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A goddess of these places used her martial arts skills to defeat the demons Qianliyan (“ch’YEN-lee-yen”) and Shunfeng’er (“shoon-FUNG-ar”), making them the guardians of her temple. After Fujiwara no Hidesato uses his saliva to kill a giant centipede, an attendant of a god of these places gives him a bottomless bag of rice. After failing to procure a monkey’s liver, a creature living in one of these places has its bones crushed. A god of these places, whose palace has a garden with sections for each season, was visited by the grandfather of Japan’s (10[1])first emperor. After saving the daughter of that god of these places, Urashima Tarō is given a box that prevents him from aging. In Journey to the West, Ao Guang is one of four Dragon Kings who rule over these places. For 10 points, Ryūjin uses a pair of jewels to control the tides of what places? ■END■

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