I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 9: Rain came in a dream, Zhu Lie sent money
But when Zhuang Yan returned to the temple, he saw the fairy light shining inside the shrine. He immediately stepped forward, took out his fairy official jade certificate and stamped it in front of the shrine.

The next moment, a fairy light flashed in the shrine, and a decree immediately flew out from it.

Zhuang Yan took back the Immortal Official's Jade Certificate, took the decree and opened it to see that it was the number of rainfall points within a hundred miles of Lingtai Mountain three days later.

"On the eighth day of the sixth month, 2 feet, 9 inches and 38 drops of rain fell within a hundred miles of Lingtai Mountain. The Lingtai Mountain God is ordered to prepare orders to welcome the rain without any mistakes. This decree is to be issued by the Rain Department as soon as possible."

This was the rainfall decree issued by the Ministry of Rainfall. Zhuang Yan carefully calculated the rainfall points written on it and found that it was a heavy rainstorm.

He immediately put away the decree, turned around and walked out of the mountain temple, took out the Thousand Light Cloud Talisman to summon the cloud light, and then rode on the cloud light to inspect the four directions of Lingtai Mountain.

Eight hours later, Zhuang Yan returned to the mountain temple, and then began to use his magic power to draw a rainfall map of Lingtai Mountain based on the results of his inspection.

Just one stick of incense later, the rainfall map was completed. Looking at the densely packed symbols on it, Zhuang Yan frowned.

"Due to this rainfall, there will be flash floods in four mountain streams in Lingtai Mountain, and landslides in nine places. In addition, there will be small landslides in twenty-four mountain bodies, and dragons will appear in six places." After Zhuang Yan finished speaking, he began to count his Jade Book of the Mountain God.

There are one city, six towns and fifty-seven villages around Lingtai Mountain, with a population of more than 200,000. Among them, there is about one town and four villages, with a population of more than 3,000, which are directly threatened by mountain torrents and landslides.

However, among them, only one village worships the mountain god every year at the foot of the mountain or on the mountain, and it has the greatest merit.

After reading it, Zhuang Yan put away the jade book, took out his own jade certificate of immortal official and took a look at the incense inside.

The Jade Certificate of Immortal Officials is the certificate of the official status of the immortal officials in heaven, and it is also the place where the righteous gods receive incense and worship from the human world.

Zhuang Yan took out a stream of incense power from the Immortal Official's Jade Book, and then performed the method of "revealing spirits through dreams".

...

"The woodcutter climbs the mountains and plains, his axe sounds busy and his sighs shallow. He goes out early and comes back late to carry firewood to sell, just to earn a few taels of money for food and clothing."

On the majestic Fangcun Mountain, a melodious song rang out among the green hills and forests.

At this time, a young man in a blue cloth gown was sweating profusely after climbing and was sitting on a big rock to take a break.

When the young man heard the singing, he raised his head and looked up, only to see a middle-aged woodcutter in a linen short jacket, a bamboo hat, his chest exposed, carrying two bundles of firewood on his shoulders, singing as he walked down the mountain path.

The woodcutter walked up to the young man carrying dry firewood, looked at the panting young man and said with a smile: "Young man, are you also going into the mountains to seek immortality?"

The young man immediately became alert upon hearing this, and quickly stood up and bowed, saying, "Please give me some advice, brother."

“Hahaha.” The woodcutter laughed loudly. “What can I tell you? I’m just a woodcutter from a small village at the foot of the mountain.”

The young man was surprised and asked, "How did you know that I came here to seek immortality?"

Upon hearing this, the woodcutter immediately put down his load and sat down on a rock opposite the young man. He wiped the sweat off his face with his clothes and said, "A few days ago, auspicious light suddenly shone in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. I heard that an immortal had descended on this mountain, so many people have come to the mountain to seek immortality recently. I have met many people before you."

Hearing this, the young man suddenly realized, and then asked: "Brother, how high is the top of this mountain?"

The woodcutter laughed and said, "Why? Can't you climb anymore?"

The young man smiled shyly, and the woodcutter said, "How can you be afraid of a high mountain when seeking immortality? Climb slowly, this mountain is still high. If you are not sincere in seeking immortality, how can the immortal favor you?"

When the young man heard this, he was immediately inspired and quickly stood up and bowed to the woodcutter, saying, "Thank you for your advice, brother. Please take a rest. I will go up the mountain first."

The woodcutter said with a smile, "Go ahead." He looked at the young man's cracked lips, took out his water bag and said, "I still have some water here. If you don't mind, take it."

The young man licked his lips, quickly took out his water bag and said, "How could I despise it? I am very grateful for your kindness, brother."

After saying this, the young man took the water from the woodcutter's water bag, thanked him repeatedly, and continued to climb to the top of the mountain.

At this time, there were gusts of fresh breeze in the mountains and white clouds were floating in the air. Seeing this beautiful scenery, the woodcutter prepared to take a rest, so he walked to a big pine tree, sat down, and then leaned against the pine tree to rest.

Suddenly a breeze blew by, and the woodcutter felt sleepy. His eyelids unconsciously drooped and he fell asleep.

The woodcutter soon fell asleep. In the dream, he was still on the Fangcun Mountain and under the big pine tree, but there was a man whose face he could not see clearly and who was covered with divine light walking towards him.

The man said to him, "Wu Qiaofu, I am the god of Lingtai Mountain. Because you, Wujia Village, worship the gods devoutly and have done many good deeds, I have shown my power to you. Listen to me, three days from now, there will be heavy rain in Lingtai Mountain, and there will be mountain torrents, landslides and floods. Your Wujia Village will be affected by the disaster. When you go back, you must spread the word and let the people of Wujia Village leave the village as soon as possible to avoid the disaster. Remember this."

A misty cloud passed by, and Woodcutter Wu was suddenly awakened. At this moment, a pine nut fell into his arms. He looked up and found that it was a squirrel that did not hold on to the tree firmly and dropped the pine nut on his head.

Wu Qiaofu smiled faintly. At this moment, he felt full of energy, as if he had slept for a whole day and did not feel tired at all.

But as it was getting dark, Woodcutter Wu stood up, picked up some dry firewood and prepared to go down the mountain. Just as he turned around, he suddenly heard the ethereal divine voice from behind him again: "Remember, remember."

He looked back suddenly, but saw only lush trees, the sound of the wind, and no one in sight.

Wu Qiaofu's hair stood on end and his scalp went numb. He thought to himself, "Could it be that the mountain god really sent me a dream?"

He recalled what the mountain god said in his dream, and it was still extremely clear. He immediately felt that this matter was of great importance, so he decided to inform the villagers first. He immediately started down the mountain carrying a load of firewood.

...

In the mountain temple, Zhuang Yan opened his eyes.

Among all the earthly gods in heaven, only the land god, kitchen god, door god, well god and other gods have absolute responsibility for all living beings.

In other words, it is often said: the official position is small, but the work is heavy and the responsibility is great. He is a ninth-rank immortal official, but he bears the responsibilities of immortal officials above the fifth rank.

There is no specified rank for mountain gods and water gods. Some mountain gods are of high rank, while others are of low rank.

There are five highest-ranking mountain gods, namely the Five Great Emperors of the East, South, West, North and Center Mountains, who also serve as mountain gods of their respective sacred mountains. The lowest-ranking ones are like Zhuang Yan, an eighth-rank mountain god, the lowest rank of the mountain god position.

Mountain gods and water gods do not have absolute responsibility. They only need to follow the laws of heaven, do their jobs well, and manage their own territories.

As for whether to protect the living beings under his rule, it all depends on how compassionate the mountain god is.

Just like the dream he gave to Wu the woodcutter just now, it was because Wujia Village worshipped him as the Lingtai Mountain God during every festival, and even the mountain god temple of Zhuang Yan was built by the people of Wujia Village, so Zhuang Yan had to protect them out of emotion and reason.

Since other villages neither worshipped him nor offered him any incense, Zhuang Yan had no choice but to let nature take its course.

However, villages like these have interactions with each other, and once Woodcutter Wu goes back and spreads the news, other villages will more or less hear some news.

Inside the mountain god temple, a series of clanging and banging sounds were heard. Zhuang Yan glanced outside and saw two short figures busying around in the temple.

Zhuang Yan stood up and flew out of the temple. He showed up in the palace and said to the two small figures, "Tiger come here, tiger go away, what are you doing?"

The two little tiger demons were startled, and only breathed a sigh of relief when they turned around and saw that it was Zhuang Yan. Then they each raised the bamboo basket in their hands and said, "Grandpa Mountain God, we picked some fruits in the mountains and brought them to you to enjoy."

As the two little tiger demons were talking, they tiptoed to place the fruits on the altar. Zhuang Yan said, "Okay, okay, each of you keep half of the fruit, and take the rest back for your parents to eat."

But the two little tiger demons turned a deaf ear to Zhuang Yan's words and insisted on placing all the fruits on the altar. They wiped the sweat from their foreheads and said, "Grandpa Mountain God, enjoy your meal. We are leaving now."

Zhuang Yan asked, "You haven't had any fights in the past few days, right?"

Hu Ququ said: "I didn't hit him, but I was beaten. That day when we were coming back from the mountain temple, my father pinned us to the ground and beat us up."

Zhuang Yan smiled, walked forward and said, "Oh, right, go back and tell your parents what I said. Ask them to go to the mountains and announce that there will be a heavy rainstorm in three days. There will be flash floods, landslides and wandering dragons. Let the spirits and creatures in the mountains prepare early. It will also be a good deed."

The two little tiger demons responded and then left the mountain temple.

Watching Hu Lailai and Hu Ququ disappear among the mountains, Zhuang Yan turned around and went back to the temple. But as soon as he came back, he saw a burly and high-spirited heavenly general wearing golden armor and helmet standing in front of his altar, grabbing a fruit and taking a bite.

"I didn't expect that you, the mountain god, are quite responsible." The general said to Zhuang Yan with a smile, then looked at the fruit in his hand with disgust and said, "This is just an ordinary fruit in the mountains." Then he threw it on the ground.

This general was Zhu Lie, who had just been promoted to Marshal Tianpeng. Zhuang Yan looked at the fruit that Zhu Lie had thrown to the ground, frowned and said, "Don't take it if you don't want to eat it."

"If I had known it was just an ordinary fruit, I would not have eaten it." Zhu Lie held his head high and said, "I am now the Marshal of Tianpeng under the Thunder Department of the Heavenly Court, commanding the Tianhe Navy, and a fifth-rank immortal official of the Zhongyuan Festival."

Zhuang Yan picked up the fruit from the ground and threw it out of the temple. Then he looked at Zhu Lie and said, "You'll be a pig in your next life if you waste food."

"Haha." Zhu Lie laughed loudly and said, "I am a fifth-rank immortal official in the heavenly court. I have an infinite life span. Tell me, where is the afterlife?"

Zhuang Yan said, "Yes, yes, but this small temple is too small to accommodate a Marshal Tianpeng like you who has an infinite life span."

"Wow!" Zhu Lie was not angry when he saw this, but smiled and said, "You little priest are not of high character, and you have a bad temper. Do you know why I came here?"

Zhuang Yan said calmly: "I don't know."

"Hahaha." Zhu Lie laughed loudly, then stepped forward and patted Zhuang Yan on the shoulder, saying, "I know you are angry, so I will speak frankly. This time, you have made a great contribution to the extermination of the monster in Guisheng Gorge. But to be honest, I really need this credit, so I didn't ask for credit for you. Yes, you are right, I just took your credit."

Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "You are a real villain."

Zhu Lie glared and said, "You are really brave. This is the first time I have seen an eighth-rank immortal official dare to speak to a fifth-rank heavenly general like this."

Zhuang Yan said, "This is my temper. What do you think?"

"Haha, what am I doing? Of course I'm giving you money, what else can I do?" Zhu Lie raised his hand and took out a bunch of purple coins and put them on the altar, saying, "Although I'm greedy for your contribution, I won't go without any return. This 50,000 purple coins is my compensation to you."

"If you don't accept it, you are looking down on me, Marshal." Zhu Lie said to Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan said, "Why not? This money is earned by my contribution, but let me make it clear, if you take the money, we are even. Marshal, please don't come to my Lingtai Mountain in the future. My mountain is narrow and the temple is small, and it can't accommodate a great god like you."

"You make it sound like I really want to come here." Zhu Lie said disdainfully, but he was still thinking about Guanghan Palace in his heart.

At this time, two deputy generals led a team of heavenly soldiers into the palace and bowed to Zhu Lie and said, "Marshal, the time for the lower world has come. It's time to return to heaven."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Lie immediately perked up, held his head high and strode away. When he reached the palace gate, he stopped and turned back to say, "Boy, I admire you very much. If you get into any trouble in the future, or if you provoke someone you shouldn't, just report my name as Marshal Tianpeng."

"Hahaha." After saying that, Zhu Lie raised his head and laughed and left. He walked out of the mountain temple, rode on the Pegasus, and returned to heaven surrounded by a group of deputy generals and heavenly soldiers.

Zhuang Yan shook his head. Zhu Lie was a difficult person to describe. You might say he was a bad person, but sometimes he was very generous and willing to tolerate bad words.

You may say he is not a bad person, but he is greedy, arrogant, uses his power to bully others and looks down on everyone.

In short, this person is easily carried away by success and is too worldly-minded. Sooner or later, something bad will happen to him, so it is not advisable to make close friends with him.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Yan turned around, took the 50,000 purple coins, and flew back to the temple.

After sitting down, Zhuang Yan checked his space. With the previous reward, he now had a total of 80,000 purple coins.

After thinking about it, Zhuang Yan activated the "Instant Refining" and refined all the 80,000 purple coins into acquired purple qi, a total of 80,000 strands of acquired purple qi. Zhuang Yan took it all into the Niwan Palace, and then continued to refine the acquired purple qi and practice.

Although he is a plug-in, his higher level of Taoism means that he can absorb more power from the Heavenly Dao to restore his great power.

Therefore, one must improve his Taoism as quickly as possible, and it would be best if one could obtain the Tao fruit of 'Earthly Immortal' as soon as possible and enter the ranks of 'Immortals'.

(End of this chapter)