On the Avenue.

Chapter 603: Dongtian Palace Backer

Jiang Guo received a set of Heavenly Soldier armor, sword box, and martial arts skills, and received a month's salary. He returned the boat fare to Chen Shi, and then he felt relieved. He thought to himself, "I will become a Heavenly Soldier, so I must work diligently and risk my life for the Heavenly Soldier Camp."

As the saying goes, take money from others and help them avoid disasters.

Since he had taken the money from the Heavenly Army Camp, he wanted to repay the Heavenly Army Camp. However, Li Tianwang did not give him the opportunity to repay the Heavenly Army Camp. He treated them as dead and did not allow them to participate in any mission.

Jiang Guo had nothing to do so he could only concentrate on practicing, trying to make a breakthrough as soon as possible and become an immortal.

Chen Shi was happy to have some free time, so he went to the outside of the prison the next day after returning to heaven.

Although he revisited the old place, it was the first time that Chen Shi had time to take a look at the Heavenly Prison.

The Heavenly Prison is located in the southeast of the Heavenly Palace, next to it are the Six Departments of Wenchang and the Three Masters. The outer layer of dragon pillars forms a forest, and coiled on each pillar is a dragon that has survived the heavenly calamity, looking ferocious and vicious, with evil spirit.

Some of the dragons had a bloody aura, as thick as blood, and there were wronged souls wandering in the blood, occasionally breaking through the blood and circling around the pillars. Obviously, this dragon had eaten many people, some of whom were great monks or demons who had cultivated successfully.

After passing through the dragon pillar forest, we saw a huge canopy above the prison. It was extremely magnificent. The canopy seemed to have no substance. It was composed of all kinds of bad luck, covering a space of a thousand miles. Under the canopy were the most powerful gods in heaven, such as the God of Disaster, the God of Plague, the God of Decline, the God of Filth, and the God of Broom Stars. Each of them had his own palace and under his command were eight hundred gods, all of whom were fierce and evil.

Anyone who wants to jailbreak, once entering under the Huagai, will be beset with all kinds of bad luck, and their cultivation strength will be greatly reduced. They will be captured before they even enter the Heavenly Prison.

As for the prisoners in the Heavenly Prison, they are blessed with all kinds of bad luck and are extremely unlucky, so naturally they cannot escape from the Heavenly Prison.

Under the canopy is an incomparably huge underground prison, like a pillar with a diameter of 800 miles, inserted from the sky into the deep earth below, gathering the yin, evil and bad luck between heaven and earth.

On both sides of the Diyin cage, there was an extremely huge Bi'an lying on the cage.

These two Bi'an are thousands of miles long, with strong bodies and wild and domineering auras. They are two ancient giant beasts, each with a divine duty, responsible for guarding the Heavenly Prison.

Chen Shi had no idea how powerful these two giant beasts were, but he felt that the aura they emitted was enough to suppress his cultivation.

Chen Shi came to the outside of the Tianlao, where there was a battalion of heavenly soldiers guarding the place. They were called prison guards and were yamen runners under the Ministry of Justice.

Seeing Chen Shi, the prison guards all smiled and came over to greet him: "Mr. Chen is here, what a rare visitor."

They knew that Chen Shi had someone in the palace, so they didn't dare to neglect him. They said, "After Master Chen left last time, he missed us so much!" "After Master Chen left, the prison became much darker!" "Master Chen, you must come here more often in the future."

"Just treat it as your own home!"

The prison guard even gave Chen Shi a plague-repelling talisman, folded it into a talisman, and had him hang it around his waist, saying, "The gods above us are very powerful. Without the protection of the talisman, we can't hold on."

Chen Shi thanked them and said, "Brothers, are the two prisoners Chu Xiangxiu and Feng'an County Landlord who were sent here not long ago detained here?"

A prison guard immediately checked the records and said, "They were sent here. These two are the culprits of the Clay Buddha case. An auspicious date has been set for them to be taken to the Immortal Execution Platform and the God Execution Platform for execution."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "I want to meet them. Can you make it convenient for me?"

The prison guards looked at each other in bewilderment.

A prison guard boldly asked: "Mr. Chen, which lord's order is this? Is there a handwritten order..."

Before he could finish, he was elbowed in the abdomen. Another experienced prison guard said with a smile: "If Master Chen wants to see it, of course we can make it convenient for him. Come, take Master Chen to the prison!"

Chen Shi thanked him and followed the jailer across the long bridge to the entrance of the underground prison and into the sky prison.

Behind them, the experienced prison guard complained, "He was sentenced to death last time in the prison, but he was bailed out. What do you want from him? Just let him in."

The interior of the sky prison is extremely large, with countless cages, like beehives, holding prisoners one by one.

There were also many large and small Bi'an crawling on the surrounding walls, like giant geckos, wandering around and patrolling the prison.

"He's back again! I smell the scent of sin on him!" You Bi'an looked at Chen Shi and said.

The other Bi'an looked over, and one of them showed an expectant look: "Has he committed a crime again? Is he here to be beheaded this time?"

The other Bi'an also showed anticipation and looked at Chen Shi in unison.

Not long after, Chen Shi came to the cage where Chu Xiangxiu was imprisoned.

Chu Xiangxiu was wearing handcuffs and shackles, which locked up all his skills and supernatural powers. Even the unorthodox practices he had practiced could not be used.

He changed into prison clothes and sat in the corner of the cage, motionless, as if he was meditating.

Chen Shi coughed softly, waking him up, and asked with a smile, "Does Brother Chu have any last wishes?"

Chu Xiangxiu woke up, stood up and greeted, saying: "I have not yet thanked Chen Daoyou for rescuing me from Feng'an County. I hope you will forgive me."

He bowed down.

Chen Shi walked into the cage. The various seals of the cage were like nothing and did not stop him at all.

Chen Shi helped him up and said, "I saved you from the hands of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, but I also captured you and threw you into the prison. Why do you need to thank me?"

Chu Xiangxiu was very surprised that he could enter and exit the cage freely, but she did not ask him. She said, "If I fall into the hands of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, he will force me to convert to Buddhism. I will repay my kindness with hatred, and my life will be worse than death. Therefore, the kindness of saving you can save my integrity from being damaged."

Chen Shi said: "You are about to die now, what wishes do you have left?"

Chu Xiangxiu said: "Many people in Feng'an County died because of me. I feel guilty for not being able to compensate them. Also, although I am not extraordinary in the Dark Sea Dao, I have made some achievements in practicing the external Dao. It's a pity that it has not been passed down."

Chen Shi said: "The real murderer who killed those people was Yi'an Shou Chao Huang, who has been killed by me. The immortals under Chao Huang's command were also eliminated by me. The people should have a good life for a while in the future. It would be a pity if the external way you practiced became extinct. Why don't you pass it on to me and I will help you spread it."

Chu Xiangxiu happily said: "Then I'll leave it to you, fellow Taoist!"

He didn't care about the presence of outsiders and taught his Taoism to Chen Shi in this cage.

His cultivation system is quite strange. It is different from the current cultivation system of Jindan Yuanying Yuanshen. He takes the path of directly cultivating Yuanshen. Maybe it is because his master is the land god, so he cultivates in this way.

This kind of practice method, even if he passed it on to others, it would be difficult for others to learn it. Even someone with Chen Shi's comprehension ability only felt that his method was obscure and difficult to understand, but it had a kind of beauty that reached the true meaning of the great way.

"What a great talent, what a great talent..." Chen Shi said silently in his heart.

Chu Xiangxiu's unorthodoxy does have an evil temperament. Chen Shi pondered it carefully and found that it has similarities with Yuan Chong's evil way, but they do not belong to the same kind of evil way.

Both are strange, unpredictable and highly polluting.

Chen Shi stayed in the Heavenly Prison for four or five days before he could barely comprehend the general outline of Chu Xiangxiu's unorthodoxy. Chu Xiangxiu cultivated this unorthodoxy to its present level by combining the Dao and verifying it with the Dao of Heaven and Earth in the Dark Sea. Chen Shi was able to comprehend the outline in such a short time, and his comprehension was already extremely high.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, we'll say goodbye now." Chen Shi stood up and said goodbye.

Chu Xiangxiu was sad and reluctant to leave. "If you could stay for a few more days, I might be able to teach you more of the mysteries of this great Dao..." Chen Shi smiled and said, "If you don't conform to the Dao, you will never be able to reach your level. If you really don't want your Dao to be lost, why don't you tell me where the dark sea world where you conform to the Dao is."

Chu Xiangxiu's face changed slightly, and she said, "It's extremely dangerous there, there are many extremely terrifying beings, even more terrifying than the big demons!"

Chen Shi smiled inwardly and said, "Just tell me how to get to this world, I'll take care of the rest."

Chu Xiangxiu hesitated for a moment, but still drew the route to the dark sea world and said, "The locals call it the Mud Plow World. If you go there, you must be very careful and never reveal your identity as an immortal."

Chen Shi said yes and put away the Ni Li World Geography Map.

"We will never see each other again after we say goodbye today."

Chu Xiangxiu said sadly, "I wonder if there is an afterlife?"

Chen Shi consoled him, "After beheading the immortals on the Immortal Beheading Platform, only a ghost remains. Forget about the afterlife. Eat and drink well these days, and don't think about these trivial things. It's useless."

Chu Xiangxiu looked grim.

Chen Shi said goodbye and left. After leaving the prison, he went straight to Li Tianwang's palace.

Li Tianwang was not at home, but was training his troops at Xitiandang. Chen Shi went straight to Xitiandang and found Li Tianwang on the supervisory platform. He laughed and said, "The Tianwang is so hard to find."

Li Tianwang was a little annoyed with him, but he didn't dare to get angry, so he said in a friendly manner: "Fellow Daoist Chen, what brings you here?"

Chen Shi showed an awkward expression and looked around. Li Tianwang waved his hand to let the gods around him retreat and said, "You can talk as you please."

Chen Shi mustered up his courage and said, "Can the Heavenly King tell me who my backer is, the one in the palace?"

Li Tianwang stared with his eyes wide open, and was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "You mean, you don't know who your backer is?"

Chen Shi nodded heavily.

Li Tianwang was silent for a moment, and then said, "You don't know who your backer is, how dare you act so arrogantly?"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "I'm used to it in our country, and I unconsciously brought it to heaven."

Li Tianwang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "The person in the palace sent someone to save you. You should have followed that person to visit the palace and thanked him for saving your life. This is human nature. Why wait until now?"

Chen Shi scratched his head and said ashamedly: "To be honest, I am used to being a tyrant in my hometown, and I never thought about this..."

Li Tianwang was speechless. He calmed down and said, "In the heavenly palace, there is the Great Celestial Lord, the supreme one, called the Jade Emperor, and next is the Queen Mother, who is in charge of the harem. Others who are qualified to sit in the heavenly palace include the Four Imperial Lords, divided into the Southern Changsheng Great Emperor, the Central North Ziwei Great Emperor, the Western Taiji Tianhuang Great Emperor, and the Hou Tu Huangdi Hou Tu Niangniang. Then there are two immortal palaces. The male immortals are headed by Dong Wanggong and Donghua Emperor. The female immortals are headed by Xi Wangmu and Jinmu Yuanjun."

"Next are the Five Elders of the Five Directions, the Green Emperor of the East, the Red Emperor of the South, the Yellow Emperor of the Center, the White Emperor of the West, and the Black Emperor of the North. They also each have a palace in heaven. Next are the Nine Gods of the Divine Sky, the Three Officials Emperor, Thunder Ancestor, Dou Mu, the Sun, the Moon, and Wenchang. They also each have a palace in heaven. Then there are the Emperor of Fengdu, the Five Directions Ghost Emperors, the Emperor of the Fire Department, and the Ten Infinite Flying God Kings of the Sky."

He knew them all like the back of his hand. These were the giants in the heavenly court that ranked above him, so Li Tianwang remembered them very clearly.

"The person who rescued you was a fairy boy from the East Heaven Palace, under the command of the East King."

Li Tianwang looked at him deeply and said, "Now, you should know who your backer is, right?"

Chen Shi thanked him and left in a hurry.

Li Tianwang shook his head and thought to himself, "You don't even know who your backers are. I really don't know how you are still alive... Well, it may be because he has too many backers."

Chen Shi came to the east of the Heavenly Palace, found the East Heavenly Palace, knocked on the palace door, and said, "I am Chen Shi, and I am here to thank the Lord of the East for saving me. Please inform me."

The one guarding the gate was a divine general, who immediately notified everyone. After a while, a fairy boy came. He was the one who rescued Chen Shi from the prison that day. He smiled and said, "Chen Tianbing now knows to come and visit."

Chen Shi was extremely ashamed and bowed, saying, "I am just a country bumpkin and I don't know the etiquette. I hope you will forgive me."

The fairy boy quickly returned the greeting and said with a smile: "I am just a messenger, not the one who rescued you. The one who rescued you is the master! Please come this way."

Chen Shi followed him into the Dongtian Palace, where he saw beautiful scenery, jade carvings, and a fairy-like aura. It was truly a blessed land for the gods. However, the palace was often populated by gods, who were majestic and tall, patrolling the palace.

Only some beautiful maids are fairies.

Chen Shi looked around and followed the fairy boy to the Qianyuan Hall of the East Heavenly Palace. A fairy emperor turned around and said with a smile: "Chen Xianjia ordered me to wait."

This man looks middle-aged, but he has a Taoist air, with long beard and eyebrows, and he wears a yellow robe and a brocade belt around his waist. He is neither a Taoist nor a secular person. He looks like an emperor on earth, but also like an otherworldly immortal. He is none other than the number one immortal under the Three Pure Ones, Emperor Donghua.

Chen Shi quickly stepped forward to pay his respects and said, "Disciple pays respects to Lord Dong!"

"stand up."

Dong Wanggong slowly raised his hand and said, "The immortals advocate freedom, being unrestrained and free from worries, and having a worldly mind that is not tainted by the Tao. In front of me, there is no need to distinguish between high and low."

Chen Shi stood up.

Dong Wanggong said: "Do you know why I want to save you?"

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Because I'm outstanding?"

Dong Wanggong shook his head and smiled: "Because you are a rebel, so am I."

Chen Shi's face changed slightly, and Dong Wanggong laughed and said, "My Dongtian Palace is full of the Great Heavenly Venerable's spies. You don't have to be cautious when speaking. Just say whatever comes to your mind."

Chen Shi originally had a lot to say, but now he dared not say a word. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "My disciple has learned a foreign way, and I would like to ask Lord Dong to take a look at it."

He used the unorthodox method that Chu Xiangxiu practiced to show the weirdness of this great method.

After a while, Dong Wanggong asked: "The heretics from the Dark Sea?"

"Exactly."

Chen Shi presented the geographical map drawn by Chu Xiangxiu and said, "This is the geographical map of the Dark Sea Overseas Road. If the Heavenly Court can study this road, it will also have a way to resist the Dark Sea invasion in the future."

Dong Wanggong did not take the geographical map, but instead fixed his eyes on him and said slowly: "You want to save this person and try to impress me with this unorthodoxy?"

Chen Shi's heart tightened.

It seemed like he had no secrets at all in front of this Immortal Emperor!

After a while, Dong Wanggong slowly reached out and grabbed the geographical map.

(End of this chapter)