Chapter 64: Stealing Ginseng Fruit
"Ginseng fruit—"
Even as soon as Tang Seng came in, Li Zhi guessed what he was holding in his hand, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he still couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.
"Kuro, do you know this fruit?"
Tang Seng said with a smile, gently put the tray on the desk, and helped Li Zhi light the candle.
"Hehe, I've heard it mentioned that my little nephew has never seen it, let alone eaten it."
When he first entered the Long Live Mountain, Li Zhi once reminded Tang Seng that now that things have happened "as scheduled", of course he can't deny it.
However, what Li Zhi said was not lying, he really only heard of such a "ginseng fruit", and had never seen it in person.
"Fortunately, Jiulang informed the poor monk in advance, otherwise he would have really missed the fairy treasure."
Thinking of the two Taoist boys of Fang Cai Qingfeng and Mingyue, when they put these two "ginseng fruits" in front of him, Tang Seng was indeed frightened.
The fruit in the mouths of the two Taoist boys, no matter how you look at it, looks like a baby who has not yet reached the age of three dynasties, with all four limbs and salty facial features.
"The poor monk had the courage to ask a few more words, and only then did he know that the name of this thing was "Ginseng Fruit", also known as "Grass Returning Pill"."
"It blooms once in 3,000 years, bears fruit once in 3,000 years, and it takes another 3,000 years to ripen, and it takes 10,000 years to eat. It has been like ten thousand years, but it has only brought forth thirty fruits."
"Listen to those two Taoist boys, if you sniff your nose, you can live three hundred and six; If you eat a fresh one, you can live for 47,000 years."
Tang Seng said that he was very excited, and even leaned up like a child to smell it, the fragrance was overflowing, and the intoxication could not be pretended.
"In that case, why doesn't Uncle Clan eat it while it's fresh? My little nephew has heard that once this thing comes down from the tree, it can't be left for a long time, and if it is left for a long time, it will be stiff and inedible."
Li Zhi endured the saliva in his throat, not daring to show it too obviously.
"The poor monk asked the two Taoist boys, and according to them, the master here used to have an old relationship with my previous life, so he asked the doorman to take out this treasure to entertain me."
"However, this is a rare treasure in the world, how can a poor monk have it to himself? Jiulang, I want you to call Wukong, Bajie, Wujing, and Little White Dragon together."
"These two fruits, presumably divided into six parts, the effect will be worse, but the poor monk eats more comfortably, and it can be regarded as taking this opportunity to add some help to the apprentices."
Li Zhi was stunned, he didn't expect Tang Seng to have such a plan.
But if you think about it carefully, today's Tang Seng has undergone great changes in personality, vision, and even cultivation, and it is not surprising that he really has this idea.
However, Li Zhi couldn't do this, and if he did, wouldn't the catastrophe of "Wuzhuang Guan" pass safely?
Li Zhi naturally knew about the entire "Journey to the West", but he did not intend to remove all the calamities for Tang monks and apprentices.
You must know that Buddhism pays attention to "ninety-nine return to the truth", if he really erases a difficulty, Guanyin Bodhisattva and others will inevitably add another difficulty.
In this way, he no longer has "foresight", how can he plan and then act?
Moreover, Li Zhi vaguely felt that the catastrophe of "Wuzhuang Guan" seemed simple, but there might be some ulterior secrets behind it.
is as strong as Zhenyuan Daxian, how can he not know Sun Wukong's behavior of stealing peaches and stealing gold pills in the past?
I have a good treasure like "ginseng fruit", but I don't cover it up carefully, but let two Taoist children give two to Tang Seng to eat?
Say what 500 years ago, we met at the Orchid Bon Festival, and the predecessor of Tang Seng, Jin Chanzi, once passed tea to him with his own hands, so he was called "the old man".
is such an "old man", just passing over a cup of tea, does it cost two "ginseng fruits" to reciprocate?
The ginseng fruit tree is said to have been cultivated with Zhen Yuanzi, and some people even say that the ginseng fruit tree is the body of Zhen Yuanzi.
If this is the case, Li Zhi will have even more reason to suspect that this "Wuzhuang View" catastrophe is just a good show directed by Zhen Yuanzi.
With the help of Sun Wukong, he pushed the "ginseng fruit" tree,
This is "Gram of gold".
In this way, he could detain Tang Seng openly and force Sun Wukong to move Guanyin Bodhisattva to help.
I'm afraid that the "Three Lights Divine Water" in the Guanyin Bodhisattva's net bottle is the ultimate goal of Zhen Yuanzi's drama.
He came from the ancient power of the desolation like this, and he stayed in the realm of "quasi-saint" for hundreds of millions of years, maybe there was something wrong with his cultivation?
If you don't break it, you can't stand it, if you break it, you can stand after it, and through the Journey to the West Tribulation, Zhen Yuanzi will also complete his own real liberation, right?
With the huge amount of information in later generations as support, Li Zhi felt that his analysis was not complete, but it was not far away.
Otherwise, when Guanyin Bodhisattva rescued the "Ginseng Fruit" tree, Zhen Yuanzi generously took out ten "Ginseng Fruits" in one go and held a "Ginseng Fruit" conference.
They have all been liberated, and those incomparably precious "ginseng fruits" have become insignificant things outside the body.
Although these are only Li Zhi's unilateral guesses, they are also the result of his careful consideration.
In this case, of course Li Zhi would not destroy Zhen Yuanzi's plan, not to mention that after the whole thing, they did not lose anything, but earned the "ginseng fruit" for nothing.
Li Zhi carried the "Broken Golden Pupil", penetrated the layers of courtyard walls and houses, and looked at the courtyard next door, where Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk all lived, and the white dragon horse was still tied in the courtyard.
There was also a lamp in the room, and Zhu Bajie was begging Sun Wukong for something.
Sun Wukong dodged left and right, like a prevarication, like hesitation, and like a desire to try?
It seems that everything is going according to someone's plan!
"Uncle clan, in the opinion of the little nephew, it is better not to make a noise about this matter."
"Qingfeng and Mingyue, the two fairy children, can obviously take out this "ginseng fruit" at the dinner, but why did you wait for you to return to the cross-courtyard before sending it over?"
"As far as the little nephew knows, the master of this room is called "Zhen Yuanzi", and he is the ancestor of the earth immortals, and he is the same generation as the Sanqing saints of the Daomen, and the Buddhas of the Buddhism Gate are all juniors in front of him." Z.br>
"Since it was ordered by his old man personally, there must be a deep meaning in the meantime, if the clan uncle rashly found all the senior brothers, once there was a mistake, it would be wrong, but it would live up to the good intentions of Zhenyuan Daxian, what do you say?"
In order to persuade Tang Seng, Li Zhi did not hesitate to "leak" the heavenly opportunity again, revealing the name of Zhen Yuanzi and even his heels to Tang Seng.
Don't say it, Tang Seng eats this set, "respecting the teacher and respecting the way", the things engraved in the bones are not so easy to change.
What's more, listening to Li Zhi's meaning, the identity of this Zhen Yuanzi is ridiculously high, and the seniors have a life, so they should obey it.
"Okay, among the six people traveling west, you and I are the weakest, let's eat one by one, whether it is immortal or not, I hope there will be a breakthrough in cultivation."
Well, Tang Sanzang, who has no desires and no desires, has now become a cultivation madman.
"Okay, I'll go and inform the two Taoist boys, and say that the clan uncle will retreat in this courtyard for a day, and then leave early the next morning."
Li Zhi thought about it for a while, and felt that it was better to "skim off" Tang Seng, so as to gain a time to refine the "ginseng fruit", and at the same time, there would be no gangs on both sides.
After all, Li Zhi told Tang Seng so much, Tang Seng originally intended to divide the "ginseng fruit" out, but his apprentices ran away to steal it instead?
As for the safety of the two Taoist boys, Li Zhi greeted Sun Wukong at the beginning, and knew that there was a great power living here, presumably no matter how much he messed around, he would not be too ruthless.
Tang Seng naturally didn't know how deep Li Zhi was thinking, so Li Zhi went to inform the two Taoist boys and personally closed the gate of the courtyard where they lived.
"Senior brothers, my uncle of the same clan is here to retreat for two nights and one day, and get up early the next morning, what should you do-"
In the end, Li Zhi added a fire without a trace.
When Li Zhi's voice sounded in Sun Wukong's small courtyard, he did not hide it, but said it openly, even the breeze and the bright moon that lived far away could be heard.
"Senior brother, good senior brother, did you hear that? The master and the junior brother are in retreat, which means that they have eaten one by one, and this master and the junior brother are really, they don't know what to think about us......
Sun Wukong naturally heard Li Zhi's words, and even heard his voice, "What should I do?"
Hehe, my grandson understands-
"Bajie, you stay here for a while, and my grandson will come when he goes—"
After Sun Wukong finished speaking, a transformation technique disappeared.
"Uncle Clan, most of your previous cultivation came from the three Buddhist scriptures, whether it is the "Multi-Heart Sutra", or the "Eight Great Bodhisattva Sutras" and the "Void Tibetan Bodhisattva Sutra", all of them focus on the tempering of the state of mind or cultivation."
"And the "Five Fowl Opera" focuses on the cultivation of the body and muscles and bones, and the clan uncle has always disliked the "brutality" of those moves, so he has been very slow to enter the realm."
"I still have the six-character proverbs of Buddhism here, and with the energy brought by the "Ginseng Fruit", I think you can at least break through to the "Yuan Infant" stage, so you can be regarded as having a certain amount of self-preservation."
Li Zhi himself "ate" a "ginseng fruit" first, but he didn't really eat it, but went to the sea of knowledge, and let Mowen and Chunwu obey it.
The energy contained in a "ginseng fruit" was not as good as the drop of candle dragon essence blood on Li Zhi's body, and as for the lifespan of tens of thousands of years, it was the least important thing for him.
Now that he is only in the late stage of the "Tribulation", he has already lived for thousands of years, and he will continue to cultivate and promote in the future, and it is natural for him to ask for immortality.
On the contrary, it is the two clones of Mowen and Chunwu, and now that their cultivation is still shallow, Li Zhi has never been willing to let them out, and the resources needed for cultivation can only be "deducted" from him.
After settling Mowen and Chunwu, Li Zhi began to supervise Tang Seng.
On the futon, Tang Seng sat cross-legged and first wrote down the methods of the "six-character proverbs" one by one.
Li Zhi had to sigh again, Tang Seng was born to be a monk!
Such a mouthful of "six-character proverbs", he was stunned for half an hour and firmly remembered it, which was much faster than practicing the "Five Fowl Opera".
"Uncle Clan, you first eat the 'Ginseng Fruit' slowly, and then follow the method contained in the 'Six-Character Proverb' to mobilize the true qi in your body and condense it in the 'Dantian'."
"As more and more true qi increases, the true qi will gradually liquefy, and then continue to repeat this process, and the 'dantian' will form a pill, and it will officially enter the 'pill' stage......
Tang Seng is familiar with the Buddhist scriptures, and has always been thorough about all the supernatural powers or methods related to Buddhism, but he has no knowledge of the various realms, characteristics and precautions of cultivation.
Fortunately, Li Zhi has just gone through it in the past few years, and now it can be regarded as a statement.
After Tang Seng ate the "ginseng fruit", the wisps of true qi that had been used before suddenly turned into a stream, converging into a river, flowing in the meridians around the body, and finally converging in the "dantian".
Seeing Li Zhi who was protecting the Dharma on the side, Tang Seng did not dare to slack off.
Hurriedly following the practice of the "Six-Character Proverbs", he continued to gather the true qi to the "dantian", and constantly hydraulized the true qi in the "dantian".
The massive amount of true qi generated by the "ginseng fruit" is extremely huge for Tang Seng who has just "established the foundation".
Li Zhi, who was standing next to Tang Seng to protect the Dharma, could feel the surging and swelling in his body, and Tang Seng was worthy of being a tenacious person, gritting his teeth and holding on, but constantly speeding up the speed of the true qi.
The early stage of "foundation building", the middle stage of "foundation building", and the late stage of "foundation building......
The True Qi in the "Dantian" has been completely liquefied, but there is still a large amount of True Qi coming in a steady stream.
True qi liquefies, communicates yin and yang, creates heaven and earth, and Jindan is established.
Seeing that Tang Seng had finally arrived at the "Jindan" stage smoothly, Li Zhi was relieved.
At this time, Tang Seng became more and more solemn, and the breath of the whole person also tended to be stable, but there was still a large amount of true qi in his body, and he stayed in the acupoints around his body for a while, and he could only absorb it slowly.
It was already three watches in the night, Tang Seng had already settled down, Li Zhi got up and left, and gently closed the door.
In early spring, the night is slightly cool, but tonight it is rare to see the moon in the sky.
Everyone was cultivating, and Li Zhi naturally couldn't be idle, so he simply sat on the ground in the courtyard and continued to refine his drop of candle dragon essence blood.
Gradually, Li Zhi also settled down, and a wisp of moonlight sprinkled down, but the "Cangming Formula" automatically operated, hooking this wisp of moonlight, and it continued to converge into Li Zhi's body, becoming more and more intense.
Originally, Li Zhi had already reached the late stage of the "Tribulation", so for the sake of safety, he chose to temporarily put aside the cultivation of the "Cangming Technique" and first refine the essence blood of the candle dragon in order to strengthen the physical body.
Unexpectedly, Li Zhi's decision, the "Cangming Jue" actually operated on its own under the stimulation of Yuehua, and there was a great tendency to advance towards the great consummation of the "Tribulation"?
Tang Seng and Li Zhi in the cross-courtyard have all retreated, and the two have successively shown a state of concentration, and the Monkey King outside is just like Li Zhi explained, "What should I do".
"You thieves and monks, we have been kind enough to entertain you to eat and drink, but you are good, but you have stolen the treasure in our view—"
Early in the morning, Sun Wukong and Monk Sha were meditating, but Zhu Bajie ran to the kitchen by himself and found a drawer of steamed buns, half a jar of pickled vegetables, and a small half pot of tofu left over from last night.
Others can not eat, but the old pig can't, sitting there and eating, the courtyard door was kicked open, and Qingfeng and Mingyue broke in angrily.
As soon as it was dawn, Qingfeng and Mingyue went to the yard where the "ginseng fruit" tree was planted.
When the master left, he made it clear that they must take care of the "ginseng fruit", so the two of them must come to see it every morning and evening.
Qingfeng is even more careful, and he has to count three times each time before he stops.
Today was no exception, when Qingfeng counted three times in a row, and there were always only twenty-one fruits on the tree, this hot-tempered Taoist boy exploded at that time.
The "ginseng fruit" had just rived, and there were a total of 30 pieces of the tree, and the master had beaten two of them and brought them to Shangqingtian.
They gave Tang Seng two more, so there should be twenty-six left, but now there are only twenty-one left, which is five less!
The furious breeze and bright moon first arrived at the cross-courtyard where Tang Seng lived.
After all, he only gave two "ginseng fruits" to Tang Seng last night, and among their group, only Tang Seng or the people who lived with him could know about the existence of "ginseng fruits".
However, when they came to the gate of the courtyard, they saw a post sealing the door, with the word "retreat" written on it.
Awe-inspiring and upright, the gods and ghosts are easy.
You must know that Li Zhi is the foundation of both civil and military cultivation, although his cultivation is not very profound, this pen is very rare, especially the awe-inspiring righteousness revealed in it.
"Senior Brother Qingfeng, it seems that this was posted by his entourage when Tang Seng decided to retreat last night, and now the seal is still there, presumably they are still in retreat......
Daotong Mingyue is calmer in comparison, and she speaks and acts more gently.
The "Ginseng Fruit" lost five pieces at once, and although Mingyue was not as angry as Qingfeng, she was also anxious in her heart, but she did not lose her mind.
"You mean, Tang Seng has been in retreat here, and it was the people from the other courtyard who stole the treasure?"
Mingyue's words made Qingfeng a little more sober, and remembered the master's explanation when he was leaving-don't provoke Tang Seng's apprentices.
"Yes, it must have been his apprentices! Tang Seng and his entourage are still dignified, but those apprentices are all evil-looking, and they are not a good thing at first glance."
This is Li Zhi is not here, otherwise he must be surprised, it turns out that this cultivator is also from the "Appearance Association"?
Qingfeng and Mingyue, thinking that they had figured out the truth of the matter, came to the courtyard where Sun Wukong lived again in a rage.
"Baby? What baby? I don't know, if I really talk about stealing, I just stole some food from your kitchen, and it's a big deal to let the little junior brother compensate you according to the price, I've never seen such a stingy one."
Zhu Bajie pretended to be innocent
looked like he was muttering in his mouth, but he didn't delay him and threw another steamed bun into his mouth.
Monk Sha was meditating in one of the bedrooms on the far side, and when he heard the noise outside the house, he knew that last night's events had been exposed.
However, Monk Sha is a person who dares to act, and he feels that if it is really exposed, he can't let the senior brother go to the top tank alone.
You must know that a "ginseng fruit" last night had completely healed his old injuries, and his cultivation had directly risen to the realm of the Great Perfection of the "Golden Immortal".
Therefore, Monk Sha got out of bed, pushed open the door and walked over.
As for the little white dragon, he also had a share of last night's "ginseng fruit", which Li Zhi did not expect.
It was Li Zhi's joining, Sun Wukong, Xiao Bailong and Li Zhi had a common experience in the quicksand river a while ago, and when Sun Wukong went to steal the "ginseng fruit", he naturally counted the little white dragon as well.
It's just that after eating the "ginseng fruit" last night, the little white dragon changed back to the appearance of the white dragon horse.
No matter how angry Qingfeng and Mingyue are, they won't find a horse to sprinkle, right?
Therefore, the little white dragon actually watched the excitement there "openly", and from time to time, it used the horse face that it thought was handsome to rub the pretty face of the breeze and the bright moon.
Zhu Bajie's Gu talked about him left and right, Monk Sha stood silently, Sun Wukong opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, and the white dragon horse sighed there "Spring is coming......
Qingfeng and Mingyue's arrogance became more and more arrogant, and the scolding became more and more ugly.
"That's enough, isn't it just picking the four of you? I'm scolding here early in the morning, and I'm so annoyed that my grandson is annoyed—"
Originally, Sun Wukong wanted to endure it, after all, Li Zhi had told him in advance, knowing that the power here could not be provoked.
It's just that when he stole peaches and gold pills, the owners of those things were not very arrogant, one was the queen mother, and the other was too old.
Sun Wukong has been tossed like that, and no one is like these two Taoist boys, the face is not a face, the nose is not a nose, and they have been scolded at the door for half an hour, and they are not the same.
Sun Wukong couldn't control it anymore, and shouted loudly, not only admitting that he had stolen the "ginseng fruit", but also startling the two Taoist boys Qingfeng and Mingyue.
"Four? Hmph, stealing people's things is generously admitted, and you are still so secretive? Obviously you stole five, but if you have to say four, you are not a natural thief monk, what are you?"
"What? Senior brother, it turns out that you stole five, but only gave us four? You must have hidden one, take it out quickly, I haven't eaten enough of the old pig."
As soon as he heard Tong Qingfeng say that Sun Wukong actually stole five "ginseng fruits", Zhu Bajie's first thought was not the right or wrong of this number, but thought that the senior brother must have secretly hidden it himself.
"Second Senior Brother, how can you say that, Senior Brother, obviously I have seen it, there are only four and not five!"
Well, all of a sudden, the two sides were no longer entangled in stealing the "ginseng fruit", and a group of cultivators above the "Golden Immortal" started a mathematical debate between "four" and "five" there!
"Hmph, you thief monks, it's shameless enough to steal the fruit, but you don't dare to admit it generously. In my opinion, you are the father and mother of thieves, and the sons and grandsons of thieves, and you stink eight hundred miles against the wind......."
The more Qingfeng scolded, the more energetic it became, Zhu Bajie had already covered his long ears, and he didn't dare, didn't want to, and didn't want to hear the other party's scolding again.
Monk Sha only frowned, but when he heard the other party scolding his parents and grandchildren, Lao Sha lowered his head and thought about it, and returned to his normal expression.
The white dragon horse was "excited", and a handsome horse face rubbed even more, and even the big snot was about to be thrown on the face of the Qingfeng Dao boy.
Sun Wukong, who has always been irritable, sat there in a daze, looking straight at the two Taoist boys who were wantonly abusive, and he didn't say a word, can he really bear it?
A few people present didn't know that the Monkey King sitting here at this time was just a shell, and the real Monkey King had already transformed away, carrying the "Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick" and rushing to the yard where the "Ginseng Fruit" was planted.
I'm still thinking about it while flying,
Since the little junior brother didn't let me be ruthless, my grandson wouldn't move these two Taoist boys, but the ginseng fruit tree that was the culprit couldn't be talked about.
Going again, Sun Wukong was already familiar with the road, and he jumped over the wall in an instant.
The one in front of him, which is dozens of zhang high, is one of the ten innate spiritual roots that existed when the heavens and the earth first opened, the ginseng fruit tree.
"Scold, my grandson told you to scold—"
Seeing the ginseng fruit tree is like seeing the faces of those two Taoist boys.
Sun Wukong was no longer polite, and the "Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick" grew when he saw the wind, more than three times more than usual, and he hit the ginseng fruit tree with a dead hand.
Branches, leaves, trunks, ginseng fruits......
They were smashed to the ground.
In the end, Sun Wukong felt that he was still angry, so he directly jumped in the air and rounded the "Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick".
"Smack—"
There was a loud bang, as if the whole world trembled.
With a stick down, Sun Wukong actually knocked down the ginseng fruit tree?!
In the courtyard, Li Zhi's situation is surprisingly good.
The sun rose in the east, and Li Zhi's body stopped absorbing the moonlight, but was taken over by the sun.
The golden light of the ten thousand suns is not as eternal as the moon, but it is more explosive.
The operation of the "Cangming Jue" was even faster, and it seemed that a soft sound of "Quack" was heard, and the "Cangming Jue" was directly promoted to the fourth layer.
And Li Zhi's cultivation, after being fed to the Great Perfection of the "Tribulation" by Yuehua, under the irrigation of the day essence, he made great progress and took a step towards "Heavenly Immortals"!
"Boom—"
Suddenly, there was a thunderclap in the sky, and the sky, which was originally warm in the spring sun, turned gloomy.
"Boom—"
A purple streak pierced the sky and advanced from the horizon to the sky above the "Wuzhuang Temple".
"Oh no, who's going through this?"
Zhu Bajie was so frightened that he almost threw away the steamed bun in his hand.
"Little junior brother? …… Ah, Master is still there—"
Sun Wukong hurriedly put away the golden hoop stick and galloped towards the cross-courtyard where Tang Seng and Li Zhi lived......