"Senior brother, why did you scold for a long time today, and the river demon still refused to come out to fight?"

Tang Seng and his entourage were blocked on the bank of the "quicksand river", and five days passed.

Every day, Zhu Bajie would take the initiative to step forward to provoke, and the two were either on the shore, in the air, or in the water, and they didn't remember how many times they had fought each other.

At the beginning, the little white dragon also held the "male and female double-strand sword" on the side to sweep the formation, and from the third day, it was completely Zhu Bajie fighting alone.

In Lao Zhu's own words, this is "training with battle", and it is easy to meet a real opponent, Zhu Bajie is unwilling to give up such a good opportunity easily.

Originally, Li Zhi wanted to find out the identity of the person who learned the scriptures, so as to discuss the matter of crossing the river, but seeing that the second senior brother was so full of ambition, he swallowed it back first.

Zhu Bajie is lazy in his bones, whether it is his usual behavior, or his practice and practice, he has been stimulated by the entire scripture-learning team for so long in the past six months, and it is rare to have such a serious time.

Even Tang Seng, who was bent on traveling west to learn scriptures, did not urge everyone to go on the road anymore, and from time to time he went out of the tent to watch the fight between the two, and then he returned to the tent again, chanting and meditating, day and night.

"Senior brother, it's not a way to go on like this, the second senior brother's combat power is now rebounding, but the realm depends on the continuous cultivation and accumulation of mana, or what genius earth treasure can be encountered."

"I think we should calm down and talk to the river demon on the other side, or we can find a solution, and next time we will ask the senior brother to help-"

For five consecutive days, Zhu Bajie was mainly challenged, and at most occasionally the little white dragon Ao Lie would be added.

Because Li Zhi has a big gap, this is not a competition between his own people, he will not end, and Sun Wukong, who has always been belligerent, was also persuaded by Li Zhi to death.

First, this is more conducive to Zhu Bajie's own "training with battle", and more importantly, Li Zhi wants to surprise this river demon.

After five days of vicious fighting, in the eyes of the river demon, among the few people who came up on the shore, this pig demon should be the most powerful.

Although that dragon has good kung fu in the water, his realm and combat power are still a lot worse, and the others who haven't done it are probably even worse.

This kind of preconceived notion is exactly what Li Zhi wants.

"Hehe, little junior brother, you just see-"

After observing for a few days, Sun Wukong has discovered that the most significant feature of this river demon in the quicksand river is that it is physically tough, which can resist beatings and has infinite strength.

In this case, Sun Wukong decided to start from the enemy's most advantageous place, aren't you powerful? Then let's go straight to a tough fight to see who has more strength and who is more resistant to beating.

This is Sun Wukong, a proud monkey who is too lazy to be opportunistic when fighting against people.

……

However, today Zhu Bajie has been scolding for a long time, everything is as usual in the quicksand river, the river demon actually became a shrunken turtle for no reason, everyone is unknown, Li Zhi is also confused.

The sun was slowly rising overhead, and it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

Suddenly, everyone felt that their eyes were dark, and thirteen flying swords fell from the sky, distributed in a honeycomb shape, with one in the middle standing as the center, the four in the inner circle divided into four dimensions, and the eight in the outer circle defining the eight directions.

As soon as the thirteen flying swords fell, they stayed in the sky above the quicksand river, and immediately locked a large area of the river, and it seemed that even the water flow of the quicksand river here was temporarily still.

One after another sword qi was emitted, blue or white, red or purple, and thirteen fierce sword qi stabbed straight to the bottom of the river.

Immediately afterward, I heard a muffled grunt from the bottom of the river, as if who was enduring the inhuman pain?

"Oh, no—"

Li Zhi finally remembered that since the river demon was demoted here, every seven days, he would suffer the pain of a flying sword piercing his chest a hundred times, could it be the punishment in front of him?

"Senior brother, do you dare to stop these flying swords, or intercept these flying swords secretly, the little brother looks at them and looks at them in good condition, hehe......"

Li Zhi lowered his voice and said to Sun Wukong on the side.

"Little junior brother, you want to help that river demon, right? However, these flying swords look a little familiar, and the aura on them looks like they are from that person's handwriting, maybe they were really created by that old man. ”

There are many refiners in the Three Realms, but there are not many who can really refine good things, just like the thirteen flying swords in the air, each of them is the existence of a top-grade magic weapon, and when combined in one place, it is comparable to a low-grade acquired spirit treasure.

There are even fewer people who can refine this level of magic weapon and are willing to use it as a punishment.

Sun Wukong recognized it at a glance, these flying swords were from the hands of Taishang Laojun, even so, it did not prevent him from listening to Li Zhi's advice and making a move to make a move on this treasure.

Looking at Sun Wukong again, there was an out-of-body move, and a fake body was still left by Li Zhi's side, and outsiders seemed to be whispering something with Li Zhi there.

The real body was already hidden in mid-air, it was really invisible, and even Li Zhi's "Delusion-Breaking Golden Pupil" that had cultivated to the "orange" level could not see any traces.

Immediately after, the thirteen flying swords in the air, one after the other, disappeared out of thin air.

"Senior brother, junior brother, why are those flying swords missing? It's a bit anticlimactic. ”

Zhu Bajie on the other side was still muttering quietly.

Before and after, before and after the kung fu of tea, the flying sword was nothing more than ten rounds of sword qi, and then disappeared out of thin air.

Anyone can see that these flying swords are aimed at the river demon of the quicksand river, and Zhu Bajie was a little excited at first, thinking that it must be a helper from his side.

"Second Senior Brother, maybe the person who released the flying sword took it back by himself, this matter has nothing to do with us and others, you better continue to call the battle, be sure to call the river demon out, and the senior brother will personally take action today."

At this time, Sun Wukong's Yuan Shen had already returned to his place, and secretly handed over the thirteen flying swords he had put away to Li Zhi, as for the whereabouts of these flying swords, Li Zhi had already thought about it when he instigated the senior brother to make a move.

Knowing the sea, at this time, Li Zhi's knowledge of the sea has become more expansive, and the radius is half a mile long.

There were two things hanging high in the sky, one was the great black spear that could not be destroyed, and the other was the gray fragment.

Under the sea of knowledge, Mowen and Chunwu sat opposite each other, the two of them still immersed in retreat, and they didn't know what these two had experienced.

The thirteen flying swords that Sun Wukong came from, Li Zhi planned to collect them in the sea of knowledge from the beginning.

Li Zhi himself couldn't tell why, and inexplicably believed in the big black spear, thinking that as long as it was there, he would be able to hold the thirteen flying swords.

The flying sword entered Li Zhi's sea of knowledge, and he was still a little "frightened", as if he had just been strangely "kidnapped", and before he could come back to his senses, he had already come to a strange space.

These thirteen flying swords are still arranged in a honeycomb shape, and it seems that this formation can bring out their greatest abilities.

"Hmph-"

Li Zhi clearly heard someone in the sea of his knowledge snort coldly?

When he looked inward again, he found that those flying swords had converged their edges one by one, and they seemed to "look" a little listless, or did they seem to have lost their souls?

"What's the matter, junior brother?"

Feeling the strangeness of Li Zhi on the side, Sun Wukong asked with concern.

In fact, he himself was a little curious, where did Li Zhi hide the thirteen flying swords?

"Nothing, everything is fine."

At the moment, Li Zhi was inconvenient to say anything, and gave Sun Wukong a look that both of them could understand, and the two continued to watch Zhu Bajie's call.

Before the river demon in the quicksand river appeared, there was movement in the sky again.

I saw a white cloud floating, and slowly got closer, only to see that there was a person on top of the white cloud, and this person was too ......

Unkempt and bearded, with huge eyes and a big belly, he carried a huge gourd behind him, an iron hoop on his head, and an iron cane in his hand.

Left foot? Lame.

Sun Wukong vaguely saw this person, Li Zhi felt that this person's image was also very familiar, but Zhu Bajie opened his mouth and called out this person's name.

"Li Xuan? Why are you here, but you came to help me take the monster of the quicksand river? ”

Zhu Bajie greeted him warmly.

Who are you talking about? It is the Tie Guan Li, the head of the immortals of the Eight Caves in the future.

It's a pity that it's only the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and now only Taishang Laojun has lit Tie Guan Li, and Emperor Donghua has preached Han Zhongli, as for the others, they have not yet been born or reincarnated.

"Senior Brother Tianpeng is polite, the junior brother is indeed here for the people in the quicksand river, but he is not here to help the senior brother."

Tie Guan Li is a disciple of Taishang Laojun, although he is not a personal disciple, he is also quite valued by Taishang Laojun, and Zhu Bajie's background is inextricably linked to Taishang Laojun.

Regardless of his background, qualifications or prestige, it is not too much for Tie Guan Li to call him "senior brother".

"Senior brother doesn't know, the river demon in the quicksand river was originally the general of the curtain in front of the Jade Emperor, but he was demoted to the mortal world because he broke the glass cup by mistake and was punished here."

"In addition to not leaving the quicksand river without permission, every seven days, I have to suffer the punishment of a flying sword piercing the chest a hundred times, and today's punishment has just been carried out more than a dozen times, and the flying sword has lost contact."

"Those flying swords were originally made by Shizun himself, and they were borrowed by the Jade Emperor, so Shizun specially ordered the junior brother to come to check, and he didn't want to meet Senior Brother Tianpeng here."

……

Don't look at Tie Guan Li's rough appearance, when he was still called "Li Xuan", he was not only a real scholar, but also a graceful and pretty son.

Li Xuan followed Taishang Laojun to learn the Tao and lived in seclusion in a cave.

One day, he followed Taishang Laojun to Huashan Mountain, and needed his soul out of his body, so he left his physical body in the cave mansion and asked a disciple who was a beginner to take care of it on his behalf.

"If the teacher goes out this time, and the soul of the seven days and seven nights has not returned, you will incinerate my body."

After the instructions, Li Xuan went to the mountains and rivers with Taishang Laojun.

That disciple was very obedient, guarding the master's body in the cave, and he didn't dare to leave even half a step.

Coincidentally, the disciple kept the book for five days and five nights, but on the sixth day, his elder brother hurriedly came to deliver the letter.

Tell the old mother that she is sick at home, and that she must go back anyway, otherwise she may not be able to see the old mother for the last time.

When this disciple heard this, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and he couldn't wait to grow his wings and fly to the old mother's bed.

But when he thought about it, Master repeatedly told him to stick to the seventh day when he was leaving.

As soon as he pinched his fingers, there was only one day left, and he had to complete the master's instructions no matter what.

In the early morning of the seventh day, this disciple saw that Master Li Xuan still hadn't come back, and he couldn't hold his breath a little anymore, and stayed up until noon.

In the end, he couldn't wait any longer, so he burned Li Xuan's body, hurriedly ran home, and did his filial piety.

It is said that Li Xuan played outside for seven days and six nights, and in the evening, he rushed back to the cave in the dust, and when he entered the cave, he saw that his body had been incinerated.

At this time, Li Xuan's cultivation was still shallow, and his soul couldn't stay outside for too long, and if he couldn't find a corpse that had just died to attach it tonight, he could only be reincarnated, or he would be a lonely ghost from now on.

Just when he was in a hurry, he happened to find a corpse with body temperature next to the woods, and Li Xuan didn't have time to take a closer look, regardless of the thirty-seven twenty-one.

However, when he stood up, he realized that something was wrong, and it turned out that the man was a lame man with a limp left foot.

Hurriedly came to a small river to see what he looked like now, I really didn't know it, and I was shocked when I saw it!

I saw that I was unkempt, my eyes were deep, and I was like a skeleton, and it was hard to see the extreme.

"People should not be disguised, the truth should be the avenue outside the body, haven't you comprehended it yet?"

It turned out that Taishang Laojun had already stood behind him at some point.

Li Xuan was originally annoyed, but after listening to his master's teachings, he calmed down, life is a stinky skin, what if it is ugly and ugly?

Seeing that he finally wanted to open it, Taishang Laojun gave him a golden hoop to tie his unkempt hair, and gave him an iron cane to walk on crutches.

Since then, there has been one more "Tie Guan Li" in the Three Realms, and there is no such person as Li Xuan, and Taishang Laojun has also officially accepted the "Tie Guan Li" entry.

……

"Hey, I didn't expect that the river demon here and my old pig had a similar encounter, but it was much more pitiful than the old pig, and he was pierced through his chest by a flying sword a hundred times every seven days? Isn't that a cruel punishment? ”

Just now I saw the momentum of the thirteen flying swords, and the flying swords pierced my chest a hundred times, I shuddered a little when I thought about it, I really don't know how the river demon has been subjected to it all these years?

"Senior Brother Tianpeng, junior brother heard that you have followed the holy monk of the Tang Dynasty to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, how could you appear here?"

Seeing that Zhu Bajie actually criticized the Jade Emperor's decision, Tie Guan Li hurriedly diverted the topic, after all, the magic weapon used in this punishment was still refined by their master.

"So that Senior Brother Li can know that in the tent behind is the Tang Dynasty Holy Monk, who is also the master that my old pig is protecting now, but unfortunately he can't cross the quicksand river when he arrives."

Although in the past five days, Zhu Bajie and the river demon have fought very fiercely, and they also have a sense of sympathy for each other, but the major event of learning scriptures from the west still has to be carried on.

"I see, I'm afraid the little brother can't help this matter. Senior Brother Tianpeng is here, have you ever seen the whereabouts of the thirteen flying swords? ”

Tie Guan Li said, looked in the direction of the quicksand river, did not find any clues, and looked back at Sun Wukong, Xiao Bailong and Li Zhi who were standing not far away.

Sun Wukong he naturally knows, when the monkeys made trouble in the sky, Tie Guan Li also saw it with his own eyes, but he is still shallow, and it is not his turn to step forward to defend against the enemy.

The other two were both tall and slender, one in white and the other in black.

Standing there with Sun Wukong next to him, as well as Zhu Bajie, of course, you can also add Tie Guan Li himself, in terms of appearance, it is really two heavens and three underground.

All the places or people that could be checked, Tie Guan Li checked them once, and even secretly silently recited the spell to control the flying sword twice, but still found nothing.

The sweat on Tie Guan Li's face came down, this is the treasure of the master who has lost it!

He was actually a little suspicious of the Monkey King next to him, who was the master of stealing the elixir and stealing the peach, and there was nothing he didn't dare to do within the Three Realms.

It's a pity that Tie Guan Li didn't have any evidence, not even the slightest clue could be found.

"Senior Brother Li, just now I am standing here, those flying swords came, emitting sword qi more than a dozen times in a row, and then disappeared out of thin air, and the old pig didn't know where they went."

Zhu Bajie just told the truth, in the face of his junior brother, who was the treasure of Taishang Laojun, of course he couldn't and wouldn't lie.

Tie Guan Li looked at Zhu Bajie's appearance, and subconsciously told himself that Senior Brother Tianpeng was telling the truth, but where could the thirteen flying swords go?

"Amitabha, where is Sha Wujing? ——”

At this moment, someone chanted the Buddha's name, and a white cloud floated in the sky again, and two people came one after the other in the clouds.

Li Zhi was amused, and they were all old acquaintances this time.

The mountains and rivers met, and after a year and a half, they finally met again.