How on Earth Did You Convince Her?

Rakshasi couldn't even be bothered to criticize Su Qing anymore.

After all, saying more was pointless.

She simply led everyone into the cave residence.

Inside the residence.

When Red Boy saw Su Qing entering with her mother, she immediately rushed over and said, "Sister Su, you really came! Mother didn't have any conflict with you just now, did she? I saw her leave, and she looked absolutely furious!"

Seeing Red Boy, Su Qing merely smiled and rubbed her head, saying, "Don't worry, what conflict could there be? If there were, how could I be a guest in this manor?"

Red Boy chuckled and said, "Hehe, that's good. I was afraid Sister Su would be bullied by Mother! It’s been so long since I last saw you, I missed you to death! Mother wouldn't let me go out and even said Sister Su was a bad influence. Sister Su is clearly so wonderful, how could she be a bad influence? Hmph~"

Su Qing’s mouth couldn't help but twitch. "But not listening to your parents is still wrong of you."

"I was listening," Red Boy pouted. "It’s just that Mother wouldn't let me play with Sister, and she kept me locked up here, so I stopped listening..."

Su Qing felt somewhat helpless...

It was precisely because of this girl that she had ended up fighting the parents!

Fortunately, her strength was great enough; otherwise, there really would have been no way to settle this.

"Forget it, just be obedient from now on," Su Qing said, shaking her head.

"I know," Red Boy nodded.

Seeing Red Boy’s well-behaved manner, Rakshasi was momentarily speechless...

In front of her, the girl was a rebellious brat.

In front of Su Qing, she was this obedient.

This child was truly head over heels for her.

She really didn't know what was so good about Su Qing that she could charm her daughter so thoroughly.

Rakshasi looked at Su Qing and sighed again, feeling even more exasperated...

Su Qing turned to look at Rakshasi and said, "By the way, besides explaining the situation, I came for another matter."

Rakshasi nodded and said, "It's for the Plantain Fan, right?"

Su Qing gave a helpless smile and nodded. "Yes! It was only because Wukong asked me to help borrow the fan that I realized there was a misunderstanding between us."

"Fine, if you want to borrow it, then take it. Just remember to return it," Rakshasi waved her hand, not wanting to say much more to Su Qing.

Because the more she looked at Su Qing, the more she disliked her...

In truth, there wasn't any massive grudge between them.

It was simply because Su Qing had 'abducted' her daughter that she found Su Qing unpleasant to look at.

Unfortunately, even if she was unhappy, there was nothing she could do but endure it for now.

Wukong immediately beamed upon hearing this and said to Rakshasi, "Thank you, Sister-in-law! Thank you!"

"Hmph, just don't you dare lose my fan," Rakshasi said with displeasure, waving him off.

Wukong naturally knew she didn't like him much.

But Wukong didn't care; he was just here to borrow the fan, and he had succeeded.

"Don't worry, Sister-in-law. How could I dare take your things? Once I've extinguished the fires of the Flaming Mountains, I'll return the fan to you," Wukong said with a grin as he took the fan.

Rakshasi rolled her eyes at him and then said, "Fine, go and come back quickly."

Wukong nodded with a smile and then turned to leave.

Seeing this, Su Qing smiled and nodded at Rakshasi. "I've troubled you."

"It’s just lending him something," Rakshasi shook her head. "Besides, since you've asked, how could I not lend it?"

Su Qing smiled and said, "If you didn't lend it, I couldn't exactly force you!"

"Heh," Rakshasi said crossly. "Forget it. More importantly... let's have a proper talk about my daughter, the Holy Infant!"

Su Qing nodded. "Alright."

Rakshasi said to Red Boy, "Go outside with Leng Xiang for a walk. I have some things I want to discuss with your Sister Su in private."

"..." Red Boy looked at the two of them and asked, "Mother, you aren't allowed to bully Sister Su!"

Rakshasi was speechless. "...It’s hard to say who's bullying whom."

Rakshasi was truly exasperated. She was clearly the weaker one, so why was she being told not to bully Su Qing?

Her daughter was taking the side of an outsider far too much!

Tsk.

This Su Qing wasn't a snake demon; she was clearly a fox spirit!

She was even more formidable than the fox spirit that enchanted King Zhou.

Rakshasi tapped the girl on the head and said, "Alright, get out! Haven't you been wanting to go out for a walk? Now you have the chance, why are you being so slow?"

"I wanted to go out before so I could sneak off to see Sister Su. Now that Sister Su is right here, I'm naturally not in a hurry," Red Boy said as if it were obvious.

Rakshasi was even more speechless.

Fortunately, the Bull Demon King, who was nearby, put in a few words to help.

Only then did Red Boy obediently follow them out.

After Red Boy left.

The Bull Demon King was also kicked out by his wife to sit outside the door.

In this way, only Su Qing and Rakshasi remained in the entire cave residence.

The two of them talked for a very long time.

They still hadn't finished even by the time Wukong returned to return the Plantain Fan.

"Big Brother, why are you sitting outside?" Wukong asked, scratching his head.

The Bull Demon King chuckled. "Your sister-in-law wanted to have a private chat with your Big Sister, so I was kicked out. You're here to return the fan? You can just give it to me."

Wukong nodded. "Then I'll return the fan to you, Big Brother."

"Mm! Do you want to stay for dinner?"

"I can't. I have to go back to protect my Master on the journey to the West. I can't stay long," Wukong said with a grin. "It's a pity I can't properly thank Sister-in-law and Big Sister, but I'll come back to pay my respects when I have the chance."

"Go on, then!" The Bull Demon King didn't intend to delay Wukong further.

Wukong smiled and departed on his Somersault Cloud.

Long after Wukong had left.

The two women finally finished their conversation.

When they came out, their relationship seemed to have significantly recovered.

"You two are finally done talking."

The Bull Demon King couldn't help but marvel; women really could talk, and they had talked for so long.

He had no idea what they had been discussing.

Su Qing looked at the Bull Demon King and nodded with a smile.

Rakshasi asked, "Where is that girl, the Holy Infant?"

"She went to the mortal market," the Bull Demon King said, rubbing his nose.

"Hmph, I'll go pick them up," Rakshasi said, glancing at the Bull Demon King. "You entertain Sister Su properly."

"..."

The Bull Demon King really couldn't understand what these two had talked about all afternoon. How did they come out acting like they were friends again?

However, the Bull Demon King decided he was too lazy to think about it...

He wouldn't figure it out anyway.

"I know, I know," the Bull Demon King nodded, watching Rakshasi leave.

After Rakshasi departed.

The Bull Demon King glanced at Su Qing and asked, "What exactly did you talk about with my wife? How did you come out and make up?"

"Matters between women—it’s best you don't ask too much," Su Qing smiled, offering no explanation.

The Bull Demon King rubbed his nose, looking depressed.

Then, as if remembering something, Su Qing asked, "By the way, I heard you have a concubine, a Jade-Faced Fox?"

"A concubine? I don't have any concubine! You know what kind of explosive temper my wife has. If I dared to take a concubine, wouldn't she tear me apart?"

The Bull Demon King shook his head and said:

"However, if you're talking about a Jade-Faced Fox, I do know one... At the Cloud-Touching Cave on Cloud-Accumulating Mountain, there is a Thousand-Year Fox King. That Fox King has a daughter, who is a Jade-Faced Fox known as Princess Jade-Face."

"Before that Thousand-Year Fox King died, he did have the intention of seeking me as a son-in-law. But you know my situation; how could I possibly agree?"

"Moreover, that Princess Jade-Face seems to have someone in her heart and refused to marry me no matter what."

"So the matter was dropped."

"When my wife found out back then, she even threw a fit over it!"

"Sigh, she almost tore my nose off."

After hearing the Bull Demon King's words, Su Qing was slightly dazed...

Wasn't this a bit off?

Where did this Princess Jade-Face get a sweetheart from?

Su Qing had a bit of a headache. She had originally intended to persuade the Bull Demon King to be faithful to his wife, but she hadn't expected that he hadn't married the Jade-Faced Fox at all—and that the fox already had someone else in mind.

"This... there are too many variables," Su Qing shook her head inwardly.

Then she asked, "By the way, do you know who that Jade-Faced Fox's sweetheart is?"

"This?"

The Bull Demon King thought for a moment and said:

"I only heard about this, so I don't know if it's true... That Jade-Faced Fox went out with her mother when she was little and got separated. She was caught by a farmer who was going to skin her and sell her on the street."

"Fortunately, she was saved by a woman... who even gave her a very precious pill, healing her injuries and allowing her to hold on until her mother found her."

"If not for that pill, even if she had been saved from the farmer, she wouldn't have survived to see her mother."

"So she intended to repay that lady... wanting to find her and give herself to her in marriage."

"It’s just that she has searched for so long and still hasn't found that lady from back then."

Hearing this, Su Qing felt the story sounded familiar...

She felt as if she had experienced such a thing in her memory.

Unfortunately, she had lived for too long and couldn't remember such trivial matters.

"Perhaps that person is already dead?" Su Qing replied casually.

The Bull Demon King shook his head. "Probably not! Since that person had such healing medicine, her status must be extraordinary; there's no reason she couldn't live for a few centuries. Besides, that Jade-Faced Fox paid a high price for a divination, which said the person is still alive and currently holds an extraordinary status. It’s just that they couldn't calculate exactly who or where she is."

Su Qing glanced at the Bull Demon King and then simply nodded...

"Forget it, it doesn't have much to do with me anyway."

After saying this, the Bull Demon King turned to look at Su Qing and asked, "Speaking of which, why did you suddenly ask about this?"

"Nothing, I was just asking on someone's behalf," Su Qing said. "Since you haven't done anything to betray Sister Rakshasi, then there's no problem."

Bull Demon King: "..."

What kind of dark deal did these two women make in private?!

They wouldn't be plotting against him together, would they?

He looked at Su Qing and felt that she was becoming increasingly impossible to see through.

After that, Su Qing didn't say much more to the Bull Demon King.

Before long, Rakshasi returned with Leng Xiang and the little one...

When Red Boy saw Su Qing, she looked happy and said, "Sister and Mother have made up?"

Su Qing nodded and said, "We were never at odds. It was just a small misunderstanding."

Rakshasi merely nodded plainly.

Red Boy smiled and said, "That's good. If Mother and Sister fought, I really wouldn't know whose side to take."

Rakshasi rolled her eyes. Did she not know whose side this girl would take?

This brat who took the side of an outsider.

Su Qing smiled helplessly, not knowing what to say...

And so, Su Qing and Leng Xiang stayed for dinner...

However, after dinner, Su Qing did not stay the night.

After saying goodbye to Red Boy's family, she returned to the Changbai Mountains.

After Su Qing left.

Red Boy asked Rakshasi, "Mother, are you not going to stop me from seeing Sister anymore?"

While peeling fruit, Rakshasi nodded and said, "I won't stop you."

"Why? Has Mother finally realized how good Sister Su is?"

Rakshasi glanced at Red Boy, then stuffed the fruit into her mouth, saying, "There is no why... Just keep your mouth shut and cultivate properly. Don't ask about anything else."

But Rakshasi’s behavior only made Red Boy more curious...

What exactly happened to make her mother suddenly change her mind and allow her to go play with Su Qing?

But since her mother wouldn't say, she couldn't get an answer no matter how she asked.

She gave up thinking about it and started thinking about other things instead.

"I wonder if Mother will stop me when I say I want to marry Sister Su in the future... But since she's no longer stopping me from seeing her, it should be a tacit agreement, right? No, allowing me to play with her doesn't necessarily mean she agrees."

"Ah, so annoying..."

"Thinking is so annoying!"

Red Boy clutched her head and rolled around on her bed.

Sitting nearby, Rakshasi watched her daughter rolling on the bed and sighed helplessly...

The next day.

The westward group set off again, crossing the eight hundred miles of the Flaming Mountains.

Watching from a distance, Guanyin Bodhisattva revealed a smile. Everything was still within calculations.

"But... that girl Su Qing really has a way! She actually convinced Rakshasi," Guanyin Bodhisattva muttered to herself. "Forget it, it's her own ability to convince her, so I won't interfere."

"However... now that the Bull Demon King’s tribulation has been skipped because of Su Qing..."

"We'll have to add another tribulation later."

"Sigh, this girl really makes one both love and hate her!"

"By the way, she also promised the Buddha to handle one tribulation. Mm, I'll go ask her later!"

"But before that..."

"I should go see that Jade-Faced Fox."

"Sigh, the Buddha really knows how to order people around... With one word from him, I have to run my legs off."

"After the journey to the West is over, I must find a chance to take a proper vacation."

Guanyin Bodhisattva muttered to herself, unable to help but complain about the Buddha.

Muzha, who was following her, pretended not to hear anything...

It wasn't the first or second time Guanyin had complained about the Buddha...

Before long.

Guanyin arrived above the place where the Jade-Faced Fox currently lived, transformed into an old Daoist fortune-teller, and descended to the ground.

Carrying a fortune-telling banner, she slowly walked past the wooden house where the Jade-Faced Fox lived and glanced at the fox, who was painting in the courtyard.

Then she said with a chuckle, "Young lady!"

Hearing the old Daoist's voice, the Jade-Faced Fox, who had been painting seriously, stopped her brush and looked up at the old man.

She smiled and asked, "Old gentleman... is something the matter? Are you asking for directions?"

"No, I'm just curious who the woman in your painting is?" the old Daoist asked with a smile.

"This? This is a savior of mine... Unfortunately, this is only the appearance she took after transforming. I still don't know her true form even now!" The Jade-Faced Fox smiled, not hiding anything.

She wasn't going to expose the fact that she was a demon, so there was nothing she couldn't say.

"Oh? Then do you want to find where this benefactor is?" the old Daoist asked.

"Naturally... unfortunately, I've asked for divinations several times, but several seniors couldn't calculate where she is."

"How about letting this old man try?" The old Daoist smiled and said, "Don't worry, this divination is free. I see that you and I are fated, so I will perform this reading for you."

The Jade-Faced Fox did not refuse. Although she felt the old Daoist surely wouldn't be able to calculate Su Qing's location either, since he had offered to help, it was better to accept.

Anyway, it was free...

What if he actually calculated it?

"Then I'll trouble you, Senior," the Jade-Faced Fox said.

With that, the old Daoist began to calculate with his fingers...

This made the Jade-Faced Fox blink. Didn't he need to ask her for any information?

But she didn't say much, assuming the old Daoist was just a charlatan... as for why he didn't want her money, she didn't know.

While she was thinking.

The old Daoist finished his calculation.

The old Daoist said, "Your benefactor is on the Changbai Mountains... she is currently the Mountain God there!"

"Ah?"

"However, you don't need to go directly to the Changbai Mountains to find her... If you go there, it will be very difficult to see her," the old Daoist said. "Head north from here, all the way to the Northern Continent. In the Northern Continent, you might encounter her clone. You can then follow her clone back to the Changbai Mountains."

"This is the appearance of that clone; remember it well."

With that, the old Daoist tossed a portrait to the Jade-Faced Fox.

The Jade-Faced Fox was still dazed and instinctively caught the item.

But she quickly snapped out of it.

She hurriedly asked, "What do you mean by clone? What do you mean I won't see her if I go to the Changbai Mountains? And why did you... eh? Where did he go?"

She was only halfway through her sentence when she realized the man had vanished.

Then, she felt a wave of Buddhist chanting from above.

She looked up and saw a female Bodhisattva dressed in white, with an extremely gentle appearance.

Seeing this Bodhisattva, for some reason, the Jade-Faced Fox instinctively wanted to bow...

The other party didn't pay her much mind and only said, "If you truly want to find her, go to the Northern Continent! You share a fate with her; you will be able to find her if you go."

With that, the Bodhisattva disappeared.

Leaving the Jade-Faced Fox dazed on the spot.

And when she came to her senses, she remembered that the Bodhisattva was Guanyin Bodhisattva.

She had even worshipped Guanyin Bodhisattva before!

"Can I find my benefactor if I go to the Northern Continent? But what exactly is a clone?" The Jade-Faced Fox’s mind was filled with a thousand thoughts.

If it were just the old Daoist, she certainly wouldn't have fully believed it, but now that Guanyin Bodhisattva had appeared, she had to believe it...

Because a Bodhisattva would never lie.

As for why she was telling her this.

The Jade-Faced Fox didn't know...

But she didn't need to know.

Just being told where she could find her benefactor was already a blessing from the Bodhisattva.

She let out a long breath, calming her excited heart.

Then she unrolled the portrait...

In the scroll was a woman. This woman’s appearance was very beautiful, and she looked exceptionally gentle just by looking at her.

Although this was a woman she had never seen before.

Since Guanyin Bodhisattva said this was the appearance of her benefactor's clone.

Then this must be the appearance of the clone.

The Bodhisattva certainly wouldn't lie to her.

"Phew, in that case, I'll go to the Northern Continent!" The Jade-Faced Fox took a deep breath, rolled up the portrait, and muttered to herself.

On the other side.

At the Changbai Mountains.

Su Qing was currently having her clone pack up...

Preparing to set off soon.

"Yudie, you should go pack up too! Otherwise, when it's time to leave, you'll be in a frantic rush again," Su Qing said, looking at the leisurely Yudie.

Hearing this, Yudie immediately smiled and said, "When Mother went out with Big Mother earlier, I was already packing! I'm really looking forward to going out! How could I not prepare early?"

"You brat..." Su Qing was slightly speechless. "You're only this diligent at times like this."

"Hehe! But it's such a pity. I thought Ying'er would be able to go out with me!"

Yudie sat beside Su Qing, swinging her feet, and said:

"Too bad Second Mother won't let Ying'er go out~ It's such a pity. But thinking about seeing Ying'er’s envious expression, it's not that much of a pity anymore."

Su Qing: "..."

Su Ying: "╭(╯^╰)╮!"