The sky lantern was illuminated by candlelight and turned orange, like a golden cylinder, rising slowly and drifting away. Not long after the sky lantern soared, the time to officially light the sky lantern came. Throughout the city, countless golden sky lanterns carrying people's good wishes quietly rose into the sky, like golden elves, lighting up the dark night.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Ning happily pulled Lin Xiaolu to stand up from the eaves, her gentle and watery eyes reflecting the endless sea of golden lights in front of her.
"Wow~ so beautiful."
"Xiaolu, when I become the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, I will also spread this tradition and let my people light sky lanterns on this day every year."
On the eaves of the inn, she looked at the spectacular and poignant scene in front of her, and forgot all her worries for a moment.
Lin Xiaolu raised his head and looked straight at the sky lantern he lit. At this moment, it had transcended all the lights and flown to the highest point.
When I was in Dai Viet, I wrote dozens of wishes, but none of them came true. This time I only wrote one, so it should come true.
The wish he wrote was - Aning's wish came true.
For a long time, the two sat side by side, sitting on the edge of the high eaves, swaying their calves, talking and laughing, and looking at the endless sea of lanterns as far as the eye can see.
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The next day, early in the morning
"Hululu hulu~"
Lin Xiaolu held a noodle bowl bigger than his head in one hand and stuffed the noodle soup into his mouth in large gulps. He held chopsticks in his other hand and quickly stuffed the noodles into his mouth.
"Bang!"
Putting down the noodle bowl, he shouted with unfinished content: "Man, here are eight more bowls of beef noodles! More meat, more onions, more garlic, less noodles!"
Shangguan Pomegranate, who was eating red date rice dumplings across from him, kicked him hard when he saw this.
"Can you keep a low profile and not be embarrassed?"
Lin Xiaolu raised his little chin and said "hum~", completely ignoring her, taking the full bowl of beef noodles, and then continued to make a hearty "snoring snoring snoring" sound.
Shangguan Shiliu looked annoyed and looked at Jiang Ning, who was sipping porridge beside her, complaining:
"Aning, look at him, you don't care."
Jiang Ning stopped eating the porridge, looked at Lin Xiaolu fondly, pursed her lips and chuckled: "No matter what I do, I can't let Xiaolu go hungry."
Wujia, who was sitting next to Lin Xiaolu, also smiled and persuaded: "Although Xiaolu Donor has a big appetite and a rough appearance when eating, he is very down-to-earth."
"That's right." Shuaishuai Ya bit into the fried dough sticks and said vaguely: "Why does my boss still need you to take care of his food? Then when he grows up and needs something, will you also take care of it?"
Shangguan Pomegranate:? ? ?
Wu Gu:? ? ?
Jiang Ning:? ? ?
Lin Xiaolu: "Hululu, hulu, hulu~"
The angry Shangguan Shiliu was too lazy to pay attention to these guys anymore. He looked at Jiang Ning and asked, "We should be able to leave the Yuan Kingdom in the next two days. Aning, how far away will we be from your uncle's place after we leave the Yuan Kingdom?" Far away."
"It's not far away. We should be there in another month's walk." Jiang Ning held her chin and smiled: "I will ask my uncle to entertain everyone then."
"Haha, you're welcome." Shangguan Shiliu seemed to have regarded Jiang Ning as his close friend, and said with a very loyal smile:
"We, a bunch of people, are actually quite happy traveling together every day. It doesn't matter. When your uncle gets that Qianlong Hongying later, if he still can't deal with that Yun Gu Sect, I will personally kill Can Lin. Xiaolu, and then summon the Great Demon King Li Mingru."
Lin Xiaolu, who was eating noodles, made a move and looked at her in confusion.
Wugou looked at Shangguan Shiliu and asked curiously: "Shangguan Donor, Xiaolu Donor's master left stories in various places, and the names are all different. You three thousand demons in southern Xinjiang all call Donor Li Mingru." The big devil?"
"Yes." Shangguan Shiliu nodded vaguely while eating rice dumplings:
"Dad said that Li Mingru's character is actually quite like that of a demonic monk in some aspects. He does whatever he wants and is bohemian, so he has a good relationship with my father. When they were young, they often bragd together, fought together, visited brothels together, and sometimes just We even went to the latrine together often, and then Li Mingru would always laugh at my father's shortcomings in the latrine, which made my father so angry that he ignored him for several days.
Not to mention his strength, during his heyday there was no monk in the world who could withstand a slap from him, so we demon monks called him the Great Demon King Li Mingru. "
Listening to Shangguan Shiliu's exaggerated words, Lin Xiaolu put down the empty noodle bowl in confusion.
After getting in touch during this period, he found that Shangguan Shiliu seemed to know his boss best among the few people. After all, her father had a good relationship with his boss. As the daughter of a demon boss, she naturally knew more than others. many.
At this moment, Lin Xiaolu asked curiously: "Huadie, has your father ever said, what state was my boss in at his peak?"
"As I said, my father said that when your master was at his peak, he might be in the realm of gods."
God...man?
Several people present were stunned, and Shuai Shuaiya also paused slightly.
Whether it is Wu Gu or Lin Xiaolu, the realms of immortality they know are Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Pill Formation, and Nascent Soul. What is this heavenly being?
At this moment, Shangguan Shiliu, who had been well-informed since childhood, suddenly raised his little head proudly when he saw Wugou and Lin Xiaolu looking at him with blank eyes.
"Haha, you haven't heard of it, you are so ignorant."
"Are heavenly beings in a realm above Nascent Soul?" Lin Xiaolu asked impatiently.
"That's right." Shangguan Shiliu explained: "Beyond Nascent Soul is the realm of heaven and man."
After saying that, she glanced at Lin Xiaolu with disdain: "Thank you for saying that you are Li Mingru's disciple. You don't even know the realm of your master."
"My boss never told me." Lin Xiaolu looked confused, and then couldn't wait to continue asking:
"I only know that my boss is very good. Later, he suffered a serious injury and fell into a state of decline. Tell me, who is this heavenly being? How did my boss get injured?"
Wu Gu and Jiang Ning on the side were also looking at her with curious expressions.
"Oh~ please beg me, Miss." Shangguan Shiliu hummed happily: "You beg me, if you beg me I will tell you."
Lin Xiaolu paused for a moment, and then started to prepare to draw the sword. Seeing this, Shangguan Shiliu hurriedly spoke:
"Actually, my father doesn't know much about Li Mingru, he only knows a little about it."
She explained to the curious babies in front of her: "In our country, the highest level of cultivation is the Yuanying. If you break through the Yuanying, you will become the realm of heaven and human beings, and you will ascend to another world, which we call The heavenly realm is often referred to as heaven, and only when one reaches the realm of heaven and humans can one be considered a true immortal."
"Then my boss also went to heaven?" Lin Xiaolu asked.
"No, he didn't go." Shangguan Shiliu shook his little head and said lightly: "My father said that he seemed to not want to ascend for some reason, and then Heaven tried to restrain him and force him to ascend, but Heaven failed."
Lin Xiaolu:……(｡ì _ í｡)
Wugou:……⊙﹏⊙
This is so fucking awesome! Heaven has failed!
At the dinner table, Shangguan Shiliu continued slowly: "I don't know the specific details. I just heard some random words from my father. After all, this happened a long time ago. Those elders in Emei probably don't know you." The past of the boss, because Li Mingru rarely stayed in Emei before, he was either fighting or on the way to a fight every day, but it was only in the past two years that he gradually retired to the mountains and fields."
"Then why haven't we heard the rumors about monks in the Heavenly Realm?" Lin Xiaolu turned to Wu Guo and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Heavenly Realm?"
Wu Guan shook his head in confusion, saying that he had never heard of it.
"Of course you haven't heard of it. No one has ascended to heaven for a long time, and monks in the heavenly realm have not descended to earth for more than three hundred years."
Shangguan Shiliu explained: "The Heavenly Realm is only remembered by some ancestors of various sects. My father said that three hundred years ago, the gods in the Heavenly Realm would occasionally come down to earth, and they would follow their own will. After that, Li Mingru seemed to be very unhappy and beat them all up with his own power.
To this day, although Li Mingru was seriously injured for unknown reasons and his state has regressed to the level of pill formation, as long as he does not die, the gods in the sky will not dare to come down to earth! "
