Chapter 18
Chapter 18
Master Chen didn't understand, and Master Chen was greatly shocked, but he still followed Tong Mo's request.
Perhaps this is the method of the Xian family. It is normal for mortals like them to have no way to understand.
Master Chen comforted himself like this.
But on the other side, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, who were disguised as boys and girls, had already met the king of inspiration head-on, and they had the absolute upper hand without any suspense.King Inspiration was caught off guard and left in a hurry, but was hammered by Zhu Bajie's nine-toothed rake at the end, leaving behind two round scales.
Monkey King walked over, picked up the scale, checked it in his hands, and frowned casually: "That thing, is it a fish?"
He thought to himself, fish should be delicious, right?That guy should be satisfied this time.
Thinking of this, Sun Wukong squeezed the two scales tightly in his palm, and then patted Zhu Bajie on the shoulder: "Go back, idiot."
But Zhu Bajie is fighting to the top, and wants to continue to pursue the victory: "Why, Brother Monkey, don't we continue to catch up?"
Sun Wukong pointed at his head and said, "What are you chasing after? I'm going back. Master is still waiting for us."
"Why didn't I see you take Master so seriously before..." Zhu Bajie muttered, but he didn't dare to really make a difference with Monkey King.
Sun Wukong saw this displeasure, folded his arms and snorted coldly: "Then you go by yourself, I'll go back first?"
"Don't, don't, don't!" Zhu Bajie said repeatedly, "I'd better go back with you."
joke!Don't expect his old pig to take any responsibility and do even a little bit more!
He poked his head to look at the two jade-like scales in Sun Wukong's hand, and smiled again: "But it doesn't matter, as long as I take these two scales, it can be regarded as proof of my efforts. Show it to Mr. Chen!"
So the two went back to Chenjiazhuang, reported the matter to Mr. Chen, and showed them the two fish scales as proof.
Tong Mo looked at it: "Mmm - fish -"
"Hey Goku, where is that fish now?" he asked directly at Goku.
"In the river, of course."
"Heli..." Tong Mo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he heard this, but it was already late, so they still went to their rooms to rest under Master Chen's gratitude and proper arrangement.
On the second day, when it was just dawn, a commotion outside the village was heard.
"what happened?"
Monk Sha went out to inquire, and came back with a happy face after a while: "Master! It's snowing outside! It's snowing a lot!"
"I heard people in the village say that even the Tianhe River has been frozen!"
Monk Sha was very excited: "Master, let's go and have a look in a while. If the whole river is frozen, why don't we worry about not being able to cross the river?"
"Is it snowing? No wonder it's so cold." Tong Mo sneezed loudly, rubbed his nose, and shrank himself even tighter under the quilt, "Then go and see it now."
While giving such instructions, he secretly thought in his heart that when a human being is inferior to a ghost, he will be troubled by the temperature.
Monk Sha took the order to go, and when he came back after a while, he excitedly reported to Tong Mo: "No problem, master, I looked over from the clouds, and the river was completely frozen. I also saw many people on the ice. Walking on the surface, there is absolutely no problem."
Tong Mo had no choice but to lie on the bed any longer. He turned over and wrapped himself in thick clothes into a cocoon. After everything was tidied up, the master and apprentice left Chenjiazhuang and headed straight for Tongtianhe.
It was indeed snowing heavily outside, and standing by the Tongtian River, it was indeed covered with a thick layer of ice as Monk Sha said earlier.
Zhu Bajie picked up the rake in his hand, and with all his strength, smashed it hard on the ice.Ice shards were flying around, and the magic weapon actually left nine holes in the ice.
"Hey, Master, no problem, this ice is strong enough to walk on!"
Tong Mo didn't say yes, nor did he say no, but he just glanced at Bing Mian with great regret.
Oh, is this going to leave?
He hasn't eaten any fish yet.
Tong Mo rode on the horse with such a sad mood, but when the master and apprentice walked to the middle of the river, there was no village or shop behind, and only a vast ice surface, something happened.
The thick and messy ice surface that had been personally certified by Zhu Bajie cracked open, and soon melted into layers of fragments.
Some kind of colossal monster leaped up from the river, locked onto Tong Mo's figure from the team with great precision, and swallowed Tong Mo with a huge mouth, then dived into the water again, with a flick of its tail, gone.
Sun Wukong is a landlubber, the game is over as soon as he touches the water, and his combat effectiveness has been discounted by more than one.It all depends on Zhu Bajie and Monk Sha, who are water-savvy, to pick up those scattered luggage.
The three senior brothers and a white dragon horse stood together on the cloud, all looking at the surging river below with deep expressions, no one spoke.
After a while, Zhu Bajie said: "I think this time, Master, I'm afraid it's a bad luck. Just now, the fish demon directly swallowed Master in one bite, good guy, how popular is Master, this sweet pastry?" Everyone knows something in their hearts, the meat that has been swallowed, it is impossible for the fish to spit it out again."
"If you want my old pig to tell you, why don't we go our separate ways here now. As for the luggage, let's share it casually, and then I'll go back to my Gao Laozhuang. Brother Monkey, you can continue to be your Monkey King. Brother Sha and Xiao Bailong make do with each other, take up any hill or whatever, don't they live a very comfortable life."
Before he could finish his words, Sun Wukong kicked his ass, fell straight down from the clouds, and fell into the river, splashing a big splash.
"What are you doing, you bloody monkey!" Zhu Bajie yelled.
Monkey King just took out the golden cudgel from his ear and shook it in front of Zhu Bajie. The stick immediately turned into an iron rod with the mouth of a bowl thick and several feet long.Although he didn't say a word, the threat was self-evident.
Zhu Bajie immediately changed his words: "Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go find Master right now!"
After he said this, as if he was afraid that Sun Wukong would catch up and give him a stick, he immediately stabbed him down, and was soon covered by the waves of the river, making him invisible.
"Eldest brother, is it okay to let the second senior brother go alone?" Drifting looked again and again, still feeling very worried, "Or I will follow..."
"It doesn't matter." Sun Wukong responded casually, his eyes calm and calm, "I didn't expect that idiot to really save Master, I just asked him to find out information first."
Monk Sha opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something more, but he gave up after meeting Monkey King's sight.
Well, big brother must have his own reasons.
Sun Wukong glanced at Monk Sha, moved his fingers, and thought a little irritably that the one who is really happy right now might not be the fish demon who "succeeded in his trick", but...
their master.
And Tong Mo was indeed as happy as Sun Wukong expected.
Although King Inspiration's cave is underwater, a space without water is abruptly separated.He spit out Tong Mo from his mouth, and turned into a humanoid creature with a body shape very similar to that of a human, but with additional fish whiskers, fish scales and other characteristics.
"... so dirty."
Tong Mo looked at the saliva on his body with disgust.
The king of inspiration is in a great mood and very proud.Being able to capture Tang Seng without a single soldier is really something worthy of special mention.
He immediately ordered the little demons to boil water for urns, sharpen their knives and dig out their daggers. He couldn't wait to eat this piece of Tang Monk's meat right away, so as to gain the hundred-thousand-thousand-year cultivation base and immortal lifespan.
"Is the frozen river surface your means?" Tong Mo asked.
Perhaps the King of Inspiration didn't expect that Monk Tang, who was caught as a meat dish, was not afraid at all. On the contrary, he had such courage and even talked to him without fear.
Anyway, it still takes a little time to prepare, and the king of inspiration doesn't mind having a few words with Tong Mo.
Therefore, after hearing Tong Mo's question, the demon king who was born in water raised his chin proudly: "Hmph, of course."
"Be afraid! Human beings! Such a method is nothing more than a piece of cake for my lord!"
Tong Mo looked thoughtful: "Hmm...Even if the river is [-] miles wide, it only takes a moment to freeze...It's even more powerful than I imagined."
His fingers were slightly bent, and he tapped on the golden fan a few times, as if he was doing some kind of thinking.After a while, Tong Mo raised his head and smiled at the king of inspiration.
"Oh, if that's the case, I want to try it too."
what to try
The king of inspiration was stunned for a moment, and for a moment he didn't understand what Tong Mo wanted to express.
Those eyes were looking at him, smiling, and a beautiful glazed color emerged from the depths of his pupils, bit by bit, completely occupying the entire pupil.It's like the original inconspicuous black stone has lost its disguise on the outside, and what is finally revealed is the radiant and rare orb inside.
Then, the king of inspiration saw Tong Mo raise his fan.
It was the freezing weather, the sudden blizzard, and even the dramatic changes in the sky.The [-]-mile-wide Tongtian River was completely frozen in an instant. It was not like what the Inspiration King had done before, but a thick layer of ice was condensed on the river surface, but the entire Tongtian River was completely frozen in an instant. Frozen, like a huge amber.
The cave where King Inspiration lives has no water.
So this place became the only surviving place, like a small bubble existing in this ice amber.
"Oh, so it's really possible to do it."
The culprit who caused all this seems to have no self-consciousness. With a child-like novel look on his face, he suddenly found that he had a powerful toy that he had never imagined before.
Tong Mo walked towards the king of inspiration step by step.
He takes a step forward, and the king of inspiration takes a step back.The status of hunter and prey between the two parties has been completely reversed, and the relationship between the upper and lower ends of the food chain has also quietly changed.
"You are not Tang Seng!...Who the hell are you!"
The King of Inspiration asked sharply, as if this was enough to cover up his inner fear.
Tong Mo bent his eyes as if he had heard some of the funniest jokes, and even laughed rationally, tears fell from the corners of his eyes.
"That's not right."
He spoke to the inspiration king with a sweet voice full of emotion and malice.
"I am Tang Seng, the Tang Sanzang who came from the Great Tang Dynasty in the East and went to the West to seek the scriptures."
"How could Tang Seng possess such power!" The King of Inspiration almost cursed.
It's not uncommon for water to freeze into ice.
However, if he wants to completely freeze a whole raging and rushing river with a width of [-] miles in just one thought, the King of Inspiration asks himself is well-informed, but in his cognition, there is no A few monsters are able to do this.
Tong Mo briskly skipped the question from the king of inspiration, and just flipped his wrist: "Blood ghost art. Snow in the dry garden!"
The extremely fast nine consecutive shots mixed with frost fell on the King of Inspiration.
Together with the extremely cold temperatures passed over, what was frozen together was the blood in the body.All actions are imprisoned, and he doesn't even have the ability to roll his eyes.
Then a hand knife hit the back of his neck.
The king of inspiration fell straight down, and made a very heavy "bang" when it hit the ground.
He could feel that Tong Mo squatted down in front of him and patted his head with his hand.
"I said, are you a fish? How about changing back?"
The other party used a tone that was almost negotiable, but the information revealed in the words made the King of Inspiration shudder: "Because you keep like this, it is really not easy for me to cook."
"You...you can't eat me!
"The King of Inspiration finally realized that many things have been completely out of the scope of what he can bear and bear. If he doesn't think of a way, he may really die here today.
"I am the koi under the seat of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva will come and take me back! You can't kill me!"
"Pfft."
Tong Mo looked at him with a very strange look for a while, and finally laughed, as if hearing something extremely pleasant.
"But why do you think..."
"You are Guanyin's carp, so I won't eat it?"
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Monkey King ordered Monk Sha to take the white dragon horse and luggage back to Chenjiazhuang to resettle, while he waited on the cloud for Zhu Bajie to come back and report the specific situation underwater.
But what he waited for was not Zhu Bajie's return, but the sudden blizzard and the Tongtian River froze at a speed visible to the naked eye. In an instant, the ice spread far, far away.
Sun Wukong's originally relaxed expression became serious.
He fell from the clouds, tapped the ice surface with a golden cudgel, and found that the ice was very solid.He paused, and smashed it all the way down with the golden cudgel, only to find that the ice had formed thick all the way to the bottom of the river.
Monkey King stood at the bottom of the river, his piercing eyes swept away, and he keenly saw sporadic fires in the ice layer in the distance.So he clenched the golden cudgel in his hand and walked towards that side, but the closer he got, the more Sun Wukong felt something was wrong.
How could he smell... roasted spices in the air?
Walking along the smell of spices, a little fire in the distance became more and more dazzling.And the figure sitting by the fire... Sun Wukong took a closer look, it was Tong Mo!
There was a fire in front of Tong Mo, and what was being used as firewood... It could be seen that the split tables, chairs, cabinets and the like were all used as fuel now.
A small earthenware pot was placed on the fire, and the stewing in it was making the sound of "cuckling, clucking" sound, which sounded very warm and happy.
"You're here, Wukong?" Tong Mo slightly turned his face to this side.
"Master." Sun Wukong crossed his arms and looked down at Tong Mo who was sitting cross-legged in front of the fire, "What are you doing?"
Tong Mo: "Stewed fish soup."
Just kidding, so what about Guanyin's fish, even if it is Tathagata's fish, he can still eat it!
Tong Mo said that he is very fair and just, and treats everyone equally, no matter how high or low his status is, no matter how strong or weak he is, as long as he is a monster who has eaten people, he will always say "you can eat it!"
Anyway, the system did not oppose or stop his behavior.Tong Mo acquiesces that he can act freely.
He took off the lid of the earthen pot very naturally, as if no one else was there, and the stewed milky white fish soup exuded an extremely rich aroma, which made people move their index fingers.
So Tong Mo leaned over and eagerly scooped up a spoonful to drink——
Then it got burned.
"hiss--"
Tong Mo opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and squeezed out a few pieces of ice in the air to cool down the fish soup physically.He waited until the temperature was palatable, and then he went to eat again.
The fish meat is white, delicate and fragrant, without a single redundant thorn.The soup is rich and full of body fluid, even if the royal chef in the palace comes, facing such a bowl of fish soup, he can only bow down.
However, this is of course not to say how good Tong Mo's cooking skills are, rather it is simply enough to be called a crude way of cooking.It is only due to the high quality of the raw materials that this bowl of fish soup has a delicious taste that is easy and difficult to touch.
Tong Mo drank slowly, and Monkey King was also very patient, so he waited slowly.
When Tong Mo finally drank a whole can of fish soup, he smacked his lips with unsatisfied desire: "Wukong, are you here to pick me up?"
With his newly grown hair on his back, he consciously moved in front of Sun Wukong and said, "I still have to trouble you, Wukong."
Monkey King is now quite familiar with shaving people's heads, strands of white oak-colored hair slipped from between his fingers.
"You killed the king of inspiration?"
Tong Mo replied lazily, reminiscent of a cat basking in the sun: "Yes."
"You were also the one who made the big deal that froze the entire Tongtian River?"
"Yes~"
They asked and answered like this, and not long after, Monkey King flipped the knife in his hand and said, "Okay."
"Hahaha, I really have to trouble you every time, Wukong."
Tong Mo picked up the monk hat that was put aside and put it on, and walked back to the river with Monkey King along the passage in the ice layer that the latter had punched out before.
Tong Mo turned around: "Where is Bajie?"
He is more concerned about his food reserves.
Sun Wukong thought for a while, and his face suddenly became subtle.
"Master... you might as well thaw the river."
He just remembered that Zhu Bajie seemed to be still in the river!
The master and the apprentice looked at each other, and Tong Mocai raised one hand to cover his mouth, and moved the fingers of the other hand.
In an instant, all those solid ice layers turned into torrents of water again, and a figure in soap clothes broke through the water, yelling repeatedly: "The old pig is freezing to death! ——Hey, Brother Monkey, Have you rescued Master already?"
Sun Wukong, like every time in the past, took the scapegoat firmly and said: "Hmph, when you idiot really go to work, I'm afraid I won't be able to see Master!"
Zhu Bajie muttered: "It's fine if you go at first, why do you want me to go..."
Of course, he didn't dare to say this out loud, otherwise Monkey King would definitely make him look good.
They are so noisy, it can also be called a cheerful atmosphere.I didn't want to walk towards Chenjiazhuang for a while, and saw auspicious clouds floating in the distance, and fairy music swaying, and saw Guanyin Bodhisattva with a bamboo basket on his arm, coming in a hurry, undressed, and three thousand blue hairs were scattered.
"Bodhisattva? Why are you here?" Zhu Bajie wondered.
Avalokitesvara quickly said: "I was looking at the flowers on the railing this morning, but I found that the goldfish in my lotus pond was gone. After counting, the evil animal took advantage of the high tide and turned into a demon to do evil in the lower realm. Come here."
Monkey King: "Huh? Fish?"
Tong Mo: "Hi."
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