Although he was an Ascetic Monk, money not obtained through alms begging held no Creation Power for him.
But repairing temples and providing relief to civilians suffering from war all required silver.
The moment the Mountain Sprite saw this, she went mad and cried:
"If you two dare sell that Moonshadow Stone, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth!"
Mountain Sprites had no distinction between male and female. The reason this Mountain Sprite named Rou'er had chosen to become a beautiful woman when she cultivated a human form was that, when she was enlightened into human form, her desire for pleasing sights, one of the seven desires, had surpassed the others.
So hearing that Xu Taiping intended to expose her hideous state to the world was even more unbearable to her than being killed.
Boom!
In her fury, the Mountain Sprite actually suppressed her appetite, flung aside the Mountain Boar King's head in her hands, and charged at Xu Taiping and the young monk Xuanzhi with terrifying might.
"Amitabha."
Without needing a reminder from Xu Taiping, Monk Xuanzhi began reciting the Six Livestock Prosperity Spell. At once, the Mountain Sprite's anger, born of her desire for pleasing sights, was once again suppressed by her appetite.
At the same time, Xu Taiping broke the clay seal on a jar of fine wine and threw it straight at the Mountain Sprite.
To the Mountain Sprite, whose appetite was now so ravenous that she even wanted to gnaw on grass, this jar of fine wine was simply an irresistible temptation.
"Snort, snort..."
The Mountain Sprite paid Xu Taiping and Monk Xuanzhi no further attention. She leaped up, caught the jar, and poured the wine into her mouth.
Having done all this, Xu Taiping leaped up and landed on Ping'an's other