Journey to the West: The Eighty-One Tribulations of Being Hairless

The five-colored divine light of the Azure Lotus Palace continuously converged, forming a five-colored fruit. Accompanied by auspicious five-colored clouds, heavenly dew, celestial music, and other wondrous phenomena, it slowly drifted toward Zhou Yi!

Looking at the fruit before me, it does resemble an apple. The fruit bears divine runes of the Great Dao, the Nine Heavens Purple Palace True Lord!

Zhou Yi is ready to receive it!

However, the moment the fruit touched Zhou Yi's index finger, it transformed into beams of light and entered his body!

Envelop the Book of Changes!

Buzzing...

Time passed slowly, and when Zhou Yi opened his eyes again, a mysterious light shone in them!

"Hiss..."

"Heaven knows the wonder of my Judgment Eye, has it? It has actually granted me this authority?"

The Eye of Judgment!

It is a supreme divine power that Zhou Yi nurtured in the lower realm using a low-level Earthly Fiend Divine Eye and hundreds of thousands of merits, after absorbing the profound mysteries of thunder from Pangu's Dao Bone, and then nurtured by the Great Dao Tree!

It is said to be an unparalleled divine power, but it can actually be considered a half-step Heavenly Dao divine power.

This supernatural power grants the ability to see into the heavens, allowing one to observe the highest heavens and the deepest hells, discern falsehood, judge good and evil, and know cause and effect!

It can also unleash Five Elements Heavenly Thunder, Yin Yang Divine Thunder, and Chaos Divine Light!

The chaotic divine light has the power to harm even saints.

However, Zhou Yi dared not unleash such divine light given his current cultivation level, as it would consume too much of his magical power!

Now, his authority as the True Lord of Heaven is to monitor, judge, and punish all beings in the Three Realms. Anyone who poses a threat to the Three Realms and has deep karmic burdens will be targeted by the authority of the Book of Changes!

Targeting those who have committed heinous crimes and possess profound cultivation!

Zhou Yi can use the Eye of Judgment combined with the authority of the position of the True Lord of Heaven to summon the Hundred-Foot Heavenly Punishment Eye, and punish it with the Heavenly Punishment Thunder of Pangu!

Although the Hundred-Foot Heavenly Punishment Eye cannot compare to the Ten-Thousand-Foot Heavenly Punishment Eye, it has already touched upon the supreme authority of the Heavenly Punishment Eye!

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment is the highest and most powerful force in the primordial world!

Not just anyone can get their hands on it. Back then, even the Dao Ancestor Hongjun was only able to barely summon the Eye of Heavenly Punishment because he had merged with the Dao and held more than 50% of the Heavenly Dao's authority!

And now.....

It's estimated that no one can summon the Eye of Heavenly Punishment anymore. Perhaps if someone were to destroy the world, the Eye of Heavenly Punishment would be automatically summoned.

"My authority seems to be an enlarged version of the astronomical enforcement department!"

The Heavenly Court's Department of Law Enforcement mainly has authority over members within the Heavenly Court system, while the authority over evil spirits and demons outside the Heavenly Court system is the responsibility of the North Pole Exorcism Bureau!

It seems that the I Ching has now taken over the jobs of the law enforcement department and the Arctic Exorcism Institute!

Is that correct?

I am merely a True Lord with the cultivation level of a Celestial Immortal.

Zhou Yi was speechless at this!

Not to mention that the Department of Celestial Law Enforcement has several True Lords, such as the leader Yang Jian, and Wang Lingguan is also a True Lord.

The Arctic Exorcism Temple is filled with powerful deities.

A large number of True Lords were appointed. After the Monkey King wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, the True Martial Lord of the North Pole even attained the Dao and was promoted to the position of Emperor, taking charge of the North Pole Exorcism Academy.

This department is full of talented people!

There are many Great Immortals.

How dare the Book of Changes (Zhouyi) compete with them for power? What right does the Book of Changes have to do so?

"Fortunately, my authority is not an evil within the Heavenly Court system. As long as I don't establish my own government or military headquarters, I think these big shots won't cause me any trouble."

Unlike Yang Jian, who established his own government and set up his own faction, Zhou Yi was essentially a one-man operation with limited business.

If they were to truly establish their own government and establish a small celestial court, they would indeed become a thorn in the side of the Arctic Exorcism Bureau and the Department of Celestial Enforcement.

However, even if he establishes his own domain and forces, he will probably only be able to deal with cultivators below the Taiyi Golden Immortal level. After all, Zhou Yi's cultivation level is too low now, probably only slightly stronger than Xiao Zuanfeng on the Monkey King's journey to the West!

Perhaps similar to the King of Nanshan!

Just as Zhou Yi's mind was racing, a laugh rang out, "Hahaha..." Zhou Yi looked up and saw it was his old friend, True Lord Han.

"I never expected that you would have made such great progress after all these decades. I am truly envious!"

The old Taoist priest's eyes were filled with envy!

Although he also holds the position of a True Lord!

However, he cannot compare to Zhou Yi. His position as a True Lord is merely a nominal one, governing the Three Mountains and Five Peaks, while Zhou Yi is the True Lord of Pangu.

Incomparably noble!

Authority is also real power!

The future achievements will be far beyond his own. A being born in a small world has suddenly surpassed him. How could he not be envious?

There was even a hint of jealousy!

"Greetings, senior!"

"Ah, there's no need for that. We are both True Lords, so we can address each other as fellow Daoists. If you think highly of me, you can call me 'brother' without any problem."

But Han Zhenjun waved his hand repeatedly and said...

"In that case, I've met Brother Han. May I ask what brings you here?"

Since the other party had said that, Zhou Yi couldn't possibly refuse. The other party was a genuine Great Luo Golden Immortal, and he was willing to set aside his pride to acknowledge him as a younger brother. Of course, he wouldn't refuse.

No matter when or where, it's always better to have one more friend than one more enemy.

"This is a good thing!"

Brother Zhou, if your promotion to the rank of True Lord is not accompanied by a rank of Seven, it would show that His Majesty does not respect talent. Therefore, I have brought His Majesty's decree to confer upon you the rank of Fifth-Rank Law Enforcement Immortal!

"Seventh-rank Immortal Enforcement Officer, True Lord Qinglian, receives the decree!"

After saying that, Han Zhenjun took out the decree and proclaimed it to Zhou Yi.

"Your subject obeys the imperial decree!"

"Now there is Pangu, a celestial being named Qinglian, who has been promoted to the position of True Lord of Heaven and Earth. He is favored by Heaven and Earth and is truly a person of great merit and virtue in the Three Realms. Therefore, he is specially bestowed with five nine-thousand-year-old purple-patterned peaches as a reward. It is hoped that he will continue his efforts!"

He is hereby promoted to Grand Celestial Enforcer of the Heavenly Court. So be it!

Brother, accept the imperial decree!

"Your Majesty, I thank you for your great kindness!"

Upon hearing the decree, Zhou Yi's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't expected the Jade Emperor to be so generous, promoting him to the fifth rank of celestial official, which meant he had entered the middle level of the Heavenly Court system!

It doesn't look like anything!

However, Zhou Yi is only at the level of a Celestial Immortal. Who knows how many Celestial Immortals are still waiting for a vacancy in the Celestial Official position!

Zhou Yi has now been directly promoted to a mid-level celestial official!

This is probably the only case like this in the entire Three Realms!

Of course, it is indeed a unique case that someone with the cultivation level of a Celestial Immortal could attain the rank of a True Lord!

A fifth-rank celestial official is normal; after all, it would be a bit too much for a True Lord to join the Heavenly Court and only be granted a low-ranking celestial official position.

Five 9,000-year-old purple-veined peaches!

This is a true treasure!

At least that's true for celestial cultivators!

To advance to the Immortal Golden Immortal realm, a Celestial Immortal cultivator needs to use innate Dao Qi as a foundation and then steal the power of creation from heaven and earth through the Gate of Creation to nurture a wisp of innate, indestructible spiritual light!

The necessary prerequisite for nurturing this wisp of innate, immortal spiritual light is an innate divine object!

Just like these nine-thousand-year-old peaches, they are innate divine objects!

A single nine-thousand-year-old peach is enough to allow a ninth-grade celestial immortal to successfully advance to the level of an immortal golden immortal!

A single nine-thousand-year-old peach is enough to allow a Golden Immortal cultivator to fully cultivate their initial magical power!

Even worse!

At the Jade Pool Peach Banquet, only Great Luo Golden Immortals are qualified to taste the nine-thousand-year-old peaches. Now, the Jade Emperor has bestowed five upon me, which shows how generous the Jade Emperor is to me!

"His Majesty is a good person!"