Chapter 1457

"Quick, quick, quick, get up, everyone get up! Jiaming, Yuming, stop sleeping, fold your bedding, go to the main field."

"Whoa, Senior Brother, the sky isn't even bright yet, it's already July now, the days are so much longer, it hasn't even reached the Hour of the Rabbit yet, right? We're just running horses, our strength is trivial, there's no need to repay the Ancestral Master's blessings, cross the Pass, pray for rain, and break the evil, right?"

"What nonsense, this is Uncle-Master's order, the Midnight Angel has come, said His Majesty the Saint Emperor is coming today, also the Tusi from the Southern Frontier, the Great Khan from the Northern Court, and the Liang Ancestor will come too."

"I'll be damned, are you kidding me, Tusi and Great Khan? What day is this, has the world become one big harmony?"

"The Ancestral Master is a figure about to become an immortal, he's walked eight out of ten steps, is it strange for everyone to give some face?"

"Of course it's strange, anyway if I were the Old Ancestor, I definitely wouldn't want to wake up and find everyone surrounding me watching————"

"Close the door, shut the doors and windows, in a bit when we come back it'll be full of mosquitoes."

Before dawn, the ground of Mount Lingxu trembled lightly, boots shuffled and trampled the yellow earth, the clamor startling the birds in the forest into flight, taking advantage of the hazy purple light to fly into the sky, batch after batch of disciples gathered onto their corresponding squares, led by their instructors who admonished and instructed them on matters.

"Everyone big cleanup, clean up the rooms for me, you two lead teams, go get mugwort and make torches, go into the woods and kill all the mosquitoes and insects, light all the incense, pure water————"

"The road from here to the official road, tamp it flat again, don't leave any rocks, remember to sprinkle a little water, to prevent dust, but don't sprinkle too much or it'll get sticky."

"The portraits of the Saint Emperor, the Tusi, the Khan King, and also the Liang Ancestor, the Dragon Elephant King, are all hung at the entrance, before acting everyone go take a look, experts' whereabouts are unpredictable, who knows if they'll like to tour the mountains and play in the water, remember for me, if you run into people don't you recognize the wrong one, all be back before the Hour of the Dragon, change into clean cloud socks, wash your shoes clean too!"

The dry Yun River channel, the fleet dense and numerous, sails in sheets, gradually drawing in. Water route turning to land route, Ta Ta popped out of the watchtower, hugged the mast and slid down, directing the ships to dock in an orderly fashion, the Third Prince exhaled mist to form a carriage, the main force slowly moved.

The inner attendants bustled everywhere, arranged in order according to rank, preparing the ceremonial procession in advance, not mistaking high and low.

Liang Qu was not among them.

"Great King, please take this path." Huo Zhao Hongyuan, who came out from Mount Tianshan, identified the orientation, stretched out his hand pointing forward.

Liang Qu waved his large hand, invisible clear breeze gathered, a virtual azure dragon emerged beneath the two men's feet, soaring into the air, heading straight for the depths of Mount Tianshan.

"The Prince of Huai this is————" The Tusi was curious.

"In the depths of Mount Tianshan there is a friend of the Prince of Huai, this trip happens to be on the way, the Prince of Huai left first to pay a visit, and will join up with us later." The inner attendant bowed and replied.

"I see." The Tusi nodded.

Another group, the Wolf Lord stared at the soaring, writhing azure flying dragon, silently cursing.

"I knew it!"

"Know, know what?" Suhebaru was puzzled.

The Wolf Lord opened his mouth, waved his hand.

"The Old Dragon Lord is truly diligent and conscientious."

The long wind circulated, robes fluttering, Liang Qu sat astride the dragon body, slightly moved, experiencing the existence of the Slaying Jiao Divine Ability, his heart refreshed and exhilarated, his strongest killing move, finally returned.

Last year the Old Dragon Lord resurrected, after the New Year in late February he managed the waters, in between there was the painful loss of his spine, delaying a month, now it is mid-July, front and back there were two immortal islands to complete, actual time used was less than four months!

At this rate, I'm afraid he can advance to the Long Right Position Fruit before October, efficiency ten times higher than him.

Thirty strands of Xuanhuang, similarly helped the peach tree grow sturdily a section, converted into nutrients for Ju Mang to absorb.

Nothing to say.

Comfortable!

"!"

Huo Zhao Hongyuan's whole body tensed. Liang Qu tilted his head, it was a giant white crane, flying alongside the azure great dragon, its feathers slicing through————

The clouds and mist, leaving wisps of white smoke.

Liang Qu nodded at the immortal crane, flashed his waist token.

The immortal crane cried out once, wings tilted, quickly departed.

The Hanging Temple has six-tusked white elephants, star apes, white tigers and other strange beasts, the Louguan Terrace is also one of the Five Great True Orthodoxies, naturally no fewer strange beasts, cranes, deer, turtles, bats, toads are all such, all have corresponding great demon clans dwelling in the mountains.

Rumor has it there is also a variant three-legged golden toad, dwelling in Louguan Terrace, quite extraordinary, but definitely not as good as Frog Duke, even if it was previously at the demon beast level it's not as good, perhaps comparable to the Blessing Fortune Black Tortoise Wu Cangshou before he advanced to Great Demon?

The azure dragon's flight speed was extremely fast, the mountain range continuous, a thousand zhang not rare, ten thousand zhang occasionally seen, layered peaks and overlapping ridges.

In the sky also gradually appeared some floating islands, some bare and bald, some extremely lush, occasionally beast roars could be heard, some floating islands even connected by iron chains horizontally, becoming Louguan Terrace's martial arts fields, just couldn't see disciples cultivating clearly, the Ancestral Master's awakening is imminent, either gone to offer sacrifices and pray for blessings, or all returned to their own sects to welcome the Saint Emperor.

Individual garrisoned disciples saw the azure dragon, wondered which family's expert, but didn't dare go forward to disturb.

"Three thousand floating islands————"

Liang Qu looked around, thought of his maternal granduncle Su Guishan, couldn't help but raise his head to look at the sky.

The sky was dimly bright, faintly the moon could be seen, just not obvious.

Bing Fire Day, the light of two suns too dazzling, making the moon sink faster than usual.

Back then when Heposuo went to mooch the heaven-earth phenomenon of the Cloud-Top Xiandao, he asked Su Guishan about the Cloud-Top Xiandao's origin.

Granduncle said it was a geocentric suspended stone not subjected to external force, there's also a rumor it's a fragment of the shattered bright moon, the Cloud-Top Xiandao is the largest piece among them, comparable to a small continent.

At that time Su Guishan said, three thousand floating islands added together, only then would there be the scale of the Cloud-Top Xiandao. Such a huge piece, directly let the Mirage Dragon pick up and refine, became the Mirage Clan's base, later events are very familiar.

However, back then Liang Qu was barely at the Beacon Smoke level, naturally took the words of Zhenxiangda Sect Master Su Guishan as a standard, felt it was too right, now can only treat it as an information source, for associative thinking.

"Always feel it's real————" Liang Qu stroked his chin, "Perhaps there really was some great war before, or perhaps no great war, purely a meteorite hitting Earth?"

Similar rumors are not just one or two.

The Cloud-Top Xiandao counts as one.

The Northern Court center, situated atop geothermal heat, the ten thousand li "Jiangnan Beyond the Frontier" counts as a second.

The Great Position Fruit the Old Dragon Lord picked up in the Boundless Sea counts as a third.

Three men make a tiger.

The Whale Emperor's deluded attempt to unify the Three Realms, achieve the strongest Transforming Rainbow, counts as a fourth, no, this thing should count as a derivative of the third, three point five.

The Northern Court, the Xiandao, those are explainable, perhaps just a large moon fragment, a large meteorite, a geothermal coincidence, all can explain, but the Great Position Fruit the Old Dragon Lord picked up is simply inconceivable, even to the point of being a bit hair-raising.

"Three days suspended in the sky, twenty-three year cycle————" Liang Qu stared directly at the sun in the sky, golden eyes blazing, "Either there are other unknown furnaces, a great war occurred in ancient times————or those that can naturally give birth to Great Position Fruits, between heaven and earth, there is actually not just the Jiang-Huai region!"

Beyond the Nine Heavens is endless void, even immortals stepping in would lose their way, the end of the endless void is the brilliant great sun, shining over the Zhou Tian, heaven and earth, heaven and earth, Jiang-Huai is merely the "Earth".

It's just that this point somewhat contradicts Liang Qu's own common sense understanding, quite a bit of a cognitive obstacle, the only bit of insight is probably what he saw for the first time, the special Bing Fire Day that occurs every twenty-three or twenty-two years, the three days suspended in the sky beyond the two days suspended in the sky.

Theoretically, a three-sun system cannot maintain balance.

"Cloud whale, cloud whale— that whale king guy, he probably doesn't know any more than the Great Li, does he?"

Liang Qu had always thought that, though both were furnaces, the whale king's ambition was great, but his aspirations and strength were far inferior to the first immortal; in their contest, he would lose a move to the Great Li Taizu, who was close to opening a world— now it looks like he might have exceeded expectations.

Hey, the whale king isn't going to be stronger than the Great Li Taizu, is he?

"Your Majesty, we have arrived, right here on this mountain peak." Huo Zhao Hongyuan pointed.

Liang Qu lowered his head.

Mountain mist swirled, morning moisture filled every corner of the mountain forest, Chuan State spread out, and all the moisture instantly became his tendrils, caressing every inch of the mountain, human shadows, monkey shadows, insect shadows, spiderwebs in the hollowed tree trunks, centipedes under the withered leaves—

"Heh, this guy, he's living quite well."

Water mist enveloped, revealing the form of an object, insects lay on a rattan chair, beside them a monkey with a wooden plaque chattered noisily, as if performing something.

"Go!"

The azure dragon dissipated, and the two floated down.

Huo Zhao Hongyuan went to seek Izhi Yu and the remaining colleagues outside, while Liang Qu entered the monkey troop's territory.

Around the time insect lay fruits, eating one and discarding one, snoring loudly, the bald, toothless ugly monkey held its head high and chest out, cradling a small female monkey in its arms, leaning on two large female monkeys, letting them pick fur and remove lice, while it commanded the monkey troop with gestures and shouts.

The monkey king gripped an iron pot, seeing the once toothless weak monkey, who relied on clan charity to survive, now strutting about so proudly, anger rose from his heart, evil grew on his courage, he could bear it no longer, he threw down the pot and ladle, bared his canine teeth, and stepped forward half a pace.

The monkey troop cheered in support.

The ugly monkey, startled by instinct, retreated two steps, the plaque on its neck swaying with the motion twice, striking its chest.

The sensation was special; the ugly monkey lowered its head, seeing the two large characters written in dragon-flying-phoenix-dancing style on the wooden board, as if infused with boundless power, it released the female monkey, took a large step forward, not willing to show weakness, it struck back forcefully, slapping the wooden board and howling.

The monkey king was both startled and angry, glanced at the snoring time insect, retreated with his feet, letting the ugly monkey press on its forehead, suffering successive defeats!

The monkey troop wailed in disappointment.

A clear breeze swept by.

Leaves fluttered and flew.

The ugly monkey's chest felt light, it caught a glimpse out of the corner of its eye, filled with shock, it panicked and retreated, its monkey paws groping at a blank chest, like a knight losing his plate armor, a hedgehog losing its spines, a woman shedding her clothes, bald and smooth, the whole monkey, like a burst pig's bladder, shriveled quickly, revealing its true form.

The monkey king stared at the blank chest, grinning repeatedly, flexing his fingers and toes, making a clicking sound.

The ugly monkey shouted loudly, risking everything to scan its surroundings, trying to find the wooden board, when a human figure entered its field of vision.

Human!

That person was lowering his head, gazing intently, following that person's line of sight.

The wooden plaque!

The ugly monkey leapt up and down, immediately rushing out to snatch the plaque.

On the rattan chair, the snoring time insect heard the monkey's cry, it had no intention of paying attention, but suddenly it shivered, an ominous premonition surged into its heart, it quietly opened its eyes, in an instant, the entire insect froze solid inch by inch!

The ugly monkey leapt up and down, reached out to snatch, Liang Qu remained unmoved, he was calm as an ancient well, merely flipped the wooden board and placed it before the time insect.

"Not bad characters."

"What sound?"

Flocks of birds migrated, dark masses flying overhead.

Huo Zhao Hongyuan and Izhi Yu, gradually departing, turned back.

They faintly heard a sharp explosive bang, very penetrating.

Forest winds threaded through.

Ancient trees embraced and broke, the surroundings a scene of ruins and debris.

The time insect held up the fruit tray, Liang Qu lay on the rattan chair, eating fruit one and discarding one. The female monkeys stared at each other, stepped forward two paces, intending to pick fur and remove lice, but Liang Qu drove them away; the female monkeys, faces full of dejection, retreated into the treetops, sobbing and wiping tears.

"Your abilities have improved greatly— before, you couldn't understand human speech, now you can write characters."

The time insect rubbed its limbs, then scratched marks on the ground.

It's all thanks to the Prince of Huai giving me the opportunity, otherwise I couldn't have gone to study under General Yuan.

The monkey troop cheered.

"Pah." Liang Qu spat out the fruit pit, stroked the monkey king's head, "I'm a bit hungry, this fruit tastes bland in my mouth."

The time insect raised its limbs, pointing at the ugly monkey.

You, go stir-fry two dishes.

The monkey king joyfully leapt, the ugly monkey was beaten back to its original form, like bereaved parents, it silently turned away, heading to the stove to stuff firewood.

The monkey troop screamed.

"Don't spare the monkey, I just want to taste your limb art."

The time insect stiffened for a moment, then tied on an apron.

The monkey troop cheered and screamed again.

"Characters can be written, but stir-frying won't do— this one's too salty, that one too bland, when cooking fish you must remove the fishy smell— scallions, ginger, garlic! And these fried spare ribs, you need to drop them in five by five, always eating hot!" Liang Qu held the chopstick tips, picking and selecting, scraping the vegetables.

Sharp explosive—

"Huh?

"

The time insect nodded repeatedly.

"Enough." Liang Qu broke the chopsticks, smoothed them into toothpicks, leaned against the chair back to pick his teeth, "Back then we parted on good terms, now we trade fairly; originally we all treated you as a close friend, you say— you, why must you make things so awkward?

If I don't do something now, how will the countless monkeys in the mountains view me, how will the countless fish in the water view me, how will the countless birds in the sky view me? Let others think the Prince of Huai is easy to bully."

The time insect rubbed its limbs.

After preparing one or two, Liang Qu said no more, directly took out the Bai Yu and half-burned charcoal and cloth from his Qiankun bag, extracting the two kinds of vital energy, gray and red.

Burning wood to offer to debts.

Burying jade land contract!

A long breath escaped, and in an instant, the time worm's inner essence blazed with light, nearly bursting into sound, then it quickly held its breath, slightly turning its head.

Hey!

Liang Qu keenly caught the time worm's reaction, secretly amused—this thing, following the old turtle, had actually learned a trick, even pretending now.

No need to say, there's drama!

How could the long breaths appearing simultaneously in the same scene have no connection? Last time it was still yin and yang.

Pa!

He took out the dew seed and slapped it on the table.

The time worm could no longer control itself, its eyes glowing.

"This thing is also a set of long breaths, right? Weave me one, one dew seed."

The time worm tried to haggle.

"Pa!"

Liang Qu slapped the wooden board, two bright, large characters continuously trembling.

A tiny sharp burst of sound, the time worm lowered its head in agreement, but soon it began scribbling on the ground again.

"Not enough for weaving? Then what else is needed?"

The time worm thought for a moment.

"Is it that one I often use?"

Liang Qu understood, then pulled out a clay jar with his backhand; the time worm flew to the jar's mouth, nodding repeatedly, then eagerly bit onto the red-gray-yellow three-colored long breath, beginning to coil and weave, even planning to weave all nine long breaths in one go.

True skill revealed in length.

The Profound Dragon Breath greatly benefits the time worm.

"Heaven and Earth, Profound and Yellow———"

Liang Qu pondered, looking forward to it.

He also handed over two more Profound Yellow breaths to the time worm.

This wasn't the thirty given the day before yesterday, but from earlier stock.

Before the Old Dragon Lord's revival, Liang Qu had twenty-one long breaths in hand, nine of them Profound Yellow; later, Senior Brother Yu Dun Entering Entering Zhen Xiang took one, he took three for the Chuan Kingdom Divine Ability Position, leaving five on standby.

Adding the Dragon Lord's batch, subtracting the nine now used, Liang Qu currently has seven sweet dew, three yellow earth mother, two Profound Yellow, plus the returning wind and returning fire, seeing gaps, red breath, vibrant life, deep flow, sand breath, and tide breath—nineteen in total.

"Let's go!"

Easily done, Liang Qu took out a bamboo tube, packed the time worm wrapped in a cocoon, and waved at the Monkey King.

He had carefully surveyed this mountain peak earlier—it had nothing special, not like the time worm's origin, or like the time worm coming to Mount Tianshan, seeing the monkey troop here, and just picking a spot at random.

The wonders of Mount Tianshan need not be explored urgently; first go to Louguan Temple to settle down, then there will be plenty of time later.

The Azure Dragon rises again, the monkey troop wails, waving tearful farewells.

Mist and clouds entwine.

On the way, Liang Qu brought along Hu Zhao Hongyuan and others, heading straight for Lingxu Mountain.

The Holy Emperor, the Tribal Chief, and the Great Khan arrive with their grand entrances—of course they won't rush eight thousand miles urgently; a single swift horse speeds fire-like, when the formation is set, the ceremonial guard prepared, appearances maintained, the procession stretches long, announced far and wide, neither hurried nor slow.

Liang Qu busied himself in Mount Tianshan for half a day, neither early nor late, just in time to meet the main force.

Louguan Temple mountain gate, Bai Lu flicks its tail.

The current Dao Master, Ge Jian Tai, personally leads tens of thousands of disciples, myriad teachers, respectfully awaiting the grand arrival.

"May the Holy Emperor ascend the throne, the Tribal Chief guard the borders, the Great Khan rule the desert—three supreme beings descending upon my humble observatory, truly a sign of heaven and earth communing, mountains and rivers renewed in splendor. Though Louguan Temple lies in a corner of the Great Peace, the Dao lineage bears heaven; now receiving the three sovereigns together, plants and trees glow, clouds and dawn interlace with color. I, Ge Jian Tai, Dao Master, solemnly lead all Daoists of the mountain, burning incense, sweeping clean, bowing heads in reverent welcome. May the Holy Emperor's carriage be peaceful, blessings enduring; may the three realms be clear and peaceful, all generations eternally prosperous."

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