Strange Stories

Chapter 586: Enemy of the Nine Heavens
Another messenger came to visit.

Lin Jue had no choice but to come out from his retreat to receive them.

At this time, he no longer had time to make snacks, but he had four disciples, so he could still prepare desserts and snacks to entertain guests.

"I heard that the Purple Emperor is investigating Yishan." Daoist Jiang said as soon as he opened his mouth, "It should be because you brothers have achieved enlightenment one after another, and the commotion was too big, which aroused the Purple Emperor's fear."

"When did this happen?"

"I don't know. I just heard about it recently." Taoist Jiang said, "The incense gods are afraid of the immortals of the spiritual school. The Purple Emperor is particularly domineering and has noticed you a long time ago. This is not a good thing for you."

Lin Jue was calm and just asked, "What do you think the Purple Emperor will do?"

"If you were an ordinary immortal, the Heavenly Emperor wouldn't care much, but you are from the same school, plus you have great prestige in the human world, so the Heavenly Emperor would be more wary. Originally, even if he was overbearing, he was the Heavenly Emperor of Man and God after all, and his energy was focused on exterminating demons and monsters. As long as you didn't take the initiative to provoke him, at least he would ignore you until he finished exterminating demons and monsters. After that, as long as you were willing to go to heaven and show your obedience to him respectfully, he wouldn't embarrass you, and it might even be a bit beneficial."

Master Jiang said, shaking his head:
“However, your practice of magic and cultivation experiences in Yishan are inseparable from goblins, ghosts, and natural spirits. The Purple Emperor will definitely be suspicious and come to test you.

“If you don’t want to clash with the Purple Emperor so early, you have to try to avoid it.

“Now, among the gods in the Nine Heavens, some support the Purple Emperor in exorcising demons and monsters, while others do not. However, not supporting does not mean opposing. Those who oppose are another part.

“However, the Purple Emperor is the Lord of the Nine Heavens after all. Except for those who are extremely opposed to him, as long as he gives an order and it is a legitimate order, most gods will obey.

"It is precisely because he is the Emperor of Heaven, the ruler of the Nine Heavens, humans and gods, and you fellow Taoists are human beings, so as long as you avoid him, he will not embarrass you. After you avoid him, he will not be able to find a legitimate reason. Without a legitimate reason, even if he is afraid of you fellow Taoists and wants to deal with you, he will not be able to start, and the pressure on you fellow Taoists will be very small."

When Lin Jue heard this, he could guess how the Emperor of Heaven would test him and how he would find a legitimate reason.

At the end of the previous dynasty, when he took office as Tianweng, the Protector of the Saint wanted to deal with him, but he had to find a legitimate reason. At that time, he started with Senior Hua.

"So how can we avoid it?"

"Simple, yet difficult." Daoist Master Jiang shook his head and said, "You just need to be appropriately ruthless and unrighteous."

"That can't be avoided!"

Lin Jue said casually, and then poured her tea: "Haha, fellow Taoist, don't worry, my senior brother has his own arrangements."

"I will help you."

"I know."

A stream of tea poured down.

……

A stream of real fire rolled back into the sky, but was cut off by the sword of the Long Snake God.

The sword energy cut through the flames, still carrying a bit of fire, and just cut through the middle of the white clouds and dark clouds that were rapidly approaching below, and cut into the ground below.

The next moment, the white clouds and the dark clouds collided with each other.

There was no rumbling or trembling. The two clouds came into contact and merged, and the sound of their collision was replaced by the soldiers of both sides.

More than 4,000 soldiers were trained by the immortals and became stronger than ever before. Both in terms of physique and strength, they could almost fight against the heavenly soldiers. The only difference was that they were slightly inferior in tactical flexibility and could not fly.

The two sides collided suddenly, like two turbulent rivers colliding with each other.

"Fuck!"

A divine general came flying with a spear in his hand. With a sweep of the spear, the soldiers below were immediately swept away. Some of them crashed into the army formation behind him, and some directly fell into the white cloud.

But the next moment, the wind howled and a huge iron rod came crashing down.

The divine general quickly held his spear to block.

With a bang, he was directly smashed and flew out!
The one holding the iron rod was a giant god in armor.

The armored giant swung the iron rod and looked down. Many heavenly soldiers flew into the air. Some aimed their swords at the parts of his body that were not covered by the armor and chopped them suddenly, while others poked their guns at his eyes.

But something unexpected happened to them -

The armored giant god was not made of mortal flesh beneath his armor, but of wood. Not just any spiritual wood, but the body of a demon king who had attained enlightenment. Not only could their chopping hardly leave marks, but even after they finally managed to leave marks on him, they would return to their original state in the blink of an eye.

During the siege, another giant armored god holding a golden mace and taking heavy steps came out from the clouds and passed directly past them.

He raised his foot and kicked, and seven or eight heavenly soldiers flew up.

With a wave of the golden mace, the front of the dark cloud cleared.

There are twelve giant gods in total, more than ten feet tall, made entirely of immortal wood. They were carefully carved by immortals and refined over many years, so they are naturally extremely spiritual and mysterious, and are extremely powerful.

If the bean soldiers were slightly at a disadvantage against the heavenly soldiers, then these twelve giant armored gods were definitely not something that ordinary gods could deal with.

The two sides collided with each other and fought fiercely.

Above the endless white and dark clouds, three Taoists were also fighting against the Long Snake God.

"Lord Long Snake, you are a god of the Nine Heavens, and these heavenly soldiers and generals are also soldiers of the Nine Heavens. We have no intention of confronting the Nine Heavens, but the Purple Emperor does not distinguish between good and evil, and will eliminate all non-humans. He is too overbearing. We just happened to find the Tianshan Patriarch who has done us a favor, so we had no choice but to come here. Fighting like this will only increase casualties!"

The eldest brother was an honest man. He persuaded them while casting spells.

A mountain pressing down on your head!

The body of the Long Snake God became extremely heavy, making it almost impossible for him to fly.

The art of stone sealing!

The body of the Long Snake God gradually became stiff.

He always used the immobilization technique to influence Long Snake God at the critical moment of the battle with his third senior brother who was holding a big sword, and from time to time he would say "I advise you to frown" to distract him.

"Noisy!"

The Long Snake God was furious. Just as he turned to the right, wanting to scold the Taoist who looked like an old farmer, he saw nine fire dragons surging towards him from the left, almost occupying half the sky.

He was a taciturn middle-aged Taoist priest.

This was the most common fire spell, but it was precisely such a common spell, when cultivated to the highest level, that could burn down cities and destroy nations. No one knew what this Taoist priest usually did, but it seemed that he only cultivated this spell, to the point that he had some of the majesty of the Lord of Fire in the sky, and even he did not dare to resist.

"Swipe!"

The Long Snake God slashed out several sword energies in succession, crushing several fire dragons.

"Please stop and withdraw your troops!" the eldest brother requested. "Sure!"

As soon as the Long Snake God paused, a fire dragon immediately found a gap and pounced on his face.

"hiss!"

What a strong fire!
The Long Snake God felt a sharp pain in his body, but he only sighed in his heart, clenched the long sword in his hand, and blocked it horizontally. With a clang, he blocked a broad sword. The fire dissipated, and a Taoist with messy long hair looked at him closely.

"Humph!"

The Long Snake God pushed the Taoist priest away for an unknown distance.

"Your swordsmanship is good, but it's still far behind mine! The sword in your hand may be big, but that doesn't mean it has great power!"

As he said this, he threw the long sword in his hand -

In an instant, the long sword turned into tens of thousands, like a river of swords, shooting towards the Taoist opposite.

The Taoist went away like the breeze, and Jianhe followed the breeze.

Suddenly, the sky was filled with sword lights flashing back and forth.

When the Long Snake God saw the Taoist flying down from the clouds and heading straight for the earth, and the river of long swords also flowed down with him, the Long Snake God only had to make a quick guess and knew that the Taoist probably had some magical power to escape underground, and wanted to use the earth to wear down these long swords and escape.

But he didn't care. He just turned his head and stared at the old farmer-like Taoist, gritting his teeth:
"I'll kill you first!"

The god's armor was burned red and shiny, his hair was curly, and his face was charred, but he didn't care and left with his sword.

Normally it only took him a split second to fly to the Taoist, but now with a mountain on his back, it took him a breath of time. Normally it only took him a split second to chop off the Taoist's head, but now with sand all over his body, he was also much slower.

The Taoist dodged the sword by moving sideways.

"If we were to eliminate the evil demons, we could have fought alongside the Lord God. Why do we have to do this today?"

As he spoke, he slapped out with his palm.

What a courage!
How dare you attack the True Lord with bare hands!

The Long Snake God was really oppressed by the mountain and his body was sealed by stone, making it difficult for him to hide. However, he did not bother to hide, because a palm strike from most of the True Lords and Martial Gods would not hurt him at all, let alone an immortal who practiced magic?
However, he never expected that with one palm, the extremely hard armor on his body would shatter and even turn into powder.

The body under the armor is just as hard and just as painful.

"The Tianshan Patriarch is highly respected and old, and has never done anything evil. Please let him go, Lord God."

The Taoist priest, who looked like an old farmer, flew backwards and while speaking, he lowered his eyes to look at the wound on the God's chest.

It's a pity that my accomplishments are not as good as those of my junior sister...

……

"Your Majesty, the Lord of the Long Snake has returned."

"How's the battle going?"

"The Western Regions are too far away, and there is a lack of incense and offerings. The power of the God has been weakened, and there is a lack of successors. A total of three immortals have come to Yishan, plus the Tianshan Patriarch. The Long Snake God is no longer at an advantage and has to withdraw his troops."

"Does that mean there was a fight?"

"The fight started."

"Humph!"

The Purple Emperor stood up and suddenly smiled: "What a Yishan! As an immortal on earth, he actually fought against the heavenly soldiers because of an alien! The path to becoming an immortal for this group of spiritualists should have been blocked long ago!"

Then he turned around and asked:

"Where's the Tianshan Snow Lotus?"

"Before the three immortals arrived, they were almost burned to ashes by us."

"That's good..."

Zidi nodded and began to ponder:
"Yishan Mountain has produced several immortals, but they did not live in seclusion from the world, but were deeply involved in the world!
"Gathering beasts and birds, and associating with monsters!
"I am in Yishan and I am taken care of by the mountain god of Yishan!
"There is also a 'Master Lin' who not only relies on his prestige in the human world to protect monsters and dares to fight against Buddhist Bodhisattvas, but also secretly communicates with the southern gods. He even accompanies the nine-tailed fox and accepts monsters as his disciples!"

The Purple Emperor seemed to be laughing and angry, and he seemed to be listing their crimes:

"It would be fine if you didn't associate with monsters, but as an immortal, you don't stand on the side of the human world, but instead run to protect the monsters. You really deserve to be killed!"

"Your Majesty means..."

"Originally they said they would tolerate them for a few more decades, but now it seems that there will be more immortals in a few decades."

The Purple Emperor paused for a moment, then asked, "What does the Supreme God of Heaven think we should do?"

The voice of an old god was heard from the side:
"You must have a legitimate reason to do so, and you must be polite when you reprimand someone. We should first send a priest to Mount Yi to ask why they are blocking the heavenly soldiers from exterminating the demons, and then start investigating Mount Yi to find out how many demons there have done evil, and how many people have died on the mountain after entering. After the investigation is complete, we can call in the spirit of the Nine Heavens True Lord to first capture the demons and the mountain god of Mount Yi, and return Mount Yi to the gods and the human world.

“If they don’t stop us, there’s no need to embarrass them. If they do, we can order the Long Snake and Giant Defense God to attack first, and ask the White Rainbow Immortal and Danhuo Zhenren to help, and we can flatten Yishan in one fell swoop!
"We will arrest these immortals to serve as a warning to others. It is also a good opportunity to seal off the spiritual cultivation methods of the spiritual school after we eliminate the demons and monsters, so that no one can become an immortal again."

After hearing this, Zi Di nodded.

The priest beside him also hurriedly took note of it.

He came from the north. When this Heavenly Emperor was the Great Emperor of the North, he knew all about the thunderous tactics and miserable conditions of the northern demons. Therefore, he was not surprised at all. After thinking for a while, he just asked again: "There were some spirits in Yishan Mountain. They were closely related to Fuqiu Temple. They were a group of cat demons. However, they were named as true gods in the previous dynasty, but were later deposed."

"He actually named the monster as a god! How foolish!" said the Purple Emperor.

"Your Majesty, please be patient." The Supreme God of Heaven said, "May I ask you first, how did they perform during their time as gods?"

"He seems to be quite diligent and has a good reputation."

"In that case, we can recruit them to help eliminate the demons. If they cooperate, we can let them go as a favor to the 'gods'. If they don't cooperate, it won't be too late to punish them later!"

Zi Di closed his eyes and nodded.

"Yes!" said the priest, "And Master Lin..."

"Master Lin..."

When it comes to this person, even the God of Heaven doesn't dare to say anything.

This person is neither a monster nor a demon, but rather an immortal with great merits, virtues and prestige. Logically speaking, he should be respected by the nine heavenly gods.

"Go check it too!" The Purple Emperor suddenly opened his eyes. "No matter how high his prestige is, as long as he protects demons, it won't work! As long as the foxes around him are indeed related to Yao Hua, they are helping the demon clan's Great Sage to make a comeback and turning Ming Emperor Tian Weng's achievements into ashes, and they are the enemy of the Nine Heavens!"

"Will the Nine Heavens Gods recognize it?"

"How dare Yaohua deny it? Have you forgotten the battle that year?"

"Um……"

The priest and the God of Heaven looked at each other and nodded.

(End of this chapter)