Chapter 1436: 514: Biyou Offers Lotus Seeds, Jade Void Sleeps Soundly_2
Chapter 1436: Chapter 514: Biyou Offers Lotus Seeds, Jade Void Sleeps Soundly_2
“Good stuff.”
The Tongtian Sect Leader, however, became alert and said with a smile:
“Ping’an, are you seeking something? You actually took the initiative to give these two Red Lotuses, which consume the most merit and look the finest, to our Jie Sect?”
“Are you here today without any reason?”
Li Ping’an said seriously, “No demands.”
“No?” The Tongtian Sect Leader frowned slightly, “Then are you here to propose? Guiling doesn’t seem to have gotten along with you, could it be Wudang? It can’t be Qiong Xiao, right?”
Li Ping’an: …
This is how his reputation was tarnished!
“Take it, Grand Martial Uncle.”
Li Ping’an handed over both Eleven-grade Red Lotuses, and the Tongtian Sect Leader received them with both hands, his face lighting up with joy.
Li Ping’an advised, “This good one can probably cover the karma of one or two hundred people. I suggest you use it for your direct disciples. Do not use it to suppress the fate of the entire sect, or else it would explode immediately.”
“Okay, okay, understood. Are you sure you don’t want a piece yourself?”
“No need.”
In his heart, Li Ping’an muttered, their ‘mother’ is now in his hands.
He advised again, “The lesser one can be refined into a treasure.”
“Why are you so generous today?”
The Tongtian Sect Leader placed the Red Lotuses on the staircase to the side and smiled:
“We six are not within the world, and so many major events have happened. Have you already got ten or eight heavy treasures that you don’t care for these two Lotus Dais?”
“Who would find treasures too many.”
Li Ping’an said:
“Previously, when I was having the hardest time in the Heavenly Court, the Jie Sect helped everywhere. Now that the Heavenly Court has control over the Four Seas and settled the Three Realms, I can’t not give something back.”
“It’s just that now with the return of the Six Saints, it’s not so easy to bestow merit from the Heavenly Court anymore.”
“Is Grand Martial Uncle preparing to let all of Jie Sect close their doors next?”
“Ah, this is just self-consolation.”
The whole body of the Tongtian Sect Leader seemed to exude small ‘worry’ characters as he smiled bitterly and said:
“Becoming a Saint is truly strange.”
“Before becoming a Saint, I never paid attention to the Heavenly Dao. After becoming a Saint, I can directly feel how terrifying the Heavenly Dao is.”
“It is formless and essential, yet it exists within the spiritual light of living beings. All living beings’ spiritual lights flicker simultaneously, like the breathing of the Heavenly Dao, the entire world is its body, apart from the part polluted by Hongjun, there is not the slightest spirituality in itself.”
“The future is all its deduction, calamity is its calculation.”
“How do I save these disciples who are about to be targeted by calamity? Do I really have to let three or four-tenths of the disciples of Jie Sect die to get through this disaster?”
Li Ping’an: Conservative.
This estimate of three or four-tenths of the disciples dead and wounded is ultimately conservative.
In the Investiture of the Gods Cataclysm known to Li Ping’an, the entire Jie Sect was gone.
First Zhao Gongming was killed by the Nail Head Seven Arrows Book, then the Sanxiao sisters set up the Nine-bend Yellow River Formation out of anger, which cut the cultivation and Dao foundation of most of the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Teaching. Then a Saint came down to kill the Sanxiao sisters, after which several significant events took place, such as Guang Chengzi going to Azure Wander Palace to mock openly. The Tongtian Sect Leader got furious and set up the Formation of Ten Thousand Immortals.
The final result was that more than half of the Jie Sect died, and the Western Sect took the opportunity to ferry away three thousand Red Dust Immortals. In the end, of the Eight Great Disciples, only Mother Wudang left early, and even Duobao was directly captured by Laozi to scheme the transformation of Hu into a Buddha.
This and that was quite complicated.
But the Jie Sect indeed disappeared, while the Western Sect prospered greatly.
These words, Li Ping’an naturally couldn’t say directly. Saying them would be useless and would instead lead things toward an uncontrollable direction.
Li Ping’an could only offer a piece of advice, “Grand Martial Uncle, in these matters, don’t be too pessimistic.”
“No more talk about it, just go with the flow of calamity.”
The Tongtian Sect Leader waved his hand and sighed lightly:
“Luckily, Ping’an, you have a good heart… By the way, what about what you said before about letting Jie Sect disciples enter the Heavenly Court, how should this be done specifically?”
Li Ping’an smiled and said, “I came here today precisely for this matter. It’s actually also a way to avoid disaster, except that most of the uncles in Jie Sect are unwilling to accept it.”
“A way? How is it?”
“Become heavenly slaves.”
The Tongtian Sect Leader leaned back, with his eyes full of thought.
Li Ping’an also didn’t expect the Tongtian Sect Leader to persuade the masters of Jie Sect, the doctrine of Jie Sect is to intercept a ray of life.
They would strive tirelessly for that life line, unwilling to compromise with the Heavenly Dao and Heavenly Court for the sake of preserving life.
Moreover, the great calamity hasn’t arrived yet, apart from the Tongtian Sect Leader, the other Immortals in Jie Sect don’t feel much pressure.
One thousand against hundreds, the advantage belongs to me!
…
Tongtian Sect Leader indeed did not intend to persuade his disciples.
Li Ping’an did not insist. He merely offered a solution, fulfilling his duty as a Taoist Sect disciple.
After playing for half a day in the Azure Wander Palace, drinking wine and soaking in the bath, Li Ping’an returned to the Heavenly Court with a feeling of ease all over.
He originally intended to go directly to Spirit Mountain.
But before leaving, Li Ping’an changed his mind, deciding to visit Jade Void Palace first to give the Western Sect disciples more time to complain.
What was he going to do at Spirit Mountain?
Naturally, to provoke.
And see if he could anger Zhunti Saint, ideally causing the Saint to make things difficult for him;
This way, Li Ping’an could use it to his advantage, attempting to disrupt the alliance between the Western Sect and Chan Teaching.
It was all to preserve more of the living beings’ combat power.
Li Ping’an was busy here and there, not having had the chance to visit Dong’an City. To leave himself a surprise, he deliberately did not use Immortal Consciousness to cover that area.
Upon arriving at the South Celestial Gate, Li Ping’an did not test the gatekeeping generals this time, and after revealing himself, groups of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals directly kneeled on one knee.
“Rise, how did the rules of the Heavenly Court change so much?”
“Thank you, Your Majesty!”
The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals stood up, yet the Heavenly Emperor was nowhere to be seen.
Li Ping’an rode the clouds forward, feeling slightly shocked.
The Heavenly Court was layered!
Entering the South Celestial Gate, there was a huge cylindrical cloud ladder ahead, at the top stood Tong Ming Palace, extending eight cloud paths in different directions, connecting Thirty-six Halls.
Behind Tong Ming Palace was a rainbow staircase, leading directly to the next layer, which was Lingxiao Palace, Yaochi Sacred Site, Dou Rate Palace, all located in the Eighth Heaven.
Tong Ming Palace and various governance halls occupied the Seventh Heaven.
From the cloud ladder downwards, the Sixth Heaven was visible with floating Immortal Isles.
The sixth, fifth, and fourth heavens were respectively the residences of Heavenly Court officials and generals, elite military camps, and training and nurturing grounds, forming the middle three heavens.
The lower three heavens were the Heavenly and Human Realms, also imagined by Li Ping’an as the ‘place of enjoying blessings in the next life’, where heavens lived for a thousand years, the area rich in materials, carefree of food and drink, spending days exploring mountains and rivers, calling friends, truly an Immortal Realm.
The Heavenly and Human Realms were also a major source for Heavenly Soldiers.
Previously unresolved issues in the Heavenly Court, like Phoenix Clan tribes, a small number of Witch Clan people, tens of thousands of Demon Infants, were arranged in the lower three heavens.
New recruits from all over to the Heavenly Court would also be trained in the middle three heavens and then dispatched everywhere.
The Heavenly Court was no longer just the South Celestial Gate; South Celestial Gate was only the closest to the core of the Heavenly Court, opened in the Seventh Heaven.
East Celestial Gate and West Celestial Gate were opened in the Fourth Heaven for the entry and exit of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, while North Celestial Gate was opened in the Third Heaven, mainly transporting daily consumables for the Heavenly Court, like Jade Talismans, Spirit Stones, fabrics, food, and drinks, etc.
The entire Heavenly Court had become a perfectly closed-loop small world.
Li Ping’an clicked his tongue lightly, heartily praised Eastern King, and then, without looking back… headed straight to Yaochi Sacred Site.
A moment later.
Li Ping’an found the Great Lady in the Queen Mother’s sleeping palace.
She reclined behind bamboo curtains, having already dismissed her maid, musician, and Chang’e, pretending to nap with her eyes closed.
Li Ping’an walked slowly to the bed, appreciating the absolute beauty of the woman before him, inserting his hand into the neckline of her gauze dress, exposing her snow-white jade shoulder, her flower-like collarbone seemed to be provocative, her skin delicate like a provocation.
The jade pool, as if just waking, raised her eyes to look at Li Ping’an, suddenly lowered her brows and glanced aside.
“Why is Your Majesty looking at me like this… don’t let anyone see…”
She had no time to say anything else, she was already without the chance to speak.
Two powerful barriers simultaneously sealed the hall.
…
Three days later, Kunlun Mountain.
Li Ping’an sat on the clouds, opened his mouth to yawn, feeling somewhat unwell.
Not that he was tired.
Even if he had worn out both ladies, he was still proficient.
It was simply that the enjoyment brought relaxation to his tense nerves, and the fatigue accumulated from madly cultivating over the past hundreds of years surged up.
‘I really want to sleep for a while, haven’t closed my eyes in so many years.’
Li Ping’an looked left and right, finding he was already at the site of Chan Teaching, so he descended the clouds, casually picked a crooked-neck tree outside Jade Void Palace, and turned over onto it.
Accompanied by breezes and clouds, he closed his eyes for a nap.
It was nothing to worry about if he slept like this, but Jade Void Palace was bustling inside.