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Chapter 872: Eastward from Penglai, on the Heavenly Road (5.3k -in-)

Let’s talk about the beginning. After listening to what Ji Tianming, the young master of Tianji Pavilion, said, Yu Chen felt that this trip to heaven was just so-so.

——Go to the heaven, find Zhang Bairen, take the things and get some benefits from him. It would be even better if you could slap him in the face. Then go back to the East Desert and start refining the supreme divine object that can give you the power to seize the heavens.

Finished.

He was also not worried that the Divine Emperor Zhang Bairen might have any hidden agenda.

Of course, it was not because he trusted the other party so much, but because the three realms of heaven, earth and man were all tied to the same rope, and they had a common enemy, the ancient immortals.

In this situation, as the lord of the underworld, no matter what the Emperor of the Divine Court thinks, he should not go to the point of destroying both sides.

Moreover, Tianji Pavilion has also promised that if the Emperor of Shenting defaults on his debt, Tianji Taoist will also intervene.

What's more, Zhang Bairen was in the wrong in this matter.

With all these circumstances in mind, Yu Chen did not think that this trip to heaven would be dangerous.

On the contrary, I was quite curious and wanted to see the true appearance of the heaven which was rumored to be the residence of immortals and gods.

But reality is always cruel and stories are always absurd.

According to what was seen in the Vermillion Bird Carousel, the Emperor of the Divine Court, Zhang Bairen, ran into a lot of trouble before he could actually return to the heaven that belonged to him.

And judging from the words of the immortals and gods who were blocking the way, the heaven that should have been empty had someone already been crowned emperor.

This is very interesting.

Zhang Bairen is the Emperor of the Divine Court. After his rebirth all these years ago, he has been lurking in the Benzhen Sect, plotting and planning in various ways. Finally, he found an opportunity to seize his Emperor's tripod and open the way to the heaven, intending to return and rule the world again.

But in that heaven, another Divine Emperor appeared.

Who is real?

Who is fake?
Or are both true?
Or are both fake?

Yu Chen looked at Di Ting, told him everything, and asked for his opinion.

——Unlike the ancient god Taotie, Di Ting does not have such a tyrannical and terrifying divinity, but he possesses terrifying wisdom, can distinguish between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, and knows everything.

The Emperor of Fengdu saw this point and tried every means to subdue him.

After listening carefully, he pondered for a while before saying, "Because I have never seen it with my own eyes, I cannot give Your Majesty an accurate answer, but from the information at hand, the emperor Your Majesty mentioned who was trapped on the road to heaven should be the real emperor of the Divine Court.

There are two reasons. First, Zhen Yuanzi, who is the emperor of the human world and the secular world, not only possesses the most powerful ability to predict the secrets of heaven, but he also has a pair of eyes that can see through fate and all kinds of illusions. Since he has seen the Emperor of the Divine Court, his identity can be confirmed.

Secondly, according to the little girl Suzaku, the Emperor of the Divine Court who is now trapped on the way to heaven has awakened the Emperor Cauldron sealed in the holy pool of the ancient immortal lineage. Your Majesty, you may not know this, but the Emperor Cauldron is the proof of the truth of the Lord of the Divine Court, and he is the only one who is recognized as the Lord. Even if he has superb and wonderful transformation skills, even if he has concealed it from Zhen Yuanzi, he should not be able to hide it from the Emperor Cauldron that is connected to him by blood.

Therefore, I believe that the Zhang Bairen that the little Suzaku girl knew must be the real one. As for the situation of the one in the heaven, I don’t know either - but what is certain is that during the countless tens of thousands of years that the heaven was sealed, some terrible accident must have occurred. "

Well-reasoned and eloquent.

Yu Chen listened and nodded slightly.

In other words, the Zhang Bairen he thought of was very likely to be real, and the one in heaven was just a usurper.

and so……

"I'm afraid this trip to heaven won't be peaceful..." Yu Chen sighed deeply and shook his head: "--There really is no such easy job in the world."

"With a high position and great power, the responsibilities he bears are naturally beyond the imagination of ordinary people." Di Ting nodded and spoke softly.

Yu Chen looked at him.

"Why is your majesty looking at me like that?" Di Ting was puzzled.

"Nothing. I just thought that it's powerful to speak with culture. If it were Taotie, he would probably just curse at this moment." Yu Chen waved his hands and thought of the ancient god Taotie who was seriously injured and dying and was still recuperating in the underworld.

"Let's go." Shaking his head to get rid of all the distracting thoughts in his mind, Yu Chen stood up and spoke.

Di Ting also stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, where are you going?"

"If there was no such thing as Suzaku, we would have gone directly to Penglai." Yu Chen said, "But now it's different. There is a great possibility that according to Suzaku, when Zhang Bairen, the landlord of the Divine Court, sealed the heaven, there were actually no living gods in the heaven. Only the thrones of those gods and immortals remained.

But now, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Demon-Subduing Marshal, the Three Altars and Sea Assembly Great Gods as well as many heavenly soldiers and generals have all appeared.

Then it is reasonable to speculate that the god thrones left by Zhang Bairen may have been occupied by unknown demons and monsters. In other words, we may have to face countless immortals and gods - although judging from the revolving lantern of Suzaku, they are not as powerful as they were in the heyday of the Heavenly Court, but I must not underestimate them.

We can't be unprepared, or else if we go in hastily, it will be like throwing meat buns at dogs, and there will be no return."

——To be honest, he really didn't want to get involved in this mess, but the Heaven Realm was an extremely important force in the fight against the ancient immortals, and the last few materials needed to refine the supreme divine object could only be found in the Heaven Realm. Even if he didn't want to save Zhang Bairen, he still had to go to the Heaven Realm.

Unless he was willing to give up that terrifying ambition of becoming a first-class master, he had no other choice.

And now that you have decided to go, you must prepare for the future.

Yu Chen stretched out his hand to break through the gate of hell, and passed through it to the Holy Land of Haotian. The abandoned holy land was still under construction, and it was proceeding in an orderly manner, like a thriving seedling.

Countless mortals and low-level monks have basically been resettled, and the reconstruction of the entire Holy Island has also been basically completed. The next step is to accumulate foundation, which is the most important thing for a holy land, and it cannot be rushed, so it can only be done with patience.

Yu Chen found Xuan Lu and asked him to write a letter and send it to Tianji Pavilion.

There are not many words and the content is very simple.

——Yu Chen is going to transfer many of the ghost soldiers stationed in the battlefield outside La for a period of time.

After sending the letter, Yu Chen went directly to the outer battlefield through Dongxu and took out Luofeng Mountain. At that moment, it was like a hundred rivers converging into the sea, and the endless Luofeng Yin soldiers returned to their positions, including Niu Tou and Fei Sheng, and returned to Luofeng Mountain together.

——These ghost soldiers and generals will be Yu Chen’s capital for this trip to heaven, and also his capital to fight against the "usurper" whose background is unknown.

Anyway, the ancient immortal lineage had just been defeated, and with the death of Sifang Huilao, the extinction of the twin ancient immortals, and the injury of the Benzhen Sect leader, it was unlikely that the ancient immortal lineage would be able to make a comeback in a short period of time.

Finally, Yu Chen returned to the Tianzang Abyss, gave a few instructions to Shi Tou and Li Yuanqing, and then he immediately passed through the Dongxu Formation and arrived at the easternmost part of the Eastern Wasteland and went out to sea.

Once upon a time, this was the location of the Great Sun Holy Land, vast and sacred. But now there is only a dead sea, telling of silence and desolation.

Once out of the sea, there were no more nodes in the Dongxu Formation, but Penglai was still countless miles away.

Then he saw Di Ting's body turned around and turned into his original form, but his body was weakened, only the size of a mountain. He carried Yu Chen and flew away into the void.

——The speed of an ancient god who is comparable to a celestial being is naturally far beyond that of Yu Chen, who has reached the perfection of the Celestial Being.

If he were to rush there at his speed, the flowers would probably be gone by then.

During this journey, Yu Chen was not idle either. He probed his thoughts into the underworld and found the dull old man from the Qiwusi - this old man was the one Yu Chen met in the Great Xia Dynasty. He had cracked the magic vine of the old man Wensheng and was a technology geek himself, extremely interested in any unconventional methods.

Refining equipment, battle formations, talismans, elixirs, smelting, extraction, beast taming... In short, apart from practicing and fighting, he loves to dabble in all the miscellaneous knowledge in the extraordinary world.

And... gifted.

It was precisely because of this that Yu Chen recruited his soul into the underworld to serve him.

And the dull old man did not live up to his expectations. His endless enthusiasm, extraordinary talent, and the almost endless resources of the underworld made his attainments in miscellaneous studies grow rapidly.

When Yu Chen found him, the old man was still the same as he was a few years ago, sloppy and unkempt, but his cloudy old eyes were filled with a fire that would never go out.

After a brief greeting, Yu Chen turned his wrist, and saw an infinitely huge and terrifying shadow emerge in his hand, and fell to the ground with a loud bang. It was a towering mountain. Upon closer inspection, it was made of blue-black steel. It looked like a furnace with three legs. There were endless strange patterns carved on the surface, and in the center there was a carving of a Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram. Outside the Yin-Yang diagram was the Bagua. At first glance, it looked extremely ancient and experienced, and it stretched outside the Qiwusi.

At the same time, an infinitely magnificent and heavy aura of terror was overwhelming! The dull old man's eyes lit up immediately when he saw this. "Tsk tsk tsk tsk! This is a great treasure, rare in the world! But... why is it broken into this state?"

There was a trace of pity in his eyes, and when he looked in the direction he was looking, he saw the huge furnace was riddled with holes and cracks.

"This is the Bagua furnace." Yu Chen said, "--Are you sure you can fix it?"

After hearing this, the dull old man's eyes sparkled with dazzling brilliance, just like a lustful ghost seeing a naked beautiful woman, "Old man... try it!"

Although he said he would give it a try, Yu Chen knew it from his expression - if the Bagua furnace could not be repaired, the dull old man would never give up.

"Okay, I believe you." Yu Chen nodded and handed the Bagua Furnace to him.

——This Bagua Furnace was taken out from the bottom of the Tianzang Abyss after he came back from Jiujingzhou.

To refine that supreme divine object, not just any furnace would do. After much thought, Yu Chen decided that the Eight Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laojun would work, so he went down to the Tianzang Abyss and fished it out.

It was only because of the sudden betrayal of the two boys, Gold and Silver, and their mount, the divine bull, that the Bagua furnace was kicked over, and the supreme divine object inside it exploded, leaving the once number one furnace in the Three Realms covered with cracks.

Yu Chen handed it to the dull old man and asked him to try to repair it - after he repaired the furnace and brought back the materials from the heaven, he could try to start refining the furnace.

After giving his instructions, Yu Chen left. The dull old man, who was immersed in the Bagua furnace, didn't even notice his departure, let alone see him off respectfully.

But Yu Chen didn't care about these red tapes. It didn't matter.

He let his thoughts return to his physical body, sat cross-legged on Di Ting's back, and headed eastward in the raging gale of heaven and earth.

On the way, Di Ting explained to Yu Chen more detailed information about the heaven, the Divine Court, and Penglai.

It is said that Penglai has been a place where heaven and man meet since ancient times. One can ascend to the sky through the Penglai Heavenly Road.

——Of course, this is not the only way. Thousands of years ago, a monkey fought his way up and was finally recruited. But now Yu Chen has to save the Emperor of the Divine Court, Zhang Bairen, and he must go through the Penglai Road to Heaven.

Such a place where heaven and man meet is naturally not simple.

Penglai has a total of 112 islands, among which the area surrounded by four main islands is where the road to heaven is located. Outside the main islands are 36 inner islands, and outside the inner islands are 72 outer islands. Layers of protection form a huge island protection formation that is difficult for others to enter.

During the heyday of the Three Realms, Penglai was the residence of the King of the East in the Divine Court. There were thirty-six immortals and seventy-two gods under him, each living on an island. They served as both residences and guards, protecting the way of heaven and man.

Now...it has probably been deserted for a long time.

Time passes like water, the sun rises and the moon sets.

Yu Chen was on his way calmly.

But on the other side, in the area surrounding the main island of Penglai, thousands of miles away, the atmosphere was hot and heated.

It is said that the four main islands occupy the east, west, south and north, standing in the vast ocean. On the islands, grass and trees surround, and the mountains and rivers are vast. Many pavilions, palaces, formations, Taoist palaces, and cave ruins can be faintly seen, but they have either decayed and collapsed, or are covered with lush trees and flowers, filled with traces of time and a sense of desolation.

But this desolate and silent place is now... very lively.

All you can see are figures standing on the four islands, surrounded by divine light and filled with spiritual energy, which is quite magical.

These beings seemed to come from all over the world, with different forms, gathered together according to their appearances - there was a beautiful woman wearing a moon-colored robe with red eyes; there was a burly giant with thunder all over his body, wings on his back, and lightning-like eyes; there were handsome men and women with three eyes on their eyebrows, with their eyes closed and lowered...

In short, they seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding, standing quietly above the sky of the four islands, as if waiting for something.

Finally, in the silent atmosphere, the leader of the group of figures surrounded by lightning frowned, looked around, and asked, "How long do we have to wait?"

“Lei Zhen, don’t be impatient.” The beautiful lady in palace dress, who was the leader among the women in moon-white robes, shook her head and said, “The reopening of the heaven today is already abrupt. We came here to follow the trail, but we ran into the wise man from the Benzhen Sect coming down the Heavenly Road. It’s too weird—it’s even uncertain whether this Heavenly Road is real or fake. We should wait for the Monkey Kings of the Great Sage lineage to arrive and use their Fiery Eyes to take a look before we can rest assured. Otherwise, if we fall into the trap of the Benzhen Sect, it will be too late to regret.”

After he finished speaking, the man in Taoist robes, who was the leader among the gods with a third look in their brows, also nodded: "Although this Penglai is extremely real, the methods of the Benzhen Sect should not be underestimated. What if it is a trap set by them? Once you step into it, the consequences will be disastrous."

There was also a group of people with pig heads, led by a burly man with black hair, a ferocious face, and a towering stature like a hill, laughing loudly, "I will wait for the descendants of the Great Sage, and I will listen to the Jade Rabbit sisters!"

After hearing this, the beautiful woman in palace dress glared at him but didn't say much.

The man with thunder all over his body had no choice but to remain silent.

——It is said that not long ago, the heaven was opened up and the road to heaven appeared. Countless ancient races moved their entire families to Penglai, intending to ascend to heaven.

Above the sky, there is the "god's throne" left by their ancestors. Above the sky is also the most suitable land for them to live in. As long as they return to heaven, these ancient races will no longer need to sleep.

But the Lei Zhen lineage, the Yutu lineage, the Guanjiang lineage, the Tianpeng lineage... when many ancient races gathered together and prepared to embark on the road to heaven.

Suddenly, Hui Lao from the Benzhen Sect came down from the road to heaven.

Even though they joined forces to kill him.

However, many ancient races still had doubts in their hearts, wondering whether this was the real way to heaven, or an elaborate trap set by the ancient immortals?

For a moment, I was undecided.

It was not until the Jade Rabbit God Yuhua of the lineage suggested that they wait for the Gods of the Monkey lineage to come and use their Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to see through the details of the road to heaven before making plans.

So I waited like this.

Three days later, in the distant sky, the figures of golden-armored monkeys came across the sea!

The eyes of many ancient gods fixed on each other, and they were excited!
They all spoke up and told the whole story in short.

The Six-Eared God, who led the team of divine monkeys, was a pale old monkey. After he understood the whole story, his eyes became like lightning, emitting golden light that illuminated the road to heaven.

After a long while, he bowed to everyone and said, "Gentlemen, this Penglai Fairy Island and the way to heaven... are all true."

After hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up!
"it is good!"

The Thunder God with wings on his back and lightning all around him took a deep breath, and the wings behind him danced wildly. Suddenly, the wind and thunder shook, and the air was filled with dense mist!
“——We, the lineage, have finally embarked on the journey home!”

After saying that, he soared into the sky and was immersed in the endless brilliant golden light!
The remaining gods of many ancient races looked at each other, unable to hide the surprise in their hearts, and they all brought their own people, passed through the boundless golden light, and set foot on the road to heaven!
Full of hope!

Full of longing!

After stepping onto the Road to Heaven, figures of ancient races rose into the sky, bathing in the golden divine light of the Road to Heaven.

Everyone was chatting and laughing along the way, and some even cried with joy.

But as the road to heaven reached the second half.

They gradually discovered that something was wrong.

Just look above your head, the Qi of heaven and earth is surging like the sea, endless chains of Tao are covering the sky, rolling divine light is raging, swords and arrows are raining down densely, and shouts of killing are resounding through the sky, endless!

Take a closer look!
But just look at the storm, surrounded by countless heavenly soldiers, the four kings of heaven are angry and heading off on an expedition, the Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun's magic spear is as fast as lightning, the Three Altars and Sea Assembly God has three heads and six arms, and the demon-subduing marshal has a pagoda to suppress the sky...

For a moment, the gods of many ancient races were shocked and puzzled!

Until they saw where all the attacks were coming from, they saw a giant three-legged tripod stretching across the sky, and a figure holding it up, forcefully withstanding the terrifying and endless attacks!

"Emperor Ding? Your Majesty?!"

Scream out loud!

The figure on the imperial tripod seemed to have noticed them and laughed loudly with great heroism!

"My Lords, you have come just in time! Follow me and kill us at the Divine Palace!"

(End of this chapter)