bayedsolid Chapter 96 The Gossip Squad
Chapter 96 The Gossip Squad
The peach spirit and willow demon cautiously moved towards the Dragon Gate.
When they could see not a single celestial soldier or general, they realized the truth.
They became more cautious in their words and actions.
Beneath the Dragon Gate,
Maitreya, Jin Chanzi, Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, Qianliyan, Shunfeng'er, and the River God—seven people in total—squatted on the ground without any regard for their image.
Qi Qi looked up and watched as these people or demons jumped and leaped on the Dragon Gate, only to fall down with a thud.
The river god's eyes lit up, and he rushed over with a whoosh. He used a transformation spell to freeze the person in place, then squinted and dragged him back.
He smiled with narrowed eyes:
"Hehe, another merit for the future."
"The future?" Maitreya's squinty eyes also became interested, and he said to the river god, "I am the next leader of the Western Sect. Since you have such an affinity for understanding the future, why don't you come to my Western Sect?"
"Huh~?"
The river god looked at Maitreya, smiled, and slowly said:
"But... I'm a legitimate deity from Heaven!"
Two squinty-eyed people stared at each other.
The same smiling lips.
Yang Jiao suddenly squatted down between the two of them, looking very awkward, and waved her hand in the middle, quite doubting whether the two of them could see each other.
However, the one with the clairvoyant eye, seeing the golden statue that the river god suddenly dragged back, jumped up in surprise and exclaimed:
"Isn't this monster from Black Wind Mountain?"
Upon hearing that the clairvoyant recognized him, the river god swiftly moved closer, raised the statue before him, and asked:
"Young tree spirit, will you redeem this golden monster, or this silver monster?"
Thousand-Mile Eye waved his hand, quite indignant, and said:
"This little black bear spirit is a good one. He cultivates diligently on that mountain. He probably came here to try his luck because he heard that there is a Dragon Gate at the mouth of the Guanjiang River. But we don't know him."
The river god squinted and retreated.
Why say so much if I don't know you?
It makes you seem like you have a broader perspective, right?
However, since it's a good monster, let's release it.
The river god waved his hand, and the golden statue receded, revealing a small black bear inside. It silently glanced at the seven people before it; aside from the two demons, it couldn't discern the cultivation level of any of them.
The little black bear thought about it and realized it couldn't win, so it had to suffer this loss in silence.
Running wildly on all fours.
He kept looking back as he ran.
The short, stocky little black bear spirit could only see Jin Chanzi standing out among the crowd of tiny heads...
Yang Jiao's eyes lit up as she listened.
Suddenly I realized that if I had eyes that could see a thousand miles and ears that could hear the wind, wouldn't I be able to hear all the gossip everywhere?
He immediately pulled a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket, placed them in the hands of the others, and said:
"Let's all get hooked on it, let's all get hooked on it!"
Yang Jian still had a mouthful of baby teeth and couldn't crack them, so he politely declined and went to watch the people jump at the bottom of the Dragon Gate.
Maitreya also smiled and waved his hand, refusing to take the melon seeds.
Instead, she smiled and pulled out a slice of crisp, sweet watermelon from behind her back, saying:
"You guys go ahead and enjoy yourselves, I'll just sit back and watch the show."
Then the group stared intently at the two brothers who seemed to have eyes and ears everywhere they looked.
Thousand-Mile Eye sighed, and Zero Frame opened his mouth.
"Come, come closer, let me tell you about a major incident that made the entire Western Religion look bad!"
Maitreya paused in his act of eating the watermelon.
Jin Chanzi was frantically eating sunflower seeds.
Before telling his story, the man with the clairvoyant eye laughed for a long time, then said:
"Hahaha, little aunt, you don't know, a hundred years ago, I suddenly saw dark clouds rising in the west, which meant a great spiritual treasure was about to be born."
The sage was alarmed and ordered the entire sect to search for them, but the result... hahaha.
During this brief moment, Yang Jiao glanced at Maitreya and Jin Chanzi, and felt a pang of worry for Qianliyan.
He laughed for a while, then continued:
"Hahaha, that Black Lotus Spiritual Treasure actually grew two human legs right in front of all the disciples of their sect, and ran away carrying itself!"
The way he swung his leg was so fast I almost couldn't keep up.
A hundred years ago, the twelve-petaled black lotus...
The watermelon in Maitreya's hand fell to the ground with a thud.
Even Jin Chanzi couldn't crack any more melon seeds.
I thought it was someone else's scandal, but it turns out neither of them escaped!
Maitreya turned his head away, maintaining a smile with difficulty. If it weren't for the veins on his fists that were about to burst, Yang Jiao would have really thought that this man was magnanimous and tolerant of all things.
Jin Chanzi took a few deep breaths, looked at the curiosity in Yang Jiao's eyes, cracked open a melon seed, chewed it, then spat it out with a "pui" sound.
He glanced at Maitreya, whom he didn't want to recall, and suddenly felt embarrassed.
He opened his mouth and said:
"It's all because Western religions were too poor in the past!"
"That twelfth-grade black lotus was lost during the great battle between Rahu and the Dao Ancestor. It was born in the western region a hundred years ago. Finally, a primordial spiritual treasure has appeared. Of course, Master is extremely excited."
"The entire church was sent out to search."
"The moment the Black Lotus was born, it opened its eyes and saw the barren lands of the West. It would rather sacrifice a second-grade Black Lotus than submit to the Western Religion."
"So, right in front of me, Maitreya, and Ksitigarbha, the second-grade lotus transformed into legs, and he carried the remaining tenth-grade lotus as if being chased by dogs!"
After hearing this, Qianliyan couldn't stop laughing.
He laughed, clutching his stomach, and said:
"Little aunt, you have no idea, when I saw those Western Sect people, their faces were even blacker than black lotuses, hahaha, they looked almost exactly like the face of this fellow Daoist who's eating melon seeds right now..."
"Fellow Daoist, why do you two look somewhat familiar?"
Jin Chanzi's face darkened even more.
I'm standing right in front of you now, look at me...
Yang Jiao wanted to laugh, but she held it in.
Sorry, I couldn't help it.
"Hahahahaha..."
She clutched her stomach, her mind filled with images of the innate spiritual treasure, the Black Lotus, sprouting two smooth, long legs and running wildly.
Yang Jiao laughed so hard she rolled on the ground.
His laughter made the sky sway, the clouds sway, and even Yang Jian, suspended in mid-air above Longmen, sway...
"Yang Jian!"
Yang Jiao immediately lost her smile.
In the crowded air above Longmen, that small figure stung Yang Jiao's eyes.
He shouted as he flew over:
"Jian'er, be careful."
If you can't jump over the Dragon Gate, you'll fall into the water and get injured!
She looked down at the river, worried.
The river god, having misunderstood, appeared and assured:
"Don't worry~ I won't ask you for merit to redeem your brother after he fell~"
Yang Jian watched his sister flying rapidly towards him, then casually tapped his feet and landed gently on the Dragon Gate.
He looked down at the suddenly silent crowd and asked in surprise:
"It's not hard to jump..."
"Why can't so many people jump over it?"
Yang Jian jumped over the Dragon Gate after hearing people below talking about how jumping over the Dragon Gate could change one's innate constitution, and he asked curiously:
"I jumped, but... I didn't feel anything?"
Yang Jiao breathed a slight sigh of relief, beckoned him down, and thought to herself:
"Jump over the Dragon Gate, change your inherent nature. If you don't change the Dragon Gate after jumping over it once, you're lucky!"
The siblings returned to the area below the Dragon Gate.
The River God, with his squinting eyes, looked at Yang Jian as if he were a treasure.
The squinting-eyed Maitreya tried to speak to Yang Jian several times.
Yang Jiao suddenly sensed something was wrong, and standing between the two, she said firmly:
"I just saw it, you two opened your eyes!"
The two of them turned their heads at the same time.
Yang Jiao instructed Yang Jian:
"Be good and wait here for your sister, I'll go check on things."
She immediately went around to the back of the Dragon Gate. If it weren't for the fact that no merits had been bestowed from heaven, Yang Jiao would have been really afraid that Erlang jumping over the Dragon Gate would cause some kind of anomaly and attract the attention of the Heavenly Court.
After watching for a long time, seeing that the clouds remained unchanged and the Dragon Gate showed no reaction, they were finally relieved.
Upon landing, they discovered that Maitreya and Jin Chanzi were missing.
Without much thought, Yang Jiao stepped forward to remind Yang Jian of the things he should pay attention to in the future.
But as soon as he turned his gaze to his younger brother, he saw that little Yang Jian was covered with talismans, and long strips of yellow paper were covered with the mantra 'Om Mani Padme Hum'.
Yang Jiao gasped.
He pulled his younger brother in front of him and looked at him cautiously.
This talisman is clearly the work of two people from the Western Sect. Could it be that while he was investigating the strange phenomena, these two had already fooled his brother?
Yang Jiao said solemnly:
"Who gave you permission to take it!"
Seeing his sister's serious expression, Yang Jian immediately panicked, his words becoming slurred. Thinking he had made a grave mistake, he hastily explained:
"I didn't steal anything, I picked it up. I thought nobody wanted it."