Chapter 6 Experiencing Heavenly Punishment
Nanji Immortal Weng indebtedly jerked the fluff on Fox Little Fairy's head again and gently set her down. "Fox fur is smooth, warm, and comfortable, much like mine."
This sentence fell, scaring the three little goblins. Their body hair all exploded up; this... where is this to accept the apprentice? This could not be with the hunter, like stripping their skin to do a real fur cloak, right? This place can not stay, this little older man can not be trusted, and a hurry to run is essential.
"Hahahahaha, I'll just joke with you guys, look at the way you're scared ..." Fox Xiao Xian skimmed his mouth, thinking, believe me, a ghost! Is there such a joke? She also didn't want to be polite and asked seriously, "Why do you want to accept us as disciples? You know full well that we are demons."
Fox Xiaxia also cold face: "That's right, we don't want to worship anyone as a teacher; we are out to travel; after a few hundred years, we can still cultivate into a fairy. Don't bother your old man here to pretend to be a good person."
Shan Xiaohu also stammered, "Hey, you guys, don't intervene ah ~ that. I do want to worship the Master, but I don't want you to skin me; I don't want to die yet ..."
"I haven't been this lively and interesting here for a long time, and it's heaven's will to accept you guys as disciples. You have gone through several catastrophes and several tests. Even the blizzard set up by Lu Wu has resisted. However, you are still demonic beasts; you have just eaten my immortal peaches, your power has increased greatly, and you also brought me a letter of recommendation from the Giant Bear. Wouldn't it be ungrateful of me not to accept you?"
"Letter of recommendation?"
"It's that spirit bead."
"Then what if we insist on refusing to worship you as our master?" Fox Little Fairy tilted her head, puzzled, as she looked at Nanji Immortal Weng. She still didn't understand how this pie-in-the-sky thing could coincidentally fall on their heads.
"You guys don't know how to appreciate yourselves. I don't know how many Immortal congregations want to worship under my Master, and there are even thousands of those whose wisdoms and talents are higher than yours, and the three little demons dare to be so arrogant, so I'll give you guys a ride and drive you out of Kunlun." The voice just fell; a massive crane from the ten thousand feet wall flew in style, with white crystal wings, a pretty body, blood red crown, and charming and resolute eyes; when landing, the crane into a white young man's appearance, every move reveals a high ancient style and elegance.
The white-clothed man bowed before the South Pole Immortal Weng and said, "Master, these three little goblins are so illiterate, and their qualifications are even more mediocre. It was just an accident that they could withstand Lu Wu's Wind and Snow Boundary just now, so why do you want to take them as disciples? It's better to let Yun Feng kick them out!"
"Ai~ and slow down! I often notice you are so impatient. No, let me introduce you. This is my eldest disciple, Immortal Crane Boy He Yunfeng." Nanji Immortal Weng stroked his long beard and said to He Yunfeng, "Accident? Do you think Lu Wu is a dry person? His old man is several tens of thousands of years older than me, and I must respect him three times. Since the beginning of Kunlun, he has guarded this place to avoid outsiders disturbing the tranquility of the immortals. These three little guys even broke in and carried through the blizzard. This is the will of heaven! Heaven's order cannot be disobeyed. Heaven's chance cannot be revealed. Let nature take its course!"
He Yunfeng was still unconvinced, but since his Master had spoken, he naturally didn't dare to disobey his Master's orders anymore.
"Yunfeng ah! You take your senior brothers and sisters to find a place to rest! Xiaoxian is a girl who finds a separate house to live in. You guys are also tired; take an early rest. I know you have so many questions; the coming day will be long; let's hear the next explanation ..."
"You three, don't be too rude; why don't you salute your master?" He Yunfeng continued to slate a handsome face, and he was more like a master than his Master.
The three little ones didn't dare to continue to make a scene, so they had to bow over the grand salute of paying respect to their Master, the goodnight salute, and the big and second senior brothers before finally getting up and leaving individually. When going, Fox Xiao Xian felt this heavenly "pie" master had been watching her, feeling very strange. But as the South Pole Immortal Weng said, they were too tired; the brain and body had been unable to turn, and they also had to give up.
After a good night's sleep and snoring, the fox fairy was in a trance in a dream and was picked up by the older man, slowly and gently caressing the fox fur. They are pretty enjoyable, boing boing pampered, she grew from birth to the age of 100, because all his life down to the ugly, the father did not kiss the mother did not love, so never pampered, how to be indulged in a dream so smooth? I'm glad! It feels so good to be loved! Fox Little Fairy smiled sweetly at the plan.
"You look like her, but you're not her." Nanji Immortal Weng's eyes were gentle, and he gently rubbed Fox Little Fairy's little brain again, sighed softly through the moonlight, and left the room.
The following day, the hour had passed, and none of the three little ones had woken up. He Yunfeng couldn't stand to watch and went directly to lift the covers. "Get up, work, morning exercise!"
Shan Xiaohu was the most motivated and was the first to run to He Yunfeng's side, shouting, "Good morning, Eldest Brother! What are we going to do?"
He Yunfeng still had a cold face, a look of a stranger.
"Good morning, Eldest Senior Brother! How come we haven't seen Master, his old man?" Fox Xiaxia and Fox Little Fairy lazily walked out, stretching their backs as a kind of salute, anyway, as a four-legged beast, stretching their backs and bowing and saluting were not too distinguishable.
"Call master!" He Yunfeng replied coldly.
"Uh, master ~zun~ why didn't he come out?"
"Master-zun will be back soon, and now I'll supervise your work and practice. You, go water the Immortal Tree, you, go prepare firewood, and you go boil water for cooking."
Fox Xiaxia looked at the bucket of water and then at the axe for splitting firewood, "Eldest Senior Brother, these tools are for human hands; we are beasts; we don't have hands but only claws; we're not used to using these tools ..."
"Since you know that you are still a demonic beast, it's even more important to practice hard and figure it out independently, and I only look at the results."
Fox Xiaxia shook her head. The demon had to bow its head under the roof, resigned to its fate. Anyway, wherever it was practicing, one word - endure!
The three little demons ate fairy peaches yesterday, which increased a lot of mana; rest overnight spirit to feed; dry work is also quite complex. Fox Xiaxia is responsible for the firewood, changed into various animal forms, suddenly turned into a bird, which will be the dead branches back, turned into an elephant, which will be the remnants of the wood with the trunk lifted, and soon prepared a lot of firewood neatly piled together.
Shan Xiaohu needed to have his morphing technique. He could only make himself bigger and run to the creek to drink water, then run to the immortal peach tree and use spells to change the creek water in his mouth into a light rain, pattering onto each leaf, so back and forth once or twice, the whole tree was also well irrigated.
Fox Little Fairy was a regular in the kitchen at home, but the fox clan's diet was naturally different from that of humans and even more different from that of immortals, so she couldn't take raw meat to honor her Master and this big brother who couldn't be messed with, could she? Inspired, she turned into a macaque monkey and quickly went to the surrounding woods to pick fresh fruits and mushrooms, catch fish and stew chickens, and cook porridge and a pot of tea. Although she was not used to moving upright on her hind feet, the front paws that resembled human hands did work well, but she was not very skillful, and every time she changed into another form, it took her no more than half a cup of tea to change back into a fox-like shape.
While the disciples were busy, Mei Xiangzi slowly walked back from the distant mountain with the Nanji Immortal Weng on her back. The Nanji Immortal Weng was still as graceful and cynical as ever but with a slightly tired and pained look.
"Master! You're back." He Yunfeng still bowed respectfully and hurriedly went forward to gently assist his Master in sitting down and serving a fresh cup of tea.
Several new disciples also came over to salute. Single Xiaohu's big nerves can also see the Master's appearance of fatigue, straightforwardly asking the Master where to come back so early.
South Pole Immortal Weng did not shy away, sipping a mouthful of tea and saying lightly, "Ah, just went through a bit of heavenly punishment from the torture platform at the top of the mountain, and now I am a bit tired." This tone was like, ah, just went outside to pick some herbs in general, sparse and unimpressed.
But Master Teacher's words thundered the three little ones to the outside and instantly exploded.
"Heavenly punishment? What heavenly punishment? Why did Master Teacher have to suffer heavenly punishment?"
"Isn't heavenly punishment only for violating heavenly rules? Can a deity as high and mighty as Master Teacher still go through this?"
"There seem to be many kinds of heavenly punishment. What kind of punishment is Master Teacher undergoing?"
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"Alright, just stop gabbing and let Master Zun take a break." He Yunfeng's face slammed, and the three little ones hurriedly silenced themselves. Together with Mei Xiangzi, he assisted his master teacher in going back to the house to rest, and when he came back, he summoned a few of them over to explain the reason in detail.
A long, long time ago, the Master of a demon offended the ancient goddess Nuwa and was later condemned by the emperor of the sky to suffer a thousand years of punishment by thunder every day at dusk have to go to the top of the Kunlun Mountain torture platform suffered three heavenly thunder, this kind of criminal law for the Master for this level of immortals certainly will not have a fear for their lives. Still, with every thunderbolt, the whole body's joints will be generally dismantled, and the vibration will follow the spirit. And this kind of pain has been experienced for a thousand years ....
Master always said it's okay, get used to it, but how can you get used to the pain of peeling the skin and cramps three times a day in the morning? Anyone can't stand it, but he always said this is his calamity. He must be subjected to down. He also said this is considered to help him enhance the magic power; the benefits outweigh the harm. Alas, my second senior brother and I have been following Master for so long that we have never seen him complain, and it is because of this that we admire Master even more.
You guys, you're too young to understand the greatness of Master Teacher. In the future, you are not allowed to be disrespectful again; since you have entered my Kunlun Mountain FengXiJian, you have to use your energy to cultivate appropriately, not in vain, of the hard work of your Master."
This was the first time the eldest senior brother said so many words with these three little demons in one breath; not only that, but he also burst out such a big secret. It turns out that the immortals, to achieve such a level as the Master, also have to suffer such a horrible punishment; it turns out that being an immortal is not as free and easy as imagined; it turns out that above the seemingly powerful immortals, there are even more powerful immortals in charge ...
Fox Xiaxia was the first to speak up, "We have taken Eldest Brother's teachings to heart, and we will respect our masters in the future, study hard, and become successful as soon as possible. But I'm curious: what kind of demon did Senior Brother offend such a great god for back then? And let himself suffer so much? How powerful did this demon have to be? Was it worth it?"
"Was it worth it? It's been too long to remember!" Master slowly walks over; the immortal staff in his hand has become his walking stick; the whole state is fragile, not as hale and hearty as when they first met yesterday. Master slowly sat down, "It doesn't matter; rest for a few hours, and you'll be fine. I planted this peach tree, which has the wonderful ability to restore the body. Yesterday's peach kernel, after refining, can be turned into a perfect elixir, so this flesh and skin pain will not be so difficult. The Heavenly Court still treats me well. Otherwise, it wouldn't have turned a blind eye and allowed me to do this little action."
"Master, what kind of demon did you save in the first place?" Fox Little Fairy's curiosity rose, and she didn't hesitate to ask.
The Master smiled at them and said, "Bring the rice first; I'm hungry; I'll tell you a story when I'm full!"
Hey, this older man is waiting for me here! Fox Little Fairy slandered in her heart but still bounced to the kitchen to bring the meal to her Master. Immortals didn't need to eat and drink; absorbing the essence of heaven and earth and immortal magic protecting their bodies could benefit their lives and prolong their years. However, it had been a long time since he had been able to have this kind of blessing, so the master teacher happily ate half a bowl of rice more. After all, a few small ones were still young and growing, and they devoured their food regardless of their appearance. Only He Yunfeng and Mei Xiangzi, who had transformed into human form, ate in a refined and elegant manner.
"Well, Little Fairy's craftsmanship is good! It's been long since I've eaten something this flavorful." Master Teacher drank tea to moisten his throat while stroking his beard in genuine praise. But it needs to be longer, and it's been over a thousand years since he had a proper meal. He Yunfeng and Mei Xiangzi could be better at cooking; usually, they eat peaches and fruits and drink some tea; the Heavenly Emperor ordered them not to go down the mountain for a thousand years, so this matter of eating it has long been forgotten.
"If your old man likes it, I'll make it for you every day, and it's just that fox paws are not good at using human cooking utensils, so I can only make it simpler." Fox Little Fairy was happy to see her Master and a few senior brothers eating their meals cleanly; it was the greatest compliment a chef could receive. "Now that you have eaten and drunk enough, is it time to tell us a story?"
"Ah...? Ah! Good! The Master will tell you the secret stories of the Heavenly Court back then. In the beginning, Father God Pangu opened up the heavens and the earth, and many demons and elves were born; the ancient divine beasts were also good and evil back then, and even good and bad were indistinguishable. Nuwa collected clay and pinched a few clay dolls in her form, and when she got excited, she dipped a tree branch in the mud and danced while wrestling more clay dolls, which were the earliest human beings.
God the Father and Nuwa loved these early people; these humans were like their children but too weak and constantly bullied by demons and various beasts. As supreme deities, God the Father and Nuwa were not in a position to interfere directly; after all, he and the two ancient deities transformed all things, and it was inappropriate to favor anyone.
So Nuwa entrusted her subordinates, the early gods, to open the minds of these humans, teach them how to survive, build nests, drill wood for fire, follow the calendar, cultivate and raise silkworms, and become self-reliant. And then there were the later humans.
Unfortunately, after the Father God returned to Chaos, many elves and monsters developed mischievous thoughts because they were not shocked and confined. They wanted to eat humans or make them rebel and ultimately sit back and enjoy their success. At the same time, some of the humans were also compelled by the demons to develop evil thoughts, destroying the balance of heaven and earth and killing other creatures, even killing each other, causing great calamities.
More than a thousand years ago, Mother Nuwa first sent a fox demon down to the earth to assist the human monarchs and correct the many wrongs committed by humans. Still, unfortunately, she botched the job and triggered an even bigger war among the humans, causing that dynasty to be overthrown. This war led to the god of water, Gong Gong, and the god of fire, Zhu Rong, being provoked by sycophants, and after a big fight, the jade and stone were burned. Gong Gong's grief and anger crashed the mountain of Buzhou, which was used for the top of the sky, and a torrential flood poured down from the sky, turning the four seas and the eight deserts into a swampy country in an instant. For the peace of the six realms and the people of the world, Mother Nuwa transformed into a colorful stone to mend the sky."
"Master," Fox Xiaxia licked his paws while washing his face while muttering: "These our husbands have spoken, ancient history textbooks are written, did not hear out how the secret?"
"Hey, don't be anxious. That fox demon that year I accompanied the world, and I was also brought back to the Heavenly Court. Although this fox demon indirectly induces Nuwa's eventual end, she fulfills her mission of allowing the human race to change dynasties and continue to develop. In fact, with or without her, that dynasty would have been destroyed. But the Heavenly Court wanted to give everyone an explanation, so they beat this fox demon to the point that her soul was destroyed, and she could never enter the six paths of reincarnation again. I only pleaded for her then, and as a result, I was also implicated in the daily punishment of three thunderbolts. This is the so-called secret story and explains your doubts just now."