Journey to the West: Sun Wukong's Advice System
Chapter 52: Insolent Remarks

Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Insolent Remarks

In the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.

The Jade Emperor sat high upon his Ninth Heaven Throne, his hanging tassel masking his face, rendering it unclear to the onlookers.

The Immortal Officers and Divine Generals stood arranged on both sides of the great hall, their usual indifference gone. Some were shocked, some angry, some flustered, some silent.

All eyes converged on the area below the hall.

Sun Wukong stood upright, Yang Chan exuded confidence, and Ne Zha, as lively as ever, was escorting Xiao Zhen.

"Ne Zha, come back!" Li Jing’s face darkened a bit.

"I’m following His Majesty’s order to supervise the investigation," Ne Zha replied with a cheerful smile.

Li Jing felt helpless, you were told to supervise, not to take action.

Xiao Zhen was a disciple of a Saint of the Revealed Teachings, albeit not well-favored, he was a direct disciple of a Saint!

After all the immortals had arrived, the court session began.

Sun Wukong saluted upwards and said, "Your Majesty, Old Sun has brought the suspect into custody."

The Jade Emperor asked knowingly, "Where is the suspect?"

Sun Wukong replied, "The suspect is here, it is Wood Treasury Star Lord Deng Hua’s junior brother, Gold Treasury Star Lord Xiao Zhen."

Xiao Zhen glared furiously and struggled crazily.

The Jade Emperor asked again, "Do you have the evidence?"

Sun Wukong smiled and said, "Of course there is, Your Majesty. Please observe, this was the wine Deng Hua drank before his death."

As he spoke, under the watchful eyes of the immortals, he took out that pot of wine, poured out a cup, then infused a wisp of demonic aura into it.

Instantly, the clear, transparent fairy wine turned into pitch-black poison, exuding a sinister aura.

On seeing this, the immortals exchanged glances, feeling as if they could sense the power of the poison, even though they had not tasted it.

Sun Wukong repeated the facts of Deng Hua’s wounds and the residual demonic aura in his body, finally saying, "Your Majesty, Gold Treasury Star Lord admitted he personally brewed this wine,

Ne Zha can testify to this, old Sun hasn’t spoken any falsehoods."

The Jade Emperor, expressionless, said, "Remove his Silencing Curse."

Sun Wukong waved his hand and removed the Silencing Curse from Xiao Zhen.

"Sun Wukong, you’re going too far! Too far!" Xiao Zhen roared uncontrollably, "I will kill you..."

"Come on, old Sun’s head is right here, can you chop it?" Sun Wukong thrust his neck forward towards him.

Xiao Zhen froze, momentarily at a loss, then burst into tears, "Oh Master, look, after you’re gone, we, disciples of the Revealed Teachings, are being humiliated like this,

Deng Hua died, his soul dispersed, not even a chance for reincarnation, and now someone accuses me of murder!

We, disciples of the Revealed Teachings, are subjected to such humiliation, where is the justice, where is the fairness in heaven!"

"Gone? With his crying and mourning appearance, could it be that the Saint of the Revealed Teachings has already passed away?" Sun Wukong scratched his face, curiously asking Ne Zha.

Ne Zha’s eyes widened, the normally brave and fearless him also forgot what to say.

The immortals were all shocked, many panicked, while others shouted angrily.

"How dare you!"

"How dare you disrespect the Saint!"

"Sun Wukong, stop your nonsense!"

"This monkey deserves death!"

"Everyone shut up!" Sun Wukong bared his teeth, eyes filled with ferocity, putting on a sinister front that quieted the group of gods.

He then sneered, "It was Gold Treasury Star Lord himself who cried and mourned, and he himself said those words, yet you blame old Sun, how does that make sense?"

Overwrought by this exchange, Xiao Zhen also forgot his anger, hurriedly kneeling on the ground, bowing towards the hall entrance, "Master, please know, your disciple had no such intentions, please forgive me."

He kept muttering, continuously kowtowing.

At this moment, Ne Zha quietly praised, "Great Saint, you really are formidable."

"Is the Saint of the Revealed Teachings dead or alive?" Sun Wukong asked.

"He’s not in the Three Realms anymore, he has left." Ne Zha explained.

"Hey, who told this guy to speak so unclearly, insisting his master was gone," Sun Wukong scratched his hand.

"Great Saint," Taibai Venus came over, cautiously advising, "The Saint knows everything and can do anything, so you better confess your sin to the Saint."

"How so? Is the Saint that petty?" Sun Wukong laughed, "If he truly knows and can do everything, then his heart should be broader than the heavens!"

Taibai Venus, feeling helpless, encountered another who feared neither heaven nor earth. The most... Boundless Celestial Venerable, this old man harbors no thoughts.

At that moment, the Jade Emperor, with authority, spoke, "Sun Wukong has spoken audaciously to the Saint. Considering it was unintentional, he is fined ten thousand years of salary as a punishment."

"Your Majesty, I haven’t even received your salary yet!" Sun Wukong protested.

"Speak more, and you’ll be fined a million years," the Jade Emperor declared.

Sun Wukong, scratching his ear and cheek, spoke no further.

At this point, Xiao Zhen finally stopped knocking his head on the floor, but still knelt without rising.

The Jade Emperor asked, "Wood Treasury Star Lord, was the poisoned wine brewed by you?"

Xiao Zhen mournfully said, "Your Majesty has clear insight, the wine was indeed brewed by my own hands, but I don’t know why it turned to poison upon encountering evil spirits. I would never intend to harm Brother Deng Hua’s life.

Hearing this, the immortals looked at each other, perhaps Xiao Zhen also made an unintentional mistake?

Without solid evidence, it could only be considered involuntary manslaughter by Xiao Zhen.

If that were the case, then Wood Treasury Star Lord’s death would be too wrongful.

"Hehe!" Sun Wukong scratched his face and laughed, "Your Majesty, I have more evidence."

He immediately took out a piece of charred black paper that had not yet turned to ash and suspended it in the center of the hall.

"Please, everyone, be the witnesses, to see whether the Wood Treasury Star Lord is guilty," he then bowed to the immortals.

The immortals could vaguely see the character Deng on the burnt black paper.

"Sun Wukong, a character ’Deng’ doesn’t prove anything," an Immortal Officer retorted, "The Wood Treasury Star Lord made an unintentional mistake; you can’t convict him on this basis!"

"This indeed isn’t evidence," a Divine General shook his head.

The Jade Emperor above couldn’t understand what Sun Wukong was attempting, so he remained silent, just tapping the armrest of the Nine Heavens Throne.

Taibai Venus hastily said, "Great Saint, if you have any methods, please use them now."

"Then everyone watch closely," Sun Wukong smiled and put one hand to his mouth, then immediately breathed a flame onto the piece of paper hanging in the air.

All eyes of the immortals were drawn to it as the charred black paper continued to burn, and within the flames, some inscriptions appeared!

In the next instant, the charred paper completely turned to ash.

But in that fleeting moment, the immortals, with their power, could see it clearly.

The inscription read: eliminate Deng Hua as soon as possible.

[Congratulations, you have completed the suggestion—Using the fire burning method to reveal the inscriptions, you have obtained a Third-Rank Treasure Box]

The advice system’s prompt rang in his mind, but Sun Wukong ignored it, scratching his face thoughtfully.

At this moment, all the Immortal Officers and Divine Generals were incredulous, stunned by Sun Wukong’s method of revealing the inscriptions and shocked at what was revealed.

"No, this is impossible! Impossible!" Xiao Zhen shook his head in a daze, then became furiously indignant, "I never received such a message, and these are not the words on the paper! This is a frame-up, a frame-up!"

The immortals fell silent.

Everyone was watching earlier; Sun Wukong had no chance to alter the inscriptions at the moment, it must have been on the paper originally.

Now, with two pieces of evidence, the poisoned wine and the paper, singly neither could convict Xiao Zhen of murder, but together, they were conclusive evidence.

At that moment, the Jade Emperor declared sternly, "Wood Treasury Star Lord Xiao Zhen, for harming your fellow sect member and plotting the murder of Wood Treasury Star Lord Deng Hua, your crime is unforgivable. You are to be cast into reincarnation for eternity...

The judgment was about to be passed.

"A frame-up, it’s all a frame-up; who is setting me up!" Xiao Zhen bellowed desperately in rage and fear, "Senior Brother of the South Pole, Senior Brother of the South Pole, please come save me!"

The immortals sighed softly; Changsheng Great Emperor was unlikely to come to the rescue.

Although Wood Treasury Star Lord was a direct disciple of the Saint, having been sent to brave the Ten Absolute Formations back in the day already said it all, especially now with conclusive evidence and fratricide involved.

The Chan Teachings needs to save face.

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