Chapter 57: The Sun Lord is a Bit Confused
A roar echoed, shaking the mountains and forests, causing mountains to tremble, clouds to burst apart, and rivers to flow backward!
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The Howling Celestial Dog standing before Tang Sanzang was roared at until its eyes rolled back, nearly losing its life.
King Zhi was also yelled at until his face turned bright red and he thought to himself, "What the... is going on here?"
"Little black dog, what are you looking at? Do you think it's funny that I'm bald and want to mock me?" Tang Sanzang slowly lowered his head, his face fierce as he looked at the Howling Celestial Dog lying on the ground.
The Howling Celestial Dog replied with a sobbing tone, "High... that, Tang... Elder Tang, I didn't have that thought."
"Then what are you looking at?" Tang Sanzang spat out each word with a rebuke.
The Howling Celestial Dog quickly lowered its head...
Tang Sanzang's anger was uncontrollable as he said, "You actually dare not look at me!"
The Howling Celestial Dog replied with a crying tone, "Elder Tang, should I look at you or not?"
Tang Sanzang said, "Are you questioning me?"
The Howling Celestial Dog cried. How could he answer this question? But still, he plucked up the courage and said, "I just want you to tell me what I should do."
"Are you teaching me how to do things?"
Tang Sanzang raised his fist and didn't give the Howling Celestial Dog a chance to speak further, and threw a punch!
"Help!"
"Turning ground to steel, eat my punch!"
Boom!
In the distance, Zhu Ganglie and Sha Wujing were rushing wildly, carrying their burdens and pots while riding on the White Dragon Horse.
Suddenly they noticed the ground beneath them cracking open...
"Run! Run fast!" Zhu Ganglie shouted.
The White Dragon Horse was running so hard its tongue hung out, its eyes starting to roll back, yet it continued to sprint desperately.
With a loud bang!
Zhu Ganglie looked back to see the enormous Golden Helmet Mountain enveloped in a terrifying white light...
When the white light faded, Golden Helmet Mountain had also vanished.
A horrific shockwave followed, sweeping across all directions, turning smaller mountains into dust...
"Run faster!" Zhu Ganglie swung his rake, drawing out a galaxy, and the White Dragon Horse turned into its dragon form and began to swim in the river. Together they surged in speed and finally outran the shockwave...
Looking back, where were the mountains behind them? Only a boundless plain remained!
Or one might say, a boundless plain of steel!
For hundreds of miles around, all that was left was a smooth, mirror-like surface of steel...
A bald man stood there, with three large steel wine casks arranged around him, and behind the casks, little demons lay scattered on the ground.
Clearly, these little demons weren't stupid. They knew the wine was very important to Tang Sanzang and were in no danger of being blasted away, so they hid behind the wine casks and thus survived the lethal punch.
The Howling Celestial Dog was holding the remaining pot of wine, which saved its life.
In front of King Zhi appeared a silver bracelet that, like a black hole, sucked in all the shockwaves, protecting him thoroughly.
As for the one who threw the punch, he was now wobblingly taking over the pot of wine from the Howling Celestial Dog's hand, breaking open the clay seal, tilted his head back, and guzzled down...
And began drinking again.
"This is bad..."
Not only did Zhu Ganglie, Sha Wujing, and others realize something major was amiss, but even Ox King, Roaring Heavenly Dog, and the like knew that with this liquor down the hatch, this guy was going to go crazy!
Smash!
The empty wine jar shattered to pieces!
Tang Sanzang staggered toward the three huge wine jars and then, lifting a jar, resumed his chugging with gulping sounds.
"Everything's going upside down..." Zhu Ganglie murmured to himself, not daring to speak or make a move for fear of accidentally catching Tang Sanzang's attention and then suffering his "Ponder This Punch"—that would be tragic.
With so much alcohol in his system, this baldy probably wouldn't recognize his own kin, so he didn't care to bet on it.
At that moment, the entirety of the great plains seemed frozen in time.
Everyone was still, as if paused in place.
After downing the wine from the three large jars in a single breath, Tang Sanzang belched, and looking up at the sky, he furrowed his brows: "What's that shiny thing? Who are you flashing? Scram!"
With a roar, the sun in the sky whished away, replaced by darkness!
Witnessing this scene, people were dumbstruck, thinking, "Holy crap, is this the stars shifting their courses?"
In the sky, the Golden Star hurried into the Sun Palace on the solar star.
"Where is the Sun Deity?" the Golden Star called out loudly.
A long-bearded old man appeared, hastily wiping sweat from his forehead and scurrying over: "Here, here, I know what you're going to ask..."
"If you know, then hurry up and reactivate the sun! Just now, numerous complaints came in about you turning off the daylight, causing several regions to be without sunlight, seriously disrupting local order..." the Golden Star urged.
The Sun Deity replied with a wry smile, "Do you think I don't want to reactivate it? The solar star itself suddenly shut off the sunlight to that area; what can I do about it?"
Hearing this, the Golden Star was stunned: "It shut itself off? Aren't you the Sun Deity? You're in charge of the entire solar star; if you don't move it, how can it be causing trouble on its own?"
The Sun Deity also looked perplexed: "I'm just as clueless. Ever since I was assigned as the Sun Deity, this is the first time I've encountered something like this.
You know that I took over the solar star later. The previous masters of the solar star were more intimidating one after the other, and I don't understand what secrets lie within. Maybe you should ask my predecessor, go to Fiery Cloud Cave and inquire with the Flame Emperor?"
The Golden Star quickly shook his head: "I'd rather not... I'm just here to deliver a message. Hopefully, you can fix it soon."
The Sun Deity nodded: "I'm on it, don't rush me."
With that, the Sun Deity went inside the Sun Palace to study the control formations of the solar star, looking to see where the error was that had caused a malfunction in the solar star.
On the ground, Tang Sanzang's gaze fell upon the few people in front of him...
Cold sweat poured down like torrential rain from the foreheads of those few...
"Can't see clearly... why does everyone have three or four shadows? Turn the lights on!" Tang Sanzang shouted up to the heavens again.
In an instant, darkness retreated, and sunlight bathed the earth once more.
The Sun Deity cheered, "It's working!"
The Golden Star also very satisfiedly said, "As long as it's fixed, good, good, then I'm off to report back!"
After saying this, the Golden Star hurriedly left.
On the ground, Tang Sanzang, staggering, pointed at the Ox King and declared, "You four, stop freaking moving around!"
The Ox King was close to tears; when did he move? He didn't dare to move. It was clearly this baldy swaying on his own.
"The light's blinding, you freaking dim it down!" Tang Sanzang cursed, pointing at the sun above.
The sun dimmed instantly, and the world went dark again.
In the sky, the Sun Deity was close to tears: "How did it break again just after being fixed?"
The Golden Star was also close to tears, just about to enter the great hall to inform the Jade Emperor that the solar star was fixed, but in the blink of an eye, there was no sunlight again.