Gu Qing could have brought his two wives back with him and it would have been much faster. It was just that he wanted to go on a sightseeing trip back to his homeland after so many years.
Of course, it might also have something to do with homesickness.
Therefore, he needed a carriage now.
The Gu Clan had received the news in advance. From the clan leader to the child who was less than two months old, everyone was waiting for him on the shore.
The Gu Clan was still one of the top clans in Tiannan. Judging from the status of Shenmo Peak in the Aoyama Sect, it would last for at least a thousand years.
Seeing Gu Qing's figure, tens of thousands of people knelt down like a tide, but there was no sound. The scene was extremely spectacular.
The carriage behind the crowd was even more eye-catching.
Gu Qing waved his hand and did not say anything. He got into the carriage with his two wives.
The roof of the carriage was hollow and was inlaid with an extremely precious crystal. The area of the window was also very large. As for the material of the carriage and the breed of the horse, it was needless to say.
The carriage was very spacious. There were two soft couches facing each other. The floor was covered with an expensive carpet, and there were good wine and tea on the tea table. There were all kinds of snacks inside.
Zhen Tao had been cultivating in the Shui Yue Nunnery since she was a child and had traveled on the sea for hundreds of years. Her life was free and beautiful, but she had never experienced such prosperity in the human world. She could not help but be a little surprised.
Empress Hu had lived in the palace for a long time and had seen all the prosperity in the human world. She also felt that this carriage was a little too luxurious. She reminded him carefully, "We have been back for so long … there must be many people watching us … Isn't it not good to be so ostentatious?"
Gu Qing lay comfortably on the couch and looked at the shadows of trees and white clouds passing by through the skylight. He thought of the past and said slowly, "Don't worry, this is Master's."
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The carriage left Donghai and entered Moqiu.
The official road outside the Guocheng Temple was still full of carriages and tents on both sides.
The monk doctor walked slowly between the carriages and tents with the help of the folk doctors and officials.
There were not many changes in the world. At least, for ordinary people, birth, aging, sickness, and death were still normal. However, there were some changes in the end. For example, the number of patients who suffered from external injuries was much less. This meant that in recent years, the Jing Dynasty's management of the world was rather good.
Just like that, the carriage traveled between the various states and counties. It wasn't considered a private visit because the three of them didn't have any status at the moment. Looking at the peaceful world outside the window, Gu Qing was very pleased. Although he did not manage Aoyama well according to his teacher's instructions, everything was fine.
More than ten days later, the carriage rushed into a thick fog that could not be dispersed. Faint voices of people came from the front. It was actually a town.
After returning to Cloudy Town, of course, he couldn't miss a very important thing. Instead of going to Scenery Garden outside the town to enjoy the scenery like the other tourists, he went to that restaurant to eat hot pot.
The current owner of the restaurant was a young master, and he would occasionally receive a few immortal masters of Green Mountain. He could recite the booklet given to him by his father before his death. He recognized the horse-drawn carriage as soon as he saw it. He was extremely nervous, and he bowed to the ground in front of the carriage.
Gu Qing got off the carriage. Looking at the antique restaurant, he asked with a smile, "Do you recognize this carriage?"
The young owner plucked up the courage to look at him and asked, "Is the surname of the immortal master Gu?"
Gu Qing was even more surprised and asked, "How did you recognize it?"
The young owner answered honestly, "My father gave me a booklet before he passed away. The faces of several immortal masters were drawn on it."
Gu Qing was very interested and asked, "Is it convenient for me to see it?"
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The red and white yuanyang pot waited quietly for the moment of boiling.
Empress Hu and Zhen Tao stared at the hot pot and kept cheering in their hearts, of course for their half pot of soup.
Zhen Tao thought the white soup would boil more easily. Empress Hu didn't know why, but she subconsciously thought it should be the red pot.
Gu Qing took the booklet and slowly turned it over. Looking at the yellowed paper and the familiar faces, he remained silent … Zhao Layue, Liu Shisui, himself, Yuan Qu, Zhuo Rusui, Apiao, Que Niang … Some of them had already ascended, and some of them had always been here. He was the only one who had come back after so many years.
It was very quiet in the compartment, and the atmosphere was a bit depressing. The young owner became more and more uneasy and said in a trembling voice, "If it's not appropriate, I'll burn the booklet."
"They're not dead yet. Why would you burn it?" Gu Qing said calmly.
At this moment, the booklet happened to turn to the last page. There was a picture of a sword fairy in white, but his face was blank.
He thought silently, "Shifu, how are you now?"
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The carriage was left in Cloudy Town, just like it had been five hundred years ago, and the Gu Clan would take care of it.
Gu Qing and his two wives leapt up on the sword. He took out the sword board that he hadn't used for many years and arrived above the Sword-Washing Stream through the Great Formation of Aoyama. The important event would take place in a few days. The guests of many sects had arrived in advance, and the disciples of various peaks were busy entertaining the guests at Xilai Peak. No one noticed his return amidst the chaos.
It was interesting that this was the first time Empress Hu had come to the Aoyama Sect, so she couldn't help but feel nervous. Perhaps to conceal her nervousness, she asked while looking at the stream that looked like a golden whip, "Is this the divine whip used by the Immortal to beat the Fairy Lady?"
Gu Qing assented, and then introduced the other peaks to her, such as the magic pills and books on Shiyue Peak, the files on Xilai Peak, the ocean of clouds on Tianguang Peak, and Qingrong Peak, which she should never go to. Zheng Tao had been to Aoyama before, so she didn't need any introduction. She raised her eyebrows a bit higher; it was unclear if she was still angry about the quarrel in the restaurant earlier.
It didn't take long before the Sword of the Universe landed on the top of Shenmo Peak. The desolate energy became warmer; it was unclear if the sword had a spirit of its own.
Yuan Qu knew that Jing Jiu would arrive today, so he waited by the cliff's edge in advance. "Greetings, Big Brother. Did you enjoy the hotpot?" he greeted with a smile.
Though he hadn't seen Jing Jiu for more than five hundred years, he merely greeted him nonchalantly. However, the Young Brother who was like a monkey back then had white hair on his temples, and his bearing was much steadier now. Gu Qing felt a bit sentimental, saying, "Okay, okay, okay. Let me introduce you to your two sisters-in-law. You have met them before."
As Jing Jiu was talking, he unexpectedly heard the argument between Empress Hu and Zheng Tao.
"The red soup should have been boiled first; how could it be the white soup?"
"Sister, you have to give us a reason. What's more, we saw clearly that the soup was boiled together. I didn't do it right, and neither did you."
"Well, you must be Young Brother Yuan Qu, right? You've been in charge of Shangde Peak for many years, and you're the Sword Justice of Aoyama. You're the most impartial judge. Please say something. "
The look on Gu Qing's face was a bit unsightly, but he didn't dare to let Yuan Qu make a judgment. He waved his hands to signal his two wives to go to the manor cave for a tour, and then he dragged Yuan Qu to the upper floor of the Daoist Hall.
Yuan Qu looked at Jing Jiu and said with a spurious smile, "We've had so many hotpot meals back then, and we all know that the red soup should be boiled first. But why did the two sisters-in-law see that the soup was boiled together?"
Gu Qing said with a straight face, "A bowl of water should be leveled, and a pot of soup should be boiled together."
What he said revealed a clear message: Jing Jiu must have done something at that time.
A figure in the Heavenly Arrival State should have used the Divine Method on hotpot. What kind of logic was this?
Yuan Qu said helplessly, "Big Brother, why did you do this?"
Gu Qing didn't want to discuss this issue, so he asked, "How are you and Yushan?"
Yuan Qu said, "We're fine. Our daughter is now at the South Pine Pavilion. Though she's not of natural Dao quality, her aptitude is better than ours. She should enter the Hall of Sword Washing next year."
Generally speaking, Cultivation practitioners would only choose to leave their bloodline after they were sure that the Great Path was hopeless and that they could see the end.
But this practice gradually changed with the appearance of Taiping Zhenren.
Yuan Qu and Yushan had this daughter partly because they had a close relationship, but more importantly, it was because those brothers on Shanghai Peak were looking forward to having a female disciple. In the last few hundred years of Aoyama's Inherited Sword Competition, no female disciple was willing to join Shanghai Peak.
Gu Qing had been abroad for many years, but he had kept up communication with Aoyama, so he knew all this. So he didn't worry about his Young Brothers, but he couldn't figure it out. "Those brothers are already elders; why are they still making trouble?" he asked.
Yuan Qu said helplessly, "Shanghai Peak has become a black jade plate, and the Master Night Howler lies on it all day long. Our brothers don't even have a manor cave; what are they doing?"
There was a saying in the Cultivation circle of Chaotian that the nine peaks of Aoyama were all Shangde Peak.
It was because Taiping Zhenren, the Immortal Jingyang, Liu Ci, and Yuan Qijing all came from this peak.
However, Shanghai Peak was destroyed after the epic battle between the Fairy Lady Bai Ren and the Snow Girl. As a result, the disciples of Shangde Peak felt like the orphans of Aoyama.
Gu Qing felt surprised, asking, "Didn't they decide to build another peak back then?"
"Senior Master Chi Yan led the others to search among the peaks for more than ten years, but they couldn't find a good spiritual source," Yuan Qu said.
Gu Qing said, "Didn't Fu Wang say that Shanghai Peak should go to the West Ocean? The spiritual energy there is abundant, and it's a very large place. "
"Shanghai Peak is in charge of the Sword Justice and responsible for the examination of the inner disciples. The West Ocean is so far away; how can we do it if we move there?" Yuan Qu said with raised eyebrows, "Besides, why should we go there? Why can't they let Xilai Peak move there and give Xilai Peak to us? "
Gu Qing finally understood, thinking that it was too troublesome. Fortunately, he had run away fast enough back then.
"In the beginning, Senior Master Guangyuan didn't care much about these things, and he wasn't good at dealing with these things either. Later, when Zhuo Rusui became the sect master, he became the Round Turtle. He said nice things like giving Tianguang Peak to me … Can I take it? "
It was obvious that Yuan Qu had also thought of Gu Qing. Listening to the conversation between the two sisters-in-law in the manor cave, he looked at Gu Qing and said with a sigh, "Why do you have to do this? If you hadn't left, the position of the sect master would have been yours. You would have dealt with these things properly, and it wouldn't be as troublesome as it is now. You might even have a chance to ascend. "
Gu Qing said, "Everything in the world is uncertain. Who can say for sure? Just like He Zhan and Sensei, everyone thought that their love was stronger than gold, but what happened now? "
Yuan Qu felt a headache thinking about the couple. Suddenly, he heard a message from the sword letter saying that an important guest had arrived, so he had to leave for the time being. He said, "Senior Brother, you can rest in the peak. If you want to go to other peaks, it's fine. I'll come back to chat with you when I'm done with the things at hand."
Gu Qing waved his hand to let him go.
The zigzagging plum sword came out from the cliff's edge and went to Tianguang Peak.
Gu Qing walked to the cliff's edge and looked at the peaks poking out of the sea of clouds. He wondered where he should go if he wanted to go.
He had many acquaintances in Aoyama back then, but not many of them were still alive.
Lei Il-kyung and Yao Songshan had left more than a hundred years ago. Guo Nanshan was still alive, but his elder brother Gu Han and Lin Yuanzhi had also left.
So many of the former disciples of the third generation had left, not to mention those masters.
Elder Mo Chi and Senior Master Mei Li had passed away many years ago. Fang Jingtian had died without a sound. Heaven and earth had sensed his death, but it hadn't attracted much attention.
Senior Master Chi Yan had lost an arm at the West Ocean, but his Cultivation hadn't been delayed. Instead, he had lived a few more years.
One hundred and seventy years ago, Guanyuan Zhenren failed to ascend. He turned into a gust of gentle wind on the stone bridge between Shiyue Peak and Xilai Peak.
The gentle wind sent the sword into Yunxing Peak. This former swordsman of the sword had bid farewell to Aoyama.
What was the point of going to those peaks when he was gone?
Empress Hu and Zheng Tao walked out of the manor cave and felt very sad when they saw Jing Jiu standing by the cliff's edge. They shut their mouths reflexively.
In fact, they quarreled from the restaurant to Shenmo Peak because they were worried that Gu Qing would miss the old man too much.
They had sensed something wrong with Jing Jiu a long time ago, before the ship arrived at Penglai.
They had lived together for hundreds of years, so it was impossible for them not to feel it.
As they were about to come over and comfort him, they suddenly heard the cries of monkeys coming from the bottom of the cliff.
In the beginning, it was only a small monkey that was calling out, full of surprise and curiosity. It was because Shenmo Peak hadn't had any guests for a long time.
Soon after, a few big monkeys were calling out. They found that the man standing by the cliff's edge seemed to be a part of Shenmo Peak, and he didn't look like a guest at all.
The monkeys' cries grew louder, and the shaking of the treetops grew louder, like the rustling of the pines.
The corners of Gu Qing's mouth curled up, and he said, "Long time no see."
Hundreds of monkeys came out from the forest, either squatting on the ground or rubbing their backs against the rocks, looking at Jing Jiu curiously.
In their eyes, this man was a stranger, as if they had never seen him before. But why did he feel so familiar?
They regarded the monkeys as human beings. Was this the so-called collective unconscious?
A small monkey plucked up its courage and jumped onto the cliff's edge, calling out to Gu Qing in a low voice.
Empress Hu and Zheng Tao eyed each other, feeling perplexed, wondering what these monkeys wanted to do.
"I … don't know where I come from," Gu Qing said to the small monkey earnestly. "I'm a native of this place."
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