I am a fairy in Journey to the West

Chapter 125: Fire Spirit is Rewarded, King Tang is Desired

Three days later, an envoy from the human world descended on the Divine Palace and read out the imperial edict, promoting the True Immortal Huo Ling to the rank of seventh-rank immortal official, while still serving as the Prime Minister of Lingtai Divine Palace.

In addition, he was rewarded with 100,000 purple coins, five golden flowers, and five jugs of imperial wine to show his favor and honor.

The Immortal Fire Spirit thanked him and accepted the order, then took out five baskets of spiritual peaches and gave them to the messenger.

The messenger thanked him, took the magical peach, then took his leave and returned to report.

The Fire Spirit Immortal was promoted. Lan'er and Miaoyu came forward to congratulate him. Then Zhuang Yan asked Lan'er to prepare a family dinner to celebrate for the Fire Spirit Immortal.

After a happy family dinner, Zhuang Yan called the Fire Spirit Immortal to the Mountain God Temple.

In the Mountain God Temple, Zhuang Yan looked at the Fire Spirit Immortal and said, "I will travel around the world from now on. I will leave all the affairs in the God Palace to you."

The Fire Spirit Immortal smiled and said, "Your Majesty, just roam freely around. The affairs of the Divine Palace will be managed by my subordinates. Your Majesty, just rest assured."

"Yeah." Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "I'm relieved." As he spoke, Zhuang Yan raised his hand and pointed at the Fire Spirit Immortal, adding a 'voice transmission' state to her.

Zhuang Yan then said, "If there is anything you can't solve in the future, just recite the word 'transmission' in your mind, and you can communicate with me directly through voice transmission, even if there are four continents between us."

The Fire Spirit Immortal also felt that a mysterious power seemed to have appeared in her spiritual center, but she could neither see nor touch it. She could only sigh that the power of the God seemed to have reached a new level.

"Yes, I will remember it." Fire Spirit Immortal said with a bow.

Zhuang Yan nodded slightly, instructed the True Immortal Huo Ling some things, told her that he would leave early tomorrow morning, then got up and left the Mountain God Temple and returned to his own Yunfang Jingshe.

After returning to the monastery, Zhuang Yan reviewed what he had gained from his one hundred years of seclusion.

Attaining the status of a celestial being was only one of the great gains from this hundred years of seclusion. Another great gain was that he had absorbed a lot of Heavenly Power by using incense to steal power from the sky during this hundred years.

And he used all these powers of heaven to add the 'status', that is, the small items under the 'add status'.

Zhuang Yan took a look at the small functions under 'Add Status'. There were more than 1000 of them, covering almost % of the things in the world.

From the smallest grains of sand or gravel to the largest laws of nature, these 1000-plus states cover everything.

"It's completely enough." Zhuang Yan smiled with great satisfaction.

Afterwards, Zhuang Yan gathered his Taoist teachings, cast aside all distracting thoughts, and sat cross-legged on the couch into a state of meditation.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the morning of the next day. Zhuang Yan opened his eyes, walked out of the temple, and saw Immortal Huo Ling and Lan'er standing in the yard outside his cloud room.

Not far away, there was a red figure standing at the moon gate of the courtyard, leaning against the door frame and looking over here.

"Lord God, we are here to see you off." Fire Spirit Immortal and Lan'er said.

Zhuang Yan walked down the steps with a smile, came to the yard and said, "Just send it off here."

Zhuang Yan said to Lan'er, "Tiger Vanguard has gone down the mountain on my orders and will be back soon. You must practice well in the mountains. If you have any questions, you can go to the Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave to ask Bodhi Patriarch."

Lan Er heard this and bowed, "Yes, Lord God."

Then Zhuang Yan said to the Fire Spirit Immortal: "If the affairs in the Divine Palace are too busy, we can temporarily hire someone to help, such as Lu Hanzhi, or the disciples of the Xieyue Sanxing Cave."

The Fire Spirit Immortal also bowed and said, "Don't worry, my Lord. I understand."

Zhuang Yan nodded, then walked forward, came to Miao Yu and said: "Just stay in the mountain. As long as you behave well, you may have the opportunity to leave the mountain in the future."

Miaoyu had a head of long black hair falling on her shoulders. Upon hearing what was said, she looked at Zhuang Yan with her starry eyes, then turned her head away.

Zhuang Yan smiled faintly, then turned around, bowed to everyone, then turned around and disappeared without a trace, turning into a gust of wind.

Jambu Continent, Tang Dynasty, Chang'an City.

In the Taiji Palace, Liangyi Hall, Tang Wang Li Shimin sat in the hall, looking at the ministers in front of him expressionlessly. "Everyone knows about the dragon head falling outside Chang'an City, right?" Li Shimin asked everyone.

Everyone responded, "Your Majesty, we all know that Immortal Yuan said that it was the head of the Jinghe Dragon King who violated the Heavenly Law."

Chang Sun Wuji said: "I heard that Shang Shu Zuo Cheng beheaded him in his dream."

Shangshu Zuocheng Wei Zheng sat upright, but soon he felt a pair of eyes cast at him.

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng and asked, "Wei Zheng, did you kill him?"

Wei Zheng bowed and said, "Your Majesty, that day Your Majesty and I were drinking and playing chess. I was drunk and fell into a dream. I was ordered by the Heaven to execute the Dragon King of Jinghe River."

Li Shimin said: "Didn't I tell you not to execute him?"

Wei Zheng said bluntly: "Your Majesty, the Dragon King of the Jing River has violated the laws of heaven and should be beheaded, just as our subjects of the Great Tang should be punished if they violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty."

"I'm not telling you about Tang law now! Let me ask you, you were happy to kill the Dragon King of Jinghe River, but now the wronged spirit of the Dragon King of Jinghe River is coming to claim his life from me!" Li Shimin said coldly.

Wei Zheng said: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is appointed by Heaven. Why would you be afraid of a wronged soul?"

"You..." Li Shimin was obviously angry with Wei Zheng again. He looked around, then raised his hand and pointed outside the hall and said, "Get out of here."

When everyone saw that Li Shimin was angry, they all stood up and left.

At night, Li Shimin was sleeping soundly in his bedroom when suddenly a bloody dragon head appeared in the bedroom. It pounced towards Li Shimin, shouting for his life.

Li Shimin jumped up in fear, drew out the emperor's sword and chopped off the dragon's head, shouting, "I am appointed by heaven, how dare you, a dragon who has committed a crime and is being punished, offend me!"

After saying that, Li Shimin swung his sword and chopped the dragon head's ghost apart, turning it into a ghostly aura and flying out of the hall.

But the resentful ghostly voice of the Dragon King of Jinghe River came in: "King Tang, you are untrustworthy. I will not give up. I will definitely take your life in this life!"

Li Shimin was instantly defeated. Who could endure being hunted down by wronged spirits every day? He shouted, "Go find Wei Zheng if you have the guts!"

At this time, all the concubines and palace maids inside and outside the hall were alarmed, and the lights in the bedroom were on all night.

On the second day, when Li Shimin was in court, he looked unwell. His ministers hurriedly asked him why. Li Shimin then told them about the dragon spirit seeking his life. They were all shocked when they heard the news.

Yuchi Gong said, "Your Majesty founded the country and killed countless people. Now you have been appointed by heaven. Why should you be afraid of ghosts?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately said, "Well, since you, Yuchi Gong, say so, come and guard the palace gate for me, so that the evil dragon will also know how powerful you, Yuchi Jingde, are."

Yuchi Gong patted his chest and said, "I will protect your majesty."

At this time, Qin Qiong also stood up and said, "I and Jingde will guard the palace gate together to protect Your Majesty."

Li Shimin readily approved the request, and so at night, the outside of Li Shimin's bedroom was filled with guards. Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong were wearing helmets and armor, standing on the left and right in front of the palace door, looking majestic and murderous.

Li Shimin ordered his two generals: "Whatever monsters or demons dare to come, kill them."

"Yes, sir!" The two generals obeyed the order in a loud voice, and Li Shimin then went into the palace to sleep.

Late at night, the vengeful spirit of the Dragon King of the Jing River came again to claim his life. There were gusts of cold wind and evil aura. It flew to the front of the palace, but saw Yuchi Gong and Qin Qiong standing there majestically with dragon-slaying swords in their hands. They were filled with murderous aura, which dispersed all his cold wind and resentment.

At this time, Yuchi Gong and Qin Qiong also saw that there seemed to be a bloody dragon head in the gloomy aura in front of them. Upon seeing this, the two generals immediately gathered their strength, shouted loudly, then drew their swords and went up to chop.

The two generals were ferocious and murderous, with a strong and vicious aura, and were extremely masculine and strong.

When the wronged spirit of the Dragon King of the Jing River saw this, he was immediately frightened out of his wits and turned around to flee. In the blink of an eye, he turned into a ball of ghostly mist and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)