Level 4: Ziyun Mountain
Main character:
Second Sister
Centipede
Boligebo
Qinlangxian
Right-Handed Insect
Zhu Bajie (must be beaten twice)
Zizhuer
Insect General
Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord
The centipede spirit in the original novel, as a demon practicing Taoist methods, can use thunder magic, has three stages, is very powerful, and is extremely difficult in the three stages, but can be controlled by Shenxiao using the magic weapon “Embroidery Needle”. It is recommended to prepare some “Du Miasma Powder” and “Shenxiao Powder”.
Main plot overview:
1. The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism
Since ancient times, Buddhism and Taoism, as two religions, have naturally fought overtly and covertly. Buddhism has three Buddhas, and Taoism also has three pure ancestors, Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, and Taiqing Daode Tianzun. Among them, “Taiqing Daode Tianzun” is also called Taishang Laojun, who often refines elixirs. In Taoism, although the three pure ancestors have high qualifications, the one who actually controls the three realms is the Jade Emperor, and the one who controls all female fairies and immortal medicine is the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother, also known as the Queen Mother of the West, lives in Kunlun Mountain. Every time she celebrates her birthday, she will hold a peach banquet in Yaochi. The peaches have the effect of prolonging life, and gods and Buddhas yearn for it. It can be seen that immortality is not born, and becoming an immortal or a Buddha is just having the opportunity to be immortal. Of course, the world is so big that it is not only the peaches that can assist in immortality. All things are nurtured by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and all things can naturally assist in longevity. Some of them are refined into elixirs, and some are used as tributes to worship heaven and earth. Therefore, religious disputes are not only disputes over beliefs, but also disputes over the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and immortality.
2. Origin of Journey to the West
The human world changed from generation to generation. When Li Shimin came to power in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty under his rule respected “Taoism” and despised “Buddhism”
One day, a fisherman said that he listened to the fortune teller and could catch fish every day. When the Dragon King of Jinghe River knew this, he was indignant. If this continued, the people in his river would be caught sooner or later. So he turned into a human and found the fortune teller Yuan Shoucheng, wanting to make him lose face by betting and then drive him away.
The two of them had a tentative conversation and finally bet on when it would rain and how much rain it would rain. The Dragon King of Jinghe River was originally the god in charge of rain, so he was full of confidence in this bet. However, after returning home, he received an imperial edict that the time and amount of rain required by the Jade Emperor were exactly the same as what Yuan Shoucheng said. While he was shocked, he had the idea of secretly changing the time and amount of rain, vowing not to lose to Yuan Shoucheng.
The next day, he found Yuan Shoucheng again and mocked him for his inaccurate fortune-telling. Yuan Shoucheng said that he had violated the heavenly law and could not escape death. The Dragon King of Jinghe River was so scared that he knelt down to admit his mistake and asked for help. Yuan Shoucheng asked him to find Li Shimin and try to delay Wei Zheng who would behead him. Li Shimin agreed to the request and asked Wei Zheng to play chess. As a result, Wei Zheng fell asleep while playing chess and beheaded the Dragon King in his dream.
The Dragon King of Jinghe River died miserably. He went to Li Shimin to cry every day and dragged his soul to hell for confrontation. The underworld officials thought that Li Shimin was not guilty and let him return to the world. After this incident, Li Shimin had a grudge against the evil ghosts and wronged souls in hell, so he convened a water and land ceremony. At the meeting, Tang Monk lectured on the scriptures and Guanyin Bodhisattva incarnated as an old monk to sell cassocks and tin staffs. In the end, they jointly promoted the plan of “Picking the Scriptures from the West” and won the strong support of Li Shimin. Since then, Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty has gradually flourished with Tang Monk’s journey to the West.
3. Past Events in Pansi Cave
When Tang Seng was about to leave the Kingdom of Women, he was taken to the Pipa Cave in Dudi Mountain. The one who took him away was a female scorpion demon named Fengyue Mo. This place was close to the Kingdom of Women, where women were respected. Fengyue Mo had countless fellow practitioners, and she captured Tang Seng in the hope that they could practice together. Under the guidance of Guanyin, Sun Wukong asked the star official of the Pleiades to come down to earth to rescue him. The star official of the Pleiades showed his original form of a rooster and crowed a few times, and successfully killed the scorpion demon. The four masters and apprentices continued on their way and came to a nunnery. Tang Seng insisted on going there to beg for food, but was trapped by the demon in Pansi Cave. Sun Wukong learned that the demon was bathing in the bathing pool, so he turned into an eagle and took away his clothes, hoping to take the opportunity to rescue Tang Seng. Zhu Bajie became lustful and ran to the pool and turned into a catfish. He had sex with one of his “old acquaintances” in the water. Speaking of “old acquaintances”, it was when Zhu Bajie was still Marshal Tianpeng. At a lotus viewing banquet, Marshal Tianpeng was fascinated by a leading dancer, Chang’e, and had no idea that a graceful and lovely purple-veiled fairy had also fallen in love with him. Later, Marshal Tianpeng was demoted to the mortal world for peeping at Chang’e, and he no longer had a handsome face. And this time, the “old acquaintance” was the purple-veiled fairy in the sky. She was now a spider spirit named Zi Zhu’er. The spider spirits could not defeat Sun Wukong, and the Pansi Cave was also burned down. They could only ask for help from their senior brother, the master of Huanghua Temple, who was a centipede spirit, also known as the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord. The golden light of the centipede spirit made Sun Wukong helpless and fainted in the mountains. After waking up, he heard someone crying. It turned out to be the Mother of Lishan. She told Sun Wukong that if he wanted to break the golden light, he needed to go to the Qianhua Cave in Ziyun Mountain to find a female Bodhisattva named Pilanpo, who was also the mother of the Pleiades star official. In the end, Pilanpo defeated the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord with an embroidery needle and subdued him to go back to guard the gate.
4. Return to Huanghua Temple
The Yaksha and Rakshas tribes live at the foot of Lingshan Mountain. Because they are close to Lingshan Mountain, there are often people who practice Buddhism in the tribe. Vilanpo is one of them. But one day, Lingshan Mountain killed all the tribes, and Vilanpo, who was once a Rakshasas, disappeared. His subordinate, the Hundred Eyes Demon King, also obtained one of the six roots, “Tongue Tasting Thoughts”, by participating in the encirclement and suppression of Sun Wukong.
The Hundred Eyes Demon King returned to Huanghua Temple, but did not regain his freedom. Instead, he had to continue working for the “business in heaven”. The Queen Mother gave him two fairy eggs from Kunlun Mountain and a golden hairpin. However, the fairy eggs cannot be bred in a complete form in the mortal world where spiritual energy is insufficient.
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord first found the son of Vilanpo, the Pleiades Star Official, cut his throat with a golden hairpin, and then used a magic medicine to stop him from breathing. Then he took out a fairy egg and tried to inject it into his body. The Pleiades Star Official was frightened and spit out a mouthful of blood on the fairy egg. The fairy egg broke when it met the blood and ran into the bushes, and later grew into the Qin Mantis Fairy. This insect lays eggs every few days. If the eggs are swallowed by living beings, they will be eaten up by the larvae and bred into different insects. If they grow up naturally, they will spin silk to make cocoons and use toxins to alienate living beings. The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord had to inject another fairy egg into the body of the Pleiades Star Official, but unfortunately it still failed to successfully breed him. Instead, he turned him into the Dark Moon Demon Lord and lost control. Until one day, a Taoist priest brought a pair of huge arms, and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord put two eggs laid by the Qin Mantis Fairy into them. This time he finally succeeded in breeding. They are like bees and have tails like hands. They are called left-handed insects and right-handed insects respectively. However, the worm on his left hand was eaten by Boligebo and turned into its tongue.
The star official of the Pleiades became a demon and lost his mind, but there was an old friend who was watching him from a distance. She was Hongyi, the daughter of Lishan Laomu. She imitated her mother’s mourning for her deceased husband, hoping to lead people to free her old friend who was like a younger brother.
5. Immortality
The Silk Cave is sealed by a spell and cannot be escaped. In it live Zizhuer, the only one left, and her six children. Like the Hundred Eyes Demon Lord, they are trapped by the “business in the sky”.
The eldest sister is gentle and peaceful, and manages all the affairs of the cave; the second sister is masculine, and she is in charge of the silver and money business; the third sister is dignified and is the best weaver in the family; the fourth sister is different from everyone else, with a cold face and hair in a bun, as if she is married. She often explores in the mountains, hoping to escape from the Silk Cave, and seems to be waiting for someone. The fifth sister is in her prime, beautiful, lively and active; the sixth sister is still young, and likes to listen to the stories of the fourth sister outside the mountain. The pig demon once said that her father is also a pig. In addition, there are four scorpion princes living in the cave. They came with their father, the poisonous enemy king. The King of Poisonous Enemies was one of the companions of the Scorpion Spirit on the Journey to the West. Because of his deep love for her, he brought his sons here, hoping to kill the Pleiades Star Official one day and avenge his wife.
The spider spirits cooperated with the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord to raise insect eggs, and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord recruited mortals under the guise of practicing to become immortals. After they practiced to a certain level, he tricked them into swallowing insect eggs and transformed them into demons, becoming the raw materials for making elixirs, supplying the gods in the sky, and assisting in immortality. In the past, a young man went to Pansi Cave to seek revenge, but was caught and thrown into a worm cave, which was full of the body shells and skins left by the eggs, as well as the centipedes that lived on them. He successfully escaped by imitating the habits of the centipedes. He wanted to live a stable life, but was forced by the weavers in the village to return to the mountains and take them to find treasures. Gradually, he became tired of mortals but was powerless to change the status quo, so he became a disciple of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, put on a stone mask, and renounced worldly ties. He was also called Mi Dao Ren.
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