Chapter 283: Unforgivable Sin
"Master, when I arrived at Tianshui Mountain, Fairy Jincui had already changed Yuanze Cave into Cailing Cave. I followed Master's instructions and secretly inquired about the situation of the Black-armored Demon King from the mountain gods and land gods around Tianshui Mountain."
"At first they were afraid of being retaliated by Li Laosi and wanted to lie to me, until I took out the Heart-Searching Pearl, then they began to tell the truth. The Black-Armored Demon King is an old turtle who prefers quietness to movement. He stays in his cave all year round and never causes trouble, nor has he ever bullied them."
"Fairy Jinhui had her eyes on the old turtle's cave, but when she failed to get it, she deliberately turned black into white and reported the matter to the Heavenly Court. The idiot Li Laosi did not investigate the matter thoroughly, but believed Fairy Jinhui's words and killed the entire Yuanze Cave family."
Heaven, the Temple of Justice.
Roaring Sky Dog knelt in the center of the hall and reported the results of his investigation to Yang Jian, his face full of gloating.
Ever since Li Laosi and Zhi Jian betrayed Yang Jian and joined the Queen Mother, a lot of gossip has been heard in the Three Realms.
It is said that the Meishan brothers were so greedy for power that they were willing to betray Yang Jian and surrender to the Queen Mother.
Some say that Yang Jian was mean, ungrateful, hypocritical, and even the Meishan brothers couldn't stand it and wanted to part ways with him.
It is said that Yang Jian will soon be removed from his position as the God of Justice. Li Laosi and Zhi Jian see that the situation is not good and do not want to suffer the same misfortune as Yang Jian.
Yang Jian didn't care about these things. As long as no one talked about them to his face, he would just pretend not to know.
But Xiaotian Dog couldn't stand it.
In the past six months, I have had many arguments and even fights with others.
Yang Jian punished Roaring Sky Dog a lot for this.
But, Roaring Sky Dog cannot be changed.
Every time he heard someone saying bad things about Yang Jian, he would rush forward without saying a word. Even if he was punished by Yang Jian, he would make those guys who gossiped behind others' backs pay the price!
During this process, the friendship between Xiaotian Dog and Li Laosi and Li Laoliu became increasingly weak, and their hatred grew deeper.
Now seeing that Li Laosi had made such a big mistake and was about to get into trouble, Xiaotian Dog was naturally very happy.
"Gullible? He clearly did it on purpose!"
Sun Wukong beside him snorted coldly and said, "How does Black Armor Daoist Fellow act? We can find out by checking. How could we make a mistake?"
Yang Jian didn't say anything, his expression was as calm as ever, but the disappointment and pain in his eyes could not be concealed.
Early this morning, Sun Wukong, who had not been seen for a long time, suddenly showed up and wanted to sue the gods in heaven for seizing his cave and the demon-slaying general for killing his entire family.
Yang Jian naturally didn't believe it.
Although Zhi Jian and the other two had taken refuge with the Queen Mother and were drifting further and further away from him, this was only a fight in the court. They would never do things like robbing a cave and killing an entire family.
It was not until the monkey mentioned the Cuiyun Fairy, Tianshui Mountain, and Yuanze Cave that Yang Jian realized something was wrong.
Yang Jian had a photographic memory and remembered every memorial and case he had read clearly.
Half a month ago, Fairy Jinhui from the Bird Department of the Heavenly Palace Music Bureau did complain to the court that the Black-armored Demon King from Yuanze Cave in Tianshui Mountain bullied the weak, humiliated the mountain gods and the land, and offended the Heavenly Palace with his words, and requested the Heavenly Palace to send troops to the earth to subdue the demon.
Monsters bullying the gods from the lower world has been a common occurrence since ancient times.
In the distance, Nezha kills the Yaksha of the East China Sea and the third prince of the Dragon King; in the near future, there is the monkey snatching the golden cudgel and Red Boy bullying the mountain gods and the land gods.
After the unusual movement of Emperor Liujiang, the death of Kunpeng, and the birth of a large number of powerful demons and monsters, this kind of thing became more common. From time to time, mountain gods, land gods, or immortals who happened to see this would file a complaint.
Yang Jian didn't care and, as per usual practice, handed the matter over to the Demon Subduing Hall.
——The Temple of the God of Justice also has the duty of descending to the mortal world to subdue demons and eliminate evil, but the only demons that can be taken action by the Temple of the God of Justice are those with deep sins.
This Black-Armored King is only bullying the mountain gods and land gods, and verbally offending the Heavenly Court, rather than killing a large number of them. It is not worth it for the Temple of Heavenly Justice to send troops to conquer him.
After that, Yang Jian no longer paid attention to this little matter.
Unexpectedly, today, the monkey suddenly came to my door and pointed it out by name.
Monkey is now working for Wutan, so it is impossible for him to know such a little thing.
He could tell it now, the only possible thing that could have happened was that the monkey happened to bump into him.
When Yang Jian realized this, he immediately sent Roaring Sky Dog to investigate the matter.
So, this scene happened.
Yang Jian felt very regretful.
If he had known that this would happen today, he would never let Li Laosi and Zhi Laoliu leave his side.
With him watching over them, Li Laosi and Zhi Laoliu would never make such a big mistake.
"Brother Yang, I have already found out before I came here. That green-haired beast is the sworn sister of Fairy Qingluan in front of the Queen Mother! Li Laosi just wanted to please Fairy Qingluan, so he killed the entire family of Daoist Black Armor of Yuanze Cave without any reason! You won't ignore this matter, right?"
The monkey knew that Li Laosi had become the great demon-conquering general, but he didn't know that Li Laosi could become the great demon-conquering general because he had surrendered to the Queen Mother and had broken off with Yang Jian.
He has been running around recruiting soldiers for Wutan over the years.
The Black-armored Demon King was one of the naval commanders he chose.
However, the monkey went to Yuanze Cave to recruit several times, but was politely rejected by the Black-armored Demon King on the grounds that he wanted to concentrate on practicing Taoism.
Some time ago, he heard that the pangolin pretended to be the Eight Immortals and burned down the Crystal Palace of the East China Sea, causing heavy casualties among the aquatic creatures in the four seas. Thinking of his close friendship with the Dragon Kings of the four seas, especially his old neighbor, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, he went to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea.
The fact that the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas has countless treasures is known to everyone in the Three Realms.
There are countless monsters coveting the wealth of the dragon clan. Now that the dragon clan of the four seas has suffered a severe blow, it is even more of a piece of fat meat.
It is inevitable that some monsters will make trouble and go to the Dragon Palace in the four seas to extort money at the cost of offending the Heavenly Court.
Monkey is going.
One was to see if the Dragon King of the East Sea needed his help with anything.
Second, he was also thinking about whether he could pull the Four Seas Dragon Clan to Wutan's side.
Not to mention asking them to send troops to help Wutan deal with Lingshan, it would also be good .
As a result, after the monkey arrived at the East China Sea, he did not see the Dragon King of the East China Sea, but only saw a few shrimp soldiers and crab generals guarding the sea.
Upon asking, I found out that the day was the burial day of the Dragon Queen and her sons and grandsons.
The Dragon King of the East Sea took the corpses of the Dragon Queen and his sons and grandsons to the Dragon Tomb.
The monkey thought that since he was already here, he might as well pay his respects, so he followed the breath of the Dragon King of the East China Sea and swam all the way to the Dragon Tomb.
By chance, he saw through the disguise of the outer layer of the fake dragon tomb, entered the real dragon tomb, and saw the half-dead body of the Ancestral Dragon.
Afterwards, Wutan learned about Tathagata's plan for the gambling fight from Li Anran, and followed the projection of the black lotus of destruction to the side of the monkey.
The Dragon Tomb is the burial place of all dragons, but it is more than just a tomb.
The dragon clan buried all the clan members who had the blood of true dragons here. The most fundamental purpose was to use the dragon soul, dragon blood and dragon clan's luck to nourish the body of the Ancestral Dragon, waiting for the Ancestral Dragon to wake up one day and lead the dragon clan to the top again.
The dragon clan is so weak in the three realms that both humans and ghosts can bully them. This is because the strongest group of dragon clan members are guarding the body of the Ancestral Dragon in the Dragon Tomb.
Although these so-called strongest ones were only two Daluo Golden Immortals and more than ten Taiyi Golden Immortals, they were not even able to detect that a monkey had sneaked in.
It was not until Wutan became unaware of the monkey's situation and revealed his soul with the help of the Black Lotus of Destruction that the dragon souls noticed something unusual.
However, as Wutan cast a spell to conceal its breath, the dragon soul, which had little intelligence left, calmed down again, and those ancient dragon cultivators knew nothing about the whole thing.
They are carefully training the younger generations carefully selected by the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, such as Prince Longba of the East Sea, Prince Mo'ang of the West Sea, and so on.
The incident of the pangolin burning down the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea completely destroyed the reputation of the dragon clan of the four seas. It also made the four dragon kings realize that if they continued in this way, the dragon clan would be completely destroyed before the ancestor dragon woke up.
After some discussion, the Four Dragon Kings risked violating their ancestral teachings and exposing the existence of the Ancestral Dragon by opening the real Dragon's Tomb and sending their most outstanding descendants in. They wanted to use the Ancestral Dragon's breath and the dragon blood and dragon souls in the dragon tomb to improve their qualifications and magical powers.
The monkey was able to find the real location of the dragon's tomb because the dragon's tomb had been opened not long ago.
After Wutan learned what had happened from the monkey, he immediately took the monkey away from the dragon tomb.
The dragon clan is full of treasures, and the Ancestral Dragon is even more so!
If the cultivators of the Three Realms knew that Ancestral Dragon did not leave the Three Realms and enter the outer chaos as rumored, but was seriously injured and unconscious in the abyss of the Four Seas, they would probably rush in and carve up Ancestral Dragon completely!
Even many ancient powerful beings are no exception!
If Wu Tian had not been worried about Zulong Zang's backup plan that would affect his fight with Tathagata due to the imminent bet, he would probably not be able to control his greed!
Given the strength of the Ancestral Dragon's body, if one could erase its consciousness and refine it into a magic weapon, its power would definitely not be inferior to the Fantian Seal refined from half of Mount Buzhou. It might even be better and become the most powerful acquired magic weapon.
And if the other dragons found out that the monkey and he were here, they would definitely kill them here at all costs!
Although Wu Tian was not afraid, there was no need to cause trouble.
Especially after the monkey expressed no interest in the body of the Ancestral Dragon.
After leaving the Dragon Tomb and returning to the Abyss of Darkness, Wu Tian told Tathagata that he was going to persuade all the gods and Buddhas to temporarily give up the ruling power of the Three Realms in order to have a bet with him.
The monkey was shocked, but also overjoyed.
He also didn't think that under such circumstances, Tathagata could still defeat them!
The specific content of the gambling fight is still unclear, and Monkey and Wutan have no way to make targeted arrangements. After some discussion , they decide to follow the original plan and proceed step by step to infiltrate their tentacles into all parts of the Three Realms.
If Tathagata really wants to give up the Three Realms, they can take over in the shortest time possible.
The monsters under Wujitan, including Black Robe, Ying Yao, Giant Scorpion, and Six Spirit Generals, are not good at water battles, and Monkey himself is no exception.
Therefore, Monkey then focused his attention on recruiting naval commanders.
As a result, he found that the Black-armored Demon King, whom he had high hopes for, was killed by Li Laosi and his troops, and the cave was occupied by the Fairy Jinhui, and was transformed into the Colorful Ling Cave.
It is common for the Heavenly Court to kill demons and monsters, but those like the Black-Armored Demon King, who practiced diligently, did not cause trouble, and occasionally did good deeds, are not included.
After some investigation, the monkey found out that the root of all this was that the fairy Jinhui from the Hundred Birds Bureau had taken a fancy to the Black-armored Demon King's cave. She colluded with the newly promoted demon-conquering general, killed the entire Black-armored Demon King's family, and occupied his cave.
The monkey was furious and wanted to seek justice from heaven, but he heard that the new demon-conquering general was actually Li Taiwei, the fourth of the Meishan brothers.
When the monkey made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, Yang Jian was ordered to capture him, but he spared half of the monkeys' descendants.
From this point of view, the monkey owes Yang Jian a favor.
After some thought, the Monkey King did not go directly to the Lingxiao Palace to file a complaint, nor did he go to the Demon-Subduing Palace. Instead, he suppressed his anger and went directly to the Temple of the God of Justice to find Yang Jian.
"Sun Wukong, this is the Temple of Justice! Please be polite when speaking to my master !"
Before Yang Jian could speak, Roaring Sky Dog bared his teeth and stood up to protect his master, shouting, "What does the evil deeds of that traitor Li Laosi have to do with my master!"
“Howling Sky Dog!” Yang Jian glared and shouted, “Howling Sky Dog, back off! If you dare to talk too much again, get out of here and go back to Guanjiangkou!”
Roaring Sky Dog shuddered with fear, shrank aside with a wronged look on his face, and dared not speak another word.
Monkey couldn't help but ask, "Second Brother Yang, what does Roaring Sky Dog mean by traitor?"
Yang Jian didn't want to say more on this issue, so he didn't answer. He just said, "Sun Wukong, I already know about this. Don't worry, no matter who it is, as long as they dare to violate the Heavenly Law, I will definitely handle it to the end. I will give you an explanation for this matter. Roaring Sky Dog!"
"Master." Roaring Sky Dog came closer with a fawning look on his face.
Yang Jian said: "You lead a hundred grass-headed gods to descend to the mortal world and go to Tianshui Mountain to bring back Fairy Jinhui and the mountain gods and land gods of Tianshui Mountain."
Roaring Sky Dog nodded and bowed: "Master, rest assured, I will definitely get things done."
Yang Jian added: "Law enforcement priest."
"I'm here." The law enforcement priest hurried forward.
Yang Jian ordered, "You must go to the underworld immediately and bring back the soul of the Black-armored Demon King from the Yuanze Cave in Tianshui Mountain."
The law enforcement priest took the token and wanted to say something, but seeing Yang Jian's cold face, he didn't have the courage to say it. He replied "yes" and left the Temple of Justice and flew towards the underworld.
Yang Jian looked at the backs of Roaring Sky Dog and the Law Enforcement Priest as they left, a hint of worry flashing across his eyes.
Fourth brother, you must not be confused!
If you really do something to destroy someone's soul, I... I... Alas!
Yang Jian let out a long sigh in his heart, but his mind couldn't help but flash back to the past when he and the Meishan brothers met, got to know each other, and became sworn brothers.
In fact, he had long seen that Li Laosi and Zhi Laoliu were the most thoughtful among the Meishan brothers and valued power more, but he had never expected that they would go to this extent for power!
Soon, the law enforcement priest walked in from outside the temple door.
Yang Jian looked at the soul of the Black-Armored Demon King in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously. It's okay, it's okay.
The monkey saw all this and suddenly said, "Second Brother Yang, I just thought of something. Could it be that the demon-conquering general trusted Fairy Qingluan and didn't expect that Fairy Qingluan's sister would lie to him, so he believed her and killed Daoist Fellow Black Armor?"
Yang Jian was slightly startled, but soon understood the monkey's intention. He was somewhat grateful but very determined: "We will know the truth after the interrogation. Everything depends on the evidence."
The monkey said nothing more, but his admiration for Yang Jian increased even more.
…
One day later.
Court meeting in heaven.
Yang Jian reported to the Jade Emperor that the Demon-Suppressing General had been bent on justice for personal gain, and in order to befriend the Fairy Qingluan who served under the Queen Mother, he colluded with the Fairy Jinhui, the Fairy's sister, to kill the demon cultivators in Yuanze Cave on Tianshui Mountain and seize their caves. He broke the law knowingly and his crime was unforgivable. His cultivation should be abolished, he should be sent to reincarnation and never be employed again.
