Chapter 886 Harmony with light
Chapter 886 Harmony with light
Wen Rui didn't say a word throughout the whole process, everything was implied.
The Tai Sui Department was led by Yang Ren. The ten daily celestial officials looked at each other, and quickly followed suit. They lined up in front of the golden treasure chest, took out their bags, and threw countless fairy jades and treasures into the treasure chest.
When all the gods of Tai Sui had finished paying their tributes, Yin Jiao, the Lord of Years, finished the donation. He donated all the wealth in his bag and came to Wen Rui's seat. He bowed and said, "Brother Wen, I have been in heaven for many years. Due to my status, I am afraid of upsetting you, so I have never taken the initiative to visit you and reminisce about the past. I hope you will bear with me."
Wen Rui smiled and seemed particularly kind: "My dear brother, you turned back at the last moment, how could I blame you? It's a pity that the opponent was too scoundrel and called the parents when you couldn't beat him, otherwise I would definitely help you create a prosperous era for the Great Shang Dynasty."
Among the immortals in Lingxiao Palace, many of them who were from the Chan sect and the Great Zhou found these words extremely irritating.
Is Yin Jiao a prodigal son who has turned over a new leaf and turned to the light?
It's clearly helping the evil!
However, when Wen Rui said this, his eyes swept across the group of immortals intentionally or unintentionally. The immortals from the Xianjiao and the Great Zhou could only smile and nod, as if they agreed with what Wen Rui said.
During the decades of the Conferred God Tribulation, Yin Jiao and Wen Rui had a very close relationship. In a sense, Wen Rui was the leader of the prince's faction in the Shang Dynasty court, and he was determined to assist Yin Jiao in replacing Emperor Xin.
They had secretly conspired with Yin Jiao to launch a palace coup, but Yin Jiao was not a ruthless person. Considering the father-son relationship, he was reluctant to take any ruthless action.
Yin Jiao had great admiration and trust for Wen Rui, the son of the most important official in the court. He had fantasized countless times that if he could succeed to the throne smoothly, he could revive the Shang Dynasty with Wen Rui's assistance and achieve the reputation of being the greatest emperor in history.
Unfortunately, he failed to listen to Wen Rui's advice and was indecisive at the critical moment. He really couldn't bear to fight against his biological father. In the end, he failed and all his ambitions were turned into a joke.
He had not had a smooth life during the five hundred years he had served as an official in Heaven. The most difficult thing to deal with was his relationship with his colleagues.
As a disciple of Guangchengzi, the Golden Immortal of the Chan Sect, Yin Jiao should have been in the same party with the immortals from the Chan Sect. However, in the later period of the Battle of the Gods, he defected back to the Yin Shang camp and injured many of his fellow disciples with the Chan Sect's magic weapons Fantian Seal and Luopo Bell.
As a prince of the Shang Dynasty, he could have been in the same party with the old ministers of the Shang Dynasty and the immortals who were disciples of the Jiejiao, but his identity as a disciple of the Chenjiao made him seem out of place.
Fortunately, although Jiang Ziya arranged other deities very randomly, the deity position of Tai Sui seemed to be tailor-made for him. He arranged Yang Ren, a loyal minister of the Shang Dynasty who defected to the Chan sect, to work with him. Although the two had completely opposite experiences, they could naturally understand each other's difficulties and mentality. They soon became each other's confidants and cooperated very well in performing their duties as gods.
Seeing that Rui still cared about their old friendship and treated him the same as before, Yin Jiao felt inexplicably warm in his heart.
The Tai Sui Department is responsible for monitoring the human world and is very familiar with the changes in the human world over the years. Yin Jiao naturally knows that Wen Rui led the almost desperate survivors of the Shang Dynasty to create a huge business empire and took good care of the merchants who should have been displaced and suffered hardships.
No matter how others criticize Wen Rui, no matter how many insults, notoriety, and bad reputation Wen Rui bears in the rumors, Yin Jiao has always firmly believed that this good brother is a nostalgic person no matter how many faults he has or how bad his personal morals are.
He was extremely kind to the entire Shang clan, from the royal family to the common people.
Yin Jiao bowed sincerely and said, "My subordinates, the Patrolling Heavenly Taisui, have to go out every year and every moment. Whether or not to repair the Heavenly Guarding Formation is actually of no difference to the gods in our department. The donation is only to be true to our conscience and to eliminate our karmic debts."
Wen Rui nodded slowly, hearing the hidden meaning in his words, and said, "I understand, I understand. As expected of the immortal department led by the wise ministers and wise rulers of our Shang Dynasty, rolling around in the big dye vat of the Heavenly Palace, forced by the environment to be humble, but not forgetting the original intention, and being upright as before."
This made the gods, including the Jade Emperor, feel uneasy. They always felt that Wen Rui was making indirect accusations and mocking something groundless. The two chief gods of the Tai Sui Department were both well-known before they were deified.
Yang Ren was resolute and upright. He dared to speak up for the people and make direct criticisms against King Zhou, who was responsible for building the Lu Tai, a waste of money and labor. As a result, he was brutally persecuted by King Zhou, who dug out his eyes and abandoned his body in the wilderness.
Yin Jiao was kind-hearted and an honest and filial child. After his death, his ghost still cared about the people of the Shang Dynasty. He appeared in King Zhou's dreams to persuade him to implement benevolent policies and employ wise ministers, but King Zhou turned a deaf ear to him.
The Tai Sui Department, led by these two people, is the busiest department of immortals in the entire Heavenly Court. It has countless official business to handle all the time and shoulders the important responsibility of supervising the human world.
At the beginning, they were full of expectations, hoping that with their combined strength they could restore peace to the world and eliminate all evil spirits and demons.
But after a long time they realized that being a god was far more complicated than they had expected.
The demons and evil spirits that dare to commit crimes and evil in the world all have some background to a certain extent. They wanted to take care of it at first, but were ruthlessly slapped in the face by reality.
Records of evidence of crimes reported to the court often fall on deaf ears, allowing those with connections to go unpunished and act with impunity.
Only those wild monsters with no background will be punished by some gilded and merit-earning divine generals when necessary after a long delay.
If they really couldn't bear it any longer and had to take action on the spot, some demons with backgrounds would be killed, and a colleague from Heaven would always come out to plead for mercy. If that didn't work, they would find someone of a higher immortal rank to pass on the message and put pressure on them.
If he continued to withstand the pressure and was determined to execute the evil creature on the spot, he would not only fail to receive any reward from the Heavenly Court, but would be inexplicably reprimanded by the Jade Emperor for some trivial matter.
It would be fine if it happened once or twice, but after it happened over and over again and they were repeatedly frustrated, they gradually became discouraged and alienated from the system.
Wen Rui smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will assign the Sky Eye satellite to track in real time. If the Patrolling Tai Sui Divine Envoy encounters an ambush, all you need to do is look up at the sun and shout, and the Sun's True Fire will descend to protect you and others."
Yin Jiao couldn't help but smile when he heard that, and he happily bowed deeply to Wen Rui. The other party was as meticulous as he was back then, and he figured out Yin Jiao's true intentions from just a few words.
The working style of the Tai Sui Department is very different from that of other immortal departments in Heaven. There are much more field work than internal affairs. The immortal officials of the Tai Sui Department are either patrolling the sky or on their way to patrol the sky.
No matter how strong the Heavenly Protection Array is, it has little to do with them. Wen Rui's promise and the super weapon support authority he provides are the conditions worth exchanging for real money.
Originally, Yin Jiao and Yang Ren were not greedy people. They were not from orthodox Qigong families, and they did not inherit the virtue of "letting a fellow Taoist die rather than letting me die".
However, they are responsible for monitoring the three realms and know too much. If they don't take it, no immortal official dares to take it, and the immortal officials can't take it. Naturally, they regard the two of them as thorns in their eyes and thorns in their flesh. If they don't keep in harmony with the world, they really won't be able to survive in the officialdom of the Heavenly Court.
(End of this chapter)