Chapter 216: Same as Roaring Sky Dog
"The matter of the Eight Immortals of the Upper Cave is related to the catastrophe of heaven and earth. It is not convenient for me to take action. You go over there and discuss with Lu Dongbin and others to rescue Nezha as soon as possible."
Taiyi Tianzun swung the whisk to his left hand, a golden light flashed, and a crystal clear glass bottle appeared in his palm. It was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, the size of a palm, with patterns of the sun, moon and stars on it.
"This bottle contains the Three Lights Divine Water that I have collected over the years. It can heal injuries and detoxify. Take it and you may have a chance to use it."
"Disciple obeys your command." Li Anran took the glass bottle and couldn't help muttering to himself.
When Tang Monk and his disciples went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, Wu Dang Sheng Mu, Taiyi Tianzun, Taishang Laojun and Tathagata all appeared on earth. It doesn't make sense that they couldn't do that when they arrived in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
Taiyi Tianzun's reason for not being able to take action is obviously not valid!
It is more likely that Taiyi Tianzun wanted him to participate in the affairs of the Eight Immortals and gain some merit from it.
As for the matter of Nezha...
It should be an unexpected emergency.
It is true that Taiyi Tianzun is worried, but it is also true that he will not take any action.
This sounds a bit contradictory, but it is within Taiyi Tianzun's logic.
Disasters, even those caused by humans, are dangerous, but the danger is far less than that of normal disasters.
If Nezha died in this disaster, it would be Nezha's fate. He would feel sad and heartbroken, but he would not go against fate.
This is a matter of principle.
Of course, this is also because Nezha’s importance is not important enough!
If the matter involves Yang Jian or Li Anran who now holds the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, Taiyi Tianzun's principles will also be lowered accordingly.
Taiyi Tianzun said again: "I have already told Yang Jian about this matter, and he has already gone there. After you go there, no matter what situation you encounter, you must not use the Four Swords of Zhuxian. Do you understand?"
Upon hearing that Yang Jian was also there, Li Anran was even more certain that Taiyi Tianzun wanted him and Yang Jian to go through the calamity once and gain some merit, so he responded respectfully, "Disciple understands."
Taiyi Tianzun waved his hand and said, "You can go now."
Li Anran was worried about Nezha, so he didn't say anything more. He immediately left and performed the rainbow transformation technique. In an instant, he arrived at the Eight Immortals mentioned by Taiyi Tianzun...
To be more precise, it is above the residence of the Six Immortals.
Taishang Laojun wanted to recruit all the Eight Immortals of Shangdong as his disciples to strengthen the power of the human sect. The eight immortals he chose were either his disciples or the reincarnations of powerful people.
This resulted in very few candidates for the Eight Immortals meeting his requirements.
Each time you choose one, you need to spend a lot of energy to plan and layout.
For example, the white bat in Zhang Guolao’s previous life.
After Taishang Laojun took a liking to him, he sent a message to Taiyi Tianzun, asking Li Anran to use the white bat's descendants to cause trouble in the area, and to fight against the white bat, forcing him into a desperate situation.
Then, Taishang Laojun appeared, played the good guy, saved the white bat, and kindly pointed out a clear way for him -
After reincarnation, they became the Eight Immortals of Shangdong Cave.
The origins of the others, such as Fairy He, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi, and Cao Guojiu, are all similar.
He first let them fall into a desperate situation, then appeared again to show them the way forward, and used the word "destiny" to persuade them to reincarnate and become one of the Eight Immortals.
The process was actually the same for Lü Dongbin’s previous life, Emperor Donghua.
Li Anran did not realize this at the beginning.
Until one day when he was drinking with Yang Jian, he talked about this matter.
Yang Jian pointed out that most of those who forced Emperor Donghua to prove his innocence were followers of Taishang Laojun. Only then did Li Anran suddenly realize the filthiness behind this.
However, judging from the conversation between Emperor Donghua and Zhu Ganglie in the Heavenly Prison, Emperor Donghua may have seen through this.
It was only because the Jade Emperor disliked him for his title of "the first male immortal in the world" that he went with the flow and reincarnated to prove his innocence.
Suddenly, an idea flashed through Li Anran's mind.
Perhaps it wasn't just Emperor Donghua who noticed it.
It is very likely that Zhang Guolao, He Xiangu, and Han Xiangzi had also noticed the clues in their previous lives, but they had to bow their heads under the eaves and could only pretend to be grateful and agree.
In any case, Taishang Laojun's strict requirements on the Eight Immortals made the gathering of the Eight Immortals extremely difficult, and the time span was much longer than the journey to the West.
The first of the Eight Immortals, Li Tieguai, became an immortal more than 500 years ago. As for the last three of the Eight Immortals, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and Cao Guojiu, Lan Caihe had just started practicing, and the other two were not yet born.
Li Anran had no idea about the origins of He Xiangu, Han Xiangzi and Cao Guojiu. He only knew that Lan Caihe was the reincarnation of the barefoot immortal.
That’s right, it was the one who was tricked by the monkey into going to the Tongming Palace when the monkey made trouble in the Heavenly Palace.
Although this barefoot immortal is a wandering immortal, he has already cultivated to the Daluo realm.
Just because he felt pity for the people who died in the war, he threw the fire maple, a birthday gift prepared for the Jade Emperor, into the Forgetful River to prevent them from being contaminated by resentment and anger, so that they could be reincarnated. This angered the Jade Emperor, who demoted him to reincarnation and cultivation through suffering and rebirth.
This happened seventeen years ago!
The time when Li Jing temporarily took over as the God of Justice!
It is said that the Jade Emperor believed that the barefoot immortal's behavior was extremely disrespectful and wanted to behead him as a warning to others.
It was Taishang Laojun who argued that although the barefoot immortal's behavior was inappropriate, it was also out of compassion.
This persuaded the Jade Emperor to save the barefoot immortal's life and give him a chance to reincarnate and cultivate again.
As long as you have accumulated enough merits, you can be included in the immortal class again!
At that time, Li Anran was reading the life story of the Golden Spirit Mother in the Heavenly Prison. He was enjoying the preaching of the Three Pure Ones and did not pay any attention to this matter at all.
However, after Yang Jian learned about , his face was gloomy for several days, and he wished he could shoot the Jade Emperor, Li Jing and Taishang Laojun each.
As his thoughts turned, Li Anran had already fallen from the clouds.
The place where Lu Dongbin and his companions lived in the mortal world was just a mountain villa nestled in the mountains and beside the water. It was not large, with only a dozen or so houses, but it was fully equipped with all the necessary facilities.
There are small bridges, flowing water, rockery ponds, flower gardens and bamboo forests... everything you can think of.
It doesn't look like a residence of gods, but more like a Jiangnan garden where mortals live.
When Li Anran arrived here, Yang Jian, Lu Dongbin, Han Zhongli, Tieguai Li, He Xiangu and Lan Caihe were in the hall, discussing how to rescue Nezha.
Yang Jian was the first to notice Li Anran's presence and headed towards the door.
Xiaotian Dog held a big bone in his hand and followed Yang Jian closely, nodding and bowing to Li Anran with a fawning smile on his face.
Lu Dongbin, Li Tieguai, Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao, He Xiangu, and Lan Caihe also followed out.
After Yang Jian learned about Li Anran's purpose, he introduced him to Lü Dongbin and the others, "This is Li Anran, the prison god of heaven. He is also a disciple of Taiyi Tianzun and a junior fellow of Nezha. He has come to help us at the order of Taiyi Tianzun."
"Lü Yan (Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao...) greets the prison god." Lü Dongbin and others came forward to pay their respects.
Li Anran returned the salute indifferently and only paid a little more attention to Lu Dongbin.
Perhaps because Lü Dongbin also had a congenital pure yang body, his figure and appearance were almost exactly the same as those of Emperor Donghua, except that he did not have the beautiful hair that people of that time loved so much, and looked a lot younger.
In terms of temperament, he is less majestic and more suave.
He transformed the Chunyang Sword into a folding fan. Holding it in his hand, he looked more like a dandy scholar than a Taoist priest.
"As expected of the reincarnation of Emperor Donghua, it has only been over thirty years and he has already reached the initial stage of Xuanxian cultivation! He is much better than Tieguai Li and Han Zhongli, who are his relatives!"
"With the Pure Yang Sword, Lu Dongbin has no shortage of killing methods, but he still needs a magical weapon to protect himself."
When Emperor Donghua was reincarnated, he was the one who protected the Dharma by his side, and he also received a ray of innate pure yang energy from Emperor Donghua.
Actually, he took advantage of Emperor Donghua.
Li Anran planned to find an opportunity to give Lu Dongbin a defensive magic weapon, which could be regarded as repaying this karma.
On the other side, Lu Dongbin and others were also secretly looking at Li Anran.
Among them, only Tieguai Li had met Li Anran a few times before, and the rest were meeting him for the first time!
But, they have heard Li Anran's name from Nezha countless times!
Especially the fact that Li Anran once imprisoned Tongtian Jiaozhu (the Eight Immortals didn't know that the fake Tongtian was a trace of evil spirit of Tongtian Jiaozhu and thought he was the real Tongtian Jiaozhu) in the Heavenly Prison, which made them admire Li Anran even more!
They wanted Nezha to invite Li Anran to help them get rid of Tongtian Jiaozhu countless times, but it failed to happen because Li Anran had been in seclusion!
Now, the legendary figure Li Anran has finally appeared, making them very excited.
but……
"Why do I dislike this God of Justice so much?" Zhang Guolao muttered secretly in his heart.
Lu Dongbin was just the opposite. He was quite fond of Li Anran at first sight, as if they had met countless times before and felt like they were old friends at first sight.
Li Anran didn't care what they were thinking. The most important thing now was to rescue Nezha first.
He also figured it out on the way.
The reason why Nezha was ambushed by the fake Tongtian was probably because Nezha knew that the matter of Dongsheng Shenzhou was just a plan by Taishang Laojun, just like the journey to the West, which was just a show.
This is totally unprepared!
He never expected that the fake Tongtian chess piece would suddenly jump up and bite people, catching him off guard.
"Second brother, what's the situation now?" Li Anran asked.
Yang Jian said: "Tongtian Patriarch must have guessed that I would bring Roaring Sky Dog with me, so he wiped out his scent and Nezha's scent in advance, so Roaring Sky Dog couldn't find their location."
Lu Dongbin added: "Prison God, we have just discussed that we should go find Pangolin first. He is the disciple of Master Tongtian. As long as we can find him, we will be able to find out where Master Tongtian is hiding. Then we can..."
"No need to go through so much trouble."
Li Anran interrupted Lu Dongbin and said, "I can find the location of Tongtian Jiaozhu. Second brother, let's go there now. Rescue Nezha as soon as possible to avoid more trouble."
The fake Tongtian originally escaped from the Tianlao prison.
Although he was able to escape from prison successfully because Li Anran did it on purpose.
But the Book of Punishment doesn't care about these.
Li Anran can locate the fake Tongtian's position at any time.
"Okay." Yang Jian nodded, and without saying anything, he directly abandoned the plan they had previously made.
He had already expected that Li Anran would be able to find the location of the fake Tongtian, but he did not disturb him because Li Anran was in seclusion practicing the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
At this time, Taiyi Tianzun sent Li Anran over. It was obvious that Li Anran had already successfully refined the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
Although Yang Jian didn't ask or say anything, he was happy for Li Anran in his heart.
"You don't have to go." Li Anran saw that Lu Dongbin and the others had also followed and said, "My second are enough."
The last time he fought with the fake Tongtian, the fake Tongtian already had the strength of the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal. And he has been in the catastrophe for such a long time, so his strength must have increased, and he may even reach the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal.
Among Lu Dongbin and his group, the ones with the highest cultivation, Tieguai Li and Han Zhongli, are only at the middle level of Xuanxian, and Lan Caihe has not even become an immortal yet.
Not to mention helping, the aftermath of their fight might even kill Lu Dongbin and the others.
In addition, there is another important reason, that is, the incident of the Eight Immortals was a disaster deliberately caused by Taishang Laojun in order to eliminate the calamity in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
The fake Tongtian is the whetstone left for the Eight Immortals.
Li Anran and Yang Jian had to hold back and not kill him outright.
With Lu Dongbin and the others around, they still have to act, which is really troublesome!
"We want to go too!" Lan Caihe was unwilling to stay.
It has only been fifteen years since the barefoot immortal was reincarnated, and Lan Caihe is only fifteen years old. He is the youngest among the Eight Immortals and has the best relationship with Nezha.
He was next to Nezha when the fake Tongtian attacked Nezha.
The reason why the mortals who pretended to be able to transform into heaven approached them was to ask them to cure their illnesses.
Therefore, Lan Caihe was filled with guilt and self-blame and wanted to rescue Nezha himself.
Lu Dongbin, who knew Nezha the earliest, also said sincerely, "Prison God, although we are not the opponent of Master Tongtian, we can help you deal with his men! Don't worry, we will never drag you down!"
"Don't underestimate us, we can also help you!" He Xiangu was a little unconvinced.
"Prison God, let us go!" Tieguai Li was much more polite and just said, "One more person means more strength."
Han Zhongli said: "We have dealt with the Master Tongtian for many years and are more familiar with him. We will definitely be able to help if we go over there!"
Li Anran: “…” Are you and I familiar with him?
Seeing Li Anran's impatience, Yang Jian gave him a calming look and said, "My fellow Taoists, I know you are worried about Nezha and want to help. But our main purpose of going this time is to save people, and the fewer people the better. If Tong Tian Jiaozhu gets cornered, it will be a disaster."
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Li Anran said nothing more and turned to walk out the door.
Yang Jian nodded slightly to the immortals, signaling them not to worry, and followed.
“Woof woof!”
Although Xiaotian Dog has transformed into a human form, many of its dog habits remain. It prefers barking to speaking human language.
He barked twice in triumph and was about to catch up when he heard Li Anran say, "Roaring Sky Dog, you should stay like them."
Roaring Sky Dog: (⊙ｏ⊙)
Lü Dongbin and others: “???”
What does it mean to be the same as us?
What do you mean?
