Don't let Yu Ding take on any more disciples.

Chapter 26 The Best Way to Eliminate Fear

Yuquan Mountain, Jinxia Cave.

Yu Ding has been in a bad mood these past few days.

After reaching the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, Yu Ding once thought of going down the mountain to see the legendary primordial world, but something made him quite helpless.

"Another terrible omen!"

Yu Ding looked at the divination symbols on the ground and his face darkened: "It's another day not suitable for going out."

For three consecutive months, I cast one divination each morning, noon, and evening.

The hexagrams are very bad!

"How did that happen?"

Yu Ding frowned. He was quite confident in his expertise in divination using money, but the repeated ominous results were really discouraging him from going out.

It seems that... he really shouldn't go out right now.

As for why it's not advisable to go out, it's probably because the world is too dangerous.

Yu Ding had a pretty good idea about this.

Although his master is Yuanshi Tianzun, his senior master is Daode Tianzun, his patriarch is Daozu Hongjun, and his fellow disciples are the Twelve Golden Immortals, but...

His true cultivation level was only the twelfth level of Qi Refining!

In this era where gods and demons roam everywhere and cultivators are as common as dogs, what is the mere Qi Refining Great Perfection stage?
Ants!

In the legends, they were called ants by important figures!
If you happen to run into a monster who knows Master Yu Ding when you go out, that would be fine. You might be able to intimidate them with Master Yu Ding's reputation.

But what if you run into a hothead who doesn't recognize Master Yuding and just starts attacking...?

Danger!

Thinking of this, Yu Ding couldn't help but feel a little scared. Fortunately, he didn't rashly go out of the mountain to wander around.

Staying on Jade Spring Mountain, one has no worries about food or clothing. One is not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court above, nor the Underworld below, and the Human King in between has no say in one's affairs.

He can eat and sleep whenever he wants. Now his cultivation and realm are all perfected. He doesn't even need to accumulate magical power. He has plenty of time to cultivate Taoist arts and ponder how to break through realms.

Isn't this the legendary life of a god?

Not content with a life like this, he actually wanted to go out and run around...

"Indeed, humans are insatiable creatures. Yu Ding, you can't keep going like this."

Yu Ding felt somewhat ashamed and resolved, "From now on, I will examine myself three times a day. What should I do next? Alas, I wonder how my disciple Yuan Hong is doing."

The child travels thousands of miles and the mother is worried.

Even though Yuan Hong had traveled thousands of miles, his master was somewhat worried, especially since Yuan Hong was his first disciple, whom Yu Ding had taken in.

This is like the first child a couple has after getting married; it has a different meaning!
"However, given Yuan Hong's character... he shouldn't have any problems, especially since I gave him countless instructions when he graduated..."

With this thought in mind, Yu Ding felt much more at ease.

Yuan Hong had suffered hardships in the past, and having experienced hardship, he became more sensible. Moreover, he had taught so many principles.

Aside from his conflict with the Western Zhou Dynasty, Yuan Hong in the Investiture of the Gods doesn't seem to have any other record of causing trouble.

With his instructions this time, that guy will probably behave himself and not get involved in the Investiture of the Gods.

Thinking of this, Yu Ding suddenly felt much better. He felt that although he was not very capable as a master, he was very competent.

Unlike the other monkey's master!

...

...

In the Heavenly Prison.

"you……"

The last celestial prison guard pointed at Venus, clutched his bleeding neck, and collapsed in disbelief.

Venus shone brightly, transforming into Yuan Hong, whose facial muscles twitched.

At that moment, he stared blankly at the little ape whose skull had been opened, its eyes bloodshot and its hands trembling, unable to bear to look.

Inside the skull, which had been opened, was a mixture of red and white, along with the hot, golden oil that had been poured over it. The little monkey's dead face and eyes were filled with terror.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry. There's no need to be angry afterward..."

Yuan Hong kept chanting the "Don't Get Angry" mantra that his master had taught him to cultivate his mind and character, but the mantra, which used to be very effective, had no effect on him today.

He felt an unnamed fire burning within him, consuming his internal organs and reaching the top of his head; the blood flowing through his body seemed to be ignited at that moment.

An overwhelming killing intent was building up and boiling, like a wild beast struggling to break free of its cage.

“Not working? Then try another one. If your heart is pure, you won’t be alarmed even if the sky falls…” Yuan Hong switched to another one.

The surging killing intent seemed to have been contained.

Monkeys are not small in size, but they are very timid. They eat wild fruits and insects from the mountains, and very few of them have cultivated themselves into spirits.

Has this little monkey become a demon?

No, it doesn't even know how to cultivate.

Yuan Hong understood that the Heavenly Court needed to maintain order in the world and eliminate demons.

On his way back, he thought a lot, and even decided to cooperate with the new Heavenly Court to be a law-abiding and good immortal.

However, Tianhai Shenjiang's attack on Meishan was not to eliminate demons, nor was capturing a group of uncultivated monkeys to exorcise evil.

His goal was simply to rack up some battle merits...

This is not the Heavenly Court that Yuan Hong envisioned.

At this moment, the new Heavenly Court undoubtedly disappointed him greatly.

"Master, I'm sorry, I may not be able to be the good immortal you expect me to be."

Yuan Hong slowly closed his eyes, stopped chanting the incantation, and ceased suppressing the killing intent within him.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

A thought flashed through Yuan Hong's mind.

He went straight to a prison cell.

This was his state of mind. At this moment, a massive figure exuding ferocity roared wildly from inside the prison. "Hello!" Yuan Hong said calmly.

Master said that whether it is a human or a demon, there are both human and animal aspects in the body.

Bestiality is the instinct of wild beasts, while humanity is the suppression and restraint of that instinct.

When a demon's humanity outweighs its animalistic nature, it is human; when a human's animalistic nature outweighs its humanity, it is a beast, or a demon.

Yuan Hong longed to be a human being.

So he desperately suppressed and restrained the wildness and animalistic nature within him.

But Master said: That won't work. The best way to eliminate fear is to face it.

Yuan Hong didn't quite understand it before.

Even his master's words confused him greatly; first he was told to restrain himself, then he had to face his fear.

But at that moment, he suddenly had a realization.

It turned out that it wasn't that his master's words were contradictory, but rather that his words contained two different realms of understanding, which he hadn't grasped at the time.

The enormous figure slowly lowered its head, revealing the face of a ferocious ape, and looked down at the ant-like Yuan Hong with a sinister smile.

"I am no longer afraid of you."

Yuan Hong said, "Because no matter who we lose, we will never be whole again. Only when we are together can we be Yuan Hong..."

The enormous figure was taken aback, seemingly not expecting Yuan Hong to say such a thing.

As Yuan Hong finished speaking, with a crack, the massive prison cell shattered and fell into pieces.

"Would you like to try the Heavenly Gang Five Thunder Orthodox Method?" Yuan Hong asked with a smile.

With his right hand loosely clenched, he raised his left hand, bit his middle finger, and wrote a bright red "雷" (thunder) character on his palm.

"Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!" Immediately afterwards, Yuan Hong made a hand seal with his left hand and pointed towards the character "thunder." The next moment, lightning flashed, and a thick bolt of lightning pierced through the sky and crashed down on the ferocious ape.

"Roar!"

The ferocious ape roared angrily as it was struck.

"Come on, the best way to eliminate fear is to face it..."

Yuan Hong laughed loudly and leaped into the air like a cannonball, clenching his fist as he charged towards the enormous, ferocious ape.

Outside, Yuan Hong's aura surged, sometimes overwhelming with murderous intent, sometimes radiating an ethereal, otherworldly charm...

After about an incense stick's time, the fierce aura emanating from Yuan Hong dissipated.

Yuan Hong slowly opened his eyes, his vision clear.

His eyes held a weathered look as if they had witnessed countless years, yet he exuded an even stronger aura of ethereal beauty.

In fact, they are not that different.

Only a moment passed in the outside world, but in his mind, he fought a fierce battle with the Monkey King for three hundred years.

"This is... the Celestial Realm?!" Yuan Hong slowly examined his surroundings.

He felt that compared to the True Immortal Realm he had entered, he had stepped into a new and different world, where he could see many things he had never seen before.

He never expected that this disturbance of his mind would turn out to be a blessing in disguise, allowing him to break through to a higher realm.

If the suppression continues, the water will overflow when the vessel is full, and everything will be over once the ferocious ape's power surpasses his.

If they lose their temper at that point, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After all, you should also take a look at where you are.

Heaven!

Is this a place where you can do whatever you want?
Looking at the little ape on the table with its skull cracked open, Yuan Hong's face darkened, and he clenched his fist again, the veins on the back of his hand bulging.

His aura surged once more.

With a wave of his sleeve, Yuan Hong caused the monkey corpse on the table and the monkey skin on the ground to disappear.

Then Yuan Hong vanished in a flash, and soon after, he found the other apes on the first level of the Heavenly Prison.

The first level of the Heavenly Prison only holds the weakest demons.

Looking at his fellow apes trembling in the prison cell, their eyes filled with fear, Yuan Hong's eyes twitched, and the fire burning in his heart seemed to have been doused with oil.

"Yuan Fei".

Yuan Hong suddenly saw an old monkey.

The old monkey, with white eyebrows and a long beard, was covered in whip marks and leaning against the wall, feigning sleep. Upon hearing this, it opened its eyes weakly and said, "You are..."

Yuan Hong smiled and said, "I am your second great-great-great-grandfather!"

This isn't just something he made up; he was born in Meishan more than 500 years ago and became sworn brothers with the monkey king at the time.

These are the descendants of that Monkey King. We don't call him Second Grandfather... What is his great-great-great-grandfather called?
The old ape's cloudy eyes lit up, and its voice was filled with disbelief: "It really is you...you've come back?"

Yuan Hong said in a hoarse voice, "I've come to save you."

Seeing the descendants of his deceased loved ones meet such a fate filled him with rage: "Do all demons... deserve to die?"

But these monkeys aren't demons!

Suddenly, he remembered his master's words, and gradually, his eyes hardened: "No, demons are not scary; what's truly terrifying are those ugly and evil hearts..."

"Crack!"

Yuan Hong directly broke the talisman on the prison cell and created a clone: ​​"Take them away."

He then turned and strode out of the Heavenly Prison.

"Second Great-Great-Grandpa, where are you going?"

Yuan Fei, being supported by the young monkey, quickly asked upon seeing this.

“I’m going to ask those people in Heaven about something,” Yuan Hong said.

His figure stood out among the monkeys.

He wanted to ask the Heavenly Court what kind of bullshit logic it was to capture ordinary monkeys for the sake of military merits!
Master's saying: Reason prevails everywhere!
So, what about in the sky?

Yuan Hong didn't know, but he wanted to give it a try.

(End of this chapter)