If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 702: Mu Gong and Jin Mu

"Yu Fengxian?" Dongfang Shuo never expected to hear this name from his master.

He was in doubt and asked, "Is this the 'Yu Fengxian' that my disciple was thinking of?"

Emperor Donghua nodded and said, "She's not the only Yu Fengxian you're familiar with?
In fact, if it wasn't for the 'Yu Fengxian' who I have a close relationship with, I wouldn't have guessed it was her."

No matter what method is used to "calculate" the innate Yi numbers, it requires a large amount of real data to support it.

The more complete the data you have, the more accurate the calculation results will be.

For immortals, "real data" is not only specific information, but also an important basis for cause and effect.

Although Emperor Donghua has never met Xiaoyu, the karmic relationship between the two is not small.

After all, the pure yang immortal energy that Xiaoyu used to "build the immortal foundation" came from Emperor Donghua.

If another "Yu Fengxian" stole the peaches, it had nothing to do with Emperor Donghua, so he would not feel anything and would not be able to calculate anything.

"The story of 'Dongfang Shuo stealing the Queen Mother's peaches' has spread throughout Yaochi."

Speculating that the “old peach thief” might be Yu Fengxian, Emperor Donghua’s expression remained calm, “My fellow immortals and I mainly talked to a few star gods.

They said that the stars had changed recently, and the energy of the Human King was emitted from the Xisha region, with the potential to collide with Ziwei, but it suddenly stopped and disappeared.

Its rise is sudden, and its decline is sudden.

So I had some sudden inspiration and made some guesses.

Is it true? I will go and ask the Queen Mother later."

Just based on the fact that Xiaoyu absorbed a ray of pure yang energy from him, he couldn't have guessed that the peach thief was related to her.

But when he combined the aura of the Human King emanating from Western Shu and the intelligence he knew about the Quicksand Region, he suddenly had an idea.

"Why does Yu Fengxian have the right? She is just a little mortal." Dongfang Shuo became a little excited again.

If he was an old thief who had lived for billions of years and was a Golden Immortal, he would be convinced even if he was tricked and defeated.

If I have to blame anyone, I can only blame myself for not learning the skills well enough.

But the "old thief" was just a mortal who knew martial arts, and he had always looked down on him before. He was so angry that he wanted to die!

"You haven't seen Yu Fengxian for several years, right? She is no longer the same as before." said Emperor Donghua.

"It's only been two days since I left Xisha." Dongfang Shuo paused, then changed his words and said, "It's only been a few years. I heard about the incident at Yingxiang Mansion. Did she encounter any great opportunity during her absence?"

Emperor Donghua said vaguely: "As for the opportunity, it is not big, but it is not small either.

I don’t know the specific situation.”

The affairs of the Jihe Water Palace were quite complicated and he really didn't know much about them because he didn't want to explore them at all.

However, after Yu Fengxian returned to Yingxiang Mansion, he picked out the key points of what he did in Xishu and told his disciple about it in detail.

At least it made Dongfang Shuo understand the origin of the "Aura of the King of Man".

"They have all caused changes in the stars. The 'Aura of the Human King' in Western Shu should be real," Dongfang Shuo murmured.

"But relying solely on the aura of the Human King, can one pass through the Kunlun veins and enter the Peach Garden? Moreover, didn't Yu Fengxian resign from his post and leave Western Shu?" he asked puzzled.

Emperor Donghua was also confused and said, "I just guessed that the person who stole your peaches was Yu Fengxian, but I'm not 100% sure.

The main reason is that other 'normal people' have been ruled out. Her abnormality makes me feel excited again.

If you want to ask for evidence and details, I can’t tell you.”

Dongfang Shuo became excited. "I don't ask for evidence, I only ask why. Why did Yu Fengxian plot against me? How have I wronged her?"

Emperor Donghua disagreed and said, "If you want to say 'sorry', you really feel sorry for her.

Think about it yourself, how many times have you ignored her in order to be able to attend the Peach Banquet?

He always ignored her contributions to the Qin Dynasty and her requests for asylum.

Don't you know that Yaochan wants to kill her?
You are cultivating with the help of the humanitarian luck of the Qin Dynasty, so you naturally have the obligation to fulfill your duties and cannot slack off.

As the Protector General of the Western Regions, your main responsibility is to stabilize the Quicksand Region.

As her superior, you have to reward her achievements and ensure her safety.

In the final analysis, it was because of Daqin that she offended Lingshan Buddhism. Well, it should be the Tathagata lineage in Lingshan.

But what have you done?

You treat her coldly in order to eat the peaches, and she, in order to eat the peaches, may ignore your status as the 'Protector General of the Western Regions'.

After all, this is all the friendship you have left.”

After a pause, he hesitated and said, "But if you want to say 'calculation', it shouldn't be that serious.

It was impossible for her to predict in advance that you were going to steal the peaches and even time it just right.

Neither the Queen Mother nor I can think to that extent.

Everything that has happened now is just a coincidence.

A small thief met a small thief, but the small thief was more skilled and as ruthless as the old thief.

Alas, just like refining Qi and cultivating immortals, being a thief also requires talent!

You just have a talent for being a thief, but she is gifted with talent.

Well, she has the "immortal bones" and "immortal fortune" to be a thief.

You yourself have relied on your immortal bones and immortal blessings to cultivate smoothly and reach the status of a celestial immortal, so you must understand, right?
If you are unwilling to accept this, just think about those Qigong practitioners who are more diligent and talented than you, whose achievements are far less than yours. Shouldn't you be even more unwilling to accept this?
After all, this is fate, what can we do about it? "

Dongfang Shuo was still resentful and said, "Even though I have always ignored her merits and situation in order to eat the peaches.

But I am just an official of the imperial court. Isn't the imperial court of Great Qin also ignoring her?

Why does she only target me and hate me so much?

Back in Yingxiang Mansion, she killed the Toad Spirit, and I gave her a precious 'Qinghua Pill' as a gift!"

Emperor Donghua calculated silently for a moment and said strangely: "She may not be targeting you.

It's just like you ignore her. It's not targeting her, you just want to eat the peaches.

She just ignored you and was only focused on eating the peaches."

"She stole the peaches from me and made me take the blame. Isn't this targeting me?" Dongfang Shuo shouted.

"Did you sense her breath at that time?" asked Emperor Donghua.

Dongfang Shuo said in hatred, "If I had known she was going to steal my peaches, I would have killed her with my sword."

“That’s it, your realm is much higher than hers, and you didn’t even sense her aura.

You restrained your breath and hid your tracks at that time.

The water-carrying strongman came prepared and waited for you at the door, but you could only see a vague shadow.

How could she know it was you when she was hiding underground?" said Emperor Donghua.

Dongfang Shuo was skeptical, "How could she steal peaches from me if she didn't know it was me?"

The Emperor said, "You are smart all your life but confused for a moment. She wasn't staring at you, she was staring at Tao the whole time! It's like you staring at the door and not even taking care of yourself.

As you said, in such a big Peach Garden, you searched hundreds of trees before you found two big peaches. She was also looking for peaches!

If we have the same goal, won't we collide?"

The Emperor really acted on impulse and relied entirely on guessing for details. Wasn't he wrong in his guess?
"It's useless to guess here. Just wait, I will go to see the Queen Mother and see how she will deal with you." Emperor Donghua said finally.

Dongfang Shuo immediately walked up to his master, knelt on the ground, and without saying a word, kowtowed three times respectfully.

Emperor Donghua sighed, did not make any promises, turned around and left.

The Emperor of Donghua is also known as "Dong Wangong" and "Mu Gong".

They are actually siblings with the Queen Mother.

They don’t have a common parents. If they really have to say parents, it would be “Kunlun” that gave birth to them.

It is a bit similar to Nuwa and Fuxi, both of whom are innate spirits born from qi.

The Emperor of Donghua is the "innate Donghua Supreme Qi", which has spirituality and changes into a "human". The "Xihua Supreme Qi", which is the yin and yang of the Donghua Supreme Qi, generates the "Golden Mother".

All the "immortal energy" and "spiritual energy" refined by the Kunlun Qi refiners are evolved from the yin and yang of the innate Donghua Qi and the Xihua Qi.

For many years, Mu Gong and Jin Mu depended on each other in Kunlun Mountains.

Mu Gong manages the male immortals, and Jin Mu gathers a group of female immortal subordinates.

Of course, the male and female fairies they manage are all fairies who are willing to become citizens of the "Kunlun household registration".

For example, Xuanyin Zhenren of Western Shu never joined the "Kunlun Sect" at all, so naturally there was no superior-subordinate relationship between him and Mu Gong and Jin Mu.

After the dragon and the phoenix withdrew from the stage of fighting for supremacy in the ancient world, and after the demon clan lost their destiny and the demon clan's heaven collapsed, the Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Emperor achieved harmony of yin and yang (paired up with the help of the Taoist Patriarch) and became the current "Queen Mother".

Mu Gong also entered the heaven and became an "Emperor".

Mu Gong’s title of “the chief male immortal” is limited to the Kunlun household registration.

Once he arrives in heaven, he will definitely no longer have the authority of “the chief of the male immortals in heaven.”

However, the relationship between Emperor Donghua and Queen Mother Wang will not disappear because of the change of "title".

When Wukong stole the peaches, he was stubborn and didn't know what reverence was.

Dongfang Shuo stole the peaches because he had a strong background and knew the relationship between his master and the Queen Mother of the West.

As the saying goes, a master is like a father, and a master's aunt is like a real aunt.

Can it be called stealing if I pick two peaches from the "collective farm" contracted by my aunt?
"What happened today was somewhat unexpected to me."

There are only the two of them in the Yao Chi Fairy Palace at this moment.

Faced with "brothers" who had neither the same mother nor the same father, the Queen Mother did not speak in official language, but directly stated her original purpose.

"I'm not plotting against Dongfang Shuo, it's God's will. If you take away the two peaches with purple veins and yellow cores, I will detain him in Yaochi for a year or so as a punishment.

The affairs of the world have nothing to do with him.

He escaped from the great catastrophe of heaven and earth, and ate the peaches, so there is nothing to blame him for from a moral point of view."

The Queen Mother said with emotion: "Your disciple is a person blessed by the heavens!"

Emperor Donghua understood the meaning of "sister".

If nothing unexpected happened, Dongfang Shuo would have stolen the peaches without any misfortune, but only endless good fortune.

Eating peaches has a lot of benefits.

After being caught by the Queen Mother, he was detained in Yaochi. Because of the relationship with Emperor Donghua, the Queen Mother would not send him to the Immortal Execution Platform.

He was only given a symbolic punishment, forced to do hard labor in the Yaochi Garden.

They were either imprisoned in a "cold palace" or sent to a certain place to complete some engineering tasks.
In short, Dongfang Shuo would be forced to stay in heaven for several months or even years.

A few months in heaven is equal to a hundred years on earth.

By the time Dongfang Shuo finished serving his sentence, the great catastrophe of the Qin and Han dynasties was over.

The Qin Dynasty could not blame Dongfang Shuo for being "immoral".

Well, at this time Dongfang Shuo entered the Qin Dynasty as an official, similar to Wei Zheng during the Journey to the West period.

Wei Zheng was clearly an immortal, and was even listed in the "Immortal Register" as an official in heaven.

But he still served as prime minister under Li Shimin.

In other words, he first achieved success in Qi training and then entered the human court to serve as an official.

Then, he relied on the humanitarian luck of the Tang Dynasty to cultivate and become an immortal. His soul ascended to heaven, he was listed in the immortal register, and was appointed as an official in the human court.

Xiao Yu only served as the Prime Minister of Western Shu, but he felt that his cultivation speed had increased by more than ten times.

What is the value of Ying Zheng's Qin and Er Feng's Tang?

Even if Wei Zheng became an immortal, he still had to stay in the Tang Dynasty and obey Er Feng's orders.

Because the status of the ruler and his subjects has been determined.

It is also because we have to repay the great cause and effect of humanity’s destiny.

The more benefit you gain from the destiny of humanity, the more you will get in return.

Even if nine out of 13 come back, you can get more rewards.

If not, with Dongfang Shuo's carefree, free-spirited and passionate personality, why would he have to struggle in the Xisha region year after year?
Even when he went to Yao Chi to attend the Peach Banquet, he was still concerned about the affairs of the human world.

In order for him to become a celestial being, he must have performed at least 1,300 good deeds, so he definitely has all the basic "professional ethics".

Even though he knew that the Qin Dynasty was about to fall, he never thought of jumping off the ship and running away.

But if he was detained by the Queen Mother and became a prisoner in the Heavenly Palace, even the Qin court could only sigh about the country's bad luck and would not be able to blame Dongfang Shuo too much.

"What good fortune does he have?" Emperor Donghua understood what the Queen Mother meant, but he disagreed. "Even if everything goes as you wish—"

The Queen Mother corrected loudly: "It's not what I want, it's what God wants!"

"Well, even if God wishes, and I eat the peaches and avoid the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the cause and effect will only be delayed, not disappear.

It would be better to let him go to the lower world now. He is in the Quicksand Region and will not be implicated in the catastrophe of heaven and earth." said Emperor Donghua.

The Queen Mother said: "If he was so determined, he wouldn't have gone to the Peach Garden to steal peaches.

He should understand that if he stole the peaches, there was no way I would not find out and there was no way I would not punish him.

But he knew that the layout of the Xisha region had reached a critical moment, and he still couldn't help but steal the peaches.

As the saying goes, nature comes from heaven, but destiny is determined by man.

The one who established it was Heaven, and the one who carried it out was the Tao. If the Tao exists, it exists; if the Tao disappears, it is not. "

Man's nature comes from God.

But a person's destiny is the result of his own choices.

"It's not me, nor is it 'God' who is plotting against him." The Queen Mother snorted softly and said with contempt: "He is a great celestial being who has already killed the three corpses, but he still couldn't control himself. Now he has lost his way and died. Who can he blame?"

Emperor Donghua was speechless and felt a little ashamed.

Although the Queen Mother was "scolding" Dongfang Shuo, as the saying goes, if a son is not well educated, it is the father's fault.

He is Dongfang Shuo's master!
"Although he stole two large peaches, he didn't get to eat them."

"Is this important?" asked the Queen Mother.

Emperor Donghua was speechless again.

When it comes to punishing Dongfang Shuo, it doesn't matter whether the peaches are eaten or not.

Without eating the peaches, there is no chance for him to get a reduced sentence.

After all, the Queen Mother had given Dongfang Shuo the lightest punishment for the sake of Emperor Donghua.

The current punishment is already the lightest and there is no way to reduce the sentence any further.

"Who stole Dongfang Shuo's peaches?" asked Emperor Donghua.

There was a hint of resentment in the Queen Mother's eyes when she looked at him.

"If you hadn't given her a ray of pure yang energy, how could she be qualified to enter Kunlun Mountain?"

"It's really Yu Fengxian!"

Although he had guessed it long ago, the Emperor was still somewhat surprised when he got the exact answer.

“I myself can’t avoid the Kunlun Ancestral Dragon’s aura quietly.

Her ability to enter Kunlun Mountain must be related to her own circumstances, and has nothing to do with my pure yang spirit."

What he left for Mr. Wang was just a wisp of ordinary pure yang immortal energy, not his own original energy - the Donghua True Energy.

With just that wisp of ordinary pure yang energy, it would be impossible to sneak into the Peach Garden.

"That ray of pure yang immortal energy is the foundation of her immortality! Without that ray of immortal energy, she would definitely not have grown so fast." said the Queen Mother.

(End of this chapter)