Chapter 284 Bamboo Forest

To insure or not to insure?
For a moment, Cheng Long was in a dilemma!
The spider demon in front of him did look kind, with the appearance of a benevolent old man, but he couldn't guarantee that the old monk had not eaten humans during his practice.

For him, if a monster that had eaten humans was beaten and killed, even if it had only eaten humans a few times in its life, it was a sign of retribution for good and evil deeds.

But if it fails to protect itself, the spider demon will lose its skills and turn back into a spider without the ability to protect itself, which is really innocent.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Cheng Long suddenly laughed at himself. It was really amazing that he almost developed a heart of a saint while practicing magic.

He is a human being, he just needs to maintain the most basic conscience. It’s none of his business if Fahai kills monsters.

However, the necessary polite words are still necessary.

"Fahai, if you insist on subduing this demon and turning it back to its original form, I will not interfere, but I hope you will think carefully before you act. When the government arrests criminals, it will not convict them arbitrarily, but will collect enough evidence before making an arrest."

Cheng Long had said all he wanted to say. He didn’t care whether Fahai listened or not, and he had no control over it.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the old spider started running, and his speed was even faster than when he did his morning exercises.

"Humph, where are you going, monster?"

Fahai obviously didn't listen. He tapped the ground with his toes and his body turned into a white flash of light, chasing after the old monk who had escaped into the forest. Judging from his speed, it would only take him a sip of tea to catch up with the spider spirit.

"Master, I have the influence of the Buddha of Lingtai Temple. I remember the Dharma and have been doing good deeds for many years. I am not some evil demon or monster. You have great magical powers and are compassionate. Please don't arrest a good person by mistake."

The spider spirit begged.

If he had known that he would meet a master like Fahai, he would never have left Lingtai Temple.

It was good to practice Buddhism near Lingtai Mountain. The old monks there were all kind-hearted and didn't care at all about a little goblin like him who was taking advantage of the Buddha's shadow and listening to Buddhist scriptures.

“Shut up, you are a false believer, how dare you confuse right and wrong in front of me.” Fahai snorted coldly, raised his hand and took out the golden bowl from his robe, threw it into the air, and the huge suction force enveloped the old monk who had no way to escape, in an attempt to subdue the spider spirit.

"Master, please spare my life. God is merciful. It is not easy to practice for a hundred years. Please don't beat me back to my original form." The spider spirit was chased to the point where she had no way to go to heaven or to the earth, and she was extremely sad and angry.

He was not an incompetent person, but when faced with a genius like Fahai, he had no ability to resist and could only flee and beg for mercy.

Fahai remained unmoved. Having sat in front of the Buddha for twenty years, he had already developed a heart of stone and would not care about the demon's sophistry.

If Cheng Long didn't have the Golden Wheel of Merit, the two of them would have already been in a deep fight, with everyone in chaos.

Seeing that the Zen stick and the spider were about to be sucked into the golden bowl, Cheng Long couldn't help it after all. He quietly appeared, exchanged positions with the spider spirit, and rescued it from danger.

The art of substitution can not only allow living beings to protect themselves from disasters and save people, but it can also protect others from disasters.

However, Fahai's golden bowl seemed to be of no use to him. The suction power was not strong at all and was far inferior to that of the Bloodthirsty Pearl. It was not able to shake him at all.

"Senior brother~~"

Fahai took back the golden bowl and looked at Cheng Long who had used his magical powers to rescue the old spider. He frowned and said, "I know you have a kind heart, but demons and ghosts often use cunning disguises to deceive kindness. Don't have any sympathy for him."

"Fahai, since you call me your senior brother, please listen to my advice this time and let this old monk live. If he harms others in the future, I will make him die!"

Hearing these murderous words, the old spider, who had wanted to escape quietly, was so frightened that he trembled all over and stood there in a daze, missing the opportunity.

Of course, it was just a good opportunity in his opinion.

In fact, with the old spider's escape skills, whether it is Cheng Long or Fahai, even if they are given half an incense stick of time, the two can easily chase and kill each other.

"Brother, I can give you face, but I can never let this evildoer go..." Fahai's words made the old spider confused.

Cheng Long, whose body had transformed in all aspects due to the large amount of blood and energy he had swallowed, and whose mind had become increasingly clever, smiled upon hearing this, "You want me to take him in and keep him under my supervision?"

"Brother, I just want you to understand that if you save a monster, you will have to bear the consequences of saving it."

A gleam of light flashed in Fahai's eyes.

If his senior brother, who has the merit of saving the world, doesn't allow him to subdue the demon, then he will find something for the other party to do.

Supervising evildoers is not an easy job.

"I don't have the time. If you don't believe me, you can go to Lingtai Temple to verify it. If you don't believe me, I will defeat him and make his hundred years of practice come to nothing."

Cheng Long would definitely be happy if the two green and white snakes were to stay by his side to supervise him. After these two female fairies transformed, they were each as beautiful as a flower. Even if they did nothing, they were pleasing to the eye.

There is no need for the old monk.

"Go to Lingtai Temple to seek confirmation?"

Fahai thought for a moment and said, "That's fine, but before that, we should capture this evildoer first, to prevent him from escaping and harming the people."

"Fahai, your cultivation is slightly higher than mine. Are you still afraid that a little demon that has practiced for two hundred years will escape from under your nose?" Cheng Long raised the corner of his mouth and said sarcastically.

The old spider finally wised up for once and said hastily, "What the mage said is true. I am not very experienced. After this incident, I just want to return to Lingtai Temple as soon as possible to listen to the Buddha's teachings."

"..."

Fahai was carried to the brazier by a man and a demon and had to nod.

"Well, then I'll let you go with me."

……

Lingtai Temple is in Shangqiu, 700 to 800 kilometers away from Lin'an Prefecture. Even for Fahai it would take a long time to go back and forth, not to mention that he was accompanied by a little demon who had only two hundred years of Taoism experience.

This time he leaves.

Naturally, I missed the scene tonight where the green and white snakes helped the woman from Zizhulin Village to shelter from the rain while she gave birth.

When Cheng Long watched the movie "Green Snake", he suspected that the village woman who gave birth to a child in the bamboo forest late at night might be a disaster arranged by Buddhism for Fahai!

Ever since he saw the naked young woman with good looks, Fahai's mind was filled with white bodies while he was practicing, and he became possessed.

Therefore, Cheng Long did not think that he would encounter a village woman giving birth in the wilderness when he went to the bamboo forest to look for the green and white snakes.

But it turned out that he was wrong.

"Boom~~"

Thunder roared and heavy rain came pouring down in our faces, blown by the violent wind.

Above the bamboo forest, two snake monsters, one blue and one white, dozens of meters long and more than one meter thick, hovered above the bamboo forest, shielding the young woman who had just given birth in the forest from wind and rain.

Of the two snakes, the white one is about forty to fifty meters long and is much larger than the green snake next to it.

Due to the filming era of the Green Snake movie, the special effects of the snake monster are very crude. However, in this evolved green snake world, the huge bodies of the green and white snakes can give people a sense of oppression from a distance. The snake scales are crystal clear and there is no odor.

Back then, when Cheng Long was exorcising demons in the zombie world, he had once entered a snake den. The pungent and choking stench was still fresh in his memory...

"Hey~~Someone is coming!"

When it discovered Cheng Long, the white snake's body suddenly shrank to half a meter in thickness, and its upper body changed into a human appearance. Its facial features were extremely similar to Ling Zuer's. Under its crystal-like collarbone were proudly erect breasts covered with water droplets.

The green snake followed closely behind, and transformed itself into a half-demon with a human body and a snake tail.

Xiaoqing's upper body is also not covered at all, and its capital is slightly smaller than that of Baishe.

"Come down, don't scare the village women, I'm here." A smile appeared on Cheng Long's pale face.

The white snake looked down at the young woman in the bamboo forest below and said, "Scholar, take good care of her and don't get tempted by her beauty, otherwise we will definitely come after you."

"Don't worry, I'm not that horny."

Cheng Long's mouth twitched.

He is not the innocent Fahai, how could he be tempted by such a scene!
What's more, the village woman gave birth to a child in a bamboo forest. Under such circumstances, any normal person would not have any sexual thoughts. It was only because of this that Fahai, who had been holding it in for more than 20 years, fell into the devil's trap.

"Xiaoqing, let's go."

The green and white snakes transformed into two giant snakes and quickly disappeared without a trace.

Cheng Long then walked into the bamboo forest and took out a large parasol from his storage ring to protect the village woman from the wind and rain...

"Wow wow..."

Soon, the baby began crying and the young woman immediately took the child into her arms.

Cheng Long, who was standing quietly by, helped with the finishing work and cut the umbilical cord on the baby's belly button. The mother did not need to do anything, as the placenta would be delivered in a while.

"Boom!"

The RV in the storage compartment suddenly appeared.

Cheng Long opened the car door and invited, "Girl, there is hot water in the car, come up and clean the child!"

"...Thank you, sir!"

A gleam of light flashed in the young woman's eyes, then she looked shocked and walked up timidly with the child in her arms.

Both mother and son were wet. After getting in the car, the woman looked at the magnificent decorations and various modern ornaments inside. She moved very cautiously, for fear of dirtying the nobleman's treasures.

"Girl, what's your name?"

"Zhenzhen."

"Miss Zhenzhen, come here..."

Cheng Long took Zhenzhen into the bathroom, helped adjust the water temperature, then turned and walked out.

The naked Zhenzhen doesn't look like a new mother at all. Her recovery speed is amazing and she exudes the unique charm of a woman all the time. No wonder Fahai in the play had evil thoughts when he saw her.

What surprised him the most was that Zhenzhen looked somewhat similar to Jingjing from the zombie world, but she looked more dignified.

Yes, Zhenzhen gave Cheng Long a feeling of being as majestic and solemn as the Bodhisattva Guanyin.

Thinking of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in Journey to the West, who once played the roles of mother and daughters with the two Bodhisattvas Lishan Laomu and Manjusri and Samantabhadra, and who used the pseudonym Zhenzhen to tease Tang Monk and his disciples, Cheng Long suddenly had a very outrageous idea.

"It can't be her. If it was true, then the great Bodhisattva Guanyin would have made too much sacrifice to help Fahai achieve enlightenment!"

"Besides, Fahai didn't come to the Purple Bamboo Forest tonight. If this is a play, why should we continue?"

"Could it be... that he took advantage of the situation and targeted me?"

Thinking of this, Cheng Long couldn't help but feel a little numb. If he was spotted by Guanyin Bodhisattva, then even if he was not Fahai's senior brother, he would be forcibly converted to become Fahai's senior brother.

If he was just an ordinary demon cultivator, hiding in the dark and killing people to practice, he definitely wouldn't have to worry about being targeted.

But the problem is that he has already obtained the merit of saving the world, and the golden wheel of merit behind his head is not inferior to the living Buddha at all, and even has more merit than many Buddhist great powers.

It seems possible that this situation has been noticed by the Buddhist powers.

"Damn it, I shouldn't have come to Zizhulin to join in the fun!" Cheng Long glanced at Zhenzhen who was carefully washing the child's body in the bathroom. It took him a long time to suppress his panic.

"Miss Zhenzhen, give me the child, and you should wash it quickly!"

A few minutes later, Cheng Long wrapped the baby in a clean bath towel and handed Zhenzhen a set of clothes.

Zhenzhen got the clothes that obviously did not belong to this world. She looked up at the man who was teasing the child, her eyes full of curiosity.

……

Outside the RV.

The green and white snakes that had returned were now hiding in the dark in their half-demon form, watching what was happening inside. Their slender upper bodies looked extremely attractive under the rain.

"Sister, is the human world so developed? They can even create such a practical mobile house. I suddenly want to enter this world!" Xiaoqing looked at the RV eagerly. She really wanted to go in and find out what was going on.

Bai Suzhen chuckled and said, "With your current level of Taoism, it's still too early for you to enter the secular world!"

"It will take five hundred years to transcend the tribulation and become a human being!"

Xiaoqing was right. After practicing for two hundred years, the spider spirit could transform into a human and shed its demon body. Even if it met someone with great Taoism skills, it would still be beaten back to its original form.

But as long as these transformed monsters do not commit sins, they can basically practice in peace.

You don't necessarily have to be like Bai Suzhen, who went through a thousand years of hardships and transformed into a real person.

At the end of the movie, when Fahai saw that Bai Suzhen gave birth to a human baby, he realized that Bai Suzhen was no longer a demon, but a real person, a demon fairy who had achieved success in cultivation.

"That's what you said, but you have only practiced Taoism for 500 years. Even if you transcend the tribulation and become a human, it will be difficult to conceal your demonic aura. You should wait until your sister transforms into a human before you consider whether to transform or not!"

The transformations of Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing in the Green Snake movie were due to the help of Fahai, who gave the Buddhist beads that he had mixed up from the old spider to them.

Now Cheng Long has interfered with the plot. The two female demons have no Buddhist beads to assist them in their practice, and they will have to wait another three to five months to transform.

The plot has deviated, it can even be said to be a mess.

However, Cheng Long was still unaware of this. When he saw Zhenzhen walking out of the bathroom in a white dress after taking a bath, he immediately handed her a cup of milk tea and said with a smile, "Miss Zhenzhen, excuse me, how come you appeared in the Purple Bamboo Forest alone to give birth to a child?"

"My husband doesn't want me anymore, and my family members won't accept me when they see that I'm pregnant. I have nowhere to go and have to wander around. I'm lucky to meet you tonight, otherwise my child and I might have caught a cold and wouldn't live for a few days." Zhenzhen said with tears in her eyes.

Cheng Long frowned and asked, "So what are your plans for the future?"

This is going to depend on me!
The more he looked at her, the more he felt that Zhenzhen was not an ordinary woman.

Although she had just given birth to a child, she did not look like a new mother at all. Her face was rosy and her figure was graceful, just like a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, with skin that was fair, tender and shiny.

"Young Master, could you please be so kind as to take me and my son in? As long as you agree, I'm willing to do anything, really..." Zhenzhen looked at Cheng Long pitifully and begged bitterly.

"Well, then you can stay by my side and be my maid first!"

Cheng Long sighed softly.

He really didn't want to take in Zhenzhen and her son.

Worried that there is fraud.

But what if I was overthinking it? Without his protection, it would be extremely difficult for Zhenzhen, who would be homeless, to raise her child and survive.

(End of this chapter)