Chapter 98: 50-50
Boss Kang was busy with his affairs and came and went in a hurry. After handing over the Sinful Immortal, he hurried back to the Temple of Justice.
Li Anran took the Taoist boy to the Heavenly Prison.
Suddenly, there was an extra page in the book of punishing evil.
[Prisoner: The cowherd boy in Tushita Palace]
[Sin value: half a star]
[Cultivation: First level of Celestial Immortal]
[Status: Escorted]
[Capture participation: 1%]
[Benefit: 50 experience points/day]
Li Anran casually clicked on the life story of the cowherd boy.
The picture flows.
A dilapidated wooden house came into view.
The cowherd boy was originally the son of a farmer in Hun County, Chen State, Southern Continent. He liked to make bets with others since he was a child, and he always won and never lost.
After his family discovered his peculiarity, they took him to a gambling house in the city.
The result is that I still win every time I gamble.
In just half a day, they earned more money than they might have earned in a whole year of farming.
However, on the way back, the cowherd boy's father broke his leg.
The cowherd boy's family thought it was just an accident and didn't take it seriously. They happily went to buy food, cloth, salt, and oxen.
With food, people naturally want to eat some meat.
With new clothes, naturally you also want a new house.
If we have oxen for plowing, how can we not have more arable land?
So they went to the gambling house again.
This time, they made ten times more money than last time.
As a result, when he returned home, he learned that the cowherd boy's grandfather had slipped and fallen into the river and drowned.
They still did not put these two unrelated things together, and held a grand funeral, buying a whole truck of burial objects alone. As expected, they spent all their money.
Then, continue to the gambling house.
The one who died this time was the cowherd boy's second uncle.
While working in the fields, he was bitten by a poisonous snake and died of poisoning.
Then came my grandfather and my third uncle...
Once, twice, three times...
After this happened many times, the cowherd boy's family gradually realized that something was wrong. But after becoming rich overnight, how could they be willing to go back to farming honestly and earn a meager income?
The cowherd boy's father decided to take one last gamble despite his family's objections.
This time he wanted to earn enough money to spend for the rest of his life, and then become a rich man.
As a result, the cowherd boy became an orphan.
He went from being a lucky boy praised by villagers to an unlucky star that everyone was afraid of and brought disaster to his parents and his family members.
The cowherd boy could not bear the blow, so he distributed all the money he won to the poor and jumped off the cliff.
This time, he bet on his own death.
Then, he lost.
The cliff was covered with vines and small trees, which cushioned his fall.
There was a big river under the cliff, which caused him to fall into a coma but not die.
Later, the cowherd boy was rescued by Laozi who had returned from his travels. Laozi kept him by his side and became his disciple, along with three other young men.
It was also from then on that his strange luck in gambling changed. He no longer won every time he gambled, but instead won and lost like a normal person!
He still likes to make bets with others, and his catchphrase is still "I dare bet", but he no longer dares to set any stakes.
Three years later, Laozi completed his practice and ascended to heaven, becoming Taishang Laojun of the Tushita Palace in Heaven.
The four of their disciples also followed suit and ascended to heaven.
One person was responsible for looking after the green cow, he was the cowherd boy in front of him, Han Zhongli, one of the Eight Immortals in the future.
Three people were responsible for fanning the fire.
One pair of brothers was responsible for looking after the gold and silver furnaces used for alchemy, and they were the Gold Horn and Silver Horn who later stole the treasures of Taishang Laojun and came down to the earth.
There was another person in charge of looking after the refining tool, which was also the copper furnace that Taishang Laojun used to train monkeys.
Because the monkey overturned the copper furnace and escaped, a few bricks fell down with the remaining fire and fell to the mortal world, becoming the Flaming Mountain later.
The boy who was guarding the copper furnace was blamed by Laozi, and was sent down to the mortal world to become the landowner of the Flaming Mountain.
Only when the flames of the Flaming Mountain are extinguished can he be considered to have made amends for his sins and return to the Tushita Palace.
The brothers Jinjiao and Yinjiao have been depressed and unhappy because of this incident.
The cowherd boy wanted to make the two brothers Gold Horn and Silver Armor happier, so he suggested that they ride cows together.
Unexpectedly, during this process, he ran into Li Tieguai, an ugly man with unkempt hair and beard, a golden hoop on his hair, huge eyes, bare belly, and pacing around.
The cowherd boy was so frightened that he fell off the blue cow and loosened the reins.
The Green Ox took the opportunity to escape from the Tushita Palace and fled to the mortal world.
The cowherd boy knew that he had caused a great disaster and burst into tears, blaming Li Tieguai for his sudden appearance, which scared him and caused the green cow to escape.
Tieguai Li was so angry that he couldn't vent it.
He was originally a hermit with a sturdy appearance. However, because he went to attend the immortal meeting of Laojun at Mount Huashan, his body was burned by his disciples in advance. He had no choice but to borrow the body of a beggar who had just starved to death to revive himself. This is how he became this ugly appearance.
He was originally planning to find another body, but was dissuaded by Laojun's words "Taoism does not lie in appearance".
Tieguai Li finally gave up the idea of changing his body, but he was still deeply concerned about his appearance.
At other times, if someone had made such a fuss, he would have ridiculed them or even hit them.
Unfortunately, the green ox got frightened and ran away, and the cowherd boy burst into tears because of the disaster. He could neither get angry nor apologize.
Just at this time, Taishang Laojun came back.
After learning the whole story, Taishang Laojun ordered Li Tieguai to go down to the earth immediately and capture the Green Ox.
Jinjiao and Yinjiao were beaten with the stick thirty times as a warning to others.
In addition to being punished with a stick, the cowherd boy was also demoted to the mortal world to undergo trials and tribulations and to cultivate himself again.
This matter would have ended here.
It just so happened that Yang Jian had just returned from the mortal world and met Li Tieguai and learned about this.
Yang Jian immediately went to the Tushita Palace to stop Taishang Laojun.
He was not trying to plead for mercy on behalf of the cowherd boy and the others, but he believed that the blue cow's escape to the mortal world was not a private matter of the Tushita Palace, but a public matter that disrupted the order of the three realms.
Official business must naturally be handled in an official manner.
Taishang Laojun should first report the matter to the Jade Emperor, and then punish the cowherd boy and others according to the heavenly rules, instead of abusing private punishment.
The matter eventually came before the Jade Emperor.
Then, the Jade Emperor skillfully smoothed things over.
The content of the punishment imposed by Taishang Laojun on Li Tieguai, Jinjiao, Yinjiao and the cowherd boy remained unchanged, but it was carried out by the Temple of the God of Justice.
That's why the cowherd boy was imprisoned in the heavenly prison for three days and then sent down to the mortal world to endure the trials and rebuild.
"What is Yang Jian thinking? Does he think that as long as he has the support of the Jade Emperor, he can change the Heavenly Rules?" Li Anran frowned.
After the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods, all the saints were taken to Zixiao Palace by Daozu Hongjun, who forbade them to interfere in the affairs of the Three Realms.
The Taishang Laojun of the Tushita Palace is no longer the Taiqing Saint of the past, but his status in the Three Realms is still very high!
Yang Jian directly offended Taishang Laojun in this way, and it can be said that he was pushing himself to the opposite side of the entire Xuanmen!
By doing so, he might indeed gain more trust from the Jade Emperor and thus obtain greater power.
However, if he wanted to use this to achieve his goal of modifying the Heavenly Laws, then he was too naive!
Li Anran was not sure what Yang Jian was thinking, and he was not going to get involved. After locking the cowherd boy in the cell, he returned to the quiet room and sat cross-legged to practice.
Three days later.
The cowherd boy was sent down to the mortal world and reincarnated.
Li Anran got a chance to draw a lottery.
[You have obtained the one-time item "Fifty-Fifty"]
50-50: When you make a bet with someone, no matter how ridiculous the bet is, there is a 50% chance of success.
