Not to mention the people in Gao Village, even Tang Monk was so frightened by Zhu Bajie's pig-headed appearance that he chanted Buddhist mantras repeatedly.

But he was able to hold on.

"How did you bring this monster back?"

"Master, I am not a monster." Seeing that Tang Seng was frightened by him, Zhu Bajie approached Tang Seng before Sun Wukong could speak, and then bowed down in front of Tang Seng, saying again and again: "I am enlightened by Guanyin Bodhisattva and have come here to wait for you, Master, and to protect you on your way to worship Buddha and seek scriptures."

Zhu Bajie briefly recounted his family's past.

Some say that it was under the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva that he became Tang Monk's disciple. After he bowed three times to Tang Monk, Tang Monk, who hesitated for a moment, accepted him as his disciple.

He also gave Zhu Bajie a special name - Bajie!
As for Zhu Wuneng and the like, Zhu Bajie didn't even mention him.

After he had accepted the disciple, and saw Zhu Bajie said that he wanted to accompany Tang Seng all the way to Lingshan Mountain in the West, Gao Taigong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

And the look he gave the hunter showed a bit of appreciation.

But there are some things that are not in a hurry to say.

However, the hunter, seeing this, suddenly bowed to Mr. Gao and his wife and said, "Sir, since the matter here is settled, I can marry your third daughter, can it be settled?"

The hunter said this in a crisp voice in front of the entire Gao family, even Tang Seng and his two companions.

When Zhu Bajie heard this, he almost jumped out of his wits and hit the hunter with a rake.

That old pig hasn't gone far yet!
How dare this hunter want to marry Gao Cuilan in front of him!
"Brother Monkey..."

"Don't look at Lao Sun, take care of your own business."

Sun Wukong believed that it was true that Zhu Bajie was injured, but if he said that he could not lift the rake, Sun Wukong simply did not believe it.

Besides, we were in the air at that time.

Being looked at by this hunter who was strong and muscular but had a delicate appearance, he felt his whole body was filled with fear. He always felt that there was a great danger nearby.

Now Zhu Bajie wants him to come forward for no reason, but it’s impossible!
"Master, you have to help the old pig."

"Bajie! Do you know why I named you Bajie? You are my disciple, how can you have such worldly thoughts?"

After hearing what Tang Seng said, and seeing that Sun Wukong had no intention of taking action, Zhu Bajie muttered something and had no plan to deal with the hunter.

Seeing this, Sun Wukong didn't know that this idiot was just pretending to be stupid.

I'm afraid you've realized that this hunter is not someone you want to mess with.

Moreover, I am afraid I cannot see the hunter's true appearance.

"This... If my dear nephew is interested, why don't I discuss it with my daughter first?"

In front of Tang Sanzang and the other two, Grandpa Gao also felt that it was inappropriate, but he also thought that it would be best to marry off his three daughters as soon as possible, so he couldn't help but say, "If my daughter agrees, my nephew can choose an auspicious day and come to propose marriage."

Gao Cuilan, who once married a monster, is now famous throughout the area for hundreds of miles.

Mr. Gao is still worried about getting married.

Now someone has come to take over, and he's not bad looking either. Grandpa Gao and the old lady looked at each other and naturally felt that this was the best thing to do.

This would also prevent his daughter from being targeted by that pig-headed monster in the future.

"Thank you very much, sir! I am not talented enough, but can I meet the Third Miss?"

"It's not impossible."

Seeing that Zhu Bajie didn't say anything, Mr. Gao plucked up his courage and took two steps towards the backyard, then said, "Gao Cai, why don't you quickly go get the key? What are you waiting for? Please invite my nephew to sit in the hall for a while."

A nephew?!

When Sun Wukong heard how Gao Taigong addressed the hunter, he suddenly thought of something and shuddered.

After a slight hesitation, he still asked the hunter, "Excuse me, big brother, is your name Hou Yi?!"

"Humph, you know!"

Following Hou Yi's hum and Hou Yi's acquiescence, Zhu Bajie instantly began to tremble like a sieve.

He is Houyi, and he has come to Gao Laozhuang!
This is simply, it's almost like giving away your life.

Zhu Bajie was absolutely certain at this moment that the arrow that hit his back was shot by this great witch, and he even showed mercy. Otherwise, he would have to give an explanation.

How could I be so unlucky to meet such an evil star?

Isn't it said that Donghuang Taiyi specifically sought to make this great witch unhappy and used the power of the innate treasure to completely kill him?

It can be regarded as revenge for the nine nephews.

But why is Houyi standing right in front of him now, without any sign of injury?

At this moment.

Not only Zhu Bajie, even Sun Wukong was restless.

Sun Wukong thought further than Zhu Bajie. Now that the great wizard Houyi was born, when he borrowed the Chaos Bell to break the seal of Changyang Mountain in the future, it was very likely that even the great wizard Xingtian would come back to life. When that time came...

If these two great wizards appeared in the world, who knows whether the world would be in chaos.

"Old Sun has met the Great Wizard Houyi! I never thought that the Great Wizard would have the leisure time to come back to this villa..."

"Forget it! Yi doesn't like the aura on you!"

Sun Wukong hadn't even finished his words when Houyi's words choked him and he didn't know what to say.

What is Qi? How could Sun Wukong not know it?

When he went to retrieve the Chaos Bell, although most of the Golden Crow's blood was divided up by Taiyi, there were still many traces of the Golden Crow left on his body.

Those nine golden crows died at the hands of Dayi.

It would be strange if he liked Sun Wukong when he met him!
"Great witch, there is no other cause and effect between me and those princes."

"It's better not to." Hou Yi suddenly glanced at Sun Wukong, and the feeling of being stared at by the King of Hell suddenly came back, "You are a demon, and I am a witch!"

Houyi's words were very simple, but they expressed his position.

Sun Wukong even had no doubt that if he met this great wizard in the future, there was a 30 to 40 percent chance that he would be shot by an arrow.

Don’t ask why!

The question is, you are a demon, and the witch clan kills demons from top to bottom. Do you still need to ask why?
The bigger the monster is, the more successful it is in cultivation or the better its nature is, the more the Witch Clan will be concerned about hunting it down!
It has existed since ancient times.

"Brother Monkey, come here."

Seeing that Sun Wukong wanted to say something, Zhu Bajie hurriedly waved at him. Seeing that Sun Wukong was unmoved, and seeing a few servants, Zhu Bajie invited Houyi to the main hall to sit for a while. Only then did Zhu Bajie breathe a sigh of relief.

He was really afraid, what if Hou Yi took action...

"Brother Monkey, how dare you when you know who he is?"

"What? If he dares to attack me, I will go to the underworld to seek justice from the Queen Mother Pingxin! If the Queen Mother doesn't give me ten or eight innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual roots, I will stay in the underworld and won't leave."

Sun Wukong said this without any reservation, and Hou Yi in the main hall was slightly shocked when he heard it.

This scene was naturally also seen by Sun Wukong, whose golden pupils could see through delusion.

Sun Wukong did it on purpose.

Sun Wukong originally said this to Houyi.

Lest they embark on the journey to obtain scriptures, Hou Yi, after marrying Gao Cuilan, suddenly remember to shoot another arrow at Sun Wukong. Then, he would be killed instantly by the arrow, and he would have no place to cry.

As an archer, Hou Yi’s sniping ability is so terrifying.

Whoever wants to try, can try it.

"Brother Monkey, you are awesome!"

After hearing what Sun Wukong said, Zhu Bajie couldn't help but wink at him repeatedly.

However, Tang Monk, who was standing aside, suddenly heard words like the underworld, Niangniang Pingxin, and innate spiritual treasures, and he wanted to ask Sun Wukong what they were talking about.

But when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he saw a servant from the Gao family coming over with a tray, so he quickly shut up.

"Holy monk, my husband said that these thank you gifts are still a little meager. I hope you won't be offended."

The servant walked closer, suddenly lifted the cover on the tray, pointed at the yellow and white things on the plate and said, "Holy monk, don't refuse. These are just some gifts from my master. If it weren't for the holy monk and the guardian, my third young lady..."

As the servant said this, he suddenly saw Zhu Bajie glaring at him and he immediately shut his mouth.

He just kept sending the tray to Tang Seng.

"Amitabha! Bajie, please don't scare this donor. Donor, please take back these yellow and white things. Monks should be compassionate and kind. There are some things that this poor monk should do."

He chanted the Buddha's name three times in succession.

Tang Seng asked Zhu Bajie to quickly get the horse, and Sun Wukong to pack the luggage.

We must hurry out and continue our journey west.

Seeing this, the servant naturally did not dare to act on his own and hurried to ask for help from Mr. Gao.

When Gao Taigong and his wife came out, they wanted to stop Tang Seng and at least let him stay for one more night, but they failed.

It was noon time.

Tang Seng rode on the white dragon horse, and let Zhu Bajie lead the horse's stirrups and carry the luggage, and they left Gao Laozhuang and continued their journey westward.

Naturally, Hou Yi saw all the three of them leaving the village for a long journey.

But this great wizard did not show up or speak a word.

After passing through two mountain passes, it was already sunset.

Seeing that there was no village or inn in sight, Zhu Bajie complained to Tang Seng on horseback, "Master, you refused when they asked us to stay one more night. Now we don't even have a place to sleep."

"In this remote place, Master, you are not afraid that wolves, tigers or leopards will come and take Master away at night."

Sun Wukong doesn't indulge Tang Seng, and Zhu Bajie is even less so.

Even if he became a disciple, he still dared to say and do what he wanted.

Tang Seng, who was on horseback, looked at Lili's evening scene and couldn't help but say, "Bajie, what nonsense are you talking about? If you don't want to go west with me, then go back to Gao Laozhuang. I can go west by myself. It won't delay you from getting married."

"Old Pig would like to, but... I don't dare."

Zhu Bajie muttered something, but still packed his luggage obediently and helped Tang Seng get off the horse.

If Houyi was not there, he would have been more than happy for Tang Seng to send him back to Gao Village.

Unfortunately, that’s no longer possible.

……

The netherworld, Pingxin Palace.

After Sun Wukong and his companions left Gao Village, Gao Cuilan finally came out of the backyard and cried for a long time while hugging her mother.

After she finished crying, she calmed herself down a little and went to the front hall of her house. She looked at Houyi through the screen and suddenly felt a sense of closeness to him.

I don’t know why, but the first time we met it seemed like we had met a long time ago.

This also led to the fact that when Grandpa Gao asked his third daughter what she thought of Houyi, Gao Cuilan was the first to speak out that everything was decided by the parents.

After saying that, he quickly ran away on tiptoe.

Such a scene naturally fell into Houyi's eyes through the screen.

Things that happened later were naturally simple.

However, after half a day, Houyi said that he had something to do recently, so he went and came back again. He sent all the engagement gifts to the Gao family and was just waiting for an auspicious day to hold a banquet to finalize the engagement.

After the Gao family paid the betrothal gift, Hou Yi did not stay for long, but secretly left an arrow mark on Gao Cuilan's body to protect her. Then, he disappeared into the underworld.

Houyi remembered what Sun Wukong had said before.

But I still have doubts.

Although, after Hou Tu, one of the twelve ancient witches, reincarnated herself, there is a saying that Hou Tu is no longer a witch.

But in fact, everyone in the Wu clan vaguely knew something.

The twelve great witches, in particular, understood that with this lady watching over them in the underworld, their witch clan had become much more peaceful.

Similarly, Houyi couldn't figure out why his own ancestor witch goddess chose Sun Wukong to do the job!

This monkey even dared to say something and demanded an apology from the Ancestral Witch Goddess.

It’s just that!

If it were in ancient times, Houyi would have shot the monkey with an arrow long ago.

If this evil monkey is not dead, it will not be too late to find out the truth later.

With such doubts in mind, Houyi went all the way to the underworld. When he set foot on the underworld, he had not even seen Meng Po in person. Niangniang Pingxin, who had already discovered something, had directly moved him to the Pingxin Palace.

"...Yi, meet the ancestor witch!"

"Child, I've told you before. The Ancestral Witch is long gone, and only Pingxin is left. Hurry up and get up... Have you recovered from your injuries? How could you bear to come to my netherworld?"

Dayi is also called Houyi. The "Hou" in his name is certainly not given for nothing.

Back then, the entire Witch Clan spent a huge amount of money to deal with the Ten Demon Saints.

The twelve great witches correspond to the twelve ancestor witches. Naturally, they inherited a portion of the ancestor witches' divine blood, and they also soaked in the ancestor witches' blood in the blood pool of the ancestor witch temple.

Otherwise, how could Dayi, who was just a priest in the past, cross the boundary of the great priest in just a few tens of thousands of years and become one of the twelve great priests with names and surnames throughout the ancient world?

What Houyi inherited back then was naturally the divine blood of Hou Tu!

Therefore, there was nothing wrong with Hou Tu calling Hou Yi "child".

"My queen, I have been recovering from my wounds for countless years, and now my wounds have been completely healed." Seeing that Queen Pingxin was looking him up and down, Hou Yi said again and again, "My queen, don't worry. Even though I am no longer the true body of a witch, my cultivation is not bad now."

In the past, the Wu clan practiced cultivation, but they were constantly refining the evil spirits, bad luck and other turbid air between heaven and earth to practice.

But after the great calamity of wizards and demons in ancient times, not only was the ancestral mountain of the ancient world, Mount Buzhou, broken, the innate spiritual energy completely disappeared from the world, and even all the ancient turbid air gradually sank into the underworld or turned into acquired turbid air, and gradually settled in some dangerous places between heaven and earth.

It is now difficult for the witch clan to practice as freely as before.

However, Houyi is different now than he was back then.

After dying once, Houyi naturally had the ability to cultivate his primordial spirit after reincarnation.

Now, he is a Taoist practitioner who practices both witchcraft and Taoism, and his cultivation has reached the level of a quasi-saint. However, Hou Yi can no longer say that he is a pure member of the witch clan. (End of this chapter)