Chapter 189: Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array
Li Anran did not hesitate at all and immediately checked the life of Jiuling Yuansheng.
As expected, Jiuling Yuansheng was also a disciple of Jiejiao, but he was not captured by Taiyi Tianzun in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and became his mount.
Unlike other disciples of Jiejiao, Jiuling Yuansheng, who originally had no cave to wander around, obediently followed the orders of Tongtian Jiaozhu and opened a new cave on the eve of the Conferred God Ceremony. He closed the cave door and sat in Huangting to recite the Huangting Sutra as required by Tongtian Jiaozhu, and did not take a step out for eight hundred years.
When Master Tongtian became furious and broke off relations with Yuanshi Tianzun and summoned his followers to set up the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, he luckily escaped because his cave was unknown.
To outsiders, this was a great blessing, but in the eyes of Jiuling Yuansheng, it was -
I just went into seclusion, but when I came out, the sect was gone, and my fellow disciples were gone? The whole world had changed?
After Jiuling Yuansheng learned about the old story of the Conferred Gods from his friends, he secretly ambushed outside the Jinguan Cave on Qianyuan Mountain, preparing to kill Taiyi Zhenren, the head of Xuanmen, to avenge his fellow disciples who had died tragically.
Unexpectedly, Taiyi Tianzun, who was far inferior to him in strength back then, after experiencing the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods and becoming the head of the Xuanmen, his cultivation, magic power, magic weapons and even luck have changed dramatically.
Jiuling Yuansheng took advantage of the sneak attack and bit Taiyi Tianzun, but failed to hurt Taiyi Tianzun at all. Instead, his sharp teeth were broken by the Wu Ji Xinghuang Flag that Taiyi Tianzun used to protect himself.
The Wu Ji Xing Huang Flag is one of the innate five elements flags. When it is unfolded, thousands of golden lotuses appear. Nothing can break it, all evils retreat, and all magic attacks are invulnerable.
During the catastrophe of Conferred Gods, it was lent by Yuanshi Tianzun to Jiang Ziya to appoint generals to Conferred Gods. After the catastrophe of Conferred Gods was over, it was taken back. Later, before leaving the Three Realms, it was given to the successor of Xuanmen's head, Taiyi Tianzun, along with other magic weapons such as the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi.
Jiuling Yuansheng realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, but it was too late. He was knocked to the ground by Taiyi Tianzun's Sanbao Yu Ruyi.
At that time, the core members of the Chan school, such as Rāhula, Manjusri, Cihang, Samantabhadra, and Juliusun, had just defected to the Western school. The Chan school was at a time when its reputation had plummeted and it was in crisis.
In order to intimidate those people with bad intentions, Taiyi Tianzun directly sealed Jiuling Yuansheng's spiritual consciousness and magical powers and forcibly took him as his mount.
Having a Daluo Jinxian serve as a mount is something that even saints have never done before.
Taiyi Tianzun took this opportunity to revive the reputation of Xuanmen and used various means to make Xuanmen prosperous again.
During this process, Jiuling Yuansheng has been acting as Taiyi Tianzun's mount and following Taiyi Tianzun.
He witnessed Taiyi Tianzun's various methods of protecting his shortcomings, being cruel and ruthless, and using all means possible, and suffered various mental and physical tortures.
The ferocity and wildness of Jiuling Yuansheng were gradually eliminated, and he finally completely surrendered to Taiyi Tianzun.
His name also spread throughout the three realms along with Taiyi Tianzun.
In the original time and space, the monkey didn't know about Taishang Laojun's green ox, Guanyin's golden-haired roar, or Samantabhadra's yellow-toothed old elephant, but he had only heard that Taiyi Tianzun's mount was a nine-headed lion monster, and it was for this reason.
In addition to this, Jiuling Yuansheng has another identity, that is, the son of the ancient demon saint Bai Ze!
In the ancient demon clan’s heaven, the most important figures are the two Demon Emperors, Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun. Below them are the Demon Master Kunpeng, and below them is the Demon Saint Bai Ze!
The status and position of the demon master Kunpeng in the ancient demon court is somewhat similar to that of Ran Deng, the deputy leader of the Chan sect. He is only half a level lower than Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi. He is not a subordinate but more like a like-minded collaborator and fellow Taoist.
Bai Ze is the prime minister above all the monsters, somewhat similar to Yang Jian, the god of justice in heaven, in charge of all affairs of the monster court.
Therefore, there is a saying in the world that Bai Ze understands the feelings of all things and knows the affairs of ghosts and gods.
Jiuling Yuansheng was born from the energy of intercourse between Bai Ze and him, but it was not born willingly by Bai Ze, but was the result of someone else's scheme.
As a result, Bai Ze's vitality as the Nine Spirit Saint he bred was severely damaged, and for a long time, he had no energy to deal with the affairs of the Demon Court.
As the Demon Court lost Bai Ze, its chief steward and military advisor, it was defeated again and again by the Witch Clan until they attacked Mount Buzhou, the pillar of heaven, where the final decisive battle broke out and both sides suffered heavy losses.
Bai Ze blamed himself deeply for this and lived in seclusion from then on.
It was not until the time of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors that it reappeared in the world and told Huangdi about the various monsters in the world, a total of 11,520 kinds. Huangdi ordered people to record them and named them "Bai Ze Tu".
However, he did not vent his anger on Jiuling Yuansheng because of this. He kept Jiuling Yuansheng by his side and taught him carefully since he was a child.
Because when Bai Ze was in the Demon Court, he was in charge of the affairs of the Demon Court. He knew a lot about the secrets of the prehistoric world and the situations of various tribes, even including the Zhoutian Star Array!
This great Zhoutian Star Array was created by Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun in order to fight against the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array of the Wu Clan. They used the River Map and Luoshu to study the movement rules of the primordial stars in the Chaos Bell.
The formation is centered around the Moon and the Sun, combining the power of the 365 stars in the sky, making it extremely powerful.
As the chief steward of the Heavenly Court, Bai Ze participated in the entire process of forming the Great Zhoutian Star Fighting Array. His comprehension of the Great Zhoutian Star Fighting Array was second only to Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun, who created this formation.
He passed all of these on to Jiuling Yuansheng, and they became the most precious and valuable contents in Jiuling Yuansheng's life!
Li Anran knew how powerful the Zhoutian Star Fighting Array was, so he immediately put aside other things and began to comprehend it wholeheartedly.
Compared to the Zhu Xian Formation, the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Formation is more complicated. If you want to learn this formation, you need to understand the operating rules of the 365 main stars and 14,800 secondary stars.
In the entire ancient demon court, there are only four people who can do this: Donghuang Taiyi, Di Jun, Bai Ze, and Demon Master Kunpeng!
The rest of the demon clan great saints only remembered the laws of the stars' movement that they presided over, and acted as a screw in the operation of the formation.
Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun have always been very generous with their skills and supernatural powers, and they do not prohibit these demon saints from passing on the star formations they have mastered to their own people.
This is also one of the sources of the Three Realms Formation.
When Li Anran was listening to Bai Ze talking about the part about the Ziwei Star Fighting Array in the Zhoutian Star Fighting Array, he found that its content was very similar to the Ziwei Star Fighting Array.
Obviously, the Ziwei Star Fighting Formation was also derived from the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation.
As the chief of the demon clan, Bai Ze is well-informed and knowledgeable. He is extremely good at teaching others. He can often connect various kinds of knowledge together and make it easy to understand.
But even so, Jiuling Yuansheng still failed to comprehend the Great Zhoutian Star Array. He spent thousands of years and just memorized it by rote.
Also, because the Zhoutian Xingdou Great Array was all-encompassing, Jiuling Yuansheng could not remember it all with just one head, so he had to practice a magical power with Bai Ze and grew eight more heads, each to remember a part of it, and only then was it complete.
This knowledge allowed Jiuling Yuansheng to successfully cultivate to the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal, but it also prevented him from achieving the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head.
Jiuling Yuansheng joined the Jiejiao sect just to solve this problem.
To this end, he also took the initiative to present the Zhoutian Star Array to Master Tongtian as a gift to become his disciple.
It’s not that he doesn’t feel sorry for selling his father’s land, but he will never be able to arrange it into a grand Zhoutian Xingdou formation!
Because in order to arrange the Great Zhoutian Star Array, not only does it require refining 365 Large Zhoutian Star Banners and 14,800 Small Zhoutian Star Banners, but each star banner must also have a banner master who is responsible for guarding the banner and understands the movement rules of the stars to which he belongs.
The banner masters chosen by Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun were all great saints of the demon clan and had the cultivation level of Daluo Jinxian.
The former almost emptied the entire demon clan's heavenly palace, and the latter was something that even the Jiejiao sect, which was known for having tens of thousands of immortals, could not do.
Jiuling Yuansheng is a lonely man, so there is no way he can even think about it.
Bai Ze passed the Zhoutian Xingdou Array to him just to prevent the hard work of Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun from going to waste. He never thought that he would be able to set it up.
Master Tongtian accepted the gift of apprenticeship and personally created a martial art for Jiuling Yuansheng called "Nine Spirits Returning to One".
Jiuling Yuansheng practiced hard for more than 30,000 years, and finally completed the practice of uniting the nine spirits into one, successfully breaking through to the realm of Daluo Jinxian.
The Patriarch Tongtian improved the Zhoutian Star Array, changing the Big Dipper, Southern Dipper, Ziwei and other star arrays into the Tai Chi, Liang Yi, Si Xiang, Bagua and other arrays familiar to the Xuanmen disciples, which was later called the Ten Thousand Immortals Array!
"From people to formations, Jiejiao really inherited most of the legacy of the Demon Court!" Li Anran was stunned.
He had seen a lot of content about the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation in the life story of Jia Tongtian, but he had never imagined that the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation actually came from the Zhoutian Star Formation.
He didn't know yet that the demon heritage inherited by Jiejiao was far more than that, and the largest legacy was still in the chaos!
Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming and the Golden Spirit Mother have gone to get it!
"The conditions required for the Great Zhoutian Star Array are too high. I don't think there will be a chance to set it up. However, each of these 365 main star arrays has its own mysteries, and they will definitely be useful in the future!"
Li Anran calmed his mind and listened attentively to Bai Ze's explanation of the Zhoutian Xingdou Array.
His attainments in formations are extremely profound, even stronger than Bai Ze. He also has the full-level Ziwei Star Fighting Formation and some basics of the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation. He is countless times faster than Jiuling Yuansheng in learning the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation.
In just half a year, Li Anran understood the rules of the operation of the Zhoutian Stars and had a preliminary grasp of the Zhoutian Stars Array.
Information about the Zhoutian Star Array also appeared on the attribute panel.
[The Great Zhoutian Xingdou Formation: Ninth Level. Donghuang Taiyi and Dijun used the Hetu Luoshu to study the supreme formation method they learned from the laws of the movement of the primordial stars in the Chaos Bell.]
Ninth level!
Li Anran's breathing stagnated.
The system divides all skills and spells into nine levels from high to low.
The ninth level is already a system, and it is also the top existence in this world!
He has traveled through time and space for so many years and obtained many eighth-level things, such as the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong, Shangqing Fuqi Jue, Yuqing Wendao Jue, Zhuxian Formation (incomplete), etc.
But, the ninth level is still the first one!
Li Anran had a vague and unreal feeling.
He had long expected that Jiuling Yuansheng would definitely bring him huge benefits, but he did not expect the benefits would be so huge!
Without any hesitation, Li Anran directly used experience points to upgrade the Zhoutian Xingdou Array to the maximum level.
In an instant, countless knowledge related to the Zhou Tian Xing Dou flooded into his mind like a tide. The large amount and all-encompassing content made Li Anran's body sway and he felt as if he could not bear it.
Li Anran closed his eyes and tried hard to absorb and digest.
Around him, thousands of stars twinkled and moved, making him look like a giant standing tall in the sea of stars.
The heaven and earth also responded, the sky was full of stars shining brightly, and in the daytime, the falling starlight turned from virtual to real, condensing into countless crystal clear nectars, spreading all over the world.
In the Yaochi.
The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother were enjoying the singing and dancing when they noticed the unusual movement between heaven and earth. His expression suddenly changed and he cried out, "Emperor Liujiang?!" He immediately flew into a rage, "Today is not the birthday of the Emperor of Heaven, which comes once every sixty years. Who dares to release Emperor Liujiang to the lower world without permission?"
The fairies didn't know what was going on, but when they saw the Jade Emperor was furious, they were frightened and hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling.
"All of you, please leave." The Jade Emperor waved everyone away and told Taibai Jinxing beside him, "Pass the order down and ask the spiritual officials to investigate this matter."
Taibai Jinxing received the order and hurried out of the hall, summoning a group of spiritual officials to investigate the matter, but to no avail.
The gods of the Dou tribe, who were in charge of the sky full of stars, were also shocked by this sudden change. They had no idea what was happening and were unable to even control the stars to stop dropping the Emperor's Juice to the mortal world.
After an investigation that yielded no results, Taibai Jinxing was worried that the Jade Emperor would get anxious, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to Yaochi to report the matter to the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor was very angry and was about to explode, but the flowing liquid suddenly stopped, and everything that had just happened seemed to have never happened.
At the same time, Li Anran also woke up from his meditation. The strange phenomenon around him had disappeared. A divine official hurriedly came to the door and reported: "Sir, the spiritual officer in charge of the investigation of the Emperor Liujiang under the order of the Jade Emperor wants to see you."
Li Anran, the prison god who is also the Guansuo star god, is also under investigation.
Hearing the words "Emperor Liujiang", Li Anran was stunned and asked, "What happened to Emperor Liujiang?"
The divine official explained: "Just now, the stars in the sky moved strangely, shining brightly, visible in the daytime, and the Emperor's fluid poured down like a torrential rain, spreading across the three realms. The Jade Emperor was furious and sent a spiritual official to investigate the matter thoroughly."
Li Anran's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself, "Could this have anything to do with me?"
In the ancient Demon Court period, after Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi set up the Zhoutian Star Array in the Demon Court, they completely controlled the movement of the Zhoutian stars.
In order to show favor to all tribes in the ancient world and to further strengthen the power of the demon tribe, Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi would send down a portion of the accumulated essence of the sun, the moon and the starlight on the wedding day of the emperor and empress every year, which was called "Emperor's Liquid".
Ordinary creatures can gain intelligence by obtaining it, while monsters can greatly improve their cultivation by obtaining it.
Even after the demon clan's heaven was destroyed, the Emperor's flow did not stop and continued to fall as usual.
Therefore, the monsters in the world were grateful to Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, and they grew stronger again at a speed much faster than the Wu clan.
Haotian established the Heavenly Court based not on the demon clan but on Xuanmen. After becoming the Emperor of Heaven, he naturally would not continue the favor of the previous dynasty and would instead raise a tiger to cause trouble.
Therefore, the Emperor Liujiang was changed from once a year to once every sixty years, and the time was also changed from the wedding day of Emperor Jun and Xihe to the fifteenth day of July every year. In addition, the amount of Emperor Liujiang was greatly reduced to curb the development of the demon race.
At the same time, the Emperor Liujiang was distributed as salary rewards to the gods and heavenly soldiers and generals in heaven, in order to attract cultivators from the three realms to join heaven and strengthen the power of heaven.
According to the time calculation, the next Emperor's Liquid should be on July 15th, thirteen years later, but it suddenly spilled today, and the amount was so large.
It's like throwing away the Jade Emperor's money. It would be strange if the Jade Emperor wasn't angry!
When Li Anran was wondering if this matter was related to him, Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, and Jinling Shengmu, who had just returned to the Three Realms, were also wondering if this matter was related to them.
Although they encountered some setbacks during this trip, overall it was very smooth.
With the help of the compass left by Master Tongtian, he successfully got the Chaos Bell.
But when they were taking the Chaos Bell to Mount Li to see the Holy Mother Wu Dang, the Chaos Bell suddenly shone brightly, and then stars appeared between heaven and earth, and the light was bright, and the Emperor's Blood poured down like water!
It is almost visible to the naked eye that the mountains, rivers, flowers, plants and trees beneath your feet are all looking brand new. Although it is clearly the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, they are full of life again.
Many birds and beasts were sprinkled with the Emperor's liquid, and their eyes instantly became lively, as if they had gained intelligence and had the potential to become monsters.
As for those monsters that had already developed intelligence and learned to breathe in the essence of the sun and the moon, after a brief moment of shock, they rushed into the Emperor's Liquid in ecstasy, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb it frantically.
Yunxiao and the other two were shocked and immediately connected this matter to the Chaos Bell.
The Golden Spirit Mother was busy using her magic power to take back the Chaos Bell, and the Emperor's Liquid gradually disappeared.
This made them even more convinced that the unusual movement of the stars was closely related to the Chaos Bell. They did not dare to stop and hurriedly flew back to Lishan to report the matter to the Holy Mother Wu Dang.
Wu Dang Holy Mother had no idea what was going on, and could only guess: "The Great Zhou Tian Xing Dou Array was created by Dong Huang Tai Yi and Di Jun after studying the laws governing the movement of the primordial stars in the Chaos Bell. Perhaps there was some kind of connection between the two, which led to this situation."
He then said, "Golden Spirit Holy Mother, please refine this Chaos Bell, and this kind of thing will not happen again in the future."
"Me?!" Mother Goddess of the Golden Spirit opened her mouth wide, looking confused.
Wu Dang Holy Mother nodded and said, "You were the Dou Mu God of Kan Palace on the Conferred God List, the leader of the stars, and you have a connection with this Chaos Bell. It is most appropriate for you to refine it."
The Golden Spirit Mother pondered for a moment, and without further ado, she sat down cross-legged and began to sacrifice to the Chaos Bell.
The Holy Mother Wu Dang, Yun Xiao and Zhao Gongming were on her left and right to protect her.
But, after a while.
The Golden Spirit Mother opened her eyes, her face full of worry: "Senior Sister Wu Dang, this Chaos Bell seems to be against me, I can't sacrifice it at all."
