Immortal world, heavenly court, the eighteenth heaven, Tai'an Emperor Yatian.

Vast and desolate, vast sea of clouds. The tall and majestic Nantianmen exudes dazzling brilliance in the sea of clouds. Whenever an immortal passes by here and looks at this magnificent gate, he will inevitably have an urge to bow and worship.

This is the South Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Court, the main gate of the Lingxiao Heavenly Palace, the power center of the Immortal Realm.

From here, you can enter the court of the fairy world, and even have the honor to see the legendary Jade Emperor's heavenly face!

What a glory it is.

The Jade Emperor, the immortal saint, the lord of the immortals, the leader of the immortal kingdom, the "Emperor God" who worships the Son of Heaven in the world, the "Heavenly Father" and "God" in the mouths of the people in the mortal world, and the nominal co-lord of the four worlds of immortals, people, underworld, and Buddha - the legendary "Haotian Jinque Supreme Supreme Natural Miluo Supreme Jade Emperor God", "High Heavenly Sage Great Merciful Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable Xuanqiong High God".

However, it is a pity that the holy face of the co-master of the Four Realms is definitely not something that can be admired if you want to. Many scattered immortals who have ascended to the eighteenth heaven, and even many immortal officials who have been recruited from various official offices in the heavenly court and even the immortal realm to serve in the eighteenth heaven have never seen the Jade Emperor himself—since he came here, he has never seen them—for example, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan, who are the halberd-wielding guards of the South Heavenly Gate.

If you really want to talk about it, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan, the two comrades-in-arms who were on the list of gods in the battle of the gods, have always been very embarrassed in their status in the heavenly court.

After the end of the great cause of the war, at the god sealing ceremony personally presided over by Jiang Shang, the closed disciple of Yuan Shi Tianzun and the Taigong of the Western Zhou Dynasty, as the top two of the four generals Deng, Xin, Zhang and Tao who were collected by Wen Zhong in Huanghua Mountain during his expedition to Xiqi, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan were worshiped by Jiang Shang as the gods of the heavenly court together with the coach Wen Zhong.

Because Wen Zhong was named the "Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Thunder Universalization Tianzun" who commanded the "Thunder Department" and "the disaster and blessing of the Lord's heaven, the weighing of things, the control of things and people, and the killing of Si Sheng", so Deng Zhong and Xin Huan were naturally eliminated into the thunder department under Wen Zhong's command, and became the two major thunder ministers under his command, assisting Wen Zhong in opening the government of the Shenlei Jade Mansion, and setting up "the middle division of the 36 inner courts, the East and West Huatai, the Xuanguan Miaoge, the four mansions and the six courtyards and the various divisions, each with its own bureau" (Note (1)).

At that time, the Heavenly Court had only just been established for more than a thousand years, and the losses of the "Buzhou God War" (Note (2)) had not yet fully recovered, but the immortals had broken out in a brutal civil war such as the Battle of the Gods. Not only the Thunder Department, but also the various ministries of the Heavenly Court, and the state and county offices of the Immortal Realm are all in urgent need of manpower. In such a bleak situation, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan, as Wen Zhong's henchmen, naturally firmly grasped the core position of the Lei Ministry.

It stands to reason that whether it is qualifications, ability, or relationship with Wen Zhong, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan are enough to gain a firm foothold in Heavenly Court and wait for their future prosperity.

Until the construction of the South Heavenly Gate.

Although from the appearance, the South Heavenly Gate is just a tall and isolated city gate, but in essence, if you want to enter the Heavenly Palace from the outside, you can only take the South Heavenly Gate, in addition to the South Heavenly Gate, prohibitions, seals, and enchantments are all over the place, and if outsiders want to enter the Heavenly Palace from elsewhere, it can only be a fool's dream.

It can be seen that as the main gate of the Immortal Palace, the role of Nantianmen is naturally self-evident.

Therefore, the Heavenly Court attaches great importance to the Nantianmen, in addition to arranging for the four brothers of the Demon Family, who were also named righteous gods due to the battle of the gods, that is, the four heavenly kings, to be in charge of patrolling the Jinwuwei to be responsible for the daily patrol and vigilance, the Jade Emperor also intends to select two capable generals from among the righteous gods of each department to be full-time Nantian Gate guards to take charge of the access control talisman.

But the Jade Emperor never expected that when he raised this matter to the immortals at a daily court meeting, the immortals fell into a rare silence.

Actually, the reason is very simple.

In fact, the Jade Emperor had already mentioned this matter to a kind of immortal family before this, but it was precisely because of that suggestion that the immortal family made such a reaction today.

The crux of the matter lies in access control.

This thing can be regarded as a good quality immortal magic weapon, but since it is a Heavenly Palace access control, it must be extraordinary - once the blood is recognized, except for the Jade Emperor himself, the guards in charge of the access control, and the person holding the Jade Emperor's Heavenly Oracle, no one can open or close the South Heavenly Gate.

It's just that once this thing is recognized, no one can transfer it unless the owner dies or the Jade Emperor decrees it. In other words, if there is no Jade Emperor's will, these two halberd-wielding guards who control the access will not only lose their original positions, but also lose the opportunity to be promoted from then on......

In this regard, a kind of immortal family naturally chose to be silent.

At that time, of course, the Jade Emperor also understood their intentions, but he was helpless.

After all, the core positions of the Heavenly Court at that time were all held by the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods on the list of gods, and although these more than 300 people were nominally his subordinates, they actually belonged to the two major forces of sect interception and sect interpretation. The existence behind these two forces, even the Lord of the Immortals like the Jade Emperor has to give three points of courtesy and treat him as a teacher.

And among the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods, most of them are sectarian monks and miscellaneous cultivators from all walks of life, most of them are dissatisfied with the outcome of the battle of the gods, and among those miscellaneous people, there are many sideways and left-minded disciples, and they finally got the "Zhao'an" of the heavenly court to achieve the right result of cultivation, how could they be willing to resign from their original immortal positions to do this thankless drudgery?

As for the exposition of the sect, it is not to be considered, as the faction that benefited the most from the war of the gods, although the number of their gods is small, they firmly control the key points of the heavenly court, and many of these righteous gods led by the exposition of the sect are Xiqi generals and ministers in the mortal world. These people have more experience but less strength, so it's okay to let them be all officials, but if you let them be guards...... When the time comes, if you really start with someone, I'm afraid that they will be the ones who will suffer in the end.

After thinking about it, the Jade Emperor finally thought of one person - Wen Zhong, who commanded the Lei Department.

Although Wen Zhong is a disciple of the sect, he is the master of Yin Shang after all, he is upright and upright, if he knows the righteousness, the Jade Emperor believes that he is still willing to share his worries.

As it turned out, the Jade Emperor was right.

As a result, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan have changed from the hot Lei Ministry's important members under Wen Zhong to the "hard-working" Nantian Gate now......

It's just that now the two of them seem a little excited, and they have changed from their gloomy and tired past.

Just now, a group of immortal officials once again walked into the Nantian Gate under the gaze of the two of them, with puzzled faces - the early dynasty has passed, but why did the Jade Emperor Great Tianzun summon the hundred officials again?

However, although the immortal officials were discussing with each other, none of them had a word to Deng Zhong and Xin Huan, or even glanced at them.

It seems that Deng Zhong and Xin Huan have long been lost in the world, they seem to have become part of Nantianmen, and they no longer have an "independent self".

However, when the figures of the immortals were gone, Deng Zhong and Xin Huan seemed to smile, and the two halves of the access control in their hands—the halberds held by the two of them—emitted a dazzling light......

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Underworld, on the banks of the Three Ways River.

Bai Wanqing lay quietly in the ice-blue coffin that had once protected Christy, surrounded by the fiery and blood-red Manzhu Sawa.

And between Bai Wanqing's closed arms, seven manzhu sawa flowers were neatly placed.

Yang Ziji stood aside and looked at it for a moment, then suddenly leaned down, pinched the magic method with both hands, pressed the largest and most colorful one in the middle of the seven manzhusha flowers in Bai Wanqing's hand with his left hand, and pointed at Bai Wanqing's eyebrows with his right hand.

This time, as if he felt Yang Ziji's call, all the Manzhu Sawa in the coffin lit up with a demonic red light......

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Exegesis:

Note (1): The content quoted in quotation marks in this paragraph is from the "Immortal Tongjian of the Past Dynasties".

Note (2): Buzhou Divine War: After the ancient gods "Jedi Tiantong" in the Zhuan era, they ordered the Honghuang Demon Clan to build a temple on the top of Buzhou Mountain to manage the human world for the gods. The nine sons of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, the lord of the Later Demon Clan, did not follow the time of the day and caused the anger of the people, and the human race finally rose up to resist under the leadership of Emperor Yao, and the "Unthoughtful God War" broke out.

In this battle, the newly rising immortals became the main force of the human race against the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, suffering heavy casualties, but also laid the foundation for the establishment of the Heavenly Court in the future.