who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, "I understand. Thank you for your hard work. Go back and heal your wounds first."

When the landowner of Xiaohe Village heard this, he was overjoyed. He thought he was smart enough to come up with this good idea.

The land god of Xiaohe Village quickly responded and thanked him. He then said goodbye to Zhuang Yan, stood up and turned into a puff of white smoke, went underground, and returned to the dilapidated land temple of Xiaohe Village. (End of this chapter)