Chapter 640: Chapter 434: Going to the Heavenly Court Personally to Get Someone!
On February 4, 2024, the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.
It started snowing early in the morning in Wu City.
However, there were notably more pedestrians than usual on the street.
The end of the year was approaching.
Red lanterns were hung up all over the street, and many shopping malls and stores were holding promotions.
After having breakfast at home, Xu Yang took his wives to do some shopping for the Chinese New Year. They bought a heap load of stuff, nearly emptying a whole mall. Fortunately, they had storage spaces and storage rings, so they didn’t have to carry big and small bags of items around.
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“Husband, why did you buy so much for the New Year?”
Liu Shishi asked with puzzlement, “Besides, it’s one thing to buy stuff for the New Year, but why did you empty all the clothing stores in the mall? Men’s, women’s, children’s, elderly’s clothing… you also cleaned out the shoe stores, didn’t you?”
Xu Yang laughed and said, “We now have a large family and enterprise in the Xu Manor, with hundreds of ghosts of all sizes. We will burn them more offerings later… In addition, we will also burn some things for the senior personnel managing the Ghost Market.”
After buying things for the New Year.
It was already three o’clock in the afternoon.
After eating hot pot outside, Xu Yang finally returned home.
He had just sat down at home when Yun Mengxi, who was playing with her phone by his side, suddenly shouted, “Quickly look at the top news on the trending list. Someone has ascended to immortality on Hundred Flowers Mountain near the Capital City last night at eight o’clock!”
All the women gathered around Yun Mengxi.
“Wow, there’s even a video!”
“Celestial light shooting up into the sky, and someone in the comments said they suddenly heard celestial music last night, and many people replied that they heard it too!”
“Celestial music?”
“Why didn’t we hear it?”
“On the day my husband ascended, according to the trending news online, it seemed that people all over the country, even people overseas, heard the celestial music.”
“Who is her husband? The phenomena when he ascended were naturally extraordinary. How could any random person who has ascended be compared with him?”
Xu Yang’s gaze flickered.
Near the Capital City?
Hundred Flowers Mountain?
Hundred Flowers Mountain is located to the west of Capital City, about 100 kilometers from the Forbidden City. It used to be a national nature reserve. Although it only covers an area of 2.17 hectares, it is rich in flora and fauna, earning it the name of the Natural Zoo and Botanical Garden of North China!
Wang Hou resigned and went into closed cultivation.
Perhaps…
He was cultivating on Hundred Flowers Mountain?
Xu Yang immediately opened his phone, clicked on the top trending news, and found the video.
The video was shot from very close by, according to the news title and content, it was filmed by several hikers who went to Hundred Flowers Mountain the previous night.
In the video, celestial light first burst forth from Hundred Flowers Mountain and illuminated the night sky. Then, a figure emanating celestial light rose from the mountain forest, laughing heartily —
“Ha ha ha ha!”
“After three months of seclusion, I, Wang, have finally achieved the True Martial Immortal Realm today…”
“It really is Minister Wang.”
Although the figure in the video was unclear, Xu Yang immediately identified that the person engulfed in celestial light was certainly Wang Hou, just by his voice. In fact, apart from Wang Hou, there wasn’t anyone else in Da Xia who could become an immortal at the moment.
Although some of those who had voluntarily secluded themselves in the Heavenly Caverns might have been powerful, such as one individual within Wangwu Mountain who had even cultivated the “rules of Immortal Daoist”, it was in fact harder for them to ascend than for modern people!
They had secluded themselves in the Heavenly Caverns for 600 years, escaping the “disaster” of separation between heaven and earth. However, every loss has its gain. This behavior of theirs had somewhat obliterated some of their own potential, making their future cultivation more difficult than that of ordinary people.
“Minister Wang is really a monster, he only started practicing martial arts when he was sixteen and has been cultivating for just over forty years now…”
“Over forty years, and he has become an immortal. This is even despite the fact he was burdened with many bothersome affairs of the Spirits Management Bureau… otherwise, he might have achieved immortality even sooner.”
Xu Yang was genuinely glad for Wang Hou!
He was thinking about calling Wang Hou to congratulate him and ask him to treat them to a meal… but suddenly, Wang Hou’s voice in the video became extremely frightened —
“No… The Ascension Gateway, the guiding force… Ah, I don’t want to ascend!”
In the video.
A nebulous gate appeared in the sky.
Within the gate, there seemed to be a mysterious force pulling Wang Hou.
Wang Hou was struggling with all his might, wielding his combat knife, slashing at the nebulous gate ninety-nine times. The knife light illuminated the heaven and earth, erupting with unparalleled power… However, it was useless against the “Guiding Gate”.
The knife light dissipated into the “Guiding Gate” like a mud cow entering the sea, leaving no trace behind, not even a small splash of water.
That power instead became even stronger, and, with a whoosh, it sucked Wang Hou in.
“No!”
“Husband…don’t go!”
Someone screamed.
But what flew up into the sky was a giant white snake, nearly six to seven hundred meters long. The white snake lunged at nothing. The celestial light in the sky dissipated, the Guiding Gate vanished, leaving only the white snake shrieking heartbreakingly.
“…”
Xu Yang was silent.
Wang Hou…
Had he actually ascended?
But reflecting on it, it seemed reasonable. Ascending after becoming an immortal had been the eternal truth since time immemorial.
He hadn’t ascended because of his special status, as his “father” was able to converse with the Heavenly Emperor.
Xu Yang didn’t know the specific reason why Grandmaster Chengming hadn’t ascended, but it must surely have something to do with the Zongsheng Palace. The Zongsheng Palace was a place where Laozi preached the Dao Te Jing. Beneath the ginkgo tree planted by “Laozi” himself, many powerful figures from the human realm had cultivated and understood Dao in the past 2000 years or so.