Marvel's Magic Master

"What? You're saying you didn't receive the souls of Yang Tianyou, Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan?"

Upon hearing the report from Yama, the King of Hell, in the sacred realm of Yaochi, the Jade Emperor's eyes widened in surprise.

"Heavenly Slave, go and summon the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng to me!"

"Could these two have dared to release those beasts?"

The fact that Yama did not receive the souls means that Yang Tianyou and the other three are not dead.

Therefore, he suspected that the Golden Crow and Tianpeng did not actually kill Yaoji because Yaoji was soft-hearted.

"It's hard to say about Tianpeng, but it's definitely not the Great Golden Crow. I think there must be some reason behind this."

The Queen Mother quickly defended the Great Golden Crow.

The Jade Emperor thought for a moment and finally nodded.

After all, besides the Golden Crow and Tianpeng, there were also 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, and not all of them would dare to disobey his orders.

Sure enough, when the Golden Crow and Tianpeng arrived, they both stated unequivocally that they had not softened their hearts.

"Your Majesty, the imperial examiner has already examined the body, and I am truly innocent."

"Great Golden Crow, you agree, right?"

Tianpeng defended himself with a wronged expression, while not forgetting to wink at the Great Golden Crow.

Actually, he was completely confused at the moment.

He did indeed show mercy and let Yang Jian and Yang Chan go, but why didn't Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao's souls go to the underworld?
But this is good, at least it can bring the Great Golden Crow into its camp, so it won't be suspected separately.

“I pierced Yang Tianyou and Yang Jiao’s hearts. They were already lifeless when we left, so they should be completely dead.”

The Great Golden Crow frowned, its face also full of confusion.

"Hmph, then tell me what happened, why didn't the underworld receive the four people's souls?"

The Jade Emperor's face was full of displeasure.

Even if it wasn't that the Golden Crow and Tianpeng were too soft-hearted to kill, it was still because they failed in their duties, giving others an opportunity to take advantage of them.

"Well... I don't know either, I'm not the leader."

Tianpeng shrank back, attempting to absolve himself of all responsibility.

The Great Golden Crow opened its mouth, unsure how to answer.

At this moment, the Queen Mother interjected:

"A day in heaven is equivalent to a year on earth. Yao Ji has spent twenty years in the mortal realm. Could she have made some friends with considerable cultivation levels?"

After the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng left, did they intervene and save the lives of Yang Tianyou and the other three?

"That's possible."

The Jade Emperor nodded upon hearing this, and then gave the order:

"Great Golden Crow, Tianpeng, you two go to Guanjiang Estuary again and make sure you find out what happened."

Anyone who dares to harbor these four will be brought back to Heaven for punishment!

Although the Heavenly Court is nominally the highest ruling power in the Three Realms, it is not the strongest power in the Three Realms.

The Three Religions are the most powerful forces in the Three Realms, and the powerful cultivators within them far surpass those in the Heavenly Court.

Besides the three religions, there are also many powerful independent cultivators hidden in the Three Realms.

Therefore, it is plausible that Yao Ji made some powerful friends during her twenty years in the mortal realm and rescued Yang Tianyou and the other three.

But no matter who it is, even if they are members of the three religions, they cannot openly disobey the Heavenly Court's orders.

Once the Great Golden Crow is captured and brought back to Heaven, even if the Three Pure Ones come, they will have to negotiate with him politely.

If he insists on killing, even the Three Pure Ones cannot stop him.

However, he wasn't stupid and wouldn't really disrespect the Three Pure Ones, which is why he allowed the Golden Crow to be captured alive and brought back to the Heavenly Court instead of being executed on the spot.

As for Yang Tianyou and the other three, they must be killed, and even the Three Pure Ones' pleas for mercy will not work.

This concerns the dignity of the entire Heavenly Court, the face of the Jade Emperor, and the rules and regulations of Heaven.

That's his bottom line.

“Your Majesty, the Great Golden Crow can go, there’s no need for me. I still have a lot of things to take care of in the Heavenly River.”

Upon hearing this, Tianpeng immediately offered to decline the mission.

He felt that repaid Yao Ji's favor by saving Yang Jian and Yang Chan, and did not want to get involved any further.

"Fine, if you don't go, I will sentence you to dereliction of duty and banish you to the mortal realm to be turned into a pig!"

The Jade Emperor's cold tone startled Tianpeng, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.

"I'm going, I'm going, I'll definitely complete the mission!"

"Tiannu, go to Peach Mountain and make the Princess confess who rescued Yang Tianyou and the other three."

If she is willing to properly confess and admit her mistakes, I can release her from Peach Mountain.

After the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng received their orders and left, the Jade Emperor gave instructions to his personal attendants who were serving him.

He felt that if it was Yao Ji's friend, Yao Ji would definitely know who it was.

Meanwhile, on the Three Immortals Island, George formally accepted Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan as his disciples, and taught them the methods of cultivation.

Among them, Yang Jian, thanks to the Heavenly Eye secretly bestowed upon him by Yao Ji, cultivated the fastest, reaching the level of a Celestial Immortal in just a few days.

Although Yang Jiao and Yang Chan did not have the Heavenly Eye, they were exceptionally talented. The Three Immortal Islands were rich in spiritual energy, and with George using formations to help gather spiritual energy, their cultivation speed was also extremely terrifying.

And just like that, three years passed quickly.

That day, Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan secretly slipped out of the Three Immortals Island and flew towards Peach Mountain on a cloud.

However, they were blocked before they had flown very far.

"Second Junior Brother, Third Junior Brother, and Junior Sister, where are you going while Master is in seclusion?"

The one who stopped them was none other than George's eldest disciple, Sun Wukong.

"Senior Brother, we...we haven't been out for a long time, and we'd like to go to Guanjiangkou for a visit."

Yang Jian's eyes darted around, and he explained with a grin.

Yang Jiao and Yang Chan also nodded in agreement:

"We'll be back soon."

"Guanjiang Estuary, shouldn't Guanjiang Estuary be in that direction?"

Sun Wukong pulled a large peach from his sleeve, took a bite, and his face was full of amusement.

"that is because."

Yang Jian was about to explain when Sun Wukong raised his hand to interrupt him:

"Alright, stop lying. I know you want to go to Peach Mountain to rescue your mother."

"Senior Brother, we can't wait any longer."

Seeing that they had been exposed, Yang Jian and the other two stopped denying it.

They are no longer the novice cultivators they once were.

During their three years on the Three Immortal Islands, they met the Three Immortal Maidens of Sanxiao, Shen Gongbao of the island, Ao Bing of the Dragon Clan, Nezha who came looking for Ao Bing, and the dragons below the island.

They knew how difficult it was to become a saint; even the Three Immortal Maidens of Sanxiao, who were even more powerful than their master, were not saints yet.

They may never become saints in this lifetime.

Therefore, the only way to save their mother is to find a way to split open Peach Mountain or get the Jade Emperor to rescind the punishment.

However, they also knew that the Jade Emperor was the ruler of the Three Realms. If they asked their master to help them attack the Heavenly Court, it would be like pushing him into a fire pit. Their master had saved their family's lives and taught them cultivation; they didn't want to implicate him.

After discussing it, they decided to secretly go to Peach Mountain while their master was in seclusion.

Let's see if we can rescue our mother with the combined strength of the three of us. If we can't, then we'll fight our way up to the Thirty-Third Heaven and force the Jade Emperor to release our mother.

Unexpectedly, he was stopped by his senior brother as soon as he came out.

"I've heard there's a peach orchard in Yaochi. I really want to try the peaches there!"

Sun Wukong stared at Yang Jian and the other two for three seconds. Seeing their determined gazes, he burst into laughter.

"Big Brother, you..."

Yang Jian and the other two understood Sun Wukong's meaning immediately, and their eyes showed expressions of gratitude.

They didn't want to implicate their senior brother, but he clearly wouldn't let them leave so easily, so they had no choice but to agree.

The four of them traveled together on clouds and flew towards Peach Mountain.

"Go ahead and make a scene, or it'll be too late."

At this moment, George, who seemed to be in seclusion inside the cave, slowly opened his eyes.

According to his observation, it won't be long before the Three Pure Ones are able to complete the Investiture of the Gods and emerge from seclusion, officially starting the Investiture of the Gods War.

To attack the Heavenly Court and force the Jade Emperor to release Yao Ji, they must do so before the Three Pure Ones emerge from seclusion.

Otherwise, if the Jade Emperor were to ask the Three Pure Ones for help, things would become very difficult.

"Let me lend you a hand!"

George conjured a pen out of thin air, concentrated all his power into the authority of the Dreamer's Path, and began to write the next chapter of the story.

"Ao Bing suddenly missed his good friend Nezha and decided to go to Chen Tang Pass, where he happened to meet Nezha, who was also there to see him."

Even more coincidentally, they also encountered Sun Wukong and Yang Jian, who were on their way to Peach Mountain.

The clever Nezha tricked Yang Jiao into revealing that the four of them were going to Peach Mountain to rescue their mother.

To repay George's kindness from years ago, Nezha and Ao Bing join the team.

"On Peach Mountain, the six of them, even working together, were still unable to break the chain formed by the Heavenly Rules, which attracted the Great Golden Crow and Marshal Tianpeng, who had been searching for them in the human realm for three years."

Fearing that Nezha's identity would be exposed and implicate Li Jing and his wife at Chentang Pass, the six who could have won the fight chose to retreat temporarily instead of continuing the battle.

"The six followed Nezha's advice and went to the Golden Light Cave on Qianyuan Mountain to ask Taiyi Zhenren if there were any other ways to rescue Yaoji."

At this moment, the lotus flowers in the cave bloomed, and the primordial baby lotus lantern, left behind by the goddess Nuwa in the human world, was born and recognized Yang Chan as its master.

"Taiyi Zhenren reached the same conclusion as George, believing that unless one becomes a saint, it is impossible to forcibly break the heavenly rules."

However, he still decided to go to Jinxia Cave on Yuquan Mountain to ask his most knowledgeable senior brother, Master Yuding.

On their way to Yuquan Mountain, they encountered a three-headed dragon.

Yang Jian already knew about the feud between his mother and the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, so he challenged the Three-Headed Flood Dragon to a duel and severely injured it with his Heavenly Eye.

The three-headed dragon surrendered its dragon pearl to save its life, voluntarily transforming into Yang Jian's weapon, the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword.

"Upon arriving at the Golden Cloud Cave on Jade Spring Mountain, we met the Jade Cauldron Immortal, but still could not obtain the method to break the Heavenly Rules."

Yang Jian and his six companions finally decided to attack the Heavenly Court and force the Jade Emperor to revise the Heavenly Rules.

Taiyi Zhenren and Yuding Zhenren did not want to get involved in this mess.

However, out of respect for Nezha, they still helped Yang Jiao forge a top-tier acquired spiritual treasure, the Divine Dragon Mountain-Splitting Axe, using the Dragon Pearl and a rare stone obtained from Peach Mountain.

"Just as Yang Jian and his six companions left Yuquan Mountain, they encountered the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng, who were searching for them everywhere."

This time they did not evade, and after a series of attacks, both the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng were captured.

Using the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng as hostages, the group ascended to the Thirty-Third Heaven, forcing the Jade Emperor to rescind the Heavenly Laws and release Yao Ji.

"The Jade Emperor, who was in Yaochi, was furious when he learned that Yang Jianliu had brought the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng to the Heavenly Court and was threatening him to release Yaoji."

Completely uncoerced, he ordered his 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to disregard the orders of the Great Golden Crow and Tianpeng and to capture the six people at all costs.

Yang Jian was furious and killed the Great Golden Crow on the spot.

Tianpeng survived because of the aging palm strike he received back then.

And so, the six of them fought their way up from the South Heavenly Gate, surrounded by countless heavenly soldiers and generals.

To prevent their magical power from being depleted and to increase their strength, they remembered their master's teachings.

So while fighting, they also collected all sorts of rare and precious treasures from the Heavenly Court.

They devoured every single peach from the Jade Pool, and they also consumed all the golden pills refined by Laozi.

Not only did his magical power increase, but his overall strength also improved dramatically, causing the heavenly soldiers and generals to flee in disarray, with no one able to stop him.

"The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother were greatly alarmed and immediately sent people to the West to seek help from the Taiji Heavenly Emperor. At the same time, they ordered the other nine golden crows to go to Peach Mountain to scorch Yao Ji to death, thus achieving the effect of relieving the siege of Wei by attacking Zhao and delaying time."

Unfortunately, they underestimated the strength of Yang Jian and his six companions after they had consumed the peaches of immortality and the golden pills.

The six people stopped the nine golden crows, killed eight, and spared the last one at the urging of Chang'e, Yao Ji's friend.

The story ends abruptly here, because at this moment an old man riding a blue ox appears in the sky above the Three Immortal Islands.

"They're definitely not easy to fool!"

Although the Three Pure Ones were in seclusion refining the Investiture of the Gods, one of the Three Pure Ones, the Moral Celestial Venerable, had an incarnation serving in the Heavenly Court.

That is the famous Laozi.

The old man riding an ox above the Three Immortal Islands is none other than Laozi (Taishang Laojun).

However, he had anticipated this situation.

He uses the power of a visionary to create various coincidences and make things develop in the direction he wants, which will naturally leave traces in the great path.

As one of the sages' incarnations, how could Laozi not have noticed anything?

Of course, he hid it very well. Even Laozi probably only knew that the anomaly originated from the Three Immortal Islands, and it was difficult to truly pinpoint the source to him.

So it's not a big problem.

"The Three Immortal Islands, the cultivation grounds of the Three Immortals, could it be part of Tongtian's scheme?"

Laozi sat atop the green ox, looking down at the Three Immortal Islands below, a look of doubt on his face.

Actually, he had sensed something was wrong when the Dragon Clan and Nezha caused havoc in Kunlun Wonderland last time.

However, the final result did not deviate much from his and Yuanshi's calculations. Once the Investiture of the Gods was completed, a slight adjustment would allow it to return to its original course.

Therefore, he did not intervene.

But this time, things have gone too far astray.

Yang Jian, who was originally slated to join the Chan Sect to assist Jiang Ziya and help King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa, in his rebellion against the Shang Dynasty, now seems to have joined the Jie Sect.

Even the protagonist of the Journey to the West tribulation a thousand years later was born ahead of time and became Yang Jian's senior brother.

If we don't intervene soon, even the Jade Emperor, the ruler of heaven and earth, might be in danger.

All of these origins point to the Three Immortal Islands.

The Three Immortals Island is where the Three Immortals of Sanxiao cultivate, and the Three Immortals of Sanxiao are disciples of Tongtian, and are quasi-saints whose strength is closest to that of a saint.

This inevitably led him to suspect that it was part of Tongtian's plan before he created the Investiture of the Gods.

However, based on his understanding of Tongtian, it seemed unlikely.

Tongtian is impulsive and easily agitated, and he is straightforward. He is not good at scheming, so how could he have come up with such a plan?

If you say it's Yuanshi, then he has no doubt at all, because Yuanshi's greatest skill is scheming.

(End of this chapter)