Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 916: Cloud Dragon vs. Blue Lion

Holding the newly acquired treasure, Chu Tai rolled his eyes, looked around and said, "Laojun, I have returned this sheep-fat jade bottle to you. Would you like to add some household items, such as a mirror, a stove, a table, a cushion, etc...."

"Are you calling me Laojun again at this time?"

The Jade Emperor shook his head, and finally asked the golden and silver boys to bring Chu Tai a gourd of golden elixir, a basket of exotic flowers and plants, a folding screen with eight panels depicting the Eight Trigrams and the Eight Symbols, and a jade box.

"You entered the Heavenly Palace with the intention of intervening when the monkey was making trouble. In the past, when you were not here, we invited the Heavenly Lord's Phantom to use his Qingxuanmi Qi to transform the nine-headed lion. Now that you have returned, it is not appropriate to continue the illusion."

When Chu Tai was collecting his things, Laojun seemed to be pointing at something. Finally, he looked at the jade box and whispered, "The golden elixir in this jade box was refined by me when I suddenly had an epiphany while refining the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. Although it has not completed the Nine-Turn, it is also a first-class elixir in the world. I mixed the elixir produced in the same furnace with the innate Qingyang Qi and used it as the elixir to enlighten the golden and silver boys. You must make good use of it."

Facing the almost explicit words of Taishang Laojun, Chu Tai looked at the screen again and laughed softly, "Laojun, you really don't want to suffer any loss. It seems that you gave me four things, but I can only use two of them. No, if the lion really becomes a lion, the golden elixir and rare flowers and herbs will probably also end up in its mouth."

Laojun just smiled and said nothing.

Chu Tai shook his head. Although Laojun had his own ideas for giving these things, he did get a lot of benefits. The most important thing was that he thought of a way to gain benefits from the deity. Therefore, he was in a good mood. After bowing to Laojun, he turned into an adult again and returned to his own Qingxuan Mansion in Miaoyan Palace.

As the residence prepared by the Heavenly Court for the emperor, this place is naturally extremely luxurious.

With the Emperor of Heaven's intentional blessing, this small Qingxuan Mansion has become like the Tushita Palace, a world of its own.

In Taiqing Heaven and even in many heavens and earths of Yuqing World, the beliefs about Taiyi and salvation converged, stirring up the pure and spiritual Qi of the heavenly realm. Countless spiritual ideas surged, driving the long rainbow of vows, like a dragon in the clouds, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

Outside the palace, colorful clouds overlap, purple air is verdant, the palaces and pavilions are decorated with layers of brocade, and windows are open everywhere.

The interior is paved with nine-day white jade, with sun and moon sacred trees as beams and pillars, and covered with sky-blue glazed tiles. There are mythical beasts sitting at each of the four corners, each with a divine function.

The lotus pond in front of the palace is essentially a galaxy. Looking at it with the Dharma Eye, one can see the starlight swaying and the light of billions of stars converging into a sea.

Chu Tai entered the hall and sat down. Auspicious clouds rose up all around him, forming a cloud road, and gods from all directions came to pay homage.

All of a sudden, all the gods gathered in Qingxuan Palace.

Layer upon layer of wishes and divine power gathered around Chu Tai, forming circle after circle of divine light, making him extremely sacred.

But Chu Tai had no idea about the conflicts and contradictions between the various gods, nor did he have the time to listen to their correct nonsense. He simply said a few words to indicate that he would not interfere too much in their work, and then let the gods leave.

Afterwards, Chu Tai first worshipped Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun from afar, and then sensed the deity and bluntly asked for the Jiuqi Shi Qingyun Chariot.

"You just got rid of Laojun, and now you come to me to ask for something?"

Chu Tai's original self was also quite surprised by the incarnation's behavior.

This incarnation, formed with the help of the two Heavenly Emperors, is very similar to the Taiyi incarnation of the first Shang and Zhou period. He has a relatively obvious self-awareness. Unless Chu Tai intentionally perceives it, he cannot directly know the other party's thoughts.

"Laojun is Laojun, and you are you. Besides, what Laojun has given is clear enough. He wants us to create the Nine Spirits Saint."

"Aren't you curious about the difference between the pure spirituality nurtured from the instruments and the spirituality nurtured from the interaction of phantom emotions?"

"I failed at Laojun's place, but our paths are different, so there is still a way out. Even if I fail in the end, I can use it as experience to exchange with Laojun and improve the Dao Fruit of Yunzhongjun's system of [Immortal], or even the Dao Fruit of other systems such as Shao Siming and Da Siming."

The original body was persuaded by his own incarnation, and Chu Tai in the world took advantage of the victory to pursue.

He bluntly said that in front of the Heavenly Emperor, it was useless for the Cloud Chariot to remain in Chu Tai's hands, so it would be better to use it as an experiment for him.

"Well, I'll give it to you. Let me see what you can come up with."

With the recognition of the master, the most precious treasure, the Jiuqi Shi Qingyun Chariot, which originated from the Dongji Chenguang Datian Kunlun lineage, fell into Chu Tai's hands.

It has to be said that as one of the symbols of the former Qingshi Zhenjun's power over the immortal way, the Jiuqishi Qingyun Chariot is extraordinary in all aspects.

The main body and the branches of the Jianmu tree are carved with nine dragon patterns, which are made by repeatedly polishing with the nine heavenly pure air, gilding with the golden essence of the heavens, and embellished with the seven treasures of the eight directions.

The three-layer canopy with Tai Chi pattern on the top represents the yin and yang energies left by True Lord Hunyuan. It contains a little bit of the magic of the Tao fruit, which can decompose all things and sort out the two principles.

In the middle is a picture of a group of immortals, a scene of immortals congratulating each other, and the manifestation of the immortal destiny. It can generate boundless peace and auspiciousness, drive away evil spirits and overcome disasters.

The bottom is embellished with the circumstellar constellations, which are a concrete representation of congratulations to heaven and earth, and inscribed with the myriad phenomena of nature, the laws of Taoism, and the principles of law. It has the wonder of creating the heaven and earth on its own, and the ability to guide the direction and dispel confusion.

The tassels made of drooping peacock tail feathers flow with five-colored rays of light, containing the elite of the five elements of the innate and acquired nature. Together with the three-layer canopy, they can keep out all evil and be hard to invade.

There is a wheel each in front, behind, left and right, with lotus patterns carved on them. If you turn it slightly, light will emerge from the patterns, and a golden lotus will appear in the light, with light flowing on the lotus. In an instant, infinite light and countless lotus flowers will emerge, spreading from the starting point all the way to the destination.

During this period, the nine-dragon patterns on the cloud chariot will naturally give rise to nine cloud dragons that will fall in front and pull the cloud chariot.

That cloud dragon is the embodiment of the destiny of the immortal way. After years of baptism by True Lord Qingshi, it has turned from virtual to real. Except for those that do not have complete Dao fruit, each of them has power that is not inferior to that of a cultivator with third-grade Dao fruit.

It is naturally not an ordinary thing to enlighten such a treasure.

Chu Tai looked around for a long time. He first absorbed a ray of essence from the cloud chariot, and then enlightened it with the golden elixir. Combined with his own immortal spirit and the blessing of the triple honorable position, he transformed into the phantom of a nine-headed lion.

Then he planned to send it into the cloud chariot to slowly nurture it, but before the lion entered, the dragon pattern resisted.

Nine cloud dragon phantoms emerged and roared at the green lion phantom.

The nine-headed green lion did not tolerate the natives of Yunnian. Its nine heads roared in unison, and its momentum was no less powerful than that of the Yunlong.

Even because of the immortal luck and triple status blessing bestowed by Chu Tai, his voice could easily spread out of Qingxuan Mansion and spread to the Three Realms and Six Paths.

For a moment, all the gods in the three realms were disturbed and became uneasy.

Things were fine in Heaven. The Emperor of Heaven knew the cause immediately and sent spiritual officials to notify all places, thus suppressing the commotion.

But the underworld is different. That underworld is not the deepest part of the Nine Netherworlds that Chu Tai himself entered before, but a land of the dead built on the Nine Netherworlds. It is also the place where all living beings in the world currently rotate.

At this moment, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was riding on the Di Ting, sitting by the Naihe Bridge, watching the ghosts crying beside the Sansheng Stone in front of the bridge, and looked towards Qingxuan Mansion with some concern. "This sound is like the roar of a lion, which can help people transcend difficulties and see their true nature. However, these dead souls have regrets in their hearts and their obsessions are stubborn. Listening to this wonderful sound is like a branding iron into their brains, and they are naturally in great pain."

As he spoke, he chanted Buddhist scriptures in a low voice. Rays of Buddha's light flowed, helping them to calm their minds. However, he did not utter the roar of the nine-headed lion, but he did want to use it to enlighten them.

After finishing reading a volume of Buddhist scriptures, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva seemed to think of something and looked down at the Diting

Di Ting was so frightened that he shook his head repeatedly: "That roar reached the three saints above and the nine springs below. My ears are still buzzing now. I can't hear it clearly. I can't hear it clearly."

Upon hearing this, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva sighed and continued to recite the sutra to enlighten the foolish men and resentful women.

At the Guanyin place in the South China Sea, prayers are like the tide, echoing in all directions. The prayers are infinite, and the sound of the tide is infinite, but there is also chaos under this roar.

But the roar contained the meaning of compassion and the rhythm of salvation. Although it disturbed the ripples, it did not go against the wishes contained therein. Even some wishes to pray for blessings and eliminate disasters were directly relieved in this roar.

Guanyin Bodhisattva looked towards Qingxuan Mansion and said with a smile: "Good! Good! There will be another divine beast between heaven and earth."

The Dragon Girl and Hui'an Xingzhe standing nearby couldn't help but become curious when they heard this and asked in a low voice.

The Bodhisattva did not hide it and pointed at Dong Tian and said, "That Taiyi Riyao Emperor, Taiyi Qingtong Zhenjun, the Supreme Saint who saves suffering and saves people from disasters, after returning to heaven, he used his magical powers to create living beings in his Taoist temple and gave birth to a divine beast. It was the divine beast that made the sound just now, alarming the three realms."

Similar to Guanyin is the Buddha of the West, who also answers questions for his disciples and sends gifts of green lotus roots and bodhi seeds to Qingxuan Mansion to congratulate them on their return.

The Wuzhuang Temple and West Kunlun also sent gifts, with fairies and celestial maidens sending ginseng fruit and longevity peaches.

But what everyone didn't know was that Chu Tai was in a bit of a state of panic.

In Chu Tai's memory, although the cloud dragon on the cloud chariot was spiritual and was refined by the True Lord, its essence had not yet been fully formed. Logically, such a change should not have occurred.

Unexpectedly, Chu Tai has been traveling between different time periods and experienced many changes recently.

He also faced the mysteries of the devil and the sky, and the Dao fruit system he mastered was constantly improving.

Although the Cloud Chariot did not gain much benefit from these changes, little by little it accumulated into a great deal, especially the last contact with the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, which activated the spirituality accumulated over millions of years and caused it to undergo obvious changes.

This is also the reason why I sent it to him. Looking at the fighting dragon and lion, Chu Tai gritted his teeth secretly: "When I get into trouble, I won't even let myself go!"

"What do you mean by cheating you? It was you who wanted to ask for the Yunchariot without asking clearly. So, I gave you the thing, but it's still my fault?"

"How could that be? It was just a little unexpected."

"Come on, I don't know what you're thinking. If you don't think of me in your heart, I won't pay attention to you. But don't you think that the fight between Yunlong and Qingshi is also a change in spirituality?"

"The fate of the immortals from two sides of the world, the power of the heaven and earth from two sides of the world, and two different spiritualities existing in one magic weapon, when they collide with each other, what kind of sparks do you think will arise?"

Knowing how much the deity cared about him, Chu Tai immediately erased some of his descriptions of the deity in his mind, and continued to mutter in his heart.

At the same time, he also felt that what the master said was right, and this was also a very good research direction, so he quickened his movements, suppressing the changes of the cloud dragon with one hand, and holding the glazed treasure bottle with the other hand to suppress the movements of the green lion.

Looking at the two parties who were still grinning, Chu Tai couldn't help but cough.

The nine-headed lion, who was originally glaring at each other and wanted to rush up to bite each other, suddenly had tears in his eyes, staring at Chu Tai and letting out weak cries, looking like a pitiful little thing being bullied by outsiders.

The nine cloud dragons are completely different. One of their essences is the embodiment of the prosperous immortal destiny of the Dongji Chenguang Great Heavenly Department in the past.

Not only are they powerful, they also have a bad temper. They didn't look happy when they looked at Chu Tai, their owner, who wanted to add neighbors directly to them.

It looks like if this treasure was made by himself, Chu Tai would definitely teach him a lesson.

But the birth of the nine cloud dragons originated from the concern of True Lord Qingshi. When the other party was just throwing a tantrum, it was difficult for him to teach them a lesson.

After thinking for a while, Chu Tai could only take out the screen, throw it with his hand, and integrate it into the cloud chariot, turning it into decoration on both sides.

Then he stretched out his hand and the nine-headed lion turned into a stream of clear air and merged into it.

Seeing this, Yunlong seemed to want to stop it, but Chu Tai did not give in to him. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the three layers of the canopy above. Various colored lights fell down and blessed the Nine-headed Green Lion, increasing its strength.

Although the Cloud Dragon's magical power is extraordinary, its main body is the dragon carvings on the Cloud Chariot, and its foundation is still the Cloud Chariot.

Chu Tai mobilized the power of Huagai to cooperate with the Nine-headed Green Lion, which was equivalent to the power of Yunnian to compete with Yunnian itself, constantly stimulating the spiritual changes in it.

Of course, in order to make the screen and the cloud chariot combine better, Chu Tai spent the next twenty to thirty years slowly refining the two, allowing them to gradually and perfectly merge together.

When the Nine-headed Green Lion was completely stable, Chu Tai was surprised to find that the monkey who was supposed to be in Fangcun Mountain had gone to heaven and now returned to Huaguo Mountain, raising the banner of the Monkey King.

"It's actually at this time?"

Chu Tai looked with some surprise at the cloud chariot in front of him, the cloud dragon on it whose spirituality was becoming more and more abundant, and the green lion that had stood firmly on its footing.

'It's such a coincidence, is it a coincidence? Or is it fate?'

As soon as this thought arose, a spiritual official came with the order from the Emperor of Heaven.

"What does the Emperor of Heaven have to say?"

In response to Chu Tai's question, the spiritual official bowed and said, "Your Majesty, yesterday the newly appointed Horse Guard Sun Wukong left the Heavenly Palace because he felt that his position was too low. The Emperor of Heaven was furious and summoned all the gods to the Lingxiao Palace to discuss the matter of punishing Sun Wukong."

Although he had known about this for a long time, Chu Tai couldn't help but ask when he heard it: "Why would an immortal descend to the mortal world make such a fuss?"

Having said that, Chu Tai still chose to take the nine-headed green lion with him. During the trip, the cloud chariot turned into a stream of light and was put into his sleeves, just in case.

(End of this chapter)