Chapter 507: The Ninth Scripture Learner

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Luo Han selected a group of young and upright-looking women from the hired women, and stayed in his mansion in the former White Lion City as a maid, but he didn't go back, so he quietly left the White Lion Country with someone to join the hundred flowers.

In the original book, it is said that the quicksand river is thousands of miles long and eight hundred miles wide, and it is obvious that this scene is not discounted at all. The yellow water was so big that there was not a single boat on the endless river, not even a single bird foraging on the river.

The storm came out of the nest this time, and even Meng Fei secretly followed under the banner of retreat, only the Nightmare still stayed in the cave to manage those little demons who were useless for the time being.

There were six people from Baihua, in addition to Huayu, Xiaoqiu and Lilac, there were three others, namely Lily, Hanmei, and Aoi, and as for the healer Peony who had fought side by side, he had died in the previous solo trial.

The two teams met by the quicksand river, and a brief introduction went straight to the point.

The person who posted the task was a monk named Xuanshen, who had a very deep Buddhist practice. But Monk Sha has been a demon in Tongtian River for a long time, and he has also eaten a number of people who have cultivated well. From the original book, he still didn't know Zhu Bajie after listening to his self-reported origin, it can be seen that he should have been demoted to the lower realm before Zhu Bajie went to heaven, and the time between the two Pan Tao Societies is far more than five hundred years, even if it is not as long as nine thousand years. In the original book, when Sha Seng was the general of the curtain, he also saw the ginseng fruit that ripened once in 10,000 years, proving that it was at least 10,000 years old, even if the time flow rate in the heavenly court was different, it was definitely an immortal who had cultivated for a long time, and his cultivation should not be underestimated. That's why Xuanshen asked Baihua to escort him across the river.

One thing is certain, the immortals who have cultivated the Tao are also masters even in the heavenly court, the sand monk will become a general when he attains the Tao, and Zhu Bajie will be promoted to the marshal of Tianpeng when he goes to heaven, which is mentioned in their own statements in the original work, and the strength of the heavenly soldiers and generals under them will obviously not be higher than them. However, they have been demoted to mortals, and it is a question mark whether they still have a certain amount of strength.

Huayu said: "The quicksand river is eight hundred miles wide, goose feathers do not float, boats do not cross, it is said that Xuanshen has the ability to make tools to cross the river, but once he is attacked, he will not be able to protect the tools for crossing the river." And as a scripture collector, he can't fly across the river, so our task is to protect the tools for crossing the river, but there is no need to fight to the death with the sand monks. ”

Luo Han walked to the bank of the river, tore off the corner of his clothes and threw them on the surface of the river, and sure enough, the clothes sank without even drifting. Luo Han stretched out his hand into the river, and immediately felt an invisible force pulling his arm towards the center of the river, but it was not very big, Luo Han withdrew his hand with a slight effort.

"Fighting in such a river, I may only be able to exert seventy percent of my strength. Passing years, you come and try. ”

Liunian walked to the river, directly activated the ability, and the whole body flowed into the quicksand river like water. After a while, a puddle of clear water flew back to the shore, turned into a flowing year, shook his head and said: "This power does not come from water, even if it blends into the river, I will still be pulled." ”

Luo Han nodded and frowned.

Seeing this, Hua Yu asked with some worry: "Even you are not sure?" ”

Luo Han shook his head: "It's hard to say, I have to talk to Xuan Shen in person, if what he took out is not worth our risk, I can only refuse." You must know that in an unsuitable environment, it is too risky to fight against an immortal who has once ascended to the Dao. ”

Hua Yu frowned: "Are you raising the level of Monk Sha?" He is just the weakest of Tang Seng's apprentices, and he has no record in the entire Journey to the West, only one sentence, 'Senior brother, the master was captured by monsters'. ”

Luo Han let out a breath from his nostrils, obviously disdainful of this statement, he said: "Let me ask you a question, why when Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, even Nezha was not his opponent, and Erlang God also fought with him for a long time, and in the end, Taishang Laojun knocked him unconscious with King Kong Zhuo, but he was always defeated by monsters when he arrived at the way to learn the scriptures?" Why can the canopy, who mistakenly cast a pig's fetus, have a tie with Sun Wukong, who has learned the scriptures, but after following Tang Seng, he is obviously inferior to Sun Wukong? ”

Huayu thought about it, if it is, it can be explained as a loophole in the author's writing, but here is a world that appears based on the original work, and a reasonable explanation will inevitably be given.

"You mean...... Changed from Taoism to Buddhism, so his skills were greatly damaged? ”

Luo Han nodded: "We trialists still need a lot of time to transform their energy when they change to a practice with similar attributes, how can they change their strength from Taoism to a completely different Buddhism?" And what we have to deal with now is the general of the shutter who has not yet become Sha Wujing. A big demon who may have been a demon here for thousands of years and has eaten countless people. And I have reason to believe that he eats anything extraordinary, for it is impossible for a mortal to want to cross this river of quicksand, which has no goose feathers. Based on my experience of traveling eastward, mortals would rather take a detour of hundreds of miles to pass by land above the source of the quicksand river than want to cross the eight-hundred-mile quicksand river. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Han suddenly smiled weirdly: "It is said that there are nine skulls of profound scripture learners who can float on the quicksand river, do you want to try your strength and who is higher and who is lower than these nine scripture learners who are eaten?" ”

Hua Yu felt a chill down her spine, shook her head and said, "I'm not interested." ”

As they spoke, a shiny bald head walked slowly from a distance, it was the Xuanshen they had been waiting for for a long time.

Xuan Shen looks no more than thirty years old, handsome, if he keeps his hair, he should also be a beautiful man who has fascinated thousands of girls, but it is somewhat consistent with the image of Tang Seng. However, based on Tang Seng's age, Xuanshen obviously will not be Tang Seng's previous life.

Xuanshen approached, folded his hands and said: "Amitabha, little monk Xuanshen, I have seen all the donors." I don't know if the donors are waiting here, but they are willing to escort the little monk across the 800-mile quicksand river? ”

Luo Han looked Xuanshen up and down with a scrutinizing gaze, but Xuanshen didn't care and maintained a gentle smile.

Finally, Luo Han opened his mouth: "Monk, do you know what the monsters living in this quicksand river are?" ”

Xuan Shen shook his head: "The little monk only knows that this demon is ferocious by nature, and every person who crosses the river will be eaten by him, so he will ask your donors for protection." ”

Luo Leng smiled and said: "The monster here has the same origin as us, but the Great Immortal of the Upper Realm made a mistake and was demoted to a demon. It's just that his background is much better than ours, and he is the general of the curtain next to the Jade Emperor. His strength is already above us, and he occupies such a geographical advantage as the Liusha River, even if we join forces, there is a great risk. If you want us to escort you across the river, you can get something that makes me happy. ”

"Amitabha." Xuan Shen proclaimed the Buddha's name, took out a porcelain vase the size of a toothpick bucket from his wide sleeve and said: "The little monk does not dare to work with the donors in vain. This is a pure glass bottle, which is a magic weapon used by Guanyin Master before entering the release, but the effect is different, it can be filled with intangible things, and the quality is not decaying. ”

Luo Han's eyebrows jumped, his eyes widened, isn't the golden cicada's luck an invisible thing? The reason why the storm has to wait for twenty years is because once the golden cicada's luck is withdrawn from Tang Seng's body, it will soon become invalid, and it can only wait until Tang Seng comes to their realm and takes Tang Seng captive to the Tower of Babel. But with this thing, Luo Han even had the urge to immediately rush into the Tang Dynasty and smoke Tang Seng out. There is no doubt that this mission is intended for a team like Storm, and even if the team doesn't need it, it can be used as a valuable bargaining chip.

However, Luo Han still asked cautiously, "Are there any restrictions on this thing?" ”

Xuanshen nodded and said: "This thing is powerful, but it can only be used three times, one out and one in once, and when it is full three times, it will be broken immediately." ”

Luo Han looked at Huayu and said solemnly: "I must take this thing, I can give you a chance to use it if you need it, and Storm owes Baihua a favor again." ”

Huayu thought, as a leading team, she actually didn't need this thing very much, but she still valued Storm's favor, not to mention that they didn't need it, but others needed it very much.

"Okay, but it's up to us to use it that time, and you can't object to it."

Luo Han knew what Hua Yu was thinking, nodded and said, "That time is yours, no matter who you give it to, I am willing to cooperate." ”

"Deal."

Seeing that the two leaders had reached an agreement, Xuan smiled and asked, "Fellow donors, I wonder if you can escort the little monk across the river now?" ”

Luo Han asked, "Does the master have a boat to cross the river?" "With the employment relationship, the title becomes different.

Xuan Shen took out a wooden bowl-shaped thing from his arms and said: "Since the little monk has collected the wood of the nearby Yuan Jing in the past three months, he has refined this treasure, which can not sink in the quicksand river. However, this thing can accommodate up to four people, and the rest of the donors can only be aggrieved. ”

Luo Han looked at this thing, and his brain made up the appearance of the enlarged water in the water, and he couldn't arouse his interest in going in and feeling it at all. Everyone in the storm has flying swords to use, except for Xiao Yumeng, who must follow the protection of Xuanshen, everyone else can follow the sword, just look at how the flowers are.

Huayu didn't have an opinion and nodded.

Seeing that the two agreed, Xuan threw the wooden bowl into the quicksand river, and when it met the water, it became larger, half of it was submerged under the water, and half of it was exposed to the water. The cucumber jumped into it, but the wooden bowl did not sink at all, which was obviously not a normal physical phenomenon.

Luo Han beckoned: "Mengmeng, follow him, don't let him have an accident, others will be on the sword." ”

Huayu also said: "Hanmei, Aoi, protect Xuanshen, and the others follow me." As he spoke, he threw out an object and showed it in the wind, but it was a flying carpet.

The wooden bowl-shaped thing is made of many wooden boards, and when a person sits in it, it is just level with the edge of the bowl, and when he stands up, most of his body is exposed. Xuanshen uses two wooden sticks in the shape of chopsticks to make oars and rows honestly.

Luo Han saw that the speed was too slow, so he set off a gust of wind to help, but Xuan Shen immediately exclaimed: "Donor, please stop, don't walk with the help of mana, otherwise the little monk will not be able to get the true scriptures." ”

Luo Han frowned, this is the same as Tang Seng's setting, but this monk ......

"Why did the master go to learn the scriptures?"

"Amitabha." Xuan Shen proclaimed the Buddha's name and said: "According to legend, if someone can reach the Da Lei Yin Temple on foot and retrieve the Mahayana Buddhism, he will get the right result. ”

This monk is also frank and does not talk about empty words about purifying sentient beings. He is a Buddhist cultivator, and what he seeks in his life is to achieve results, unlike Tang Seng who is a monk who can only chant sutras and chant Buddha, and has no ability but enthusiasm.

However, Luo Han watched Xuanshen row the oars seriously, but he felt a little sorry in his heart. The candidates for learning from the scriptures have already been decided, how can others get involved? In the original work, the nine scripture learners were not allowed to rest even if they were killed by the sand monk, and in the end, the nine skeletons helped Tang Seng cross the quicksand river before turning into a yin wind and dissipating, and the end was not tragic. Even if Genshen crossed the quicksand river with their help, countless demons and monsters would intercept him, preventing him from reaching the Western Heavens. In the final analysis, only the second disciple of Rulai, Jin Chanzi, is qualified to obtain the true scriptures, and these wild monks with no background are not taken into account by Rulai at all, how can they be given great merits?

It's just that now Luo Han has a task, and it's hard to say anything, so he flies on the top of Xuanshen's head with a flying sword, vigilant of the movement in the river.

The characteristic of the quicksand river is that the sand flows with the water, and the river is turbid, and you can't see what is under the water. Therefore, everyone had to raise the spirit of twelve points to take precautions. However, perhaps the quicksand river is too wide, and the sand monk is not here, so there has been no movement.

At night, Xuanshen slept in his clothes and slept in the river crossing instrument. Xiao Yumeng and the others wanted to help him row, but they were stopped, saying that they were not mortals, and if they helped row, they would break the rules of learning from the scriptures.

Xuanshen was originally an ascetic, his physical strength was quite good, and he also had some doorways with this magic weapon, and he was very fast when he rowed it, but after all, it was a very primitive tool, Luo Han estimated that at this speed, it would take half a month to successfully cross the river, so he asked the team members to take turns to rest on the magic weapon.

Just as Lin Ya was replacing Xiao Yumeng, a terrible scream came from the center of the river, and everyone immediately raised their hearts to their throats, for fear that Monk Sha would suddenly come out.

But there was nothing out of the ordinary, just a constant scream, which sounded extremely far away, but the penetrating power was so strong that it could be heard throughout the surface of the quicksand river.

Luo Han was puzzled, and Edgeworth left the team and flew towards the source of the sound, but he didn't see anything, and the screams gradually stopped.

"Strange? Where is the sound? Luo Han muttered and flew back to the team, there were still a hundred meters away from the river crossing magic weapon, and suddenly saw a huge whirlpool appear on the surface of the nearby river, generating a huge suction, sucking the river crossing magic weapon towards the center of the whirlpool.

Xuan Shen suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, chanting a mantra in his mouth, and the magic weapon emitted a wave of Buddha light, firmly fixed on the surface of the river, not moving at all.

At this time, Luo Han also made a move, and a cyclone opposite to the whirlpool was generated out of thin air, rolling up the river in the whirlpool, and tearing up the whirlpool.

Seeing that the whirlpool had not made any achievements, a black shadow rushed out of the center of the whirlpool, and volleyed a moonlight into the air towards the river crossing magic weapon. Flower Language activated the ability, and an iceberg rose, blocking Yuehua and protecting the river crossing magic weapon in the thick ice.

At this time, everyone saw clearly the black shadow emerging from the quicksand river, it was a big man with fluffy red hair, blue face, fierce and vicious, with eight skulls hanging around his neck, holding a treasure staff in his hand, stepping on the waves under his feet, exposing his chest, and a trace of blood could be seen on his chest.