Chapter 285 A Love Tribulation That's Hard to Overcome (Part 8)
Tianmen thought this carefree beast was crazy.
However, as the only link between the upper and lower realms, it was very dedicated and politely said, "Congratulations on your successful ascension to the upper realm, fellow Daoist."
Feng Wuyou happily took a step forward.
Tianmen cautiously took a step back.
Feng Wuyou: "..."
Tianmen: "..."
"You can still move?" Feng Wuyou looked at it in surprise.
“I can not only move, I can run,” Tianmen said. “What are you carrying on you?”
Feng Wuyou spread his arms to show it, and asked doubtfully, "Can't we bring our own things when we ascend? If many cultivators ascend together, can you check them all?"
Tianmen was speechless for a moment: "The chaotic energy on your body is about to emit black smoke."
If it weren't for the auspicious aura emanating from the Worry-Free Beast, the nearby immortals would probably have already arrived and captured him.
However, a much denser black aura soon shot straight towards the Heavenly Gate. This chaotic aura was black with red hair, and compared to it, the black aura on Feng Wuyou's body was simply insignificant.
Tianmen suddenly had a bad feeling.
Upon seeing Wei Feng and Jiang Gu behind him, Tianmen completely gave up hope: "Greetings, Immortal Lord Yaoyan."
Jiang Gu nodded: "I'm here to pick up a friend."
"..." Tianmen was silent for a moment, then said, "Immortal Lord, the chaotic energy emanating from this fellow Daoist—"
"What chaotic energy?" Wei Feng hooked his arm around Feng Wuyou's neck and silently swallowed the small piece of chaotic core on the other's body into the ghost pattern. "Fellow Daoist, you must have seen it wrong."
The Heavenly Gate felt a chill run down its spine from his strange address. It looked at Jiang Gu and said, "Immortal Lord, the Chaos Core should be strictly guarded. It is really inappropriate for you to take it around like this."
Jiang Gu readily agreed: "Okay, I'll pay more attention from now on."
"Brother Jiang!" Feng Wuyou and Wei Feng walked through the Heavenly Gate arm in arm. The Heavenly Gate simply turned a blind eye; it was just an ancient Heavenly Gate, and it was no wonder that its eyesight was occasionally failing.
Feng Wuyou was overjoyed to see familiar faces and said, "I knew you would come to pick me up. Chanlin down there must be so happy."
"Why didn't he come up with us?" Wei Feng asked.
“I was just about to tell you this,” Feng Wuyou said in a low voice. “Ever since you ascended and took the Chaos Core with you, the spiritual and turbid energies in the cultivation world have gradually become more balanced. Many Dao Ancestor level cultivators have considered ascending, but since no one has ascended for tens of thousands of years, most of them are very cautious. The Half-Immortal Clan is naturally not happy either. In short, things are very chaotic down below. The Chenyao Continent has split into several parts, and Pingze is in constant turmoil. More than a dozen Dao Ancestor level cultivators ascended to undergo tribulation, but all of them perished. So for a while, no one in the cultivation world dares to make any rash moves.”
Wei Feng said, "Then you still dare to undergo tribulation and ascend to immortality?"
“Isn’t it you guys up there?” Feng Wuyou said with a smile. “Moreover, Jiang Xiangyun found me and told me about the divine decree that Wen Xiuji brought. He dug out most of his Yuan Dan to help his Daoist partner heal, and his cultivation level dropped a lot. Chan Lin is pitifully timid, and Xiao Dan is cunning and unwilling to help. After thinking it over, only I am suitable. I have accumulated my luck for tens of thousands of years, and it’s no joke.”
"Thank you for your hard work," Jiang Gu said.
"What hardship is there? Ascension is something countless cultivators yearn for; I should be thanking you." Feng Wuyou said, looking around at the scenery with amazement. "Truly worthy of the Immortal Realm, even a single breath can cause one's cultivation to increase so rapidly... Just now—"
"Fellow Daoist, please wait." A male voice came from behind.
Feng Wuyou turned around and saw a handsome immortal with refined features. Behind him were two disciples. He was dressed in flowing blue robes, and the auspicious cloud patterns on half of his face seemed to be moving, subtly matching the patterns on the scroll in his hand.
"Greetings, Immortal Lord Yaoyan." Kongxuan nodded to Yaoyan, then turned his gaze to Feng Wuyou. "Fellow Daoist Feng, congratulations on your successful ascension. According to custom, the Heavenly Dao will appoint you to a post at the Heavenly Gate, but you have moved too quickly."
But it was obviously interrupted by someone.
Wei Feng asked Jiang Gu in what he thought was a very quiet voice, "Master, what's that tattoo on his face? It's really ugly."
He still remembered that this person had casually threatened to throw him back to the mortal realm in front of the Heavenly Gate. If he hadn't been so unsure of the situation here, he would have devoured Kong Xuan alive.
Kong Xuan's smile froze for a moment, and he looked at Wei Feng with some dissatisfaction.
Jiang Gu glanced at his face and said indifferently, "It should be something like a primordial spirit imprint, which cannot be removed by magic. Immortal Lord Kongxuan, Wei Feng is young, please forgive him."
He would appear even more sincere if he didn't go into unnecessary explanation of what he said earlier.
Kong Xuan forced a smile, opened the book in his hand, and countless images of pages appeared around him. Names flashed by quickly, finally stopping at Feng Wuyou's name. Three large, golden characters floated in the air, and the Heavenly Dao's position gradually revealed itself behind them—
“Feng Wuyou, the Worry-Free Beast of the Immortal Cultivation Small World, has been a human for three lifetimes and a demon for three lifetimes. His merits…” Kong Xuan read them one by one, and finally paused, “He serves in the Yaoyan Immortal Palace of the Nine Heavens.”
However, the specific position was not specified.
Kong Xuan smiled and said, "Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Feng. Usually, most of the Daoists who ascend from the lower small worlds are sent to the Nine Provinces. A few with immeasurable merit and excellent aptitude will go to the Three Realms of Wufang, Yunguang and Chaosu. Very few can reach the Upper Heaven. You stayed directly in the Ninth Heaven. It seems that you have a deep karmic connection with Immortal Lord Yaoyan."
Feng Wuyou smiled and said, "Not at all."
He, Jiang Xiangyun, and Chanlin helped Jiang Gu set up a tribulation-crossing formation. If Jiang Gu failed to cross the tribulation and perished, they would suffer the same fate. Such mutual support was naturally due to a very deep cause and effect. It can be seen how important timing and choice are for a carefree beast.
Soon, the news that a carefree beast demon had ascended to immortality and directly taken up a post in the Yaoyan Immortal Palace spread throughout the entire Upper Realm.
Although the Worry-Free Beast is a close relative of the ancient divine beast Qilin, it is far inferior to it. Moreover, it is just an unknown demon cultivator in the lower realm. Not to mention in Yaoyan Immortal Palace, there are very few demon cultivators who can serve in the Nine Heavens.
"What kind of people did Yao Yan meet on this trip?" Feng Ji watched Chang Ning and Zi Guang fishing by the Immortal Pool. "A low-level filth is one thing, at least he still has a Chaos Core in his body, but what about a Worry-Free Beast? It's not even qualified to enter Yao Yan's back garden, is it?"
“Yaoyan has not regained his memory yet and is very wary of us,” Changning said. “Wangting challenged him to a fight, and that filth almost devoured the immortal bones in Wangting’s body. Yaoyan just watched from the sidelines.”
Feng Ji said, "No, I'll go to Kyushu again. I refuse to believe there's no way to make Yao Yan remember. If all else fails, I'll go and remove the immortal bones from Cangwu for him."
"Feng Ji," Chang Ning called out, but Feng Ji had already vanished from the spot.
"Ignore him, he's just a reckless fool." Zi Guang slowly reeled in the line. "His Highness Yao Shuo and God Ling Yin are definitely more anxious than we are. They are incredibly powerful and must already have a solution. The reason they haven't shown up yet is probably just because it's not the right time."
"Your Highness and the High God are truly composed," Changning said with a smile.
"Can someone who can't keep his temper in check deal with Yao Yan?" Zi Guang said. "Apart from the Immortal Venerable Hong Chen, who is currently in seclusion, who in the entire Nine Heavens can guess what he's planning to do? Before the Immortal Venerable went into seclusion, he repeatedly warned Yao Yan not to go to the Demon Forest, and even more so, not to descend to the mortal realm to undergo tribulation. But what happened? He turned around and went to the Demon Forest and almost lost his life. He didn't notify anyone when he went to the mortal realm to undergo tribulation. He just kicked open the Heavenly Gate and went down. Prince Yao Shuo almost smashed the entire Siming Palace with one shot."
“If we ignore this filthy Daoist partner and seal him into the Demon Forest, he might turn the Nine Heavens upside down.” Zi Guang slowly threw the golden toad he had caught back into the pond and sprinkled in some elixirs. “No one can guess what he’s going to do. I wouldn’t be surprised if he went against the Heavenly Dao one day.”
"Save your elixir." Changning glanced at his nearly empty elixir bottle. "You haven't caught many fish, and the fish in this immortal pond are practically turned into spirits by your elixir feeding. How many more koi fairy maidens and golden toads will you need to add to your palace to serve you?"
“I’ve collected another batch of ancient books from the Nine Provinces, and I’m short of servants to move them.” Zi Guang said casually, then suddenly paused, “Chang Ning, do you remember when Yao Yan fished out a little filthy creature from the pond before he went down to undergo his tribulation?”
"Really?" Changning asked doubtfully. "We haven't fished with him for 20,000 years."
"That should be true. When Yao Yan was a child, there was a little filthy creature that always liked to secretly eat his immortal spirit. Yao Yan got very angry about it, and then we never heard of it again," Zi Guang said. "I remember Yao Yan also took on a little apprentice before?"
"You absolutely mustn't mention that little apprentice in front of him," Changning said. "Although I've never met him, I heard that it caused quite a scene back then, and it seems he was directly exiled to the mortal realm."
"How so?" Ziguang asked curiously.
Changning shook his head: "The God Lingyin has issued a death order that this matter is strictly forbidden in the Nine Heavens. I heard from my master that it should be related to the Divine Gate. In any case, it is impossible for him to come up again."
Zi Guang sighed: "Never mind, let's not talk about that. How has Immortal Tiao Xu been lately?"
"It's fine, it's just that Immortal Venerable Hongchen is in seclusion. He hasn't had any chess partners for tens of thousands of years, and he's quite bored." Changning patted his shoulder. "It's about time, I have to go back to my duty. You mustn't mention this to Yaoyan."
"Don't worry." Zi Guang caught another golden toad, grabbed it by the leg, and threw it back into the Immortal Pool.
After Changning left, he reeled in his fishing rod and caught a plump koi.
The koi fish thrashed its tail vigorously, and Zi Guang suddenly had a bad feeling. The next moment, the koi fish turned into a cute little child of four or five years old, who burped because it was full of the elixir.
"...Alright, come back with me." Zi Guang sighed, and with a flick of his finger, the wound on the child's lip healed completely.
"Thank you, Immortal Ziguang." The little koi happily climbed out of the pond and followed behind him with its short legs.
"I'm never going fishing again," Ziguang said.
“But everyone in the Fairy Pond calls you the Fishing Fairy,” the little koi said. “You are the hope of our koi clan. Every time, we choose the fattest fish to hook.”
Zi Guang clutched his chest: "Stop talking."
"Oh." The little koi nodded. "Are we going back to the Purple Light Palace?"
"No, you need to come with me to do something first." As an immortal who kept hundreds of koi fish as attendants in the palace, Zi Guang was very tolerant of the koi fish's intelligence, otherwise he would have been driven crazy by them.
Zi Guang finally found Jiang Gu at the River of Forgetfulness on the edge of the Demon Forest.
There was no other reason than that the filth that filled the sky was the only thing that could be found in the entire Nine Heavens. When he saw Jiang Gu and Wei Feng standing together, he felt as heartbroken as if he were seeing the once proud and aloof Yao Yan rolling in the mud.
Then his eyes were stung by the ridiculously fat Worry-Free Beast beside Yao Yan.
Although the human form that the Worry-Free Beast transformed into was handsome and elegant, it was practically just like a ball with four legs!
Needless to say, the filthy, billowing mass on the left, with its hideous form, was a mess. Yao Yan had undergone a tribulation in the mortal realm, and along with it, he had lost all sense of aesthetics.
No wonder Wang Ting met Jiang Gu once, and then went back and started helping to find the immortal bone in a depressed mood.
"Yaoyan." Ziguang landed in front of them, leading the little koi.
Jiang Gu, who was trying to figure out how to get into the water, saw him and smiled slightly.
Zi Guang was all too familiar with that smile. Usually, Yao Yan would smile so generously whenever he wanted to trick someone. Zi Guang, who was originally eager to trick him, took a half step back warily.
“Immortal Lord Ziguang,” Jiang Ke said irritably, “you’ve come at just the right time.”
The River of Forgetfulness is treacherous, and he and Wei Feng cannot use their magic. Feng Wuyou is terrified of water, so they are in dire need of a water-savvy immortal.
Zi Guang said, "Actually, we weren't that close before."
"Relationships need to be cultivated," Jiang Gu said calmly.
After a moment's thought, Zi Guang's desire to stir up trouble ultimately prevailed, and he used magic to take Jiang Gu, his mud-covered companion, and the fat horse to the bottom of the River of Forgetfulness.
"Why did you bring them to the River of Forgetfulness?" Ziguang asked curiously.
Jiang Gu said, "Fishing."
The little koi behind Ziguang peeked out from behind him, clinging to his leg: "I've become a spirit, you can't fish for me anymore."
Zi Guang patted his little head and looked at Wei Feng, saying, "I heard you were master and disciple in the lower realm?"
“Exactly.” Wei Feng thought the koi behind him smelled delicious, and he vaguely remembered the taste of koi. “You can’t catch koi that have become spirits in your upper realm, can you eat them?”
The little koi's face turned deathly pale in an instant: "No, don't eat me! That horse has more meat, you eat him."
Feng Wuyou scoffed, "You fish are really rude."
“Yaoyan once had a disciple in the Upper Realm, but he was banished to the Lower Realm by the God Lingyin and disappeared without a trace,” Ziguang laughed. “Speaking of which, you really have a deep connection with your disciple. You should still take on a disciple in the Lower Realm.”
Upon hearing this, Wei Feng turned and met Jiang Gu's gaze.
Jiang Gu once said that they were master and disciple in the upper realm, but he did not mention that he was banished to the lower realm, so Jiang Gu obviously did not know about it.
"Speaking of which, you went down to the mortal realm to undergo tribulation, wasn't it to find a disciple?" Zi Guang smiled as he looked at Jiang Gu. "That really sounds like something you'd do."
Jiang Gu said calmly, "I don't remember."
"What a pity you can't remember." Zi Guang stared at Jiang Gu. "Yao Yan was also known for his perfect planning in the Upper Realm. Do you think you foresaw this situation—your unwillingness to regain your memories—before you descended to the Lower Realm to undergo your tribulation?"
As the bridge leading to the riverbed gradually came to a stop, Wei Feng's heart suddenly began to pound violently, and the chaotic energy within his body began to surge wildly, causing the surrounding river water to become turbulent and rapid.
"Master, there's something in here..." Wei Feng clutched his aching heart. A brand new seal suddenly appeared on his chest. Countless sharp spikes suddenly sprouted from the immortal bones belonging to Jiang Gu, which had been mostly dissolved in his body, and pierced into his meridians and dantian, sealing off all the surging chaotic energy in place.
Jiang Gu grabbed him and tried to stop the seal, but the moment he injected his spiritual power, the immortal bone flowed upwards with the spiritual power and headed straight for his sea of consciousness.
Jiang Gu suddenly withdrew, his face turning extremely ugly.
This seal—was personally placed on Wei Feng by Yao Yan.
He showed absolutely no regard for Wei Feng's life or safety.
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