Taking Over Power

Liu Boqin hurriedly knelt down to thank him and said, "My lord, please rest assured. There are many tigers, bears, leopards, and birds in this mountain. When you want to eat the whole animal feast, just send someone to say it, and I and your family will be sure to

Prepare carefully and you will not be disappointed."

Tang Monk could not understand the metaphor in this. Seeing Liu Boqin being so flattering, he felt envious in his heart.

As for persuading Shi Zhongkui to stop killing, Tang Seng was not that stubborn.

Moreover, he was confused at this time and had no intention of offending Shi Zhongkui and Liu Boqin's family by being verbose.

When Shi Zhongkui saw that Tang Seng was silent, he knew that he no longer had the firm belief he had when he first came out of Chang'an.

Once you shake your persistence and continue on, it is no longer for faith and Dharma, but just to rely on the merits of studying scriptures and directly achieve enlightenment as a mortal.

In other words, Tang Seng has become a coward.

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Shi Zhongkui had determined at this time that although Liu Boqin and his group openly obeyed the Western Cult to guard Sun Wukong, they must secretly be dissatisfied with the Western Cult.

Otherwise, it would never dampen Tang Seng’s devotion to Buddhism.

After thinking for a moment, Shi Zhongkui guessed that Liu Boqin's land of mountain gods was probably similar to the thoughts of Liu Ding Liujia, the fourth-level meritorious officer.

He is a minister of heaven, but he was forced by the Western religion to guard Sun Wukong for five hundred years.

What's the difference between this and going to jail?

Moreover, during this period, the five directions of uncovering truths must have overpowered Liu Boqin and others, and there was a high probability that they would not get any reward.

Asking someone to do something but not paying for it is the most resentful behavior.

Furthermore, five hundred years ago, the Buddha suppressed Sun Wukong in the Two Realms Mountains. The mountain gods and landowners not only had a lot of hard work, but they were also constantly being watched.

Even if you don’t dare to do anything, your life will naturally not get any better.

Even if I want to get some incense and make offerings, I am afraid that I will be targeted by the censors in heaven.

It's strange that I don't have any resentment in my heart.

After Shi Zhongkui sent Second Sister You, Third Sister You, eight maids, and a dozen hounds back to Chang'an, he took Tang Monk and Liu Boqin, who volunteered as a guide, on horseback to the Five Elements Mountains with a smile.

I was talking to Tang Seng about some things in Zixiao Palace, and wanted to continue to confuse his mentality.

But not long after that, I saw an auspicious cloud descending from the sky.

I saw Lei Zhenzi standing on the mountain road not far away, dressed in ordinary clothes and with a smile on his face.

Shi Zhongkui couldn't help but frown.

Secretly, something bad is coming.

I deceived Tang Monk like this, and the West really couldn't sit still.

In a flash, he appeared in front of Lei Zhenzi, cupped his hands and said, "Senior brother, what happened?"

Lei Zhenzi shook his head with a smile, looked at Liu Boqin and Tang Seng who were still a hundred meters away, and then said, "Junior brother, the Great Heavenly Lord has ordered you to return to heaven to attend the birthday banquet held for the Queen Mother in the overseas fairy mountains.

I heard that the earthly immortals from these overseas fairy mountains offered not only purple zhizhi, green lotus root, jiaoli and jujube, but also ginseng fruit from Wuzhuangguan Zhenyuan Great Immortal.

You must know that the ginseng fruit blooms once every three thousand years, bears fruit once every three thousand years, and matures after another three thousand years. The most rare thing is that it takes only nine thousand years to bear thirty fruits.

If a person smells it, he will live 360 ​​years, and if he eats one, he will live 47,000 years.

Such a rare thing, even the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother can only eat it once every five hundred years or a thousand years.

The Great Heavenly Lord can think of my junior brother, and he is really envious of me."

Shi Zhongkui was not excited at all. The Tang Monk he had just deceived had a wrong heart, and the Jade Emperor thought of inviting him back to heaven to eat ginseng fruit. There was nothing wrong with this, but he didn't believe it.

And it seems that the Western Cult can easily ask Zhen Yuanzi from Wuzhuang Temple for help. Does that mean that Zhen Yuanzi has already defected to the Western Cult?

As for ginseng fruit, no matter how precious it is, it is actually about the same as a flat peach that ripens only once every nine thousand years.

The last time she went to Yaochi, the Queen Mother ordered the seven fairies to pick several flat peaches that ripen every nine thousand years for herself and the Three Holy Mothers to enjoy.

He also attends the Queen Mother's birthday banquet every year and gets a share of a flat peach, so not to mention that Shi Zhongkui himself has stopped worrying about his lifespan, and the women in the family and his three apprentices don't need to worry about it.

In addition, the fairy peaches in my space farm have grown to the point where eating just one can increase your life span by a hundred years.

It is still ripe once a year, and fifty are produced every year.

The actual effect of increasing life span is far greater than that of ginseng fruit.

And there are fifty in one year, and 450,000 in nine thousand years, which is far more flexible than Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit. It can involve more people.

It can be said that ginseng fruit is not attractive to me at all.

Seeing that Shi Zhongkui was not happy at all, Lei Zhenzi sighed inwardly, understanding that the Jade Emperor's act of inviting him to heaven to eat ginseng fruit could not deceive him.

He sighed and said, "Junior brother, I advise you to be more cautious."

Shi Zhongkui narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile, "How do you say this?"

Two hundred years ago, Shi Zhongkui's cultivation had surpassed that of Lei Zhenzi, who had been stuck in the Golden Immortal realm, and now he had reached the perfection of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

He was still practicing the Eight-nine Mysterious Skills, and it was easy to overpower Lei Zhenzi.

Lei Zhenzi knew that Shi Zhongkui had misunderstood him.

Although I wasn't angry in my heart, I was still a little embarrassed. After all, I had practiced more than Shi Zhongkui for who knows how many years, but he was overtaken by him.

"Junior brother, do you know that five hundred years ago, the Great Heavenly Lord insisted on asking the Great Sage Sun to take care of the Pantaoyuan? What was his plan?"

Lei Zhenzi didn't need to remind him of this. Of course Shi Zhongkui knew that the Jade Emperor was tightening the supply of flat peaches.

Before the riot in the Heavenly Palace, anyone who was a seventh-grade immortal official could eat flat peaches.

But now, even Judge Cui, a high-level official in the underworld who holds the book of life and death, has not received an invitation from the Queen Mother even once in the eight years since he returned to the underworld.

For others who don’t have followers or backers, it’s even more difficult.

It can be said that just by tightening the supply of flat peaches, the power of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother increased dramatically.

But if they want to suppress the opposition below, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother need support.

As a vested interest, Xuanmen was naturally unwilling to agree.

Although Western religions say that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can participate in the peach feast every year, flat peaches are no longer of use to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

He also thought that by spreading Buddhism eastward, he would have the basis for making deals with the Jade Emperor.

Inside Xuanmen, it is not difficult to guess what Taishang Laojun is thinking.

The old man had no intention of interfering with the Jade Emperor's decision a long time ago.

It's not that Laojun wants to see the Jade Emperor's power greatly increased, but even Shi Zhongkui knows that reforms are often full of uncertainties.

Once the interests of the gods and gods are involved, the harm will definitely far outweigh the benefits.

The Jade Emperor's temporary success does not mean that no one will jump out to oppose it in the future.

Moreover, reducing the number of flat peaches actually only reduces the salaries of middle- and low-level officials, which will lose people's support.

In other words, the short-term benefits are indeed good, but the Jade Emperor lost the long-term benefits.

However, sometimes we know that there will be trouble in the future, but those in power have to do it.

And the Jade Emperor is not without a way out.
Chapter completed!