Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Mirage, Seeing Is Nothing
Mirages are rarer than ghosts, and even I've only heard of them but never seen them.
My knowledge of mirages all comes from Xiaobai. Listen to him say that for the people in the Dragon Palace, the mirage is like a mortal watching a big show.
As soon as the Dragon King of the East China Sea was happy, he ordered his shrimp soldiers and crabs to fold out the image of the mirage.
Mortal markets, courts, teahouses...... Even in the green building.
Every time Xiaobai and I boasted about the authenticity and fun of the mirage, I scoffed at it on the surface, but behind the scenes I was curious.
It's a pity that I, a monkey, are not popular in the East China Sea, so I only have to listen, but I don't have to watch.
For the villages in the distance, I didn't think about the mirage at first. After all, to make such a big mirage, ordinary youkai will never be able to do it.
I guess the village might be an illusion, maybe a ghost hitting a wall, or some other messy monster.
But combined with the demon poison on Li Su's body and the Jiao skin in the bath bucket, I think the one hundred and eight people who disappeared are probably related to Jiao.
After ruling them out one by one, there is only one possibility of mirage.
"Mirage?haha! How is it possible!" The land lord hurriedly denied, "This is a dry road, thousands of miles away from the East China Sea...... Even if there is a mirage, it shouldn't be here!"
Although the land lord is cunning and cunning, his thoughts have not escaped my eyes.
He replied too quickly, too anxiously...... Clearly there is a problem!
"Really?" I asked him with a smile as I reached out and rubbed the dry skin of the landlord, "and what's the matter with your face?"
The land lord couldn't avoid my monkey claws, and explained weakly: "The lack of maintenance recently is a ......"
"You're still lying!" I scolded loudly, "You think I can't see it? You're just a demonic qi that has entered your body and eroded the immortal roots! In your case, you've been with demons for hundreds of years...... Don't be honest yet!"
"I didn't!" replied the landlord.
"Were you bought by that snake? That's why you helped him cover and captured more than 800 people?"
"I'm not!"
"Do you believe it or not, I'm going to the Jade Emperor, shake out all the good things you and that snake have done!"
My words were sharp, and the land lord probably remembered the fear of being dominated by the Great Sage in those years.
Hearing that I was going to shake out his affairs, he hurriedly said, "This matter really has nothing to do with me! I am just a small landlady! How can I be the Lord of the Great Sage of the Sea?"
I was stunned when I swindled the other party's name from the land officer.
"What you're talking about," I asked uncertainly, "who?"
Li Su, who had been watching from the side for a long time, was finally able to interject: "Xiao Niang, he is talking about the Great Sage of the Sea. ”
Of course, I know that he is talking about the Great Sage of the Sea...... I wonder why the Great Sage of the Sea is here, why is he doing such a thing?
Seeing that I didn't speak, the land lord thought I was afraid.
"You are the monkey monkey grandson of Sun Dasheng, then I don't need to say more about this sea-covering sage, you must also understand. The land lord only pretended to cry but did not shed tears, "He is as powerful as Sun Dasheng, a little immortal like me...... I can't help what he wants to do?"
Li pulled my sleeve: "Xiao Niang, what's wrong with you, why don't you speak?"
"Yes! Chen Wanbao was curious, "What is the origin of this sea-covering sage?
Isn't it amazing?
Hehe, that's pretty impressive.
Five hundred years ago, he could be called the Great Sage together with Monkey King...... This sea-covering sage is one of them.
I don't want to mention this past, but the land lord gave them science popularization.
"Little mortals, you are too ignorant of the affairs of the Three Realms!" "The land lord is serious, relying on the old and selling the old, "I think back then, this sea-covering sage, but the second brother of the Monkey King!"
"Monkey King actually has a second brother?!"
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I guess I would have been as surprised as the two of them by now.
Yes, the land lord did not talk nonsense, the Monkey King has six sworn brothers, and together they are called the Seven Great Sages.
The first time I saw the Seven Great Saints gather was two days before my sixteenth birthday.
I remember that day, Sun Dasheng received the Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick from the East China Sea, and took this magic weapon to go up to the thirty-three heavens of the heavenly court and down to the eighteenth floor of the Hades Palace. Immortals, ghosts, goblins and elves, all of them are unconvinced, and all of them are not afraid.
He returned to Huaguo Mountain with thousands of weapons, and since then he has opened a mythical chapter of invincibility.
At that time, Sun Dasheng had not yet torn off the banner and announced Qi Tian.
As a teenager, I didn't understand what a great sage was.
But the six kings who came all the way to worship Sun Dasheng understood it.
They ate and drank in the blessed land of Huaguo Mountain, and called Sun Dasheng brothers.
I left the banquet, under the shade of the pines by the iron plate bridge, Sun Dasheng once asked me with a smile, little monkey, what do you think of the six brothers of this king?
Young and ignorant, I smiled back to him, the six kings are all full of pride!
Sun Dasheng is not like Li Su, he never laughs at the strange idioms I use.
Laughing and touching my head, he just said, one day you will understand...... The object of their righteousness is not this king!