Chapter 210: Beat the old turtle and salvage the corpse

This old turtle was the 81st of the 81 difficulties in the journey to the West.

In fact, by the 80th difficulty, the group had already reached Mount Lingshan and obtained the true scriptures.

But because there was a missing difficulty in the middle, this old turtle was used to fill it.

When Tang Seng and his disciples were passing by the Tongtian River, they were unable to cross it. Finally, this old turtle appeared and kindly carried them across the river.

At that time, the old turtle had a request, which was that after Tang Seng and his disciples arrived at the Western Paradise of Thunder Sound, they could help ask the Buddha when he would become enlightened.

However, Tang Seng and his disciples had a difficult journey to obtain the scriptures, and they went through so many events that they had long forgotten the promise they made.

When Tang Seng and his disciples returned, the old turtle continued to carry them across the river. He then asked them when the Buddha said he would attain enlightenment.

However, Tang Seng and his disciples said they had forgotten.

How could the old turtle bear it?

He directly threw Tang Seng and others along with the scriptures into the river.

At this moment, Tang Seng and his companions had already become saints, so the river water naturally could not drown them. However, after this incident, the scriptures were incomplete.

So there are disabled people like the deaf, blind, and lame in this world.

If the scriptures were brought back intact to Chang’an in the Tang Dynasty, then the human race in China would have no damaged limbs. It can be said that all this was caused by this old turtle.

Bai Ze rushed over and punched it a few times, leaving five bruises on its eyes.

Of course, he held back on his strength, otherwise he would have blown the old turtle’s head off with one punch.

The old turtle quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: “Grandpa Immortal, I really don’t know how I have offended you. Why did you hit me for no reason?”

Bai Ze rolled his eyes at him and said, “Is it not okay for me to just punch you a couple of times?”

“…” The old turtle was speechless. If you like me, you punch me twice. If you don’t like me, won’t you beat me to death?
Bai Ze said: “Old turtle, do you admit your guilt?”

Old Turtle: “I…I really don’t know where my sin lies!”

Bai Ze threw a few more punches!
Bai Ze said: “Now you know where the sin is?”

The old turtle kept saying, “I know, I know. Although I don’t know where my crime is, I know I have committed a crime anyway. Please show mercy, Immortal Venerable. Please show mercy, Immortal Venerable.”

Bai Ze said: “When Tang Monk and his disciples come back from their pilgrimage, they will still have to pass by your Tongtian River. If you dare to throw them into the water, I will break open your turtle shell and roast you to eat.”

“…”

The old turtle shuddered all over, kowtowed repeatedly and said, “I dare not. How dare I throw you immortals into the river? Even if I have a hundred guts, I still wouldn’t dare.”

Bai Ze thought to himself that you are making it simple. This Tongtian River is not ordinary. It really goes to the sky and is connected to Lingyun Ferry in the West.

Therefore, boats cannot pass through this river, and immortals cannot fly over it. When encountering it, they can only bypass it.

It was because of this that the old turtle dared to throw Tang Monk and his companions, who had just returned from their journey to the West, into the river.

Anyway, he was born and raised here, so it would be easy for him to escape.

And it’s not easy to catch him in Tongtian River.

However, after being taught a lesson by Bai Ze, it seems that he dare not do anything.

Bai Ze said: “I will give you a task. Once you complete this task, I will tell you when you will achieve enlightenment.”

“really?”

The old turtle was immediately delighted. He had been practicing in Tongtian River for 1,300 years and his life was about to end, but he was still stuck at the ninth level of inner elixir and didn’t know when he could truly ascend.

In a normal script, he asked Tang Seng and others to ask Tathagata when he attained enlightenment, but Tang Seng and others had forgotten, so he threw them into the river.

This time, there was no need for Tang Seng and others to ask, Bai Ze opened the way first.

Bai Ze said: “Forget it, I’ll tell you the truth, you will never be able to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven in this lifetime.” “Huh?”

The old turtle was in despair. He thought that his life was almost over and that there was no hope for him to ascend to heaven. He never expected that this would actually be the case.

Bai Ze said: “But I can help you ascend. I can give you an ascension pill and three corpses of true immortals.

The combination of the two will definitely allow you to ascend smoothly, and your future journey to immortality will be smooth sailing.”

“You mean the Ascension Pill? And three True Immortal corpses?”

The old turtle was immediately surprised, ascending to heaven and surviving the thunder tribulation is not so easy, and it is often a life-and-death struggle.

But with the ascension pill protecting the body, it would be much easier to survive the thunder tribulation. Although relying on the pill, one could only achieve the lowest level of ascension, but that would still make one a celestial being.

What’s more, Bai Ze gave him three corpses of real immortals!

God!

Let alone three true immortals, if a celestial immortal came he would have to call him “Great Ancestor”, let alone three true immortals?
The bodies of ordinary immortals contain powerful strength, let alone true immortals?

According to the rules of heaven, if a monster eats ten or more people, it will be considered an unforgivable crime and will be regarded as a devil. It will be eradicated and will not be eligible to ascend.

But this old turtle has never eaten a human being, so if he eats three true immortals as food, it will not affect his ascension.

The old turtle was very happy and quickly thanked him: “Thank you for your mercy, Immortal. Thank you for your mercy, Immortal.

I have been practicing in Tongtian River for 1,300 years, but my ascension is still a long way off. I never expected that the immortal would give me such an opportunity.

But, I just don’t know what the Immortal wants me to do. Is he asking me to carry him across the river?”

In the old turtle’s opinion, these immortals are extremely powerful, including the ones standing on the shore, each of them has extraordinary abilities. What can such a group of people ask of an old turtle?

The only thing left to do is to cross the river!

Bai Ze said: “Of course it’s not just as simple as crossing the river.

You think you can get such great benefits by carrying us across the river, are you dreaming?”

The old turtle asked, “What does the Immortal want me to do? Is there anything else I need to do?”

Bai Ze said: “Let me ask you, do some mortal bodies occasionally wash down from the upper reaches of the Tongtian River?”

The old turtle said: “It is true, it is said that this Tongtian River leads to the sky, but I, an old man, don’t have the ability to go up to the sky along the river.

The water flow upstream is extremely dangerous and I have never dared to get close to it.

But it is indeed as the Immortal Lord said, some mortal beings would occasionally float down from upstream.

However, those mortals will soon dissipate in the Tongtian River after rushing down.

I have always had a guess that this Tongtian River is so special that boats cannot pass through it and immortals cannot fly close to the river surface. If they want to fly, they must go to high altitudes. Perhaps this has something to do with this mortal body.”

Bai Ze said: “What I want you to do is, at noon tomorrow a woman and a fetus will be washed down, and you will fish them out.

I can now give you the Ascension Pill and three True Immortal corpses that I promised you before.”

“Ah? You want to fish out the mortal body that rushes down?” The old turtle was surprised. He never dared to touch the mortal body that rushed down from upstream.

Because there was something weird about all of this, he was afraid that he would be punished.

Besides, that mortal body is just a mortal body, it has no value at all, why should he touch it?

The reason why Bai Ze went to find this old turtle was naturally because the Tongtian River was extremely strange. Even if Bai Ze had cultivated water magic, and even if Bajie and Sha Seng were good at water magic, it would probably be difficult for them to find the mortal body that was washed down.

The river is eight hundred miles wide, bottomless and as long as one can see.

Add to this the strangeness of the situation, and perhaps only the old turtle that has lived here for many years can accurately salvage the mortal body that rushes down.

(End of this chapter)