"The Tao is the way, the very way; The name is famous, and the name is not very famous.

Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, famous, the mother of all things.

……”

The life of the green cow spirit.

Hanya Seki Retreat Room.

The moment Lao Tzu's blade fell on the bamboo slip.

Heaven and earth suddenly changed color.

Everything loses its color at this moment.

Only Lao Tzu is left within an inch, the color is still the same, and the brilliance is shining.

Wisps of light swirled and rose, emanating from him an indescribable mysterious aura.

Bang!

Thousands of purple thunderbolts flickered in the sky, it was clear that it was daytime, but it was pitch black and there were no fingers, as if the end of the world.

This is the wrath of the Heavenly Dao, because someone is describing it in words.

Every time Lao Tzu carved a word or a paragraph, the heavens and the earth trembled.

Countless Heavenly Demon Shadows surrounded him, letting out bursts of ghost crying wolf howls, cursing him, bewitching him, attacking him, trying to make him stop this act of revealing heavenly secrets.

But at the same time, there are also humane merits that continue to be born, forming a colorful light shield to protect him under it, isolate the heavenly demon and evil shadow, and shelter Lao Tzu in it.

Lao Tzu is the incarnation of the Supreme Sage in the mortal world, but before the merit is consummated, there is no memory cultivation of the Supreme Sage, just an ordinary mortal.

He expounded the Great Dao in words, which was to steal the heavenly machine, but it was a great merit for humanity and the human race.

It should be noted that humanity does not specifically refer to the way of the human race, but the way of living beings and the way of all beings!

Insects, fish, birds, beasts, demons, gods and Buddhas, all creatures who give birth to consciousness and have souls and wisdom are humane!

The same is true of the human religion of the Supreme Sage, it is the religion of all living beings, not the religion of the human race.

It's just that the human race is the protagonist of the Heavenly Dao after the Lich, and it is the only protagonist, and the luck is strong, and the love of the Heavenly Dao is far from being comparable to those previous Heavenly Dao protagonists.

This is also the confidence of the human race to dare to use the same word "human" as the name of the human race in their own language and writing!

And it turns out that the confidence of the human race is not blown!

Nowadays, Xuanmen, Western religions, and even minor religions such as Brahmanism and Asura religion are trying their best to preach among the human race.

The cultists have gradually changed from being creatures of all races to being dominated by the human race.

Even if it is a demon or a monster, after cultivating successfully, he will inevitably find a way to transform into a human form and learn the language knowledge of the human race.

The Terrans are gradually becoming the main body, and even the core, of humanity!

In this way, the status of the protagonist of the human race heaven and earth will be difficult to shake!

It is when the saints see this that they will use their incarnations to reincarnate into the human race before leaving the Three Realms, forming a deeper cause and effect with the human race, and allowing their Dao system to flourish and exist forever among the human race.

Li Anran still doesn't know these inside stories, and his mind is all on the "Tao Te Ching" in front of him.

Because of the previous accumulation and precipitation, he was able to understand the content of the narrative in the Tao Te Ching.

However, it is not a simple matter to fully understand and comprehend.

However, even if he only witnessed the whole process of Lao Tzu's writing of the Tao Te Ching, his gains were great.

When Lao Tzu finished writing the Tao Te Ching.

A golden light burst out from the bamboo slip where the Tao Te Ching was written, soaring into the sky, tearing open a mouth in the black clouds in the sky.

The dazzling crystal light hangs down from mid-air, like a rainbow formed by hundreds of millions of light particles, the golden flowers are rippling, the rainbow bursts out, and the illusion is transformed into layers of clouds, full of colors.

There is also purple gas coming from the east for 30,000 miles, countless smallpox falling, and the ground is surging golden lotus.

Li Anran is already completely immersed in it.

In a trance, he saw the words in the "Tao Te Ching" flying out, like golden light, constantly hovering in his field of vision, and like Hong Zhong Da Lu, echoing infinitely in his ears.

Entered the state of epiphany that cultivators dream of!

By the time Li Anran came to his senses again, it was already thirty-three years later!

There are long and short times for epiphany, but basically, the longer the time, the greater the harvest!

Li Anran has been enlightened for thirty-three years!

Although the cultivation has not increased, the divine soul has been refined and sublimated, becoming crystal clear and rippling, with faint wisps of purple qi lingering.

In addition to this, his cognitive understanding of the Tao is completely different from before!

It is difficult to describe in words the magnitude of the benefits that these two have brought him.

The simplest and crudest point.

is also in the Golden Immortal Realm, and the strength he can exert at this time is more than several times that of before!

If he fights against Qingniu Jing again, he doesn't need Nezha's help, and he is confident that he can defeat him within three hundred moves!

However, this is also the first time that he has read through the entire Tao Te Ching.

Looking at it later, although the harvest will be not small, it will not be so exaggerated.

"It is worthy of being the incarnation of the Supreme Saint in the mortal world, but it is different! The bamboo slips that record the "Tao Te Ching" have so many humane merits and blessings, I'm afraid that they will directly become a treasure of virtue! ”

"And that Vajra Zhuo, there are so many Dao Protector Skills Refining and Infusion, no wonder it is so powerful!"

Li Anran thought of the scene in Qingniujing's life, and felt envious.

Following Lao Tzu's chicken dog to heaven, it was not only the green cow spirit and the Taoist boy around him, but also the clothes on his body, the vajra on his wrist, and the book engraved with the Tao Te Ching.

With the blessing of human merit, all these mortal things have become magic weapons of merit!

Among them, bamboo slips and vajra have received the most humane merits.

The former has the merit of recording, and the latter has the merit of protecting the Dharma.

What makes Li Anran's eyes even hotter is actually that Yin Xi!

After Lao Tzu made a consummation of merits, he directly gave him the Tao Te Ching!

This magic weapon is worthy of Li Anran's entire net worth!

Li Anran resisted the urge to continue to comprehend the Tao Te Ching, got up and walked out of the quiet room.

Before the retreat, he had already made arrangements in advance for the sake of the retreat, considering that he might need a lot of time this time, and instructed the priests and immortal officials to act as usual.

If there is something big that can't be solved, wake him up.

However, Li Anran never expected that it would take a full thirty-three years for him to have an epiphany this time!

"For immortal immortals, time is really worthless!" Li Anran couldn't help but sigh.

In the past thirty-three years, he has not been awakened by the Divine Officials and Immortal Officials, which means that nothing major has happened.

But, after all, after so long, it is a little inappropriate for him not to go out.

"My lord, are you out of the customs?"

Outside the door of the quiet room, there are heavenly soldiers and generals waiting day and night.

As soon as Li Anran went out, a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general greeted him and came up.

Soon, the news of his exit spread throughout the prison.

A group of gods and immortals hurriedly put down the matter at hand and came to report on the work during this time.

For Li Anran, he was in retreat for thirty-three years, and they were not surprised, at least those who could become the immortal officials of the Heavenly Prison Palace were all Heavenly Immortal cultivators.

They have all been in retreat for decades or even centuries!

On the contrary, Li Anran has been in retreat for no more than half a year for so many years, and it is really beyond their expectations.

And this is also one of the reasons why they unanimously believe that Li Anran is self-denying and conscientious.

As one by one the gods and immortals stepped forward to report their work, Li Anran quickly understood some of the things that had happened in the past thirty-three years.

First of all, it is the Heavenly Court.

There are a lot of big things, but not much to do with him.

For example, the purple-clothed fairy among the seven fairies was deprived of her immortal status by the queen mother because she privately moved her mortal heart and married the mortal Dong Yong, entered reincarnation, and reincarnated.

For another example, Han Zhongli, the cow herding boy of Taishang Laojun, was turned into an immortal by the iron kidnapping Li after going through the reincarnation of the ninth generation, and the time happened to be almost the same as the green cow spirit being captured back to heaven.

Wait a minute.

There are only two things related to Li Anran.

The first thing is that three years ago, the yellow-toothed old monster did not invite him because of the Queen Mother's peach banquet, and he displayed his magic power outside the Nantian Gate, incarnated into the size of a mountain, and an elephant trunk waved like a pillar of heaven, making a big fuss-

In Journey to the West, this was originally a scene of the blue-haired lion monster.

But in this world, because of Li Anran's existence, the blue-haired lion monster has been brought back by Manjushri Bodhisattva.

The one who staged the low-profile version of "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace" became a yellow-toothed old elephant.

The purpose should be the same as at the beginning, is to learn from Sun Wukong and establish prestige among monsters by making trouble in the Heavenly Palace.

The second piece is naturally the Queen Mother's peach banquet.

The reason why he said that the blue-haired lion monster in the original time and space and the current yellow-toothed old elephant outside the Nantian Gate were the low-profile version of the low-level version of the Heavenly Palace.

First, because they dared to use the law outside the Nantian Gate to scare the heavenly soldiers and generals, they didn't even get close to the Nantian Gate, so they quickly returned to Xiniu Hezhou, and then braged about it.

The second reason is that the queen mother's peach will be once every three hundred and sixty-five years.

Now, there is still a year before the Pan Tao Society, and they say that the Queen Mother did not invite them, which is a complete imitation of the monkey.

However, Li Anran, as the Heavenly God of Heaven and the Star Monarch of Guansuo, belongs to one of the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods of the Heavenly Court, but he is qualified to participate in the Pan Tao Banquet, and his location is still relatively close.

Before that, he also needs to prepare a birthday gift for the Queen Mother, and when the time comes, he will serve it in front of all the immortals.

This matter is related to the face of the Queen Mother, it is not big, but it is not small.

But he can't slack off, and he must prepare in advance.

According to the priests.

Except for the time when the monkeys made trouble in the Heavenly Palace.

As one of the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods, he will be able to get a purple-veined kernel peach that ripens once in 9,000 years, a medium peach that ripens once in 6,000 years, and four small peaches that ripen once in 3,000 years.

However, with the fact that the monkey used to take the raw peaches of all sizes in the peach orchard over and over again, it is difficult to say what the situation will be with the peaches now.

"A nuisance!" Li Anran was a little troublesome, but more curious and expectant.

After all, this peach feast can be said to be a first-class feast in the Three Realms, and he is also thunderous about the reputation of the peach, and he has wanted to taste what it tastes like since his previous life.

Compared to the fact that many major events had happened in the Heavenly Court, the Heavenly Prison was much calmer.

The first is the prisoners.

It has been cleaned up for the previous two hundred years.

There are very few monsters in the mortal world who dare to rebel and cause rebellion, and occasionally some are caught in the sky, mostly because they killed and injured the mountain god, the land god, the river god, the dragon king and the like.

Most of these monsters are cultivated in the True Immortal or Heavenly Immortal Realm, and they are not deliberately enemies of the Heavenly Court, but they have lost their hands on impulse.

There are not many immortals in Heavenly Court who dare to violate the Heavenly Rules, they have all been frightened by Yang Jian's ruthless methods, plus there are Jiazi Ji hanging above their heads, each one is more honest than the other, and the efficiency of doing things has also improved countless times compared to before.

In the past thirty-three years, the number of monsters and sin immortals who have been sent to the heavenly prison has added up to more than ten.

The Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals followed Li Anran's orders and imprisoned them in the Heavenly Prison, and there were no accidents during the period.

The only thing that Li Anran needs to deal with is the matter of Zhu Bajie.

After Emperor Donghua learned that Zhu Bajie was captured and returned to Heaven, he went to the Jade Emperor to intercede for Zhu Bajie.

The Jade Emperor remembered that Zhu Bajie had shed blood for the Heavenly Court, and decided to deal with Zhu Bajie lightly, only punishing him in the Heavenly Prison for one hundred and Chinese New Year's Eve, and then letting him go down to become a personal immortal.

The immortals of the Three Realms are divided into five levels: "Heaven and Earth, Gods, Men and Ghosts".

The Heavenly Immortals are those immortals in the Heavenly Court who serve in the immortal class, like Li Anran, Nezha and Yang Jian, who belong to the upper class of the Heavenly Immortals.

The earth immortals are the immortals who manage one side of the nether realm, and the previous Yang Jian and the current Three Holy Virgins all belong to the earth immortals.

Immortals are gods who are worshiped by incense, such as mountain gods, land and water gods, river gods, and the like.

Human immortals are a general term for the creatures who have cultivated into immortals in the mortal world, and they generally do not serve in the heavenly court, including demon immortals such as Sun Wukong Zhu Bajie, as well as some human beings who have cultivated into immortals.

Ghosts and immortals are incarnated by meritorious beings in the mortal world after death, and they serve as errands in the underworld, such as black and white impermanence, Cui Judge, and Yin Cha.

Emperor Donghua also invited the will, you can come to the prison to see Zhu Bajie for the last time.

However, Emperor Donghua was an extremely well-behaved person, and after learning that Li Anran was in retreat, he did not let the heavenly soldiers and generals disturb him.

Instead, let them inform Li Anran after he came out of the customs, and he would come to the prison to see Zhu Bajie at that time.

As a result, the wait was thirty-three years.

Zhu Bajie turned out to be sent to the scripture learning team by Emperor Donghua!

Li Anran was not surprised by this.

In the previous life, many people analyzed that Zhu Bajie was the person of Taishang Laojun, and the evidence was that the nine-tooth nail rake and Zhu Bajie had eaten Jiuzhuan Dan.

Actually, it's not.

This Nine Turns Dan is not only available to Taishang Laojun, but also to Emperor Donghua!

And it is mentioned in the chapter of Journey to the West!

In addition, judging from the fact that Zhu Bajie and the monkey threw the Sanqing statue into the dung pit in Chechi Kingdom, it is impossible for him to have a relationship with Taishang Laojun, but to have a grudge with Xuanmen!

And Emperor Donghua was forced to reincarnate and rebuild just because of an unwarranted thing, and he became Tie Gui Li's apprentice!

Zhu Bajie has resentment, and it is reasonable!

Li Anran immediately asked his subordinates to invite the Emperor of Donghua.

"Prison God."

Emperor Donghua received the news and soon drove the clouds to the outside of the Heavenly Prison Palace.

After a salute.

Emperor Donghua took out the edict of the Jade Emperor.

The content in it is to allow Emperor Donghua to enter the Heavenly Prison Palace to see Zhu Ganglie for the last time.

Li Anran led Emperor Donghua to the cell where Zhu Bajie was held.

Although Zhu Bajie is one of the four people, Li Anran does not treat him preferentially, and treats him equally.

In the past 33 years, Zhu Bajie has eaten copper pills and drank iron juice every day, and he can clearly feel that his body has lost more than a circle, and the meat on his face has sunken down.

This is still his cultivation of the Nine Transformations Yuan Gong, otherwise, his current state would only be worse.

"Master."

As soon as he saw Emperor Donghua, Zhu Bajie pounced, wept bitterly, and begged: "The disciple knows that he is wrong!" Ask Master to save the disciple! Save the disciples! ”

(End of chapter)