Supreme Golden Palace

Chapter 151 Guardian Deity

"Yuwen Mansion!"

Lü Shang reined in his horse, his gaze fixed on the plaque above the vermilion gate tower.

After Yang Jian established his dynasty and became emperor, he carried out a bloody massacre of the Yuwen clan, the imperial family of the previous dynasty. He exterminated 25 families of the descendants of Emperor Wen Yuwen Tai, executed 6 families of the descendants of Emperor Tianwang Yuwen Jue and Emperor Shizong Yuwen Yu, and slaughtered 12 families of the descendants of Emperor Wu Yuwen Yong. The direct bloodline of the Yuwen clan, the imperial family of the previous dynasty, was almost wiped out by him.

In Daxing today, there is only one family that still holds a prominent position due to the Yuwen clan.

"The Duke of Puyang, Yuwen Shu,"

Lu Shang seemed to be deep in thought. He used his divine eyes to observe the Yuwen Mansion and saw thunderclouds surging above it.

boom!
Amidst the thunderclouds, purple mist billowed, resembling lurking weapons of war. Creatures with human heads and tortoise bodies, demonic faces clad in armor, and wings sprouted from their backs appeared and disappeared.

"The gods of thunder,"

When he saw the divine figure that was faintly visible in the thunderclouds, his divine eyes were also stung by the lightning it emitted, and his vision blurred for a moment.

When Lü Shang's eyes cleared and he looked up again, he saw that all the strange phenomena had disappeared without a trace.

He certainly didn't think that what he had seen before was an illusion. His martial arts skills had reached the point of "returning to the source of sight and hearing, achieving utmost emptiness and stillness," and he was already able to focus on introspection, understand his own nature, and see through illusion.

Let alone an earth immortal, even a deity descending from the heavens could not confuse Lü Shang's six senses.

"The Yuwen family, Yuwen Chengdu, the second greatest hero of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the reincarnation of the Thunder God, could it be that the gods of the Thunder Department are here to guard this house?"

Looking up at the inky blue sky, Lü Shang felt a chill run down his spine.

Such a formation is far beyond what ordinary Thunder Gods can match; it must be at least at the level of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Lords to possess such unfathomable divine power.

"Walk,"

After a moment's thought, Lü Shang spurred his horse, and the breath of his swift, frosty horse sprayed onto the bluestone pavement, creating a fine mist.

The horses' hooves clattered softly as they slowly passed in front of the Yuwen family's vermilion gatehouse.

As Lü Shang gradually disappeared into the distance, above the Yuwen family, in the clouds beyond the reach of ordinary people, a celestial general withdrew his gaze from Lü Shang with a solemn expression.

"This mortal is quite interesting!"

He whispered to those around him, “We have already restrained our divine power and ceased our thunderous authority. We did not expect that there would be mortals who could see through our actions. This child is indeed quite capable.”

"You've got some skill!"

This celestial general, with his silver teeth and bright eyes, held a thunder register in his left hand that gleamed with golden light, and a vermilion brush in his right hand that hovered in the void. He was none other than Xin Tianjun, the second-ranked among the thirty-six celestial generals of the Thunder Department. His full title was Xin Tianjun, the Grand Commander of Thunder and Lightning, who served as the chief clerk of the Thunder Department and had the power to destroy all things, exorcise evil, and protect oneself.

Beside him stood two divine generals. One was a water and thunder general with a human head and a tortoise body, covered with blue scales and wings. His tortoise claws gripped a series of water bowls, in which turbid waves surged.

One of them was the Thunder God of the Society, clad in a masked iron armor. The ghostly blue flames blazed beneath his helmet, and the thunder chisels and thunder cones in his hands clashed, scattering tiny sparks of electricity.

Behind the three Thors, thunderclouds churned, and hundreds of heavenly soldiers stood in formation.

The tortoise shell of the water mine commander trembled slightly as he said, "Many heroes have emerged in the human world. Sun Wukong five hundred years ago, Guan Yu three hundred years ago—weren't they all earth-shattering and terrifying?"

"Although this child has some ability, compared to these two, he is just an ordinary creature from below, nothing special." He raised his tortoise head slightly, and as he folded his wings, he stirred up thunderclouds and murmured. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "However, we are ordered by the Heavenly Venerable to protect the Heavenly Venerable's reincarnation. We can only return to the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Palace after the Heavenly Venerable's reincarnation turns five years old and the Purple Sun True Man comes to take him as a disciple."

"Now, however, this mortal has glimpsed the secrets of heaven ahead of time, which may cause trouble."

Beneath the demonic mask of the Thunder God, the ghostly flames suddenly intensified, and he said, "Heavenly Lord, do you think we should chase after him and seal his divine eyes with thunder seals? Then erase this part of his memory to ensure his safety?"

Xin Tianjun's gaze narrowed slightly, and he said calmly, "Things are not that bad. Since this boy can see through our actions and glimpse the secrets of heaven, that is his opportunity."

“The beings in the lower realms have their own destinies. If we presumptuously interfere, how can we be sure that we are not going against the will of Heaven?”

Xin Tianjun silently looked at the Thunder Book in his hand and said, "Our duty is to guard the reincarnation of the Heavenly Venerable before the Purple Sun Immortal comes to the Yuwen Mansion to enlighten the reincarnation of the Heavenly Venerable. We don't need to do anything else."

The two divine generals stood respectfully in response. The blue scales on the tortoise shell of the water and thunder general gleamed with an eerie light. He said, "We will obey the Heavenly Lord's decree."

The two generals still held Xin Tianjun in some awe. He was one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Lords of the Thunder Department, also known as the Thirty-Six Heavenly Generals of the Thunder Department.

On that day, the monkey jumped out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, defeated the Heavenly Soldiers, and stormed into the Tongming Hall. When he reached the outside of the Lingxiao Hall, it was Wang Lingguan, the head of the five hundred guardian spirit officials, who blocked the monkey outside the Lingxiao Hall and then summoned thirty-six thunder generals to trap the monkey.

These thirty-six thunder generals are the thirty-six heavenly rulers under the command of Puhua Tianzun.

It can be said that Xin Tianjun had actually fought with the monkey, and his own supernatural powers were extraordinary, so the two generals dared not disrespect him.

After the two gods responded, Xin Tianjun nodded, his gaze falling from the clouds again to the back of the Yuwen residence.

Inside the warm pavilion of the Yuwen Mansion's rear residence, sandalwood incense wafted from a gilded incense burner, surrounded by twelve goose-fish lamps, all from the Former Han Dynasty. Shaped like swans holding fish in their beaks, the lamps burned without leaving any smoke or embers, illuminating the room with the warmth of spring.

Yuwen Chengdu, who had just turned one year old, lay on the large, carved rosewood bed, his little arms, like lotus roots, supporting his round body, his chubby palms pressed on the brocade, his bright black eyes staring at the coral bells hanging by the bed.

This string of bells was a gift from Emperor Yang Jian. Originally made by the merfolk of the South China Sea from thousand-year-old coral branches, it now serves as an ornament in front of the child's bed.

The wet nurse, Madam Li, knelt by the bed, holding a jade bowl filled with freshly cooked deer milk porridge. In the rising steam, the child raised his head, and a faint purple thunder pattern flashed between his eyebrows.

Li gently brushed her fingertips across the rim of the mutton-fat jade bowl, testing the temperature before daring to move the bowl forward half an inch.

The little boy's bright eyes darted around, staring at the milk porridge in Li's hand. He flapped his little arms, propped himself up, and crawled toward her a couple of times, leaving a few chubby little handprints on the brocade.

"My little sir, let's climb slowly,"

Seeing the child crawling over, Li quickly put down the bowl and placed her hands protectively beside the child.

The baby was only a year old and was not very steady on his feet. He wobbled and fell forward, landing right in her arms.

"Don't rush, eat slowly,"

Looking down at her son's rosy cheeks, Li's heart softened like a pool of spring water.

The light from the goose-fish lamp shone on the child's hair, making his dark, baby hair gleam like satin.

Xin Tianjun watched all this indifferently. Although Yuwen Chengdu was the reincarnation of the Heavenly Venerable of Universal Transformation of Thunder and Lightning of the Nine Heavens, he still had to experience birth, aging, sickness and death after reincarnation.

These guardian deities were ordered to guard this place for five years to prevent evil spirits from causing Yuwen Chengdu's premature death.

(End of this chapter)