Chapter 2057

Mingchuan Yangzi smiled at Mingchuan Yunzi. "I am fine. I will wait for you."

Mingchuan Yunzi smiled back. "Good. Wait for me. I will finish my task soon and come find you."

She paused, then added, "But before that, I need to handle your body. Since you cannot use it anymore, I will have someone burn it. It is better to do this now to avoid trouble later."

"Okay." Mingchuan Yangzi nodded. She was trapped inside the book and could not leave. That body was useless now. If it was going to be useless anyway, it was better to let Mingchuan Yunzi deal with it.

Mingchuan Yunzi turned to look at Zhu Yanyi and Yan Aohan. "How do you need me to cooperate?"

"How did you meet that masked man? What was your way of contacting her?" Zhu Yanyi asked.

Mingchuan Yunzi did not hesitate. "That masked man appeared three days after Yangzi’s accident. At that time, Yangzi could not wake up. She relied on oxygen and IV drips to stay alive every day. Then the masked man appeared. she told me that Yangzi was destined for this disaster because of Yin people. If I believed her, I had to come to this mountain god temple. I did not believe her at first. But later, seeing Yangzi getting weaker and weaker, I finally came."

She continued, "Then, following her request, I left a token she gave me here. It was a copper coin. Soon after, she came to find me. she gave me detailed analysis materials for the 'Nine-Nine Return Array.' After that, I started looking for suitable people."

Zhu Yanyi listened and caught the key point. "You mean, you left a copper coin in this mountain god temple, and then she went to find you?"

"Yes." Mingchuan Yunzi nodded seriously.

"I almost forgot about this." Zhu Yanyi spoke directly. "Yamata no Orochi, come out."

As soon as Zhu Yanyi finished speaking, the Eight-Headed Serpent appeared. It was not very big, about the height of a small child. If it did not have eight heads, it would actually look quite cute.

"Master, you called me?" the Eight-Headed Serpent said hurriedly.

"Yamata no Orochi, Mingchuan Yunzi prayed to you. Why did you tell her what to do next?" Zhu Yanyi asked.

The Eight-Headed Serpent said, "A few days ago, a masked man came. It was that same masked man. she told me that if Mingchuan Yunzi came in a few days, I should tell her that for Mingchuan Yangzi to improve, she needs to find nine girls born on the ninth day of the ninth month."

Hearing this, Zhu Yanyi looked at Mingchuan Yunzi. Mingchuan Yunzi said, "Children with such specific birthdays take time to investigate. I had people investigate, but there are no results yet."

Zhu Yanyi glanced at Yan Aohan and found him deep in thought. She then asked, "Aohan, what is wrong?"

Yan Aohan’s face was a bit heavy. "Are the children you are looking for all required to be nine years old?"

"Yes." Mingchuan Yunzi nodded.

Yan Aohan’s face became even more serious. "Ani, if I guess correctly, this person might want to open the Dark Abyss."

"What is the Dark Abyss?" Zhu Yanyi was slightly stunned and asked.

"In the vague and ethereal space realm, there are two abysses. One is the Chaos Abyss. The Chaos Abyss exists to prepare for true gods to shed their divinity and become emperors. So it is quite dangerous, but opportunities also exist. As long as one’s comprehension is deep, there will be gains. So although it is thrilling, all cultivators accept it.

What cannot be accepted is the Dark Abyss, because the Dark Abyss hides creatures excluded from the Five Elements."

Yan Aohan explained, "For ordinary people, heaven and earth make up the Zhou Tian. Within Zhou Tian, there are Five Immortals: Heaven, Earth, God, Human, and Ghost. Here, Heaven actually means Immortal. Besides these human-shaped Five Immortals, there are Five Insects: Luo, Lin, Mao, Yu, and Kun. But in fact, besides the Five Immortals and Five Insects, there are four types of human-shaped animals not within Zhou Tian."

Zhu Yanyi thought of the passage spoken by Tathagata in Journey to the West. "Aohan, are you talking about the Lingming Stone Monkey, Chikao Horse Monkey, Tongbi Ape Monkey, and Liu'er Macaque?"

"Ani also knows about this?" Yan Aohan smiled.

Zhu Yanyi nodded. "I have read the Four Great Classical Novels. One of them is Journey to the West. There is a plot about the True and False Monkey King, where the Liu'er Macaque impersonates Sun Wukong. This Liu'er Macaque is very powerful, equal to Sun Wukong. Even Guanyin could not distinguish the real from the fake. Later, it went to Tathagata, and only then was the result revealed."

Yan Aohan nodded slightly after hearing this. "The Lingming Stone Monkey can transform, know the timing of heaven, understand the advantages of earth, and move stars and change constellations. The Chikao Horse Monkey understands Yin and Yang, knows human affairs, is good at entering and exiting, and avoids death to prolong life. The Tongbi Ape Monkey can hold the sun and moon, shrink thousands of mountains, distinguish good and bad omens, and manipulate heaven and earth. The Liu'er Macaque is good at listening to sounds, can observe principles, knows past and future, and understands all things. These four monkeys are not in the Five Elements. They are inferior to the Five Immortals and Five Insects, calling themselves a separate category. They now live in the Dark Abyss and are also known as the Four Dark Demon Saints."

"This person wants to open the Dark Abyss to control these four demons?" Zhu Yanyi asked, confused.

Yan Aohan shook his head slightly. "It is not that simple. The four demons rely on their own abilities. They are inferior to the Five Elements, do not enter Yin and Yang, do not go through reincarnation, and coexist with heaven, earth, sun, and moon. They cannot be killed or destroyed. They are endless. Precisely because of this, the Supreme Chaos Emperor specially created the Dark Abyss in the past, letting the four demons control it, each occupying one side, forming their own system. But they can no longer enter other planes or the human world, because the four demons have too much killing intent. If they enter the world, they will bring infinite disasters."

Yan Aohan sighed deeply after saying this. "But over time, although these four demons are naturally immortal, disease-free, and disaster-free, even the Chaos Emperor prefers to return to chaos and virtualization when reaching a certain level, unwilling to appear again. The four demons are naturally the same. As years passed, the four demons knew they could only be Demon Saints, not Immortals, not Buddhas, and certainly not Emperors. Therefore, the four demons simply agreed to dissolve their bodies and return themselves to chaos.

But they did not want their abilities to vanish with them. So each of the four demons left a drop of essence blood. This drop of essence blood allows the person who obtains it to merge with it and thus gain their abilities: the Lingming Stone Monkey’s technique of moving stars and changing constellations, the Chikao Horse Monkey’s technique of avoiding death through Yin and Yang, the Tongbi Ape Monkey’s technique of binding heaven and shrinking earth, and the Liu'er Macaque’s technique of thousand illusions and ten thousand transformations."

Hearing this, Zhu Yanyi understood everything. "Aohan, I understand what you mean. You are worried that this person wants to open the Dark Abyss to get these abilities of the Four Demon Saints."