"The matter of the Eight Immortals in Shangdong is related to the catastrophe of heaven and earth. It is inconvenient for me to take action. You can go over there. Discuss with Lu Dongbin and the others to rescue Nezha as soon as possible."
Taiyi Tianzun flicked the fly whisk to his left hand, a golden light flashed, and a crystal clear glass vial appeared in his palm. It was wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, about the size of a palm, with patterns of the sun, moon and stars on it.
"This bottle contains the three-light divine water that I have collected over the years. It can heal injuries and detoxify. If you take it, you may have a chance to use it."
"Disciple, I obey." Li Anran took the glass bottle and couldn't help muttering secretly in his heart.
When Monk Tang and his disciples went to the West to learn scriptures, Our Lady of Wudang, Taiyi Tianzun, Taishang Laojun, and Tathagata all appeared and descended to earth. There is no reason why they would not be able to do it in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
Taiyi Tianzun's reason for not taking action is obviously not valid!
It is more likely that Taiyi Tianzun wanted him to participate in the Eight Immortals and gain some merit from it.
As for Nezha...
It should be an unexpected emergency.
It is true that Taiyi Tianzun is worried, but it is also true that he will not take action.
This sounds contradictory, but it is within Taiyi Tianzun's logic.
Catastrophes, even those caused by humans, are dangerous, but the danger is far less than normal calamities.
If Nezha died in this calamity, it would also be Nezha's fate. He would feel sorry for him, but he would not go against the will of heaven.
This is a matter of principle.
Of course, this is because Nezha’s weight is not heavy enough!
If the matter concerns Yang Jian or Li Anran, who currently holds the Four Swords of Execution, Taiyi Tianzun's principles will also be lowered.
Taiyi Tianzun added: "I have also told Yang Jian about this, and he has already passed there. After you go, no matter what situation you encounter, you are not allowed to use the Four Swords of Immortal Killing. Do you understand?"
When he heard that Yang Jian had also gone, Li Anran was even more sure that Taiyi Tianzun wanted him and Yang Jian to escape the calamity and gain some merit. He respectfully responded: "Disciple understands."
Taiyi Tianzun waved his hand: "You go ahead."
Li Anran was worried about Nezha, and without saying anything else, he immediately resigned and left, using the technique of transforming into a rainbow, but in an instant he reached the Eight Immortals mentioned by Taiyi Tianzun...
To be precise, it was above the residence of the Six Immortals.
Taishang Laojun wanted to recruit all the Eight Immortals of Shangdong into his disciples to strengthen the power of the human religion. The Eight Immortals he selected were either his disciples or powerful reincarnations.
This resulted in very few candidates from the Eight Immortals who met his requirements.
Every time you choose one, you need to spend a lot of energy on layout and planning.
Just like the white bat from Zhang Guolao's previous life.
After Taishang Laojun took a fancy to him, he summoned Taiyi Tianzun and asked Li Anran to use Bai Bat's bat grandchildren as a source of trouble and beat Bai Bat hard, forcing him into a desperate situation.
Then, Taishang Laojun appeared again, played a red face and rescued the white bat, and kindly pointed out a clear path for him——
Reincarnated and re-cultivated, becoming the Eight Immortals of Shangdong.
For the rest, the origins of He Xiangu, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi, and Cao Guojiu are all very different.
First, he put them in a desperate situation, and then reappeared to point out the way for them, using the word "Heaven's Number" to persuade them to reincarnate and rebuild themselves as one of the Eight Immortals.
Lu Dongbin's previous life as Emperor Donghua actually followed the same process.
Li Anran didn't realize this at the beginning.
It wasn't until one time when I was drinking with Yang Jian that I mentioned this matter.
Yang Jian pointed out that most of the people who forced Emperor Donghua to prove his innocence were Taishang Laojun's disciples, and Li Anran suddenly realized that there was still such filth hidden behind it.
However, judging from the conversation between Emperor Donghua and Zhu Ganglie in the Heavenly Prison, Emperor Donghua may have seen through this.
It was only because he was disgusted and displeased by the Jade Emperor because he had the reputation of being "the number one male immortal in the world" that he followed the trend and reincarnated himself to prove his innocence.
Suddenly, an idea flashed through Li Anran's head.
Maybe it wasn't just Emperor Donghua who saw it.
Zhang Guolao, He Xiangu, and Han Xiangzi probably saw the clues in their previous lives, but they had to bow their heads under the eaves, so they could only pretend to be grateful and agree.
In any case, Taishang Laojun's strict requirements on the Eight Immortals made the gathering of the Eight Immortals very difficult, and the time span was much longer than the gathering of Buddhist scriptures in the West.
The first of the Eight Immortals, Tieguai Li Chengxian, happened more than 500 years ago, and the last three of the Eight Immortals, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and Cao Guojiu, Lan Caihe has just started practicing, and the other two have not yet born.
Li Anran didn't know the origins of He Xiangu, Han Xiangzi, and Cao Guojiu. He only knew that Lan Caihe was the reincarnation of the Barefoot Immortal.
That's right, he was the one who was deceived by the monkeys into the Tongming Hall when the monkeys made trouble in the Heavenly Palace.
Although this barefoot immortal is a loose immortal, he has also cultivated to the Daluo realm.
Just because he felt pity for the people who died in vain in the war, he threw the fire maple, a birthday gift prepared for the Jade Emperor, into the Wangchuan River, so that they could avoid being infected by resentment and hostility and be reincarnated, which made the Jade Emperor angry and demoted. He was reincarnated and rebuilt through calamities.
This happened seventeen years ago!
The period when Li Jing temporarily took over as the God of Justice!
It is said that the Jade Emperor thought that the Barefoot Immortal's behavior was extremely disrespectful, and wanted to behead the Barefoot Immortal in public as a warning to others.
Taishang Laojun argued hard and believed that although the Barefoot Immortal's behavior was inappropriate, it was also out of compassion.
Only then did he persuade the Jade Emperor, save the life of the Barefoot Immortal, and give him a chance to reincarnate and rebuild his cultivation.
As long as you make enough merit, you can be ranked among the immortals again!
Li Anran was browsing the life of Our Lady of Jinling in the Tianlao at that time. He was very happy to listen to Sanqing's sermon and didn't pay attention to it at all.
However, after Yang Jian learned about this, his face was gloomy for several days, and he just wanted to shoot the Jade Emperor, Li Jing and Taishang Laojun.
As his thoughts turned, Li Anran had already dropped his head.
The residence of Lu Dongbin and others in the mortal world was just a villa surrounded by mountains and rivers. It was not large in area, with only a dozen houses, but it was well-equipped.
Small bridges, flowing water, rockery ponds, flower beds and bamboo forests... everything is available.
It doesn't look like a residence of gods, but more like a Jiangnan garden where mortals live.
When Li Anran arrived here, Yang Jian, Lu Dongbin, Han Zhongli, Tieguaili, He Xiangu, Lan Caihe were in the hall, discussing the rescue of Nezha.
Yang Jian was the first to notice Li Anran's aura and walked towards the door to greet him.
The roaring dog held a big bone and followed closely behind Yang Jian, nodding and bowing to Li Anran with a flattering smile on his face.
Lu Dongbin, Tieguaili, Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao, He Xiangu, Lan Caihe also followed.
After Yang Jian asked about Li Anran's purpose, he introduced to Lu Dongbin and the others: "This is Li Anran, the prison god of heaven. He is also a disciple of Taiyi Tianzun and Nezha's junior brother. On the order of Taiyi Tianzun, he came to help us. "
"Lv Yan (Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao...) has met the prison god." Lu Dongbin and others came forward to pay tribute.
Li Anran returned the salute lightly and only paid more attention to Lu Dongbin.
Perhaps it was because Lu Dongbin was also born with a pure yang body. His body shape and appearance were almost exactly the same as those of Emperor Donghua, except that he did not have the beautiful temples that people loved most at the time, and he looked much younger.
In terms of temperament, he is a little less majestic and a little more suave.
The Pure Yang Sword was transformed into a folding fan by him. Holding it in his hand, he looked more like a playboy than a Taoist priest.
"He is worthy of being the reincarnation of Emperor Donghua. In just over thirty years, he has already attained the primary level of Xuanxian! He is much better than Tieguai Li and Han Zhongli, two related people!"
"With the Chunyang Sword, Lu Dongbin has no shortage of killing methods, but he still needs a protective magic weapon."
When Emperor Donghua was reincarnated, it was he who protected the Dharma and received a ray of innate pure Yang energy from Emperor Donghua.
Speaking of which, he took advantage of Emperor Donghua.
Li Anran was going to find an opportunity to give Lu Dongbin a defensive magic weapon, which could be regarded as repaying the cause and effect.
On the other side, Lu Dongbin and others were also quietly sizing up Li Anran.
Among them, only Tieguai Li had met Li Anran a few times before, and the rest were seeing each other for the first time!
However, they had heard Li Anran's name from Nezha countless times!
Especially the fact that Li Anran once imprisoned the Tongtian Cult Leader (the Eight Immortals did not know that the fake Tongtian Cult Master was a ray of hostility and thought he was the real Tongtian Cult Leader) in the heavenly prison, made them admire Li Anran even more!
Countless times, they wanted Nezha to invite Li Anran to help them get rid of the Tongtian Cult Leader, but because Li Anran had been in retreat, he couldn't do it!
Now, the legendary figure Li Anran finally appeared, making them excited.
but……
"Why do I find this judicial god so displeased?" Zhang Guolao muttered secretly in his heart.
Lu Dongbin, on the other hand, was quite fond of Li Anran at the first sight, as if they had met him countless times before, and they felt like old friends at first sight.
Li Anran didn't care what they were thinking. The most important thing now was to rescue Nezha first.
He also figured it out on the way.
Nezha fell into the sneak attack of the fake Tongtian, probably because Nezha knew that Dongsheng Shenzhou was just a layout of Taishang Laojun, just like the Western Heaven, it was just a show.
There is no defense at all!
Who would have expected that the fake Tongtian chess piece would suddenly jump up and bite someone, catching him off guard.
"Second brother, what's going on now?" Li Anran asked.
Yang Jian said: "Master Tongtian should have guessed that I would bring the Roaring Heavenly Dog, and wiped out his scent and Nezha's scent in advance, so the Roaring Heavenly Dog could not find their location."
Lu Dongbin added from the side: "Prison God, we have just discussed that we should go find the pangolin first. He is the disciple of Lord Tongtian. As long as we can find him, we will definitely find out where Lord Tongtian is hiding. Then we can …”
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome."
Li Anran interrupted Lu Dongbin and said, "I can find the location of the leader of Tongtian. Second brother, let's go there now. Rescue Nezha as soon as possible to avoid long nights and dreams."
At first, Fake Tongtian escaped from the prison.
Although he was able to successfully escape from prison because Li Anran did it deliberately.
However, the Book of Punishment will not care about this.
Li Anran can locate the fake Tongtian at any time.
"Okay." Yang Jian nodded, and without saying a word, he threw away the plan they had made earlier.
He had long expected that Li Anran would be able to find the location of the fake Tongtian, but because Li Anran was in seclusion to practice the Four Swords of the Immortal, he didn't bother him.
At this time, Taiyi Tianzun sent Li Anran over. Apparently, Li Anran had successfully initially refined the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
Although Yang Jian didn't ask or say anything, he was also happy for Li Anran in his heart.
"You don't have to go." Seeing Lu Dongbin and the others following, Li Anran said, "My second brother and I are enough."
The last time he fought against Fake Tongtian, Fake Tongtian had the peak strength of Taiyi Golden Immortal. After staying in the catastrophe for so long, his strength will inevitably improve, and may even reach the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal.
Lu Dongbin and the others, Tieguai Li and Han Zhongli, who had the highest cultivation level, were only at the intermediate level of Xuanxian, and Lan Caihe had not even become an immortal yet.
Let alone help, the aftermath of their fight might kill Lu Dongbin and the others.
In addition, another important reason is that the Eight Immortals incident was a calamity deliberately caused by Taishang Laojun in order to eliminate the calamity of Dongsheng Shenzhou.
Fake Heaven is the whetstone left to the Eight Immortals.
Li Anran and Yang Jian had to restrain their strength and couldn't kill him directly.
With Lu Dongbin and the others here, they still have to act, which is really troublesome!
"We're going too!" Lan Caihe didn't want to stay.
The Barefoot Immortal was only fifteen years old when he was reincarnated, and Lan Cai and Xu Sui were only fifteen years old. They were the youngest among the Eight Immortals, and they had the best relationship with Nezha.
When Fake Tongtian attacked Nezha, he was beside Nezha.
The reason why mortals come close to them is to ask them to cure their illnesses.
Because of this, Lan Caihe was filled with guilt and blame, and wanted to rescue Nezha personally.
Lu Dongbin, who was the first to know Nezha, also said the same sincerely: "Prisoner God, although we are not the opponents of the Tongtian leader, we can still help you deal with his men! Don't worry, we will never drag you down!"
"Don't underestimate us, we can also help!" He Xiangu was a little unconvinced.
"Prison God, let us go!" Tieguai Li was much more polite and said: "One more person means more effort."
Han Zhongli said: "We have dealt with the Tongtian Cult Leader for so many years and are more familiar with him. If we go there, we will definitely be able to help!"
Li Anran: "..." You and I are familiar with him?
Seeing Li Anran's impatient expression, Yang Jian gave him a calm look and said, "Fellow Taoists, I know you are worried about Nezha and want to contribute. But the main reason why we go this time is The purpose is to save people, and the fewer people there are, the better. If the leader of the Tongtian cult is forced to panic, and everything is broken, it will be terrible."
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Li Anran said nothing more, turned and walked towards the door.
Yang Jian nodded slightly to the immortals, indicating that they didn't need to worry, and followed him.
"Woof woof!"
Although Roaring Sky Dog has transformed into a human form, it still retains a lot of its dog habits. It prefers barking to speaking human words.
He barked twice proudly, and just as he was about to follow, he heard Li Anran say: "Howling Sky Dog, you, like them, stay here."
Roaring Sky Dog: (⊙ｏ⊙)
Lu Dongbin and others: "???"
What does it mean to be like us?
What do you mean?
(End of chapter)
