According to the records of Journey to the West, Monk Tang set out from Chang'an and went to India to worship Buddha and seek scriptures.
Of course, according to formal history, he set out alone, most likely on foot. From the Silk Road all the way to the west, he first passed through what is now Xinjiang, and probably had to pass through the Middle East all the way south before arriving.
to India.
Whether it is a myth or so-called history, the route that Tang Seng and his old man walked was probably like this. It took a big detour to reach the destination. Wouldn't it take a long time to go back and forth?
The reason why we didn't go directly from Tibet was probably because Tibet and Tang Dynasty had not yet established diplomatic relations or were still in a state of hostility. I didn't want to take the risk?
Based on this comparison, the so-called Nishiga Ushu is probably the so-called Middle East region.
At least, Xie Xin learned from Xiangxiang that there is no such thing as Dongsheng Shenzhou or Xihe Niuzhou in this world. Obviously, the place names marked in Journey to the West are not entirely true.
God knows who proposed the theory of parallel worlds, but it’s according to Xie Xin’s understanding.
Perhaps from the perspective of a parallel world, the history of his original existence was a parallel space. There were no so-called immortals in that space, only pure martial arts and resourcefulness;
And this time and space may be a parallel world under the list of gods. So here there will be the clansmen of the three demons of the Xuanyuan Tomb, the Heavenly Court, the Tongtian Cult Leader, and everything that should be there! As for whether Sun Houhou is here, Marshal Tianpeng will not change into a pig head.
, it is unknown whether the roller blind will change into a catfish.
Anyway, there is no such place as Xihe Niuzhou, but according to the information provided by Ziling, Xie Xin found Wuzhuangguan.
The location is probably near the border of Xinjiang, in the Western Region where there are thousands of miles of yellow sand and Populus euphratica everywhere.
As for why he liked to settle here, Xie Xin also didn't know. Anyway, following Zi Ling's guidance, he successfully found Wuzhuang Temple.
Wuzhuang Temple is located in the middle of a medium-sized desert. Looking in from the outside, ordinary people cannot see anything. Only when the other party allows entry, the gate to the fairyland will be opened.
Xie Xin came to the approximate location, looked around and felt that it should be right, and then called out loudly: "Xiao Dao Xiaoyaozi, I came here to pay a visit to Zhen Yuanzi Immortal Lord, and I hope the immortal will allow Xiao Dao to enter!"
I shouted about ten times, but there was still no movement around me.
"You won't be able to relocate?" Xie Xin was also confused.
Just when he was about to call out the eleventh call, a boy appeared in front of him out of nowhere.
"Are you the one who defies heaven? Xie Xin?!" Tao Tong looked at Xie Xin contemptuously.
Although she restrained her momentum at this moment, Xie Xin could still see that this guy who looked like just a little kid had actually entered the realm of immortals. Although he was the lowest level of loose immortal, he was still at the immortal level after all.
"That's the path!" Xie Xin said politely.
"Master asked me to ask you a question. If you answer it correctly, you can go in. If you can't answer it, please come back!" the Taoist boy said arrogantly.
"Please speak!" Xie Xin said with a smile.
"Master asked me to ask you, you are from the Nitian camp, and he is from the Shuntian camp. The two sides should be mortal enemies, why are you looking for him?" Tao Tong said contemptuously.
"Essentially, he is an Earth Immortal, and I am also an Earth Immortal! Why shouldn't an Earth Immortal visit an Earth Immortal?" Xie Xin replied with a smile.
"But you clearly..." Upon hearing this, the Taoist boy was stunned for a moment, secretly wondering why this person in the out-of-body stage pretended to be an immortal?
But at this moment, a voice came out: "Mingyue, let him in!"
"Yes, Master!" Upon hearing this, Mingyue immediately replied humbly.
"Congratulations, you passed the test!" After receiving the master's order, Mingyue had no choice but to turn around and say to the thank you letter.
"I hope the front will lead the way..." Xie Xin said with a smile.
"Here you go!" Mingyue glared at Xie Xin and handed him a token.
With this token, Xie Xin successfully opened the entrance to the Immortal Realm, and then followed Mingyue and walked in.
Entering the fairyland, the surrounding environment is completely different.
There are a lot of lush greenery, and there are birds chirping and flowers fragrant everywhere. The spring water is gurgling, clear and cold.
In the barren and arid desert, this is simply a paradise-like existence.
Following a bluestone road directly ahead, Xie Xin saw a majestic Taoist temple at the other end from a distance. The most conspicuous thing among the Taoist temples was the giant tree that was about fifty meters tall.
There were some small fruits hanging sporadically on the tree. Xie Xin felt that if he guessed correctly, they should be the legendary ginseng fruit.
Soon, Xie Xin came to the door of the gym, and Mingyue also opened the door for him.
"Fellow Taoist, please come in!" the voice came out again.
The thank you letter was not polite and he walked directly into the hall.
Entering the hall, he saw an incense burner on the desk in front of him, but the object of worship was only the words "heaven and earth".
This is actually not surprising. Zhen Yuanzi was also a Taiyi True Immortal in the prehistoric period, and his status was second only to Sanqing. He just missed the realm of saints in his life, and finally stayed on the earth and became the ancestor of the Earth Immortal.
No matter what, in terms of his resume and cultivation, he is considered a first-rate existence in the fairy world.
To the side of the desk is the reception hall.
At this moment, in the hall, a young man who looked about thirty years old was sitting there.
There is no need for any decoration or any ceremony. Just sitting there, you already have an awe-inspiring and awe-inspiring aura.
"Why did it take so long to achieve the body of an Earth Immortal?" Zhen Yuanzi asked casually after seeing the letter of thanks.
"Oh? Do you need to make an appointment in advance to visit the Immortal?" Xie Xin asked curiously.
"Maybe, after all, every few hundred years, I have to go to heaven. If you don't make an appointment, if that happens, you will just wait for me on the ground for a hundred years!" Zhen Yuanzi said nonchalantly.
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"They say old people have bad tempers, but I didn't expect the immortal to be so easy to talk to!" Xie Xin said with a smile.
"You are not who I am, why should I be angry with you? Why should I act like an elder to you?" Zhen Yuanzi said kindly.
But Xie Xin also heard it. For Zhen Yuanzi, Xie Xin was just a passer-by in life, at most a visitor. As long as Xie Xin left, the two parties had no relationship and no friendship.
If it is just a guest, then treat him well. Anyway, he can come this time, and he may not be allowed in next time.
"It is said that one of the four pillars of life is that we have been in prison together. You and I are both imprisoned on this ground by Tiandao. We can be regarded as prisoner-level existences, and we should be close to each other." Xie Xin said with a smile.
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"That's wrong! I am a child locked up at home by my parents, and you are a condemned prisoner who is detained. They are completely different in nature. How do you use the word prisoner?" Zhen Yuanzi replied with a smile.
"I just don't know if this child, after thousands of years, is still willing to be locked up at home by his parents?" Xie Xin asked tentatively.
"Your Excellency, you came here specifically to sow discord between me and Tiandao?" Zhen Yuanzi asked rhetorically.
"What happened between Heavenly Dao and you is meaningless to me. It's just that the boy has just achieved the body of an Earth Immortal, but he doesn't know much about Earth Immortals, so he came here to get some scriptures." Xie Xin said with his hand.
"Asked for help but came empty-handed..." Zhen Yuanzi glanced at Xie Xin.
"Senior, I am relying on my old age to show off my strength. I am just a monk, but you are an ancient true immortal. What can I do that you can appreciate?" Xie Xin said with a smile.
"Then you are really quite a rogue. You don't plan to pay any price and just plan to let others do things for you. I am not a selfless person who helps others, so forgive me for not being able to help you!" Zhen Yuanzi sneered.
"Master, here are the ginseng fruits!" At this time, Qingfeng came out holding two ginseng fruits.
"It's your first time here, so I can't neglect our guests.
This is our Wuzhuangguan specialty product. You should also know what it is. If you smell it, you can live to 360 years old, and if you eat one, you can live to 4,788 years old. As a gift to entertain guests, it is not considered an insult.
You!" Zhen Yuanzi smiled faintly and pushed the ginseng fruit to Xie Xin.
"Two at a time, senior is quite generous!" Xie Xin said with some surprise.
"Two? I just let you smell it!" Zhen Yuanzi said, pointing to the ginseng fruit on the plate.
"This..." Xie Xin was speechless.
"Haha, today's young people really can't stand jokes." Zhen Yuanzi saw that Xie Xin was so embarrassed that he couldn't help laughing.
"Senior is too sinister..." Xie Xin smiled bitterly.
"The fairy world is actually very boring. Learning to find happiness is the right way." Zhen Yuanzi said with a smile.
Then he picked up a ginseng fruit, waved it in front of Xie Xin and said, "Eat, after eating these two ginseng fruits, you, the earthly immortal, will be worthy of your name."
Xie Xin took the fruit, hesitated for a moment, and ate it anyway.
The pulp is sweet and delicious. It turns into a clear spring at the entrance and is instantly absorbed by the body. Then it swims along the meridians throughout the body and finally converges at the Dantian Nascent Soul.
This feeling is indeed very wonderful.
Seeing Zhen Yuanzi's permission, Xie Xin was naturally not polite and ate both ginseng fruits directly.
For a time, bursts of clear water merged into Yuanying, and that wonderful feeling hit Xie Xin's nerves again and again, making him linger.
He finally came back to his senses, but his expression was stagnant.
There was no other reason, but he found that his body and even his Nascent Soul were more consistent with the surface of the earth. If he was just an earthly immortal before, he was not yet an earthly immortal. Looking at it now, he was completely an earthly immortal.
Damn it, I will never be able to reach the realm of a saint in my life.
"This..." Xie Xin looked at Zhen Yuanzi in surprise.
"Didn't your parents say to you, 'Don't eat food given by strangers'?
The ginseng fruit tree absorbs the essence of the earth's veins. Normally, it takes tens of thousands of years to grow these more than thirty ginseng fruits. But I have been researching for many years, absorbing the essence of the earth's veins with domineering power, speeding up the growth of the ginseng fruit tree, and finally I can control it in more than ten years.
Mature once.
It's just that the ginseng fruit grown in this way was obtained by robbing the essence of the earth, so it must be cursed by the earth. The three souls and six souls were bound to the earth, and they have no chance to reach the realm of saints since then.
Otherwise, why do you think I can only stay in this Wuzhuang Temple after thousands of years of cultivation and not strive for the position of saint?" Zhen Yuanzi said, stroking his beard.
Xie Xin finally understood why there were deserts all around! It turned out that this man had extracted a large amount of the essence of the earth, which directly caused the earth to lose its fertility, and then slowly turned into a desert under the wind and sun.
"Okay, I've already given you what's due. There's no need for you to stay here, and I don't want to see you anymore. Let's go!" Zhen Yuanzi waved his hand, and the letter of thanks was bounced out directly.
Flying out of the fairyland.
"Boy, the road against heaven is not easy..." Zhen Yuanzi murmured in a low voice as he looked at the direction in which Xie Xin flew out.
At this moment, outside the Immortal Realm, Xie Xin felt the changes in his body. He knelt down on the desert with a smile, kowtowed three times in the direction of Wuzhuang Temple, and shouted "Thank you, Immortal Chief" three times for the gift.
We left the desert and started our return journey.
To ordinary monks, this improved ginseng fruit is actually the same as poison. But for Xie Xin, who is already connected to the land of China, absorbing these two ginseng fruits has deepened his connection with the land of China.
Only he can realize the benefits of this.
After all, he is not a monk from the Shuntian camp, but a person who defies heaven.