Journey to the West: Man in heaven, working nine to five

#2102 - Guanyin's Conspiracy

With the arrival of reinforcements from the Western Heavens, the demon race was defeated and fled. The people of Jinping Prefecture naturally cheered, as they could return to their extravagant and comfortable lives.

"Thank you for the protection of the Western Heavens."

"With the guidance of the Western Heavens and the Buddha, Jinping Prefecture will be the safest place."

"Grateful to the Western Heavens for bringing me a happy life."

The people were naturally grateful to the Western Heavens for defeating the demon race, and they shouted slogans of gratitude to the Western Heavens.

This greatly satisfied the vanity of Guanyin, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and many other Buddhas of the Western Heavens.

"People of Jinping Prefecture, rest assured, as long as we, the Western Heavens, protect you, you can always enjoy a peaceful and happy life."

Guanyin naturally took the opportunity to promote the merits of the Western Heavens, also showing Chu Hao and the others how supported the Western Heavens were by the people.

However, Guanyin's words were a bit exaggerated, because although the demon race had retreated out of the city, they had not left the vicinity of Jinping Prefecture.

The demon race had already set its sights on Jinping Prefecture, and with their nature, they would definitely not give up easily.

Therefore, the demon race must still be gathering strength, preparing for the next attack on the city.

Guanyin, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and other key figures of the Western Heavens, naturally had to discuss the next step of their strategy.

"The strength of the demon race is not to be underestimated, and the number of personnel that our Western Heavens can send to Jinping Prefecture is limited."

Manjushri Bodhisattva reminded Guanyin.

Although Jinping Prefecture was regarded as an important place by the Western Heavens, it was, after all, just an outer prefecture of the Tianzhu Kingdom.

For a small outer prefecture, the Western Heavens would naturally not send all of their forces. Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and these thousands of Buddhas were already the maximum support that the Western Heavens could provide to Jinping Prefecture.

"If the demon race has elite forces coming to support them, how should we respond?"

Samantabhadra looked somewhat worried. They could handle ordinary demons, but if those powerful figures among the demon race came, it would not be easy to protect Jinping Prefecture.

"Don't forget, we still have Suhe lamp oil."

Guanyin seemed to have a plan and did not seem worried.

Suhe lamp oil was the key to the Western Heavens maintaining Jinping Prefecture. The main materials of Suhe lamp oil were corpse oil and human bone powder.

Burning it could form spiritual energy, thereby providing protection and blessing.

Ordinary people could deal with ordinary demon soldiers and generals simply by holding a lamp of corpse oil.

But this protection and blessing ability depended on the strength of the spiritual energy, that is, the degree of burning of the lamp.

"If we want to increase the defensive capabilities of the entire Jinping Prefecture city, we need huge lamps."

Guanyin's plan was to build huge towering lamp stands in Jinping Prefecture city.

Once these towering lamp stands were built and used, no matter how many powerful figures came from the demon race, they would be helpless against Jinping Prefecture.

"It's just that building these towering lamp stands will probably require a huge amount of manpower and material resources."

"Although the people of Jinping Prefecture have been mentally controlled by us, if we want them to contribute, we still need to give them an acceptable reason."

Manjushri and Samantabhadra said. If there was no suitable reason, and they spent manpower and material resources on large-scale construction, the people of Jinping Prefecture would probably have complaints.

"Of course, I have already thought of it. To deal with these ignorant people, we just need to draw them a pie."

Guanyin seemed very confident. She had her own way of dealing with these ignorant people of Jinping Prefecture.

The next day, Guanyin had the governor summon all the people of the city to gather in the central square area of Jinping Prefecture city.

Chu Hao said to Tang Seng and the others.

The people of Jinping Prefecture wanted to rely on the Western Heavens to live a happy life forever, but they did not understand the nature of the Western Heavens.

Guanyin saw that almost all the people of the city had arrived, and then she began to speak.

"After some discussion, we are grateful for the support and endorsement of the people of Jinping Prefecture for our Western Heavens.

Therefore, we have decided to bring blessings to the people of Jinping Prefecture, not only allowing you to have a beautiful, happy, and stable life, but also allowing you to receive the protection of the Buddha Dharma and enjoy the blessings of longevity."

Hearing Guanyin say this, the people of Jinping Prefecture were immediately in an uproar.

Being able to enjoy such a prosperous and stable life was already a luxury in the current chaotic West Niu He Zhou.

Now Guanyin said that she would allow them to receive the purification and blessings of the Buddha Dharma, break away from being mortals, and enjoy the blessings of longevity.

For mortals, longevity was an unattainable thing. Not to mention ordinary people, even those emperors and nobles were extremely eager for longevity.

"Grateful to the Western Heavens for benefiting our Jinping Prefecture."

Not to mention the people, even the governor immediately knelt down and thanked the Western Heavens upon hearing this news.

"I have decided to build three towering pagodas within Jinping Prefecture city. These three towering pagodas are of great significance.

First, they can resist the demon race and protect the safety of Jinping Prefecture.

Second, they can eliminate disasters and pray for blessings, so that Jinping Prefecture will have good weather, and everyone will be rich, peaceful, and healthy.

Most importantly, these towering pagodas contain the great wisdom of Buddhism. The light of the Buddha shines everywhere. Those who have the opportunity can be reborn and enjoy the blessings of longevity."

Guanyin spoke eloquently to the people.

And the people, listening to Guanyin's words, each looked very excited, as if great blessings had already befallen them.

"Guanyin is really good at hypocritical methods. They should be building the towering pagodas to deal with the demon race.

They are also afraid of excessively exhausting the people and wasting money, which would cause the people to have complaints, so they have drawn a pie of immortality, allowing the people to willingly accept enslavement."

Chu Hao exposed Guanyin's conspiracy in one sentence.

"Although Guanyin's plan is very vicious, these playful and foolish people deserve to be taught a lesson."

Tang Seng shook his head as he looked at those people.

"Building the towering pagodas, it seems that the good days for the people of Jinping Prefecture are coming to an end."

Sun Wukong looked like he was watching a show.

"It's good to let these unruly people be taught a lesson, otherwise they will not change their nature."

Zhu Bajie also had no good feelings for the people of Jinping Prefecture.

Guanyin used the trick of drawing a big pie, and those foolish people were extremely supportive of the construction of the towering pagodas.

Some people were even eager to contribute their labor and efforts in order to obtain the blessings of longevity as soon as possible.

What they didn't know was that building the towering pagodas was a major project, not much different from building giant palaces and mausoleums.