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Chapter 818 What heavenly soldiers and generals? They're just ghost soldiers and generals!
What the gods, Buddhas, demons and monsters in the Black Myth world seek is essentially spiritual essence, and even the persecution of the Monkey King is, in a sense, for this reason.

As a born stone monkey, Monkey King has gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth since his birth. He is an extremely special individual who will continuously produce spiritual energy even without deliberately extracting or absorbing it. There are few beings in the Three Realms who do not covet him.

It could even be said that Monkey King's position in the Black Myth world is that of the true Golden Cicada. Not to mention the six root weapons that split after his death, even just stone fragments are full of spiritual essence. However, compared to Tang Sanzang's flesh, the monkey's original stone fragments are more difficult to utilize. If the refiner does not have enough strength, he is very likely to be eroded in the opposite direction.

Of course, the distribution of the Monkey King's six roots was clearly manipulated by Erlang Shen in secret. Each holder was carefully selected, a being powerful enough to intimidate a region. Whether it was preserved according to the agreement or refined with great effort, it was actually a way to help the Monkey King retain the opportunity to return. Other gods, Buddhas, demons and monsters could not easily interfere.

But the gold coins that drop from the human race bag are a different story!

This was already one of the top magical treasures, a super-powerful treasure with refining capabilities. After falling into Huang Mei's hands, it refined countless living beings, turning them into pure spiritual essence. However, Huang Mei's own strength was insufficient, and he couldn't even cultivate the Golden Wheel of Merit. He was truly too weak to benefit from it, so he kept this pure spiritual essence in his Human Seed Bag, intending to use it later.

The people of the lower realm were suffering, but Little Western Paradise had a larger area and more luxurious interior than the True Western Paradise. One can imagine how much he had plundered in this life. As for the mortals who helped build the magnificent Little Western Paradise and Little Thunderclap Temple, their final destination was only the human seed bag.

Over time, even Huang Mei himself was unaware of how much wealth he had accumulated. Moreover, with the long-term worship of mortals and demons, Huang Mei himself believed that he was ready to replace the Buddha and become the future Buddha worthy of everyone's worship. Little did he know that he was merely a child carrying gold through a bustling market.

However, the things he stole from Maitreya were too powerful. With the ability of the Human Seed Bag to conceal the secrets of heaven, and by refining one of Monkey King's six senses—smell and love—he further strengthened the refining rules, which is why others could not discover the gold in his pocket.

Now, everything that Huang Mei had been unconsciously hiding has been exposed by Cheng Tian's purifying light.

A gaze of pure, almost entirely devoid of any other desire, of greed, simultaneously turned toward the Little Thunderclap Temple from all directions of the Three Realms.

Unexpectedly, yet logically, the first to sense the abundant spiritual energy in the gold coins and react was the local Black Heavenly Court.

Suddenly, lightning flashed across the clear, windless sky, and as the lightning struck the ground, one after another silver-armored soldiers appeared out of thin air.

As the saying goes, bright helmets and shiny armor, golden spears covered with carvings, these silver-armored soldiers who appeared with the thunder are the exclusive heavenly soldiers of the local Black Heavenly Court. The physiques and armor styles of these heavenly soldiers are almost identical, and only the shape of their helmets distinguishes their identities.

Dogs and eagles are melee fighters, wielding long-handled axes, while jackals are ranged fighters, wielding short bows. The styles of these three helmets represent their ecological positions within the celestial army.

After more than a dozen bolts of lightning struck from the sky, an even thicker and more powerful one suddenly descended. The Black Heavenly Court soldier that emerged from this bolt was a taller, more imposing figure wearing a demon mask and wielding a sword and shield, clearly a unique individual skilled in both offense and defense.

Dogs, hawks, and jackals are all soldiers, while those with swords, shields, and ghost masks have become generals... but this is already the highest position he can be promoted to within his authority.

As soldiers of the Black Heavenly Court, the Dog-Eagle-Jackal Demons can be described as truly "chosen" working class.

Because they are essentially souls chosen from the underworld who refuse to reincarnate, their souls cast in molten copper and iron, their cries of agony ignored, these pitiful creatures are forcibly created. Therefore, the celestial soldiers of this world have no regular physiological needs and must wait uninterrupted for the Heavenly Court's dispatch for 12 hours a day to perform various tasks. Thus, although this Lesser Western Paradise is theoretically closer to Mount Ling, in terms of troop deployment speed, few forces in the Three Realms can surpass the Black Heavenly Court.

The current batch of heavenly soldiers is the vanguard sent to confirm and locate the existence of spiritual essence.

The Black Heavenly Court naturally knew that this was Little Western Heaven, Huang Mei's territory, and it was even closer to Black Spirit Mountain... but so what?

First come, first served!
The heavenly soldiers didn't take the demons and monsters of Little Western Paradise seriously at all, because they were strong enough to crush them. For them, who were essentially ghosts and whose highest rank in their remaining lives was only that of a heavenly general, finding amusement in their missions was already a rare treat amidst their suffering.

Little did they know that upon landing, before even seeing the spirit-infused gold coins, they had already sensed an indescribable, special aura.

As the leader of the advance team, Tianjiang looked at the target and then his whole body trembled.

Those are... heavenly soldiers and generals!?

Before the heavenly soldiers of the Black Heavenly Court could react, a surge of intense, furious killing intent suddenly erupted from the heavenly soldiers who had come from the Journey to the West and had barely participated in the attack on Little Western Paradise.

The reason is that they feel their existence has been insulted!

In the standard Journey to the West system, the sources of heavenly soldiers are basically inseparable from a series of methods such as mortal cultivation, merit promotion, posthumous promotion, enlightenment by spirits and monsters, and self-recruitment.

However, the Heavenly Army system of the Black Heavenly Court only retains the "promotion after death," or rather, the "forced conscription after death," which is exactly the same thing that Er Mao is doing now.

Having absolutely nothing to do with their cultivation and merits in life, they were merely the vengeful spirits captured by the Black Heavenly Court, cast into living puppets by pouring molten iron on them! They are utterly unworthy of being called gods!

The fact that they had to share filenames with these beings was a great humiliation to the heavenly soldiers and generals of the Heavenly Court!

Generally speaking, there is only one way to wash away the shame... that is to kill these evil beings who have insulted the name of the heavenly soldiers and generals!
Sensing the intense killing intent of his soldiers, Nezha, who had no intention of attacking for the time being because he did not see Li Jing, simply pointed his Fire-Tipped Spear forward. Then, a deafening roar of battle cries swept through the heavenly soldiers and generals as they charged towards the Yin soldiers and generals!
Meanwhile, Cheng, whose hatred level was off the charts, was overjoyed as he fully activated the Demon Gauntlet in his hand, and a large number of soul fragments were surging towards him from all directions.

But amidst the numerous fragments of souls, Cheng Tian suddenly absorbed something called "essence".

(End of this chapter)