Long Ji classmate opened her two big long legs and walked out, cultivating for 7749 days. She was hungry, and she just wanted to go back now to find two peaches to eat.
Just two steps, Deng Chanyu grabbed her.
What's up?
Deng Chanyu pointed at her with her nose, and Long Ji unconsciously licked her lips, looking around nervously to the left and right.
Deng Chanyu pointed to the front: "What expression is that? I mean this."
The alchemy room is in the side hall, so they couldn't climb out the window. They had to go through the main gate, which naturally meant passing through the main hall.
At this moment, in the center of the main hall, there is an altar dedicated to a golden dragon-headed cane.
Deng Chanyu pulled Long Ji, and the two of them bowed respectfully.
After leaving the Tuoluogong, Long Ji asked about the cane: "A Yu, is that the cane of the Taiqing Saint?"
Deng Chanyu was even more confused: "Your parents are the supreme beings of the world, and you don't know about that cane?"
Long Ji pouted: "No one has ever told me."
Deng Chanyu could only lower her voice and enlighten this sacred offspring: "That is the Nine Dragon Golden Cane that Daozu used before he became a saint. Afterward, Daozu gave it to Taiqingsaint, known as 'Today's Nine Dragons to grant Tausup, Forever as the Sovereign of the Mystic Gate'. You should have heard that?"
"Oh—" Long Ji suddenly realized: "I think I heard my mother mention it. How do you know about it? Did the Empress of Heaven tell you?"
In fact, Deng Chanyu had heard from Qingniu, but she definitely had to give her teacher face at this time.
"Oh, yes, yes."
Long Ji continued to go back to the garden, while Deng Chanyu rode on a cloud to the Palace of the Empress of Heaven in Taosu Heaven. Before in the Tuoluogong, the Empress said that she had something to discuss with her. Now that she had finished dealing with Laojun's matter, she went to see her teacher immediately.
The Empress of Heaven still sat on the cloud bed, her head above the clouds, and her body covered with profound spiritual patterns.
However, today the face of the goddess had a trace of sorrow that had not been there before.
Deng Chanyu felt a jolt in her heart, fearing there was something serious today.
"Teacher summoned urgently, I don't know why."
"The trace of demons has reappeared in the heavens and earth. The mass calamity in the three realms has not ended yet, and the situation is becoming increasingly critical. Master Yuan Shi and Master Tongtian have summoned all their disciples back to the mountain to expound on Taoism. Through divination, I fear that a past cause and effect might involve you."
"What does Master mean by that?" Deng Chanyu, just now, knows about the event of the Elucidation and Capping Sects calling back their disciples.
Without immortals messing around, the world wouldn't be that chaotic. This should be a good thing.
But the Empress of Heaven has been practicing Taoism for a long time, and things have gone smoothly with no apparent grievances.
The Empress of Heaven sighed and said: "There was a divine turtle deep in the waters of the North Sea. It has been living there since the beginning of time, without being affected by causes and conditions, and without being caught in any killing or calamity. This divine turtle is shaped like a dragon and has the body of a turtle, its body is very large, but it lacks some fortune, so it cannot become a Taoist body."
"The day I went to the North Sea to mend the sky, I found the divine turtle and cut off its four limbs, using them as heavenly pillars. Although this act was done for the benefit of all beings in the boundless void, the divine turtle was innocent and suffered this disaster. Its resentment has not dissipated for a long time. I owe it a huge karma."
Deng Chanyu was stunned for a moment. She really hadn't expected this. Does that mean that the divine turtle, after being killed, didn't die cleanly?
From the perspective of this divine turtle, it is indeed a huge injustice. I have done nothing wrong, I haven't offended anyone. I was just sleeping at home, and suddenly a female immortal appeared and without any words, she chopped off my four limbs and used me to build the heavenly pillar.
This is a matter that puts anyone in their place, and they all feel aggrieved.
"So, Master's meaning is that the divine turtle's resentment has not subsided, and it will take this opportunity of the demon door's invasion to emerge again and seek revenge?"
The Empress of Heaven shook her head: "The divine turtle is still a being with great powers. Its limbs were used as heavenly pillars, but its body is still alive. One essence was cast into the West Territories by the master, one reincarnated, and another essence along with its body was cast into Chaos. If the divine turtle returns, it will control the heavenly pillars, and at that time, heaven and earth will be destroyed."
Deng Chanyu understood: "This is like not cleaning up the harmful waste properly, Master. Since it's already been dismembered, why not chop a few more times? The boundless world is always about the strong preying on the weak. If you're going to talk about principles, then what's the point of practicing Taoism or slaying demons!"
Since it has become an enemy, there's nothing to say. Continue to kill.
"Is this the one who is returning fast now?"
The Empress of Heaven remained silent, which seemed to imply that was the case.
Deng Chanyu tried to ask: "Shall I go?"
The Empress of Heaven nodded happily: "Yes!"
Deng Chanyu: (Silence)
It's not possible to go there immediately. The chaos is vast and boundless, no one knows where the body of the divine turtle is. Only by relying on its true essence to locate it can one search for it in the chaos.
The reincarnated one is irrelevant to the previous life. Only the essence that was cast into the Western Territories can be found.
This task can currently only be carried out by Deng Chanyu, because she is a disciple of the Empress of Heaven. Because the Fenghuang team is about to arrive at the Tongtang River, the Empress believes that that essence is within the Tongtang River!
The Phoenix received news from the other side of the body and immediately became cautious.
The true spirit of the divine turtle in the Tongtang River, is it possibly the old turtle in Journey to the West? That guy was silly, wasn't he? He wasn't even a thousand years old.
"Be careful, I think there's something fishy in this river." She signaled to her companions not to enter the river.
"What's there?" The old bear stretched out a fat foot and splashed around in the river.
The next moment, he hurriedly drew his foot back: "The water is so cold, it's not suitable for washing feet."
Dang Kang instructed Zhuwu to lift his two-meter-long tail upright, and then he climbed onto it to look over to the other side of the riverbank: "It's quite wide, let's fly over instead?"
With the Phoenix's size, it would be no problem to carry the team across with it.
Eight hundred li? Eight thousand li can also be flown over.
But now the phoenix is coming to cause trouble. What if the old turtle doesn't come out if we fly over?
She spoke the truth partially: "There is a turtle in this river, and I have some grudges with it, so"
Long Nu broke free from the entanglement of Jinghe Dragon King, and her personality became more cheerful. At this moment, she smiled and rolled up her sleeves: "Sister Phoenix, are you worried about this? It's easy, I'll go down and catch that turtle for you."
Long Nu is undoubtedly the strongest in terms of water battles, and there's no doubt about that. Long Nu used the "Water Flower Disappearing Technique" to dive into the water, and several companions waited on shore.
After about an hour, Long Nu returned to the shore with a face of confusion, carrying a turtle about the size of a palm.
"The water creatures in this river are very rare. I searched for a long time and found only one, is it your enemy?"
Because of the upcoming battle, the phoenix had not transformed into a human form but had returned to its true form, which was forty meters long with wings spread out to over a hundred meters. Now, it looked down at a small group of "old turtle," thinking, is this thing really my enemy? It's not even enough to fill a gap in my teeth.
Sensing her malevolent gaze, the turtle adopted an attitude of "You can't see me" and curled up its body as much as possible.
The old bear poked it with a stick twice, and the turtle did not resist either. It might not have been able to resist, or simply accepted its fate.
The phoenix said helplessly, "Wait a moment, let me think it over."
In reality, what are they thinking about? It's still up to the Empress of Heaven in the Palace of the Great Yu to determine.
