Chapter 289: Change of Master of the Three Realms
"What happened? Why did it suddenly get dark?"
"Look over there! It's that black cloud that's covering the sun, moon and stars!"
"Heaven is the place where gods live, how could there be black clouds? Could it be caused by some monster?"
"Monster? What kind of monster is so bold as to come to heaven and cause trouble?"
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First came the heavenly soldiers and generals guarding the Heavenly Palace, and then came the civil and military officials in the Lingxiao Palace.
The entire heaven was thrown into chaos in an instant.
Just like the previous journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures and the gathering of the Eight Immortals, the gods who knew about the gambling battle between Tathagata and Wujitian were still a minority among the minority.
The same is true for Wutan's subordinates.
Except for the monkey, the men in black robe only thought that Wu Tian, after achieving great magical powers, led them out of the abyss of darkness to settle accounts with Tathagata and the Heavenly Court.
It is not clear, all of this was agreed upon by Wu Tian and Tathagata.
"Silence!" The Jade Emperor stopped the civil and military officials who were talking among themselves, and gave a pretentious order: "Taibai Jinxing, quickly summon the Wind-Earing and Thousand-Li Eyes to the palace and let them see what's going on outside!"
"I obey your order." Taibai Jinxing followed the order and walked out of the hall.
Just as I arrived at the entrance of Lingxiao Palace, I saw a dark purple lightning flashing in the black clouds outside, like a group of snakes dancing wildly, accompanied by howling winds, and the sky and earth changed color.
An extremely huge black lotus shadow, dazzling with strange brilliance, appeared above the head, covering the entire heaven underneath.
brush!
A purple light fell, blocking Taibai Jinxing's way.
Several figures appeared at the entrance of Lingxiao Palace.
The two men in the lead, one of them looked to be in his thirties, with long hair draped over his shoulders, wearing black clothes and robes, with a stern face, and the way he looked gave people a feeling of incomparable dominance.
The other one was dressed in black, with a hood on his head, revealing only a pair of golden eyes.
It’s Wu Tian and Monkey!
The monkey originally wanted to show his true face to others, but was persuaded by Wu Tian.
During this time together, Wutan admired Monkey more and more. He felt that he had found a confidant. Many things that he had not figured out before, or had figured out but didn't know how to do, gradually became clear during discussions with Monkey.
Although Wu Tian was confident that he could beat Tathagata in the gambling fight, what if something unexpected happened?
He doesn't care about his own life or death, but he doesn't want to see what he has done disappear into thin air!
He didn't let the monkey reveal his identity in order to leave him a glimmer of hope. Even if he was unfortunately defeated and completely disappeared, there was still a monkey who could pass on his teachings!
Behind them followed Wujitui’s disciples, including the man in black robe, the giant scorpion, and the six spirit generals.
Different from Wu Tian's indifference and calmness, their faces were filled with excitement of breaking out of the abyss of darkness. They looked around at the heaven, and their shock was accompanied by undisguised greed.
"stop!"
The on-duty general led a group of heavenly soldiers to stop Wu Tian and asked loudly: "Who are you? How dare you trespass into the important area of the Heavenly Palace!"
Wu Tian didn't even need to say anything, the giant scorpion had already walked up to him, snorted coldly, and said complacently: "Heavenly Palace? Humph, in these three realms, my Buddha Wu Tian can go wherever he wants. I came to your Heavenly Palace today to give you face!"
"Buddha Wu Tian?"
The civil and military officials looked at each other, and finally shook their heads, saying that they had never heard of this extremely arrogant Buddhist name.
The heavenly general on duty immediately became furious and said, "You bold monster! How dare you impersonate the Buddha! And you even gave yourself a name that insults the majesty of God. You really don't know how to live or die!" He drew the sword from his waist and slashed at Ying Yao.
"I think you are the one who doesn't know how to live or die!" The giant scorpion was also furious. He opened his right hand and a black stick appeared in his hand. He stood up and blocked the sword.
Giant Scorpion is the right protector among the left and right protectors under Wutan. His strength and status are second only to the left protector Black Robe. His cultivation has reached the Golden Immortal realm.
The wooden staff in her hand was also made by Wutan himself and was extremely powerful.
The celestial general on duty had just entered the realm of Xuanxian and was no match for the giant scorpion. He was knocked to the ground in just a few moves, spitting blood and falling into a coma.
The other generals were shocked and realized that they could not defeat the giant scorpion alone. They exchanged glances with each other, then rushed forward and surrounded the giant scorpion in the center.
The giant scorpion was pleased, holding the wooden staff horizontally, and was about to attack. At this time, the black lotus above its head cast a dark purple light.
Those heavenly soldiers and generals were unable to dodge and were directly covered by the purple light. Their movements suddenly stopped, and they were like insects trapped in resin, unable to move .
"Enough, I still have a lot of things to do, don't waste time here!" Wutan stopped the giant scorpion that wanted to make a finishing move and walked towards the Lingxiao Palace.
The temporary relinquishment of Heaven's ruling power over the Three Realms was only an agreement between Tathagata and the Jade Emperor, and it had not yet been truly implemented.
Wu Tian was afraid that if the giant scorpion went too far, it would anger the Heavenly Court.
It would be terrible if the Jade Emperor changed his mind!
"Disciple obeys your command." The giant scorpion naturally didn't dare to say anything more and followed Wutan obediently.
Wu Tian's cultivation is not inferior to Tathagata's, he has already reached the realm of Daluo Jinxian. Combined with his soul transformed from the twelfth-grade world-destroying black lotus, his aura rises into the sky, stirring up the wind and clouds, which is extremely terrifying.
None of the civil and military officials in the Lingxiao Palace dared to step forward to stop them, and they watched Wutan and his group walk in with arrogance.
"Who are you? How dare you trespass into the Lingxiao Palace in the Heavenly Palace!"
Although the Jade Emperor agreed to Tathagata's conditions and gave up the Three Realms for him to compete with Wu Tian, it was the first time he saw Wu Tian. He looked him up and down and thought to himself, "This Wu Tian is really not a simple person! No wonder Tathagata went to such great lengths to make this happen!"
"The humble monk Wu Tian greets the great celestial master."
Wu Tian bowed respectfully, addressing him respectfully enough, but the words he said were totally inconsistent with his greeting and salute: "I came here today only to persuade the Great Heavenly Venerable to abdicate."
"How dare you!" "How dare you!" "How dare you, you monster!"...
As soon as Wu Tian finished speaking, all the civil and military officials in the Lingxiao Palace started to speak in anger and scold him.
Wu Tian pretended not to hear and continued, "The Great Celestial Venerable has ruled the Three Realms for some years, but now demons are rampant in the Three Realms, and the people of the mortal world are living in misery. The wronged souls and ghosts can already fill the entire Fengdu. Since the Great Celestial Venerable is incapable of governing the Three Realms, it is better for him to abdicate and let others take over."
The Jade Emperor looked a little ugly.
Even though he had promised Tathagata to let Wu Tian rule the Three Realms for thirty-three years, it was still hurtful to hear Wu Tian's truth.
"You bold monster, how dare you speak nonsense here!" Several heavenly generals couldn't stand it anymore and picked up their weapons to kill Wutan.
Buzz!
Wu Tian didn't move at all, but with a thought, a black lotus of destruction appeared on his chest. A flash of light shone, and several heavenly generals were fixed in place.
Next second.
The world-destroying black lotus flew out from Wujitian's chest, first growing larger against the wind, then splitting into two, two into four, and finally turning into countless fist-sized black lotuses that landed above the heads of all the gods and sealed their magic power.
The situation outside is no different from that inside.
Countless fist-sized black lotuses fell from the dark clouds overhead like snowflakes and landed on the heads of the heavenly soldiers and generals.
With Wujitian's cultivation level, even with the Twelve-Rank Black Lotus of Destruction in his hand, it is impossible for him to destroy the Heavenly Court by himself!
But now, those who have the power to fight against Wujitian, such as Taishang Laojun, Queen Mother, Yang Jian, etc., have all given up resistance and let the black lotus fall on their heads.
The black lotus on their heads is just for show and cannot really seal the original magic power.
People like Taiyi Tianzun and Nanji Xianweng did not want to lose face, so they returned to the mountains to practice meditation long before Wujitian was born, waiting for the gambling battle between Tathagata and Wujitian to be over before coming out.
The remaining ones who had no strength to fight against Wutan and were unaware of the truth of the matter had their spirits and energy sealed by the Black Lotus of Destruction and fell into a deep sleep.
Wutan did not let Ying Yao and his men take action again. He directly activated the Black Lotus, captured the Jade Emperor and others, and sent the monkey to the Heavenly Prison.
He made such arrangements because Monkey had a good relationship with Li Anran, so Monkey was much more suitable than the Black Robe guys.
Secondly, he took into consideration that the Monkey King and Tang Monk have a master-disciple relationship, and he did not want to make things difficult for the Monkey King.
"Let's go." Wutan did not stay in heaven for long. He immediately took his men and flew to Lingshan.
There are more Buddhas in Lingshan who are qualified to know about the gambling fight than gods in heaven, so the resistance is smaller!
Almost at the same time when Wu Tian appeared, Tathagata clasped his hands together and chose to reincarnate, leaving only a verse:
Everyone has one mind, in order to control the two minds, the black-robed Sakya governs the three realms.
The true spirit is cast into the worldly family, reborn into nirvana, and returns to the Buddha’s land.
Only when fate arrives can this disaster be resolved, the world will be clear and the two hearts will become one.
Compared with the original time and space, Tathagata simply changed the "Only sons and only descendants" representing the monkey (Sun) in the verse into "Only when fate comes" representing Dao Ji (Li Xiuyuan), and then he entered Nirvana, leaving only a little bit of his true spirit to reincarnate.
Tang Monk was unaware of the inside story. Seeing this, he ignored the non-resistance edict left by Tathagata before his death, which said "It is destiny and cannot be changed by human power", and angrily attacked Wu Tian, but was hit back by Wu Tian.
Tang Seng still wanted to continue attacking, but was persuaded by Guanyin. Like the other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, he stopped resisting and surrendered.
Similarly, among these Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, those who knew about it were only pretending to have their spirits and energy sealed, while those who were unaware had truly become captives.
Wutan then cast a spell to collect them all into the black lotus, and asked the man in black robe to send them to the heavenly prison.
In addition to the Main Hall, Wu Tian also went to Yuanjue Cave on Vulture Peak to meet Ran Deng.
His original intention was to win over Dipankara, the former supreme Buddhist and leader of Theravada Buddhism, to fight against Tathagata.
However, Randeng chose to pass away without saying anything.
To be more precise, he faked his death to escape and took the initiative to sever the karmic relationship between himself and Buddhism!
Wutan understood Randeng's attitude and stopped bothering him.
Although he failed to win over Ran Deng, the fact that Ran Deng chose not to help either side was already good news for him!
At this point, the Heavenly Palace and Lingshan Mountain completely fell, and the Three Realms changed hands!
At the same time, Li Anran also welcomed his biggest harvest since traveling through time!
