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Chapter 253: The Journey to the West - Subjugation of Demons (Second Update)

In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.

During this time, Chen Ye had been searching relentlessly for his father.

But he found nothing.

As time went on, Chen Ye's mood worsened.

After all, this was the world of Journey to the West: Conquering Demons!

A world inhabited by gods and Buddhas with boundless powers!

For outsiders like them, such a world was incredibly dangerous.

Although Chen Ye was merely an assistant, and if the employer died unexpectedly, he could return to the real world...

But this time, the employer was his father!

Chen Ye absolutely could not accept anything happening to Chairman Chen.

Moreover, without finding Chairman Chen, Chen Ye had no idea what the mission was.

Each day, he aimlessly wandered about, unsure of what to do.

"Damn this secret realm! What kind of game is it playing?"

Chen Ye was furious.

The secret realm had forcibly separated him from his father but provided no clues on how to protect Chairman Chen.

The only silver lining from the past two months was that he had grown stronger.

Name: Chen Ye

Physique: 9420

Spirit: 2206

Strength: 9420

Agility: 9420

Talent: Saitama Physique

Available Potential Points: 0

This was Chen Ye's current status.

Apart from his spirit attribute, his other three stats had surpassed 9,000.

In just two more months, all three of these stats would break through the 10,000 mark!

Additionally, Chen Ye had been dreaming about Saitama more frequently.

In these dreams, Saitama, due to his hair loss, had shaved his head completely bald and appeared increasingly vacant-eyed...

Chen Ye had a strong premonition.

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before the secret of this dream was fully revealed to him.

Having spent two months in an ancient society, Chen Ye had undergone significant changes.

Now, clad in the attire of an ancient knight-errant, dusty from travel, he no longer bore any trace of a modern man.

Two months later.

Chen Ye returned to the water village he had visited previously.

In fact, he had revisited this place several times during these two months.

Since this was the starting point of the storyline, he kept paying attention to it.

Chen Ye believed that if he couldn't find Chairman Chen directly, following the plotline might eventually lead to him.

After all, if his father had entered this world, the mission was bound to be connected to the story.

Today, the water village no longer had its previous atmosphere of peace.

On the contrary, the entire village was now engulfed in fear and panic!

This drastic change immediately caught Chen Ye's attention.

He remembered that last time, after he had warned the village chief, the chief had gone to town that very afternoon to bring back a Taoist priest to perform a ritual.

As expected, the ritual was completely useless and served only to comfort the villagers.

Initially, the villagers were terrified upon hearing that a demon might appear, and they avoided the water for several days.

Later, when the fish demon didn't show up, they let their guard down and resumed their usual activities.

The water village had then returned to its normal state!

Unexpectedly, there had been a new development today.

After asking around a bit, Chen Ye quickly learned that the fish demon had indeed appeared yesterday and had claimed the life of Changsheng's father.

One death.

It was enough to plunge the entire water village into terror.

Finally, the villagers realized that the bald exorcist the chief had encountered wasn't just making things up.

The demon's revenge had arrived...

Chen Ye didn't reveal himself.

He simply observed from the shadows.

He could easily eliminate the fish demon, but he didn't want to.

Having seen the movie, he knew that the fish demon was actually one of the trials arranged by the Buddha for the protagonist, "Chen Xuanzang," and one of his companions on the journey to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures!

Everything had already been meticulously planned by the Buddha.

If he were to intervene and kill the fish demon, what if it triggered a contingency response from the Buddha, who then came after him?

Chen Ye was very confident in his current strength.

However, he wasn't so blindly arrogant as to think he could take on the Buddha!

Even though this world wasn't the orthodox Journey to the West and the power levels weren't as high as in the original story, the Buddha was still not someone a mortal could provoke.

Just think about the "Buddha's Palm" technique that Chen Xuanzang ultimately unleashed—perhaps the true bald demon king (Saitama) could punch it back, but Chen Ye certainly couldn't withstand it right now.

"The Taoist priest is here! The Taoist priest is here!"

Cheers suddenly rang out from the water village, interrupting Chen Ye's thoughts.

Chen Ye looked over and saw the village chief hastily entering the village with several Taoist priests in tow.

Although he was still some distance away, with his spirit attribute of over 2,000, which enhanced his hearing, Chen Ye could clearly hear the villagers' conversation.

"Master Taoist, that demon is too fierce. Just yesterday, it ate Changsheng's father..." This was the village chief speaking.

The Taoist priest immediately replied, "Say no more. I've already sensed a strong demonic aura! This demon is indeed ferocious!"

The village chief quickly pleaded, "Master Taoist, everything depends on you. Please, this time, you must help us get rid of this man-eating demon!"

"Rest assured, leave it to us!"

With that, the Taoist priest ordered his disciples to set up a ritual altar.

Chen Ye had already recognized this so-called Taoist priest.

He was the fraud from the original plotline, completely incapable of exorcising demons.

It seemed that, even with Chen Ye's earlier warnings, the storyline had returned to its original trajectory.

Was it some kind of fate-correcting force at work, or was there an unseen hand orchestrating everything behind the scenes?

Chen Ye continued to watch.

What happened next unfolded exactly as it had in the original plot.

Before long, the fraudulent Taoist priest produced a stingray and claimed it was the demon's transformed body, declaring it had been slain.

He reassured everyone it was now safe to go back into the water.

At this moment, the protagonist, Chen Xuanzang, appeared and stated that the stingray was not the demon.

This, of course, embarrassed the fraudulent Taoist priest, leading to a heated argument.

Enraged, the fraud accused Chen Xuanzang of colluding with the demon and incited the villagers to execute him.

The ignorant villagers immediately captured Chen Xuanzang and hung him up.

It was almost identical to the original storyline.

Afterward, the fraudulent Taoist priest confidently assured everyone that the demon had been vanquished and that it was safe to return to the water.

Initially, the villagers were hesitant.

The fraudulent priest then forced one of his disciples to enter the water first.

Seeing that nothing happened, the villagers gradually felt reassured and began celebrating in the water.

Meanwhile, upstream, a massive fish demon, hearing the commotion, was rapidly swimming toward the village.

What followed would be a massacre...

At this moment, Chen Ye stood on a mountain overlooking the village.

Everything happening below was clearly visible to him.

However, Chen Ye wasn't paying much attention to the fish demon.

Instead, his interest was piqued by a few strangers who had recently appeared in the water village.

Although these strangers were dressed as ancient people and blended in well with the villagers, they couldn't escape Chen Ye's keen eyes.

When Chen Ye first arrived in this world, he had wandered around the water village—not aimlessly, but to memorize the faces of all the villagers using his extraordinary memory.

Now, these strangers had infiltrated the village, but Chen Ye could easily identify them.

He already had some guesses about their identities...

(End of Chapter)

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