0p0 Chapter 312 Meeting the Supreme Saint, Bound and Entered the Human Cult
Chapter 312 Meeting the Supreme Saint, Bound and Entered the Human Cult
Yang Jiao's pupils contracted.
The boy on the right gently fanned himself with a banana leaf fan, and a whirlwind swept by, revealing the object hidden under the ethereal mist.
Only then did she see clearly.
The alchemy furnace that should have stood here has completely collapsed, and the Six Ding Divine Fires inside have all been extinguished. The residue on the ground was the source of the burnt smell.
After the celestial mist dissipated, Yang Jiao saw the back of an old man dressed in a Bagua (Eight Trigrams) celestial robe. The back of the robe was embroidered with a Taiji diagram in gold thread, and the cuffs and collar were covered with intricate and obscure runes. The loose belt was tied around his waist, and the robe's wide sleeves fluttered, exuding an air of otherworldly elegance.
The figure slowly turned around, his hair and beard were all white, and his face was both kind and solemn.
Seeing Yang Jiao standing there helplessly, Laozi was not in a hurry. He just sat there and watched.
Yang Jiao was so shocked that she broke out in a sweat and hurriedly bowed to him:
"Yang Jiao has met the Supreme Sage."
He didn't speak, his kind face with wrinkles and half-closed eyelids.
Yang Jiao panicked even more, and this time she immediately began to apologize in rapid succession:
"Please don't be offended, Your Majesty. Yang Jiao didn't mean to offend you. It was just that at that time, we were advocating against feudal superstition. Who knew that a few words of cursing at you would bring about such a miracle?"
"All the blame lies with Yang Jiao. Please, Your Majesty, have mercy and forgive Yang Jiao."
She finished speaking.
Laozi didn't say anything, but simply reached out to the boy beside him.
The boy with the golden ribbon tied around his head immediately picked up the scroll and presented it with writing brush and ink.
The old man took the pen, wrote a few words on it, and then pondered for a moment:
"Oh, so you've insulted me before."
Yang Jiao was shocked!
So he didn't know he had insulted him back then!
The Supreme Sage finished writing with a few strokes, and the scroll rose without wind, slowly flying to Yang Jiao's side. She dared not take it, and only looked down at it.
It was clearly written on it:
Compensation for the collapsed alchemy furnace: Five thousand years
Miraculous Plants and Herbs: A Thousand Years
On the newest row, the ink is still wet, and a sentence is clearly written:
Insulting the revered one will result in being forced to join the Humanist Cult for ten thousand years.
So, this is an account book?!
Do I have to work 16,000 years to pay off my debt?
Yang Jiao pointed to the alchemy furnace lying on the Bagua diagram and refused:
"The Supreme Sage is one of the Three Pure Ones. Your furnace collapsed before I arrived, so why blame it on me?"
Furthermore, if he hadn't spoken so quickly, he wouldn't have known that he had insulted the Three Pure Ones!
Lao Tzu stroked his beard and said in a deep voice:
"Yes, you didn't push it over."
Yang Jiao smiled and offered her explanation:
"Since I didn't knock down the furnace, the damaged spiritual plants and herbs inside can't be attributed to me."
Laozi glanced at Yang Jiao, who had suddenly become self-righteous, and slowly said:
"Before refining the elixir, I cast a divination on the furnace, predicting that it would face a calamity that would destroy it a thousand years later. However, because of you, the furnace exploded two hundred years earlier. I was heartbroken, and my hand trembled, causing the furnace to fall and the elixir to be destroyed. Was it your fault?"
Instead of arguing with the Supreme Sage, Yang Jiao suddenly looked at Xuan Du beside her.
A questioning look on his face.
"Is this what you mean by cause and effect?"
cause and effect!
What is cause and effect?
The effect comes from the cause.
Laozi is clearly cheating, using a reverse reasoning method!
Xuan Du replied in a serious tone:
"Turning effect into cause."
Yang Jiao chuckled softly. She shouldn't have transmigrated. With such a talent for reverse reasoning, she should have sent Xuan Du to the modern world to solve algebraic equations every day!
Before she could figure out why the stove collapsed and it was related to her, she already had the answer.
He pointed towards the Flower and Fruit Mountain in the lower realm:
"The problem lies not with you, but with the cause."
Yang Jiao was startled.
An explosion in the furnace would mean the entire furnace is destroyed, wouldn't it? So, would the good deeds I did for him in the past cause him to be born prematurely?
So, you took the blame upon yourself?
Seeing the look of understanding on her face, the Supreme Sage composed himself slightly, and said with an extremely kind smile:
"Is the Primordial Purple Qi within you?"
Yang Jiao immediately tensed up.
Only the Tongtian Sect Leader knew that this last wisp of primordial purple energy was on him, and it was Yang Jiao herself who revealed it.
But she didn't show the slightest sign of it with the Supreme Sage!
"no!"
Yang Jiao vehemently denied it.
There wasn't a single ripple visible on his face.
But the Supreme Sage seemed completely unconcerned, speaking in a calm tone:
“I don’t care about the Primordial Purple Qi, but you have to compensate me for my precious furnace.”
Then he added:
"You can't afford to pay, so join my Human Religion to settle your debt."
Yang Jiao never expected that she would survive this trip, but lose 16,000 years of her life.
She hurriedly said:
“I can afford to pay for it. My uncle is the Jade Emperor, and my other uncle is Zhen Yuanzi. They can pay for it.”
The Supreme Sage lowered his eyes in thought, his tone slow and proud:
"They can compensate me, but I don't want it."
Yang Jiao felt her blood and qi surging wildly. Was the Three Pure Ones supposed to have the best temperament?
She felt that even if Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu joined forces, they couldn't withstand the power of the Supreme Sage's blunt knife. She imagined that the two of them must have suffered quite a few losses at his hands.
The Supreme Sage stood up, his immortal robes and Taoist garments exquisite. He walked out slowly, nodding to himself:
"Hmm, compensate me with 16,000 years."
So, it's settled like that?
Yang Jiao looked helplessly at Grand Master Xuandu, only to see his eyes brimming with barely suppressed laughter, and he coughed lightly, his fist pressed against his lips:
"Come to the Tushita Palace to report after the Investiture of the Gods is completed."
After saying that, he turned and walked out.
He caught up with his master, Laozi, in a few steps and asked softly:
"Why did Master insist on having Yang Jiao join the Human Sect?"
The Three Realms all say that the Human Sect consists only of Master Laozi and himself, but this is not true. The Human Sect is comprised of all living beings in the world.
Without someone to teach and guide one's destiny, ordinary people cannot cultivate.
The Supreme Sage walked to the Golden Pool, raised his hand to untie the rope around the green ox's neck, and then slowly said:
"The Kongtong Seal is responding."
Inside the alchemy room.
Yang Jiao snatched the banana leaf fan from the boy standing next to her and fanned herself wildly to vent her anger.
The howling wind distorted her facial features.
If it weren't for the balance of the five elements in the alchemy room, they would have been blown out of the thirty-three heavens long ago.
moo~
A blue ox trotted in, its nose ring making a crisp sound as it hit the ground.
Following the scent, it came to the overturned alchemy furnace and began to eat the dregs on the ground.
Yang Jiao saw this.
Remembering what Master Yuding had mentioned about the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir before he came up, his eyes darted around.
Since no elixirs were given upon arrival, wouldn't eating the leftovers have a similar effect?
Thinking of this, and not wanting to waste anything, Yang Jiao got up, nudged the green ox to its side, grabbed it, and stuffed it into her mouth.
Smash it a couple of times; it tastes slightly bitter.
He then commented:
"I'm furious."
When the ox saw someone competing with it for food, it ate even more quickly.
At this moment,
Hurried footsteps came from outside, and the Supreme Sage, who had been calm and collected just moments before, rushed in looking extremely anxious.
Shout loudly:
"Don't eat it, don't eat it!"
Yang Jiao felt a little relieved.
I felt that joining the Humanist sect wasn't such a bad deal after all, since the Supreme Sage was compassionate and would care for his disciples.
She slowly stopped, waiting for the sage to take pity on her and bestow upon her one or two bottles of Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, seeing that she was so pitiful that she had to take medicine residue.
Just as I was feeling grateful.
Then Laozi hurried over to the green ox, cradled its head in his hands, and said with a pained expression:
"My poor ox, you've grown up eating the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir since you were little, what are you going to do if you eat this dregs and get an upset stomach?"
Yang Jiao: ...