Chapter 107: Fighting the Gods
Heaven, Tianlao Palace.
Li Anran was sitting opposite Nezha, drinking and chatting about the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Southern Continent.
Nezha looked disappointed: "I don't know what Zhang Jiao is thinking! The Yellow Turban Army has clearly gained the upper hand, but he doesn't know how to pursue the victory and just stays in the Jibei camp without going out! If he delays any longer, I'm afraid he will be defeated!"
Li Anran didn't find it strange.
In the history of the earth, the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Zhang Jiao did not last long. It ended with Zhang Jiao's death from illness and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang being killed.
In the current world of Journey to the West, he not only has to face the suppression of the Han Dynasty, but also the behemoth of Heaven. Failure is only natural.
"Brother Nezha..."
Before Li Anran could finish his words, the surroundings suddenly became dark and he could not see his hand in front of him.
Both of them were shocked, not knowing what had happened, and hurriedly got up and left the hall.
It was already a mess outside.
All the heavenly soldiers and generals looked upward in horror.
The two looked up.
I saw the sky above my head was pitch black, as if it was the darkness from endless chaos, and deeper and darker lines kept appearing, like cracks, or like countless black thunders.
An endless atmosphere of terror and destruction filled the air, as if the end of the world was coming.
"What's going on?!" Nezha widened his eyes, his face full of shock and disbelief.
As a third-generation disciple of the Chan Sect, he has lived for ten thousand years. He has been to the underworld and the sky. He claims to have seen a lot of the world, but this is the first time he has seen such a scene.
The cracks that densely covered the sky and the terrifying aura that permeated it gave him an extremely dangerous and creepy sense of extreme danger!
Nezha was very sure that even if he accidentally touched this crack, he would be in danger of losing his soul.
Li Anran was also shocked by the scene in front of him, but he quickly recovered and shouted to the heavenly soldiers and generals: "Why are you panicking! Even if the sky falls, there are still tall people to hold it up! Retreat to the sky prison immediately and guard the passes. Wait until the outside world returns to normal before coming out!"
"Yes." All the heavenly soldiers and generals hurriedly obeyed the order and entered the heavenly prison.
The Heavenly Prison can be said to be one of the most solid buildings in Heaven, and it is also the safest place now. Hiding in the Heavenly Prison is the best choice for them.
Buzz!
At this moment, a huge golden shadow suddenly emerged in the void.
The man was thin, with a kind face, white eyebrows and a long beard. He wore a dark yellow Taoist robe and held a nine-section staff. Just by looking at him, he gave people a feeling of being an immortal and kind and approachable.
Nezha cried out, "Zhang Jue?! Does he want to die? He dared to leave his body and come to the Heaven alone!"
This noise was actually caused by Zhang Jue?
Li Anran stared at Zhang Jiao, but found that Zhang Jiao's soul was not powerful. He was just an ordinary cultivator in the realm of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.
However, the aura emanating from Zhang Jue was extremely dangerous and terrifying.
He used the technique of divine eye again and saw it again.
Li Anran only felt a flash before his eyes, and a bright golden light made it difficult for him to open his eyes.
Behind Zhang Jue, there was a nine-clawed yellow dragon circling and dancing, with each claw holding a tripod of a different style. The tripods were carved with patterns of mountains, rivers, flowers, plants, birds and beasts of the Nine Provinces.
Nine tripods!
Li Anran was shocked.
He had never seen the true appearance of the Nine Cauldrons, but he recognized it at the first sight.
Li Anran's heart moved, and he said, "Maybe he wants to imitate the ancient great wizard Xingtian!"
Nezha was stunned, and his gaze towards Zhang Jue suddenly changed.
When the war between wizards and liches first started, the demon clan had the upper hand and put the wizard clan under great pressure.
In order to boost the morale of the witch clan, the ancient great wizard Xingtian took advantage of the fact that Donghuang Taiyi and the demon clan's great sages were besieging the witch clan everywhere, and climbed Mount Buzhou alone, broke into the demon clan's heaven, and tried to kill Di Jun.
In the end, he was defeated and his head was chopped off by Emperor Jun.
However, Xing Tian still did not give up. He used his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth, and fought again with his Gan Qi until he died.
Although Xing Tian failed and died at the hands of Di Jun, he also aroused the bloodiness in the bones of the Wu clan.
Since then, the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan have been fighting for hundreds of thousands of years, gradually turning the situation around, until finally both sides were defeated and withdrew from the prehistoric stage together.
Could it be that Zhang Jiao wanted to follow Xing Tian's example and use his own life to pave the way for the human race?
As Nezha was thinking, he saw the four heavenly kings who guarded the heaven had led a group of heavenly soldiers and generals to surround Zhang Jiao, and shouted: "Who are you! How dare you trespass into the heaven!"
"Zhang Jiao, the Qigong master from the Southern Continent, greets you all."
Zhang Jue bowed and said calmly, "I came here today because I have some doubts in my mind and I want to ask the Jade Emperor to explain them. Please go to the Lingxiao Palace to report to me."
"Evil creature! His Majesty is of such a high status, and so are you! You can't just see His Majesty whenever you want!"
The Heavenly King of Dhritarashtra, Mo Li Hai, had the most violent temper. He flew into a rage upon hearing this and immediately ordered his attendants, “Catch this evil creature for me!”
"Yes." A group of heavenly soldiers and generals rushed towards Zhang Jue.
Swish!
Zhang Jue simply waved the nine-section staff in his hand lightly, and a golden light flashed, which directly knocked the heavenly soldiers and generals away and made them fall to the ground.
Zhang Jue said seriously, "I am here to see the Jade Emperor. I don't want to make things difficult for you. Please let me know. As for whether to see him or not, the Jade Emperor will decide for himself."
"Evil creature! How dare you threaten me!"
Mo Lihai was angered by Zhang Jiao's nonchalant tone. He opened his hands and a pipa suddenly appeared in his arms.
clang!
Mo Li Hai gave a slight shake , stimulating the sound of the piano. A golden ripple shot out like a sharp blade, rushing towards Zhang Jue.
Zhang Jiao didn't move at all. As soon as the golden ripples reached him, they disappeared like a drop of water in the ocean.
Mo Lihai was greatly surprised and had no idea how Zhang Jue resolved his attack.
But in Li Anran's eyes, he saw that the nine-clawed yellow dragon that was invisible to the naked eye just swung its claws forward and directly shattered the sound wave.
Ding, ding, ding, ding…
Mo Li Hai was unwilling to admit defeat like this, his fingers flew, almost forming an illusion, the four strings of earth, water, fire and wind kept vibrating, and the rapid sound of the pipa echoed between heaven and earth.
In an instant, raging flames burned, and there was a howling wind, blowing sand and rocks. The fire took advantage of the wind, and the wind and fire came together, and the lethality instantly increased by dozens of times.
Mo Li Hai's jade pipa was made by the Saint Jie Yin using innate banana leaves. The strings are made of earth, water, fire and wind drawn from chaos, and its power is astonishing.
But, this is far from enough compared to the Yellow Dragon and the Nine Cauldrons, the luck of the human race!
Zhang Jue pointed the nine-section staff in his hand forward, and the yellow dragon behind him suddenly flew out, and with just one claw, it extinguished the wind and fire in the sky.
Not only Mo Lihai's expression changed drastically, the other three Mo brothers also showed shock. They looked at each other, took out their magic weapons, and prepared to attack together.
At this time, Zhang Jue threw the nine-section staff in his hand into the sky and said, "Go!"
whoosh!
The nine-section staff turned into a golden light in mid-air and hit the Mo brothers.
The Mo brothers hurriedly activated their magic weapons to resist, but it was useless.
Their magic weapons and even their magic powers seemed to be naturally restrained by the nine-section staff. As soon as they were cast out, they were knocked aside by the golden light.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
The golden light continued to move forward, falling on the Mo brothers one after another, knocking them to the ground.
When it flew back to Zhang Jue's hand, it had changed its appearance.
It was no longer a nine-section staff, but a wooden whip, three feet six inches and five points long, with twenty-one sections, each section having four talismans, for a total of eighty-four talismans.
"God's Whip?!"
Nezha cried out, "Didn't it disappear along with Master Jiang? How did it appear in Zhang Jiao's hand?"
Li Anran was also a little surprised, but he did not connect Zhang Jue and Jiang Ziya together. He just thought that Zhang Jue got the divine whip by chance.
On the other side, after Zhang Jiao knocked the Four Heavenly Kings to the ground, he glanced around and soon found the Lingxiao Palace -
It is the tallest, most luxurious and most imposing building in the entire heaven, with golden nails and jade doors, red steps and red gates. Outside, there are thousands of golden lights rolling red neon, and above it, thousands of auspicious auras emitting purple mist. It can be recognized at a glance.
Without saying anything, Zhang Jue flew directly towards the Lingxiao Palace.
"Stop! This is a sacred place in Heaven, you are not allowed to trespass!" A loud shout came from a distance.
I saw auspicious clouds connected together, and dozens of gods stood on the clouds, all wearing golden helmets and golden armor, looking very mighty and powerful.
The man standing in the center had three eyes on his head like Yang Jian, and looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with a square face, phoenix eyes, and white hair and beard. He held two whips in his hands, looking dignified and majestic, and intimidating without even being angry.
Li Anran had seen this person before, but just by looking at his appearance, he guessed his identity. It was Wen Zhong, the Nine-Heavenly Thunder God who led the twenty-four main gods of the Thunder Department!
One, two, three, four...twenty-four!
Li Anran glanced behind Wen Zhong and was a little surprised.
Are all the gods of thunder here?!
"Am I dreaming?" Nezha rubbed his eyes hard, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
He has been in heaven for ten thousand years since he was deified, but this is the first time he has seen all the members of the Thunder Department appear at the same time!
What's even more bizarre is that the purpose of their appearance here is to maintain the dignity of Heaven and prevent Zhang Jiao from going to Lingxiao Palace to see the Jade Emperor!
Ouch!!!
Wen Zhong was the first to summon the male and female whips in his hands, which transformed into two dragons, one red and one blue, in mid-air, roaring and pouncing towards Zhang Jue.
The other gods of thunder were not idle either, and each of them summoned their magic weapons.
All of a sudden, all kinds of rays of light surged in the sky, illuminating the doomsday-like darkness with a riot of colour and brilliance.
But all these are still of no use in front of Zhang Jue!
The nine-clawed yellow dragon circled around Zhang Jiao, like an indestructible wall of steel. When the nine dragon claws waved, any whips or other magical weapons were directly knocked away.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jue took out the divine whip in his hand.
A golden light flashed and knocked Wen Zhong and the twenty-four gods of the Thunder Department to the ground.
"Is the power of the divine whip to restrain the gods so strong?" Li Anran looked at Nezha.
He thought that the power of the divine whip didn't seem to be very strong, but whether it was the previous Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Family, or Wen Zhong and the Twenty-Four Gods of Thunder, they had no power to resist at all.
Nezha was also a little confused.
Even though the Divine Whip is the nemesis of the gods listed in the Investiture of the Gods List, it cannot restrain them to this extent!
If that were true, the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods wouldn't have had so many twists and turns. Jiang Ziya would have just taken the Divine Whip and beaten his way through!
Zhang Jue was unaware of this. Seeing the god who was trying to stop him fall to the ground, he continued to fly towards the Lingxiao Palace.
"Don't leave, evil creature!"
Another auspicious cloud floated over, with red light surging on the cloud, and six figures standing on it.
The man in the lead had a face as red as a date, red hair and beard, and was wearing a red Taoist robe embroidered with flame patterns. He held a sword in his hand, looking majestic and extraordinary.
"Fire Star Lord Luo Xuan, and the five righteous gods of the Fire Department!"
Nezha frowned, sensing something was wrong.
Wen Zhong was the Grand Master of the Shang Dynasty before he was deified. After arriving in Heaven, he was quite respectful to the Jade Emperor and had a strong sense of responsibility towards all living beings in the three realms.
Under his leadership, the Thunder Department is considered the most diligent of the four departments in Heaven.
Of course, this seriousness is only relative!
Wen Zhong himself does his work meticulously, but he will not blame his fellow disciples who were included in the List of Gods because of him for the affairs of the Thunder Department. As long as the work is done roughly, it is enough.
This is also the reason why when the three-tailed fox caused trouble, Deng Tianjun of the Thunder Department took advantage of the situation to resolve the matter.
Wen Zhong led the twenty-four gods of the Thunder Department to maintain the dignity of the Heavenly Court. Although it was a bit ridiculous, it was also possible that it could happen.
But Luo Xuan is different!
Luo Xuan was arrogant, had a bad temper and was cruel. He once used his magic weapon, the Wan'yahu Fire Crow, to burn Xiqi City, intending to burn all living things in the city to ashes.
After arriving in Heaven, he still went his own way, and showed disdain for the Jade Emperor and even many of his fellow disciples of the Jiejiao sect.
There was no way he could personally lead his men here to help the Jade Emperor suppress Zhang Jiao!
There must be something fishy going on here!
While Nezha was thinking about the reason, Luo Xuan had already led his righteous gods to take action.
In an instant, flames burned all over the sky, covering the entire world.
Thousands of creatures emerged from the fire, including fire horses, fire bulls, fire crows, fire dragons, and so on, and they all pounced towards Zhang Jue.
Zhang Jue frowned slightly, but his pace forward did not waver at all.
The yellow dragon hovering around him attacked again, smashing all the fire horses, fire bulls, fire crows and others that were rushing towards him.
Immediately afterwards, the divine whip was used.
Luo Xuan and others, like the gods of thunder just now, were knocked to the ground by the divine whip.
This time, Li Anran saw it clearly.
It’s not that the divine whip is powerful!
Instead, these Fire Gods deliberately did not dodge or evade, allowing the divine whip to hit them!
Nezha's face changed, and he hurriedly flew over on his Wind Fire Wheels, waving the Hun Tian Ling in his hand. Red light surged in the sky, blocking the flames falling from the sky.
However, there are still many fish that slip through the net.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The fireball fell like a meteor, smashing the palaces into ruins, and many heavenly soldiers and generals were turned into charcoal in the fire.
"What a bunch of bastards!" Nezha gritted his teeth in anger and was about to step forward to seek justice from Luo Xuan.
At this time, another auspicious cloud flew over and blocked Zhang Jue.
This time, it was the plague gods headed by the Plague Emperor Haotian Lu Yue!
They also attacked together, and then were deliberately knocked down by Zhang Jue's divine whip.
Then, the largest group of Dou tribe, headed by the Golden Spirit Holy Mother, the main deity of the Dou Mother in Kan Palace, also appeared in front of Zhang Jue!
Just like Calabash Brothers saved his grandfather, he deliberately fell into the hands of Zhang Jue!
At this point, not to mention Li Anran and Nezha, Zhang Jiao himself realized that something was wrong!
But, now that things have come to this, he has no way out!
The destiny of the human race combined with the Nine Cauldrons is indeed powerful. Even the Golden Immortal can suppress it!
But, he himself is too weak!
The physical body in the mortal world is suffering from the backlash of good fortune and can no longer hold on!
The soul here is on the verge of collapse due to the repeated use of the divine whip!
He no longer had the strength to go to the Lingxiao Palace and question the Jade Emperor as to why he treated the human race so harshly!
"If Heaven has no morality, it cannot be Heaven! If God has no virtue, how can He be God?"
"The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky shall be established! In the year of Jiazi, the world will be blessed!"
Zhang Jue roared towards the sky, picked up the divine whip in his hand, and hit the sky above his head with all his strength.
