As Gungun's good corpse, A Bei was kind by nature. Naturally, he could not stand by and watch Zhu Bajie secretly conceive a litter of piglets, so he flashed forward and blocked his path.
"Grandmaster?" Seeing A Bei suddenly appear before him and bar his way, Zhu Bajie stopped and asked in confusion, "What are you doing? Old Pig wants a drink of water!"
A Bei answered directly, "Bajie, you mustn't drink this water. In ancient times, Lady Nuwa..."
A Bei explained the origins and effects of the Childbearing River's water to Zhu Bajie. Sun Wukong and Ao Lie heard him too, and once he finished, all three fellow disciples sucked in a breath of cold air.
Water that made anyone pregnant immediately, whether immortal, demon, or devil-even a man? How could something so wicked exist in this world?
Rumble! Suddenly, dark clouds blanketed the sky overhead, with lightning flashing and thunder crashing. They looked up at the clouds in confusion, then realized what had happened and hastily said in their hearts, Miraculous! It's miraculous water!
The dark clouds promptly dispersed.
A Bei glanced speechlessly at the sky. Having a fair idea of what the monkey, pig, and dragon had been thinking, he found himself rather at a loss. Was she really that petty... ahem, that, well...?
Just then, an army of women came riding toward them from afar.
"Hyah!" At their head was a beautiful woman in red battle armor, her bearing valiant and imposing.
"Whoa!" Soon, the troop halted before A Bei and the others. At the sight of them, the women's faces filled with astonishment.
Men?
And four of them, no less!
Although one had a hairy face and a thunder god's jutting mouth, and another had a fat head and enormous ears and was hideous beyond