I am a fairy in Journey to the West

The sky is clear and the air is bright, the wind is gentle and the sun is beautiful, and the grass and flowers in Qingping Mountain are green and fragrant.

Baojie and Xiuhuang were playing in the woods when they suddenly heard a loud noise like thunder overhead. They were startled and looked up towards the sky hurriedly.

I saw a dark cloud flying in the sky, tightly surrounding the auspicious green light.

Not long after, the dark cloud shook violently, and then all directions of the sky shook violently, and then a golden light fell from the sky like a meteor.

"Oh no! It's falling towards our mountain." Xiu Huang exclaimed and stood up.

Baojie grabbed Xiuhuang and turned to run. After they ran a few steps, they heard a loud "boom" and then the entire Qingping Mountain began to shake violently.

Suddenly, mountains collapsed, rocks cracked, houses swayed, and dust and smoke rose up.

Baojie and Xiuhuang fell to the ground due to the violent shaking, and lay on the bluestone ground outside the temple, holding their heads and trembling.

Zhuang Yan flew out from the divine palace covered in divine light and flew straight to the top of Qingping Mountain. He waved his sleeves and a breeze blew past, dispersing the thick dust.

Immediately afterwards, Zhuang Yan saw a huge head falling on the hillside of Qingping Mountain, and the upper part of the head had been deeply embedded in the ground.

I saw that the head was broad, with a high nose, drooping ears, and a compassionate face, just like a Buddha's head.

Looking at the half of the mountain that was smashed by the head, Zhuang Yan couldn't help but shout loudly: "Who threw a head into my mountain? Throwing things around, do you have any sense of public morality?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a deep voice sounded from above his head, "Mine, mine."

Zhuang Yan looked up and saw a sacred Buddha light in the sky that dispersed the dark clouds. A figure was hit by the Buddha light and flew backwards instantly.

Then a headless monk wearing a royal blue cassock and a glowing Buddha light flew down, came in front of Zhuang Yan, put his hands together and said, "Amitabha, Lingtai Zhenjun, I am honored to meet you."

Zhuang Yan looked at the headless monk in front of him in surprise, and asked with a bow, "May I ask who you are, fellow Taoist?"

The headless monk chuckled and said, "I am the master of the Holy Land of Wonderful Joy, the Eastern Unmovable Buddha."

"Akshobhya Buddha?" Zhuang Yan was greatly surprised and asked, "Where is your head?"

Akshobhya Buddha pointed at the head that fell into the mountain below and said, "Don't be surprised, Master Lingtai, that is my head."

Zhuang Yan said in astonishment: "Even if the Buddha doesn't want his head, you can't just throw it away. Look at what this mountain has become."

Akshobhya Buddha put his hands together and said, "You are joking, Master Lingtai. I came to Qingping Mountain to visit you according to the order of Buddha Tathagata. I didn't expect to meet a casual cultivator who wanted to kill me. My head was cut off by the magic weapon of one of them, and it happened to fall into Qingping Mountain. Master Zhenjun, be careful, he is coming."

"A casual cultivator?" Zhuang Yan looked up and saw a beam of fairy light with dark clouds flying towards Qingping Mountain.

He immediately said to Akshobhya Buddha, "Buddha, please go and hide in the Qingping Mountain first. I will deal with this wandering cultivator."

Akshobhya Buddha responded, "Okay, Master Lingtai, be careful. That cultivator has a flying knife in his hand. It is extremely powerful. My head was chopped off by that flying knife."

"Okay." Zhuang Yan nodded, "Don't worry, Buddha. I'll leave this to you."

Upon hearing this, Akshobhya Buddha bowed eleven times to Zhuang Yanhe, then turned around and flew to the Qingping Mountain below.

As Akshobhya Buddha fell into the Qingping Mountain, the fairy light also flew in front of Zhuang Yan.

When the fairy light dissipated, the immortal immediately showed up. The man on the left was wearing a Qinghong fairy robe, with his hair tied up with a hairpin. He was handsome and outstanding.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait." Zhuang Yan raised his hand to stop the casual cultivator and said, "Why did you trespass into my Qingping Mountain Divine Mansion Daoist Hall?"

The casual cultivator was slightly surprised when he heard this, and immediately bowed to Zhuang Yan and said, "I am Lu Ya, a Taoist priest. I am honored to meet you. May I ask your name?"

Zhuang Yan said, "I am Lingtai Yuji Xianmiao Zhenjun."

Lu Ya raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, and said with a folded hand, "So you are Lingtai Zhenjun. I have heard of your great name for a long time, and seeing you today, I find that you are indeed extraordinary."

Zhuang Yan asked, "What are you doing here, Taoist friend?"

Lu Ya said: "I am here to kill someone, not a Buddha. Please help me, Master Lingtai."

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "You can come to my place to drink tea, but you can't kill people."

Lu Ya scratched his head, his face full of embarrassment. Seeing him like this, Zhuang Yan asked, "What are you embarrassing me about, Taoist friend?"

Lu Ya smiled upon hearing this and said, "To be honest, I want to kill that Buddha Akshobhya, but I don't want to cause trouble and offend Lingtai Zhenjun, so I am very conflicted."

Zhuang Yan laughed loudly and said, "Fellow Daoist, you are a sincere gentleman. Let's put it this way. I heard that you have a very powerful magic weapon. Then you can use this magic weapon to kill me. If you can kill me, you can go into the mountains to kill Akshobhya Buddha. If you can't kill me, then I will hold the knife as a hostage, and you can pay money to redeem it, how about that?"

Hearing this, Lu Ya thought to himself: "Since my Immortal Slaying Flying Knife was born, there has never been anyone that cannot be killed. This Lingtai Zhenjun is really arrogant. Since this is the case, let him see the power of my Immortal Slaying Flying Knife. If the flying knife really cannot do anything, I still have the "Changhong Escape Technique" and I will not let him take it away."

After thinking about it, Lu Ya immediately bowed and said with a smile: "Okay, then you better be careful, my flying knife is very sharp."

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "How sharp is it? Just use it."

Lu Ya nodded, then raised his left hand, and saw a red gourd in his palm. A human head emerged from the red gourd, with all the facial features and wings.

Lu Ya looked at Zhuang Yan, then said to the red gourd in front of him, "Please turn around, baby."

A red light flashed in Zhuang Yan's eyes, and in that instant he saw clearly that all his abilities under the 'add status' function could not withstand the power of this knife.

This shows that this flying knife is indeed powerful. If he only had the function of 'adding status', he would have definitely died under this knife today.

But unfortunately, 'add status' is just one of all the functions of Zhuang Yan.

As the red light flashed, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife appeared nine inches in front of Zhuang Yan's neck, and then it could no longer move forward.

A mysterious light curtain appeared on Zhuang Yan's body, which was the 'absolute defense'.

Lu Ya's face suddenly changed, the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife actually missed!

He was shocked and immediately raised his hand to recall the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife. He bowed to Zhuang Yan and said, "Your Excellency has great skills. I admire you. I will take my leave now."

After saying that, Lu Ya turned around and performed the "Changhong Escape" technique. In a moment, he turned into a rainbow light and escaped.

But how could Zhuang Yan let him have his wish? He raised his hand and grabbed at the air, saying, "Where are you going, Taoist friend? We agreed to hold the knife as a hostage, how can you break your promise?"

The 'Retention Seal' was activated, and another rainbow light flashed in the sky. Lu Ya, who had already escaped tens of thousands of miles away, was captured and brought back by Zhuang Yan.

But Lu Ya's Changhong escape technique was also very powerful. At the moment when he was restrained by Zhuang Yan, he activated Changhong escape technique again and escaped directly from Zhuang Yan's 'restraint seal' power.

However, at the moment when Lu Ya used the Changhong escape technique to escape, Zhuang Yan took a quick glance and then grabbed with his right hand, and the red gourd of the Immortal Flying Knife was immediately captured by Zhuang Yan.

After Lu Ya escaped, he did not rush to flee. Instead, he bowed to Zhuang Yan with a shocked expression and said, "Master, you have great magical powers."

Zhuang Yan smiled slightly, raised the red gourd in his hand and said, "We agreed before that if you can't kill me, I will hold the knife as a hostage."

Seeing the red gourd in Zhuang Yan's hand, Lu Ya was shocked again. He quickly looked into his sleeve and found that the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife was gone.

At this moment, Lu Ya finally revealed a deep sense of powerlessness on his face, and then he bowed his head helplessly and said, "Your Majesty, I admire your majesty." After that, Lu Ya asked Zhuang Yan, "May I ask Your Majesty, how can I redeem this sword?"

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "Just bring 100,000 purple coins."

Lu Ya flipped through his sleeves, then spread his hands and said, "I just entered the Three Realms, I'm so poor that I need to beg for food, can you give me less?"

"No." Zhuang Yan said, "You must pay 100,000 purple coins to redeem the knife within a month. If you still haven't redeemed the knife after a month, it will be mine."

"No, no, no." Lu Ya said hurriedly: "One hundred thousand purple coins is not a small amount, how about giving me two months?"

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "Just one month, not even one day more." As he said that, Zhuang Yan put the Immortal Slayer into the 'Infinite Space'.

At this moment, Lu Ya clearly felt that the connection between the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and himself had completely disappeared.

Lu Ya immediately couldn't sit still and said quickly: "Okay, okay, I'll go raise the money right away."

Just as Lu Ya was about to leave, Zhuang Yan asked, "You said you just entered the Three Realms. Could it be that you also came from outer space?"

Lu Ya nodded and said, "Yes, we came from outer space, and our roots have already been established."

Zhuang Yan asked, "Who is the person who stirred up the calamity force from the sky? What is your relationship with him?"

"Oh." Lu Ya smiled and said, "We were all born because of him. He was also the one who sent us into the Three Realms and settled us down. He is like a master and a father to us."

Zhuang Yan asked again, "Then why did he only send you into the world, but not enter the world himself, and even stir up the calamity force?"

"I don't know about that." Lu Ya said with a smile, "You can go to the outer world and ask him yourself."

Zhuang Yan said: "Outside the sky is chaos, annihilating all things, but it is not a place that can be set foot on casually."

"One last question." Zhuang Yan said.

Lu Ya said, "Please ask, Master."

Zhuang Yan asked, "Does that person have a name?"

"Yes." Lu Ya said with a smile: "This man's surname is Xu, and he calls himself 'Hunyuan Old Man'. As for his real name, he never said it."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. Go and raise the money."

Lu Ya bowed and said, "Then I will take my leave first."

After saying that, Lu Ya turned around and performed the Changhong escape technique. In the blink of an eye, he turned into a clear rainbow and disappeared.

After seeing Lu Ya leave, Zhuang Yan returned to Qingping Mountain. Seeing the two boys, Baojie and Xiuhuang, waiting for him below, Zhuang Yan casually threw the red gourd that could kill immortals over to them.

"Here, take it and play with it." Zhuang Yan said.

Xiu Huang was the fastest and caught the red gourd. Looking at the glittering red gourd, Xiu Huang asked, "Master, how do we play with this?"

The Immortal Slaying Red Gourd had been sealed by Zhuang Yan. After hearing Xiu Huang's words, he said, "Sacrifice the gourd, wait for the flying winged head to appear, and say 'Please turn around, baby'."

"Oh." Xiu Huang held the red gourd, then pulled Baojie to the side to study it.

At this time, there was a slight tremor again from Qingping Mountain, but it soon stopped. Zhuang Yan looked up and saw that Akshobhya Buddha had put his head back, retracted his Dharma image, restored his original appearance, and flew back to Qingping Mountain.

"Amitabha, thank you very much for your help, Lingtai Zhenjun." Aksho Buddha walked forward and bowed to Zhuang Yan to express his gratitude.

Zhuang Yan smiled and waved his hand, inviting Akshobhya Buddha to sit in the bamboo pavilion, then raised his hand and plucked a petal of the Seven-Colored Buddha Flower from the air, saying, "Buddha Flower, turn it into a pot of good tea."

When Akshobhya Buddha saw this, his eyes widened and he said, "True Lord, isn't this a bit of a waste of natural resources?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a pot of steaming hot premium tea appeared on the stone table. Zhuang Yan made a cup of tea for Akshobhya Buddha and himself, and then said with a smile: "Isn't this how you can use this flower? I made a wish to become a Buddha before, but it didn't come true."

Akshobhya Buddha smiled and said, "How can the wish to become a Buddha be answered so easily? I came here to answer your wish to become a Buddha in response to the command of the Tathagata Buddha."

"Oh?" Zhuang Yan's eyes lit up and he asked, "What do you mean?"

Akshobhya Buddha took out the Tathagata Buddha's edict and handed it to Zhuang Yan, saying, "Please read this, Master."

Zhuang Yan took the decree and read it carefully. The joy on his face disappeared immediately. He just handed the decree back to Akshobhya Buddha and said, "Embroidered Arhat? Even a dog wouldn't do that."

Akshobhya Buddha: “.”

"You really won't do it? Arhats are also Buddhas." Akshobhya Buddha said, "The supreme master of Hinayana Buddhism is the Arhat Buddhahood."

Zhuang Yan waved his hands and said, "No, no, I am a 4th-rank god in the heavens, a Lingtai Zhenjun appointed by the Jade Emperor, and Tathagata only gave me an Arhat status? How dare he do that?"

Akshobhya Buddha smiled and said, "This is also Lingshan's intention. I am just a messenger."

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "Okay, then I won't make it difficult for you, the messenger, to pass on another message for me, saying 'The Buddha is too stingy, I don't value the position of Arhat.'"

Akshobhya Buddha nodded and smiled, "It will definitely be passed on."

Zhuang Yan looked at him and nodded, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is there anything wrong with your head?"

Akshobhya Buddha touched his neck and said with a smile, "It's OK, it has been taken back."

Zhuang Yan was somewhat surprised and asked, "You were beheaded by that Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, how come you are not hurt at all?"

Akshobhya Buddha smiled and said, "You don't know, True Lord. Buddha has thousands of forms. This head is just one of them. If he cuts off one of my heads, it will only damage my cultivation a little, but it will not be fatal."

“So that’s how it is.” Zhuang Yan suddenly realized, but then he changed his mind and realized that for a Buddha like Akshobhya, it would be a huge loss if even a little bit of his spiritual practice was damaged.

Buddha Akshobhya looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "Today, I have received the help of Lingtai Zhenjun. I will remember it in my heart. If Zhenjun needs my help in the future, just send me a letter. I will do my best to help you."

"Okay, I'll remember that." Zhuang Yan nodded and smiled.

Akshobhya Buddha smiled and stood up, clasped his hands together and said, "True Lord, I still have to report to Lingshan, so I will go ahead."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "I will send the Buddha off. I have already caught the flying knife of Taoist Lu Ya. The Buddha can return to the mountain without any worries this time."

Upon hearing this, Akshobhya Buddha said to Zhuang Yan, "I saw the battle between the True Lord and the Taoist Lu Ya just now. To be honest, with the True Lord's spiritual power, it is more than enough for him to be granted the title of Buddha. However, our Buddhism has its own laws."

Zhuang Yan interrupted Akshobhya Buddha and said with a smile: "Buddha, there is no need to say more. I understand it in my heart."

Akshobhya Buddha nodded, then smiled and said, "However, even if the flying knife is not caught by the True Lord, I am not afraid of him. Firstly, I have the 'Immovable Golden Body', so I can let him chop off ten more heads. Secondly, I have prepared for this treasure, so it will not be so easy for him to chop me off again."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "That's good. Buddha, have a safe journey."

Akshobhya Buddha bowed to Zhuang Yanhe eleven times, then Buddha light rose up, riding on a golden cloud, and disappeared in the eastern sky in an instant. (End of this chapter)