Chapter 168: The job of the land god is to tell tales
Chapter 168: The job of the land god is to tell tales
Thirty-third heaven, Biyou Palace.
On this day, Master Tongtian ended his 500-year retreat, finished reciting the Huangting Sutra, and walked out of the palace after a period of meditation.
The leader was feeling depressed during his seclusion and wanted to take a walk outside the palace to relax.
At first glance, the Yunhai Yulou outside the Biyou Palace should still be there, but it is deserted and desolate without a single immortal.
Not to mention immortals, outside the thirty-three heavens, not even a bird can fly up, bacteria and microorganisms cannot breed. In such a vast endless void, there is only one intelligent life.
Recalling the bustling scene five hundred years ago when people and immortals gathered outside the palace, even a saint with a heart of Taoism felt a little emotional.
It would be better to recreate the earth, fire, wind and water, and re-create the heaven and earth, and move all the disciples to the new world, so that they will not be so desolate and lonely.
He wanted to call a few disciples to reminisce the past, but when he thought that all the disciples of Jiejiao were either dead, joined the Western religion, or became gods in heaven, he could only sigh and give up.
After pacing for a few steps and about to return to the palace to meditate again, Master Tongtian suddenly remembered that he still had a female disciple in the human world, and his determination to pursue Taoism began to waver.
Visiting disciples of the Western religion and the Heavenly Palace is easy to attract attention, and it is not convenient because others will make random associations.
If that treacherous villain were to gossip in front of the Taoist priest again, it would make his saintly dignity seem shallow.
How the Western religions and the Heavenly Palace receive him is also a troublesome matter. Whether it is Tathagata or the Jade Emperor, it is not right to bow to him when they see him, and it is not right not to bow to him either.
He did create an avatar, which went to the mortal world in stealth to secretly take a look at the girl, Holy Mother Wu Dang. It was quite convenient for him to come and go.
As he thought of this, a handsome and indifferent young Taoist with untied hair appeared beside Tong Tian Jiaozhu.
The young Taoist priest did not ride on the Kui Niu either. He bowed to the master himself, then stepped on an ordinary white cloud and descended to the thirty-third heaven.
After passing through countless voids, his figure appeared above the clouds in the mortal world. The Taoist counted with his fingers, determined the direction, and flew towards the Lishan Mountains.
In a moment of inattention, the young Taoist flew across most of the ancient world and arrived above Mount Li. Looking down, he saw exquisite towers, small buildings, and pavilions on Mount Li, which looked like the prosperous atmosphere of an immortal cave.
There are many beautiful figures on the mountain, shuttling between the exquisite buildings of the immortals. Although they are all female cultivators from the demon race, they are full of spiritual energy, full of spirits, and have cheerful temperaments. They look carefree and happier than the immortals.
The buildings on Mount Li were all projects contracted by Wen Rui. Unlike the shoddy projects he had done with other sects, Wen Rui used only top-quality materials and the construction was done with great care.
Compared with other orthodox and Western sects, the disciples' cultivation may not be comparable, but the building quality and architectural aesthetics are maximized, and the infrastructure is quite high-end.
As for why the Lishan sisters were so excited and in such a good mood, it was because the Lishan Mother, who had made a fortune, waved her hand and increased the monthly salary of each disciple tenfold.
"I never knew that Wu Dang was really good at business. I thought she was suffering in the mortal world..."
The young Taoist also felt a little more relaxed.
However, when he looked again, he saw a mixture of humans and demons among the fields at the foot of the mountain, gathered together and busy about something.
Even Tongtian, the Patriarch, had never seen such a spectacle before the Conferred God Ceremony. At that time, although the human and demon races were not as hostile as water and fire, it was impossible for them to live together.
The monster wants to eat people.
Back then, his fellow apprentices accused him of accepting too many disciples, one of the accusations being that he had trained many powerful monsters that were vicious and devoured mortals.
Without rushing to see the Holy Mother Wu Dang, the young Taoist descended from the clouds and landed on the field road at the foot of the mountain. When he landed and looked carefully, he found that the human and demon tribes were working together, plowing the land and digging canals, and engaging in agriculture.
The young Taoist stepped forward and said to the strong man of the human race, "How can you humans work together with the demon race?"
The sturdy man saw him dressed like a Taoist priest and then saw him descend from the sky. He bowed respectfully and said, "Great Immortal, you don't know that originally the human race and the demon race did not work together here, but now they work together."
The young Taoist frowned, his eyes gleamed, and the strong man felt as if his soul was about to be blasted away. He quickly knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Great Immortal, spare my life. It was the local lord who forbade us to reveal the truth of this place, so I had to lie to cover it up."
With Master Tongtian's cultivation level, he could search the soul of this human with just a snap of his fingers, but as a saint, how could he bully an ant that had no control over itself?
Leaving aside the stupid mortal, the young Taoist just waved his hand, and a puff of green smoke came out of the ground, and the local land god was captured by him.
When the God of Land saw that he had a decent appearance and could not tell whether he had unfathomable spiritual abilities, he quickly bowed respectfully.
"I am here to see the Immortal. May I ask what you want me to do for you?"
The young Taoist didn't waste time talking to him and went straight to the point: "Why do humans and demons live together and work together here?"
"It's all the work of those remnants of Jiejiao!"
The local land god had no idea about the background of the Taoist priest in front of him. He thought that the Heavenly Court had finally responded to the problem he raised and sent a special envoy, the Lord of Heaven, to the earth.
"Oh?" The leader's clone didn't bother to argue with such an insignificant god, and asked calmly, "Tell me, what's going on?"
"Please help me, Immortal!"
The God of Land finally found someone to talk to: "This is all the work of Wen Rui and the demon from the Jinling Sect on Mount Li. Wen Rui is just a mortal. I don't know what evil method he used to achieve immortality. He relied on the protection of the gods in heaven to do whatever he wanted in the mortal world. He created such an absurd and weird thing of humans and demons living together in the area under the jurisdiction of the little god."
"I am also angry but dare not speak out. I have repeatedly reported him to the emperor, but my response has fallen on deaf ears."
The more the Earth God spoke, the more excited he became: "He also compiled the heresy of Jiejiao into a book, built a so-called 'education for all' school, and forced human children to study with demon children. This is really polluting the righteous law of the Heavenly Court and spreading filthy evil thoughts!"
"If this continues, the world will be in chaos, humans and demons will be indistinguishable, good and evil will be reversed, and moral principles will be turned upside down!"
The God of Land was filled with righteous indignation: "Master, I have finally waited for you to come. Please administer justice, kill that evil Jiejiao person, and restore order to this place!"
The young Taoist had a blank expression on his face, acting like a special envoy from heaven. He said in a cold voice, "Go on, I am listening."
"I also heard from colleagues in other places that the demon Wen was extremely bold. He rode a huge golden flying boat around a few days ago and went to Ziyang Immortal Sect to cause trouble. He said that he used some magical power of moving mountains taught by the leader of Jiejiao himself and almost overturned the Taoist temple of Daode Tianjun."
In order to attract the attention of the envoy from Heaven, the God of Land also reported the gossip he heard from his colleagues: "If this kind of demon is left in the mortal world to continue to make trouble, the disciples of the Xianjiao Immortals will be bullied by him, which will bring endless disasters!"
"He also set up a chamber of commerce, publicly donating money and materials to support the Xianjiao Xianzong's fight with the Xifang Xianzong Dingguang Xianzong. I heard from a friend of the Xifang Xianzong that the Dingguang Xianzong suspected that it was the evil scheme of the demon Wen who instigated the fight!"
The young Taoist tried hard not to raise his lip and asked in surprise, "Is there such a thing?"
The God of Land lowered his voice and said, "Let the immortal know the evil ambition of that demon. I have secretly spied on him and saw him secretly killing many disciples of the Dingguang Immortal Sect. I also overheard him say that he vowed to destroy the Dingguang Immortal Sect and cut off the opportunity for the Long-eared Dingguang Bodhisattva to become a Buddha."
(End of this chapter)