Journey to the West: The Eighty-One Tribulations of Being Hairless

The Jade Emperor's Angels are immortals belonging to the three provinces of Tai and Xuan, the Four Heavenly Masters, and assisting the Jade Emperor's cabinet office. Their main power is to proclaim the Jade Emperor's decrees.

Most of these angels are celestial cranes or swans who have attained enlightenment!

Their potential is not high; their cultivation level is generally that of a Celestial Immortal, or at most a Taiyi Golden Immortal. At least among the angels in the three provinces of Tai and Xuan, there is not a single Daluo Golden Immortal.

"By the decree of the Jade Emperor, there is now a celestial official named Zhou Yi, with the Daoist name Qinglian, who possesses the great supernatural power of the Heavenly Eye, capable of observing the Nine Heavens above and exploring the Nine Netherworlds below. He should make the best use of his talents and, in order to better serve the Heavenly Court, is granted the right to travel freely throughout the Three Realms!"

Especially in the lower realms, there is independent judicial and law enforcement power!

No need to report!

Having said that, the angel carefully put away the decree. "Enforcement Official, receive the decree!"

"Your subject accepts the imperial decree and expresses his gratitude!"

What could Zhou Yi say? Although he didn't understand what the Jade Emperor meant, he was overjoyed to be given the right to freely roam the Three Realms!

I've been in Heaven for quite some time now!

As celestial officials in the Department of Celestial Law Enforcement, they must firmly remember the Heavenly Laws of the Heavenly Court, one of the most important of which is that they must not descend to the mortal realm without permission.

Do not let worldly desires take hold!

Especially for those who are currently employed!

Of course, these heavenly rules only apply to cultivators below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level. For Great Luo Golden Immortal experts, these two heavenly rules have no effect whatsoever!

Zhou Yi is currently only at the True Immortal level!

If nothing unexpected happens, and he's not on a mission for the Heavenly Court, he probably never wants to descend to the mortal realm again. As for having worldly desires?

Hehe, he's not a relative of the Jade Emperor. Even if someone were a relative of the Jade Emperor, they would be symbolically punished for having worldly desires. But someone like him, a rogue immortal official with no backing and no cultivation, is different!

Anyone who dares to harbor worldly desires will likely be cast directly into the cycle of reincarnation!

"I was just lamenting that being an official in Heaven wasn't free, but now they've specially granted me this power, which is exactly what I wanted!"

I just don't understand why the Jade Emperor would bestow such power upon me out of the blue. Could it be that he truly values ​​me and is therefore granting me special treatment?

Zhou Yi was a little curious about this, but he didn't delve into it further.

Anyway, it's not a bad thing!

"Um!"

The angel nodded slightly, and the decree in his hand transformed into a golden light that flew into Zhou Yi's mind. Instantly, the immortal registers in Zhou Yi's divine sea appeared.

A golden talisman appeared in his immortal register. If he wanted to descend to the mortal realm in the future, he could do so at any time simply by showing this talisman!

After doing all this, the angel rode away on a cloud and disappeared into the void.

"Let's focus on cultivating the Dao fruit first!"

I can't understand the Jade Emperor's purpose, but that's not important. The most important thing for Zhou Yi now is to perfect his Dao embryo and the Great Dao!

Yes!

This is the very essence of the Great Dao!

This method was conceived by Zhou Yi in the lower realm based on the Golden Elixir Dao, absorbing information from many other Daoist methods!

While in the lower realm, it began to be nurtured through the Great Dao Tree. However, the Great Dao information that all the cultivation methods in the lower realm could collect was too little, and it barely managed to complete the Dao Fruit at the Celestial Immortal level!

Now, with the nourishment of the great Dao information in these Daoist scriptures, if the merit is sufficient, Zhou Yi is confident that he can nurture a Daoist fruit that leads directly to the Primordial Chaos and create a new Dao!

No matter what!

Now Zhou Yi has very little merit left!

Back then, it took him several million merits to advance to the Middle Thousand Worlds, but most of them were consumed by him nurturing the magic fruit!

Upon returning to the Azure Lotus Palace, Zhou Yi entered a primordial space with a thought.

This space is none other than the Dao Embryo Great Dao opened up by the Book of Changes, the space created within the Great Dao Golden Elixir!

The Dao Embryo Dao is a kind of advanced variant of the Golden Elixir Dao, resembling the Golden Elixir but not quite the Golden Elixir Dao.

The Dao of the Embryo also has a Golden Elixir, but it is no longer the Golden Elixir in the traditional sense.

The Golden Elixir Path pioneered by the Sage Taiqing is most suitable for human cultivation because the human race's weak divine body is not suitable for direct spirit refinement. Therefore, the Sage Taiqing divided it into different stages.

The stages are: Qi Refining, Dao Foundation, Purple Mansion, Golden Elixir, Nascent Soul, Yang Spirit, and then Earth Immortal undergoing the Three Calamities. After Earth Immortal comes True Immortal, Celestial Immortal, and Golden Immortal.

This system is very stable, and unless one has deep karma, it is difficult for them to go astray or become possessed by evil spirits.

Zhou Yi absorbed the characteristics of this Golden Elixir Dao and nurtured the Dao Embryo through the Dao Tree.

It follows a method more like traditional Qi cultivation, but unlike traditional Qi cultivation, its violent and frenzied power is something that the weak human body cannot withstand.

The foundation of the Dao of the Embryo in the Book of Changes is the innate Qi that exists with the birth of living beings. This represents the lifespan of living beings. When the innate Qi is exhausted, life ends!

The method of Zhouyi Dao Tai is divided into Shenqiao Refining Qi, Xiantian Zifu, Hunyuan Jindan, and Hongmeng Dao Tai!

Cultivation is based on the primordial Qi, breathing in the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth and the essence of all things to strengthen the primordial Qi, and to open the 365 divine apertures of the whole body with the primordial Qi!

This realm is equivalent to the ancient Qi Refining Realm.

The innate purple palace is created by opening up the innate purple palace within the body using the innate primordial energy from the 365 divine apertures.

Yes, it is the innate Purple Mansion. The word "innate" itself signifies something extraordinary!

Golden lotuses grow in the Purple Palace!

As long as a spiritual object of heaven and earth is planted in the Purple Mansion, any acquired spiritual object can obtain a primordial creation, reverse its innate nature, and become a primordial divine object!

Of course, if a branch of an innate spiritual root is planted, it can nurture a complete innate spiritual root!

And later, one can also use the innate spiritual root to create an innate divine embryo!

Upon attaining the Taiyi realm, one becomes a primordial being!

However, if a complete innate spiritual root is planted in the innate purple mansion, the cultivator can achieve the highest level of innate Dao embryo. When he proves the Dao to the Taiyi realm, he can reverse his innate nature and become an innate saint.

Even without innate spiritual roots!

One can obtain the physique of an innate body even when reaching the Taiyi realm of enlightenment. However, without the essence of innate life, one cannot reach such profound levels. There are simply some additional constraints when breaking through to the Daluo Jinxian realm!

Even so, it's still much better than many of the Golden Core paths in Taiqing!

Reading the entire text of the first-grade Golden Elixir Dao, "Five Elements and One Qi Golden Elixir," created by the great master Kong Xuan, one can clearly see that in order to attain the Great Luo Golden Immortal, one must find innate materials and cultivate one's physical body into an innate form when achieving the Taiyi Golden Immortal.

The reason why the "Five Elements and One Qi Golden Elixir" is a first-grade Golden Elixir Path is because it contains a method for cultivating the Primordial Primordial Qi by combining the five elements, thus cultivating the Primordial Body.

Compared to that, the Dao of the Embryo in the Book of Changes is much more convenient!

It has even greater potential!

Once the Dao Embryo is formed, one enters the realm of Earth Immortal!

At this moment, what appeared before Zhou Yi was a huge nine-colored divine tree, on which was a hazy world Dao fruit. This Dao fruit appeared after Zhou Yi took control of that middle thousand world.

The function of this Dao Fruit is actually quite simple...