Chapter 532: Misbehavior in front of Taibai Jinxing Palace
Chapter 532: Misbehavior in front of Taibai Jinxing Palace
"Silence! I understand your feelings, but this matter is of great importance. How can we start a war just because of a misunderstanding?"
The Jade Emperor patiently tried to appease the immortals. His eyes fell on Taibai Jinxing and he glared at him fiercely.
Taibai Jinxing stole a glance at Wen Rui, then walked out of the immortal class with gritted teeth, turned around and faced the immortals, saying, "Please calm down, all immortal officials. According to the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, the next immeasurable calamity will occur within a thousand years. The person who will be calamity according to the hexagram is from the Western Religion. He needs to use the merits of the Western Religion to mend the sky so that the immortals can safely survive this calamity."
As soon as the word "overcoming the tribulation" was mentioned, the voices of the immortals in the hall suddenly became much quieter.
The gods are not afraid of heaven or earth, but they are afraid of calamity.
"Hundreds of years later, my Heavenly Court will still need to work together with the Western religion to accomplish the great task of overcoming the calamity and relieving the disaster."
Taibai Jinxing explained in a sincere tone: "If we go to war with the Western Religion now, when the catastrophe comes, will we all accept our fate and rely on our own means? By then, I wonder how many immortals will die of the Five Decays and how many will be killed in the catastrophe."
The bad nature of "a monk would rather die than let his friend die" was also well established among the immortals of Jiejiao. The immortals who had just denounced the ancient Buddha Dipankara now shut their mouths.
When it came to their own interests and even their own safety, the spark of anti-Western religion that had just been ignited by Wen Rui among the immortals was extinguished in an instant.
Zhao Gongming and the Golden Spirit Mother exchanged glances from a distance, but both raised their lips and sneered.
Zhao Gongming said coldly, "Another so-called prophecy of overcoming the tribulation. When I set foot on the immortal path, I sought the word 'freedom and ease' until the prophecy of 'the great tribulation of conferred gods' came to light. Now I have ended up with my sect destroyed, my people dead, and my loved ones separated from me."
"Back then I didn't believe in the prophecy and fought hard, but ended up like this. This time the prophecy popped up again... As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser..."
After hearing what he said, the Jade Emperor and Taibai Jinxing were obviously a little relaxed. The Jade Emperor said, "Zhao Zhenjun, you can wake up and stop before it's too late. It's not too late to make up for the loss. We have millions of years to live, so why bother to fight for a moment."
"Humph, follow the will of heaven to be a human being, go against the will of heaven to be an immortal. Are we practicing hard just to endure humiliation for millions of years?"
Zhao Gongming raised his head and said, "Looking back on the mistakes we made back then, I regret not listening to Wen Rui's plan. If I think back on his plans over the past few hundred years, if the Jiejiao immortals had followed his plans, how could they have been defeated so thoroughly?"
"Brother Zhao, what you said is right!" The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit said, "To be timid before a fight is not my style. If that villain, Randeng, hadn't attacked me by surprise, how could he have hurt me? If he succeeds in the sneak attack, I will have to bow to him forever. How is that possible!"
After that, she looked at Wen Rui and said, "Little Rui, five hundred years ago I only thought of you as a child and never looked at you straight in the eye. Now I see that you have grown up and become the most capable and courageous man in Jiejiao. This time, grandma will listen to you."
Wen Rui thought to himself, I looked like this five hundred years ago, so how can I look younger?
In the later era of Journey to the West, Tathagata and Maitreya Buddha would both attend the Queen Mother's Peach Banquet, but Dipankara Buddha never showed up, probably because he was afraid of meeting the Golden Spirit Mother and Zhao Gongming at the banquet.
These two most warlike male and female gods of war in Jiejiao will not tolerate anyone when they get angry. The only one who is more fierce than them is Duobao Taoist. The words "kill gods if gods stand in his way, kill Buddhas if Buddhas stand in his way" are not enough to describe him. If a saint stands in his way, Duobao Taoist dares to chop him off with a single sword.
Taibai Jinxing and the Jade Emperor's rhetoric of taking the overall situation into consideration in order to overcome the tribulation was able to convince ordinary fairies and gods, but it could not scare Zhao Zhenjun and Dou Mu Yuanjun.
Without any Western teachings to help them get through the calamity safely, the two of them relied on their own abilities and were not afraid at all.
During the calamity period of Journey to the West, most of the gods in Heaven were busy running around, especially the Five Directions Jie Di and the Four Valued Officials, who were always by their side to protect them, but they were too lazy to pay any attention to them.
The attitude is clear: love whoever you want, if you are tired, destroy it!
"My dear Wen, I believe that the accusations of the Western Church are all misunderstandings. I will immediately send an envoy to explain to you and will never let you suffer any injustice." The Jade Emperor said to Wen Rui with a pleasant face, "My dear, you have made many contributions in the past few years. I have not yet had time to reward you. I will take this opportunity to deal with them all at once during the court meeting."
"In order to reward Emperor Wen for his contribution in supervising the manufacture of weapons and armor, I will bestow upon him a thousand golden immortals and ten immortal treasures..."
The Jade Emperor originally wanted to appease Wen Rui by rewarding him for his merits. He also realized that Wen Rui was now the leader of the Jiejiao sect in the Heavenly Palace. Dou Mu Yuanjun and Zhao Gongming both regarded him as the new generation of Jiejiao leader.
Only after persuading Wen Rui to give up the idea of using military force did the Jiejiao sect give up.
This role originally belonged to Wen Zhong.
But in the past five hundred years, Wen Zhong had been doing his duty, being impartial, and concentrating on the affairs of the Thunder God. He had never been involved in forming factions, so he naturally abdicated.
Today in Lingxiao Palace, the Lei Mansion faction represented by Wen Zhong did not express its position, but not expressing its position is actually also a kind of statement.
Wen Zhong did not stand up to oppose, and allowed Wen Rui to call the shots and control the government in the court, which was already the greatest support he could give.
Even if Wen Zhong did not publicly support it, it would not be surprising when Wen Rui formed an army to attack Lingshan and saw several Lei generals from the Lei Mansion in the army. Wen Rui was able to mobilize troops from the Lei Mansion based on his status and personal connections, and he did not need Wen Zhong's token.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Wen Rui cupped his hands as a token of thanks, raised his eyebrows and said, "Wait, that's not right...why didn't I mention my contribution in rescuing the special envoy kidnapped by the Western Religion and defeating and capturing the 500 Arhats of the Western Religion?"
"Does your majesty think that these two things were meritorious? Are they recorded as crimes? In the future, they will be used to list the ten major crimes when they settle accounts with me?"
"No, it's just that those two things have not been clarified yet, there are still doubts, and it's difficult to determine..."
A series of questions made the Jade Emperor's voice weaken a bit, and he explained slowly.
"Is there anything suspicious?"
Wen Rui sneered and said, "Fortunately, I have a good habit of leaving traces of my work, unlike some guys who just use their mouths to slander without regard for facts."
"My fellow immortals, you don't know. The scene I saw when I went to rescue Taibai Jinxing was simply shocking. He was a special envoy of the Heavenly Court, but he was tortured by the evil demons raised by the Western Church until he was no longer human and was in ecstasy. At that time, I took high-definition pictures from multiple angles. It happened that the projection equipment was still there, so I showed it to everyone. Please judge for yourself and see the ugly true face hidden under the bright surface of the Western Church."
"When the time comes, we will discuss whether or not we should send troops to attack Lingshan and settle all old and new accounts together!"
Having said that, Wen Rui waved to the Ultron robot on standby and ordered the robot to play the video.
The Jade Emperor frowned. He had already listened to Taibai Jinxing's report and was already aware of the filth and corruption of the Western religion.
But in this situation, it is really not appropriate to make the dark secrets of Western religions public. Otherwise, after the immortals see it, they will feel guilty and unjust to the supreme justice represented by the Heavenly Court if they do not send troops, both publicly and privately.
Just as a light flashed on the projection screen and the image was about to appear, Taibai Jinxing's eyes turned red, he let out a strange cry, and pounced forward, smashing the playback equipment to pieces with three punches and two kicks. His movements were so agile and swift that all the guards in the hall were ashamed of themselves.
(End of this chapter)