I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 42: Receive the name from the snake demon, and get the reward after checking the secrets

Zhuang Yan personally sent Sun Wukong back to the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon, chatted with Patriarch Bodhi for a while, and then returned to the mountain temple.

Once back in the temple, Zhuang Yan took out the pottery jar from his sleeve and removed the seal. With a bang, the pottery jar broke into pieces and the red-scaled python immediately fell to the ground with a rumble.

The red-scaled python had woken up by now, but its head was hit by the Heavenly King's golden halberd. It no longer had the previous ferocious aura and could only twist its body slowly on the ground.

Zhuang Yan looked at the red-scaled python and said, "I am the god of Lingtai Mountain. How dare you, a wicked beast, occupy the mountains and forests and do evil? Now that you have been captured, what do you have to say?"

When the red-scaled python heard Zhuang Yan's words, a murderous look immediately appeared in its scarlet vertical pupils.

Suddenly, the red-scaled python coiled its body, and then a demonic light flashed on its body. It opened its bloody mouth and pounced directly towards Zhuang Yan.

"Tiger!" "Tiger, be careful."

The Fire Spirit Immortal and the Tiger Vanguard rushed over hastily, but just as the red-scaled python pounced in front of Zhuang Yan and had not yet bitten him, a ray of fairy light appeared on Zhuang Yan's body, directly suppressing it to the ground.

'Boom!' The red-scaled python fell heavily to the ground, and a stream of blood spurted out of the wound on its head. The red-scaled python lay on the ground breathing weakly, and streams of blood flowed from the corners of its mouth.

"Tiger, it's going to die." Fire Spirit Immortal said immediately when he saw the red-scaled python in this situation.

When the red-scaled python on the ground heard this, a trace of fear and despair flashed in its eyes. It took her three hundred years to cultivate to the current state of refining the void and merging with the Tao. How could she be willing to die?

Zhuang Yan nodded slightly, then raised his hand and lightly tapped the red-scaled python, immediately adding a 'self-healing' state to the red-scaled python.

A clear light appeared on the red-scaled python's body, and then the wound on its head began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After only half a quarter of an hour, the red-scaled python's injuries were completely healed, and the self-healing state disappeared automatically.

At this time, the red-scaled python, whose injuries had healed, raised its head, with a demonic aura rising from its body, and it returned to its previous ferocious and violent appearance.

But it did not attack Zhuang Yan again. Instead, a demonic light flashed on its body and it transformed from a giant red-scaled python into a beautiful girl in red.

The girl glanced at Zhuang Yan, then lowered her head and slowly knelt in front of Zhuang Yan. She kowtowed to him three times, then raised her head and stared at Zhuang Yan with a pair of red crystal-like eyes.

Zhuang Yan asked, "Do you want to submit to me?"

The girl nodded, then kowtowed three times to Zhuang Yan.

Tiger Pioneer said from the side: "Girl, why don't you say anything?"

The girl glanced at Tiger Vanguard, then opened her mouth towards Zhuang Yan and shook her head.

Zhuang Yan asked, "You can't speak?"

The girl nodded, and the Fire Spirit Immortal smiled and said, "It's strange that you can cultivate to the realm of Lianxu Hedao, but you haven't learned to speak."

Zhuang Yan smiled faintly, then asked the girl, "Are you truly surrendering? Or are you pretending to surrender in order to save your life?"

The girl kowtowed three more times, then raised her hand and pressed her head, where there was a stain of bright red blood, which was the place where she was hit by the Heavenly King's golden halberd.

"Are you truly submitting to me because I saved you just now?" Zhuang Yan asked.

The girl nodded.

Zhuang Yan added: "But wasn't that injury caused by me? Don't you hate me?"

When the girl heard this, she simply clasped her hands together in front of her chest and looked up at Zhuang Yan.

The Fire Spirit Immortal beside him immediately said, "Shan Jun, she is talking about your mercy."

"Oh?" Zhuang Yan looked at the girl and she nodded repeatedly. Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "You are indeed quite intelligent. All right, then I will accept you as my subordinate. From now on, you will be under General Shoushan and be a 'Snake Vanguard' together with Tiger Vanguard. Your salary will be the same as Tiger Vanguard's."

Upon hearing this, the girl immediately prostrated herself on the ground and bowed deeply to Zhuang Yan.

Afterwards, Zhuang Yan asked the girl, "Do you have a name?"

The girl shook her head. Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "Then I will give you a name. Since your true form is a red-scaled python, let's call you 'Chi Ling'."

The girl showed a look of joy and kowtowed again to thank Zhuang Yan for giving her the name.

Then Zhuang Yan called Tiger Vanguard over and said to him, "From now on, you will be the one teaching Chi Ling how to speak."

"Ah? Me? Tiger, I don't know how to teach people." Tiger Vanguard said embarrassedly.

Zhuang Yan asked in surprise: "Don't you know how to take care of children?"

"Ah, this." Tiger Pioneer said, "I can take care of children, but this is different, right?"

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "What's the difference? She is also a child. You can teach her the same way you teach your own son."

Tiger Vanguard looked at Chi Ling, then at Huo Ling Zhenxian, and finally said helplessly: "Yes, Mr. Shan, I will do my best."

Then Zhuang Yan glanced around the mountain god temple again, and saw peach trees everywhere. The entire mountain god temple was surrounded by a peach forest.

"How many peach trees are there here?" Zhuang Yan asked.

Fire Spirit Immortal said: "One hundred and thirty-six."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "Yes, if I don't become an immortal official in the future, I can still sell peaches."

"Hey" Fire Spirit Immortal laughed awkwardly. Zhuang Yan laughed out loud upon seeing this, then turned into a ray of fairy light and flew into the Eight Immortals Pavilion.

After sitting cross-legged in the Eight Immortals Pavilion, Zhuang Yan fell into deep thought.

The incident of Sun Wukong being captured this time made Zhuang Yan realize what he was lacking now, that is, the ability to see the secrets of heaven.

Because after he sent Sun Wukong back to the Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, Patriarch Bodhi told him clearly that Sun Wukong would suffer this disaster.

The reasons why Patriarch Bodhi did not take action were, firstly, that the matter fell under the jurisdiction of the mountain god Zhuang Yan, and secondly, that he knew that Sun Wukong would be rescued by Zhuang Yan.

Therefore, Zhuang Yan had some enlightenment. Most of the time, he was just passively receiving various messages, while those truly powerful people had the ability to observe the mysteries of heaven and predict the future.

Therefore, Zhuang Yan understood that what he lacked now was this ability.

"In that case, let's add a function of 'searching for secrets'." Zhuang Yan thought.

Immediately, Zhuang Yan directly called up 200 points of Heavenly Dao Power and refined it in an instant.

I saw an infinite mysterious light flashing between Zhuang Yan's eyebrows, and in an instant a "search for secrets" function appeared in Zhuang Yan's function bar.

The original 840 points of Heavenly Power became 640 points.

Zhuang Yan's mind moved, and he activated the "Search for Secrets" function. He thought about it, and then silently recited a name in his heart: Sun Wukong.

A moment later, the secret about Sun Wukong was searched and appeared directly in Zhuang Yan's mind: "One month later, Bodhi Patriarch will teach Sun Wukong the Great Heavenly Immortal Art, the Seventy-two Transformations of the Earthly Evils, and the Somersault Cloud Method."

Zhuang Yan smiled faintly and said, "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven is about to be born."

At this point, Zhuang Yan recalled the time when Sun Wukong was bullied by Chi Ling, and a teasing smile appeared on his face. "Even heroes can get embarrassed sometimes."

After a moment, Zhuang Yan collected his thoughts and then silently said in his mind: "Lingtai Mountain."

In an instant, countless secrets about Lingtai Mountain popped up, but they were all trivial matters, such as which fairy was about to die, which creature would get pregnant and when, and which creature was pregnant with a boy or a girl.
Zhuang Yan cleared out all these miscellaneous little things and only left two major things.

The first one was about Patriarch Bodhi's plan to teach Sun Wukong the Dharma in a month, and Zhuang Yan already knew about this, so he removed it.

But when he saw the second one, Zhuang Yan was startled. He saw that the secret was: "In order to explore the details of the Lingtai Mountain God, ten days later, the Buddhist Peacock King Bodhisattva will transform into a golden peacock fairy and enter Lingtai Mountain to open a temple."

"Oh?" Zhuang Yan was in awe. "Are you targeting me?"

(End of this chapter)