"Hello? Is this Lu Yibei?"
Lu Yibei answered the phone and heard the voice on the other end. Before the other party could say more, he rattled off a string of words like a machine gun.
"I'm not joining a religion, I don't want insurance, I'm not interested in stocks, yes, I used my card for the high overseas consumption, I bought an elephant, is there anything else?"
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about?" Li Xuan said, "It's almost time, we should prepare to leave. I've booked your flight ticket, it's with Hua Sang, you'll meet her at the airport later, and..."
Lu Yibei closed his eyes, listening to Li Xuan's rambling voice, and replied perfunctorily, "Uh, uh, oh..."
"Hmm? Your voice... sounds a bit off?"
"It is a bit off. I kept thinking about a French kiss, uh, the kind with tongues, and didn't sleep well all night."
There was a few seconds of silence on the other end, and the tone became serious, "Damn it, I'm warning you, Lu, don't take advantage of this to do anything strange to my Junior Sister..."
Without waiting for Li Xuan to finish, Lu Yibei impatiently hung up the phone.
Tch, psycho!
Do you think I'm Shui Ge, who takes everyone and flirts with everyone he sees?
The morning sun shone into the room through the gray gauze curtains. Lu Yibei rubbed his somewhat dry eyes, sat up, spaced out for ten seconds, then turned around and put Wang Yingying from the bedside table into the God Kingdom Prototype, and took out the Paper Cicada Immortal. Only then did he leisurely walk into the bathroom to wash up.
After washing up, he put on his clothes, slung the heavy metal box onto his back, and hurried out the door.
Having experienced the inconvenience of carrying Alchemy Dirty Bomb and Lingtai Pure Karma, etc., which were not allowed on planes, during his last trip to Tang City, he specifically learned a Spell to bypass security checks after returning to Hua City.
Some people can even stuff themselves into a suitcase and successfully avoid security to reach their destination, so what's the big deal about him bringing explosives and weapons on a plane?
He hailed a taxi at the entrance of the residential area. After getting in and telling the driver his destination, Lu Yibei closed his eyes to rest.
He had barely slept all night, secretly controlling the Paper Cicada Immortal to attend classes at Huacheng Institute of Technology, and still had to squeeze out some Spiritual Energy to recall the details about Da Chunyang Palace that the Ancestor had told him. He simply had no energy to deal with the driver's small talk.
Unless he could split into a bunch of messy department heads like Spider-ko.
However, the methods of Psychic and urban legend are quite outrageous, maybe that kind of ability really exists?
Seeing that Lu Yibei was like a block of wood, showing no reaction no matter what was said, the driver quickly became sensible and quieted down.
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Lu Yibei was a little surprised when he saw Hua Sang at the airport.
Today, she wasn't in a wheelchair, but walked here!
"Congratulations, you've finally mastered the basic human skill of walking upright! However, you've really mastered this skill at the wrong time!"
"If you were still with your little car, maybe we could have gone through the special channel."
Lu Yibei said, turning his head to look at the entrance of the terminal building, shaking his head, and sighing silently.
In the early summer of Hua City, the oppressive heat of ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) summer was gradually showing. Under the morning sun, the ground was steaming with muggy water vapor, coupled with the surging crowds like the Spring Festival travel rush. Just looking at it made one feel uncomfortably hot and restless.
Since the night became long, taking flights also had morning and evening peaks. The evening peak was mostly brave individuals who were after cheap tickets and weren't afraid of death, while the morning peak was mostly wise individuals who were rushing to travel far or cherished their lives.
As a wise individual who cherished his life, Lu Yibei felt for the first time that Li Xuan was quite thoughtful in his actions, provided he didn't appear in front of him and have direct contact.
Through her messy hair, Hua Sang gave Lu Yibei a resentful look. She didn't pay attention to his trash talk, but simply said three words.
"ID card."
Saying that, she extended her hand to Lu Yibei.
The hand was clean and fair, with slender fingers, completely out of place with her slovenly and lazy appearance, as if the hand wasn't hers.
However...
It was still a bit worse than Miao Miao Jiang's.
Right, should I have tried holding hands yesterday?
Damn it, I forgot the important part!
Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, and in turn, spread his hand towards Hua Sang, "How about you give me your ID card?"
"Your Senior Brother asked me to take care of you. I can't let you do this kind of thing, right?"
I was thinking, I could ask you for help later to inquire about the whereabouts of the Lingtai Pure Karma! So I have to temporarily put aside other things and focus on getting close, Lu Yibei added in his mind.
Hua Sang looked at Lu Yibei, hesitated for a moment, took out her ID card and placed it in his hand. She followed behind him and entered the terminal building.
Then, she happily received a beeper.
"By the way, did you eat breakfast? Do you want water? Is your luggage heavy? Do you want me to help you carry it? Speaking of which, I'm quite familiar with Fu Xinyi from your Da Chunyang Palace..."
Hua Sang, "..." This person talks so much, it's annoying.
Thinking this, she silently put down her suitcase, pressed the start switch, and rode her beloved little car into the depths of the terminal building.
Yes, the wheelchair was gone, but she had switched to a rideable electric suitcase.
Lu Yibei, "..."
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A moment later, Hua Sang finally found relief.
She sat on a long bench, watching Lu Yibei walk towards the counter to exchange for a boarding pass. Her gaze slowly shifted downwards, looking at the full bag of various snacks, and she smiled.
Perhaps it was because she was about to return to Da Chunyang Palace, coupled with Lu Yibei's somewhat uncomfortable eagerness, looking at these snacks, she suddenly remembered her Junior Sister, Fu Xinyi.
Strictly speaking, Fu Xinyi was her distant relative.
Their Grandpas were cousins, but Hua Sang's Grandpa passed away very early, and for many years, the two families had almost no contact.
Only three generations apart, yet Fu Xinyi had a completely different life trajectory from Hua Sang.
Although Fu Xinyi, like Hua Sang, hadn't seen her father since she was very young, the affluent family background, loving relatives, and outstanding appearance she possessed were all things Hua Sang lacked. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Yet, such a person had a very good personality and was particularly hardworking.
Therefore, when the two families reunited after many years, the young Hua Sang, upon first meeting Fu Xinyi, felt the disparity in life.
Sometimes when Hua Sang thought of that meeting, she would always think of Rouxun's "My Old Home." Fu Xinyi was like Brother Xun, and she was like the badger in the melon field under the moonlight.
Under the moonlight, a silver light flashed, a steel fork fell, and she turned into a tragically laughable corpse with disemboweled intestines.
Although her mindset matured earlier than children her age and didn't become distorted due to that disparity, she really disliked Fu Xinyi at that time.
A child's dislike is always undisguised.
With that mindset, Hua Sang always "sabotaged" Fu Xinyi openly and secretly. If she accidentally burned the house while practicing Spells, she said Fu Xinyi did it. If she cut off the head of the statue of the first sect leader with one sword strike while practicing swordsmanship, Fu Xinyi did that too.
Even when she was ordered to go down the mountain with her Senior Sister for experience, and her Senior Sister was seriously injured because she was slacking off, and she later secretly healed her Senior Sister, she used Fu Xinyi's name.
After all, Fu Xinyi also went that time. In the chaos, the Senior Sister didn't know who was slacking off, and Fu Xinyi proactively jumped out to heal her, which solidified her guilt for slacking off.
Hua Sang did all this just to make Fu Xinyi stay away from her, the farther the better. On one hand, it was out of sight, out of mind, and on the other hand, she was worried that the Spirit Mark would go out of control and cause her harm.
But...
"That girl..." Hua Sang smiled again and shook her head.
But, perhaps because she was too protected since childhood, or perhaps she wasn't very smart, Fu Xinyi didn't detect Hua Sang's malice at all.
After learning that Hua Sang was related to her, she almost clung to Hua Sang every day. Whenever her family visited and brought delicious food, she would always give more than half to Hua Sang.
If Hua Sang didn't want it, she would sneak into Hua Sang's room in the middle of the night and stuff it into Hua Sang's quilt.
But...
Who puts ice cream into someone else's quilt? And not just once! Hua Sang thought, and Lu Yibei's voice came to her ears, interrupting her train of thought.
"Um... I have something I'd like to ask you about, is that okay? I think you might know more about this."
Hua Sang slowly turned around, looked at Lu Yibei, and nodded.
"It's about the Taoists or monks in places like Dujiangyan Sandoumi Sect, Nanshan Temple in Xiurong City, and Taihe Palace in Shiyan City, are they the same as the high-ranking Taoists in your Zhenwu Mountain Da Chunyang Palace? Do they all have Psychic?" Lu Yibei asked seriously.
"Yes, they all do." Hua Sang nodded.
She had heard her Master mention the monks of Nanshan Temple and the Taoists of Sandoumi. As for the disciples of Taihe Palace, she had even met them in Da Chunyang Palace.
Hearing this, Lu Yibei suddenly understood and murmured, "As expected..."
"What?"
"Nothing." Lu Yibei shook his head.
The seemingly aimless route of action that Hu Chuan took after leaving Hua City, which Netizen Laosepi had investigated, had left Lu Yibei puzzled for a while.
It wasn't until just now, when exchanging for his boarding pass, that he saw the destination was Fangshan Airport. He planned to book a car in advance to leave the airport as soon as he landed. When he searched for the address of Fangshan Airport, he found that Fangshan Airport was in Shizhou.
And the center of Shizhou City was less than fifty kilometers from Da Chunyang Palace!
Immediately after, Lu Yibei searched the other cities and found that they indeed all had places similar to Da Chunyang Palace, but he wasn't sure if those places, like Da Chunyang Palace, had Psychic. This led to his question to Hua Sang just now.
If one or two places could be a coincidence, so many places definitely had a reason.
This means that Hu Chuan might be visiting those sects? Or is he looking for someone among those Psychic?
But, he has intricate connections with vicious guys like Zhang Shuo, and he's an unregistered person himself. How dare he do this?
This behavior is like an accomplice of a wanted criminal asking about a certain police officer at every police station. It's a bit arrogant.
What is his purpose in taking such a big risk?
The last place Hu Chuan appeared was Shizhou City, could it have something to do with Da Chunyang Palace? Perhaps, he found the person he was looking for here?
A series of questions surfaced in Lu Yibei's mind, making him look forward to this trip to Da Chunyang Palace even more.
Maybe he can catch Hu Chuan near Da Chunyang Palace.
This wave, ah, this wave is killing two birds with one stone!