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29 The Spider Cave

The Matron Pilanpo pointed a finger at him, and the Daoist fell prostrate in the dust and resumed his original shape: a centipede seven feet long. She lifted the centipede demon upon her little finger and rode the clouds back to the Thousand Flowers Cave. "Brother Monkey," asked Bajie, "why is this old dame so powerful that she can subdue a centipede?" Wukong said with a laugh, "Her son, the Star Lord of the Pleiades, is a rooster, so this old dame must be a hen. And nothing brings down a centipede as a chicken does." Sandy found some grain in the temple and prepared a vegetarian meal. When master and disciples had eaten their fill, they set the Yellow Flower Temple afire and took the road westward again. To learn what befell them next, read the following volume: The Lion-Camel Kingdom.

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