Journey to the West: Break the entire Western Heaven!

Zhen Yuanzi's old face turned red as he said, "Back then, you seemed to have taken something from the Queen Mother of the West's clothing, and she chased you with a star in hand..."

At these words, a loud explosion rang in Tang Sanzang's mind, activating a segment of memory.

Above the vast primordial lands, mountains reached into the clouds, each mountain embodying all four seasons. The mountains were snow-capped, with cranes dancing and white apes calling.

A huge city built on the foundation of white jade sat atop one of the peaks.

The city consisted of a main city and four auxiliary cities outside, with twelve watchtowers built at the three corners of each auxiliary city...

Within the city, figures moved gracefully, the men handsome and the women beautiful, each exuding an air of immortal grace, either cultivating in clouds, pondering the cosmos, or discussing Taoism over tea in groups... a scene of bustling prosperity.

Seeing this scene, Tang Sanzang recalled the poetry Zhen Yuanzi had mentioned: "In the heavens, the White Jade Capital, twelve towers over five cities."

This here, with its twelve towers and five cities, must be the so-called White Jade Capital.

However, it was merely a fleeting glimpse; his figure leaped over the city, heading towards an even taller mountain in the rear, all the while shouting something like, "This isn't the East Kunlun Mountains, is it..."

The next moment, the memory broke off, and he found himself in a forest, listening to the rustle of water beside him, he parted the grass before his eyes to look ahead!

He saw a stunningly beautiful woman bathing in a clear blue, jade-like lake!

The clouds steamed, brilliant glows filled the air, and rainbows stretched across the sky, a breathtaking vista.

Yet, what truly took Tang Sanzang's breath away was the naked beauty under the open sky, above the azure lake!

He struggled to widen his eyes, trying to pierce through the mist rising from the Jade Pool's water, layer by layer looking further, just about to see something...

To Tang Sanzang's frustration, the memory broke off again!

"Damn it all!"

Tang Sanzang stood in the starry sky, clasping his head in a painful howl, then pointing at the sky, he cursed loudly, "Just a little bit more, just damn a little bit more, could you not leave me one damn glimpse of memory! Where did you learn this knife skill? So accurate, are you a butcher? Damn it!"

Watching Tang Sanzang's agonized, howling, cursing appearance, people glanced at each other.

Sun Wukong said, "Master seems to have remembered someone very important."

Sha Wujing said, "Master is indeed a man of deep feelings and loyalty."

Zhu Ganglie chuckled, "Not necessarily, he looks just like I did when I was teasing Chang'e. I almost had her in my arms, then she got away, and I was frustrated... This must be about a woman."

...

No matter what others thought, after howling for a while, Tang Sanzang began rifling through his memories again.

This memory picked up where the last left off, the beautiful scenery was gone, but what appeared in front of him was a frantic chase scene.

At that time, he was holding something in his hand. Looking down, good heavens, he was actually holding a red bellyband!

At the same time, a delicate shout came from behind: "Tang Sanzang, you shameless man, if you dare, stop for me!"

Experience tales at empire

Tang Sanzang looked back and saw a woman with a veiled face, unclear but with a stunning figure, standing on a Seven-colored Phoenix, casually holding a star and fiercely chasing after him.

Seeing this, one didn't need to guess to know that the bellyband in his hand must belong to this beauty.

Looking at the shape of this beauty, she must be the one who was bathing earlier!

Thinking of this, Tang Sanzang couldn't help wanting to curse again.

After watching the three segments of memory, Tang Sanzang completely came back to his senses and looked at Zhen Yuanzi, sighing, "You sure have lived long..."

Zhen Yuanzi smiled wryly, "Thanks to the ginseng fruit tree..."

At this, Zhen Yuanzi's face was a mix of helplessness and bitterness.

Tang Sanzang was typically more responsive to soft approaches than hard ones. Seeing Zhen Yuanzi like this, Tang Sanzang felt somewhat embarrassed and asked, "Uh... is there really no way to save it?"

Zhen Yuanzi looked at him with hope and asked, "Don't you have some Divine Skills to resurrect it?"

Tang Sanzang spread his hands and said, "I don't know, I can't remember. I might have in the past, but right now I can't do anything."

In this respect, Tang Sanzang wasn't lying. He truly couldn't perform any Divine Skills.

He had talked quite a bit with Sun Wukong on their journey, and Wukong had taught him some simple and practical Divine Skills. He thought that with his foundational strength, these Divine Skills would be very powerful, but to both of their dismay, Tang Sanzang couldn't learn any of them!

Lately, Sun Wukong had studied him and discovered that inside Tang Sanzang was all Chaos, without any so-called meridians or dantian!

Without meridians or dantian, that meant he couldn't use the cultivation techniques of humans or demons, and naturally, he couldn't use Divine Skills either.

Their last resort was to attempt meditation, hoping he could comprehend some suitable cultivation technique from the Heavenly Dao.

However, during several meditation sessions, Tang Sanzang ended up drooling in his sleep more than Sun Wukong peed during midnight bathroom breaks...

Tang Sanzang absolutely couldn't sense any grand heavenly principles...

Eventually, Tang Sanzang himself gave up. Since he was strong enough physically, he didn't bother to pursue any cultivation. He even romantically claimed that he was practicing a path where one force could subdue ten techniques, dismissing anything fanciful.

The two of them discussed some other matters, and Tang Sanzang also shared his fragmented memories and how he got here.

Zhen Yuanzi said, "Senior, you mentioned fighting with someone in the River of Time. Since you can't fly, how did you fight? If they insisted on keeping their distance, you wouldn't be able to touch them, right?"

Tang Sanzang tilted his head, his face looking adorably puzzled, "I grabbed his collar and punched his eye sockets. How could he kite me around?"

Zhen Yuanzi fell silent, subconsciously touching his swollen eye sockets, speechless.

He couldn't help but imagine a scene of two supremely powerful beings shouting obscenities while pulling at each other's collars and beating each other up, causing him to wryly smile, "Could it be that the ultimate path of cultivation is street brawling... sheesh!"

Zhen Yuanzi had at times considered giving up on cultivation.

Seeing that Tang Sanzang truly couldn't perform any resurrection techniques, Zhen Yuanzi said helplessly, "To revive the ginseng fruit tree, there's another method. Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South Sea has a treasure called the Jade Clean Bottle. The water inside can resurrect plants."

Upon hearing this, Tang Sanzang's eyes brightened, "I know Guanyin Bodhisattva well!"

Hearing this, Zhen Yuanzi was momentarily stunned. Tang Sanzang had disrupted the grand schemes of Buddhism; logically, they should be mortal enemies. Yet, they were on familiar terms?

Then Tang Sanzang sincerely added, "All along the way, I was under her care. She feared I might be bored, so she arranged a monkey to entertain me; worried I might be tired, she provided a horse for me to ride; concerned I might be hungry, she prepared a giant pig weighing hundreds of pounds; and fearing I might be overworked, she even arranged a servant for me. I think our relationship is quite good."