It was the Shangyuan Festival. Chang 'an was still chilly, but the city was very lively.
On a street, the shops on both sides of the street were decorated with lanterns and colored banners. The street was filled with the smell of food and spices. Noisy and rhythmic shouts were incessant, full of the atmosphere of the world.
A man in a green robe walked slowly in the crowd, shaking his shoulders. His steps were a little weak, which was a sharp contrast with the busy and joyful pedestrians around him. He seemed out of place.
He lowered his head, his brows furrowed into a knot, and all kinds of emotions were in a mess.
"A hundred years, a hundred years have passed …" The man in the green robe murmured and slowly raised his head.
The man in the green robe was young and handsome, and his face was a little pale.
It was none other than Shen Luo.
But at this moment, his eye sockets were slightly sunken, and his pupils were dark and deep. He seemed to have experienced a lot.
Just now, Shen Luo had learned something that he found hard to accept from the boss of the Chang 'an bookstore. It had been nearly a hundred years since he entered the dream.
"Oh no, it's been a hundred years. I'm afraid the seal on Chi You has been loosened." Shen Luo suddenly became anxious.
In the dream, they had gone through a lot of difficulties and even risked the lives of almost everyone to reseal Chi You. But after all, what they saved was a dark future.
If possible, he still hoped to prevent all that from happening.
But a hundred years had passed. Things in the world had changed, and he didn't know what had happened.
Thinking of this, Shen Luo looked at the bustling world in Chang 'an and suddenly felt a little powerless. The people who were enjoying the Shangyuan Festival didn't know what kind of miserable future they would usher in.
"Let's go to the government office first and ask Duke Cheng about the current situation." Shen Luo made up his mind and quickened his pace.
Just as Shen Luo walked past a gate and arrived at the main road in the city, he heard a series of urgent shouts.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way …"
As soon as Shen Luo turned around, he saw a green bull about ten feet tall charging towards him with its four hooves.
There was a carriage on the back of the green bull, and a fat, luxuriously dressed young man was sitting on it. He was pulling on the reins with both hands, trying to make the green bull stop.
Unfortunately, the speed of the green ox was too fast, and its momentum was too fierce. At this moment, it could not stop at all, and it crashed into Shen Luo.
Shen Luo frowned and raised a palm to block in front of him.
"Hey, are you looking for death …" The fat youth saw that he didn't dodge, and his face was full of shock as he shouted loudly.
Before he could finish his words, the huge head of the green ox crashed heavily into Shen Luo's palm. Shen Luo could not help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the head of the green ox caved in first, and then its entire neck was squeezed and squeezed into the body behind, until the entire body exploded.
The fat youth was thrown out by the huge inertia, and directly smashed into the white stone road dozens of feet away. There was no mana fluctuation on his body, and when it looked like blood was about to splatter on the spot, he was caught by a green light and landed steadily.
A black-clothed cultivator chased from behind, and hurriedly protected the fat youth who had already wet his pants.
"Who are you? How dare you crash into my young master's carriage?" The black-clothed cultivator raised his head and glared at Shen Luo, and said coldly.
Shen Luo turned a deaf ear to his scolding, but squatted down with a look of surprise, and carefully sized up the green ox that he had crashed into.
The "green ox" in front of him did not have a trace of flesh, and only a variety of gears and iron armor pieces were left on the ground.
"A puppet? It doesn't look like it. There is no spiritual energy fluctuation on it. "Shen Luo frowned and whispered.
The fat youth behind him, who had finally recovered with great difficulty, was now flushed red. He pointed at Shen Luo's back, and shouted, "Beat him, beat him to death for daring to crash into my Yan beast …"
Hearing this, the black-clothed cultivator's expression changed for a moment, but he did not move.
He was not a child, and knew very well how powerful a Yan beast was when it charged at full speed. The person in front of him could easily smash this Yan beast with his bare hands, which was enough to prove that the other party was also a cultivator. Naturally, he could not act rashly.
"What is this thing?" Just as he was hesitating, Shen Luo pulled out a round hollow silver ball from the pieces of the green ox on the ground, and asked him.
"That is a Yanshu, you don't know?" The black-clothed cultivator said with some surprise.
After he finished speaking, he relaxed a little. A person who did not even know of a Yanshu must be a wild cultivator from some remote village. As long as he did not have any background, he was not afraid of offending him.
"Hey, you, you offended my young master, why are you not kowtowing and apologizing?" The black-clothed cultivator raised his voice and shouted.
Hearing this, Shen Luo frowned slightly, and used the Slanting Moon Steps. His figure disappeared from his original position in an instant, and directly appeared beside the black-clothed cultivator, pressing one hand on the latter's shoulder.
The black-clothed cultivator was only a fourth level qi practitioner, and did not have the strength to react, nor did he have the strength to resist. His knees went soft, and he directly knelt on the ground.
With a "peng" sound, the bluestone on the ground shattered, and a cloud of dust rose.
The fat youth, who was very arrogant a moment ago, suddenly froze on the spot.
Shen Luo had just glanced at him, and the youth's arrogance immediately disappeared, and he consciously knelt beside the cultivator. The clothes between his legs that had not yet dried were once again wet.
"You said that this thing is called a Yanshu, what is it used for?" Shen Luo opened his mouth and asked.
"Senior, you really don't know?" The black-clothed cultivator knew that he had encountered a tough nut to crack, and did not dare to be presumptuous anymore, and asked carefully.
Shen Luo rolled his eyes, wasn't this nonsense?
"The Yanshu is the core of the Yanshu, and is used to drive the Yanshu's furnace. Put a flint inside, and it will automatically ignite, allowing it to drive the Yanshu's movements." The black-clothed cultivator hurriedly explained.
"Just now, that green bull is the Yanshu you spoke of? Using flint to drive it? "Shen Luo frowned.
Previously, he had also used the Fire Scale Flint to drive the Fire Feather Boat, but that thing was a treasure among flint stones, and normal flint stones did not have that much ability.
And that green bull Yanshu he saw just now, its intricacy was not inferior to the flying boat, could it really be driven by normal flint stones? And it did not need to be lit by mana, and could be lit by this Yanshu?
The more Shen Luo thought about it, the more doubts he had.
"That's right, that green bull is a Yanshu, and it is a new product that the Tianji Pavilion just received last month." The black-clothed cultivator immediately said.
"Tianji Pavilion … what does it have to do with Tianji City?" Shen Luo asked in a low voice.
"The Tianji Pavilion was opened by Tianji City, and there are more than 130 of them in the Tang Empire." The black-clothed cultivator looked at Shen Luo with eyes full of confusion, and did not understand why he did not know this common knowledge.
Hearing this, Shen Luo fell silent.
Shen Luo knew about Tianji City. Back then, during the battle of Jilei Mountain, it was Tianji City's Yan Ze who helped to save him and the many members of the Fox Clan.
However, Tianji City did not participate in the battle of Chang 'an City against Chi You after that.
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