Chapter 71: Mount Xumi (XVIII)
The Asura tribe was preparing for war and had no time to pay attention to Lu Ren and the others, so that night in Asura City, unexpectedly no one came to disturb the people in the shrine.
Ashura City was luxuriously decorated, and the small shrine was also a special place. In addition to the hall on the first floor, which was built with gold, there were bedrooms on the second floor of the shrine, which were specially provided for the clergy to rest. There were many rooms, and these days only the Rain Master, the Wind Master, and the Qilin Cub lived in it. Now it was no problem to accommodate the people from the Household Registration Bureau.
No one asked, and the few people were happy to be idle. Tushan Qiluo even took out a dozen playing cards from her bag and happily played the game of drawing ghost cards with everyone. In her words, "I came to Mount Xumi to travel in the first place."
Everyone agreed immediately. They had come to this place because the team building was interrupted, so it shouldn't be a problem to make up for it now.
The loser will have a note stuck on his face as punishment.
After a few rounds, Baihua's face was already covered with notes. She timidly drew a card from Feng Bo's expressionless hand.
Baihua's fear was not without reason. After all, Feng Bo was a terrible calculating player who could remain completely silent while calculating others. Baihua, who had been cheated several times, was a little scared. She made up her mind and took a look at the card in her hand. It was a three of hearts. Baihua breathed a sigh of relief and turned to face her next player, Tushan Qiluo, and signaled her to draw a card.
After relaxing, Baihua chatted, "By the way, did you see Lu Qingzhou and Junfang?"
Tushan Qiluo's face was also covered with several pieces of paper, but her expression was still noble and cold. She took a card from Baihua without hesitation, glanced at it casually, and then replied: "I don't know, weren't they still behind us when we came down?"
Tushan Qiluo managed her expression very well, and it was almost impossible to tell what she had drawn. Tushan Qiluo turned to Lu Ren calmly, waiting for him to draw a card.
Lu Ren randomly drew a 2 of spades.
He listened to the conversation between the two and said in surprise, "Team Leader Lu and Junfang are here too?" Then, while drawing his own card for Master Yu, he said worriedly, "They are alone here, nothing will happen to them, right?"
Yu Shi lifted the note on his eyelids and looked at Lu Ren, and said firmly: "Nothing will happen to them, only those who meet them will get into trouble." Then he hesitated for a long time about the cards in Lu Ren's hand, and finally chose the rightmost card in Lu Ren's hand.
It's a joker.
The Rain Master's heart was bleeding, but he tried his best to control his expression. Then he turned to the Kirin cub and, in a very unadulterated way, raised the position of the joker a little, creating an obvious trap.
The Qilin cub was jumping and jumping, anxious to draw cards. It was obvious that he really liked this group game.
The Rain Master almost smiled as he handed the deck of cards in his hand to the Kirin cub. In order to hide the fact that the joker card was in his hand, he pretended to be nonchalant and said, "They might jump out tomorrow. Don't worry."
The Kirin cub perfectly avoids the joker card.
Looking at the Qilin cub who turned around and tried to raise the card in his hand to give it to the burly Lu Wu, the Rain Master gritted his teeth and said, "Damn Xiangrui!"
The ghost card game ended because there was no more space on Yu Shi's face to stick notes. But the strange thing was that although his colleagues all had notes stuck on their faces to varying degrees, Lu Ren did not lose the whole night and his face was very clean.
Lu Ren thought hesitantly, "Could it be that all my recent luck has been used up in this game?"
Anyway, the game was over, everyone said good night to each other and went back to their rooms to sleep.
Have a good night.
However, before dawn the next day, Lu Ren was pulled out of bed. In his sleep, he heard someone knocking on his door, and then a noisy female voice came: "Savior, go to war!"
Lu Ren was a little dazed in his sleep, thinking that the sound was just a dream, so he frowned and turned over, intending to continue sleeping. Who knew that the sound of a door opening suddenly came, followed by the sound of uneven footsteps that sounded closer and closer to him, and louder and louder. Lu Ren, who realized something was wrong, opened his eyelids with difficulty, and saw a group of beautiful maids from the Asura tribe entering one after another.
The maid of the Asura tribe poured water for Lu Ren to wash, and took out a white robe and was about to lift the quilt to help him put it on. Lu Ren was so scared that he woke up on the spot and refused righteously. He didn't like to let girls see his disheveled appearance.
Lu Ren's mind was still a little unclear, and he asked uncertainly: "What's going on?"
The leading Asura maid explained, "The king has decided to go to Shanjian City to fight, and I hope that you, as the savior, can accompany him." This maid was the Ashura King's personal maid. She had a blank expression on her face and was very businesslike when she spoke. When announcing the news of the war, the maid's whole state was as if she was announcing that there would be a price reduction in the vegetable market today, which directly led to Lu Ren's expedition being a very ordinary thing.
Although Lu Ren was a little frightened by the person who suddenly broke into his bedroom in the morning, he still keenly grasped the key point of the maid's words: "Going to Shanjian City?"
"Yes." The maid replied respectfully.
This is really like handing a pillow to someone who is sleepy. Yesterday, Lu Ren was still thinking about how to go to Shanjian City. Now that King Ashura is willing to take him with him, he naturally cannot refuse.
Lu Ren didn't know what "going to war" meant in Mount Xumi. He thought that since the people in Mount Xumi were so rough, maybe regional wars were the norm? Even an idle person like him was willing to be brought along, so it couldn't be very formal.
Lu Ren even asked the leading maid, "Can I bring my companion with me?"
"Of course." The savior's companions are naturally also saviors.
When Lu Ren heard that he could bring his family along, he became more convinced that this so-called "expedition" was just a formality.
Until he stood in the square in front of the gate of Shanjian City.
The square was not big, and there were not even many people on the square, because the army was surrounding the sky above Shanjian City.
The sky above Shanjian City was filled with wind and clouds. Colorful clouds rose, swirled, and hovered, forming a huge vortex above Shanjian City. The sun shone through the center of the vortex, like a huge spotlight.
This kind of celestial phenomenon has been called the Eye of Heaven since ancient times. It is said that when something big is about to happen in the world, even the sky will open its eyes to see what is going on. Although it sounds like the sky is also joining in the fun, this kind of celestial phenomenon has only occurred three times since the beginning of time.
Every time, there will be mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and all the horses will be silent.
The thirty-three heavens outside Shanjian City were filled with troops, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, so that even the sunlight shining directly from the eye of heaven could hardly penetrate the square.
Lu Ren looked up, and all he saw were fully armed creatures from Mount Xumi riding unknown monsters. Some of them looked as beautiful as fairies, some had green faces and fangs, and some had three heads and six arms. In short, they all looked different. But at this moment, without exception, they all frowned and stared at the square in front of Shanjian City.
This square was originally prepared for pilgrims to kowtow, but at this moment, the final negotiations before the war were taking place in this holy place.
The three camps fought each other.
There were three people leading the group, namely Shakya, Mara, and Asura King.
Po Xun, who was wearing black clothes and silver jewelry, had an evil smile on his face. He had a young and handsome face, and his long hair swayed with his movements. He opened his hands, as if he had come here by chance, and said in an exaggerated manner: "Ah, this is such a coincidence, how come everyone is here today."
King Ashura was wearing golden armor today, and he looked like a gold mine that had not yet been mined. He had obviously been resentful of Po Xun's hypocritical smile for a long time, and couldn't help but taunt him: "It's been a thousand years, and you still smell bad when you open your mouth."
Po Xun didn't seem angry. He still kept that smile. He turned to look at King Asura and said, "It's been a thousand years, and you are still so outspoken. But it doesn't matter. There's no need for me to be angry with a dead person."
King Ashura, however, was a man whose emotions were clearly visible on his face. After hearing what Mara said, he suddenly glared at him and angrily demanded, "What did you say!" As he spoke, he took a step forward, and when he stepped on the ground, the ground of Shanjian City actually shook twice.
But Poxun was no pushover either. He looked straight into Asura's eyes without showing the slightest sign of concession.
The two were about to fight, but Shakya came out calmly to mediate: "Don't be angry, peace is the most important thing."
Sakya was dressed in pure white, with a peaceful look on his face, fiddling with the 108 Buddhist beads in his hand. His face was calm, and the look he gave the group of uninvited guests in front of him was even a little bit kind, as if the visitors were not the punitive forces leading a large army, but the rare guests who came to visit, and he looked very relaxed.
Shakyamuni's words successfully made Mara and King Asura point their guns at the outside world.
King Asura looked at Shakya and spat, saying, "After all these years, you are still so hypocritical."
But Po Xun had an expression as if he had swallowed a fly, and he covered his ears and said, "Ah, I seem to hear a disgusting sound, it's terrible."
The people were talking to each other in the square, but even though there were millions of onlookers, no one dared to interrupt. The reason was that the three people standing in the square were the top of Mount Xumi and the strongest in the four realms of Shanjian City. If they made any rash moves, those three people would only need to move a finger and they would be in a state worse than death.
They don't even have the qualifications to stand on the square.
Lu Ren, who was qualified to stand on the square, had no idea what others were thinking. Faced with such a grand scene, his mind was now filled with the divine song "It's over, it's over, Barbie Q is gone" playing on repeat.
He wore a gorgeous mask made of gold and a holy white robe. Although the maids did not take off the hat given by the boss lady under his strong request, they still covered the hat with the hood of the white robe. With white clothes and golden mask, he looked like a perfect high priest.
Even though Lu Ren was just standing quietly beside King Asura as a mascot at this moment, in the eyes of outsiders, he was a mysterious and powerful existence.
In the distance, on the tower of Shanjian City, Yinglong, who was watching the battle from afar, said to Si Yuan beside him: "The Asuras have been peaceful for a thousand years. Now they suddenly join the war. They must have been bewitched. I think the white-robed man beside the Asura King is very suspicious. Could it be..."
After listening to this, Si Yuan looked at the white figure in the center of the square. He pondered for a moment and said, "The Shura clan has always had a bad brain, but they are not so reckless... It seems that in the past thousand years, Mount Xumi has bred another monster who is good at bewitching people ."
