Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 1794 Nezha's Disciple

In the Heavenly Court there is the Cloud Tower Palace, while Cuiping Mountain is where Nezha cultivated in the primordial land.

After all, he was already a Great Immortal, and living on Mount Emei made him seem like a child who never grew up. Not everyone has the thick skin of the Old Man of the South Pole, sponging off his parents in the sacred temple.

Starting their own business was inevitable.

Once the sect is established, taking on apprentices becomes a natural progression.

Deng Chanyu had no objection to this. You have your responsibilities in inheriting my lineage, and I have my obligations. As for who will inherit your lineage, that is your own business, and I have no say in it.

Teaching disciples is also part of spiritual practice. Sometimes, when a disciple asks a question, you are completely baffled. Don't you understand such a simple question? In order to help disciples understand the principles, the teacher has to break down and explain things that he considers simple in detail. This process of explanation is also a way to solidify the foundation.

More than a hundred years ago, Nezha traveled around and after setting up a series of tests, he took on two disciples, a man named Yang Zongbao and a woman named Mu Guiying.

Nezha is a very pure person. In contrast, questions like "How many girlfriends does Sun Wukong have?" don't exist in Nezha's world.

It depends on fate, not gender.

Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying were originally husband and wife. They were famous generals in the mortal world. They were saved by Nezha when they were on the verge of death. Afterwards, they were led to Cuiping Mountain to cultivate immortality and seek the Dao. Now they have embarked on the path of cultivation together.

Both of them have good aptitude. According to Nezha's estimation, reaching the True Immortal realm shouldn't be a problem. This is unavoidable. The spirituality that the human race inherited from Nuwa is continuously declining as they reproduce. Just look at the difference between Duobao Daoist and Hu Lei. The master and disciple are completely different species. If Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying can cultivate to the True Immortal realm, they will definitely not be bad.

Speaking of which, Yang Zongbao and Nezha have a stronger connection. Nezha taught him the spear technique when he was traveling. At that time, Nezha only taught him a couple of moves casually and he was not considered a formal disciple. Mu Guiying, on the other hand, has a stronger connection with Mount Li. The Old Mother of Mount Li had too many disciples, and Nuwa was in seclusion, which consumed too much of her time and magic power. Fearing that she could not teach them all, she recommended Mu Guiying to Nezha to become his disciple.

The fact that the couple could reunite and cultivate Taoism together is a blessing that many people envy. There's not much to say, they simply became disciples of Nezha, and now a hundred years have passed.

Nezha himself still looked like a young man, while his two disciples entered the path of immortality after reaching middle age, so they both maintained the appearance of middle-aged people. When the three of them stood together, they looked like a middle-aged couple plus a young man. If you didn't know better, you would think that Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying were Nezha's parents.

Nezha doesn't care about that at all. Who dares to talk about me? Step forward and let me see!

Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying were initially a little awkward, but after interacting with more immortals and learning that they were very wary of their grandmaster and master, they gradually got used to it.

Nezha was writing furiously. His own cultivation method was too fierce, and neither Yang Zongbao nor Mu Guiying were suitable for practicing it. As a Great Luo Golden Immortal, he had to write a suitable cultivation method for his disciple. Considering their marital relationship, it also involved some dual cultivation.

As he flipped through the Yellow Emperor's series of books, which contained a great deal of content on dual cultivation, he pondered his many insights from his own journey to immortality, and then wrote them down in concise language in his cultivation methods.

Yang Zongbao came in and reported, "Teacher, Venus has arrived."

Nezha, pen in his mouth, looked utterly annoyed: "Tell him to get lost! Fine, let's invite the Old Star Lord in."

Venus smiled upon meeting him and addressed him as the Third Prince.

"His Majesty has decreed that the Third Prince must muster his troops and head to the far west to repair the Heavenly Pillar."

Nezha is now somewhat like Deng Chanyu back then, constantly putting out fires because of Nuwa's various troubles. Having a saintly teacher is indeed a good thing, but all sorts of troubles are inevitable.

Other sages established great sects, and the karmic consequences could be shared among the sects, with dozens or even hundreds of disciples dividing the burden. In reality, the burden wasn't that heavy. As the only surviving sage, Grand Master Xuandu had Taiqing, a sage teacher who followed the natural course of events and never competed or fought for anything, so the karmic consequences were minimal. The Nuwa lineage, however, was different. They didn't establish a great sect, and their constant competition and vying resulted in a greater burden of karmic consequences for their descendants. From Nezha's perspective, his teacher, single-handedly, absorbed all of Nuwa's karmic consequences, ultimately overcoming numerous obstacles to attain sainthood—truly remarkable. Now, it was his generation's turn.

"Apprentices, take your tools and follow your master to the far west!" He acted like a foreman leading his apprentices out to work, taking Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying with him to repair the Heavenly Pillar.

The master only needs to say a few words, but the apprentice has to run himself ragged.

They brought along all the magical soil, reed ash, and five-colored stones, as well as various ancestral tools for accumulating merit. The three of them, along with two thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, set off for the far west.

First, they used their professional skills to observe the damage to the celestial pillar.

Next, Nezha began to make empty promises: "Your great-grandfather was famous throughout the prehistoric world for mending the sky, and your master also repaired the damaged Buzhou Mountain. My skills are crude and far inferior to those of my predecessors. You must study hard and practice diligently to strive to surpass me as soon as possible."

They called it "training your abilities," then handed over a bunch of miscellaneous tasks to Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying, while they went to lie down and rest.

The two renowned generals, in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, had their faces covered in soot, looking as if they had just crawled out of a coal mine.

The smoke from this reed ash is incredibly strong!

The family's traditional skills must not be abandoned. The couple also knew how rare this opportunity was. They encouraged each other and persisted in burning the reeds with the Samadhi Fire and then stirring the reed ash.

Nezha left behind a clone to watch over them, while his true body had already entered the Heavenly Pillar.

So much time has passed, and even with Ge Tianshi's profound Taoist skills, he hasn't been able to solve the insect infestation. Phoenix sent Nezha over to repair the Heavenly Pillar, but that's a matter for later; for now, he's here to assist Ge Tianshi in the battle.

As soon as we entered Tianzhu, we saw Old Zhu working particularly hard.

Old Zhu swung his nine-toothed rake, each strike killing dozens of insects. But the number of insects was endless, so Old Zhu had to take a break from time to time, waiting for the swarm to disperse before going back up to smash them again with "eighty, eighty".

Nezha picked up an insect and examined it closely.

"I am incompetent, and I am truly ashamed to have troubled the Third Prince to come and help me," the Grand Master said very politely.

"It's my duty, Grand Celestial Master, you flatter me." Nezha was no longer the mischievous child he once was. Although he was impatient, he still said a few polite words.

"Grand Master, do these insects have the characteristic of being resistant to water and fire?"

"Have."

"But they don't distinguish between male and female?"

Master Ge thought for a moment and said, "Indeed, has the Third Prince made a discovery?"

(End of this chapter)