Chapter 499: Great Luo Golden Immortal

Heavenly Court, a certain immortal mansion.

Xuanzang, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Gua Xian sat together drinking.

The aroma of this wine had already condensed into substance, drifting in the air like clouds and mist; just smelling it was enough to make one feel intoxicated.

Yang Jian could not help but sigh with emotion, saying, "Nezha, you and I have known each other for many years, yet I never knew you were fond of this cup, nor that you treasured such fine wine."

"Indeed, this wine is truly top-tier. It is the first time this little immortal has tasted it; it is silky upon entering the mouth, flowing down the throat into the chest like sweet spring water, making the spirit tremble, yet the intoxication is not weak in the slightest, with an endless aftertaste."

Gua Xian said, his whole person feeling light and ethereal, his body feeling much lighter.

"Such wine should only exist in Heaven," Xuanzang said.

Nezha, however, was carefree and dismissive, saying:

"I don't hide wine; I took it all from Li Jing. These are all fine wines that Li Jing has hoarded for thousands of years, usually gifted to those immortals. Of course, the ones we are drinking now are what Li Jing secretly sent to the Jade Emperor."

"..., Nezha, you truly are the number one filial son of the Three Realms." Yang Jian smiled; if Li Jing knew his fine wine was being squandered by Nezha like this, he would surely beat this rebellious son to death.

"Hehe." Gua Xian smiled without a word; there were some topics he could not speak of.

"Second Brother Yang, are you mocking me? The Three Realms all know I am the number one rebellious son, how could I be a filial one?" Nezha said, gulping down another large mouthful.

"After all, blood is thicker than water; Li Jing is your father," Yang Jian said.

"Forget it, that bit of father-son affection was paid back long ago when I was in Renjian. Look at me now, I am an immortal sculpted from lotus roots; where is there even a drop of blood left?" Nezha said.

"If it weren't for the Ling Long Pagoda, I would have beaten Li Jing to a pulp and been done with it."

Hearing this, Xuanzang roughly understood how great Nezha's resentment toward Li Jing was.

Thinking of the other Nezha, although he was a reincarnation of the Demon Pill, fortunately, he had the love of his parents, which was the exact opposite of the situation here.

"Forget it, let's not mention this. By the way, Holy Monk Xuanzang, how is your journey to the west going? Why did you suddenly come to the Heavenly Court?" Nezha asked.

"If I said it was an accident, would you believe me? I don't know what happened, but when I lifted my head, the Southern Heaven Gate was right in front of me," Xuanzang said.

"Hahaha, interesting. Is that Sun Houzi still being naughty?" Nezha said.

"Hehe, Wukong is still very well-behaved," Xuanzang said.

"Holy Monk, you don't know what that monkey was like five hundred years ago, so unruly and rebellious," Nezha said.

The Sun Wukong of five hundred years ago, having just achieved success in his cultivation, was so high-spirited that he looked down on everyone and refused to submit to anyone.

Seizing treasures from the Dragon Palace, altering the Book of Life and Death, stealing Flat Peaches, pilfering Golden Cores—those incidents one after another were truly shocking...

Although Nezha loved to stir up trouble, he could not do what Sun Wukong had done.

"It seems Nezha does not know the truth about the monkey back then."

Xuanzang thought to himself; everything back then was basically calculated.

He could not help but look at Yang Jian, but Yang Jian did not speak.

If one said Yang Jian did not know about the events of that year, he would not believe it.

Even if he did not know at the very beginning, he should have realized it later.

Yang Jian had been in the Heavenly Court for many years; he must know how deep the waters were. For a Sun Wukong to want to overthrow the Heavenly Court was a fantasy.

"Xuanzang, tell us instead how you advanced to Great Luo Golden Immortal," Yang Jian said, sipping his wine.

"That's right, Holy Monk, you are too amazing; I am very curious," Nezha echoed.

"Nezha, don't call me Holy Monk anymore. Either call me Xuanzang like Yang Jian, or call me Xuan Ge," Xuanzang said.

"This... alright, Xuan Ge," Nezha replied.

Recognizing a Great Luo Golden Immortal as a brother did not seem like a bad deal.

"Actually, advancing to Great Luo Golden Immortal isn't that difficult; I just practiced and practiced, and then I broke through," Xuanzang said.

"..." Yang Jian.

"!! So outrageous?" Nezha.

"As expected of Xuan Ge!" Gua Xian said.

"If you want to talk about any special experience, it's just that I feel more omnipotent, and the constraints of this world on me have become smaller," Xuanzang said.

"Is that all? For example, did you encounter any special bottlenecks when advancing to Great Luo?" Yang Jian asked.

Yang Jian had wanted to advance to Great Luo Golden Immortal many times, but whenever he reached the final step, a golden gate of the Great Dao would appear, and many chains would fly out from within the gate to bind him, imprisoning his Primordial Spirit and Flesh.

"Bottlenecks naturally exist. The current Heavenly Dao does not allow cultivators who practice Mysterious Gate Technique to achieve Great Luo Golden Immortal, such as you, Yang Jian, and Nezha.

However, the Heavenly Dao is heartless, yet it leaves a glimmer of life for all things. Even if one cannot become a Great Luo Golden Immortal, one can still cultivate to the Taiyi Fruit Status.

If one breaks through using Mysterious Gate Technique, that is, walking the Law Path, and enters the Great Luo Realm through Law.

One will inevitably be bound by the Heavenly Dao, so the most important thing to break through successfully is to break the Heavenly Dao's constraints on the practitioner.

Most practitioners cannot break the Heavenly Dao's constraints in their entire lives.

Yang Jian, Nezha, actually when you break through, you could ask a Great Luo Golden Immortal within your sect to intervene.

With internal and external cooperation, perhaps the chance of success would be much higher," Xuanzang offered his own insight.

Back then, when he advanced to Great Luo Golden Immortal, it was to deal with Zhenyuanzi.

Who knew that Zhenyuanzi would immediately shift the blame and not play by the rules, directly using Sleeve Universe to capture them.

"I haven't seen my master in many years," Nezha said.

After the Investiture of the Gods ended, their master-disciple relationship had effectively ended as well.

During the Investiture of the Gods, the reason the Twelve Golden Immortals chose to take disciples was mostly to have them substitute for their own Killing Tribulation.

Once the Killing Tribulation ended, the Twelve Golden Immortals could rest easy for tens of thousands of years.

Therefore, basically, most of the disciples of the Twelve Golden Immortals died back then.

Such as Tuxingsun, Huang Tianhua, Yin Hong, and others.

"It seems there are no shortcuts to Great Luo Golden Immortal," Yang Jian said.

"There are some; one could re-cultivate. Cultivating the Faith path of Buddhism can also lead to advancing to Great Luo Golden Immortal," Xuanzang said.

The Bodhisattvas of Buddhism are basically all at the realm of Great Luo Golden Immortal, though they are all achieved through Faith and incense.

This level of Great Luo Golden Immortal is actually not much different from an orthodox Great Luo Golden Immortal; they basically possess all the great power they should have, just slightly inferior.

But realm has never been the only standard for measuring combat power; with a few more Innate Dharma Treasures, perhaps the combat power could be pulled back.

"Forget it, I will not do anything like betraying my sect, and that is not my Tao," Yang Jian said.

"Sigh!" Nezha drank some wine sorrowfully.

"Nezha, why are you obsessed with breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm?" Xuanzang asked.

In his impression, Nezha was not the type of personality to be single-mindedly seeking the Tao.

Nezha put down his wine cup, spread his arms, and said:

"Actually, for me, having enough cultivation is fine, and since I have a lotus root body, I am naturally free from the Three Disasters and Five Tribulations, carefree and at ease.

But it just so happens that Li Jing has the Exquisite Pagoda to restrain me, and also Samadhi True Fire to target me.

You tell me, can I, Nezha, endure this insult?

To break through the confinement of the Exquisite Pagoda, one must reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

So, I just want to break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and beat Li Jing up hard once!

Even if it's only temporary, it's worth it."