Claiming the Throne of Gods, Starting from the Rebirth of Nezha
Chapter 189: Shen Gongbao

Chapter 189: Chapter 189: Shen Gongbao

Shen Gongbao?

Nezha’s face remained unchanged, but a ripple stirred in his heart upon hearing this name.

This person before him certainly caused a lot of trouble for his elder uncle Jiang Ziya during the Divine Enthronement battle.

However, now with the connection of Taiyi Zhenren, Jiang Ziya is his elder uncle, so isn’t Shen Gongbao his elder uncle too?

It turns out Shen Gongbao is also a disciple under Yuanshi Tianzun. He entered a few days later than Jiang Ziya, so in terms of seniority, he’s the latter’s junior.

Yet his cultivation talent far surpassed Jiang Ziya’s. While Jiang Ziya was guarding the pill furnace and getting his face blackened by smoke, Shen Gongbao successfully formed his Golden Core and later, with Yuanshi Tianzun’s guidance, quickly became an Independent Immortal. Now, he has even entered the Golden Immortal Realm.

However, his rapid cultivation speed left his foundation somewhat unstable.

After reaching the Golden Immortal Realm, he made no progress for several years, prompting him to come to this Fir Forest.

Like Nezha, he also seeks the legendary spring of the Ten Thousand Yellow Springs hidden deep in this forest to nurture his Primordial Spirit.

Nezha merely glanced at Shen Gongbao, heard him speak a single sentence, and knew that the old man Jiang Ziya would surely be at odds with him.

There was no choice. Jiang Ziya held himself in high regard and indeed was smart.

Yet, despite his intelligence and remarkable insight, he was stuck at the Golden Core stage, while his junior, Shen Gongbao, who entered later, surpassed him rapidly and constantly flaunted his Dao Bone, strolling around. Even if he did nothing, his presence was infuriating.

Shen Gongbao felt similarly. Despite his extraordinary talent and superior cultivation, during the Divine Enthronement battle, such a significant event in the Three Teachings, his master handed the Investiture of the Gods to Jiang Ziya, who was inferior to him in every way.

However, both were no longer young, and Nezha, although understanding, thought it would be rash for them to turn against each other over such matters.

"So, it’s Uncle Shen! I am Li Nezha, a disciple of Taiyi Zhenren from Qianyuan Mountain Golden Light Cave."

"Nezha?"

Shen Gongbao raised an eyebrow and smiled, "So we’re fellow disciples. I know you; Senior Brother Taiyi has almost exhausted his complaints about you to our master."

As he spoke, he gave Nezha a thumbs up and said, "But to make Taiyi Zhenren so angry, you have the talent for it."

Nezha awkwardly smiled and said, "It did get quite heated before."

"Don’t worry. Conflicts between master and disciple are none of my business as an elder uncle. Since we’re fellow disciples, let’s go together."

Shen Gongbao decisively made the decision for Nezha, and then introduced the others present to him.

Although everyone here was from the Chan Sect, they came from various sects and factions, naturally forming a team upon arriving here.

The five people were Daoist Bei Ming, Young Master Kong Xu, True Master Huang Shi, Daoist Bai Hua, and True Monarch Ju Yang.

They were even more prepared than Nezha and, through unknown means, had already determined the locations of the Ten Thousand Yellow Springs and the Ten Thousand Spirit Treasure Tree.

"The Ten Thousand Spirit Treasure Tree is no ordinary spiritual medicine or King of Medicine. Its legendary effects defy the heavens, comparable even to the Heavenly Pill personally crafted by the Tongtian Sect Leader. Consuming one can resurrect the dead and heal bones, and even allow one to instantly break through their original realm without worrying about unstable foundations."

Shen Gongbao directed his words to Nezha, but his tone was full of longing.

The spring of the Ten Thousand Yellow Springs certainly nurtures the Primordial Spirit, but acquiring a fruit from the Ten Thousand Spirit Treasure Tree would solve the unstable foundation issue instantly and might offer an opportunity to break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm.

Nezha asked in confusion, "I’ve heard that in the Loose Immortal Realm, as long as one’s understanding of the Heaven and Earth Laws is profound, the Golden Immortal Realm comes naturally. Can a single elixir or fruit grant understanding of the Heavenly Dao?"

"Hahaha, little one, you have quite a lot of questions. The Heavenly Pill is crafted by the Tongtian Sect Leader himself. When the pill formed, the Heavenly Dao was already integrated within it. Consuming it yields effects far better than personal enlightenment, and the Ten Thousand Spirit Treasure Tree works on the same principle, being a spiritual object born of the essence of all things."

"That powerful? Uncle, have you tried it?"

"I haven’t had the fortune, but haven’t you ever seen a pig run even if you haven’t eaten pork?"

As they walked, Shen Gongbao kept talking, and although he spoke surprisingly much, an eerie aura about him discouraged closeness.

"Although the God-slaying Worm is formidable, if the Ten Thousand Spirit Treasure Tree has indeed blossomed and yielded fruit, and a Quasi-Saint carrying a Holy Artifact descends, not even the surrounding Dao can suppress them."

He said this, yet Nezha remained silent.

For he knew that a Quasi-Saint named Lu Ya had already appeared here.

In the Fire Eye Mountain Secret Realm, he had taken a precious immortal material right before the eyes of the assembled great powers of various sects.

So this time?

Just as Nezha pondered this, Shen Gongbao suddenly smiled and said, "I heard you have quite a relationship with Jiang Ziya?"

Nezha was startled, offering no definitive answer, and simply said, "We once lived together for a while in Zhaoge."

"Is that so."

Shen Gongbao sighed, "That senior brother of mine, he has a really foul mouth; ordinary folks can’t stand him."

Nezha took up Shen Gongbao’s complaint and began to mock Jiang Ziya, with 80% being true expressions of his feelings and 20% exaggeration.

As night fell, the group set up camp, lit a large bonfire, and each sat around it cultivating.

The cruelty of the cultivation world was displayed starkly before everyone.

True Monarch Ju Yang sat by the bonfire for a while, his stature immensely large, with a square-shaped face. He did not wear a Daoist robe but instead a very loose garment.

His gaze pierced through the dancing flames, landing on the female disciple Qing Yu from Purple Dragon Island.

True Monarch Ju Yang’s gaze was intensely intrusive as if the flames before him blazed from his eyes.

The disciple named Qing Yu from Purple Dragon Island was also stunned. Naturally, she sensed Ju Yang’s gaze but didn’t know his intentions.

At this moment, True Monarch Ju Yang stood up, walked around the bonfire, and approached the masked Qing Yu, saying in a cold voice, "Come with me."

Though Qing Yu, under her mask, had the beauty of a flower and a moon, with long, straight, and white tender thighs below her skirt, she had been cultivating for full eight hundred years.

The reputation of the Two Qings from Purple Dragon Island was somewhat known in the cultivation world.

Yet, despite her eight hundred years of cultivation, she hadn’t heard of any Taiyi Golden Immortal by the moniker ’True Monarch Ju Yang.’

This was normal in the cultivation world; perhaps True Monarch Ju Yang always acted low-key, or he had closed in seclusion for so long that everyone who knew him had died.

None of that mattered.

What mattered was that this individual had cultivated into the Three Flowers Crown on the top, with Five Qi in the chest. Even if all mana was stripped away in this Fir Forest, she reckoned she could not rival him.

After all, most cultivators’ physical prowess remained within normal bounds. Monsters like Nezha were rare.

Qing Yu did not think anyone here would offend a powerful Taiyi Golden Immortal on behalf of a newly joined Golden Immortal Early Stage cultivator like herself.

So she could only comply.

Only pray in her heart that he bore no malice.

True Monarch Ju Yang saw her stand, with no change in his cold expression, and turned to walk toward the deep darkness of the forest.

(PS: Anyone watched ’Divine Enthronement 2’? I’ve stumbled upon some heat again. I want to check it out, but after seeing two bloggers roast it, saying it starts with Yin Jiao draining Yuanshi Tianzun’s mana... drained it... I’m dumbfounded. Yin Jiao, wow, really? Wasn’t he an ordinary person at the beginning?)

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