Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

If it were just a small world, Liu Qing could shatter it with a few powerful shots. But now, there is not only a small world, but also its master, who is blocking the way with a magical treasure.

If Liu Qing were trapped in a minor world, there would be no way for him to escape.

Facing the Five Directions of the Heavenly Kings, each leading five smaller worlds toward him, and then reconnecting with one another along the way, he couldn't help but feel nervous.

How to break the game?

Just then, the illusory information box in front of them suddenly emitted a dual light of black and purple.

[Today's intelligence: Level Black-Purple. Within the five minor worlds of the Five Directions of the Heavenly Realm, the Sun, Moon, and Stars are genuine, top-grade celestial spirits, namely Sun Essence Stone, Moon Dew, and Star Fruit. The acquired Five Elements cycle of these minor worlds can be suppressed using innate Five Elements Qi. Taking advantage of the chaos in the Five Elements, one can seize the top-grade celestial spirits Sun Essence Stone, Moon Dew, and Star Fruit.]

Liu Qing's eyes flashed.

It turns out that within the Lesser Thousand World of the Five Directions of the Heavenly Realm, the Sun, Moon, and Stars are the three elements that evolved from the Supreme Heavenly Spirit Sun Essence Stone, Moon Dew, and Star Fruit.

Having the treasure alone is useless, but the information box provides a method to seize it: use the innate five elements energy within Liu Qing's body to suppress the five elements rotation formed by the acquired five elements energy of the minor world.

It is clearly feasible to suppress acquired factors with innate factors.

Once Liu Qing is able to suppress the acquired five elements within the minor world of the Five Directions Exorcist, the corresponding minor world will inevitably experience turbulence in its world power due to the suppression of the five elements.

At that time, Liu Qing will seize the opportunity to forcibly abduct the supreme celestial spirit that embodies the three elements of the sun, moon, and stars within the opponent's minor world, thus completely destroying the minor world.

Without the Three Powers to suppress the world, the Lesser Thousand Worlds would cease to exist and would no longer be able to contain Liu Qing.

No wonder the intelligence box emitted a dark purple light; it turns out that this calamity contained a great opportunity.

If Liu Qing succeeds later, he will not only escape danger and kill the Five Directions Exorcists, but also obtain five portions of Sun Essence Stones, Moon Dew, and Star Fruits, which are rare and top-grade celestial spirits in the Three Realms.

At that time, they can use them to evolve the three elements of the Sun, Moon, and Stars into their own Power Cave Heaven. After successful evolution, their own Power Cave Heaven can leap into a Lesser Thousand World.

To be able to evolve a minor world at the Five Qi Realm is such an enticing feat.

One's own strength will inevitably increase once again due to the evolution of the Lesser Thousand Worlds.

The Five Directions Protectors, believing victory was assured, laughed triumphantly and led their own miniature worlds toward Liu Qing.

When the five minor worlds completely blocked Liu Qing and merged into almost half of the middle world, the five Jiedi all breathed a sigh of relief, as if they could see Liu Qing wagging his tail and begging for mercy, exchanging his supernatural powers for his life.

Hmm, I'll trick this snake demon first, and then torture him to get all the great supernatural powers he knows, such as the three heads and six arms, the law of heaven and earth, and the wind transformation supernatural power, before I kill him.

The Five Directions Protectors looked at Liu Qing with greed in their eyes.

The sky is filled with five suns, five full moons, and countless stars. Below the suns, moons, and stars, the Five Directions Protectors float, overlooking Liu Qing.

On the earth, there are five Five Elements Mountains, arranged in five directions.

"You beast, if you don't surrender now, when will you?"

"Quickly tell me the secrets of the three heads and six arms and the magic of the heaven and earth. Buddha will spare your life because you are clever, and you can also go to the West to become a Dharma protector."

They verbally promised to surrender so they could live, but in their hearts they were plotting to obtain supernatural powers and techniques before killing us. Buddha said we shouldn't deceive, but the five of us aren't Buddha.

Just as the Five Directions Protectors were feeling smug, thinking that Liu Qing would have no choice but to admit defeat, Liu Qing suddenly transformed into a gentle breeze and instantly arrived in front of one of the Five Elements Mountains.

This Five Elements Mountain is the evolution of the five elements within the chest of the Golden-Headed Jiedi, using the rotation of the five elements to generate the five elements of the microcosm.

The Golden-Headed Jiedi's eyes widened, not yet understanding the meaning of Liu Qing's actions, when he saw Liu Qing open his mouth and spew out the innate five elements energy, which enveloped the Five Elements Mountain in front of him.

Instantly, the Five Elements Mountain of the Golden-Headed Jiedi Minor World melted away rapidly, like ice and snow meeting boiling water, and stopped rotating the Five Elements, instead becoming chaotic.

The chaotic energy of the five elements instantly shattered the peace within the minor world, causing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and rivers to overflow.

The small world emitted a rumbling sound, and the entire space shook violently. The sun, moon, and stars in the sky were even more precarious.

"Snake demon, stop!"

The Golden-Headed Jiedi finally understood the meaning behind Liu Qing's actions and panicked. He hurriedly manipulated the power of the world to try to quell the chaos.

"You four, quickly help me restore the power of the world, or it will collapse!"

The Golden-Headed Jiedi hurriedly shouted to the four Silver-Headed Jiedi. The four Silver-Headed Jiedi didn't have time to think and instinctively helped the Golden-Headed Jiedi stabilize his small world.

Liu Qing has been waiting for this moment.

He immediately transformed into the wind, teleported to the other four Five Elements Mountains, opened his mouth and spewed out the innate Five Elements Qi from his body, dissolving the other four Five Elements Mountains and disrupting their chaotic Five Elements circulation, causing the small worlds of the Silver-Headed Jiedi and others to fall into turmoil.

The four silver-headed Jiedi finally realized the ominous premonition in their hearts, but it was too late.

For a moment, all five directions of the Heavenly Kings focused their attention on stabilizing the chaotic Lesser Thousand World and calming the turbulent Five Elements Qi, in an attempt to bring the Lesser Thousand World back to stability.

Liu Qing laughed loudly, flew into the air, and unleashed the full power of his Elephant Devouring Talent, swallowing all the supreme Heavenly Spirits of the Sun, Moon, and Stars from the five minor worlds of the Five Directions of the Heavenly Realm into his Authority Cave Heaven.

Now, with the Five Elements in chaos and the Three Realms gone, the small world of the Five Directions of the Exorcist can no longer be maintained, and it is shaking violently. Spatial cracks are appearing, and it is clear that it is on the verge of collapse.

Liu Qing stepped out of the spatial rift and appeared outside the Lesser Thousand Worlds.

Boom boom boom——

After five violent explosions, the Lesser Thousand Worlds collapsed, and the force of the collapse backfired on the Five Directions of the Exorcists. By the time Liu Qing saw the Five Directions of the Exorcists, they were all severely injured and on the verge of death.

The collapsed miniature world did not explode, but instead fell back into the Dharma realm.

Liu Qing felt a little regretful. If the minor world exploded, it would definitely damage the earth veins below. If he repaired it, he would definitely gain another batch of earth vein merits.

However, the fact that the Lesser Thousand Worlds only fell and degenerated back into the Dharma Realm has its advantages. It prevents the collections inside from being destroyed by the explosion, and Liu Qing can also obtain the treasures of the Five Directions Revealing Truth over countless years.

There are pros and cons to both. Liu Qing stepped forward and thrust the Dragon-Patterned Eight-Tone Cone in his hand five times, killing the Five Directions Exorcists.

His physical body was buried under the Blood Peach Tree, while his Buddha soul was trapped inside the Yin Jade Spirit Banner, awaiting the erasure of his consciousness, to become a puppet.

Upon their return to the Dharma Realm, Liu Qing scanned them with his divine sense and found their collection. Without having time to examine it closely, he used his divine power to transfer them all to his own Power Cave Heaven.

Although I didn't look closely, just a quick glance revealed mountains of incense money, gold for authority, and numerous Buddhist crafting materials.

Besides these, Liu Qing did not forget the weapons the five of them used in battle.

Vajra sword, vajra pestle, double hammers, iron whip, double mace are all acquired lower-grade spiritual treasures. Although Buddhism has always complained about being poor, as guardian deities like the Five Directions Protector, their usual weapons are naturally acquired spiritual treasures.

Liu Qing now possesses more than ten acquired and innate spiritual treasures.

After waiting for a while, the Yin Jade Spirit Banner still hadn't erased the consciousness of the Five Directions Exorcists. Liu Qing knew that the Yin Jade Spirit Banner was only a low-grade spiritual treasure, and the Five Directions Exorcists were powerful beings in the Divine Realm, which was already the upper limit of the Yin Jade Spirit Banner's ability to erase consciousness.

Since the Yin Jade Spirit Banner alone could not forcibly erase the divine authority of the Five Directions Exorcists, Liu Qing continuously blew out Yin winds to assist.

This Yin Wind Divine Power blows out a gust of Yin wind that can extinguish the three fires of essence, energy, and spirit in living beings, causing them to be terrified and unable to control themselves, which is just the right time for the Yin Jade Spirit Banner to take advantage of the situation.

After a few gusts of yin wind, the five guardian deities were quickly stripped of their consciousness by the Yin Jade Spirit Banner.

At the same time, in the Desire Realm of the Thirty-Three Heavens of Buddhism, the Buddha Hall representing the Five Directions of the Dharma suddenly collapsed, and the space within a radius of hundreds of miles around the Buddha Hall was directly reduced to nothingness.

The young novice monk on guard duty was immediately stunned. He hurriedly ran towards Leiyin Temple, shouting in alarm as he ran, "Disaster! Disaster! The five guardian deities have passed away—"

The sound startled the Buddha, who quickly calculated with his fingers and his expression immediately became solemn.

At this moment, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Lingji Bodhisattva were listening to orders in front of the Buddha, but it was because the pilgrimage team had now progressed to the Yellow Wind Monster's challenge.

According to the plan, Sun Wukong was no match for the Yellow Wind Monster. Therefore, Guanyin Bodhisattva, who was in charge of the Journey to the West project, prepared to bring Lingji Bodhisattva down to the mortal world to help the pilgrims subdue the Yellow Wind Monster.

As the overall commander of the Journey to the West, the Buddha Tathagata needed to be informed, which is why the two Bodhisattvas were in Leiyin Temple at this time.

This Lingji Bodhisattva is not among the eight great Bodhisattvas, including Guanyin, Manjushri, Bodhisattva, and Ksitigarbha. Although he has the status of a Bodhisattva, he is second-rate in status and is not even as famous as the eighteen Arhats.

At this moment, when Lingji Bodhisattva saw that the Buddha's expression had changed and Guanyin Bodhisattva's face was also grim, he couldn't help but wonder if something uncontrollable had happened during the Journey to the West.

Lingji Bodhisattva is only at the Golden Body Realm, far inferior to Guanyin Bodhisattva at the Great Luo Realm, and even further inferior to the Tathagata Buddha at the Half-Step Primordial Dao Fruit. Now, with the aura of slaughter shrouding the human world, he cannot deduce it with his level of cultivation.

However, before Lingji Bodhisattva could speculate for long, the Tathagata revealed the reason.

"For some unknown reason, the snake demon suddenly went to Wuzhi Mountain, found that 'Sun Wukong' was no longer there, so it went west to investigate and brazenly killed the mountain god of Wuzhi Mountain who was arranged by the Heavenly Court."

Guanyin frowned and interjected, "That snake demon's cultivation has improved again. Even the five Jiedi we arranged to join forces could not subdue it, and now its soul and spirit have been completely destroyed."

"Now that the snake demon has killed the Five Directions Protector, it will definitely continue to explore westward, while the pilgrimage team has only just reached the Yellow Wind Monster's trial and has not yet gathered the number of people destined by Heaven."

“Buddha, if we cannot gather the pilgrimage team, we will not gain the approval of Heaven. Without the approval of Heaven, even if we forcibly start the Journey to the West, no fortune will ultimately come our way.”

The Buddha glanced at Guanyin Bodhisattva and said, "Since you know this, why don't you hurry down and stop that snake demon so that the pilgrimage team can be reunited?"

“Bodhisattva Lingji, I have a Wind-Fixing Pill here. You can go down to the mortal realm with Guanyin and quickly help the pilgrims subdue the Yellow Wind Monster. Then stay in Yellow Wind Territory to stop the snake demon.”

"Guanyin, Lingji Bodhisattva has blocked the snake demon, so you should take this opportunity to speed up the journey of the pilgrimage team and quickly go to the Flowing Sand River to subdue the last member of the pilgrimage team."

"As long as the pilgrimage team is assembled, they will gain the approval of Heaven. Even if the divided soul of the Sage Tongtian finds out afterward, he can only watch helplessly."

After the Buddha finished speaking, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Lingji Bodhisattva chanted "Namo Wofo" together, then stepped out of the Thirty-Three Heavens of Buddhism and went down to the human world.

Liu Qing spread his fiery wings and sped off towards the northwest.

As early as after killing the Five Directions Jiedi, he notified his teacher, Daoist Yuyu, through the Jiejiao disciple token.

Presumably, Master Yu Yu has already arranged for Senior Sister Wu Dang, Senior Brother Pi Lu, and Senior Brother Jingu to descend to the mortal realm.

After flying hundreds of miles, Liu Qing saw a Zen temple below, but it looked like it had been burned by a fire, with gray and black ruins everywhere. He also saw demonic energy rising from the mountains near the temple, and his heart stirred.

The temple below must be the Guanyin Temple, and the nearby evil mountain must be Black Wind Mountain, where the Black Bear Spirit resides.

Sure enough, a fierce and demonic aura suddenly rose from the mountain, and in the next instant, a black wind blocked the way.

A black wind flashed, revealing a monster—a burly black bear demon covered in black fur. The black bear demon glanced at Liu Qing.

Suddenly, it let out a howl and vanished without a trace, turning into a black wind once more.

"Grandma Guanyin, you've really gotten me, Old Bear, into trouble! It turns out it's a snake. I can't beat it, so you can have it."

"Damn it, if I fail to complete Guanyin's task and stop that snake, I'll be skinned alive and have my tendons pulled out, let alone becoming the Great Sage Guardian of the Purple Bamboo Forest."

"Alright, alright, I'll say goodbye to Guanyin, I'm going to take my leave now and go live a carefree life in the human world."

Liu Qing was stunned. Damn it, I was all ready to make a move, but you hit the head and then ran away.

Hearing the distant voice, which sounded somewhat familiar, and recalling the appearance of the black bear demon from earlier, Liu Qing suddenly woke up.

It turns out that the black-chested demon on Black Wind Mountain was none other than Xiong Kuohai.

He couldn't help but sigh. Xiong Kuohai had already clashed with him back in the Snake Pool. After being beaten up, he fled. Later, on the Rocky Hill, he and the Wild Bull Demon, Te Chushi, became kings of the mountain. But this fellow was very good at preserving his life. In the end, Te Chushi became his mount, while he escaped by turning into the wind.

Now, after several years, this fellow's cultivation has improved again, and by a stroke of luck, he has become the Black Bear Monster of Black Wind Mountain, a famous demon on the Journey to the West. If it weren't for Liu Qing's intervention, he would probably have had even better fortune afterward and become the Great Sage Guardian of Guanyin Bodhisattva's mountain.

Unfortunately, Xiong Kuohai encountered his nemesis Liu Qing, and his good fortune once again vanished. If he hadn't escaped in time, he might have become a puppet within the Yin Jade Spirit Banner.

After startling Xiong Kuohai away, Liu Qing didn't stop for long, then flashed his fiery wings and chased after him northwestward. (End of Chapter)