Lu Chengfeng and Gu Huaiyu were about to leave the mortal realm and return to the Ziyang Great World, naturally they had to take their trusted aides from Jade Water City of Celestial Pool Ancient Star with them.
However, Lu Chengfeng's disciple, Zhang San, chose not to leave with them, but to stay and manage Jade Water City well for his master.
Zhang San's aptitude was not good, and after consuming a lot of resources, he barely became a Saint. You must know that he had been a disciple of Lu Chengfeng for three thousand years. Becoming a Saint in three thousand years can be said to be a very ordinary aptitude.
However, Zhang San's talent in cultivation was low, but his talent in mechanisms and puppets was much higher than his talent in cultivation. Moreover, the main cultivation technique he practiced was the "Thousand Machine Dao" given to him by Gu Changsheng, and he also had the Black God Puppet that could reach the Immortal Emperor realm in the peak period of the ancient gods. Although it was only equivalent to the quasi-Emperor realm now, as long as those peerless geniuses on the Starry Sky Ancient Road did not attack Zhang San, Zhang San would be invincible with the Black God Puppet.
And those peerless geniuses on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, some were his senior brothers, some were friends of his senior brothers, and some even had to call him an ancestor according to seniority. Who would bother him for no reason?
So after learning that Zhang San wanted to stay, Lu Chengfeng was not worried, and even felt that it was much safer in the mortal world than in the Ziyang Great World.
Thus, Zhang San smoothly became the City Lord of Jade Water City and began to take over Lu Chengfeng's responsibilities, managing the affairs of Jade Water City.
But Zhang San, in front of outsiders, was still a Saint cultivator. Even three thousand years ago, he would not have been qualified to manage Jade Water City.
Zhang Wutian, who controlled Jade Water City three thousand years ago, also had the cultivation of the Saint King Realm, although the result was that he was killed by Lu Chengfeng.
But Lu Chengfeng was Lu Chengfeng. Although Zhang San was Lu Chengfeng's disciple, in the eyes of the various families in Jade Water City, Zhang San's cultivation talent was just so-so. Some people even envied Zhang San, thinking that if Lu Chengfeng had used those resources on them, they would have become Great Saints long ago, but Zhang San had just entered the Saint Realm a hundred years ago.
Now that Lu Chengfeng had left, and also taken away the trusted aides he had cultivated for nearly three thousand years, now the City Lord's Mansion, apart from Zhang San, was Zhao Quan, a friend of Zhang San's father, who could be regarded as Zhang San's half-father, and Lei Heng, the bodyguard Zhang San had hired.
And Zhao Quan's current cultivation was only in the Entering Saint Realm, which was a little worse than Zhang San, and although Lei Heng was also a Saint, he was not much stronger than Zhang San.
With such a lineup in the City Lord's Mansion, how could the various families in Jade Water City be convinced? Although Lu Chengfeng's remaining power was still there, they dared not do anything to Zhang San for the time being, but after a long time, Zhang San's control over Jade Water City would inevitably go wrong.
Time passed for nearly ten years.
The various family forces began to disobey the orders of the City Lord's Mansion. However, they did not do it too obviously, and they still gave the City Lord's Mansion enough face in front of outsiders.
Doing so was nothing more than testing the bottom line of the City Lord's Mansion step by step. Although the former City Lord Lu Chengfeng had left, what if?
Not doing it too excessively was also to leave a way out for themselves.
When they confirmed that Lu Chengfeng could not return, they would show their true colors.
Zhang San obviously knew this, but he didn't care at all, because at the moment he was entertaining a distinguished guest.
In the main hall, Zhang San, who was already in a high position, personally made tea and poured tea for the two people.
A man, with a magnificent appearance, stood behind a red-clothed woman sitting.
Zhang San walked over with the tea and said respectfully, "Senior Aunt Honghong, please have some tea!"
Then he sent another cup of tea to the man and said, "Senior Tianpeng, please have some tea."
Tianpeng nodded lightly and took the tea from Zhang San's hand.
Ye Hongyi took a sip of the hot tea in her hand, then looked at Zhang San, and sighed, "The first time I saw you, you were only this big..." Ye Hongyi made a gesture not high, "In the blink of an eye, nearly three thousand years have passed, and you have become the Lord of a City."
"Hehe, but Senior Aunt Honghong is still as young and beautiful as before." Zhang San smiled, and praised Ye Hongyi without showing any signs.
Even though Ye Hongyi was already four thousand years old, her mouth still raised slightly when Zhang San praised her for being young and beautiful.
"Your mouth is so sweet, haven't you harmed any girls these years?" Ye Hongyi asked.
"Uh..."
Zhang San was suddenly speechless, and then his eyes became extremely resentful, and said, "Senior Aunt, I praised you and you still want to ridicule me."
"What?" Ye Hongyi was stunned, and then she knew what it meant.
This kid, I'm afraid he hasn't even held a girl's hand yet!
Zhang San was afraid that Ye Hongyi would get further and further away on this matter, and quickly asked, "Senior Aunt, what are you here for this time?"
"Before my junior sister left, she asked me to take care of you." Ye Hongyi did not hide it, and said the purpose of this trip.
"So it is!"
A trace of warmth flashed in Zhang San's heart, his master still cared about him very much.
Originally, Zhang San had the Black God Puppet as his trump card, but now he had two more backers, he was even less afraid of other forces in the city rebelling against him, and he even hoped that this day would come sooner, so that he could clean up a bit.
"Report!"
At this moment, a steward hurried in.
Zhang San had ordered before, if there was no major event, do not disturb him from entertaining his elders, now this steward broke in, obviously a major event had happened.
Could it be that those people finally couldn't help it?
Zhang San guessed in his heart, but his face did not show any signs, looking at the steward, and said, "Steward He, what's the matter so urgent, didn't you see that this City Lord is entertaining distinguished guests?"
Speaking of which, after being the City Lord for ten years, Zhang San was becoming more and more like a City Lord when facing outsiders, and he was completely different from the little Zhang San before.
Steward He quickly saluted and said, "I'm sorry, City Lord, but the situation is urgent, so this subordinate took the liberty to break in."
"Forget it, forget it, what's the matter?"
Zhang San waved his hand and asked what happened.
Steward He didn't waste any time and directly said the matter.
Celestial Pool Ancient Star, mainly based on water, various goods and trade, naturally also mainly based on waterways, and Jade Water City was no exception.
On an island nearly five hundred thousand miles away from Jade Water City, there was an ancient secret realm, and when this ancient secret realm was born, Lu Chengfeng, with overwhelming strength, won the ownership of the secret realm, which has been more than three hundred years ago.
And this ancient secret realm was very large, with many formations, and could only be explored step by step. Every year, many resources would be transported back to the City Lord's Mansion of Jade Water City.
During this period, many forces wanted to secretly rob these resources, but they were all destroyed by Lu Chengfeng with a single slash. Over time, no one dared to have bad ideas anymore.
But just now, Steward He received a bad news, this time the resources transported back were robbed on the way.
This was not the most important thing, the most important thing was that the person in charge this time was Zhao Quan and Lei Heng.
Zhao Quan was a good friend of Zhang San's father. After Zhang San's father passed away, Zhao Quan took on the responsibility of raising Zhang San. To Zhang San, Uncle Quan was another father to him.
And Lei Heng, followed Zhang San for three thousand years, and even when he was weak, some basic skills were taught to him by Lei Heng instead of his master. To Zhang San, Lei Heng was also a teacher and a friend.
And this time, Zhao Quan and Lei Heng were missing, their life and death were unknown.
However, there were life jade talismans of Zhao Quan and Lei Heng in the City Lord's Mansion. The jade talismans were fine, indicating that they were not in immediate danger.
But the longer this matter dragged on, the more dangerous their lives would be.
So after Zhang San asked Steward He to leave, he looked at Ye Hongyi a little embarrassed.
"Senior Aunt, that..."
"Hehe, isn't that what I'm here for? I just didn't expect to be so lucky to encounter something as soon as I arrived." Ye Hongyi chuckled.
Was this good luck?
Zhang San was speechless in his heart.
But seeing that his senior aunt was so interested, he was relieved.
"Zhang San, tell the information to Tianpeng and let him go." Ye Hongyi said.
"Yes!"
Zhang San nodded and quickly told Tianpeng all the information about this voyage, and even took out the tokens of Zhao Quan and Lei Heng, which had the aura of the two people, making it easier to find them.
"Please, Senior Tianpeng!"
Zhang San said solemnly.
Tianpeng nodded, did not speak, his figure flashed, and a golden-winged roc appeared in the sky, tearing the sky apart and leaving Jade Water City.
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