Chapter 295: Speculations

Confirming the gaze, it's the right person.

Ao Yulie asked, "Master, what exactly happened?"

"I'd like to ask you the same." Tang Luo said.

"Master doesn't know?" Ao Yulie asked.

"I know jack shit, I'm still injured right now." Tang Luo waved his hand.

Ao Yulie stared at Tang Luo for a while; Tang Luo didn't deliberately conceal it either. A moment later his expression changed: "Master, you fought with the Tathagata Buddha, and in the end it turned heaven and earth upside down?"

The so-called 'turning heaven and earth upside down' isn't an exaggerated adjective, but a plain description.

When big shots of the Journey to the West world's caliber truly come to blows, they really can produce such an effect.

Not to mention for ordinary people, even for numerous powerhouses, it is a catastrophic disaster.

"How could that be..." Tang Luo said, "Tell me about your situation, how did you end up here?"

"Oh." Ao Yulie responded, and recounted his experiences one by one.

It wasn't too different from Little Drill Wind; originally playing happily, then suddenly, a blow that was perceived or not perceived struck directly, severely injuring him into unconsciousness.

After waking up, he appeared in this world.

Next was slowly recuperating; after that, Ao Yulie searched around, thought a bit, and decided to open a harem for himself.

Otherwise what else could he do?

Couldn't find Master or Senior Brother; the West Sea side had long since gone cold; after the injury, his originally not-strong strength became even weaker.

Could only temporarily live a life of dissipation; he had to survive!

In this cold, ruthless world, only women's breasts still had a bit of warmth; relying on this, the Jade Dragon Third Prince managed to persist until Master arrived, continuing to be filial to Master!

"It seems this world really was formed after the Shanhai Realm shattered." Tang Luo said.

The Journey to the West world is of course not called the Journey to the West world, but is referred to as the Shanhai Realm.

Overall there are Four Great Continents, with Mount Tongtian in the middle; outward, downward is the Endless Sea; upward is the Thirty-Six Layers of the Nine Heavens.

There are also numerous blessed lands and cave heavens.

This world has the remnant soul of Xiaotian Dog reincarnated, and also Little White Dragon; Tang Luo suspected that that earth-shaking upheaval might have shattered the Shanhai Realm.

This world is probably a small part formed from one fragment after the Shanhai Realm shattered.

Therefore it also has related origins and inheritances.

"Could Earth be the same? Other mission worlds must also have many connections; continuing the God-Demon Missions can continue the exploration." Tang Luo frowned, thinking deeper, it was just a pile of conjectures and speculations.

Before there are more discoveries to confirm, he also doesn't know if it's reliable or not.

Better to suppress these and focus on the matters at hand.

"Master." Seeing Tang Luo lost in thought, Ao Yulie spoke up.

"The world has changed." Tang Luo summarized simply, "All the gods and Buddhas in the sky have vanished into thin air; I only found you, and a wisp of Xiaotian Dog's remnant soul reincarnated, oh, and a Little Drill Wind from Lion Camel Ridge. Similar to your situation; if this Master guesses correctly, the Shanhai Realm probably no longer exists."

"... I thought I was injured by someone with great divine powers and thrown into this blessed land." Ao Yulie said.

The Shanhai Realm has numerous blessed lands and cave heavens that form worlds unto themselves.

"Then you still opened a harem here?" Tang Luo said.

"I figured, whoever wants to catch me is definitely doing it for you guys; if you can't handle it, my bitter cultivation is useless. Besides... no one has come all this time, right?" Ao Yulie said, "Master, you always say everyone's an adult now, why not be more open-minded?"

The next line of those words is "Everyone dies anyway, might as well let this poor monk save you."

Of course it was selectively forgotten by Ao Yulie.

"Living quite carefree." Tang Luo said.

The world thinks Zhu Bajie slacked off during the journey to the West, muddling through; actually Little White Dragon was the most relaxed.

All he had to do was serve as Tang Luo's mount; oh, and that one time, the failed cross-dressing.

With his peerless looks, a little dressing up makes him a peerless beauty.

"Right, Master, why did you grow your hair out?" Ao Yulie asked.

"Not during the scripture-fetching journey." Tang Luo said.

During the scripture-fetching he had no time to manage his hair at all; naturally a shaved head was easier.

Now there's no difference between a shaved head and having hair; he also couldn't be bothered to deliberately maintain a shaved head.

"Good, good." After looking a while, Ao Yulie didn't know from where he produced a mirror, looked at himself in it, and breathed a sigh of relief.

This Master of his grew out his hair, covering the cold severity he had when he was bald.

Now he actually looks like he's almost catching up to him!

The dignified Jade Dragon Third Prince relies on his face to make a living; how could he be surpassed in this aspect? This is his pride!

Even if it's Master, he cannot admit defeat!

Seeing Tang Luo's gaze sweep over, Ao Yulie gave a dry laugh and immediately put the mirror away.

He still remembers being beaten into a pig's head by Tang Luo, whose strength was far inferior to his own back then; to this day he still suspects Master was jealous of his looks.

Deliberately striking hard at his face.

Truly ruthless!

Recalling the past, Ao Yulie shivered, the uncomfortable kind.

"Master..."

"Nothing, we'll talk when the time comes; you settle the Black Mountain matters first." Tang Luo said, "After settling them, seek me in the Great You Capital; if this Master isn't there, go find Left State Preceptor Kong Xuan, say you're my disciple, he'll settle you properly. As for future matters, this Master still needs to consider a thing or two."

"Oh, okay." Ao Yulie nodded; he originally wanted to be a "Dragon Second Generation" for a lifetime — a rich idler, a man of leisure.

Put nicely it's romantic and carefree; put badly it's lacking ambition, drifting with the tide.

He had no ideas of his own, let alone Tang Luo's instructions; he'd definitely follow them.

"Master, you didn't convert all the demons in this Underworld, did you?" Ao Yulie asked; he knew very well how heavy Tang Luo's killing intent was.

"No, the few well-behaved ones are all here, you handle it yourself," Tang Luo said. "Let's go, Doggy."

Xiaotian Quan glanced at Ao Yulie haughtily.

"What's with the arrogance..." Ao Yulie muttered, but his heart also held some lingering fear and dread.

The Mountains and Seas Realm shattered, and the gods and Buddhas filling the sky vanished like smoke and scattered clouds.

Not only him, even Master suffered extremely severe injuries.

Even the Cold-Faced Erlang Shen's Xiaotian Quan was left with only a wisp of remnant soul, reincarnated and picked up by Master.

What exactly happened back then? Just thinking about it feels terrifying.

Fortunately, fortunately, Master found him; compared to nesting in this gentle township, obviously staying by Master's side gave a greater sense of security.

Of course, first these charming and lovely female yaojing must be properly arranged.

This is also compassion!

Tang Luo's journey of conversion noticeably slowed, taking half a month to convert those yaomo guiguai who plagued one region and caused great harm.

He did not continue further.

Now the Great You has seen the vast majority of its internal troubles and external threats eliminated, and it is a season of favorable winds and timely rains; it has already weathered the storm, a century of national fortune is already within reach.

Tang Luo worried that if things went wrong, the mission might suddenly complete and he would return to the real world.

Originally it wasn't a big deal, returning is just returning, but now there is an additional Little White Dragon, and how to arrange him still needs consideration.

If possible, Tang Luo naturally wants to take Little White Dragon away.

But in the God-Demon Game there is no such thing as a Main God wristwatch that can be put on an "NPC" from the mission world and then taken away.

So far, only Tang Luo has brought out Xiaotian Quan, causing everyone to click their tongues in wonder.

Xiaotian Quan was a wisp of remnant soul attached to the Merit Jade Lotus that Tang Luo brought back.

The Merit Jade Lotus inherently has no storage capability; Little White Dragon cannot imitate this matter, so how to take Little White Dragon out has become a problem.

Tang Luo's current idea is to have Little White Dragon enter the Cursed House; when the mission completes and he returns, the Cursed House in hand would also be brought back to the real world.

There is a certain probability of taking Little White Dragon away.

But the Cursed House is ultimately different from the Merit Jade Lotus, and Little White Dragon is also different from Xiaotian Quan back then who was barely hanging on with only a wisp of remnant soul.

Does this count as revealing the "God-Demon Game" to the outside world?

He can't possibly beat Little White Dragon half to death first, leaving only a wisp of remnant soul, then stuff him into the Merit Jade Lotus, right?

How to bring Little White Dragon away as much as possible within the rules is a matter needing consideration — although with Tang Luo's temperament, the final result of consideration is mostly "feels like a fifty percent chance, I think it'll work, let's do it!"

With these circumstances, Tang Luo is also in no rush to complete the mission.

However, even with Tang Luo deliberately slowing down, Kongming in the Central Capital receiving the news was still surprised and delighted in succession; the mission completion progress was far faster than he imagined.

Tang Luo covering the sky with one hand, the effect of exterminating the Joyous Monastery was too good.

In the Great You court, Kongming acts basically without obstruction — don't forget, with his own strength, unless the Longya Daoism acts, there are not many in Great You who can steadily suppress him.

Added to that he is truly devoted to the public good; as long as it benefits Great You, he fears offending people not in the slightest, presenting the model of a lone minister.

The court officials can see this clearly, so they naturally rejoice in the outcome and even lend a hand to help.

Such a situation can be called extremely rare; even at the founding of the dynasty, there were few occurrences of this kind of "united as one" matter.

And Ah Fei bringing back the news of Fu Fengxue's death made Kongming quite regretful, while also raising his perception of this mission world's danger another level.

There is one more matter giving Kongming quite a headache: someone popped out of nowhere claiming to be Tang Luo's disciple.

Named Ao Yulie; as for appearance...

Kongming still remembers when this guy swaggered through the market, the impact he caused in the Central Capital, a pile of people all came to see this Peerless Young Master.

Finally constables had to be dispatched to calm things down.

Afterwards this person in just a few days left the name "Jade Young Master"; the oiran of the brothels and painted boats were willing to "bring their own dry rations," grinding ink with jade hands, red sleeves adding fragrance, spending their lives with him.

Why only oiran?

Because non-oiran all feel they are not worthy of him!

Even officials came to Kongming's side, inquiring whether the Jade Young Master had started a family, saying their household just had a marriageable fine daughter, virtuous and gentle, suitable for managing a household.

Besides this, there is another matter Kongming feels should be treated with caution.

That is the Great Elder of Longya Daoism, a Golden Core cultivator, is about to emerge from seclusion.

This person has history with Tang Luo; the "history" here is not friendship, it seems more like there is some old grievance.

Even if it's not an old grievance, with this Great Elder emerging from seclusion, Longya Daoism's conduct will likely also change.

Kongming does not hope for a mission like "weaken Longya Daoism" to appear.