Chapter 428

Zhu Bajie brought Luode, and the group headed toward the rear of Pan Siliang's command, quickly arriving at a place full of silt.

"Here, here, it actually turned into this state." Looking at the silt pond before him, Sun Wukong spoke with slight surprise.

A few hundred years ago, when our master and disciples passed through this place, it was a scenic spring, where the Seven Fairy Maidens of Heaven often came down to bathe, named Zhuogou Spring.

After the seven spider spirits arrived here, they occupied the place where the Seven Fairy Maidens bathed; back then, Bajie was here and had a romantic encounter with the seventh of the seven spider spirits.

Therefore, Sun Wukong also has a fresh memory of this place, but back then it was a very clear and warm hot spring, containing powerful spiritual essence.

How come the spring water has completely disappeared now, and the substance in the pool has turned into black silt, looking extremely filthy? "This place was indeed not like this before; back then it was very beautiful, but suddenly one day, something happened—I don't know what—and all the water in the spring dried up, losing all its spiritual charm, and the place became utterly filthy." The fourth spider sister spoke.

Outside, there are many rumors that the old spider spirit ate too many living people here, committed too many evil deeds, causing heavenly resentment to surge; thus, the originally fine place where a golden crow fell, forming a Sun God Spring, turned into a silt-filled, polluted spring.

Exactly what happened to this spring, even the sisters themselves don't know, but it definitely has nothing to do with us spider spirits; it should be someone from Heaven meddling.

After all, if my own mother had this power, and if the vengeful spirits of ordinary deceased mortals could pollute this spring, then a few hundred years ago, when Tang Sanzang and his disciples passed through here, Zhuogou Spring should already be in this state.

"This place is gone, indeed regrettable." Azeroth also spoke with some regret.

She felt that this spring originally should have contained powerful yang-attributed power and vitality, being a very rare divine spring.

Possibly not comparable to the former Eternal Spring, but matching the Sun's radiance is no problem; only, what flows inside is not magical arcane energy, but a kind of heaven-earth spiritual energy she has never heard of, plus solar divine power.

"How about it, do you like this place? If you like it, I can also build you an identical Zhuogou Spring." Luode turned his head to look at Azeroth, smiled, and spoke.

I can completely use the miraculous power of time to reverse time here, letting this spring return to its original form.

Or in the private space's small garden planet, Luode can also have the Sun God act to create a spring like this, then draw the heaven-earth spiritual energy of this world over, and it can be formed.

"If you can truly restore this place, that would be great! Your son is about to be born, I need vast amounts of life essence to nurture him, and the heaven-earth spiritual energy here also contains strong vitality, plus a hint of different power.

If he could be born in this spring, then this child's talent might very well become true god-level." Azeroth nodded and spoke.

"Hahaha! Since it's for my son and beneficial, naturally I will take over this place—don't worry! I will restore this place to its original form, but first I must deal with the unwelcome guests here." Luode spoke.

"Also, clear away the spider webs here, all kinds of insect monsters, and those dead human skeletons, so this place becomes a beautiful mountain and clear water environment—I like such surroundings." Azeroth spoke.

Nearby Pan Si Cave, although there are some human houses, decorated quite beautifully, but overall it is a place of eternal darkness, favored by insect monsters; Azeroth doesn't like it much.

So if we are to occupy this place, then at least we must make it as beautiful as Mount Hyjal.

"Hehe! Originally, the wife of the Great God Wutian was indeed about to give birth; if the Great God needs a place where heaven-earth spiritual energy gathers.

Then my old Sun's Flower Fruit Mountain is indeed a good choice, far better than this place." Sun Wukong also jumped out at this moment and spoke.

If we were to rank the blessed lands and caverns under heaven, then my beautiful Monkey King, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong's Flower Fruit Mountain Water Curtain Cave blessed land would absolutely rank high; this place is the source of the Three Islands, the ancestral vein of the Ten Provinces.

It is a rare place where heaven-earth spiritual energy gathers; I died a few hundred years ago, and Flower Fruit Mountain has mostly recovered; if this Great God is willing, he can completely go to Flower Fruit Mountain to give birth.

"Flower Fruit Mountain is your place, Flower Fruit Mountain belongs only to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, I won't steal your territory; these few spider spirits I plan to keep as maidservants." Luode spoke.

This fourth sister looks quite good; her several sisters' appearances should also not be bad; coincidentally, I lack a few beautiful Eastern maidservants in my hands! Usually I bring them to feast the eyes, and at night I can also nurture and play with them well—it's said spider legs are very long.

"This place is indeed a good place; if Wutian Great God can restore this place to its original state, then its scenery will not be much worse than your Flower Fruit Mountain, Monkey Brother—don't forget, back then the Seven Fairy Maidens often came down here to bathe." Zhu Bajie spoke from the side.

If this weren't a feng shui treasure land, the Seven Fairy Maidens of Heaven wouldn't have descended! These seven spider spirits wouldn't dare occupy this place; Xikunlun and Heaven still exist, and they wouldn't raise demons here to run a big business—all because this place is a gathering point of heaven-earth spiritual energy.

This utterly clear Zhuogou Divine Spring becoming like this, Zhu Bajie guesses is also related to the demon-rearing activities here.

The disciples of the Yellow Flower Crown absorb spiritual energy here; this place gathers insect demons, absorbing spiritual energy; plus the infection emitted by the Huiyue Demon Lord, and Heaven's interference—this divine spring became this state, completely dried up, leaving only the silt at the bottom.

Just as everyone was speaking, a woman in a red robe, wearing a veil, walked over from afar.

"I say, good sister, now my brother really came to see you, and still in this form—why don't you show your true face instead of wearing a veil?" Zhu Bajie immediately stepped forward and spoke.

"You, you are really Tianpeng Yuanshuai? You? You in this form—I, I have no face to see you." Purple Pearl Child opened her mouth and spoke.

"I specially asked Wutian Great God to turn me into this form; now you are unwilling to pay attention to me, old pig—sister truly makes me, old pig, heartbroken!" Zhu Bajie sighed and spoke.

"How would brother know how many evil deeds I have done these years? I, here with several sisters, have done too many too many heaven-defying, reason-violating acts.

Eating people raw, absorbing yang to supplement yin—I have done plenty of those; the skulls in the Pan Si Cave cavern, basically all are mortals I ate." Purple Pearl Child sighed and spoke.

As a demon in the lower realm these years, she has done many heaven-defying, reason-violating acts; even inherited some spider nature, like her several sisters—she often catches a few living people to eat, or catches a few handsome men to enjoy in the cave.

Until Zhu Bajie came here, she suddenly realized, without knowing when, that she had unknowingly transformed from a heavenly fairy into a completely thorough female demon.

But fortunately, the person she loves also turned into a pig demon; at Yunzhen Cave, this Tianpeng Yuanshuai also didn't control his mouth, eating quite a few humans.

But after their master and disciples left, she survived by eating the corpses of her six elder sisters.

At the side, Luode heard this, shook his head helplessly; in Journey to the West, these immortals are not good immortals—don't even mention the dark Journey to the West, even the normal version often involves eating people.

In Journey to the West, the immortals Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing—all have clear records of eating people; even Sha Wujing ate Tang Sanzang's previous incarnations on the journey to obtain scriptures.

Even the Beautiful Monkey King, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong, subtly indicated before that he once tricked mortals into entering his cave to eat them.

However, some think it was just to scare Tang Sanzang, specifically in the section of the three strikes against the White Bone Spirit; Luode thinks it should also be Sun Wukong scaring Tang Sanzang, because after Sun Wukong was driven away by Tang Sanzang.

Flower Fruit Mountain saw over a thousand hunters arrive, holding swords, spears, bows and crossbows, to capture Sun Wukong's monkeys and monkey grandsons.

Sun Wukong, in anger, used flying sand and stones to kill all these hunters completely; yet he ordered the monkeys and monkey grandsons to throw all these hunters' corpses down the valley, leaving only the horses processed into jerky to stave off hunger. Although Sun Wukong is a demon king, he studied under Patriarch Bodhi; his fellow disciples are mostly humans, so he does not eat people, nor does he allow his subordinates to eat people.

Also, the Kui Mu Wolf Star King of Heaven and the lower realm, after drinking wine, couldn't help but dance, drawn by the sweet scent of palace maids' flesh, embraced a palace maid and ate her alive.

After arriving in Heaven, the Jade Emperor is completely powerless; thus, even in the original Journey to the West, eating people is not really a major fault—it can even be said to be blameless.

Then there's no need to mention this Black Myth Journey to the West! The situation here is even darker and bloodier than the original Journey to the West world! "Good sister, now I have found a great backer; if you are willing, I will ask Wutian Great God to restore you to your original appearance, then let you no longer need to eat people? This heaven-earth spiritual energy is enough for you to cultivate." Zhu Bajie spoke.

"Great Divine Ability? Haha, good brother, do you know what a Great Divine Ability is?

Do you know who stands behind my elder brother? What kind of formidable person is he?" The old spider spirit, hearing this, revealed a hint of mockery and spoke.

Under heaven, speaking of background, our Pan Si Cave truly fears no one; we rely on the Jade Emperor of Heaven, and the Tai Shang Lao Jun, relying on the Queen Mother of the West of Xikunlun.

The business of Pan Si Cave is very booming; the Jade Emperor facilitates connection to Heaven; the Queen Mother of the West takes immortal beast eggs from Kunlun, dispatches disciples to breed them.

The Tai Shang Lao Jun lineage is responsible for refining those sent up to Heaven, infected by demon worms, mortal humans into demon pills, for Heaven's immortals to consume.

This is a three-way industrial chain; Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, Tai Shang Lao Jun are all involved; thus, speaking of power and backing, our Pan Si Cave truly is not comparable to ordinary demons.

Even if Sun Wukong is resurrected, if he truly dares to disrupt our business here, he also cannot escape unscathed; even if fully resurrected, he must be killed again by Heaven.

"Hahaha! Good sister, now this world is about to change; you truly are not well-informed; believe brother, brother will not lie to you.

Wutian Great God, you show this sister a trick, let her know your power is good, to prove to him that old Zhu didn't boast." Zhu Bajie, after comforting his little lover, immediately came before Luode and spoke.

"That spider spirit! You marry Zhu Bajie? Your several daughters? All give them to me as maidservants; if you agree, I will cure your wounds." Luode spoke.

"Mother, this Wutian Great God is a rare powerful divine being in the world, the second ancestral dragon under heaven, with an exalted status rarely seen among the three realms."

"In the Xikunlun Heavenly Court, which of them regards us as human? They merely treat us as tools; we are nothing but running dogs for heaven's affairs."

"Mother, why do you insist on serving them?" At this moment, the Spider Spirit Fourth Sister also jumped out and spoke.

"You don't understand, you don't understand how formidable my senior brother is! I, I!" Purple Pearl shook her head and spoke.

"Good sister, don't you wish to return to your former beautiful self? Look at what you have become now—how can this old pig renew our bond with you?" Zhu Bajie spoke.

Upon hearing this, the old spider spirit's psychological defense was instantly broken; others saying she is ugly or old would not bother her.

But if spoken so by her beloved, the old spider spirit could not bear it; for many years she had never changed her attire, fearing her beloved would not recognize her upon seeing her.

"Good sister, I know you gave birth to a daughter for me; that girl has a round face, clearly my offspring at a glance." At this moment, Zhu Bajie also pointed to the young girl beside the old woman—a maiden of about fourteen or fifteen, with a round face whose features closely resembled his.

Unbeknownst when, a golden little spider had already run before the old spider spirit and then revealed its true form.

"Mother! He, he is my father!" Spider Spirit Sixth Sister looked at Zhu Bajie, then at her old mother, and asked aloud.

When I was young, playing in the courtyard, two Wushan pig demons bringing gifts once said she was of the old pig's lineage, related to their pig demons.

At that time, the sixth sister was very angry, for her mother had told her her father was a hero who stood tall and firm, and also extremely handsome.

After learning her father was Zhu Bajie, she had once felt sorrow for a while, but now seeing this Marshal Tianpeng, she was extraordinarily delighted—her father seemed not as ugly as outsiders said, but rather quite handsome!

"Never mind, never mind! I agree! No matter what, Marshal Tianpeng, whichever side you stand on, I will follow you; in this life, do not abandon me again." Purple Pearl took a deep breath and made up her mind.

Afraid of this, afraid of that, the two of them forever had fate but no union, forever unable to be together; since the good brother no longer fears the Buddhist heavenly court, what does she have left to fear? "Hmm!" Luode nodded, pointed at the old spider spirit, and a pure life force directly injected into her body.

Instantly healed her old wounds and began repairing her body; her originally aged, wrinkled skin became smooth and tender, her white hair turned into three thousand strands of black silk.

In the blink of an eye, under Luode's life force injection, the old spider spirit regained youth, returning to the appearance of a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old maiden.

At this moment, the old spider spirit was exactly as the heavenly palace fairy she once was—this was her true original appearance.

"I have returned, I have returned, how wonderful! Marshal Tianpeng, do you still recognize me? This appearance, you must recognize me!" Purple Pearl spoke with a face full of delight.

"Hahaha! No matter what form you take, I recognize you, I recognize you, my sister!" Marshal Tianpeng Zhu Bajie immediately stepped forward and embraced the young Purple Pearl who had returned to her youthful form.

Screw heavenly rules and regulations, screw Buddhist law—I will be with the woman I love; let no one try to stop us! After enduring countless hardships, we are finally together.

"Mother! Where are my several sisters? And what about that Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord? We must indeed deal with them quickly." Fourth Sister spoke.

"Those girls are on the mountain peak; as for my senior brother and those from the heavenly court, they are in the Huanghua Temple." Purple Pearl spoke.

"Mother! Hurry and summon your sisters; let us follow Lord Luode together and drive out all other forces." Fourth Sister spoke.

Upon hearing this, Old Spider Spirit Purple Pearl nodded and pinched a hand seal, beginning to summon her daughters; moments later, four giant spiders appeared before her.

In the blink of an eye, the four giant spiders transformed into four women wearing palace attire, graceful figures, skin like snow, bare shoulders, and lovely faces.

Seeing these spider spirits' appearances, Luode nodded with satisfaction.

"Excellent! Excellent! Finally, my maidens include a beautiful woman of Eastern grace—though a demoness, demonesses are more beautiful!" "Mother, mother, your face—you, you have returned, you, your wounds—are they healed too?" Spider Spirit Second Sister asked.

"Mother, you, you have truly returned?" The other sisters also looked at their mother with astonishment.

"Ladies, I have indeed returned; from now on, this Pan Si Cave will change hands—I will arrange things for you later; now come pay respects to Wutian Great God." Purple Pearl spoke. (End of chapter)