The Ambush of Ten Sides Sound Restriction was destroyed. This technique was connected to the spirit of the Great Emperor of Ziwei, causing him to bleed from all his orifices. He almost died on the spot. Fortunately, he had a Dao item, the Sobering Felt, to protect his body. It was able to heal him in time, replenish his Celestial Core Power, stabilize his spirit, and replenish his life.
The green bull was obedient and took advantage of the chaos to take action. He took out the pegasus from the Diamond Chakram and rode on it. Taking advantage of the fact that Bo Yikao's seal was broken, he rode on the clouds and escaped from Yuan Hong and Bai Jian's pursuit.
Kong Qiu had miscalculated. Bai Jian could restrain the green bull, and Yuan Hong was proficient in the Seventy-two Transformations. His Abhijna was equivalent to Sun Wukong, but they did not have the speed of the Somersault Cloud. It was difficult for them to catch up with Daoist Yu Qing's mount.
As such, the strategy of splitting up the troops to surround and capture them failed completely. The two targets escaped. The Nine Transformations Golden Pill and the Diamond Chakram were not recovered, and the heretic and traitor were not killed.
Venerable Fiery Dragon was furious, Yuan Hong scratched his ears and cheeks, and Bai Jian cried out. Only Kong Qiu remained calm and continued to use the Art of Divination to deduce the whereabouts of the two enemies.
At this moment, the Elder Lord's incarnation, Daoist Yu Qing, also arrived at the scene. He had just finished dealing with the fire in the Eight Visions Palace and rushed over to capture Yang Ye and the green bull. In the end, he heard the worst news.
"A bunch of trash. Even the five great gods could not delay the heretic and the beast for a moment!"
Venerable Fiery Dragon, Kong Qiu, Yuan Hong, Bo Yikao, and Bai Jian hurriedly knelt down and apologized. After all, Daoist Yu Qing was only the incarnation of a Sage and not the Elder Lord himself. He only had the combat power of Abhijna and did not have the ability to predict the future. At this moment, the Eight Visions Palace suffered heavy losses and was in chaos.
"Kong Qiu, quickly atone for your sins. Use the Art of Divination of the Confucian Sect to deduce the possible locations of the heretic and the beast!"
Kong Qiu bowed and said, "Yes." Then, he took out a tortoiseshell and began to calculate. His expression changed drastically in an instant, and he was full of awkwardness. He said in a trembling voice, "Reporting to Saint Yuqing, for some reason, I can't calculate any karma of the green bull. This evil beast seems to have jumped out of the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements. It has become the so-called escaped one of the great titles of the Heavenly Way's Divination."
"The escaped one …" Daoist Yu Qing heard the news and his face turned gloomy. He suddenly thought of an unfathomable comment about the green bull that the original body Taishang Laojun once said in a divination of the Heavenly Mystery, "Poor fortune, the ugliness of farming, one wrong thought, one wrong thought, one free thought!"
"Could it be that the black ox, like Yang Ye and Sun Wukong, is a Tribulation Taker in the second purge of the Space of Fate?"
Daoist Yu Qing was deep in thought with a frown when the Great Emperor of Ziwei, Bo Yikao, stepped out and said, "Saint Yu Qing, since the Holy Master couldn't calculate the whereabouts of the green bull, we naturally can't do anything about it. However, even if we can't catch the evil beast, we can still deal with the heretic Yang Ye and kill him. It's good enough that we can take back half of the Nine Transformations Golden Pill. "
Kong Qiu poured cold water on them and said, "Unfortunately, Yang Ye has great supernatural powers and profound attainments. He's proficient in the Two Hearts Technique and has the protection of the Supreme Devil Ring. Although he's not the escaped one like the green bull, it's still very difficult and slow to calculate his whereabouts. Even if we can calculate his whereabouts, he would have already left in advance and gone to a new place."
The Great Emperor of Ziwei smiled and said, "You worry too much. There's no need to calculate attainments to catch Yang Ye. During the battle just now, I've used the Fuxi Zither and planted the Mind Tracking Seed on the heretic. As long as I use the Fuxi Zither's forbidden spell, I'll be able to track his whereabouts."
Daoist Yu Qing was overjoyed and said, "Wonderful, it's all thanks to the Emperor's meticulous planning. Let's see how good your technique is."
Just like that, the six deities set off together to track Yang Ye. Using the Fuxi Zither as a guide, they soon arrived at the Sea of Sorrows far away from the Eight Visions Palace.
When the deities saw the Sea of Sorrows, they were all dumbfounded. Bo Yikao looked at the instructions of the Fuxi Zither and smiled bitterly.
"Damn the heretic, he's too cunning. He actually chose this place to escape!"
Daoist Yu Qing said hatefully, "It was definitely that beast, the azure ox, that taught him. Otherwise, no matter how cunning that heretic, Yang Ye, is, he would definitely not have found this place that we gods are unable to track down and fled."
Sorrows
The Sea of Sorrows Great Illusionary Land was a place that controlled the fate of the three thousand worlds in the Creation Space. Every drop of seawater was formed by the tears of infatuated men and women. To the Qi Practitioners who cultivated the Eight Visions Palace's Tai Qing Daoist techniques and the True Gods who specialized in the cultivation of the Celestial Dao, it was extremely harmful and corrosive. The immortal cultivators would damage their Dao fruits and the celestial cultivators would damage their merits. Therefore, no one dared to enter this sea, from Daoist Yu Qing to the weakest Bo Yikao.
Just as they were in a dilemma, the waves in the Sorrows Sea suddenly surged and a fleet of ships appeared. They were all three-story golden flagships that looked mighty and majestic. On the deck of the flagship stood a purple-colored fatty. He wore golden armor, had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a fierce face. He was more than ten feet tall and had a huge waist. He held a nine-toothed rake and a military flag was hung behind him. The flag read 'Canopy Marshal Zhu!'
Canopy Marshal was the highest commander of the Heavenly River Navy under the Jade Emperor's command. He was Zhu Ganglie, the previous incarnation of the Journey to the West's male protagonist, Daoist Yu Qing. His master was really the Elder Lord who had transformed into Daoist Yu Qing and taught him the Nine Transformations Golden Pill to become a True God in one step. He also taught him the divine weapon, the nine-toothed rake, and the thirty-six transformations of the Heavenly Dipper.
Zhu Ganglie stood at the bow of the ship and bowed to Daoist Yu Qing from afar, "Greetings, master. I'm wearing armor, so I don't dare to bow fully. Please forgive me."
Daoist Yu Qing was overjoyed when he saw Zhu Ganglie leading the army. He thought to himself, "This person is the best candidate to enter the Sorrows Sea to capture the heretic Yang Ye."
The reason for this was that Zhu Ganglie was different from the other disciples of the Bajing Palace. He had never learned the Taiqing Sect's entry skill, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scriptures. He only relied on the Nine Transformations Golden Pill to achieve the Immortal Realm, which was comparable to the Five Tribulations Golden Immortals. He had never gone through the Thunder Tribulation, nor did he overcome his inner demons.
"Disciple Ganglie, where did you come from?"
Zhu Ganglie replied, "Master, I received a message from Junior Brother Zhuge that the heretic Yang Ye had sneaked into the Heavenly Court and colluded with the evil Green Bull to steal the Nine Transformations Golden Pill from the Bajing Palace. He might escape by entering the Sorrows Sea. Hence, I asked Old Zhu to lead the army and wait for orders."
It turned out that after Zhuge Liang received half of Saint Vitality from Daoist Zhunti, he gave up on all his important matters and hid in Mount Buzhou of the Thirty-first Heaven. He painstakingly comprehended the rules of the saints and temporarily handed over the task of dealing with Yang Ye to his Senior Brother, Immortal Fire Dragon.
Zhuge Liang's fortune-telling skills were much better than the Confucian Saint Kong Qiu. One day, when he was cultivating, he felt uneasy and pinched his fingers to predict. As a result, he resolved Yang Ye's multiple methods of confusing the mysteries of the heavens and obtained crucial information. He knew that Yang Ye had escaped to the Sorrows Sea. Hence, he used the Dream Entering Technique and dispatched the Canopy Marshal Zhu Ganglie to deal with Yang Ye.
Daoist Yu Qing nodded gently and said, "It's all thanks to Kongming's thoughtfulness. However, Ganglie, if you lead the Heavenly River Navy into the Sorrows Sea, it's hard to guarantee that you won't anger the Illusion Fairy of the Great Illusionary Land. This woman is not a reasonable person. Her magic treasure, the Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror, is a rare and powerful Dao item in the Three Thousand Worlds of the Creation Space. You must not underestimate it. "
When Zhu Ganglie heard this, he laughed loudly and said, "Rest assured, Sage Yu Qing. Mister Kongming has long planned to borrow the Heavenly Book of the Deification of the Gods as a protective magic treasure for me. However, with this magic treasure protecting me, even if all the women in the Sorrows Sea were to rebel, I can kill one of them. If a group of them were to rebel, I'll kill them all."
Daoist Yu Qing was still worried. He took the Ganoderma Ruyi Scepter that he had just snatched and handed it to Zhu Ganglie and said, "It's good that you have such a desire to build up your career. Take this treasure and take it to the heretics."
Let's not talk about how Zhu Ganglie thanked him profusely, received the Dao item, and prepared for the operation with ulterior motives. Let's talk about Yang Ye's situation.
The clues provided by the Zither of Fuxi, the Great Emperor of Ziwei, were not wrong. Yang Ye had really followed the green ox's instructions and escaped into the Sorrows River. He mainly cultivated the Nine Transformations Origin Technique, the Qi of Blood, and the Cauldron Casting Technique of the Mystic Fairy Battle. He did not practice the ascetic and heartless things of the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord's Eight Visions Palace's Tai Qing lineage. Therefore, the Sorrows River's water was not harmful to him at all.
To be honest, Yang Ye did not trust the green ox. He knew that the mount of the former Saint was extremely cunning even though it appeared to be straightforward.
The green ox was also greedy and only sought personal gain. It violated the rule of splitting the Nine Transformations Golden Pills fifty-fifty. It took the larger purple-gold gourd for itself and only gave the smaller one to Yang Ye.
After all, the green ox was an elder in the Eight Visions Palace. It knew the quota of the two gourds beforehand. The larger gourd had eight hundred pills while the smaller gourd only had two hundred pills. However, Yang Ye was not disappointed at all. Instead, he was filled with joy. This was because he relied on one of the Six Great Buddhist Mystical Abilities bestowed by the Ying Luo Dao Artifact to see the true difference in value between the two gourds.
The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord's Nine Transformations Golden Pills had two major effects. They could increase one's lifespan and immortality. They could also increase one's Dharmic powers greatly and directly reach the Fifth Tribulation Longevity Realm. However, such a Golden Pill was only the Lesser Nine Transformations Golden Pill. There was another type that was even more powerful, called the Greater Nine Transformations Golden Pill.
This type of Greater Nine Transformations Golden Pill had the effect of nine Lesser Nine Transformations Golden Pills. Furthermore, it had the additional effect of making the user indestructible. The indestructible effect of the Greater Nine Transformations Golden Pill was not an ordinary indestructible effect. It did not only affect the physical body but also the soul. No matter how a cultivator reincarnated, as long as their true spirit was not destroyed, they would forever remain indestructible.
Relying on the blessings of Sun Wukong, the protagonist of the Journey to the West's mythical battlefield, as well as the influence of the emperor's aura and the Qilin's bloodline, the green ox's cleverness caused it to suffer greatly. In fact, the large gourd contained the Lesser Nine Transformations Golden Pills. As for the small gourd, it contained the Greater Nine Transformations Golden Pills. Although there were few of them, their total value was far greater.
Other than that, Yang Ye was pleasantly surprised to discover that even the small gourd that contained the Greater Nine Transformations Golden Pills was not an ordinary item. In essence, it was the powerful Dao artifact, the Purple-Gold Red Gourd, that the Golden Horn King and the Silver Horn King had brought down the Pingding Mountain in Journey to the West.
The Purple-Gold Red Gourd was a Dao artifact of the cultivation system. It was a Connate treasure that separated the heavens and the earth. It came from a strand of immortal vines under the Kunlun Mountain. It had the effect of containing all things and carrying the universe. As long as the owner of the treasure called out the name and the enemy agreed, they would immediately be sucked into the gourd. If it was coupled with a post that said "Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, urgent as the law orders", the person in the gourd would turn into pus and blood in an instant.
Yang Ye did not have the Dao Ancestor's post. Naturally, it was difficult for him to use the Purple-Gold Red Gourd's special effect of turning people into pus and blood in an instant. However, he also had the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Talisman from Goddess Nuwo, so he could barely do something else.
He transformed into the Golden Roc and flew to the center of the Sorrowful Sea. He found a deserted island and took out the authentic Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace that he had snatched from the Eight Visions Palace from the Gourd of Fortune. Then, he poured all the Greater Nine Transformations Golden Pills into the furnace and stored them.
As for the Purple-Gold Red Gourd, Yang Ye had to guard against the Dao Ancestor, Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, leaving it with the Big Dipper Sword and the Golden Canopy Rope.
Yang Ye activated the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Talisman. Goddess Nuwo's beautiful face and snake body suddenly appeared and pressed down from above. Her jade-like palm was like a mountain crushing an egg, turning the three treasures into pure energy.
"Heresy, you deserve to die. How dare you blaspheme the sacred artifact of the Grand Supreme Patriarch."
The powerful voice of the Eastern District's Saint Dao Ancestor suddenly shook and collided with Yang Ye's five senses. His aura was majestic and unstoppable, almost causing his soul to dissipate. However, at the critical moment, Yang Ye's Yang God escaped and released half of Daoist Cundi's Saint Essence light. He used a saint to suppress a saint and turned the danger into safety.
"Over and over again, it's the same slogan! Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, don't you think that the routine is too old? " Yang Ye overcame the crisis and sneered. He seized the opportunity and controlled the Gourd of Fortune to chant an incantation. "Here, load the universe and absorb energy!"
The Gourd of Fortune soared into the sky on its own. Like a whale sucking in water, it absorbed all the energy of the Purple-Gold Red Gourd and the other three treasures. Finally, it pushed itself to the realm of a complete Dao artifact. From then on, Yang Ye's natal Dharma treasure had become a medium-class world. It had new special effects such as creating things in the void, shifting stars, capturing enemies by name, and so on.
They were both Dao artifacts, but the power of the Gourd of Fortune was higher than the Seven Treasured Sabers of Spirit Returning, the Demon Sword of Hell's Gate, and the Supreme Demon Ring combined. Even Daoist Cundi's augmentation divine pestle was far inferior to it. Perhaps only the Golden Steel Chakram in the green ox's hand could resist it.
(End of chapter)
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