In the end, the Great Sage broke the rules.

Chapter 21, Eight Precepts: Stealing Ginseng Fruit - Not a Single One Was Stolen.

The next day.

"Senior brother! Something terrible has happened!"

Looking at the anxious Mingyue, Qingfeng asked with a puzzled expression, "What happened?"

Mingyue: "The ginseng fruit has been stolen!"

Qingfeng was shocked upon hearing this: "What on earth is going on?!"

Mingyue said bitterly, "It must have been Tang Sanzang who did it!"

Qingfeng: "I'll go check it out."

After saying that, he rushed off to the courtyard where the ginseng fruit grew.

“1……2…3……4……22……23……”

"Junior brother, three are missing."

Mingyue, her hair standing on end in fury, shouted in a fierce voice, "Senior brother, let's go! Let's settle accounts with them!"

Qingfeng: "Let's go!"

……

Chen Yi had just finished breakfast and was calling his apprentices to set off when he caught sight of Qingfeng Mingyue galloping towards him, her hair standing on end in a rage.

Chen was stunned for a moment, then dismounted.

Mingyue rushed up to Chen Yi and cursed, "Tang Sanzang! Look at your sanctimonious appearance, I never thought you were such a shameless bald thief!"

Chen's face was full of confusion. When did he become a thief?

Hasn't the plot changed?

Upon seeing this, Pigsy, like a mouse seeing a cat, immediately vanished without a trace.

Seeing that Mingyue was about to make a move, Qingfeng quickly pulled his junior brother back.

Chen Yi: "Little fairy, speak slowly, don't swear."

Mingyue sneered, "Hmph! You stole our ginseng fruit! And now you're blaming me for cursing you!"

Qingfeng also rebuked, "Giving you two ginseng fruits is already more than enough. How can you be so greedy and still steal some?"

Chen Yi frowned: "Two little immortals, this humble monk dares to swear to heaven that I really did not steal your ginseng fruit."

Sun Wukong stepped forward to block Chen Yi, glaring at him and saying, "Go find whoever stole it, don't go around blaming people!"

Mingyue said sternly, "You didn't steal, but can you guarantee that your disciples didn't steal either?"

Chen Yi quickly said, "Please don't argue, let me go ask."

After saying that, he pulled Sun Wukong aside.

"Great Sage, do you know what exactly is going on?"

Sun Wukong's face was ashen, and he said coldly, "It's all that pig's fault."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yi frowned and hurriedly searched for Zhu Bajie, only to find that Zhu Bajie had vanished without a trace.

Chen Yi: ...

"Great Sage! Quickly go and find Pigsy!"

Sun Wukong replied, "Understood."

Mingyue, her hair standing on end in anger, exclaimed, "See? I knew you guys stole it!"

Knowing he was in the wrong, Chen Yi dared not argue, but said, "You two little immortals, it was my second disciple who caused this trouble. I will have him apologize to you."

Mingyue sneered, "Apologize? Hmph! Can you even afford to apologize?!"

Looking at Mingyue, who was speaking with great enthusiasm, Chen Yi felt angry but dared not utter a word.

Before long, Pigsy was brought back by Monkey King.

Chen Yi shouted angrily, "Bajie, tell me the truth, how many ginseng fruits did you steal?"

Pigsy looked aggrieved: "Master, I'm more wronged than Dou E! I didn't steal a single one."

They all fell to the ground and disappeared.

Upon hearing this, Qingfeng immediately retorted, "Nonsense! They clearly stole three! How dare you say you didn't steal them!"

Mingyue chimed in, "Yes, there are three!"

Qingfeng continued, "There should have been twenty-six fruits in the garden, but we just counted them and there are only twenty-three left!"

Chen Yi said sternly, "Bajie, how many did you steal?"

Pigsy remained defiant: "Master, I really didn't steal it."

Chen Yi suddenly remembered that ginseng fruits disappear when they fall to the ground, and he asked, "Did they all fall to the ground and disappear?"

Pigsy exclaimed in astonishment, "Master, how did you know!"

Last night he was hungry, so he secretly went to Wuzhuang Temple to steal some food. Unexpectedly, he overheard two fairy children saying that eating ginseng fruit could grant immortality, so he secretly went to pick some. Unexpectedly, three of them fell to the ground.

He would have continued picking if the fairy child hadn't come.

Chen Yi took a deep breath, feeling a surge of panic, unsure of what to do.

How is he supposed to compensate me?!

Mingyue: "Fine! You still say you didn't steal it! You've already confessed!"

Upon seeing this, Pigsy quickly said, "This matter arose because of me, Old Pig. You may punish me as you see fit!"

Qingfeng snorted coldly: "You think this will be the end of it?"

Chen Yi quickly smiled apologetically, "Little fairy, don't be angry. I'll discipline this unworthy disciple properly when I get back. But this ginseng fruit..."

Qingfeng gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't give me an explanation today, you won't be leaving!"

Mingyue: "You bunch of bald thieves! Give us back our ginseng fruits!"

Chen Yi pointed at Zhu Bajie: "Go ahead and curse him!"

"Great Sage! You must stay calm and not be impatient!" Chen Yi said to Sun Wukong with concern.

He was afraid that Sun Wukong would, like in the story, leave his body and destroy the fruit trees.

Sun Wukong: "But..."

Chen Yi: "Great Sage, please, you mustn't go anywhere! I need your protection!"

Sun Wukong smiled and said, "I know, you're so clingy."

Chen Yi: ...He's not! He didn't!

When Pigsy heard his master's words, he looked dazed!

He never expected his master to give up on him like this!

Pigsy retorted defiantly, "I stole it, so what?!"

Mingyue: "You thief! Shameless...@*%..."

Qingfeng: "Tang Sanzang! You bunch of stinking bald thieves, shameless @%%*..."

Chen Yi thought that the culprit had been found and that scolding Zhu Bajie would be enough, but he was wrong.

Qingfeng and Mingyue not only scolded Zhu Bajie, but also the other three.

Watching Pigsy and the others hurl insults at each other, and the insults were so vulgar, Chen felt like his ears were about to explode.

When Sun Wukong heard the two men cursing the little monk, and their insults became increasingly outrageous, he was filled with rage and his soul left his body, running to the ginseng fruit tree.

"Swear! I'll show you what swearing is like!"

As the stick fell one blow after another, the ginseng fruits fell to the ground and disappeared, and the fruit tree collapsed with a crash.