Chapter 1223: Chapter 704

Great Qin Empire, Xianyang Imperial City, outside the Gold Mountain Monastery.

This is a small temple, with only seven or eight monks in the entire monastery.

The elderly abbot looked at the young monk sitting serenely under the Buddha statue, his gaze filled with gratified admiration.

The young monk is only four years old, at the age when children are often disliked and troublesome, yet he can quietly focus on chanting scriptures, truly born with Buddha Nature, a son of Buddhism.

In the Great Qin Empire’s time of a hundred schools of thought contending, the Buddhist sect, though a foreign faith, did not suffer discrimination.

However, the philosophies promoted by Buddhism are not widely accepted by the Daqin people, thus the Gold Mountain Monastery does not have a flourishing incense trade, nor many followers.

Besides eating vegetarian meals and chanting, the monks in the monastery also need to be self-sufficient, tightening their belts to get by.

This young monk can be considered a Buddha’s son sent to Gold Mountain Monastery by the heavens.

A baby in swaddling clothes, drifting down the river, finally ended up on the shore outside Gold Mountain Monastery, was picked up by him, and given a nickname, Jiang Liu’er.

This child was precocious, could walk at six months, speak at one year, and by four had read all the Buddhist scriptures in Gold Mountain Monastery, his knowledge of Buddhist Law was not inferior to that of the abbot of Gold Mountain Monastery.

The abbot could already envision that after he passes away in a hundred years, Jiang Liu’er would surely inherit the foundation of Gold Mountain Monastery.

Regarding the gaze cast on him by the abbot behind him, Jiang Liu’er had long ceased to pay attention, at this moment his mind was immersed in his own sea of consciousness, chatting idly with some mysterious presence in his mind.

“Old Xi, this is not right, completely not right, are you sure this is really the world of Journey to the West? Am I really that Tang Seng?”

In Jiang Liu’er’s sea of consciousness, he kept mumbling, and at the center of his sea of consciousness, a Rainbow orb of light was residing there.

“Brother Zang, this system absolutely does not make mistakes! This is 100% the Westward Journey World! And you have seized and fused with Jiang Liu’er’s consciousness to become Tang Seng!”

The voice from the Rainbow orb was exceptionally certain.

“Then tell me, why is this place the Great Qin Empire?!

Isn’t Tang Seng supposed to be from the Tang Dynasty? And he became the imperial brother of Li Shimin!

But what about now? This is the Qin Dynasty!

A super cultivation dynasty established by Ancestor Dragon Emperor Ying Zheng that has existed for over eight hundred years!

Explain to me, what the heck is Immortal Qin?”

Jiang Liu’er muttered continuously, feeling entirely defeated.

The fact is, since he arrived in this world, his life has been too miserable!

Brought over by Old Xi, he suddenly transmigrated into a baby in swaddling clothes, and even drifted in the great river.

After being picked up by the old abbot, because Gold Mountain Monastery was not doing well, with poor performance, they could only eat vegetarian meals every day, and there were only two bowls of porridge a day.

He is still a child!

Worse still, although he seized Jiang Liu’er and fused with the new consciousness, a great figure remains asleep in his soul!

That’s right, it’s Golden Cicada!

This disciple of the Tathagata, who has practiced for countless years, is now sealed and asleep within him.

If the seal were to be broken, with Golden Cicada’s powerful Spirit, wouldn’t it devour him instantly?

Even if the seal isn’t broken now, once the Westward Journey ends, Tathagata will inevitably unseal it, and that will also mean death!

Even worse, Old Xi, having brought him across universes, suffered severe damage and must conceal his aura with all his might to avoid being discovered by the Heavenly Dao.

After all, Jiang Liu’er is the calamity bearer of the Westward Journey World,

Always being watched by the Heavenly Dao, any mishap would surely bring the Eye of Heavenly Punishment down on him, obliterating him with Purple Cloud Divine Thunder!

“Brother Zang, across the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens, there are countless worlds, and there are quite a few parallel worlds of Journey to the West, as long as the major trend doesn’t change, minor discrepancies are normal.”

I am the Buddha Ancestor System, originally intending to keep you thriving till we reached a Cultivation Plane, who would have known we’d encounter a time-space turbulence and end up in such a bizarre Westward Journey World!

Worse still, I sensed the presence of a similar system with overwhelming power, clearly a great figure of my clan.

If I dared to snatch the big figures’ share, getting beaten or crippled isn’t impossible!

Since arriving in this world, Old Xi has resided in Jiang Liu’er’s sea of consciousness, not daring to stir even a wave, just to avoid attracting the Heavenly Dao and the system overlords of this world.

“Big trend, if no solution is found, I’m about to perish!”

From the beginning to the end of Westward Journey, it won’t exceed fifty years; as a dignified transmigrator with a system cheat, he originally had a brilliant future, but now?

“Brother Zang, why don’t you join an Immortal Sect and cultivate? As long as you can reach Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation level within fifty years, you can reverse the absorption and devour Golden Cicada’s Spirit.”

The system’s functions are severely damaged and can no longer aid the host in cultivation, so everything depends on the host itself.

“Damn it! From nothing to becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal in fifty years, is this something an Acquired being can achieve?”

Jiang Liu’er burst out swearing, wishing he could strangle this unreliable Old Xi.

“Across the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens, there are many such characters…”

“Scram!”

“Okay…”

“…@￥#%…”

Frustrated to death, Jiang Liu’er can’t help but think of solutions, he doesn’t want to be devoured by Golden Cicada.

To save himself, at the very least, he needs to get hold of very high-level cultivation techniques.

The Great Qin Empire already belongs to a Cultivation Dynasty, with many Immortal Sects around. Even in Gold Mountain Monastery, there are some superficial cultivation techniques, but the people in the monastery can’t even get enough to eat, how can they support Martial Monks?

To cultivate, one can’t lack cultivation techniques, money, and blessed lands.

Therefore, he needs to earn money, make Gold Mountain Monastery prosperous, only when well fed and clad can they afford to buy various Spiritual Medicines to assist in cultivation.