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Chapter 775: Train Fusion

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Li Li Banfeng opened a piece of paper given to him by the Peddler.

This piece of paper was used by the Old Train for snot, and it recorded the essentials of the Traveling Cultivator technique "Traveler Without Borders". One of the sentences was:

"The length of the technique depends on the foundation of cultivation. The ancestor of Traveling Cultivators can use it twice a day, twenty seconds each time. Because the time was miscalculated,

he still hadn't escaped at twenty-two seconds, so he died in the chaotic battle. Remember not to be careless."

This sentence recorded the cause of death of the ancestor of Traveling Cultivators. Li Li Banfeng had always kept it in mind and had to calculate the time carefully every time he used the "Traveler Without Borders" technique.

But he didn't expect that through this sentence, Li Li Banfeng had actually found an important clue.

The author of "Floating Clouds Asking at the Post" was the ancestor of Traveling Cultivators, not the Old Train.

Wait.

Is it possible that the Old Train is the ancestor of Traveling Cultivators?

According to the descriptions of the wife and the Old Train himself, he should be a Traveling Cultivator Grandmaster; he improved the sect of Traveling Cultivators.

Is it possible for a Grandmaster and an Ancestor to be the same person?

The Old Train's way of speaking was a bit special. Perhaps it wasn't that he intended to deceive, but that he didn't express some meanings accurately.

Li Li Banfeng continued to flip through "Floating Clouds Asking at the Post". The content behind it was truly speechless. Large sections of the narrative were concentrated on him seeing beautiful women, how he was despised by beautiful women, and how he comforted himself after being mocked.

Does the Old Train really like beautiful women that much?

Having been in contact so many times, he hadn't seen him show any interest in beautiful women.

Could it be that he hid it quite deeply?

And the way this text was narrated was too different from the Old Train's:

"Climbing over mountains and ridges is a very hard thing, especially for me. Wanting to climb over a mountain is not easy. Every time I climb a mountain, I have to muster up courage. It's just because I don't want to climb mountains that I missed a lot of beautiful scenery and pretty girls.

Seeing those who can fly, I am very envious. I also want to fly, but I don't have wings.

So I thought of a way. I can borrow other things to fly. I can use the wind to fly, and I can also use the clouds to fly.

I want to fly higher than all of them."

This passage was wrong. The Old Train said he didn't know the technique of riding the wind and driving the clouds, but this ancestor of Traveling Cultivators seemed to have personally created this technique.

Is it possible the Old Train didn't tell the truth?

Carefully calculating the cloud techniques mastered by the Old Train, just the ones Li Li Banfeng had seen, there were "Hundred-Step Paces Zongheng", "Traveler Without Borders", and "Carefree and Content".

As a cultivator above the clouds, he mastered at most three types of cloud techniques; he really shouldn't have mastered the technique of riding the wind and driving the clouds.

Could it be that the Old Train didn't tell the truth about his cultivation either?

He wasn't a cultivator above the clouds; he chose to continue cultivating above the clouds?

But in his era, did he have the opportunity to rush to the fourth layer of clouds or even higher levels?

Li Li Banfeng continued to flip backward:

"I was able to fly by borrowing the wind and clouds. I did fly very high. Sometimes I was very happy, but sometimes I wasn't happy, because I flew too high and sometimes couldn't come down. I couldn't come down from the sky skillfully like others."

This sentence made Li Li Banfeng unable to understand again.

How could riding the wind and driving the clouds be impossible to come down?

Is this a very difficult thing?

Li Li Banfeng hadn't noticed this kind of thing at all.

He flew up in the office, stepped and stomped his feet, scattered the wind under his feet, and landed on the ground.

What a natural and smooth process. Does this also need special practice?

This ancestor of Traveling Cultivators' talent is really not very good.

"I once drifted in the sky for three days and three nights. I was starving and thirsty. I thought I was done for, but later I found a way.

I made a vortex under my feet and sucked myself in. I made another vortex on top of my head and sucked myself up again.

I was so happy. You say, how fun is this!"

What's fun about this?

Is it fun?

It seems quite fun.

Who exactly is the author of this book?

The simple tone really doesn't look like the Old Train, but one possibility cannot be ruled out: the complete Old Train's way of expression would change.

Then what did he mean by leaving that piece of snot paper?

Is the ancestor of Traveling Cultivators really dead? Or is the Old Train deliberately covering up his tracks to hide his identity?

More importantly, this description of the technique allowed Li Li Banfeng to see quite a few doorways.

Midnight arrived in the blink of an eye. Li Li Banfeng hovered in the office and opened his pocket watch.

There were five minutes left until twelve o'clock. Li Li Banfeng asked Meng De in the watch: "For a Traveling Cultivator, is twenty seconds a long time?"

Meng De pursed her lips, brewed for a long time, and said: "Old Master, don't be in a hurry—"

Slap!

Li Li Banfeng closed the pocket watch and flew all the way to the lobby on the first floor.

The Old Train stood on the steps in front of the door and smiled: "Everything is ready, right?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded, then made a vortex under his feet and landed on the ground.

Showing off the technique he created in front of him, he should have reacted.

The Old Train had no reaction; he didn't notice at all how Li Li Banfeng landed.

The two came to the stairwell. The Old Train exhorted Li Li Banfeng: "Not only must you guard against A Yu and the Heavenly Maiden, but you must also guard against those old friends of mine who stayed in the Outer Continent. They are very likely to come and fish in troubled waters."

Li Li Banfeng was very curious about the identities of these old friends: "Are they members of the Hand and Foot Alliance?"

The Old Train thought for a moment: "They should be the first batch of members of the Hand and Foot Alliance."

He He Jiaqing was a member of the Hand and Foot Alliance. The Old Train almost lost his life in the Inner Continent to save He He Jiaqing. Li Li Banfeng asked: "Brother, are you a member of the Hand and Foot Alliance?"

The Old Train shook his head: "I am not. I wasn't before, and I can't be in the future."

"But I heard from Mother Bitter—"

The Old Train looked disgusted: "Mother Bitter wants to pull me into the group every day. She doesn't use her brain. How could I defect to the Heavenly Maiden's name?"

"But back then, to save He He Jiaqing, you almost lost your life."

The Old Train looked at Li Li Banfeng and said: "Back then, my eyes were bad, and I misjudged the person. This kid was young and could maneuver under Xiao Xiao Laoqian's hands. I took him for a rare talent.

The Peddler didn't want to sit on the throne, so I wanted to find someone to sit on the throne. Back then, I really took a fancy to him, but this has nothing to do with the Hand and Foot Alliance."

While speaking, the Old Train suddenly shouted: "A Yu, you must have heard it. I have nothing to do with your Hand and Foot Alliance.

Now that I've come, tell me, are you afraid?"

The gold nugget in Li Li Banfeng's hand became very hot. A Yu kept calling in his ear: "Why did you bring him here? Didn't you already get the television set? Hurry up and go attack the Bandit-Quelling Camp!"

The Old Train went up to the sixteenth floor from the stairwell. He stopped his steps.

"Here, there is steam here. That old thing is here." The old thing the Old Train was talking about was his other half.

He pushed open the stairwell door and opened the big iron door. The heavy mechanisms on the door were all very familiar to him, and behind the door was indeed that display room.

The furnishings in the display room were exactly the same as last time, with only two differences.

One was that the glass cabinet holding the floor-standing television and the "Smoke and Clouds Mirage Painting" was empty; the things had been taken away by Li Li Banfeng.

The second was that the position of the train head wasn't empty. The train head was right there, spitting out steam, seemingly ready to rush toward the door at any time.

The Old Train looked at the train head and examined it carefully: "What, are you afraid of me? I took a few parts back from you last time, and you almost took my life. It should be me who is afraid of you."

"Return it!" The train head let out a muffled roar.

"Fine, I'll return it. I'll return all of myself to you!" The Old Train stood at the door and paused for a while.

This boundary at the door was only effective against the Old Train.

But can this boundary trap the Master Gongxiu Old Train, and can it also trap the Traveling Cultivator Old Train?

Of course it couldn't trap him.

The Old Train used the "Traveler Without Borders" technique to forcibly pass through the boundary.

"Old Seven, the fight has started!"

As the words fell, the train head had already arrived in front of the Old Train.

Although the train head was extremely fast, it was still a bit worse than the Traveling Cultivator Old Train. The Old Train leaped and stood steadily on the train head of the Master Gongxiu Old Train.

"You absorb me, or I absorb you, let's discuss it." The Old Train squatted on the roof of the train head and was talking to the train head very seriously.

The train head kept changing direction at an extremely fast speed, wanting to shake the Old Train off.

The Old Train was flapping his wings on the roof of the train. The train's steam vent kept spitting out water mist. Taking advantage of the Old Train's blocked vision, the roof of the train head suddenly opened and swallowed the Old Train whole.

Li Li Banfeng wanted to go in to help, when he suddenly heard the Old Train's voice: "Brother, go upstairs to find A Yu, let her pack her luggage quickly. Don't interfere in my affairs here, and you can't interfere either."

Woo-hoo!

The train head roared, and the high-frequency vibration shattered the glass cabinets in the room one after another.

The big iron door slammed shut. Li Li Banfeng tightened his grip on the gold bar and said to A Yu: "Sister, which floor are you on?"

A Yu was very annoyed: "Why are you coming to find me again? Didn't you come to harm me?"

"I'm here to rescue you. If I can't find you, this matter will be troublesome."

A Yu sneered: "Coming to rescue me? Are you afraid you can't trap me, so you let the Old Train come over to add a few more locks?"

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "Do you want to leave or not?"

A Yu said angrily: "Before, we agreed to hand the television set over to A Yi. Why did you go back on your word?"

"Because I can't trust that television set. I trust myself more. I've already negotiated with A Yi; I'll send you directly to Hulu Village. This shouldn't be considered letting you suffer, right?"

A Yu was silent for a moment: "You really didn't lie to me?"

"I signed a contract with you. If I lie to you, I will be punished. I have an agreement with A Yi; if I lie to her, who will help me go to Dingye City?"

Panting sounds came from behind the surveillance door, not knowing if it was A Yu or the Heavenly Maiden.

It could be seen that the other side was very conflicted.

"Fused!" A Yu exclaimed, "The two Old Trains have fused together."

Li Li Banfeng's mouth turned up, revealing a smile.

"What are you laughing at?"

Li Li Banfeng was startled: "You even know this?"

A Yu said: "You don't even know which Old Train is in charge. Isn't it a bit early to laugh now?"

Li Li Banfeng was very confident: "Originally, the Traveling Cultivator and the Master Gongxiu each occupied half. Before, the Traveling Cultivator Old Train came once and stole part of the Master Gongxiu's body, occupying such a big advantage. Now it must be the Traveling Cultivator Old Train who is in charge."

A Yu said: "You think too simply. The Master Gongxiu Old Train made full preparations this time. How could a well-prepared Master Gongxiu be so easy to deal with?

What's more, even if the Traveling Cultivator Old Train is in charge, do you know what he's thinking? You also heard just now that he has nothing to do with the Hand and Foot Alliance; he doesn't want to rescue me at all!"

Boom!

The Dark Star Bureau building trembled and then returned to calm.

"Not good!" A Yu said in a low voice, "The mechanisms in the building have been strengthened. I've been fooled by you. The Old Train is going to trap us here completely."

Sounds of tearing came from the room. A Yu was roaring at someone: "Stop sleeping, get up,

we are going to be trapped here, we can't get out!"

Li Li Banfeng stood silently at the door; he wasn't panicked at all.

The voice of the Leaving Suishenju came to his ear: "A Qi, he's coming up."

In the Leaving Suishenju, Did Honglian sat on the table, looking at the Fifth Room girl: "Still can't see the situation outside?"

The Fifth Room girl held flowers and shook her head: "Can't see anything, the Little Train is blocking it tightly."

Did Honglian spread her lotus leaves and groped slowly on the wall.

Bang!

A lotus leaf nailed into the wall, splashing a cloud of smoke and dust.

"Hehe~" The Old Man laughed, "Anxious? Anxious to see your master? It's still early; you all should wait a bit longer."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan stood at the door of the Fifth Room and said to Hua Jiuer: "Prepare to take over the main room. Drag it out for as long as you can; don't force it."

Hua Jiuer's walking was a bit unsteady: "How dare I force it? That's my mother; my legs turn to jelly in front of her."

Hong Ying said on the side: "Shouldn't it be our turn to take action?"

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan said: "Hard to say. No one knows what the Old Train's condition is."

In front of the door of the Sixth Surveillance Room, the stairwell shook violently.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sound of steam spitting approached, as if a train was about to drive over.

A Yu shouted: "What is he going to do? Isn't trapping us here enough? Is he going to kill us?"

Li Li Banfeng asked: "The Heavenly Maiden was trapped by the Old Train because of serious injuries back then. After so many years, she should have recovered, right?"

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"Why do you ask this?" A Yu roared, "It's already at this point, and you still want to fish for information from me?"

"Just asking casually. I didn't say you had to answer." Li Li Banfeng looked down at the stairs. The stairs stretching downward were straightened level by level, gradually becoming a "slide". The stair railing split from the middle, turning into two tracks, laid on both sides of the stairs.

A beam of light shone on Li Li Banfeng's face. A train head crawled up to the twentieth floor along the stairs slowly.

"Woo!" The steam whistle roared, making Li Li Banfeng's eardrums ache.

"Come on!" A Yu roared louder than the Old Train, "Come up! Let's settle this right here!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The frequency of the steam spitting suddenly accelerated.

Li Li Banfeng flew into mid-air to make way for the Old Train.

The Old Train rushed up the stairs and crashed into the Sixth Surveillance Room.

Light halos rippled in front of the door of the Sixth Surveillance Room. The boundary that was originally invisible had now become incomparably dazzling, burning the train head until it kept smoking.

A Yu was still roaring: "Come on! Try taking one more step!"

Hiss—a piece of white mist sprayed from under the train head, and then an old voice came.

"Old Seven, what did you say to her?"

Li Li Banfeng said helplessly: "I said we were here to rescue her, but she didn't believe me."

This was the Traveling Cultivator Old Train. He had already obtained the complete body and possessed control over the body.

The reason why all the mechanisms in the Dark Star Bureau were strengthened was to prevent A Yu from escaping through other channels. Everyone was an acquaintance; the Old Train knew how cunning A Yu was, and also knew that she had done quite a bit of infiltration in the Dark Star Bureau during this period.

Now A Yu had no other way to go.

The Old Train said: "A Yu, get on the train quickly and take the Heavenly Maiden with you. This boundary is too fierce; I can't hold on much longer."

The train head's body kept smoking. This boundary was indeed fierce.

"Still lying to me?" A Yu didn't believe it. "If we get on your train, we will definitely die."

"Hehehehe!" The Old Train laughed. "If you don't get on the train, you don't have to die? The Outer Continent doesn't care about you anymore. There are quite a few people in other places who are coveting you—the Shang Kingdom, Tufang, the Baiji Alliance, they have all sent people over. When they make a move, it won't be so easy to negotiate. As long as the Heavenly Maiden can still control the boundary, dead or alive is the same to them. But speaking of which, is this Heavenly Maiden dead or alive?"

A Yu gritted her teeth: "Don't care if she's dead or alive. Let them come. Let whoever wants to come, come. See if I'm afraid!"

The Old Train's tone became sinister: "You're not afraid, but I am. If you don't leave, I will kill you both. That's better than leaving you in someone else's hands."

A Yu laughed: "Fine, you've learned to be ruthless; you don't even want to say a few nice words anymore."

"I'm asking you, are you leaving or not?"

"Where exactly are you taking me?"

"I'm just asking you, are you leaving or not?"

Whoosh~

Steam filled the room.

A Yu shouted: "Fine, I'll go with you! Let's make things clear. That boundary at the door was left by the Heavenly Maiden to trap me. I have no way to pass, and the Heavenly Maiden can't possibly withdraw this boundary."

The Old Train said: "I can take you across. Get on the train quickly!"

Li Li Banfeng heard some footsteps. A Yu took the Heavenly Maiden and entered the train head.

Clang!

Once the train door closed, it would be difficult for A Yu to come out.

Woo-hoo!

The train head whistled and backed out of the room.

Li Li Banfeng followed the train head down the stairs. Walking out of the lobby, Li Li Banfeng took out the jade, and just as he was about to open the exit to Hulu Village, the Old Train suddenly stopped moving.

"Brother, what are you waiting for?"

Squeak~ creak creak creak!

The iron wheels rubbed against the ground, and sparks flew from the axle position.

Steam kept spitting, but the train wheels never moved.

The Old Train seemed to want to move forward, but locked his own wheels again.

What is he trying to do?

Li Li Banfeng felt a wave of danger approaching. Is the Old Train going crazy?

In the blink of an eye, he suddenly heard the Old Train say in a low voice: "The dove occupies the magpie's nest. This technique can actually be used?"

"Hehe!"

A Yu's laughter came from the Old Train: "Old thing, you were careless. The Heavenly Maiden is asleep, not dead. What's strange about using some techniques?"

Li Li Banfeng had never heard of a technique called "The Dove Occupies the Magpie's Nest".

But he was certain of one thing: A Yu had temporarily controlled the Old Train.

A Yu said: "Li Qi, you are quite sincere. You actually really released me. It's a pity you gave too much sincerity. I just wanted a television set; why did you have to do so many unnecessary things?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "Sister, I want to take you to Hulu Village. I'm going to open the entrance to Hulu Village now. A Yi is waiting for you in the village."

A Yu responded in the Old Train's body: "I believe it. My second sister is the most obedient. Let her wait a few more days. You tell her,

Mother still has things to do. I'll go cherish her after I finish my work."

The Old Train laughed: "That's your biological daughter; you should go see her sooner. What's the use of using this little technique on me?"

Hey creak creak creak?

The Old Train's wheels were still sparking. He was wrestling with the Heavenly Maiden.

The "Dove Occupies the Magpie's Nest" technique, although fierce, couldn't even last a minute here with the Old Train.

A Yu wasn't idle either; she was doing her best to find an exit on the train head.

"Don't waste your effort," the Old Train laughed. "I could trap you with half a body, and now with a whole body, can I still let you run away?"

A Yu also laughed: "Half a body was hard to deal with; a whole body is actually easier. Old Train, you owe me a life."

Whoosh~

The steam valve suddenly opened, and the steam bag released pressure.

The Old Train's body trembled, and the wheels that were about to move stopped again.

The half-body Master Gongxiu Old Train didn't have so many memories, nor so much affection, but the whole Old Train's situation was completely different.

The Old Train knew that this wasn't the time to haggle over these old scores. He knew he should send A Yu to Hulu Village as soon as possible.

But he couldn't do it.

"I do owe A Yi a life." The Old Train tried his best to keep himself clear. "Is there any point in splitting hairs? Who exactly paid for this life?" A Yu felt some gaps on the iron door of the train head. Whoosh!

The Master Gongxiu Old Train seized consciousness, broke free from the "Dove Occupies the Magpie's Nest" technique, and wanted to continue moving forward.

"You owe my whole family's lives!" A Yu shouted again, and the Old Train's wheels got stuck again.

This time it wasn't the "Dove Occupies the Magpie's Nest" technique; it was the Old Train himself who had a problem.

The train whistled non-stop, steam kept accumulating, and after accumulating, it was quickly spat out. The Old Train's consciousness was chaotic; he was going crazy.

A Yu was about to open the big door of the train head when she heard a "Clang" sound, and the train head trembled.

Before A Yu could figure out the situation, the train head suddenly tilted backward.

The first sixteen wheels of the Eighteen Wheels left the ground, leaving only a pair of wheels dragging at the end.

Someone had lifted the Old Train and was dragging the Old Train forward.

Who could lift the Old Train?

Right now, only one person could do it.

The Little Train.

A Yu's judgment was correct. The Little Train had put a hook on the Old Train and lifted the Old Train up.

"Li Qi, did you release the Little Train?" A Yu shouted, but there was no response from outside.

A Yu shouted again: "Li Qi, do you have to take me to Hulu Village? Can't you let me finish what I'm doing right now?

I guarantee I won't harm Puluo Continent. I'll return to Hulu Village immediately after I finish my work. I beg you!"

These words sounded very pitiful, making the Old Train tremble.

But A Yu had a smile on her face.

She touched the woman behind her back and said softly: "The Little Train is here. It's finally here."

The woman behind her, whose arm hung on her shoulder, didn't move at all.

A Yu grabbed the iron door of the train head and said softly: "Open the door, Old Train. Open this door, and the past matters will be written off."

In the Leaving Suishenju, the Thirteenth Room, Did Honglian kept waving her lotus leaves.

It's here. A Yu is finally here! Today, no matter what, I must get out! ===== CHAPTER 776 =====

"I promise not to harm the Puluo Province. I'll return to Gourd Village immediately after I finish my business. I beg you!"

These words were spoken so pitifully that the old train shivered.

But a smile played on A-Yu's face.

She patted the woman behind her and said softly, "The little train has come; it has finally come."

The woman behind her had her arms hanging over A-Yu's shoulders, motionless.

A-Yu grabbed the iron door of the train head and whispered, "Open the door, old train. Open this door, and the past will be wiped clean."

Inside the Personal Residence, in the thirteenth room, Red Lotus waved her lotus leaves incessantly.

It's here, A-Yu has finally come! No matter what, I must get out today!

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