Chapter 157: The Rain is Coming (Part 2)
Li Boyang is on his way to the top of Mount Buzhou.
Millions of years ago, Mount Buzhou still stood on the land of the human world. It reached the ninth heaven and was an important link between the heavenly world and the human world.
After that, the human world and the heavenly world fell into an irreconcilable conflict. Gonggong angrily crashed into Buzhou Mountain, and Buzhou Mountain was cut off, leaving only the top of the mountain standing above the Ninth Heaven. The top of the mountain was frozen, with only white snow, like a wasteland.
The Three Pure Ones lived on the top of Mount Buzhou.
When Li Boyang arrived at Taiqing Palace, he saw Yuanshi and Lingbao standing at the door. It seemed that the two were waiting here to block him, and they surrounded him as soon as they saw him.
The younger Lingbao turned into a child of no more than five years old, with a child-like temper. He was the most impatient. When he saw Li Boyang, he approached him happily and said, "I heard that you got the Ghost King Seal? Not bad. Although you are not good at playing cards, you are really good at stealing things."
Lingbao's eyes were shining and he looked very happy.
But Li Boyang just looked at him coldly and walked in without saying a word.
Lingbao, who was originally preparing to congratulate Li Boyang with great enthusiasm, was frozen half to death by this look. He could only shrink his head timidly, muttering, "What's wrong? Why are you so fierce all of a sudden? You clearly owe me a large sum of money from the last time we played cards. Mortals always say that the one who owes money is the boss. It seems that he is right."
Yuanshi, who was standing by, also noticed that something was wrong with Li Boyang, and quickly tried to smooth things over: "Lingbao is still young, don't scare him. What's wrong , are you not happy after getting the Ghost King Seal?"
Yuanshi's incarnation was an old man with white hair and beard, who looked like an immortal.
Li Boyang glanced at him sideways, with a clear expression on his face saying "Just brag."
How could Lingbao be small? The three of them were clearly of equal age, but when it came time to transform, Yuanshi and Lingbao seemed to have agreed on it, one transformed into an old man and the other into a child.
Whenever something happened, they would ask Li Boyang to respect the elderly and love the young and accommodate the two of them. Even when they were playing cards, they would find a reason to ask Li Boyang to let them win.
Li Boyang finally understood: respecting the old and loving the young was just taking advantage of him. In the end, he ended up with a lot of gambling debts.
You old man! You naughty kid!
But even though he complained, Yuanshi and Lingbao were Li Boyang's brothers after all, so there was no need for him to hide it from them. "It's nothing, it's just that the means by which I got it were dishonorable."
Yuanshi understood, and comforted him: "Since you and I are born from the Three Pure Ones, we should not do whatever we want, but should put the overall situation first."
Li Boyang didn't say anything else. He just nodded and continued to walk towards the Taiqing Palace. However, he wanted to laugh in his heart - he went against his conscience for the so-called overall situation, but what is the overall situation? Can Yuanshi and Lingbao tell it?
None of them can tell, because they are not the real Three Pure Ones. But even if they are the real Three Pure Ones, can they tell?
Li Boyang entered the Taiqing Palace with a heavy heart and found that there were already two people standing in the hall.
One of them was wearing a white old-fashioned robe, with a pearl-bright crown on his head, looking spotless. When he heard Li Boyang coming in, he turned around and looked at him - it was a face exactly like Li Boyang's.
This is one of the true Three Pure Ones, Taiqing Jun.
Different from Li Boyang who was wearing a grey Taoist robe and had dishevelled hair and a dirty face, Tai Qingjun looked like the bright moon in the sky, making people feel awe at the sight of him.
The other man was wearing a suit and looked more like he was coming to Taiqing Palace for business negotiations.
This mix of Chinese and Western styles seems a bit out of place.
But when the man in the suit turned his head, Li Boyang could no longer care about that, because that face made even someone as mentally sound as Li Boyang startled - it was Lu Ren's face.
This is a bit scary.
However, after a brief panic due to guilt, Li Boyang quickly realized that this person was not Lu Ren.
Because when this person saw Li Boyang, he smiled as if nothing had happened. Unlike Lu Ren's gentle smile, this was a very uncomfortable smile, like being stared at by a poisonous snake, giving people goose bumps all over their body.
The man stepped forward, extended his hand towards Li Boyang, and said in a very business-like manner: "Are you the Turbid Realm of Taiqing? Hello, my name is Bian Cheng, a representative of the Jiuyou Realm Division, and I'm here to discuss cooperation."
When you get closer, you can smell a sweet and fishy smell of blood coming from Bian Cheng.
Li Boyang did not shake Bian Cheng's hand, but raised his eyebrows and looked at him and asked: "Your face...?"
Bian Cheng smiled even more deeply when he heard him ask this. He stroked his face and said with a smile: "Oh, you have seen Ah Ren, right? How about me? Do I look like him?"
Like, like a pervert.
Li Boyang didn't want to pay any more attention to him, and turned to look at Taiqing and asked, "What's wrong with him?"
This was a very impolite remark, but Bian Cheng did not get angry. Instead, he stood aside and waited with a smile for Taiqing and Li Boyang to finish their conversation.
Tai Qing Jun and Li Boyang were originally one, so it was impossible for him to hide it from him: "This is the Lord of the Underworld in the Sixth Palace. The Ghost King Seal you took back is his."
After hearing this, Bian Cheng pursed his lips, pretending to be pitiful, and said cooperatively: "Yes, I was kind enough to give the Ghost King Seal to Ah Ren as a talisman, but who knew Si Yuan was so mean and directly took my Ghost King Seal for himself. As the victim, I am really pitiful."
He even pretended to wipe away two non-existent tears.
Li Boyang, the King of Hell of the Sixth Palace, knew that fifty years ago in Xiangxi, he had suffered some kind of defeat that made him lose his temper and suck away the vitality within a radius of ten miles. It was clearly summer at that time, but a dead grass area was formed with the King of Hell of the Sixth Palace as the center of the circle.
The grass and trees withered and the animals died.
Fortunately, it is in the deep mountains and forests, otherwise I don’t know how many lives would have been lost.
Li Boyang followed Taiqing's order to investigate. When he arrived, His Majesty the Lord of Hell had his back to him. He wiped his hands with a white towel, threw it away, turned sideways, glanced at Li Boyang and said, "I am being kind and want to send them to the afterlife as soon as possible to avoid suffering in this world. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can come to Senluo Palace to find me."
This statement is as arrogant as it can be. Who dares to fight the King of Hell in the Senluo Palace?
But now there is such a person who says that he was bullied by Lu Ren.
Regardless of whether Taiqing believed it or not, Li Boyang didn't believe it. First, he knew Lu Ren's character well, and second, he knew Bian Cheng's virtue.
Seeing that Li Boyang didn't say anything, Bian Cheng continued: "Since you have helped me get the Ghost King Seal back, I would like to thank you in advance." Although he said this, there was no gratitude in his tone.
Bian Cheng reached out, trying to get the Ghost King Seal back.
But Li Boyang did not take out the Ghost King Seal. He looked at Taiqing, waiting for instructions.
Taiqing also smiled at Bian Cheng: "It's not that I don't want to return it to Your Highness, but I'm afraid that if you lose it once, you will lose it a second time. Now is a time of trouble, and I'm really afraid of causing more trouble."
Bian Cheng raised his eyelids after hearing this, and he didn't seem surprised. He certainly knew that things couldn't be solved so easily.
There is no essential difference between Taiqing and Siyuan. Siyuan can use the Ghost King Seal to control Jiuyou, and Taiqing can of course do the same.
"Tai Qingjun, please stop being polite. Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Tai Qing also likes to talk to smart people: "I hope that when that day comes, the Jiuyou Realm Division can step onto the stage of the Four Realms as a friend of the Buzhou Mountain Realm Division."
It goes without saying which day it was.
Bian Cheng half-truthfully evaded the question, "Although I would like to, Si Yuan turned my Fengdu City upside down a while ago. It's not that I don't want to, but I'm really scared."
After hearing this, Taiqing smiled even more brightly.
"Then you don't have to worry. Because Si Yuan is currently visiting the Buzhou Mountain Jiesi."
"Oh?" Bian Cheng's voice rose at the end. This statement surprised him a little. "Although he is here, are you sure you can do anything to him? You are not inviting a wolf into the house, are you?"
"Of course not." Taiqing seemed confident.
"You probably don't know that although the celestial beings are strong, they are not completely without weaknesses. Before the beginning of the universe, the divine fire appeared in the world and burned thousands of miles. The heavens felt the suffering of all living beings and collected the divine fire in a furnace.
After tens of millions of years, Kuafu's body turned into the mountains and rivers of the Kyushu Islands, leaving only a pair of bright eyes. The sage threw them into a furnace to refine them, and after 4,900 years, they turned into the sun and the moon.
The sun and the moon came out from here, and mountains and rivers were formed from here.
Therefore, I named this tripod the Kyushu Island Mountain and River Tripod. The divine fire in this tripod is so fierce that it can consume the bones and blood of immortals. It is my personal collection."
Bian Cheng was overjoyed: "You mean, you can use your cauldron to melt that annoying Si Yuan?"
Tai Qingjun also smiled, and even looked somewhat humble: "That's right."
Li Boyang looked at the two men laughing and working together, and felt like he had broken into the villain's base camp - Li Boyang felt a headache.
But soon Li Boyang had more than just a headache.
Because Taiqing stretched out his hand towards him and said, "Boyang, quickly take out the tripod and show it to the Sixth Palace."
At this moment, Li Boyang finally remembered something and said, "Ah."
The Buzhou Mountain Realm is in charge of the heavenly realm, which is managed by the Three Pure Ones. The Three Pure Ones refer to the Jade Pure One, the Great Pure One, and the Upper Pure One, symbolizing the realm of the purest and the most perfect. To be in charge of the truth here, one must reach the state of supreme oblivion and not have any seven emotions and six desires.
But the seven emotions and six desires themselves are the weed seeds that have grown deep in the soul and cannot be completely eliminated. If you don't pay attention, they will spring up again in an instant.
For example, ten thousand years ago, the top of Mount Buzhou was still covered with lush vegetation and colorful flowers. But later, a god became excited by the sight of the flowers and his mood was shaken.
After this incident, the Three Pure Ones decided to remove all the beautiful scenery in the heavens, leaving only a world of ice and snow. Over time, the heavens became like the Arctic glaciers covered with snow, with no one to be happy about and no one to be sad about.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is ascetic practice.
However, the Three Pure Ones were very satisfied. They said: "If the one who governs the way of heaven has his own desires, he will be biased. He should observe all living beings, not himself."
In short, after all, in the heavenly realm, people are not people, but tools to execute the laws of nature. They are not allowed to have their own ideas, and must be impartial and self-disciplined.
Even in the heavenly realm, Li Boyang, Lingbao and Yuanshi can be considered aliens.
Although everyone respectfully calls them "Three Pure Ones", in fact, both they and those who respect them know very well that they are not the Three Pure Ones. They are just the turbidities that the Three Pure Ones eliminate from the body, just like an inflamed appendix in the human body. They are the "debris" that the Three Pure Ones have to give up in order to achieve the supreme realm.
The difference is that they are not organs. They have intelligence, seven emotions, and high cultivation. And because they cannot be regarded as complete celestial beings, they can come and go freely in the four realms without even going through the approval process. They are most suitable for doing some shady work and are the three best knives of the Buzhou Mountain Realm Bureau.
Li Boyang knew that Taiqing had split him out of his body in order to cultivate the supreme realm. But Li Boyang didn't know what the supreme realm was. He only knew that when Taiqing sent him to the human world, he said that as long as Li Boyang could escape the turbid realm by himself, Taiqing would be able to achieve great success.
Li Boyang didn't understand. It was obvious that they were one and the same. Why should he, who was in a turbid state, be required to do something that even Taiqing himself couldn't do?
But after hearing what Li Boyang said, Taiqing just lowered his eyes and said nothing. Then he threw him into the human world, asking him to experience the seven emotions, taste the six desires, and overcome the eight sufferings.
Li Boyang was just beginning to understand at that time. After he had been struggling in the human world for hundreds of years, he finally reacted: Taiqing is really a piece of shit. I do the work, but you take the salary?
But Li Boyang didn't understand this at that time. Although he was only in the turbid realm, who in the heavenly realm didn't call him Little Taiqingjun? He felt that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, and when he came to the human world, he consciously took on the responsibilities he should bear.
He is simply a top-class model worker.
At the beginning, Li Boyang didn't say much. All day long he either went to the east to kill the monsters that were wreaking havoc on the world, or went to the west to control the floods. He never talked to anyone. He was like a silent old flower, thinking only about how to save the people of Dawn.
There are also several places where statues and temples are built for him to express gratitude for his kindness.
But Li Boyang had been in the mortal world for tens of thousands of years since he came down to the world. During the first few thousand years, Li Boyang was still very serious. Apart from practicing, he traveled to various places to save people from disasters.
However, the world of flowers gradually corrupted Li Boyang. He learned everything he should and shouldn't learn in the human world, but his realm was not improving at all, so Li Boyang became lazy. From a Taoist priest like ice and snow in the mountains, he became a crazy Taoist priest who didn't care about his appearance.
He became more and more casual, and occasionally played mahjong with Shangqing and Yuqing's Zhuojing. When he owed gambling debts, he took odd jobs everywhere to earn money to pay off his debts.
He thought that the great way was getting further and further away from him, so he just focused on carrying out the orders given to him by Taiqing.
Having said that, Li Boyang always kept one thing in mind: he would eventually have to cut off the seven emotions and six desires, and must not have too much interaction with the human world.
Li Boyang is like a solitary boat, passing through the ups and downs of the world without taking away a drop of water. He intentionally or unintentionally avoids contact with the creatures in the human world, because he exists outside the world, and he does not want to change the fate of any mortal because of him, whether it is a good change or a bad change.
It can be said that Lu Ren is the first human being he has had in-depth contact with in these ten thousand years.
[If a butterfly flaps its wings in Siberia, it can cause a hurricane in Texas a few weeks later.]
Li Boyang first met Lu Ren when he was working part-time. It was a fresh food supermarket for monsters, so he thought Lu Ren was a monster. In addition, there was only one Hanba beside Lu Ren.
Li Boyang recognized it at the first sight - Jiuyou thought they had hidden the spirit of the witch god deep enough, but the heavenly world was not without its own spies, and they had lived in peace for many years, only because the time had not yet come.
So at the beginning, Li Boyang thought that Lu Ren was a small follower of Kunlun Jiesi, and he approached Lu Ren just to find out some information.
But there are always unexpected things in the world.
The accident this time was a bunch of cabbages cultivated by Lingbao. The cabbages were so noisy that Li Boyang felt like his head was about to explode. Moreover, no monster tribe would be willing to go to a fresh food supermarket. Monster tribes would just grab whatever they liked. Monsters who honestly went to the supermarket were too weak.
These weak monsters are already short of money, so how could they be willing to spend money to buy cabbage? Wouldn't it be better to grow it yourself?
Li Boyang stood in the supermarket for a week, and no one even asked about the price. He endured the sonic attacks of the cabbages every day.
"If this continues, I will die here before I can escape from the turbid realm." Li Boyang thought, "I have to find a way to get rid of these cabbages."
Then Li Boyang met the first person in so many days who had the courage to stare at this group of noisy cabbages - Lu Ren.
Lu Ren was staring at the talking and crying cabbage out of curiosity, but Li Boyang didn't care about that and tried desperately to grab this life-saving straw.
It can not only penetrate into the enemy, but also solve the immediate trouble.
Li Boyang looked at Lu Ren's receding back and hardened his heart: "Now when you buy cabbage, you can get an air fryer for free."
