The Great Bandit of Journey to the West

Chapter 180 Artificial Rainfall

Tiger Power Immortal discovered that Wukong and his companions were the same group who had tricked them into drinking urine the day before, and he was furious. He immediately complained to the king.

"Your Majesty, yesterday that group of people impersonated the Three Pure Ones and stole all the valuables from the Three Pure Ones Temple. They also tricked the three of us brothers into each drinking a bucket of urine. We beg Your Majesty to order their execution!"

The king was shocked: "Royal advisor, you really drank urine?!"

Tiger Power Immortal: "————"

"Your Majesty, that's not the point. The real issue is that they disrespected the Three Pure Ones and stole our belongings!!"

Despite his embarrassment, Immortal Yang Li managed to steer the conversation back on track.

The king frowned as he looked at Jiang Feng: "Master Taiping, is what the Grand Preceptor said true?"

Jiang Feng calmly asked, "Who saw it? Are there any witnesses?"

Tiger Power Immortal glared and said, "We three brothers saw it with our own eyes. Would we lie about drinking urine?"

Jiang Feng let out a drawn-out "Eh?" and said with a sneer, "That's hard to say. If you can testify, then I'll say I saw you steal our urine to drink yesterday."

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Tiger Power Immortal pointed at Jiang Feng, too angry to speak.

Jiang Feng continued, "Unless we reconstruct yesterday's crime scene and you three drink three cans of urine at the scene, your testimony won't be convincing at all."

Wukong suddenly cried out in alarm, "Master, don't fall for their trick! I think they're just making up an excuse to trick us into drinking their urine!"

Jiang Feng suddenly realized, "Wukong, thank goodness you reminded me, otherwise I would have fallen for their trick!"

Enraged, Tiger Power Immortal drew his sword from his waist, his hair and beard bristling, and roared, "You've gone too far! I'll fight you to the death!"

Jiang Feng turned to the king and said, "He's getting anxious. Look how angry he is after I exposed him!"

The Crown Prince stepped forward with a cold face, blocking Jiang Feng's path: "Grand Preceptor, they are envoys from the Great Sui Dynasty. You must not be rude!"

"Put your sword away quickly. If you want to drink urine, there are plenty of them in Chechi Kingdom. Why bother tricking them into giving you their urine?"

Seeing the tense atmosphere, the king nervously echoed, "Yes, yes, our Chechi Kingdom has plenty of urine—"

"Uh, Your Highness, what nonsense are you spouting!"

Halfway through his speech, he suddenly realized he had been led astray, and quickly scolded them, then comforted the imperial advisors, saying, "Grand Preceptor, since there are no witnesses, let's let this matter rest for now."

Didn't you say you wanted to have a rainmaking contest?

It just so happens that there has been little rain in our country this month. If any of you can pray for rain, I, the King, will reward you handsomely!

Tiger Power Immortal gritted his teeth and said to Jiang Feng, "Do you dare to gamble? If you fail to bring rain, I will send you to the execution ground for public display."

Jiang Feng said, "Why wouldn't we dare? But if we win, we'll send those lazy, charlatan Taoist priests from Chechi Kingdom to work alongside those monks. Do you dare to bet?"

Tiger Power Immortal never imagined he would lose, and without hesitation replied, "It's a deal!"

Seeing that they were irreconcilable enemies, the king sighed helplessly and ordered people to build an altar.

Before long, the altar was completed.

Jiang Feng and the others arrived before the altar and said with a smile, "Great Immortal of Labor, shall we go first?"

Tiger Power Immortal roared, "My name is Tiger Power Immortal, I am Tiger Power Immortal!"

Jiang Feng said, "I knew it. The common people who go to do hard labor have been exploited to the point of bleeding and sweating. How could they possibly have time to cultivate immortality?"

Tiger Power Immortal gritted his teeth and said, "Don't try to fool me. I'll ascend the altar and pray for rain first, lest you claim it as your achievement after I bring it!"

After saying this, he went up to the altar, burned incense, wrote a petition, and chanted incantations to pray for rain.

The next moment, a cool breeze swept in, and a thick layer of dark clouds drifted in from the sky.

Wukong looked up and saw the figures of the Thunder God, the Lightning Goddess, and the Dragon King of the East Sea. He whispered, "Master, this monster really knows how to summon rain. I, Old Sun, will go to heaven to stop them."

Jiang Feng said, "There's no need to make things difficult for them. Just drive them away."

Wukong nodded, his spirit left his body and went to the heavens. He exchanged a few words with the Dragon King and the others, then drove them away before returning to his body.

Wukong chuckled, looking at the clear sky where the clouds had dispersed and the wind had died down, and said with a smile, "So, can you actually summon rain? If you can't, then we'll go up there!"

Tiger Power Immortal gazed at the azure sky with a look of utter disbelief. After a moment's hesitation, he addressed the king, saying, "Your Majesty, the gods who bring rain are visiting friends today and are not home. I can only pray for rain when they return."

Jiang Feng sneered: "You can't pray for rain just because the gods aren't home? Your skills aren't up to par."

Tiger Power Immortal argued, "The immortals aren't home, so you can't pray for rain. Try it if you don't believe me!"

Jiang Feng said, "I don't need to ask the gods to bring rain. I have a method called artificial rainmaking."

This method requires no altar setup, no incense burning, and no chanting; it can bring rain on its own!

Tiger Power Immortal asked in surprise and doubt, "Really? I've never heard of this method before. I don't believe you can really summon it yourself."

The rain is coming.

"Then I'll show you something amazing today!"

Jiang Feng's eyes sharpened, and he then took out a red and white ball and tossed it into the sky.

"I choose you, Charmander!"

A beam of white light emanated from the red and white spheres in mid-air, followed by a dragon's roar that shook the surrounding area. The true form of the little white dragon appeared before everyone's eyes, and as it roamed in the sky, a light rain began to fall.

Tiger Power Immortal, seeing that it was actually raining, angrily exclaimed, "What kind of artificial rainmaking is this? This rain was brought down by the white dragon, it's not your own ability at all!"

Jiang Feng retorted confidently, "Making that red and white ball took me half a day of labor, so why can't it be called artificial rain?"

Tiger Power Immortal: "————"

The king stared intently at the little white dragon in the sky, exclaiming in amazement, "The dragon is a symbol of royalty!"

Jiang Feng interrupted his thoughts, saying, "Your Majesty, I won this competition, didn't I?"

Before the king could speak, Deer Power Immortal stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, this rain is so light that it's practically nonexistent. If we are judged to have lost because of this, we will not accept it!"

"Your Majesty, I want to compete with them in meditation! The outcome will be clear at a glance. If we lose, we'll accept the punishment willingly!"

"This... what do you think, Master Taiping?"

The king had spent three years with them and had developed some affection for them, but he couldn't openly favor the royal advisor in front of everyone, so he asked Jiang Feng for his opinion.

Jiang Feng laughed and said, "I have no objection. It's just a meditation contest, and meditation is what I'm best at!"

Bai Suzhen muttered under her breath, "How dare you say such a thing when your legs go numb as soon as you meditate? Let me compete. My longest meditation retreat is eighty years."

Jiang Feng's eyes widened. "Are you planning to outlive everyone here so you can inherit their fortunes?"