The Tathāgata Must Fail

Chapter 33: The Office of Recommendation


The Bear Demon King stayed up all night to write his self-recommendation letter and arrived at the recommendation office early the next morning.

Outside the recommendation office, demons had formed a long queue.

The Bear Demon King wanted to walk straight through but was stopped by a Deer Demon: "Silly bear, you cannot cut in line here."

"What's it to you?"

The Bear Demon King glared at her.

"Look."

The Deer Demon pointed forward, and just as a Golden Lion Demon was about to cut in line, it was surrounded and severely beaten by a group of demons.

"Those are demons from Anping Island."

The Deer Demon said: "No matter if it's eating humans here or committing other evil deeds, they will be severely punished without mercy."

Anping Island is the most militarily powerful island of Huaguo Mountain. Those Great Demons who are not interested in craftsmanship all gather there, constantly monitoring the order of the entire Huaguo Mountain.

"Just a bunch of minor demons."

The Bear Demon King took a look: "What's there to be afraid of!"

"And what can you do?"

The Deer Demon didn't know how formidable the Bear Demon King was: "Don't underestimate them; they have a kind of frightening Daoist Skill."

"What Daoist Skill?"

The Bear Demon King was about to ask when he saw the hairless Lion Demon fleeing in front of him.

"Don't you dare cut in line again!"

The demons from Anping Island shouted at its retreating figure.

"The Plucking Hair Divine Skill!"

The Bear Demon King felt a chill in his heart and suddenly recalled the legends about that Monkey King, and obediently lined up in the queue.

"Now you understand how serious it is, right?"

The Deer Demon said to him.

The Bear Demon King huffed coldly; he simply didn't want to provoke the Monkey King, that's all.

He glanced at the Deer Demon: "Are you also here to make a self-recommendation?"

"That's right." The Deer Demon became a bit dejected: "But I was originally a demon of Huaguo Mountain."

Originally, she was a demon of Huaguo Mountain. She followed the previous Deer Demon King on adventures for twenty years and recently saw some sisters in the Kingdom of Aolai who laughed at her for being outmoded. Unable to bear it, she returned to take a look.

"Only after I came back did I realize that the finest floral fragrances outside are found everywhere in Huaguo Mountain."

The voice of the Deer Demon was sour: "Even the best clothes stolen for me from Chang'an by the Great King can't match the beauty of the clothes here."

The Bear Demon King nodded: "It should be so."

Female demons from the Northern Continent received a similar shock when they came here; they were attracted by the floral water and clothes, and compared to the local female demons here, those from outside seemed extremely rustic.

"During these years outside, I lived in a cave; life was miserable, and the Great King was also killed by a human Independent Immortal."

Recalling this, the Deer Demon couldn't help shedding tears: "If only I had brought him back with me!"

The Bear Demon King sighed: "The outside is naturally dangerous."

"But not here, we have everything without needing to steal or rob." The Deer Demon spoke through tears: "The demons outside say that we Huaguo Mountain do chores for humans, but from what I've seen, it's the humans who are begging to buy the Spiritual Objects here."

"That's right, exactly!"

The Bear Demon King deeply related to this; in the past few days, he had seen many human nobles bringing gold and Silver Pearls here, just to exchange for a few Spiritual Objects.

"Why do you think the demons here can so easily get treasures from humans?"

The Bear Demon King asked.

"Isn't it obvious." The Deer Demon, smiling through the tears: "The technology of Huaguo Mountain surpasses that of humans; humans can't produce Spiritual Objects."

"The Great Demon King already mentioned this... alas, we didn't understand it back then."

The Deer Demon expressed regret: "Now it's too late for regrets."

The Bear Demon King nodded: "What job do you want to do?"

"I learned textile skills outside."

The Deer Demon replied: "I've heard that the sisters of Huaguo Mountain want to create clothes that don't need cleaning; I want to help out with that."

"Silly bear, what about you?"

The Deer Demon inquired of the Bear Demon King.

The Bear Demon King scratched his head: "I don't know either."

"Did you fill in your self-recommendation form?"

The Deer Demon asked.

The Bear Demon King handed her the paper in his hand: "Can you help me check if this is written correctly?"

Yesterday, it took him all day to understand what worldview means, and after thinking about it for a whole night, he didn't come up with anything critically important, so he just wrote the word "Cultivation."

After reading the recommendation form, the Deer Demon said, "You should go to Anping Island."

The Bear Demon King was shocked: "How do you know?"

"The self-recommendation form is a self-analysis."

The Deer Demon handed the paper back to the Bear Demon King, saying, "It can divide you into different types, you don't like to research, don't like ordinary work, nor do you like interacting with too many people, the recommendation office doesn't have many jobs for you..."

The Deer Demon paused for a moment, then continued, "You value cultivation and think you are very powerful, they will definitely send you to Anping Island."

The Bear Demon King was stunned.

"How come you're so smart?"

"All the little demons from Huaguo Mountain know."

The Deer Demon said, and she had also learned this from someone she knew well.

The Bear Demon King was thoroughly convinced.

Huaguo Mountain is indeed powerful; even the little demons are smarter than him!

"Worthy brother, worthy brother!"

In Shuilian Cave, Sun Wukong was woken up by Immortal Zhenyuan.

He opened his eyes: "Why so early today?"

"It's you who's late," Immortal Zhenyuan said strangely, "What are you smiling about, is there something amusing?"

He noticed Sun Wukong had a smile on his face.

Sun Wukong nodded: "I just saw an interesting fellow at the recommendation office."

"Didn't you take back your hair follicles?"

Immortal Zhenyuan was puzzled in his heart.

The recommendation office was established by Sun Wukong himself, it is said that in order to subdue the female demons from the Northern Continent, Sun Wukong turned his hair into monkey spirits and arranged jobs for them on Huaguo Mountain.

Afterward, Sun Wukong set the rules and handed over the responsibility of the recommendation office to others.

"There is still one of my other selves there."

Sun Wukong said, his hairs were hidden in many places in Huaguo Mountain, and ordinary people could not find them.

"No wonder..." Immortal Zhenyuan nodded: "Lately, the demons from outside have been coming frequently."

"They come often, bringing more troubles with them," Sun Wukong said with a laugh, "Those demons have started to learn about the good things here."

Outside, where could one devour humans, nowhere compares to Huaguo Mountain.

In the past twenty years, not a few demons have left Huaguo Mountain, but times have changed; those demons have gradually returned.

But this was not necessarily a good thing.

Sun Wukong had already instructed Ao Luan to start formulating countermeasures.

But the strongest countermeasure still depended on him himself.

"Today is the day to activate the Barrier, right?"

Sun Wukong inquired with Immortal Zhenyuan.

Immortal Zhenyuan laughed heartily: "On such an important day, how could you have forgotten it yourself, dear brother!"

"I haven't forgotten."

Sun Wukong shook his head: "Just feeling a bit sentimental."

After years of careful preparation, the day had finally arrived.

Sun Wukong stood up and walked toward the outside of Shuilian Cave: "How's the weather today?"

"I asked the Dragon King," Immortal Zhenyuan walked beside him: "There's no better day than today."

"That's good."

Sun Wukong leaped out of the waterfall and looked down at Huaguo Mountain from the sky.

In the forest, on the grasslands, in the valley, on the cliffs—at the invisible bottom of the sea, forty-eight nodal facilities had been completed.

Although there were still more than twenty nodes unfinished, it would not hinder the activation of the Barrier.

"Immortal," Sun Wukong turned to Zhen Yuan and said: "Let's get started!"

Immortal Zhenyuan nodded in agreement.

Together, the two of them activated the Barrier.

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