I am a fairy in Journey to the West

"Okay, since the bet is off, I'll leave first." Zhuang Yan said as he stood up.

Pei Jue saw this and quickly shouted, "Wait a moment."

Zhuang Yan turned around to look at Pei Jue and asked with a smile: "What? Anything else to say?"

Pei Jue thought for a moment, then asked, "You seem to know a lot about these matters of the Heavenly Officials and Gods?"

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "I know a thing or two."

When Pei Jue heard this, he looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "How about you stay and help me? I won't treat you unfairly."

"Help you?" Zhuang Yan waved his hands and said, "No, no, you are just a god. You haven't even been conferred an imperial title by the Heavenly Court. How can you be a good city god? I can't help you. You should ask someone else for help!"

Pei Jue was not convinced when he heard this and said, "Why? Can't I be a good city god without the imperial decree from the Heavenly Court? I don't believe it!"

At this point, Pei Jue looked at Zhuang Yan and asked, "Do you dare to make another bet?"

Zhuang Yan chuckled and said, "You only won once, but are you addicted to betting?"

Pei Jue waved his hand and said, "The bet we made during the day doesn't count. If Pei Jue wasn't unwilling to be the god, it wouldn't be my turn. Even if I win, it's not fair."

Pei Jue looked at Zhuang Yan and asked, "Do you dare to bet with me again?"

Zhuang Yan asked with a smile: "What are you betting on this time?"

Pei Jue said, "Let's bet on whether I can be a good city god for ten years."

Zhuang Yan asked, "What's the stakes? And how do we judge whether we've done well or not?"

Pei Jue thought for a moment and said, "If I can gain the recognition of all the living beings under my rule within ten years and receive the official title from the Heavenly Court, I will win."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Zhuang Yan said immediately after hearing this: "This is very difficult. You are a nameless and unknown hairy god. It is much more difficult for you to get the title of heaven within ten years than to become an immortal within ten years."

Pei Jue said: "I don't want to become an immortal, I just want to become a god!"

"Okay." Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "What's the stakes this time?"

Pei Jue was about to speak, but quickly took back the words on his lips and said, "I haven't thought about it yet. Why not wait until the winner is determined."

"Okay." Zhuang Yan said with a smile, "Then I'll make this bet with you."

Pei Jue rolled his eyes and said, "Since we've made a bet, you shouldn't leave. How about this, you stay and help me, and I'll pay you?"

Zhuang Yan said, "Want to hire me? My price is very high."

Pei Jue asked: "Purple money? How much do you want?"

Zhuang Yan held up a finger and said, "Ten purple coins a month."

Pei Jue was shocked. This price was indeed very high. Her entire fortune now amounted to only sixty-seven purple coins, which was only enough to pay Zhuang Yan six months' wages.

But then he thought again, now that he had become the City God of Puyu City, there would be plenty of ways for him to make extravagant money in the future.

Thinking of this, Pei Jue nodded and said, "Okay." Then he took out fifty purple coins and gave them to Zhuang Yan, saying, "This is the first five months' salary."

Zhuang Yan took the purple money and put it into his sleeve, smiling and saying, "Boss is very generous."

Pei Jue raised his head slightly, then put his hands behind his back and said, "Call me Lady City God."

“Haha.” Zhuang Yan laughed, and then said, “I’ve only heard of the City God and the City God’s Wife, but never heard of the City God’s Lady.”

Pei Jue blinked and said, "City God Lady is too ugly, why don't you just call her City God Shensuan?"

Zhuang Yan laughed, then cupped his hands and said, "Okay, City God."

Pei Jue was in a good mood. He looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "From now on, you will help me manage all the wishes of the people in the city and report to me in time."

"Okay, this is a simple matter." Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

Pei Jue nodded, turned around and walked downstairs, saying as he walked: "Just wait and see, I will definitely win this bet."

Zhuang Yan smiled without saying anything. After Pei Jue returned to the statue's chamber in the main hall, he also flew down and soon arrived outside the temple keeper's room.

The temple keeper of the City God Temple is an old gentleman from the Jiantianyuan. He was a minor official in the Jinlun Kingdom, so he was sent to be the temple keeper.

Zhuang Yan pushed the door open and walked in. The old temple keeper was startled at first, then he suddenly stood up and turned to look.

"Who are you?" The old temple keeper looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "No, my temple door is closed. How did you get in?"

Zhuang Yan did not explain, but smiled and walked forward, took out a gold ingot from his sleeve and placed it on the table. "I am a devout believer, and I want to do some good deeds in the City God Temple. I hope the temple master will give me some favors."

The old temple keeper's face was full of vigilance, but when he saw the ingot of gold, his eyes immediately widened.

He quickly picked up the gold and took a bite of it. When he found it was real gold, he immediately said with a big smile on his face, "Okay, okay, how about this, sir, you become a lamp-lighting layman in the temple from now on?"

The Jinlun Kingdom believes in Buddhism, so the City God Temple was built according to the Buddhist temples. Even the statues of the City God are in the shape of Vajra and Arhat.

"Okay." Zhuang Yan nodded.

Early the next morning, before daybreak, Zhuang Yan came into the main hall and knocked on the statue of the City God.

Seeing no response, Zhuang Yan increased the force and knocked more than ten times in a row. Not long after, Pei Jue, with dishevelled hair, flew out of the abode and asked with sleepy eyes, "What are you doing? I'm sleeping soundly."

Zhuang Yan said, "As a city god, how can you sleep? Hurry up and do your work."

Pei Jue groaned for a long time before asking, "What's the matter?"

Zhuang Yan said, "There is a herbalist in Dutou Mountain outside the city who encountered a goblin on the mountain. He was praying for the City God to protect him, so it's your turn to take action."

"Ah? Should I take care of this kind of thing?" Pei Jue asked.

Zhuang Yan said, "If they didn't pray for you, you wouldn't have to care. But since they gave you incense and prayed to you in their hearts in times of crisis, are you still going to sit back and do nothing? City God?"

"Of course not!" Pei Jue suddenly perked up. She quickly tied her loose hair on top of her head, and without washing, she took out her iron spear and asked, "Du Tou Shan, right?"

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Yes."

"Let's go!" Pei Jue said immediately, then he rode a gust of wind and flew out of the city with Zhuang Yan, heading straight for Dutou Mountain.

Arriving at Dutou Mountain, Pei Jue immediately saw clouds of evil spirits on the mountainside and flew down with his iron spear in hand.

As soon as she landed, she heard a scream coming from the front. Pei Jue took two steps through the jungle and looked forward, only to see a big black wild boar biting a man carrying a medicine basket.

Moreover, one of the man's arms was bitten off and fell to the side covered in blood.

"Evil beast!" Pei Jue shouted, rushed forward with an iron spear in his hand, and without saying a word, stabbed the wild boar monster in the neck with the spear.

But the spear was not accurate and hit the wild boar demon's ribs.

The wild boar spirit retreated violently in pain. Pei Jue chased after it with his iron spear in hand and turned back to Zhuang Yan and said, "Save him."

Zhuang Yan walked forward. The herbalist had already fainted, and blood was gushing out from his broken arm and wounds on his body.

Zhuang Yan first used his magic power to stop his bleeding, then he carried him all the way down the mountain, and then summoned the land god.

"Which immortal is summoning me?" A puff of smoke rose up, and the local land god immediately appeared in front of Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan didn't say much, just pointed at the herb collector on the ground and said, "Please send this man back home."

Upon hearing this, the land god immediately looked towards Zhuang Yan, "Huh? This immortal looks familiar."

Zhuang Yan casually took out thirty purple coins and said, "Is this familiar?"

The land god's eyes lit up, and he immediately took the thirty purple coins in his hand and said with a smile: "I know them well! I know them better than my own mother and father."

Zhuang Yan waved his hand and said, "Then send him away."

The land god quickly put away the purple money, bowed and said, "Your Excellency is generous. I will obey your command."

After saying this, the land god said no more. He carried the herbalist on his back and escaped into the earth. In a moment, he disappeared without a trace.

Zhuang Yan returned to the halfway point of Dutou Mountain, where the battle was really intense.

The wild boar demon was covered in blood and had holes everywhere from being stabbed by the iron spears, but there was no fatal wound. After all, his skin was thick and his bones were hard.

So when Zhuang Yan came back, he saw a huge wild boar covered in blood, chasing Pei Jue, who was carrying an iron spear and was in good health, all over the mountain.

Pei Jue was climbing a tree, but the wild boar monster knocked down a big tree with one bite.

Pei Jue climbed up the cliff, and the wild boar monster jumped more than ten feet high.

Pei Jue thrust forward with the spear, but the wild boar demon's two big fangs were not afraid at all. It rushed forward and collided with the iron spear, causing bursts of flames.

After a while, Pei Jue was already exhausted and out of breath, but the wild boar demon became more and more courageous. With a pair of red glowing eyes, he exhaled and kicked his legs, and charged towards Pei Jue again.

Pei Jue saw this and hurriedly poked it with his spear. With a 'clang' sound, the iron spear hit the wild boar monster's forehead.

However, he didn't expect that the bones here were harder, and the wild boar demon was rushing forward, so the long iron spear instantly bent into a semicircle and then flew out.

"Boom!" The wild boar demon rushed in front of Pei Jue in the blink of an eye, first biting Pei Jue in the abdomen, and then directly knocking Pei Jue more than ten feet into the sky. Pei Jue's left lower abdomen was directly pierced by the wild boar demon's fangs.

After a moment, Pei Jue fell heavily to the ground, and the wild boar demon pounced forward again, pressing Pei Jue under him.

Pei Jue was exhausted at this time. She turned her head and saw Zhuang Yan coming back. She shouted quickly: "Run! This pig is very strong and will kill me."

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "I have only seen people killing pigs, but I have never seen pigs killing people. Today is an eye-opener."

Pei Jue gritted his teeth and insisted: "This is not the time to joke. It's not too late to escape now."

Zhuang Yan casually took out a butcher knife from the roadside and threw it over, saying, "Stab the neck, cut more accurately."

Pei Jue quickly reached out and grabbed the butcher knife, only to find it was made of ordinary iron. However, he did not care about anything else and stabbed it towards the wild boar's neck in a hurry.

The stab was very precise, and it pierced into the wild boar demon's neck with a "pop" sound. Pei Jue quickly pulled out and stabbed it several times.

The next moment, the blood on the wild boar demon's neck spurted out like a flood, and in the blink of an eye, Pei Jue was covered in blood.

After the wild boar demon screamed a few times, it fell to the ground with a bang and began to twitch. The red light in its eyes and the energy in its body began to dissipate rapidly.

Pei Jue's hand fell to the ground with a "snap", and the butcher knife in her hand also fell to the side. She took a deep breath and felt extremely tired, with pain and fatigue all over her body. (End of this chapter)