[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group":3,"chapter-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-229":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Infinite Faith System: Join the Divine Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1373409,1815,"Chapter 229","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-229",229,"\u003Cp>Jack Sparrow stood atop the ocean, laughing like a madman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wuhu~~~ My brothers’ brother is back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m no **** anymore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh yeah...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High on excitement, Jack opened the Ten Thousand Realms Chat Group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pirates of the Caribbean: \"Wuhu~~~ Brothers, I’m here looking for you... Your Captain Jack has awakened supernatural power this time—requesting a fight!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Er: \"Damn... old swindler, you finally showed. Hurry up—use the portal and get to the Saint’s Tomb to help!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Portal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Captain Jack glanced at the transport array hanging in the sky and flew straight toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few flips through the air,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he arrived beside the Saint’s Tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack thought there would be a hero’s welcome. Instead... he was handed a mess: repairing the large-scale calamity caused by the shattering of the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack said to Li Shimin, miserable, \"Brother, can’t we skip the hard labor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old swindler, try it. Everyone’s busy. You think you get to opt out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, all the newly promoted chief priests had gathered here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The male chief priests were doing grunt work, while the female chief priests busied themselves gathering believers and placing offerings one by one on the altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were stipends to the gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It all had to be done quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So—he got roped in on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jack wanted to complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment he looked up and saw Orochimaru flicking his tongue at him, his stomach turned and he nearly threw up. He didn’t dare make another peep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rushed off to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Journey-to-the-West World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moon and stars hung high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monkey sat cross-legged on a great boulder, a faint smile on his face. The seals on Five-Elements Mountain were loosening one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of all the shackles, what pleased him most\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was the tight headband.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing was simply vile—directly gnawing at the primordial spirit—the most disgusting contraption Buddhism ever devised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But under the divine law now in force, he had cast off every fetter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were it not for his vow to accompany his master on the westward pilgrimage, Wukong would already have slipped away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Sanzang lay on the ground beside him, thick thatch beneath his back. Ever since Yang Jian questioned Guanyin three times that day, the monk had fallen silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every so often, he would lower his head and ask them things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he learned that many demons, rather than receiving the punishment they deserved, had been taken in by Heaven or Lingshan,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the old monk looked wretched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wukong...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Disciple is here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tell me... why does the Buddha not intervene?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As usual, Tang Sanzang paused a long moment before asking in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The question was circumspect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but everyone understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would the Tathagata meddle in this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never had. On this pilgrimage westward, save for the monsters with real backing, all the rest were slain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they weren’t in the crew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for demons eating people?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without people-eaters, how would evil seem evil? How would mortals seek the aid of immortal Buddhas?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he spell that out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bajie and Sha Wujing looked at Wukong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were both eyes and ears Heaven had planted to keep watch on Lingshan; they couldn’t let the wind leak. As for the Little White Dragon, he’d sell it as dragon-kind benevolence if he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the Monkey could speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether he would lay it out plainly was another matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monkey chuckled\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and hopped off the rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then Master, why do you think those demons can’t be killed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wukong didn’t answer; he asked in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Seng was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he was the reincarnation of the Golden Cicada, he clearly hadn’t solved the riddle of the womb; it was still Tang Sanzang in charge of his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the past, any demon with connections was whisked away by Heaven or Guanyin, and those without were slain by your disciple. If I could feign ignorance at the beginning, I’d have to be a fool to pretend later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is to say—you, Master—do not see through this world...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monkey’s tone held a touch of sorrow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even a hint of self-mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why had the Bodhi Patriarch never appeared?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he feared implication—because the sins borne on Wukong’s hands were countless, and the Patriarch would not provoke entanglement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monkey understood all of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Sanzang shook his head. Beyond fasting and chanting, he truly did not understand the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not know money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not know human favors and obligations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, given fate, he would have food to eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being a monk was easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But did he truly grasp that the food he begged was the hard-won fruit of others’ labor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People could hardly feed themselves. Why give to a monk who only chanted scriptures all day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of this Wukong spared with euphemism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sky, the Six Ding and Six Jia—celestial spirit generals—watched over them, and all kinds of vajra guardians kept close watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was bound to go wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To put it plainly, beating a dog depends on its master. Master, do you think—if Yang Jian hadn’t appeared that day—what would have become of the Inspiration King?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... I do not know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph. I’ll tell you—he’d have stayed in the South Sea, listening to Guanyin chant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Sanzang’s face changed drastically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had killed so many children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there would be no punishment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a world where the weak are meat and the strong eat. Master, your heart is set on scriptures; naturally I have not wished to burden you with this. Before, you always scolded your disciple for killing this demon and that bandit. You see only the lives I take,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but not the sins on them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For example, that tiger spirit we first encountered—three hundred years of cultivation. How many did she eat? A thousand lives would not be an exaggeration. She ate flesh and tore souls asunder. All that talk of reincarnation—delusions to deceive fools!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And as for those bandits—we ran into them right after leaving Five-Elements Mountain. You scolded me for braining them with my staff and then, listening to Guanyin’s persuasion, you put the Tight-Fillet Curse back on me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But do you know\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>why a pack of bandits should appear in the mountains so ’coincidentally’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hehe... It was arranged by Great Master Guanyin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The trials we meet, the demons we face—these are all fixed numbers. If you don’t believe me, wait till we meet the next calamity—watch for yourself. I’ll cast a spell for you, and you’ll understand...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Seng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said no more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing is believing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, too, wanted to see what the real world looked like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Monkey turned away, his eyes fixed on his two junior brothers, naked killing intent gleaming within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of you understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone leaks a word, or obstructs his elder brother—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he will kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Bajie bowed his head and pretended to sleep,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but fear churned in his belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did this Monkey feel even more terrifying than when he made havoc in Heaven? Had his mana been restored?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it. Anyway, since Yang Jian dared strike Guanyin,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>let the Monkey toss and tear as he pleased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days later,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>master and disciples encountered the King of Si—more commonly known as the Blue Bull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strength was fearsome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a diamond ring, he swept up every weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bajie and the rest were used to it by now—Master got captured, then they invited someone to chant and negotiate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monkey invited the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pretending not to know anyone he actually knew was second nature by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After two rounds, their weapons were taken again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the Monkey was about to depart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a voice came from the east.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hear tell there’s a demon doing evil here. Is this the place?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judiciary God, Jiro—Erlang Zhenjun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s expressions went a little strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They thought, Why are you here again? The story of his enraging Guanyin had spread through all the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he had come himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Erlang Shen, what brings you here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>King Tota looked genuinely surprised to see Yang Jian arrive, but he did not know that an inner ghost had slipped a report—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why shouldn’t I come? Since Tang Seng’s in trouble, I thought I’d help, no?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Jian smiled lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers spread like claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pressed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thunderbolt flashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountains for a hundred li around were reduced to dust in an instant. The Blue Bull stared at Yang Jian, utterly dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thump,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he dropped to his knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is there left to play at? Best to surrender quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qing Niu, do you plead guilty?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guilty, guilty! I—I plead guilty...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t drag the old master into this; the old man can’t help him. Better to admit it straightaway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had it been anyone else,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Blue Bull would not have accepted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yang Jian was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The aura spilling from the other could kill him in a blink!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he dared resist,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the next second might be the last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So—you plead guilty. Fine. You haven’t killed anyone—only sneaked down to play. I sentence you to take a beating and go back into confinement for three hundred years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh? A beating too!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blue Bull was dumbstruck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t do things like that in Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even have time to react before\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Jian was already before him; a casual palm landed on his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes rolled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vomited blood and flew off,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>turning into a meteor that vanished at the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Jian looked over the surrounding kingdoms and said with an easy smile, \"There’s no faith here. I’ll go and develop it. You apostles keep moving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Erlang Zhenjun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monk Bajie and Sha hurried to declare their stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Goodness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Supreme Lord’s mount got flattened this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That palm\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had nearly killed the Blue Bull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not until Yang Jian left did Sun Wukong approach his master with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wukong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master, I have something to report in private.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Monkey blinked, signaling the abundance of eyes and ears nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Seng nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said nothing more, but turned to bow to Li Jing and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of li away in the mountains,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a Blue Bull with stars circling his eyes would not be waking anytime soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Supreme Lord, Taishang Laojun, brought his boy attendants to the Blue Bull’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyelids twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Luckily, this beast didn’t eat anyone, or a single palm wouldn’t have been the end of it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But, sir—Yang Jian wouldn’t give us any face. Should we speak to the Jade Emperor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget it... the times have changed. Yang Jian’s backing is bigger now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was no match for the Eternal God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marching up to his door would be pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Jian was picking fights now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What could he do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Lingshan was finished. Since being shattered, they said Lingshan had raised a great protective array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew what was happening within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taishang Laojun shook his head, summoned a white cloud, and carried the Blue Bull back to his palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Lingshan—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the place was drenched in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless Buddhas were drained by the Tathagata and made into his nourishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large numbers of Buddhas were sent out to watch over the final stretch of the westward road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, no one noticed the Tathagata’s means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just wait for me, you Outer-Realm Evil God... Give me a little time, and I will kill Yang Jian...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the Buddha hall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a woman in golden robes showed open disgust when she heard this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she vanished where she stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her name was Kong Xuan—better known as the Peacock King Bodhisattva.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Buddha-Mother,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she was naturally not barred by Lingshan’s defensive array; the mountain’s protection did not apply to her.\u003C\u002Fp>",1960,"2026-06-05T21:52:16.834Z",1,"novelbin.me","4ddd80b92d39b504a57f24d15389c55493608172e187a6b983b458c17ebaa86d","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-230","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-228",391,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Finfinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-cover.jpg"]