Chapter 261: Taiyin Xingjun
More than five hundred years ago, under the instigation of the bull demon, Niulang stole the clothes of the Weaver Girl who was taking a bath, and forced the Weaver Girl to marry him.
The means can be said to be extremely despicable.
However, Zhinu has a weak personality and is also influenced by the feudal women's idea of "marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog".
After marrying the Cowherd, she performed her duties diligently and not only wove cloth to supplement the family income, but also gave birth to a boy and a girl for the Cowherd.
Later, when their child fell ill, the Weaver Girl had to steal the cloud fungus, and was discovered by the River God and reported to the Temple of the God of Justice.
Yang Jian felt pity for the Weaver Girl because of what happened to Yao Ji. Also, as what the Cowherd and the Bull Demon did was indeed despicable, he wanted to put all the blame on the Cowherd and the Bull Demon so that the Weaver Girl and her children would escape punishment.
However, the Queen Mother was determined to make an example of them, so she forced Yang Jian to place the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, allowing them to meet once a year.
The Milky Way is the place where all the heartless and disloyal people in the world gather.
In just a few decades, the affection between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and even between them and their children was completely worn out, and only resentment and hatred remained between them.
Since then, every meeting on the Magpie Bridge that seemed extremely romantic in the mortal world has become a true human tragedy.
Every time the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and their children met on the Magpie Bridge, they would kill each other to vent their resentment and hatred.
However, the Queen Mother cast a spell that made them immortal.
After killing each other, they would soon be resurrected, repeatedly and numbly waiting for the next meeting, the next killing.
The scene was extremely horrifying and frightened many gods.
Li Anran had witnessed it once with his own eyes, and he felt a chill on his back and his hair stood on end.
He clearly remembered that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's family of four had been completely corroded by the heartless and ungrateful spirit in the Milky Way. They had become cold and resentful, knowing only hatred and not any emotion related to love.
But today, he sensed a hint of emotional fluctuation from the children of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Very faint, but it definitely exists!
Li Anran immediately used his spiritual sense to scan the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's family of four, and found that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl had not changed much from before, only their children were a little different, with a little more faint emotion.
"It's Laurel."
Soon, Li Anran found out the reason for the changes in the brother and sister.
Inside their bodies, there is a crystal clear bay leaf that emits a cool light.
Li Anran raised his head and looked in the direction of the Moon, as if thinking about something.
In this era, the most famous person on the Moon is Chang'e, the Moon Goddess who lives in Guanghan Palace.
Secondly, there is the jade rabbit raised by Chang'e and Wu Gang who cut the cassia tree.
However, none of them are the real masters of Taiyin Star.
The real master of Taiyin Star and the real owner of the laurel tree, one of the ten innate spiritual roots, is Emperor Jun’s wife, Empress Chang Xi, the Queen of Heaven in the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Palace.
After the Lich Catastrophe, Emperor Jun and Emperor Taiyi died, and Xihe retired to the Moon Star and stopped caring about worldly affairs.
Because Xihe herself was a congenital creature born on the Moon, and had great merits.
After becoming the Emperor of Heaven, the Jade Emperor did not dare to disrespect him and tacitly allowed the Moon to belong to Xihe.
Xihe also reciprocated the favor and completely stopped having any contact with the former demon saints such as the demon master Kunpeng.
To the extent that most people in the Three Realms thought she was missing, and had no idea that she was on the Yin Star where she had lived for countless years.
Li Anran knew all this because he heard it from Taiyi Tianzun.
As for Chang'e, she was also a congenital creature born on the Moon, but she successfully developed intelligence and transformed into a human form much later, after the establishment of the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Palace.
Moreover, Chang'e's successful transformation was largely due to the help of Xihe, which led to her later affairs with Houyi.
During the Conferred Gods catastrophe, Houyi shot and killed nine golden crows, which became the fuse for the decisive battle between the two tribes.
However, he himself did not die in this catastrophe. He even lived to see the rise of the human race during the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and became the leader of the Dongyi tribe of the human race.
Xihe naturally did not want to see the enemy who killed his son live happily, so he used his great magical powers to help Chang'e transform successfully, and let Chang'e come down to earth to marry Houyi.
Like Xihe, Chang'e was transformed from the innate moon essence.
Houyi had a large amount of solar energy in his body because he shot and killed nine golden crows.
Yin and Yang attract.
Houyi naturally fell in love with Chang'e. In order to make this "mortal" Chang'e immortal, he went to Mount Kunlun to seek the elixir from the Queen Mother of the West. Then he died at the hands of his apprentice Feng Meng.
No one knows what happened during that time and what Chang'e did in it.
The final result was that Chang'e returned to the Guanghan Palace on the Yin Star alone and stayed indoors without going out.
It was not until the Queen Mother of the West came to heaven and became the Queen Mother that Chang'e would occasionally go to Yaochi to attend the Peach Banquet and celebrate the Queen Mother of the West's birthday.
Also, because she seldom left Guanghan Palace on Taiyin Star, she had no way of preparing birthday gifts, so the way to celebrate birthdays was mostly with dances that she choreographed herself.
Later generations often wondered whether it was too harsh for Zhu Bajie, the great Marshal of the Heavenly Peng, to be stripped of his divine status and sent down to the mortal world just because he flirted with Chang'e, the lead dancer? Or was there some conspiracy?
Actually it is not!
If you just think of Chang'e as a guest who came to the Yaochi banquet like Zhu Bajie, and a guest who only came out to give face to the Queen Mother, and then was molested by the drunk Zhu Bajie, you can understand why the Queen Mother was so angry!
Later, the List of Gods was shattered, and the original Queen Jiang, the Moon Goddess, chose to reincarnate.
In order to make amends to Chang'e and to show goodwill to Xihe, the Queen Mother made Chang'e the new Taiyin Star God.
The Jade Rabbit will appear on the road to the West, which will cause a disaster. It is also Lingshan's way of showing goodwill to Xihe.
The reason why Wu Gang cut down the cassia tree was that he trespassed into Guanghan Palace and offended Queen Xihe.
Cutting down the laurel tree was his punishment, and it was also a way to keep him on the Moon Star as a guard to prevent any blind people from barging in again.
As one of the ten innate spiritual roots, the greatest feature of the laurel tree is its extremely strong recovery ability. No matter how serious the injury is, it will recover instantly and be intact.
Unless the bay leaves were picked by Xihe himself, they would return to the laurel tree in an instant.
The only uncertainty is whether Xihe was being soft-hearted or had other intentions.
Li Anran frowned slightly.
This matter had nothing to do with him and was unlikely to affect him.
But, there is not only Xihe on the Moon, there is also Chang'e!
Chang'e and Xihe were both transformed from the moon essence. Although there was a huge difference in their cultivation, they were actually sisters from the same origin.
Somewhat similar to Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi.
In the Lotus Lantern that he watched in his previous life, Yang Jian liked Chang'e. Li Anran was a little worried that this matter would involve Chang'e and then affect Yang Jian.
"Forget it! Let's just tell this to my second brother! If he really likes Chang'e, he will naturally investigate. If he doesn't like her, it will give him more thoughts and make preparations!"
Li Anran was not sure what Yang Jian's attitude towards Chang'e was.
He has known Yang Jian for so many years, but he has never heard Yang Jian mention Chang'e, and he doesn't feel comfortable gossiping.
Li Anran immediately changed direction and flew towards the Temple of Justice, but learned that Yang Jian had brought Roaring Sky Dog to the human world to investigate the pangolin incident and had not returned yet.
Li Anran left a message and returned to the prison.
Pangolins can only plot against the Eight Immortals, but their methods are not very sophisticated.
Yang Jian and Xiaotian Dog worked their way back from the results to the process, conducting investigations purposefully, and it was not difficult to find evidence.
Li Anran did not interfere.
And things turned out just as he expected. In just three days, Yang Jian collected solid evidence that the pangolin broke into the Eighteen Levels of Hell and pretended to be Lu Dongbin to burn down the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea.
Afterwards, the Jade Emperor ordered that the pangolin be taken to the demon-slaying platform, beheaded in public, and his soul be dispersed, never to be reborn.
It is said that when the pangolin was dying, he was still shouting that the Jade Emperor was protecting the Eight Immortals and that he wanted to meet He Xiangu.
Once this matter was settled, the Eight Immortals returned to their positions, and Taishang Laojun's layout in Dongsheng Shenzhou was also completed.
To express their gratitude, the Eight Immortals first went to the Tushita Palace to thank Laozi, then went to the Lingxiao Palace to thank the Jade Emperor, and finally they came to the Heavenly Prison in person to thank Li Anran.
"My master said that he was only acting in accordance with the order of Taiyi Tianzun. If you want to thank him, then thank Tianzun. He is busy with official duties and has no time to see guests."
Li Anran didn't even let them in, and directly asked his priests to send them away.
The Eight Immortals were naturally dissatisfied with this, but they owed Li Anran a favor and it was not easy for them to force their way in. So they simply went to Dongji Miaoyan Palace to thank Taiyi Tianzun and put the karma they owed on Taiyi Tianzun.
"Brother Li Anran, I think Han Zhongli and He Xiangu are not broad-minded people. I'm afraid they will bear a grudge against you." Yang Jian witnessed all this and spoke.
"Hold the grudge if you want!" Li Anran didn't care at all and was in the mood to joke: "I just like it when people don't like me and can't do anything about me."
Yang Jian was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
Although Li Anran's words sounded a bit arrogant, they were also the truth.
Although the Eight Immortals were disciples carefully selected by , and each of them had an extraordinary past life, that was all!
The reason they were able to break through to the Golden Immortal or even Taiyi Golden Immortal in such a short period of time was entirely due to their foundation in their previous lives and the tribulations they had experienced in this life.
Now that the pangolin is dead and their fate is over, that’s it for them.
Except for Lu Dongbin, the probability of others breaking through to the Daluo Jinxian within a thousand years is almost zero.
But Li Anran is now a Daluo Jinxian, and Yang Jian cannot predict how far he will go in a thousand years.
The only thing that is certain is that whether the Eight Immortals hold a grudge or are grateful, it will indeed have no impact on Li Anran.
"Second brother, I had a duel with Nezha in Tianhe before..."
Li Anran told Yang Jian about his discovery.
Yang Jian frowned slightly, revealing a bit of worry: "In the past, when they met on the Magpie Bridge, the two children were ignorant and only knew hatred but not love, so it would be fine. Now that they have regained their normal minds, I am afraid they can't bear the pain of father and son, mother and daughter killing each other."
Li Anran was stunned. He did not expect that Yang Jian's focus was completely different from his. He suddenly felt emotional: "Second brother has a great love in his heart. I am not as good as him in this aspect!"
He grew up in modern society and is emotionally indifferent.
After coming to this world, safety and interests come first.
It was only after spending a long time with Yang Jian and Nezha that they developed some true affection for each other.
But he is still very indifferent to outsiders.
The biggest difference between him and all the gods and Buddhas in the sky is that all the gods and Buddhas in the sky treat mortals as ants, but he treats all outsiders as ants.
The gods and Buddhas in the sky looked down on him with contempt, but he stayed out of it and ignored them directly.
In comparison, Yang Jian is the one who truly cares about the people and has compassion for all living beings.
"Instead of going to the trouble of revising the Heavenly Law, Second Brother might as well just become the Jade Emperor!"
Li Anran doesn't believe in human rule, but he believes in Yang Jian.
However , the Jade Emperor was supported and recognized by the Six Saints and the Taoist Ancestor.
If you want to overthrow the Jade Emperor, it is basically equivalent to confronting the entire Three Realms, which is much more difficult than changing the Heavenly Laws!
Yang Jian hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Li Anran, I know about this. I will also investigate the Taiyin Star. You said before that you wanted to arrest a powerful person who had listened to Daozu's teachings in Zixiao Palace and put him in the Heavenly Prison. I have found a suitable candidate for you."
As he spoke, Yang Jian waved his right hand, and the water in front of him rippled, revealing the figure of a ferocious beast.
The ferocious beast looked like a tiger, as big as an ox, with a pair of wings. It was very ugly, and there was a layer of black air surrounding it, giving people a feeling of ferocity and evil.
"Qiongqi?" Li Anran recognized it at the first sight.
Yang Jian nodded and said, "This Qiongqi is also an innate creature. He once listened to the teachings in Zixiao Palace. However, he has a bad temper, destroys trust and disloyalty, worships evil words, and takes pleasure in killing. He is disliked by everyone."
"After Daozu finished preaching, it committed evil everywhere in the prehistoric world, creating countless karmic grudges. However, due to its powerful magic power and strong physical body, no one could deal with it. It was not until the Yellow Emperor came to power that it was severely injured and expelled by the human race, and fled to the chaos outside the sky."
Li Anran's eyes lit up when he heard this. Qiongqi had no friends and many enemies, so he was indeed the best candidate. He asked, "Second brother, do you know its whereabouts?"
Yang Jian hummed, and said, "Qiongqi knew that he had too many enemies, so after being seriously injured, he hid in the outer chaos to recuperate and never dared to show up."
“But some time ago, after the news that Ancestor Hongyun was carrying the Hongmeng Purple Qi spread, it had the idea of robbing the Hongmeng Purple Qi and sneaked into the Three Realms.”
When Yang Jian said this, a cold light flashed across his eyes, filled with murderous intent.
Li Anran was stunned at first, but soon guessed the reason.
It was recorded in "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that Qiongqi was cruel and liked to eat cannibalism.
Qiongqi has been driven out of the Three Realms for so many years, lingering on in the empty chaos outside the sky. I'm afraid he has been suffocated for a long time.
This time when I return to the Three Realms, I will definitely indulge in eating and make up for what I have not eaten in these years.
Yang Jian must have discovered its trace through this.
Sure enough, Yang Jian continued, "It has eaten nearly a million people in recent days, and not even its souls have been left. We should go and capture it and put it in the Heavenly Prison to eliminate harm to the Three Realms. It is only right."
