Chapter 200: A Great Uproar in the Golden Rhino Cave (XI)
Now, Ao Tu and Wukong ascended to Heaven.
For some reason, Heavenly King Guangmu had thrown the heavenly gates wide open. Ao Tu exchanged a few pleasantries with him before going straight in with Wukong. The two rode clouds all the way to the Jade Pool Immortal Realm.
There they saw yao grass and jade flowers, purple zhi and fragrant hui; white cranes roosting in pines, peacocks bearing jade; colorful phoenixes in twos, azure luans in pairs; the Blossom Palace and Precious Towers, jeweled pavilions and jade halls.
The two walked inward and passed a pavilion called the Gathering Immortals Pavilion. Before it stood a Treasure Banner. Mist spread everywhere, and an extraordinary fragrance enveloped the place. Cloud patterns grew upon the banner, seeming to contain the ultimate truths of heaven and earth, yet their entirety could not be glimpsed.
Ao Tu stopped to contemplate it, his mind immersed, and saw:
Five-colored auspicious clouds veiled heaven and earth; ten thousand shafts of golden light poured forth rainbows. Suddenly, the Treasure Banner was taken away.
Suddenly, the precious banner was taken away.
A red-robed fairy had taken the Treasure Banner. She eyed the two warily and asked, "Who are you, and what have you come for?"
Ao Tu knew she was a trusted attendant of the Queen Mother. "Fairy, my Daoist name is Taixi. I have come here with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven to seek an audience with the Queen Mother of the West and ask for a way to bring the dead back to life."
Wukong smiled and bowed. "Fairy, it has been a while."
At this, the red-robed fairy hastily dodged aside and said warily, "Great Sage Equal to Heaven, I recognize you. You were the