In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 741: Lotus Lantern + Journey to the West - Tang Monk's Flesh 1

Before she knew it, Ruyi had already been in the Flower-Fruit Mountain for more than ten years. During this period, she did not forget to fly to the sky to see Ruoshui and chat with her. During these ten years, Yang Chan also lived with Ruyi most of the time, and only occasionally went to Guanjiangkou to see Yang Jian.

The process of refining the Fusang wood progressed very slowly. Ruyi never felt the opportunity to leave this world. Gradually, she became less anxious to improve her cultivation and stopped hiding for fear of being discovered. Instead, she truly tried to integrate into this world and slow down her pace of life.

As Ruyi's state of mind improved, her cultivation naturally broke through the barrier of the early stage of the god level and entered the middle stage of the god level. According to the five levels of "heaven, earth, man, gods and ghosts" in "Journey to the West", she is a lower-level god in the middle.

Heaven, earth, man, gods and ghosts are the levels of the gods in the world of Journey to the West, that is, there are five levels: celestial gods, earthly gods, gods, humans and ghosts. The level division in the world of Journey to the West is very strict, and once a level is determined, there is almost no upgrading or demotion.

Which celestial beings are there? The original text of Journey to the West states: "The Three Pure Ones, the Four Emperors, and the Taiyi Celestial Beings live in the upper eight caves." That is to say, the Three Pure Ones are: the Jade Pure One Yuanshi Tianzun, the Upper Pure One Lingbao Tianzun, and the Great Pure One Daode Tianzun - the Taishang Laojun; the Four Emperors are: the North Pole Ziwei Emperor, the South Pole Changsheng Emperor, the Western Taiji Tianhuang Emperor, the Eastern Qinghua Emperor, and the Jade Emperor. These eight are celestial beings.

Under the Four Emperors are the Five Elders: Buddha of the West, Guanyin of the South, Holy Emperor Chong'en of the East, Immortals of the Ten Continents and Three Islands, Xuanling of the North Pole, and Huangjiao Daxian of the Central Yellow Pole. They are also celestial beings, and can be regarded as local lords. Sun Wukong is also a celestial being, but he is of the lowest rank and cannot defeat the powerful earthly immortals.

The six divisions of the Southern Dipper, the seven divisions of the Northern Dipper, the eight divisions, the nine divisions, and the ten divisions are all earthly immortals. The owner of the ginseng fruit, Zhen Yuanzi, is the ancestor of earthly immortals.

People like Nezha, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, Erlang Shen, Tianpeng, Yang Chan, etc. are all gods. Ruyi’s mid-stage god-level is at this level, but the strength of the early mid-stage and the peak mid-stage are naturally different.

Others, such as the abbot of Guanyin Temple, are considered human immortals. They can live for hundreds of years, but they cannot live as long as the heaven and earth. Apart from them, ghost immortals are the lowest, such as ghosts, mountain gods, and land gods.

Ruyi has no master, and has reached his current level by relying on a method of becoming a saint through merit. In some ways, this is quite impressive. After coming to the world of "The Lotus Lantern", Ruyi had thought about looking for Patriarch Bodhi or Jade Ding Zhenren to become his disciple or something, but because he was afraid of being involved in the Battle of the Gods, he gave up in the end.

Now that the Battle of the Gods is over, Ruyi thought that he would be able to sense the opportunity to leave soon, but he did not expect that this world would immediately enter the plot of "Journey to the West". Because of that reminder, he became the guide for Sun Wukong to seek immortals and ask for the way, and there was a direct causal line between him and Sun Wukong.

Although this line of cause and effect is not thick, it is not so easy to cut off. Now the only thing Ruyi can do is to wait, wait for the day when Sun Wukong returns after completing his studies, wait for the day when Sun Wukong and herself cut off the cause and effect. Before that, all she has to do is to practice and refine the Fusang wood.

It is not difficult to forge the Sun-Moon Shuttle. Apart from the Moonlight Box and the Fusang wood, one only needs to find a few suitable fusion materials and then use the power of the soul to fuse the energy of the moonlight and the energy of the sun bit by bit and then refine it into the shape of a shuttle.

It sounds simple, but the biggest problem now is that Ruyi's soul power is too weak. Her original body is a soul-calling bird, and her original body is essentially her soul. So if she wants to increase her soul power, she just needs to increase her cultivation. But the problem now is that the speed of just meditating and absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and then converting it into her own cultivation is too slow. Thinking about the reason why she was able to break through to the middle stage of the god level so quickly before, it was because of the merit of persuading Ruoshui to retreat, Ruyi unknowingly set her sights on the journey to the West.

"If I can find a way to replace a monster in the 81 trials and help Tang Seng and his three disciples complete their quest to obtain the scriptures, can I also get some merits?"

It should be possible. If not, there would be no way that so many gods would come down to earth and transform into monsters to capture Tang Monk...

"The meat of Tang Monk in A Chinese Odyssey is full of merits. I wonder what the meat of Tang Monk in the authentic Journey to the West tastes like?" Ruyi licked her lips excitedly. She really wanted to taste it again. Just one bite could increase her cultivation by decades or even hundreds or thousands of years. That taste is really hard to forget!

The monkeys on the side were still chattering and clamoring to listen to Ruyi's stories, completely unaware of the frighteningly determined expression on their storyteller Ruyi's face.

"Hey, Journey to the West, here I come. Tang Monk's flesh, here I come!"

On the other hand, after Yang Chan returned to Guanjiangkou, she suddenly heard the news that Yang Jian was going to marry Ao Cunxin, the third princess of the West Sea Dragon Palace. Yang Chan remained silent about the news, neither blessing nor opposing it.

She was ignorant before and only knew that her brother liked Chang'e. She thought Ao Cunxin was too arrogant and didn't like her. She thought she was taking advantage of the favor and forcing her brother to marry her by saving her life. Now, after more than ten years of teaching in the storybooks by Ruyi, Yang Chan only felt that Ao Cunxin was loving and humble, and her brother Yang Jian was a scumbag who wavered.

Yang Chan became angrier and angrier as she watched the two quarreling over other people again. As soon as Yang Jian's wedding was over, Yang Chan ran back to Huaguo Mountain without any worries.

Ruyi was hiding in Huaguo Mountain and secretly preparing for her subsequent participation in Journey to the West. She was listing the eighty-one difficulties in the story when Yang Chan suddenly came back. Ruyi was so scared that her hands started shaking and she instantly ruined her handwriting.

"Why did you come back so soon? Didn't you say you were going back to Guanjiangkou for a few months?"

"Oh, stop talking. It's not my second brother. He obviously likes Chang'e, but he insists on marrying the third princess. Now the whole Guanjiangkou is in a mess. In addition, he doesn't like the third princess's Roaring Sky Dog who always makes trouble for him and his wife. They are either quarreling or arguing all day long..."

Yang Chan looked painful, as if she had recalled something bad. She frowned, sighed, and said, "I was afraid that I would go crazy if I stayed there any longer, so I hurried back."

As Yang Chan spoke, she picked up the teacup on the table, poured herself a glass of water and took a sip. Her movements and expression showed that she treated this place as her own home.

Seeing this, Ruyi twitched her lips speechlessly and asked faintly: "Then why don't you go to Huashan? You won't forget that Huashan is your dojo now. As the Third Holy Mother, your duty is to guard Huashan, right?"

Yang Chan staying here would delay her from eating Tang Monk's flesh, so she must find a way to get her away. As for whether Yang Chan would meet Liu Yanchang again after going to Huashan, and violate the heavenly rules and leave Chenxiang alone, Ruyi could only say that if after reading so many books that she had specially selected, she would still fall in love with Liu Yanchang and go down the original path, then it would be Yang Chan's own fault. She is not someone else's, so she can't care so much!