Chapter 436: Hundred-Year Grand Banquet

The fog in the room became thicker and thicker.

The next instant.

The scene around Li Rui changed; the desolate and barren ground, the faint crying sounds, as if he were in purgatory.

He looked at the realistic environment in front of him.

Fourth-Rank Bewildering Heart Array, really not ordinary.

Li Rui had a thought.

The small flags inserted in every corner of the room pulled themselves out of the ground and returned to his hands.

Array breakthrough!

Over the years, Li Rui's realm had been rising all the way, and talismans and arrays had not fallen behind.

Because of the opening of the East Heaven Gate.

The speed of improvement in talismans and arrays was extremely fast.

The array had broken through again.

As for talismans, because they were already Fourth-Rank, just like stepping from innate to Below Tongxuan, whether it was arrays or talismans, breaking from Fourth to Third was a big hurdle; even with Li Rui's talent, he had to spend more time practicing.

Now that both talismans and arrays were Fourth-Rank, their effect on him was not small.

A great happy event!

Li Rui's array breakthrough put him in a great mood.

He pushed the door and walked out of the house.

He happened to see Yang Yong cooling off under the tree in the courtyard.

"Yo, Old Yang, in a good mood."

Li Rui chuckled and found a seat by himself, sitting very close to Yang Yong.

Yang Yong looked at Li Rui.

"Old Li, how many years have we known each other?"

Li Rui chuckled:

"That depends on how you count; if you count from when you entered the Zhu family, it's seventy-one years; if you count from when you were whipped by the steward, it's sixty-seven years."

Bringing up the past again.

Yang Yong was happy: "Isn't it? I hadn't practiced martial arts then; I just kicked and broke a porcelain cup of the master, almost beaten to death, fortunately you were righteous enough."

Li Rui hummed twice:

"Picked up silver that day, thinking of accumulating more merit."

Yang Yong rolled his eyes and sighed lightly:

"This time passes really fast; I'm almost ninety years old."

He was only a dozen years younger than Li Rui.

Li Rui was almost having a hundred-year banquet, so he was naturally in his eighties.

Just like Li Rui back then.

As the longest-lived ordinary person in Qinghe, the county magistrate came to visit every year, and he had long been regarded as an auspicious sign.

Heard that they were also going to build an archway for him.

These were things he couldn't even think about when he was a guard in the Zhu family.

He could live so long also because Li Rui piled heavenly treasures on him; he was in his eighties, but he looked no different from when he was seventy.

If there were no accidents, he could live for quite a few more years.

'Made a good friend.'

Yang Yong had more feelings.

Just when the two old men were reminiscing about the past.

A man walked into the General's Mansion.

"Alliance Master."

Liu Tong clasped his fists at Li Rui.

Li Rui looked at the increasingly mature Liu Tong and couldn't help but think of the first time he saw him in the Hun Tian Yi Hall.

At that time, Liu Tong was still a relative, a playboy.

Over the years.

He had long regarded Liu Tong as half a disciple.

Heard from Liang He that Liu Tong was originally presiding over the opening of the Spring Breeze Hall in Jiangnan, but after hearing the news of the birthday banquet, he rushed to Qinghe immediately after the opening.

Li Rui chuckled: "Change your address from now on, call me Master."

"Master..."

Liu Tong widened his eyes, stunned for a moment.

Seeing Liu Tong standing there in a daze.

Yang Yong couldn't help but speak: "You usually look the smartest, why are you confused at this time?"

Liu Tong woke up, his eyes full of ecstasy.

He knelt down without hesitation and kowtowed several times to Li Rui.

Li Rui helped Liu Tong up:

"Alright, I don't have so many rules here."

Liu Tong at this time was already tearful.

So many years.

Although he became the hall master of the Spring Breeze Hall, he failed to become Li Rui's disciple like Liang He, which had always been a knot in his heart.

Now that it was finally untied, how could he not be excited?

Li Rui scolded with a smile: "Look at your lack of promise."

At this time.

Liang He and Liu Liu Tiezhu, who were watching from the side, walked up together.

Liang He chuckled: "Hurry, call me Senior Brother and let me hear it."

He had the deepest bond with Liu Tong.

Early on, they were both disciples of the Hun Tian Yi Hall, and the two were actually competing secretly, but as Liu Tong joined the Qingwei Sect, Liang He felt he was not as good.

But as Li Rui rose later.

Liu Tong resolutely gave up the status of a Qingwei Sect disciple and joined the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

The two started cooperating to manage the alliance's affairs again.

There was often a saying of two prides in the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

Liang He and Liu Tong were already familiar to the point of being unable to be more familiar.

If it were others, Liu Tong would have to argue with Liang He, but for this matter, he accepted it happily, smiling and bowing to Liang He: "Yes, Senior Brother."

Liang He smiled more and nodded with satisfaction.

Liu Liu Tiezhu also grinned: "Second Senior Brother."

"Eh."

Liu Liu Tiezhu also grinned.

Li Rui looked at the three disciples in the courtyard and chuckled: "Alright, go do your own things."

He didn't give Liu Tong any gift.

Over the years, whatever Liang He and the others had, Liu Tong didn't miss out on half.

Accepting a disciple was just to let Liu Tong's thoughts be clear.

Li Rui was also letting the cause and effect converge.

This name was what Liu Tong deserved.

Over the years, the Spring Breeze Hall could grow bigger and bigger, besides his and the Heaven and Earth Chamber of Commerce's backing being hard enough, it also had a great relationship with Liu Tong's own efforts.

Liu Tong took a deep breath and calmed his mood.

Only then did he smile and call out: "Master."

Li Rui chuckled: "Alright, go do your own things."

After saying that.

He turned and returned to the room, continuing to practice as if it were the same every day.

Another seven or eight days passed.

People came to the General's Mansion in Qinghe again.

"Third Junior Brother, you're back."

Liu Liu Tiezhu, who was busy in the courtyard, saw Wang Zhao return and greeted him happily.

The two senior and junior brothers hadn't seen each other for nearly ten years.

Meeting again.

Wang Zhao had already shed the greenness and immaturity of the past, and was already a heroic man.

Liu Liu Tiezhu walked halfway, and his footsteps stopped.

Just saw a woman with wheat-colored skin, extremely healthy, and with wild beauty walk in from behind the door; she looked like a person from the Wu Kingdom.

Liu Liu Tiezhu's eyes were even more surprised, and he asked with a grin: "Third Junior Brother, is this the junior sister-in-law?"

Wang Zhao nodded generously:

"This is Qiao Mai, my wife."

"It really is the junior sister-in-law, please, hurry please."

Liu Liu Tiezhu greeted hurriedly.

The girl named Qiao Mai was also very bold; seeing Liu Liu Tiezhu, she called him Brother Liu Tiezhu one after another.

Making Liu Liu Tiezhu feel very energetic.

Soon.

Liang He and Liu Tong, who heard the news, also walked over.

A round of greetings.

Wang Zhao finally knew why Liu Liu Tiezhu just called him Third Junior Brother, not Junior Junior Brother.

It turned out that Master had accepted a new disciple.

"Junior Brother."

Wang Zhao smiled and looked at Liu Tong.

In the past, Liu Tong often came to Li Rui's mansion; every time they met, he called him Brother Liu, but didn't expect that after so many years, Liu Tong's seniority had become younger and younger.

Liu Tong was extremely willing and bowed to Wang Zhao: "Senior Brother."

Afterward.

The eyes of the senior and junior brothers all fell on Qiao Mai.

Not to mention that marriage is a trick of fate.

Among the few, Liu Tong, who had the best luck with women, hadn't married yet, but Wang Zhao, who looked the most wooden, was the first to have a wife.

"Little Zhao, hurry and tell Senior Brother, how did you meet?"

Liu Liu Tiezhu was the first to ask.

Wang Zhao: "Met once when hunting demons in the Wu Court; Mai is a demon hunter."

Just when the senior and junior brothers were playing around.

Li Rui and Yang Yong walked over.

Wang Zhao saw Li Rui and hurriedly pulled Qiao Mai forward, kneeling down with a thud.

"Master, I'm back late."

Hearing this, Li Rui rolled his eyes: "You're not young anymore, why are you still speaking so inauspiciously? Taught in vain."

And Yang Yong on the side was already sizing up Qiao Mai:

"Not bad, not bad, find a good day and get things done."

He had lived for so long.

Wasn't it just hoping to see Wang Zhao marry a wife and have children?

Seeing it was about to be realized, he couldn't help but urge to speed up.

Wang Zhao blushed rarely: "Uncle Yang..."

Li Rui chuckled and took over the conversation: "Your Uncle Yang is right, choose a day, if it should be done, it should be done."

"Alright."

Hearing Li Rui's words.

Wang Zhao and Qiao Mai were both happy.

Whether it was the Yu Kingdom or the Wu Kingdom, there were rules of parents' orders and matchmakers' words; Wang Zhao was sold as a slave, his parents didn't know where they had gone long ago, and Qiao Mai was an orphan.

Li Rui's words as Master were the parents' orders.

As long as Li Rui nodded, this marriage was considered done.

Marriage is a big event.

Although it was a disciple's matter, he, as Master, naturally had to check it well.

In fact.

As early as when Wang Zhao wrote to say he wanted to marry a wife, he had already entrusted the relationship in the Wu Kingdom to check Qiao Mai clearly.

Family background or something was not important.

As long as it was a clean family.

As for the background, now Li Rui himself was already a backer, no need to climb to others.

No need for that; on the contrary, if Qiao Mai's background was too big.

Li Rui would hesitate instead.

Wang Zhao's marriage was thus settled.

All four disciples were gathered.

The Li mansion was unprecedentedly lively.

Every day when he woke up.

He could hear movement, much more lively than Mount Changqing Peak, and Li Rui felt it was also quite good.

Another month.

Li Rui was still as usual, listening to Daoist Master Wanshou preach for a night in the Grand Void Dojo.

He gained a lot.

When he pushed the door open, he saw his four disciples running around busy in the courtyard.

Yang Yong also rarely got up early.

He walked to Li Rui's side.

"Old Li, tell me, in the past, did you dare to think about living to a hundred years old?"

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