Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 897: Four Ranks Appeared in Succession

"Sure enough, Bajie is the best at talking among us."

The appearance of the Dao Fruit of [Purifier of the Altar] made Maitreya very happy. He was the future leader of Buddhism. Having such a person who could purify the filth of heaven and earth would be of great benefit to both him and Buddhism itself.

Erlang Shen saw this and was about to speak, but stopped, then shook his head and said, "You are really good at judging people."

After saying this, Erlang Shen looked at Chu Tai and bowed, saying, "May I ask your Majesty, there are altar purifiers in the Western Heaven who can deal with the filth of the human world. Does the Eastern Heaven have corresponding means?"

Upon hearing this, the expressions of Jin Chanzi, Zhu Bajie and Maitreya all changed slightly.

Then, the three of them felt helpless.

It was somewhat inappropriate for Erlang Shen to say this at this time.

But his problem is also something that everyone must face.
Zhu Bajie looked at Sun Wukong and said, "Brother Monkey, is this why you were silent before?"

"Don't think I'm that amazing, idiot. I just felt something was wrong. I didn't think about the imbalance in the past two days."

Chu Tai heard what Sun Wukong said and shook his head, "It won't be unbalanced for two days. When Maitreya and Zhenwu take over in the future, they will inherit some of my power to strengthen their ability to save the world and eliminate demons and evil. They also have a certain ability to suppress filth and clear away alienation."

"However, since there is a Bodhisattva dedicated to purification in the West, but not in the East, it is indeed easy for people's minds to be distracted."

As he spoke, Chu Tai looked at Erlang Shen and said, "I wonder if you are interested in trying it?"

"Although I have many priesthoods, I am not good at breaking corruption and expelling filth."

What Erlang Shen said is true, he has many divine duties. In the heavenly system, he is the god of water, medicine, hunting, martial arts, wine, drama, gambling, love, child-bearing god, Cuju god, game god, farming god, weather god, protector of the country, imperial examination god, peddler's ancestor, child protector and women (prostitutes) patron saint.

Among them, except for the god of wine, the god of love, the god of imperial examinations and the god who protects women (prostitutes), who gain power because of their great popularity, the rest of the priesthoods are mostly derived from the two core priesthoods of the god of water and the god of protecting the country.

If you ask Erlang Shen to protect the people, search the mountains to subdue demons, control the waters and slay the dragons, and control the wind and rain and the clouds, that's fine, but if you ask him to expel filth, that's really not his forte.

If we have to say there is something that is similar, it is only his ministry as the god of medicine.

But this theocracy itself was derived from its water god, who used water to drive away evil and cure eye diseases. It was also an important core component of its later god of child protection.

It is obviously not a realistic thing to use this divine power to cause pollution to the entire world.

Therefore, after expressing his refusal, Erlang Shen recommended another god in heaven.

"Your Majesty, why don't you take a look at the Zhenzhai Zhenjun?"

"You mean Zhong Kui? Is he still alive?"

As he spoke, Chu Tai looked towards the human world. His gaze penetrated through the many changes and saw that many doors in the human world were enshrined with this guardian deity.

Speaking of which, the main identity of this True Lord is not a door god, but a god of the underworld. He is one of the four judges of the underworld and is also a ghost-catching god widely known among the people.

The powers it possesses include bestowing blessings, protecting the house, catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits. Judging from the power it possesses, it is barely suitable.

But his problems are equally obvious. His status is not enough, and because of the problems in the underworld, his power is mostly maintained by the belief in door gods in some areas. In the heaven, he is just a minor god and it is difficult for him to support a strong enough Taoist fruit.

After Chu Tai conveyed his thoughts, Erlang Shen was also a little embarrassed.

"How about I go to the Heavenly Palace and ask for the opinions of the gods?"

Erlang Shen's proposal made Jin Chanzi and the others look a little strange.

The truth is that Chu Tai's current identity is actually not suitable for going to the Heavenly Palace. He is a "demon king" who will be overthrown by Zhenwu in the future. If he goes to the Heavenly Palace now, he will ask the immortals and gods who is more suitable to assist the future Emperor Zhenwu.

This matter is strange no matter how you look at it.

But the few of them didn't have any good solutions now, and it seemed that they could only choose this path.

After a brief discussion, Maitreya took Zhu Bajie back to Lingshan first, Jin Chanzi stayed there to help Sun Wukong refine his remaining body, and Erlang Shen followed Chu Tai into the Heavenly Palace.

Zhenwu, who was originally in charge of the Dongtian Palace, hurried out to greet him. After hearing Chu Tai's thoughts, Zhenwu felt that it was not a good thing to directly inform the gods and immortals.

The fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better.

Not everyone is able to withstand such pressure.

"Then, I will use the Dharma Realm in the Heavenly Palace as the center and evolve many Dao methods to see who can naturally generate the response. How do you think?"

Zhenwu and Erlang Shen naturally would not refuse. Chu Tai returned to the Heavenly Palace, silently sensed his original body, and drew the power of the Donghuang Bell.

The Donghuang Bell is a treasure of extremely high status. The Dao Fruit fragments contained in it have the ability to resist external filth and alienation.

But most of them can only help the holders to defend themselves and cannot expand their influence outward.

Even if they have reached the third rank, such as the [Sage] of Yunzhongjun system, the [Fudi] of Shaosiming system, the [Lord of the Netherworld] of Dasiming system, the [Earth Official] of Shan Gui system, the [Wheel Reincarnation], [Golden Body] and [Arhat] of the Buddhist system, they all tend to establish their own dojo and give their own dojo the ability to resist filth and alienation.

The only complete third-grade Dao fruits that can be directly used to dispel filth are the newly condensed [Altar Purifier] and [Sichun] of the Dongjun system.

Therefore, what Chu Tai wanted to do this time was to use external pressure to force the gods and immortals in the Heavenly Palace to reveal their own Dao fruits and powers, and promote the birth of new Dao fruits. As divine light emerged, large and small rings appeared above the heads of the gods and immortals, and many truths began to take shape, colliding with the truths they practiced, bringing out many alienated and filthy powers accumulated in their bodies due to their spiritual charm.

These forces were originally either blocked by heaven and earth, or suppressed with the help of Chu Tai. It was originally planned to help them digest them slowly later, but they suddenly appeared at this moment, catching all the gods and immortals off guard.

Many wonderful methods have been revealed, and the corresponding principles have become apparent, but only a few of them can really work.

Even fewer are universal.

Chu Tai silently watched over, silently absorbed, silently distinguished, and at the same time drew Zhong Kui's power into it.

With so many reasons intertwined, Zhong Kui, as Chu Tai expected, showed some abilities against alienation and filth, but his status was insufficient and his power was lacking. Even if Chu Tai wanted to mobilize part of the power of the Great Sima Ming system to make up for it, in the end he only turned it into a branch of the Great Sima Ming and stopped at the fourth grade.

Chu Tai took a glance. His system was not much different from the Great Sima Ming system before the sixth grade. When he reached the sixth grade [Refiner], he turned into the [Tomb Keeper Mage] derived from the former Wu Chaoxi. When he was promoted to the fifth grade, he turned into the [Ghost Patrolman], which further strengthened the principle of corruption and decline of the [Tomb Keeper Mage], and gained a certain special aggressiveness against ghosts.

But what’s interesting is that there are two paths for the [Underworld Patrolman] to be promoted further.

One is the [Judge who Devours Sins (Punishes Evil)] which was derived from the Donghuang Bell based on the legends about Zhong Kui in the past and part of its own power, and the other is the [Gate Guarder] who has now fallen on Zhong Kui.

The former belongs to continuing in the underworld system, while the latter begins to move into the human world, adding and integrating some of the portal concepts originally derived by Chu Tai.

In terms of ability, the core of [Judge who Devours Evil (Punishes Evil)] is to fight evil with evil, and to eat ghosts and suppress evil. He has a companion treasure, the Judge's Red Pen, and the great magical power of swallowing evil and sin. He can directly devour alienation and filth, but he himself may also be affected.

In comparison, the power of the [Gate Lord] is more conservative. Although he also has the ability to devour ghosts and suppress evil, he is far less cruel than the [Judge who Devours Sins (Punishes Evil)]. In addition, the authority of the gate gives him the ability to suppress and ban filth and alienation, which can protect the people under his rule very well.

But Zhong Kui's power can only stop here, and the scope of his influence in the future will not be large, which cannot satisfy Chu Tai.

However, as Zhong Kui's power took shape, it resonated with another celestial deity, giving birth to another fourth-grade Dao fruit fragment.

【East Kitchen God】

This Tao fruit system is very independent, with no beginning or end. It belongs to the prototype of the fourth-grade Tao fruit that was derived from the power of the Tao fruit of [Zhenzhaimenjun] cooperating with the Kitchen God and absorbing part of the power of the Mountain Ghost system and the Shao Siming system.

Its ability to restrain alienation and filth is also better than Zhong Kui's, and the abilities it bestows on the Kitchen God can be roughly divided into three.

The first is to purify the stove fire, which is the use of fire. It can purify filth, suppress alienation, and burn possible filth and alienated forces in food to ensure the peace of all beings.

The second is to make the house bright and bright. This ability basically overlaps with [Home Guardian Lord], which is to protect the peace of every family.

The last one is the most important, called sweeping the dust and removing filth, or cleaning the stove at the end of the year. It is a special ability that the Kitchen God can display once at the end of every year. It can mobilize the blessings of the gods, transform them into the power to purify filth, resist the filth accumulated in every household, and even suppress the filth and foul air in the world to a small extent, purifying the spiritual charm of the heaven.

When Chu Tai sensed this ability, he was already quite satisfied. Although the prototype of the Tao Fruit [East Kitchen God], combined with [Home Guardian God], could not balance the power between the East and West Heavens very well, it was enough to shorten the distance so that people would not feel that the gap between the East and the West was too big.

Just when Chu Tai was about to stop the reception, the Pleiades star official gave Chu Tai another surprise.

This creature, born from filth, with the help of the Donghuang Bell, absorbed some of the Dao fruits of the True Lord of Sun and the True Lord of Fire, and relying on the Dongjun system, derived the prototype of his own fourth-grade Dao fruit [Pleiades Star Official].

The formation of this Tao Fruit even added another branch to the Dongjun system.

Obvious changes began to appear from the seventh level [Heart Glory], and a completely new path was embarked upon.

The seventh-grade Dao fruit fragment of [Pleiades Star Lord] is called [Observing the Sun]. It means both observing the sun and visualizing the sun. It can transform one's inner light into a ripple-like existence, continuously spreading the aura of the sun, yang, pure yang, brilliance, etc., clearing impurities and pollution in the body and suppressing curses to a certain extent.

The sixth rank is [Sundial], which means the shadow of the sun, symbolizing the torture that the Pleiades star official has experienced. Its core ability is to gather filth, curses and alienated forces into its body, forming a shadow that blocks the sunlight. In addition to controlling the sun and light, it also has certain abilities of shadow, darkness, filth and curse.

The fifth grade is called [Bath in the Sun], which obviously combines the power of the original [Spirit Embryo]. It requires the use of the true fire of the sun to burn its own body, and to nurture a new spirit fetus with pure light, and be reborn in the flames.

Therefore, the fifth rank of this system is very short-lived, and once successful, one can move on to the fourth rank [Pleiades Star Official].

But its abilities are not simple, and its main two are against alienation and filth.

One of them is called Golden Eyes to Break Delusions, which comes from the past when the Pleiades star official himself refined golden needles in his eyes. It can condense a divine needle containing the sun's radiance in the eyes, which is enough to pierce through many filthy and alienated forces, and can also see through the appearance of many filthy and alienated forces.

The second is to crow at dawn and sweep the darkness, which is similar to the Kitchen God's sweeping of dust and removing filth. With the help of his cries every morning, he can incite the true fire of the sun to sweep the world and remove the filth left over from the spiritual changes of the previous night. At the same time, it forces some places with severe filth and alienation to be exposed to the eyes of heaven.

It can be said that the power of the Pleiades star official is a great supplement to the entire Dongtian.

With the cooperation of Zhong Kui and Zaojun, the role he can play is very close to that of Zhu Bajie, which is enough to balance the gap between the two days of the East and the West.

This unexpected gain made Chu Tai give up the idea of ​​stopping drawing power from the Donghuang Bell. He waited for a while, and when all the gods and immortals could no longer hold on, the female immortals in the Yaochi Lake underwent new changes.

These female fairies originally received many Dao fruit fragments of the Yuanjun system. Although most of them only received the fifth-grade [Fengzhen], which relied on Chu Tai's power to maintain, the leading ones Suhua, Qingniao and Yuzhen were not simple.

The three of them have already seen many of their sisters' problems. When they felt the changes in the Dharma Realm this time, they knew at the first time that this was a very important opportunity. Each of them worked very hard, almost trying their best to deduce changes that were suitable for their own systems.

Especially Suhua, Qingniao and Yuzhen, they didn't care about their own practice and secrets at all, and passed on all their insights to the female fairies.

Rays of colorful light surged, wonderful music echoed, and countless flowers bloomed. All these things surrounded the many female fairies.

Even if they cannot understand, those rosy rays of light, wonderful music and flowers will be forced into their bodies. At the same time, the power of the female fairies themselves will connect everyone's power into one, and together promote the transformation of the corresponding Tao fruit system, and derive some independent Tao fruit variants that are beyond Chu Tai's expectations.

(End of this chapter)