I'm In Heaven, I Just Want To Work Overtime

Chapter 4: Job Training

Looking at the more than two hundred drops of merit in the Violet Palace, Xia Yi was very excited.

Karma is easy to accumulate, but merit is hard to come by.

Most of the previous thousand merits were used to offset karma, and the remaining part was attached to the Primordial Spirit to increase one's own luck.

If this were in the mortal realm, I don't know how much hard work it would take to accumulate these merits.

Many righteous cultivators clamor about subduing demons and eliminating evil every day, but in reality, it is to accumulate merits.

However, accumulating merits is not easy. While subduing demons and eliminating evil can earn some merits, there is also considerable danger. Sometimes, instead of getting rid of demons and evil, one ends up falling into it. There are countless examples of this.

With a thought, Xia Yi absorbed all two hundred merits compensated by the system.

Suddenly, a vast amount of spiritual power surged in his dantian, emitting a tremendous aura.

Late Stage of Returning to Void!

The original owner had just reached the mid-stage of Returning to Void three years ago.

Under normal circumstances, it would take a hundred years of meditation and cultivation to possibly touch the threshold of Late Stage of Returning to Void.

"These merits have saved me at least two centuries of arduous cultivation!"

Xia Yi was very satisfied.

However, he also felt that there was a deep and boundless aura enveloping him, as if it could erupt at any moment.

As a cultivator, as long as one reaches the Late Stage of Returning to Void, they can sense their own tribulation. The so-called tribulation is hard to escape; one cannot avoid it and can only face it head-on.

For cultivators to transcend tribulation and become immortals, they need to overcome three heavenly tribulations, also known as the three calamities: Thunder Tribulation, Fire Tribulation, and Wind Tribulation.

If they succeed, they become carefree immortals.

If they fail, they die and their path to immortality is extinguished.

"It is rumored that during the reign of the Three Emperors, cultivators only needed to go through Thunder Tribulation once, which is why there were so many immortals. But during the reign of the Five Emperors, the Heavenly Dao gradually evolved Fire Tribulation and Wind Tribulation."

Xia Yi sighed. Compared to ancient times, it has become increasingly difficult to cultivate and become an immortal.

Not only are the heavenly tribulations becoming more difficult to overcome, but there are also more impurities in the spiritual energy.

This is probably due to the rise of the human education.

When the human education flourishes, the immortals and gods retreat.

The heavens reside below, while humans reside above.

Although I have a system that can earn merits, no matter how many merits I have, heavenly tribulations will still descend.

However, their power will be weakened, and legendary tribulations like the Ninth Layer Thunder Tribulation, the Nine Heavens Divine Demon Tribulation, and the Profound Heaven Poisonous Golden Blade Tribulation will not occur.

"The key is that there is no complete Law Treasure now!"

Xia Yi felt a bit helpless.

The original owner did cultivate the Profound Yin Gathering Soul Banner, with a total of seventy-two flags, which could be arranged into a powerful Asura formation. It was a powerful and decent Shura secret technique.

However, in the battle with the Heavenly Court, it was destroyed by a heavenly general, and the original owner was also captured.

Three days passed like this.

A fairy child came in to inform Xia Yi to go to the Heavenly Prison.

When he arrived at the Heavenly Prison, he saw Tianpeng dealing with official business.

Seeing Xia Yi's arrival, he said, "Your name has been entered into the Immortal Register. Although you are a low-ranking official and not influential, you are still a recipient of the Heavenly Court's salary. You will receive eight dou of immortal rice and half a chi of heavenly silk every month. As for the tools for cleaning the Heavenly Prison, you can go to the treasure vault of the Heavenly Prison to get them yourself."

The fairy child beside him showed an envious expression. He was of low status and didn't even have the qualification to be entered into the Immortal Register, so naturally, he didn't have the qualification to receive immortal rice or wear heavenly clothes.

"I will do my best and not disappoint the trust of the Star Lord!"

After leaving the palace, Xia Yi followed the fairy child to the treasure vault.

Inside, there were various brooms, all made of immortal bamboo, extraordinary.

In addition, there were many gourds and long banners.

"The main task of cleaning the Heavenly Prison is to clean up the impure and evil qi. You can choose the Gathering Evil Gourd and the Yellow Cloud Banner." The fairy child said beside him.

Xia Yi took the gourd and the long banner as instructed.

Heavenly Prison is located in the middle of Taiyu Heaven, which is at the bottom level of the 33-layer Heavenly Palace.

He is very clear about the location of Heavenly Prison, after all, he has just come out from there not long ago.

On the way.

Xia Yi was driving the auspicious cloud while studying the system.

In front of him, a golden panel appeared.

[Name: Xia Yi]

[Cultivation: Return to Void (Late Stage)]

[Position: Sweeping Immortal Official]

[Job Responsibilities: Cleaning the impurities in Heavenly Prison]

[Benefits: Five insurances and one fund, weekends off, triple overtime pay, 16-month salary, etc.]

[Salary: Settled at the beginning of next month]

[Detected that the host is taking this position for the first time, do you accept job training?]

"Accept!" Xia Yi quickly said.

[Job training starts now]

[Q: Why do we need to clean Heavenly Prison?

A: There are impurities in the four continents of the Earth Immortal Realm, especially in the Southern Zhanbu Continent and the Northern Julu Continent. One is the ancestral land of the human race, where the karma of the mortal world is overwhelming, and the other is a place where demons and monsters run rampant, filled with evil and malevolent energy.

These impurities rise up to the heavens and even the Heavenly Court will be contaminated.

Therefore, Heavenly Prison is not only a prison, but also a tool for filtering and absorbing impurities from the Earth Immortal Realm. It needs to be cleaned regularly, otherwise the impurities will overflow and pollute the Heavenly Court.

Q: Is it dangerous to clean Heavenly Prison?

A: Yes, it is dangerous!

These impurities are the accumulation of worldly malevolent energy. Even the Yellow Springs malevolent energy and the Nine Nether demonic energy cannot compare to it. Once they invade the body of a cultivator, it is like maggots gnawing at the bones, extremely difficult to remove. The previous Immortal Officials who cleaned Heavenly Prison all had their Primordial Spirit collapse and had to be reincarnated because they were invaded by too much impurities.

Q: How to safely clean Heavenly Prison?

A: The system will provide a Third Grade Pure World White Lotus. If the host refines it, it will be enough to clean Heavenly Prison.]

"What? Pure World White Lotus?" Xia Yi was surprised.

In the chaos of the beginning, there was nothing, and the heavens and earth were connected as one. Only a Chaos Azure Lotus, also known as the World Creating Azure Lotus, was nurtured within it.

The Azure Lotus had five leaves, twenty-four petals, and produced five lotus seeds.

One of the lotus seeds gave birth to the great god Pangu.

Later, when Pangu opened the heavens, the chaotic aura became chaotic, and the violent earth, water, fire, and wind destroyed the World Creating Azure Lotus, interrupting the process of the lotus seed's birth.

Among the remaining four lotus seeds, one has matured and fell on Mount Buzhou, named the Thirty-sixth Grade Good Fortune Azure Lotus, which was later discovered by the Three Pure Ones.

The lotus flower turned into three treasures: the Jade Ruyi of Origin Returning belonged to Heavenly Venerable;

The lotus root turned into the Taiyi Feather Duster, belonging to the Supreme Old Lord;

The lotus leaf turned into the Qingping Sword, belonging to the Master of the Tongtian Sect.

The other four lotus seeds turned into: the Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus, the Twelfth Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, the Twelfth Grade World-destroying Black Lotus, and the Twelfth Grade Pure World White Lotus.

The Twelfth Grade Pure World White Lotus is an Innate Supreme Grade defensive treasure. When used, it can purify all impurities and malevolent energy in the world, and it can also calm the mind and dispel all illusions in the world.

Although the Third Grade Pure World White Lotus is much lower in grade and not even one ten-thousandth of the original, it is still a rare treasure in the Three Realms.

For example, its effect of calming the mind is enough to drive many Qi Refining cultivators crazy.

With the protection of the Pure World White Lotus, there is no need to worry about the risk of going astray.

[Reward distribution in progress...]

In the Violet Palace space, a white lotus the size of a water tank slowly rotated, emitting billions of rays of light.

(End of this chapter)