“Everyone, my friend has arrived. To meet is to be fated. I have here a few ancient copper coins, treasures collected by a great power from my Red Dust World. They can ward off misfortune and bring good luck. I wouldn't normally take them out, but seeing as you are all destined, I'm willing to part with them. Each coin will cost you ten immortal sources, just to forge a good connection…”
Wu Liang took out a few copper coins that exuded an ancient aura. To be honest, these coins radiated a primeval energy, and even Ye Hongyi and the others couldn't discern their origin.
Only Feng Chen and Shen Yue knew the origin of these copper coins, and their expressions immediately turned strange.
The people drinking with Wu Liang were all Supreme Realm cultivators, yet they were being swayed by Wu Liang's silver tongue. The key was that they knew Wu Liang came from the Red Dust World. What was the Red Dust World? It was a world to which even their Danqing Great World had to submit. Who knew how strong the Red Dust World was?
And the words “Red Dust World Great Power” were too attractive. Furthermore, they couldn't see through the copper coins in Wu Liang's hands. Ten immortal sources for one coin, even if the copper coins didn't have the ability to ward off misfortune as Wu Liang boasted, it was still worth buying for collection.
Putting everything else aside, copper coins from the Red Dust World would bring them great prestige if they talked about it. Even Immortal King Great Powers might not possess items from the Red Dust World!
Thus, quickly, Wu Liang had dozens of immortal sources in his hand.
Wu Liang weighed the immortal sources in his hand, inwardly marveling at how wealthy the creatures of these Great Worlds, whose Great Dao origins hadn't been damaged, were. They gave ten immortal sources without hesitation.
“Farewell, everyone!”
After putting away the immortal sources, Wu Liang smiled and cupped his hands in farewell to the surrounding people.
“Daoist priest, let's meet again if fate allows!”
Those people also gave Wu Liang a lot of face, standing up to see him off.
On the other side, Ye Yuxian came to the front desk. She softly said to a girl at the front desk, “Open a spacious private room.”
The girl's cultivation wasn't low; she was a Saint King cultivator, but in the Border Emperor City, where Supremes were everywhere, she seemed very ordinary. However, since she could become an employee of Drunken Immortal Residence, her psychological quality naturally had to be up to par.
The girl had delicate features and smiled as she said to Ye Yuxian, “I'm very sorry, but all the private rooms are full.”
Ye Yuxian nodded lightly. The background of Drunken Immortal Residence was the Red Dust World, and for the cultivators of the Danqing Great World, the Red Dust World was not just a superior world; it was also very mysterious and powerful. Everything related to the Red Dust World seemed mysterious and powerful, so it was normal for Drunken Immortal Residence to be popular and full.
“I remember Drunken Immortal Residence has a rule about reserved private rooms, right?” Ye Yuxian asked.
“Indeed, there is this rule, but the reserved private rooms are not provided to ordinary guests. Instead, they are used by our internal high-level personnel for rest. So, this guest, I'm very sorry.”
The girl's voice was very soft, making people feel refreshed and not wanting to get angry or cause trouble.
“I actually forgot.” Ye Yuxian lightly patted her forehead. Under the girl's confused gaze, Ye Yuxian took out a token. In the center of the token was engraved a large character.
Gu!
The girl's expression changed slightly. She was about to exclaim when Ye Yuxian stopped her.
“No need to make a fuss, just take us there.” Ye Yuxian said.
Originally, their Red Dust Team was already receiving a lot of attention because of their appearances and temperament. If others knew that she was the proprietress behind Drunken Immortal Residence, that would be terrible. She could already imagine the scene of a bustling crowd.
The relationship of being from the Red Dust World and Drunken Immortal Residence was not a joke.
In the Danqing Great World, Drunken Immortal Residence was a synonym for mystery and power.
“Yes!”
The girl quickly covered her small mouth, afraid that she would excitedly shout out.
As a senior front desk employee of Drunken Immortal Residence, she knew what level the token in the overly beautiful woman's hand was. It was definitely the most core among the high-level personnel.
“Everyone, please follow me!”
The girl said to the Red Dust Team and Feng Chen and the others.
Wu Liang had already come over to join them. He clicked his tongue in wonder as he looked at the Red Dust Team, his eyes full of appreciation, but without any other distracting thoughts. Ye Hongyi and the other women didn't say anything about this; they were already used to this kind of gaze.
The girl led the way, and after passing through several arrays, she brought everyone to an elegant courtyard.
“My lord, this place is far from the downtown area. Are you satisfied?”
The girl cautiously looked at Ye Yuxian.
“It's pretty good!” Ye Yuxian looked around. This place was originally a small world, with everything that should be there, and there was no fear of being disturbed. It couldn't be more satisfactory.
“My lord is satisfied, that's good. There is a sound transmission device in the courtyard. If my lord has anything to say, just tell us. This one will take her leave!”
The girl gracefully bowed and left this small world.
“Oh dear, with such a large family and business, every place under the heavens is home!”
At this time, Mu Qingyi jokingly laughed.
Ye Yuxian knew that Mu Qingyi was retaliating against her and her sister for teasing her just now, and couldn't help but smile wryly. However, she nodded and said, “That's indeed the principle.”
As the wife of Gu Family's Divine Son, Ye Yuxian could be said to occupy half of the Gu Family's territory, and her status was even slightly higher than that of Gu Tianjun, the Divine Son.
There was no way around it. The Gu family members, to a greater or lesser extent, inherited a bit of the old guy's temperament. Those who understood, understood.
They couldn't let the woman who married into the Gu Family suffer!
“Sister Qingyi, I think you have to let Junior Brother work hard so that the Seven Stars Sword Sect can spread throughout the myriad worlds. Then, wherever you go, it will be your own home.”
Ye Hongyi walked over at this time.
“Let's forget about that for now. Let's focus on cultivation first!” Mu Qingyi shook her head. How easy would it be to develop a sect to spread throughout the myriad worlds? That would definitely be more difficult than cultivating to break through the Dao.
“You're feeling sorry for Junior Brother, aren't you?” Ye Hongyi asked with a smile.
Mu Qingyi nodded. There was nothing to hide about this.
“Tsk, I don't know how many years of good fortune my junior brother cultivated in his previous life to marry a wife like you.” Ye Hongyi sighed.
Mu Qingyi smiled without saying a word. In the previous life, I chased him; in this life, he chases me. It was that simple.
“Alright, you guys shouldn't be chatting among yourselves. It's quite rude to leave the guests aside.” At this time, the Heavenly Eye Royal Daughter spoke.
“It's alright, it's alright. Just pretend we don't exist.”
Wu Liang said with a smile, his eyes staring at the lake in front of the courtyard. The things swimming around in the lake were actually rare dragon carps. This thing had a trace of a true dragon's bloodline, and its meat was delicious, making it a rare ingredient.
Seeing this, Feng Chen couldn't help but kick him in the butt, telling him not to act like he had never seen the world before. Then, he smiled apologetically at Ye Hongyi and the others, “I'm sorry, this fatty always likes to mess with some strange things, and his brain has some problems. Please forgive him.”
“Your brain is the one with problems!” Wu Liang glared at Feng Chen, not only kicking him but also slandering him as having brain problems. This was something that even a monk could not tolerate!
“Poor Daoist Wu Liang, greetings to the four fairies. Fairy Hongyi, it has been thousands of years since we parted ways at the Longevity Tavern. I have been missing you very much. I wonder if your master is here?”
Wu Liang first gave a simple self-introduction, and then he became polite with Ye Hongyi. Of course, the last sentence was the main point.
Ye Hongyi shook her head gently and said, “My master is traveling abroad, and I don't know where he is at the moment.”
“So that's how it is…” A trace of disappointment flashed in Wu Liang's eyes. He had been searching for information about his background. In the Red Dust World, he found a few items that might be related to his background. He thought that Gu Changsheng was so mysterious that he might know something, so he wanted to ask Gu Changsheng for advice.
However, Wu Liang quickly adjusted his mood. He said with a smile, “Fairies, and this Heavenly Peng friend, to be able to meet in a foreign land is fate. I have here a few copper coins from the ancient era, which are priceless. Today…”
“Cough cough!”
Feng Chen coughed a few times from the side, and then he and Shen Yue turned around at the same time, looking like they had nothing to do with this fat Taoist.
“Uh… I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Occupational disease, occupational disease…”
Wu Liang also smiled awkwardly to cover up his embarrassment.
“You fatty, how many people have you cheated?” The corner of the Heavenly Peng's mouth twitched. When he first met him, he felt that this fat Taoist was unreliable. His whole body exuded the aura of a swindler, and his cultivation was also unfathomable. Saying he was weak, the teleportation array he carved actually deviated to the point of teleporting people from the Red Dust World to the Danqing Great World; saying he was strong, his teleportation array could have such a big flaw.
To sum it up, he was mysterious and unfathomable.
“Cheating people?” Wu Liang seemed to have been hit on a sore spot, and he quickly explained, “This is all a voluntary transaction. Just like just now, those fellow Daoists were all Supreme Realm cultivators. Could I cheat them? Would I dare to cheat them?”
“Whether you can or not is one thing, but whether you dare or not is hard to judge.” The Heavenly Peng looked down upon him.
“…”
“Can't there be a little trust between people?” Wu Liang looked at the Heavenly Peng speechlessly.
“I'm sorry, I'm not a person.” The Heavenly Peng said bluntly.
“I…”
Wu Liang was really speechless this time. The other party had already said that he was not a person. What else could he say? Tell him that what he meant by “person” just now did not refer to the human race, but to living beings?
Forget it, it was too tiring to talk to such a straightforward living being.
It's not easy to fool him!
“Daoist Wu Liang, why don't you talk about why you teleported to the Danqing Great World, how about that?”
The group walked into the courtyard. Ye Hongyi waved her hand gently, and a stone table and several stone chairs appeared in the middle of the courtyard. On the stone table were wine and spiritual fruits.
“This… I actually don't know.”
Wu Liang shook his head.
“You dare to say you don't know?” Feng Chen glared at Wu Liang and said, “If you hadn't insisted on trying the array patterns you comprehended from that broken tortoise shell and used that tortoise shell as the base of the array, would we have teleported here?”
“Tortoise shell?”
The women heard the key information.
“What tortoise shell?” The Heavenly Eye Royal Daughter asked. Tortoise shells and copper coins were often related to the Heavenly Mystery Dao. Many people who cultivated the Heavenly Mystery Dao would use these two things as a medium for deducing heavenly secrets, just like when she gave the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion a betrothal gift, which included a tortoise shell at the peak of the quasi-emperor realm.
When she heard the tortoise shell, the Heavenly Eye Royal Daughter immediately thought of the Heavenly Mystery Dao.
The Heavenly Mystery Dao was extremely mysterious. Even now, in the face of the vast Heavenly Mystery Dao, she had only comprehended the superficial.
Perhaps the tortoise shell that Feng Chen mentioned contained powerful power, which was why it teleported them from the Red Dust World to the Danqing Great World.
“It's this, but you can't look at it for too long, or you'll be trapped in it.”
Wu Liang generously took out the tortoise shell, but he reminded them.
Everyone's eyes were attracted by the tortoise shell. They saw dense patterns on the surface of the tortoise shell. These patterns were not acquired but innate.
Looking at these mysterious patterns, everyone only felt that they had entered an extremely mysterious world, and their consciousness was gradually sinking, as if they were tied with a huge rock, and their bodies were slowly entering the deep sea with the rock.
“Drink!”
Just then, a soft shout rang in their ears, and Ye Hongyi and the five others woke up.
“This thing is very strange!” The Heavenly Peng revealed a look of shock. Even the Supreme Realm cultivation was trapped in it in an instant, which shocked him.
“The surface of this tortoise shell doesn't seem to have any damage. It doesn't look like it was peeled off artificially, but like a molted shell.” Mu Qingyi said cautiously.
“It is indeed a molted shell!” Wu Liang nodded, affirming Mu Qingyi's guess.
“Just a molted shell can make our will trapped in it. If Daoist Wu Liang hadn't woken us up from the side, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to break free on our own. Our will would have continued to sink in that mysterious space until we fell.”
“How strong is the original body?”
Ye Hongyi was praising the power of the original body of this tortoise shell. Just a molted shell, and after countless years, it still maintained such a powerful power, then the original body of this tortoise shell was definitely not simple.
Immortal King? Immortal Venerable, or Immortal Emperor?
“We don't need to think too much about how strong the original body of the tortoise shell is. Instead, Daoist priest, you don't seem to be affected by this tortoise shell?” The Heavenly Eye Royal Daughter's eyes were glowing, and she was deducing Wu Liang's past, but in the end, it was blank.
The Heavenly Eye Royal Daughter's words made the others instantly focus their attention on Wu Liang.
Feng Chen had just said that Wu Liang had comprehended the array patterns from the tortoise shell and used it as the base of the array, which was why their teleportation array had deviated and brought them here.
This meant that Wu Liang was not only unaffected by the patterns on the tortoise shell, but also able to use the power of the patterns, which was surprising.
“This is why I wanted to find Fairy Hongyi's master. I think he will definitely know the connection between me and this tortoise shell.” Wu Liang said seriously.
He had a hunch that as long as he figured out the secret of the tortoise shell, he could find out his background.
“Speaking of which, wasn't there a turtle following Li Beifei before? He said that he was a Chaos Mysterious Turtle and that he and the Red Dust Heavenly Emperor were close friends. Could this tortoise shell be related to him?”
Ye Yuxian mentioned Li Wangba at this time. Li Wangba was encountered at the spring of the Undying Spring in Tian Duan Mountain.
“After Li Wangba and Black Dragon came to the Danqing Great World with Senior Emperor Lan, they haven't been seen for thousands of years. I don't know where they are now.” Mu Qingyi said.
“Daoist priest Wu Liang, you're not Li Wangba's son, are you? A son looking for his father?”
Ye Hongyi suddenly had a brainstorm and said.
“Don't talk nonsense, how could I have a father? Even if I did, it couldn't be a turtle Wangba!” Daoist Wu Liang's face darkened, and he felt that sometimes the words of this beautiful woman were not pleasant to hear.
“Seriously, Fatty, lying on the ground like that, you really do look like a turtle. Maybe you are a turtle?”
Feng Chen said at this moment.
“Get lost! You're the turtle! Your whole family are turtles!” Wu Liang retorted, cursing.
“Shen Yue, quickly manage your man; he's talking nonsense.”
Wu Liang, still feeling unsatisfied, complained to Shen Yue.
Shen Yue covered her mouth, giggling. She said, “What my husband says does have some truth to it.”
“What the…”
Wu Liang stormed out of the courtyard, fished out a fishing rod from who knows where, and with a grand wave, announced,
“This Daoist is going fishing!”
After Wu Liang left, Ye Hongyi looked at the women and asked, “What do you think?”
“Mysterious!” Mu Qingyi said.
“Inscrutable,” Ye Yuxian commented.
“Even my Heavenly Eye can't see through his origins,” the Heavenly Eye Royal Daughter said solemnly.
Even if the other party were a true immortal trying to hide, her Heavenly Eye would detect some clue, but with Wu Liang, she couldn't discern anything at all.
“When I first met him, his cultivation wasn't even at the Carefree Realm. Now, although I can't see through him, his cultivation is definitely no weaker than ours. Maybe he really is Li Wangba's son, as I suspected. If we get the chance, we must ask Li Wangba if he left behind any offspring.”
Ye Hongyi said wistfully.
Feng Chen and Shen Yue didn't say anything upon hearing this. They had been with Wu Liang for many years and wanted to find out about Wu Liang's background as soon as possible. Now that there seemed to be some clues, they were naturally happy.
“If you have nowhere to go for the time being, why not stay here? At least you won't be in any life-threatening danger,” Ye Hongyi said to them.
“Then we'll be intruding.”
Feng Chen didn't stand on ceremony and readily settled down here.
(Bronchitis, coughing non-stop, it's been almost a month, really uncomfortable!)
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