Outside Chang 'an City, Li Shimin, the emperor of Tang, led all the civil and military officials to personally escort Tang Sanzang to ten miles outside the city. It could be said that he had given Tang Sanzang face, or rather, he had given face to the Buddhism behind Tang Sanzang!
Li Shimin held a cup of plain wine and looked at Tang Sanzang eagerly,"It has been a long time since I left, and the mountains are far away. It is better to cherish a handful of soil in your hometown than ten thousand taels of gold in a foreign land.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Sanzang will definitely remember Your Majesty's teachings and do his best to retrieve the scriptures from the Great Thunderclap Monastery of the Western Heaven to save all living beings and promote my Buddha's Dharma.”Although Tang Sanzang's voice was soft, it carried a determination that would not regret even if he died.
"Alright, I'll wait for your return in Chang 'an!”
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On the southwest side of Chang 'an City, near the city wall, a nameless seven-story tower-like pavilion stood quietly in a corner.
On the top floor of the tower, a tall and slender young man with a gentle jade pendant on his waist stood by the window sill with his hands behind his back, looking at the scene of Li Shimin sending Tang Sanzang off in the distance.
The tower was dozens of miles away from the place where Li Shimin bid farewell to Tang Sanzang. If it was an ordinary person in the young man's previous life, it would be difficult to see it clearly even with binoculars. However, the young man standing in front of the window was not an ordinary person, and this world was not his previous life.
In fact, the young man wasn't the only one watching this scene. Besides him, there were immortals and gods from the Heavenly Court, the Great Thunderclap Monastery in the West, the Earth Immortal Realm, the Netherworld, and other three worlds observing the opening of the curtain in their own ways.
When Tang Sanzang disappeared from his sight and Li Shimin and the others began to return to Chang 'an, the young man heaved a sigh of relief.
"He's finally gone." Yun Tianqing sighed softly. The tense expression that had been on his face for half a year finally relaxed a little. The Journey to the West was about to begin. In the past half a year, countless immortals, gods, and powerful beings had come to Chang 'an in their incarnations or cast their eyes on Chang' an from thousands of miles away, wanting to see the opening of the Journey to the West. To put it bluntly, any beggar they met on the street could be the incarnation of some immortal god!
Especially when Yun Tianqing was still a transmigrator, no one knew how much pressure he had been under in the past six months. Not to mention, after knowing that this world was different from the world in his memory, the pressure he had to bear was even greater. In the past six months, he had not even stepped out of the tower more than ten times.
Half a year ago, when he transmigrated to this world and discovered that he had an auxiliary system, he thought that he was about to reach the peak of his life. Until he found out that the country he was in was called the Great Tang, and when he heard the words East Victory Continent, West Ox Continent, South Shanbu Continent, and North Julu Continent, his heart turned cold.
When he saw that there were all kinds of array light screens shining in the sky above Chang 'an Fortress, countless spell formation runes were flowing and gathering. There were all kinds of strange beasts pulling carts in Chang 'an. He felt that a huge rock weighing one to two hundred pounds was easily thrown by a five-year-old child. His heart had completely turned cold!
This world was the Great Tang of the Primordial Era that he knew. The Heavenly Court, the Netherworld, the Four Great Continents, Li Shimin, Tang Sanzang, and the Dragon King of the Jing River were all standard characters, places, and events.
However, this world was not the Tang he knew. The Tang Empire in this world had 365 provinces, and each province was divided into 108 prefectures, and each prefecture was divided into 1,024 counties. Among them, the capital of Chang 'an was the most special, with only one capital as a province. Beyond the prefectures and counties, there were vast, uninhabited areas that formed the borders of the Great Tang Empire.
These territories formed the vast Great Tang Empire, which only occupied about one-fifth of the entire South Jambu Continent. The rest were occupied by other small kingdoms and large cultivation sects.
There were still three provinces that were comparable to the entire South Jambu Province, the East Victory Divine Province, the West Ox River Province, and the North Julu Province. Outside the four provinces, they were surrounded by the vast and boundless Four Seas. These four continents and four seas formed the Earth Immortal Realm, one of the three realms in the center of the Untainted Land. The other two realms were the Heaven Realm and the Underworld, where the Heavenly Court and the Underworld were located.
Outside the three worlds in the center of the Primordial World, there were countless small and medium-sized worlds surrounding it. These large and small worlds and the three central worlds of the Primordial World formed this incomparably majestic Primordial World!
In this Greater Primordial World, there were the Six Sages who resided in the Outer Chaos Heavens, the Heavenly Court that monitored the Three Realms and Six Paths, and the Son of Heaven who ruled the world and commanded the army! Coincidentally, the Journey to the West was about to arrive, and Buddhism and Taoism were fighting! In such an exciting environment, even if Yun Tianqing had obtained the system, he would feel like he was going to die! It was not that he looked down on himself, but he really felt that even if he had the system, he might not be able to defeat the legendary sage in the future!
Therefore, in the half a year that he had transmigrated, he did not even dare to show his face. He focused on studying his system's functions and silently made preparations. Other than that, he did not dare to do anything else.
Especially in the past six months, he was even more certain that the Journey to the West was just a game planned by the gods and Buddhas!
Did he really think that the Jing River Dragon King could intimidate and kill Li Shimin?
Although the Jing River Dragon King was strong, in less than a thousand years, his cultivation had already reached the True Immortal Realm. With the support of the Jing River Lord, he could even fight a Mystic Immortal in the Jing River!
But so what? Even the demons at the Mystic Immortal realm had been captured and killed by the Tang army.
As for pulling the Tang Emperor Li Shimin to the underworld to threaten him, it was probably no joke!
After the Great Shang became a god, the Human Emperor was demoted to the Son of Heaven and lost the same status as the Celestial Emperor. However, in the Great Tang, especially in the capital of Chang 'an, Li Shimin's Dragon Qi was enough to suppress all immortals, gods, demons, and ghosts below the level of a Great Divine Warrior! Even if a powerful being were to attack Li Shiming, the sages of the Human Race in the Ancestral Land and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the Fire Cloud Cave were not to be trifled with!
The fact that Li Shimin, the Emperor of Tang, was dragged down to the underworld because of his excessive sins was just a piece of news released by Buddhism to confuse the common people, and Li Shimin tacitly agreed not to refute it. If he really wanted to drag Li Shi Min down to hell, he would have to ask the Ten Yama Kings to help him. If the Ten Yama Kings were to make a move, the human sages, the Three Sovereigns, and the Five Emperors might have to loosen their muscles.
The so-called Journey to the West was nothing more than an exchange of interests from the beginning to the end.
The West wanted Buddhism to flourish.
The human race wanted to increase their luck.
The Heavenly Court wanted a portion of the merit points.
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