Journey to the West: Tang Monk Conquers Everything

On the journey to the west for scriptures, Jiang Liu secretly gave himself a thumbs up.

Although the Calamity Book has been lost, for Jiang Liu, using the Calamity Book to create a rift between the Buddhist Sect and the Heavenly Court is worth every effort.

After a great battle, Kong Xuan must still harbor suspicions about the Jade Emperor being the mysterious person.

And the Jade Emperor? Naturally, he harbors deep hatred.

Now that Kong Xuan has disguised himself as the Lapis Lazuli King Buddha in an attempt to seize the Kongdong Seal from him, but the Kongdong Seal instead fell into the hands of Emperor of Tang, Li Shimin, the Jade Emperor is even more furious.

If the Jade Emperor finds out that the Lapis Lazili King Buddha is actually Kong Xuan in disguise, then the relationship between him and Kong Xuan will certainly further deteriorate.

"Not bad, not bad, to turn the situation into this after knowing you couldn't keep the Calamity Book, it's simply the perfect response, isn't it?" Thinking about the current situation, Jiang Liu nodded with satisfaction.

Praising himself for his response.

Buzz!

However, while Jiang Liu and his companions were walking halfway and feeling very satisfied with his response, suddenly, the void twisted, and a figure appeared in front of Jiang Liu.

"Taoist friend, long time no see!" The figure slightly bowed to Jiang Liu; it was none other than the Evil Corpse.

"You, could it be..."

Normally, the Evil Corpse is always on the awakening page, awakening skills, so Jiang Liu's face slightly changed when he saw the Evil Corpse suddenly appear in front of him, then he was overjoyed.

"Yes, that's right, the Weakness Talisman skill has been fully awakened!" Seeing Jiang Liu's extremely happy look, the Evil Corpse naturally knew what Jiang Liu was thinking and nodded in acknowledgment.

"Really? That's great!" Hearing the Evil Corpse's response, Jiang Liu's face was full of joy.

With both the Sheep Transformation Technique and the Weakness Talisman skills already fully awakened, what skill should be awakened next?

After thinking it over, Jiang Liu felt that the Silencing Zen was the most suitable skill.

However, everyone awakens their own skills, and the Evil Corpse can only awaken the skills of his Demon Master.

He doesn't understand the Silencing Zen skill, and if this Silencing Zen skill is to be awakened, it would have to be done by himself, right?

Awakening a skill takes quite some time.

"Hmm, these days, you and the Good Corpse haven't been doing dungeons, so your levels have fallen behind a bit. Next, you two should work hard to gain experience points and strive to reach the level of the Daluo Golden Immortal!" Jiang Liu thought about entering the awakening page and decided to hold off for now, considering the long-term, then spoke to the Evil Corpse.

"Alright, understood!" Hearing this, the Evil Corpse nodded.

Recently, Kong Xuan had been monitoring the Journey to the West Pilgrimage Team, so both he and the Good Corpse hadn't been doing dungeons, and their levels indeed fell behind a bit.

The next half-month passed in the blink of an eye.

"Master, have you noticed something strange about this temperature?" On this day, while on the road, Sun Wukong suddenly spoke.

"The temperature? Something strange?" Hearing Sun Wukong's words, Jiang Liu looked at the sky in surprise.

Biting cold wind, dancing snowflakes, and the grass by the roadside was coated with a layer of frost.

"Wukong, it's already November in this world, so this light snowfall is not unusual, is it?" After seeing the change in the sky, Jiang Liu said.

"Snowfall in November can indeed be explained, but this temperature is unusually low!" Hearing Jiang Liu's words, Sun Wukong spoke up.

"Yes, Holy Monk, the Great Saint is right; this temperature is significantly low!" As Sun Wukong's words fell, the White Mouse Demon nodded in agreement.

While speaking, the White Mouse Demon tightened his clothes, appearing to be very cold.

The White Mouse Demon's appearance made Jiang Liu raise his eyebrows slightly.

Good heavens, even the White Mouse Demon felt a hint of chill? That truly means the low temperature is indeed surprising.

The White Dragon Horse continued forward for a while and then paused slightly. Snowflakes fluttered, snow and ice covered the sky. What met Jiang Liu's eyes was this snowy scene.

As far as one could see, it was a completely snowy world, with white as the main theme.

Not far away, one could see a small village, entirely covered in snow, and even the trees were all encased in ice, looking like gigantic ice sculptures.

"Indeed, being covered by snow is one thing, but completely transforming into an ice sculpture world, this temperature is excessively low!" Jiang Liu murmured to himself as he observed the scene before him.

"Disciples, let's go, let's take a look..."

In the original "Journey to the West," there doesn't seem to be such a calamity, right? Is it the butterfly effect caused by my presence? Jiang Liu thought for a moment and then called Sun Wukong and the others.

As they spoke, the Journey to the West Pilgrimage Team led by Jiang Liu all headed towards the village ahead.

Since there's a village, that's good. If there are people living in the village, we might be able to understand the situation around here.

Of course, if someone asks for help to solve the problem here, that would be even better, wouldn't it mean there's a quest?

After walking for a while, Jiang Liu and the others entered the village. Indeed, the entire village seemed completely sealed by ice. Besides the buildings, wells, and trees, Jiang Liu and the others even saw cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, and humans—all frozen in ice, lifelike in appearance.

"Master, it appears the freezing situation here spread in an instant, so these people and cattle and sheep didn't have time to escape!"

Sun Wukong spoke to Jiang Liu, looking at the village frozen as if someone had pressed the pause button.

"That's right, indeed!" Jiang Liu nodded in agreement with what he saw. If it hadn't spread in such a short time, this place wouldn't appear like this.

Jiang Liu and his group walked around the ice-sealed village, everything was frozen, naturally, Jiang Liu couldn't find anyone to talk to.

However, when Jiang Liu looked at these frozen humans, he discovered their health bars above their heads were not completely empty; most of them still had health bars.

Some people's health bars were only about 20%, looking very dangerous, but some people's health bars were over 80%, still looking very healthy.

"Remember, if the freezing speed is fast enough, people may not necessarily die; instead, the organs and body functions just pause?"

Looking at this frozen village, Jiang Liu's mind recalled that many terminally ill people in his previous life chose to freeze themselves, hoping one day medical advancements could unfreeze them for treatment.

Looking at this frozen village, the people here didn't die, Jiang Liu believed it was a momentary freeze that caused their body functions to pause.

"Master, it seems these people aren't dead; should we unfreeze them?" Sun Wukong asked Jiang Liu after observing these frozen people with his golden eyes.

"Wukong, don't rush. Before understanding the problem, don't act recklessly!" Jiang Liu shook his head at Sun Wukong's words.

As he spoke, Jiang Liu pondered for a moment and then said to Sun Wukong, "Wukong, summon the Local Deity and ask what exactly is happening here!"

"Alright, Master!" Hearing Jiang Liu's words, Sun Wukong nodded and replied.

Then he stomped heavily on the ground, shouting, "Where is the Local Deity?"

With Sun Wukong's actions, the ground split open, and an old man with white hair rose up, bowing to Jiang Liu and the others.

"Hello, Local Deity..." Jiang Liu maintained his modesty and politeness, responding.

Then he asked, "Local Deity, this monk has a question. What's going on with this village? Why is it completely frozen?"

"Holy Monk, this matter is hard to explain!"

Hearing Jiang Liu's inquiry, the Local Deity shook his head and said, "About a year ago, suddenly an ice block fell from the sky, and everything within a ten-mile radius of this village was frozen, even the temperature within a hundred-mile radius dropped sharply, much colder than the coldest days of winter!"

"Ice block falling from the sky!?" Jiang Liu's expression was slightly startled upon hearing the Local Deity's words.

After exchanging glances with Sun Wukong and the others, Jiang Liu then asked, "Local Deity, do you know what exactly that ice block that fell from the sky is?"

"Forgive my low cultivation level; I can't even approach that ice block!" The Local Deity replied apologetically, lowering his head.

Hearing the Local Deity's words, Jiang Liu thought about the White Mouse Demon's Taiyi True Immortal level of cultivation, feeling cold. Therefore, it seemed reasonable that the Local Deity couldn't approach that chilling ice block?

"Where is the ice block that fell from the sky?" Jiang Liu asked after thinking.

"I do know; it's in a lake about a hundred yards west of the village, of course, the lake has already frozen into an Ice Lake!" The Local Deity responded to Jiang Liu's inquiry.

"Okay, we got it. Local Deity, you may return!" Jiang Liu nodded, then waved his hand.

"Holy Monk, Great Saint, farewell!" The Local Deity bid farewell and then disappeared into the ground.

Jiang Liu naturally led Sun Wukong and the others towards the Ice Lake outside the village.