"Are you the Jade Emperor, Lord?" Lin Shen pondered, then decided to use an honorific.
No matter whether the other party was an actual deity or not, the strength he possessed was beyond Lin Shen's ability to contend with. It was better to be deferential.
"Yes," the other replied simply and directly, then asked, "Why have you co?"
Lin Shen could clearly hear the other's voice, yet he couldn't determine if the voice was male or female, old or young, pleasant or unpleasing.
"Nothing much, I just admire you, so I ca to see you, to behold your grace..." Lin Shen said with an awkward chuckle.
Although the other had admitted to being the deity "Jade Emperor" as ntioned in the sacrificial texts, as an atheist, Lin Shen did not believe in the existence of deities in the world.
Even if deities did exist, Lin Shen thought they were rely another kind of advanced beings, not omnipotent entities.
If the Jade Emperor were an all-powerful god, omniscient and omnipotent, then he should know who Lin Shen was and why he had co here, and he would not have asked why Lin Shen had co.
Therefore, Lin Shen made no requests; he usually did not worship deities, so he could hardly expect them to bless him.
"You an to say, you wish to make your Guardian Spirit?" The Jade Emperor's voice remained ethereal, betraying no emotion.
"What is a Guardian Spirit?" Lin Shen was startled and quickly spoke up.
"If not to seek a Guardian Spirit, why would you use Spirit-Communicating Robes to co to the Celestial Court?" the Jade Emperor asked.
Lin Shen had to explain, "I just stumbled upon collecting five Sacrificial Robes and had no idea there were so many mysteries involved."
"Regardless of how you arrived here, now that you have, you are entitled to choose a Guardian Spirit."
The Jade Emperor paused, then continued, "Each Guardian Spirit can grant you different fortunes. For example, if you choose the God of Wealth as your Guardian Spirit, when you invoke the Guardian Spirit, you will receive the God of Wealth's fortunate protection.
Your fortune will be better than others, business will be easier to prosper in, winning the lottery will co more easily, and you will earn more than others when working... If you choose the Longevity Star as your Guardian Spirit, your life will be longer than others..."
"Of course, a Guardian Spirit can only grant you a certain fortune. If you go with the flow, you can surely profit, but if you insist on defying fate, no one can save you, not even the strongest fortune will be of use," the Heavenly Emperor added.
Lin Shen understood the Jade Emperor's aning, suggesting that even with fortune on his side, if he knowingly pursued a losing business venture, even the added fortune would be of no help.
If he chose the Longevity Star as his Guardian Spirit but insisted on suicide, the Longevity Star couldn't save his life.
Even so, this was already incredibly magical. If one chose the God of Wealth and didn't court disaster, they would certainly make more money than they could spend—a huge attraction for the average person.
"What other spirits can I choose from?" Lin Shen did not rush to make a choice but continued to inquire.
"You don't have much of a choice," said the Jade Emperor, causing Lin Shen to feel a slight shock.
"Didn't you say I could choose a Guardian Spirit? You just ntioned the God of Wealth and the Longevity Star; how co there are no choices now?" Lin Shen asked, puzzled.
"You already chose just now, so I am already your Guardian Spirit. Naturally, you cannot choose again," the Jade Emperor said indifferently.
"I see, Lord Jade Emperor, what is your fortune?" Lin Shen murmured to himself, "I never really said I wanted to choose you, how can this count?"
But Lin Shen dared not speak those words, for when you are under soone's roof, you have no choice but to bow your head.
"Just feel it for yourself, go. The Immortal Spirit Protection can only be used once. If you need my protection, you only need to recite my divine na, and it is 'True Jade Emperor Miluo of the Haotian Jinque, the Supre Sovereign Naturally Mysterious.'"
As the Jade Emperor's voice faded, Lin Shen felt his body being violently pulled back by the Spirit-Communicating Robes, and in a flash, he flew through the grand doors of the palace, hurtling down the stairs and out.
"Could you... repeat... that... one... more... ti...
I... didn't... catch... it... Ahhh..." Lin Shen desperately shouted, but he had already exited the gates of the Celestial Court.
The gates of the Celestial Court closed with a bang, and the beam of light disappeared as well.
With the disappearance of the light beam, the glow on the Spirit-Communicating Robes also dissipated, and they split into five, leaving Lin Shen's body and flying off in different directions, vanishing in an instant.
The space that had been still returned to normal, and it seed like Ye Kong and the others had no idea what had just happened.
In their eyes, Lin Shen's robe glowed with a rosy light, then turned to white with black characters, and after Lin Shen recited the sacrificial text, the robe split into five and disappeared into nothingness in a flash.
"Damn it... This sucks... What was the Jade Emperor's na again... I didn't catch it... Why did you have to have such a long na..." Lin Shen felt like crying but had no tears.
"Tian, what happened?" Tian Xun, like Ye Kong and the others, only saw Lin Shen's sacrificial robe join together, then scatter again, disappearing into the void.
The ti Lin Shen spent in the Celestial Court seed to them as if it did not exist at all.
"I don't know what happened either; they just ran off." Since Ye Kong and the others were still there, Lin Shen naturally couldn't tell Tian Xun about the matters of the Celestial Court.
"So, what do we do now? Without the sacrificial robe, we can't get the things left by the Little Wine Emperor," said Ye Kong.
Lin Shen now knew that the things left by the Little Wine Emperor might not be inside the artificial sun but were probably the opportunity to obtain the Guardian Spirit.
It was now clear that the Spirit-Communicating Robes were not crafted by the Little Wine Emperor, nor were they creatures born from this Base Mutation land, but were collected by the Little Wine Emperor from sowhere, placed here waiting for soone to activate them and reach the Celestial Court.
As to why the Little Wine Emperor would do such a thing, Lin Shen had no idea.
Whether or not there was anything else inside the artificial sun, Lin Shen also did not know. Perhaps it would take a test trial before he could find out if there was anything else within the artificial sun and how to access it.
"How would I know what to do? It's not like I made them fly away," Lin Shen was in a very bad mood.
He had no choice once inside the Celestial Court, and he hadn't even managed to rember the divine na of the Jade Emperor.
Lin Shen only recalled sothing about "Haotian," "Jade Emperor," "God" or sothing like that... It was too long; one could not possibly rember it all after hearing it just once.
"Couldn't you have repeated it a few tis? With such a long na, who could rember it in one go!" Lin Shen wished he could step back into the Celestial Court, grab that Jade Emperor and give him a good beating, then rattle off a series of nas to make him rember them. If he couldn't, then Lin Shen would beat him again.
Suddenly, Lin Shen thought of sothing.
Previously, when Lin Shen had learned 'Stepping on the Immortal Court,' he thought that the Celestial Court was just a taphor for the dwelling of deities; he had never expected that there was indeed such a place as the Celestial Court.
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