Chapter 243: Zhuogou Spring, A Feast for the Eyes

Jiuyue brought Tang An to Zhuogou Spring. Before they even arrived, they could hear the laughter of women coming from ahead, frolicking and playing, full of joy.

When the two of them reached the edge of Zhuogou Spring, Tang An climbed down from Jiuyue's back and fixed her gaze on the center of the pool.

There were seven young women there, dressed in thin gauze and surrounded by swirling mist, giving off the feeling of a dream not yet awakened.

Wait, isn't this the kind of dream only men have?

"Slurp—"

Hearing the noise, Jiuyue looked at Tang An and was given a start.

"Sister, have you been taking tonics again?"

"Uh..."

"You could put it that way."

Everyone loves beauty and yearns for it. She is lustful, regardless of gender; she only distinguishes between what is beautiful and what is not.

The female demons in the pool also noticed someone on the bank and turned to look at Tang An one after another.

"Who are you?" They had been about to curse at a lecherous scoundrel, but when they turned their heads, they discovered it was a woman.

"Me? My name is Tang An, and I come from Dongtu Datang. I'm passing through your esteemed territory and came over to take a bath. Do you mind?"

Passing through your esteemed territory? Take a bath???

The smallest spider spirit among them tilted her head and sized up Tang An. "Are you really here to take a bath?"

Tang An wore a hopeless smile; mainly, the little spider spirit was too beautiful, possessing a pure, goddess-like, youthful charm. "May I?"

"Sister, don't let the demons bewitch your eyes." Jiuyue transformed into her human form and breathed a puff of fragrance toward Tang An.

Tang An only smelled a burst of fragrance, and her head cleared significantly. When she looked at the seven spider spirits again, her Eye of Truth had recovered as before, and she could see their true forms.

At this moment, that little spider spirit also swam up in front of Tang An and Jiuyue.

"Two sisters, would you like to come down and bathe together?" Her eyes held a kind of innocence, as if she had never seen the ways of the world.

It was more like, because Tang An said she was here to bathe, she believed Tang An was here to bathe.

Jiuyue's vigilance did not diminish; she bared her teeth at the spider spirit, full of defensiveness.

Tang An smiled brightly and smoothed down Jiuyue's hair.

Jiuyue's pair of fox ears obediently flattened into airplane ears, and she let Tang An have her way.

The two accepted the invitation and entered the pool, though before getting into the water, Tang An had prepared quite a lot, aiming to have a proper soak in the hot spring.

Aromatherapy, red wine, desserts, and things like swimsuits and towels—she had basically brought everything quite completely.

"Come, Jiuyue, use magic to change us into our clothes."

"Okay."

After the two changed their clothes and entered the water, the seven female demons gathered around.

They sized up Tang An and Jiuyue, not understanding what they were wearing or what they were eating, but they were very interested in her clothes and aromatherapy.

After a bit of back and forth, they started chatting.

Half an hour...

One hour...

Two hours later...

By the time Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha arrived with the dog, Tang An and Jiuyue were already guests inside Pan Si Cave.

"Oh, you're here."

"Come, come, come, treat it like your own home, don't be polite."

Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha exchanged glances; clearly, they didn't understand what kind of game Tang An was playing this time.

Had she hit it off with the demons again?

The red-clad spider spirit sized up Sun Wukong. "Are you that... Protector of the Horses?"

Sun Wukong likewise sized up the red-clad spider. "You are..."

In the eyes of the red-clad spider spirit, he saw a sense of familiarity.

"Are you the Red-Clad Fairy from the Seven Fairies?"

The red-clad spider covered her face and smiled faintly. "I didn't expect the Great Sage Equal to Heaven to still remember the seven of us."

"Sisters, now that we have met an old acquaintance, why don't you come over and greet him?"

All seven spider spirits put down what they were doing and walked over with light, quick steps.

When they saw Yang Jian and Nezha, they all bowed in unison.

"We sisters pay our respects to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Judicial God, and the Great Deity of the Three Altars of the Sea."

Yang Jian and Nezha were also full of confusion; if they were truly the Seven Fairies, why had they turned from fairies into demonesses?

"Everyone sit down, don't be polite, I'll explain for them." Tang An pulled the three of them to sit down.

As for the situation, she had already roughly figured it out.

The Journey to the West Project was something jointly promoted by the Heavenly Court and Lingshan. Although it primarily promoted the Western Sect, the Heavenly Court doing so also earned Merit.

Since they wanted to earn Merit, they naturally couldn't let Lingshan handle all the tribulations.

The seven female demons before them were the very Seven Fairies who had been frozen by Sun Wukong on the day he wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years ago.

They were not the legendary daughters of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother, but merely female immortals who served the Queen Mother. Their main job was to pick Flat Peaches when needed for certain occasions.

Because they were frozen by Sun Wukong during the Flat Peach Banquet over five hundred years ago and failed to complete their work that day, they were cast down to the mortal realm by the Queen Mother to undergo tribulations.

Only once this tribulation was fulfilled could they complete their trials and return to their positions.

Originally, the seven of them had intended to make things difficult for Tang An and symbolically capture her into Pan Si Cave.

But they hadn't expected Tang An's personality to be so likable, nor that she would have so many novel and Guguai things. After chatting, they felt it was a meeting too late, so they invited Tang An and Jiuyue to be guests in Pan Si Cave.

"Alright, that's roughly how it is."

Tang An gulped down several mouthfuls of tea, "Anyway, never mind whether I was captured or dragged here. In any case, entering is entering, right? Isn't that so, Bodhisattva?"

She subconsciously wanted to strike up a conversation with Guanyin, only to remember that Guanyin was currently cramming her homework and had no time to talk to them.

"Tsk, with my old partner gone, it's quite hard to get used to."

Lingshan, Great Heroic Treasure Hall.

"Achoo!"

Guanyin's hand, currently copying scriptures, suddenly paused; she had sneezed too violently, and the brush handle snapped.

!!!!

The ink had stained the scriptures she had already copied! She had to copy them all over again!

"Ah!!!"

Her hairstyle really didn't look like a Bodhisattva's at all. To put it colloquially, it looked like a madman's hairstyle grabbed at random by an office worker.

Inside Pan Si Cave.

Sun Wukong was familiarly catching up with the Seven Fairies, expressing his apologies for past clashes.

Yang Jian was drinking fine wine and listening to celestial music, enjoying himself in the Mortal World.

Only Nezha seemed to be perpetually puzzled by one question.

He silently came to Tang An's side and asked, "How could the Seven Fairies be the aunt of Marshal Tianpeng?"

"Uh..."

"Because down in the lower realm, they are all spider spirits."

Nezha was even more confused, "Isn't Marshal Tianpeng a pig?"

"That's right." Tang An's smile deepened.

"He is a pig, they are spiders; doesn't it sound like they are the same? Nothing wrong with that, right?"

Nezha's CPU was about to burn out; is this how relatives in the demon world are determined now?

"Pfft~"

Seeing Nezha's serious pondering, Tang An couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"I'm teasing you, they aren't related. I was just using a meme from where I'm from, you just don't understand it."

"Really?"

"Really." Tang An stuffed a piece of pastry into Nezha's mouth, "Stop pondering, just eat."

Nezha took a bite of the pastry, and after taking it away, he stared curiously at Tang An.

Why did her world have so many strange and Guguai ideas?

What exactly was her world like?

Thinking and thinking, Nezha became lost in thought. Unknowingly, the only figure reflected in his pupils was Tang An.