Li Anran returned to Jinguang Cave in Qianyuan Mountain and reported to Taiyi Tianzun in detail what happened in Zhongtiao Mountain.
Taiyi Tianzun said: "You did a good job. That white-haired bat has also been to the realm of Daluo. You were able to capture it, which is better than I expected."
Li Anran said: "Disciple dare not take credit. We can only win by relying on the diamond file and sky light mirror given by the master."
Taiyi Tianzun shook his head: "You don't need to be humble. No matter how good the magic weapon is, it is just a foreign object, and the person who uses it is the key." Then he asked: "Then Sun Wukong often goes to heaven to ask you for help?"
Li Anran hurriedly explained: "When Sun Wukong was suppressed at the foot of Five Elements Mountain, his disciples felt soft-hearted and planted a few fruit trees beside him. Later, he gave him a copy of the Rules of Heaven for him to study, hoping that he could Change evil and return to righteousness.”
"Sun Wukong was very grateful to his disciples for this. After getting out of trouble, he was no longer as lawless as before, and acted more according to the rules of heaven."
"After he encounters a monster that violates the rules of heaven, he likes to go to Tianlao to find his disciples. Help is on the one hand, and it is also to give the disciples some credit. If the master feels that something is wrong, the disciples will..."
Before he could speak, Taiyi Tianzun waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter. If Sun Wukong finds you, just help him. As long as you stick to your duty and don't do anything that violates the laws of heaven, then There won’t be any problems.”
"Disciple understands."
Li Anran responded respectfully, but he couldn't help but secretly mutter: "Has Taiyi Tianzun completely given up on gambling? Or...is this the Taishang Laojun's intention?"
Li Anran thought about the jade slip that Taishang Laojun asked him to send again. The content in it may be more than he imagined!
After talking about Sun Wukong, Taiyi Tianzun no longer kept Li Anran and let him go back to heaven.
And not long after Li Anran left, another person came to Jinguang Cave. He was dressed in black clothes and silver armor, cold and handsome, and it was Yang Jian, the God of Justice!
After the greetings, Yang Jian asked: "Uncle Taiyi, what do you want to do when you summon your disciples?"
Taiyi Tianzun said: "The Supreme Taoist Patriarch sent me a message today, saying that the three religions have the same origin and are originally one family. Harmony is the most important thing and there is no need to differentiate between them."
The three religions here do not refer to interpreters, but to Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism!
Yang Jian understood this and was a little surprised: "Is he going to give up the gambling fight with Lingshan?"
Taiyi Tianzun shook his head: "It's not necessary to give up, but my attitude has softened a lot, and I don't want to be at odds with Lingshan anymore."
Yang Jian said: "That's fine. The seeds for the spread of Buddhism to the east were planted thousands of years ago, and the fruits of the great prosperity of Buddhism will surely grow. If you press too hard, you will easily hurt yourself."
Taiyi Tianzun nodded in agreement and asked: "Do you know why Taishang Daozu made such a change?"
Yang Jian said: "The eight immortals in the cave?"
Taiyi Tianzun smiled and said: "I knew I couldn't hide it from you."
Later, he told Yang Jian everything about Li Anran's capture of the fake Tongtian back to Tianlao and Taishang Laojun's plan against the Eight Immortals in Shangdong.
Taiyi Tianzun has always felt that this artificially triggering the disaster in advance and making the scale of the disaster controllable seems very wonderful, but in fact it is just a way to stop the boiling water and may not solve the problem. On the contrary, it may bury greater hidden dangers.
However, because most of the gods and Buddhas in the three realms have reached this consensus, if he wanted to give it a try, he could not go against the consensus and could only agree.
Later, when Taishang Laojun expressed his desire to take charge of the matter, full power was handed over to Taishang Laojun.
Therefore, Taiyi Tianzun has never intervened, and is not even clear about the specific matters of Xitian Buddhist scriptures and the gathering of the Eight Immortals.
It wasn't until Li Anran brought Taishang Laojun's jade slip that he understood all of Taishang Laojun's plans.
Taiyi Tianzun has always regarded Yang Jian as the next headmaster of Xuanmen to train, so he specially summoned Yang Jian to tell him these things.
"Tai Shang Dao Ancestor attaches great importance to the Eight Immortals of Shangdong. Not only does he want to bring together the 'men, women, old and young, rich and poor', he is also very picky about their heeling qualifications. Except for the cowherd boy under his sect, the other seven They are all reincarnations of golden immortals, born to be extraordinary, and their future achievements will be bound to be limitless."
When Taiyi Tianzun said this, he paid special attention to Yang Jian's expression.
As a result, all he saw was stone-like calmness, without the vigilance he wanted to see at all!
With Yang Jian's mind, he could definitely guess the purpose of Taishang Laojun doing this, but he showed no concern.
Taiyi Tianzun didn't know if Yang Jian was too deep in the city or if he really didn't care about the position of Xuanmen leader.
"Yang Jian, if Taishang Daozu needs your help, you try to help him. If Sun Wukong finds you, just help him. The catastrophe is approaching, and more merit will always be useful."
"Yes, disciple understands."
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On the other side, Li Anran returned to the prison. Nothing happened, so he opened the book of punishment and turned to the page about fake Tongtian.
Fake Tongtian's [Status] has changed from "In Detention" to "Escape from Prison".
His life can still be viewed, but the end point stops at the moment of his escape from prison.
However, Li Anran can use the tracking function to check his current location and surrounding conditions at any time.
"The last time I used this function was three hundred years ago to track the three-tailed fox! Time flies so fast!"
Li Anran couldn't help but be filled with emotion.
In the past, he didn't understand the gods' concept of time and felt that one year was already a long time.
However, after he started practicing, ten years and hundreds of years just passed by in a blink of an eye!
Li Anran did not immerse himself in this emotion for too long. He quickly calmed down and closed his eyes. Pictures related to the fake Tongtian suddenly appeared in his mind, and he also locked the position of the fake Tongtian.
After leaving Tianting, Fake Tongtian returned to Dongsheng Shenzhou.
However, he was probably worried that he would be captured by Heaven, so instead of returning to his hometown, he hid on a deserted island overseas.
Suddenly, Li Anran was stunned when he saw a familiar figure next to Fake Tongtian!
The man was wearing a Taoist robe, with fluttering sleeves, a green scarf on his head, hemp shoes on his feet, and a sword on his back. He turned out to be Shen Gongbao, the god of the East China Sea's water-dividing general!
"How did the two of them get involved?"
Unlike other righteous gods on the list of gods, Shen Gongbao's body was not destroyed, but was used by Yuanshi Tianzun to fill the Beihai spring.
After helping Jie Jiao disciples find Jiang Ziya's reincarnated body, Zhang Jiao, and destroying the list of gods.
Our Lady of Wudang personally went to the North Sea Spring, took out Shen Gongbao's body, and nourished it with miraculous medicine, so that Shen Gongbao's body regained its vitality.
Therefore, after fusing his soul with his physical body, Shen Gongbao's cultivation level rose instead of falling, and he directly broke through from the heavenly realm to the mysterious realm.
Like most of the Jie Cult disciples, Shen Gongbao resigned from his position as the Righteous God and traveled around after regaining his freedom.
Unexpectedly, he would appear next to Fake Tongtian at this time!
"Shen Gongbao has seen a true saint, and he must know that the leader of Tongtian is a fake! Does he want to get some benefits from the fake Tongtian? Does Taishang Laojun know this?"
Li Anran was a little gloating.
This Shen Gongbao is very evil. I don’t know how many disciples of Jiejie were deceived by saying "Fellow Taoist, please stay" back then!
Now that he and Fake Tongtian are together, God knows what kind of changes will happen!
Li Anran was full of thoughts of eating melons, but on the other side, the four masters and disciples of Tang Seng finally came to the daughter country.
——With three big bellies!
(End of chapter)
