Chapter 1185: Chapter 353: [Used It Myself First?] (Part 2)
After watching for a few minutes, Chen Yan slapped his forehead. "Right, my bad. How could I let you watch this kind of filthy stuff."
He quickly exited, thought for a moment, and directly opened the old TV version of Journey to the West.
Started from the very beginning.
As soon as the opening theme "Cloud Palace Rapid Music" came on—dengdengdengdengdengdengdengdeng... the Monkey leaped out!
Chen Yan chuckled, watching the female ghost’s expression.
The female ghost just stood there on the steps, quietly watching the TV screen. This time she seemed to have no objections. Her face didn’t change, but she didn’t look disgusted either.
Chen Yan thought for a bit and asked, "So, is this okay to watch?"
The female ghost didn’t react.
Chen Yan let out a breath of relief.
Looks like it’s fine.
Even if it wasn’t, no big deal. If Journey to the West didn’t work, there was still the old Investiture of the Gods, and Legend of the White Snake and the like.
Afraid something might go wrong, Chen Yan specially stood there and watched with the female ghost for a while.
Result: after five minutes...
He got sucked in!!
When the episode ended, Chen Yan smacked his lips, still wanting more.
Nothing beats a true classic!
Aside from the special effects being trashy because of the era, everything else was flawless.
But...
To be honest, Chen Yan had never imagined that one day, he’d be in his own home, keeping a Saint Venerable who’d manifested as a female ghost company, and watching a whole episode of Sixth Master playing the Monkey!
But it was good, he loved it!
Chen Yan didn’t even know where the impulse came from. He just didn’t leave. He dragged over a chair and sat down, and kept watching Journey to the West with this Saintess Ghost.
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"Eh? So this Monkey, born between heaven and earth, nurtured by Nuwa’s sky-mending stone... Right, does this thing have its own fortune or Life Chart?"
"Oh yeah, tell me, does the Heavenly Dao care about this Monkey or not?"
Unknowingly, when it got to the episode where the Great Saint rampages through the Underworld and alters the King of Hell’s Book of Life and Death, Chen Yan casually dropped a couple of lines like this.
The female ghost stayed silent.
But Chen Yan noticed that her gaze shifted over.
Then, Chen Yan’s heart gave a sudden thump!
In the female ghost’s eyes, there was an extremely subtle, almost imperceptible change.
It was as if in those eyes that were like a still, bottomless well, there flashed a faint trace of...
Contempt?
Anyway, it was that kind of "don’t think much of it" feeling, like Chen Yan hadn’t just spoken, but farted—said something ridiculously absurd and ignorant.
Chen Yan instantly understood: he was being mocked.
Just as he was brewing his words, planning to say a couple more things—
The female ghost suddenly moved again!
She drifted over to Chen Yan’s side—this movement made Chen Yan’s body freeze for a moment, then he slowly forced himself to relax.
The female ghost pointed at a glass of water on the table in front of Chen Yan, then pointed at the tabletop.
Chen Yan raised his eyebrows and immediately got it.
Without hesitating, he poured some of the water out onto the table and smeared it evenly.
The female ghost nodded in satisfaction and traced in the air with her finger.
Immediately, a few words appeared in the water stains on the table:
Heavenly Dao = fortune.
Then a second line:
Fortune ≠ Heavenly Dao.
"Huh?" Chen Yan stared at the two lines on the table, then took a breath. The teasing look vanished from his eyes as he asked earnestly, "You mean, fortune is a part of the Heavenly Dao?"
After asking, he immediately looked up at the female ghost.
Chen Yan saw that sure enough, the female ghost glanced at him again.
But this time, that trace of contempt and mockery in her eyes was even stronger.
This expression, this look, was basically saying: how can anyone not even understand this?
Mm, how to put it—just like that famous look on Elder Qian’s face in that viral clip on the internet when he was talking.
Even the dumbest person wouldn’t be unable to learn calculus, right?
Chen Yan had no time to care that he was being mocked.
Come on, he was just a tiny Third Realm ant. Being mocked by a top Saint Venerable big shot, what’s there to be ashamed of?
It’s like, you’re the math class rep of a high school class and the Fields Medal god personally mocks you twice—no shame in that!
Chen Yan closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Then how exactly does one comprehend the Heavenly Dao?"
This time the female ghost did respond.
Her finger lightly traced, and two lines quickly appeared on the table.
Everything!
Everything can become the Heavenly Dao.
Chen Yan’s eyes suddenly lit up!
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Unfortunately, when Chen Yan wanted to ask more, the female ghost completely ignored him.
Her gaze no longer turned to Chen Yan, but locked back onto the TV screen.
Well, the plot was about to reach the part where the Great Saint goes to Heaven to be the Keeper of the Heavenly Horses.
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That night, Chen Yan did nothing else—he just stayed home watching Journey to the West.
Finished watching the havoc at the Peach Banquet, then the havoc in Heaven, the one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, then to the Monkey getting captured and suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain by the Buddha...
Episode after episode, and all of a sudden, when the Monkey was crushed under the mountain, Chen Yan felt, deep in his soul, that he suddenly sensed a sound!
It was a...
Sigh?
A faint sigh, laced with a hint of helplessness and a hint of mockery!
Chen Yan snapped his head around and saw the female ghost staring at the Monkey crushed under the mountain on the screen, her gaze flickering!
Before he could say anything, the female ghost’s figure suddenly flickered and disappeared.
"Eh? You’re not watching anymore? They’re about to go fetch the scriptures—that’s when the main story starts!"
What, she’s this emotionally invested in a TV show?
And this is supposed to be a Saint Venerable?
Chen Yan chuckled.
But then, a flash of Spiritual Light suddenly stirred in his heart. He’d originally been about to turn off the TV, but instead picked up the remote and pressed a couple of buttons.
With a serious expression, he rewound the series back to the first episode and started it over again!
