Celestial Immortal

Chapter 996 [Golden Flower of Merit]

 Dachang Dynasty, the imperial capital of Zhongzhou.

 In the past few days, the high-level officials in the imperial court and the Immortal Courtyard have been extremely busy.

The governor of Lizhou, Bailu Xianweng, died suddenly, and the middle way of suppressing witches in the eight southwest states died, which then affected the strategic layout of the entire eight southwest states.

As a last resort, Tianchao Xianting had to temporarily adjust its layout, shrink the front line, and slowly plan for it. However, no one expected that in just a few days, the situation would reverse again. Chu Chen succeeded the White Deer Immortal and actually took up the task of suppressing the army again. Wu Zhongren completely reversed the situation.

This made the core members of the imperial capital happy, but also a little depressed.

Previously, the strategic layout was adjusted, whether it was the court or the fairy court, with great efforts. There was a big change of officials, immortals, ghosts and gods in Lizhou. The personnel transfer involved was extremely complicated, involving several states, and many officials, immortals, officials, ghosts and gods were involved. The mobilization imperial edict and the Immortal Court edict have been sent out.

At present, the situation is changing again and again. The previous personnel arrangements may be inappropriate, and it is difficult to change them day and night. We have to weigh all parties and rearrange them.

 This involves the interests of the Jade Emperor and Ziwei sects, and the situation is quite complicated. It cannot be completely adjusted in a day or two, and it is a big trouble.

In the past three or four days, the Chaotang Cabinet and the Immortal Presbyterian Council were engaged in personnel transfers. A group of great scholars and high-level officials were furiously arguing. Each had his or her own opinions and demands, and sought a balance in the debate.

  Imperial Palace, Xuanzheng Hall, Noon Dynasty.

Mr. Mingjing sat on the dragon's throne. Below him, the first minister of the cabinet, the four major ministers, the nine elders of the Immortal Court, and a group of high-ranking officials and high-ranking officials of the Immortal Court sat down one by one to discuss important matters.

Since he came to the throne, Mr. Ming Jing has been very diligent and worked hard to govern. He has two regular court meetings every day, morning court and noon court, every day. Dachang has a vast territory, and important emergencies happen from time to time. It is also a good idea to summon ministers to attend the evening court. A common thing.

 Compared with the morning dynasty, which summons hundreds of officials, and the late dynasty, which responds to emergencies, under normal circumstances, the real decisions of the Celestial Court often occur in the afternoon dynasty, when Mr. Mingjing discusses with the cabinet ministers, the chief elders of the celestial court, and others.

The documents sent out from the Xuanzheng Hall represent the highest decision-making of the Immortal Court of the Celestial Dynasty. One word can control the situation of the world.

 In the hall, as the documents in front of the case gradually became empty, Mr. Ming Jing relaxed a little. Perhaps he remembered something, and he asked casually:

“What’s going on with the personnel arrangements in the eight southwest states?”

“Your Majesty, the arrangements have been made.”

Tianshi Gutong Zhenren cupped his hands and explained:

"Right now, the focus of the eight southwest states is on Lizhou. In the next few years, Lizhou will still focus on suppressing witches. Therefore, the immortal officials, ghosts and gods appointed in this round are mainly good at catching monsters and handling cases, accounting for 80% of them. The immortal officials, ghosts and gods who preach will be supplemented, and in the future, according to the situation of the witch hunt, the number of immortal officials, ghosts and gods who preach and educate will gradually increase."

 “Great good!”

Mr. Mingjing casually took a photo of the candidates for the Department of Ghosts and Gods, the Department of Supervision, and the Taoist Academy in all major prefectures and counties in Lizhou. After a casual glance, he found that the general situation was quite in line with his wishes, and he immediately nodded with satisfaction.

After looking at it for a while, he perhaps thought of something and looked at Master Gutong:

“Friends of the Ancient Way, inspectors of Lizhou, are there any candidates for Xianting?”

"Your Majesty, I have discussed with Taoist friends Yulou, Chongxu and other Taoist friends, and they all agreed that the position of Supervisor of Lizhou should be concurrently held by Taoist Chu, who will be in charge of the suppression of witches, and will be more responsible for the situation in Lizhou and the southwest. For advantage."

Zhenren Gutong felt quite sad.

 Although this proposal was proposed by Master Yulou, he had no objection.

Before that, he had been proposing that Bailu Xianweng, who was the governor of the state at the time, should also serve as the supervisor of Lizhou and take charge of the witch hunt. Now that Lizhou was entering the crucial final battle of the witch hunt, he had no objection at all and could only make up his mind. Check your nose.

Immediately, Master Gutong said again:

“Your Majesty, given the ability of Daoist friend Chu, give him a term of office. After three years, he will surely be able to finish the witch hunt. It won’t be too late to choose another Lizhou Supervisor at that time!”

Mr. Mingjing, all the pavilion elders, and the great elders in the hall nodded slightly, and they all agreed.

 In fact, everyone has already reached a consensus on this matter, and they are not surprised at all. On the contrary, everyone is very interested in the "witch hunt" deadline.

 Youge Lao smiled and asked jokingly:

“Fellow Ancient Daoist, are you so confident in Daoist Chu that you can slay Litian Witch God in three years?”

Mr. Gutong smiled.

In fact, if one puts aside the factional stance, he quite appreciates Chu Chen's way of doing things. In addition, Chu Chen inherited the witch-killing magic weapon and legacy of his old friend and subordinate Bailu Xianwen. If the witch **** can be destroyed, Bailu Xianwen will also benefit. He is very happy to see the results.

“Yes, I am quite optimistic about Fellow Daoist Chu. I am not sure that under his leadership, it will take less than three years to eradicate the Litian Witch God!”

 “Happy friends on the ancient road!”

 In the hall, all the pavilion elders and great elders laughed and agreed, and the scene was quite lively.

On the side, Master Yulou and Taoist Chongxu frowned slightly.

Zhenren Gutong's tone is a bit too high, and he is suspected of trying to kill Chu Chen.

Master Yulou thought for a moment, without hesitation, and planned to say a few words. However, just when he was about to speak, a roar came through the clouds from outside the hall.

 Everyone in the hall was a third-grade monk with great supernatural powers. They had keen spiritual senses and immediately swept over.

The one coming roaring over was the golden-armored divine general from the palace. At this moment, he came in a hurry with a scroll in his hand.

"Report! Si Tianjian, the eight states in the southwest are experiencing strange phenomena, auspiciousness descending from the sky, and golden light rolling hundreds of miles away!"

 Auspiciousness descends from heaven!

When Mr. Ming Jing heard this, a look of surprise appeared on Feng Qingyun Dan's face.

 What happy event happened?

As soon as he thought about it, Mr. Mingjing reached out to take the folded book handed over by Si Tianjian, and his consciousness sank into it.

 At the next moment, Mr. Ming Jing was first surprised and overjoyed.

When all the pavilion elders and elders in the hall saw this, they were extremely curious as to what happened that surprised Mr. Ming Jing so much.

“Your Majesty, what happened in the eight southwest states?”

 “It’s a great event!”

 Sitting on the dragon chair, Mr. Ming Jing was quite excited:

“Si Tianjian reported that the visions in the eight southwest states were merit sent from heaven. It is suspected that someone killed Li Tian, ​​the witch god. Heaven and earth felt it and sent down immeasurable merit!”

 Somewhere, heaven and earth may have confirmed it.

The next moment, golden lights of merit and virtue appeared out of thin air in the Xuanzheng Hall.

Among them, the most dazzling one is none other than Mr. Ming Jing, with strands of golden light flashing from the top of his head and sinking into his body.

Xianting Immortal Celestial Master Gu Tongzhenren, envoy of the Eight Southwest States Demon Academy, Chongxu Taoist, the golden light of merit above his head is second only to Mr. Mingjing.

In addition, many people in the palace also have some merits and virtues.

"This is."

 For a time, the originally quiet palace suddenly became boiling with heated discussions.

Everyone in the palace is a well-informed person. As soon as they saw this scene, they guessed something.

 It was the people from the Immortal Court of Heaven who killed the Witch God Li Tian!

Only in this way, Mr. Mingjing, Master Gutong, Taoist Chongxu and other high-level officials in the Celestial Dynasty can benefit from it.

 You Xianting Gaogong swallowed his saliva, with a look of disbelief in his eyes.

 As a result, everyone looked at Taoist Chongxu.

Taoist Chongxu is one of the nine great elders of the Immortal Court. He has been in charge of the Demon Court in the Eight Southwest States for a long time. He is responsible for promoting the affairs of demons and gods in the eight states. He is the top leader of the Immortal Court in the Eight Southwest States.

“Fellow Taoist Chongxu, what happened in the eight southwest states?”

"I don't know what I am doing now." Taoist Chongxu looked embarrassed. He really didn't know what was going on.

 After speaking, he said nothing, his mind returned to his true self, and asked about the situation.

Mr. Mingjing, Mr. Gutong, Mr. Yulou and others also showed their magical powers and secretly communicated the situation in the eight southwest states tens of thousands of miles away.

 After a while.

“It was actually the handiwork of Fellow Daoist Chu, who beheaded the Witch God Li Tian!”

 All the senior executives of the Pavilion and the elders of Immortal Court in the hall showed strange expressions.

　　Three years, why should it be three years? Chu Chen killed the Witch God Li Tian in three days, transferred him to Lizhou as a clerk, and did not even have a chance to leave the imperial capital.

 The imperial capital of Zhongzhou was shocked by the vision of heaven and earth in Lizhou, and the eight southwest states in the "epicenter" were even more shocked.

At the moment when the vision of golden light rolling hundreds of miles appeared, almost all the top powerhouses in the eight southwest states were alarmed, whether they were old monsters who fell asleep, or masters who were meditating in seclusion, or even those who were fighting fiercely. The people who were fighting each other stopped at the same time and looked sideways, all showing shock.

 Yaozhou Divine Fox Palace.

 “Old mother, this is.”

Little Fox Fairy Daiyan was originally asking Old Mother Xinyue for advice on her confusion about spiritual practice, when she suddenly saw a vision, her face was full of surprise and curiosity.

“It is a blessing from heaven that there is such a big battle in the direction of Lizhou. It must be the death of the Litian Witch God. Only after his death can there be such a movement.”

Old mother Xinyue made deductions and exclaimed in surprise.

 What a blessing!

Except for the demonic monks who do not practice meritorious deeds and have completely fallen into evil and heretic ways, whether they are human or demonic, or which sect they practice, the golden light of merit is a great blessing for their practice.

 The golden light of merit not only affects fortune and luck, but is also of great use in practicing and attaining the Tao.

Anyone who sees this scene will show envy.

 Lizhou Litian Witch God

Little Fox Fairy Daiyan was startled when she heard this and vaguely guessed something:

 “Is it Erlang?”

“Yes, yes, we did it, quack, quack, quack!”

The little devil is holding the dream stone, the pride and anger on his face are clear and undisguised.

If you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that there is a rich golden light of merit emerging from him.

"Hmph~ Let me tell you, I have done a great service. I tricked the Litian Witch God, and I beat him unconscious with a catastrophe. For my senior brother to be able to kill him so smoothly, I have done a great service. "

“What, you don’t believe it? If you don’t believe it, ask my senior brother.”

"I"

 On the other side, Chu Chen saw the little ghost boy like this and shook his head, dumbfounded.

 In fact, his current situation is similar.

After the "merits from heaven", all his [Golden Dragon Order], [Lizhou Capital Control Order] and [Lizhou Supervisory Order] were all in trouble, and inquiries from tens of thousands of miles away, or even hundreds of thousands of miles away came one after another. , all asking if he killed Li Tian Witch God.

 Like the little devil, he basically said "yes, yes, it's me".

Even though he didn’t mean to show off, the sensation caused by the vision of “golden light rolling hundreds of miles” was far beyond his expectation.

 The response from the outside world was huge, and he was not surprised at all.

The matter of slaying witches is quite difficult. Even if he wins the battle from a distance, it will not be easy to eradicate them completely. Immortal Court must not have thought that he could kill the evil witches and wipe out the demons in just three days. atmosphere.

What really surprised Chu Chen was that the golden light of merit that came from killing the Witch God Li Tian was so huge.

Just now, he found out after contacting the Lizhou Supervision Department.

In addition to him, all those who participated in the witch hunt and made meritorious deeds in Lizhou had golden light of merit descending on them.

Most of them are gone, and there are a few rays of people.

In addition, since all the officials in Lizhou are involved, the big bosses in the temples of the imperial capital must not be able to escape, and everyone will benefit.

 Of course, among them, Chu Chen gained the most.

“Slaying the Witch God Li Tian has such great merit!”

 Under normal circumstances, there will be no golden light of merit coming from killing demons and heretics.

Even if he kills the extremely powerful **** Jian Wanggu, I guess heaven and earth will not reward him with any golden light of merit.

As a Shinto god, Litian Witch God, the Shinto practice method he developed may involve or even threaten the "will of heaven and earth", which is why there is such a big scene.

Chu Chen was secretly surprised and had some guesses in his heart.

 Speaking of which, this is not the first time that he has gained the golden light of merit.

In the past, he taught one party and received special commendations from the Heavenly Court twice, sending down sixteen golden lights of merit. Later, he rescued his disciple Chu Baiqing, who was born as an innate spirit, and received another twenty golden lights of merit, all in total. Thirty-six golden lights of merit.

However, compared to this time, it pales in comparison.

This time, the heaven and the earth felt it and rained down forty golden lights of merit in one breath.

This is nothing.

In addition to the golden light of merit, in the depths of Chu Chen's sea of ​​consciousness, unknowingly, there was a golden lotus blooming with golden light under the feet of his soul. The golden light of merit surrounded the golden flower, which was extremely magical.

“Could this be the legendary Golden Flower of Merit?”

Chu Chen had a vague guess.

It is said that the [Golden Flower of Merit] is the condensed merit of heaven and earth. Even for immortals and gods, the Golden Flower of Merit is an extremely precious thing that can be encountered but cannot be sought.

However, he didn’t know the specific magical functions of [Golden Flower of Merit]. Afterwards, he had to ask his father-in-law, Di Yuanlongjun, or the elders of Yuxuzi’s uncle and Yulou Zhenren.

 The vision of "golden light rolling hundreds of miles" from heaven and earth came and went away just as quickly.

While Chu Chen was thinking, the visions around him disappeared without a trace.

  Immediately afterwards, powerful auras rushed towards this side,

 “Boom!”

In the void, a crack appeared out of thin air, and an old Taoist figure with immortal style flew out.

The first person to come was none other than the Great Elder of the Immortal Courtyard and Taoist Chongxu, the envoy of the Demon Court.

 He was incarnated in the imperial capital to attend a court meeting. After learning about the matter, he came through the void without saying a word.

As soon as Taoist Chongxu saw Chu Chen, he looked at the mountain temple that had been reduced to ruins in the green mountains at his feet. His face was full of curiosity:

“Fellow Daoist Chu, how did you kill the Witch God Li Tian? His other two clones”

 (End of this chapter)