Scouting Out the Situation
"Disciples, come quickly and save me! If you come now, we can still see each other one last time. But if you are any later, I will be dead."
Although Tang Xuanzang was deeply troubled, he still watched the women. After they hung Tang Xuanzang from the rafters, they took off their clothes. Tang Xuanzang was very surprised and thought to himself:
"Now that they've taken their clothes off, they must be interested in me."
It turned out that the women had only exposed their bellies, displaying their Divine Ability. Silk threads appeared around their waists, tightly binding the cave and preventing any sunlight from entering.
At the same time, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing suddenly saw a bright light ahead. Sun Wukong hurriedly jumped down from the tree and shouted:
"Oh no! Master has been captured by a monster! What should we do now?"
Sun Wukong pointed and shouted, "Look what's going on at the manor ahead!"
Following the direction Sun Wukong Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie looked and saw a faint light flashing ahead. Zhu Bajie was greatly surprised and, after a short while Zhu Bajie, said:
"Oh no! Master has encountered a demon! We must hurry and save him, or we won't be able to see him again!"
No sooner had Zhu Bajie finished speaking than he raised his Nine-Toothed Rake, ready to rush forward to rescue his master. However, Sun Wukong Zhu Bajie stopped Zhu Bajie and said to him:
"Don't panic. You can't see what's happening right now. Wait for me, I'll be right back."
After hearing what Sun Wukong said, Sha Wujing said to Sun Wukong:
"Brother Monkey, you must watch carefully, and you must be extremely careful. If you get caught by the monster, you're really doomed."
After hearing what Sha Wujing said, Sun Wukong nodded to Sha Wujing and then ran over in a Sun Wukong.
After a short while, Sun Wukong suddenly saw that the entrance to the cave abode was tightly wrapped with silk threads, Sun Wukong pressed it with his hand.
Suddenly, he noticed some slime. Sun Wukong had no idea what it was. Just as he was about to raise his Ruyi Jingu Bang to strike, he suddenly thought:
"I could easily disrupt even more layers of these things at once, let alone so many. But if I get used to them, I can disrupt them all. However, these are soft; if I disturb what's inside, they'll just trap me instead."
Just as Sun Wukong thought of this, he wanted to summon the local Land God, but at that moment, the Land God was wandering around the Land God Temple like a millstone.
The Earth Goddess asked the Land God with a puzzled look, "What's wrong with you, old man? You're running around like you have epilepsy."
After hearing what the Land God said, he hurriedly said to her:
"It seems you don't know, but a Great Sage Equal to Heaven has arrived, and before I could even greet him, he's already summoning me. What should I do now?"
Upon hearing this, the Earth Goddess immediately said to the Land God, "Go see him, why are you wandering around here?"
Immediately after hearing what the Land God said, he helplessly explained to her:
"If I go to see him now, he's wielding his Ruyi Jingu Bang) without restraint; he could kill me in an instant."
After hearing what the Land God said, the Land God thought about it carefully for a long time, and then said to him, "You're already old, so she certainly won't hit you."
"You have no idea, he's always loved hitting old people. What are we going to do now?"
Upon hearing this, the Land God was immediately filled with panic.
"What's the big deal? You'd better hurry up, or he'll hit you harder if you're late."
The Earth Goddess patted the Land God on the shoulder and spoke calmly to him.
After hearing this, the Land God could only tremble and walk out, kneeling beside Sun Wukong and saying, "Great Sage Sun, I am late now, please don't blame me, I am the local Land God."
After hearing what the local Land God said, Sun Wukong said to him, "Get up now. I have some questions for you. I don't want to hit you. I want to ask you what exactly this place is?"
The Land God immediately explained to Sun Wukong, "Great Sage, where exactly did you come from?"
After hearing what the local Land God said, Sun Wukong replied, "I am traveling from the Eastern Lands to the Western Heaven."
After pondering this for a long time, the Land God looked in another direction and said to Sun Wukong, "Since the Great Sage has come from the Eastern Lands, were you staying on that mountain ridge before?"
After hearing what the Land God, Sun Wukong said to him:
"I came from that mountaintop. Our luggage and horses are still on that ridge. Tell me quickly what happened there, don't keep me in suspense, or my Ruyi Jingu Bang might get carried away and strike you."
Upon hearing this, the Land God panicked and hurriedly explained to Sun Wukong, "Great Sage, you are unaware of this. On that mountain, there is a place called the Webbed Silk Cave, where seven demons live."
Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong immediately asked, "Is it a male or female demon living in there?"
After listening to this, the Land God pondered for a long time before saying to Sun Wukong, "Those living there are all female demons."
After hearing what the Land God said, Sun Wukong was immediately relieved and said to the Land God:
"Since they're all female demons, what's there to be afraid of? But just how Divine Ability are those female demons?"
After listening to this, the Land God pondered for a moment and then respectfully addressed Sun Wukong:
"Actually, I don't know about this either. I only know that there is a natural hot spring in the due south direction, which was originally the place of the Seven Fairies."
"After the monsters moved there, they took over the Seven Fairies' territory. The Seven Fairies didn't provoke the Yaomo, so those monsters must have been very powerful."
After hearing what the local Land God said, Sun Wukong pondered for a long time before asking, "What exactly are those monsters planning to do by occupying the bathhouse?"
Without hesitation, the Land God replied, "Those monsters only bathe three times a day; they'll come back in a little while."