Chapter 126: Chapter 1: Wutong City, Kongtong Mountain Range

At that moment, the young man to the side stepped forward and pleaded,

“It’s only a little more than half a day earlier. If you could please…”

Lu Xuan found it strange. ’Why are these two so desperate to get to the Kongtong Mountain Range?’

’If they’re in such a rush, why do they insist on traveling with our group?’

Although he was curious, he couldn’t be bothered to dwell on it. He simply gave a nod and said agreeably,

“Alright, then. A day earlier or later doesn’t make much of a difference.”

’Well, at worst, after we visit Guangcheng Palace, I can just take Xiaoyan back to Wutong City for a couple of days. It really doesn’t make a difference.’

At that, the guide standing nearby made a few more calls to tell the other guests to hurry over.

Meanwhile, the young man turned to Lu Xuan and Yan Jiangxue and said gratefully,

“Thank you so much… This is my lover, Xu Qingqiu. My name is Mukai… My name is Xu Lindao.”

Lu Xuan frowned. The man had clearly corrected himself. ’Mukai… Mukai Rindo?’

’That kind of name belonged to the Fusang People during the Old Calendar Era. After the third great war, the surviving Fusang People formed Sakata Heavy Industries. In the Current World, almost everyone of Fusang descent is part of Sakata Heavy Industries.’

’In other words, the young man in front of him was almost certainly from Sakata Heavy Industries.’

Looking at the young man’s relatively short stature, Lu Xuan grew even more certain. His expression cooled as he gave an indifferent nod.

He didn’t have a good impression of Sakata Heavy Industries. ’First, they sided with the Demon Race, and now they’re suspected of having ties to an Evil Cult…’

Before long, the other four guests arrived. The group, consisting of men and women, seemed to be together. The youngest was a little girl who looked to be seven or eight years old. All four of them carried an air of wealth, clearly from prominent families.

Their leader was a matron who appeared to be in her forties or fifties. She was impeccably maintained, her skin completely free of wrinkles.

Her gaze swept past Xu Lindao and Xu Qingqiu before finally landing on Lu Xuan and Yan Jiangxue, her eyes flashing with amazement.

Xiaoyan’s looks were indeed quite striking.

“Alright, since that’s settled, let’s head out right away.”

The guide clapped his hands and said with a smile,

“Mr. Xu and Miss Xu were kind enough to pay extra to upgrade to a hovercar, so now we can all ride in the same vehicle. This way, everyone.”

He led the group to a hovercar. It was quite large, big enough to accommodate twenty or thirty people, and its interior was exceptionally luxurious.

“There are two guides, myself included, and eight guests. Everyone, please, board!”

Lu Xuan took Xiaoyan’s hand and found a random seat. Soon after, the hovercar emitted a low hum, slowly rising from the ground and heading out of the city at a low altitude.

Xiaoyan turned her head, batting her big eyes, and whispered,

“Xiaolu, Xiaolu, I want a snack.”

Lu Xuan gave a resigned smile.

“You, oh, you. Your mouth hasn’t stopped moving since we got on the plane…”

Xiaoyan pouted and gave him a pitiful look. Seeing this, Lu Xuan had no choice but to open his luggage and pull out a bag of sugar-roasted chestnuts.

“There aren’t many left, so make them last!”

“Alrighty!” Yan Jiangxue beamed, contentedly starting to peel the chestnuts. She ate one, gave one to Xiaolu, ate another, then gave another to Xiaolu…

She mumbled indistinctly while chewing on the chestnuts,

“Xiaolu, this is our first trip together! This is a momentous occasion, truly momentous…”

“From now on, if there’s anywhere you want to go, we’ll just go,” Lu Xuan said with a gentle smile. ’I’ve already reached the level of Climbing the Divine Ladder, so it’ll be difficult to make any major breakthroughs in the short term.’

’Plus, I can cultivate anytime, anywhere, which means I naturally have plenty of time on my hands…’

While eating her snack, Xiaoyan rested her head on his shoulder. When he didn’t pull away, a happy smile spread across her face, and her two slender, pale legs began to swing joyfully in the air.

“After we’re done with the Kongtong Mountain Range, if we have time, we can go to Taishan… And Xiaolu, didn’t you say you have to go to Dragon Tiger Mountain?”

“There’s no rush with Dragon Tiger Mountain. It’s just that I promised one of the Daoists there that I would pay them a visit…”

Their conversation wasn’t loud, but everyone else in the hovercar could still hear them. Both the matron’s group of five and the pair of Xu Lindao and Xu Qingqiu glanced over in surprise.

’Dragon Tiger Mountain is the most powerful ancient Daoist Lineage in the world today…’

’It seems this young man and woman are no ordinary people. They must be from a great clan with a Celestial Human at its head!’

Just then, the pretty seven-or-eight-year-old girl wriggled out of the matron’s arms, hopped to the floor, and came toddling over with her hands held out.

“I… I want some too…”

Her eyes lit up as she stared at the chestnuts in Xiaoyan’s hands. A string of drool dribbled from her mouth before she quickly slurped it back up.

“Zhong Xiaoyu!” the matron scolded. “What have I taught you about manners? Get back here!”

The little girl puffed out her cheeks in a huff.

“It’s alright, really,” Lu Xuan said with a gentle laugh. Beside him, Yan Jiangxue generously grabbed a large handful of chestnuts and stuffed them into the little girl’s hands.

“It’s perfectly normal for kids to like snacks.”

Zhong Xiaoyu hugged the big pile of chestnuts, her face lighting up with surprised delight. She let out a goofy giggle, not unlike Xiaoyan herself.

The matron hurried over, stroked her daughter’s head with a resigned sigh, and said apologetically,

“My apologies…”

Then, she shot her daughter a glare.

“Aren’t you going to say thank you to the nice big brother and sister?”

Zhong Xiaoyu, beaming with joy, looked up with her big eyes and chimed contentedly,

“Thank you, big brother! Thank you, big sister! May your fortune be as vast as the East Sea, your longevity as eternal as the southern mountains, and may you have a hundred years of blissful marriage…”

“You silly girl!” The matron was exasperated.

Xiaoyan’s cheeks flushed slightly, and then she and Lu Xuan burst out laughing, their moods brightening even more.

The matron, feeling rather embarrassed, explained apologetically,

“Sigh, I just taught her these auspicious phrases a few days ago, and now she’s just spouting them randomly…”

“Not at all,” Yan Jiangxue said, smiling so wide her eyes curved into crescents. For once, she wasn’t her usual cool self in front of strangers. “She’s adorable!”

The matron smiled warmly at this and decided to sit down across the aisle with the little girl in her lap. She then asked with a smile,

“My name is Zhong Muhua. The five of us are traveling together, on a trip from Langya City…”

“I’m Lu Xuan, and this is my friend, Yan Jiangxue.”

“Oh…” The matron seemed a little surprised. She had initially assumed they were a couple.

Just as she was about to say something more, the hovercar suddenly lurched to a halt.

The immense inertia threw everyone about. Zhong Xiaoyu, still clutching her big pile of chestnuts, bumped her forehead on the seat in front of her, spilling a few chestnuts onto the floor.

“Ouch!” Her eyes welled up with tears.

“What’s going on?” the matron demanded with a frown, her tone sharp, but she fell silent almost immediately.

Through the window, everyone saw a Celestial Human, blazing like a Great Sun, streak across the sky in front of their hovercar. The being’s aura surged with a power as vast as the ocean.

The hovercar had made an emergency stop for fear of colliding with this Celestial Human.

Soon, the Celestial Human’s figure flew off, its brilliant radiance fading into the distance. Only then did the deathly silence inside the hovercar finally break.

“That was a Celestial Human from Sakata Heavy Industries…” the guide said, his voice laced with lingering fear. “Luckily, we stopped in time. If we had accidentally crashed into them, well…”

He shivered at the thought.

The matron’s expression grew grim. She didn’t say anything more, simply bent down to silently pick up the scattered chestnuts.

Celestial Humans were terrifyingly strong, with equally astonishing hearing. They might overhear any careless gossip even from a great distance, and that would mean attracting real trouble.

Everyone in the hovercar had a different expression on their face; only Lu Xuan and Yan Jiangxue remained perfectly calm, completely unfazed. However…

Lu Xuan glanced at Xu Lindao and Xu Qingqiu nearby. The couple was cowering like quails, heads ducked below the window, their faces filled with terror.

Lu Xuan frowned.

The hovercar resumed its journey. The flight out of the city, which should have taken about ten minutes, ended up lasting more than half an hour. This was because they kept encountering Celestial Humans—four or five in a row—forcing the hovercar to make one emergency stop after another.

Only after they had completely left the city and there were no more signs of Celestial Humans did one of the guides finally dare to complain in a low voice,

“What’s with all these bigwigs today? And all of them from Sakata Heavy Industries, too. How strange…”

Wutong City was a first-tier metropolis and the financial center for two Provinces, putting it in a league far beyond East Sea City. It was on par with a provincial capital. While one might occasionally encounter a Celestial Human in the city, it was never as frequent as today.

Lu Xuan and Yan Jiangxue glanced at the strangely behaving couple, then at each other, a thoughtful look passing between them.

’Hmm… interesting.’

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