"The aura of the demon star still lingers in the human world. I just went over to take a look and almost got into a fight with a junior."
The morning sun broke through the gap in the clouds, and the sparkling river surface flowed eastward from his eyes. Lu Liangsheng looked at the rushing river, laughed twice, took the teacup and took a sip.
"I thought that the great battle in Chang'an had completely wiped out the demon stars from the human world, but I didn't expect that after ascending to the sky, I saw more demon stars... There was another great battle, and then I returned to the human world, hehe... The remaining demon star aura was everywhere. It felt like everything I did back then was just to temporarily subdue them."
"Mr. Lu didn't go to the fairyland?"
"Immortal world?" Lu Liangsheng shook his head. When he ascended, he had seen the Immortal World, but unfortunately he had no chance to see it in detail and appreciate its wonders. Zhou Yu, who was standing next to him, saw his expression and probably understood the unspeakable secrets, so he did not ask any more questions. After talking casually for a while, the sun was getting brighter, so he took out an umbrella to cover his head and talked about some things that happened in the past thousand years.
A man and a god sat by the river chatting and laughing. From time to time, a river boat would pass by blasting its whistle. Speaking of the changes of the times, Zhou Yu was sitting in the City God Temple and witnessed the changes with his own eyes.
"After Mr. Lu opened the gap between heaven and earth, the gods were prevented from descending to the world, and the spiritual energy in the world became thinner. It was difficult for people to practice Taoism in the world. The people in the world of the living seemed to understand this and gradually stopped learning the art of practicing Taoism. They tacitly pondered these iron ships and iron cars, as well as the iron birds flying in the sky, which are airplanes. Mr. Lu, have you seen them during this period?"
"Haha, I've seen it, and I missed it."
Zhou Yu was a little surprised by Lu Liangsheng's answer, but then he thought that this scholar was no longer a Taoist monk, and there was no obstacle for him to go to heaven or earth. It was normal for him to see the iron bird flying in the sky.
After talking for a while, it was getting late and more and more people were passing by. Some fishermen were driving over to fish. Lu Liangsheng simply stopped his illusion and used invisibility to walk on the river, chatting as he walked. They hadn't seen each other for over a thousand years, so they were close now. It was time for them to have a good chat.
"So what are Mr. Lu's plans for the future?"
"... When Takuer recovers some of his divine power, he will probably come back to make up for the twenty years I was away."
The two men walked side by side across the river, seeing the ripples flowing down to the riverbank. Zhou Yu, who was walking with his hands behind his back, laughed when he heard this.
"Then you can come back."
Lu Liangsheng turned his head and looked at him, as if the Kunlun Mirror was able to travel through time and space. He nodded, but did not answer directly. Instead, he looked at a large ship passing in front of him.
"After ascending, I was no longer around. I can fill in some gaps and guard Mount Qixia, watch over the two elders, and see them off to their final resting place, fulfilling my filial duty as a son. As for this place... If I had never been here, it wouldn't have mattered. But now that I've been here and seen you and Old Sun, I can't let go. The spiritual energy there is abundant, and the Kunlun Mirror will recover its power much faster. If anything happens here, I can..."
Ding-ling-ling~~
As he was speaking, the cell phone suddenly rang in his sleeve pocket. Lu Liangsheng smiled at him apologetically and said, "Take the call first." Zhou Yu was stunned.
He watched the scholar take out his cell phone from his sleeve pocket, answered the call and put it to his ear, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
Uh... better adapted to the current times than I am.
On the side, Lu Liangsheng called out softly, and an anxious voice rang out over the phone: "Grandpa, I'll trouble you to help me. A meteorite suddenly fell from northern Russia. The speed was too fast, and even our most advanced weapons couldn't keep up..."
"Okay, I understand."
Lu Liangsheng said softly, raised his head to look at the gradually blue sky, a golden light flashed in his eyes, and after a moment, he withdrew his gaze, and golden light flashed on his body. A long sword emerged and condensed in mid-air, trembling with a buzzing sound, emitting wisps of sword energy.
"Master, what do you want to call me for?"
"Go do something."
Lu Liangsheng pointed his two fingers at the sword head, and infused what he saw thousands of miles away into the sword body with his magic power. At the moment when the patterns on the sword surface were shaken, he wrote the seal characters and stamped them on it, then patted it and threw it into the sky.
"You have experienced a lot, so you will naturally know the difference. Go early and come back early."
"Okay, just watch it."
I don’t know if it was a tone I learned from TV, but the moon was buzzing and it turned into a dragon’s roar that soared into the sky. With a whoosh, it turned into a stream of light and flew over the hilltops on the other side of the river. It instantly rose into the clouds, pushing out an elliptical air wave and halo, locking onto the image that was poured into my memory, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, dragging a tail of light, leaving only the cloud with a hole in it still floating in the sky.
Lu Liangsheng listened to the sound barrier dissipating, retracted his gaze, looked at the envious City God beside him, and said with a smile: "Where was I just talking about?"
"Return to Qixia Mountain and wait for the Kunlun Mirror to recover its power. If anything happens here..."
Lu Liangsheng remembered what they had just said on the street without Zhou Yu's help to remind him, and continued talking.
"If you encounter any danger here, I can travel over here and help. Jiuzhou was my home a thousand years ago, and this place is still my home a thousand years later. It's just that the time is different. Even if I am a god, I am first of all a Chinese, and I have no choice but to help."
Thinking of the ridiculous things that happened during the previous time travel, Lu Liangsheng added: "When the time comes, leave a magic circle here so that you can come back accurately later."
Then, he told Zhou Yu about the accident that happened during the shuttle trip as a funny story, causing the latter to laugh out loud with his hands behind his back and his face raised, saying several times: "It should be so, it should be so."
Lu Liangsheng also laughed. The two walked a few hundred steps out of the river. Zhou Yu suddenly stopped laughing and turned around holding the umbrella handle. "Mr. Lu, you said that the Kunlun Mirror lacks divine power. Then we City Gods also have a lot of divine power. We can ask the few remaining City Gods in the world to work together. Isn't this going to work?"
"Are you planning to drive me away, Governor?" Lu Liangsheng made a joke. The idea proposed by the other party was a good one. He had never thought of it after running around everywhere before.
The two men knew each other well and had a close friendship, so they naturally meant what they said. They discussed it on the riverbank, and after they had decided, Zhou Yu took his leave and went to find Xu Sheng, the City God of Wuhu, to summon the surrounding city gods.
But all of these take time, and you have to convince the other party. If that’s not enough, you can pull the Monkey King over as well.
Having made up his mind, Lu Liangsheng was in a good mood. He shook his sleeves and walked a lot faster along the river. He did not delay any more and prepared to return to the small courtyard in Nanguan City to wait for news from Zhou Yu. When he returned to the gate of the alley, Yuelong Sword, which had flown to the north, also came back with him, shaking off the gray meteorite dust on his body at the door.
"Solved?"
"It's a small matter. I, the Dharma Master, took action and managed to make a hole in it!" Yue Long floated into the yard, whooshed back to the room, inserted the scabbard into the bookshelf, made a 'hmm' sound, and hummed with satisfaction.
"Master?"
Walking into the yard, Lu Liangsheng waved his sleeves and closed the door. Under the eaves, there was only Toad Taoist, wearing a T-shirt that revealed half of his white belly. He was lying on a small recliner, wearing sunglasses and reading a shrunken newspaper.
"Liangsheng is back? There's still rice in the pot. If you haven't eaten it yet, eat it yourself." Toad lowered the frame of his sunglasses a little, glanced at his apprentice with his bean-sized eyes, then turned back and looked at the news in the newspaper calmly.
Lu Liangsheng didn't need to eat whole grains, but he was used to it. He walked into the kitchen, filled a bowl of rice, piled some leftovers, brought them out and sat next to his master, looking around.
"Where's Old Sun?"
Behind the newspaper, the sound of a toad was heard.
"He went out... He said he was going to meet some online friend... He must be a spider spirit."
"Monster?" Lu Liangsheng frowned, "Master, are you so sure?"
On the recliner over there, a newspaper flipped over, and the Toad Taoist raised his webbed feet and explained to his disciple with a serious look on his face.
"Netizens, netizens... Friends are people. If someone can be online, what else can he be but a spider? You have read so many books by saints, but you still can't figure this out."
"Oh... That's true."
Just as Lu Liangsheng finished speaking, the courtyard gate banged open. Before anyone came into view, Sun Yingxian's cursing voice was heard, and she hurriedly walked in from outside.
"How dare you lie to me..."
When she saw the scholar under the eaves, she came over angrily with her sleeves rolled up without even saying hello, snatched the bowl, took two big bites, then squatted down by the eaves, shouting about the rice grains and cursing.
"I didn't even have a meal before I went to see... What a fellow, a big, rough old man, pretending to be a woman, deceiving me for so many days, how despicable."
With red eyes, he took another big bite and swallowed it.
"Bah... and you even said your name is Cao Mengde... Bah! I'm Li Shimin!"
Lu Liangsheng sat nearby with empty hands, watching the Taoist eat a big bowl of rice with tears in his eyes. Without asking, he knew what had happened and could describe it using the words that Lao Sun often said in front of him.
The car went into a ditch.