I am guarding the sky prison in Journey to the West

Chapter 270 Chang'e
Yang Jian made a decision in his mind, but he was not in a hurry to do anything.

As Li Anran said, although the way of heaven is now declining, the merits and fortunes of the past have little effect, and the great forces such as Tianting, Lingshan, and Xuanmen will no longer be protected by the way of heaven.

However, their strength has not been affected in any way!

And because of so many years of inertia and the impending catastrophe, the three of them will hug together tightly and work together to maintain the current structure of the Three Realms.

After all, the three of them are still too weak. If they want to change their situation, they have to wait patiently for the opportunity.

Yang Jian took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and reviewed the files on the case table.

We must seriously consider the things in the future and try our best to complete them, and we must not abandon the things in the present!
Time always flies when you are fully engaged.

When Yang Jian stopped writing again and looked up from the writing, it was already two days later.

And the reason why he stopped was not because he had finished correcting the dossier.

There are many affairs in the Three Realms, and every single one of them has to go through his hands. It is basically impossible to finish all these matters.

However, the Heavenly Court held a court meeting every five days, and as the God of Justice, he had to attend.

Yang Jian put into his sleeves some of the more important files that needed to be reported to the Jade Emperor. He stood up and left the quiet room, only to find that Nezha was missing.

Although Nezha is the great god of the Santan Haihui, he does not have his own mansion in heaven.

In the past, they were forced to live in Li Jing's Yunlou Palace to show their father's kindness and son's filial piety, loyalty, justice and benevolence.

But since Nezha's cultivation reached Daluo Jinxian, no one dared to force him.

Nezha returned to Heaven this time and lived directly in Yang Jian's Judiciary Temple.

Usually when Yang Jian was correcting files, he would meditate in the side hall next to him, but this time he was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is the third prince?" Yang Jian asked the grass-headed god.

Caotou Shen said: "Two days ago, the Great God of Santan Haihui received a message from Taiwei Zhang and went down to earth to subdue demons. Before he left, he left a message, telling the Second Master that you don't need to worry about him. Wait until he is caught. You monster, come back.”

The Captain Zhang mentioned by Cao Tou Shen is Zhang Lao Er among the Meishan brothers.

After Yang Jian was demoted to heaven for contradicting the Jade Emperor over the Golden-winged Dapeng Eagle, he asked the Meishan brothers about their thoughts and aspirations at Guanjiangkou and arranged their respective places to go.

Boss Guo missed his old friendship and liked peace and quiet, so he stayed at Guanjiangkou.

Li Laosi, Guo Laowu, and Zhi Laoliu were more powerful, so Yang Jian asked them to return to the Heavenly Court and become heavenly generals, but they were no longer under the command of the Judicial Heavenly Temple.

Zhang Lao Er has a free and easy temperament and does not like to be restrained by others, while Yao Lao San is greedy for food and drink and is not interested in power.

The two of them traveled around together.

Over the years, I would occasionally return to Jiangkou to get together with them, but most of the time, I disappeared without a trace.

Yang Jian could only hear from others about their deeds of slaying demons, punishing evil and promoting good from time to time.

The last time they met was a month ago.

At the banquet, Nezha was very interested in the experiences of Zhang Laoer and Yao Laosan, and said that if they encounter any monsters again, they must call him together.

I didn't expect to meet him again so soon.

Yang Jian knew Nezha's whereabouts and stopped asking any more questions.

Ever since the Jade Emperor and Li Jing had the Bull Demon King and his son, a pair of thugs who could perfectly replace Nezha in conquering demons, the importance of Nezha, a thorn in the side who often went against the will and took advantage of the situation, dropped sharply.

Nezha is now considered a free man. He can go to court if he wants to, and no one will care if he doesn't want to.

Yang Jian walked out of the palace gate and flew towards the Lingxiao Palace with an auspicious cloud.

From a distance, I could see immortals like him, walking on the auspicious clouds, approaching Lingxiao Palace from all directions.

"Huh?" Yang Jian was suddenly startled, and a look of doubt flashed in his eyes.

But he saw from the northwest, a fairy wearing a palace satin and plain snow silk skirt, with a beautiful and dignified face, exquisite and three-dimensional facial features, eyebrows like a crescent moon, eyes like stars, and rosy and plump lips, flying towards this direction.

"Why is Fairy Chang'e here?"

Yang Jian hesitated for a moment, deliberately slowed down a bit, and had an "accidental encounter" with Chang'e on the way to the Lingxiao Palace.

"Fairy Chang'e."

"The God of Justice."

The two of them greeted each other with a politeness that was distant.

Yang Jian asked: "Fairy Chang'e is here, but she has something to report to the Jade Emperor?"

This is something that falls within his responsibilities as the God of Justice, and is not considered outrageous.

Yang Jian thought so in his heart.

Chang'e said: "The Queen Mother summoned me."

Yang Jian was even more surprised: "This is the direction to Lingxiao Palace, and Yaochi is to the east."

"I am going to Lingxiao Palace."

Chang'e saw Yang Jian's astonished face, and was even more surprised than him, and asked: "The empress has just given me a decree, saying that if the sun cannot be born, the yin cannot grow, but only with the combination of hardness and softness, and the harmony of yin and yang, can the three realms be long-term and peaceful. , ordered me to come to attend the court meeting and participate in the affairs of the three realms. God of Justice, don’t you know about this?”

Yang Jian was shocked. This was the first time he heard about this!
What is the Jade Emperor going to do?
Why this sudden decision?

Although the Queen Mother has a noble status and is the head of the three realms of female immortals, she only has a noble status and does not have the right to make such decisions.

The Jade Emperor must be behind this matter!

But why did the Jade Emperor do this?

And you have to hide it from him?
No, not right!

Fairy Chang'e said, "The Queen has just given me the decree"!
This decree was obviously given just now!

He hid it not just from me, but from all the gods!
Yang Jian quickly calmed down and glanced towards the horizon, and sure enough he saw the figures of many fairies.

Obviously, Chang'e is not a special case, she is just one of the fairies summoned by the decree!

There are many female fairies in the Three Realms, but there are only a few who are qualified and willing to participate in court meetings and discuss matters in the Three Realms!
The Queen Mother is no exception!

Now that she suddenly launched the banner of "hardness and softness, harmony of yin and yang", it was obviously impossible to just call these female fairies to participate in the court meeting, she herself would definitely participate!
To put it bluntly, these female fairies are the supporters she has attracted for herself, the head of the three realms of female fairies!
Let her have a louder voice and a stronger voice in the court!

"Is the Jade Emperor worried that he doesn't have enough control over heaven, so he introduces this new force that belongs to him?"

Yang Jian was thoughtful.

Today's heaven can be said to be full of complex forces.

The largest force among them is still Xuanmen, which is dominated by the two religions of Chanren.

Secondly, there are the cronies cultivated or recruited by the Jade Emperor. Representative figures are Emperor Zhenwu, Taibai Jinxing, Wang Lingguan, etc.

Then there were the Buddhist forces introduced into Heaven by the Jade Emperor to check and balance Xuanmen, represented by Li Jing, the Four Heavenly Kings, etc.Jie Jiao originally sided with the Jade Emperor because of the Chaos Bell incident, which caused the Jade Emperor's power to surge, and he had the potential to overwhelm Xuanmen.

However, since Jie Jiao Cong learned about the method of sacrificing the Chaos Bell, he hid in Mount Li and did not come out, leaving only the Bull Demon King and his son to support the scene.

The Jade Emperor was suddenly knocked back to his original form.

In contrast, the power of Xuanmen and Lingshan is expanding rapidly.

There are three great war gods in heaven, Yang Jian, Li Anran, and Nezha, who are famous in the Chan religion.

Especially Yang Jian, as the god of justice, has been in charge of inspections and examinations for many years, and has clear rewards and punishments, which has won the hearts of the people.

Not only has the Human Sect just gained the Eight Immortals of Shangdong, but Taishang Laojun has also won over many people by relying on his ability to refine elixirs and treasures, and his prestige in heaven is still higher than that of Yang Jian.

While Lingshan continued to send his disciples to serve in heaven, he also vigorously promoted Buddhism to save the common people. Many gods serving in heaven respected the Tathagata even more than the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor introduced Buddhism into heaven in order to let Buddhism compete with Taoism.

As a result, now, instead of fighting each other, Xuanmen and Buddhism are flirting with each other, and there are faint signs of joining forces to evade him.

The Jade Emperor sensed that his control over heaven was weakening.

So, he asked the Queen Mother to carry them on her back, and as the head of the three realms of female fairies, she introduced a group of female fairies including Chang'e into the court, forming a new force that belonged to the Queen Mother and to him. Come and compete with Xuanmen and Buddhism!

Thoughts were swirling in Yang Jian's mind, but his face showed no signs of it, and he said calmly: "I see. Fairy Chang'e, I still have some memorials to give to Zhang Tianshi and the others, and they will pass them on to the Jade Emperor, so I'll take the first step."

"Okay." Chang'e nodded quickly and let out a long sigh of relief as she watched Yang Jian leave.

She was not good at interacting with others, and Yang Jian had a cold face and exuded majestic indifference, which made her very uncomfortable. She always felt that she had accidentally committed something and offended Yang Jian.

"The world is really unpredictable! I'm afraid Yi never imagined that Yang Jian, who hated the Jade Emperor's rules and regulations so much back then, would actually go to heaven to become a minister of the Jade Emperor, and a judicial god in charge of the rules and regulations!"

Chang'e couldn't help but flashing back to the scene when she first met Yang Jian in her mind, and she couldn't help but sigh secretly in her heart.

But soon, she stopped thinking about it. She frowned as she looked at the gods gathered from all directions, and began to worry about the upcoming court meeting.

She has no interest at all in court meetings and things in the Three Realms that have nothing to do with her!

However, she could not refuse the Queen Mother's decree. Sister Xihe also said that her cultivation had reached a bottleneck and she could not break through just working behind closed doors. She had to be allowed to go out and get in touch with more different things.

She was really not good at rejecting other people's kindness, so she had no choice but to fly over.

When Chang'e thought of this, she couldn't help but sigh: "Why do we have to break through! Isn't it good like this now?"

She didn't care whether she had a breakthrough in her cultivation or not, she just wanted to stay quietly in Guanghan Palace.

As for the catastrophe of heaven and earth mentioned by Xihe and his sister.

Come and come!

She didn't even think about resisting and struggling!

She is not bored with her current life, but she doesn’t like it either, so it’s good to end it here!
And Chang'e was far from the only one who had the courage to attend the court meeting like this.

Almost all of the female fairies summoned by the Queen Mother's decree are like this!

They had no interest in the court meeting or the affairs of the Three Realms, but they did not dare to refuse the Queen Mother's will, so they rushed over reluctantly.

At this time, standing in the Chongde Hall waiting for the court meeting to begin, they felt uncomfortable all over, and they couldn't help but feel a bit resentful towards the Queen Mother in their hearts.

The other civil and military immortals have also noticed the female immortals who suddenly appeared in Chongzheng Hall.

Soon, they learned the Queen Mother's will from their mouths.

"Why did the empress suddenly issue such a decree? Have you heard of it before?"

"No! This is the first time I've heard of it!"

"This is not a female...ahem, this is inappropriate!"

……

For a moment, all the civil and military immortals looked at each other in confusion and chatted. From time to time, they looked at Yang Jian, who was standing at the front of the team, wanting to see what the reaction of Yang Jian, the god of justice, would be.

However, Yang Jian just stood there quietly, motionless, as if he was asleep.

At this moment, Yang Jian suddenly turned around.

All the civil and military immortals were startled and quickly looked away. Then they realized that Yang Jian was not looking at them, but looking outside the palace.

All the civil and military immortals followed Yang Jian's gaze.

Then I saw an auspicious cloud floating in the sky. On top of the cloud stood an old man wearing a Taoist robe with white hair and a childlike face. He was none other than the Supreme Lord!

"I have met Taishang Daozu." The immortals hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and salute.

Yang Jian is no exception.

Some gods couldn't help but ask: "Tai Shang Dao Ancestor, what big event happened in the three realms? Why did you, the old man, come to attend the court meeting today?"

Taishang Laojun said: "The old Taoist was refining elixirs in the Tusita Palace. The Great Heavenly Lord sent an order to the old Taoist to come to the Lingxiao Palace. He said that he had something to ask. The old Taoist did not dare to delay, so he hurried over."

All the immortals looked at each other and hurriedly told the story about the queen mother's order for the female immortals to attend the court meeting: "Your Majesty, please come here for this matter."

"Ah?!" Taishang Laojun had a look of astonishment on his face, as if he hadn't expected it at all.

This old fox seems to have known it for a long time!

Did the Jade Emperor invite him to come over and ask him to endorse his platform?
I actually picked a good candidate!
Yang Jian was not sure whether Taishang Laojun knew about this at first, but seeing his obvious shock and surprise, he suddenly understood.

Although there is no rule in the heavenly rules that prohibits female fairies from participating in court meetings, this incident itself sets a precedent after all!

Someone has to stand up and support!
And Taishang Laojun, who has a transcendent status and extremely high reputation, is undoubtedly the best candidate!
"He couldn't help it and wanted to end it himself?" Yang Jian thought secretly.

In the past, Taishang Laojun always maintained a detached and amiable attitude, and rarely took the initiative to participate in matters involving the Three Realms.

This gave Taishang Laojun a very high reputation.

However, if he continues like this, he will never be able to become the leader of Xuanmen and hold great power!

Yang Jian speculated that Taishang Laojun wanted to take this opportunity to officially enter the court!
Of course, there must be a legitimate-sounding reason for this!

If nothing else, this is also the condition that Taishang Laojun promised to give the Jade Emperor a platform!

"Tai Shang Tao Ancestor, how do you, the old man, view this matter?" Another god asked.

The other gods also looked over with inquiring expressions on their faces.

"Old way..."

Taishang Laojun gently stroked his beard and was about to speak when he heard the sound of bells and drums for the beginning of the court meeting. He smiled helplessly: "Fellow Taoists, let's go in first! We missed the time and made the Great Heavenly Lord wait for a long time, but it's not OK!"

"Good." The immortals couldn't say anything more and filed into the Lingxiao Palace step by step.

(End of this chapter)