Rebirth in Journey to the West: Sun Wukong-Chapter 561 - Ginseng Fruit (Third Update)

Chapter 561 -561: Ginseng Fruit (Third Update!)

Chapter 561 -561: Ginseng Fruit (Third Update!)

Two days later, Jiang Liu’er and his companions finally arrived at Wuzhuang Temple.

Sun Wukong had detected them when they were ten miles away from the entrance of Mount Wanshou, but their journey had been slow, and it had taken them a full two days to reach Wuzhuang Temple on Mount Wanshou.

Following Zhen Yuanzi’s instructions, Qingfeng and Mingyue led the group of four including Jiang Liu’er into the temple gates and to a guest room to rest. Afterward, they discreetly delivered two fruits to Jiang Liu’er.

“What are these?”

Having cultivated the Immeasurable Merit Determination, Jiang Liu’er was no longer an ordinary mortal and could naturally perceive the faint Divine Light shimmering on the ginseng fruits—these were truly rare and extraordinary fruits!

“These are ginseng fruits, our temple’s Immortal Fruits. Our master instructed us to pick two to offer the Holy Monk for tasting before he left.”

Qingfeng and Mingyue said with a smile, and Jiang Liu’er did not decline but accepted the fruits. After they left the room, as he was about to eat them, he heard Sun Wukong’s voice ringing in his ear, “Jiang Liu’er, eating the ginseng fruits like this would be a waste. Let me, Old Sun, brew them into the Victory Wine, which will enhance their effects a hundredfold!”

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“Great Saint?”

Jiang Liu’er looked up and cast his Divine Sense around but did not detect Sun Wukong’s presence. Instead, he discovered Zhu Bajie eavesdropping from the next room’s kitchen through the wall.

“I, Old Sun, am also a guest here at Wuzhuang Temple. Just pretend to eat these two ginseng fruits and I will take them away,” Sun Wukong said.

Hearing this, Jiang Liu’er nodded silently, making eating noises, and quietly placed the fruits by the window. With a flash of golden light, the ginseng fruits indeed vanished, taken by Sun Wukong.

Zhu Bajie, who had been eavesdropping from the kitchen next door, didn’t realize the ginseng fruits had been taken by Sun Wukong and thought Jiang Liu’er had really eaten both fruits himself. Drooling with envy, he stopped cooking and ran back to his room to complain to Yuan Hong and Monk Sha, encouraging Yuan Hong to steal a couple of ginseng fruits to try for themselves.

Yuan Hong was of course familiar with the reputation of the ginseng fruit as the premier Immortal Fruit of the world, even more efficacious than the nine-thousand-year Peach of Immortality—a sniff would grant 360 years of life, while consumption would extend life by 47,000 years. Unfortunately, as a minor deity from the Heavenly Court, he had no access to even the peach, let alone the ginseng fruit.

Provoked by Zhu Bajie, Yuan Hong was quite tempted and used his divine skills to steal a metal club, making his way to the ginseng fruit garden in the back courtyard. He counted twenty-two fruits remaining.

The ginseng fruit tree blossomed every three thousand years, bore fruit every three thousand years, and matured every three thousand years. It took ten thousand years to harvest thirty fruits. At the opening of the garden, several disciples had shared two fruits, four had been given to Sun Wukong and Zi Xia Fairy, two to Jiang Liu’er, leaving only twenty-two.

Monkeys have the least resistance to Immortal Fruits, and although Yuan Hong, having been the Star Lord of the Four Deities for many years, had tempered his desires, he could not resist the allure of the ginseng fruits. Leaping up, he struck two fruits with his metal club.

The ginseng fruits fell from the tree upon contact with metal, but when Yuan Hong checked the ground beneath, there was not a single one to be found. Puzzled, he wondered where they could have gone.

Meanwhile, below ground, Sun Wukong used spells to collect the ginseng fruits that buried themselves in the earth, chuckling to himself. He thought Yuan Hong was indeed just like he’d been in his past life—unaware that ginseng fruits bury themselves upon touching the earth, making his effort to pick them in vain.

However, this worked in his favor. Sun Wukong would no longer engage in stealing ginseng fruits as he did in the past, but he had no qualms about taking those that someone else had picked but not secured. There was no need to be courteous with such opportunities!

Yuan Hong realized that the way he had been picking the ginseng fruit was incorrect, so for the next three ginseng fruits, he stopped using brute force. He took off his clothes to cushion the fruits, swiftly picked three more, and returned to his room, joyfully sharing them with Zhu Bajie and Monk Sha.

Sun Wukong also returned to his room with delight. With the two ginseng fruits he had stumbled upon, he was now entitled to eight ginseng fruits in total. Two ginseng fruits could refine one gourd of Victorious Battle Wine, which meant he could now refine four gourds!

Indeed, the four ginseng fruits sent by Qingfeng and Mingyue were not eaten by Sun Wukong and Zi Xia Fairy. They planned to brew them into even more efficacious Victorious Battle Wine. Of course, there were also other ingredients needed, but compared to the ginseng fruits, those ingredients were plentiful and nothing special.

“What a pity for those three ginseng fruits to be eaten just like that, a sheer waste!”

Sun Wukong’s Divine Sense had long since covered the entire Wuzhuang Temple, so whatever Yuan Hong and the others did could not be hidden from him. Hearing that the three had wolfed down the ginseng fruits, Sun Wukong couldn’t help but feel the pain – that was a gourd and a half of Victorious Battle Wine!

“Wukong, what’s wrong with you?”

Zi Xia Fairy, seeing the pained expression on Sun Wukong’s face, was somewhat surprised.

“Nothing much, only that things are about to get lively here at Wuzhuang Temple!”

Sun Wukong shook his head, cast aside his heartache, and looked at Zi Xia Fairy, saying, “I’ll tell you all about it in a bit, but right now we need to leave Wuzhuang Temple, otherwise the upcoming drama won’t be able to play out!”

Sun Wukong knew very well that Yuan Hong and the others were likely to cause a commotion with Qingfeng and Mingyue and stir up a big fuss at Wuzhuang Temple. If they remained there, Qingfeng and Mingyue were sure to seek his help; after all, he had openly received four ginseng fruits from them. If they came asking for help, would Sun Wukong have the heart to refuse?

If he stepped in, the subsequent events wouldn’t pan out well. It was best to pretend to leave and hide while enjoying the show from afar!

Immediately, Sun Wukong took Zi Xia Fairy to bid farewell to the disciples of Qingfeng and Mingyue. Naturally, Qingfeng and Mingyue tried to persuade them to stay. Seeing Sun Wukong’s determination to leave, they could only prepare an exquisite meal for Sun Wukong and Zi Xia Fairy, then see them off from Wuzhuang Temple.

However, Sun Wukong and Zi Xia Fairy did not leave Wuzhuang Temple for real; after pretending to leave, they quietly circled back.

“Wukong, what on earth is going on?”

Zi Xia Fairy found Sun Wukong’s behavior very strange. What exactly was he trying to do by pretending to leave and then sneaking back?

“It’s a long story… Well, since you’ve asked, I might as well tell you everything!”

Sun Wukong sighed and began to recount in detail to Zi Xia Fairy the past entanglements of love between him and Zi Lan Fairy.

“All these years, I’ve been striving hard in my cultivation, just so that one day I could ascend to Spiritual Mountain and reclaim Zi Lan’s first soul and second spirit! What I never expected was that the Buddha, for some reason, combined Zi Lan’s soul and spirit with the soul born from the lamp wick in his oil lamp, cultivating two sister deities whose lives were interconnected!”