In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 785: Journey to the West Sequel - Salvation Merit 12

"Nezha?!!!" X2

This news shocked both Sun Wukong and Yang Jian. "Why did Nezha suddenly appear in Huaguo Mountain? Is this Nezha real or fake?"

“Yes, my king, it is Nezha.” The old monkey answered with certainty, “There is a person on his back. I recognize that person, old monkey. It seems to be... the King of Hell!” The old monkey had once gone to the underworld after his death and met the King of Hell. Although he returned to the world of the living later because you destroyed your name in the Book of Life and Death, he remembered the King of Hell’s face from that one time.

"King of Hell?" When did Nezha become related to King of Hell? Could it be true or false?

Sun Wukong and Yang Jian looked at each other, and Yang Jian immediately changed into a cup on the table, while Sun Wukong signaled the old monkey to bring Nezha in.

As soon as Nezha came in, Sun Wukong used his flaming eyes to carefully examine him several times, until he was sure that he did not find anything wrong with him, then he asked: "Nezha, what are you doing in Huaguo Mountain?"

"Great Sage, Great Sage! Nezha came here this time to ask for help from the Great Sage!"

"Okay, I probably know what you are going to say, but don't say it yet. I have a question to ask you." Sun Wukong temporarily chose to believe that Nezha in front of him was real after observing him, but he still wanted to know why Nezha, who Yang Jian said had been captured by the demon, would appear here.

"How did you escape from the underworld?"

"Great Sage knows that I escaped from the underworld?" Nezha was surprised. He thought that Sun Wukong had been practicing in the Flower-Fruit Mountain and was unaware of what was happening in the outside world.

"Great Sage, listen to me, this is what happened..." Nezha then told Sun Wukong how he escaped from the underworld when it was in chaos, then went to Guanjiangkou but didn't find Yang Jian, and then happened to meet King Qin Guang who had lost his magic power and was stranded in the mortal world.

As early as when Nezha talked about how he went to Huashan and Guanjiangkou to find Yang Jian and Yang Chan, Yang Jian, who had turned into a teacup on the table, had already begun to confirm that the Nezha in front of him was real.

When Nezha told Yang Jian about his encounter with King Qin Guang, Yang Jian couldn't help but change back into human form on the spot. He looked at his good friend Nezha excitedly. The two "slippery fish" of heaven hugged each other immediately, feeling deeply moved.

"Brother Yang, you are also here with the Great Sage!"

"That's great. I thought you, second brother, were captured by the devil Wujitian." Nezha once heard those fake ghosts and gods in the underworld talking about it. They said that the devil Wujitian wanted to completely occupy the three realms and would never let any god go.

Nezha originally thought that as the god of justice in heaven, Yang Jian would not be easily abandoned by Wu Tian even if he had luckily escaped. When he didn't see anyone at Guanjiangkou, Nezha thought that Yang Jian had been captured by Wu Tian.

"Nezha, I didn't expect you to be able to escape from the underworld. Did you see Roaring Sky Dog when you left? How is Roaring Sky Dog now?"

"I'm sorry, Brother Yang, when I was imprisoned in the underworld, I didn't see any gods around me except the demons who were guarding me. Everyone was imprisoned in separate dungeons."

"So I don't know about Sky Roaring Dog's situation..." Nezha escaped in a hurry and had no time to check on the other gods, let alone find Sky Roaring Dog in the underworld occupied by demons.

"However, Brother Yang, don't worry. We met the Buddhists who were forced into the underworld by Wu Tian earlier. From the looks of them, they were just imprisoned and not tortured."

"I think Roaring Sky Dog should be fine now, we still have time." Nezha was right. Wu Tian imprisoned all the captured gods and Buddhas in the underworld and did nothing. In the original plot, it was also later that Wu Tian's men could not find the whereabouts of the relic. In order to get information, they began to interrogate and torture the gods and Buddhas imprisoned in the underworld.

With Nezha's words, Yang Jian was no longer so anxious to rescue Xiaotian Dog. Seeing that the two had finally finished their conversation, Sun Wukong said, "Okay, you two have finished talking now, right? Once you've finished, I'll leave!"

He was in a hurry to go to the mortal world to find Chenxiang, so he had no time to watch Yang Jian and Nezha reminisce about the past. As for King Qin Guang? Sun Wukong didn't care at all. It was just a matter of leaving King Qin Guang in Huaguo Mountain, which would not affect anything at all.

After Sun Wukong left, Yang Jian and Nezha discussed going to the underworld together to rescue people. King Qin Guang was taken away by the old monkey for treatment. After he woke up, he was taken by Yang Jian and Nezha to explain the various mechanisms and secret passages in the underworld.

At the ruined temple, Zhu Bajie, Chenxiang and others, who finally learned the whole story from Ruyi, looked at each other. They were so shocked by the truth that they didn't know what to say for a while.

After a long silence, the waiter suddenly said, "Since the Buddha has been replaced, does Dad still have to do the task he promised to Guanyin Bodhisattva?"

"Uh..." Zhu Bajie didn't know how to answer. To be honest, he didn't want to care about it anymore. After all, Guanyin had betrayed him. If he still listened to Guanyin and collected the relics, wouldn't he become the helper of the devil Wu Tian? "I don't think I need to do it..."

"No, Second Master, I think we still have to collect the relics." Chen Xiang pondered for a long time and then said, "Since the relics are what the demon Wu Tian needs, we must collect them."

Xiaoyu quickly understood what Chenxiang meant, and then explained: "Chenxiang is right."

“Although we are not Buddhists, nor are we gods, we do not want to see the entire Three Realms being controlled by the devil Wu Tian. In order to prevent the lives of the three realms from being destroyed, we can collect the relics and hide them in a place where Wu Tian cannot find them.”

Zhu Bajie and the others didn't know that Wu Tian collected the relics in order to prevent the Buddhists from getting them and using the seventeen relics to defeat them. They just thought that Wu Tian wanted to do something with the seventeen relics, so they just wanted to break his plan before Wu Tian collected all the seventeen relics.

Ruyi had no objection to this, because her goal was also the sarira. In a narrow sense, sarira usually refers to the crystallization of the cremation of the Buddha's nirvana, but in a broad sense, it is actually the crystallization product of merit cultivation. In other words, sarira is merit.

This is also the reason why Sun Wukong was the seventeenth relic in the original plot, because his merits were deep enough. It is better to say that Wu Tian was defeated by the power of the seventeen relics rather than by the power of the merits of the seventeen relics combined.

If Wu Tian won, the merits in these seventeen relics would be the nourishment for Wu Tian to become a Buddha. On the contrary, if Wu Tian lost, the merits in these seventeen relics would become the energy for Tathagata to ascend to the throne of Buddha again.