Chapter 118: Five-Colored Earth with Heavenly Dao Qi, Red Boy
Taibai Jinxing said, “Your Majesty orders you to ascend immediately with the Universal Divine Thunder. You are, after all, a person of the Divine Continent, so your tribulation should be primarily based on the Divine Continent’s thunder tribulation.
Otherwise, if you complete your tribulation and become an Outer God, what kind of system would that be?”
Bai Ze naturally had no intention of becoming an Outer God, saying, “But once I open the shackles of my body, it means I’ve completed the tribulation. How will I then undergo the tribulations of the three Outer Gods?”
Taibai Jinxing said, “As long as you don’t refine your Yang Spirit after ascending and keep it in the Initial Yang Spirit state, you’ll meet the standards for the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Tribulation.”
“I understand.”
Bai Ze nodded. Using the thunder tribulation key within his body, he ‘boom’ opened the shackles of his body!
At that moment, a vast aura surged outward, and he slowly floated into the sky.
He slowly floated out of the basin that had been blasted by the thunder tribulation.
Old Yellow shouted from afar, “Bai Ze, you’ve ascended!”
At this time, Li Muzha flew over on a cloud, pointed at the identity plate on Bai Ze’s waist, and the identity plate glowed and vibrated slightly.
Li Muzha said, “Junior Brother, congratulations. I was ordered by my master to change your identity. With this identity, you can not only travel back and forth to Mount Putuo, but also enter the Heavenly Realm.”
Bai Ze picked up the waist tablet and looked at it. The information had changed from Immortal Child to Cultivator.
Bai Ze said, “Thank you, Senior Brother.”
Li Muzha nodded and said, “Then I’ll be leaving. I hope Junior Brother will come to Mount Putuo soon.”
The gods all began to ride their clouds into the distance.
Taibai Jinxing said, “If you need a position in the Heavenly Court, go to my Hall of Enlightenment to register. I believe that with your performance today, even if Your Majesty doesn’t make special arrangements, all the departments will be vying for you.”
Puhua Tianzun said, “If Fellow Daoist comes to work in the Heavenly Court, please don’t forget to come to our Thunder Department. Everyone in our Thunder Department welcomes Fellow Daoist.”
Bai Ze had ascended and was now considered a Heavenly Immortal. Coupled with his various achievements, he had even earned Puhua Tianzun’s respect, who addressed him as Fellow Daoist.
“Thank you, everyone!”
The rolling clouds in the sky had all dispersed, leaving only Bai Ze’s small body floating in the air.
Bai Ze slowly floated in front of Wukong and the others, and they all grabbed his hand.
Wukong said, “This is great, this is really great! You’ve broken through to the Yang Spirit Realm, and you’re also a Heavenly Immortal now.”
Pigsy said, “It’s just a pity that you can’t refine your own Yang Spirit right now and can only maintain the Initial Yang Spirit state. Otherwise, Old Pig really wants to fight with you.”
Tang Sanzang said, “Amitabha, Little Benefactor is truly blessed by the heavens.”
The group happily held Bai Ze’s hand and returned to the Uji Royal Capital.
Behind them, the original Uji Mountain was gone, leaving behind an Uji Basin.
In the future, a monument would be erected here for Bai Ze, showing how a great power of the Three Realms underwent his tribulation in this place.
In the White Bone Cave Dwelling, Bai Fu Ren was overjoyed to see Bai Ze’s successful tribulation.
Hong Ling Luo said, “Madam, the Young Master has ascended after his tribulation. Shouldn’t we celebrate?”
Bai Fu Ren said, “Yes, we should celebrate. Prepare a lavish feast, and I’ll also change into some beautiful clothes.
My child has ascended after his tribulation, so his mother should look her best.”
The White Bone Cave Dwelling was filled with joy.
Bai Ze was invited back to the Uji Royal Capital, where there was naturally a grand celebration, and the banquet didn’t end until late at night.
Just as Bai Ze was preparing to go back to rest, Ying Lao’s voice suddenly came from his mind: “Go take a look at the place where the Universal Divine Thunder descended earlier. Perhaps five-colored earth will be born there.”
“Really?”
Bai Ze’s spirits immediately lifted upon hearing this. His immortal seed had stopped growing because he didn’t have five-colored earth.
To be precise, he didn’t have five-colored earth of other attributes.
The red five-colored earth transformed from Wukong’s blood that had been absorbed by the immortal seed before had already reached its limit and was no longer effective.
Bai Ze needed to find other five-colored earth.
Could this opportunity have arrived again?
Ying Lao said, “You forgot what Puhua Tianzun said earlier. That Universal Divine Thunder was left behind by Pangu and contains the Heavenly Dao Qi.
Perhaps the five-colored earth is directly related to the Heavenly Dao Qi.
The five-colored stones used by Nüwa to mend the sky, including Wukong, this five-colored stone that was left behind, are probably all derived from the influence of the Heavenly Dao Qi.”
“Is that how it is?”
Thinking that he might obtain five-colored earth again, Bai Ze didn’t delay and directly took to the air.
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Having ascended after his tribulation, he naturally mastered the ability to fly, though he was not yet very skilled.
With the evening breeze, the child’s small body flew rapidly towards the Uji Mountain in the suburbs, which was now the Uji Basin.
From afar, Bai Ze saw a green halo rising into the sky, like a beautiful aurora, colorful and dreamlike.
This made Bai Ze even more excited!
Bai Ze sped up his flight and soon stood in mid-air at the site of the tribulation.
He saw that in the huge Uji Basin, there were many rope-like objects emitting a green halo. The shape of these rope-like objects was just like the lightning that Bai Ze had shattered before, as if they were many scattered fragments of electric arcs.
It seemed that after the Universal Divine Thunder was broken up, it had fallen on this land and dyed the area into five-colored earth.
Bai Ze landed on the ground, walked to a green light spot, slowly bent down, and picked up the emerald-like soil.
Bai Ze excitedly said, “Teacher, just as you guessed, the birth of this five-colored earth is related to the Heavenly Dao Qi.
I have a guess, that the so-called using five-colored earth to cultivate the immortal seed is actually using the Heavenly Dao Qi to nurture it. Do you think that makes sense?”
Ying Lao pondered for a moment and said, “That might be what you guessed. It’s just a pity that your teacher didn’t cultivate an immortal seed back then, so I don’t have any experience to pass on to you.”
Bai Ze said, “What Teacher has passed on to me is already more than enough. Some things, the disciple must discover for himself.”
As he spoke, Bai Ze summoned dozens of skeleton soldiers and had them start collecting all the five-colored earth along the Uji Basin.
About half an hour later, all the five-colored earth was piled up in front of Bai Ze, forming a small pile.
The amount of five-colored earth collected this time was even more than the five-colored earth formed by Wukong’s blood when he was pressed under the three great mountains.
Bai Ze shook his head and sighed, “What great five-colored earth, but it’s a pity that I can’t use it immediately. I haven’t refined my Nascent Soul yet, so letting the immortal seed grow and release pollen would be a waste.”
After ascending, one enters the Yang Spirit Realm. The so-called Yang Spirit is the refining of a wisp of one’s Discernment Spirit within the Dantian.
This wisp of Discernment Spirit is called the Nascent Soul. As the Nascent Soul grows, it becomes the Yang Spirit. This is where the name of the Yang Spirit Realm comes from.
And Bai Ze, although he had successfully ascended, could not yet refine his Nascent Soul.
Because he still had to undergo the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Tribulation and accept the baptism of the Outer Gods.
Once the Nascent Soul is born and the Yang Spirit is refined, one officially enters the Yang Spirit Realm and loses the opportunity to undergo the tribulation.
Although he had already ascended, he had only opened the door to the Yang Spirit. After all, he had not yet truly refined the Yang Spirit.
Therefore, he still met the conditions for the Outer God tribulation.
So now, even if Bai Ze had five-colored earth, he could only temporarily keep it and wait to absorb it later.
Ying Lao said, “Anyway, you’re about to set off to Mount Hao to meet Red Boy. Mount Hao happens to have five-colored earth, and of two attributes.
Take the five-colored earth from Mount Hao, and add it to what you’ve obtained now, and then make a one-time breakthrough.”
Bai Ze said, “That’s the only way.”
Bai Ze put all the five-colored earth into the space of the White Jade Bottle.
Three days later, a Bodhisattva suddenly came from the sky and threw an old man upside down onto a haystack in the royal palace.
The Bodhisattva who arrived was naturally Manjusri Bodhisattva. He had discovered that his Green Lion was a fake. The real king was the fake king, and the fake king was the real king. He had actually been deceived.
And what was even more hateful was that his Green Lion had now become Tang Sanzang’s fourth disciple. The Green Lion had actually joined the Journey to the West Pilgrimage, and Manjusri Bodhisattva could no longer catch him.
“Bodhisattva, take care!”
The members of the Journey to the West Pilgrimage said, but the Bodhisattva walked away without looking back.
They had tricked him so badly, what was there to say to them?
The Green-Haired Lion stepped forward and used a magic incantation to scoop up the Uji King, who was upside down on the pile of firewood.
The Golden Roar thanked the Uji King profusely.
The next day, the group embarked on their journey to the West.
And with the real Uji King back, the people of the Uji Kingdom were naturally no longer worried, and they happily sent Tang Elder and the others away.
This time, the pilgrimage team had an extra Green Lion, whose Dharma name was given by Tang Sanzang as Wu Shi.
The group went straight west to Mount Hao, which would be Bai Ze’s destination for this trip. He was going to have a great battle with Red Boy there.
Whether he could seize the opportunity to attain sainthood depended on this one move.
