I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 245: Reaching the Heavenly Palace and Finding the Backstage

In the southern continent of Jambu, there is a maple forest outside the Lingtai Taoist Palace in the late afternoon.

At this time, the maple leaves are red and the autumn fragrance permeates the fields. Wangshu, wearing a "moon cloud red and gold silk robe", is strolling among the colorful maple forest. He has a calm temperament, graceful and elegant, and unparalleled charm.

Suddenly, Wangshu's face froze and she raised her eyebrows slightly to look up at the sky.

At this time, a maple leaf slowly fell down, and was about to fall on Wangshu's black hair that was tied up in a high bun. Wangshu suddenly took a step back, raised the whisk in his hand and waved it towards the maple leaf.

Unexpectedly, the maple leaf moved and steadily avoided the swing, then floated ten steps away, suddenly a fairy light flashed, and then turned into a human figure.

"Great Sage?" Wangshu looked at the figure that appeared in front of him and immediately laughed, "I thought it was some villain who wanted to attack me, but I didn't expect it to be the Great Sage Equaling Heaven."

After Sun Wukong appeared, he leaped up and landed in front of Wangshu. "I heard that you are now the Palace Master of Lingtai Taoist Palace? I see that you seem to be quite relaxed, don't you?"

Wangshu smiled slightly and said, "I don't have to go to fetch scriptures, so of course I have some free time."

"Speaking of obtaining Buddhist scriptures, weren't you protecting Tang Monk on his journey? Why are you here with me?" Wangshu asked Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong smiled and said, "Nothing much, I just came to see that your Taoist temple is missing a lot of things."

"Thank you for your concern, Great Sage. I have everything I need in my Taoist palace." Wangshu said with a smile.

Sun Wukong asked, "Is it really a lot?"

Wangshu shook his head and said, "It's really quite a lot."

Sun Wukong said: "Well, I'll go in and take a look. What if something is missing?"

Wangshu was surprised when he heard this and said, "Great Sage, you came all the way from Xiniu Hezhou to here just to see if there is anything missing from my Lingtai Dao Palace?"

"What else? You've told the truth." Sun Wukong said, "If you dare to lie to me, humph, I, Sun Wukong, follow my master and eat vegetarian food, but the golden hoop is not vegetarian."

Wangshu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Great Sage. Maybe I already know what's going on. Are you in any trouble?"

Sun Wukong said: "I did encounter a little trouble. Two little girls from the Southern Continent appeared in the Western Continent for some reason and captured my master."

"Little girls?" Wangshu was shocked when he heard this and asked hurriedly, "Is one called Bao'er and the other called Hongxian?"

Sun Wukong sneered, "Stop pretending, did you let it go on purpose?"

"Intentionally? Great Sage, what are you talking about? Which two little girls are the servants of Lingtai Taoist Palace? If they were really let go on purpose, would we send two children over?" Wangshu said seriously.

"Then how did these two little girls get from Nanzhanbuzhou to Xiniuhezhou? Do you dare to say that there was no one helping them behind the scenes?" Sun Wukong asked.

Wangshu nodded seriously and said, "It is true that no one helped. Baoer and Hongxian did disappear mysteriously that day."

"Where are they now?" Wangshu asked with concern.

Sun Wukong frowned. He took a closer look at Wangshu, but didn't see anything unusual on her face, so he asked, "Is my uncle here?"

Wangshu shook his head and said, "No, the True Lord has returned to Heaven. If the Great Sage wants to find the True Lord, he can go to Daluo Heaven."

Sun Wukong waved his hands and said, "Forget it. I won't bother my uncle with this matter. Just come with me. Whether it was intentional or not, you have to bring them back to me."

Upon hearing this, Wangshu nodded and smiled, "Okay, wait for me to go back and arrange the affairs in the Taoist Palace, and then I will go to Xiniu Hezhou with you."

Sun Wukong nodded and said, "Go quickly."

Wangshu nodded, then turned around and flew back to Lingtai Taoist Palace, called Tieguai Li and Jiang Han to his side, and told them that he was going to Xiniu Hezhou, and that Tieguai Li and Jiang Han would be in charge of the affairs of the Taoist Palace.

After completing the arrangements, Wangshu left Lingtai Taoist Palace and went to Xiniu Hezhou with Sun Wukong.

Heavenly Court, Tongming Hall.

The Grand Envoy of Taixuan Province, Emperor Wenchang, reported to the Jade Emperor: "Your Majesty, Taixuan Province has recently received many memorials impeaching the Fire Spirit Immortal."

The Jade Emperor picked up a cut peach and looked at it in his hand, then put it in his mouth and chewed it. After a moment, he asked, "What did you say?"

Emperor Wenchang said, "It's still about investigating the many gods and immortals in the lower world who are responding to the calamity. There are at least thirty or forty vacancies in the God's Palace in Xiniu Hezhou now. And because the True Immortal Huo Ling is investigating this case, the Human World Department has not promoted immortal officials to fill these vacancies in the God's Palace for half a year."

The Jade Emperor asked, "More than forty immortal officials have died in succession. Is there any conspiracy behind this?"

"This," Emperor Wenchang bowed, "Immortal Fire Spirit has been investigating for half a year, but still has no clues. I don't know whether it is true or not."

The Jade Emperor turned his gaze to Zhuang Yan, who was standing beside him, and asked, "Lord Zhuang, do you understand this?"

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Yan immediately walked out of the immortal group and reported, "Your Majesty, I think that in the past few years, more than 40 immortal officials have died in succession, and all of them happened in Xiniu Hezhou. There must be a reason for this."

"Do you support the Fire Spirit Immortal to continue his investigation?" the Jade Emperor asked. Zhuang Yan said, "Your Majesty, yes."

Dong Wanggong, the acting emperor of the Divine Sky Jade Palace, said, "Lord Lingtai, there are more than 40 positions in the Divine Palace in Xiniu Hezhou that have been vacant for half a year. This is related to the fortune and death of countless lives. Do you think these positions should continue to be vacant?"

Zhuang Yan said, "Replying to Emperor Donghua, I think this is necessary. Just think about it, if there is really a conspiracy behind this, then what is their purpose in doing this?"

Emperor Wenchang asked, "It's nothing more than killing the immortal officials of the Heavenly Court and weakening the control of the Heavenly Court over the human world."

Zhuang Yan said: "This is only one aspect. On the other hand, who knows if the new immortal official who will be appointed as the replacement will be the mastermind behind the incident?"

Hearing this, Emperor Wenchang's face became serious, and then he said decisively: "Impossible."

"Why not?" Zhuang Yan asked Emperor Wenchang.

Emperor Wenchang said: "No matter how powerful the mastermind is, how can he interfere with the appointment of priests in my heaven? Unless he is a powerful person in a high position in my heaven."

At this point, Emperor Wenchang was suddenly stunned. After a moment, he took a breath and said again, "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible."

When Emperor Wenchang said the above words, not only him, but everyone else also thought of this.

Even the Eastern King frowned, and at this time, the Goddess of the Jade Palace, the Western Queen Mother, said: "After all, this is just a guess. How could a high-ranking god in the heaven do such a thing?"

"Not necessarily." The third subordinate of the Divine Sky Jade Palace, the Zhongtian Brahma Dou Mu Yuanjun who is in charge of the Dou Department, said: "Recently, I have observed that whether it is the Heavenly Court or the Taoist and Buddhist gods, many people have desires for the mortal world. The previous incident of Kui Mulang and the maiden Xiang Yu wanted to go down to the mortal world can prove this. When people's hearts are unstable, it is easy to attract invasions from foreign demons."

"That should give us some clues, right?" Dong Wanggong said, "At least from what we can see now, apart from the immortals who wanted to go down to the mortal world, no great saints who had defected and turned to the devil have been found in the Heavenly Court."

The Queen Mother of the West said, "I agree with what Daoist friend Dong Wanggong said. This is just a guess by Master Lingtai. There is no actual evidence to prove it yet."

As soon as the Queen Mother of the West finished speaking, a spiritual official walked into the Tongming Hall and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, the Taixuan Envoy of the Taixuan Province is waiting for you outside the hall."

The Jade Emperor ordered: "Announce."

Then a fourth-rank immortal official wearing a 'three-color blue sky four-elephant robe' and a 'purple ribbon and white jade belt' around his waist walked in.

"Your servant Yang Zhu, the Taixuan envoy, pays homage to the Jade Emperor, the Great Heavenly Venerable, the Mysterious Sky High God." Yang Zhu, the Taixuan envoy, came to the hall and bowed.

The Jade Emperor said, "Stand still."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Yang Zhu stood up, then took out a jade book from his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, the Supreme Lord of the Great Xuan Zhen Palace, the Supreme Lord of the Dong Zhen, has submitted an urgent memorial to Your Majesty."

Master Sa Tianshi hurriedly walked down from the steps of the palace, took the memorial from Yang Zhu, then turned around and walked up the steps of the palace and presented the memorial to the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor took the memorial and read it carefully. He said to Master Sa calmly, "Send this memorial to the emperors of the Divine Sky Jade Palace for their review."

"Yes." Master Sa bowed, then took the memorial and sent it to the King of the East, the Queen Mother of the West, the Zhongtian Fanqi Dou Mu Yuanjun, the Emperor Wenchang and others for their review.

The emperors took the memorial in turn and looked at it. When they finished reading the contents, their faces froze.

The memorial submitted by Master Xuandu mentioned the matter of Yuan Ao, the land god of Yalong Mountain. The evidence in the memorial was conclusive and there were archives and factual evidence to prove it both in heaven and in the underworld.

The Jade Emperor then asked Zhang Tianshi to convey his order, ordering all the stars to investigate the matter. Soon after, all the stars verified the matter and reported back, saying that the report from the human world was absolutely true.

After reading the memorial and getting confirmation from the four stars, the Eastern King and the Western Queen simultaneously bowed to the Jade Emperor and said, "Your Majesty, it seems there is indeed a conspiracy behind this matter."

Emperor Wenchang also said: "Your Majesty, someone is trying to use the disaster to clear the way and steal the day."

Xuandu Zhenjun's memorial was returned to the Jade Emperor's desk. The Jade Emperor looked calm and said, "Grand Envoy of Taixuandu Province."

Emperor Wenchang bowed quickly and said, "I am here."

The Jade Emperor ordered: "Reject all the memorials impeaching Lord Dongzhen and Immortal Huoling."

Emperor Wenchang bowed and said, "As you wish."

The Jade Emperor then smiled and said, "Since the Fire Spirit Immortal was the first to discover the clues in this case, let her continue to investigate, Lord Zhuang."

Zhuang Yan quickly stepped out and bowed, saying, "I am here."

The Jade Emperor smiled and said, "If we investigate this case to the end, we will have to offend a few people in heaven. Can the Fire Spirit Immortal withstand the pressure?"

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Yan immediately said in a serious tone, "Your Majesty, if she can't handle it, I will be there to help her."

"Okay." The Jade Emperor nodded happily and said, "Then let the Fire Spirit Immortal investigate this matter. Since these demons and evil spirits have backers, then backers against backers, you can be the backer of the Fire Spirit Immortal."

Zhuang Yan bowed and said, "I obey your order."

(End of this chapter)