Chapter 117: Three War Gods?
The most valuable thing in Zhu Bajie's life is the Pure Yang Kung Fu taught to him by Emperor Donghua.
Emperor Donghua is the chief of the male immortals in the Three Realms and a congenital creature born at the beginning of the world.
The Pure Yang Kung Fu was the Kung Fu he comprehended from the Great Dao when he was first born. It can be said to be an innate Kung Fu that points directly to the Great Dao. It is also the nemesis of all evil and filthy things.
A big part of the reason why Zhu Bajie was able to resist the erosion of the Weak Water was because of this Pure Yang technique.
While comprehending the Pure Yang technique, Li Anran flew towards the Temple of Justice on a cloud.
He wanted to keep Zhu Bajie in the Heavenly Prison, and he needed Yang Jian's nod.
Soon, he arrived outside the Temple of Justice.
Different from its former quiet and deserted appearance, after Yang Jian gained control of the power to examine the immortals, the Temple of the God of Justice has become the most lively place in Heaven, with too many immortals coming and going every day.
Especially now that it is the time for the gods to be examined every sixty years, more gods have come to the Temple of Justice.
"General Kang, I haven't seen you for a long time. How have you been?"
"Greetings, Commander Kang!"
"Thank you for your hard work, Commander Kang!"
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As soon as he descended from the clouds, Li Anran saw Boss Kang holding Yang Jian's edict, leading Roaring Sky Dog and a group of grass-headed gods out of the temple to do their work.
Along the way, all kinds of gods, from mountain gods and land gods to divine officials and star officials, all bowed and greeted Boss Kang, with an attitude so respectful that it even had a touch of flattery.
"Brother Li, why are you here?"
Boss Kang noticed Li Anran, his eyes lit up , and he quickly walked over to him.
"Brother Kang, I happened to meet a fugitive from Heaven when I came to the mortal world this time, so I took him back to Heaven. I came here today to report this matter to the God of Justice. I wonder if the God of Justice is in the temple?"
Li Anran bowed, polite yet distant.
After all, he and Yang Jian are still at odds with each other, so it is not good for him to appear too close to Boss Kang.
Boss Kang didn't know that Li Anran and Yang Jian were just faking a falling out, but he felt a little disappointed when he saw this. He said, "Second Master is handling official business in the inner hall. I still have official business to do here, so I won't accompany you."
He instructed the Grass-Headed God who was guarding beside him, "Take the Prison God to the inner hall."
"Yes." The Grass-Headed God responded and led Li Anran through the crowd towards the inner hall of the Temple of the God of Justice.
The eyes of the gods on both sides were filled with envy and jealousy.
When Li Anran first became the prison god, many gods despised him and regarded him as a traitor who only knew how to flatter and fawn on his masters.
Nowadays, no one thinks so anymore!
The Jiazi Immortal Examination provides a channel for low-level immortals in the Three Realms to ascend.
Yang Jian, who held the power of examination, controlled their lifeline.
Any god who is ambitious would be eager to join Yang Jian's army.
As long as they can gain the attention of Yang Jian, they will be able to rise rapidly, one step at a time for sixty years, and gradually ascend from low-level gods to high-level gods.
There have been many precedents for this kind of thing over the years!
Some gods saw that they had been waiting for a long time but still had no chance to see Yang Jian. As soon as Li Anran arrived, he was led in by the grass-headed god Kang, and they were very angry and dissatisfied.
He said to Boss Kang, "Captain Kang, this prison god is very close to Nezha and has been causing trouble for me. Aren't you afraid that I will be angry if you let him in like this?"
Boss Kang glared and shouted angrily, "Shut up! The Prison God, Nezha and Second Master are all working for the Heavenly Court. Even if there are some conflicts, they are all for the public good. Why would they bother Second Master? If you dare to talk nonsense again, don't blame me for being rude!"
The immortal didn't expect that Kang Lao Da would react so strongly. He was shocked and nodded hurriedly to admit his mistake. "It was my fault! General, please forgive me!"
Boss Kang snorted coldly and ignored him. He took Roaring Sky Dog and led the grass-headed gods to fly towards the South Heaven Gate.
Yesterday, a local god reported to Yang Jian that the Purple-Robed Fairy among the Seven Fairies had fallen in love with a mortal man named Dong Yong from the Southern Continent, thus violating the Heavenly Law.
This matter was of great importance, so Yang Jian asked him to bring Roaring Sky Dog down to the mortal world in person.
In addition to investigating whether the purple-clothed fairy's desire for human nature was true or false, he was also asked to secretly investigate whether Dong Yong was also like the Cowherd in the past, with a demon secretly bewitching him.
Not long after Boss Kang and Roaring Sky Dog left, the sounds of Li Anran and Yang Jian arguing were heard from the inner hall of the Temple of the God of Justice.
"God of Justice, Zhu Ganglie first disobeyed your majesty's order and refused to reincarnate. On the way to being sent to reincarnation, he broke free from the restraints of the heavenly soldiers and generals, took over the body of a pig, and caused trouble in the lower world."
"Then he teamed up with Qiu Yin to set a trap in Xiniu Hezhou and attacked me. His crime is grave!"
Li Anran's voice was filled with anger: "Why did you protect him and not take him to the Demon Slaying Platform to be beheaded in public? Why did you only imprison him in the Heavenly Prison?"
Yang Jian was as indifferent as ever: "Prison God, how to sentence is the business of the Justice God Temple, it is not your place to interfere. I consider that this is your first offense and you have made great contributions in arresting Zhu Ganglie, so I will not hold you accountable for abusing your power. But if you do it again, I will handle the matter impartially."
Li Anran's voice was filled with more anger: "Official business? Humph, are you doing official business?"
Yang Jian said, "If you are not satisfied, report me to the Jade Emperor, and stop making trouble here. I am busy with many things, and I don't have time to waste time with you here. Come on, show me away!"
"Okay, okay! Yang Jian, you are awesome. I will remember this!"
"Just remember this. Prison God, I will interrogate Zhu Ganglie again in a few days. Please keep an eye on him. If anything goes wrong, I will hold you accountable."
Before Yang Jian finished his words, Li Anran slammed the door and walked out, not caring that he was in the Temple of Justice, and rode away on a cloud.
The gods outside looked at each other, and could see shock and disbelief in each other's eyes.
Compared to the falling out between Li Anran and Yang Jian, they were more surprised by the message revealed in Li Anran's words.
The former Guansuo Star Lord and Prison God Qiu Yin actually teamed up with the former Tianpeng Marshal Zhu Ganglie to launch a surprise attack on the current Justice God Li Anran?
Moreover, Li Anran actually won?
And also captured Zhu Ganglie and brought him back to the prison?
Is it possible that Li Anran, the prison god, is so powerful?
All the gods couldn't accept it.
In their eyes, Li Anran was just lucky and was able to get on Yang Jian's good side early on by betraying Qiu Yin, which led to his job as the prison god.
Later, for the sake of power, he fell out with Yang Jian and defected to Nezha, the Great God of the Three Altars and the Sea, and Li Jing, the Great Demon-Subduing Marshal.
People who know the history of Jambu Continent have given Li Anran the nickname "a slave of three surnames".
Unexpectedly, the name turned out to be correct!
This Li Anran is so powerful that he can beat Qiu Yin and Zhu Ganglie alone!
For a moment, the entire heaven was shaken.
Immediately afterwards, Li Jing, Wude Xingjun, the Four Heavenly Kings and other gods stepped forward and began to help Li Anran clarify what happened that year.
It is said that Li Anran did not betray Qiu Yin, nor did he surrender to Yang Jian. Everything was Qiu Yin's own fault, and Li Anran got to the position based on his own abilities.
With their guarantee, Li Anran's reputation instantly took a 180-degree turn.
Li Anran saw this and sneered in his heart.
When he was despised and looked down upon by everyone because of the Qiu Yin incident, no one stood up to speak for him.
This time, after he killed Qiu Yin and captured Zhu Bajie and demonstrated his strength, they jumped out at the first opportunity and even cleared up things that happened two hundred years ago for him.
Everything is so realistic and ridiculous!
After Li Anran returned to the Heavenly Prison, he immediately reported Yang Jian to the emperor.
The content is that Yang Jian was partial and perverted the law, and gave Zhu Ganglie a light punishment for a serious crime. He petitioned the Jade Emperor to depose Yang Jian from his position as the god of justice and behead Zhu Ganglie in public.
Yang Jian also reported to the Jade Emperor that the Temple of the God of Justice was somewhat short of staff since it had been in charge of examining the immortals.
Since the Prison God was able to capture Tianpeng Marshal Zhu Ganglie and bring him to justice, it shows that he has profound cultivation and great magical powers. He asked for permission to allow Li Anran to come down to earth to catch monsters and ease the pressure of insufficient staff in the Temple of the God of Justice.
——In the Temple of the God of Justice, Li Anran told Yang Jian that he wanted to lock Zhu Bajie up in the Heavenly Prison for a long time and that he wanted to go down to earth to catch more monsters.
Yang Jian was so pleased that he wanted to raise his hands to show his approval: "Brother Li, you finally figured it out! You should have done this a long time ago!"
People who practice cultivation can live forever after becoming immortals, but it does not mean that immortals have good patience!
On the contrary, most people who practice cultivation have the urgent impulse of "If I can hear the truth in the morning, I will be content to die in the evening."
The only exception is Li Anran!
In Yang Jian's opinion, Li Anran's chance lies with the prisoners in the Heavenly Prison, and he will surely soon come up with the idea of going down to earth to catch monsters to speed up his cultivation.
But he didn't expect that Li Anran's patience was so good that he stayed in the Sky Prison for two hundred years without any movement!
Yang Jian saw this and became a little anxious.
Being cautious is a good thing, but being too cautious will lead to missing many opportunities, and that will be a bad thing!
Yang Jian really wanted to give Li Anran some advice, but this matter was Li Anran's private matter and also involved Li Anran's opportunity.
His rash intervention could easily lead people to suspect that he had ill intentions.
Yang Jian thought about it again and again, and could only be patient and wait for Li Anran to figure it out himself.
As a result, the wait lasted nearly two hundred years.
As for the matter of Zhu Ganglie...
The Jade Emperor's sentence was already too severe. Since Li Anran wanted to keep Zhu Ganglie in the Heavenly Prison for a long time, Yang Jian naturally had no objection.
At this point, Yang Jian is very different from before.
In the past, Yang Jian always followed the rules of heaven in everything he did and never bent the law for personal gain.
But now, Yang Jian has completely changed his attitude.
The laws and regulations of heaven themselves are problematic, so he doesn't have to stubbornly use these wrong things to restrain himself.
As long as he can achieve his goal of modifying the Heavenly Laws and making all sentient beings in the three realms follow them, the entire process is irrelevant, and his ending is irrelevant!
Even if he is deserted by everyone and degenerates into a demon, he is willing to do it!
After some discussion, the two decided to deliberately quarrel to activate the conflict.
Then, Li Anran submitted a memorial to the emperor, accusing Yang Jian of favoritism and bending the law, and deliberately exaggerating the matter, proposing an impossible punishment, namely, dismissing him from his position as the god of justice.
Yang Jian petitioned the Jade Emperor to let Li Anran come down to earth on behalf of the Temple of Justice to capture demons.
To them, this was fulfilling Li Anran's wish to capture demons and put them in the Heavenly Prison, but to outsiders, it seemed that Yang Jian was deliberately humiliating Li Anran.
Don't you want to be my subordinate?
But you still have to obey my orders to capture the demons!
The Jade Emperor now values Yang Jian, so it is impossible for him to depose Yang Jian from his position as the God of Justice just for such a small matter.
And Li Anran behaved so radically that anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was targeting Yang Jian out of personal grudge.
In this way, the Jade Emperor will definitely accept Yang Jian's proposal, imprison Marshal Tianpeng in the Heavenly Prison, and let Li Anran go down to the earth to capture demons.
The result Li Anran wanted was achieved.
When Yang Jian told Li Anran this, Li Anran was stunned and couldn't help but sigh: "Second Master, you have seen through the Jade Emperor!"
Yang Jian shook his head and said, "I didn't see through the Jade Emperor. I just saw through the Jade Emperor who deliberately showed himself in front of outsiders!"
He solemnly reminded Li Anran: "Brother Li Anran, you must never have such thoughts in the future!"
"The Jade Emperor is a congenital being born at the beginning of the creation of the world. He has been with the Taoist Ancestor for longer than all the saints combined, and he has gone through 1,750 tribulations before he ascended to the throne of the Jade Emperor!"
"Even a saint wouldn't dare to say he can see through him, let alone you and me!"
Li Anran's heart trembled, and then he realized the importance of the Jade Emperor in Yang Jian's heart, and nodded seriously in agreement.
And the development of things was just as Yang Jian expected.
The Jade Emperor agreed to imprison Zhu Bajie in the Heavenly Prison and punish him after he was tried by the Heavenly God of Justice.
For his meritorious service in capturing Zhu Bajie, Li Anran was appointed as the Marshal of Demon Suppression, and an additional thousand heavenly soldiers were assigned to the Heavenly Prison. He was also rewarded with a large amount of gold, pearls, jade and other things, and was asked to assist the Temple of Heaven in capturing rebellious demons and criminal immortals who had violated the heavenly rules.
At the same time, he also gave Li Anran a certain degree of autonomy to prevent the Tianlao from becoming a vassal of the Temple of Justice as before.
Faced with the Jade Emperor's edict, Li Anran could only accept it "angrily and helplessly."
Since then, Li Anran has frequently received orders from the Temple of Justice to go down to earth to capture all kinds of demons and monsters.
Li Anran's cultivation has now reached the Golden Immortal realm, and he has also practiced the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong, so his combat power is amazing.
In the Three Realms today, he is considered a rare strong man.
In just a few years, Li Anran captured more than 300 monsters and immortals who had violated the heavenly rules.
Most of these monsters and gods only have the cultivation level of celestial immortals, and only a few have the cultivation level of profound immortals.
But even so, the 100% participation in the arrests also made Li Anran's daily experience points soar from 12 million to 70 million!
At the same time, Li Anran's reputation truly spread throughout the three realms.
Together with Nezha and Yang Jian, they are known as the three war gods of heaven, the three pillars supporting the sky!
Li Anran: “…” If this was Optimus Prime, the heaven would be about to collapse!
Time flies and another half a year has passed.
One day, just as Li Anran put the captured monster into the Heavenly Prison, Nezha walked in angrily with a dark face.
Li Anran asked, "Brother Nezha, what's wrong? Did Li Jing make you angry again?"
Nezha said, "It's not Li Jing! It's that bastard Kuimu Lang!"
