Journey to the West: Demon Emperor: Beginning as a Little Toad

Chapter 433: Cutting Trees in Guanghan Palace

heaven.

The ninth layer.

Yuzhou Mountain, Duan Mansion.

Duan Tianliang led Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng into the living room.

The living room is elegantly furnished and filled with fragrant aromas.

Two servants had been waiting here for a long time. When they saw Duan Tianliang and others coming in, they hurried forward and made the best tea for Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng.

After three cups of tea, the atmosphere gradually became harmonious.

Duan Tianliang sat in the main seat, looking back and forth between Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng, and asked:
"Yang Guoshan, Yang Long, what do you two brothers want to talk to me about? Tell me."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen glanced at the two men.

Duan Tianliang understood what he meant and waved his hand, signaling the two errand warriors to leave. The errand warriors bowed and left the living room.

After the men left, Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng looked at each other, and they both understood each other's intentions.

Princess Halloween said:
"Captain, we have a favor to ask of you. Please take a look at it."

As she spoke, she handed over an exquisite box.

Duan Tianliang glanced at the box, frowned slightly, and waved his hand:

"Why be so polite? Just say what you want to say."

"If you encounter any difficulties, it is my duty as your team leader to help you."

Xiao Chen smiled and said:
"Captain, you should take a look at this box first."

At this time.

Princess Halloween gently opened the box.

Inside the box, there was a glittering golden light that was dazzling.

Duan Tianliang took a closer look and saw five first-level golden pills placed there, each of which exuded an attractive luster.

"Oh? That's interesting..."

A hint of surprise flashed across Duan Tianliang's eyes, and then he smiled and said:

"You two brothers are really thoughtful."

then.

Duan Tianliang quickly stuffed the box into his arms or hid it in a hidden corner, his movements were extremely skillful and quick.

After putting the box away.

Duan Tianliang looked at Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng again and said:

"Now, if you have anything to say, you can tell me."

Xiao Chen bowed and smiled, and said respectfully:
"Captain, the martial arts competition is coming soon, and my two brothers want to win a good place."

"I heard that the cultivation environment in the Thirty-three Heavens is the best and the cultivation speed is the fastest. We hope to have the opportunity to cultivate there."

"We hope that the captain can take us with him when he goes on the thirty-three-day duty. We two brothers will be very grateful!"

Duan Tianliang touched the box in his arms, a smile appeared on his lips, and he said:

"okay, I get it."

……

Subsequently.

Duan Tianliang sent Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng out of the Duan Mansion.

After the matter was settled, Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng returned to Yang's house.

……

On the Chixia Mountain on the eighth level.

Inside Yang's residence, Xiao Chen and Princess Halloween were having a secret conversation through the "Mosquito Brand Wireless Phone".

"Ao Yao, do you think Duan Tianliang is trustworthy?"

Xiao Chen asked.

"As far as Yang Long can remember, this is the first time he has been offered a bribe."

Princess Halloween said softly, frowning slightly:

"But today, I saw that Duan Tianliang's method of accepting bribes was so skillful..."

"I guess he has received countless benefits in private."

After saying this, Princess Halloween frowned even more tightly.

"Well, that's true."

Xiao Chen nodded, his expression solemn, and said in a voice transmission:
"He accepted our bribe so easily, so it's hard to guarantee that he didn't also accept money from others at the same time."

"Can such a person be trusted?"

"What if this Tianliang takes the money but doesn't do the job..."

"and……"

Xiao Chen continued:

"The thirty-three days pass by too quickly. Thirty-three days is one day, four seasons is four days, and twelve months is twelve days."

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

"During this period, we can't put all our hopes on this Tianliang. We still have to find other ways."

Princess Wansheng turned to look at Xiao Chen and asked softly:
"Well, King Jinjiao, what do you think?"

Xiao Chen pondered for a moment, then slowly said:

"The status of this silver-armored heavenly soldier is still too low after all."

"If we want to make a difference in the Heavenly Court, we still need to be promoted to Golden Armor Heavenly Soldiers."

"This way, we will have greater authority to move around, and we will be able to reach a higher heaven."

Princess Wansheng heard this and turned to Xiao Chen, with a firm light in her eyes, and agreed:
"Indeed, our status is still too low."

"This silver-armored heavenly soldier is nothing more than a soldier. He is restricted everywhere and has no freedom at all."

She sighed softly and continued:

"The generals can accept any missions sent by the Heavenly Court at will, but we can only obey their arrangements and let them do whatever they want."

"The golden-armored celestial soldiers still have some autonomy, but ordinary silver-armored celestial soldiers like us have almost no autonomy and freedom of movement."

"therefore……"

Princess Halloween said firmly:

"If you want to gain a foothold in the Heavenly Court and gain more autonomy and freedom of movement, you must first improve your rank."

"Once we are promoted to Golden Armor Heavenly Soldiers, we will be able to travel to more places and will not be trapped in this ninth heaven."

……

In the heavenly court, for heavenly soldiers to seek promotion, all they need is connections, qualifications, and strength.

Of these points, relationships are the most important.

As the saying goes: "It is easy to be an official if you have someone in the court."

If you are promoted by a noble person, you can reach the top in one step, just like sesame seeds blooming and climbing higher and higher.

If there is no one above you to rely on and no connections to depend on, then you can only work hard to gain experience and exchange hard work and achievements for opportunities for promotion.

The road is long and arduous, and it will take years of hard work and great achievements before there is a glimmer of hope.

But if you have no connections, no qualifications, and are just a newcomer, then you will have to try your best to prove yourself with your strength.

Strength is the foundation for survival and promotion.

……

"strength……"

Xiao Chen was thinking about how to be promoted to a golden-armored heavenly soldier.

He knew very well that he did not lack strength.

Although this identity - Yang Guoshan's identity has only the strength of a true immortal, he is not the real Yang Guoshan, but the King of Golden Horn.

The magic power of the True Immortal level is more than enough for him.

In the Three Realms, there are many big guys and people with profound cultivation everywhere, each displaying their magical powers, which is breathtaking.

However, among these many practitioners, those who truly focus on the way of body refining and cultivate their physical body to the extreme are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

We are all flesh and blood. Who can be truly invulnerable to swords and guns and not afraid of weapons?
In the Three Realms, ninety-nine point nine nine nine percent… of the people can be defeated by swords and guns.

If you chop your head with a knife, there will still be a scar as big as a bowl.

In this vast Three Realms, the only people who are invulnerable to swords and guns and indestructible are Tathagata Buddha, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Yuan Hong... and there are only a handful of them.

With Yang Guoshan's True Immortal-level magical powers, his martial arts as the Golden Horn King, and a good weapon, it would be easy for him to kill a Golden Immortal-level heavenly general.

He will be able to participate in the "Heavenly Soldiers Martial Arts Conference" that will be held soon, and show off his abilities and strength to be promoted to a Golden Armored Heavenly Soldier.

"As for qualifications... Tianlu points..."

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen frowned slightly.

In fact, for him, the most troublesome part in being promoted to the Golden Armor Heavenly Soldier is not the issue of strength, but the issue of qualifications.

In the heavenly palace, there are countless heavenly soldiers. How to measure the qualifications of the heavenly soldiers is indeed a thorny issue.

However, the Heavenly Court has its own way of justice, which is the point system - "Tianlu Points".

The number of Tianlu points is the main criterion for measuring "how much contribution you have made to the Heavenly Court."

Every drop of sweat you shed, every drop of blood you shed for the heaven, has turned into blessings from heaven and is recorded in your book of merit.

More Tianlu points mean that you have made great contributions and performed important tasks, so your qualifications will naturally increase.

but.

After all, Yang Guoshan had only been in heaven for a short time.

Among the heavenly soldiers, Yang Guoshan was just a rookie with limited tasks to perform and not many Tianlu points accumulated.

The Tianlu points needed to be promoted to a golden-armored heavenly soldier actually need to reach a huge amount of 10,000 points, but Yang Guoshan only has more than 3,000 points accumulated now.

The consumption of Tianlu points is naturally not taken into account.

When you spend Tianlu points, it is just like using gold, silver and treasures. It is spent, and it does not affect your accumulation of qualifications.

Qualifications are mainly determined by the accumulated value of Tianlu points.

For example: Yang Guoshan has accumulated 3,500 Tianlu points, but he also spent 2,000 Tianlu points during this period, and now only has 1,500 Tianlu points left.

However, this did not affect Yang Guoshan's accumulation of experience, because when he was promoted to the Golden Armor Heavenly Soldier, the accumulated 3,500 points were still considered.

……

"Ao Yao, let's take advantage of this time to see if we can accumulate more Tianlu points and raise our Tianbing level."

"In this way, we can receive some high-level heavenly soldiers ourselves and not be controlled by others."

Xiao Chen sent a message to Princess Halloween through the "Mosquito Brand Wireless Phone".

"For now, that's all we can do."

Princess Halloween spoke.

This "bribing captain of the golden-armored heavenly soldiers" is just one way.

They cannot just sit there and wait until more accurate news comes. They are not lacking in strength, the only thing they lack is qualifications.

If you can directly become a golden-armored heavenly soldier, it is also a good path.

Subsequently.

"Huang Feng, Huang Feng, during this period of time, you should also take on more missions and strive to become a Silver-Armored Heavenly Soldier as soon as possible..."

"You are our main thief. We can't do without you..."

Xiao Chen transmitted the message to the Great Sage Huang Feng through the "Mosquito Brand Wireless Phone".

If the Silver-Armored Heavenly Soldiers still have some chance to serve in the Thirty-Three Heavens.

It can be said that the lower-level heavenly soldiers like the Iron-Armored Heavenly Soldiers have no chance at all.

The Great Sage Huang Feng responded somewhat depressedly on the other end:

"Lord, I understand."

"At first, I really didn't expect that the Heavenly Court had so many rules and tricks. If I had known, I would have captured more silver-armored heavenly soldiers."

Now that the direction has been determined.

The three demons, King of the Golden Horn, Princess Halloween and Great Sage Yellow Wind, then acted in this direction.

……

The heavenly soldiers have many kinds of tasks, which can be roughly divided into two categories.

One type is tasks arranged by superiors in the military camp.

These tasks are like collective work responsibilities, and the heavenly soldiers need to work together to complete them.

The other type is the tasks that the heavenly soldiers can freely choose to accept during their private leisure time.

That is leisure time, and continue to work for the heaven.

This is a very normal thing in heaven.

After all, many complex tasks are difficult for menial warriors to complete due to their low magical powers.

As true gods, the heavenly soldiers have extraordinary combat capabilities and magic powers, some of which are even stronger than those of some immortal officials who have obtained the immortal seals.

This is normal.

There are many departments in the Heavenly Palace, each with its own responsibilities.

The Imperial Stables was an institution dedicated to raising horses, during which Bi Ma Wen was required to take good care of the horses and ensure that they were fat and strong.

You can only fight but don't know how to raise horses. If you kill all the horses, it's of no use.

Besides.

There is also an "Imperial Garden" in Heaven, which houses twelve flower gods, who are immortal officials who specialize in growing flowers for Heaven.

In the "Imperial Garden", it doesn't matter whether you can fight or not. The most important thing is to take good care of the flowers.

In the "Pixiang Hall", your greatest skill is to be able to prepare the imperial meals well.

There is also a "Dragon Taming Department" in the heaven, which is an institution dedicated to raising dragons for the Jade Emperor. The immortal officials there need to know how to raise dragons.

There was also the "Heavenly Works Division", which included "engineering officials" such as "Lu Ban" and "Zhang Ban", who were responsible for building houses and making weapons...

There is also Wu Quxing and others, who are immortal officials who specialize in writing articles and reports to the Heavenly Court.

……

These immortal officials actually have no combat power. They are even "pseudo-immortals" and have never cultivated to become immortals.

These immortal officials have merely received immortal certificates, have been registered as immortals, have shed their mortal bodies, and have some magical powers.

Their magic power is actually not very strong, and they have no fighting ability at all.

In the heavenly court, there are civil officials, military officials, engineering officials...

Whether you can fight or not, how strong your magic power is, how high your realm is... in fact, it has nothing to do with how high your official rank is.

If you are good at taking care of flowers and horses, good at making weapons, and good at cooking imperial meals... you can still become an official.

It mainly depends on which department of heaven you are from.

Although the heavenly soldiers are only small soldiers without official positions, they are genuine military forces and the "combat troops" of heaven. They practice the way of killing and have great magical powers and supernatural powers.

Every profession has its own specialties, and every immortal official has his own expertise.

Some immortal officials have extraordinary skills and are good at growing flowers. They can make the gardens in heaven bloom like spring all year round...

Some immortal officials are talented and good at writing, and can write beautiful memorials for the Heavenly Court; others are ingenious and design the houses in the Heavenly Court in a unique and magnificent way...

However, these flower gods who grow flowers, horse breeders who raise horses, construction officers who build houses... although they hold high positions, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to those of ordinary heavenly soldiers who specialize in fighting.

……

But heavenly soldiers are “soldiers” and are the “combat troops” of heaven.

Every heavenly soldier is a genuine "god", not a menial slave who is ordered around by others.

Therefore, when the immortal officials want to ask the heavenly soldiers to do some extra work, they must follow the rules of heaven and pay a certain amount of compensation as a reward for the heavenly soldiers' hard work.

The "Tianlu Pavilion" located on the eighth layer of the Heavenly Palace is an excellent place for heavenly soldiers to accept missions and increase Tianlu points.

This place is extremely bustling, and is a treasure land where the heavenly soldiers "continue to work" and "shine" for the immortal officials.

……

This "Tianlu Pavilion" is not a single one on the eighth heaven layer, but there are several of them, which are very lively and always crowded with people.

Xiao Chen and Princess Wansheng came to one of the "Tianlu Pavilions", looked up at the various tasks on the task list, and secretly calculated in their hearts.

The tasks issued by the immortal officials are varied, some are easy and simple, while others are arduous and heavy.

There was an endless stream of heavenly soldiers coming and going to receive missions.

They either exchanged experiences in accepting tasks, or discussed strategies for completing tasks, or shared the joy of obtaining Tianlu Points.

After all, in this fiercely competitive world of heaven, if you are not ruthless in moving bricks today, your position will not be stable tomorrow.

Everyone wants to make progress, everyone wants to stand out in the heavenly court.

People in the world only think that gods are good, but they don’t know that the heavenly realm is also very complicated.

Roll, roll everywhere.

……

Where there are people, there is the world, and where there is the world, there is competition.

Competition exists forever.

……

"The horses in the Imperial Stables rioted. Ten of them escaped and headed for Mount Luoxia. We need the heavenly soldiers to quickly find and capture them..."

This task issued by the Imperial Stables offers a reward of thirty Tianlu points.

A celestial soldier glanced at the task list, shook his head and sighed:

"This mission is not easy. The horses of the heavens are extremely powerful and run very fast. Once they riot, they are difficult to tame..."

"If I get hit by a Pegasus, it would be terrible. I would have to pay for elixirs out of my own pocket to heal the wound."

"The Imperial Stables are too stingy. They only give me 30 Tianlu points. This deal is not worth it."

At this time, the Ginseng Garden also issued a task:
"The ten thousand year old ginseng doll turned into a spirit. It didn't want to be stewed in soup, so it hid underground."

"We need a celestial soldier who is good at earth escape to go underground to find and capture the ginseng spirit..."

This task also offers a reward of thirty Tianlu points.

Upon seeing this, a celestial soldier's eyes lit up immediately and he said excitedly:

"This mission is good, this mission is wonderful!"

"This mission is very lucrative!"

"When catching a ginseng doll, even if it has a few broken legs and a few ginseng whiskers missing, that's reasonable, right?"

……

The engineer Lu Ban Master also issued a task:
"Go to Guanghan Palace and cut a bundle of laurel branches."

"Note: Laurel branches are extremely hard and difficult to cut. Only those with great strength and endurance can do it."

The reward for this task is 50 Tianlu Points.

When a celestial soldier saw the task, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying:
"It's hard to cut down laurel trees. I don't know how long it will take to cut down a bundle!"

"If I had the time, I could have earned 50 Tianlu points through other tasks."

"This mission is too cost-effective!"

At this time, an experienced soldier looked at him with disdain and said:
"You're just a rookie, you know nothing!"

"The fairy Chang'e in Guanghan Palace is the most beautiful woman in the Three Realms. Her appearance and temperament are simply amazing. And the Jade Rabbit sister is also playful and cute, and very lovable."

"Do you know how many people dream of drinking the bath water of the fairy Chang'e?"

Another heavenly soldier heard this, sighed, and said:

"Yes, last time the fairy Chang'e poured a basin of water to water the laurel tree, a group of us rushed to get the water, but unfortunately I didn't get any."

“The water seems to have a fragrance that makes people feel relaxed and happy.”

Another celestial soldier echoed:

"When we went to cut trees before, we always wished we could stay there for a few more days and nights."

"In the past, Marshal Tianpeng also squatted here every day to chop trees. He wanted to go to Guanghan Palace to chop trees. In fact, we all know what he is thinking."

“Is that a tree?”

"Who really goes to Guanghan Palace to chop down trees?"

……

(End of this chapter)