Chapter 205: First Experience of the Pain of Losing a Son

"Martial Arts Assembly?" Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, then her expression was strange, and she said: "Libationer, what news do you mean? What Ten Thousand Ghosts Daily Walk, what happened to the Lianghe Beach battlefield?"

This Wang Mansion "East Pavilion Libationer" came on horseback, running with sweat, and his dark blue brocade robe was clearly stained with some dust.

After arriving at Tianbao Residence, he didn't even enter the main gate, climbed up the steps, and seeing Xiao Yu come out to welcome him, he shouted directly at the door.

In terms of demeanor and temperament, this Libationer was worse than Li Dan, the lacquer garden official.

Sister Shao Yao touched her arm, gently pulled her away from the door, made way for the road, smiled and invited: "Official Cheng, come in and have a cup of tea, let's talk slowly."

"Miss Sister Shao Yao, don't be polite, you should be able to see that I am delivering a message for His Highness the Young Master."

"Sigh, I have run from morning until now, and I have already seen more than forty heroes of Shudong."

"Now Miss Yu is the forty-ninth, and later I have to go to the Shahe Sect to find 'One Blade Breaks the Sea' Sun Botao."

Although Libationer Cheng said so, Sister Shao Yao had already stretched out her hand to show the gesture of "please enter," and the road was also made way for, so he had no choice but to walk quickly into the main hall on the first floor.

Wen Zhiruo was already sitting in the upper seat, holding a tea bowl in her hand, gently skimming the tea foam with the tea lid.

"Ah, Grandmaster Wen is also at Tianbao Residence, Cheng is rude."

Wen Zhiruo was as immovable as a mountain, Cheng Libationer stepped forward in panic, arched his hands and bent his waist, performing a Confucian student salute facing a teacher.

Only then did Wen Zhiruo slowly put down the tea bowl, stood up and returned a half-salute—only slightly lowered her head and arched her hands, without bending her waist.

Cheng Libationer didn't have any displeasure, sat down naturally below Wen Zhiruo, took a sip of the hot tea handed by the maid, and said: "Miss Yu, I am Wang Mansion Libationer Cheng Daolin, you can just call me 'Old Cheng'."

"Tomorrow is the last day of August, may I ask if you will go to Yingxiang Mansion?"

"If you go, then I won't waste my breath."

"If you don't go, I have to talk a little about the Martial Arts Assembly and the Ten Thousand Ghosts Daily Walk."

Xiao Yu didn't understand, and asked: "Is the last day of August a special festival in Yingxiang Mansion?"

Sister Shao Yao's eyes flashed, and she smiled: "It's not wrong to say that. Immortal Lao's birthday is on the last day of August."

"Immortal Lao's birthday is as lively as a festival in the entire Yingxiang Mansion."

"This situation has continued for two or three hundred years, almost becoming a special festival day."

"So it's Immortal Lao's birthday."

Before coming to Tianmen Town, Xiao Yu had already heard of the name of Immortal Lao.

After all, the "Xiong Long Gong" she practiced was one of the core techniques of the "Changchun Martial Arts Hall," and the ancestor of the Changchun Martial Arts Hall was Immortal Lao.

Song Changqing also said that when she came to Yingxiang Mansion, she would know how notorious "Xiong Long Gong," "Changchun Martial Arts Hall," and "Immortal Lao" were.

To be honest, it wasn't as exaggerated as Song Changqing said.

The entire Tianmen Town didn't have a Changchun Martial Arts Hall.

Immortal Lao's own presence was also relatively low.

It's not that he wasn't famous.

Everyone in Tianmen Town knew that "there is an immortal Immortal Lao in Yingxiang Mansion who lives forever."

It's just that he didn't cause trouble on weekdays, and didn't even show up in public much.

It was completely unlike Xiao Yu, who was "conferring gods and collecting four immortals" at Red Sleeve Workshop one moment, "righteous gift of god status, ancient sage" the next, and "assassination in Baxia Alley" the next...

If there were a "Today's Headline in Yingxiang Mansion."

In the past two months, Xiao Yu had long occupied the first place, while Immortal Lao couldn't even enter the top 100.

"What does Immortal Lao's birthday have to do with me? Why should I go to Yingxiang Mansion?" Xiao Yu asked curiously.

Cheng Daolin said: "Immortal Lao's birthday is a grand banquet, not only very lively, but also contains many opportunities."

"Many people will go, such as Young Master Xianzhi, such as Miss Sister Shao Yao. I thought Miss Yu would go with Miss Sister Shao Yao."

If she went to Immortal Lao's house in Yingxiang Mansion and met Young Master Xianzhi, the matter of the "Martial Arts Assembly" could be discussed in person.

Xiao Yu looked at Sister Shao Yao.

Sister Shao Yao opened her mouth, but finally didn't speak.

Seeing this, Cheng Daolin understood that he had to explain roughly.

"Miss Yu has been in Tianmen Town for a while, so you should know about the Lianghe Beach battlefield a hundred miles north, right?"

"The Allied Forces of the Thirty-Six Nations had a total strength of nearly one million, plus the laborers plundered from our Shu Kingdom, the total number of people exceeded two million."

"Less than one-third of the laborers survived, and the rest all died on the battlefield."

"This also includes twenty thousand elites of our Great Shu."

"Among the twenty thousand elites, there are five thousand Luye Guards."

"Even after the war, we cleaned up the battlefield, and those with names and surnames, regardless of enemy or us, were all sent back to their counties."

"Those whose names and identities could not be determined were also sacrificed with the ritual of the small prison, and buried in nearby geomantic treasures."

"But too many people died, and many died with eyes wide open, carrying thick resentment when they died,"

"In the few months after the war ended, a large number of resentful souls and fierce ghosts emerged one after another."

"Previously, although there were ghost soldiers and ghost generals wandering in nearby villages, they never directly harmed living people, and dared not harm the ghost gods in the Yingxiang Mansion realm."

"Last night, a ghost general from Guai Zi Mountain fought fiercely with Guan Chenghuang Guan near Qinghe Village."

"I don't know the specific casualties yet."

"It is only certain that ghost gods have fallen, and this may even include the Earth God near Lianghe Beach."

Seeing the expression on Xiao Yu's face gradually change from surprise to realization, Cheng Libationer sighed: "It seems Miss Yu understands that the purpose of the Young Master convening the Martial Arts Assembly is to gather the heroes of the eastern region of Shu Kingdom, gather together, and work together to fight against the eight ghost kings of the 'Guai Zi Mountain Eight King Tiangong'."

"Actually gave birth to ghost kings, and eight of them?!" Sister Shao Yao was shocked.

Cheng Libationer pondered: "Whether it is a ghost king or not, and whether there are eight, the Young Master is not sure."

"Even the Guan Chenghuang Grandpa has only seen the Bie Tou General."

"The one who fought with the Guan Chenghuang Grandpa last night was the 'Bie Tou General'."

"The Eight Great Ghost Kings are very low-key and have not appeared in public yet."

"The reason why there is the saying of 'Eight Great Ghost Kings of Lianghe Beach' is because Bie Tou General is catching craftsmen everywhere, wanting to build an 'Eight King Tiangong' in Guai Zi Mountain."

"Since it is the Eight King Tiangong, it shows that there are at least eight 'ghost kings' in Guai Zi Mountain... regardless of whether the realm is a 'ghost king' or not, they are at least kings among the ghost soldiers."

"As for strength, it shouldn't be weak either."

"After all, Bie Tou General is just a miscellaneous general and is not qualified to be crowned king."

"Official Cheng, just Bie Tou General alone, without the help of the Eight Great Ghost Kings, defeated Guan Chenghuang Guan and abducted several Earth Gods?" Xiao Yu first thought of the missing "Guan family."

No wonder the "Guan family" hadn't come to monitor her from last night until now; it turned out they had suffered a disaster.

Xiao Yu quietly gave a thumbs up to Bie Tou General in her heart.

"The Guan Chenghuang Grandpa didn't lose! In fact, the Guan Chenghuang Grandpa defeated Bie Tou General's ghost soldier army, but from Lianghe Beach to Guai Zi Mountain, it almost formed a ghost kingdom on earth."

"As the Guan Chenghuang, the master of the Yingxiang Mansion Yin Division, he actually lost the advantage of the home field."

"Although he could defeat the ghost soldier army, he couldn't completely suppress Bie Tou General, letting him take advantage of the chaos to abduct several Yin Division ghost gods," Cheng Libationer sighed.

Xiao Yu felt that the real situation was worse than what this Libationer said.

Guan Chenghuang Guan and the Qinghe Commandery Prince were too urgent, and now they even seemed a bit flustered.

The Yin God battle happened outside the city late last night, and the Martial Arts Assembly started to be promoted this morning; what kind of fire-burning-eyebrows efficiency is this?

"Official Cheng, what is the specific procedure for the Martial Arts Assembly?" she asked.

Having traveled to this world for many years, she finally encountered the legendary "Martial Arts Assembly," and she was a little excited in her heart!

But in the Immortal Buddha World with the Journey to the West background, does "Martial Arts Assembly" sound a bit low?

Gathering a group of martial arts people to go and fight hard against ghost gods...

Do you think everyone can be "Heavens Yu Fengxian who beheads ghosts and destroys gods"?

Even Heavens Yu Fengxian herself didn't have much confidence.

Killing her "foster father" was fine, even if the foster father was an immortal realm, it didn't matter.

However, being able to kill an "immortal foster father" didn't mean she could kill other immortals!

Who knows what miraculous powers the Eight Great Ghost Kings and Bie Tou General have; she was completely in the dark and knew nothing.

Sun Wukong was so powerful, his realm and hard strength were stronger than the enemy, but he would still suffer big losses because the enemy brought out mysterious miraculous powers and magic treasures.

Her real realm strength definitely wasn't as good as a "ghost king"... unless she first let the ghost king become her foster father.

No matter how high the realm is, it's no match for miraculous power.

"Great Father-Destroying" is the strongest miraculous power against "foster father," which can behead a foster father across realms.

"The specific procedure is the same as in the past, everything follows the old rules," Cheng Libationer blurted out.

"Old rules?" Xiao Yu was a bit surprised, "Are Martial Arts Assemblies held frequently in the past?"

"Last year in Tianmen Town..."

Cheng Libationer only said half a sentence, then suddenly reacted; this Heavens Yu Fengxian, who is righteous reaching the clouds, is a "newcomer."

Sister Shao Yao explained to Xiao Yu: "When the Thirty-Six Nations invaded our Great Shu, the north, northeast, and northwest of Shu Kingdom, our Shudong, Shuxi headed by Luodu, and the southern counties all held 'Heroic Assemblies to Defend the Land and Pacify the Nation'."

"Tianmen Town's 'Shudong Heroic Assembly' was presided over by the Qinghe Commandery Prince himself."

"Afterwards, Young Master Xianzhi took the lead, leading more than three thousand martial arts heroes deep into the enemy's rear, cutting off the enemy's food and grass, clearing the enemy's dark sentries, and inquiring about the enemy's deployment map..."

Xiao Yu immediately thought of Aunt Liu's lover and illegitimate son, Tianmen Association leader Lei Zhen and son Lei Tianyang.

"Official Cheng, have you been to the Tianmen Association?"

Cheng Libationer shook his head, "I will go find Association Leader Lei later."

—Lei Zhen has fallen... actually ranked behind her.

Xiao Yu muttered in her heart, but promised generously: "Official Cheng, you tell the Prince to rest assured, I will definitely participate in the Martial Arts Assembly on time."

Cheng Libationer nodded with satisfaction, then hesitated: "This Martial Arts Assembly is presided over by Young Master Xianzhi, the Prince probably won't be present."

—It seems that the paddle Ge Qingyun used to slap Li Jingyu was really heavy and hard... he couldn't even show his face, pretend, or boost morale.

Xiao Yu asked curiously: "Just now when Official Cheng met me, you asked if I had heard the news; is the relevant news already flying all over the sky?"

Cheng Libationer looked at her strangely and said: "The matter happened only last night, how could the news spread so quickly?"

"However, I went to Little Jingxuan at Red Sleeve Workshop earlier to find the dog-meat Daoist."

"He was investigating the situation near Little Jingxuan... the reason for the direct conflict between Guan Chenghuang Guan and Bie Tou General was the two ghost gods and one resentful soul that appeared near Little Jingxuan."

"The resentful soul seems to be looking for you, and the other underworld ghost runner is also your acquaintance, so I thought you already understood the situation last night."

Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat: it's over, her newly adopted foster son is gone.

The black-haired person sends off the white-haired ghost; she must participate in the Heroic Assembly now.

The hatred of killing a son cannot be unavenged!

Even if she doesn't personally participate in the "filling-line baby army" to crusade against the Eight Ghost Kings, she must stand on the city wall when the army leaves the city and wave the flag for them, otherwise it won't be enough to soothe her pain of losing a son. ===== CHAPTER 206 =====