Chapter 105 Nanhua Old Immortal
In the days that followed, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Southern Continent became more and more violent.
The atmosphere in Heaven was visibly becoming more tense.
Just like Nezha, there are gods who see through the essence behind this and are well aware of the ancient secrets. They watch all this with trepidation, fearing that the ancient events will happen again and drag them into the catastrophe.
Even those who were not familiar with the situation could see that something was not right, although they did not understand the situation.
Ever since news of the events in Jambu Continent reached the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor has become more and more angry at court meetings.
Many civil and military officials were severely punished because they accidentally said something inappropriate that displeased the Jade Emperor.
For a while, the people in the Heavenly Palace were in a panic, and all the gods were silent, daring only to discuss the affairs of Jambudvīpa in secret.
Nezha has many temples on earth and has extensive connections in heaven, so he is eligible to attend court meetings. He is well-informed and would share the information he had gained with Li Anran from time to time.
The content is similar to the Yellow Turban Rebellion on Earth.
After Zhang Jue started the uprising, he called himself "General God of Heaven" and his brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang called themselves "General God of Earth" and "General God of Man" respectively. They led the 36 factions of the Taiping Dao in revolt simultaneously in 28 counties of 7 states including Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan and Yu, and captured cities and territories with great momentum.
The only difference is that every time Zhang Jue captured a place, in addition to killing the corrupt officials of the Han Dynasty, he would also kill all the city gods, land gods, and river dragon kings in the underworld, leaving no one alive.
Such an action can be said to be a direct slap in the face of Heaven!
That is to say, as the ancestral land of the human race, the Southern Continent is suppressed by the Nine Cauldrons Formation, and the human race is now the protagonist of the Heavenly Dao and has a deep destiny.
If what happened to Zhang Jue happened in any other continent, the Heavenly Court's army would have already set out to suppress the rebellion.
The above are the situations of the Yellow Turban Rebellion as seen by Li Anran and Nezha, which are deeper and more thorough than those of ordinary gods.
But compared with some other gods, there is a huge gap!
For example, Yang Jian!
In order to find out why the two sects of Chan and Jie in Heaven had brought so many disasters upon the mortal world and weakened the fortune of the human race, Yang Jian deliberately caused the catastrophe.
After sending Li Qi, Yu Hua and others to the Heavenly Prison, and asking their master to reflect on himself in seclusion and leaving him no time to go to Jambu Continent to cause trouble, he found an excuse to come to Jambu Continent and began to investigate the matter.
Since Lei Zhenzi was killed because he knew the inside story, he would start from the cave where Lei Zhenzi was killed and work backwards to figure out what Lei Zhenzi had experienced.
In this way, the truth of the matter will be discovered sooner or later.
However, before Yang Jian could investigate the truth, the Yellow Turban Rebellion suddenly broke out.
At the beginning, Yang Jian had similar ideas to Nezha.
It is believed that Zhang Jue's uprising was caused by the fact that the Heavenly Court had brought down too many disasters on the Southern Continent, which led to the accumulation of resentment and karma, and thus led to the rebellion of human cultivators against Heaven.
Yang Jian also felt a little gloating.
He is not like Nezha who is born rebellious and only wishes for the death of Heaven. Instead, he thinks that the Yellow Turban Rebellion is the result of the reckless behavior of Heaven and Jiejiao, and will surely shake the entire Three Realms.
There is also a high probability that the gods in Heaven and Jiejiao will be forced to restrain themselves and not dare to act as recklessly as before.
But soon, Yang Jian discovered something was wrong.
The biggest reason why Zhang Jue and his Taiping Dao had such prestige among the human race was that Taiping Dao saved countless lives from various natural disasters in the southern continent.
This included using magic water to cure diseases and call people to justice when plague broke out, as well as going on stage to pray for rain to resolve drought.
At first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with these two things, but upon closer inspection, it’s terrifying!
Using talismans to treat epidemics and using herbs to treat epidemics are two completely different concepts!
The latter is the ray of hope that Heaven leaves for mortals, while the former is simply a competition of Taoism!
The plague was sent down by the Plague Department at the behest of the Jade Emperor. How could Zhang Jiao, a mere mortal cultivator, easily develop a talisman that could resolve the plague?
Even this talisman is so simple that even his disciples can easily master and use it?
Praying for rain to alleviate drought is even more ridiculous!
Yang Jian saw with his own eyes that when the Taoist priest of the Taiping Dao was praying for rain in Qiao County, Yuzhou, he did not rely on his own magic powers, but sent a talisman to the heaven, and received help from the gods of thunder in heaven!
When the two are linked together, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion:
The talismans used by the Taiping Dao to treat epidemics were obtained from the Plague Department!
The natural disasters in Jambu Continent were brought down by Heaven, and the Taiping Dao relied on Heaven to pray for blessings and ward off disasters, but now it is going to overthrow Heaven!
There are only two possibilities.
First, the Taiping Dao was originally supported by the Heavenly Court, but later fell out with the Heavenly Court because of some things.
Second, the Taiping Dao’s rebellion against Heaven was not a rebellion by the human race in the Southern Continent against the Heavenly Court, but a show manipulated by the Heavenly Court and the gods of the Jiejiao behind the scenes, and Zhang Jue was just their pawn.
No matter which possibility it is, Zhang Jue is the key to everything, the top priority!
Yang Jian immediately went to Jizhou and secretly observed Zhang Jue.
It was discovered that although Zhang Jiao embodied the golden dragon of human race's luck, he was huge in size and had incredible power.
However, the golden dragon's eyes were red, its scales were gray, and the clouds surrounding it were even more mottled and chaotic!
This is not just an unstable foundation, but the possibility of collapse at any time!
After further careful investigation, Yang Jian found the reason.
The eyes of the Golden Dragon of Fortune are red and its scales are gray because Zhang Jiao was able to win the hearts and minds of the people by playing a double act with the Heavenly Court from the very beginning. He looks strong on the outside but is weak on the inside. Once his identity is exposed, he will even suffer backlash.
The mottled and chaotic clouds mean that the Taiping Dao is filled with all kinds of demons and monsters. This is not a metaphor, but a statement!
Among the thirty-six factions of the Taiping Dao, most of their leaders are transformed from monsters. They rely on their magic to be invincible in a short period of time, but they are also hated by the human race because of this.
This is like cooking oil over a raging fire. It seems like the scene is very lively, but it is actually forcing things to grow. When the oil is exhausted, the flame will dim or even go out.
With these two fatal flaws, it was impossible for Zhang Jiao to succeed in his rebellion against heaven. Moreover, the greater his momentum, the faster he would decline, and the greater the backlash he would suffer.
In the mildest case, the body will die and the soul will be destroyed, and in the worst case, the soul will be scattered and there will be no reincarnation.
This discovery made Yang Jian begin to believe that Zhang Jiao was a chess piece thrown out by the Heavenly Court and the gods of Jiejiao, rather than that he had fallen out with the Heavenly Court.
But why did Heaven and Jiejiao do this?
Yang Jian felt that he was only one step away from the truth, so he decided to continue along Zhang Jiao's path.
That night, Yang Jian transformed himself into a mosquito and quietly took away Zhang Jue's "Taiping Yaoshu". He let Xiaotian Dog remember the smell of it before returning it.
Afterwards, Xiaotian Dog used his magical power of "tracking across thousands of miles of heaven and earth" and began to look for the immortal Nanhua who taught Zhang Jiao the "Taiping Essential Technique".
Soon, Xiaotian Dog smelled the scent of the immortal Nanhua and flew towards the northwest with Yang Jian.
Finally, they stopped at a place that was unexpected but reasonable for Yang Jian - Lishan!
Lishan is the place where Lishan Laomu resides in the mortal world, and another identity of Lishan Laomu is Wu Dang Sheng Mu, one of the four major disciples under the leader of Jiejiao, Tongtian!
During the battle of the Ten Thousand Immortals during the Conferred God Tribulation, almost all of Jiejiao's troops were wiped out. Only the Holy Mother Wu Dang followed the orders of the Patriarch Tong Tian and left first, leaving Jiejiao with a glimmer of hope.
The affairs of the Southern Continent were handled by the Jiejiao from beginning to end, so it is reasonable that the Mother of Lishan was involved in the end!
Yang Jian asked Xiaotian Dog about the location of the Nanhua Immortal in Lishan Mountain, and then asked Xiaotian Dog to go to Huashan Mountain first.
He used the art of transformation and turned into a butterfly and flew into Lishan Mountain, flying towards where the immortal Nanhua was.
As expected, the place where the Nanhua Immortal is located is exactly where the Lishan Laomu’s Taoist temple is located!
But what Yang Jian didn't expect was that when he continued to go in, he did not see the Holy Mother Wu Dang, but saw three familiar faces.
Sitting at the top was a middle-aged man with a black face and beard, a round head and leopard eyes, wearing a golden armor, green leather boots and an iron hat.
It is none other than Zhao Gongming, the Golden Dragon Ruyi, the Zhengyi Dragon and Tiger Mysterious Altar True Lord!
Opposite Zhao Gongming sat a woman with a graceful figure and a pretty face. She was wearing a long-sleeved, wide-collared brocade skirt with phoenix patterns embroidered on the cuffs. Her hair was piled high in a bun with tassels swaying gently, and her every move showed elegance and grace.
She is the Goddess Yunxiao among the Three Goddesses!
The appearance of these two people was within Yang Jian's expectations, but the last one gave Yang Jian a big surprise!
The man sat below Zhao Gongming. He had a rectangular face, sword-like eyebrows and thin lips. He wore hemp shoes, a dark Taoist robe with long sleeves, a blue scarf tied on his head, a sword hanging from his waist, and a wine gourd.
It was Shen Gongbao, the God of Water Dividing in the East China Sea!
"Why is Shen Gongbao here?" Yang Jian was a little surprised.
During the catastrophe of Conferred Gods, there was calamity energy that confused the secrets of heaven, and Shen Gongbao did many things that even Tongtian Sect Master was unaware of.
But when the catastrophe is over, everything will naturally become clear to the world.
In order to compete with Jiang Ziya, Shen Gongbao tricked many disciples of Jiejiao into going down the mountain, killing them and leaving only a wisp of their soul to be included in the List of Gods.
In other words, Shen Gongbao has always sincerely stood on the side of the Shang Dynasty's Jiejiao and opposed the Chanjiao, otherwise those Jiejiao disciples would never let him go.
But even so, many disciples of the Jiejiao sect still harbored resentment towards him and were unwilling to associate with Shen Gongbao.
Shen Gongbao himself felt guilty and had been staying in the depths of the East China Sea, rarely interacting with others. Unexpectedly, he would now appear in the Lishan Mountain.
(Shen Gongbao's body was taken by Yuanshi Tianzun to fill the North Sea Spring, which was almost the same as death. Then his soul was deified and became the God of Water Dividing General in the East China Sea.)
Shen Gongbao's cultivation was mediocre, he was just a celestial immortal, but Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao were already Golden Immortals during the Conferred God Catastrophe, and they were considered powerful figures among the second-generation disciples of the three religions.
Although Yang Jian's transformation skills are exquisite, he dare not be careless in front of such a person.
After confirming that the Nanhua Immortal was a member of the Jiejiao Sect, it can be basically confirmed that Zhang Jiao's rebellion against Heaven was deliberately done by the Jiejiao Sect in the Heavenly Court.
Just as Yang Jian was about to leave, he heard Zhao Gongming anxiously say, "Senior Sister Wu Dang has been gone for so many days, why hasn't she come back yet? Could something have happened to her?"
He couldn't help but ask Yunxiao across from him: "Sister Yunxiao, do you think we can succeed this time?"
Yun Xiao comforted him, "Brother, don't worry. Senior Sister Wu Dang is the most cautious among us brothers and sisters. When we were in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, our master asked her to leave first, wasn't it to leave a glimmer of hope for us Jiejiao!"
"Now that this hope has emerged, it is Senior Sister Wu Dang who should accomplish this! Brother, if you don't trust others, don't you trust Master?"
"Of course I believe in Master!"
Zhao Gongming couldn't help but sigh after he finished speaking: "It's just that thousands of years have passed! I really can't wait any longer! If I hadn't insisted on doing it, you wouldn't have fallen to this point!"
Yunxiao said, "Brother, what happened back then is all in the past, why bother talking about it again! Moreover, even if I didn't go down the mountain at that time, I would still follow Master to the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation! Brother, relax, as long as Fellow Daoist Shen Gong didn't find the wrong person, there will be no problem with this matter."
Shen Gongbao hurriedly said, "Brother Zhao Gongming, Lady Yunxiao, I, Shen Gongbao, dare not guarantee anything else, but for Jiang Ziya, even if he reincarnates a hundred times and turns into ashes, I will never admit my mistake!"
Prime Minister?!
Yang Jian was suddenly shocked. He didn't expect that this matter would involve Jiang Ziya again.
Back then, all the disciples of the Chan and Jie sects and even ordinary civil and military officials who were caught up in the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods were either conferred as gods in heaven or were allowed to continue their cultivation and enjoy a carefree life.
Only Jiang Ziya, the man who presided over the Conferred God Ceremony, got nothing. He was only made a prince and enjoyed wealth and glory in the world. After his death, he fell into the cycle of time again.
At that time, generals such as Yang Jian, Nezha and Lei Zhenzi all felt sorry for Jiang Ziya and begged Taiyi Zhenren and others to give Jiang Ziya a chance to re-enter the mountain to practice and become an immortal.
However, Taiyi Zhenren and his companions refused on the grounds that "the destiny is fixed and cannot be changed by human power."
Although Jiang Ziya himself felt a little disappointed, he still looked at it with an open mind.
But Nezha and Lei Zhenzi were unwilling to let it go. They tried every possible way to prolong Jiang Ziya's life, hoping to make up to Jiang Ziya and let Jiang Ziya enjoy a few more years of wealth and glory. However, they still failed.
Jiang Ziya only lived to be 139 years old before he died, entered the reincarnation tunnel, and was reincarnated.
Yang Jian later realized that the root of all this was the Seven Arrows Book!
The Seven Arrows Book is a black magic spell with great power. Even a Golden Immortal will die if he is shot for seven days.
However, this is done at the cost of one's own fortune and luck!
Jiang Ziya used the Seven Arrows Book to curse Zhao Gongming, which exhausted all his luck and fortune. This led to the ridiculous ending that the person who presided over the Conferred God Conferment could only become a mortal in the end.
Yang Jian realized this and stopped fooling around with Nezha and Lei Zhenzi. He thought of waiting until Jiang Ziya's life was over and then helping him to reincarnate into an immortal in his next life.
However, Jiejiao did not give him this opportunity!
The Jie Sect was defeated and nearly destroyed in the Conferred Gods Catastrophe, but it also took control of most of the clergy positions in Heaven.
After Jiang Ziya's death, they erased all the information about Jiang Ziya's reincarnation, making Yang Jian's plan fail.
Yang Jian never expected that after ten thousand years, the Jiejiao sect would actually target Jiang Ziya again!
Also, what is this glimmer of hope they are talking about?
Could it be that Master Tongtian had made some backup plans before leaving?
