After the Dead Dog, Peng Lang and the others had ascended, Gu Qing didn't leave again. It was unclear whether it was because he missed his hometown after such a long time, or for other reasons, that he stayed on the Shenmo Peak.
Three years later, Jing Jiu took his two wives to travel around Chaotian in the horse-drawn carriage of the Gu Clan, similar to the way Jing Jiu traveled with Zhao Layue and Guo Dong.
In the fourth year, they went to the Guocheng Temple. The previous emperor Jing Yao, who lived in seclusion here, finally met them, and they went back to Zhaoge City together.
On the second night after she returned to Zhaoge City, Empress Hu passed away with her eyes closed.
When she died, she did not die in her former bedroom, but in the side hall next to the main hall. Even her bed was still the same bed.
Jing Yao's father left on that bed.
Looking at the woman sleeping on the couch, Jing Yao's face was pale and his monk robes fluttered in the wind. He was silent for an entire night.
Until now, he still couldn't figure out who his mother loved.
Those were not important anymore. There were still many things to be arranged, such as opening the mausoleum, reuniting the tomb, observing filial piety, and missing.
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Gu Qing and Zheng Tao stood on the stone steps in front of the hall, looking at the morning light shining through the newly built Zhengyang Gate five hundred years ago.
Zhen Tao's eyes were red and swollen like real peaches because she had cried too much.
Gu Qing's face, however, did not show the slightest hint of worry. He was even more taciturn than usual.
"Let's go."
He left the palace with Zhen Tao and went to the Jing family's old residence.
After Brother Li, the members of the Jing family were all ordinary people. It had been passed down for several generations, so they didn't have much memory of what happened more than 500 years ago. However, they still kept the study room and cleaned it carefully every day, not daring to touch it. But a few decades ago, someone felt that the land outside the window of the study was empty and planted a crabapple tree.
"That Begonia was personally cut down by Martial Aunt. Who would have thought that she would grow it back a few hundred years later?"
Gu Qing stood in front of the window and looked at the begonia tree that was currently snowing. He said, "You see, going around in circles is actually going around in circles."
After a moment of silence, Zhen Tao said, "I didn't expect you to send her back in the end."
Gu Qing said, "She has always had a good relationship with His Majesty."
Zheng Tao couldn't help but ask, "What about you and her?"
Gu Qing looked at the slowly falling crabapple blossoms and said slowly, "You've watched it for hundreds of years, you should know that it's very good."
"I don't think I understand it. Don't tell me that she and I both like you … You know that I don't like you. "
After a moment of silence, Zhen Tao said, "I just hate you and her. That's why I'm following you. I'm going to make it so that you won't be able to enjoy yourself for hundreds of years."
Gu Qing said nothing.
Looking at his white sideburns, Zhen Tao suddenly felt sorry for him. She said in a trembling voice, "Go ahead and ascend."
Gu Qing reached out to touch her head and said, "I'm already old. Why do you insist?"
Zheng Tao couldn't help but cry again.
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If Heaven has feelings, Heaven will grow old.
Fortunately, this wouldn't happen. Time was still flowing slowly, and the sky in Chaotian was still blue and tranquil.
A few more years had passed, and no more news came from the upper world. As a result, many speculations arose, and some signs of instability appeared.
Somewhere in the distant Land of West Wind, someone had finally come out and tried to restore the order of the world.
The godly ship of Penglai Island that had returned from the Alien Land brought back the news.
Ping Yongjia opened his eyes on the Sword Peak. He ran to Cloudy Town and ate hotpot; then he ran to Nanhezhou, Xiao Mountain, Moqiu, passed the Heavenly Well, went up to the East Ocean, passed the Huge Whirlpool, and kept running until he passed the Outer Island where the Giants resided, and ran into the west wind.
It took him half a day to finish the journey, and he even stopped by the edge of the island to talk to the Giant for a while. After arriving in the Land of West Wind, he went to the Holy Capital where the Church was located and revealed himself. He talked to the crowd and killed the courageous Pope, and then returned to the Sword Peak to sleep.
A few days later, the young Sect Master of Zhongzhou School came to visit.
Zhuo Juexiao flew straight into the clouds on his sword and landed in front of the cliff cave. He waved his hand to disperse the dust and stared at Ping Yong-Ka's face and said seriously, "Don't you find it annoying to be the Sect Master?"
Ping Yong-Ka opened his eyes and sighed helplessly, "In the beginning, everyone was lazier than the other, and later on, everyone ran faster than the other. What can I do?"
Zhuo Juexiao rubbed his hands and said, "Uncle Ping, I'm not lazy, I'm still young, and I don't plan to run away in the short term. Why don't you let me shoulder the responsibility of the Sect Master of Aoyama?"
Ping Yong-Ka felt even more helpless, and said, "I shouldn't have let Bai Zao take you to the sea in the first place."
Zhuo Juexiao knew that he still couldn't convince him this time, so he said the real message he wanted to convey, "They're all gone."
Ping Yong-Ka said, "That's good. You should also concentrate on your cultivation and strive to ascend as soon as possible."
Zhuo Juexiao sneered, "Why do I feel like you're wishing me an early death?"
Ping Yong-Ka was choked by her words, and said, "Don't talk so much, you sound like your father."
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The black battleship was moving forward slowly in the dark space.
A huge black dog was crouching on the deck of the battleship quietly.
Its black hair was fluttering in the windless space, looking like black water plants, absorbing the light rays of the distant white permanent star.
This battleship was not very large, only about three thousand meters long. All the windows were blocked by the grayish-black composite material plates, which looked like armor plates or decorative patterns.
If anyone saw this scene, they would be shocked speechless.
The people on the battleship were staring at each other speechlessly.
Que Niang and Yuan Qu and his wife had not come back to their senses yet, thinking that this was what ascension was all about? It didn't seem to be that interesting. How could this world be so dark, cold, and desolate? It was much more boring than the world Zhuo Juexiao had mentioned, not to mention the legendary Fairy Realm.
Peng Lang stood at the front of the command cabin, looking at the internal structure of the battleship displayed on the light screen. Curiosity was written all over his ordinary face.
Along with the clear sounds of friction between the parts, the door of the medical cabin was opened, and a huge robot walked out.
Shen Yunmai's voice came out from the robot, "Let me introduce myself. I'm Shen Yunmai, the general commander of this operation."
Tong Yan was asking Su Ziye about He Zhan's situation. Hearing this, she couldn't help but raise her head to shoot him a glance.
Shen Yunmai was extremely shameless, especially after being soaked in the medicinal liquid for so many days. "My father is Shen Aoyama," he said calmly.
Que Niang, Yuan Qu and the others had thought this metal puppet was quite odd, because it dared to compete with Tong Yan for the command. Hearing this, the expression on their faces changed abruptly.
Shen Aoyama was the name of the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama. If the spiritual soul in the puppet was the son of the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama, he must be an extraordinary person.
Yuan Qu and Young Sister Yushan bowed to him respectfully, saying, "Greetings, Senior Master."
Que Niang and Su Ziye bowed to him earnestly, and so did Peng Lang.
If the battleship weren't shielded, the Dead Dog would lower his head when he heard this self-introduction.
"Don't listen to him." Tong Yan said expressionlessly, "Jing Jiu won't call him Senior Master, and he and the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama have already turned against each other."
Hearing this, the new ascendants on the battleship changed their expressions again, wondering if this person was an enemy.
Sensing the change of atmosphere on the battleship, especially when he saw Peng Lang's hand on the hilt of his sword, Shen Yunmai didn't dare make any more jokes. "Don't get me wrong," he said hastily. "I'm Jing Jiu's best friend in this world, and it's because of him that I broke up with my old man."
Peng Lang realized that this was the reason, and his right hand left the hilt of his sword. Yuan Qu and Que Niang eyed each other, thinking that this was more like it.
Shen Yunmai didn't expect such a calm reaction. "Don't you feel surprised?" he asked confusedly.
Su Ziye said in a mocking tone, "It's normal for the Aoyama Sect to deceive the Master and kill the Great Grandmaster. Besides, the Immortal Jingyang has such a bad temper; how can nothing happen to him?"
Shen Yunmai maneuvered the robot to point at the top of the battleship, indicating that it was the Principal Guard. "Which side will it take? That's the biggest problem. "
Yuan Qu said righteously, "The Master Night Howler won't meddle in the internal strife of the Aoyama Sect."
Shen Yunmai sneered, "Who would believe that? Who was the one who broke the sword formation on Mo Chengfeng back then? "
Yuan Qu was speechless, wondering how Shen Yunmai knew all these things.
Tong Yan couldn't stand it anymore. He walked to the middle of the two groups and said while looking at these ascendants of the new generation, "We should give you enough time to learn the general rules of this world, but we don't have enough time. So we'll use a simpler method to get a general idea."
Having said that, she put on the brain-computer intercommunication system that had been prepared beforehand and asked Yuan Qu and the others to put it on. Then she started to inject the information into the system.
The huge robot leaned against the wall of the battleship and looked at the new ascendants who were learning with their eyes closed. "Who do you think is the fastest?" he asked suddenly.
"I don't know," replied Tong Yan.
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As expected, Peng Lang was the first to open his eyes. He took off the system and said after a moment of silence, "It's very interesting."
"Is it more interesting than your world?" asked Shen Yunmai.
Peng Lang didn't heed him, and said to Tong Yan, "It should be a bit deeper."
"We don't have much time," explained Tong Yan. "You can read it by yourself on the way."
Soon after, Su Ziye and the others opened their eyes one after another, in the same order as their Cultivation states.
When they first opened their eyes, their expressions were a bit bewildered, but they soon calmed down, looking thoughtful. It seemed that they were still pondering over the content of the information.
"If this is a light battleship and this is a robot, then what about you? Are you a program inside? "asked Yuan Qu while looking at the robot.
Shen Yunmai was a bit annoyed. He opened the door of the control room and said, "I'm a living person!"
Yuan Qu and Yushan were startled by the head, exclaiming, "Is this a ghost?"
Yet, Su Ziye's countenance remained unchanged, as he said, "It's nothing more than a ghost Cultivation method."
Tong Yan shook her head and brought the conversation back to normal. She said while pointing to the star chart on the light screen, "The sun of Chaotian is in front of the battleship. We'll pass by it. The battleship will be activated in about ten minutes. Don't miss the window."
Yuan Qu asked confusedly, "In the universe … the rule of navigation is to stay away from the massive celestial bodies, like neutron stars, white dwarfs and black holes. Though it's merely a regular fixed star, it's still dangerous. Why do we need to get close to it?"
Shen Yunmai said, "The more dangerous a place is, the more beneficial it is. According to the data collected by Jing Jiu himself, the fairy energy can be collected the fastest in a region near the fixed star's orbit. You have just ascended, so you need to improve your Cultivation state and strength as soon as possible, so you have to go there to temper the fairy energy."
Yuan Qu felt speechless, thinking that he had finally ascended successfully. Though … he didn't feel like he had become a fairy man after coming to this dark world, it was nevertheless an important leap in the path toward heaven. He needed to meditate for a while, even if he couldn't hold a banquet to celebrate it. Why was he so busy? In the next moment, he thought of what Tong Yan said about the lack of time and what Shen Yunmai had said earlier about him falling out with the Grandmaster of Aoyama because of Jing Jiu. He started to feel nervous and worried reflexively.
Looking at the expressions on their faces, Shen Yunmai said with a sneer, "I've taken such a great risk to get you out here because I want you to do something for me!"
They were all smart people, and like Yuan Qu, they had all guessed what they were going to do.
Que Niang behaved like a general on the chessboard. "Just tell me what you want to do," she said.
Tong Yan told them briefly about the current situation. She told them that Jing Jiu had been missing for many days and that he had decided to launch a surprise attack on the Grandmaster of Aoyama.
"We couldn't beat them in a fight, so we had no choice but to come back and find some helpers," Su Ziye said.
Yuan Qu said without hesitation, "Our Cultivation state is not high enough. We can ascend thanks to the Great Formation of Heavenly Arrival. We'll cheer for you when the time comes."
Su Ziye continued, "This is an internal issue of your Aoyama Sect. I'm just an unorthodox cultivator, so it's not convenient for me to meddle in it."
After some thought, Que Niang said, "I have to find my Master first. What if you deceive us?"
Shen Yunmai said innocently, "Even if you don't trust me, don't you trust Tong Yan?"
Que Niang shot a glance at Tong Yan and smiled embarrassedly.
It was well known that Tong Yan was one of her teachers on the chess playing. It was also because of this that Que Niang knew better than anyone else how dirty his heart was.
Shen Yunmai exclaimed angrily, "That's too much! I risked my life to get you out of here, but you don't want to fight any of us? You have to pay for the tickets first! "
Peng Lang felt embarrassed as well. He said to Tong Yan, "I have to see the Immortal first. If he wants me to fight, I'll do it."
"Are you the rumored Peng Lang? Jing Jiu said that your talent is not inferior to mine; how come you don't understand the situation at all? "
Shen Yunmai said exasperatedly, "He didn't dare to meet anyone because of my old man. That's why we have to fight the old man and rescue him. But you have to find him before you are willing to help us fight the old man. Don't you think it's a triple tribulation? How can you solve it? What's wrong with your intelligence? "
It was then that Tong Yan, who had been silent, said, "The time window is up. I'll open the number three gate on the right in front of us. Get ready."
Along with his voice, a piece of the grayish-black plate covering the surface of the battleship tilted up slowly, and the bright light of the outside world could be vaguely seen.
Along with the light of the permanent star, the omnipresent signal waves entered the battleship.
As long as it could be seen, it would be seen. For example, the overused "You and the Abyss", "He and Aoyama", and so on.
Shen Yunmai would never make such a mistake. He activated the device that generated the gravitational field immediately. The black battleship was close to the permanent star at the moment, so most of the directions were blocked. Coupled with the gravitational field, they didn't have to worry about being discovered. As a result, they couldn't see what was happening on the Full Moon Planet.
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(I suddenly felt like chatting, so I wrote a few sentences. But I found that I was even more talkative than Shen Yunmai and exceeded the number of words. You guys should spend more time … The general meaning is that I drove around the south of the Yangtze River yesterday and felt good. I like Yichang very much, but I also miss Daqing. I like to write. You see, I'll keep writing even if I don't write a long story. Thank you. I'll send you a Wechat message. Also, the second movie that Shen Yunmai mentioned yesterday is Sunshine. I recommend it to you.)
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