"It's probably the energy of the evil star that has infected the old toad. Let's hang him up first!"
"Get out of the way, let me do it."
Zhu Ganglie pushed aside Lu Pan and the other eight and came over from outside. He took the embroidery and put it in his arms. His fat body blocked the eyes of Toad Taoist like a wall. He rubbed his hairy palms vigorously, grinned and sneered.
"Brother Daoist Lu, let me take a look at this demon star energy. I didn't encounter it last time, but will I be able to experience it this time?!"
The Toad Taoist widened his eyes, watching the black man's big palm coming down, and twisted his body in fear. The next moment, another hand stretched out from the side. Lu Liangsheng stood in the middle, shook his head at Zhu Ganglie, and looked at the twisting Toad.
"I believe him."
Hearing this, Toad Taoist looked at the black hand that was covering him and raised it up and moved it away. He breathed a sigh of relief, having finally escaped the disaster.
… These guys, when I recover my human form, take back the magic weapon, ascend the throne, revive the world and climb to the top of Mount Tai, I will definitely defeat them… Well, I still have to rely on them for the time being, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to accomplish it by then.
As he was thinking about it, his tense body suddenly relaxed, and the red rope tied around his body slowly slipped away and was taken back into the palm of the Taoist with a pointed chin and monkey face. The Toad Taoist sat up, and his bean-sized eyes swept over these people or monsters.
Frog patted his black robe, turned around with his bulging belly, and looked out the window at the deep night. "Since you know, why don't you come to see me..."
As soon as the word "I" came out of his mouth, the collar at the back of his neck tightened, and his whole body was lifted up. He turned around and faced everyone, and Lu Liangsheng spoke in a low voice.
"You are just a spirit, but my master is still here, right?"
"snort."
The Toad Taoist's body embraced his webbed feet, his eyes rolled around, and he grinned: "Of course, I am too noble to occupy the body of a toad."
"Then you come out first!" The Taoist interrupted and shouted, which stunned the Toad Taoist for a moment. Before he could say anything, Sun Yingxian pulled the scholar over and whispered, "What Ying Zheng? Why does he still feel like the old toad, talking incoherently and without the aura of an emperor?"
With this reminder, the others were stunned for a moment. The emperor's conversation and aura did not match the toad Taoist in front of him who called himself Ying Zheng. Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting in front of the desk, felt his heart sink. He looked at the 'Ying Zheng' opposite him, put him on the table and bent his head slightly.
Toad, the First Emperor, Mount Li…
The fragmentary memories in his mind emerged one by one to form a coherent picture. The story that Lu Yuan had left in his notebook was about finding the Moon-gazing Golden Toad that Qin Shihuang had taken away from the Old Mother Temple, and sending it to the northwest to cultivate into a demon, and finally becoming the master who led Lu Liangsheng...
But I'm afraid that's not the truth.
'Master is a demon from the stone toad in the Old Mother Temple, and the Old Mother of Mount Li is Fei Lian's grandmother, and Fei Lian is the ancestor of the First Emperor. There must be a connection between them. In my dream that day, the person in the carriage should be Ying Zheng. After he was old and weak, he took the stone toad from the Old Mother Temple...'
After sorting out everything, the order became clear. The so-called 'Ying Zheng' in front of the scholar should actually be the First Emperor whose soul attached to the stone toad after his death, hoping to return to the world in the future. Lu Yuanze played the role of resurrecting the First Emperor, so... it was not to find a master to lead him in cultivation, but to bring 'Ying Zheng' back.
Over there, seeing the scholar in deep thought, Ying Zheng stood up, put on his flippers and walked back and forth on the table with the clacking sound of his feet.
"Since I have revealed my true identity, there is no need to hide it. When I was about to die, I comforted my ancestors and moved out of the temple. I used a secret method to attach my soul to the stone toad in the Old Mother Temple. This stone toad has absorbed incense for many years and has a faint spiritual energy, which can preserve my soul for a long time. Unfortunately, after my death, the world was once again in chaos, and the stone toad I attached to was taken away by the thief Xiang as a trophy. It circulated in the south of the Yangtze River and after many years, it was obtained by Chen Baxian and placed in the palace of the Chen Dynasty."
In the room, no one spoke for a while. Even Lu Liangsheng listened quietly to this past event. After all, it not only contained the doubts in his heart, but also might involve information about the demon star fragments.
"… Later, your previous life Lu Yuan found me and brought me back to the northwest. In order to avoid being pursued by the Heavenly Dao, he found a deep pool with abundant spiritual energy and placed me at the bottom of the pool to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon. Unfortunately, before I could occupy the demon toad, he had spiritual consciousness and squeezed me into the corner of his sea of consciousness. Lu Liangsheng, you basically know what happened next, so there is no need for me to repeat it to you."
"No need to reiterate, but I have other questions as well."
Lu Liangsheng was no longer the ignorant boy who could be dismissed with just a few words. Listening to the description of this "First Emperor", he quickly found out the confusing points.
He asked softly, "How can I ask you, Lu Yuan is not from your period, how can he help you return to the human world?"
In the flickering candlelight, the Toad Taoist looked at him for a while, grinning twice, "Hehe... You asked a good question. Do you know how many Taoists were around me back then? There were hundreds of people who made pills alone, and they also had disciples. The most capable one among them was called Xu Fu... He went overseas, and several disciples passed on the legacy. Lu Yuan's master, Qin Xujia, was his successor, and Lu Yuan was his disciple. But when it came to you, everything changed."
"I have another question."
Lu Liangsheng's mind raced, sorting out every word the other party said, and continued to ask: "Why did Lu Yuan reverse time and space? Is it really like he said, for the demon star?"
"He really did it for the demon star."
Ying Zheng nodded slightly, put on his flippers and walked slowly, probably thinking of the Lu Yuan of the past, and looked at Lu Liangsheng with admiration.
"The incident with the demon star ruined my plan to live again in the human world, so I had to start over. It's a pity that you are not like him. With his temperament, I admire him. Anyone who dares to stand in my way, or a demon, will definitely not be as kind as you."
Lu Liangsheng ignored the provocative words, leaned forward, got closer to the other party, and lowered his voice: "How did the demon star come from? I don't believe in such nonsense as flying from outer space."
“Hehe…” Ying Zheng laughed out loud, with red spots appearing in his shiny toad eyes. He looked out the window at the clouds floating in the night sky, and the half moon behind the clouds.
"You should have known that I want to take back the power of the emperor, which will inevitably anger the gods in the sky... They always want to come down, and try every means to come down, but they are ruthless and have no desires. Once they come down, how do you think the people in this world will live? Why don't the emperors of all generations dislike them?"
After a pause, Ying Zheng turned around, showing off his white belly, and said word by word: "I don't like them either!"
In the room, both humans and monsters fell into silence. The toad who was speaking now finally had the courage of an emperor.