Journey to the West: Man in heaven, working nine to five

Chu Hao suddenly thought of something, and stopped in his tracks,

“Oh, right, this Taoist Zhunti should be Subhuti, the Patriarch Bodhi of the Crescent Moon Mountain and Three-Star Cave, right?”

“The person outside is an inheritor of karma from Patriarch Bodhi. Does Master want to meet them?”

The Leader of Tongtian raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but be surprised:

“You actually know that Patriarch Bodhi is Taoist Zhunti? And you know about Sun Wukong's apprenticeship?”

Chu Hao: “Uh… Sun Wukong chatted with me, that's how I found out, hahaha… As for Patriarch Bodhi, I guessed it, hahaha, don't dwell on these small details!”

The Leader of Tongtian didn't pursue the matter, but closed his eyes slightly,

“I won't see them. I'm only here in the mortal realm for one thing: to accept a disciple.”

“By the way, observing your cultivation method, it is the [Nine Mysterious Arts]. This technique is the best for body refinement, but since you are not a Buddha, focusing only on body refinement will lead you astray and diminish your potential.”

“You must know that yin and yang, and the five elements, must be harmonized. If you want to attain the Great Dao, your primordial spirit and physical body must cultivate in sync. Since you are my closed-door disciple of the Jie Sect, I will bestow upon you the Great Divine Power of the Pure Azure, to cultivate your primordial spirit.”

“In the future, act only according to your heart, not according to me, nor according to Heaven.”

After the Leader of Tongtian finished speaking, his figure faded away, as if he had never been there.

Chu Hao, however, stood there in a daze, muttering the words that the Leader of Tongtian had left behind as he departed.

“Act only according to your heart, not according to me, nor according to Heaven… Me? Which me? Heaven? Which Heaven?”

Chu Hao was completely puzzled. These Sages always liked to speak in riddles, ambiguous and unclear, making it difficult for Chu Hao to figure out.

Chu Hao decided to ignore those mysterious words for now, only knowing that becoming the closed-door disciple of Tongtian was a substantial gain.

[Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree: A top-grade innate spiritual treasure, refined by Taoist Zhunti, the leader of the Western Two Sages, using his original Western Geng Metal Bodhi combined with gold, silver, colored glaze, and other seven treasures. It is Taoist Zhunti's weapon for proving the Dao. It is said to be able to brush away anything.]

[Great Divine Power of the Pure Azure: The Dao-proving technique of the Jie Sect Sage. This technique can refine the supreme primordial spirit and also temper the primordial essence.]

[Note: Because the host has no prior experience in cultivating the primordial spirit, practicing this Daoist technique will slow down the cultivation speed. The estimated cultivation time will be extended to a million times the original. It is recommended not to learn it.]

Chu Hao frowned. What's going on? He can't learn it for now?

Only by reaching the Golden Immortal realm can one have the lifespan of a kalpa.

And for a Sage like the Leader of Tongtian who has lived through immeasurable kalpas, time has no meaning at all. He can sit still for one kalpa.

Giving Chu Hao this technique, in the Leader of Tongtian's view, it would be very fast if Chu Hao could cultivate it within one kalpa.

But he didn't know that if Chu Hao were to cultivate for one kalpa in reality, he would have become a Sage long ago! Why bother cultivating the primordial spirit!

For a cultivator like Chu Hao (a cheat), becoming a Sage is a small goal, not a lifelong goal.

Therefore, although Chu Hao felt very regretful, he could only temporarily put aside this Great Divine Power of the Pure Azure.

Anyway, with the sign-in system, any cultivation method would work. Achieving Sagehood through the physical body wasn't impossible.

Don't you see, the Great God Pangu who opened up the heavens and the earth achieved Sagehood through the physical body, and was incomparably powerful. The Three Pure Ones were just transformed from Pangu's primordial spirit.

So Chu Hao remained skeptical of the Leader of Tongtian's words.

Instead, Chu Hao had to plan carefully for the future.

Now that Chu Hao had an additional identity as the closed-door disciple of the Jie Sect, would he act only according to his heart in the future?

With Chu Hao's personality, acting only according to his heart would result in something like Golden Light Immortal.

Moreover, Chu Hao was still wondering what to do about the Heavenly Court.

While Chu Hao was thinking about it, unconsciously, time quietly passed.

Sun Wukong knocked twice on the door, thinking that Chu Hao wasn't home. Just then, a fairy maiden walked by with a basket, which contained several large peaches, making Sun Wukong's mouth water.

Immediately, Sun Wukong couldn't help but feel itchy and quickly flew away.

When Chu Hao came out of the door, he couldn't see Sun Wukong's trace, only thinking that Sun Wukong had come for tea as usual.

Chu Hao yawned and decided to go out for a walk.

… …

Today was the day that the Queen Mother of the West held a banquet, opened the treasure pavilion, and held the Peach Feast in Yaochi.

The Peach Feast was originally held once every five hundred years, but it was unknown why the Queen Mother of the West was in high spirits and ordered the officials to hold the Peach Feast.

Moreover, this time it far exceeded the grandeur of the past. Not only was there immortal wine and jade nectar, but even the Supreme Lord Lao gave two furnaces of golden pills.

These golden pills were not ordinary things. Although they were not as precious as the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, they were comparable to the nine-thousand-year peaches.

For those ordinary immortals, eating one golden pill could reduce ten thousand years of cultivation. Everyone coveted them, after all, no one was a cheat like Chu Hao who thought that ten thousand years a day was too little.

Moreover, the Queen Mother of the West also ordered the Guanghan Palace, the Hundred Flowers Palace, the Seven Fairy Maidens, and fairies from all walks of life to collect the best immortal wine, flower tea, and peaches for this Peach Feast.

This was probably the first Peach Feast of such a large scale in recent years. After all, the previous Peach Feasts were just talk, and there was nothing good at all, at most just some peaches.

Speaking of which, Sun Wukong was wandering around outside Chu Hao's door when he suddenly saw the goddesses of the Guanghan Palace coming and going, holding fragrant wine that could be smelled for miles.

Sun Wukong loved wine. As soon as he smelled the aroma of the wine, he was tempted and quickly ran over to stop the fairy maidens of the Guanghan Palace.

“Fairy sisters, what kind of wine is this? Why is it so fragrant?”

When the Chang'e saw Sun Wukong coming, they were all secretly vigilant.

It wasn't that they didn't know that the person in front of them was Sun Wukong. After all, since the Jade Emperor had conferred the title of Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong had been coming and going, showing his face in the Heavenly Realm.

Many immortals and gods were very impatient with Sun Wukong, after all, they all knew that he was just a nominal demon king, always an outsider, and they treated Sun Wukong hypocritically and evasively.

Nominal, powerless, without any background, and naturally lazy… This was the evaluation of Sun Wukong by all the immortals.