doitstory Chapter 1893, 11892: What kind of cave is this?
Chapter 1893, 11892: What kind of cave is this?
Chapter 1893, 1.1892: What kind of cave is this?
"There's another line of small characters on the back." Team 3's captain, Jade Guanyin, sighed: "The one who truly slays this demon is the Snow Toad King of Tianshan."
"So actually, the two demons joined forces to kill Pigsy?" Cyber White Bone Demon Jade Beauty couldn't help but laugh.
“Who knows?” Team 1 captain Ilsa Hayden chuckled softly.
"Let's go and find out what's going on." Team 3's captain, Yu Guanyin, rode her two-legged storm dragon in its earth-dragon form ahead.
"Sisters, follow me." Team leader Ilsa Hayden rode her nine-tailed fox and caught up.
There was only one path ahead, and the two groups of people walked hand in hand. Just like before, after passing the neon signpost for three miles, a cave-like stone tablet covered with blood-red crystal clusters, emitting black and red demonic flames, suddenly stood before them: "Bodhi Cave".
Wait, what kind of hole is this?
Five hundred years ago it was called Water Curtain Cave, five hundred years later it was called Bodhi Cave, but when did it become Spider Cave? From the moment Zixia Fairy, riding a mule, met Supreme Treasure, who had traveled from the future, and placed three moles on the soles of his feet, calling herself the Spider Fairy, it was still called Spider Cave when Supreme Treasure met the Spider Fairy's disciples, Bai Jingjing and Chun San Niang, five hundred years later. It wasn't until Supreme Treasure donned the golden headband and transformed into Sun Wukong to protect Tang Sanzang on his journey to the West that it was renamed Bodhi Cave.
Throughout *A Chinese Odyssey*, the past and future intertwine, dreams and reality alternate, and Supreme Treasure and Sun Wukong, Zixia and Qingxia are mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. In fact, if viewed from a near-future science fiction perspective, this is essentially a classic example of the "source code singularity effect."
The plot of *Source Code* revolves around Colt, who is selected for a special mission belonging to a government experimental project called "Source Code." Under the supervision of scientists and using special equipment, Colt can repeatedly "travel" into the body of a victim in a train bombing, but each time he can only return to the final eight minutes before the explosion. This is because the perpetrator of the bombing claims he will carry out another, even larger-scale terrorist attack in downtown Chicago six hours later. To prevent the deaths of millions, Colt must race against time, repeatedly "traveling" through "Source Code" to gather clues and find the culprit in those final eight minutes before the explosion. At the end of the story, when he finds the culprit and follows him off the train, a new parallel world is born.
After finding the culprit, the male protagonist gets off the train, which is the so-called "singularity".
The term "singularity" here does not refer to the astrophysical term used to describe the Big Bang. Rather, it specifically refers to "a singular point with plot variables."
The meaning is quite similar to DC's famous event "Flashpoint". Using the shelter's specific name, it would clearly be equivalent to a "key plot point".
Supreme Treasure misused the Moonlight Box, causing him to travel back 500 years, thus correcting "reality" and creating a brand new storyline.
In this brand-new storyline, the second-in-command, after ten years of diligent study, finally achieves academic success and returns home in glory, reuniting with the two tofu sellers, Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshi Niang. Meanwhile, the Bodhi Patriarch becomes the dedicated guide of the Bodhi Cave, and at Sun Wukong's insistence—who seeks refuge from the sandstorm—he strikes Wukong three times, fulfilling the promise made between Supreme Treasure and Bodhi in their past lives. As for the famous scene of Supreme Treasure, now a wandering knight, confronting his lover, who resembles Zixia, on the city wall, there's no need to elaborate further.
The question is, how should this distorted storyline be portrayed?
Just after crossing the boundary marker, my vision blurred and the scene changed three times.
Emerging from the scab-covered mountainside, the dense vines, satiated with the flesh and blood of the demons, coiled around the Five Fingers Peaks and grew into a giant tree with a canopy like clouds in mid-air.
This colossal tree, resembling the World Tree, must be the Bodhi Tree of the Bodhi Patriarch. Unfortunately, from a distance, it appears dimly lit, its leaves mottled with black and red. The situation is perilous.
"This is a distorted plot." Needless to say, a Bodhi tree growing on Wuzhi Mountain has never appeared in the plot of "A Chinese Odyssey".
“A tree in the palm of Buddha’s hand.” So, Ilsa Hayden, the captain of Team 1, naturally thought of the tree planted in front of the Buddha at the Grand Buddha Temple in the Shangri-La Secret Realm: “Grandma Muji is also a tree spirit.”
"Is it Bodhi Patriarch?" This was what Team 3's captain, Jade Guanyin, was most concerned about.
"It's still unclear." The onboard AI, operating at full capacity, hadn't yet provided an answer: "But the environmental scan data matched another plot element." "What is it?" Team 3's captain, Yu Guanyin, hurriedly asked.
“It seems to be…” Team 1 captain Ilsa Hayden stared intently at the holographic display, watching the big data model categorize and summarize the collected environmental elements: “This Bodhi tree seems to be grafted onto some kind of mysterious substance.”
"You mean, this tree is a product of mutation?" Team 3 captain Yu Guanyin immediately realized.
"Yes, it's a product of the mutation." As they were speaking, the onboard AI had already concluded: "It's the Bodhi tree that grew on the Sun and Moon Lamp!"
To be precise, it is a Bodhi tree grafted onto the wick of the Sun and Moon Lamp.
“Now I understand.” How could Yu Guanyin, the captain of Team 3 who came from the prison city and was familiar with the main plot of “A Chinese Odyssey”, not realize it: “Purple and Green Fairy.”
"Purple and Green Fairies" refers to Qingxia Fairy and Zixia Fairy.
Qingxia Fairy, the wick of Buddha's lamp, and the elder sister of Zixia Fairy. In their past lives, Qingxia and Zixia fought fiercely, so Buddha bound them together and turned them into a single lamp wick, requiring them to cultivate and resolve their grudges. However, things didn't go as planned. The two sisters shared one body; by day, she was Zixia, and by night, she was Qingxia. After descending to the mortal realm and experiencing many hardships, the sisters reconciled. After Zixia's death, Qingxia returned to Buddha to be reborn as the lamp wick.
Zixia Fairy (also known as the Spider Fairy), and Qingxia were originally the wicks of the Sun and Moon Lamp before the Buddha. Although they shared the same body, they harbored deep hatred for each other. Zixia made a vow that whoever could pull out the Purple and Green Sword from her hand would be her destined lover. This act was seen as a disgrace to the celestial realm, and she was hunted down by the Heavenly Court for secretly descending to the mortal world.
Commonly used spells (treasures): Silver Rope and Golden Bell, Misty Azure (Purple) Qi, Azure (Purple) Cloud Sword Technique, Azure (Purple) Clouds Filling the Sky, Buddhist Great Compassion Hand, and Soul Transfer Technique.
This Bodhi tree was grafted onto the wick of a magic lamp, and it grew to its current state by absorbing the lamp oil from the sun and moon.
As for the power of the oil from the Sun and Moon Lamp under the Buddha's seat, one might consider the Yellow Wind Monster, wielding a three-pronged steel fork, possessing supernatural powers, boundless magic, and an invincible Samadhi Wind that wreaks havoc throughout the Three Realms. He is described as: "Golden helmet gleaming in the sun, golden armor gleaming. A pheasant-tail plume flutters on the helmet, a pale yellow robe covers the armor. The armor's sash is adorned with a dragon, shimmering brightly, a breastplate shines brilliantly around the eyes. Deer-skin boots, dyed with locust blossoms; a brocade apron, adorned with willow-leaf velvet. Holding a sharp three-pronged steel fork, he is no less powerful than the legendary Sage of yesteryear." This monster is actually a yellow-haired weasel who cultivated himself into a spirit at the foot of Mount Ling. Having stolen the pure oil from the crystal lamp in Leiyin Temple, he feared capture by the Vajra and fled in all directions. He eventually settled in the Yellow Wind Cave on Yellow Wind Ridge, calling himself "King Yellow Wind," while the Dharma Protectors called him "Great Sage Yellow Wind."
For example, there was the demon who cultivated herself into a spirit three hundred years ago, stole the Buddha's incense and candles on Mount Ling, changed her name to Half-Bodied Guanyin, and descended to the mortal world as a demon known as Lady Earth Surge—"Her hair was piled up like a cloud of crows, she wore a green velvet flower vest. Her pair of golden lotus feet were just half-open, her ten fingers were like spring bamboo shoots. Her round face was like a silver basin, her red lips were like smooth cherries. She was a beautiful woman with a dignified and upright figure, even Chang'e in the moon would be pleased to see her." She was the master of the Bottomless Cave: the Golden-Nosed White-Haired Rat Demon.
Good heavens! After consuming a few incense flowers and candles before the Buddha's throne, he dares to call himself "Half-Bodhisattva Guanyin"; after tasting a few drops of pure oil from Leiyin Temple, he can be hailed as "Yellow Wind Great Sage." One can only imagine how powerful the Bodhi tree, which grew into a towering giant after absorbing the lamp oil from the Sun and Moon Divine Lamps, must be.
As they were speaking, thunder suddenly roared and a strange wind arose.
Two eerie gusts of wind, like twisting pillars and black dragons, pressed down heavily on everyone's heads.
"Hey—what kind of monster are you? State your name to your grandfather!"
The evil wind subsided, and the monster revealed itself.
They were on the left and right, the peacock spirit and the snow frog spirit.