Chapter 97: The Second War of Huaguo Mountain (5)

  In the midst of a chorus of high-pitched singing by the Jade Emperor's attendants in the Yaochi, Guanyin arrived with her great disciple Hui'an on foot, treading on auspicious light.

  "This humble monk has seen the Jade Emperor." Guanyin Bodhisattva said with a Buddhist salute.

  The Jade Emperor sat steadily on the dragon throne, seeing the Weishan pilgrim behind Guanyin, suddenly his dragon face was delighted. He gently narrowed a pair of eyes and looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva calmly: "I don't know what the Bodhisattva is here for?"

  The eyebrows of Guanyin Bodhisattva slightly furrowed, and the words of Jade Emperor sounded suspicious to him. However, he still spoke with a confident face: "I have come to dispel the worries of Jade Emperor!"

  The Jade Emperor lightly said "Oh", looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva with a puzzled face, and asked: "What worries do I have? Do you still need to come and solve it for me?"

  The Jade Emperor finished speaking, and Guanyin's face suddenly looked a bit unpleasant, but she still forced herself to appear confident and said: "When I came, I heard that there was a mischievous monkey who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, disrupted the Peach Banquet, and the Jade Emperor sent heavenly soldiers and generals to capture this mischievous monkey, but they were unable to do so. Therefore, I have come to offer my advice."

  What Guanyin said is the script predetermined by all the saints.

  First, he tempted Sun Wukong to eat a garden of peaches, then controlled Sun Wukong to make trouble in the Jade Pool, stealing the elixir of the Supreme Old Lord and giving it to Heaven and Taoism. Then, the Jade Emperor sent heavenly soldiers and generals to capture him. With Sun Wukong's abilities, he would not be caught by Heaven. At this time, Guanyin appeared, and after the Supreme Old Lord transformed Sun Wukong into a diamond body that was indestructible, he no longer had anything to do with Heaven or Taoism.

  At this time, the executor of this Buddhist grand plan, the Tathagata Buddha, took the stage and turned a case that originally belonged to the Heavenly Court into a Buddhist one, so as to facilitate Sun Wukong's escorting Tang Monk to the Western Heaven to fetch scriptures.

  The result was naturally a happy and harmonious atmosphere for all.

  But now, the Jade Emperor obviously doesn't want to follow the Buddhist script. Because when Lei Hao suddenly appeared and killed Nezha, the war god of the Heavenly Court, in one battle, the Buddhist script was already messed up. Since that's the case, why should he help Buddhism turn things around? Anyway, it's up to the Heavenly Court to take action, and they've already taken action. What they should get, they've already gotten. Now it's just a matter of each side using their own methods to see who can get a bigger share of the spoils in this grand Buddhist movement.

  There are two tribes of witches in the front, and in the three realms, who dares not to take this invisible and intangible aura as a matter?

  At this moment, the Jade Emperor's face showed an even more puzzled expression, and he asked in return: "Isn't that Monkey Demon actually a Cow Demon?"

  At this point, Guanyin Bodhisattva was puzzled, her face changed color and she asked: "What cow demon?"

  The Jade Emperor heard this and quickly flashed a few threads of disdain in his eyes, then he straightened his face and said: "The Demon King of the Lower Realm, Wan Jun Da Sheng Lei Hao, took advantage of the Heavenly Court's relaxed guard during the Peach Blossom Festival, sneaked into the Heavenly Court, stirred up trouble in the Jade Pool, and even stole the Five Gourd Dan Medicine from the Supreme Old Lord. After I investigated the truth, I dispatched the Tota Heaven King to lead the Four Great Heavenly Kings, the Three Altar Sea Meeting Great God Nezha, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Nine Bright Star Officials, the Twelve Yuan Chen, the Five Directions Qian Ding, the Four Values Gong Cao, the East and West Star Dou, the South and North Two Gods, the Five Peaks and Four Rivers, and the Universal Star to capture this demon in the Lower Realm. Unexpectedly, this demon had a vast and profound divine power, and actually killed the Three Altar Sea Meeting Great God Nezha in one battle. I was worried about this, and then the Bodhisattva came? Is it that the Bodhisattva has come to help me resolve this worry?"

  Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's face turned iron-green, looking extremely unpleasant, with a thousand thoughts flashing through his mind in an instant. Just as he was about to make sense of this shocking and earth-shattering change, a loud shout of anger rang out before him.

  "What did you say, Jade Emperor? Nezha died in battle?" It was Hui'an Xingzhe, the great disciple of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Hui'an Xingzhe was his Buddhist name, and his original name was Muzha, the second son of the Heavenly King of the Pagoda, and Nezha's second brother. Although Hui'an Xingzhe had followed Guanyin Bodhisattva into Buddhism after the Investiture of the Gods war, in front of his closest relatives, all that nonsense about the five skandhas being empty was just a facade.

  The Jade Emperor's face sank, and with a loud slap on the table, he rebuked: "How dare you! What qualifications do you have to shout loudly in front of me?"

  Hui An's face turned blue for a moment, then purple, and after that he angrily turned around and rushed out of the Jade Pool, heading straight to the Tu Ta Tian Wang Fu.

  Guanyin saw this and hastily apologized to the Jade Emperor, saying: "This disciple of mine suddenly heard news of his brother's death and was overcome with emotion, offending the Jade Emperor. I hope the Jade Emperor will forgive him."

  The Jade Emperor waved his hand with a gloomy face: "Bodhisattva is polite, Bodhisattva came from afar to relieve my worries, how can I offend Bodhisattva because of an ignorant junior?"

  Guanyin heard the Jade Emperor mention the matter of relieving worries once again, and her heart was instantly set aflame. She didn't even bother to finish her Taiji with the Jade Emperor, and instead made another bow, saying: "This humble monk has disturbed the Jade Emperor; since things have come to this point, I should return as soon as possible to report to the Buddha, and please ask the Jade Emperor to wait quietly for news from the Buddha." After finishing speaking, she didn't even wait for the Jade Emperor's response, and Guanyin transformed into a Buddhist light, flying out of Yaochi. Without even having time to take care of Hui'an, she went straight back to Lingshan.

  After Guanyin Bodhisattva left, the Jade Emperor suddenly burst out laughing with a "haha" for several times, and then his face turned gloomy again, nobody knew what he was thinking.

  And the many immortals on the scene who had been confused by the ambiguous conversation between the Jade Emperor and Guanyin Bodhisattva, seeing the gloomy face of the Jade Emperor, also looked at him with trepidation, fearing that making a slight sound would provoke the Jade Emperor's wrath, ending up like General Quan.

  Half a moment later, the Jade Emperor stood up and swung his dragon robe, saying: "I suddenly felt unwell today, so I won't accompany you all anymore... Tianpeng, among all of you, your military rank is the highest, you can represent me to accompany everyone." After thinking for a moment, the Jade Emperor suddenly continued to say another sentence.

  Tian Peng Marshal, who was already sitting uncomfortably, heard this and his facial muscles twitched slightly. He then stood up stiffly and saluted Yu Huang, saying: "I will obey your orders."

  The Jade Emperor looked deeply at Tian Peng Marshal and then turned around with a group of attendants to leave the Yaochi Pool.

  After Jade Emperor left, the pot in Yaochi immediately boiled over.

  "Beidou, did you hear? The war god of the Heavenly Court has fallen in battle!"

  "I heard it was killed by some kind of demon called Mo Fan Da Sheng."

  "Li Jing's faction will probably collapse this time."

  The immortals were discussing and debating, only the Heavenly Commander of the Orthodox Sect, with a complex expression on his face, was staring at Chang'e, who was standing still in one corner of the Jade Pool.

  At this time, in a human tavern at the mouth of the Guan River.

  A young nobleman with a slender and majestic figure, dressed in a tight black warrior suit, sat leaning against the window, drinking wine by himself. He had a pair of crescent-shaped eyebrows that gave him an air of elegance; his eyes were like bright moons, deep and seemingly able to draw people in; his thin lips conveyed a sense of determination; his skin was very pale, as white as jade, radiating a warm glow.

  At the feet of this young man in black, a large black dog was crouched, its jaws wide open as it gnawed on a sheep's leg.

  His eyes fixed on the bustling street without a flicker, the young man in black sipped his wine listlessly. At this moment, a burly man with bulging muscles and two thick arms rushed into the tavern, ignoring the waiter who was still inviting him to take a seat, and strode straight towards the young man.

  The man in black saw the big Han coming straight towards him, his face without a hint of surprise, still drinking wine on his own.

  "Second Master, just now a brother sent news that Nezha brother has died in battle." A burly man walked into the young master's presence and whispered into his ear.

  The man in black heard this, holding the wine bowl and was about to bring it to his mouth when his hand trembled, and then the wine bowl fell from his hand and shattered on the ground with a crisp breaking sound.

  "What did you say? Say it again." The man in black turned his head and stared at the expression, shouting loudly, one sentence at a time.

  The black-clad young master didn't release any pressure, but the burly man's face still showed a hint of unnaturalness. He slowly opened his mouth and said in a measured tone: "Nezha brother, has fallen in battle."

  The young man in black suddenly turned pale, and then two red clouds floated up. He gritted his teeth at the burly man and said: "Old Three, find the other five brothers, bring 1,200 Grass Head Gods, we'll leave the mountain. Whoever killed Nezha brother, we must find him, defeat him, kill him!"

  The burly man nodded and then strode out of the tavern.

  After the burly man left, the waiter in the tavern only discovered that the majestic black-clad young master and his black dog had both vanished, leaving behind on the dinner table a corner of money enough to pay for twice the food he ate.

  At the same time, a small room in the Thunder Department of the Heavenly Court was empty and desolate, with no one present before the palace.

  A man with a face as blue as indigo, hair like cinnabar, eyes bulging out, teeth growing horizontally outside his lips, and a pair of huge black wings on his back was kneeling in front of the secret chamber, pleading: "Heavenly Lord, please let me descend to the lower realm."

  "Not allowed!" Despite this strange person's prolonged pleading, a cold and icy voice with rumbling thunder still echoed in the secret chamber.

  Having waited for a long time without any results, the strange man suddenly stood up, flapped his wings and flew out, but was knocked to the ground by a powerful purple force as soon as he reached the door.

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