Da Zaojun

"Cowherd, Cowherd!"

The cowherd, who slept in the cowshed with the oxen, asked in confusion, "Who's talking?"

"It's me!" the old ox exclaimed. "It's me speaking."

"Old Ox! You can talk! You've become a spirit!"

"I have become a spirit, but it's also because I'm about to die. As the saying goes, old people become spirits, and so does an old ox." The old ox said sadly, "I watched you grow up, and you took care of me and served me since I was a child, treating me like your father and confiding in me. But I'm just an old ox, and I really can't help you much. Now I'm dying without seeing you get married, and I'm really sad."

The Cowherd sighed, "With all my poverty and lack of possessions, what girl would want to marry me?"

The old ox said, "Ordinary girls definitely won't marry you, because they only care about money, family background, and looks."

"But in this world, there is another thing called demons. They love to eat the hearts and livers of good people and steal their vital essence."

"If you're brave enough and not afraid that she's a demon, I can help you find a wife!"

"She won't eat me, will she?" the cowherd exclaimed in fear.

"Don't be afraid!"

The old ox said, "The nose ring that holds my nose has the meaning of subjugation. If you wear it as a bracelet, you won't be afraid of demons harming you."

"The rope that holds me by the bull's nose ring is called the Immortal Binding Rope. You can use it to make a belt so that demons can't bewitch your lower body."

“My bull horn is also called the dragon horn. When you blow it, demons will lose their power to harm people, their bodies will become weak, and they will be unable to escape.”

"I also have a farming and warfare technique that can completely subdue the female demon!"

"After you subdue the female demon, she will live a good life with you, with the man farming and the woman weaving. After two or three years, when she has a child, the female demon will be satisfied with you."

“Alright!” Niulang said, “Old Niu, since no woman is willing to be with me anyway, I would be willing to have a female demon as my wife, and besides, this is your wish.”

The old ox said with satisfaction, "That's good!"

It immediately broke off a cow horn. The horn was hollow and made a sound when blown, like a large conch shell.

The Cowherd then took off the ox nose ring and put it on his hand, and untied the ox rope to make a belt.

The old ox panted for a moment: "Tomorrow night, that female demon will go to the back mountain to bathe. She has a dress that originally belonged to a fairy in heaven, but she stole it. If you take the dress, she won't be able to come out of the water."

"If she asks you to return her clothes, then you should ask her to marry you. Remember, you must do the wedding ceremony right then and there, not the next day. Only then can you be considered to have a heavenly marriage and have this thread of fate connecting you."

……

Song Wuji listened for a long time next door and was quite surprised: "Who is this old ox? He can actually see that the Weaver Girl is a female demon."

The overall framework remained unchanged, but the details were filled in with wildly imaginative ideas.

Huang Qiaoyun was also undecided: "Lord of the Realm, what should we do?"

Song Wuji said, "Tomorrow, help him capture the spider demon and continue the story of this secret realm. I want to see who the heavenly soldiers and generals will be, where the Queen Mother of the West is, and how she ended up in the Milky Way!"

Huang Qiaoyun said, "Isn't that inappropriate? The spider demon is, after all, a demon. If she really marries the Cowherd, wouldn't that ruin the reputation of the Weaver Girl?"

"The Three Realms and Six Paths have lost their order, so why bother with this? Besides, even the real Weaver Girl has turned into a spider now, hasn't she? This spider demon might just be a part of the Weaver Girl who was separated from the Heavenly Net."

"I have a feeling that the secret realm token of this secret realm will be of great use and will be a pillar of the human path."

Song Wuji comprehended the supernatural power [Mengtou], which allows him to gather information and predict the final outcome at the very beginning of all things.

Although Huang Qiaoyun found it bizarre, she could only listen to Song Wuji. They waited until nightfall for the spider demon to emerge from the village.

As she walked, she sighed, "I never imagined that I, the dignified Weaver Girl of Heaven, would be reduced to a spider demon. Becoming a spider demon is bad enough, but I can't even leave this secret realm too far. If I had known, I wouldn't have joined forces with the tiger demon. Now I've offended such an enemy, and I can't even leave the house."

"The people in this secret realm are strange; they recovered the day after eating it. It's not as good as the food from outside..."

She arrived at the back mountain and threw out a handkerchief, which instantly covered the entire back mountain, transforming it into a fairyland.

In the center of this celestial realm lies a verdant spiritual pool. She sheds her physical form, revealing a humanoid figure woven from seamless clothing, capable of concealing her true form and demonic aura from human scrutiny.

After shedding its skin, it becomes a demon, with a human upper body and a spider lower body, black with gold patterns.

The upper body is human-shaped, which is normal, but because of the spider's many eyes, there are also densely packed eyes on this face, a total of eighteen pairs, or thirty-six eyes.

Spiders have eight legs; the first two have transformed into arms, while the remaining six still resemble spider legs.

The spider demon bathed in a spring called the Cleansing Spring, which could wash away her demonic nature and maintain her wisdom. If she did not bathe frequently, her intelligence would gradually fade, and she would completely forget that she was originally the Weaver Girl in the heavens, and become a spider demon through and through.

Just then, a boy was urged by the ox to leave the house and arrive at the back mountain.

The spider web barrier that the spider demon had set up was completely ineffective. The boy wore a bull nose ring on his hand, a bull-leading rope around his waist, and bull horns around his neck.

Looking around at the scenery, he sighed, "Wasn't the back mountain bare? How did it become so beautiful?"

Immediately afterwards, he saw the spider demon bathing in the pool. However, the spider demon's lower body was submerged in the pool, and her back was turned to him, so he could only see a beautiful figure. He was immediately stunned: "What a beautiful woman!"

"No! The old ox said she was a monster!"

The bull's nose ring, carrying the meaning of "subjugation," instantly helped the cowherd subdue his lust, allowing him to discover the seamless garment left behind by the spider demon.

He immediately grabbed the seamless garment and stuffed it into his arms, then hid behind a large rock.

The spider demon washed herself clean in the pool and felt refreshed. Just as she was about to put on her clothes, she discovered that they were gone.

He was immediately alarmed: "Who's there! Who stole my clothes?"

"it's me!"

The Cowherd, hiding behind the rock, said, "Please marry me, young lady. If you agree to marry me, I will return your clothes to you!"

The spider demon sneered, "Do you really think I'm that fool, the Weaver Girl?"

Just as she was transforming into a demon.

But then a bugle call was heard: "Woo~~"

It turned out that the cowherd had blown the cow's horns.

As soon as the horn sounded, the spider demon went limp and couldn't muster any demonic energy.

"what have you done?"

"Please, young lady, marry me and we'll pay our respects to heaven and earth!"

The spider demon was secretly annoyed, but said aloud, "I promise you, you won't blow that nonsense anymore!"

(End of this chapter)