After passing Black Wind Mountain's Guanyin Zen Monastery, they traveled for another fifteen days.
Xuanzang and his party arrived within the borders of Gao Village.
In Gao Village, there was a Squire Gao, nearly sixty years of age, with a well-off family. He had a daughter named Gao Cuilan, who was exceedingly beautiful, had just turned twenty, and was not yet betrothed.
But she had been harassed by the Pig Demon.
After Xuanzang brought his people here, he learned of the situation.
"What?!"
"That evil beast demands a pair of virgin boys and girls to eat every month?!"
Squire Gao said, "Yes, yes."
Xuanzang said, "And every month, it also requires a young woman in the prime of her youth to serve it?"
Squire Gao nodded furiously. "Yes, yes. In truth, they can't even last a month. Half a month at most, and the woman will be tortured to death by that Pig Demon. In the end, there isn't even an intact corpse left—she's eaten alive by that Pig Demon."
Xuanzang said, "Do the Cultivators of the mortal world not intervene?"
Squire Gao said, "Aiyo, that Pig Demon's magic is profound. Several great Cultivators at the Returning to Void and Merging with Dao realm couldn't take him down. Even when they came, it was for nothing. He still hasn't been subdued."
"I heard the people from the Demon-Slaying Division say that if they still can't resolve that Pig Demon, they'll request instructions from above and transfer a true immortal down from the ancestral land to slay that Pig Demon."
That was actually very easy to understand.
The Demon-Slaying Division's duty was to slay demons and eliminate devils, safeguarding the peace of the common people in the mortal world.
Though the Pig Demon bringing disaster to Gao Village was powerful, he